Zhao Pu once wanted to push the Song Dynasty to its peak more than once, and wanted to destroy the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia to the north and develop the northeast; to the west, he destroyed Western Xia, Western Liao, seized the Hexi Corridor, Xinjiang, and expanded his territory to the vicinity of the Caspian Sea; And in the south, it is necessary to fight fiercely and regain the territory that was independent in the five dynasties; In the southeast, it is necessary to build the Nanyang Metropolitan Protectorate, and to develop Australia, the Americas and other regions.

It's just that these are just the thoughts of Zhao Pu when he first became the emperor, and the longer he became the emperor, the more these thoughts became slimmer.

In order to destroy the gold, the treasury was exhausted and almost bankrupt; If you move swords and soldiers everywhere, it will inevitably be a fiscal deficit every year, the people's grievances will boil, and there will be uprisings everywhere, and the Great Song Dynasty may soon collapse. The Great Song Dynasty followed the path of Confucianism, Confucianism opposed war, opposed to aggression, and if it was a naked invasion like Europe, it was definitely against the Manchu Dynasty.

It's okay to want to go to war, but at least you have to have an excuse, even if it's very clumsy and.

Once more than 100,000 troops are dispatched and the war lasts for a year, it will inevitably bring financial pressure, and it will inevitably cause opposition from the court and complaints from the people.

In this era, wars are affected by the natural environment, climatic conditions, and various objective factors.

Throughout the Song Dynasty, there were many defeats in fierce battles with the Western Xia; When he fought fiercely with Jiaozhi, he also lost the battle; Many of these defeats are due to the geographical environment and climate.

And in this battle of Song and Jin, the Song Dynasty also fought many defeats, but fortunately, these defeats were covered up by the victory of the Song Dynasty and were not noticed by the world.

In a word. In this era of war, luck is very important, and it can be a plague. Maybe the mountains are difficult to walk, maybe the grain and grass are not delivered, maybe the soldiers are tired of fighting, maybe it is just a trivial factor, so the battle is lost.

In these years, in addition to relying on strength, many wars rely on luck. With bad luck, defeat in the war was inevitable.

Once in the process of destroying Jin, Western Xia, and Western Liao, he lost a battle. Maybe the anti-war faction will have the upper hand, or maybe it won't be done in the end. In fact, during the Han and Tang dynasties, many wars ended up being over. It became a sandwich rice.

I want to rely on war. There are many dangerous factors in solving the Jin Kingdom, Western Xia, and Western Liao, and one careless person may be frustrated.

And even if the shit luck breaks out, can these countries finally occupy it and completely become Han land?

Zhao Pu shook his head and came up with a negative answer.

War will destroy a country, but it is very difficult to occupy it for a long time and turn it into a Han land. If you are not careful, you may collapse. Just like the Mongols of later generations. It occupied many parts of Eurasia, but with the decline of Mongolia, these regions gradually broke away from Mongolia.

It's important to have a full meal, but if you are supported by food, you will have indigestion, and you will be wrong!

The Yuan Dynasty is a typical indigestion!

I once thought that opening up a new continent and opening up colonization activities overseas would make Australia and America part of the Great Song Dynasty.

I just thought about it, but I still don't think it's reliable.

In these years, the navigation technology is backward, and the danger factor of sailing at sea is large, and there may be problems in three or five out of ten voyages. Sailing, more is to exchange life for money. The Americas are too far away to reach, and only Australia is reliable.

However, with the Northern Expedition of the Song Army and the recapture of the north, it is inevitable to focus on post-disaster reconstruction and strengthen the northern border defense. In the north, after years of war, there are fewer people and more land, and a large number of people will inevitably emerge from the south to the north, and the number of immigrants to the South Sea to Australia will inevitably decrease.

After all, one is the former homeland, and the other is indeed an unknown land, as long as the head is not confused, they will choose the north, not the dangerous land of barbarians.

Moreover, war can cause great destruction and reduce fertile land to ruins. Zhao Pu doesn't want to spend a lot of money to build a certain place, and then spend several times the money to rebuild it, it's not worth it, it's too much money.

