One Piece of Song Dynasty

In the Wanyanchang Mansion in Yanjing City, Queen Mother Wei was embroidering tiger-head shoes for a baby, and Queen Xing was feeding her wild dates.

Queen Xing said: "This jujube is so sour. The Queen Mother likes it sour. She must be a boy."

Queen Mother Wei echoed: "A sour girl and a spicy girl are naturally boys."

Queen Xing asked: "Queen Mother, I heard that the Jin people moved my father to Five Kingdoms City."

Queen Mother Wei was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said nothing. Queen Xing could only sigh helplessly.

Going east from Chizhou, passing through Hangzhou, Yuezhou, Siming, Shengzhou, Taizhou, Wenzhou and finally Fuzhou, Li Qingzhao's master and servant finally walked outside Quanzhou that night and stayed in a ruined temple. Thinking of going to the city to meet the emperor tomorrow, both of them were so excited that they couldn't sleep, so they lay in the car in the open air and counted the stars. It was quiet all around, except for the chirping of insects in the grass and the sounds of animals eating grass and chewing cud.

Myolie saw a hazy light nearby and hurriedly pulled Li Qingzhao: "Madam, look quickly, what is that?"

Countless fluorescent lights rose in the nearby grass. Xingtong was so excited that he got out of the car and rushed over: "The fireflies are so densely packed, how beautiful they are."

Li Qingzhao also watched intoxicated. Xing'er spun around, raised her head and stretched out her hands to chase the fireflies, as if dancing lightly in the fluorescence. Li Qingzhao was smiling with a rare smile when Xing'er fell to the ground and suddenly screamed in horror: "Ah, madam."

Li Qingzhao hurried over and was so shocked when he saw her that he hugged Xing'er. There were white bones among the grass. The green fireflies danced left and right in front of them, no longer beautiful, but creepy. Xing'er covered her eyes and shouted: "Don't ever see fireflies again. Fireflies are all dead people."

"Don't be afraid, Mingcheng, are you now like this phosphorus fire, wandering around in the underworld?" Li Qingzhao thought of Zhao Mingcheng from the fireflies and bones, and couldn't help but calm down. He hugged Xing'er and walked back, feeling infinite pain in his heart. Myolie slowly opened her eyes and looked at the night sky, and saw the bright Milky Way. Myolie suddenly remembered: "Chinese Valentine's Day. It's Chinese Valentine's Day today, no wonder it's so bright. Where is the Magpie Bridge?"

Li Qingzhao also looked up at the brilliant stars and pointed them, telling her which one was the Cowherd, which one was the Weaver Girl, and which one was the Magpie Bridge.

Xing'er watched and shed tears: "I wonder what Brother Zhao Chun is doing tonight. Is he also looking at Magpie Bridge? Is he still alive?"

"Of course Zhao Chun is alive. He must also be watching the Magpie Bridge in the countryside of Hongzhou and thinking of you." Li Qingzhao comforted her. Xing'er said: "Liar, how do you know, madam?"

"You must be alive, you must think so, you can only think so. Otherwise, you will not survive." Li Qingzhao's words brought out Myolie's tears again. Li Qingzhao walked forward, with mixed feelings, and burst into tears. He couldn't help but recite: "The cicadas sing in the grass, and the parasol trees fall in shock. It is the world and the sky that are full of sorrow. The clouds and the moon are locked on the earth. Thousands of layers of locks are locked. Even if the boats come and go, they will not stop. We meet again. Magpies ride on the star bridge. We only see each other after many years. It’s hard to be separated and hate each other. Morning Glory and Weaver Girl, don’t leave. It’s sunny, rainy and windy.”

Myolie couldn't help but hugged Li Qingzhao, and the two looked up at the Magpie Bridge in the fluorescent light. The Milky Way does not understand the misery of the world at all. The bright starlight is projected straight down, strongly penetrating everyone's life.

After the mobilization of the soldiers from various places was completed, under the guidance of the local counterparts, they pounced on the large and small bandits entrenched on the hills of various places with lightning speed. Almost overnight, the bandits from various places had not yet reacted to the situation. Later, based on the evidence collected from Tianxiang Towers and shops in various places in the past few years, landlords and officials from various places who had colluded with bandit bullies were arrested. For a time, various places were plunged into turmoil.

Not only that, for some high-level ethnic minorities in Guangxi, Hunan and other places, Li Xin also secretly ordered various places to take extreme measures through Tianxianglou. The policy adopted by the Song Dynasty towards ethnic minorities in the south was to select local ethnic chiefs who were "compassionate with barbarism and accustomed to danger and danger". "Those who are courageous, intelligent and capable" will be granted official positions or titles, and a hereditary system of official titles will be adopted. The official titles will be inherited by their legitimate sons, concubines, younger brothers, nephews, or close relatives or clan members. The ethnic leaders who confer official titles are actually the agents of the imperial court who rule the ethnic areas, called native officials. The native officials had the power of life and death, and were required to pay regular tribute to the court as a sign of submission. The native officials also had their own army of native soldiers, who could even support the court when necessary.

This kind of policy is actually an appeasement policy. The native officials dominate the minority areas. This is not allowed by Li Xin. What Li Xin wants is that both Han people and ethnic minority people must return to their native lands under the absolute control of the imperial court. Liu Xin was the ultimate goal that Li Xin wanted to achieve. Of course, this time Li Xin only moved a small number of local officials. After all, there were too many barbarians, and only moving a small number would not cause public anger, so these local officials were unknowingly He was arrested immediately because Li Xin did not give the order through formal channels.

Zhao Ding and Lu Yihao were stunned after receiving a large number of memorials from various places. They both realized that something big had happened and hurried to the Quanzhou government office to question Li Xin.

Li Xin saw them coming in a hurry and knew what they were doing. He called them to sit down and said, "Come on, you two should sit down and have a cup of tea first."

Zhao Ding put down the tea cup and said: "My lord, I am in a hurry. How can I have time to drink tea? Everything down there is a mess. What is going on?"

Li Xin said calmly: "It was my king who gave the order for the troops from all over the country to do this."

Lu Yihao asked: "Why did the prince do this?"

Li Xin said: "I would like to ask you two first, since Qin Shihuang established the first unified dynasty, there have been five unified dynasties so far, and the Song Dynasty is the sixth one. Why can't each dynasty survive for a long time? , some decades, some centuries, were eventually overturned.”

Zhao Ding and Lu Yihao looked at each other, and Zhao Ding said: "This problem is more complicated. It is related to both the royal family and the administration of officials. At the end of the dynasty, officials are often in serious trouble, while the royal family has a weak king."

Li Xin nodded and said: "What Mr. Zhao said is right, but it is not the root cause of the problem."

Lu Yihao asked: "Then please tell me what is the root cause of the decline of the dynasty?"

Li Xin held up a piece of paper with two words written on it and showed it to the two of them: "This is the root cause."

Zhao Ding was shocked and said: "Land."

Li Xin nodded and said: "Yes, it is land. We Han people are a farming nation. Even if I don't mention the importance of land to farmers, you should know it in your hearts. The end of the dynasty was the time when land annexation was the most serious. A large amount of land Gathered in the hands of a few people, a large number of people at the bottom have no land to farm. At the end of the dynasty, all kinds of tax burdens basically fell on the people at the bottom. What should they do if they can't survive? Then they should revolt. Therefore, the decline of the dynasty is all from The peasant uprising began.”