The Song Dynasty's Way
宋风
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 2.4M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
- Updated
- 18y ago
- English
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If the Tang Empire won, it would say to its opponent, "You better behave yourself from now on, or I'll wipe out your entire clan and make sure you pay tribute every year!" If the weak Song dynasty won a battle, it would say to its opponent, "Oh, look, I've won! Don't I deserve to negotiate peace? Don't I deserve to pay tribute? What? I deserve it? Wow, that's wonderful!"
Regarding prices in the Song Dynasty
The initial claim is that he spent 170 taels of silver on a meal at a restaurant in a county town. In the Song Dynasty, one tael of silver was equal to one string of copper coins, which is 1000 copper coins. According to "Historical Research," the average family in the Northern Song Dynasty had 20-30 strings of copper coins in assets, and each person spent 20 copper coins per day.
It's a pity to throw it away, but it's tasteless to read! Although it's a completed book, it's from many years ago! It's okay to read without thinking, but if you're thinking, you really can't finish it!
The author claims to have put a lot of effort into researching Li Fu, but when I saw Li Qing's tens of thousands of Po Xi troops, I was completely baffled. The Po Xi troops were a rather unique force in Western Xia, and even in the world. They used locally produced Bactrian camel-drawn catapults—essentially a self-propelled artillery unit—and their total strength was only a few hundred men.
A work from 2009, it's unwatchable now.
Leaving aside the circulation of silver, do you know how much the annual tribute was under the Treaty of Chanyuan? It seems this is yet another book written without any historical research…
I just started reading it, and I struggled to even finish the first chapter. To be honest, the writing is quite poor. I'm just wondering why this book has so many recommendations.
So much nonsense!
The first three chapters keep emphasizing how incompetent the Song Dynasty was and how they couldn't change history, then they keep emphasizing their own incompetence and the incompetence of the Song Dynasty. I'm truly speechless.
What I hate most is that historical novels start with hundreds of taels of silver. Did they think silver was worthless in ancient times? Do they really think their readers are idiots?
Why can't we find the Beiyang Army of Jie Nian?