Worried about whether the sixth aunt would be able to go to Zhang's house to propose marriage, the Ma couple were absent-minded all morning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Tang Yi saw that they had no intention of taking care of the business, so he simply closed the stall early, and only sold five pots and accepted it.

The three of them sat in the store with wide eyes and stared at each other, waiting for the sixth aunt to come back.

The hour has passed, and the sixth aunt has not been seen to turn around, but another unexpected person has entered Tang Ji.

"Old man.... How are you? As soon as Tang Yi saw the person who came, he greeted him, it was the Confucian old man from yesterday.

The old man smiled, "Why can't it be me?" ”

Tang Yi scratched the back of his head, "Yes, of course I can." It's just that yesterday I was angry with the old man, and the kid thought that the old man would never come to the door of my small shop again. ”

"It's good to seek differences, not to do things and not to people, but for the sake of a gentleman. Besides, Da Lang's words yesterday were not wild words, they were more transparent than what an old man like me could see! ”

"The old man has won the prize...." Tang Yi smiled embarrassedly, hurriedly walked out of the counter, and led the old man to sit in the store. The old man doesn't remember his past suspicions and is broad-minded, which makes Tang Yi even more admired.

"Old man, please sit down for a while, the kid will cook a few side dishes himself, which can be regarded as making amends for your sins."

The old man stretched out his hand to stop Tang Yi, "Don't bother, the old man is not here to eat." ”

"Then you are ....."

"I'm here to talk to you." The old man said with a playful smile: "Since Da Lang said yesterday that the way of reform is not to be done, then the old man wants to ask Da Lang, what is the problem of Da Song?" ”

Tang Yixin said that he was not convinced and came to quarrel again.

In fact, Tang Yi really wanted to be crooked........

Yesterday, Tang Yi's shocking words made the old man not reflect on it for a day, and Tang Yi's chiseled words have been roaring in his ears.

Is it wrong?

In a hurry?

So how should we save the Great Song Dynasty from fire and water?

For a whole day, the old man muttered these words over and over again, which made the whole family worry all day long, thinking that the old man had entered the magic barrier.

It wasn't until night that the old man slapped his thigh and woke up suddenly:

Thinking only of those words, but forgetting the person who said them. Although the words are shocking, they are still not as good as people! Don't forget that Tang Dalang is only fourteen years old! At the age of fourteen, you can see the world, so what will you pay back in the future?

So today, after the old man finished dealing with some trivial matters, he went straight to Tang Ji. I'm going to meet this Tang Dalang again!

"What's the problem with Da Song?"

The old man's question is more about the meaning of efficiency, not the battle of righteousness.

.......

Seeing the old man's blazing eyes staring at him for a moment, Tang Yi was not in a hurry to answer the old man, but asked Ma Bo to cut a plate of braised pork, put some pickles and cold salads on it, and took out good wine and poured it for the old man.

"Yesterday stirred up the old man's food, and today the kid will have a few drinks with the old man."

The old man didn't follow, "You answer me first, and then it's not too late to drink." ”

Tang Yi said helplessly: "The old man cares about his family and country, which really makes the kid admire." But I am afraid that you know much more about the problems faced by the dynasty than the boy, so why should you ask me? ”

The old man said, "I want to hear from you." ”

All right.

"One is land annexation." Tang Yi stopped doing it and replied seriously: "This is a problem that all dynasties have faced since Qin Yingzheng unified the six countries and established a unified Chinese regime. ”

"At the beginning of the dynasties, the land was divided equally among the people, so that everyone could have a field to plant. So generally speaking, as long as the founding king is not too bastard, the beginning of the new dynasty will usher in a peaceful and prosperous era. However, the most obvious problem of an agrarian society is that the peasants' resistance to natural and man-made disasters is too low, and if the land is not harvested in a bad year, the peasants will go bankrupt. And the only way to survive is to pledge or even sell land.

With the passage of time, as more and more bankrupt peasants become more and more, the land will gradually be gathered from the hands of the majority of peasants to the names of a small number of wealthy households, forming a landlord class. The peasants who lost their land could only depend on the landlord class and were forced to accept the exploitation of the landlord class, making their lives even more difficult. ”

"The Great Song Dynasty's suppression of land annexation was the most relaxed in all dynasties, so the problem of land annexation in the Great Song Dynasty was also the most serious. The massive flow of land into the hands of the privileged classes led to a shrinking tax rate year by year. ”

The old man glanced at Tang Yi and said with a smile: "But why has the tax revenue of the court not decreased, but increased year by year?" ”

Tang Yi replied: "That's because the income from commercial taxes is gradually increasing, offsetting the gap in agricultural taxes. Moreover, some of the peasants who lost their land were attached to the landlord class, and some of them were transferred to industry and commerce, thus easing the class contradictions as much as possible. ”

"The Great Song Dynasty did not suppress commerce, which made industry and commerce unprecedentedly developed, which greatly alleviated the hidden dangers caused by land annexation."

The old man nodded secretly, "What about the other question?" ”

"The second is caused by the difficulties faced by the problems left over from history."

