The destructive power of the warriors reached a new extreme in the troubled times at the end of the Tang Dynasty. In less than 100 years, there have been countless separatist forces in various places, and assassinations, massacres and fighting have been carried out all the time.

In order to feed his army, the people had to be crushed to death. Worried about the people rebelling? This question is very funny, there are grass kings everywhere in troubled times, and everyone is rebelling, so there is nothing to worry about. However, many of the knots were killed by their own tooth soldiers because they couldn't meet the requirements of their subordinates' arrogant generals, and then the warriors elected a new leader, if the new boss still couldn't meet their requirements......

One of the most exaggerated cases of the warriors killing Shangguan occurred in Hebei, where the elite soldiers of that feudal town could fight both on horse and on foot, and their force value was the first at that time. The reason, of course, was that the festival did not meet the requirements of the tooth soldiers, so the whole family was killed. As soon as the new Jiedu envoy came to power, he found that the people's power was indeed exhausted, and if he continued to squeeze it, everyone ran out, who would farm the land?

So the new festival envoy was killed again and the whole family, and the clear-eyed people understood that the position of the festival envoy was a pit, and the fierce tooth soldier saw that no one was the festival envoy, and thought that this would not work...... So a well-known and famous general was forced to take the position with a knife, and while dealing with the proud soldiers, he thought about how to protect the family. That's right, after the guy who was in the prime of life, bravely crowned the three armies, and stuck a knife in the ribs for his comrades-in-arms, he only had the idea of self-preservation.

During this period, there were many stories in which the festival envoy used the gold and silver money and food for emergency use to fight for a while, but everything had to be exhausted. I don't know which genius came up with the idea, or if the Jiedu envoy slapped his head and came up with it, but in short, the Jiedu envoy broke the game in an unbelievable way, although his own fate was not good.

In a hurry, the envoy sent a letter to several envoys around him, expressing his desire to surrender. As a Jiedu envoy who surrendered to a foreign enemy and slaughtered his own subordinates, the Jiedu envoy successfully created a precedent for the use of troops. The surrounding knots are shocked, they can't see through this earth-shattering scheme, they can't understand what it means, how to send troops? There must be deception in it!

Seeing that no one came to "save him", the Jiedu envoy made another plan to incite the tooth soldiers to rebel, and he hid in the fortress with his family and pro-army. The surrounding knots make the cold gasp, what a vicious plan to attract troops! actually starred in the bitter meat trick himself, this colleague is good enough in the festival envoy!

After a while, at last, some neighbors couldn't bear it anymore and tried to send troops, only to find that the territory of the Jiedu envoy was really in civil strife. Soon several armies that invaded the area joined forces to fight the strongest army in the world, and after a series of chaotic battles and huge casualties, the sad new Jiedu envoy finally disappeared with the proud general. After the chaotic battle, the area under the control of the Jiedu envoy was like hell......

In short, the chaotic times of the late Tang Dynasty in the Great Zhou time and space were more chaotic and bloody than the five dynasties and ten kingdoms in the original time and space. Betrayal is constantly staged, the war never stops, and the eroticism has reached the point where the historian is ashamed to write. Coupled with the invasion of foreigners and the rise of the Liao State, it is simply not more exciting.

The Great Zhou Taizu had seen more than once the tragic situation of arrogant soldiers and fierce generals who were good at killing Shangguan and setting up another festival envoy, coupled with his deep hatred for the troubled times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, so he took the olive branch sent by the gentry, indicating that this dynasty would "share the world with scholars" and "rule the world with literature".

"Whoever kills the doctor will be punished by heaven." This sentence was put by the Great Zhou Taizu in a small attic in the palace, and the small attic can only be entered alone after the new emperor ascends the throne.

The Great Zhou Taizu used wealth and glory to gather the power in the hands of the generals, and added a series of shackles to the generals to check and balance the precautions. In addition, the most military decentralization in all dynasties, the Great Zhou successfully controlled each general, and there was not a single incident of rebellion by the main general, and such a cultural achievement was also highly respected by the scholars of the past dynasties.

Of course, the Great Zhou Taizu had a certain degree of vigilance against the gentry, so the system designed by Chai Rong focused on civil and military checks and balances, and did not reach the point of greatly affecting the combat strength of the army. But the good times didn't last long, and the powerful civil officials wanted to control everything, completely tie up all the generals with chains, and then govern the Great Zhou according to the perfect world envisioned in their minds. Thinking darkly, the gentry can't accept the imperial power and military power to balance the gentry at all, since this group has taken the initiative, what it wants is to control everything, including imperial power!

After Taizong, who did not have a deep foundation in the army, ascended the throne, he was always weak in the face of military generals, so he happily united with the civil official group to completely suppress the founding nobles, and Emperor Taizong also became the representative of the holy monarch in the pen of the civil officials. Less than five years after the death of Emperor Taizu, the founding prince of the country, as a duke, met a white-born Zaizhi on the imperial road, and had to stand on the side of the road to salute the civil officials on the carriage.

After that, it was a cliché, what the economy and culture of the Great Zhou Dynasty developed rapidly, the grain output continued to double, and the court even had the spare power to repair the Grand Canal and Chidao at the same time...... There is indeed the credit of the civil official group in it, but it seems that the first generation of the previous dynasties is the same, right?

After Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he launched two northern expeditions in order to fulfill Emperor Taizu's wishes, and was shot by the Liao people in the second northern expedition. It's fresh, and the Great Zhou Forbidden Army, which has been famous for decades, actually lost? You must know that this is still the group of people who conquered the Northern Han, stepped on the Southern Tang Dynasty, and could suppress the Khitan with one hand?

