《General History of China》Episode 61 Synopsis
Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism
In order to stabilize the political situation of the new dynasty, the rulers of the early Song Dynasty still adopted a realistic attitude in politics. The system design continued the inertia of preventing fraud since the Five Dynasties and reached the level of exhaustiveness and meticulousness.Especially after Song Taizong's external aggressiveness suffered repeated setbacks, his attention turned internally.
