Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[It couldn’t be easier for the emperor to steal money.

Mint new money, announce that one new money can be exchanged for ten old coins, and then melt the collected old money into new money.

This is what Li Zhi did, telling the world to hurry up and exchange for new money, and the old money will be completely abolished by the end of the year at the latest!

The treasury was filling rapidly, and Li Zhi was smiling.

Prices are rising rapidly, and people are crying for their fathers and mothers.

This edict caused the price of food and cloth to more than triple in the market, and the wave of insults in various places became higher and higher.

Markets everywhere either returned to barter or went on strike altogether.

The merchants were talking a lot, vaguely remembering that the last time this happened was in the late Han Dynasty. Was our emperor overthrown by someone named Cao?

It was not until half a year later that Li Zhi reluctantly issued an edict to abolish the new money, and everything continued as usual.

During the Emperor Gaozong's reign, he used various methods to collect money, and on the other hand, he continuously slashed the welfare benefits of his soldiers.

The emperor's life became more and more luxurious, and the life of a soldier became worse and worse. In this case, it was almost inevitable that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers would decline. 】

Li Shimin felt that the headache that had left him had a tendency to return.

And now I understand why Li Zhi felt so complicated when he saw him recruiting 300,000 troops.

I have never been so luxurious!

This is all the wealth I have saved!

At this time, Li Shimin simply couldn't agree more with the words of later generations: It doesn't feel bad if a child sells his father's land.

I didn't expect that the cost of enshrining Zen would actually be taken away from the people!

Later generations will also know that the people are like water and the king is like a boat. How dare you forget, my son!

At this time, a certain urgency in Li Shimin's heart became more intense.

If you can't beat Xuanzong, Xizong and the like, you can't beat Gaozong like you?

I originally thought that this century of prosperity was the result of successive generations of ministers, virtuous emperors, and wise emperors. The result:

I have only been working for more than ten years, how dare I do this!

It seems strange to say that he collapsed and died, so Li Shimin became more and more fond of using this novel word from later generations.

As for the officials in the Ganlu Palace, they heard the emperor scolding them in front of them, and suddenly something happened later, which made everyone feel a little bit dumbfounded.

Du Ruhui chose to open the solution:

When Zhenguan was pioneering and enterprising, the soldiers and everyone worked together to expand the territory. They achieved great success in battles and received generous rewards.

Later, the west of Congling was too far away from the Central Plains. The Liaodong war lasted for thirteen years, and the gains gained were probably not as rich as the battle to destroy Jieli.

Li Shimin nodded, this was what he had just thought of.

According to Guangmu's words, he could raise ten and get a hundred. Of course, he could boast about winning the hearts of the people, but what is more straightforward should be that Zhenguan was richly rewarded when he joined the army.

During the reign of the prince, the rule had changed from opening up borders to protecting foundations. It was impossible to reproduce the generous rewards of the Zhenguan Dynasty, but:

That shouldn't be enough to compensate for everything!

Li Shimin is the most unacceptable to this.

Let’s not talk about the soldiers’ robes and feelings for the moment.

The victorious soldiers saw that those who fought bravely and sacrificed their lives for the country had no money and didn't care. Who would dare to fight bravely when they judge themselves and others?

Those who ignore the dead country will dig out the martial roots of the Tang Dynasty!

The waste of coins back and forth lost the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's people's trust.

Li Shimin couldn't understand, he was only more than ten years old at that time, how could this son raise a sword against the Tang Dynasty, and all the swords hit the vital points.

Changsun Wuji showed up again:

The prince now has His Majesty's guidance. Even if he ascends to the throne in the future, he will inherit Your Majesty's humility and accept advice. Externally, he will have loyal and loyal Tang ministers to assist him in admonishing him. Why worry about the uncertainty of state affairs?

Hou Junji huddled behind and laughed silently at Changsun Wuji's back.

The meaning behind Qi Guogong's words is too obvious. Isn't he just secretly saying:

Since there are problems with the prince's governance, he, Duke of Qi, is naturally a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty.

It's a pity that the authorities are obsessed with it.

Looking at Zheng Rentai, Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui and other Zhenguan ministers who have been reused, it can be seen that this prince's rule is more nostalgic in his Majesty's legacy.

In the end, you were the only one killed, and people were sent to Lingnan to be hanged.

Being able to force my nephew into this position, one can imagine how the Duke of Qi exercised his arbitrary power at that time.

On the other hand, our old marquis may have mismanaged his soldiers by engaging in plunder, and his involvement in rebellion may have been affected.

Your Majesty, look at me, we, the old marquis, are the loyal ministers of the Tang Dynasty!

It's a pity that Li Shimin didn't have time to pay attention to the two of them. At this time, he was explaining to Fang Xuanling:

Book of Jin should be revised as soon as possible. He no longer counts on the imperial model.

[Another reason why the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were not effective in combat was the neglect of Ma Zheng.

Speaking of this, I have to mention an unassuming and absolute hero during the Zhenguan period: Long Live Zhang.

Due to wars at the turn of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty's national horses were basically robbed by the Turks, leaving only 3,000 horses, which were moved to Longyou by Li Yuan for free range.

Later, Li Shimin sent Zhang Wansui to manage the horse farm, and he stayed there for the rest of his life.

Until the end of Zhenguan, Li Shimin left 700,000 horses for Li Zhi.

This was also the fundamental guarantee of the Tang army's combat power during the Zhenguan Dynasty.

This buddy Zhang Wansui's talent in raising horses is evident.

Then after this buddy died, the horse administration of the Tang Dynasty also began to deteriorate. By the time Xuanzong took over, there were only 240,000 horses left.

