The Song Dynasty was established in 960 of the Western Rd. It was established by the "forced and helpless" Zhao Kuangyin usurped the throne.

This year is the 1340th year of the Western calendar!

In other words, the Song Dynasty has been established for 380 years.

Of course, the Western Song Dynasty should have a long and long life for 380 years, rather than the Eastern Song Dynasty, which established its capital in Jiangning.

Although the Eastern Song Dynasty also regarded Song as the national name, the official family also had the surname Zhao, and was also a descendant of Zhao Guangyi.

However, the legal system of the Eastern Song Dynasty did not come entirely from the inheritance of the Zhao Song Dynasty, but mainly from the eighteen states and the country. Therefore, the Eastern Song Dynasty was actually just a nominal national leader who was promoted by the eighteen states (later becoming fifty states). After the Union was promoted, the country was promoted by the people, and was not an emperor who truly spoke the law.

Although the Western Song Dynasty also underwent drastic changes during the Jingkang period, and in order to survive and seek strength, it abandoned the ancestral system of "sharing the world with scholars and officials" and embarked on the path of military merits.

However, the Jingkang Reform of the Western Song Dynasty was carried out on the basis of the existence of the Song Dynasty, and it was a new store. The same as the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty built systems and laws on a blank sheet of paper were completely different.

Moreover, the Western Song Dynasty was innate and had no sea estuary, so it was impossible to obtain a wealthy colony to transfusion blood for its rule.

In addition, the core territory of the Western Song Dynasty was also relatively scattered. Unlike the Great Zhou Dynasty, the core territory of the Eastern Song Dynasty was a whole piece of land with very convenient transportation.

The core areas of the Western Song Dynasty, Guanlong, Jingchu and Bashu, were relatively independent and had little close connection with each other.

Moreover, the Western Song Dynasty was not like the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty, and attached great importance to the development of industry and commerce. Therefore, it was necessary to spare no effort to strengthen transportation facilities and build a unified domestic market, thereby promoting the centripetal force of various domestic sectors.

The situation in the Western Song Dynasty was different because there was no sea outlet, and the transportation between the three local sectors was extremely inconvenient, and there was also a lack of precious metals for minting currency.

Therefore, there was no possibility of vigorously developing industry and commerce in the Western Song Dynasty. During the Jingkang period, the Western Song Dynasty court also followed a development route that conformed to the national conditions of the Western Song Dynasty and focused on agriculture and suppressed commerce, which benefited a lot.

To be honest, the Western Song Dynasty, which basically achieved profitability, was really unlucky. It met two "RMB players" who brought their own new world and had almost unlimited resources and financial resources. Otherwise, the Western Song Dynasty would probably be another powerful Qin.

Now that the Western Song Dynasty meets an opponent who cheats, it is naturally not as powerful as the Qin Dynasty. The national policy of "focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce and making a profit" has reached a point of many disadvantages after 200 years of implementation.

To put it bluntly, this way of "making a profit out of the hole" is to avoid butter and need cannons, which will lower the consumption of the entire society and only meet the most basic needs, and then use all the saved social wealth to the military. After the military develops, it will then use the wealth and land of other countries through war to compensate the citizens and nobles who use all social wealth to the military.

Therefore, in the first few decades of achieving "profit to produce a hole", the Western Song Dynasty drove away the Jurchens, ate Dali, expelled Xiliang, and invaded Bagan and Myanmar, and indeed obtained many territories. Although these territories were not rich, fortunately, they were large enough to make up for the contribution of the country's elite class in the national policy of "profit to produce a hole".

However, after the Western Liang moved westward, the expansion of the Western Song Dynasty was close to its limit.

Therefore, the cost of expansion has increased sharply, but the benefits have become less and less, so that the cost cannot be covered.

The "Great Mongolia War" is a sign that the expansion policy of the Western Song Dynasty reached its limit.

Although the army of the Western Song Dynasty was still very sharp, even in the arrogant Mongolian army in the West, it suffered a blood loss on the battlefields of Yiliebao and Suyehe.

However, victory on the battlefield cannot be converted into real "war dividends".

Because the cost of the Great Mongolia War is too high and the value of the spoils is too low, it is not enough to cover the cost.

In the late period of the Great Mongolian War, the Third Central Plains War launched by the Western Song Dynasty once again hit the iron plate of the Eastern Song Dynasty, which was unimaginable to the "RMB player" that the losers players dare not imagine.

Therefore, since the Great Mongolian War, the Western Song Dynasty entered an era of loss-making expansion.

Although it is a loss, it must also expand!

Because the Western Song Dynasty had a system of profiting from a single cave, if this cave no longer exists, what should we do if so many military households and gun doctors in China? They have no way out and cannot rebel from the Song Dynasty officials!

