Chapter 1,670 Step after step

In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, Cai Jing, the Minister of Household Affairs, reported that the annual income of the Song Dynasty exceeded 350 million yuan.

After three years of revitalizing the Hebei Fourth Road, Suyou handed over a perfect answer to the court.

The booming construction had put a squeeze on the population of the Fourth Road. Su You twice adjusted the wages of the laborers, giving them three meals a day and two hundred and fifty cash.

Stimulated by this number, the bandits that had been rampant on Hebei's Fourth Road disappeared without a trace. The military and commercial villages around Wen'anwa on the front line had to use large machinery during planting and harvesting.

One crop of potatoes and one crop of wheat, one hundred thousand hectares of land, four shi per mu, a total of 40 million shi of grain!

In the Hebei army, the sergeants were so extravagant that they ate steamed buns, fed bran to cattle and horses, and sent letters to the court asking for more troops. They dominated the Yanbian front line and could afford to raise 300,000 tigers!

Of course, these requests to stimulate the Liao people were rejected by the imperial court. Su You asked the imperial court to analyze the property of each household in Bianjing, Xiangzhou and other areas, and immigrate to the local area. He used an average of 100 acres per household and an official payment of 15 guans as bait to lure the next households to immigrate.

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The land is familiar to the military camp. The military men have already done the work of clearing up wasteland. Food can be grown in the same year.

This temptation is self-evident for lower-class households in the mainland. In order to encourage people from Beijing and Zhou Dynasty to immigrate, Gao Taotao issued an order to follow the example of the Fourth Road, exempting the Ding tax, canceling the performance evaluation of the population growth of the counties in Beijing and Zhou Dynasty, and instead reducing the number of immigrants.

As a performance appraisal.

After a lot of hard work, we organized 3,000 households in Zhengzhou, 12,000 households in Bianjing, and 5,000 households in Chenliu, making up the total immigration scale of 20,000 households or 100,000 people.

The 300,000 Guan subsidy was not given directly to the immigrants. Instead, they built adobe houses, plus household items, farm tools, and an ox.

These orders stimulated production in workshops in counties that accepted immigrants, and local magistrates and magistrates welcomed immigrants.

In addition to the water transportation network that extends in all directions, a railway has been built from Taiyuan to Dingxiang, and a branch line to Yanmenguan will be opened in June next year.

The section from Dingxiang to Baima Mountain, and indeed the section from Dingxiang to Baima Mountain, will also be closed in March next year.

Even though the entire line has not yet been completed, this section of the railway has been utilized by Shen Kuo. The rich coal, iron, copper, bauxite, and refractory clay along the way from Dingxiang to Taiyuan began to be continuously transported to Taiyuan and Dingxiang, greatly

Stimulated the industrial development of Hedong Road.

Shen Kuo even had a surplus and used Taiyuan's high-quality coking coal to be transported by a steamer fleet to support the Zhengzhou industrial base.

In view of the sudden wealth on the Hedong Road, in December, Ding Mao issued an order to the west of the river and the east side of the river to build a defensive wall.

The imperial court also transferred a thousand Dragon Guards from the capital, led by Di Zi, to strengthen the defensive force of Yanmen Pass.

Suyou has stimulated people's livelihood by exempting the Ding tax, increasing the yield per mu, reducing taxes in a disguised manner, and collecting taxes based only on the acres of land and commodity output, exempting children from the Ding tax when enrolling in school, setting up large-scale industries and mines, opening up trade routes, and encouraging circulation.

These measures have won the strong support of the people of the Four Roads and brought vigorous vitality to the Four Roads.

The alleviation of the military situation, turning service into a profitable livelihood, awakened the production capacity of the states and counties near the border of the Fourth Road, the redistribution of a large amount of idle land, and the opening of numerous water conservancy projects, also allowed the agricultural resources of the Fourth Road to be

Complete liberation.

With the addition of corn, potatoes and crop rotation, grain production in the fertile soil of Hebei has quadrupled, with an average yield of four shi per mu, while tax revenue has only increased to three bushels per mu, which is equivalent to a reduction of agricultural tax to ten dan.

Three taxes and one.

However, the amount of agricultural taxes has increased instead. In the past, two crops were harvested every three years and two bushels per mu were lost. In fact, the actual amount is less than one and a half bushels a year. But now the tax on the old land alone has more than doubled.

Including the taxes on the new land and the newly expanded hidden fields and hidden households, the agricultural tax on the fourth road has tripled!

However, the increase in agricultural taxes is still a small factor, and the five small industries spread across various states contribute largely to the prosperity of maritime trade between Liaoning, North Korea, and Japan.

The explosive commercial taxes caused the taxes contributed by the Fourth Road in Hebei Province to the Song Dynasty to soar to 40 million guan in the sixth year of Yuanyou, pushing the Song Dynasty's annual income to the 350 million guan mark in one fell swoop.

At the great dynasty meeting, Su Shi wrote a grand congratulatory note, saying that Yuan blessed the prosperous times, and he should be ranked first throughout the ages!

