Are there really so many "glories" in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty? Let's take a look at the history of the Southern Song Dynasty with the following solid hammers. Whether it is really clever or fake clever, it will be clear at a glance after reading it.
One: Su Daqiang's version of Song Gaozong
In a recent family drama, Su Daqiang, who made unreasonable demands on children all day, made the whole family jump up and quickly became popular, and also made many businesses develop the business of "scolding Su Daqiang". However, compared with an emperor in the Southern Song Dynasty, Su Daqiang's "refined" realm is not as good as harmony.
Because, after the despicable murder of the great hero Yue Fei, Song Gaozong, who claimed to be the master and held the throne firmly, also continued his career of "making sperm".
The first is private life. Although there are many historical materials, they all praise Song Gaozong's "frugality". However, the actual fact in The Records Since the Establishment of Inflammation is that when the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty was stormy, the annual income of Song Gaozong's private treasury was 2 million yuan, but after the country was stabilized, Song Gaozong also made a full mouth every year, and every year, "half of the national fiscal revenue", that is, half of it, was put into his personal pocket, with an annual amount of 30 million yuan.
And in this matter of cuddling money, Song Gaozong also does not hesitate to face. According to the History of Song Dynasty, in the twenty-sixth year of Shaoxing, Song Gaozong made a beautiful promise that as long as people in Hunan and other places are willing to reclaim land, they will be tax-free for 10 years. Who knows that only two years later, when the local people just opened some cultivated land, Song Gaozong suddenly changed his face and tried his best to levy heavy taxes on the local people-asking for money first, so why bother?
Xin Qiji, the great hero, saw a wonderful sight: ships carrying excrement all over the Southern Song Dynasty had to pay money to the Southern Song Palace to buy the flag of Deshou Palace. Money for the flag? Of course, it also went into Song Gaozong's private pocket-even the feces of the people in the Southern Song Dynasty, and this Song Gaozong had to open his mouth and try his best to bite out the oil and water.
With so much money, it's ok to spend it properly. However, as far as the national defense cause related to the survival of the Southern Song Dynasty is concerned, even the pro-military elites in Song Gaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty were understaffed for more than ten years after the Song and Jin Dynasties' "Shao He", and all of them were defeated for several days. The crossbow necessary for war was destroyed a lot. An archer can share a bow with two people, and they are all well-equipped, "the rest are unbearable to teach" and their fighting capacity is sparse.
Yan Hongliang, the Emperor of Jin, tore up the peace talks and sent troops south crazily. Song Jun, unaccustomed to fighting for a long time, had a sparse first battle. What should Song Gaozong do in the face of crisis? Su Daqiang's performance can be called an "upgraded version" of hide and seek. He immediately asked Chen Junqing, assistant minister of the Ministry of War, to "handle sea routes", that is, to prepare ships to escape. Jiangshan community? National security? He doesn't care!
In this sense, under the condition that the booth was so "refined", Yu, and other heroes bravely stood up against the war of the nomads from the army and really created a miracle.
Two: "sky-high" public funds to eat and drink
One of the attractions of the Southern Song Dynasty is its colorful diet. China's ancient cooking skills and catering varieties also matured rapidly in the Southern Song Dynasty. In many martial arts novels, the variety of dishes in the Southern Song Dynasty made many fans drool. But in the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the delicious food appeared in an occasion called "Fire" of the Southern Song Emperor: official funds were used for eating and drinking.
Although the Southern Song Dynasty was semi-peaceful, the tradition of "nurturing scholar-officials" has not been lost, and the gray income of senior officials is also fat. The ethos of "eating public funds" soon surpassed that of the Northern Song Dynasty. "Miscellanies of the ruling and opposition parties since Yan Jian" records that Wang Luzhong, the Pingjiang magistrate, and his colleagues "ate public funds" during the Xichun period only, and a meal cost thousands of yuan. What is the concept of thousands of dollars? It was equivalent to all the savings of a middle-class family at that time, and it was finished in one meal.
The court in the Southern Song Dynasty was also annoyed by this unhealthy trend. Especially in the period of Song Ningzong, the Southern Song Dynasty court repeatedly issued strict orders to severely crack down on public funds for eating and drinking. However, the more severely the court cracked down, the hotter the public funds became. At that time, a "public banquet" by local officials in Chengdu cost more than 3,000 yuan, and a meal in Jiankang (Nanjing) cost as much as 6,000 yuan. On the eve of the national subjugation in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was even more "the wealth of ten families, not enough food for one bite". The country is in danger, and these officials are still eating.
How much butter did people eat?
Three: What was the life of the people after the "peace talks" in the Southern Song Dynasty?
Another thing that is often praised in the Southern Song Dynasty is "Song and Jin made peace". According to some "experts" in modern times, the Southern Song Dynasty made peace without looking at humiliation, but it finally lightened the burden on the people. But in fact, the people of the Southern Song Dynasty who lived in "peace" were enough to slap such "experts".
Because the burden of the people in the Southern Song Dynasty after the "peace talks" was heavier than that during the Song and Jin Wars.
Why is it heavy? First of all, we can look at the terms of Shaoxing Peace Talks: In the Southern Song Dynasty, the annual "annual tribute" was 252,000 yuan. But at that time, the northern Xinjiang of the Southern Song Dynasty fell, and many silver-producing areas also fell. The annual silver mining amount is only162,000. According to the "History of Song Dynasty" and other materials, in order to make up enough filial piety for the Jin Dynasty every year, the Southern Song Dynasty was eager to sell iron and tighten its belt to send filial piety.
In other words, this year's coins emptied the silver of the Southern Song Dynasty almost every year. What about the national economy? We can only issue paper money "Huizi" crazily. During the period of One Happy and Fifth in the Southern Song Dynasty, the circulation of Huizi also surged year by year. If you are familiar with economics, you will know that behind the "prosperity" of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was serious inflation.