With the water of the Yellow River bursting out, the drastic changes in the world situation between the Xuan Dynasty of the Song Dynasty and the continuation of the Seventh Year of Winter came to an end.
When the wheel of history reached midsummer in May of the first year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, a relatively stable three-point trend had already appeared in the vast eastern land!
According to later historians, the three parties in this three-point trend were the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty (called the Northern Jin Dynasty). The Northern Song Dynasty was not the dynasty founded by Zhao Kuangyin (called the Pre-Song Dynasty in history), but the Song Dynasty "re-opened" by Zhao Kai in Taiyuan, Hedong. However, in the first year of Hongwu in the Northern Song Dynasty, judging from the world situation at that time, the Song Dynasty that Zhao Kai "reopened" was located in the west, and it might be more appropriate to call it the "Western Song Dynasty".
The Southern Song Dynasty refers to the small southeastern court established by Zhao Huan after the Xuanhe Disaster. According to later historians, the death of Song Zhuangzong Zhao Ji marked the end of the pre-Song Dynasty opened by Zhao Kuangyin. Neither Zhao Kai nor Zhao Huan were the successors of Zhao Ji. Instead, they each gathered a force to create new dynasties in Taiyuan in Hedong and Songzhou in Jingdong (formerly Yingtianfu).
Although these two dynasties also used "Song" as their country name, they also inherited the legacy of the former Song Dynasty to a certain extent. However, the laws they adopted and the interest groups they represented were different from those in the former Song Dynasty. Therefore, they can be regarded as being established by two monarchs supported by the two major interest groups in the former Song Dynasty after the former Song Dynasty split under external attacks. of the new dynasty.
Among them, the Northern Song Dynasty founded by Zhao Kai can be roughly regarded as the dynasty of the pre-Song military group. Its pillars are the Guanlong Warriors (Western Army) and Heshuo Warriors (Xiangzhou and Taihang Army) - Zhao Kai was on the eve of the siege of Kaifeng Mansion. , only led more than 3,000 soldiers and horses out of the city, but they were able to grow rapidly in just over a year. In the final analysis, he became the only spokesperson of the Zhao and Song Dynasty outside Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo after the Kaifeng Mansion was besieged, and he gained the support and investment of a group of Guanlong and Heshuo soldiers who were unsuccessful in the former Song Central Court!
Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty established by Zhao Kai will inevitably become the spokesperson of Guanlong and Heshuo warriors. The establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty version of the military service system and the military merit and nobility system was a reflection of the interests of the Guanlong and Heshuo warrior groups!
To a certain extent, Zhao Kai's reopening of the Song Dynasty incident was a betrayal by the military group of the former Song Dynasty against the central court of the former Song Dynasty!
The Southern Song Dynasty founded by Zhao Huan was a group of civil servants and officials who occupied the upper echelons of the former Song Dynasty. In order to defend their own interests, they supported the small court established by Zhao Huan after he moved south. In this small court with its capital in Jinling, civil servants who came from the imperial examination held all the power! Some of the former Song Dynasty warriors and honorable ministers who followed Zhao Huan to move south were basically "released from military power" after the imperial examination in the second year of Jingkang's reign and 403 martial arts scholars were selected. The middle and upper classes among them were all imprisoned in Jinling City. Wealthy men, while low-level military officers became lackeys of the military elites...
As for the eunuchs who played a huge role in the power structure of the former Song Dynasty, they had almost no sense of presence in the Southern Song Dynasty regime.
The Kingdom of Jin, which invaded the Central Plains and occupied most of Hebei and almost all of Jingdong, was undoubtedly the most powerful party in the "post-Three Kingdoms era" (also according to historians)!
Because Daikin’s territory is not only one and a half roads in Hebei (Hebei West Road lacks Zhaozhou, Xindefu, Cizhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou, Huaizhou and part of Zhendingfu) plus two roads in Jingdong and Yanshanfu Road (Jinshanfu Road) Nanjing Road), as well as the large areas of land outside the Great Wall and Guandong that originally belonged to Daliao. In terms of territorial area, it is even larger than the two Song Dynasties combined!
Moreover, Dajin has a large population and its economic strength is not weak... This is not the Ming Dynasty, but an era when the northern economy is still prosperous. Jingdong and Donglu are no less cold than Huainan, and Liaodong is not that cold, and it also has developed agricultural production. After absorbing the mature Jurchen and Bohai people into the national team, the level of civilization of the Dajin ruling group far exceeded that of the Houjin in history!
By destroying the Liao Dynasty and attacking the Song Dynasty, the Kingdom of Jin also obtained a large amount of loot! The gold and silver stored in the treasury is greater than the total amount of gold and silver stored in the treasury of the two Song dynasties! Moreover, the generation of Jurchens who followed A Gu and started the army have now all reaped huge rewards, and all of them are extremely rich...
In addition, the Kingdom of Jin also has a lot of vassals, the strongest of which is Xixia, who stands behind the Northern Song Dynasty and always stares at the land of Guanlong!
This Daikin's strength is really amazing!
Although Zhao Huan's Southern Song Dynasty was a bit weak militarily, it was a truly "rich Song Dynasty", even richer than Zhao Ji's "prosperous and prosperous" former Song Dynasty.
Because they got rid of the military group of the former Song Dynasty that spent money like water, and also lost most of the clans and nobles who were waiting to die, the number of redundant officials was also greatly reduced, and the prosperous Henan Emperor Zhuang Zong Zhao Ji was also missing. , so the "cash flow" must be the most abundant among the three parties. If nothing else happens, there will be a large fiscal surplus every year!
