Chapter 493: The Great Song Situation
Although it is a bit funny to discuss pigs and sheep in Wende Hall with His Majesty, once this matter spreads to all peoples and concerns the people's livelihood, it is not ridiculous at all.
Moreover, if a family cannot afford to eat meat, of course, let alone practice martial arts.
If the people of the Song Dynasty could eat cheap meat, the number of warriors in the entire Song Dynasty would greatly increase, and the terrible military expenditure would be reduced to a considerable extent every year.
The world is so great that there are thirteen states.
It is recognized throughout the world that Tang poetry, Yuan, Wu and Song lyrics.
Among them, half of the two northern states belong to the barbarians, and half of the other three states belong to the Mongolian Yuan;
The demon clan on the west side occupies one and half of the states, while the Tang Dynasty occupies half of the states.
In the south, there were only two states in the Song Dynasty, and they were squeezed to the beach.
During the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties, most of them were mixed with barbarians and human races, and there were even many pure-blooded barbarians. They liked war, liked conquest, and were eager to fight. If the barbarian races had not given up on each other and they would have often fought with barbarians in the north, and would have long led their troops south to attack the Song Dynasty.
Despite this, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty also often dispatched in the autumn to guide the Tang and Song dynasties.
The Tang Dynasty could basically block or even counterattack, but the Song Dynasty was often captured by one or two cities. Over time, the Song Dynasty was swallowed up by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and now it can only rely on the Yellow River. It uses a large number of poems to make the Yellow River surging and Peng Bai, using natural dangers as defense.
Therefore, the Yellow River often floods, causing floods from time to time, and even endangering Bianliang.
The Tang Dynasty on the west side actually has no grudges with the Song Dynasty. However, the Tang Dynasty has grudges with the dragon clan.
Decades ago, the Dragon King of Jinghe took advantage of the flooding of the Yellow River and was killed by the great scholar Wei Zheng in his dream and paraded with dragon corpses on the streets.
It would be fine if the dragon corpse was returned to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea. However, Emperor Taizong of Tang ordered that the dragon corpse be changed to the imperial guards, which would be considered a complete feud with the dragon clan.
It is said that when the Demon Clan in the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty fought, the Aqua Monster occasionally appeared.
Moreover, the Song Dynasty respected more Confucius Saints, while the Tang Dynasty respected the Taiqing Saints. There was often friction between the Tang and Song dynasties in the controversy between the holy paths.
For example, the Tang Dynasty diplomatic group, which was led by Li Bai after the palace examination and exchanged poetry with the Song Dynasty, was an obvious way of friction.
To defend against possible invasions of the Mongol Yuan, the Song Dynasty brought up 800,000 imperial guards in one fell swoop and arranged them around the Yellow River. Each imperial guard was a warrior of grade.
According to unwritten regulations in the army, there are basically no soldiers with barbarian blood in the imperial guards. If the warriors cannot be promoted to the top grade, they will gradually slack off and form redundant troops.
These people are not in production and spend all day playing and resting by the Yellow River, which greatly dragged down the national strength of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, it is also a question of how powerful the imperial guards are.
In addition to the military soldiers in various places and soldiers who need to protect Bianliang, the Song Dynasty's national income spent nearly 20% on military expenditure every year.
Most of these military expenses are used to cultivate warriors in the army. If the number of folk warriors increases, the Song Dynasty could completely select imperial guards from folk warriors and reduce military expenses in this regard.
Because a large number of scholars need to be promoted to defend against the Mongolian and Yuan barbarians with poetry, the Song Dynasty did not have restrictions on the imperial examinations and were admitted to the best, but opened a convenient door to infusing the number of qualified scholars.
Therefore, the Song Dynasty had hundreds of additional officials every year, but in fact, they did not use so many, resulting in redundant officials.
Compared to the officials who were appointed as officials in the Mongolian Yuan and Tang dynasties, the first official name of the Song Dynasty was a bonus, the second official name was your position, and the third official name was what you were going to do.
Moreover, because it is necessary to instill a large amount of literary and artistic infusion for scholars, it is naturally necessary to build literary colleges in various places, which is another huge expense, resulting in redundant expenses.
With three redundant words, there was basically no savings in the treasury of the Song Dynasty every year. Although this formed a prosperous scene of social economy and prosperity, it was like a tall building climbing up to a grass, and it would fall down at some point.
The prime ministers of each generation, such as the one who had "worry about the world before, and then enjoyed the world after," could have become a semi-saint, but failed due to the reform and fell halfway through Fan Chongyan; Han Qi, Fu Bi and Zeng Gongliang in this generation; Wang Anshi, who later became Wang Anshi, and even the senior officials of the entire Song Dynasty, knew this very clearly.
However, these three items were the basis for the establishment of the Song Dynasty, and they might be used when the Mongols and Yuan attacked a large-scale attack. Therefore, even though they knew this situation, ordinary great scholars dared not change it.
For those who have been modified, please refer to Fan Chongyan before.
Such a wise minister, even if he opposes him, those who attack him will praise his character "the world's greatest scholar". Because of the reform, some semi-saints and even sub-saints will regret it.
What’s interesting is that this generation of Song Shenzong has ambitions and is preparing to promote young officials and let them carry out reforms based on Wang Anshi.
So, looking at the article "The Strategy for Raising a Dog", which has a vulgar name but is very useful in content, he thought for a moment and nodded.
"Since the facts have proven the effectiveness of the pig farming method, try it."
Immediately afterwards, he gritted his teeth and looked at Ye Nan with bright eyes, and said.
"When the first batch of slandering pigs are out of the circle, you will cook them by Ye Jieyuan and bring them into the palace. As long as I can accept this taste, I will list them as a palace dish!"
Without the rude pig meat, Song Shenzong was both sexy and smelly, and he could be said to have made great decisions, which moved Wang Anshi and several prime ministers.
It can be seen that Han Qi and Fu Bi felt even more sad.
From this point of view, Your Majesty is determined to reform. I am already in a state of turmoil and miserable Song Dynasty, and I really don’t know where to go in the future.
After deciding on a plan to raise pigs, Ye Nan was taken away from the palace by Eunuch Zhao.
Next is the court meeting, which is not suitable for Ye Nan, who is going to take the provincial exam.
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After he came out of the palace and bid farewell to Eunuch Zhao, the three young officials who had just surrounded Fang Hu were gone.
They also have to go to court.
Ye Nan carried the load and went home with Fang Hu. On the way, Fang Hu talked about this to him.
"Since I have handed over the poem to my uncle, I will deal with it as much as I can."
After listening, Ye Nan said with a smile.
"But uncle, the house you live in is really small now, so it's still not convenient to rent it in the future. Besides, the master should also come to Bianliang in a few days. I still think it's better to sell this poem and buy a larger two-entry or three-entry courtyard."
"That's how it is."
Fang Hu nodded.
He understood that in fact, Feifei gave him the poems and knew that they could sell them a lot of money.
Moreover, if the gentleman wants to come, he should indeed buy a house.
Ye Nan continued.
"Uncle, after the teacher arrives in the next few months, after I welcome him, I will be invited by several saints to live in the Holy Academy."
Chapter completed!