But that is easier said than done. How can Zhao Gou provide enough factual proof for the theory of ethics and theory orientation?

This is not just something that can be achieved by regaining lost land in war.

Because the thunder of the sky appeared first, it became very easy to recover lost land.

This should have been the ultimate goal of reforming and strengthening the country. For example, Wang Anshi's reform and the previous Qingli New Policy were all about boosting the country's power. The best way to boost the country's power is to defeat the enemy on the battlefield. But now this seems to be no longer enough to measure the changes in national strength.

So where do he need to set a new life goal?

It is people's livelihood. Apart from this, Zhao Gou really can't find a better entry point.

Who said that the Zhao family has such awesome tax system?

Those who take money from all people will not leave any remaining money. Those who live in this time do not know how to make a living.

Even those who were loyal to the Song Dynasty could not deny a fact that the ancients had prepared the method of carving and stripping.

The Song Dynasty's government not only inherited the heavy taxes and taxes from the Five Dynasties and previous dynasties, but also added many new ways to accumulate the people. The taxes and treacherousness are several times more complicated than those of ancient times.

Zhao Gou really admired the tax formulation of the old Zhao family. It was like a super advanced computer, which created an extremely advanced mathematical model, accurately calculated the living materials needed by the people to live, left the necessary rations for the people and farmers under his control, and then collected all the remaining ones.

Otherwise, how high the annual income of the Zhao Song government could be? Even those who cried and shouted at her in the Ming Dynasty could not keep up?

Although the consequence of this was that the Zhao Song Dynasty had begun to have peasant uprisings in less than two years since its founding. By the time of Emperor Taizong, it was the second generation of monarchs, and a medium-scale uprising such as Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun Uprising broke out. It was simply incredible.

This is because of the human heart. As long as it is a human, there are seven emotions and six desires. The Zhao family is dancing on the red line. The tax policies are formulated too harshly. Once they encounter officials who are greedy and greedy, it is perfect for the officials to force the people to rebel.

The emperors of other dynasties heard someone uprising: Damn, someone is causing trouble?

The emperor of the Zhao Song Dynasty heard someone uprising: Oh, someone is causing trouble again?

The gap between the two sides is that big.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, which had been around for more than 160 years, there were about 200 peasant uprisings, and there were more than once a year on average. If this had nothing to do with the harsh taxes, Zhao Gou dared to cut off his head and kick it as a ball.

But because the Zhao family also left the most basic living materials for the people, most of the situation in the country is still stable.

The peasant uprisings were all small-scale riots, and very few affected the whole country. The vast majority of civil unrest can be pacified by the local government.

The billions of people under the rule of the Zhao family were oppressed so cruelly. I believe that as long as Zhao Gou relaxed his shackles a little, countless people could feel the change.

Fan Zhen once said: I am afraid that my worries in the future will not lie with the four barbarians, but with the redundant soldiers and the poor people!

It can be seen that the scholars and officials in the world are not unaware of it.

Of course, there will be many people who will exude fragrance. The Emperor of Song Dynasty shared the world with their scholars and officials, and did those mud-legged birds?

But Zhao Gou would not have only such a means, and not everyone can say that kind of thing openly.

In addition to loosening the ties to farmers, Zhao Gou's other entry point is businessmen.

Merchants have always been a very tragic profession in ancient Chinese history. Confucianism, which distorted the meaning of the four people, directly nailed them to the position of inferior people in society. Even when officials and businessmen colluded to a certain extreme, merchants were still very tragic.

They held the money and used hard-working officialdom to pave the way for the scholars they were promising. The latter would have a bright future when they became prosperous, but businessmen were still businessmen. Even if their investment partners were grateful, they would only add a reliable protective umbrella for themselves, and the power was not theirs after all.

In a sense, shouting and fighting and killing the merchant class has even become the political correctness of all dynasties in China.

Confucianism is also awesome to bring a group of wealthy people who have a considerable amount of social information and power into such a situation.

As the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms faded away, the prosperous market economy of Zhao and Song greatly enhanced the power of merchants. Taking Bianliang City as an example, although many guilds or big merchants have backers hidden behind them, only by looking at the wealthy merchants here who could spend money to marry clan daughters as their wives and daughters-in-law, we can know that their influence is also not weak.

In Bianliang City, one is the Tian family with the hat and the Zhang family with the big bucket. One married ten county lords and the other married more than thirty county lords. Every five thousand guan bought one, even the Empress Dowager felt shameless after hearing this.

Because during the Zhao Song Dynasty, having a daughter was definitely a loss of money.

There is no such thing as a bride price in this era. My daughter’s family pays for the dowry, and society is used to marrying generously. This is because of social etiquette, and the second is to support my daughter.

The thickness of the woman's dowry can directly determine their status in the man's home.

What's more, are there everyone's face? The richer and more powerful everyone will be, the more they will be bleed.

But these county lords can not only save a lot of money, but also earn 5,000 guan. However, they are also a symbol of status and even a protective umbrella for their husband's family.

From this point, you can see that these merchants do not have any "power", otherwise it would be too much of a loss to marry the female county lord of the clan. But at the same time, this also shows that the great merchants pursue higher social status.

In the words of later generations, it means that after the power accumulated by a group reaches a certain level, it is urgently necessary to enter a higher level.

After years of development, the merchants of the Song Dynasty had obviously overcome the low-level material pursuits and changed to higher-level political cities and social status.

Zhao Gou now wants to motivate the power of this group of people.

"Minister?" Zhao Bushi frowned tightly. He didn't expect that the King of Yan would come up with this trick.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the civil servants have officially withdrawn from the historical stage of China.

But now, Zhao Gou not only brought out the civilian titles to those big merchants, but also popularized them into the military veterans...

Retired soldiers are rewarded with the country and are awarded titles according to their achievements. Private merchants donate funds and pay, build bridges and pave roads, which is beneficial to the country and can also be awarded titles from the people.

The civil servants are divided into fifty-two levels, which is the same as the official rank.

This is really awesome! It simply solves many problems.

Money.

Moreover, the civil title is not an official position. Its only function is to have an honorary title, or to be on par with the official position. However, this one is only decent and polite to the court of officials, which is enough to attract countless merchants.

Zhao Bushi knew very well that Zhao Gou had the idea of ​​raising the army in his heart, so he just took it out now. But what happened to count the merchants as well?
Chapter completed!