It was not so much that Xiao Fei was taking a history class, but that it was a wonderful and passionate speech, and he spoke with flying eyebrows, and the mood of the people listening to the lecture below was one after another. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I think this is the best era that the literati think, this is an era that people yearn for, 'the pear blossom courtyard dissolves the moon, the catkins pond has a faint breeze', this is an unforgettable era, 'the wine is full of songs, and the night is as long as the first moon and a half. 'This is an era of passion, like pouring wine, like embracing a heavy mink fur', this is an era of incomparably rich, full of romantic feelings, 'the glass cup is deep and amber, and the new tune is empty.' 'This is a poetic and dreamlike era,' remembers the joy of youth, and went up to the tower in the middle of the night. "This is an incomparably brilliant, brilliant era, full of infinite vitality and vitality," Liang Yuan sang and danced, and the wine was like a knife to relieve sorrow. Compared with the Tang Dynasty, it seems that it is not so unrestrained, heroic, but more graceful, delicate, not so much Wen Tao Wu strategy, yellow sand all over the wilderness, the desert lonely smoke, swords and swords, but more small bridges and flowing water, the west wind and thin horses, the wine as a song, life geometry? Jinming Pond fills in the lyrics and recites poems, and the alum floor feasts and listens to the piano. The literati pushed the cups and set the lamps, talked loudly, and wrote thousands of ancient famous sentences. 'Outside the mountain, the green mountain building outside the building, the West Lake singing and dancing when to rest, the evening breeze smokes the tourists drunk. 'A song and dance, singing and laughing. Do you know what dynasty this is in China?"

This guy is really impressive, and he seems to be secretly working hard, I thought to myself. Without thinking, everyone said the word Da Song in unison. Xiao Fei's explanation looks like a qualified teacher of the Great Song Dynasty, and he said step by step: "Yes, this is our Great Song Dynasty." History makes people wise, and with copper as a mirror, they can be dressed properly. With people as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses. Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall. History can learn from the past and the present, increase wisdom, today we will learn the history of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Xiao Fei then said: "But the above is just my family's words, perhaps in the eyes of many people, the Song Dynasty is considered a weak dynasty in Chinese history, and the word weak Song seems to put this dynasty in the coffin." Indeed, if you look at it according to the traditional evaluation criteria, the Song Dynasty did have some unsatisfactory results. First of all, the question of military power. The Song Dynasty pushed the eastern border to the Great Wall for only a moment, and did not drive the desert north and expand the territory like the Qin Emperor and Han Wu. Instead, he was too busy to take care of himself, and he couldn't protect himself, so he signed various covenants. Secondly, the expansion of the territory was slow, and the inheritance inherited by the Northern Song Dynasty was the decay of the Middle Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and the area was smaller than that of the previous Central Plains dynasties. Finally, outstanding achievements are also rare, like Qin Shi Huang's Great Wall is still there, standing proudly, and even the Emperor Yang of Sui, who is infamous through the ages, is guilty of the contemporary, and the vast Grand Canal, which is a project that benefits the millennium, flows quietly, and what is the vast and brilliant project of the Great Song Dynasty?"

Below is a burst of exchanges, discussions, it feels like this is true, and there are a few agrees with Xiaofei's words.

However, Xiao Fei then changed the conversation, and continued: "But if we change our perspective, not only look at the achievements of princes and generals, but look at the social and economic development and the lives of the people, we may get a completely different conclusion."

You can see that the life of the common people can be described as tasteful, colorful, well-dressed, well-lived, fragrant, and spicy, and they really live a happy petty bourgeois life of living and working in peace and contentment. Even ordinary people use silverware for drinking, and there are millions of households in the Song Dynasty, all of which rely on coal, and there is no one who burns wages. When complaining about the extravagance of the world, a minister of the Northern Song Dynasty said that the peasant pawns of the present day actually wore silk shoes. Some Western scholars say that the standard of living of a European monarch at that time was not as good as that of a soldier guarding the city gate in Bianliang, Tokyo. Even when Marco Polo, a merchant from Venice, the most prosperous city in the West, came to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, which had only absorbed a little bit of Song civilization, he felt dazzled and beautiful, as if he was in paradise on earth, not to mention that if he saw the prosperous Song Dynasty like the Qingming Riverside map, he didn't know how to feel?

It is too general to say that it is too general, we will now talk about a specific and ordinary market figure can get a glimpse of the leopard, his name is Wu Dalang, his profession is to sell baked cakes, he makes a living by selling small profits, but he lives in a spacious villa, the geographical location is quite good, just in front of the county yamen on the bustling street, the first floor and the bottom of the two-story room, the second floor is the building, two small courtyards, very clean. See, there is still a yard? It's really enviable. Comrade Wu Dalang is disabled and strong-willed, and as a poor person, after years of struggle, he has a two-story luxury villa, and there is no bank mortgage, this term will be told to you when we go to economics in the future. Raising his wife Pan Jinlian alone, she also caused her to do nothing all day long, smearing grease and whitewashing at home, so that she met Ximenqing, causing a tragic fate in the future, digression at this time. As long as you live in the Great Song Dynasty, the government will provide equal employment opportunities for everyone, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can also afford to marry a beautiful woman and live in a villa. See, how chic, how moisturized, enjoyable and comfortable the life of our people in the Great Song Dynasty is. ”

A child blinked his little eyes and said suspiciously: "You said he lived there, but maybe he didn't buy it, maybe it was the house that was pawned?"

