Zhao Jun's words made everyone fall into deep thought.

The essence of the feudal dynastic cycle is to compete for the total wealth of society.

And the families, the magnates, the warlords, and the landlords will all join in this carnival.

When the total wealth of society is robbed and the people have no way to live, it is the time when the dynasty falls.

These contents may sound unclear at first, but after thinking about it, they only feel creepy.

Because if you think about it, it seems that this is indeed the case!

In ancient societies, there was only so much land that could be cultivated in the whole country, and there was also the problem of land fertility.

Much of the land, which may have been extremely fertile in the previous dynasties, has become barren after a few hundred years, and it is no longer possible to grow food.

So farmers have to look for new land to cultivate.

But most of the fertile and fertile fields have owners.

If a large amount of good land is taken away by the powerful and landlords, and the peasants have no land, will they not starve to death?

In order to survive, it is natural to rebel. After the fall of the dynasty, the former magnates, families, warlords, and landlords will all disappear, and the peasants will once again gain land.

After another one or two hundred years, a new powerful family, warlords, and landlords rose, digging the foundation of the dynasty like moths, and the cycle was repeated, unchanged for thousands of years.

Therefore, it can be said that all dynasties have been like this for thousands of years, and the Great Song Dynasty will become like this in the future, and eventually the dynasty will fall and the empire will collapse.

"I see, I see, I ...... so"

"A lot of questions can be figured out at once, and seeing things seems to be clearer than ever."

"Listening to your words, it is better than reading ten years of books, it is really like waking up from a dream, I feel that all the books of so many years have been read in vain, and in an instant, it is enlightening."

Everyone sighed.

Because Zhao Jun's words involve the essential reason for the change of feudal dynasty, and it is also the essence of whether the imperial power can be sustained.

It's comparable to the art of slaying dragons!

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "These are all things I know from studying Ma Zhe and the quotations of great men, and any contemporary college student understands it, which is normal." It is precisely because of the lack of productivity in ancient society that the cake is so big, so it will usher in a reshuffle every few hundred years. ”

"Shuffle?"

Lu Yijian had heard this word several times, but he didn't know what it meant, and asked, "What is shuffling?" ”

Now Zhao Jun felt weird.

Because rural people celebrate the New Year's holidays, how can they not play cards after returning home after playing in other places?

Even women and children like to play two, let alone these adults.

So it's really strange not to understand the shuffle.

But Zhao Jun didn't think about it, or selectively ignored it, didn't dare to think about it, and didn't want to think about it.

Anyway, in his cognition and subconscious, he came to the village when he encountered a mudslide when he entered the depths of Daliang Mountain.

At that time, the location of the accident was already very close to Nini Village, and it was normal and logical to be rescued by the villagers.

What kind of crossing and being rescued by aliens is beyond the scope of ordinary people's cognition, and people will subconsciously choose what they believe in, and will not consider what is outside the scope of cognition.

What's more, Zhao Jun's eyes are not good yet, even if he realizes that this place is full of strangeness, but without God's perspective, how can he tell it clearly?

Therefore, even if Zhao Jun felt that there were some problems, he didn't think much about it, just because the old man Malegebi never played cards.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jun said: "Shuffling is to disrupt all the order and then redistribute it." Just like in the late Han Dynasty, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, due to war, plague, natural disasters, famine, etc., the population was greatly reduced. ”

"Although the power of the family is still there, the original population of 50 or 60 million has dropped sharply to 10 or 20 million, and the land before has become abandoned, and the area of cultivated land is far more than the population in need of arable land."

"The three imperial courts of Cao Wei, Ji Han, and Eastern Wu distributed excess land to the people, so that the people could farm, and most of the people had arable land and could rely on farming to survive, so they had no motivation for rebellion and uprising, and temporarily maintained the stable situation of the Three Kingdoms."

Wang Xiaobo of the Song Dynasty and Li Zicheng of the Ming Dynasty also revolted, because of the serious land annexation, under the slogan of "the inequality between the rich and the poor, now it is the same as you" and "the land is exempt from taxation", they called on the peasants of the world to launch a revolutionary war. ”

"The deep-seated reason behind this is, of course, the contradiction between the peasant class and the landlord class, as well as the question of competing for the total value of social wealth, which I have been emphasizing before."

