In China's Kaifeng City, Henan Province, another Qingming Upper River Garden, it is built in accordance with the "Qingming Upper River Map" of the Song Dynasty, showing the beauty and richness of the capital city of the Song Dynasty, the people living and working in peace, and the scene of commercial prosperity, which makes people yearn for it and is also a famous scenic spot. Surely many people have to ask, how rich was it during the Song Dynasty? Is it true that ordinary people are living very well? Of course not, serious polarization has brought endless suffering to the people at the bottom, let's take a look at it together.
A glass of wine releases the military power
The reason for this situation has to start from the establishment of the Song Dynasty, in 960 AD, in the land of China, there was an event that affected future generations for many years, Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny at ChenQiao, was added by his subordinates, and became an emperor, which is the famous "Chen Qiao Mutiny" in history. After Zhao Kuangyin took the throne, he quickly pacified the separatist regimes in various places and realized another unification of China.
Film and television drama Zhao Kuangyin image
After the world was settled, the people all lived and worked in peace and contentment, the civil servants were diligent in governing and the people, and the warriors were all guarding this frontier with peace of mind, such a good form, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin should have been happy and at ease to be his own emperor, but this was not the case, on the contrary, Zhao Kuangyin was worried every day, he could not eat well and sleep well, the hundred officials looked anxious, but there was no way to ask him and he did not say.
Portrait of Zhao Kuangyin
On this day, Zhao Kuangyin called Shi Shouxin and a few other brothers who worshiped the shogun to come and drink, and when the wine was in full swing, Shi Shouxin and the others asked Zhao Kuangyin why he was sullen and unhappy, and Zhao Kuangyin immediately dismissed his entourage and said to Shi Shouxin: "Originally I didn't want to say it, but the brothers had to ask, I can say, you don't blame the brother." Shi Shouxin and others must have made promises one after another.
Song Dynasty streets
Zhao Kuangyin said, "I can have today all depend on your cultivation, without your help I would not be here today," and everyone greeted each other and said yes. Then Zhao Kuangyin said, "You don't know, you put on the yellow robe for me, it seems to have helped me, but in fact it hurt me, if one day your subordinates also want to be prosperous and rich, give you a yellow robe and add a body, at that time you will all be involuntary." Everyone immediately understood what was going on, and they all cried and let Zhao Kuangyin point out a way to live, and later Zhao Kuangyin did not embarrass these brothers, so that they would all go to their hometown.
It is these people who have given up their military power, with their original subordinates, back to the countryside or the county town, buying land and buying houses on a large scale, the peasants' original land can only be rented and planted, the people at the bottom are not living well at all, the people are not living well, the people are bound to revolt, until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there are more than four hundred recorded peasant uprisings, which shows that the people are actually living in deep water.