Chapter 32 Choosing the Way
There are certain rules for the rise and fall of ancient Chinese dynasties. In the early stages, they usually rest and recuperate, accumulate wealth, and cultivate national strength, otherwise they will die quickly. However, the recovery of national strength often leads to two consequences: one is to implement the policy of enriching the country and strengthening the army and expanding to the outside world. The result is
The people are exhausted and the people are exhausted and their strength is exhausted, and the country's fortunes are declining. Second, it induces political accidents, leading to the gap between the rich and the poor in society, and the people at the bottom cannot make a living, and eventually rise up.
Today, the Song Dynasty has reached this critical point and is trapped in internal and external troubles. If we want to reverse the decline and reverse the political situation, it will take a revolution and a major revolution. Zhao Zhen knew that with his current ability, he could not launch such a battle.
Revolution, and if it is too extreme, it will completely destroy the shaking building. I am afraid that it will be impossible for the future of Jiangnan to be safe. But Zhao Qi did not want to wait for that day without any effort, and the northwest happened to be a good test site.
The position of Xuanfu Envoy and the identity of the prince can also meet the needs.
In the long-term development of the Song Dynasty, the system of Xuanfu envoys was formed, with increasingly frequent settings, military, political, financial and other powers increasing, the officials' capital of those in office tended to decline, the jurisdiction was fixed, the number of officials increased, civil officials were the chief, and military officials were the deputy.
There was also a situation where eunuchs and surrendered generals were used as Xuanfu envoys, and the central government also adopted various means to restrict and win over Xuanfu envoys who were in power.
Local cross-road-level institutions and the Propaganda and Punishment envoys also formed different types of relationships. Local institutions at all levels, state and county levels, and officials obeyed the command of the Propaganda and Punishment envoys and were recruited into the shogunate to participate in military and political affairs.
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,Their status is lower than that of the Xuanfu Envoy, and they are controlled by the Xuanfu Envoy, and have the power to control the commander. The Xuanfu Envoy's battle for financial power has led to the two departments jointly taking charge of economic affairs under their jurisdiction, and the two departments have many conflicts, and
The prince's tiger skin can make him stand in an advantageous position in the competition.
Now that the conditions are basically met, what Zhao Qiong needs to do is to find a way to enrich the country and strengthen the army, formulate a development policy and route for the next few years, and prepare to face the upcoming storm. But all this is just a charge for his previous life, at most he will be in charge.
The little officer on the farm is really a worrying thing...
To enrich the country, when the Song Dynasty was founded, when it was unable to make a northern expedition, Zhao Kuangyin specially set up an institution called "Fengchunku", which was stored all the annual fiscal surplus.
It is not allowed to be used separately as a special fund to recover Yan Yun. Zhao Kuangyin himself personally grasped it and prepared to save enough five million gold and silk to redeem You and Yun from the Liao Kingdom, and exchange money for land.
Making up his mind, Zhao Kuangyin used all his methods to save money in Fengchun Curtain, and deliberately increased Curtain's money reserves. His reason was very simple. The Sixteen Prefectures you occupied was originally the territory of my Zhao family.
The purpose of occupation is nothing more than to expand wealth. Collect taxes from here and make a lot of money. Well, I will give you a lot of money now, which is enough to be worth your years in Youyun Sixteen Prefectures.
I exchanged this money for Youyun Sixteen State. You will save the energy to manage this area and get benefits. I will also get what was originally mine and avoid my military confrontation.
Both sides are very happy, wouldn’t it be a pleasure to both sides?
Even if the redemption cannot be done, I can still clearly remind you that there are a lot of money. If you do not agree to the plan to exchange money for land, then I will use this large amount of money to recruit soldiers and expand military strength. Then attack you through military force.
At that time, not only would you take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, but you would also occupy your "Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun". By then, you would not only not be able to get a penny, but you would also have no place to stay.
The tricks and fully demonstrate Zhao Kuangyin's understanding of the power of money. Because with money, I can recover and expand my territory, and as the territory expands, my power will also be expanded and improved. After all, it is
Exchange money for power.
However, every inch of mountains and rivers is exchanged for iron blood. How can money be bought?! The fate makes people beat people and recovers the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. In the end, it was Song Taizu and Emperor Taizong's unfulfilled ambitions, with a developed economy and accumulating wealth, and there was no such thing as the unfulfilled ambitions of the economy.
Directly enhance military strength. However, because of one-sided emphasis on civil governance and excessive restrictions on the power of military personnel, a negative attitude towards national defense was adopted, and ultimately, the fate of the Song Dynasty's humiliation and failure in military affairs was not reversed, resulting in a serious political and military disaster, which gave the country and
The nation brings endless disasters and pains.
Later, Shenzong re-carried over the banner of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and accumulated a large amount of wealth through Wang Anshi's reforms. Song Shenzong saved a considerable portion of it as special military expenses. During the reforms, he captured Xi, He and other states.
He also recruited more than 300,000 Tubo tribes in Hehuang and expanded the land for more than 2,000 miles. This was the most brilliant achievement in strengthening troops during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song. During the Yuanfeng period, the Song court sent troops to attack Xixia and suffered a great defeat in Yongle City.