Zhao Pu had to change his strategy, based on cultural infiltration, focusing on economic invasion, supplemented by military strikes, and did not seek to expand the territory of the Song Dynasty to the strongest, but only to expand the territory of the Song Dynasty to the most suitable.

In some fertile places, in some critical places, send troops to garrison and occupy the main; In the Song Dynasty, where the military strength was difficult to reach and the influence was less, it was mainly economic invasion and economic control; In more distant areas, cultural infiltration and cultural brainwashing are the mainstay.

In this era, aggression is very simple, and when we talk about aggression, we mainly refer to military aggression.

But in later generations, aggression became more complex and more secretive. Sometimes, even if you know it's aggression, it's hard to get rid of it.

During the opening up of new shipping routes, Western aggression was mainly burned, looted, massacred Indians, seized various resources such as gold and silver mines, and invaded naked violence and cruelty. This kind of aggression arouses the most envy and hatred, and it is also the most likely to trigger ethnic conflicts, and it is a scourge.

However, in the capitalist era, it was mainly commercial, selling all kinds of industrial products, controlling the colonial economy, and turning the colony into vassals. This kind of aggression is relatively mild, but if you look closely, you can still see it;

After World War II, the colonies became independent and seemed to be independent, but in fact they were economically controlled, and they were even more controlled by democracy, divided and disintegrated, and controlled. It is said to be an independent country, but in fact it is not independent at all, it is economically controlled, and the government leaders are also puppets, it is another kind of colony.

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And in this era, the Song Dynasty is undoubtedly another America!

The politics, economy, and culture of the Song Dynasty had an overwhelming advantage over the surrounding countries, and the military victory at this moment was even more deterrent to the countries, and the surrounding countries were overwhelming for the Song Dynasty, and the surrounding countries were terrified.

At this moment, it is just time for Zhao Pu to implement the "Twenty-one Articles", cutting meat with a blunt knife step by step, first cultural infiltration, then economic control, and then political control.

Once that step is reached, it doesn't matter who is the emperor of the Western Xia, Western Liao, and Jin Kingdoms, because no matter who is the emperor, they are all puppets.

Maybe some emperors will find that they just want to resist, but they are very powerless.

This is a naked conspiracy!

At this time, Zhao Pu heard a sound of footsteps, and saw Wang Wuyue walking in, holding tea and snacks in her hand.

"Your Majesty, eat some, it's getting dark again!"

Wang Wuyue said.

Zhao Pu smiled and said, "Got it! ”

"Your Majesty, please give my Khitan people a way to live!" Wang Wuyue gritted her teeth and said. If the emperor is determined to go west, the Western Liao may not be able to resist it at that time.

"The Jin Kingdom once invaded my Great Song Dynasty, destroyed my Great Song Sheji, captured the children of my clan, and brought great shame and humiliation to my Great Song Dynasty, I still gave them a way to live, besides, they are Khitans!"

Zhao Pu continued, "Don't hate your enemies, hatred will make you make bigger mistakes. Song Jin has a grudge, if I don't hate the Jurchens, how can I hate the Khitans! ”

"Really?" Wang Wuyue was full of joy, the emperor was the most arrogant, too lazy to tell lies, and no one was worthy of him to lie. The emperor said that if it is left to the Khitan people, there is a way to live, and it must be left to the Khitan people, a way to live.

"There is no hatred in the world that cannot be resolved, time will forget everything and heal the wounds in the heart!"

Zhao Pu said quietly.

Only the idle eggs hurt and the literati who moaned without illness always talked about national hatred and the spiritual trauma of the past. And many people are realistic, living in the contemporary era, busy with firewood, rice, oil and salt, marrying wives and having children, and obsessed with getting promoted and making a fortune.

For the sake of so-called national hatred, engaging in a national war that hurts both sides is only the hope of careerists, not the hope of ordinary people.

Time will dissolve hatred, and after a few generations, no one will remember hatred as long as it is not deliberately intensified.

As a king, we should resolve national hatred, not exacerbate it! (To be continued......)