Why is the Song Dynasty so economically advanced?

As a dynasty that has been written about as "rich Song" and a highly developed commodity economy, the economic prosperity and affluence of the Song Dynasty has been talked about a lot. But why rich to this extent? Specifically, there are three very important reasons.

First of all, it must be recognized that one of the founding of the Song dynasty is good luck.

Dynasties other than the Song Dynasty, such as the Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, the first major problem after the founding of the country, is to face a hundred and one of the tattered and torn rivers and mountains. But the Song Dynasty in this article, but ate ready-made. Originally was a vassal of the Zhou dynasty of the Song dynasty Zhao Kuangyin, with the yellow robe and the way to bloodless ascension to the throne, not only no bloodshed in the war and such serious losses, after several generations of painstakingly operated by the Zhou dynasty, but also left him a preliminary affluence of the kingdom. The difficult reforms of Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty had stabilized the economy of the country. And at that time the five generations and ten states period of the various regimes, such as after the Shu Southern Tang, also all known for economic affluence, and almost bloodless surrender, the good family almost all by the Song dynasty.

So it's not an exaggeration to say that the Song Dynasty, this good family business, if you call Liu Bang Zhu Yuanzhang see, I'm afraid to envy to the eyeballs down. It is also with this family business, the Song dynasty after the founding of the economic production and construction, the difficulty is much smaller than the Han, Tang and Ming dynasties, and naturally also rich in the fast.

But although the great Song dynasty opened the country to pick up the big cheap, but pick up the cheap defeat of the things of the river and mountain, all dynasties are equally much. The Song dynasty is commendable, is he used the family business well. One highlight, in particular, is technology first.

As a highly developed industrial and commercial dynasty, the Song dynasty is not not pay attention to agriculture, but compared to other dynasties in the mu tax system, the Song dynasty but the brain hit the technical field. Especially during the period of Song Zhenzong, he concentrated the national power many times to improve agricultural tools and rice seeds, and even used the palace jewels to introduce new rice seeds from Tianzhu and Zhancheng, and the three-season rice with three ripenings in a year was spread in this era. Therefore, the development of the Song Dynasty to the era of Song Zhenzong, the agricultural output value has thrown off the Sheng Tang era more than three times, a truly wealthy dynasty.

While the most important one is the development concept of the Song dynasty: other dynasties take agriculture as the root, but the Song dynasty takes industry and commerce as the growth point.

From the time that Emperor Taizu ascended to the throne, the Song dynasty placed great importance on commerce and industry, especially overseas trade. In the wars to pacify the south, whenever the Song Dynasty captured a coastal port, the first thing it did was to restore the Hublot Department. Even from the time of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has repeatedly built huge ships and sent envoys to the South China Sea countries to attract business. This was in stark contrast to the closed-door lockdown of one of the later dynasties. Even coastal officials in the Song Dynasty were tasked with recruiting as many foreign merchant ships as they could, which was included in their performance appraisal.

In such a concept, the Song dynasty's overseas trade development of red-hot, the Song dynasty more from the great benefit, and the Song dynasty trade relations with the country, the Song dynasty, as many as twenty-seven, and the Song dynasty to the absolute advantage of the silk porcelain trade, in exchange for overseas wealth. In the archaeological sites of East African countries, have been unearthed a large number of Chinese porcelain. This also means that the Maritime Silk Road at that time, is the Great Song Dynasty's golden trade route.

Even on financial matters, even the dim-witted Song Gaozong was more insightful than the Ming emperors. Song Gaozong himself once said that the wealth earned through overseas trade was enough to support the country's finances, so why bother to dig money out of agriculture? While Song's military strategy was seriously brainless, the concept did far outstrip several dynasties when it came to making money.

Scientific development, the right concept, plus good luck at the time of the founding of the country, the affluence of the Song dynasty, mainly from these three reasons. Even for the development of any country, the success of the Song Dynasty on the economic level is a lesson worth learning!