After the shame of Jing Kang, the Northern Song Dynasty perished.
The Jin invaded the capital, taking tens of thousands of people, including the imperial family, and the public and private savings in the city were empty. In addition to the late Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor fainted, resulting in the people's lack of livelihood, internal peasant uprisings, and the economy of the Northern Song Dynasty suffered a huge blow.
Although Zhao Zhao, the fish that slipped through the net, established the Southern Song Dynasty, it was not very peaceful, and was driven all the way south by the Jin people, and even was driven to a small island.
If it were not for the bloody battle of the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers, I am afraid that whether the Southern Song Dynasty would be able to survive is still unknown.
After that, the Southern Song Dynasty also had several Northern Expeditions, which can be said to be a ruin.
Timid and afraid of trouble, Zhao Zhuo signed the Shaoxing Peace Agreement, and humiliated the Jin people to make peace, and for this reason, he also killed Yue Fei, the main warrior faction. Even if the border areas were peaceful in the future, there was no balance in the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, rebel armies were everywhere in the south, and there were dozens of rebel armies of all sizes. Yang Qi gathered more than 100,000 people in Dongting Lake and established the Chu regime.
It was in the context of such internal and external troubles that the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty quickly moved to the right track and toward prosperity.
Many people have said that the Southern Song Dynasty also has no emperor who can get his hands on it, unlike the Northern Song Dynasty and a Song Renzong. The most effective emperor was Song Xiaozong.
During his reign, he indeed made the Southern Song Dynasty look new, socially stable, economically prosperous, and was the veritable lord of ZTE in the Southern Song Dynasty. The next emperors were either mediocre or manipulated by powerful courtiers, and the Southern Song Dynasty also turned from prosperity to decline.
In fact, this has to start from the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin ended the division and established the Great Song Dynasty, but the territory was not large, especially the pressure in the north was huge, and the Silk Road on the road was blocked, under this premise, the Great Song Wanted to develop, it was necessary to open up other trade routes, so the Maritime Silk Road appeared.
The Northern Song Dynasty, like previous dynasties, was heavy on agriculture and suppressed commerce, but it was relatively relaxed for trade, which provided great convenience for the development of trade.
In this way, the economic development of the south and the coast, and due to the perennial war in the north, the relatively stable south naturally became the center of gravity of the economy.
Unfortunately, the Southern Song Dynasty happened to occupy the rich south. If the economic center and the political center have reached the south, then the economy of the south must be on a higher level.
After making peace with the Jin people, the Southern Song Dynasty also stabilized the region, and social order and economic order were restored. However, the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty was severely compressed, and the south itself was hilly, which was not conducive to agricultural development, so the income from land endowment was greatly reduced, and the finance began to rely heavily on non-agricultural industries.
It can be seen that the economic development of the Southern Song Dynasty had internal and external causes, and it was precisely in this way that the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty achieved unprecedented prosperity.