There was silence in Bianliang's palace.

This time, even Zhao Kuangyin didn't have the strength to say anything, and Zhao Pu, who had been the prime minister for a long time, also lowered his head.

Only Zhao Guangyi's gaze kept carefully patrolling back and forth between the light curtain and his brother's face.

In fact, Zhao Kuangyin is naturally very clear about such accusations against the light curtain.

For example, it is a fact that there are far more taxes and miscellaneous taxes than in the Han and Tang dynasties.

This part of the extra miscellaneous taxes can be regarded as a problem left over from history, and since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the feudal towns have been divided and conquered.

Everyone knows that only those who are strong can be called the Son of Heaven, and if you want to be strong and strong, you need a lot of money and food, and this part of the demand is directly transferred to the people, resulting in heavier and heavier taxes.

Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, because the world has not yet been unified, there are enemies in the north and south, so these harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that have existed since the end of the Tang Dynasty have not been abolished by Zhao Kuangyin, but have been inherited together.

Naturally, he secretly made up his mind that he would live with the people after the world was unified, but he was just ......

"Before I got a porridge or rice, I cried and cried."

"The only thing I look forward to after a year's work is a bowl of mixed fruit porridge."

Zhao Kuangyin said to himself slowly, and then shook his head and remained silent.

Zhao Guangyi took advantage of the situation and persuaded on the side:

"In this case, the official family can order the temples of the world to give Laba porridge in the name of the government, so that the people can feel the grace of the official family."

Zhao Kuangyin suddenly felt impatient:

"Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, that's seven hundred meals to live."

"Just giving a porridge is like saving a house with a glass of water, and it is useless to deceive oneself, which is tantamount to covering one's ears and stealing the bell!"

"You are the king of Jin, only know how to govern the people like this?"

Maybe it was because he was ridiculed and deceived by his juniors before, orphans and widows, or maybe it was because the look in his younger brother's eyes was too easy to guess, and this suggestion was quite useless, so Zhao Kuangyin simply said that his younger brother with a gun and a stick was silent.

At this point, Zhao Kuangyin's mood was a little better.

But even so, he knew better in his heart that the act of being angry with his brother at this time was similar to the self-deception he had just mentioned.

Scolding the King of Jin can't make the people of the world produce more than half a stone, and it is difficult for him to immediately make up his mind to pay taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the Song Dynasty - after all, the world is undecided, and the financial use of the forbidden army still cannot be reduced by a single bit.

Distraught, the first thing I remembered was the two names that had appeared on the light curtain before:

If Tang Taizong and Zhuge Wuhou are here, there is a perfect law?

……

In fact, Li Shimin has not been very clear about how the people's livelihood will be in later generations.

For this later life, although it is known that it can climb to the sky to peep into the sky, can enter the sea to explore the secluded, the aircraft carrier is flying in the sea and the thieves, and the east wind sweeps the sky and conquers the frontier, but in the end, I don't know what the daily life of the people in this later life is.

Previously, when they were eating and chatting with Guanyin in the harem, the two had also talked about such issues.

Perhaps it is because of the scattered words of the later generations that the eldest grandson empress has a good impression of her, so it is believed that most of the later generations will be able to have livestock and surplus grain for every family.

Li Shimin scoffed at this - he clearly remembered that there were 1.4 billion people in this later life.

Even if a household only has one pig and one sheep, with such a huge population base, it is nearly one billion livestock, and the territory of later generations is still reduced compared with the Tang Dynasty, how can it be raised?

The queen has lived in the deep palace for a long time, so she doesn't know that the number of times Li Shimin has led the army is unrememberable, and she understands that this is also the unimaginable number of such a population.

And what will the future generations do to protect the environment, and return farmland to forests?

Therefore, Li Shimin felt that such a population could make the people of a household know the taste of meat once a month, which could be regarded as the prosperity of the great rule and the power of science.

It's just that I didn't expect that a small talk that didn't argue about the result at that time would be revealed by a casual word at this time.

Empress Eldest Sun had a smile in her eyes, looked at Li Shimin and said with a smile:

"Your Majesty now knows, what is the 5,000-year-old prosperity?"

However, compared with the private discussion between the emperor and the empress, Wei Zheng can be called deafening.

Although the Confucians in the world are not all the corrupt Confucians of the Qi country, the respect for the ancient rites is basically indispensable.

Therefore, now that I heard the announcement of the great lama in later generations, it was the best world in China in 5,000 years, and Wei Zheng, who was born in Shangru, Shandong, was particularly difficult to accept.

But from a selfish point of view, Wei Zheng also understood that what this junior said was the truth.

After all, no matter how much he admired the ancients, he also knew that the iron-cast farming tools of the Tang Dynasty were not available in the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and the dozens of grains and fruits made of porridge that later generations sighed were still disgusted and difficult to swallow, even if the Holy King heard about it, it was unthinkable.

The dogma that had been sincere until before was suddenly shattered by undoubted facts, and Wei Zheng suddenly looked dazed and muttered to himself:

"Could it be that since Zhou, the new dynasty has always been better than the old dynasty?"

"It's not necessarily ......"

Du Ru said quietly:

"After all, the Tang Dynasty is especially weak in the Song Dynasty, and there is especially the Qing Dynasty that is closed to the country."

Wei Zheng suddenly had no words, and his head became more and more confused.

[From today's point of view, because Laba is too far away from the New Year, the festival atmosphere is indeed gradually fading.

Generally speaking, whether it is the widely sung "Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweeping the house...... "Busy New Year's Song", or the folk customs of the north and south, they are more accustomed to taking the small year as the beginning of this whole festival.

And this small year's ritual is more precisely to sacrifice to the god of the stove.

This is also a long-standing custom, the earliest beginning was the Xia Dynasty, but the sacrificial stove at that time was quite troublesome, once a month, later simplified to once a quarter, and in the Han Dynasty it simply became a more troublesome once a year.

The god of the stove is one of the five gods, but there is a record of the exclamation of Sun Jia, the king of Wei in the Spring and Autumn Period, that "it is better to be flattering than to the stove", which shows that at least at that time, the status of the god of the stove among the five gods has been significantly improved.

Nowadays, the process of sacrificing to the god of the stove that we are familiar with is about formed in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty, and the mouth of the god of the stove will be sweetened with sticky objects such as sugar melons, and the grass horse will be used as the mount of the god of the stove, and the two will be burned together to send the god of the stove to the sacrificial stove.

And wait until the first day of the new year to paste a new portrait of the god of the stove on the stove, this is the stove.

In the past few days from the beginning of the sacrificial stove to the re-invitation of the stove, the ancients believed that there was no supervision of the stove god at home, and they could rest assured that they could overeat, gather people to play, etc., which was also the prototype of the ancient New Year's celebration.

This custom has been passed down to this day, and the only thing that has changed is the time of the small year festival.

Originally, the time to worship the god of the stove was the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, but from the beginning of the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, in order to save trouble, the royal family simply sacrificed to the gods on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and worshiped the god of the stove the next day.

At that time, the south was far away from the political center, and there was no need for this set of upward and downward effects, so the tradition of the 24-year sacrificial stove has been retained. 】

(End of chapter)