The reason why the Southern Song Dynasty was so powerful was because of this system-iron blood.

After the royal family crossed to the south in the Song Dynasty, the state government residence in Hangzhou was turned into a palace, and its style was naturally not as good as that in Kaifeng. In fact, the palace in Kaifeng is not as big as described by modern people.

In the third year of Emperor Yongxi's reign, it was planned to expand the palace, and Zhao Mingwu appointed Wei Liu as the commander-in-chief in front of the temple and ordered him to demolish it. The commander in front of the temple is the general in charge of the imperial army and the confidant of the emperor. As a result, Mr. Liu said that the people in the imperial city were unwilling to move, and there was nothing I could do as a general. This matter is over. This is not hearsay, it is recorded in the history of Song Dynasty. The emperor's housing area cannot be increased at will.

Ordinary people can say no to the emperor. It seems that the people in the Song Dynasty still had some rights and powers. With such a beginning that public opinion is more important than imperial edict, the situation of abandoned children in the Southern Song Dynasty may not be too bad. Well, I really guessed right. The author of Dream of Liang Lu says that the child-friendly system is quite perfect.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the government established the Baby Friendly Bureau. Those abandoned babies who are poor and unable to raise their children, or whose children lost their mothers when they were very young and were left in the street to die, were all taken away by the government and raised in the baby-friendly bureau. The government pays for hiring wet nurses and raising children. Provide money, rice and silk to keep warm every month. After children are brought up, they can do whatever they want, and the government will not force them to repay.

If someone is willing to adopt these infants, the government respects their wishes and gives them consistent money and three dou of rice every month to support them for three years. What was the purchasing power of money in the Southern Song Dynasty? Three buckets of rice is equivalent to 55 Jin of rice now. Money is always equivalent to one or two taels of silver, twelve taels of silver a year.

Twelve taels of silver is a number. Let's revitalize this figure and have a more specific understanding of these twelve taels of silver. The oil peddler monopolizes the flower base describes the life of ordinary people after crossing the south in the Song Dynasty. Qin, an oil seller who fled to Lin 'an, sold oil with a heavy burden and earned a net income of thirteen taels of silver a year. These twelve taels of silver are equivalent to the net income of a strong worker for one year.

In A Dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty, a pretty maid like Qingwen in Baoyu's room earned one hundred and twenty pieces of silver a month, which was equivalent to one or two pieces of silver. Qingwen's position was a fat job at that time, and all the girls outside the park tried their best to come in and do it. Grandma Liu saw the crab feast in the Grand View Garden and said that she wanted 24 taels of silver, which is the living expenses of a small family for one year. The purchasing power of silver in the Southern Song Dynasty surpassed that in the Qing Dynasty. If put in the Southern Song Dynasty, twelve taels of silver would be the living expenses of a small family for more than half a year.

From this point of view, the government's support for families adopting abandoned babies is very generous.

The location of Tzu Chi Bureau is also considered, which is next to the pesticide application bureau. The pharmacy is a charity hospital established by the government, and the government allocates 102 thousand silver every year. The medical quality of charity hospitals is unambiguous. Military supervision and management of doctors, responsible for rewards and punishments. Report the number of medical records to the state government every month for court review.

Is it possible to do this because the population was small at that time? That's not true. The History of Song Dynasty records Lin 'an as "the host and guest of nine counties with a population of 1,247,600". A city with a population of over one million.

What social benefits can those who have difficulties in life for various reasons enjoy?

The first thing you can enjoy is the welfare of the government. The lonely, the sick, the widowed and the beggars are played by the prefectures and counties in the imperial court. The court sent county officials from Qiantang County and Renhe County to turn sick workshops into nursing homes, register family members and names, and give everyone money and rice to feed. This is the government's system of caring for the poor and saving the elderly.

When I first arrived in the United States, it was reported in the news that every year American volunteers would accurately count the homeless people on the street, which deeply touched me. In fact, China had such statistics as early as the Southern Song Dynasty. They are not grass roots, they are not as light as dirt, and their lives will reach the sky.

Let's take a look at the welfare system that soldiers and their parents, wives and children can enjoy.

The imperial guards stationed outside Hangzhou give soldiers money and rice every month, and clothes and cotton cloth in spring and winter to keep them warm and safe. When a task is dispatched, a subsidy called "oral voucher" is given, and rewards are given for completing the task. When recruiting soldiers, one or two checks (then called the customs meeting) and seven clothes were given to each recruit? Soldiers' wives and children, old and young, receive food from the army every month to support their families. If they are with the army, they will receive a fixed amount of food every day. When a soldier wins, he will raise the grain into a reward, and if he is killed, his widowed wife and children will also receive an allowance. This kind of aftermath system is quite humanized.

There are also private charities.

In Qiantang County and Renhe County, there are still a dozen or twenty "leaky Yuan Ze". Those coffins left in the temple after death are not buried here, but those who died in the wild are buried here. There was no hasty burial, but a memorial room was set up to facilitate the relatives of the deceased to pay homage in the Spring and Autumn Period and give full respect to the deceased. The government sent two highly respected monks to take charge of this matter, giving five yuan a stone of rice every month.

Many businessmen from all over the city outside Hangzhou have settled here. People who are good at accumulating virtue will take out money and things to help people's lives whenever they see that business is not going well. Some people don't even have coffins after death, so they help to bury and deal with the aftermath. On snowy days, rich people go door to door to see if there are any people who are hungry and frozen on the road, and at night they stuff silver under the door of poor people's homes. When the poor man got up in the morning and opened the door, he found that the money seemed to have fallen from the sky, and the family was grateful to tears. Some give cotton-padded clothes and quilts to poor beggars. There was an old saying at that time: "If you do good things, everything will be blessed by the gods;" The evil doer is in great danger, and ghosts and gods make trouble. Heaven rewards diligence, punishes evil and promotes good, which is better than influence. "

Such a harmonious relationship between the rich and the poor lies in that people at that time believed in God and were willing to do more good deeds to bear good results. Second, the government's strong policy encouragement and material support for non-governmental charities are conducive to corruption.

Hangzhou people are affectionate, righteous and broad-minded. If they see foreigners being bullied, they will definitely help. When new people came, neighbors rushed to lend them their things, send tea and point out the convenience of life in order to be good neighbors. Some people take out money and things and arrange drinks to celebrate the arrival of new neighbors. This is called "warm house", which warms the heart. On the first and fifteenth day of every month (the lunar calendar), there will be tea exchanges between neighbors. All weddings and funerals, not only give gifts to the funeral, but also give human help. The author says that these good-neighborly and friendly ways cannot be ignored. Yes, people today also need to know that we used to be so harmonious.

Just as in a spring society, "spring grass grows in a pond" has produced such a warm relationship between the government and the people.