Zhao Kai's words surprised Zhao Zhi, these battles were basically led by Tong Guan, Tong Guan has always concealed the process or failure, and reported to the imperial court, few people know the process and real results of these battles, but Zhao Zhi listened to Zhao Kai's words, and seemed to know everything.

Moreover, Zhao Zhi could see that Zhao Kai seemed to be hiding something, and Zhao Kai, who looked at him suspiciously, asked, "The third brother knows so much about the military shortcomings of the Great Song Dynasty, I don't know if there is any good way to solve it." ”

Zhao Kai picked up a teacup on the table, knocked off a small piece of it hard, and poured water into the broken teacup, knowing that the water in the teacup flowed out of the gap "If you want to improve the military system of the Great Song Dynasty and enhance military strength, you still need to start from the shortcomings." ”

Zhao Zhi also seems to have understood, the Great Song Dynasty learned the lessons of the late Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties of warlords, and the emperor strengthened the centralization of power, weakened the military power of the generals, and used the civil ministers to control the military affairs, and most of the civil ministers did not know how to fight, resulting in a significant decline in the combat capability of the army.

The advantage is that it is not easy to rebel, and the biggest disadvantage is the lack of unified strategic deployment in the event of an invasion by foreign enemies.

Moreover, in order to disperse the military power of the generals, the Great Song Dynasty set up the Privy Council, the three ya, etc., the three ya, namely the front of the palace division, the guard horse military division and the guard infantry military division, which were divided into the national forbidden soldiers and box soldiers, and each set up a commander, a deputy commander, and a duyu waiter, etc., whose status was lower than that of the privy councillor.

The Privy Council and the three ministers respectively hold the power to issue troops and manage the troops, check each other, lead the (marshal) ministers in peacetime to command the army of the same division stationed in the same place, that is, the army stationed in the same place in peacetime must be subject to the dual control of the three yas and the rate (marshal) ministers, in wartime, the army is transferred by the Privy Council, and the emperor temporarily sends the commander (rate of the minister), to give the title of capital deployment, recruitment envoy, etc., to lead the troops to the battle, the matter is done, so that the soldiers will be separated, will not be specialized. In addition, there is also a military department, which is only in charge of the honor guard, martial arts, and the selection of soldiers.

In short, it has to be said that the Song Dynasty emphasized civil affairs over military force, and the status of civil officials of the same level was higher than that of military generals, and at the same time, the generals did not know the soldiers and soldiers, and even the leaders of the powerful Yuejia army were no exception, and they had to be under the control of civilian officials (Qin Hui), and the real military generals could not give full play to their strength as much as possible and act in accordance with their own regulations. Many military generals have fallen victim to power struggles, with civilian officials controlling military generals, laymen leading insiders, and military generals lacking sufficient autonomy, and there are too many variables in the power struggle.

"Third brother, you also know how Taizu established the Great Song Dynasty, it was because he was afraid of people like Taizu that there was the current military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, I know what the third brother meant, but it won't work." Zhao Zhi naturally understood what Zhao Kai meant, and he wanted nothing more than to improve the military system by changing the Great Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and light on military force.

However, the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, had a large number of soldiers and horses in his hands, and in the name of "calming the two states", he lied that the Khitan and the Northern Han Dynasty invaded the south, led the troops to the battle, launched the Chenqiao Mutiny, added the yellow robe, proclaimed the emperor on behalf of Zhou, and established the Song Dynasty, and during the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, in order to strengthen the centralization of power, advocate literati politics, and create a prosperous era of Chinese cultural governance, it is almost impossible to change the Great Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and light on military force.

