Looking at Li Zhang, who was a little puzzled, Xu Ping said to him: "You have to remember one thing, something has happened again and again for hundreds of years, and it is not because of the problem of a few people, but because the system has collapsed." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info I'll test you again, from the middle and late Tang Dynasty, what is the biggest difference between the military system and the previous dynasties? ”

Li Zhang blurted out: "It is difficult for the government soldiers to continue, so replace them with recruitment." ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "This is only seeing the surface, not the root." Recruitment did not fall from the sky, it has existed since ancient times, but it is not a regular system, and it is only used in times of crisis. It is said that the rent and yong modulation collapsed, and the government soldiers could not continue, so the imperial court had to replace them with recruitment. If so, no matter how bad the finances of the Tang Dynasty are, can it still be worse than the end of the Han Dynasty? The same conscription was then. As for saying that the imperial court does not have a household registration, the Middle Tang Dynasty will not be more powerful than the hidden household of the powerful clan in the late Han Dynasty. In the final analysis, since the fourth year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong received the name of Hu Yi's 'Tian Khan', and used Hu people as soldiers, gradually replacing the government soldiers. During the Tianbao period, the Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous, where there would be a shortage of money and food, but the festival town that commanded the heavy troops was all Hu soldiers and generals. As soon as Yuyang is in chaos, the world is swarming, and it will be impossible to clean it up anymore. There is nothing to replace conscription with conscription, but replacing the Han military system with the Hu military system has dug up the root of the Central Plains' armed forces. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Ping sighed: "From that time on, the soldiers of the Central Plains can no longer control the barbarians. The system is important, conscription and recruitment, martial courage and cowardice, all of which are just empty words. From the Tang Dynasty, a large number of Hu people were recruited into the Central Plains, and the Hu style prevailed north of the Yellow River in the past hundred years, and the Han people became Hu, so the soldiers of the five dynasties of the late Tang Dynasty, although they used the Hu people's military system, happened to be consistent with the political system under their own rule, and the strength of the army was not strong and could not be seen. When the dynasty was founded, Hu Feng gradually disappeared, and this military system could no longer be supported. ”

Li Zhang opened his mouth when he heard this, it is obvious that Hu Feng is serious in the forbidden army, in fact, many families who have been soldiers for generations are originally from the Hu people of Sinicization, and most of them are Shatuo and Sogdian. These people are sinicized, and in the eyes of the Khitan and other ethnic groups further north, they are already real Han people. However, some customs and culture were strongly preserved, especially combined with the peculiar military system of the forbidden army, and finally integrated into the culture of the Central Plains, giving birth to a strange martial culture.

Before the Tang and Song dynasties, even if they led troops to fight, they were rarely proud of being vulgar and unliterate, let alone illiterate. But since the Tang and Song dynasties, they have taken it for granted that martial artists are illiterate and vulgar. Before the Tang and Song dynasties, the army relied on strict systems and military discipline to ensure combat effectiveness and loyalty, but after that, it placed great emphasis on individual martial arts and sneered at the system and constraints. This is not the tradition of the Central Plains Dynasty, but the traditional concept of the ethnic minorities in the north.

This influence was so far-reaching that it continued thousands of years later, and even became the belief of some people. Speaking of the Song Dynasty's army not being able to fight, the two commonly used reasons are "advocating literature and suppressing martial arts" and "generals do not know soldiers, and soldiers do not know generals", which is actually a conclusion drawn under this understanding. Whether it is "advocating literature and suppressing martial arts" or "generals do not know soldiers, soldiers do not know generals", before this tradition prevails in military understanding, including after this understanding is broken, it is not a problem, only in the Song Dynasty. Based on Xu Pingxue's materialism and dialectics, there is only one explanation for this - the problem of the system.

This military tradition has lasted for thousands of years, and the Central Plains Empire, only before the system was established, or when the system collapsed, there would be an army that dared to fight well, and once the politics stabilized, the army's combat power disappeared.

It's like a place where people live has been attacked by wild beasts and suffered great losses, and in order to prevent them from being bitten again, the choice made is not to make spears, bows and arrows, and dig trenches, but to go out of the village, open their mouths, raise their hands, compare their minions with fierce beasts, compare fierceness, and fight with the methods of wild beasts. Man is human after all, how can he be fierce against a beast? If we continue like this, we will only throw all people into the jaws of the beast. The correct choice should be to organize people and fight with their wisdom and collective strength. Grab wild beasts, tame them into domestic animals, or kill them for meat.

Xianbei came to learn from Xianbei, Mongolia came to learn from Mongolia, Jurchen fought to learn from Jurchen, and even waited until the Japanese fascists fought and went to learn fascism, but they refused to look down at the land under their feet, refused to look at those who had the same face as themselves, and refused to share the same fate with this land and the people on this land, why are you undefeated, why are you not destroyed? Dragging the country and the nation into the abyss is, of course, the sinners of history.

