Corruption in a country begins with the corruption of the bureaucracy, then the judiciary, then the education, and finally the army.

When a country's army is corrupt to the extreme, the country is also hopeless, even if Qin Shi Huang is resurrected, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is reincarnated, and Zhu Chongba is coming, he is powerless to return to the sky, and can only watch the country perish.

The shame of Jingkang is about to happen. The Great Song Dynasty had an army of one million, but it could not defend the capital, resulting in the fall of the capital and the loss of half of the country. The reason why this is so is because the bureaucracy, justice, education, and even the military in this country are all corrupt to the extreme, and they are powerless to return to heaven. At this time, there was a phenomenon in the Song Dynasty, anti-corruption is looking for death, and not fighting corruption is waiting for death.

The building will fall, and it will be difficult to support it alone.

The demise of a country is far from being something that a single person cannot sustain. The Great Song Dynasty is about to perish, and trying to act as a single tree and prop up the collapsed edifice is bound to be tragic.

If you want to be a single tree and support a collapsed building, if you are unlucky, you are Li Hongzhang and others

Zhao Pu is self-aware, he is a mortal, although he is a little clever and calculating, but if he wants to rely on his strength alone, relying on these 8,000 elite soldiers, he will not leave after punching Yan and kicking Yan Muhan, it is impossible.

It's okay for him to fight a small ambush and bite off a few mouthfuls of meat from the Jin Army, and to fight against the main force of the Jin Army, it is definitely a material to find death.

At this moment, the key is to train troops, train them in battle after battle, and constantly improve their combat effectiveness.

With the army, there is everything, and power comes out of the barrel of a gun, this is an eternal truth.

With an elite army, you can win the world with good luck; If you are unlucky, you can also protect yourself from being killed by the Jin army.

However, the premise of all this is that the army must be absolutely loyal, and the combat effectiveness of the army is relatively strong. Lacking loyal ministers, Zhao Pu would rather destroy and rebuild; Lacking combat effectiveness, he will be defeated at the touch of a button, and Zhao Pu would rather destroy it.

And the premise of all this is to strengthen the construction of the army; The premise of strengthening army building is to put an end to corruption.

Corruption can be tolerated anywhere, but corruption in the military must not be tolerated.

Once an army is corrupted by corruption, it is not trustworthy because it can be betrayed at any time in a critical moment.

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As for the shame of Jingkang, there are many historical records and many comments, which are nothing more than saying that the emperor is incompetent, the army is not strong, or the capitulation faction surrenders, or the Jin people are cruel, etc., but the only thing that is ignored is the betrayal of the scholars, the betrayal of the army.

History is written by literati, and literati also control the discourse of history, and many negative information about literati is also disguised, beautified, and even distorted

For example, it is written in history that Li Gang is a hero of the anti-Jin resistance, and it seems that it was because he was expelled that the failure of the anti-Jin resistance and the shame of Jingkang were caused. The history books also wrote him out of Zhuge Wuhou, and it seems that between talking and laughing, the Jin army was all wiped out.

In fact, Li Gang was just a literati who did not understand military affairs, and 200,000 defenders of Bianliang defended the city, and 80,000 Jin troops attacked the city, and the result was barely to keep the city. In the strategy of rescuing Hedong, Li Gang was also defeated repeatedly, and all the elites were wiped out, and finally Fujian was demoted;

He has always advocated sticking to Bianliang and opposing the relocation of the capital, without taking into account the crisis in Bianliang in fact, which finally led to evil consequences.

is also a main battle faction, but he has a discord with the seed master, which leads to a split within the anti-gold faction and causes the situation to collapse.

He is a man of letters with backbone, and he is only like that, not as powerful as the history books say.

For example, in the history books, it is said that Song Qinzong was weak and incompetent, appointed the surrender faction, drove out Li Gang, humiliated and sued for peace, relaxed the autumn defense, did not strengthen the Yellow River defense line, and even went to Jinying to sue for peace, and finally did not return. It seems that Song Qinzong is a waste, brain-dead, and mentally retarded patient.

But the real history is that Song Qinzong is not brain-dead at all, nor is he a waste. The capitulation faction was appointed because seven out of ten people were capitulation factions. Not appointing the capitulation faction is tantamount to expelling the seventh-tier ministers from the court, which is at least turbulent in the court and at worst the throne is not guaranteed. drove Li Gang away because of the defeat of the Hedong army, and the defeat of the Hedong army drove away a large group of people, and he didn't care about him alone. The relaxation of autumn defense and the failure to strengthen the defense line of the Yellow River are not because Song Qinzong does not know the importance of autumn defense, but because he wants money and no money, he wants soldiers and no soldiers, and the fire consumption is serious, so he is unable to defend in autumn at all.

Historically, the record of Jingkang's shame is that the Jin army coerced the city of Bianliang, and a gate in the outer city was lost. At that time, the Jin army asked for peace, and asked the two emperors of Song Huizong and Song Qinzong to negotiate with Jinying, but when they arrived in Jinying, they were detained, signed a surrender table, and finally were escorted to Jin as slaves.

The world will always say that these two emperors of the Song Dynasty had a problem with their heads, so why did they go to death if they didn't stay in Bianliang.

But the truth is, they had to go. Because the Manchu ministers all asked them to go to negotiate peace, they had to go, if they didn't go, there would be a mutiny, and at worst they would die "inexplicably".

In the Great Song Dynasty, a democratic society, where officials and scholars ruled the world together, to a large extent, the scholars overthrew the emperor, and the emperor had to submit to the opinions of the scholars, although sometimes the opinions of the scholars were wrong.