Xiao Fei said appreciatively: "This little classmate's idea is good, but if it's a pawn room, it's not bad." Wu Dalang spent more than ten taels of silver, equivalent to about 3,000 yuan, and got a two-story house, and the geographical location is excellent, bustling downtown area, it is really not expensive. In our Da Song Dian Room, it is just a transfer of the right to use. The homeowner is short of money, and wants money for emergency, and the pawn does not earn interest, and is anxious to wait for the house to live, so he hits it off, and the pawn gives the homeowner a pawn payment, and lives within the agreed period, and after the expiration, the homeowner redeems the house with the same amount of pawn money. Each has its own place, mutual benefit. This Wu Dalang has lived for many years, quite for nothing, how much can be drawn, even if the situation is depressed, no matter how bad it is, there is also the low-rent housing given to you by the government, there is no need to be afraid of wind and rain and no place to stand. ”

The following applauded. Xiao Fei continued to say with great interest: "The Great Song Dynasty is undoubtedly a peace-loving dynasty that does not advocate force.

Let's first talk about its establishment, since 960 AD, when Zhao Kuangyin, the ancestor of the Great Song Dynasty, established the Song Dynasty, through peaceful Chan concessions, rather than violent killing, the Chai Dynasty of the Later Zhou Dynasty of the Five Dynasties was peacefully transitioned to the Song Dynasty of the Zhao Dynasty. And for those founding fathers, 'the cunning rabbit dies, the lackeys cook, the birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden' has become their only choice. For example, Emperor Liu Bang successively killed Han Xin, Peng Yue and Di Bu three founding heroes. So Song Taizu bore the brunt of this problem. However, in the process of regaining power, he did not kill a single hero, but used a glass of wine to release military power, and formed a family with them, which became a good story for the ages, embodying quite superb political art. In the era of 'under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, and the king's ministers', "a glass of wine to release military power" is the best choice.

Moreover, the Great Song Dynasty rarely used force to the outside world, and in the dynasties of the past and present, the era of the least killing, so far, is a very civilized dynasty, which donated money and goods to the northern nomads in exchange for precious peace. Time passed to 1004 A.D., Song Zhenzong drove his own expedition, crossed the Yellow River, and repeatedly violated the border of the Liao army for more than ten days, the commander of the Liao army was killed by an arrow, the Liao army was defeated, please negotiate peace. Although the ministers advocated the pursuit of victory, Song Zhenzong longed for peace, did not like war, did not want to waste money and money, and did not want to lose lives. In the case of a complete victory, he signed the 'Lanyuan Alliance' with the Liao State. Make the two countries fraternal states. At the same time, the Song Dynasty agreed to give Liao 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk (equivalent to 300,000 guan) every year. However, the average annual fiscal revenue of the government during the Northern Song Dynasty was more than 100000000 yuan. One tael of silver is equal to a consistent copper coin. 300,000 guan is undoubtedly insignificant for the Great Song Dynasty, which has a huge financial income every year.

After the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the Northern Song Dynasty exchanged the insignificant coins for a hundred years of hard-won peace, but for the Tanyuan Alliance, many people were puzzled and regretted? Why didn't they take advantage of the victory to pursue it at that time, sweep it all in one net, and sweep away the Quartet? Many princes and generals of the dynasties were built on the basis of white bones, but our Great Song Dynasty ruled the world with benevolence, in order to make more families and beauty, and for the happiness of the people in the world, so he gave up. The exchange of money for peace, respect for human rights, and respect for the expression of different races is very civilized and enlightened, and is the embodiment of the five basic principles of peaceful coexistence with neighboring countries in the modern sense. ”

"This guy, it's a pity, if Song Zhenzong is here, he will definitely be overjoyed, maybe he will be given an official position, but it's a pity that he is not here. I thought to myself.

Xiao Fei continued: "Peace-loving, good-neighborliness and friendship made the people's lives stable, the people of all ethnic groups lived in friendship, the economy of the Northern Song Dynasty developed faster, and the country and the people were safe, so our Great Song Dynasty is one of the only two large dynasties in history that did not break out in a national uprising." There have only been a few large-scale uprisings, such as the Wang Xiaobo Uprising, the Songjiang Uprising, and the Fangla Uprising, but none of them exceeded the boundaries of a province. By the way, another dynasty with such a good record is the Western Jin Dynasty, but the reason why the Western Jin Dynasty was able to do so was because it was a short-lived dynasty, so short that it didn't have time to break out. ”

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