After being stunned for a long time, Li Zhang stammered: "What my brother said today is really a bit terrifying. If it is heard by those martial artists of the Sanya Forbidden Army, I don't know how to arrange it. ”

"What's there to choreograph? Some of them may still be proud of it. As for others, they should be able to ignore it, after all, it is not their personal fault. What is wrong, and can only be wrong, is the current military system. It's a pity that it's useless for me to say anything now, only when we really fight with the Northwest can blood educate people -- it's just a pity that those soldiers are there. ”

Li Zhang said: "If my brother says that the current military system is wrong, then what kind of military system is right?" ”

"We, the Han people, from the ancient sages led the people to the blue threads, overcoming thorns and thorns, and opened up this homeland. Men and women weave, respect the old and love the young, guard the countryside, step by step to today. To be able to have today, I don't know how much suffering I have gone through, how can I not have martial arts and be born cowardly? The military system must conform to the habits of our Han people, know loyalty and righteousness, understand honesty and shame, have discipline, and unite as one, so that we can defeat all invading enemies. At present, the military system of the forbidden army only stresses that soldiers eat food, not loyalty, and everything is decided by the commander of the army, and the good are not rewarded, and the evil are not punished, and there is no discipline. Such a military system corresponds to the fact that the Hu people of the grassland live in pursuit of water and grass, and they do not know what the people of the country are. If we want to change the military system, we must of course start from this fundamental. ”

Seeing that Li Zhang shook his head and said that he didn't understand, Xu Ping said again: "The knife is only useful if you hold it in your hand and slash at the enemy, not stick it in your own body and let yourself bleed to scare others." Now, we have taken the military system of the Hu people to control our own army, and raising such soldiers is equivalent to a sharp blade hanging upside down and inserting it into our own body. The army of the Han people, the first thing is to know loyalty and righteousness, and the word loyalty and righteousness are not enough, so I call it politics. To talk about politics is to know who you are and why you are fighting, and to pick up a knife is to defend the country and the nation. The second is to be organized. The commander of the armed forces is by no means organized, but should set up special officials in charge of everything, so that they can take special responsibility for things and not deceive the upper and lower levels. If the commander of the army is Hu Lai, he betrays the organization, even if he is a small soldier, he can also slash his head. The third is to be disciplined. When we talk about politics, we should know what we can do and what we can't do, and we should make these clear and enforce them, which is discipline. From top to bottom, things must be done within the limits of discipline. -- Stressing politics to ensure the army's loyalty, strict organization, and strict discipline to ensure the army's combat effectiveness. This is the case if the military system is to be changed. ”

Li Zhang's mouth was open, he didn't know what Xu Ping was talking about, these were obviously too strange to him.

Xu Ping sighed: "You don't understand anything now, and when you really go to the battlefield to fight one day, you will be able to understand." Some people say that the Han people have no blood, how can they lose their blood? The Han people are never ischemic. It's a pity that these bloody Han people want them to fight like beasts, how can they adapt? Some people also say that the Han people should have animal nature, confusing blood and animal nature. Now that the forbidden army still lacks bestiality under the military system? Like the wild beasts of the jungle, they turn their heads and run when they see something stronger than themselves, and when they see something weaker than themselves, they eat their flesh and lay down on their bones. There is a folk proverb: 'Bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates', isn't it animal nature? After Pingshu, it stirred up civil unrest, is there still less such a thing? The army of the country can be more brutal than the enemy, what can you expect from such an army? It's just a small battle, and if it is a big fight, it's really worrying. ”

Confusing blood and bestiality and being complacent is not unique to this era. Since the Five Dynasties, there have been many generals who have shown their courage with the beast-like behavior of eating people and drinking blood, and there is still a legacy in the early Song Dynasty. The admiration of literature and the suppression of military force is inseparable from such a background, and a normal regime will not allow its own army to do this to its own people. In fact, Chongwen suppressed martial arts against the late Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties of the martial arts, beyond this range, it is incorrect to compare with other dynasties, and it is a policy under a special background. Without such a policy, the state power will not be able to stabilize. It is a pity that this tradition continues endlessly, and the more timid the army of the foreign enemy, the more fierce and vicious it is to its own people, and after a thousand years, there will be "water and drought locust soup".

The most capable army of the Two Song Dynasty is the "Yuejia Army", which was born when the country collapsed and the military system was gone. This army has never had any bestial nature, they are "freezing to death, not demolishing houses, starving to death, and not plundering". It is precisely because there is no beast nature that there is a bloody nature to protect the family and defend the country. Soldiers must have blood, but they must not allow any beastliness, their blood is shed for the country and the people, not to show any courage, beastliness is the great enemy of the normal army.

Xu Ping drank a glass of wine, put it down, looked at the sky in the distance, and stopped talking.

War in the northwest is about to break out, and he must go. I went to the northwest not to repay Zhao Zhen's kindness, nor to make contributions, but to this land and the people on this land. His official work is big enough, and his future is bright enough, without those martial arts, he can still worship the prime minister smoothly and smoothly, and be the top of the people.

Those are not what Xu Ping wants, when people reach a certain point, they must pursue some and take some responsibilities. In this world, he has lived a rich life smoothly, with a wife, concubines, children and daughters, Xu Ping needs to do something for this world.