It was Li Ping who pushed for the reform of the mine field law. Li Ping and Zhu Yuan, two Taoist priests, exist like sleeping dragons and phoenix chicks. Entrusted by Li Shouzhen in Hezhong, he came to the Southern Tang Dynasty to ask for reinforcements. Li Jing had already agreed to send troops. However, before leaving the army, Li Shouzhen was killed by Guo Wei, and the two of them stayed in the Southern Tang Dynasty. During the "Three Expeditions to Huainan", the two made military exploits and were appreciated by Li Jing. However, later Zhu Yuan defected to Zhou Dynasty, and Li Ping was implicated and deprived of his real power. This has been described in detail previously.
After Li Yu came to the throne, the emperor and the court officials were destroyed. With the destruction of the "Four Evils and Five Ghosts" group, officials who had been suppressed by them were re-employed one after another, including Pan You.
Pan You was originally from Youzhou. His grandfather Pan Gui was a general under Liu Rengong. Liu Shouguang killed his father and brother. Pan Gui's son Pan Chuchang fled to Huainan and was taken in by Xu Zhigao. Pan You is the son of Pan Chuchang. As a general, Pan You turned out to be a top scholar. He was jointly recommended by Chen Qiao, the scholar of Zhongshushe, and Han Xizai, the Minister of Household Affairs. He entered the court during Li Jing's time, and later became Li Yu's staff and was regarded by Li Yu. As a confidant of Qian Di, after he ascended the throne, he was promoted to the post of Zhong Shu She Ren Zhi Gao, and he was affectionately called "Pan Qing". The previous letter written by Li Yu advising Liu Yuan of the Southern Han Dynasty to surrender was written by Pan You. It is said that Pan You did not add any extra points when drafting it and finished it in one go.
Pan You also took the revitalization of the Southern Tang Dynasty as his own responsibility. He repeatedly criticized the current affairs in his essays, and bitterly stated that the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were all sitting on their seats. He exhaled fragrance and spoke fiercely. Li Yu talked to him privately several times and asked him about his true attitude towards the civil and military ministers. Pan You did not hide it and said, "Your Majesty, please don't misunderstand me. I am not targeting anyone. I am saying that everyone in the court is trash!"
Li Yu issued several edicts and commendations, praising his outspoken advice, but he could not dismiss all civil and military officials at once, and personnel transfers had to be done step by step.
Seeing that Li Yu didn't have the courage to cut off his wrist, Pan You was so angry that he even wanted to retire and return home.
Since you said that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all rubbish, except for the treacherous ministers, then you can tell me who can be used?
Got to the point. Pan You immediately recommended Li Ping to Li Yu, a talented person with great experience in the world.
Pan You loved Taoism and had a good personal relationship with Li Ping, who was a Taoist priest. Li Ping is the best at talking and talking, and he can fool Li Jing into lameness, and he can easily fool Pan You. Pan You often asked him for advice on Taoist theory. Once, Li Ping made some calculations and said that your father-in-law, Comrade Pan Chuchang, had become an immortal official in the heavenly palace, which coaxed Pan You into trembling with joy.
After hearing Pan You's recommendation, Li Yu summoned Li Ping, a veteran of the previous dynasty, and asked him how to improve South Africa's economy.
Li Ping strongly believes in Amway's "well field system".
Li Yu himself was a literary young man who "loved the ancient times and farmed". He believed that Li Ping's idea of restorationism was simply the reincarnation of Yao, Shun, and Yu, so he immediately asked him to take the lead in supervising the reform of the "well field system" and handed the important task of reviving the national economy to Li Ping.
Land annexation has always been a stubborn problem in agricultural society that can never be circumvented. The powerful class plunders the wealth of the poor, causing serious polarization. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The same is true for today's capitalists, except that they have mastered a tool called "finance", which is more efficient and has more hidden methods. They appear to be so civilized and have unknowingly divided the entire society.
Suppressing land annexation has been a difficult problem faced by all dynasties. The difficulty is that the ways to solve the problem seem to be ever-changing, but in summary there is only one, which is to grab the bones from the dog's mouth and transfer wealth from the hands of the powerful to the hands of the poor. Therefore, reforms to curb land annexation throughout the ages have faced strong obstruction from vested interest groups, and this resistance has been difficult even for emperors to overcome.
Li Ping's "well field system" reform was very similar to Wang Anshi's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty decades later. To be precise, Wang Anshi's reform was very similar to Li Ping's reform. But Li Ping is not Wang Anshi, and Li Yu is not Song Shenzong. Wang Anshi's reform has failed, let alone Li Ping! According to later generations' research on Wang Anshi's works, it was found that Wang Anshi was indeed affected by Li Ping's reforms. Li Ping was Wang Anshi's guide on the road to reform.
Not surprisingly, under the strong obstruction of vested interest groups, Li Ping's "Wellfield Law" soon failed.
After Li Ping's reform failed, the person who resented the most was not Li Ping, but his recommender Pan You.
Pan You went on to write chapters one after another, scolding the treacherous ministers in the DPRK and causing harm to the country and the people. He was so eloquent that he accumulated tens of thousands of words, and the insults were turned into a long article. Not satisfied with just scolding the treacherous minister, Pan You even scolded Li Yu, scolding him for being indistinguishable between loyal and treacherous, scolding him for bringing the country into an abyss of eternal destruction, scolding him for being the king of Xia Jie, Shang Zhou, and Sun Hao of Eastern Wu, unable to escape the country. The end result of a ruined family will definitely become the laughing stock of the ages...