The only discordant voice was probably the envoys from the Hexi city-states, accusing the Black Khan and the Xizhou Uighurs of their bullying behavior, and asking the Song Dynasty to uphold justice for them.

With a poker face, Zhao Xu expressed his sympathy for the Zhucheng-states, Heihan, and the people of Xizhou, believing that this was an inhumane act for the rulers to impose their will on the people.

However, there was a lot of content in the court meeting, and this section was just a small episode. Zhao Xu only ordered the Ministry of Rites to remember that the "Original Meaning" written by two scholars from the Imperial Academy in the Imperial Academy who devoted themselves to studying knowledge in the Song Dynasty and re-explained the Tianfang Bible was awarded to Envoys, ask them to take it back and bring it to those who believe in the Tianfang Sect in the Western Regions.

Neo-Confucianism has become the undisputed prominent science of the Song Dynasty, and after Su You's elucidation, logical speculation and dialecticalism, it was supplemented by countless Confucian scholars of the Song Dynasty, and it has formed a set of self-consistent and harmonious theories.

Neo-Confucianism now believes that civilization begins when people inherit the virtue of fire.

With civilization, humans can be distinguished from animals. This is the earliest application of Neo-Confucianism.

In the early days, Neo-Confucianism was used by people to fight against the natural world. During this period, the main content of Neo-Confucianism was knowledge, and its main purpose was to transform and overcome the harsh natural environment so that one could survive.

This process is very long. After a long period of development, human beings began to have material surplus. Civilization took this as the first starting point and produced a huge change.

Neo-Confucianism finally took an important step, from transforming nature to transforming itself, and began to become a tool for human beings to transform their minds and the way they interact with groups.

Keeping a person or a group away from barbarism and removing the "animal heart" in oneself and the group is the key to human nature, that is, "goodness".

Therefore, behaviors and thoughts that make people better and make the group better are called "goodness".

To be "good", you have to start from the very beginning, start with your parents who raised you, start with your family.

From here, Neo-Confucianism entered the category of Confucian theory, taking "filial piety" as the root of all virtues, developing a set of theories to maintain family, country, and society, and building a theory of civilization into an increasingly taller building.

The Neo-Confucian school believes that this process is a new application of Neo-Confucianism by human beings, which has developed from the original application, but the two are mutually beneficial.

As the saying goes, "The people in the warehouse know the etiquette based on the facts."

Today, Neo-Confucianism has once again taken a new step, which is to refine the "Tao" from those basic skills that transformed nature in the past and allowed human beings to gain the right to live freely.

Knowledge comes from studying things, the way of mathematics, the way of physics, the way of chemistry...

After Su You's embellishing of Neo-Confucianism, it became a matter of equal emphasis on scientific and technological knowledge and humanistic ethics. We moved forward step by step. The path under our feet was the progress of human civilization.

Scientific and technological knowledge and humanistic ethics are two important conjoined trees that build and support civilization. Just like the symmetrical human body, they are two hands and two feet, and one is indispensable.

The reason why people have only one mouth further illustrates the preciousness of the spread of civilization.

On this basis, gods are actually people who have completely gotten rid of barbarism and animality, mastered the true meaning of civilization, and evolved pure and perfect "human nature".

After Carrow and Alp came into contact with this theory, they thought they had found the truth, began to add it to their beliefs, and wrote the book "Original Meaning" at the Capital University.

This book is based on the Tianfang classics, but in many places it gives different interpretations from those of previous sages, turning it into a gentle teaching that advocates civilization.

There is no doubt that this teaching is of great help to the peaceful coexistence of all ethnic groups in Hezhong and Hexi, so Zhao Xu specifically mentioned it at the court meeting, hoping that it could be spread.

Spring, the first month, Yiyou, the Lord of Liao is like Shan Yudian.

Yisi, Zhang Chengyi went through his father's tomb to get the rhinoceros belt, demoted him to the shrine.

This thing is really funny.

Zhang Chengyi was the son of Zhang Qi, Duke of Xu State of Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Qi was a figure who made great contributions to Emperor Zhenzong. When he was more than ten years old, he worked as an errand at the residence of Prince Zhenzong, Qiandixiang, and later served as the commander of the palace.

When Song Zhenzong was the crown prince, he fell in love with Liu E, a girl from Shu whose origin was unknown. He was afraid that his father Song Taizong would find out, so he hid Liu E in Zhang Qi's home.

Liu E later became the empress and empress dowager, and Zhang Qi therefore became a close confidant of Zhenzong and Empress Liu.

Relying on the favor and promotion of Zhenzong and Empress Liu, he was finally promoted from the military position to the sect of Tong Zhongshu!

In the Northern Song Dynasty, which valued Jinshi qualifications, except for the founding period of the country, moving from military service to prime minister was like the sun rising in the west!

Zhang Qi had a prosperous official career throughout his life, and had many wives, concubines, and children, totaling fifty-five.
Chapter completed!