"To put it simply, if the ancient feudal society is compared to a house, then when the house is first built, it is brand new and the foundation is very strong. But over time, if the owner of the house does not maintain and treat it, the house will grow moths. ”

"These moths are the landlords and the powerful class, who continue to erode the foundations of the house by annexing the land and plundering the wealth of the people at the bottom. Step by step, the house becomes crumbling and in danger of collapsing. ”

"In the past dynasties, there were actually many natural and man-made disasters, such as the Song Dynasty's Sanyi Hui River, which flooded the mother river everywhere and killed many people. During the Xiaoice River period at the end of the Han Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, disasters and famines continued, and the heavens were angry and resentful. ”

But in the early years of the dynasty, these calamities often don't have much impact. Because on the whole, the land annexation in the early years of the dynasty was not serious, and the foundation of the house is still there. ”

"But over time, moths continued to breed and bite the foundation of the house. At this time, if there is any natural or man-made disaster, the house can collapse in an instant. ”

"There is a saying in ancient times that it is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to defend the world. The monarchs of all dynasties still do not understand that their positions are always given by the people, not by the landlords, scholars, and bureaucrats. ”

"So when the house collapses, someone new will rebuild it. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, it was Liu Bang, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was Li Yuan and Li Shimin, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it was Zhao Kuangyin, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was Zhu Yuanzhang. For thousands of years, a cycle has been formed, and the shuffle was born. ”

After Zhao Jun finished speaking, he felt his mouth dry and drank the water from the teacup in one go.

Everyone was lost in thought.

Only Fan Zhongyan was keenly aware of a problem and asked, "What's going on with Sanyi returning to the river?" ”

Zhao Jun wondered: "Don't you all read the history of the Song Dynasty?" I don't know if I'm back to the river? ”

It's getting weirder.

Yan Shu said casually: "We must not be as good as you." ”

"Okay."

Zhao Jun said: "The return of the Three Yi to the River refers to the Song Dynasty's three major engineering changes to the Yellow River during the reigns of Renzong, Shenzong, and Zhezong. ”

"Can you elaborate on that?"

"The specific situation is that from the Tang Dynasty, the Yellow River sediment silted, the riverbed became higher, flooding to both banks, and then in the first year of Jingyou, the Yellow River was diverted, and the Henglong Road was formed from the east of the old road, and the Song Dynasty began to carry out large-scale treatment projects on the Yellow River out of military defense against the Liao State and the problem of flooding."

"The result?"

"The result is very unsatisfactory, this thing is basically the idea of the ruling class of the Song Dynasty and the group of brain-dead ministers, after the implementation of the plan, it led to the more and more flooded, three changes, the entire Hebei and most of Henan are about to be flooded, millions of people are displaced, and even Su Shi in Xuzhou was almost flooded to feed Wang Ba."

"It has caused such a big trouble!"

Yan Shu was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Why did this result happen?" ”

Zhao Jun sneered: "A Song Renzong is stupid! ”

Zhao Zhen's eyes widened.

Here we go.

It's here again.

It's uncomfortable not to scold me for a day.

"The other one is the stupidity of the ministers who are prime ministers!"

Zhao Jun continued to sneer and said: "What kind of prime minister is Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty don't care about the people's livelihood at all, they are afraid that the Liao State is afraid to die, so they have changed the Yellow River several times. Although the Yellow River was indeed at a relatively serious point at that time, they were all about border bandits and national defense, and they didn't care about the lives of the common people at all, they were really a bunch of brutes. ”

Everyone looked at each other, Zhao Zhen couldn't help but shrink his neck, Zhao Jun just scolded him for being stupid, the beast in this should not have counted him.

"Can you tell us more about the inside story?"

Yan Shu hurriedly shifted the target, he was afraid that Zhao Jun would continue to chase after the official family and scold.

Zhao Jun calmed down a little, and then said: "It's very simple, there was a Li Chui in the Zhenzong Dynasty who discovered that the Yellow River would have a big problem earlier, so he wrote a letter to ask for the river to be repaired, but his opinion was ignored, and as a result, decades later, in the first year of Jingyou, the Yellow River broke out, and there was the first diversion, from the old road to Henglong Road. ”

Originally, it was peaceful, but fourteen years later, in the eighth year of Qingli, that is, in 1048 AD, the Yellow River erupted again, bursting the embankment and flowing north, forming the Shanghu Road. This Shanghu Road flows from Puyang to the north, all the way to Liao, and enters the sea from the border of Cangzhou and Liaosong, which is today's Tianjin. ”

"This situation suddenly shocked the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, because Li Chui predicted decades ago, saying that the Yellow River would be diverted, and that it might allow the Liao army to go up the Yellow River and directly hit the city of Bianliang, which scared the brain-dead of the Great Song Dynasty half to death."

"Now as soon as I see that Li Chui's prophecy has come true, I can't say that the Liao army will come true if it goes south along the river, so I want to change the Yellow River back to Henglong Road and the old road, and I failed to change the river three times, that is, Sanyi returned to the river."

"These three plans to change back to the river not only caused serious consequences of river flooding, but also gave the people of the Song Dynasty great pain and burden, the group of brainless things in the imperial court slapped their heads, and they wanted to let tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people die, and the bald head bombed the garden, it can be said that the Chinese nation is a sinner through the ages!"

In the end, Zhao Jun was extremely angry.

In later generations, some people said that the Song Dynasty had no way to repair the Yellow River, and the Yellow River was overflowing, and it was impossible to repair it.

