Zheng Shuang couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Kou Zhun asking the edict general Wang Qinruo to send the Tianxiong Army, and looked at Kou Zhun with slanted eyes; Seeing that his face was calm, the heroism of drinking was all written on his face.

"Kou Xiangye is not a person with a small belly! But his prime minister's belly can't hold up the boat, and the means of the whole person are not too hateful, but they are also sharp! Zheng Shuang muttered silently in his heart: "However, Kou Xiangye's character is in line with human nature, it seems that the world's selfless people are just an illusion of literati and bachelors; Wasn't utopia also conceived by the Greek philosopher Plato? ”

Zheng Shuang thought about Kou Zhun and thought of Wang Qinruo: This traitor is really a bit of a blessing, if it weren't for the news that the Liao army was approaching Huaxian; Xiao Ke really wanted to announce the embarrassment of hiring the four masters of Da Nei to kidnap Liu Lengbing at a high price in the court.

But after all, the Liao army's Bianliang matter has become the top priority, and personal grievances and grievances have to be put aside for the time being.

Zheng Shuang was a traverser and didn't want to participate in the political disputes between the Great Song court; But Wang Qinruo and Bashu Sanjie's performance at the court meeting made him unbearable - the Liao army pressed the border and planned to move the capital, which was a sign of destruction! Zheng Shuang didn't want the Great Song Dynasty to perish, although he had not been in contact with the emperor Zhao Heng for a long time; But he already knew that this was a benevolent king, because he planned to defend the regime and give the Khitan people of Liao a little color.

Wang Qinruo, a traitorous person, although he did not mention the war with the Liao State in the court; But their admonition to move the capital is a manifestation of surrender and peace negotiation.

Zheng Shuang knew that the Song and Liao countries had an alliance that shocked China and the rest of the world, and the two families were eventually called brothers; But the alliance of the Yuanyuan was fought with the barrel of a gun, if it did not take tough countermeasures against the Liao State now; These steppe wolves will get an inch.

As long as they are scared, hurt, and beaten to the negotiating table, the goal is to sit at the negotiation table.

Zheng Shuang analyzed the military strength of the Song and Liao in later generations, which was of course the strength of Liao and the weakness of Song; The problem is that Zheng Shuang, Qin Shihuang, and Wei Yan have participated, and the status quo of the Song Dynasty's army showing weakness will be changed.

And there is a piece of news that makes Zheng Shuang both sad and excited, that is, the Great Song Forbidden Army stationed in Huazhou either fled or avoided after seeing the Liao army; It turned out to be a group of ordinary people who entangled the Liao army.

Zheng Shuang has now been appointed by Emperor Zhenzong as a hussar general and Yang Yanzhao to inform the Privy Council, that is to say, he has mastered the military power of the Song Dynasty; Then he has to reform the weak forbidden army, at least to cheer up the generals; Raise official positions and remuneration packages through warfare.

And for a traitor like Wang Qinruo, if you don't give him some color, I really don't know that Lord Ma has three eyes.

Wang Qinruo, a guy who turned his hands into clouds and covered his hands for rain, stayed by the indecisive Emperor Zhenzong for a long time; can only make the emperor overturn.

Zheng Shuang studied the history of the Northern Song Dynasty in later generations, and the Northern Song Dynasty, with a land area of only 1.8 million square kilometers, was less than one-fourteenth of the 25 million square kilometers of the Han Dynasty; one-eighth of Datang's 15 million square kilometers, but it has created a DGP that is higher than that of the Han and Tang dynasties combined; This is also unique in the history of the world.

The economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty brought prosperity in culture and career; The development of opera, rap, poetry, singing and dancing, and food has reached a new stage.

Liu E, the future queen of Song Zhenzong, is a dance expert, and the upright and cheerful prime minister Kou Zhun is a Zhezhi dance maniac; It can show the prosperity and development of the literary and artistic undertakings of the Song Dynasty.

And the last three of the four major inventions were invented in the Song Dynasty, can you say that such a society is not peaceful and prosperous?

However, the Taiping and Song dynasties were not connected, and the poor national defense and the beaten army led to the fact that the dynasty would not become a peaceful and prosperous era.

The Song Dynasty was a dwarf militarily, and buying peace with money has been the mindset since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

That's right, Tang Taizong Li Shimin also bought peace with money; It was after the Xuanwumen Rebellion that the Turkic Jieli Khan led an army of 200,000 to approach Chang'an, and the Tang Dynasty, which had only 30,000 defenders, could only use money to buy temporary peace.

The problem is that after Tang Taizong bought a temporary peace with money, shame became a bridgehead for revenge against Jieli Khan; Soon the army of Jieli Khan was driven back to the desert to recover large swaths of land and coerce the Turks into submission; Jieli Khan's subordinate Ashina clan also became the brave and warlike generals of the Tang Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was founded for more than 300 years, and I don't know how much silver it gave to Yidi; But he has been beaten passively.

The reason for this is probably that there is a problem with the concept of "the emperor and the scholars ruling the country together".

When you hear the slogan of the emperor and the scholars ruling the country together, you still think that the Northern Song Dynasty has entered the era of Plato's utopia.

