First of all, it must be admitted that the establishment of the Song Dynasty was lucky.
Dynasties other than Song Dynasty, such as Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, all faced a dilapidated country after the founding of the People's Republic of China. But in the Song Dynasty, it was ready-made. Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, who was originally a courtier of the Zhou Dynasty, ascended the throne in a yellow robe without bloodshed. Not only did he not suffer serious losses such as fighting and bloodshed, but the late Zhou Dynasty, which was painstakingly managed by several generations, left him a preliminary rich country. After the difficult reform, Zhou Shizong's national economy has stabilized. At that time, the separatist regimes in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, such as the Southern Tang Dynasty after Shu, were famous for their economic prosperity, surrendered almost without bloodshed, and almost all the good property was taken away by the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding families of the Song Dynasty, will be envious if they see them. It is precisely because of this family business that the economic production and construction after the founding of the People's Republic of China was much more difficult than that of the Han, Tang and Ming Dynasties, and naturally it became rich quickly.
However, although the founding of the Great Song Dynasty found great bargains, there were just as many cases of picking up bargains and losing the country. The credit of Song Dynasty is that he made good use of this family business. In particular, a bright spot is technology first.
As a dynasty with highly developed industry and commerce, Song Dynasty did not neglect agriculture, but compared with other dynasties, Song Dynasty made a fuss about the land tax system, but put its brains into the technical field. Especially in the period of Song Zhenzong, the state concentrated on improving farm tools and rice seeds for many times, and even introduced new rice seeds from Tianzhu and Zhancheng with palace treasures. Three-season rice was spread in this era. Therefore, when the Song Dynasty developed to the Song Zhenzong era, the agricultural output value was more than three times that of the Tang Dynasty, and it became a truly wealthy dynasty.
The most important one is the development concept of the Song Dynasty: other dynasties were based on agriculture, but the Song Dynasty took industry and commerce as its growth point.
Since Song Taizu ascended the throne, the Northern Song Dynasty attached great importance to industry and commerce, especially overseas trade. In the war to pacify the south in the Northern Song Dynasty, whenever the coastal ports were captured, the first thing was to restore the shipping company. Even from the time of Song Taizong, the Song Dynasty made huge ships many times and sent envoys to Southeast Asian countries to attract investment. This is in stark contrast to the closed door of a later dynasty. Even the coastal officials in Song Dynasty have a task, how many foreign merchant ships to recruit should be included in the performance appraisal.
Under this idea, the overseas trade of the Song Dynasty flourished and the Song Dynasty benefited a lot from it. There are as many as 27 countries that have trade relations with the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty exchanged the absolute advantage of silk porcelain trade for overseas wealth. A large number of China porcelains have been unearthed in archaeological sites in East African countries. This means that at that time, the Maritime Silk Road was the golden trade route of the Song Dynasty.
Even on financial issues, even Song Gaozong, who was in a daze, was more knowledgeable than the Ming emperor. Song Gaozong himself once said that the wealth earned through overseas trade is enough to support the national finance, so why dig money from agriculture? Although the military strategy of the Song Dynasty was seriously brainless, the concept of making money really far exceeded that of many dynasties.
The development of science, the correctness of thinking, the good luck at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the prosperity of the Song Dynasty are the three main reasons. Even for the development of any country, the economic success of the Song Dynasty is worth learning from!