The so-called prosperous era in ancient times meant that there was no war, and most people could just have enough food and clothing.

If some people think that the prosperous era that everyone advocates is to have enough food and clothing, every household can’t eat enough rice and grain, throw away one steamed bun, and wear new clothes all year round, Zhao Qi will definitely vomit him for a year.

Even in the 21st century hundreds of years later, China is still fighting the battle against poverty and is still working hard to get rid of the label of poor households for tens of millions of farmers.

Therefore, in ancient times, it was always the norm for ordinary people to be poor, and it was rare when they were endless.

However, the Song Dynasty was a relatively outlier stage during all the feudal dynasties in China.

The war is so timid that there is no bottom line, but the country has always been rich and the people are also rich.

During the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty, few people could not survive because they were poor.

The only two relatively large peasant uprisings were considered to be Song Jiang and Fang La.

But these two uprisings have nothing to do with poverty.

Song Jiang and his group were all considered bandits. They killed people and set fire to open black shops, robbed families and fought against the court. None of the heroes of Liangshanbo went up the mountain to become enemies because of their poverty. The reason why they were talked about by later generations was just a word of righteousness. China has been passed down for thousands of years, and even Confucianism, which respected as orthodox, has always praised benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. Therefore, the behavior of the heroes of Liangshanbo was passed down as a positive image.

As for Fang La, it was not because of poverty. Fang La was originally a lacquer garden owner and was closely linked to the organizations selling private salt in the southeast coast. In addition, there were too many corrupt officials, and the government did plunder some of the flowers and stone gang and damaged their interests. These people rebelled and brought great pressure to the Song Dynasty, which was fighting against the Jin Dynasty at that time.

Neither Song Jiang nor Fang La had a definite political program or goal, nor did he intend to overthrow the rule of the Song Dynasty. He just wanted to put pressure on the Song court to annex and change his position of being constantly exploited.

The Fang La Uprising did shake the rule of the Song Dynasty, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in the southeast and millions of people to be homeless, causing a major blow to the Song Dynasty, which had already transferred its economic center to the southeast. Less than ten years after the Fang La Uprising was suppressed, the Jin people broke through Kaifeng and ordered the entire family bucket of the Song Dynasty royal family.

If it weren't for missing a King Kang Zhao Gou outside, the Song Dynasty would have actually destroyed the country after the Jingkang shame.

However, although the Southern Song Dynasty, which was resurrected from the dead, was still stable in a corner, with only half of the remaining mountains and rivers left, it was still well-developed in industry and commerce. It introduced rice from the city and used limited space to develop agriculture, which made the Song Dynasty persist for more than a hundred years with this half of the country, and even dragged the Jin Dynasty to death, the enemy.

The country is not strong, but the people are stable and prosperous. This is the strange situation of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Qi sat under the cave wall in a daze, while the torn and thin little bamboo was cooking with fire.

A black iron pot was boiling some food that could not be seen, as if it was rice, wild vegetables, and some grassroots things. As the food was slowly cooked, the smell emitted still made Zhao Qi feel an uncontrollable hunger. While his stomach was croaking, his saliva was constantly secreting.

"Oh~" Zhao Qi, who sat like a sculpture for half an hour, finally sighed and stood up.

In any case, I will eat something to fill my stomach first.

As for the others, we will arrange it slowly later.

Since I have traveled through time, I can't support myself as a well-educated man, two women of the elderly and the young, and I'm afraid I can't hold on for long, because if the calculations are not wrong, the Mongolians are about to enter.

It's paralyzed, because Mao's life is so bad, it's good to travel to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. Maybe he can get along well with the heroes of Liangshanbo, and go to the Juyi Hall to have a passionate and lively atmosphere. The Southern Song Dynasty... is almost done.

Zhao Qi walked to the earthen stove, stirred it in the iron pot with a bamboo spoon a few times. Looking at the food that was like pig food, smelling the strange smell, I couldn't help but twitch my face a few times before sighing again.

Looking at the rag wrapped around the little girl's forehead, Zhao Qi gently touched the little girl's hair.

"Does the wound still hurt?"

"No...it doesn't hurt anymore..." Xiaozhu shook her head gently.

"Tomorrow I will go to the town to find a doctor to get some medicine to apply to you. It will be fine in a few days. Let's have a meal first!"

"Young Master, be careful!" Xiao Zhu scooped half a bowl of black porridge into a pottery bowl and handed it to Zhao Qi, then scooped another bowl, holding it with both hands and carefully carrying it to the old woman's room.

Looking at the exposed blue and purple scars on Xiaozhu's arm, Zhao Qi couldn't help feeling sad. At this moment, he didn't know how to comfort the little girl who was beaten and scolded and tortured by him and the old woman. The trauma left in her heart could only be compensated slowly later.

