Zhao Huan heard a different meaning from the words of the seed master Dao reprimanding Yang Zaixing.

On the surface, the seed master is reprimanding Yang Zaixing, but in fact, the seed master is implicitly saying that there should be a truce.

This made Zhao Huan very curious-

When he marched to Fengshengzhou in Datong before, the planter Daoke was a typical militant, and he snatched the opportunity to lead the troops from Yao Pingzhong by relying on the old and selling the old, and now he actually started to oppose the war?

"What do you have to say, might as well say it directly?"

After pondering for a long time, Zhao Huan spoke: "Is Aiqing worried about the inconvenience of supply due to the war on two fronts?" Or are you worried about the court? ”

"The official family is clear, if it can, Weichen can't wait to immediately lead troops to Western Xia."

Seeing that his thoughts had been seen through by Zhao Huan, the planter Dao no longer played any dumb riddles at the moment, but bowed down directly and said: "It's just that after a series of battles with the Jin soldiers, can the treasury still be able to support it?" In addition, the official family has been away from Beijing for a long time......"

has said this, even Yang Zaixing, who has big nerves, has noticed that something is wrong.

Yang Zaixing doesn't know whether the treasury can support a series of wars, but Yang Zaixing knows that when the Son of Heaven leaves Beijing for a long time, it often means that the Son of Heaven's control over the court will become weaker, which is not a good thing for the official family who has just ascended the throne.

Zhao Huan didn't care much about the court.

With Empress Dowager Meng hanging the curtain in the court to listen to the government, and Li Gang and Li Ruobing assisting the government, the princes of the court and the central government of Wen Tian and Wu Huan can't make any big trouble. Even if there is a trouble, Zhao Huan, who holds the power in his hand, is sure enough to fight back.

What really bothered Zhao Huan was the word treasury.

It is said that Da Song has money, but in fact, Da Song has a fart of money-

In later generations, when Dan Fan used Putian to search for "Song Dynasty fiscal revenue", all the numbers that came out were the same: "The highest fiscal revenue of the Song Dynasty reached 160 million guan (1 guan = 1000 wen), even the Southern Song Dynasty, which later lost half of the northern country, could reach 100 million guan when the fiscal revenue was high."

And when a certain history "teacher" reported by the "Youth Times" gave a lecture in Xuzhou, he even put forward a number that could frighten people to death: "The highest annual GDP in the Northern Song Dynasty reached 160 million taels of silver, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were also 100 million taels!" ”

I'm scared to death, what a lot of 600 million taels of silver is a lot! The "Treaty of Shimonoseki" will pay 200 million taels of silver, which is already equivalent to the financial revenue of several years of mite clearance!

In addition, in the end, this 100 million is fiscal revenue? Or GDP? These two things are not the same thing at all!

Also, let's not talk about how the data of 100 million taels of silver was obtained, even if it was the financial revenue of the Song Dynasty, it was not good to use silver as the unit of measurement?

Here we must popularize a historical common sense, China's large-scale use of silver as a "general equivalent", that is, currency, was after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty only had a large amount of silver imported, so that the conditions for silver as a currency were ripe, and the Tang, Song, and silver before the exchange would not be the main monetary unit of calculation.

So from this point of view, the latter sentence is also nonsense: "The highest in the Ming Dynasty was 15 million taels, and before Zhang Juzheng's reform, it fell to 2.5 million taels, which was 1/40 of that of the Southern Song Dynasty; even if the Qing Dynasty had modern industry, the total income only reached 88 million taels." ”

Take the Ming and Qing dynasties to compare the use of silver as a unit with the Song Dynasty that did not use silver as a unit, and then get a 1/40 conclusion?

In fact, even the first data with "through" as a unit we have to put a question mark -

Looking through the "Food and Goods Chronicles" of the "History of the Song Dynasty" and the "Food and Goods" of the Song Society's Manuscripts, I have not seen such data as "100 million guan" or "10,000,000 guan" or "16,000,000 guan" or "160,000,000 guan".

If you dig deeper, you will find that the "History of the Song Dynasty" volume 174 "Food and Goods (2): Fang Tian, Tax" records very clearly:

"There are four types of things endowed by the year: grain, silk, gold, iron, and products. Seven products of grain: one is called millet, two is called rice, three is called wheat, four is called millet, five is called grain, six is called soybean, and seven is called miscellaneous seeds. Silk products ten: one said Luo, two said silk, three said silk, four said cowardice, five said silk, six said silk, seven said miscellaneous folds, eight said silk thread, nine said cotton, ten said cloth Ge. Four products of gold and iron: one is gold, two is silver, three is iron and pewter, and four is copper and iron money. Product 6: 1 is 6 animals, 2 is teeth, leather, feathers, 3 is tea, salt, 4 is bamboo, hemp, vegetables, 5 is fruit, medicine, oil, paper, salary, charcoal, lacquer, wax, 6 is sundries. ”

To put it simply, the Song Dynasty collected taxes, not as we now collect personal income tax, value-added tax, etc., run the tax bureau to pay RMB, but miscellaneous, roughly divided into grain, silk, gold and iron, products four categories, grain is to pay all kinds of grain, silk is all kinds of fabrics, gold and iron including gold, silver, iron, etc., but also include the common copper money and iron money (yes, see the same book "Food and Goods (2) Coins" section, the Song Dynasty passed copper money, because of the lack of copper, some places also pass iron money), in addition to items, such as all kinds of tea, Salt, leather, grass, wax, etc., are all objects of government taxation.

