At the end of Song Dynasty: I want to be the master of ZTE

Chapter 362
It's the twelfth lunar month, the cold wind is coming, the snow is beginning to clear, and it seems particularly cold.

The people of Kaifeng stood by the side of the road, their faces full of eagerness.

The emperor is coming.

After 70 years, the Emperor of Song Dynasty finally returned to his capital.

Kaifeng has been rumored for a long time that the emperor returned to the capital, but after such a long time, it has always been a widespread rumor.

Today, the emperor is really coming.

"It is said that His Majesty brought the Crown Prince along with him, so he probably wanted to return everything to Kaifeng, right?"

"In the past few years, the Tatars were not far away. Now both sides of the Yellow River are our territory. The Imperial City Department has also checked them many times. They are safe and secure. There is no reason not to come back."

"Kaifeng has always been the capital of the country. Your Majesty really shouldn't stay abroad for a long time."

People talked a lot, hoping that the emperor would not leave once he came.

I think back then, Kaifeng had a population of over one million, and life was easy for both the officials and the people. For example, there was a vegetable field in Daxiangguo Temple, and more than 20 people were recruited to settle there. They were able to bribe Monk Hua with sheep wine just by stealing vegetables.

After Lin'an became Lin'an, the population quickly soared to one million, and the people benefited a lot. Now that His Majesty moved to Chengtian Mansion, Lin'an is no longer prosperous, and Chengtian Mansion has a population of 80, and a vegetable field supports a middle-class family.

Therefore, the people eagerly hope that the emperor will return to Kaifeng.

While everyone was discussing, they heard a shout: "Your Majesty, the frame is coming!"

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live~"

Amidst the tsunami-like shouts, the crowd fell down like waves.

"No courtesy, stay safe." The guards shouted loudly, conveying the emperor's will.

At this moment, more than a dozen old men holding drinks stood in front of the emperor's car, part of a welcome ceremony organized by the government.

After some harmonious etiquette, the emperor arrived outside the city.

"Stop." Zhao shouted softly, and the car slowly stopped.

Zhao Shi pulled Zhao Sheng out, and stared blankly at several boulders not far away.

Seeing this, the crowd gradually became quiet.

After a while, the noise started again.

"What are the officials looking at?"

"What's so special about those stones?"

"That's the Genyue ruins, a palace garden that was once built with all the efforts of the world."

Yes, it is Gen Yue.

Zhao Shi said: "I have come to the Long Live Mountain to impoverish nine states, and there are still tens of thousands of people worried about Biandi. The Central Plains has suffered many subjugations since ancient times. Who knew it was a stone after the Song Dynasty?" Zhao Shi recited a poem and said: "Do you know what this stone is? ?”

Zhao Sheng entered school at the age of four, and his teachers were all knowledgeable people. However, he was still young and had not learned much yet, so naturally he did not know what the emperor was asking.

“The area around Bianliang is thousands of miles away, with no lofty mountains and few torrents. However, Huizong believed that emperors and gods were neither physically powerful nor inhabitable. There were also flatterers who suggested building strange mountains.

They took the rarest and rarest spiritual stones from all over the world, moved the beautiful and rare flowers and trees from the south, set up carved lanterns and curved sills, and built pavilions and pavilions over a period of more than ten years.

See those rocks?More than ten feet high, it was transported from the south of the Yangtze River. Along the way, countless bridges were demolished and houses were destroyed. However, when it was taken by sea, in order to ensure the deadline, regardless of the weather, countless ships were sunk.

Its projects are vast and wasteful. In order to supply the needs, it squeezes the people very hard.

The people couldn't bear it and rose up in droves. First there was the rebellion of Songjiang in Shandong, and then there was the rebellion of Nangla in the southeast. Southeast, the source of wealth, tried to pacify Fangla, but also squeezed Shandong to the limit, and then there was the Xuanhe Rebellion.

The domestic rebellion has not yet been resolved, and Huizong decided to join forces with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty. You should know the result. "

"The Jin people went south, the two emperors hunted north, and Gaozong crossed south." Zhao Sheng replied.