Therefore, in order to maintain the "one hole" route, the Western Song Dynasty had to bite the bullet and cut off each other in Central Asia and the Mongols. In order to reduce the cost of war, the northwest had to indulge the vassal kings in the northwest to expand their power. Because in places far away from the central government, the efficiency of the vassal kings was always higher than that of the bureaucratic and military institutions directly under the central government. Therefore, using the vassal kings to fight was the only choice for the Western Song Dynasty, which had weak financial resources.

At the same time, in order to appease the few gun doctors and military households that had obtained in the Great Mongolia War, the Western Song Empire had to give them many economic and political privileges.

If there are too many privileges, it will naturally form a pattern of monopoly on the rise!

By the Baosheng period when Emperor Zhao Mian of the Western Song Dynasty was ruled, the prestige and appeal of the court in the Western Song Dynasty were no longer as good as before.

Not only were there signs of separatist rule in the feudal states, but also many military aristocrats occupying large tracts of land appeared on the core territory of the Western Song Dynasty.

The land they occupied had long broken the upper limit of 3,200 acres set during the Jingkang period of the Western Song Dynasty, but instead occupied tens of thousands of acres of land and hundreds of thousands of acres of land. There were even military wealthy families occupying one million acres of land!

Its representatives are the Yue clan of Xiangyang (descendants of Yue Fan), the Yue clan of Ezhou (descendants of Yue Fei), the Zong clan of Jingmen (descendants of Zong Ze), the Han clan of Jiangling (descendants of Han Xiaozhou), the Qu clan of Xiazhou (descendants of Quduan), the Zong clan of Chang'an (descendants of Zhong Shidao, descendants of Zhong Shizhong), the Zhang clan of Fengxiang (descendants of Zhang Jun), etc. Every family has more than one million acres of land. Not only are the provinces crossing counties, but there are also private city walls (all of which are castles), which are like a monarch.

The military wealthy families covering an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of acres or even millions of acres are naturally not ordinary landlords, but real feudal lords.

If calculated based on income (land rent), the military wealthy family covering an area of ​​one million acres will have at least 500,000 stones of income. And there is no need to pay taxes!

To cultivate this million acres of land, at least 30,000 tenants are required, and they are all under the control of military wealthy families!

Of course, such wealthy families are all powerful clans. Under the head of the family, the free clan, the disciples, the dead soldiers, and the retainers, they can easily pull out thousands of guns.

These military families not only monopolized a large amount of land population, but also firmly controlled the Huashan Martial Arts Hall, almost turning the Huashan Martial Arts Hall into a private school for a famous military family.

In addition, they also broke the rule that military households are not allowed to participate in target shooting and take over soldiers, using high-quality rifled rifles and children who have received strict training since childhood to seize the rising channels of poor families.

Moreover, in order to ensure that their children can win in the target shooting and pick up the soldiers, they also worked together to modify the rules and added the horse riding and shooting project, which greatly increased the threshold for picking soldiers...

So by the 14th century of the Western Paradise, the Western Song Dynasty had lost most of its vitality and became a lifeless military power.

Of course, the military power of the Western Song Dynasty was still very strong!

Regardless of the national army of the Western Song Dynasty, even if the private soldiers owned by the military wealthy families were pulled out, it would be enough for the Chagatai Khanate and the Great Mongolian Kingdom to have a drink.

Therefore, in the peace treaty promoted by the Holy Maiden of Light, Kutulunchahan, stipulates that the Great Mongolian Kingdom and the Golden Horde must pay annual monies to the Western Song Dynasty!

The Great Mongolia pays 400,000 yuan a year, the Golden Horde pays 350,000 yuan a year, and the Western Xia and Polo pay 300,000 yuan a year.

Four countries have to provide 1.35 million silver coins to Chang'an every year!

If the military of the Western Song Dynasty was not strong, how could these four countries be willing to give money?

However, the more than one million extorted by Mongolia, Jinguan, Western Xia and Polo countries (because of the mining of gold and silver in the New World, the purchasing power of silver cannot be compared with 200 years ago), for the Western Song Dynasty, which was full of financial holes, it was a drop in the bucket. Because a large amount of land and population were monopolized by military wealthy families, the Western Song court was facing an increasingly serious financial crisis.

The gap between the national strength of the entire Western Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty was getting increasingly wide.

If the Western Song Dynasty wanted to reverse the decline, I would probably have to look for opportunities and take a life-threatening blow!

...

Yue Xuan, the newly appointed Minister of the Privy Council of the Western Song Dynasty, hurriedly walked into the Chongzheng Hall of Huaqing Palace.

He is the ninth generation grandson of Yue Fei. He was previously an ambassador in Tianjin, the capital of the Great Zhou Republic. He was recently transferred back to China and promoted to the position of the Tongzhi Privy Council.