Moreover, Zhao Huan was a benevolent king, who was cowardly on the outside and a sage on the inside. He was willing to give in to the Jin Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, and would not stop him until the end. However, he is still very tolerant to the people within the territory, easing taxes and reducing corvee, restricting the powerful, rectifying political discipline, resting with the people, encouraging farming and mulberry cultivation, protecting industry and commerce... Of course, protecting and reusing intellectuals is indispensable. A generation of "counsel".
Unfortunately, the Northern Song Dynasty founded by Zhao Kai, a time traveler, became the poorest among the three... What about capitalism, what about the industrial revolution, what about financial innovation, what about black technology, what... Everything in Jin's hands will not work with Zhao Kai.
What fell into his hands was a huge mess, as well as more than 300,000 Guanlong and Heshuo Wufu who had knives in their hands but empty pockets.
Due to the breach of the Yellow River, Kaifeng, Chenzhou and Yingzhou, the three state capitals located in the eastern part of Zhao Kai's territory, were all flooded! The most miserable one is Kaifeng Prefecture. The city of Kaifeng Prefecture was flooded into an island and is still trapped by the flood. Outside the city of Kaifeng Prefecture, there is a vast ocean, which has become "Kaifeng Lake"!
As for when the flood will recede... I guess it will have to wait until after autumn!
The so-called water retreat means that the water retreats from outside the city of Kaifeng, not that the water returns to its original river course. Because the Yellow River has changed its course forever!
It is impossible to restore the Beiliu river channel - then the Northern Song Dynasty and Dajin Dynasty will have to work together to build it! But why did Dai Jin cooperate with the Northern Song Dynasty? Will the north flow of the Yellow River bring too many disasters to Hebei? Now that the route is diverted to the south, it will be of great benefit to the restoration of agricultural production in Hebei!
Moreover, Zhao Kai did not want the Yellow River to resume its northward flow, because the Yellow River's southward flow into the Huaihe River would form a broad yellow flood area, dividing the territories of the Northern Song Dynasty and Dajin in the direction of the Central Plains. In this way, the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom could not attack the Jingji Road and Jingxi Road from east to west.
At the same time, to the north of Jingxi Road, there is the Guangwu Mountain-Kaifeng Prefecture defense line. The mountainous area, the Yellow River, the Yellow River Flood Area, plus many castles, and the obstruction of the Bianhe River and Jinshui River are enough to defeat the Jin soldiers. Intimidated.
However, he cannot let the Yellow River flood uncontrollably on his own territory... So after the river water recedes in the autumn, he must build a dam on the edge of the Yellow River Flood Area to form a 20 to 30 miles wide A pan-region is enough.
And building a dam will definitely cost money, and a large number of people will have to be mobilized... But Zhao Kai really has no money now!
His finances were completely bankrupt after the Yellow River burst - just rescuing the victims who escaped from the Yellow River flooded the area made him overwhelmed.
Moreover, the Yellow River burst also caused another consequence - Wanyan Zonghan was washed away!
This is a big victory!
Since it is a big victory, of course a reward must be given!
The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who participated in the war were all rewarded!
In addition, in order to encourage his subordinates to fight hard and to trick Minzhuang into participating in the war, Zhao Kai also promised a large reward for dividing the land. Now Wanyan Zonghan has been washed away by the flood... Can Zhao Kai, an official, Does it deliver on its promise?
So after ending the battle to chase Wanyan Zonghan and returning to Luoyang Mansion, which had just been upgraded to Song Dynasty Tokyo, Zhao Kai finally knew what it was like to owe a bunch of online loans and be chased for debt!
This is really dumbfounding!
When he was a left-behind boy in his previous life, his family's pancake business in Shanghai was doing well, so he was given a lot of pocket money. He wasn't particularly good at spending it, so he never took on debt.
But now that he has become an official... he has actually fallen into the quagmire of debt, getting deeper and deeper and unable to extricate himself!
The poor official's family, which was heavily in debt, now lives in the splendid Luoyang Palace. This Luoyang Imperial Palace was not left over from the previous dynasty, but was expanded on the basis of the previous dynasty's palace by Zhao Ji who spent huge sums of money during the Yu Zhenghe period.
The circumference of the imperial city is eighteen miles and two hundred and fifty-eight steps, which is much larger than the imperial palace in Kaifeng Mansion! There are thousands of houses among them, which are simply uninhabitable... How can there be so many palaces and eunuchs? It’s completely extravagant and wasteful!
So Zhao Kai now uses a small part of the palaces and converted most of them into warehouses to store non-existent goods and weapons...
The palace used by Zhao Kai for daily living and office work is called Zhenguan Hall. This palace was originally called Tianxing Hall. It was built on the basis of Zhenguan Hall in the Tang Dynasty. Zhao Kai imitated Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty in everything, so he named it. It was changed back to Zhenguan Hall.
Now there is Zhenguan Palace, but where is the rule of Zhenguan?
"Madam, do you have enough at home? Do you want to add more?"
In the dormitory of Zhenguan Hall, Zhao Kai, who was wearing a narrow-sleeved long coat and a soft-footed headdress, sat beside a cradle, looking at a fat boy lying inside, and suppressed the problem of financial difficulties. , and smiled and asked Zhu Fengying, who had just given birth to a son for Zhao Kai, if she wanted more money?
Zhu Fengying didn't know how poor her husband was now, so she replied with a smile: "It doesn't cost much to be a concubine, but there are only a few people in the palace, and there is no one to do many things. It's time to add more. In addition, the official female class Naoya has to arrange the positions, many of them are pregnant, but we can no longer think of them as samurai!"
