I will never be Renzong

Chapter 159

Chapter 159

In the fifth year of Tiansheng, on January [-]th, heavy snow fell all over the sky, covering Kaifeng City with a snow-white fleece.

After Zhao Zhen and several courtiers discussed matters in Chongzheng Hall, it started to snow heavily outside.

After half a month of discussion on how to govern the Dangxiang Qiang people, the result finally came to fruition.

The reason why the party members violate the frontier every year is because the bitter cold land in the northwest is not suitable for farming, and grazing and hunting alone are far from solving the basic food and clothing problems. Due to the lack of food, countless people starve to death every year.

Even after the founding of Li Yuanhao, he had been in a peaceful relationship with the Song Dynasty and Khitan, but the entire territory of Xixia had only more than 200 million people, and in the end they were massacred by the Mongols, who were also nomads, almost to the point of extermination.

Zhao Zhen divided the more than 500 Qiang tribes, large and small, with a total of more than [-] people, according to the system of [-] people per village, ten villages and one township, ten townships and one county, and four counties and one prefecture. manage.

One village in each township was used to raise horses for the Song Dynasty, which was rotated every three years. Of course, it was not for nothing to raise horses for the imperial court. The imperial court would distribute enough food and wages to support the family.

As for the rest of the villages, a village is engaged in hunting, which is also rotated every three years.

The remaining eight villages are used for farming. Dangxiang’s food is generally planted millet, wheat, millet, and beans. However, due to the climate and the low level of agriculture, etc., the yield is not high, so Zhao Zhen began to plant corn here. Potato.

I have to say that corn is indeed a good thing, not to mention its high yield, and it is a product of drought resistance, so with corn and potatoes, it can be said that the problem of food and clothing of the Dangxiang Qiang people can be solved.

While promoting the planting of corn and potatoes, Zhao Zhen also planned to promote the planting of cotton in Xia Kingdom. The Qiang people were responsible for planting and harvesting, and then the Royal Chamber of Commerce was responsible for the purchase, and then sent it to the cotton textile factory for processing to make cotton coats, hats and quilts Such as cotton products, as for the Qiang people, after getting the money, they can buy various necessities of life, thus forming a complete biological chain.

But if you want to achieve this ideal state, you have to go slowly and not overnight.

Dividing the tribe into basic local administrative establishments such as villages and townships would violate the interests of the original tribal nobles, but Zhao Zhen knew very well that these tribal nobles and the landlord class in the Song Dynasty were actually the same in essence, and they were all tarsal maggots. While enjoying privileges, he oppressed and ravaged the people.

The taxation of the Song Dynasty can be said to be the lowest in all dynasties, but why peasant uprisings continued to occur one after another, because the Song Dynasty directly rented out very little land to the people, accounting for less than one-tenth of the total land in the world. The remaining nine-tenths are in the hands of the bureaucratic landlord class.

The Song Dynasty is like a mafia boss, referred to as Song Boss for short. The soldiers are the thugs, the bureaucrats and the landlord class are the younger brothers, and the people are the people who are oppressed by them.

The feudal dynasties generally had this kind of relationship, but the boss Song was too kind to the younger brothers. The boss contracted most of the fields to these younger brothers to take care of them, and charged a certain contracting fee. Boss Song doesn't care how much the tax is.

Moreover, in case of natural disasters and man-made disasters, Big Brother Song often waved his hand to exempt his younger brothers from taxes. As for some younger brothers who were disobedient and violated gang rules, they were fined money and land. Originally, you could contract a hundred acres. After making a mistake, they will not kill you, but reduce the number of contracted fields.

Of course, if the tenants below are really hungry and can't bear to rebel, and the younger brothers are uncertain, Song Lao will use his thugs to teach these rebellious tenants a lesson. Tianzao, those who are strong and strong during the rebellion can follow the elder brother as thugs, and the elder brother will protect you from worrying about food and clothing.

In this way, Brother Song has more and more thugs, and younger brothers also have more and more, and the money collected was still some income at first, but later it became more and more difficult to make ends meet, because the money collected was no longer enough to support these thugs and younger brother.

As the saying goes, the soldiers are good but not many, and the generals are planning but not brave. Brother Song only pursues quantity and ignores quality. Therefore, when fighting with other gangs, he is often beaten up with bruises and swollen faces. Negotiating peace, but cutting land is like cutting flesh. Of course, the most important thing is that it hurts a big brother's face too much, so he can only lose money.

One day, the eldest brother's lover was snatched away by the boss of the gang next door, so he became angry and wanted to take it back, but he didn't have much money in hand, so he had to take advantage of the sheep and let the younger brothers pool their money to snatch the lover away. Give the other person a good lesson.

I have to say that Big Brother Song did not forget the rich and honored, and treated the younger brothers very well, but it is easy to show kindness, but difficult to return it!Moreover, it is very easy to send money like money, and it may not be the case if you want to get it back.

The feudal dynasties in ancient China generally encouraged the people to reclaim wasteland, and there were various rewards for reclaiming wasteland, but the land obtained by reclaiming wasteland in the Song Dynasty was finally sold to the bureaucratic landlord class, and the government received a fee for selling the land. One-shot deal.

So Zhao Zhen is called Song Renzong. This benevolence refers to the benevolence to the landlord class and the scholar-bureaucrats in the world, not to the common people at the bottom.

There were landlords and aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty, but the system of equal land was implemented. On the one hand, it focused on maintaining the interests of the people, and on the other hand, it also focused on maintaining the interests of the landlords and aristocratic families. It is said that water can carry a boat and it can also overturn it. Officials and aristocratic families It is the oars, if used well, the boat will run smoothly, but if not used well, sooner or later it will capsize.

Tan Sitong, a reformer in the Qing Dynasty, once said: "Reforms in all countries are all formed by bloodshed. Today, China has never heard of anyone who shed blood because of reforms. The reason why this country is not prosperous. If there are, please start from the same generation!"

Zhao Zhen naturally understands this truth. If he wants to solve the Dangxiang Qiang problem once and for all, he must uproot the privileged class of the Dangxiang Qiang tribal aristocracy, and also prevent the birth of new aristocrats.

The nobles will not sit still, so Zhao Zhen asked Zhong Shiheng and others to station [-] troops in Lingzhou, Xiazhou and other places, and the edict against the Qiang nobles has been drafted.

Zhao Zhen gave the tribal nobles two choices.

First, the imperial court granted him official titles and titles, and he moved to live in the territory of the Song Dynasty. The tribesmen will be reorganized and divided, and will be under the jurisdiction of the officials of the Song Dynasty.

Second, take your own wealth, excluding people, cattle, sheep, horses, etc., and move your family outside the Great Song Dynasty. As for whether to seek refuge with Li Yuanhao, Li Chengwei (wei), or go to Liao Kingdom or Uighur, that is you It's my own business.

Considering that most of the properties of the Qiang nobles are cattle and sheep, and Zhao Zhen does not want to cause too much rebellion and killing, the cattle, sheep, horses, etc. that cannot be taken away from the hands of the Qiang nobles will be purchased by the imperial court. The price is only one-third of the market price.

Choose one of the two, of course you can also choose to rebel, but what is waiting is the extermination of the clan.

(End of this chapter)