Zhao Kuangyin said half-curiously and half-funny: "Since you have the best of both worlds, you might as well talk about it." ”

Anyway, it was also started, Sun Yue simply relied on the four words of Tong Yan Wuji to speak freely, and said: "Official, the minister thinks that there is nothing wrong with Master's words, but two more words need to be added to the strong and weak branches." ”

"What word?"

"Solid roots."

"Gugen?"

"Yes, the minister thinks that a big tree can withstand wind and rain only if it has deep roots, even if the nutrition can't keep up, the main trunk can't grow, as long as the roots are still there, you are not afraid that the tree will fall."

Zhao Kuangyin was quite curious about this statement, and said, "It's a little interesting, let's talk about it in detail." ”

"Yes, the official asked before, why since history, the world has never been so chaotic, the minister thinks, this root is still in the military system, before the Tang Dynasty, there are no professional soldiers in the world, or there are very few professional soldiers, whether it is the military merit system of the Qin Dynasty, the Liangjiazi system of the Han and Jin Dynasties, or the government soldier system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it is essentially a military aristocratic system, this set of systems, the Chinese people have already figured out the law through thousands of years, although there is no long-lasting dynasty, But everyone generally still knows how to play, according to the experience of their predecessors, as long as they are not mediocre as officials, the national lineage can always last for some time. ”

Zhao Kuangyin nodded, expressing his approval, and motioned for him to continue.

"Whether it is the government soldiers in the Sui and Tang dynasties, or the good family in the Han and Jin dynasties, the ministers call them the compulsory soldier system, the essence of this compulsory soldier system, in fact, is based on the land, honor, and title, to motivate the soldiers, when the country was first established, the general land was more when the country was founded, and there were more titles, and the people of the world also attached more importance to honor, as long as the power of a few military nobles was balanced, the Son of Heaven could sit back and relax, and as time went by, the land will inevitably become less and less, and the titles will become more and more indiscriminate, And the title is always worthless in peacetime in the world, so the military system will collapse, and the collapse of the military system is the first major reason for the collapse of the country in all dynasties. ”

Zhao Kuangyin listened to the beard pulled down, although he had no culture before, but as the emperor for the past two years, he has not left the scroll, read a lot of Confucian classics, and also listened to many famous teachers and Confucians.

Hearing Sun Yue say this today, I suddenly felt enlightened, this is much more straightforward than any benevolence, etiquette and music, whether it is the so-called benevolence or virtue, whether it is a virtuous monarch or a good minister, all I can do is to delay this process.

If you say this to those Confucians who have read the books of sages all their lives, most of them will scoff at it as nonsense, but Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu, one of them is a pure soldier who started from a pro-soldier, and the other is a pure official who started as a small official, and they actually nodded frequently and urged him to hurry up.

Sun Yue saw that the two audiences seemed to be very cooperative, and his heart was a little more relaxed, and his thinking was clearer, and he continued to talk eloquently: "Since the Middle Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian began, with the large-scale implementation of the imperial examination, the establishment of the Hanmen world system, the military aristocracy has disappeared, and with a series of productivity changes such as land reclamation, crop innovation, and Jiangnan development, the conscription system has begun, and the army and the people have been clearly separated for the first time, which is an unprecedented military system, and people are still using the old set of methods to manage, Naturally, something will go wrong. ”

"To put it simply, in the previous compulsory period, the most basic soldiers obeyed their clans and lieutenants, and such a small group obeyed the orders of the local regimental training captains, and most of the local regimental training captains came from the military aristocracy, such as the Tang Dynasty Suwei and the Han Dynasty, because the power of these military aristocrats was scattered, so as long as the officials did not die by themselves like Emperor Yang of Sui, they were determined to work against the gate lords and nobles of the whole world, and it was difficult for these military nobles to unite."

"But now this kind of recruitment system is different, the most basic soldiers obey the orders of the team, the team is obeying the orders of the battalion commander, the battalion commander obeys the orders of the commander, layer by layer, the soldiers only know the general on the head and do not know the official family on the head of the general, which has caused the so-called arrogant soldiers to drive the commander, the situation of the fierce general chasing the king, if it is still according to the previous set, the Son of Heaven will focus on the body of the fierce general, in fact, the minister thinks that it will not be too useful, because another general is actually the same, the relationship between the monarch and the minister is not determined whether the minister is brave, It is also a good means to mobilize the army to the point that even the officials themselves are head-headed because of the layers of personnel relations, but if the army really develops to that point, it will be a million army, and I am afraid it can only be used as a million pigs. ”

Zhao Kuangyin nodded when he heard this, and decided that the relationship between the monarch and the minister was not a strong general but a king, this sentence he was too deeply touched, you must know that three years ago, he Zhao Kuangyin was a fart, not to mention the old stubble of the festival, which of Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin in the forbidden army was not higher than his old prestige, but Chai Rong threw Li Chongjin to Yangzhou before he died, and Zhang Yongde directly asked him to go home, leaving him and Han Tong with slightly worse qualifications to be in charge, but what was the result?

Obviously, it is useless, and Zhao Kuangyin does not think that he robbed the Chai family, he has to do this work even if he does not do Han Tong.

Sun Yue's words are very straightforward, so straightforward that they are all the truth, and there is no one at all, let alone quote half of the words of the sage, what benevolence and righteousness, and the number of days are not talked about at all, but he has a sense of enlightenment, and he feels that he is a little more transparent than Zhao Pu.

"If you want to talk about the solution, this is the word "solid root" of the minister, the court is the tree, the place is the branch, and the center is the stem, then this root is the people of the world, but it is too general to say this, the predecessors divided the people into four classes, agriculture, industry and commerce, naturally right, but since the Tang Dynasty, there has actually been a new class under the world, that is, soldiers, the minister thinks, as long as all the soldiers recognize our Great Song Dynasty, a little bit of glamour and ambition, no matter how to toss is also a clown, the same, If the soldiers are more looking forward to changing the dynasty than the commander, just like the officials, no matter how loyal the generals are, what use can they be? Therefore, the minister thinks that if the eyes of the strong and weak branches are only on the generals, and the generals are restrained through layers of repeated structures, it cannot fundamentally solve the problem. ”

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and said: "Good boy, you actually taught me a lesson, then you can tell me, how can you make the 300,000 soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty loyal to the imperial court?" ”