Chapter 779: The Great Wall still needs to be repaired
After the relocation of the capital, the life trajectory of the Great Song Dynasty is still the same as in the past, as more and more yamen begin to operate normally, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty has returned to its former busyness again, but there is a new name here, Beiping Mansion, Beijing City!
As for the relocation of the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty and Western Xia and other countries felt that it was nothing, and the Great Song Dynasty was just moving the capital, what kind of impact could it have on the current pattern? In their opinion, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty is now closer to their country, but is this necessarily a good thing for the Great Song Dynasty?
Don't forget that they are the experts at raids, and wherever they are under the iron hoof, they are the place of conquest! In their eyes, the Great Song Dynasty moved the capital to Beiping Mansion instead gave them the opportunity, in the past, they attacked the Great Song Dynasty, because Tokyo City was located in the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty and it was inconvenient to attack, but now it is different, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty is in Beiping Mansion, that is a godsend.
Although there is the defense of the Yanyun barrier, the land of Yanyun can become the golden soup of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as you wait for the opportunity, after all, Beiping Mansion is too close to the Zhongjing Road of the Liao Dynasty, and the Liao people only need to stand in Bei'an Prefecture to know what the Great Song Emperor said at the court meeting today......
But is that really the case? Zhao Zhen doesn't see it that way at all, he has the Great Song Dynasty in his hands, no, the most strategists in Chinese history, the most capable ministers, and generals like Di Qing with a long-term strategic vision, how can these people be lost in Beiping Mansion? Even Beiping Mansion, which is full of loopholes in the eyes of outsiders, is like an impregnable wall in Zhao Zhen's eyes.
If there was no perfect garrison plan, would these ministers agree to move the capital by themselves? In this Beiping Mansion, the Great Song Dynasty stationed a full 200,000 troops, not counting the local sixteen guards, the total number of more than 300,000, and all of them are stationed in the main place, Juyongguan, Deshengkou, Miyun, Xingtang, Zunhua and other places, forming a huge city wall to guard the entire Beiping Mansion.
I don't know who actually spread the rhetoric that the Great Song Dynasty wanted to build the Great Wall in Beiping Mansion, so that the entire imperial court was in an uproar, and it was divided into two factions, for and against, and no one could suppress the other between the two sides, and could only hold a positive attitude towards their own views.
Zhao Zhen sat on the throne of the Qianyu Palace, although this place is wider than the Daqing Palace, but the court is still a headache, not to mention anything else, the controversy in the court alone is unbearable, the long winged hat can not hinder the arguments between officials, and even the imperial history in the palace is rolled into it.
With a slight wry smile, Zhao Zhen really doubted that the famous ministers, when there were so many ministers, would they fight because of quarrels...... Coughing lightly, Sancai had the ability to knock on the side of the golden music, because the wall after the golden performance has a special arc, and the wall is extremely smooth and neat, the reflection of the sound wave is very regular, resulting in an echo wall effect, the sound of the golden performance echoes in the hall for a long time, and even gives people a feeling of heavenly and human induction.
The hall was instantly quiet, Zhao Zhen glanced at the small hammer in the hand of Sancai, he didn't expect that this Qianyu Hall actually had such a magical place in the hands of the craftsman, including his own throne, including the place of the golden play, a huge curved wall was behind it, as long as he spoke, or played the golden play, the entire hall could be heard clearly.
The courtiers quieted down and looked at Zhao Zhen, who was on the top, compared to the scene that had just gotten out of control, the silence now made people feel embarrassed.
"The construction of the Great Wall still needs to be considered again, and the noisy and noisy people of the Qing family on this hall will not come to a result, it is better to clarify the benefits and disadvantages of negligence, and I will speculate between the pros and cons."
Zhao Zhen's words eased the argument between the courtiers, after all, whether to build the Great Wall or not is still up to the officials themselves, everyone just needs to explain the pros and cons, if it is beneficial, why not do it? If the harm outweighs the good, the official will veto it.
The courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty were still quite scholarly and doctor-like, no matter how they argued, once it was over, they began to tell their own affairs step by step, and even if they did not agree with each other, they were not hostile.
After the dynasty was dispersed, Zhao Zhen went back to the palace, there was no way, if he slipped away, he was afraid that he would be asked by ordinary courtiers to stay and do things, and the door of Wende Hall would be trampled on......
Regarding whether to build the Great Wall at the border pass, Zhao Zhen had already made up his mind that the Great Wall would still be built anyway, after all, the Central Plains Dynasty was mainly agricultural, and land and commerce were the lifeblood of the Great Song Dynasty, and the protection of these fixed properties was more important than anything else, which was related to the population and economy of the Great Song Dynasty.
A dynasty that can't protect its own frontier is really not strong, and the Great Wall, a barrier that combines natural hazards and manpower, is an important means of defense for the Central Plains Dynasty.
Otherwise, why did the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty actively build the Great Wall? Only the Tang Dynasty was an exception, during the Tang Dynasty, there was a huge deficit between the strength of the Central Plains and the grassland peoples, the Tang Dynasty had the strength to crush the nomads, for the Tang Dynasty, there was no need to build the Great Wall at all, because in the Tang Dynasty, inside and outside the Guan, it was within reach.
Today's Great Song Dynasty is still strong, even surpassing the Tang Dynasty in terms of population, economy, culture, technology, education, and so on, but the nomads are also stronger than the Tang Dynasty, just because the Great Song Dynasty rose too late.
The Khitan people were just a small tribe in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Zhenguan set up the Song Desert Governor's Mansion in the Khitan residence in the 22nd year, and the chief served as the governor and gave the surname Li, and then rebelled and became self-reliant in the fifth year of Tang Gaozong Xianqing, and dissociated from Li Tang.
It can be seen that the history of the Khitan people is much earlier than the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, which is why the Great Song recognized the Khitan as an orthodox dynasty. The strength of the Khitan is not a day or two, it occupies a large area of northern land, and the threat to the Great Song Dynasty is increasing day by day, even if Yanyun is recaptured, Zhao Zhen is still uneasy in his heart.
Not only because of the Khitan, but also because of the little Jurchen tribe on the side of it, this tribe is full of thousands of warriors even if it is invincible to the Liao, coupled with the snooping of Western Xia, and the hidden disasters in the depths of the grassland, Zhao Zhen had to prepare.
The current Great Song Dynasty is the same as all previous dynasties, and the major Central Plains regions have been taken over, and the prosperity is far greater than that of the previous dynasties, and the next step is to consolidate its rule and further expand its control over the northern territories.
The relocation of the capital is only the beginning of everything, and the construction of the city wall is only part of the active defense, the current territory of the Great Song Dynasty can actually be regarded as very broad, the development of the land of Lingnan, the connection of the four roads of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the acquisition of the land of the South China Sea are all transporting a steady stream of power to the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the time is ripe, the northward and westward expansion are still a matter of a snap of a finger.