However, the situation of the Jin State was completely different from that of the Great Song Dynasty, the economic foundation of the country established by the nomads was weak, the population was small, and it was difficult to recover in a short period of time after being hit hard, so Wanyan Zonghan was worried that the Song Dynasty would destroy the Jin State. However, Sun Hui knew the details of the Song Dynasty and knew that with the current military strength of the Song Dynasty, it was impossible to destroy Jin, and he could not digest the land of the former Liao State, so he also chose to act in a low-key manner, prompting the Song court to accept the begging of the Jin people, mainly to consolidate the sixteen states of Yanyun.

After completely integrating the sixteen states of Yanyun into the Song Dynasty, Sun Hui's next plan was still not to destroy Jin, but to destroy Western Xia.

The psoriasis-like country established by the party members has been disgusting with the Song Dynasty for too long.

Now that the two strong enemies in the north of the Song Dynasty, Liao and Jin, have been abolished, they can just free up their hands and solve the Western Xia without worries.

Now Sun Hui finally understands the true purpose of Wang Anshi's reform in history, the core content of all the measures of the new law, why he is in such a hurry, and why he doesn't do enough preliminary work such as "official governance" first.

This problem can be summed up by a common phrase of Xining's reform, "enriching the country and strengthening the army", but it is not accurate.

History has proven that there is no unity between a rich country and a strong army, and sometimes it is even the opposite. A very interesting phenomenon that often occurs in history is that the poorer the country, the stronger the combat effectiveness, and once the country is rich and the people are rich, the combat effectiveness plummets. There are many examples, such as the destruction of the ancient Roman Empire by barbarians, the chaos of the Central Plains during the Western Jin Dynasty, and the destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty that almost happened at this time, and how miserable the Jin State that destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty died in front of the more barbaric and backward Mongols. Therefore, "a rich country and a strong army" is actually just a slogan that is convenient for propaganda, and it has no connection with the facts at all. The real purpose of Wang Anshi's reform was only one, that is, to quickly raise military spending.

Prior to this, almost all historical books, especially modern and modern works, combined the purpose of reform with the personal pursuit and expression of the mind of Wang Anshi and Song Shenzong. For example, they are patriotic and patriotic people, have lofty ideals, and are even rare sages who are ahead of the times and work hard to transform the decaying Song Empire.

A careful study of the causes and consequences of the change will reveal a fact. Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi must have loved their country and took the revitalization of China as their own responsibility, especially Song Shenzong, his purpose was to make the country rich and strong, defeat the Western Xia, recover Yanyun, subjugate the Liao State, and restore the glory of the Han and Tang dynasties. This is a great ambition that surpasses the lifelong achievements of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Guangyi, Taizong.

However, the steps to achieve it are by no means full of benevolence and morality in the traditional sense as people usually think, and the path they have chosen for rejuvenation is very dangerous and a quick fix. And this method is a terrible double-edged sword.

The famous general Wang Shao's "Pingrong Policy" determined the development direction of the Song Dynasty during the Shenzong period, and its operational significance directly affected the later Zhezong and Huizong, and every emperor of the Song Dynasty regarded it as a golden rule for decades.

Wang Shao said in "Pingrong Ce" that if you want to take Western Xia, you must first restore the river and Huang. As long as the Song Dynasty preemptively obtained Hehuang, the Western Xia people would have the worry of suffering from the enemy. This is the provish; If the Tangut people were allowed to get Hehuang first, the consequences would be unimaginable. At that time, the party cavalry had no worries, and the intensity of sending troops to the Song Dynasty would be stronger than during the Li Yuanhao period. Qin and Wei bore the brunt of the attack, and the two states of Lan and Hui were cut off first, and the ancient Wei realm was paralyzed. This has caused a bad situation that Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Di Qing and others have not faced before.

During the Renzong period, even if Li Yuanhao penetrated the Shaanxi Road, there was only one way to go, that is, to continue to march into the hinterland of the Song Dynasty. This seems to be a bright avenue, but it will provoke a fierce resistance of the Song people after falling into death, unless Li Yuanhao can fight the Central Plains, otherwise he will not get any specific benefits.

But if the Tanguts got Hehuang, they could develop to the southwest and establish a fortress in Wusheng, an important town west of Qinzhou, and at that time they could send troops to invade Tao and He, and the Song Dynasty's Long, Shu and other prefectures and counties were within the scope of attack. At that time, the Song Dynasty was faced with a large new battlefield. If troops are sent to rescue, the troops on the Shaanxi side and the troops near Kaifeng will be scattered, so that they are prepared everywhere, which is equivalent to being loose everywhere and being unprepared. Where the party members choose to enter the army at will, the Song Dynasty will be overwhelmed.

The situation was so bad that the Song Dynasty was basically dead. It's very simple, if you want to resist, you can only increase the army, increase the army, you have to increase the salary, increase the salary, the only weapon that can survive in the Song Dynasty surrounded by the surrounding barbarians - the economy, is doomed to collapse! When the time comes, there will be no help, and it will rot from the roots...... The great Song Dynasty, a huge civilized state, was actually killed by the newly emerging barbarian Xiaoxia people, which makes people feel ashamed to think about it.

And all of this originated from the very beginning of the point - whether the river can be kept.

If the Western Xia gets Hehuang, it is the Song Dynasty that suffers from the enemy on its back and is overwhelmed. And the Song Dynasty got Hehuang, because the Western Xia people were overwhelmed by the enemy. This is the most fundamental and significant difference.

After discussing the necessity of war, Wang Shao also talked about the follow-up after obtaining the Hehuang region. Fighting Hehuang is different from fighting Western Xia, the place in Western Xia, except for a small piece of the Hetao Plain, is all poor mountains and bad waters, desert Gobi, to be honest, that kind of broken place, the Song Dynasty did not want it.

Hehuang is different.

First of all, the land of Hehuang has always been Han in the previous generations, and in the distance, Tao, He, Lan, Shan, etc., in the south of Wuwei, are all within the territory of the Western Han Dynasty. Speaking of near, the land of Hehuang, before the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, was still the territory of the glorious Tang Dynasty. It was the Tubo people who took advantage of the civil strife in Han and took advantage of the situation to steal it. For 200 years, the Han people took care of themselves, and over time, they forgot about it. Until the period of Song Shenzong, the "great Confucian gentlemen" who were full of wealth still abandoned it as a matter of course.

The land in the Hehuang area is fertile, "the so-called Huangzhong, Haoyan, large and small elm, and Caohan, the land is fertile, and it is suitable for five kinds of people to be in Yan." "It is completely self-sufficient, rich in products, and stable in production, and there is no need for the Song court to allocate funds to it to transport grain.

Wang Anshi's change of law was so urgent and chaotic, to a large extent, it was actually to raise military funds, realize the great cause of recovering Hehuang, breaking Western Xia, and recovering Yanyun.

In fact, Wang Anshi was also close to success, with his full support, Wang Shao recovered Hehuang, but after Wang Anshi dismissed, Sima Guang gave up the land that the Song soldiers exchanged for blood, until thirty years later, in December of the first year of Chongning of Song Huizong (1102 AD), the Song army was led by Wang Hou and Tong Guan supervised the army, and the Hehuang was regained again.