In the tenth year of Xingwu, the Song Dynasty signed an agreement with the Western Xia, Western Liao, and Jin States, and Song Dynasty merchants could freely do business and live in Western Xia, Western Liao, Jin and other places, and they must be protected to achieve monetary integration, tariff integration, language and writing integration, and education integration. As compensation, the Song dynasty paid 300,000 coins annually to the Western Xia, 500,000 to the Western Liao, and 200,000 to the Jin State.

The situation was in an uproar, and the courtiers stopped them one after another, but they were all rejected by the emperor. The emperor said that the reconstruction of the north needs money, and it is not enough to be close to the south, but it is also necessary to borrow the wealth of the world.

The courtiers were silent.

The power of the Zhongxing monarch is very great, and in the duel, the courtiers can only admit defeat.

In the 11th year of Xingwu, merchants were seized on the border of Western Xia, resulting in the death of thirteen merchants. Emperor Song was furious and sent Yue Fei to send 30,000 generals to attack Western Xia, and the battle was in the field, and the 100,000 army of Western Xia was defeated. This was the first time that cold weapons collided with firearms, and the result was a big victory for firearms.

The names of arquebuses, flintlock pistols, and bronze cannons are famous all over the world, like a cavalry nemesis, and countries are shocked by it.

The Western Xia succumbed, beheaded the murderers, and apologized to the Song Dynasty.

In the twelfth year of Xingwu, the heavy tax decree and the heavy commercial decree were promulgated, and the status of merchants was improved;

In the thirteenth year of Xingwu, the Song Dynasty established the Nanyang Protectorate;

In the fourteenth year of Xingwu, Jiaozhi committed the border, the Song Dynasty went out to attack Jiaozhi, attacked by sea and land, only three months, defeated Jiaozhi, and set up the southwest capital to protect the mansion.

In the fifteenth year of Xingwu, the canal was built, and the canal was transferred to the merchants by the method of contracting, and the canal was nationalized in thirty years;

In the sixteenth year of Xingwu, he sent troops to Liaodong. Coerced Huining City, Jin Guo was shocked, and he was defeated in three battles. The Golden Vulture was killed in battle. After finishing his face and begging for peace, he was named the Duke of Jinde. The Kingdom of Jin thus died. This year, the prince Zhao Yu was born, and Wang Wuyue was named the queen.

The ministers all wrote to advise, saying that they were daughters of different races, and they should not be the queen.

The emperor said angrily: The whole world is Song soil; The shore of the land. All of them are Song people. The Han people, Khitans, and Jurchens are all the people of the Great Song Dynasty, so why not.

The ministers persuaded. Someone died and died by hitting the pillar, but the emperor didn't listen.

After that, the imperial court purged. Qingliu Shizi was implicated. Everyone in the world says. The official family is domineering and brutal, which can be called Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The emperor was furious, reorganized Taixue, reorganized the prison of the country, established Huaxia University, and said: Regardless of race, regardless of poverty, speak Chinese. Wearing the clothes of the Han family, those who entered the household registration of my Great Song Dynasty. Those who do not violate the laws and regulations, respect Confucianism, loyalty and patriotism, and pass the examination can enter Huaxia University.

In the twentieth year of Xingwu, the Western Xia and Western Liao were attached, and the land of the Western Liao was set up as the capital of the Western Regions, and the land of the Western Xia was turned into the Ningxia Road.

In the 23rd year of Xingwu, the "Anti-National Secession Law" was promulgated.

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In the blink of an eye, it has been twenty-five years since Xingwu, and Zhao Pu is already forty-one years old at this time.

At this time, there were thirteen sons and eight daughters.

The Song dynasty entered an unprecedented peak, expanding its territory to the north to the Trans-Khingan Mountains, near Lake Baikal, to the west to the vicinity of the Caspian Sea, and to the south to the vicinity of the Red River; In the southeast, it occupied Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, etc., and set up the Nanyang Metropolitan Protectorate in the South Seas.

At this moment, the territory of the Song Dynasty has expanded to the extreme, and some have the feeling of eating and supporting, and some have indigestion. It's just indigestion, and it can only be held on, and you can't spit it out.

Fortunately, the quantity and output of steel have increased greatly in recent years, and the quality of gunpowder has also improved, resulting in a large number of firearms equipped with the army.

Politically, the Great Migration began, moving the rebel tribes to the New World (that is, Australia); At the same time, the Han people lived in large numbers with the Khitan, Jurchen and other ethnic groups, gradually eliminating their national characteristics, and gradually unable to distinguish between you and me.

