"Twenty miles from the east of the Shun'an army to Mozhou, all of them are rivers and ditches, covered by reeds, and the springs are vertical and horizontal. Thirty miles to Xiongzhou in the northeast, seventy miles to Bazhou in the east, and sea mouth in the east, all are Yingtian embankments, and the water is gradually rippling, this is the place where the Huns fall into the sky, and they can't ride and shoot. ”

This endless swamp was the nightmare of the Jurchen cavalry, in which they struggled and cried, and wandered around like headless flies in this huge trap, and finally the puddles became their resting place, where they stinked and rotted, and finally turned into lonely ghosts and wild ghosts who wandered and wailed forever in the Wen'an Depression in this foreign land.

Zhao Ta had to admire Zong Han's survival skills in the wild, he actually hid in the depression for more than ten days, and the Song army's search and capture troops played Tibetan cats and cats in the hundred-mile reeds, relying on fishing and shrimp, eating reed roots to survive, and survived until the Song army withdrew from the siege, and escaped across the boundary river day and night, where he encountered the same embarrassing vultures. The two waited in the Jiehe River for several days, collecting the remnants of the army that had fled back, and the number of points was no more than a thousand!

In this battle, the Song army beheaded more than 35,000 people, and those who died in the swamp cannot be counted at all, but this record is enough to be proud. It not only dealt a heavy blow to the two Jin armies that invaded the Song army, but also thwarted the Jurchens' ambition to enter the Central Plains, greatly weakened the strength of the Jin army, and shook the Jin country and the surrounding countries.

Wu Qimai said bitterly when he heard the news: The failure of this southward march is the worst defeat since Dajin raised his army! This time, not only did the second prince Han Li, but the two leading figures of the God of War Wanyan Lou Room, Wu Qimai's eldest son Zong Xuan was captured. More than 300 generals and generals were killed. There are even 100,000 elite soldiers, which can be described as an unprecedented loss. This directly led to a sharp drop in the strength of the Jin army. It has become a node from prosperity to decline, and has lost the ability to launch a large-scale war again in a short time. The Song was fully turned on the defensive.

After the battle to destroy Liao, the soldiers of the Jin State finally saw the wealth and prosperity of the Song State in the Central Plains, and for the first time they had the ambition to occupy this land for a long time, so they wanted to completely conquer this land by force and make the people of the Song State submit to the Jin State. But what they did not make his dream of ruling the entire Central Plains come true, but on the contrary, it awakened the blood of the entire Central Plains people and made the Jin Kingdom the enemy of the entire Central Plains people.

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The war was temporarily over, and Zhao Ta stood on the tower of Yijin Pass in Bazhou and looked north, across the boundary river is the boundary of Yanjing. The emperors of the Great Song Dynasty dreamed of the land of twilight, but returned again and again in vain, losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the short occupation in the previous years almost led to the destruction of the country.

"Second master, it's time to go!" Zhao Xin said softly.

"Well, we'll be back soon, and it will be back to our Great Song!" Zhao Ta retracted his gaze and said.

"Well, I'll come and see it with the second master then!" Zhao Xin took the prince's hand and said.

"Hehe, this is probably the best chance of the future. As soon as you enter the capital, it is as deep as the sea! Zhao Ta said with a little melancholy, the emperor can no longer travel as lightly as in the past, and he can go wherever he wants!

"Your Majesty, please move and drive!" At this time, Zhang Suo stepped forward and said. This time, he has been appointed as the pacification envoy of Gaoyang Road, and is responsible for the defense of the central and eastern Hebei Plain. The town guards Xiongzhou Waqiao Pass, Bazhou Yijin Pass and Xin'an Army Sikou Pass, which is the three passes in Hebei.

"Lord Zhang. The Jurchens suffered this defeat, although they would not provoke a major war again. But you will not be willing to fail, and you will send troops to disturb the border, so you must not only appease the people and let them return to their hometowns as soon as possible, but also train the army diligently to prepare for border troubles! Zhao Ta told as he walked, the Zhongxing Army cannot be stationed here, and the guards on the border also need to form a new border guard to take charge, and the soldiers will be selected from the Wuma Mountain Volunteer Army, Zhao Bangjie is the chief of soldiers and horses, this person is the emperor of the emperor, can not be reused, but still needs to be exercised.

"Weichen will follow the lessons of His Majesty and will live up to expectations!" Zhang said respectfully.

"Pengju, you are in charge at the beginning, you should act cautiously, you must not be angry, and think twice when you encounter something!" Zhao Ta said to Yue Fei, who saw him off, that this time he once again promoted him to the head of the soldiers and horses of the Dingzhou Road with his contribution to recovering the Baoding Army; Wang Jin knew Zhongshan Mansion and concurrently served as the pacification envoy of Dingzhou Road; Chen Yu was promoted to the position of transshipment envoy of the two rivers.

