The Song Dynasty's Way
宋风
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- Completed
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- 2.4M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
- Updated
- 18y ago
- Source
- Qidian
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If the Tang Empire won the battle, they would say to their opponent: "Be more honest from now on. I will destroy your entire clan and pay tribute every year!" If the weak Song Dynasty won the battle, he would say to his opponent: "Oh, look, I have won the battle. Am I qualified to negotiate peace? Am I qualified to pay tribute? What? Qualified? Wow, this is so happy!"
About prices in the Song Dynasty
At the beginning, it was said that eating at a restaurant in a county cost 170 taels of silver. In the Song Dynasty, 1 tael of silver was equal to 1 copper coin, which is 1,000 wen. According to "Historical Research", the average household in the Northern Song Dynasty had 20-30 taels of wealth, and one person spent 20 taels of money per day. In the era of a penny for a sesame seed cake, the Wan Guan family was already a super rich man. How many days would that hunter eat and drink in a restaurant with peace of mind? Moreover, it is unlikely that the county government would offer a reward of 300 taels of silver for killing tigers. Generally speaking, 30-50 taels is already very high. You are too deeply poisoned by the Water Margin. It is just like us modern people guessing the lives of people in the Ming Dynasty. It is ridiculously fake.
It's a pity to throw it away, but it's tasteless to eat! Although I have just finished this book, it was written many years ago! It's OK if you don't use your brain to watch it, but you really can't stand it if you use your brain!
The author said that he had a hard time studying Lifu, but I was confused when I saw Li Qing pouring hundreds of thousands of Xijun. The Poxi Army can be considered a special force in Xixia, and even in the world. It uses the local specialty Bactrian camel-mounted small trebuchet, which is a self-propelled artillery unit. The total strength is only a few hundred people, and Li Qing's largest official position is the deputy commander of the Lingwei Sima Army. I really don't know how the author did his homework.
The works from 2009 are really hard to watch now.
Let's not talk about the circulation of silver. Do you know how much annual tribute the Chanyuan Alliance pays? It seems to be another random work without checking the history...
I just tried reading it and it was hard to finish the first section. To be honest, the writing is really poor. I'm surprised why this book has so many recommendations.
So much nonsense
In the first three chapters, I kept emphasizing how the Song Dynasty couldn't do anything and that I couldn't change history. Then I kept emphasizing that I couldn't do it and the Song Dynasty couldn't do it. I'm really convinced.
The most annoying thing is that historical novels only cost a few hundred taels. Why is ancient silver so worthless? You really treat the readers as fools
Why can't I find Beiyang in Jie Nian?