When it comes to the Song Dynasty, people often first think of the ideal environment in which the unprecedentedly good scholars survived and participated in politics, held power, and freely influenced national policies and interfered with the emperor's will, unprecedentedly active and free commerce, developed trade exchanges with the world, and a prosperous economy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Some people optimistically say that if it were not for the Jurchen barbarians who interrupted the development of the Song Dynasty, and if it had not been for the Mongol barbarians, who only knew the fast horse scimitar, and occupied China, China would have become the first capitalist country in the world to end feudalism, ignorance, and autocracy and enter a higher stage of human society.

It's really just an optimistic idea. History hasn't developed that way after all.

And even if there is no invasion by the northern barbarians in history, that is still most likely just an optimistic idea.

The Song Dynasty established the country and implemented the principle of scholars and emperors to rule the world together, breaking the dictatorship of the previous emperors, and seemed to be a progressive democracy of checks and balances. For the first time in history, commercial taxation became an important part of the state's fiscal revenue, and the power of merchants was unprecedentedly strong, but this did not mean that the Song Dynasty had good basic conditions for the development of capitalism, and it would never spontaneously develop into a capitalist political state.

The Song Dynasty remained a standard Chinese-style highly feudal autocracy. As the ruling class, the scholars who ruled the world together were the vested interests of the feudal autocracy, and they still represented and loyally defended the feudal autocracy and privileges, rather than representing and defending the wishes and interests of the workers, peasants, fishermen, and herdsmen, let alone the merchants.

The merchants of the Song Dynasty still had a low social status, and they were still inferior to the political status of the peasants, and they were not qualified to participate in national political affairs.

The Song Dynasty's emphasis on commerce was indeed an ideological progress, but the root cause was not an enlightened awareness of the importance of developing commerce, but a passive and unhurried need to attach importance to commerce.

The country's territory is small, compared to the vast territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it is actually only a corner, the power is weak, and it has always been in a dangerous position of being passively beaten. The Song State had to raise too many troops for the sake of political security, passive defense, coupled with other political reasons and social problems, the cost was huge, the financial situation was not ordinary, and the country could not stand at all by simply attaching importance to and relying on agriculture with low efficiency and having to look at the sky, and the rulers were forced to rely on commercial taxes more intensively, but they continued to despise merchants and despise commerce, including manufacturing. In the Song Dynasty, merchants were still just pigs raised by the ruling class to be slaughtered at any time, saying that they would be killed if they were bloodletized, so how could they have the opportunity to talk about political power, and how could they form a force that could compete with the feudal autocratic forces?

The businessman himself has the fundamental defect that restricts his development into a capitalist.

This kind of person is said to be active and open-minded, but like other Song people, the mainstream is still a deep-rooted and distorted Confucian dogma, relying on commerce to make a fortune and live a rich life, but from the bones despise the craftsmen who represent the power and value of science and technology, and even look down on their own social identity, dreaming of being able to reverse the identity of merchants and become landlords and peasants who are qualified to become officials in the imperial examination, and only know how to use porcelain, tea, silk and other old traditional Chinese advantageous industries for foreign trade. With a pathetic superior mentality of the great powers of the Celestial Empire, they blindly exported these commodities, earned hard-earned money and even sold their lives for long-distance adventures across the ocean or land, and invisibly exported and leaked almost all the scientific and technological achievements that the Han people had worked so hard to create and accumulate that were most useful for the country's destiny and future, but they were ignorantly ignorant of exploring and collecting foreign scientific and technological achievements, nor had they learned advanced civilization ideas, let alone excavated and abducted scientific and technological talents from foreign countries for their own use, and all they brought back from the adventure voyage were gold, silver, and chaotic religious superstition.

Even the vast majority of crops that were not originally available in China were not consciously brought back by Song merchants in international trade to be planted and promoted for the benefit of the country and the people, let alone by the government, but were inadvertently brought to China by foreign merchants or Song merchants for reasons such as the need for food on the way.

What is even more tragic is that when businessmen make money, they do not mainly invest their money in the upgrading of the scientific and technological industry, the development of new technological innovation, and the improvement of the treatment of craftsmen and technical talents, and they do not have the consciousness of using advanced scientific and technological achievements to make more easily earned excess profits, but they invest in bribing officials to weave protective umbrellas, buying land and squeezing homesteaders to persecute their own people, squandering and wasting on food, clothing, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, drinking showers and playing with women, spending money is called a and generous, and the house where they live is afraid that it is not big enough to be exquisite and luxurious. The country is really willing to spend a lot of money on things that are not fundamentally useful for its own development, or bury the gold and silver treasures for heirlooms, and do not even participate in the circulation of currency. Commercially, it still maintains the old three articles of porcelain, tea and silk, and from generation to generation it just eats the old book of China's traditional industry, and has been eating until the braided dynasty.