In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty was the peak period of centralization; The hierarchical boundaries of people and people are becoming more and more prominent and prominent, and there is not much difference from the Jiupin Zhongzheng system during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The nine-grade Zhongzheng system is the upper grade without the cold, and the lower grade without the family; In the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial examination system was implemented, and the poor scholars could also pass the reading examination to enter the upper grade.

This is the contribution of the Northern Song Dynasty to history, but the Song Dynasty's grace system and the imperial examination system go hand in hand; The children and grandchildren of officials can become officials without passing the examination, and a large number of redundant officials fill the key departments of the imperial court; Eating empty wages is not chasing after the wind, and the phenomenon of eating grain in the economically prosperous Song Dynasty continues to occur.

The descendants of those who are officials can be officials, and the children and grandchildren of ordinary people can only seek an official and a half-position through a ten-year cold window.

After the whole society formed an atmosphere of studying and being an official, the status of the warriors plummeted, and the literati regarded being a soldier as a shame; However, the refugees recruited in the year of the famine were not welcomed after entering the army, and incidents of uncovering the problem continued to occur.

Xiao He, the winner, Xiao He, the loser, Song Taizong was the initiator of the recruitment of refugees, and he believed that recruiting refugees to join the army in the famine year was a matter of killing two birds with one stone; As a result, the soldiers had tattoos on their faces, and from the day they stepped into the barracks, it meant a low social status.

Even if he has made meritorious contributions on the battlefield and is promoted to general, he is just a vassal of the literati, and the literati will drown the generals with a mouthful of spit.

General Yang is the most vivid example, why there will be so many Yang family dramas in later generations; It was a literati who cried out for grievances to support their families.

Yang Liulang in the Yang family drama is the Yang Yanzhao in our book, who has been sticking to the border for decades and has only been an official of the fifth grade; This time, it was considered to meet Zheng Shuang, Qin Shihuang, and Wei Yancai to turn over and enter the Privy Council directly.

The warriors were suppressed by the literati for a long time, and from time to time they rose up to resist; Civil strife ensued.

Song Taizong's defeat in the two wars against the Liao State changed from offensive to defensive militarily; The focus of the imperial court is on maintaining domestic stability, and he puts forward his own unique political propositions:

If a country does not have a strong enemy, then there will be hidden dangers inside; The worries of the neighboring countries are only the problems on the other side of the border, and these can be solved; But if something goes wrong within a country, it's terrible; The emperor of the future must focus on the internal troubles, and he must remember it!

Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty taught his descendants to focus on internal troubles, but the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty came precisely from external enemies rather than internal troubles.

The fifth grandson Zhao Ji and the sixth grandson Zhao Huan were so frightened that they peed their pants and finally became prisoners after the Jin soldiers besieged Bianjing, and the root cause was buried by Zhao Guangyi.

The demise of the Song Dynasty was completely different from that of the Tang Dynasty, and the demise of Tang Taizong's Wen Taowu strategy was due to the civil strife at the hands of Tang Xuanzong.

Tang Xuanzong was extravagant and chaotic. Lun, who made his daughter-in-law his concubine, was exploited by the Turkic An Lushan; led to the gradual decline and eventual demise of the country.

The Song Dynasty emphasized literature and light martial arts, and the warblers and swallows danced all over the world; It was turned upside down by the powerful steppe peoples Jurchens.

Imagine that Zhao Ji of Song Huizong was sitting on an ox cart going north, surrounded by more than a dozen escorted Jurchen soldiers who exuded sheep riots; He must have been thinking in his mind: Didn't my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather say that internal troubles can lead to the death of the country? However, I pacified Liangshanbo, Song Jiang and Jiangnan La, why did I become a prisoner of the Jurchens......

Zhao Guangyi's internal troubles said that other emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty may have talked about it, but Zhao Yu, who was carried by Lu Xiufu and jumped into the sea, was only nine years old; You may not know that grandpa's grandpa's grandpa said these angry things.

Since the Chinese people expanded from the Yellow River Valley, they have never lacked courage and a sense of honor; There is no lack of tenacity and perseverance, no lack of shrewdness, this is the best warrior in the world.

Even the weak Southern Song Dynasty could resist the Mongols for so long and kill the Mongol Great Khan; As for the Han Dynasty, it swept the periphery.

The strange thing is that there are such good warriors in China, why has the Han and Tang dynasties never reappeared since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty?

This reason can be attributed to the corruption of feudal rule, but wasn't the feudal rule of the Han and Tang dynasties corrupt?

Why did the Han Dynasty fight the nomads all over the land to find teeth, and since the Song Dynasty, except for Zhu Di, he has been a hero; The rest of the time basically did not form an overwhelming situation for the nomadic hunting department, but the old Zhao Laosan of the Northern Song Dynasty was always overwhelmed by the semi-feudal and semi-nomadic master of the Khitan Liao State, and he couldn't lift his head.

The Southern Song Dynasty was even more crushed by the Jurchens, and was finally destroyed by the Mongols; After Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, he was first tossed by Mongolia; Later, it was simply suppressed by the barbaric Houjin and constantly lost the land of Liaodong......