The wealth of the Great Song Dynasty is difficult to reach in the past dynasties. Not to mention the statistics of GDP, nor the comparison of total tax revenues over the ages.

Let's just say that the money of the Great Song Dynasty, from the north to the Liao Kingdom, to the west to the Western Xia, to the south of Southeast Asia, and even to the sea route, South Asia and West Asia, the money of the Great Song Dynasty was hard currency.

There are two key points in why the Great Song Dynasty is so rich, one is the social atmosphere.

I said before that the disadvantages of the imperial power not going to the countryside, in fact, it is also advantageous for the imperial power not to go to the countryside. That is the liberalization of the people, from the pre-Qin to the Han and Tang dynasties, there was a very strict household registration system, ordinary people could hardly leave their hometowns, and there were only two kinds of people who could leave their hometowns, one was an official and the other was a scholar, which could also be said to be scholars.

However, by the time of the Song Dynasty, the hukou system was loosened and no longer as strict as before, and even the nighttime curfews were mostly lifted. Greater population mobility led to a boom in private commerce, which often led to advances in handicrafts.

The second is the degree of development in the south. The first real development of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River began in the late Han Dynasty and the Wu Kingdom of the Sun family, and before that, most of the southern part of the country was almost undeveloped. The Sun family is a real pioneer, and in order to develop the territory, Sun Quan even sent troops to the island of Taiwan to plunder the population.

The development of the Sun family was only the beginning, and the south at that time was far less prosperous than the Central Plains. To the Jin Dynasty's clothing crown to the south, it is the second southern development, at this time, the south really began to develop.

However, the center of the Tang Dynasty went to the northwest, which made the south at the far end of the imperial power.

The reason why the Song Dynasty was set in Bianliang was actually a lot of considerations, and Bianliang was not a good place in terms of military affairs. But in terms of economic and social development, Bianliang is a really good place, because it is just on the edge of the waterway, in the middle of the north and south.

Regarding the Dingdu Bianliang, there are other reasons, the northwest began to become barren, the center of the Han and Tang dynasties were in the northwest, at that time, the northwest was still a lush place, and the Yellow River was still a clear water river. From the Qin Dynasty to the Han and Tang Dynasties, for more than a thousand years, the northwest has been the center of the country, and excessive development and cultivation have turned the lush area of the northwest into a barren Loess Plateau, and the Yellow River has turned from clear water to a sediment river.

Coupled with the degree of development in the south, the political and economic center of the country, under the condition that manpower could not be controlled, had to slowly move to the east, and the once rich and powerful northwest slowly became a marginal place of the imperial dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty had a highly developed south that the previous dynasties did not have, which was the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty's wealth, but it was not the most fundamental reason. The most fundamental reason for the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty came from the change of grain crops.

Rice and wheat, the main food ration crops. Needless to say, rice was mainly cultivated in the south, that is, rice, and there was a great development in the Song Dynasty. From the Indochina Peninsula came the Champa rice, in the past, the local rice, can only be ripened once a year, to the Song Dynasty with Champa rice, a year can be two cropping, and even further south, a year can even be three cropping.

This means that new varieties of rice were introduced in the Song Dynasty, and in the south they could be planted at least twice a year and harvested twice. This progress has brought about a sea change in society as a whole.

Food production doubled, more labor was freed up, handicrafts became more developed, and the quantity and quality of everything from paper, ceramics, furniture, and more elaborate buildings to everything else doubled. The relaxed social atmosphere, the improvement of various productions, and the subsequent development of commerce, coupled with the more developed water system and transportation in the east of the mainland, were the reasons for the prosperity of the Song Dynasty.

As the old saying goes, the entertainment industry and entertainment industry in the Song Dynasty have generally developed greatly across the country. This is also the reason why Song Ci became the representative of the Song Dynasty, because Song Ci almost represents entertainment. The status of Song Ci in the literary sense is naturally undoubted.

But continue to analyze, Song Ci is the representative of the Song Dynasty, in fact, it can also be said that the entertainment industry is the representative of the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty died and died in the erosive entertainment of the whole society, and the rich material life brought many positive things to people, but there were also many negative things in everything. The death of the country is never just a personal reason between the ruler and the high-level, but is often inextricably linked to the changes in the whole society.

The Great Song Dynasty that Gan Qi saw was the time when the Great Song Dynasty was thriving, and it was also the best decades of the Great Song Dynasty, with flowers, masters, stable family and country, and even repeated victories in foreign wars.