The two fundamental prerequisites for the formation of capitalism are the scientific and technological innovation revolution, and the social elite consciously attaches great importance to participation and implementation, which is the most basic hardware requirement. The second is the ideological and spiritual software requirements.

The Song people, who despise cheap science and technology in their bones and are full of feudal and Confucian thoughts, no matter how exquisite the porcelain is refined and the technology is superb, what is the use of the power of the country? Can capitalism be formed?

Britain was able to take the lead in forming a strong capitalist country, largely because it was a small island country and needed a scientific and technological power to defend itself and plunder. Europe was able to become a capital-developed region thanks to the traditional aristocratic feudal system. The central control was weak, and the autonomy of the lords living in different places was very large, which created conditions for the free development of capital in the rich and powerful and flexible development.

The elite class in Chinese history has practiced for thousands of years in the form of infighting, playing with power, and controlling the foolish people.

Without the role of external forces, it is simply impossible to develop capitalism and end feudalism in a strong and highly centralized feudal autocratic political environment.

Dynasties after the Song Dynasty. Needless to say, the barbarian yuan who drinks and plays with knives. The Ming Dynasty, which promoted the economic ideology of Confucian and corrupt small peasants who were 30 miles away from their birthplace for their wives and children, self-cultivation and self-food, and the people's life was best not to leave their birthplaces for 30 miles, and the Slave Braided Dynasty directly completely wiped out the opportunity for scientific and technological innovation and capital and political development.

The so-called Ming Dynasty Emperor and the prosperous Kangqian era, the glory of the world is only the Chinese who are keen on power struggles like to admire, to put it bluntly, the main theme of the subtle power scheme and internal struggle that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, what great achievements and achievements can be boasted of in the development of science and technology and ideological armament that have a bearing on the fate and future of the Chinese?

The Wakos were hateful, but at least the Meiji Restoration freed the Wakoku from the feudal ignorance that had been heavily influenced by China and embarked on the road to becoming a scientific and technological power, without talking about national enmity, and in terms of improving human development, it was a far-sighted achievement.

Before the Song Dynasty, the world was ignorant, and the Han people who farmed always suffered the big losses of the barbarian nomads, which was not too shameful. However, since the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, gunpowder weapons have been officially applied, and human civilization has made great progress, but it is still even more miserable, leaving only a huge bloody shame and shame for future generations.

Advocating the prosperity of Kangqian and the like is better than trying to find a little good skin in a person who is rotten physically and mentally and tries to exaggerate and show off.

A closer look at history will find that in the so-called feudal prosperity of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, 99 percent of the people were in a state of poverty, numbness and ignorance, and too many families were still living a hopeless life of lack of food and clothing, poverty, and improvise. So much so that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Europeans and Americans came to be surprised to find that the vast majority of people in the original legend of powerful and wealthy China lived like pigs and dogs. Only from the perspective of people's livelihood, this is also worthy of being called a prosperous era?

Keen to appreciate and reminisce about the palace fighting infighting, like to taste the taste of infighting power conspiracy behind closed doors and the glory of the former false Celestial Empire great powers to entertain themselves, some countries will be secretly happy, and despise and ridicule in their hearts and say, it seems that the people of this country still don't have a long memory, the blood is still too little, the people are still slaughtered too little, and the suffering is far from enough....... of course, I hope you will continue to .....

In Zhao Yue's heart, the Ming and Qing dynasties ruled by the Han people, especially the Qing dynasty, should not exist. The heads of the Northern Song people have not been completely eroded by the distorted Confucian dogma, and it is the best era to change the tragic fate of the Chinese.

He promoted the establishment of a new Han empire with science and technology first, and the rudiments of democracy with checks and balances on power, and has forcibly reversed the nature of Chinese society and embarked on the road to a truly powerful country.

The prosperous foreign trade of the Song Dynasty brought a lot of gold and silver to China, but these slowly accumulated blood, sweat and even life money were returned to foreign countries by the braided dynasty at once.

This is the sorrow of history.