Although he was promoted, Yue Xuan was not in a good mood because he knew that he was going to face the most severe situation since the Song Dynasty moved westward.

The reason for the severe situation is not the decline of the Western Song Dynasty itself, but another drastic change that is taking place in the Great Zhou Republic and the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Just when Yue Xuan was serving as an envoy of the Great Zhou Republic, he saw an unimaginable instrument water heater!

It sounds like it is used for bathing, but it is not. This is a magical power device. It does not use human power, animal power, water power, or wind power, but relies on coal to ignite and boil hot water to generate power. Therefore, it is named water heater... Well, this thing is clearly a steam engine in another time and space!

However, it was not the British Watt who invented the steam engine in this time and space, but Wang Zhen, a scholar from the Yuntai Academy of Institutional College. The name of the water heater was also given by him.

So... one of the important signs of the first industrial revolution in this time and space is the invention of the water heater!

Another thing that declared the arrival of the industrial revolution was the invention of Huang Daopo's textile machine Huang Daopo was originally a textile worker in Shanghai Shang City. She invented a new type of spinning machine that could use one spinning wheel to drive multiple spindles around 180 years. She also became rich and became the owner of the wealthiest textile factory in Shanghai.

Now, with the invention and large-scale use of water heaters, the prelude to the industrial revolution has been unveiled!

Yue Xuan, who had just arrived in Tianjin, saw the scene where the "water heater" drives the operation of various machines, and almost felt that he had entered a magical world.

After staying in Tianjin for a few years, he deeply felt the backwardness of the Western Song Dynasty... There were no water heaters, no Huang's spinning machines, and no factories that could be produced on a large scale, and only agricultural farming that had not changed much for hundreds of years.

Oh, by the way, the agriculture in the Western Song Dynasty was not as good as others!

The farm tools are not as advanced as others, the seeds are not as good as others, the water conservancy facilities are not as well repaired as others, and there is no bird droppings... So the crops in the fields look malnourished, and the yield per mu is not as good as others.

Therefore, the people's food is far less than that of the people of the Eastern Song and Great Zhou!

In the Dazhou area, the most ordinary farmers can eat three meals a day and eat meat every day!

In the Western Song Dynasty, farmers always had two meals a day, and they ate dry food when they were busy and thin when they were free. It was rare to eat meat once a year...

The living standards on both sides are so different!

The poor people live similarly to the military nobles of the Western Song Dynasty, while the noble capitalists of the other... dare not think about it.

If the Western Song Dynasty does not rise up, it will probably perish!

And there are more than Yue Xuan who have this idea. Many children of the Western Song Dynasty aristocrats who studied in the Great Zhou Republic have developed the idea of ​​change.

The Western Song Dynasty has reached a point where changes are necessary!

Some of the radical aristocrats even thought of the Republican Revolution...

Isn’t the progress of the Great Zhou Republic because of the republic revolution that the world is for the public?

Isn’t the progress of the Eastern Song Dynasty just because the unity of the fifty states became the public?

Only the Western Song Dynasty was the world, and the king and the army shared the world.

Therefore, the Eastern Song and Great Zhou flew in the sky, while the Western Song crawled on the ground.

This won’t work!

The Western Song Dynasty must revolution!

Yue Xuan, who worked as an envoy in the Great Zhou Dynasty for several years and was responsible for supervising international students, also knew very well about this revolutionary trend. In fact, he had a small revolutionary party in his family. One of his sons and several clan brothers and nephews had studied in the Great Zhou Dynasty. After returning to China, he couldn't stand this one, and the other one, and he yelled all day long to learn from the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Western Song Dynasty... He didn't even see that others brought their own new continents and had endless resources. How could they learn from the Western Song Dynasty?

So in Yue Xuan's opinion, the Western Song Dynasty had only one way out for war. If you win, you can say anything. If you defeat it... If you defeat it, you will wait for a revolution!

"Yue Qing, you are here just in time." The voice of Zhao Mian, an official from the Song Dynasty, interrupted Yue Xuan's thoughts.

It turned out that he had already arrived in Chongzheng Hall.

After performing the bowing ceremony, Yue Xuan stood solemnly in the hall, waiting for Zhao Mian to speak.

"The urgent document from the Great Zhou Embassy said that Wu Yuankai, the direct descendant of the Great Zhou Wu clan, was about to marry into the Komuning Dynasty in Egypt and marry Princess Anna." Zhao Mian paused, "Yue Qing, what do you think?"

"Marry Princess Anna?" Yue Xuan was stunned, "Princess Anna is the heir to the Egyptian throne!"

Zhao Mian, an official from the Song Dynasty who is in her fifties this year, nodded, "Yes, he is the heir to the Egyptian throne. Moreover, she is only 17 years old this year, but her father is over 60 years old. It is said that he is seriously ill and will soon be in the dead."
Chapter completed!