He couldn't ask anything from the mouth of the gourd immortal, so Mei Xiaohan didn't ask any more, but he still wanted to figure out a question.

"What the hell is going on!"

People, living in this world, in fact, not many people are clear, clear, and know what they want and what they want to do.

We are just following in the footsteps of those who came before us, in some uncharted territory, like newborn babies.

Now that the doors are open, it's a whole new world.

Be your own king, your own master, your own witness.

The reincarnation of history and the rise and fall of the world seem to be a predestined fate, but there are variables in the dark.

A journey like no other! Full of novelty and unpredictability, although the end of history has long been predestined, not many people know how bizarre and tortuous its process is.

"Be your own master from this moment on."

Hulu Xian said: "You and I are also old acquaintances, since I picked up that gourd, the fate between you and me has been closely linked." ”

"I have my mission!"

"Naturally, you have your own tasks."

"Mission?" Mei Xiaohan was extremely puzzled.

He didn't know what the mission was, or even what he was going to do or what he was going to do next. During this time, he was just going with the flow.

"Have you ever had a dream?"

Although dreaming may sound ridiculous, it has to be said that it does make people find motivation and direction to move forward.

An era of change, an era full of charm, an era that is unique in history.

"Great Song Dynasty!"

It is like a fire in the darkness, although it has burned for a short time, many splendid cultures have emerged.

History is now silent in the long river of time, and that period of the past can no longer be traced, and the footsteps of the predecessors are gradually drifting away.

Visit everyone and tell all the stories about the Great Song Dynasty.

However, in history, most people do not have a good impression of the Song Dynasty, because everyone may think that it was a poor and weak dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin worked hard from an ordinary soldier to a general, and finally came to a mutiny to overthrow the establishment of the previous week, and the process must be described as difficult.

There are still many powerful minority regimes around the established Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty is unable to conquer the ethnic minorities, and it can't defeat them, and it doesn't have so many manpower and material resources, so it generally makes peace with them.

The real Song Dynasty is not like this, how powerful the Song Dynasty in history is, historical facts prove.

The GDP of the Song Dynasty accounted for more than 60% of the world, although there was no such thing as GDP at that time, but from the Qingming Shanghe map, we can see the degree of development of the commodity economy of the Song Dynasty, which is enough to prove how good the economy of the Song Dynasty was.

In terms of science and technology culture, half of the important inventions in Chinese history came from the Song Dynasty, and three of the four major inventions came from the Song Dynasty.

Bi Sheng's contribution to culture and education is self-evident.

The invention of the compass facilitated overseas trade in the Song Dynasty, and the port of Quanzhou was the largest port in the world at that time, and foreign trade was extremely prosperous.

Gunpowder, this invention has played a big role and directly affects the course of the world. After the introduction of gunpowder, Westerners immediately ended the age of knights, and entered the era of hot weapons from cold weapons.

There were eight families in the Tang and Song dynasties, and there were six in the Northern Song Dynasty. The prose of the Song Dynasty had such an impact on later generations that today we can still casually say a sentence or two of Liu Yong and Li Qingzhao's words.

This cultural soft power has also deeply influenced the countries of East and Southeast Asia.

The Song Dynasty was the only dynasty in history that did not suppress commerce. This is really very rare, which shows that the ruler has enough understanding of economic development. Song Shenzong minted 5.06 million guan, and the most prosperous Kaiyuan era of the Tang Dynasty was only 320,000 guan. The per capita income of the Song Dynasty was the highest in China's history, several times higher than that of the later Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Song Dynasty was militarily weak and was always invaded by neighboring countries. In fact, this is not the case, the Tang Dynasty lost more foreign wars and won less, while the Song Dynasty won more than 70% of foreign wars.

Mei Xiaohan will start a journey that spans the entire Great Song Dynasty, all thanks to that magical gourd. Such an opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that not everyone can have.

Starting from Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, this must be described as a magical journey.

In the spring of the second year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers besieged Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

In the process of besieging the city, this group of tigers and wolves committed an evil deed that broke through the bottom line of civilized society and even violated the ethics of war. "Records of the Year since the Establishment of Yan" recorded: "The enemy's siege of the city is also, the excavation of the graves outside the capital is slightly over, the corpses are taken from the coffins for the manger, and half of the people in the city are killed by the epidemic. ”

There is a similar record in the "Three Dynasties and Northern Alliances": "The corpses of the graves outside the capital were exhumed, and their coffins were used as mangers. Killing people is like cutting hemp, and the smell is hundreds of miles. As a result, more than half of the people who died from the epidemic died. ”

The Jin soldiers dug up the tombs of the Song people outside Bianliang City, took out the coffins as a manger, and threw the corpses in the wilderness, resulting in an outbreak of plague, and 50% of the soldiers and civilians in Bianliang City died of illness.

The Song army was defeated by the Jin soldiers, Bianliang broke the city, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished...

The next picture scroll presents a different scene:

The Jin State that destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty was once very powerful in history, it obtained half of the Song Dynasty, and captured the two emperors of the Song Dynasty, and it became the eternal nightmare and pain of the Southern Song Dynasty. This is unique even in the entire history of China.

The Song Dynasty, a dynasty that inherited five dynasties and ten kingdoms and descended from the Qiyuan Dynasty, was divided into two stages: the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, with a total of 18 emperors and 319 years of national enjoyment.

In 960, the Later Zhou generals launched the Chenqiao Mutiny, supported Zhao Kuangyin as emperor, and established the Song Dynasty.

In order to avoid the chaos of the division of the late Tang Dynasty and the dictatorship of the eunuchs, Zhao Kuangyin adopted the policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force, which not only strengthened the centralization of power, but also deprived the military generals of their military powers.

After Song Taizong succeeded to the throne, he unified the whole country, and gradually entered the rule after concluding the alliance with Liao during the Song Zhenzong period.

In 1125, the Jin State invaded the south, which led to the disgrace of Jingkang, and the Song family was forced to move south. Zhao Gou succeeded to the throne in Nanjing Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu, Henan), established the Southern Song Dynasty, Shaoxing and Jin after the peace conference with the Qinling Huai River as the boundary, the Song-Yuan War broke out in the later period, the Yuan Dynasty captured Lin'an in 1276, and after the Battle of Yashan, the Southern Song Dynasty perished.

The Song Dynasty was an era of high prosperity in commodity economy, culture and education, and scientific innovation in ancient Chinese history, and China's total GDP in the three years of Xianping in the Northern Song Dynasty (1000 years) was 26.55 billion US dollars, accounting for 22.7% of the world's total economy, and the per capita GDP was 450 US dollars, exceeding the 400 US dollars in Western Europe at that time. Although later generations believed that the Song Dynasty was "poor and weak", the prosperity and social and economic prosperity of the people of the Song Dynasty far exceeded that of the Tang Dynasty.

During the Song Dynasty, there was a Song and Ming Dynasty science, Confucianism was revived, science and technology developed rapidly, politics was enlightened, and there was no serious eunuch dictatorship and warlord division, and the number and scale of mutinies and civil unrest were relatively small in Chinese history. Due to the rapid growth of the population in the Northern Song Dynasty, the population increased from 37.1 million in the fifth year of the Taiping Rejuvenation (980) to 126 million in the sixth year of Xuanhe (1124).

Each scroll shows the characteristics of different eras of the Song Dynasty, whether it flourished or declined, and finally dissipated into wisps of green smoke.

However, all stories have to start with the Chenqiao Mutiny, because this is the beginning of the entire Great Song Dynasty.

History emerges before our eyes and becomes a picture...

"I am the king! Be the king of historical witnesses! ”