The Song army was almost wiped out, and the Shenzong's dream of enriching the country and strengthening the army was completely shattered.
Rich country may not necessarily strengthen the army, but it can bring people a stable life and rich material and spiritual wealth. Peace has accumulated a lot of wealth for the Song Dynasty and became the richest era in history. Even if the government's finances often show deficits,
This does not mean that the income is not enough. In addition to the government's income, the central government's income also had the income from the emperor's warehouse.
The revenue of the in-house warehouse can reach one-sixth of the government's income, and it is not included in the government's income, and the financial department has no right to inquire about its income and expenditure. After accounting for this part, there was no deficit problem in the Song Dynasty. In government finance
When trapped in "income but not enough", the emperor "lent" the wealth in the warehouse to the government to achieve a balance of income and expenditure. This was a means for the emperor of the Song Dynasty to control the government's finances, which artificially created when the income is greater than the output.
The illusion of fiscal deficit is that the government is not short of money.
The country is rich, but its soldiers are getting weaker and weaker. The agreement with the Khitan Kingdom's Chanyuan alliance made the emperors unable to feel the dignity of a great country; even the vassal tribes of the northwest dared to call themselves Daxia, and
The Song Dynasty divided the court to resist the court. What they thought was that even if they could not have the honor of being respected as the "Tian Khan" in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, at least they could not give up Taizu, Taizong's mission of regaining lost territory and unifying territory, and at the same time
We must ensure the relative dominant position of the Song Dynasty among the countries, but the reality is cruel and the two cannot be unified...
As a soldier, Zhao Qiong experienced modern reform and opening up. Of course, he understood that a country's prosperity comes from peace, and peace comes from military strength with relative advantage and active and efficient national defense policies. The Chanyuan alliance of the previous dynasty was Song and Liao.
The two countries have brought about a century of peaceful coexistence, and it is understood as a humiliating alliance under the city. Although it is a bit unfair, the diplomatic results of the alliance of the Chanyuan were based on the Song army gaining relative advantages in the Battle of Chanyuan. If Chanzhou
The Song army was defeated in the battle, and what was waiting for the Song Dynasty would be the disaster of destruction, not a conspiracy. This may be verified in the most cruel way in the battle between Song and Jin in the near future...
Now that Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Cai Jing came to power, and controlled the government for more than ten years. As for policy guidelines, the two also claimed to have implemented new laws, but they were different from the new laws implemented by Emperor Shenzong and Wang Anshi, and even the same as the bottles of Maotai wine.
The medium-packed one is homemade with small roast.
The new law presided over by Emperor Shenzong and Wang Anshi mainly aims to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and is considered to benefit the people and facilitate the people. At that time, many people believed that Wang Anshi "was really trying to save the people." Even Su Che, who had a lot of objections to the new law, was
Admitted: "Jiefu cannot bear the poor and has deep illness to enrich the people, and he wants to destroy the wealth to benefit the poor." Zhao Ji and Cai Jing's purpose of implementing the new law is to "begin to seek envy wealth and provide extravagant expenses." That is, to plunder the people and subdue the people's youth,
Satisfy the extremely licentious life needs of the emperor and his favorite ministers.
Cai Jing and Wang Anshi not only have completely different personal qualities, but also have the same policies and policies. The "new" law he promoted is not worthy of reform at all. Although Cai Jing dared to change the laws of his ancestors, he did not change them and was redundant.
The phenomenon of redundant soldiers has not been resolved, but has become more serious. The state finances have supported nearly 50,000 officials, and the army has reached one million. The traditional national policy of strong, weak branches should have been adjusted, but Cai Jing and others still follow the rules, so
'The prefectures and counties will become weak every day'; and those who do not need to change will make major changes. For example, if you abandon your relatives and do not serve as military ministers, the eunuchs do not keep secrets, and the prime minister should avoid personal dislikes, etc., many old rules, such as foreign relatives and prime ministers, emerge,
Brothers are the master of the throne, father and son are the master of the throne, and the first eunuchs intervened in politics; in order to whitewash the peace, Zhao Ji and Cai Jing have also implemented some charitable acts that seem to be beneficial to the people, such as Anjifang, nursing home,
Zeyuan and the like, however, they often speak but do not come in real way.
Zhao Ji and Cai Jing's focus on implementing the new law is financial management and have obtained a lot of wealth. However, in addition to being squandered by Zhao Ji, this batch of money and goods was also engulfed by rats at all levels. They pretended to be the best and wanted to help others.
Fishing and robbing the people, and going all out, all these mean that the government is extremely safe. As for its effect, people at that time commented: "The ancestors' law is beneficial to the people, Xifeng law is beneficial to the country, and admire the law is beneficial to the traitor." The new ones implemented by the two
'The law is just a guise to exploit the people!
"Song is not destroyed by innovation, but by reform and chaos!" Zhao Qi rubbed his head and thought about it for three days and came to this conclusion, and how he could break out a 'bloody road' in it,
Finding a 'broad road' is not easy! Zhao Xiao weighed and thought about it, wandering between the old and the new. He understood that what he did not change now is definitely destruction, and how to change it, how to revive the Song Dynasty
, How to achieve the unity of enriching the country and strengthening the army...
Chapter completed!