But in fact, looking at the recitals to the imperial court at that time, many of them would mention the border and national defense security, but in essence, they were actually worried that the Liao State would go down the Yellow River and hit Bianliang.

The key is that if they repair it well, it is not impossible to repair it, Wang Jing governed the Yellow River and ensured peace for 800 years, and if the Song Dynasty produced a Wang Jing, it would also benefit for a thousand years.

It's a pity that this group of rat-eyed emperors and ministers don't care about the future at all, they only care about whether they can change the Yellow River back, and don't let the Liao army have the opportunity to use the Yellow River to go south.

Therefore, it can be said that the reason why the Song Dynasty is one of the three unpopular dynasties in history alongside the Jin Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty is that in addition to "being submissive to the outside world and attacking hard at the inside", the three Yi Hui River has been poisoned for thousands of years, which is also a major factor!

Seeing that Zhao Jun was so angry, Yan Shu hurriedly asked, "Is there no way to deal with it?" ”

"It's very difficult, without industrial sand dredging boats, it is impossible to dig up the sediment that has accumulated sediment, and you can dig it by hand, and you don't dig as much as anyone pulls." Zhao Da and Zhao Er had already recognized the problem of soil erosion, on the one hand, they ordered to plant trees in the upper reaches to protect the forest and consolidate the soil, and on the other hand, a large number of them were set up in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, but it was also useless, resulting in the first year of Jingyou's Lanzhou Showdown! ”

Zhao Jun thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "After that, the Yellow River flooded three or four times a year, causing great losses to the Chinese people. The Northern Song Dynasty perished, Zhao Gou went to the south to establish a small court in the Southern Song Dynasty, and as a result, the Jin State that occupied the north was very miserable, and the Yuan Dynasty was unified, and it was still helpless against the Yellow River. ”

Hearing his words, everyone recalled the scene of the Lanzhou Finals the year before last and the submerged scene of Bianliang in Tokyo, and they couldn't help but shudder.

That's something they don't want to remember for the rest of their lives.

Now that they heard Zhao Jun mention it again, they knew how much impact this diversion had on the future.

However, there has not yet been a three-easy return to the river, so does it mean that there is still room for maneuver?

Yan Shu immediately asked: "If you say, I mean if you want to control the Yellow River before Sanyi returns to the river, will there be a way to control the Yellow River?" ”

"There must be."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Jia Chaochang proposed a way, the Yellow River was diverted in the first year of Jing You, and the sediment of the old road was cleaned up while the old road was cut off, and then changed back." ”

"This way?"

Fan Zhongyan had built the Hanhai Weir and several flooded rivers in Suzhou, and he was relatively experienced in river management, so he was surprised: "Will it consume a lot?" ”

"Yes."

Zhao Jun nodded and said: "This plan is a more reasonable and correct plan, but the amount of work is too large, and the loss of manpower and material resources is also a lot, the Song Dynasty has just finished the war with the Western Xia, and was threatened by the Liao State to increase the currency, which seriously aggravated the financial burden, how can there be money to repair the river, the result is that it has been dragged, the Yellow River is becoming more and more flooded, and finally Li Zhongchang's Liuta River plan was chosen. ”

"The Six Towers River Plan?"

"The Liuta River plan refers to digging a small river channel to connect Henglong and Shanghu, this small river channel was later called the Liuta River, and the water of the north-flowing river is introduced into the Henglong Road, which has a small water flow, so as to widen the Henglong Road and wash the sediment of the river, on the other hand, through this discharge, slow down the north-flowing water potential to reduce the disaster in Hebei, and when the time is ripe, close Shanghukou, and the river water will return to Henglong Road."

"It doesn't sound like a lot of money."

"It's not big, the problem is that it is impossible for such a small river as the Liuta River to withstand the flow of water as large as the Yellow River. Li Zhongchang also had a brain disease, and came up with such a bad idea, Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo were brain-dead and supported him, but after blocking the estuary, the Shanghukou embankment was washed away that night, and the river water was refilled into the Shanghu River, and the soldiers and people who did not have time to leave on the embankment were drowned in large numbers and failed to return to the river. ”

"In this way, isn't the matter of the Yellow River a dead end?"

Lu Yijian muttered to himself.

Zhao Jun heard his words and said: "That's not it, at that time, there were actually three strategies, the upper policy was Jia Chaochang's plan, the lower policy was Li Zhongchang's plan, and the middle policy was quite reliable." ”

"What's the middle point?"

"Didn't you just say that Li Chui? Although Li Trai's ass is relatively crooked, and he is considering the issues of national defense and border bandits, he still has a long-term vision, and has long analyzed that the Yellow River may be diverted, and the proposed plan is barely reasonable. ”

"The Book of Guided River Shapes!"

Everyone looked at each other and spoke almost in unison.