Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 213 One Country Raises One City

Zhang Jin, the infantry commander, is a steady man, from a good family background, and enlisting in the army may not be without the idea of ​​making contributions.

The general may be reprimanded. He has complicated thoughts in his heart, but he is more tactful when he speaks.

"We follow the general, and our future is boundless. If someone else comes in, it may be difficult to climb to a higher position in the army.

However, I will still try to stay in the army. Brothers are disarmed and returned to the fields. If there is no official relationship, I am afraid that they will be bullied by foreigners in the future. I am willing to be your protection. "

Everyone present knew that Zhang Jin had a desire for power, and respected this choice, and did not intend to laugh at it, which made him feel a little relieved.

Wu Yu said: "General, if the court wants to punish you, will you continue to stay in the army?"

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "When I came to Beijing this time, I just wanted to see who the princes of the court are. In addition... I heard that Tong Shuai will be in trouble. After all, he has a kindness for me. If he can repay it, he will repay it." Of."

"What about after that?" Wu Yu continued to ask.

"After that? Hehe, the world is so big, why not wander the world and seek the pinnacle of martial arts!"

"Let Wu Yu continue to follow the general over there! I would like to pursue the ultimate martial arts with the general!"

Wu Yu was originally a member of Yandi Jianghu, with quite a family heritage, a master of swordsman, and has always been the highest martial arts among several generals.

Later, he followed Fan Zhuoyuan to learn the ten forms of bloody battle, and he mastered them the best. In terms of internal strength, he even learned the Purple Blood Dafa, and his cultivation was quite high.

He once sparred with Duguhong, and he was able to catch the nine moves of the soft sword that Duguhong used without losing, which was highly praised by Duguhong.

Fan Zhuoyuan patted him on the shoulder, agreeing to follow him.

He Lubu, a Khitan in command of the cavalry, also had a very clear position, "General, no matter what happens to you when you come to Beijing this time, I believe that you will be the one who will do great things in the future!
If you quit, I won't either!But I will go to the outside of the Great Wall to graze and build a horse farm. When you are willing to come back someday, you will bring us to do great things together! "

No one expected that He Lubu would actually have such thoughts. The so-called big things, what big things are they doing?
No one dared to ask, but they all knew it well, but this also showed how firm He Lubu's determination was.

Fan Zhuoyuan patted He Lubu on the shoulder, and then looked at the other generals. These people are all Fan Zhuoyuan's confidantes. Many of his martial arts were taught by Fan Zhuoyuan himself. Those magic skills are mastered by each of them. A top player in the world.

"No matter what you choose to do in the end, Fan will respect it, as for what to do big, well, Fan doesn't want to ask for trouble.

He Lubu, you have to manage the racecourse very well. With the foundation of our contacts in Yandi, the business route can radiate to the entire Song Dynasty.

If I retreat, everyone will live their own lives well. No matter how stupid Song is, he won't be able to stabilize his defense in the future. "

Among the generals, there is only one military judge, Fu Yan, who has been taciturn, although he is usually like this and rarely speaks.

He was originally a scholar with both civil and military skills, and he was a bit of a man, and he accepted death, and he didn't get into it. That's why he was promoted to a military judge. Because he acted upright and never favoritism, everyone in the army was in awe.

For such a person, Fan Zhuoyuan passed on the Twelve Branches of Huajian to him for self-defense. This is not a martial art used in battle, but he has cultivated it very well.

Fu Yandao: "With my temper, I will offend people wherever I go. Before I joined the army, there were already many enemies who wanted to kill me.

If the general is not around, if I continue to stay in the army, I'm afraid it will affect my family.So I will also buy a few acres of Susukida to support the children of the family, and run a private school in the countryside by the way.

I like Hengqu Qixue, but I don't like Chengxue, which is widely spread in the world. I only hope to teach a few honest gentlemen to cleanse the dirty air of time.

Of course, if the general intends to come back, his subordinates will continue to follow! "

After Fan Zhuoyuan learned about the arrangements of many subordinates, he nodded slightly. No matter what they choose, they are already prepared for the worst situation, which is enough.

I believe they will explain this matter to the soldiers of the Xiaojie Army below. Even if the Xiaojie Army is split up by then, Fan Zhuoyuan also hopes that they will have a better ending.

Three days later, he went south with Li Gang, with only Wu Yu accompanying him.

It was the first time I came to Bianjing. In the feudal era, the prosperity of Bianjing was indeed very surprising.

Although Fan Zhuoyuan has also seen the Qingming Riverside Scene, but seeing the actual city scene is naturally more vivid and full of vitality than the painting, which can be called a miracle in the feudal era.

But then he shook his head secretly. The prosperity of Bianjing was based on the Northern Song Dynasty's economic policy of supporting one city with one country.

It is a pity that Zhang Zeduan, the author of Qingming Shanghe Tu, did not paint the scenery beyond Bianliang, maybe he dare not paint it!
Song used one country to support one city, which was established in Zhao Kuangyin's early years. In order to prevent the local area from becoming bigger, he asked the local government to send all the necessary expenses to Bianliang.

As a result, the place can only maintain basic consumption and is unable to further build and develop. As a capital city, it is indeed earning a lot of money.

Of course, areas with developed trade, such as the Yangtze River Basin and the material transfer nodes passed by water transport, as well as coastal shipping departments, do have many prosperous cities due to the import of industry and commerce.

But are there only these cities in a majestic country?

What about the surrounding inland areas, especially the areas that are not radiated by water transportation?What is the situation?
Fan Zhuoyuan traveled north all the way, and actually saw a lot.

In other places, due to the government's unstoppable annexation, the number of self-cultivating farmers has decreased day by day, and then refugees have repeatedly formed.

Basically, every generation of prime ministers in the Song Dynasty has dealt with the refugee problem, and the solution is very simple, that is, to collect the rebellious refugees into the Xiang army and raise them as official slaves.

This also caused the problem of redundant troops, which became an important driving force for the reforms that had to be carried out during Zhezong's period.

Wang Anshi once said: the old and the young come to the south, and the southerners have no food for themselves in good years.

Mei Yaochen also said: "The soil in front of the door is exhausted, there are no tiles on the house, and the ten fingers are not stained with mud, and the scales live in the building."This is to say that the gap between the rich and the poor is too great to be filled by labor.

Including Zizhi Tongjian, there is also a saying: the officials do not love the farmers, the farmers are busy with themselves, and the autumn season is unknown, and they are still enough to lose to Taicang.It means that farmers have been busy for a year, and they don't know whether the grain will be enough to pay taxes and go to the official warehouse after the autumn harvest.

The taxation of the Song Dynasty was the heaviest in history. Chao Shuozhi, an official of the Northern Song Dynasty, once lamented: "The taxation and service in the Song Dynasty are dozens of times that of the Han Dynasty."

Even the hypocrite Zhu Xi once said: The method of carving and stripping in ancient times is prepared in this dynasty.

Except that the basic land tax is paid twice a year, which is almost [-]% of the annual income of ordinary farmers.There are also dozens of taxes such as various salt money, shoe money, farm tool money, foot money, public money, etc. These are [-]% again.

It means that almost half of the annual income has to be paid to the imperial court, so there were more than [-] peasant uprisings in Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, there was also a poll tax, which adult men had to pay.In poor places, one thousand wen a year, and in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, three thousand wen a year.

(End of this chapter)