believes that everyone is familiar with Yue Fei, right? When Yue Fei was framed by treacherous officials, someone always came forward, and that person was Kou Zhun. Then why does Kou Zhun have such a great ability to protect Yue Fei? It was because Kou Zhun was more valued by the court at that time. The emperor of Kou Zhun was in the period of Song Zhenzong. At that time, the power of the northern Liao Kingdom gradually became stronger and aggressively invaded the Song Dynasty southward. At this time, Kou Zhun persuaded Song Zhenzong to conquer himself and defeated the Liao army in Chanzhou, so Song Liao made a covenant in Chanzhou. Eventually ended in reconciliation, known as the Chanyuan Alliance in history.
There is no problem here, but the problem is the content of the covenant, which gives some people a chance to criticize. Among them, the Song Dynasty gave Liao Dynasty 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 pieces of silk each year. Someone said why we should pay tribute to the Liao State after we won. Kou Zhun’s hats were put on Kou Zhun’s head of "being insulting power, humiliating the country, bowing to his knees, and increasing the burden." Although the emperor believed that he reused him at the time, he could not resist people always saying that. So a year later, this hero who made great achievements was expelled. Out of the capital. So is the Chanyuan League really like this? What is the real situation? What is the social development after the covenant? Here are the editors one by one.
First of all, is the alliance of Chanyuan really a contract for losing power and humiliating the country? No. This treaty was signed on the basis of equality and voluntariness by both parties. The Song Dynasty did not sell a trace of land. Although it paid tribute to the Liao State every year, it brought a hundred years of peace. People can live and work in peace and contentment, develop production, open up trade, and achieve mutual benefit. This is one of the principles of living with friendly neighbors that our country now advocates-peaceful coexistence. So there is no insult to the country.
Secondly, the Chanyuan Alliance not only did not increase the burden on the people, but also increased the revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty government. Since the covenant can start a negotiation and free trade on the border between the two sides, the people of both sides come here to buy and sell goods, and exchange information about what is needed. At that time, the economy of the Song Dynasty had reached its historical heyday. Tea, silk, porcelain, etc. were greatly welcomed by the Liao people, and the supply exceeded demand. The Northern Song Dynasty also imported beef, mutton and skins from Liao. Z1z
, of course, exports are far greater than imports, so the Song Dynasty’s taxes greatly increased, and the Song Dynasty’s finances were unprecedentedly full. The people's living standards have also been greatly improved, and the situation of prosperity is unprecedented. According to historical records, the Northern Song Dynasty made a profit of 400,000 taels of silver from the trade between the two sides each year, and the tribute was 300,000 taels. It still makes money for the government. How can this increase the burden on the people?
It is also possible that this is related to the policy of the Song Dynasty since the Taizu period of the Song Dynasty. It is related to the basic national policy of "emphasizing literature and restraining martial arts" and "literati ruling the world", causing some short-sighted literati and righteous scholars to fail to see long-term benefits. Of course, there were many literati and righteous scholars in the Song Dynasty, such as Xin Qiji, Wen Tianxiang, etc. "Those who violate our Chinese will be punishable even if they are far away." They have the national blood of "indomitable and fighting to the end".
Maybe they think that Kou Zhun’s "Chanyuan League" lacks fighting spirit and fighting spirit. After all, the book business atmosphere, did not see the benefits that can turn fighting into a jade silk, felt that it was a loss of power and insult the country, so he roared, and so on, so that the emperor lost the backbone and expelled the great hero Kou Zhun from the court. In short, after the Alliance of Chanyuan, not only did Kou Zhun not be rewarded, it was unfair that he was severely punished for losing his power and insulting the country.
