“If you only look at the data from the New Deal years, you can’t tell whether the New Deal was good or bad. It seems that even if the New Deal is not cancelled, nothing will change in the end.”
“Just state your purpose directly. Don’t Go in circles and see how you can make excuses." Yan Maoqing interrupted Song Yingchang and continued.
As a result, Song Yingchang also accelerated the progress. Let the friends hang up the remaining blackboards together.
“In order to more accurately evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the New Deal. We also selected Liangzhe East and West Road and Yizhou Road for comparison.”
The reason for selecting Liangzhe East and West Road is that The two places were originally prosperous. Although they were not places of change, they were benchmarks for examining benevolence and righteousness in the Northern Song Dynasty.
In addition, Yizhou Road is because although Yizhou was opened earlier, it is actually a border area, and neither the old nor the new parties are involved in this area.
In addition, the time span of these places is extended by another twenty years.
It can be seen from the reform of the Fourth Road and Kaifeng Mansion. Before the reform, the benevolence and righteousness index of Beijing’s East and West Fourth Roads had already begun to decline year by year.
The highest benevolence index was 17 at the beginning, and the highest among the four groups before reform was only 14.
What does the benevolence index 14 mean?
It means that for ordinary long-term and short-term workers, the wages for a day's work are only enough to buy 14 meals of food and clothing. This means that although the Northern Song Dynasty was rich, it fell to the bottom. Before the New Deal, it was difficult to support oneself, let alone continue the family line.
Kaifeng’s Fu Ren Index was relatively high, starting from 24 and reaching a maximum of 28, before falling back to 25 before the reform.
Comparing the East and West Roads in the two Zhejiang provinces, the benevolence index basically fluctuates between 223. Before the reform, the benevolence index was 24.
As a border area, Yizhou Road’s benevolence index started at 14 and reached its peak of 19 before the reform.
Before the New Deal, Beijing’s East and West Fourth Roads had already begun to deteriorate. If we don't seek change, the north of the Northern Song Dynasty will sooner or later be thrown into chaos. It is a pity that Sima Guang and other old party members from the north cannot see this problem, as if they are hiding their ears and stealing the bell.
Oddly enough, even without the New Deal, Yizhou Road’s benevolence index could barely improve. It's just that by the two or three years before the New Deal, this upward trend had disappeared, and it was just temporarily stable and not falling.
However, the rise in Yizhou’s benevolence index is not a problem. The real problem is that Yizhou has the reputation of a land of abundance, but the benevolence index was so low before. All of you are well-educated people, and it is generally recognized that the management of Yizhou Road in the Northern Song Dynasty was poor. The subsequent increase was simply due to the Northern Song Dynasty court canceling its previous discrimination.
To sum up, this also explains why the New Party chooses the East and West Fourth Road in Beijing to start its new policy.
With the start of the New Deal in Xining, you can see that the downward trend of the benevolence index in Beijing’s East and West Fourth Road finally stopped in the first two years, and still rose in the third year. By the eighth year, In the ninth year of Xining, it reached its peak of 21, and then it went from bad to worse again. By the eighth year of Yuanfeng, when the New Deal was abolished, it was no longer as good as before the New Deal, when it dropped to only 11.
In the ninth year of Xining, Wang AnshiAfter the two sides retired, the New Deal, although it was called the New Deal, had actually ceased to exist in name only.
Here we can imagine that without the New Deal, according to the previous year's decline, by the eighth year of Yuanfeng, the benevolence index of Beijing's East and West Road would have dropped to lower than 02.
Do all the loyal officials of the imperial court know what this means? It means that without the New Deal, there is no need to wait until the Jin soldiers invaded during the Jingkang Year. During the Yuanfeng Year, the northern part of the Northern Song Dynasty was already full of wars.
In the late Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms, when white bones were exposed in the wild and there were no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, the benevolence index near Chang'an was still 038. The armies of the Northern Song Dynasty were in such a situation, and how could the Three Kingdoms not overturn the building when they cut down the foreigners like a bag of treasures.
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