"It's not immutable." Zhao Kai said, waved his hand, and changed the topic, "Don't talk about this, Twelfth brother, you have been in the military camp for a long time, you should know some skilled craftsmen who are good at crafting weapons." ”

Zhao Zhi nodded and said, "Well, I know some, what's wrong?" The third brother wants to fight weapons? ”

Zhao Kai smiled, "Hehe, well, I'm going to fight a knife, a special knife." ”

Zhao Zhi said curiously, "Third brother, why do you suddenly want to use weapons, don't tell me that you have to use them yourself, with your skills, using weapons will only harm your body." ”

Zhao Kai had a black line on his head, and said unhappily, "You forgot that I once held a brick to save your life." ”

Zhao Zhi remembered the night when he rescued Li Qingzhao from Wang Yanei, Zhao Kai said that there are eighteen weapons in the world, only the slabs and bricks are the highest-end, smiled awkwardly, and muttered in his heart, "Where can the slabs and bricks be regarded as weapons." ”

Zhao Kai then said, "It's a gift, twelfth brother, you just say that you can't help with this favor, right?" ”

"Help." Zhao Zhi said helplessly, "Say, third brother, what weapon do you want to fight." ”

"Little bean sprouts, go and bring the king's charcoal."

The little bean sprouts immediately got up and went to Zhao Kai's room to get the charcoal that Zhao Kai used to draw sketches, and also took a piece of hard yellow paper.

Zhao Kai held charcoal in his hand and drew quickly on the hard yellow paper, rubbing his hands on the hard yellow paper from time to time.

Zhao Zhi also saw the sketch method for the first time, and was very surprised, he didn't expect charcoal to be able to draw, and he still painted such a realistic painting.

Not long after, Zhao Kai put away the pen, no, it was charcoal, and handed the hard yellow paper to Zhao Zhi, "That's probably what it looks like." ”

Zhao Zhi looked at the weapon style drawn by Zhao Kai on the hard yellow paper, and said curiously, "Third brother, the appearance of your weapon is so strange, it looks like a knife in the Tang Dynasty." ”

Zhao Kai painted the famous Qi family knife, and the style is roughly the same as the Qi family knife used by Ding Xiu, who is also righteous and evil in the movie embroidered spring knife, but it is not so long.

Zhao Kai's knife system is annotated with a knife handle eight inches long, a knife body one foot eight inches long, the blade slightly curved, and two blood grooves, one long and one short, on the front and back.

Zhao Kai said, "Twelfth brother, this knife must use the best materials and the best forging method. ”

Zhao Zhi rolled up the hard yellow paper, "Third brother, don't worry, the twelfth brother has always been reliable." ”

"Then it's going to trouble the twelfth brother."

"The third brother is polite, by the way, the third brother, Qingzhao will invite me and you to her house in a few days, will you go?" Zhao Zhi asked tentatively, this time of contact, Zhao Zhi also knew that Zhao Kai was a person who was not good at dealing with people, and he was not very willing to deal with people, and he was afraid that Zhao Kai would not agree, after all, he had already boasted to Li Qingzhao that Zhao Kai would definitely go.

Zhao Kai was stunned for a moment, and then said curiously, "Li Qingzhao invites you and me to be guests in the mansion?" For no reason, it won't be you and me who are invited to drink and compose lyrics, right? ”

Based on Zhao Kai's understanding of Li Qingzhao in history, in addition to being interested in Jinshi calligraphy and painting, he is only interested in Zhao Mingcheng, and he and Zhao Zhi, a King of Yun and a King of Xin, should not invite the two princes to the mansion for no reason.

Zhao Zhi hesitated, and said, "Qingzhao's husband Zhao Mingcheng will return to Tokyo in a few days, knowing that Qingzhao has met me and my third brother, so I want to ask Qingzhao for a recommendation." ”

"I understand, Zhao Mingcheng wants to climb the high branches." Zhao Kai was also very helpless, listening to Zhao Zhi's words, this time he invited himself and Zhao Zhi to be guests, it should be Zhao Mingcheng's intention, the purpose is to know himself and Zhao Zhi through Li Qingzhao, and he also has some sympathy for Li Qingzhao in his heart, and married an official fan.