Zhao Huan heard a different meaning from the words of Master Zhong scolding Yang Zaixing.

On the surface, Zhong Shidao was scolding Yang Zaixing, but in fact, Zhong Shidao was implicitly indicating that the war should be ceased.

This made Zhao Huan very curious—

When Datong advanced to Fengshengzhou, Zhong Shidao was a typical militant. He relied on his seniority to steal the opportunity to lead troops from Yao Pingzhong. Now he is actually starting to fight the war?

"What do you think of Zhong Aiqing? Why not just say it?"

After thinking for a while, Zhao Huan said, "Aiqing Zhong is worried about the issue of inconvenience in supply on both sides? Or is he worried about the court?"

"The official's clear knowledge, if it can, the weak ministers wish they could lead their troops to the Western Xia immediately."

Seeing that Zhao Huan had seen through his thoughts, Zhong Shidao no longer fought any mystery, but bowed directly and said, "It's just that after a series of battles with the Jin soldiers, can the national treasury still be able to support it? In addition, the official family has been away from Jing for a long time..."

Having said that, even Yang Zaixing, who was very nervous, noticed something was wrong.

Yang Zaixing didn't know whether the treasury could support the successive battles, but Yang Zaixing knew that the time when the emperor left Jing often meant that the emperor's control over the court would become weaker, which was not a good thing for the officials who had just ascended the throne.

Zhao Huan didn't care much about the court.

There was Empress Meng who ruled the government behind the curtain in the court, and Li Gang and Li Ruobing assisted the government. The court, who was civil and military, could not cause any major trouble. Even if it happened, Zhao Huan, who held power in his hands, was confident that he could fight back.

What really made Zhao Huan upset was the word "treasury".

It is said that the Song Dynasty has money, but in fact, the Song Dynasty has nothing to do with money-

In later generations, whenever I searched for "Song Dynasty fiscal revenue" by Putian, the same figure came out: "The highest fiscal revenue in the Song Dynasty reached 160 million guan (1 guan = 1000 texts). Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, which later lost half of the northern country, could reach 100 million guan when its fiscal revenue was high.

When a history "teacher" reported by the Youth Times gave a lecture in Xuzhou, he even proposed a number that could scare people: "The highest GDP in the Northern Song Dynasty reached 160 million taels of silver, and 100 million taels of silver in the Southern Song Dynasty!"

It’s so scary that it’s a lot of silver worth 600 million taels! The Treaty of Shimonoseki will pay 200 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of Miqing for several years!

In addition, is this 100 million fiscal revenue? Or GDP? These two things are not the same at all!

Also, let’s not talk about how the data of 100 million taels of silver is obtained. Even if it is the fiscal revenue of the Song Dynasty, it is not measured by silver.

A historical common sense must be popularized here. China's large-scale use of silver as a "general equivalent", that is, currency was after the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Because there was a large amount of silver input during the Ming Dynasty, the conditions for silver as currency were ripe. In the previous Tang, Song, and silver would not be the main unit of currency calculation.

So from this perspective, the following sentence is nonsense: "The highest time in the Ming Dynasty was 15 million taels, and before the reform of Zhang Juzheng, it fell to 2.5 million taels, which was 1/40 of that in the Southern Song Dynasty; even if the Qing Dynasty had modern industry, the total income only reached 88 million taels."

Compare the units of silver as units in the Ming and Qing dynasties with the Song Dynasty, which did not use silver as units, and then draw a conclusion of 1/40?

In fact, we have to put a question mark on the first data of the unit using "卡" -

After reading the "Food and Goods Records" in "History of Song Dynasty" and "Food and Goods" in "Song Huiyao's Manuscripts", we have not seen data such as "100 million jin", "100 million jin", "160,000 jin" or "160,000 jin", which may also be the research results of scholars in recent years, but I believe that a rigorous scholar will not be able to obtain data such as "100 million jin".

If you have a deeper understanding, you will find that the "History of Song Dynasty" Volume 174 "Food and Goods (2): Fangtian, Taxation" records very clearly:

"There are four kinds of things in the annual fu: grain, silk, gold, iron, and products. The seventh grade of grain: one is millet, two is rice, three is wheat, four is millet, five is squid, six is ​​bean, and seven is miscellaneous. The tenth grade of silk: one is Luo, two is silk, three is silk, four is squid, five is silk, six is ​​silk, six is ​​silk, seven is silk, seven is silk, eight is silk, nine is cotton, and ten is bun. The four grades of gold and iron: one is gold, two is silver, three is iron, trowel, four is copper, and iron coins. The sixth grade of goods: one is six animal, two is teeth, leather, feather, three is tea, salt, four is bamboo, wood, hemp, straw, five is fruit, medicine, oil, paper, firewood, charcoal, lacquer, wax, and six is ​​miscellaneous."