The matter was not over, and the embarrassed Emperor Taizong sent the famous formation map in order to further strengthen his control over the army and "improve his combat effectiveness". As a result, the forbidden army, which had swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, faced the Western Xia and Dali armies, and was defeated and retreated repeatedly. So the Liao people continued to invade the grass valley in the south, and finally reached an alliance with the Great Zhou to reach the Tanyuan Alliance.

Ten years after the Great Zhou civil official group and the scholar group completely controlled the military power, the Great Zhou Dynasty continued to recruit elite soldiers and strong generals from all over the country for decades, and the forbidden army corps lost its combat effectiveness; In another decade, the Great Zhou forbidden army lost its battlefield advantage against the elite of the Liao State and Western Xia; For another twenty years, the forbidden army was eroded, and the formation was rampant.

More than 100 years passed, and the scholars finally achieved their ultimate goal: to tie up the warriors like dogs, pull them to bite people when they needed them, and quickly leash them again after biting the enemy so as not to hurt people. If you have to find a sign event, then after Di Qing returned from victory, he pleaded for his subordinates but was scolded by the same level of Zaizhi, which should be very revealing.

"Your subordinate, Puffle! Those who get into the jinshi are really good men! So Di Qing's old subordinate, a fierce general who had cut off the heads of more than 100 foreign soldiers, actually died under the knife of a generation of executioners, killing chickens to show monkeys! The king of the Southern Courtyard of the Liao State and the generals of Hengshan of the Western Xia Kingdom, as Di Qing's old opponents, couldn't believe that Di Shen, who used soldiers like a god on the battlefield, would be so humiliated and not resist? ! So there seems to be a tacit understanding, after receiving the news of Di Qing's death, the Western Xia and the Liao State immediately mobilized their troops and gained a lot......

The descendants of the nobles who should have retired with the country and joined the army for generations gradually understood how to behave, and those who did not understand were suppressed. The descendants of these five families put down their ambitions, put down their military books and war strategies, and spent their days immersed in their heads, brushing their faces and eating together. Even if things like martial arts can't be avoided, the disciples of the generals often find good players and rising stars in the army to do it for them, and they can also manipulate the gambling board to make a lot of money, and there are constantly funny scenes in the field of selecting martial artists......

If the disciples and senior generals are careful, they can enjoy wealth and prosperity, and the soldiers of the forbidden army at the bottom will be miserable. It turned out that the monthly military salary could be paid eighty percent, which was enough to support the family, but after the civilian officials took control of the military power, the discouraged generals began to drink the blood of the soldiers, resell the ordnance, and let their subordinates work as laborers to make money for themselves. In the year that Li Xiang arrived in Bianjing, the average salary of hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in Tokyo was 30% 8, which was still the benefit brought by Li Gang and others to promote the investigation.

Soldiers can starve themselves to death, but they can't bear to starve their wives and children to death, so the soldiers of the forbidden army began to sell weapons, resell military postures, waste training, and lax military discipline. With the continuous development of industry and commerce in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the forbidden army with access to the door began to do business, but basically they could only eat the leftovers of the wealthy merchants, and the friction with the gentry and big families in various places often could not take advantage, who let the family control the right to speak? If the forbidden army and the box army do not give in, many big hats will be buckled on their heads, anyway, the rulers of the court like to grab the pigtails of the warriors the most.

So Li Xiang put the key to breaking the game on Jiangmen. Although the battalion commanders who went to the banquet were very excited, they still didn't understand how Li Xiang was sure that Jiangmen could withstand the pressure? It is not once or twice that these generals have suffered losses in the face of civilian officials, how can this time be an exception? And what if you don't keep your word and eat and wipe it clean afterwards?

Li Xiang coughed a few times and interrupted the whispers of several people, "Let's say another ugly word, the brothers who were born in several battalion commanders may not know the energy of these generals, right?" Then Li Xiang drank tea and rested for a while, waiting for these representatives of the forbidden army to understand the hidden energy of Jiangmen first.

Among the deputies, the commander's staff and the commander's henchmen scolded their mothers in their hearts, but they couldn't withstand the suspicious gazes of several battalion commanders, and explained in a low voice. Wang Xiaojiu was impressed by Li Xiang again, and began to agree with the disciple accepted by the head of the family.

After hearing the hidden energy of Jiangmen, the battalion commander with an unsatisfactory face was even more unsatisfactory, and the battalion commander who was impatient and fierce was disheartened, and his heart was washed down. It turns out that Jiangmen is not as simple as the royal family and the wealthy family, they all have their own backs, and the worst ones are only these middle and low-level officers, as well as the soldiers of the forbidden army who are confused all day long......

The fierce battalion commander had tears in his eyes, and he couldn't vent the grief and indignation in his heart, "Why? These generals are obviously so capable, why do they watch their brothers live miserably? The royal family and gentry can not care about these soldiers, and the high-ranking scholars can also despise these soldiers, but why don't the generals care?! Their ancestors are all in the same vein as the forbidden army, how can they not care? ”

The commanding envoy's staff and the commanding envoy's henchmen represent the interests of the commanding envoy's first-level and senior generals, and Liu Chengdong is now the commander. Several battalion commanders who control hundreds of people under his command represent the interests of middle and low-level officers, Wang Xiaojiu is the representative of the Wang family that Li Xiang specially brought in in to repay his mentor, and Li Xiang has more intentions for Wang Xiaojiu.

Looking at the expressions of several battalion commanders who knew part of the truth, whether they were sad and angry, or clear, or depressed, Li Xiang knew that the interests of the middle and low-level generals and senior generals of the forbidden army were not the same, or that the battalion commanders and the first-class officers were even more miserable. Li Xiang, who was drinking with his head down, lit up in his eyes, and there was a lot to do here......