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It started from the Yuan Dynasty. Because after Temujin unified the Mongolian countries, because they were all nomads at that time, they still retained the nomadic feudal system. Temujin divided his son in the west, and later formed the four khanates, known as the "kings of the western road", and divided his younger brother in the east, known as the "kings of the eastern road".

After the battle for the throne broke out between Kublai Khan and his younger brother Ali Buge, because of Kublai Khan's victory, the kings of the Western Dao and the Yuan Dynasty at that time were distracted. The host kings were rewarded for supporting Kublai Khan and winning victories, and they also had their own hereditary tribes and people, and they could even control their own tribes independently. It can be said that it was a country within a country at that time.

At the beginning of its establishment, the Yuan Dynasty began to implement the two-capital system, with the capital as the capital and the capital as the capital. And because Shangdu is Kublai Khan's place, and it is very close to Mobei, as an emperor, he sometimes goes to Shangdu to escape the summer, and at the same time restrains the kings. Therefore, Shangdu became the center of communication for the host kings, and because the host kings had their own fiefs and hereditary titles and tribes, many people in the royal family would win over the host kings.

After the death of Kublai Khan, after Timur ascended the throne, he also died without heirs, and later Huaining King Haishan, with the support of the kings of Mobei, killed Ananda, the king of Anxi, and ascended the throne in Shangdu. After ascending to power, he rewarded these supporters with a large amount of money, and at the same time, it caused a financial crisis.

However, even though the kings at that time had a large amount of gold and silver in their hands, they would still ask the court for money from time to time. After Yuan Yingzong ascended the throne, because the rewards for these kings were stopped, the kings directly killed Yuan Yingzong and directly supported the crown prince to the throne. Therefore, it caused the phenomenon that the kings in Mobei at that time had rich pockets, but the Jiangnan region was barren.

In addition, the Yuan Dynasty at that time implemented a package tax system, so for the people at that time, they had to pay a lot more taxes than the imperial court. The prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty wanted to create income for the poor by building state facilities because the people had no income, but in the end the Red Turban Rebellion broke out.

Although the economy of the south is much higher than that of the north, but during the Yuan Dynasty, the economy of the north was indeed better than that of the south, so there is such a saying that it is poor but not in the south of the Yangtze River. Rich but Saibei. At that time, it was the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and we can analyze in detail from the background, ruling class, and political system at that time why there was a saying that the poor were not as good as Jiangnan and the rich were not as good as the north.

1. The Yuan Dynasty went south to become the ruler. Most of the political power in ancient China was established in the north. The southernmost should be the Ming regime in Nanjing, which is not part of the Jiangnan region, which is rarely patronized by leaders compared to the northern regions.

After the Yuan Dynasty went south and overthrew the rule of the Ming Dynasty, although it established power in the Central Plains, for them, drinking wine and eating meat was a good life. In their eyes, agriculture in Jiangnan is a symbol of poverty. Therefore, for the rulers, they are no poorer than the south of the Yangtze River, and they are no more rich than the north.

Second, the handicraft economy is not developed. The Jiangnan region only began to develop during the Qing Dynasty, and the focus was on handicrafts, while during the reign of the Yuan Dynasty, Jiangnan did not find its own suitable form of development. The people of Jiangnan, who rely on planting for a living, are certainly not as good as those in Saibei.

Not only that, the opening of the Silk Road has also provided good support for the economy of Saibei, so from this aspect, it is also reasonable to be poor in Jiangnan and rich in Saibei.

3. After the rule of the Qing Dynasty, the economy of Jiangnan began to develop vigorously. The geographical location of Jiangnan should be felt to be better than that of Saibei, but the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty did not attach importance to the development of Jiangnan, so the economy of Jiangnan entered Saibei during the reign of the Yuan Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan began to vigorously develop the handicraft industry, and the Qing Dynasty vigorously supported the economy of Jiangnan.

This is because from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, the economic center of gravity was in the north, so the development of the south was slow, which made the north richer and richer, so the Yuan Dynasty began to divide the rich and the poor.

Yes, the Jiangnan region has been quite prosperous in commerce since ancient times, but the Saibei area is too barren and sparsely populated, so it is naturally not so developed.