Simply put, the Song Dynasty collected taxes not like we collect personal income tax, value-added tax, etc., and went to the tax bureau to pay RMB, but were mixed and divided into four categories: grain, silk, gold and iron, and products. Grain means paying various types of grains, silk means all kinds of fabrics, gold, silver, iron, etc., as well as copper coins and iron coins (yes, see the same book "Food and Goods (II) Coins". There were copper coins that were common in the Song Dynasty. Because there was insufficient copper, iron coins were also passed in some places). In addition, there were items, such as various tea, salt, leather, grass, wax, etc., which were the objects of tax collection by the government.

So, how did the Song Dynasty's imperial court calculate taxes? The following key words:

"Any year of taxes, grains are calculated by stones, money is calculated by silk, silk is calculated by two pieces, gold, silver, silk is composed of two pieces, straw, steam is steamed by surrounds, and other things are counted by their own numbers. At the end of the Tao, the total is 7,893,000; in the fifth year of Tianxi, the number of Taos increased and decreased, totaling 6,453,000."

Have you noticed that? "Stone" is used for food, "Stone" is used for money, "Pie" is used for silk, "Two" is used for gold, silver and silk, and there are also grass (usually for military horses, etc.), firewood, charcoal, etc., and other items have their own units of measurement, so what is the following unit of data for the 70893,000 data from Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty to the end of the Dao? "Stone, "Two Circles..."

In other words, if I collect 10,000 yards of grass, it is also counted as 10,000 yards of grass - but you can't say that 10,000 yards of grass is equivalent to 10,000 stagnant, right? If 10,000 yards of grass is equivalent to 10,000 taels of silver, it would be even more nonsense. Even if it really needs to be converted into stagnant, then what price standards are used, when? Where? What is the source? If these troubles are not solved, the conversion will be unscientific.

Units like "Shi Shi Pi Liang" were very common in the Song Dynasty. There are similar records in the "Food and Message Records", such as the same article: "The positive tax and the accumulated burden are 922,200 guan. Stone, Pi, and two are strange." From the actual situation of the Song Dynasty, it is not necessary to convert these miscellaneous units into silver.

Another point is that the currency system of the Song Dynasty was extremely chaotic and complex, and was rare in unified dynasties. Even the question of how much is Yishen/卡号 and how much money is, it is difficult to answer.

The Song Dynasty had coins and paper money, and coins were divided into copper and iron. The Jiaozi thing in the Song Dynasty was fine in the early stage, with a depreciation accelerated in the medium stage, and it was directly exponentially trending to vicious inflation in the later stage.

It is precisely because of the issuance of iron coins in the Song Dynasty and the proliferation of paper money, and the unconverted statistics of physical objects and gold and silver, that people mistakenly think that the Song Dynasty was more powerful than the Ming Dynasty and even encouraged the whole people to grow cigarettes (A Furong, who knows it), and then self-produced and sold, and also took into account exports. Some of the authors of the later generations often used this data to say that I was rich in the Song Dynasty.

The question is, if the Song Dynasty was really rich and willful, why would it take all the money in the sealed warehouse? If the people are really rich and willful, they will only cause two rebellions in a year if they are full?

In fact, the court, emperor and ordinary people in the Song Dynasty were really not very rich, and war itself was already extremely expensive, not to mention that Zhao Huan always followed the principle of firepower supremacy for me in war.

From Bianjing City to Taiyuan to Xijin Prefecture to the last Xijing battle, the 10 million yuan left when Zhao Jixiang ran to Bozhou to burn incense had already been spent all, and even the little money he received after selling many treasures in Longde Palace was not left.

Therefore, Zhao Heng felt that the most painful thing in the world was that people spend all their money to live.

After reaching out and rubbing his forehead, Zhao Huan simply turned his eyes to He Ji: "By the way, how is Shanghuang living in Longde Palace? Have you created any calligraphy and paintings recently?"

As soon as he said something, He Ji suddenly felt a burst of sadness in Dandan-

What was the move of Longde Palace like? It was the real mouse who had to leave with tears in his eyes when he went there. The thief might leave two copper coins behind when he went there!

Now the official family has put their ideas on Shanghuang's calligraphy and paintings, and they are really the greatest filial son of the Song Dynasty~~~

After hesitating for a while, He Ji still bowed honestly and replied: "Since the official family returned to Longde Palace, the emperor has been obsessed with calligraphy, painting and the Qing Dynasty. Recently, many masterpieces have been published."

Zhao Huan then turned his attention to Master Zhong and said, "The money matter is easy to handle. Now that the state is in a difficult situation, I should practice frugality. I will issue an order to reduce some of the expenses in the harem. In addition, this year's spring tax, as well as calligraphy and paintings sponsored by the Emperor, should be almost the same?"

ps: There will be another update tonight. Then at 00:00 in the middle of the night, which is 0:00 on 7.1, it should be on the shelves. I will do my best to write, and the number of codes will be as small as I want! By the way, I want to see how many people will subscribe to this book.

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