"The last general will live up to His Majesty's expectations, prepare for battle, and recover Yanjing!" Yue Fei Shili said, since he followed the prince to rise like a rocket, Dingzhou Road unified Zhongshan, Bao, Shen, Qi, Guangxin, Ansu, Yongning, Shun'an Bafu Prefecture Army, west from Changshan, east of Xiongzhou and Yanjing border, this road guards the northern section of the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, the mountain opens the river flat, conducive to cavalry assault, for the first choice of the northern nomads in the past dynasties to go south, the importance of strategic defense is self-evident. Now let him, a person who has only been in the army for a few years, take on this position, which can be described as an exceptional promotion.

Zhao Ta then once again paid homage to the Song soldiers who died in the battle, and asked Zhang to erect a monument to commemorate and personally mention the inscription. At this time, the three armies were rewarded, the cannons were fired, and the armies of the Zhongxing Army and the armies of Henan Prefecture returned south at the same time. As early as a few days ago, Zhao Ta sent a letter to Bianjing and Datong respectively, and informed the states and counties along the way to prepare corresponding things.

The army marched slowly, and the road back to Beijing seemed unusually long, Zhao Ta was lying in the car, very tired but unable to sleep, entangled by an inexplicable euphoria, thinking that he was going to manage an empire, he couldn't tell whether he was happy or nervous, just like he was on the battlefield for the first time, I don't know what kind of future awaits him, how will the history books comment on his extraneous thing...

In his previous life, Zhao had the same impression as most people, believing that the Tang Dynasty was the pinnacle of the development of China's feudal society. But with his understanding of this world, although it was the darkest and declining period, he had a deeper understanding of the Song Dynasty, compared with the Song Dynasty, the Tang Empire was just the end of the Chinese Middle Ages.

Indeed, under the seemingly splendid and gorgeous coat of the Tang Empire, swords, swords, and bloody wind flashed everywhere all the time. Although there was an enlightened "rule of Zhenguan" and a flashy "prosperous era of Kaiyuan", it could not hide the despicability of the Tang Dynasty's fratricidal brotherhood, the ferocity of killing ministers, and the catastrophe of the "Anshi Rebellion". The filth of the eunuchs' arbitrary power, and the chaos of the division of the feudal town. The catastrophe of the Huangchao Uprising, and the endless killing and strife of the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Especially the eventful autumn of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. When the martial artist was in power, the only husband used his power, regarded human life as a mustard, usurped as a child's play, and regarded war as a commonplace, and even lured wolves into the house, cut land for glory, and ruined the good land of China to the point of misery, which was unbearable to see.

Zhao Kuangyin became independent on behalf of Zhou. The Song Dynasty became the dynasty with the fewest killings of ministers in ancient Chinese history, and it was also a rare dynasty that did not break out in a nationwide peasant uprising.

Song Taizu implemented the rule of culture and far-sightedly implemented the system of "separation of powers", dividing the administrative, military, and financial powers that were previously led by the prime minister into three, and was directly responsible to the emperor. In this way, it is difficult for the minister to "cover the sky with one hand". Furthermore. Song Dazu also implemented the system of separating official positions and dispatches, and only dispatches were actual posts, and at the same time, local officials were transferred once every three years. Thus putting an end to the creation of factions.

In addition to secretly making a covenant that "scholars and doctors and people who write and say things" in the Song Dynasty also opened up the way of speech, opened up the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and improved the status of Taiwan. The establishment of the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Imperial Yuan, which are two supervisory and public opinion bodies with similar responsibilities and extremely authoritative, are generally held by those who are academic, talented, and of good moral character. and allowed "rumors and rumors."

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Dr. Youlishi, was to manage the world with him. Proclaiming "the one under heaven." It is not the world of one person, but the world of the world. "Although there is a suspicion of hypocrisy. However, it opened a historical precedent for restricting the imperial power and sharing the world with monarchs and ministers. When the imperial court issued a policy, the emperor must fully solicit the opinions of his courtiers and "familiarize himself with it" before it can be promulgated. Otherwise, the subordinates can be "refuted" and refuse to carry out the emperor's orders. And the emperor had no other way than to remove the ministers, so he did not dare to "act in disorder".

In addition, the Song Dynasty also used "members of the clan are not allowed to hold important positions in the center" to prevent the kings from making rebellion, to improve the imperial examination system to recruit talents, and to prevent eunuchs from dictatorship and harem interference with the strict system...... Under the implementation of a series of strict and benevolent political systems, the civil bureaucracy allowed power to be freely indulged and uneventful, creating the most enlightened era of ancient Chinese politics.

"The lord is soft and the minister is strong" became a prominent feature of the politics of the Song Dynasty. Enlightened politics enabled the Song Dynasty to realize the "separation of powers" under centralization, and the dawn of democracy has begun to appear. At that time, Africa was still a primitive society, the Americas were still a wilderness, and Europe was wandering in blood and darkness. The Song Dynasty, which had the most advanced political system and the most democratic style at that time, was far ahead of the entire world...

