Chapter 71 Dirty Southern Song Dynasty
When the news was passed to Yu Jie's yamen, it was already dark. This was just a little trick by the magistrate Wu. If Lord Yu had arrived in time, then maybe he would not have any conflict with the imperial envoy. The magistrate Wu intended to make some misunderstandings between Yu Jie and the imperial envoy. Only when they had some misunderstandings and some conflicts were caused by this, they were the most powerful to him, Wu Dayong.
Because if this prefect Wu describes it, it is really bad. Although he is not a traitor, he is still a greedy and cruel official. If he falls into the hands of the "Chinese Army", he will probably be beaten up immediately. For him, this prefect Wu is probably always awakened to his death, but if he doesn't think of some solutions when he dies, he will be in vain to be the high position of the prefect.
Let me take this space to introduce to you readers the actual situation of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time. Perhaps the lives of the people in that era did not reach a well-off level as some people described. Before the introduction, please understand a definition. In any era in ancient China, no one in the civilians truly achieved a happy life. In most eras, they lived a life of cruel exploitation.
It was not just the Southern Song Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, and the lives of the common people during the prosperous Tang Dynasty were still not happy lives. In any era of illegal rule of law and non-democracy, life was just a life of helplessness and bitterness.
At this time, in order to resist the attacks of the Mongols, the Southern Song Dynasty had a lot of financial expenditures and various harsh donations, and the people were extremely burdened. In addition to the taxes of cubes of money and rice in summer and autumn, farmers "doubled" and "added consumption" and taxed one hu of rice, and some people had to actually pay five or six hu. There was also "hebao rice", called hebao. The quantity was large, and they often levy one hu, and they were low or did not pay cash. The people were in trouble and often went bankrupt and fled. The forms of peasant uprisings also occurred from time to time.
In the huge bureaucracy, all choices that follow the old are correct, based on the rules. Some people dare to make some progress in the government, and are accused of making good things; or they ignore the taboos of the times and make statements, and are accused of being "super-stimulating". These are because there is no supervision and there is no fair, open and fair evaluation standard. Therefore, officials regard "the cowardly and silent as the plan", and are afraid of taking responsibility or criticizing people when encountering problems, which affects the official position. The corrupt official spirit and dusk spirit envelop the entire Song Dynasty government. How could such a management class not destroy the country?
With these s.bs, they must not see through the difference between "explosion" and "explosion". They ruined the opportunity for the Chinese nation to rule the world, and of course they also ruined their wealth and dignity and became inferior southerners. No one really escaped after 100 years of humiliation. Apart from those coastal people who fled to the South China Ocean, they later suffered previous massacres by the natives of the South China Ocean, and suffered a lot of humiliation.
The only future, the only opportunity is to make China a place of rule of law and a country with correct evaluation standards. The correct evaluation standards are unique, that is, they meet the needs of scientific development. It is not just the development of science, especially the development of a scientific outlook on development. It is science and technology, purely without ideology or political science.
But in the Southern Song Dynasty, the existence of major bureaucrats eliminated all the possibility of development. It would have been fine if they just occupied the official position and did not take care of things. However, the bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty competed to "widely stock markets of land and houses, and strive for profit." The civil and military officials did not strive for the first place, and they did not see them running so fast on the battlefield where the foreign invasion was invading.
In the information about the Song Dynasty, there is such a narrative about the annexation of land - "The powerful officials and rich surnames occupy unlimited land, the annexation is impersonal, and the annexation is a custom, and no one can stop it." "The land is occupied by the ministers and ministers, but they do not know how to stop it." The development of land annexation has made the conflict between landlords and feudal countries and farmers increasingly acute. Bureaucrats, heroes, nobles, and wealthy families annexed a large amount of land, using privileges to build manors with tax exemptions, and recruiting tenants to exploit them.
Zhang Jun, one of the four generals in the early Southern Song Dynasty, owned a rice farm near Jiaxing and Wuzhen, occupying less than 100,000 mu of land. In particular, they monopolized the land to build lakes, plundered land arbitrarily, and even reclaimed mountain lakes and destroyed water conservancy. Song Xiaozong issued several edicts to him that he could not stop it. The famous general Yue Fei was still honest. After his death, his family also had more than 700 mu of paddy fields and more than 1,100 mu of land.
From this point of view, we can see that the bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were not just bad. Their greed created social injustice, which completely made the entire Chinese nation lose its cohesion. A large country with a population of hundreds of millions cannot defeat the small Mongolia. This is not a funny story, it is the greatest education given to the Chinese people by history.
——Any time you are concerned about your officials is more important than keeping your pockets in mind!
In the late Southern Song Dynasty, with the invasion of the Mongols and the subsequent establishment of Jia Sidao's so-called public land law, the tragedy of the people of the Song Dynasty became even more serious. This was originally a means to solve the problem of concentrating land in the hands of the big landlords. However, because these landlords were usually large officials, the government used the "harmony" plan to make up for this problem, which was to require the land politicians to sell rice to the country. However, the more rice the government purchased, more paper money must be issued, causing inflation.
The politics of the Southern Song Dynasty was quite dark. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, Qin Hui controlled the government, cracked down on and persecuted people with different opinions, implemented cultural-standard policies, and bribed public acts. From Ningzong, Lizong, and Duzong, until the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the politics was extremely dark. Later, Shi Miyuan and Ding Daquan, Jia Sidao was later. Under the control of these treacherous officials, he went out of private affairs, became extravagant, corrupt, and sold official positions, and the people's lives were even more painful, and the social crisis was even more serious.
Of course, Jia Sidao is just using the direct scholar of Baozhang Pavilion as the deputy envoy of the Yangtze River, the governor of Jiangzhou and the pacification envoy of Jiangnan West Road. And his ability is probably difficult to harm the Chinese because of Zhao Fubo's different employment. If you want to tell a joke, Zhao Fubo gave him a broom, could he clean the streets?
Perhaps this is not important. What is important is that Zhao Fubo and the "Huaxia Empire" he led would not of course use these so-called officials. Unlike other dynasties, including the Mongols who entered the Central Plains, they also had to use some demoted officials. But Zhao Fubo did not. Without going through the school and exams, he could only be regarded as a basic literate person.
As for the old-style bureaucrats who were not convinced, Zhao Fubo originally planned to kill them all!
Chapter completed!