"Oh.....," the old man said softly. Tell me what the problem is? What are the dilemmas? ”

Tang Yi shook his head and smiled, "The dynasty uses the imperial examination and the seal to elect officials in parallel. Because of the chaos in the world at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Taizu was afraid of returning to the old path of his predecessors at the beginning of the dynasty, so he used civilian officials to balance the generals. Fearing that the imperial power would get out of control, scholars and doctors were used to check and balance the imperial power, and the officials were determined by three points: position, power, and salary. This ubiquitous way of checks and balances has made it difficult to get rid of redundant officials, unclear functions and powers, few people in the court to do things, and many people to watch dramas, and it is inevitable that government decrees will be difficult to implement, and it is even more normal to change court orders every day. ”

From the founding of the Great Song Dynasty to the reign of Shenzong, the functions and powers of officialdom were separated, which can be said to be extremely chaotic! Officials are in charge of the military department, but they are in charge of the affairs of the household department. And I received the salary of Zhongshu Province.... This kind of seemingly absurd thing was the norm in the early Northern Song Dynasty. Not only in the military, "soldiers do not know generals, generals do not know soldiers", and officialdom is also "power does not pass the post." No way! ”

"Another big problem is the geographical location of the national capital Kaifeng." Tang Ying paused for a moment and continued to talk

"Kaifeng is located in the plains, a horse Pingchuan has no danger to defend, if the north to attack, a border is a smooth road, the army is less than a thousand miles, you can come to the city of Tokyo. Therefore, the imperial court had to continue to raise heavy troops to defend the Beijing division, and hundreds of thousands of forbidden army food and salaries were spent on this geographical disadvantage. ”

"And Emperor Shi Jingtang sold the land of Yanyun to the Khitan (when Shi Jingtang recognized his father, the Liao State was still called the Khitan), and the border of the Northern Land of the Great Song Dynasty was also unsafe, or it could only be filled by people, which further increased the cost of military affairs."

Tang Yi and the two generations were human beings, and the most controversial in China after a thousand years was the Song Dynasty, the era of the peak of Chinese civilization, which was both lucky and unfortunate.

Fortunately, it has one of the gentlest and most benevolent rulers since the Han and Tang dynasties, and the old Zhao family is a good old man. The relaxed social environment made the culture and economy at that time reach an unprecedented height.

Unfortunately, this docile sheep is surrounded by a pack of vicious wolves.

The international environment of the Song Dynasty was extremely harsh, and no dynasty faced such complex border issues as the Song. No dynasty would have exposed its kingdom to wolves.

Don't look at the Song capital Kaifeng seems to be deep in the interior and far away from the border, but in fact, it is the capital of the most powerful Chinese civilization for thousands of years.

If the Liao cavalry wanted to invade the Song Dynasty, as long as they crossed the border of the Baigou River, they could bypass all the cities and defense lines and drive straight in, and go straight to Kaifeng from the plains of Yima Pingchuan. What to do? You can only fill it with heavy troops! The standing army of the Northern Song Dynasty of the Renzong Dynasty has more than 1.2 million!! Most of them were thrown on the border between Jingshi and Song-Liao. With such a huge armament, even the richest country will have to be dragged down by it!

The Ming Dynasty was known as the Son of Heaven guarding the country and the king dying.

Zhu Di's capital is Beijing, close to the northern border, which seems dangerous, but don't forget, Beijing has Shanhaiguan, the Great Wall, and the Yanshan Mountains! If Li Zicheng's stupidity hadn't forced Wu Sangui to rebel against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji's little force would not have been able to enter the pass for another twenty years.

But what about Kaifeng? To be risky or not, to be unrelated.

Some people may think that what Tang Yi said is exaggerating, so isn't there still the Yellow River natural insurance?

Hehe...... Do you think too much......

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the temperature in winter was much lower than now, and the Yellow River was frozen in winter.

Back then, the Liao army was in the abyss, why did Song Zhenzong drive the expedition in person, and beheaded the general of the Liao State, and in the case of successive victories, he also signed an alliance with the Liao army that made future generations criticize the eternal city?

It is because of the winter that the Yellow River will freeze one day. Song Zhenzong couldn't afford to drag it out, and even Kou Zhun, the first fighter of the Great Song Dynasty, didn't dare to drag it out any longer.

In case the Liao disaster is not solved before the winter, as soon as the Yellow River freezes, the Liao army can bypass the Yuan and go directly to Kaifeng City. If it really happened, then the Southern Song Dynasty would probably have to write down in the annals of history a hundred years in advance.

There are Jiaozhi Zhuyi in the south, and the border troubles are continuous; There is a Khitan wolf clan in the north, and the tiger looks at Dandan. Even Li Yuanhao was able to rely on a gang of party bandits to drum up a Western Xia country, and from time to time he made something happen in the northwest, plus a full-bare capital Kaifeng.

In such an international environment, the Great Song Dynasty had to continue to raise heavy troops on the border and in the national capital.

In later generations, many scholars and scholars criticized the Song Dynasty for being weak, raising so many soldiers and still being like that, anyone could bully and bully. In fact, this view is not objective.

The victory rate of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty in foreign wars was as high as 70 percent, the highest in all dynasties. However, there was no way, just like that, the Great Song Dynasty was still exterminated by the northern nomads.

Why? Because it's all naked!