In Chinese history, do you know which dynasty was the most prosperous era? Maybe you will answer: Tang Dynasty. But it turns out that the most prosperous era in history was the Song Dynasty.
The value created by the Song Dynasty as a whole was the first in the world at that time, including per capita GDP, and fifty percent of the world's GDP at that time was created by China.
This time it is not that the national strength of the Tang Dynasty is not strong, as we all know, the establishment of the Tang Dynasty was to be unified after a long war in China, and both the country's financial, human, and material resources are very tired, and it can be said that they have fallen to a new bottom.
Knowing that the country is also in such a worrying mess, the people's lives are in dire straits.
Fortunately, Tang Taizong held the power of the state, and after becoming emperor, he was also inspired to be a good emperor. He knew that the rise and fall of the country was directly related to the people, so he first started with agriculture.
He encouraged farmers to reclaim arable land and reduce taxes. This not only increased the people's enthusiasm for farming, but also promoted the people's confidence that the imperial court would bring them peace and contentment.
Therefore, the whole society is full of a peaceful atmosphere, the productive forces have been greatly improved, and the national strength has gradually recovered.
Especially after the reign of Zhenguan, the total number of people who have been surveyed throughout the country has broken through to a new historical height, and after the implementation of the policy of encouraging farming, the grain output of the whole country has made a new breakthrough in history.
The reform in agriculture has been so highly harvested, and the effort in handicraft industry has also been developed as never before.
At that time, it was not the period when machinery and equipment were so developed, and the crafts created in the era of pure handmade made the experts and scholars in today's society marvel at it, and it is conceivable that the production process at that time was so amazing!
Especially today's world-famous Suzhou silk was already in its heyday at that time and the talents at that time were innumerable, and they made a contribution to the country to the people that history cannot forget.
Seeing this, you must ask, the Tang Dynasty is so prosperous, the whole world knows, then the Sui Dynasty can be stronger than the Tang Dynasty? No, you must not have seen clearly, Xiaobian did not deny the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty is also a dynasty that was given to China in history, and even today it is still brought up to be proud. But the economic benefits brought by the Song Dynasty should be known to everyone.
Although the two emperors of the Song Dynasty, one was captured by the enemy and became a prisoner, the other was forced to jump into the sea by a small cavalry in the newly developed Mongol state.
Therefore, this dynasty has a dynasty in history that is called the most indisputable dynasty by later generations, and his nest of adjectives cannot be picked up.
But it was precisely this period of weakness that was indeed the era of the strongest national strength, the most developed economy, the highest level of science and technology, and the most advanced level of culture and art in China's history, whether it was human, material and financial resources, or the living standards of the most ordinary people were the highest dynasties in history.
In eleventh-century China, the power of the world was in the hands of Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Kuangyin was a gentle and loving emperor who truly loved the people like a son.
Because the first thing to sit on the throne is to adopt the method of "releasing the military power with a glass of wine". This gentle and gentle method not only greatly relieved the jealousy of the ministers, but also received a lot of inputs that were conducive to the development of the country.
He not only implemented the resolution of development, but also implemented this precept for his own children and grandchildren, and even engraved the ancestral precept of not killing the courtiers in the ancestral temple.
With the gentle confession of the founding emperor as an example, every emperor for more than three hundred years did not dare to neglect this admonition. In this way, the various courtiers and subjects were also given peace of mind, and did not have the same feeling of being accompanied by the king as they had before.
Even if Zhao Zhao, who had taken the throne after the national riots, killed the great national hero Yue Fei, he only killed three times in his life. No matter how great the crime, the most you can get is exile, and such an enlightened dynasty is unique.
Verifying whether a country is strong or not is the indelible thing. But the Song Dynasty definitely stood the test and scrutiny.
An important reason why the Song Dynasty was able to develop into a rich and comfortable dynasty was that it was the only dynasty in Chinese history that had a policy of "not suppressing commerce".
In the Song Dynasty, the earliest factory in the history of the world appeared in China, they are responsible for the production of factories and processing factories, they are responsible for the industry throughout all walks of life, especially the number of craftsmen of military weapons should be seven or eight thousand people, the number of workers can be known to its huge scale.
The increase in productivity and economic prosperity are naturally indispensable to the increase in the amount of coins minted, and the minting volume of coins in the Song Dynasty at that time can be the first in the world, for example, when Song Shenzong reigned, there were 5.06 million coins minted in the whole country.
It is generally believed that the most powerful Tang Dynasty minted only 320,000 coins in the most prosperous "Kaiyuan Shengshi" year. Not only that, in the middle period, the gross national product of any year was proposed, which was more than twice that of the Qing Dynasty's most prosperous "Kangqian Prosperous Era", but the territory and population were much smaller than those of the Qing Dynasty.