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Chapter 15 First sacrifice butcher knife

"Cai Jing, come and explain to me what your constables were doing at that time, and why did I still hear that you received the filial piety of those rogues and provided them with a huge protective umbrella. You also bribed Privy Councilor Fan Chunren and falsely accused the ministers. You two are really unforgivable, where is the warrior in front of the palace?"

"At this" six imperial guards came in after the sound of the sound

"Pick these two men's black veils, strip off their official clothes and pushed them to Caishikou to behead and show them to the public."

"Yes" The two warriors came forward and took off their black sage and the government. The other four warriors raised the two and dragged them out of the hall amid the loud cry of theirs.

All the ministers looked at me with fear, fear and incredible eyes. In their eyes, a furious and weak emperor was not scary, but after a terrifying moody and decisive emperor pushed out the two, I immediately issued another imperial edict, saying that Wang Jin, the coach of the 800,000 Tokyo Imperial Guards, was promoted to Kaifeng Prefecture. All the servants except the captains of Kaifeng Prefecture were replaced by the military soldiers, and all the replaced yamen runners entered the imperial guards for special training. Finally, I comforted all the ministers on a spiritual level, affirming their conscientious work attitude and serious work spirit. After the ministers had just relaxed their nervousness, I made their fragile nerves tremble again.

"In view of the poor living conditions of our soldiers, I passed on my will to distribute all the property of Fan Chunren and Cai Jing to the soldiers in the army as pay, and change the war regulations. In case of war, soldiers are allowed to loot themselves after the war is over. All the looted property soldiers can leave 40% of the remaining items and hand over the rest to the national treasury."

As soon as this decree was expressed, the whole court was like cold water dripping into the oil pan and frying directly. I signaled to Mu Fengchun, and Mu Fengchun shouted loudly, "Silent, quiet, if there are any more roaring Golden Palace, the warriors in front of the palace will be expelled from the palace."

We continued to say with regard to the resentment and heartbroken expressions of our ministers.

"I issued an order yesterday that from the emperor to the officials, no more than three dishes and one soup can be eaten together. You think this is my face. Most of you have a wealthy family and a prominent family. You have never suffered any pain since childhood. But you all look around our country. The hostile group is eyeing me, the Song Dynasty is eyeing me, and the people there are living a life of trouble and hardship. You shouldn't think more about you should do more for the people? Are you still talking about face to me? If all the people in the world can live every meal with fish and meat, children can go to school, and there is no war or suffering, I will take your own

What if you sell your face? And those soldiers, maybe they don’t know a lot of words, maybe they are not as noble as you when they go out, but they all join the military camp without regrets. For the Song Dynasty where they live, to stand behind them, their parents, wives and children, they sacrifice their lives, can’t they still bear the little money? Are they not as good-sounding and existential as you are? You all go back and think about it carefully." I said angrily, "Ministry of Rites, come to the imperial study room after noon. I want to hear how you prepare for this year's scientific examination. Go back." I stood up, waved my sleeves and left

"Retreat the court~~~~"

In fact, the Song Dynasty was not as unbearable as people imagined. In history, people's concept of the Song Dynasty was "weak Song", but people did not know how rich the Song Dynasty was. The total number of households in the Song Dynasty was about 20 million households and more than 100 million people, but the area of ​​arable land was as high as 720 million mu. Agricultural tax plus commercial tax burden. The average annual tax burden of the entire Song Dynasty was as high as 71 million jin, that is, more than 70 million taels of silver. After the reforms of the Shenzong period, the annual tax quota of the Song Dynasty now reached 1600 million taels of silver, accounting for 70% of the total annual income of the world at that time. Even if the Southern Song Dynasty lost a large area of ​​Jiangbei, its annual tax quota was still as high as 1100 million taels of silver. If it was not very clear, it would be to convert the tax quota of the Song Dynasty into the unit of measurement.
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