759, Dahua and Da Song
Since the founding of the Great Chinese Kingdom, under the guidance of a series of enlightened policies such as Zheng Fei's implementation of a comprehensive truce with neighboring countries, a light deal with the people, a recuperation, an encouragement of production and economic development with the society, a strong army with the army, and the rule of law with the country, and he took the lead in implementing a series of enlightened policies such as diligence and thrift and luxury, the Dahua Kingdom quickly presented a scene of political clarity from top to bottom of the imperial court, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the whole society was peaceful, and soon achieved results, only one year. The social productive forces and economic scale of Dahua have developed rapidly, returning to the level of the heyday of the Great Song Dynasty, and are still expanding to an unprecedented scale.
In April of the first year of Dahua, Huaxia University, the first "university----" in Dahua, was established in Dahua Shangjing, with Zheng Fei personally serving as the president, with a total of 13 disciplines such as agriculture, industry, commerce, science, martial arts, etc., officially cultivating professional and technical talents in all aspects of society for Dahuaguo.
In August of the first year of Dahua, Dahua formally established diplomatic relations with five Southeast Asian countries including Siam, and exported porcelain, silk and so on from Dahua to Siam and other countries by sea, and then imported a large amount of rice from Siam and other countries.
In September of the first year of Dahua, Zheng Fei announced that Dahua would implement free and compulsory education, and that the whole country would develop schools, and pay attention to the teaching method of paying equal attention to civil and military affairs, and that all school-age children and teenagers, regardless of men and women, could enter school for free.
In the same month, the first imperial examination of Dahua was held, and a total of more than 1,100 talents of all kinds were selected, all of whom were filled with positions in government offices at all levels and Huaxia University.
In March of the second year of Dahua, the "Chinese Strategy" written by Zheng Fei himself was published, which contained a variety of contents from astronomy and geography to the foundation of all things, and was extremely subversive, and everyone called it the Book of Heaven.
In May of the second year of Dahua, Zheng Fei sent more than 20 warships of the Dahua Navy and 8,000 sailors from Fujian to arrive in Taiwan and establish a Taiwan government in Taiwan.
So far, from May of the second year of Dahua to March of the third year of Dahua, the Dahua Navy followed Zheng Fei's holy decree to travel a large area of the southern sea, draw nautical charts, and successively named the large island groups found in the southern sea, such as the Dongsha Islands, Nansha Islands, Xisha Islands, etc., and erected monuments as evidence.
To the surprise of the admirals in charge of the cruise, the emperor accurately predicted the existence of many uninhabited islands and even sea rocks that were only exposed to the water, and then they also followed Zheng Fei's will to name these islands as the territory of Dahua, such as hundreds of nautical miles away from Taiwan, they named several islands that appeared in the sea like pearls specially designated by Zheng Fei as "Diaoyu Islands", and erected a stone tablet on one of the largest islands to engrave big characters, "Dahua monarch fishing island." He also engraved small characters and said, "Those who offend me as a strong man will be punished even if they are far away!" ”
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In stark contrast to the prosperity of the Great Hua Kingdom, the continuous decline of the Great Song Kingdom,
Zhao Huan really wanted to make every effort, but he regretted that he chose the wrong person, he reused Geng Nanzhong, Tang Ke, Wu Min and others, these people all looked forward to Geng Nanzhong, and even Tang Ke had to rely on Geng Nanzhong after becoming the prime minister.
Geng Nanzhong can be said to cover the sky with one hand in the Great Song Dynasty, he monopolized the government and government, spread his henchmen all over the court, excluded dissidents, and successively fabricated Ouyang Xun, Sun Fu, Li Ruoshui and other ministers who advocated continuing to prepare for war in the court, or punished, or exiled, or dismissed.
In the army, he relied on Liu Yanqing and others to control the army, attacked the traditional Jiangmen family, and falsely reported the number of troops to the imperial court, falsely reported the use of military supplies, and embezzled the money and grain allocated by the imperial court.
With the cooperation of his henchmen throughout the country, he also wantonly increased the amount of taxes and taxes, and the taxes borne by the common people were as high as seven or eight out of ten of all incomes, and a large number of poor and middle peasants went bankrupt and their families were ruined.
Could it be that Zhao Huan didn't suspect Geng Nanzhong at all?
It turned out that in order to deceive and please Zhao Huan, Geng Nanzhong and others first sent someone to engrave the words "Zhongxing Great Song" on a large stone tablet, sinking the stone tablet into the designated place of the Yellow River, and then ordered the river workers who repaired the river to dig it out "accidentally", and then he reported Zhao Huan well, thinking that this is a mantra descended from heaven, and God will definitely bless Zhao Huan Zhongxing Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Huan is really happy.
Then, under Geng Nanzhong's arrangement, his henchmen all over the country reported to the imperial court on grain production and taxes by making false reports and exaggerating reports, creating a false picture that the whole country was good and the national strength was rapidly recovering.
But this is not the reason why Zhao Huan trusts Geng Nanzhong the most, in order to further please Zhao Huan, consolidate his own power, and crack down on dissidents, he actually set up a literary prison across the country, tampering with official history, and anyone who says that Zhao Huan's throne has an improper origin, criticizes that period of history, whether it is writing a book, writing poetry, or dictating, once reported, he will be tried and punished.
This is the most needed part of Zhao Huan's soul, Zhao Huan's dragon face is happy, which makes him love and trust Geng Nanzhong even more.