Wei Yuanzhong also wrote a letter to discuss the problem of insufficient horses during Emperor Gaozong's reign, and the final suggestion he gave was to cancel the horse ban.

In the early Tang Dynasty, horses were divided into three grades according to their shoulder height. The tallest was the big horse, followed by the small horse, and the lowest was the Shu horse, which was basically only used for grinding.

It was also because of the shortage of horses in the early Tang Dynasty that the limited horse order at that time stipulated that horses could not be used for civilian purposes, but could only be used for military purposes or as transportation tools for high-ranking officials of third rank or above.

Wei Yuanzhong suggested that this ban be lifted so that the common people could ride horses. This would give the common people the motivation to cultivate good horses, and the government could just buy them from the common people.

But regarding this proposal, although Li Zhi passed it, he still had the same old problem. If it was not for himself and his wife, he would not spend a penny more.

So in the end, this policy cannot be said to be useless. It can only be said that it is of no use at all.

Later, Tang Xuanzong, the half-life wise emperor, had to patch up this policy and give profits to private horse breeders, which finally formed the unique scene of the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty:

Everyone who recruits has a private horse

In other words, the soldiers who were recruited all came riding on their families' big horses.

Xuanzong's policy was largely based on Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty's Horse Restoration Order, which encouraged people to raise private horses and provided subsidies and profits to increase the overall horse ownership in the empire.

This is also the reason why the horse protection law of the Song Dynasty was useless. Private horses in the Han and Tang dynasties belonged to the people themselves, while the horse administration of the Song Dynasty was simply people herding official horses.

The public herding of official horses is a kind of compulsory apportionment, and the so-called subsidy will be determined based on the quality of the horse when you hand it over. In this case, the people who are forced to apportion it will naturally just deal with it casually.

However, the reason for the failure of raising horses in the Song Dynasty was not only due to poor policies, but also to all aspects.

For example, Wang Yucheng of the Song Dynasty wrote a quite nonsense story:

The opening chapter is about a friend of mine who visited a horse farm and saw a horse breeder breeding a mare. As a result, the mare committed suicide after the breeding.

why? Because the mare discovered that she was being bred to her own foal.

This is basically the style of some rotten Confucians in the Song Dynasty. They can't discuss things based on the facts. They have to say I have a friend and then use things to make sense.

In fact, the horse breeder's practice criticized by this great scholar is a very normal backcrossing method in modern animal husbandry laws, and it is part of selective breeding.

Selective breeding and conservation have always been weaknesses in the history of horse breeding in China for thousands of years.

Some people believe that one of the reasons why the horse administration in the Song Dynasty was ineffective was because the horse breeding land was lost and there were no horses from the Western Regions for breeding.

However, from the perspective of modern breeding science, horses with the same bloodline and with a difference of less than 20 centimeters in shoulder height are considered normal.

The significance of selection and conservation lies in the artificial selection of superior breeds, artificial intervention in breeding, and ultimately, through generations of improvement, making horse breeds better and more in line with civilian and combat needs.

As lamented in ancient times, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty introduced the Dawan horse, and as a result, the bloodline of the famous horse gradually disappeared. This can be regarded as a failure of conservation. It did not cultivate an excellent hybrid horse, which is a failure of selective breeding.

Moreover, compared to the Han and Tang Dynasties, the horse breeding standards in the Song Dynasty also added beans and bran. In theory, the horses should be stronger.

But the end result was the opposite. To put it bluntly, it was still the horse breeders who were not good.

As for the Ming Dynasty, which raised horses entirely from beans and could raise sweat-blooded horses in Hebei, it was too bullying compared to their predecessors. 】

The people of the Tang Dynasty are so unreasonable. The lowest level can be called a horse, but why is it called a horse?

Zhang Song, a native of Shu, felt full of malice.

Zhang Fei stood up and offered consolation without hesitation:

Didn't the Poet Saint still come to Shu? Then didn't Li Bai also come from Shu?

There are many talented people here, and they are all famous in Shu!

Zhang Song also beamed when he thought of this. He was from the same hometown as Shixian. How should I put it? Thinking about it, he was a little excited.

Then Zhang Fei continued his efforts:

And Xuanzong and Xizong, didn't they all flee to Shu in search of a peaceful place?

Zhang Song suddenly felt complicated. It seems that there is nothing to be proud of...

Liu Bei glared directly and almost wanted to get up.

Zhang Fei quickly jumped over and went to talk to the military advisor:

Military advisor, this Song Dynasty talks about human relations with animals, and calls bandits brothers brothers. Isn't it strange?

Kong Ming was busy thinking about the theory of conservation and selective breeding. He just nodded slightly and was immersed in his own thoughts.

Fazheng came over and said:

I don't know if this great Confucian of the Song Dynasty ate pigs, or if he could talk to the pigs about human ethics.

In the Han Dynasty, uncastrated pigs were called pigs, and castrated pigs were called pigs.

Zhang Fei shook his head:

You don't understand Xiaozhi. The great scholar still has to eat meat, and he doesn't have to ride a bad horse to fight in the front.

As he spoke, Zhang Fei sighed:

In this Song Dynasty, why do you think joining the army is so difficult?

Fazheng shrank back silently, why couldn't he get the title of French military advisor from Yide?

After glaring at his third brother, Liu Bei now felt truly envious:

Why is Li Shimin so lucky and so talented in every position?

Zhang Fei saw that his brother did not draw the sword, so he said:

I can't say that I traded the throne for my luck.

Second update as soon as possible.

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