Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 882 Supranationalism

"Especially the situation in Hexi Kyushu is the worst, should we save or not?" Zhao Huan asked a question.

The courtiers looked around, and Li Mixun bit the bullet and came out, and said: "Your Majesty, it's not that we don't save them, it's that the Song Dynasty couldn't save the Western Dynasty, and we have no rice to save them. It's a warm winter and severe drought, and now there is no rain. The food in Changping warehouses in various places is waiting for spring plowing. At this time, we can’t get anything back for helping Xichao, and the dynasty is in danger of overthrowing.”

Lu Zai saw that someone had started, so he also stood up and said with a little embarrassment: "Officials, I think what Li Shaoqing said is very true. The Great Song Dynasty can't save the Western Dynasty. There is a fixed amount of food in the household department. Even if the Great Song Dynasty is crowded A little rations from all walks of life were given to the Western Dynasty, but in the end it was nothing more than repeating the old things in Ezhou and enriching the Xixia royal family, Xungui, foreign relatives and Liang family. It is of no benefit to the people of the Western Dynasty."

The price of grain in Ezhou skyrocketed, and there was no grain available in the Changping warehouse. Grain merchants and Xungui jointly drove up the price. The price of a bucket of rice was raised from 160 yuan to more than [-] yuan per bucket of rice.

Just as Lu Zai said, even if Da Song deducted a little of his own food, the result of being merciful and merciful, cutting meat to feed the eagles, still cannot be implemented on the heads of the people.

Zhao Huan nodded, put the letter on the table, glanced at Li Gang, and asked, "Does Xiang Li have anything to add?"

Li Gang pondered for a while and said: "Qingtang, Qinfeng Road, Yongxingjun Road and Hedong Road should be prepared for refugees to pass through the customs. During this period of time, merchants who go to the Western Dynasty or pass by the Western Dynasty to the Western Regions are banned. Especially those in the Western Regions The merchants on the side should be asked to detour to Qinghe Zhenzhou to Datong. The Song people who were merchants and visiting relatives in Xixia should also be notified to return to the Song Dynasty. If necessary, Huang Yanjie can also be called back."

"If there is a plague of locusts, these merchants and Song people will suffer severely."

"Then it will not be saved. Li Xiang, you send a letter to the roads and order them to be on the alert. The household department cooperates with Li Xiang's work and recalls the Song people from Xixia. Chen Zimei, your business department mobilized in the mansions of these roads Get up, put up a notice, and pass it on word of mouth, merchants must not pass by Xixia." Zhao Huan made a big mistake on the letter and refused to send it.

Xixia, Da Song was unable to rescue, Da Song was hit by floods and plagues one after another, and Da Song really couldn't make up food.

Even if it's a forcible collection of food, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to give it to Huanglong Mansion than to Xixia?

The Little Ice Age, or the climatic disasters in which the temperature has dropped by two degrees in a century, is the continuous plague, drought, locust plague, and flood caused by climate change. severe pressure.

"If there is nothing wrong, then let's disperse." Zhao Huan stood up and signaled everyone to disperse.

"Retire." Zhao Ying shouted loudly, and all the ministers filed out from Wende Hall.

Zhao Huan watched with a smile on his face as Chen Zimei pulled Li Mixun, Minister of the Household Department, to say something, while Li Gang was still standing beside him trying to smooth things over.

The Ministry of Household Affairs can't make a yellow book for the whole world in a day, so the Ministry of Commerce's vacancies depend on the Ministry of Commerce for a day.

"Zhao Ying, go to Concubine Cao Xian and tell Concubine Cao Xian about today's court meeting." Zhao Huan suddenly assigned Zhao Ying a task.

Zhao Ying walked two steps, then suddenly frowned, rubbed her stomach and said, "Sun Li, you go there. My stomach hurts, I'm in a hurry, ouch, my stomach!"

Zhao Ying disappeared in Wende Hall with his unique speed, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Sun Li stared at the position of the door, and looked at the Great Song Emperor with questioning eyes.

Zhao Huan shook his head helplessly, and signaled to Sun Li to come. This matter was to give Cao Xian a knife in his heart, especially Zhao Ying, who was familiar with Zhao Huan's actions, and knew that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty had never favored Cao Xian. After this incident, it is more and more likely that Cao Xian will be left out in the cold.

Zhao Huan leaned on the chair and looked at the help-seeker in front of him. It wasn't that he didn't want to save him, but he really couldn't.There is no doubt that Da Song is a big landlord, but the landlord's family has no food left.

If Xixia really belonged to the Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan would not mind calling on the people of the Song Dynasty to tighten their belts and rush to help, but unfortunately not.

Since the first year of Emperor Xizong's Zhonghe in Tang Dynasty, Li Sigong was appointed as the governor of the Dingnan Army to seek self-reliance, and Xixia has been separated from Germany.It has been nearly two hundred years.In fact, Xixia counted their regime time from Li Sigong.

As for what Li Gang said about banning merchants and warning Song Min to return to Song Dynasty when visiting relatives, in Zhao Huan's view, it was not an overreaction.

In the eyes of Li Gang, the current people in Xixia are all futures dead.

Even if they are still alive, in Li Gang's eyes, they are undoubtedly dead.

The end of the Yongxing Army caused by Xixia has always been a thunderbolt in the Great Song Dynasty, and it may explode with a bang at any time.

In Li Gang's eyes, the existence of Xixia is the fundamental sin of the Song Dynasty's unrest in the northwest. The Song Dynasty was busy playing games with the Jin people and had no time to liquidate them. They still licked their faces and asked for help. Li Gang's words did not contain any insult His language has already shown the cultivation of a scholar-bureaucrat.

In any era, when a catastrophe is approaching, its citizens and regimes will involuntarily choose to embrace nationalism.

Especially in times of disaster, when life is at stake, nationalism will rise rapidly with an unstoppable momentum.

When no one expected it, it suddenly turned into an uncontrollable dragon, devouring everything.

The Song Dynasty faced the national crisis in the first year of Jingkang, and the wound has not healed until now. Even the Haner who came from the northern border was still rejected by the Song people in the Song Dynasty.

So will Xixia embrace narrowness, national movements, and nationalism?
In fact, in the face of catastrophe, embracing the national movement is an inevitable process for almost every country, especially small countries, they will hold the word nation in their hands like a straw, otherwise they will soon Just because Wude is not strong enough, it has become a footnote to a period of history.

Nationalism is originally a neutral term, and it is also an important tool for cohesion in the face of catastrophe and military disaster. The clean-up plan formulated by Zhong Shidao was precisely out of this consideration.

But as nationalism intensifies, it will turn into supranationalism, and by then it will be too late.

So, will Xixia be xenophobic?The answer is yes.

From the perspective of Song people, it seems that Xixia is targeting the people of Song Dynasty. In fact, from the perspective of Khitan people, Xixia is also targeting Khitan people. From the perspective of the countries of the Western Regions, Xixia is also targeting people from the Western Regions.

This is a kind of xenophobia regardless of each other, high or low, and the purpose is to ensure the continuation of one's own survival.The result of not engaging in unanimous external relations is internal strife, and it is a foregone conclusion that the country will fail.

And Xixia's Dangxiang people and Han'er are two huge groups, and their conflict is almost a foregone conclusion in this locust plague.

　Supranationalism: sympathy with communism, communism.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)