So, how did the Great Song court calculate taxes when they calculated them? Here's a key phrase:

"Where the age is endowed, the grain is counted in stone, the money is counted in silk, the silk is counted in horse, gold and silver, silk cotton is counted in two, the straw and the salary are counted in the circumference, and the other things are counted in their numbers. By the end of the way, the total was seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine thousand; In the fifth year of Tianxi, the number of Zhidao increased and decreased, and the total number was 64,530,000. ”

Noticed? Grain with "stone", money with "silk", silk with "horse", gold and silver and silk with "two", in addition to grass (generally for the use of military horses, etc.), charcoal and other "around", and other items have their own units of measurement, so what is the unit of the following 70,893,000 data from Song Taizong to the end of the Dao? "Stone Horses ...... Around the Fence"

In other words, if I collect 10,000 pieces of grass, it is also counted as 10,000 yuan - but you can't say that 10,000 pieces of grass is converted into 10,000 yuan, right? If 10,000 pieces of grass are converted into 10,000 taels of silver, it is even more nonsense, even if it really has to be converted, then what kind of price standard will be used and when? Where? Where does it come from? If these troublesome problems are not solved, this conversion will be unscientific.

Units such as "Guanshi Pi Liang" were very common in the Song Dynasty, and there were similar records in the "Food and Goods Journal", such as the same article: "Positive taxes and accumulation of 922,200 guan, stones, horses, and two strange things." "Judging from the reality of the Song Dynasty, there is no need to convert these miscellaneous units into silver.

Another point is that the currency system of the Song Dynasty was extremely chaotic and complex, which was rare for unified dynasties, and it is difficult to answer the question of how much it was worth, or even how much money it was.

In the Song Dynasty, there were coins and paper money, and coins were divided into copper and iron. And the Jiaozi of the Great Song Dynasty, it was okay in the early stage, the depreciation accelerated in the medium term, and the hyperinflation directly showed an exponential trend in the later stage.

And it is precisely because of the issuance of iron money in the Song Dynasty and the flood of paper money, and the statistics of physical objects and gold and silver without conversion, that people will mistakenly think that the Song Dynasty is richer than the Ming Dynasty and even the Ming Dynasty and even encouraged the whole people to grow tobacco (A Furong, everyone who understands) and then produces and sells it and takes into account the export of the mite Qing, and some sand sculpture network authors in later generations are even more likely to take this data and say that I am rich in the Song Dynasty.

The question is, if the Great Song Dynasty is really rich and capricious, why did he even spend all the money in the pile sealing warehouse? Is it really rich and capricious, and the people will only make two times a year when they are full of food?

In fact, the court and emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and those ordinary people really don't have much money, and fighting a war itself is already an extremely expensive thing, not to mention that Zhao Huan has always pursued the principle of firepower supremacy for Lao Tzu to fight wars.

From Bianjing City to Taiyuan to Xijin Mansion to the last Xijing in successive battles, the 10 million money left by Zhao Jixiang when he went to Bozhou to burn incense has already been spent, and even the little money left after selling many treasures in Longde Palace is not left.

Therefore, Zhao Heng feels that the most painful thing in the world is that people spend all their money in order to live.

Stretching out his hand and rubbing his forehead, Zhao Huan simply set his eyes on He Ji: "By the way, how does the emperor and his old man live in Longde Palace?" Have you created any calligraphy or paintings lately? ”

As soon as he spoke, He Ji suddenly felt a burst of sadness-

What was the Longde Palace moved into? That's the real mouse, and if you go, you have to go with tears in your eyes, and if the thief goes, you may leave two copper plates!

Now the official family has hit the idea of the emperor's calligraphy and painting, but it is really the first filial son of my Great Song Dynasty~~~

After hesitating for a while, He Ji still bowed down honestly and replied: "Qijuan Guanjia, since the emperor returned to Longde Palace, he has been obsessed with calligraphy and painting and Qing cultivation, and many masterpieces have come out recently. ”

Only then did Zhao Huan set his eyes on the planter and said, "Money is easy to do." Now that the state is in a difficult situation, when we are strictly thrifty, I will make an order to reduce some of the expenditures of the harem, plus this year's spring tax, as well as the calligraphy and paintings sponsored by the emperor and his old man, it should be about the same? ”

PS: There will be a change tonight. Then at 00:00 in the middle of the night, that is, at 0:00 on 7.1, it should be on the shelves. I will do my best to code words, and the number of yards will be more and less! By the way, ask for tickets! I wanted to see how many people would subscribe to the book.

PS again: Thank you for the 500 starting coins of the book friend "Hehei Tokyo 01" and "Lonely Night Maple 1360", and thank the book friend "Xiling Emperor" for the 100 starting point coin tip.