Although this battle was extremely hard, it was foreseeable that after this battle, the Shence Army lost more than 20,000 troops in the entire Youyan army of 50,000, but the remaining armor soldiers were once again trained in the war.

At this time, the spring seedlings have been planted, and the battle line has reached beyond Juyong Pass, as long as it is the harvest season, even if there is no material transportation from the center of the Bianliang Imperial Court, the grain and grass that comes out of Yandi, Youzhou, Yizhou, Zhuozhou and other lands are enough to delay the date of the war to more than half a year.

Zhao Ji reigned, since the change of Yuan Xuanhe, a wave of changes after waves, first Huashigang rampant expropriation, then the whole country is greedy, above the court, traitorous ministers are in power, and then the peasant uprising led by Fang La, Tong Guan's Northern Expedition failed, and the finances tend to collapse, which seems to be accidental, but in fact it is inevitable.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, profound institutional defects were planted. This not only inherited the various chaotic systems of the five dynasties, but also intensified the division and distortion of the centralized power required for the normal operation of the imperial situation, and the Great Song ruling system, which was burdened with redundant soldiers and heavy burdens from the beginning, was actually unsustainable in the middle of the imperial dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty initiated a top-down reform, and although it strengthened the financial system and mobilized the most powerful since the Qin Dynasty, it also caused deep divisions and antagonisms in the Great Song ruling pattern.

At the end of the day, although it had inherited the financial management methods of the new party - there was no way to inherit it, otherwise where would such a large expenditure come from, but the mobilization capacity of the state's finances was not unlimited, and the expansion of wealth in the Song Dynasty had reached its peak. The capital that my father and ancestors had worked so hard to accumulate was exhausted, and the country's finances were on the verge of bankruptcy, and the looting was intensified. In addition to the fact that the city of Bianliang can be maintained because of the injection of resources from all over the world, where is the Great Song Dynasty not in a situation where both public and private affairs are exhausted and it is difficult to make ends meet?

Jiangnan has always been known as a rich place, and it has provoked the change of the Holy Prince. Zhao Ji also fought a few untimely battles in a row, still maintaining a strategic offensive against Western Xia, and launched a cheap war to destroy the Liao State, not that these national wars cannot be fought, but the use of troops is a major matter, and it must not be easy Meng Lang.

The national strength is insufficient, and sometimes it is necessary to shrink strategically, and several wars with heavy losses have been fought, and the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty has been greatly injured. At least financially. Already facing a bankruptcy situation, the central dispatch of the national power by the imperial court is mainly by financial means, and without this strong means, the Great Song Dynasty is actually a bit like a tree without roots.

Not to mention that Zhao Ji appointed Xingjin to deliberately sabotage the employment law of the Great Song Dynasty for more than 100 years, coupled with taking the imperial power into his hands, he deliberately instigated party strife. Even the ruling system of the Central Song Dynasty is now basically inoperable. It's rare to find a real person in charge of everything, and the scholar system is also a little detached from the emperor - who has been playing with the emperor generation after generation for decades, slapping each other's dog brains, letting the emperor sit on the throne and watch jokes, and easily take back the power that belonged to the scholar group, and not necessarily always be loyal?

As for the other prematurely ill troops, they are not useful. The western army is large, there is no strong army in the center, morale is bad, corruption and cowardice have become a common thing - there is no need to say anything more about this, at least now the princes of the Tao and the saint. No one can or even have the heart to solve it.

During the Xuanhe period, although the Great Song Dynasty still relied on the inertia of more than 100 years, it had long been a malfunctioning existence, from the ruling class to the people, and leaking everywhere!

In real history, it was the Jurchens who roared southward, almost lightly bumped, and even had no major battles, and destroyed this dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty did not even come out with some decent resistance ability, and the civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty either protected themselves from the territory, or ran to escape, and there were not many who died for this dynasty!

If it weren't for the fact that the Jurchens did not establish rule in the hinterland of the Central Plains for the first time after the destruction of the country, but instead half-heartedly supported one by one useless puppet regimes of the pseudo-Qi, and just wanted to take the golden silk children obtained after plundering an empire back to their hometown to enjoy, it is really difficult to say whether the Southern Song Dynasty could take a breath.

And even if the Jurchens did not go south, it would be difficult to maintain the current situation, either the division of local feudal towns gradually became a fact, or the situation of the court completely collapsed, and a new ruling system was established again after a bloody storm.

