Zhao Zhen stood above the Donghua Gate, waving frequently and greeting the people of the city with a smile on his face. While people below were shouting "Long live the city", he shouted "Long live the people" and "Long live the people of the world" from above!
The prosperous atmosphere quickly reached its peak at this moment. The king and the people stood together and together outlined the prosperous chapter of the Song Dynasty.
The people below became even more enthusiastic and crazy.
At this time, the Song Dynasty was not only truly prosperous, but also because the productivity of the people had increased, the fields had been redistributed, and factories had sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, providing a large number of jobs.
The abundance of commodity economy and agricultural products reached the highest level in the world, which was more than enough to feed the 400 million people in the late Qing Dynasty, the peak of the feudal population.
The population of the Song Dynasty was only 150 million.
Moreover, the commodity economy and agricultural output are not controlled by the capitalists and the landlord class. The production output can be well distributed to the common people, allowing everyone in the Song Dynasty to live a prosperous life.
Even in times of famine, the imperial court had the ability to provide timely relief, and there would be no shortage of food, ensuring that none of the disaster victims would starve to death.
It can be said that before the fifth year of the Qingli period, the Song Dynasty might not have reached a point where people all over the world would not starve to death.
But after the fifth year of Qingli.
Productivity has accumulated over time and has skyrocketed. Agricultural and industrial output values have increased year by year, and various agricultural products and industrial products are newly launched every year.
Moreover, the previous loan relationship was bought out by the imperial court, and the landlords' land was almost half bought and half forced to be nationalized and redistributed to the people, with a large amount of land being leased out.
The era when people could lose everything or even starve to death due to oppression from the landlord class or borrowing money from landlords in the face of famine, or even in good years, is gone forever.
In today's society, it is rare for people to starve to death unless they are so lazy that they don't even want to go out and find a short-term job and just lie on the ground waiting to die.
The only problem is medical care.
After all, this is not the era of advanced medicine like in later generations.
The problem of not being able to starve to death but having no money to treat illness, or being unable to receive treatment for a terminal illness still exists.
To this end, the imperial court has been studying the medical insurance system of ancient society in recent years and increasing investment in medicine.
Establish a medical university, collect the bodies of death row prisoners and allow human dissection, develop microbial medicine, and set the future development of medicine as modern medicine.
There is a long way to go in this direction and it cannot be accomplished overnight, so this is the only way.
But no matter what, at least the Song Dynasty has made great progress in economy, agriculture, law, military, education, science and technology, and medical care.
Except for medical care, which even developed countries in later generations cannot solve, most of the people's problems have been solved or are approaching solution.
Preventing people from starving to death was something that was impossible to achieve in any ancient dynasty.
Today’s prosperous times are the real prosperous times!
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