The first thousand four hundred and ninety-two chapters three major resolutions
This year's New Year's Day court meeting was the grandest since Zhao Kai came to the throne. All nations came to the court, so they couldn't help but do so. Zhao Kuangyin's family, as well as the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji, the old prince Zhao Huan, and Cai Jing, who became an official, were all invited to attend. The scale was unprecedented.--
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Zhao Kai, wearing a golden crown and dragon robe, rode on a dragon boat and came to the door of the main hall to accept the worship of all ministers.
The limelight lasted for a while.
This is like a big country in the Central Plains.
Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan saw that Zhao Kai had achieved this achievement within a few years of taking the throne, so they no longer thought about it.
In fact, Zhao Kai could have prevented the two of them from attending, but Zhao Kai did not do so. This was a manifestation of confidence. He told everyone in the world that no one in this palace would pose any threat to him anymore.
In the past, after the New Year's Day pilgrimage, people went directly to the banquet. However, Zhao Kai didn't like eating and drinking, so he changed the process of this court meeting, added a military parade ceremony, shortened the banquet time, and made the military parade ceremony the main event.
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A group of people came to the Donghua Gate again. The national anthem was sung and the flag was fluttering in the wind. The cavalry, heavy infantry, crossbowmen, engineers, navy, Shenji Battalion, and all kinds of new firearms passed by the Donghua Gate.
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The uniform goose steps and sonorous and powerful footsteps tell the world that the entire Song Dynasty is no longer the weak and incompetent Song Dynasty that was allowed to be bullied.
In fact, Zhao Kai was very low-key in the early days of his accession to the throne. There was nothing he could do about it because he couldn't do anything. However, it is different now. He regained Jiaozhi and Dali in one year, which gave him the confidence to announce to the world that this
The tiger that has been dormant for a long time is about to stand up, and everything now is just the beginning.
With such a high profile, he undoubtedly wanted to seize the dominance of the world from the northern powers. In fact, during the Song Dynasty, the center of the world revolved around the northern powers, whether it was the previous Liao Kingdom or the current Jin Kingdom, Zhao
Kai was a very ambitious emperor, and naturally he would not succumb to this. He was telling the world that the Song Dynasty would be the center of the world from now on, not only in terms of economy, politics, and military.
During the New Year's Day meeting, all parties entered into substantive trade negotiations. The negotiations before the year were all private trade negotiations. Now the court specializes in trade, such as salt, tea, etc.
These days, unlike in later generations, a single phone call can solve many problems. After all, a round trip takes a long time, so the trade negotiations at the end of the year will directly affect the next year, or several years.
As in the past, a large amount of money flowed into the Song Dynasty, and the tea, wine, porcelain, silk, glass, weapons, and ships of the Song Dynasty were also exported to all over the world.
Among them, Goryeo and Japan bought a large number of ships, while Xixia purchased crossbows specifically designed to restrain the iron hooves of the Jin Kingdom. This was also the first military trade between Xixia and the Song Dynasty.
In addition, in order to further expand overseas trade, Zhao Kai changed the five-nation summit to be held every three years, and arranged the five-nation summit in the middle of the following year in Jiaozhi County. This move was also to revitalize the south.
However, foreign guests all expressed doubts about this. How could such an important summit be held in such an insignificant place? However, Zhao Kai had full confidence in this and said that by then, Jiaozhi and Dali counties would definitely be completely new.
The imperial court promulgated various decrees targeting the Legislative Yuan. Some trade laws and commercial tax laws were put on the agenda.
In addition, the imperial court also promulgated three major resolutions through the Legislative Yuan.
The first resolution was to mint coins.
Since Zhao Kai came to the throne, he has yet to issue currency, which has been delayed again and again. Now the news about the minting has finally come out, and it will be released on the first day of January next year, but the amount of the sale must first be discussed by the Legislative Yuan.
decision, but there are various signs that the mintage this time will set a record low.
Because the value of the currency of the Song Dynasty rose too sharply, this was of course what Zhao Kai wanted to see, so he did not plan to issue too much currency to maintain the growth rate of the currency of the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, the appreciation of currency means that the wealth in the hands of the people of the Song Dynasty is increasing, which is inseparable from foreign trade, because Zhao Kai has decided to start increasing trade imports, and a steady stream of raw materials will pour in in the next three years.
During the Song Dynasty, the expansion of goods led to the cheapness of goods, thus further increasing the value of currency.
The second item is to establish a medical department and a medical school.
In the past, the Song Dynasty only had civil and military departments, but now it has added medicine. The imperial court decided to formalize the nursing home and Anji Temple and make it a permanent institution of the imperial court.
Among them, nursing homes are reserved to provide special relief to the widowed, lonely, elderly, sick, and poor who cannot live on their own. During the cold winter, they also distribute clothes and quilts to keep out the cold, and take in elderly people over 60 years old who have no one to support them.
Of course, this nursing home was not solely undertaken by the imperial court. It also cooperated with the two major charitable foundations in the world. For this reason, Zhao Kai gave the two major foundations some preferential policies as a reward.
In addition, transforming Anjiyuan into a public hospital, the first full-fledged medical institution, is finally on the agenda this year. The first trial sites are Sijing, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Fuzhou, Yanshan Prefecture, and Fengxiang Prefecture.
, Dali and Jiaozhi counties, there are a total of 11 pilot sites.
In order to encourage the development of medical skills, Zhao Kai also asked the Hanlin Academy to write a medical encyclopedia and announced to the public that anyone who provided useful information would be rewarded with a hundred guans and an official title. These are honors and are not paid.
Even more will not affect the operation of the court.