It can be said that the current situation is similar to the period of Emperor Yelu Deguang of the Great Liao, when the Tang Dynasty had perished, and the land of China entered the period of the feudal town pattern of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, Yelu Deguang led the tiger to invade the south, once captured Bianliang, and prepared to take it as the capital, at that time it was also the time to destroy the country and destroy the species, not to mention that the whole country was full of political powers, and could not be unified, but it is worth mentioning that at that time, the whole country was in a series of military disasters, and the attacks between the feudal towns were continuous, and the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, The fighting ability of the entire Han family still has the legacy of the Tang Dynasty, and the Later Han Emperor Liu Zhiyuan relied on the strength of the Central Plains to plunge the Great Liao into the swamp of war.

As a result, Emperor Yelu Deguang was finally forced to abandon the occupied lands and return north.

However, although the Great Song Dynasty is relatively unified, but the combat ability is extremely poor, in addition to the Western Army is quite capable of fighting, there is no soldier and horse that can be used, not to mention that the Western Army is not a monolith, and after the old seed goes, it is even more thoughtful, Wanyan Lou Room 10,000 soldiers and horses came to Guanzhong, it is the collapse of the collapse, the surrender of surrender, the situation is like this, sigh, sigh.

Among Bianliang, there is one person who cannot be ignored, that is Gao Yu, Gao Yu, who is not one of the six thieves listed in the late Northern Song Dynasty in later generations.

Although Gao Yu's background is not good, he is prosperous because of the Huizong in the hidden mansion, but since he is a military attaché, although he is in charge of the Sanya, and he does not take the side affairs, he naturally does not talk about any evil, but is very low-key, and firmly controls the inside and outside of the Sanya Gongwei Bianliang.

is not as good as the white-faced appearance of the traitor in the book Water Margin, because he is an old acquaintance of Huizong, and he is loyal and low-key, no matter how he comes and goes on the stage, his position is always stable, although the princes of the court and the central government will not take the initiative to provoke him, but they don't care much about him. What do you discuss with a military lieutenant when there is a change in the DPRK? As for the central forbidden army, it is almost incapable of fighting. This is the result of how many years of accumulation of shortcomings in the Great Song Dynasty, and the responsibility of this Gao Taiwei is not very large.

In the blink of an eye, over the years, Gao Yu has grown old, and in the fifth year of Xuanhe, his health has become more and more complete, and he is recuperating at home on weekdays. Today, Cai Jing was summoned, so he had to come, and after sitting for a while, he felt that he was already in good spirits.

Cai Jing looked at Gao Yu's sick face and smiled gently: "Taiwei is working hard, is this body better?" ”

Gao Yu smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "Thank you Taishi for asking, my own body knows that it is difficult to be good." It's just that the official family is kind, as long as the remnant body is alive for a day, he has to repay the grace of the official family for a day, what is the matter with the Taishi, although he is instructed, as long as he struggles to move, he must always share one or two worries for the Taishi. ”

With Gao Yu's status as an official confidant, he doesn't have to grovel too much in front of Cai Jing. He also vaguely knew what Cai Jing had summoned him for, and this was also something that the official family was worried about now. Just listen to what Cai Jing's calculations are, so that I can make calculations.

Cai Jing smiled: "The pillar of Taiwei Country is really worthy of his name...... Today, the tired Taiwei came in person, not just for the sake of the three ya's slack, Cai Mou is old, and he wanted to travel in the township to be honored. However, the official family is gracious, and once again in the position of Cai's political affairs hall, he has to work hard for state affairs again, and the Northern Expedition is blessed by the ancestral gods. The official Weide, when a drum is pulled, the bottom of the Yan land, even if the famous Western Army, it is still doubly difficult, and the Huanqing Army is defeated, if it is not for a Yang Ling born out of thin air, this Yan Land does not know when it will be settled, and so many incidents will be born in plain water......

The light from outside shines in, Cai Jing is still the same face as a crown of jade, the wind god is not reduced that day, talking about the war of Yan, looking like an important minister who is worried about state affairs, Gao Yu said no and listened quietly.