Sometimes, when they receive a so-called "report," they even only need to prepare a piece of paper in advance, write a few sentences, and then "accidentally" find this piece of paper when they go to search the home of the reported minister, which becomes the so-called evidence of the crime, and the minister is punished.
Corrupt officials and traitors in various places have made a fortune by using the prison of words, and anyone who is targeted by them will search their homes with so-called "reports," and then use the "criminal evidence" they have found to extort the victims.
In this way, the Great Song Dynasty not only missed the last opportunity for revival, but ushered in the darkest period in the entire history of the Great Song Dynasty.
Gradually, people in many border places close to Dahua and who knew the situation in Dahua began to secretly smuggle into Dahua in order to survive, at first it was just a family or a few people smuggling alone, and then several families and more than a dozen people began to smuggle together, and later, they began to smuggle entire villages and hundreds of people collectively.
In accordance with Zheng Fei's will, the Great Song Dynasty did not hinder this, as long as they could set foot on the land of Dahua, they would immediately receive protection and basic living guarantees, and then move to the interior until they could gain a foothold in Dahua.
Later, a peculiar phenomenon gradually developed, many Song people who successfully fled to Dahua spontaneously organized themselves to open up a special smuggling road at the border, helping their relatives, neighbors and many unrelated people to smuggle into Dahuaguo, these passages were later called "bright roads" in historiography.
When Dahua learned about it, not only did he not stop them, but also distributed weapons to them to protect themselves, which was also very helpful in secret.
In this way, soon, many prefectures and counties near the border of Dahua appeared ten villages and nine empty, and people went to the empty city, and a large number of cities sang empty city plans.
In the internal areas far away from the Great Hua Kingdom, the people who did not have the conditions to flee to the Great China and could not bear the oppression of the Song State began to resist, and there were continuous uprisings in various places.
The imperial court hurriedly sent troops to suppress it, but the officers and troops in various places were either seriously short of quotas, their armaments were wasted, and they could not defeat the rebel army at all, or they themselves were already overwhelmed by oppression, and they surrendered collectively and joined the rebel army before they came to the rebel army.
The scale of the rebel army is getting stronger and stronger, the big ones can occupy more than a dozen counties in several states, and the small ones also have a county.
At this time, seeing that the disaster of Liangshanbo was about to repeat again, the imperial court had to transfer the only Northwest Army that could still fight to quell the rebellion.
Poor Northwest Army, one will fight against the Xia Army in the northwest, one will cross most of the country to defend Dahua, and one will have the whole country to run to quell the rebel rebels, the demolition is fragmented, exhausted, coupled with the serious lack of food and military funds, combat effectiveness is plummeting, although their arrival is said to suppress the rebel army in many places, but they themselves have also paid a huge price, once the northwest, invincible Northwest Army has shown signs of collapse.
This round of nationwide peasant uprisings finally made Zhao Huan realize that something was wrong, isn't the whole country now a peaceful and prosperous world, where the people are rich and live and work in peace and contentment? How could there be such a large-scale peasant uprising?
Zhao Huan remained silent and secretly sent people to investigate across the country, and the results of the investigation were so shocking! He is finally seeing the root cause of all the troubles!
Zhao Huan was furious, and ordered Geng Nanzhong's father and son to be investigated, and then sent someone to raid the house, but the gold and silver money that was confiscated alone was as high as 50 million yuan, and the money in the Great Song Dynasty treasury could only be regarded as poor compared to it, and at this time he had only been in power for two years, and his accumulation of wealth could be seen to what kind of madness he had reached.
Zhao Huan personally interrogated Geng Nanzhong, angrily accusing him of trusting you so much and giving you everything I could give you, what are you not satisfied with? Why are you doing this?
Geng Nanzhong sighed gloomily, when everyone doesn't take Your Majesty in their eyes, everyone dares to bully you, and anyone who is close to you will be hit by Zhao Kai's party, it was the old minister who followed you firmly and protected you desperately, and it was the old minister who helped you win the peace talks and avoid the disaster of destroying the country, the old minister paid so much, isn't this what I deserve?
Zhao Huan was dumbfounded, so he had to brush his sleeves away,
A few days later, Zhao Huan issued an order to exile Geng Nanzhong's father and son, all family property was confiscated, and his main henchmen Tang Ke, Wu Min and others were demoted and punished.
Subsequently, Zhao Huan announced that Ouyang Xun, Sun Fu and others would be used again to regain their strength.
But in the face of the mess left by Geng Nanzhong, Ouyang Xun and the others were powerless even if they had the heart, and the most important thing was that too much precious time had been wasted, and the time left for them was getting less and less.
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Zheng Fei has always watched the situation of the Song Kingdom, and the rise to power of Geng Nanzhong and others was expected, but it was completely unexpected for them to cause such a big disaster.
In this regard, Zheng Fei concluded that Zhao Huan was not a bad emperor on the whole, but he had a fatal problem, that is, he always looked at the wrong people, and looked at the group of people he finally trusted in the Jingkang Change, each of them was a surrender faction in wartime, and only wanted to betray the interests of the country and the nation in exchange for Gou An, how good can such a person be in peacetime?
Therefore, Zhao Huan's tragedy, whether it is in the Jingkang Revolution or now, is actually inevitable, and the scene at this time is naturally inevitable.
Zheng Fei thought about it, and casually put aside the case file about the intelligence of the Great Song Dynasty, so big Song, in his opinion, there was no need to bother much, and then he picked up another case file that had just been sent and had not had time to open it, opened it and looked at it, but his heart suddenly jumped!
Hua Rong reported urgently, Yelu Chun ----- critically ill!