Before we say why we failed, let's take a look at the specific content of "Temple League": To put it bluntly, "Temple League" is one content. The Song Dynasty gave Liao money, giving 6.5438+200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 silks every year. Simply put, it is to buy peace with money. As long as you donate money to Liao country every year, Liao country will not fight the Northern Song Dynasty.
In addition, there is another content of the alliance of single sources that particularly humiliated the Song Dynasty: Liao and Song emperors are brothers, Song emperors are brothers, and Liao emperors are brothers. At first glance, this content is not unfavorable to Song Dynasty, but you should know that Xiao Taihou was actually in power at that time, which means that Song Emperor should be called Xiao Taihou's mother, because Liao Emperor is Song Emperor's younger brother, which means that Liao Emperor's mother is Song Emperor's godmother.
You said that an emperor should be called his enemy. Isn't that humiliating?
The harm brought by the single-source alliance is extremely harmful to the Song Dynasty, which is manifested in the following aspects.
First, in order to pay old coins to Liao, Song had to increase the exploitation of domestic people and extort more and more money from them, which led to peasant uprisings in various places, such as the famous Liangshan Uprising.
Someone here must say that the Song Dynasty was not very rich. How is it possible to pay the annual currency of Liao country by exploiting the people? It is true that the Song Dynasty had money, but it was not rich enough to squander it. You know, the ancient coins paid to Liao in the Song Dynasty were all paid in the form of silver, while the silver games in the Northern Song Dynasty only came from Fengzhou, Jianzhou and Guiyang.
Take Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty as an example. At the peak, the annual silver output is only 2 19829 taels, and the coins to be paid to Liao every year are 1 10000 taels, accounting for half.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, in addition to the Liao Dynasty, the state spent money on raising officials and soldiers. Annual expenditure accounts for more than half of silver production. Do you think the Northern Song Dynasty will be short of money? What about lack of money? Then you can only extort money from the people. What will people do if they are forced to act in a hurry? Then there is only rebellion.
Second, the foreign policy of appeasing the enemy with old coins set an extremely bad precedent for the later emperors of the Song Dynasty. Since then, the idea of plundering the wealth of the people in exchange for making peace with the enemy has become the mainstream thought of the monarch in the Song Dynasty in dealing with foreign relations.
Imagine that a country doesn't want to counter the enemy's attack, but only wants to buy peace with money to deal with it. What dignity do you think this country has? What's more, it was plundered from the people, and only the people suffered. People have to suffer and have no dignity. Do you think the Zen House Alliance is good or bad?
Third, one of the worst consequences of the alliance of one source is that the Song Emperor lost all his money, and he no longer has the ambition to defeat a few regimes. Some are just such a great shame as the change of Jingkang, some are just decadent, and some are just shameful to kill the national hero Yue Fei on trumped-up charges.
The alliance of monasteries did no harm to both the country and the people in the Song Dynasty. For the country, the alliance of love sources makes the country lose all its money and has no ambition to resist the enemy's invasion, which makes the country insulted by the enemy and loses its national dignity; For the people, the alliance of monasteries has increased the burden on the people. In order to distribute lucky money, the rulers of the Song Dynasty collected it from the people more crazily, resulting in many people being displaced and their families dying.