Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

The ending is indeed not difficult to predict.

Li Yu never thought that thirty days ago he was still on the boat mourning the failure of his ancestors' foundation and worrying about the destruction of Jinling City.

As a result, thirty days later, he could actually witness the end of the Song Dynasty with the unreasonable Zhao Kuangyin.

The wonderful things in the world are indeed often far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

And looking at Zhao Kuangyin's stunned look, Li Yu couldn't help but wonder, if his grandfather knew his current situation, what would he think?

But thinking about it, with his father deposed as the emperor and vassal of Zhou before, he, the king of the fallen country, should be okay?

Besides, didn't Zhao Kuangyin also say that he seemed to have a good literary reputation in later generations, which also made later generations remember the name of Southern Tang.

And according to the idea of ​​great unification, Southern Tang was at least not destroyed by foreign races, and his family was not bullied or harmed.

So Qian Chu watched Li Yu's three pupils turn in several directions, and a smile appeared on his face.

This Jiangnan Tang King, is he gloating over misfortunes without knowing the occasion?

At this moment, Qian Chu even sincerely felt fortunate:

He was so wise to reject Li Yu's request for Wu and Tang to join forces to resist Song!

"Why is Cong Jia laughing?"

As expected, all this was in Zhao Kuangyin's eyes.

Qian Chu was a little worried about Li Yu, but he didn't expect Li Yu's logic to be very clear:

"I don't like this light curtain."

"Now that we can see it, we know that these disasters will not happen again."

"Why can't you be happy and laugh?"

It was reasonable and well-founded. Zhao Kuangyin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed out loud.

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"This Jia Sidao, when it should be heavy, he was light, and when it should be light, he was heavy again."

Listening to his father's sigh, Zhu Biao had a feeling that it was not unexpected.

Perhaps because the Ming Dynasty swept away the six hundred years of chronic diseases in China, the people of the former Song Dynasty liked to comment on it, just like Jia Sidao at the moment.

And this comment always needs someone to praise. Empress Ma looked at Zhu Biao, Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Di, and Zhu Di looked at Zhu Bo. Zhu Bo was talking to Zhu Xiongying innocently in a low voice. Zhu Di had no choice but to ask:

"Dad, are you saying that Jia Sidao's public land law is useless?"

So the emperor said with a straight face:

"I told you guys to read more history books earlier, but now you don't even know such a small matter?"

Although it was a scolding, Zhu Biao felt that there was joy in his words.

Zhu Di, who was the first to bear the brunt of the bitter face, couldn't help but think in his heart, whose turn will be next? Sixth brother? But after the New Year, I will go to Beiping. Wouldn't it be a loss if I can't see him then?

"If Xiangyang is lost, the Song Dynasty will be hard to survive, fourth brother! Who is the key to Xiangyang?"

Zhu Di subconsciously straightened his back:

"Liu Zheng! It was this man who surrendered to Hu Yuan and trained the navy for him to attack Xiangyang!"

"Son, you understand what Dad means. Jia Sidao should have killed Liu Zheng directly. If he hadn't surrendered to Hu Yuan..."

"Bullshit!"

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head:

"Fourth brother, do you think the Song soldiers at that time were as brave as our Ming soldiers?"

"But Dad, the military books all say that the army should be strictly disciplined!"

"Military books are military books. They are for training good family boys. If they can bully their ancestors just because of the law to check the empty salary, they are not even as good as the bandits! If you discipline him strictly, he will dare to strike back!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyebrows kept jumping when he said this:

"For the Southern Song Dynasty, dealing with Hu Yuan is the most important matter, and the most important thing is military affairs."

"Military affairs are related to the survival of the country. We need to use all our energy to organize the army, maintain the middle and carefully control it. How can we use one method to implement the whole army? So there are suspicions of party disputes in various places?"

"And what about those landlords? When the country is in trouble, we still have to be careful. This matter should be done in a big way to let these national parasites know Hu Yuan's methods. As a result, Jia Sidao is meticulous about these things."

"As a result, the Song army reinforcements on the front line couldn't even enter Xiangyang, and Jia Sidao couldn't even enter the gate of the landlord's house. How could they not perish?"

Zhu Di scratched his head. Why did he feel that he was talking about military management, but his father was talking about state management?

[We emphasized the role of Xiangyang when we talked about the Three Kingdoms before.

As the throat between the north and the south, the fate of the Southern Song Dynasty was doomed after Xiangyang fell.

Some people are alive, but they are already dead. The Southern Song Dynasty was in this state.

Standing here and looking back at the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, it is still difficult to make an uncontroversial evaluation.

But what is certain is that the Song Dynasty was indeed a peak period of feudal commercial development in my country.

Commercial taxes can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty, but it took until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to become one of the main sources of fiscal revenue.

The Song Dynasty ended this chaotic era and also absorbed the advantages of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms like a normal dynasty. Many people know that commercial tax revenue exceeded agricultural tax in the Northern Song Dynasty.

According to historical materials that have been preserved to this day, at the end of the Zhidao period of Emperor Taizong of Song Zhao Guangyi, the total income from agricultural taxes such as rice, silk, cloth, cotton, tea, and miscellaneous colors was converted into money of 23.81 million guan, and the commercial tax revenue from monopoly, wine, tea, salt, copper, and silver in the same year was 11.67 million guan.

In comparison, about a hundred years later, during the tenth year of Xining during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song, Zhao Xu, agricultural tax revenue was 20.21 million strings of cash. In the same year, commercial taxes increased to include wine, maritime trade, market transactions, and market transactions, with total revenue reaching 42.48 million strings of cash.

It is not very intuitive to look at the Song Dynasty alone. We have listed the commercial taxes that increased during the Tianqi period, and we have also said that the reason why Tianqi was able to quickly raise commercial taxes was because the commercial taxes of the Ming Dynasty were extremely simple.

But that belongs to the late Ming Dynasty, and it is unfair and not intuitive to use it for comparison. Here, we use the period of Emperor Xuande, who is also in the early and middle period, for comparison.

The commercial taxes during the Xuande period totaled only six items, and the total of commerce, wine, tea, salt, silver, and iron was 2.02 million guan.

We have emphasized the wine tax before, and the comparison here is very intuitive. The wine tax during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song was 1.11 million guan, the wine tax revenue during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song was 7.86 million guan, and the wine tax during the reign of Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty was 50,000 guan.

Of course, these are only on the surface. Outside the accounts, the Song Dynasty’s everywhere set up checkpoints and layers of commercial taxes, the levies and extortions by the clerks, and the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the local areas of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty are all difficult to generalize, but the difference in the amount is still incredible.

Mr. Guo Zhengzhong once commented that the Song Dynasty did not change its productivity in essence. It was still a feudal country dominated by agriculture. It was just that it was highly involved in commercial activities through official means, thus pushing the official economy to the peak, or it can be called the nationalization of the economy in the feudal era.

Of course, we also know what happened later. After Jingkang, the already imperfect Song Dynasty was broken again. The cost of living continued to rise, but taxes were not reduced at all, which eventually turned the relatively healthy economy into a disguised means of exploitation.

Probably for this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that this was the cause of the demise of the Song Dynasty after he established the Ming Dynasty, and directly banned the monopoly of taxation, and did not even use it as a supplementary means of taxation.

In a sense, Zhu's decision did waste the experience accumulated in economic exploration during the two Song dynasties for hundreds of years, which was a pity. 】