At this moment, in the imperial garden, looking at the moonlight, Zhao Pu became lonely.

"Your Majesty, what are you thinking?" Wang Wuyue asked. Over the years, the emperor always likes to be in a daze and like to meditate.

"What do you think the future generations will say about me?" Zhao Pu asked.

"Your Majesty, inherited the throne in peril, and in twenty years, the Great Song Dynasty was revived, the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, and the United States was unified; In the place of governance, the people are happy, all ethnic groups are stable, the old are supported, the young are learned, and the road is not left behind, which can be called a prosperous age. Your Majesty is a rare monarch in the ages! ”

Wang Wuyue said.

These are also the evaluations of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, although the emperor is a little stubborn, sometimes does not think about things, but on the whole can not find fault, is frugal, rarely builds palaces, sympathetic to the people, many times ordered to be exempt from taxes, and is extremely concerned about the soldiers.

The Three Emperors and the Five Emperors are nothing more than that.

"Is that really the case?" Zhao Pudao.

"Really!" Wang Wuyue said.

"In fact, my decree will inevitably ruin the national fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty. It seems to be prosperous at the moment, but in fact, it has laid the root of the decline of the Song Dynasty! Zhao Pu sighed and said, "Throughout history, if you want long-term peace and stability, and if you want the country to be in the future, you will be heavy on agriculture and suppress business, and you will make the people ignorant, so you can govern well!" ”

"And my way of governing the country violates the foundation of the government of the past dynasties!"

"Over the years, we have established education in many ways and popularized the literacy rate, which is at least conducive to the strengthening of the country, but not conducive to the stability of the Zhao family. If you are literate and read, you will inevitably have a high demand, and once the court is difficult to satisfy, you will inevitably be resentful, and you will inevitably make waves and cause great damage. ”

"And I set up commerce, heavy business and heavy taxes, and developed the new continent, which is conducive to alleviating the poverty of the people, but it is not conducive to my Zhao family's world; Business makes people's hearts float, selfishness prevails, and who remembers loyalty and patriotism at that time! ”

"In the past, the dynasties were all heavy on agriculture and suppressed commerce, while our dynasty was both agricultural and commercial. Our dynasty's finance and taxation are several times that of the Han and Tang dynasties, and the culture and education are several times that of the Han and Tang dynasties, but the people may not be grateful, they only feel that they are getting more and more unsatisfactory day by day! ”

"When I was alive, I could still suppress all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods, but what about after I died?"

Over the years, Zhao Pu has continued to change the law and change, and gradually guided the Great Song Dynasty to the road of capitalism. It's just that capitalism may be beneficial to the country and the people, but it is not conducive to the emperor. Everyone knows that once a capitalist revolution occurs, the emperor will definitely be guillotined.

At this point, the emperor of China is very shrewd, he has always suppressed the development of capitalism, and he has always made the throne sit firmly!

Wang Wuyue listened, her heart was terrified, and she couldn't help but say, "Then what should Your Majesty do?" ”

After all, her son was the future Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty!

"I don't know! The road to the future is for future generations to walk. Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, so why should parents worry about it! Zhao Pu said open-mindedly, "Back then, when I ascended the throne, the Great Song Dynasty was stormy, but under my governance, it still reached its peak; And I left the emperor a great family business, if he is incompetent, he can't even keep the family business, and he is all lost, who can complain about! ”

At this time, a breeze blew outside, and Zhao Pu couldn't help but shiver.

Zhao Pu said to himself, "The people are changeable and forgetful. My exploits will be forgotten little by little; And if I make a mistake, it will be enlarged, distorted, and scandalized little by little. In the end, I will become a tyrant and the object of the world's revival! ”

"Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall to bless me for thousands of years, but the world enjoys the stability brought by the Great Wall, but scolds Qin Shi Huang; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty expelled the Xiongnu and preserved my Chinese heritage, but the world only remembers his poor soldiers; Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built a canal to benefit him for thousands of years, but the world only remembers his tyranny! ”

"An ungrateful nation is a great nation! From this point of view, my Huaxia clan is great! ”

Wang Wuyue listened and felt that the emperor was in a daze again, and she didn't understand it at all.

Zhao Pu continued: "What is eternity in the world? People will die, and the Great Song Dynasty will also perish, but only that 'seed' will last forever. I have planted the seed, there may be twists and turns, it may be destroyed, but it will grow in the end, and no one can stop it! (To be continued......)