Gan Qi was really caught up in a good time.

Wang Anshi's later changes are also changes on this basis. The people's income has continued to increase. What Wang Anshi wanted to do was to increase the income of the imperial court.

So Gan Qi wanted to make money, and his first idea was not to produce and invent something like soap and perfume, but to do an entertainment industry to meet the growing entertainment needs of the wealthy people of the Great Song Dynasty.

On the west side of the wharf, Gan Qi searched for a long time, and finally found a shop for external transfer, the shop is not small, the two-story small building facing the street, which used to sell spices, and now the store has also developed, and is ready to move the store to the city, so let go of this storefront.

Gan Qi took it and arranged it briefly, and waited for the carpenter, blacksmith, and painter to deliver their things.

After inspecting the various things that had been sent, Gan Qi opened his mouth and shouted, "Dumb, close the door and tell someone to keep watch outside, and no one is allowed to approach." ”

The dumb bully hurriedly complied, and the doors and windows were closed tightly.

Gan Qi began to assemble the lucky turntable he had designed, with an iron bowl on the wooden base, a simple bearing in the iron fist, and rapeseed oil poured into the iron fist for lubrication, and the bearing was connected to an iron rod, on which a huge wooden turntable was installed, and various animals were painted on the surface of the wheel.

Then divide the animal area with small wooden strips, wait for everything to be fixed and fixed, and then use wooden planks to enclose everything under the turntable. The Wheel of Fortune is assembled.

Gan Qi brought three iron balls of different sizes from the side, and the iron balls were colored on them. The largest iron ball represents fifteen times the odds, and the smallest represents five times the odds. Throw the iron ball into the wheel.

There was a wooden handle standing on the turntable, and Gankey reached out to hold the handle and pushed it hard.

The sound of smooth spinning was extremely pleasant, and the big wheel of luck that turned up made Gan Qi smile from ear to ear. Three small balls are rolling in the carousel.

After a long time, the turntable slowly stopped, and three iron balls continued to roll back and forth between the small wooden bars that separated the animal area.

Finally, the dust settled. The big red ball stops at the lion area, the white medium ball stops at the rabbit pattern, and the black ball stops at the mouse pattern.

Gan Qi was extremely relieved, and looked up to see that it was already evening outside the window. The whole day passed like this, and Gan Qi said, "It's finally done, and the playground is up to you." ”

After saying the words, Gan Qi pushed open the door, Gan Ba and others had already dozed at the door, Gan Qi woke up Gan Ba, and said: "Tomorrow, post a recruitment notice at the door, and those who are strong and strong will be paid twice a month." ”

Gan Ba once again expressed a different opinion: "Big brother, two runs? The Imperial City Division in the city has been on an errand for a month, and it has always been five. The Black Tiger Gang only paid them nine hundred dollars a month. Big brother, although there are only nine of our brothers, it doesn't hurt even if we are a little tired, why spend so much money to find others. ”

"The Black Tiger Gang only pays nine hundred dollars?" Gan Qi asked, and then said: "Then add another five hundred yuan, two for five months, as long as you are strong." I'll write a notice tonight, and tomorrow you can just post it. ”

Gan Ba cried with a sad face, only felt that this eldest brother was completely crazy, and he still felt that he had to pay for a loss of 500 in the gambling house, and now he was recruiting people and paying such a high price. Gan Ba looked at Gan Qi's hand that likes to hit people's brains recently, and he stopped talking a few times before asking, "Big brother, what about it...... How many people do you have to recruit? ”

Gan Qi waved his hand: "Move, move hard, as long as you are strong and strong, you will come as much as you want." When I say I won't recruit it, then I won't recruit it. ”

Gan Ba lowered his head, looked at each other with the brothers on the left and right, and reluctantly said "um".

Gan Qi still explained: "Don't you want to be outnumbered? Isn't that a multitude of people? If someone from the Black Tiger Gang comes to vote, they will first pay a month's money. ”

When Gan Ba heard this, his eyes lit up, and then he was fleeting: "Big brother, I'm afraid that people who are recruited like this are all here for money, but they won't really work hard." ”

Gan Qi waved his hand: "Just do it, what kind of thing is the Black Tiger Gang, the underworld, Lang Lang Qiankun, want to use the power of money to defeat him." ”

"Big brother, can you really defeat the Black Tiger Gang like this?" Gan Ba has been habitually skeptical lately. In the heart of the hot-blooded young man, he always seems to feel that righteousness is nothing that can be compared.

Gan Qi didn't answer, and walked home.