Zhao Shi asked: "What do you think?" Zhao Sheng thought for a while and replied: "Be thrifty and love the people, be frugal and serve the public, and appoint the virtuous, just like your father."

"That's right." Zhao nodded and said, "But it's not completely right."

Without waiting for the prince to ask questions, the emperor continued: "Dad you don't build the palace because you don't have money.

If the treasury is full and the internal funds are filled with gold and silver, it will definitely be repaired. It cannot be said to be more prosperous than Gen Yue.

Because money is meaningless in the treasury, it has value only when it flows.

However, you have to remember that the emperor spends money to benefit the most people.

If every plant and tree collected by Huizong was paid according to the market price, and the same was true for transportation, and countless people made money from it, how could anyone rebel?

During the continuous wars between the country and the dynasty, countless civilians were employed, and the scale of the water conservancy project became larger and larger. During the period when half of the country's craftsmen and common people participated, the overall scale was far greater than the construction of Genyue, but there was not much opposition. Why?

Give money!

The people spend money to make a living, and during this period, the court can get business taxes. This is a cycle.

All in all, the emperor should do as much as he has money. If you have money, spend it. If you don't have money, don't bother. "

Zhao Sheng is a precocious child, but he doesn't seem to understand the economics, so he can only keep it in his heart.

Zhao Shi didn't expect to teach him well the first time. He only needed to remember Huizong's lessons.

"The imperial edict is intended to protect the Genyue ruins. In the future, the emperor should visit here and learn lessons before he succeeds to the throne." Zhao Shi said.

Wen Tianxiang, who had been listening silently, smiled and said: "Your Majesty's move will benefit you for thousands of years."

The emperor smiled without saying a word.

How effective is it? Just do your best and obey fate. If your descendants are unworthy, no matter how much you do, it will be useless.

After entering the city, I discovered why the people of Kaifeng wanted the emperor to come back so much.

Broken, one word can sum it up.

As the former capital, it goes without saying that Kaifeng was prosperous. Later, the Jurchens occupied the north and maintained Kaifeng very much, even serving as the capital for a time.

After Mongolia destroyed the Jin Dynasty, only the palace was demolished, and the rest remained unchanged. However, in order to resist the Song army, even the paving stones were pried out to build fortifications.

Now, what the emperor saw was devastation.

It's not that Kaifeng Mansion didn't do anything, it just didn't have the money to do anything. Not to mention repairing the city walls and roads, even the resettlement of the people was barely completed.

If we want to restore Kaifeng's prosperity as quickly as possible, the only way is for the emperor to come back.

"From ancient times to the present, Kaifeng has not been a good choice for the capital." Zhao Shi shook his head and sighed.

"Is it because the geography is not conducive to defense?" Zhao Sheng asked.

"Part of it is." Zhao Shi said: "The river hanging above the ground is too dangerous. If the enemy destroys the river embankment, Kaifeng will be destroyed immediately.

Most importantly, the traffic here is terrible.

Nowadays, the territory of the country is vast. Kaifeng cannot take care of the south, nor can it suppress the north. It is not the key to the east and west, and it is useless.

Given the vastness of the country, the coastal area is the best, and the second is that it can directly enter the sea. "

"In this way, most of the pseudo-yuan are good, and in the near north, they can suppress the grasslands." Zhao Sheng tried to express his opinion.

"It seems like that." Zhao Shi said with a smile: "It's freezing in winter, so sending messages to the south has to go to Shandong first and then to the sea. The same is true for transporting grain from the south to the north. It's actually inconvenient."

So later on, the Ming Dynasty failed to replace water transportation with sea transportation. There were many storms in summer, and the ports were frozen in winter. It was unavailable for half of the year. How to replace it?

"If you take over most of the capital on your behalf, you can treat it as a companion capital. With the crown prince in charge, you can quickly win back people's hearts." Zhao Shi said.

(End of this chapter)