Chapter 96 What people want!
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather became hotter. A dragon boat that had been planned for a long time was washed away by the world, as if it had washed all the dust since winter and spring.
The people of Bianjing hung mugwort and took a nap bath around noon, meaning that they could wash away bad luck and diseases and welcome the next midsummer.
But the first thing we welcomed back was great news. Marshal Wang Shao broke through the Dading Prefecture of Zhongjing, Liao, forcing the Emperor of Liao to move northward, while General Di Xiang of the Navy defeated Liaodong, and the army had arrived at the city of Liaoyang Prefecture!
In fact, the battle has come to this point, and it is already considered a pursuit of death and death.
The Dading Prefecture is far away from the Great Wall. During the Han Dynasty, this area was also the limit of Han Dynasty's control. If it expands outward, it will be the time for the Tang Dynasty.
Such a grand occasion, why don’t the Han people cheer?
For a moment, Bianjing City fell into a carnival.
Since the arrival of Daxia in Bianjing, except for the Song people in Bianjing who had a sad feeling of destruction of their country at the beginning, the subsequent changes caught them off guard.
The economy is developing vigorously, the law has become perfect, the administration has become clearer, the government has been rapidly improving, the officials have become more friendly to the people, the people have more money, and the materials on the market have become richer...
These are internal changes.
However, the changes outside, the Liao Kingdom invaded Hebei by 300,000, which made the people of Bianjing City panic again. Although Daxia was still the Western Xia in the population of Bianjing City, Daxia Kingdom, from the emperor to the minister, from the system to the core, was already a completely Han country.
The Liao Kingdom is different. The Liao Kingdom is a foreign race, and it was the object of fear that the Song people were gritting their teeth and frightened. If the Liao Kingdom went south, if the friendly Daxia could not resist and left them and retreated back to Ningxia, then the Song people would have to handle the ravages of the Khitans.
The Khitans are not the Daxia Kingdom, they can burn, kill, loot, and they have heard of the tragic situation of the grass valley in Bianjing every year.
In the past, when the Song Dynasty faced the Khitan, it was beaten so badly. In the eyes of the Song people, the Chanyuan Alliance was a huge shame, but we have to admit that the Khitans were really strong.
Now the Khitans are fighting. Although Daxia has fought the Song Dynasty away, it is hard to say whether he can fight the Khitan.
At this time, the original Song people who stayed in Bianjing City finally felt like they were in harmony with Daxia.
But to their surprise, the army led by the Marshal Wang Shao of Daxia not only resisted the Liao army, but even annihilated all the 300,000 invading troops!
If this is the case, it would be considered the great national prestige of Daxia. However, Marshal Wang Shao was not satisfied with this and took the initiative to take the first step towards the Great Wall of Water. This step not only took back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, but also continued to go north and captured the Dading Prefecture. General Di Xiang, the navy, captured the Liaoyang Prefecture to the east and controlled the northeast!
Such martial arts, regardless of the Song Dynasty in the south, were better than those in the Han Dynasty in the northern region!
If it is just a possibility, if the Daxia Dynasty stabilizes this situation and then goes south to destroy the Song Dynasty in one year, then the Daxia Dynasty will truly unify China!
Moreover, with the ability of Ouyang Bian, the Emperor of the Daxia Dynasty, to govern the country, the Daxia Dynasty might become a central dynasty comparable to the Han and Tang Dynasties!
This made everyone feel that their hearts were leaking.
Isn't this much more fragrant than that coward?
For most citizens, the Song Dynasty was not that beautiful. I feel that the Song Dynasty was more beautiful than scholars. Because the Zhao family relied on scholars, it was favorable to scholars, but for the rest, it did not look so beautiful.
This feeling comes from comparison.
After the Daxia Dynasty entered Bianjing, all the policies reflected the theme of everything for the people.
The court transformed the government, especially refined the various functions of the government office, forming various functional departments that face the people, and these functional departments are more people-friendly, and the rules and regulations are all aimed at the people.
The people of Bianjing can clearly feel this change. After the functional departments are refined, they can handle things such as household registration management, house rental and sale, property changes, marriage lawsuits, etc. in detail and quickly.
I think compared to the Song Dynasty, even when Bao Qingtian was in power, the people still tried not to get involved in the government, because the risks were too high, the key was that it was difficult to get back to the door and talk unpleasantly.
In terms of income, Bianjing in the Song Dynasty was prosperous, but that prosperity had nothing to do with ordinary people. Although they worked hard and did not even have the opportunity to work, they would become refugees once there was a disaster year. In this Daxia Dynasty, there were many job opportunities, but the key was that they could save money when they worked.
Saving money is very important. Being able to save money means they can resist the impact of the year of disasters, and in normal times, they dare to consume. The things on the market are exquisite and cheap, and life becomes better to the point that is visible to the naked eye.
Isn't this much more fragrant than the Song Dynasty?
People's eyes can always see different things.
The Daxia Dynasty was a court that performed very well both internally and externally. Such a court was obviously better than the Song Dynasty court.
Therefore, this choice is not difficult.
Therefore, the people sincerely cheered for Daxia.
Under such circumstances, people became more enthusiastic about the political consultation meetings proposed by the court.
If the Daxia Dynasty could last for a long time, then the representative status of a literal political consultation meeting would mean an unusual status.
There is no need to say much about scholars. They have always been the protagonists, while farmers are represented by landlords. Most of the time, they are also scholars, but merchants are different. There are scholars among merchants, but once they become merchants, they can only be merchants. Although the Song Dynasty did not despise business as in the previous dynasties, some boundaries always exist.
There is no big problem for cross-border scholars and businessmen, but for those who are businessmen themselves, that is the real limitation.
Now they have a chance to change their fate against the will of heaven.
This opportunity is to squeeze into this so-called political consultation meeting.
The merchants believed in the promises made by the court, because some merchants also held important positions in the Daxia court.
For example, Lu Caiwei, the governor of the Daxia Central Bank, Yang Qing of the Ministry of Revenue Business, Jiang Rucheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Works, etc.
Chapter completed!