Cai Jing continued, "But the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty cannot fight, and the forbidden army of the Northern Expedition is the biggest weakness. "You need to know that the forbidden army also has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but they don't even dare to go north of Hejian Mansion. Although the Liao State is decided, but the Jurchen is extremely strong in the north, if this continues, even if the western army stays in the north, what about the western thieves? Did the Great Song Dynasty count on the soldiers and horses of the Western Army? ”

Cai Jingyue said, the more melancholy on his face became, and finally leaned forward a little, looking like he was at ease with Gao Yu, "So that in the end, I had to garrison the Shence Army in Yandi, and transfer Yang Ling's son to Hedong, one is for the control of Yandi, and the other is to let this person slowly alienate the Shence Army, the Jinyang Army is just a defeated reorganization of the Huanqing Army, and it is not a climate, I never thought that this person would bring this army out again, Tai Wei can know that Shuozhou is a great victory, and Yinkeshu is defeated and fled, Now the entire Great Song Dynasty has become a situation where the outside is strong and the inside is weak. ”

Speaking of this, Cai Jing leaned back, with a serious look on his face, stared at Gao Yu and said slowly: "Taiwei, Cai's words are not only for Taiwei, the three yas have accumulated disadvantages for decades, although they are Taiwei talents, how can they be cleaned one by one?" Cai, an elderly person, re-ascended to the phase, for the sake of national affairs, he had to break the situation, for the official family, and for the Great Song Dynasty...... What does Taiwei think Cai said? ”

Gao Yu still had that sickly look on his face, quietly facing Cai Jing's self-pressing gaze. said lightly: "Master Tai is hardworking, how can you not understand?" In the lower corpse vegetarian meal these years, I am really ashamed, what the Taishi said, every sentence is true, the three Ya in the register of the soldiers and the left of the capital gate near the forbidden army, more than 500,000, to completely clean up the accumulated shortcomings, the gods are only afraid that it is also difficult, the official family Tiancong, ready to select five hundred Jinyang army into the Wei Bianliang, by Yang Ling Yang Lord to rectify the forbidden army, in the next check book, more than 10,000 elites of the Jinyang army, the ability to win the field war, but also the Western Army, five hundred backbone to enrich the training of the forbidden army, with this human talent, a few years later, when there are tens of thousands of capable divisions? This situation of internal light and external importance seems to be slightly salvageable, and once there is a police in the future, Dumen can be regarded as having a strong team to help prepare for the side...... When the master is called, is this what he can do? The subordinates must do their best to handle Yang Ling's entry into Beijing and coordinate this person to build a Great Wall for Bianliang Dumen. ”

It is rare for Gao Yu to say such a long list of words, he is already seriously ill, and at this moment, he is even more lacking in breath, and he can't help but gasp.

Cai Jing hurriedly got up, summoned a servant in, and ordered softly: "Pour a bowl of ginseng soup over and let Captain Gao raise it." ”

The officials hurriedly rushed out, Cai Jing didn't sit down, got up and walked slowly in the Ming Hall, I didn't expect the first thing today, the first person I saw, this Gao Yu pretended to be stupid with the old man

What Cai Jing said to Gao Yu is naturally upright and bright, but in his heart, he is still fighting for the party and consolidating his own power. The last time he was dismissed, he was captured by Wang Hao and Liang Shicheng, the hidden minister behind him, which was really a great shame for Cai Jing, who had never diminished his heart to the old power, and it was a profound lesson.

Wang Huang's generation, on the Northern Expedition, and then contacted Tong Guan, who held the power of the Western Army, and ousted Cai Jing, who had little influence on the Western Army, although the Great Song Dynasty was known as using literature to control the military, but in the season when it was necessary to mobilize troops, whether the people who were in power could master the few divisions of the Great Song Dynasty that could win the field war became a very important condition.

Cai Jing is not a person who knows nothing about the current situation, the rise of the Jurchen, why can't he look at it? Although he contacted the old man in the Western Army, but the old seed did not sell himself to him, but used his strength to deal with Tong Guan, and the original condition was also to let the Western Army return to their old nest in Shaanxi Zhulu as soon as possible, if he still oppressed the Western Army like Tong Guan, let them stay in the north to prepare for the border, I am afraid that the old fox will turn against the water again, although he reset, but the hidden phase is still as stable as Mount Tai in the forbidden, Wu Min Geng Nanzhong's generation, now it is gradually not as tame as the day, and there is also a desire to compete for the position

The Jurchen will definitely make a comeback after a defeat, and the next day will inevitably cause trouble in the north, and the days of using troops will be long, if the control of the war is not effective, maybe it will be Zhang Ben, who will be the opponent in the future, not to mention that Li Gang has already taken over the position of the privy envoy, and it is even more justifiable to exert influence on the military.

Yang Ling's entry into Beijing is already an inevitable thing, no matter which faction in the DPRK and the central government, it is inevitable to place high hopes on the Shence and the Jinyang Second Army, and it is always the most worrying thing for Wenchen to grasp these two most effective armies in the future, and once something happens in the future, the voice in the DPRK and China will naturally be the loudest. (To be continued.) )