Chapter 15: The First Sacrifice Butcher's Knife

"Cai Jing, you come and explain to me what your catchers were doing at that time, and why did I still hear in the market that you accepted the filial piety of those scoundrels and provided them with a huge protective umbrella, and you also bribed the privy envoy Fan Chunren and framed the minister, you two are really unforgivable, where are the warriors in front of the palace?"

"In" six imperial guards entered

"Take off the black yarn of these two people, strip off their official clothes and push them to the entrance of the vegetable market to behead them to show the public"

"Yes" The two samurai stepped forward in response to take off their black veils and the official palace, and the other four samurai set up the two and dragged them out of the main hall amid the loud cries of the two

All the ministers looked at me with fear, horror and incredulity, in their eyes a thunderous and weak and incompetent emperor is not terrible, but a temperamental and decisive emperor of terrible things, after pushing these two out, I immediately issued another holy decree, (zhuo) Wang Jin, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, was promoted to the post of Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, and all the errand servants in Kaifeng Mansion except for the head catcher were all changed to be served by soldiers in the army, and all the officials who were replaced entered the forbidden army camp for special training. Finally, I comforted all the ministers at the spiritual level, affirmed their conscientious work attitude and conscientious work spirit, and after the ministers had just relaxed their nervousness, I made their fragile nerves tremble

"In view of the poor living conditions of our soldiers, I will pass on my will, and distribute all the confiscated family property of Fan Chunren and Cai Jing to the sergeants and soldiers of the army as salaries, change the war regulations, and in case of war, the soldiers are allowed to loot on their own after the end of the battle, and all the looted property can be kept by the soldiers themselves, and the rest will be handed over to the national treasury."

As soon as this will was said, the entire court hall was like cold water dripping into the oil pot, and it was fried directly, I signaled Mu Fengchun, and Mu Fengchun shouted loudly, "Quiet, quiet, if there is any more roaring Golden Palace, the warriors in front of the palace will be expelled from the palace."

We ignored the resentment and distressed expressions of our ministers and continued

"I decreed yesterday that the dinner from the emperor to the hundred officials should not exceed three dishes and one soup, you think this is me in more of your face, most of you are rich families, prominent families and big lords, you have not suffered anything since childhood, but you all look around our country, the enemy is eyeing my Great Song Dynasty, the people there are living a troubled life, you shouldn't think more about what you should do for the people, what kind of face are you still talking to me here, if the people of the world can live a life with fish and meat, Children can go to school, there are no wars and no hardships, what can I do if I sell my face, and those soldiers, maybe they don't know a lot of words, maybe they don't have a noble background, but they all join the military camp without regrets, for the Great Song Dynasty where they live, for the parents, wives and children who stand behind them, they throw their heads and spill their blood, can't they afford that little bit of money, don't you have your face that is just good-sounding, you all go back and think about it" I said angrily Ministry of Rites, come to the imperial study after noon, I want to hear how you are preparing for this year's scientific expedition, retreat to the court" I stood up, waved my sleeves, and left

"Retreat from the Dynasty ~~~~"

In fact, the Song Dynasty was not as unbearable as people imagined, and the concept of the Song Dynasty in history was "weak Song", but people did not know how rich the Song Dynasty was, and the total number of households in the Song Dynasty was about 20 million households, with a population of more than 100 million. However, the cultivated land area is as high as 720 million mu, and the average annual tax burden of the entire Song Dynasty is as high as 71 million yuan, that is, more than 70 million taels of silver, and after the reform of the Shenzong period, the annual tax amount of the Song Dynasty has been as high as 160 million taels of silver, accounting for 70 percent of the total annual income of the world at that time, 5 yuan / city catty, a stone of rice in the Song Dynasty is 97 kilograms, that is, 194 city catties, 400 wen is equivalent to 970 yuan of purchasing power, Since one penny is equal to 2.425 yuan, the Song Dynasty has always been 770 yuan, that is, the consistent money is equivalent to 1867.25 yuan, that is to say, the annual income of the current Great Song Dynasty is equivalent to nearly 298.700 billion yuan in later China, and the total annual income of the Qing Dynasty during the Yongzheng Qianlong period was only 100 million taels of silver, and the land area of the Qing Dynasty was four times that of the Song Dynasty, and the population was more than three times that of the Song Dynasty, so think about how rich the Song Dynasty was