In ancient and modern times, the decline and fall of almost all dynasties and states began with moral decline, and the Song Dynasty could not be left alone. The Zhao and Song dynasties also went through a political transformation from active reform to selfish desires, militarily from the desire to win to war and disadvantage to blindly seek peace, and culturally from generosity and benevolence to self-containment to incorruptibility and shame, and finally helplessly declined.

Although Zhao Kuangyin designed the most advanced political system in the world at that time with his superhuman wisdom, he could not guarantee that his children and grandchildren would be as eloquent and strategic as himself, and that they would be as diligent and diligent as himself. Song finally came to the point of national ruin, all of which were related to the moral degradation and strategic mistakes of his unscrupulous descendants.

When Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Cai Jing and his ilk sat firmly in the court, and the two monarchs and ministers brought the arrogant and lascivious and shameless things in the world to the extreme. When the shamelessness of the court's monarchs and ministers, especially the scholars, caused "chaos from above", "defeat from below", and "social ashes", almost all of the social elites with "scholarly backbone" were excluded from the core of power. And when the rule was facing collapse, it was the social elites in the opposition who became the backbone of the resistance to the enemy and saved the country, and wrote the most tragic scene...

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Although Zhao Ta did not have a deep understanding of the modern state system, he also knew that the civil service system had become the mainstream of the world, and the separation of powers had also become a symbol of a modern democratic country, which was enough to show the advanced nature of this system. Most of the efforts to establish the system are to overcome the maladministration of the past, and there is no lack of reference for future generations to establish the system.

The system of government of "family under heaven" itself determines that this system is to serve the maintenance of the inheritance and rule of the Zhao regime. After Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he deeply understood the disadvantages of the five people's autocratic power during the Five Dynasties period, so he paid attention to the appointment of Wenchen who was born in the imperial examination, he once said: Appointing Wenchen as an official, even if they are all corrupt, it is less harmful than appointing military generals! It can be seen that the purpose of the formulation is to replace the aristocratic politics and martial arts politics in the past, and to achieve the effect of strengthening the cadres and weak branches, and suppressing the military force.

The system is a good system, and it has also achieved the expected results, consolidating the centralization of absolutist power, taking care of the interests of all quarters, and better adjusting the internal contradictions of the ruling group, so that there were few major political turmoil during the more than 100 years of the Song Dynasty's rule, thus ensuring its great socio-economic, scientific, technological, and cultural development. However, due to the limitations and particularities of history, the civil service system of the Song Dynasty also brought about various serious political consequences.

First of all, due to the low power of the prime minister and the weight of the Taiwan admonition, many departments of government have hindered each other; The officials were conservative, redundant officials were full of officials, and the administrative efficiency was low. The history says that "the main people of the current Chinese book, the chief soldier of the Privy Council, and the three chiefs of finance do not know each other." Therefore, the wealth has been scarce and the Privy Council has been in vain; The people are trapped and the three divisions are desperate to get rich. The Chinese book regards the difficulties of the people and does not know how to reduce the troops of the privy council, and the three divisions are wide to save the people in need, and the position of the country is not in the middle book. This also led to the fact that the Jin army had already crossed the Yellow River, and the imperial court had not yet discussed a countermeasure, which can be described as a great irony.

In addition, in order to contain the localities, the Song Dynasty added many official positions, making the bureaucracy huge. Zhongshu Order, Shizhong, Shangshu Order, not with the government; The squire does not receive a provincial position; There is no responsibility for the left and right advice, and the living room and living room make people not stick to the pen of memorization; …… As for the servants, Shangshu, Cheng, Lang, Langzhong, outside the staff, and those who live in their officials do not know their duties, the secretaries, the two provinces in the palace exist in name only, and the nine temples, the five eunuchs, and the especially empty officials. But not doing things does not mean not paying wages, which has caused financial constraints, the country is running out, and ten sheep and nine herds have become a true portrayal.

Moreover, although centralization has helped to eliminate military divisions, it has been overkill, resulting in excessive local weakness. Local officials obey the orders of the central government in everything, and they cannot govern independently, and all tax revenues are collected by the central government, so the localities are poor and weak, and there is no way to build, and it is difficult to deal with any problems. It was the soldiers who also received it, the wealth also received it, the rewards and punishments, and the punishment and the government, and everything was collected. The consequence is that "the disaster of Jingkang, the captives and horses passed, and they will all collapse." ”

'Overkill' solved a temporary dilemma, but in the long run, generations of emperors did not dare to violate the ancestral system, and could not have the courage to correct deviations and reforms, which eventually caused extremely serious consequences, which not only affected the development of the country, but also led to the situation of the weak Song generation... (To be continued......)