Chapter 143: The Storm and the Storm (10)
"Shengming is not an official!" What else can a few people say, Song Huizong Zhao Ji can be said to be the country with the most concentrated monarchy in the Zhao and Song dynasties for a hundred years, and the national policy of the Great Song Dynasty was originally to rule the world together with the king and scholars, but why Zhao Ji can play Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and other old treacherous and cunning people around, it can be seen that he is smart and powerful.
Zhao Ji's folk impression is mostly because "Water Margin" has become a well-known emperor, because the shame of Jingkang is really a great shame for the Han nation, so it is somewhat demeaning and scandalizing the Song Dynasty, so as the actual last monarch of the Northern Song Dynasty, the image of Song Huizong is very mentally retarded, and he is considered to be a decadent feudal ruler who has finished playing the country. As an emperor, he did not have the domineering spirit of the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, nor was he sympathetic to the people's feelings, but he was keen on the petty bourgeois art of calligraphy and painting, and raised a large circle of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, making the people's livelihood miserable, and finally caused a catastrophe of destroying the country and destroying the species.
The positioning of the Song Dynasty was "weak and poor, and the people were not able to make a living", in fact, this positioning had a great deviation, and the Song Dynasty was neither weak nor poor. On the contrary, the Song Dynasty can be called the most brilliant page in the history of human civilization, and the achievements of civilization created by it are far from being comparable to any other country and era in human history.
The Renaissance in Europe, after some travelers' descriptions of the paradise of China in the East, was in fact a remnant of the Song Dynasty after the devastation of the Mongols, but it was still a paradise compared to the long devastation of the Middle Ages. At that time, the Song Dynasty was not only simply wealthy, but also reached a state of all-round prosperity (somewhat similar to the common prosperity we are talking about now), and the most famous evaluation was "pawn uniforms, farmers stomping silk shoes".
Seventy percent of the Song Dynasty's fiscal revenue came from industry and commerce, and only a small part came from agriculture, which made the modern Chinese who regarded themselves as an agricultural country too ashamed to mention it. First of all, there is a great congenital defect in the location of our China, that is, facing the vast Mongolian steppe, there is no barrier between the mountains and rivers, which is fatal in the era of cavalry dominance, fortunately our ancestors built the famous Great Wall, only to block the nomads from going south many times, and by the Han Wu Emperor, Tang Taizong and other great kings defeated the Xiongnu and Turks respectively.
However, after experiencing the rebellion of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. This defect was exacerbated by the territory inherited by the Song Dynasty, and the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and other places were occupied by the powerful Khitan state, from which nomads could break directly into the Central Plains. However, everyone should pay attention to one problem, as powerful as the Khitan, occupying such a favorable strategic terrain, but never really breaking into the hinterland of the Song Dynasty?
The Great Song Dynasty sent the "year coin" to seek peace, taking the famous Lanyuan Alliance as an example, the Song Dynasty sent 300,000 taels to the Khitan every year, but 300,000 is just a drop in the bucket for the Song Dynasty, which has an annual financial income of nearly 100 million, and it is far less than the 30 million military expenses of the Song army of the conscription system to seriously fight a war, and the result of this battle is actually that the Song Dynasty took away the Khitan Ying, Mo Erzhou, which is of great strategic significance.
In fact, it is a bit similar to the United States buying Alaska from the Soviet Union at a cheap price, on the recovery of the sixteen states of Youyun, although the Great Song Dynasty fought hard, but the main force was still fought by the Great Song Dynasty soldiers and horses, and the Jurchen cavalry played a role in containing the threat in the rear at the beginning, and the main reliance on the Song army sent to destroy the Liao State of Nuoda was mainly relied on.
It's just that in the end, the internal struggle was too fierce and was picked up by the Jurchens, so the merits of destroying Liao cannot be counted on the head of the Jin State alone.
There is another major reason for the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, after the destruction of Liao, the Song army quickly pointed to another great power: Western Xia. Destroying the might of Liao, the Song army made very good progress. Soon the soldiers came to the city of Lingzhou, and the destruction of Xia was already in the hands of Song Huizong, but at this time, a big accident happened: the shame of Jingkang.
The country is in full swing, the economy continues to develop, the culture is highly developed, the Great Liao has just been destroyed militarily, and the Western Xia is about to be subdued, probably no one will expect that the real Jurchen soldiers and horses are only thousands, even if the mature Jurchen and Bohai soldiers and horses add up to only tens of thousands, what threat will the Jurchens pose to this huge empire?
In fact, the Jurchens were originally a bitter tribe oppressed by the Khitans for a long time, and the Song Dynasty deliberately supported it out of the need to destroy the Liao, and the Song Dynasty did not pay enough attention to this tribe that was regarded as a barbarian tribe by the Khitans.
This is the case for the entire scholar class, as mentioned above, the homeland security of the Song Dynasty was the worst, and when it was actively defending, the Liao army could not break through from the plains at high speed, and even if it could break through at high speed, it was impossible to occupy it for a long time, and could only retreat at high speed. The Liao State itself did not want to fight with the Song Dynasty, so there was never a military situation in which the Liao army broke into the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, but when the Liao State was destroyed, the situation was different.
The Jurchen barbarians who are not afraid of heaven and earth have never thought of getting along with you friendly, trade, the Jurchen cavalry used the weapons and armor that the Song Dynasty supported them, and the main force of the Song army was fighting in Western Xia, when the attention of the Song people was in the west, they were divided into two roads and went straight to Tokyo, although the Jurchen West Route Army was resisted by Wang Yu, but the East Route Army rushed to Kaifeng City after a few days of long-distance running, of course, they did not come to destroy the country, but they came to plunder, and they did not have the strength to occupy Kaifeng, Therefore, they were very rude and haphazard and burned and looted for a while, and then fled, taking away a lot of wealth from the Song Dynasty, the emperor, and the emperor.
And China, as a modern and civilized country with a well-organized structure, was suddenly taken out of its heart, and no matter how strong its limbs were, it was useless, which was the biggest drawback of the monarchy's centralization, and the whole edifice collapsed just because of this accident. If there was no Jurchen cavalry to rush back that day, it would be reasonable for Song Huizong's army to level Daxia after leveling Daliao, and it was natural for the Song Dynasty's national strength to level various non-Chinese civilization countries in turn.
The official Zhao Ji is too conceited and frivolous, this is the shortcoming that he can never be, but in general, the Great Song Dynasty is so strong, there are generals, soldiers and money, and he has no inevitable relationship with him, and his contribution after taking the throne is really pitiful, and the family business left by his ancestors is enough for him to squander.
Different from Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Alexander, Constantine and others, although Zhao Ji does not like political affairs, although his talent is intelligent, but 30 points are all on art, as the head of the "thin gold body" and "courtyard painting school", Zhao Ji is comparable to Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing literary giants.
The "Wanshou Daozang" compiled by Emperor Daojun is also an immortal masterpiece in the history of human religious thought, so he is a religious master who can be compared with St. Paul, Newton, Xuanzang, and Jiantian, however, what the chaotic world needs is not an artist, but a king with great talent and long-term vision......
ps: I can't help but be green again.,I'll change it in the future.,The network was suddenly disconnected at home.,This point was just written and sent up with a mobile phone.,The balls hurt a little.,Today it's designated that I can't continue to write.,Mother,There's no sign at all.。