Li Yu was very angry after being scolded, and the consequences were serious. At this time, Zhang Jie and other treacherous ministers took the opportunity to fan the flames, accusing Pan You of being ordered by Li Ping to insult His Majesty. They have always been proud of their merits and thought they were veterans of the previous dynasty and did not take your Majesty seriously. I messed up the reform due to my limited abilities and passed the blame to His Majesty, the loyal ministers and wise men of the court...
Li Yu ordered that Li Ping and Pan You be imprisoned and await their punishment. After hearing the news, Pan You committed suicide at home with hatred, and Li Ping also committed suicide in prison.
The killing of Li Ping and Pan You later became one of the excuses for the Song Dynasty to raise troops. After Li Yu lost his country and entered the Song Dynasty, he also regretted killing these two people.
As for Zhang Jie and others, we will discuss them in detail later.
The failure of the "well field system" reform, on the surface, is that Li Yu believed in slander and was delayed by political struggles, but the fundamental logic is that Li Yu did not have enough courage and ability to shake the vested interest groups and break through the cage of the powerful class, so it was inevitable fail.
When capitalists control the financial lifeline, emperors, kings, presidents, prime ministers... are just the spokespersons of interest groups. In history, a total of 5 presidents of our beautiful country were assassinated, and only Reagan survived. Most people only know Lincoln and Kennedy, but they don’t know that there were two other presidents - Garfield and McKinley. They can tell you about the vested interest groups. How much energy is there?
Looking back at the so-called reforms implemented by Li Yu, it was really about avoiding the important and favoring the weak. In the end, it irreversibly led to the point of no return of issuing additional currency.
When describing the reforms of Mayin in Southern Chu in the previous article, it was mentioned that Ma Yin who cast iron coins made Southern Chu's economy develop rapidly and achieved great success. Still in the original example, Ma Yin issued additional currency to inject liquidity into the market because Nanchu was in a relatively stable and peaceful development period. For example, in Village A, the currency circulation was insufficient due to highly developed economic activities, and Nanchu's economic activities The reason for its high development is that Ma Yin adopted the methods of the great counselor Gao Yu to make Nanchu a tea trade distribution center, a commercial hub and a logistics center for the Central Plains and southern vassals. These are precisely what the Southern Tang Dynasty lacks most today.
The paintings of tigers in the Southern Tang Dynasty are not the opposite of dogs. At any time, reforms must be based on the country's basic national conditions and cannot copy so-called "advanced experience."
When Li Yu encountered obstacles in revitalizing the national economy, the Song Dynasty promptly took action and donated three barrels of gasoline to the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was burning.
In June 962, Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to Li Yu, asking him to return Heng Haijun, Huaishun Army and other family members in Jiangnan; in July 963, Zhao Kuangyin issued another edict to Li Yu, asking him to return Zhou Chairong. From this period to today, all the Central Plains soldiers and their families who were stranded in the Southern Tang Dynasty, as well as the people of Yangzhou who were coerced by the Southern Tang government to cross south.
Population is one of the important strategic resources, especially in times of war. The so-called economic recovery, encouraging farmers to teach, and encouraging farming and weaving have a prerequisite, which is sufficient labor force. Population resources are the most important strategic resources. Restoring the economy, expanding the military and preparing for war are all nonsense. Whether it is a war between two countries or an intrusion by nomads, in addition to robbing money and food, they also want to robbing people, especially educated or skilled craftsmen.
Zhao Kuangyin transferred a large number of laborers and young men from the Southern Tang Dynasty with just one imperial edict. In return, the Song Dynasty also repatriated a group of old, weak, sick and disabled Southern Tang prisoners who had little ability to work or fight.
In addition, the Song Dynasty also launched a trade war against the Southern Tang Dynasty - Zhebo Service.
There is a difference between folding and returning pictures. Huituwu is also called "Boyiwu", its core is "yi", which can be simply understood as a state-owned supply and marketing cooperative between the two countries, responsible for foreign trade import and export business; while the core of Zhebowu is "zhe", that is, businessmen must The goods were sold to the government, and the government gave tea and salt of equal value to the merchants.
Zhebo is equivalent to a firewall for foreign trade. Commercial activities are strictly controlled by the government, limiting trade scale and profits. In other words, the Song Dynasty easily grasped the economic lifeline of the Southern Tang Dynasty through its business affairs.
At the same time, the Song Dynasty also strictly prohibited merchants and tourists from leaving the country to the Southern Tang Dynasty.
It seems to have a familiar feeling, just like today's beautiful countries are launching trade wars and trade blockades against us. Anti-monopoly, anti-dumping... anti-trust services are their ancestors.
The economy of the Southern Tang Dynasty is in urgent need of recovery. It needs both exports to earn foreign exchange and the import of commodities in short supply to supply domestic demand. The Song Dynasty implemented a comprehensive economic blockade and trade suppression at this time, making it difficult for the Southern Tang's commodities to be effectively exported to earn foreign exchange and in urgent need. The goods cannot be replenished in time.
Economic recovery? If you can revive me, I lose. ——Zhao Kuangyin
There are currently many so-called military fans and even many so-called military experts on the Internet talking about all-round and three-dimensional warfare, saying that modern warfare is no longer as simple as two armies fighting head-on, but includes public opinion warfare, financial warfare, information warfare, etc. ... Please read the history books left by our ancestors. Our ancestors have mastered the application of this method for a long time. "The sky is dead, Huang Tian is here to stand" and "The Qing Dynasty sidelines, punishes Chao's mistakes", aren't they wars of public opinion? Aren’t business transactions and gambling an integral part of the trade war?
War is never a group fight.
The sad thing is that many intellectuals either worship foreigners or have ulterior motives. They always deliberately belittle Chinese culture and attribute all advanced things to Western wisdom... Foreign air is sweet, even if it contains foreign farts.