He walked to the door of the broken kiln with a pottery bowl and sat down. Looking at the large rice fields with fragrant rice flowers and green mountains in front of him, Zhao Qi snorted with porridge.

The mouth is filled with sticky and sour taste, which is very strange. It also has wild vegetables and grass roots with stuffed teeth, so it is completely impossible to swallow.

After forcing the pressure to eat for a few bites, Zhao Qi sighed and put his rice bowl on the ground.

This is not the food that people eat, it is even worse than pig food.

It seems that the biggest demand at the moment is not a good place to stay, but to have delicious meals.

As a mature adult, Zhao Qi quickly adjusted his mindset.

It is better to live without a good death. As a later generation who has received more than ten years of good modern education and is generally clear about the history of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was not unable to survive, but rather the best dynasty among all feudal dynasties.

Because the Song Dynasty's governing philosophy was different from all feudal dynasties, there was no strict household registration system, free migration and free career selection, and the business was developed and prosperous, it was called the dawn of modern civilization by many scholars in later generations.

If the Song Dynasty was not destroyed by the Mongols, China would most likely enter a modern civilized society hundreds of years ahead of schedule.

Because the elements that were found in later civilized society were basically possessed by the Song Dynasty.

Law, business, education, welfare, industry, science and technology, fiscal structure, complete monetary policy, loose and free speech, advanced imperial examination system for poor families, and the imperial structure of the real emperor...

Everything was at the forefront of human civilization.

But there are many reasons for failure to succeed, and the continuous invasion of northern ethnic groups is the main reason.

Especially the powerful Mongolian Empire swept across Europe and Asia, destroying hundreds of countries in just a few decades, and almost knocking European civilization back to the Stone Age, with the slaughtered more than 200 million people.

Decades of war also caused the Song Dynasty, the most prosperous and prosperous Eastern country in the world, to sharply reduce its population from more than 100 million to more than 60 million.

Nearly half of the population was damaged and the destruction of war, the Chinese civilization, which had experienced vicissitudes of life, fell completely under the rule of the northern grassland nation for the first time, and the civilized regression caused by this could no longer be restored.

Since the reunification of China by Qin Shihuang, although the separation and reunion have been ups and downs for thousands of years, the civilization process has always shown an upward trend. It has reached the peak of the Tang and Song dynasties, interpreting the most brilliant and glorious civilizational prosperity in China.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, after the Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, it has been going on a downward trend in terms of political system and economic culture. In particular, the Ming Dynasty re-enacted the strict household registration system and the strategy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, coupled with the prevalence of sea bans and the prevalence of Neo-Confucianism, China missed the pace of keeping up with the rise of modern Western civilization and was gradually left behind.

Regarding the Song Dynasty, historical evaluations were very extreme and polarization was particularly serious.

Many historians from the East and the West highly praised the openness and tolerance of the Song Dynasty civilization, and praised it, believing that it was the most glorious era of Eastern civilization and that it took almost one step to enter modern civilization.

However, most Chinese people believe that the Song Dynasty was the second only to the Qing Dynasty in Chinese history. The administration was corrupt, weak and bullied. Not only was it beaten by powerful barbarians such as Liao, Jin and Mongolia, but it was even rubbed on the ground by small countries like Xixia, and cede land and pay compensation for compensation, which made everyone hate it.

But no matter what later generations evaluate it, the Song Dynasty was indeed an era of humanity and freedom and tolerance based on people like Zhao Qi who had a deep understanding of it.

People's lives are much richer and more stable than other eras.

Moreover, he was a little lucky now. He did not travel to the end of Qin, late Han, late Tang, late Ming, and late Qing dynasties, and the country was full of chaos.

Even when the Song Dynasty was completely ruled by the Mongols in the end, there was no large-scale rebellion or turmoil among the people, and even a large number of people were constantly assisting the court in resisting the Mongol attack.

Even in the last fierce battle between Yashan and Sea, there were 100,000 soldiers and civilians who jumped into the sea to bury them, defending the dignity of the Song Dynasty with their lives, and expressing their attachment and reluctance to this dynasty with their death.

Looking at the thousands of years of China, only the Song Dynasty has achieved such a level of unity of the people.

There is no more China after Yashan.

Although this view is very extreme, it has been highly recognized by the people.

This shows the unparalleled national charm of the Song Dynasty.

Now that I have come to this special era, since I can live again, I cannot let God down.

This broken cave is its new starting point!

Zhao Qi kicked out the pottery bowl filled with grassroots and vegetable porridge like pig food.

Jumped to the direction of the harbor in the distance and shouted: "Da Song, I'm here~"

"Grandma, the young master is sick again~"
Chapter completed!