Chapter seven hundred and fifty-eight strange inheritance of imperial power
Ye An didn't know that his bet had been won. He was just staring at the space in Tokyo in boredom. It was already cold in winter, and the gray sky made the haze even worse.
When I got here, I discovered that the winter in the Song Dynasty was colder than in later generations. Logically speaking, didn't the Little Glacier only appear in the Ming Dynasty?
This coldness has nothing to do with keeping yourself warm. Even in the era before cotton-padded clothes, the ancients still had their own technology for keeping warm.
Down jackets did not appear in later generations. Duck down, mink down and cashmere have already appeared in this era, but the price is higher, but ordinary people can already use cotton quilts. The so-called cotton quilts are quilts made of silk, although the cost is high.
, but it is quite warm, and ordinary people in Tokyo cannot afford it.
Kapok can also be used, and duck down and cashmere are not new things. On the contrary, the light luxury leather jackets of later generations have become more popular in this era.
But even with a lot of warm clothes, the people on the street still felt cold. Only then did Ye An know that since the third year of Chunhua, the winter in the Song Dynasty had become cooler year by year.
This is a seemingly insignificant but very fatal question. Even a city like Kaifeng feels cold. So what was it like to go to the capital of the Liao Dynasty in the north?
Why did the emperor of the Liao Dynasty have to drink alms bowls at all four seasons? It was not affected by the seasons. Compared with the rich and colorful enjoyments of later generations, for the ancients, warm winters and cool summers were a great enjoyment.
When Ye An was in school, he heard a professor say that climate change had a profound impact on the history of the Chinese nation, especially the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the northern nomads.
The climate determines the harvest, and it is the same whether it is feudal society or later civilizations, but the degree of damage to agriculture and animal husbandry is different.
As the weather gets colder and colder, people freeze to death on the streets. Tokyo is not only the most prosperous place in the Song Dynasty, but also the most ruthless place.
Pedestrians lying dead on the roadside don't even care. What's the big deal with drunken people lying on the roadside at night in Tokyo? It's not until the people on the ground show weird smiles that people are shocked to realize that they have died in the cold.
Watchmen often play the role of burying dead people. Only they who are familiar with the residents in this area know who the deceased is.
According to the custom, if the belongings of the deceased are taken away, the reward should be notified to the family. If the deceased is a widow, it will be easier to just drag them away on a cart and bury them in a mass grave outside the city.
The detectives in Kaifeng Prefecture were too lazy to call out this unlucky thing. They just stepped forward with a smile and sang Fat Nai after seeing Ye An.
Cold, like hunger, has always been a huge haze hanging over the Chinese dynasty. Seeing those dead passers-by, Ye An had no choice but to lament the impermanence of the world.
The output of cotton is not very large. Although a lot is planted in Yangcheng County, it is still a drop in the bucket to meet the demand gap. The current cotton products can only meet the needs of Puhui Company, and this so-called satisfaction is not enough.
It's just enough, but not enough for everyone to use it.
Compared with the people in Tokyo, the clerks, workers, and even family members of Puhui Company are all happy. Their basic necessities, food, clothing, housing, and transportation are almost all taken care of properly. Even Chen Lin is envious of the welfare of Puhui Company.
He didn't understand why Ye An was so "selfless", so he could only ask him out of curiosity: "The people who live the most comfortable life in Tokyo are the people of your Puhui Trading Company, whether they are the bankers of Puhui Shop
, or the clerks at Puhui Department Store and various stores are all enviable! I heard that there is a new nursery rhyme being circulated now, "Puhui has Yelang, whose benevolence and righteousness are unparalleled in the world. Once you enter the south gate, you will have no worries. You will be busy counting money all day long."
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After seeing the corpse, Ye An was in a very bad mood. He rolled his eyes when Chen Lin said in a sinister manner: "You're here to set me up again, but I'm used to it. There have been a lot of rumors about me recently! Some people themselves
Poor management, stupid to the core, but do not reflect on themselves, but think that others are wrong. What do you think of such a person, no matter how rich and powerful he is? Sooner or later he will be defeated by him! "
Chen Lin sneered and said: "You do know who you have offended? But a certain family still wants to say that you are not offending Zhao Zongli, but the wealthy businessmen in Tokyo City, a big force headed by Zhao Zongli Fufeng Company!"
"Big power?! I'm so scared! Three stooges are better than Zhuge Liang, but a bunch of stupid villains gathered together can't even compare to one stooge! Are you afraid of them? Am I crazy or are you crazy?!
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In the past few days, Chen Lin began to follow her around again. Since the New Year's Eve, all the government offices in Tokyo had gone on holiday, and Chen Lin, after searching for Monk Kongkong to no avail, stared at Ye An.
Chen Lin followed his example and rolled her eyes, sat down on Ye An's bullock cart and said, "I have seen arrogant people, but I have never seen someone as arrogant as you. The power of the Zhao family clan in Tokyo is far away."
It’s not what you imagine. Why do you think Taizu has gathered half of the Imperial Army in Tokyo?”
Ye An was stunned for a moment. He had always thought that this was an attempt by the old Zhao family to centralize power in order to prevent the military power from falling into the hands of generals and another Chenqiao mutiny. But now it seems that is not the case, at least not the whole reason!
Thinking about it carefully, Chen Lin's words once again gave Ye An a new understanding of the methods of the old Zhao family. This was not only a reminder to himself, but also a way to vent his dissatisfaction with the clan.
But what puzzles Ye An is that in the hundreds of years of Zhao and Song's rule, there has never been a clan rebellion! Is it because the long history has prevented later generations from recording it?
Even if it is covered up, there should be records of the Yuan Dynasty. History books often pull out the embarrassing things of the previous dynasty and clean them up... The fact is exactly the opposite. The evaluation of the Song Dynasty in the history books of the Yuan Dynasty
Most of them are positive and not completely denigrating.
However, Ye An soon thought of another problem. Although there was no clan rebellion in the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the emperors of the old Zhao family were not from the same lineage and had experienced several twists and turns. If this happened,
More detailed divisions may even lead to many deviations.
Not to mention the brotherly relationship between Taizu and Taizong, Renzong Zhao Zhen and Yingzong Zhao Shu were uncle-nephews. Song Huizong Zhao Ji was the eleventh son of Song Shenzong and the younger brother of Song Zhezong. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the imperial power returned to Taizu again.
Ancestral lineage, good old Zhao family’s throne is given to this infinite matryoshka?!
This special inheritance method is very rare in the history of the Han Dynasty, at least in the history of the unified dynasty. After all, the position of the emperor is related to the country, the country, and the supreme rights and interests!
The strange transformations and counterintuitiveness made Ye An, who was staying in the warm oxcart, couldn't help but feel a chill in his neck. He didn't dare to continue to think about it. He didn't know the truth of the matter, but if he followed his train of thought and made an inference of guilt,
If so, the entire political struggle in the Song Dynasty might not be as simple as he imagined.