Not only that, in order to popularize private medical institutions, Zhao Kai chartered Taishi University to host the medical school and also allowed the establishment of private hospitals. Of course, Taiyuan University also established medical departments, but one was public and the other was private. However, in order to prevent someone from
After being deceived and abducted, Zhao Kai issued a policy again. Anyone who is a doctor must pass the assessment and register with the local government, and the hospital must register with the imperial court.
However, this series of actions also allowed the businessmen to see a lot of business opportunities. People must get sick when they live in this world, just like eating. This contains huge wealth, but they don't have a very good concept of hospitals.
They are familiar with it, so they are still waiting for the public hospital to appear and see how the court does it.
At the same time, they were already in contact with Cai Jing to inquire about the Medical Academy's talent export plan.
Because Zhao Kai now wants to popularize medical institutions, Cai Jing did not dare to set up the talent transfer plan too strictly, and he did not dare to put other medical talents together to participate in the talent show, fearing that medical talents would be left out, but opened a training program specifically for the medical field.
held a draft competition to build momentum.
As soon as this resolution came out, the people were of course rejoicing. After all, everyone gets sick, and this medical institution is closely related to them. Because this resolution was passed by the Legislative Yuan, the status of the Legislative Yuan in the hearts of the people instantly increased a lot.
As for the third resolution, it seems ordinary, but it is not, because this resolution is also closely related to the people, that is, salt, oil and wine.
With the further expansion of the Salt-Horse Agreement between the Song Dynasty and Xixia, the price of salt began to drop. The drop in the price of salt, in ancient times, was a sign of a strong country. If the country was poor, the price of salt would definitely rise to death. After all,
Salt has always been a specialty of the imperial court. Because the imperial court now relies on trade and commercial taxes, and its wealth has grown rapidly, the previous agricultural taxes have become less important.
However, the Legislative Yuan has also legislated against salt. Anyone who smuggles salt will be severely punished. This will invisibly strengthen the control of the Western Army. Moreover, the price of salt is so low that you can't make much money from smuggling.
Zhao Kai skipped the ministers and directly asked the Legislative Yuan to legislate this piece of legislation, because he knew that this salt was related to the interests of many ministers. If it were brought to the court, it would definitely be opposed, but Zhao Kai now longs for a
The prosperous and prosperous Song Dynasty, this kind of wealth is not the wealth of the imperial court. It is the wealth of the people all over the world. He wants the guests to see the prosperity of the Song Dynasty at a glance when they come to the Song Dynasty, so he does this because
Now that Zhao Kai is highly centralized, those ministers can only accept it and dare not oppose it.
Regarding the Western Army, Zhao Kai personally explained to Zhe Kecun and Zhong Shidao, hoping to get their support, and promised that the green salt from Xixia would never be sold to the northwest, and would increase military expenditures to ensure the livelihood of the soldiers.
The emperor has personally come forward, and the generals of the Western Army must also give the emperor this face. Now that the Forbidden Army has become stronger, the navy has also developed, and the Shenji Battalion is even more arrogant. All these indicate that the status of the Western Army is in the
Decline slowly.
Although Zhao Kai plans to increase military expenditures, it seems that the Western Army will not suffer much losses. In fact, this is not the case, because this means that the military expenditures are completely in the hands of the court. If the Western Army still has salt wealth, then the Western Army has very
With considerable financial power, you can do a lot of things. This is something Zhao Kai doesn't want to see. However, Zhao Kai cannot directly target the Western Army to reduce the price of salt. He must find a good reason, so don't underestimate this little guy.
Take it with a grain of salt, it contains too many political factors.
In addition to salt, the imperial court also lifted some restrictions on wine, but the production of wine was even more stringent, because wine depends on food, and this must be well balanced, otherwise the rich will not be able to drink all the wine, and the poor will not even have food.
It has to be eaten, so the Legislative Yuan has specially set up a project for this. The annual wine production volume must first be decided by the Legislative Yuan. Brewing cannot be unlimited. It must be determined based on the annual grain output. However, Tianxia Wushuang is an exception, because most of Tianxia Wushuang does not rely on food.
food.
It is foreseeable that fruit wine will achieve unprecedented development.
As for oil, the oil used for cooking in ancient times was very precious. The reason why it was precious was of course because it was rare, and it was difficult for ordinary people to enjoy it.
At Li Qi's suggestion, Zhao Kai decided to dig out 30 million acres of tea trees in the Jiangnan area in the next five years to specifically extract tea oil. He hoped that in the next ten years, everyone in the Song Dynasty would be able to enjoy the tea oil.
tasty.
This is definitely a major decision in agriculture. Of course, the imperial court also specializes in oil, but the imperial court gave the planting rights to the merchants, using a cooperative method. The merchants hired farmers to plant, and the fruits were sold to the imperial court, and the imperial court exploited them.
Producing the oil and selling it to the people is a continuation of the structure of Li Qi's new law.
It can be seen from these three major resolutions that the Song Dynasty is moving towards prosperity step by step. In addition, each of these three major resolutions is closely related to the people, and there is no water in it. Zhao Kai has also won unprecedented support from the people.
It is difficult for anyone to shake his imperial power.
It can also be seen from this that Li Qi's economic structure has begun to mature, and all his previous promises have begun to be fulfilled. Therefore, Li Qi's reputation is also increasing day by day. Although Qin Hui is the prime minister, some people in the south of the Yangtze River have begun to call Li Qi
Became the Prime Minister of the country.
ps: The blue 99731400 updated today is red, so I will add another update, and there will be another update in the afternoon, which is equivalent to 12,000 words updated today. This gives Xiaoxi the confidence to ask everyone for a monthly pass... (Unfinished