At present, Zhao Yue is in the Great Song Dynasty is not short of money, but a large number of gold and silver treasures are hidden and buried in the emperor's bureaucratic landlord businessman Haoqiang's house, gold and silver is not the mainstream circulation currency, the vast majority of Song families not to mention gold and silver, even copper plates can not save a few, the economic operation of the Great Song Dynasty is mainly supported by copper coins, plus Song copper coins are deeply loved by Liao, Western Xia, Goryeo, Wakou and other countries, widely circulated in East Asia, various reasons caused the Great Song Dynasty currency is tight, and the money is not enough.

Mining and copper smelting coins to supplement currency have become the top national events related to the country's economic operation and national destiny.

But China is a country that is poor in iron and copper. The discovery of copper ore, even if the mining value is small, is of great significance to the Great Song Dynasty.

The discovery and mining of the Halal Mountain Copper Mine is of even more extraordinary significance to the current Great Song Dynasty.

The core body of the group of western-born strongmen besieging Zhao Yue's family in the Longkou Coal Mine is from the Halal Mountain Copper Mine, including all the more than 60,000 miners, smelters, management and technical personnel, 8,000 troops stationed in the Halal Mountain and other men and related families, as well as the surrounding related social groups that provide various production facilities and living services for the mine.

These people alone have nearly 100,000 households, 300,000 or 400,000 people, and most of them are young and strong.

This force united to rebel together, which was already a terrible force in itself, not to mention the loss of copper mines, it was already a heavy blow to the rule of the Great Song Dynasty.

The accidental discovery of copper ore in Halal Mountain was initially a small mine that the imperial court did not consider to be of great value and did not pay attention to it. Such mines are a state monopoly and private participation is prohibited in principle. At that time, the imperial court sent a man named Zhou Chuan, who was a scholar but a craftsman, to manage the mine. This person has rich experience in exploration, mining and management, and has also worked hard for the country in the copper industry. A small number of miners are young and strong people who are recruited on the spot.

However, I didn't expect that Qinghal Mountain is actually an excellent mine with huge copper reserves and high copper content and easy purification.

To be able to make this discovery, of course, was discovered slowly with the backward exploration methods of this era, and it was naturally the main credit of the experienced and very responsible Zhou Chuan.

It can be said that without Zhou Chuan's carefulness and efforts, the main veins of Qinghal Mountain, which are far away from the existing mining sites, would not have been discovered.

The small mines in the deep mountains developed from small to large under the efforts of Zhou Chuan, and gradually deepened the attention and support of the imperial court, and developed into a huge scale in only three or four years, becoming the pillar copper supply mine of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji hadn't been made a pervert by Zhao Yue at that time.

No matter how confused this emperor of flowers and birds is, he will not ignore the Halal Mountain Copper Mine. Zhou Chuan managed the law, achieved outstanding results, had good ethics, and was concerned and relied on by the emperor who was in great need of money to squander, not a scholar of the imperial examination, and the official was also promoted step by step from the sixth rank to the head of the mine, and the traitorous ministers did not dare to move.

In the past, the deserted and uninhabited Halal mountainous area brought together a large number of exploration, mining, smelting, technical personnel, management personnel and skilled and experienced young and strong workers gradually transferred from all over the country by the Song Dynasty, and with the increasing importance of the mine, more and more capable officers and loyal officers were gradually drawn from the surrounding state capitals to form a mining army, which was specifically responsible for protecting the mine and escorting the finished copper ingots to Tokyo, and finally formed a scale of 8,000 troops, including 2,000 water troops responsible for water transportation on the Yellow River and 6,000 mine defense troops. The military power is comparable to that of some important military towns in the Great Song Dynasty. It can be seen that the imperial court attaches great importance to the Halal Mountain Copper Mine.

The head of the mining army is a veteran, called Wang Nian, who is a general of the Western Army, and is also considered to be a general of the Great Song Dynasty, but belongs to a general in the ordinary army who has no roots and no support, and was wounded in the heroic battle with the Western Xia, and the injured leg is not conducive to a high-intensity long-distance march at the border pass and a horseback to fight, simply put, it is not suitable to be a border army, and he applied for retirement and returned to his hometown to farm, and his hometown is the area of Halal Mountain, just in time to form a mine protection army, and the court thought of the merit and arranged to be the head of the army in the Halal Mountain Mine as a reward for continuing to serve the imperial court.

In fact, at that time, the mine was still very small, and there were no huge reserves and mining value, and in the barren mountains and wilderness, when the small army of 180 people was headed, there was no oil and water, no future, no fun, but the responsibility and risk were large, and it was easy to lose his head if something happened to the mine.

The rebellion of the whole Halal Mountain Mine occurred in Wang Nian, the general, who has made great contributions to protecting the mine for many years, but the ending is the protagonist of the tragedy.