The emperor of the Song Dynasty, who was the spokesman for the power of the scholars, had to conform to the interests of the scholars, although in many cases the interests of the scholars conflicted with the interests of the Great Song Dynasty.

At the moment of the Bianliang crisis, in the face of the invasion of the Jin army, the interests of scholars and doctors were devastated. In order to preserve the interests of scholars, they had to throw out their abandoned sons, and Song Qinzong and Song Huizong were abandoned sons.

In the Great Song Dynasty, it was not so much the emperor who controlled the military power, but the scholars who controlled the military power.

At that time, the two emperors of the Song Dynasty could only know the current affairs, went to the Jin army, presented the surrender table, and were even escorted away. They had to do it because they couldn't command the army anymore; If they resist to the death, they may die inexplicably or be assassinated before the city is broken; Or it was sacrificed to the Jin Army.

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The real history, no one knows.

However, we can see the relatively real side through those untrue words.

Zhao Pu didn't want to, he fell asleep one day, but his head was cut off and given to the generals of the Jin Army in exchange for glory and wealth.

And in order to avoid this kind of tragedy, the only way to achieve absolute control of the army is not in the hands of scholars, nor in the hands of warriors, but in his hands. lest that day he would offend the interests of some people, and as a result, he would mutiniate and be in a different place.

The starting point for absolute control over the armed forces lies in severely cracking down on corruption in the armed forces and preventing the armed forces from being corroded by sugar-coated shells.

What Zhao Pu couldn't tolerate was that this clerk, who had just been promoted for less than a day, was actually corrupt.

Just in the morning, I asked about seven prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings, and in the afternoon it was corruption.

And the most odious thing is that this clerk actually denied it.

Zhao Pu smiled, he has always been just a continuous ideological education, a constant subtle influence, but it does not mean that he will not use military law and will not kill. "You said I wronged you, what is this!"

Three pieces of paper were thrown in the clerk's face with a crisp sound.

At this moment, Zhao Pu's mood was surprisingly calm, this was the calm before the storm, "This is evidence, recording how much you embezzled at a certain moment and a certain moment, and there are things that say that you will give you gifts, and what are you under your hands." You are so bold, this king just announced the seven prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings in the morning, and you are the only one who can recite it, but you actually violated it, bastard, what do you look like military law? ”

Cao Lei looked at the contents of the three pieces of paper, and immediately felt a little angry, it was indeed the truth, it was indeed the money he embezzled, but there was some fuss, and the total value of those things was only two hundred yuan.

Embezzlement 200 times, what kind of thing is this?

What is the purpose of being promoted in the army, isn't it just to get promoted and make a fortune? For the sake of just 200 times, it seems a bit too much to make such a fuss.

Zhao Pudao: "These are fake, if you are not convinced, I will give you a chance to justify?" ”

"I'm not convinced, isn't it two hundred? There are people who are more greedy than me......" Cao Lei immediately defended, but as he spoke, his words gradually stopped, because he saw the angry eyes of this prince, as if he was going to eat him.

Zhao Pu never dreamed that there would be such a strange idea, and corruption seemed to be taken for granted.

That's right, promotion is to get rich, promotion is to get rich, being an official is to get rich, being an official is the best way to get rich. Moreover, Da Song does not have an anti-corruption law, and he has not cut off a person's head because of corruption.

When liquidating Qin Hui, Qin Hui was charged with many crimes, but there was no mention of corruption.

It seems that before the Ming Dynasty, there was no clear anti-corruption law, and many people lost their heads because of political opponents or the emperor's dissatisfaction, and few people were beheaded because of corruption.

The Song Dynasty even practiced not killing scholars, so scholars were not in danger of losing their heads, even if they embezzled a lot of money. Even if he is caught after corruption, he will only be demoted to Guangdong and Hainan Island.

Zhao Pu took a deep breath, and one hundred yuan was converted into RMB, which was 30,000 yuan. Because 30,000 cut off people's skulls, it seems to be a bit excessive. But when I thought of the troubled times and killing chickens and monkeys, the killing intent became strong again.

To kill or not to kill, two thoughts kept lingering in his heart, hesitating.

And Cao Lei was also frightened, he was a smart person, he felt the killing intent of this prince, and knew that if this prince wanted to kill someone, he didn't need too much trouble at all, it was as easy as stepping on an ant.

In the end, Zhao Pu still gave up, killing people can't solve the problem, and it can't play the role of killing chickens and monkeys.

"You've disappointed me, get out of here! From today onwards, you are not a clerk, but a creep. Zhao Pu finally shouted, "You disappointed me very much, I was very disappointed, I originally wanted to cultivate you, but your words and deeds are inconsistent, your mouth can say seven prohibitions and fifty-four slashes, but you can't do it, just took office, you let me down!" ”

Cao Lei was full of chagrin, and sighed secretly in his heart, for the sake of a hundred times, he lost his official position, and he also lost the trust of the prince.

PS: Let's change back to the original pen name! The original pen name was called The Loss of Carthage.

Carthage was originally a powerful country in the Mediterranean, with a developed economy and strong strength, but the biggest disadvantage was that the merchants were too powerful. The power of businessmen is too great, affecting the formulation of national policies, everything is based on interests, lack of foresight, and the will of the people is weak. Despite Carthage's economic strength and the presence of famous generals like Hannibal, it still sank, leaving posterity with eternal loss.

And the Song Dynasty can be said to be Carthage second.