War has never been a simple contest of military strength.

War is more of a collision of comprehensive national strength between the two countries, and a confrontation in more than a dozen aspects, such as economic strength, scientific and technological level, population, national will, military mobilization capability, war reserves, and military strength. And in different periods, in different countries, the emphasis is different.

The Xiongnu fought the Han Dynasty, and the Turks fought the Tang Dynasty, and the Xiongnu were defeated and the Turks were defeated, because the Han and Tang dynasties were mainly agricultural, and the economic strength and population were far away from the Xiongnu and the Turks.

When it came to the economic strength and population of the Song Dynasty, it completely exploded the Liao State, the Western Xia, the Jin State, and the Mongol State, but it was defeated repeatedly, because the Song Dynasty's military mobilization ability was too poor, and its strong economic strength and huge population were not transformed into strong military strength.

Carthage was a commercial country, Rome was an agricultural country, in the collision between Carthage and Rome, Carthage failed, because Carthage's national will was more fragile, and the ability to last the war was worse, when the war damaged the interests of the big merchants, it would be forced to armistice and sign a humiliating treaty, although Rome lost more at that time;

Therefore, it is very important to enhance the will of the people, which is also the reason why the north fought the south in an uproar, and the south played the northern expedition, and was repeatedly defeated.

The Ming Dynasty played with firearms, and the variety of firearms and the high level were breathtaking; However, the Qing Dynasty was playing with bows and arrows, and the level was backward. But the backward Qing Dynasty was still the Ming Dynasty that played with muskets. This shows that advanced weapons are important, but people are even more important.

Throughout the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, it is nothing more than two national policies, one will be peace, and the other will be the Northern Expedition. In the disagreement between the peace and the Northern Expedition, the Southern Song Dynasty lived secretly until he finally died.

When negotiating peace, they are often scolded as losing power and humiliating the country; And after the failure of the Northern Expedition, he was scolded for the incompetence of the army.

In fact, whether it is peace negotiation or the Northern Expedition, the Southern Song Dynasty has always been in sub-health. A sub-healthy country is destined to be unable to regain lost territory and is destined to be unable to act.

The Southern Song Dynasty seems to have a strong GDP and a terrifying integrated national strength, but unfortunately everything has not been used on the blade, and the terrifying integrated national strength has never been transformed into a strong military strength.

Zhao Pu seems that in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are nothing, he advocates absolute strength, and the absolute pressure formed.

Why are the Yankees of later generations so awesome? It is because the United States has the dollar, as long as the money printing machine is turned on, the money rolls in; There is a powerful aircraft carrier formation, and whoever is not convinced will be destroyed. With a big stick in one hand and money in the other, both hands must be grasped, and both hands must be hard, and the result is invincible.

Simple and brutal, yet most immediate.

And what about the Song Dynasty? The Song Dynasty had the comprehensive national strength of the United States, military spending was comparable to that of the German fascists, the combat effectiveness of the army was only the level of Italy, and the people lived a hard life like Afghanistan.

The Song Dynasty was too rich, and the Han and Tang dynasties in front of it and the Ming and Qing dynasties in the back were all completely exploded, whether it was financial revenue, economy and culture, city rate level, etc., it was a complete explosion. Corresponding to the economic strength is the huge military spending, which occupies seven layers of the national treasury, even if it is the German fascists of later generations, and the Japanese fascists are no more than that.

However, Germany and Japan have won many battles and won amazing victories, but the Song Dynasty has been defeated repeatedly, and its weak military strength is like the Italian army, the noodle army.

In stark contrast to the powerful economy of the Song Dynasty, the common people lived as hard as Afghanistan.

The Song Dynasty had the most peasant uprisings, although the Song Dynasty was not overthrown by peasant uprisings; The Song Dynasty's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were the heaviest in all dynasties, and the middle-class family was still bankrupt; The corruption in the Song Dynasty was the most serious, because the national policy was not to kill scholars, that is, not to kill corrupt officials, and at most exiled to Hainan Island.

The people of the Southern Song Dynasty opposed the Northern Expedition, because every Northern Expedition was a big defeat, and every Northern Expedition was a serious scraping of the ground;

The people of the Southern Song Dynasty opposed the Northern Expedition, because the Northern Expedition rarely won victories, and after the Northern Expedition, they often paid a large amount of compensation and spent money to buy peace;

The people of the Southern Song Dynasty opposed the Northern Expedition, and every Northern Expedition meant a great defeat, and the people had to pay for the defeat.

In short, the people of the Song Dynasty were very hard, and in times of peace, they needed to pay for reparations; In the era of war, they had to pay for the war funds, and even more so for the reparations for the land cession after the defeat, and they never enjoyed the dividends of the war.

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In short, since the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, there have been various shortcomings, but in the era of Song Taizu and Song Taizong, it was not too obvious;

It began to be revealed in the era of Song Zhenzong; In the era of Song Renzong, it began to intensify, so there was a new policy of Qingli, which tried to change the crisis, but failed;

Later, in the era of Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi changed the law and tried to save the crisis, but he still failed, at the cost of intensifying various contradictions and aggravating ills.

By the time of Song Zhezong and Song Huizong, he was already terminally ill and had no power to return to heaven.

Now it is in the hands of the Jurchens.

If you want to regain lost territory in the future, you must have a strong army. In order to regain the lost territory, it is not enough to rely on a strong army, it is necessary to carry out in-depth reforms at all levels of politics, economy, and culture, eliminate all kinds of ills, and bring the giant of the Song Dynasty back to life, so that there can be a slight chance of victory.

If the slogan of the Northern Expedition is only shouted, and only minor changes are made in the military, it is doomed to fail to succeed in the Northern Expedition, and the resistance to Jin will inevitably fail, and in the end it will inevitably be a confrontation between the north and the south of the Jin and Song dynasties.

To resist gold, it is not only necessary to forge a strong army, but also to have the upper hand in more than a dozen aspects such as economy, scientific and technological level, population size, national will, military mobilization capability, war reserves, and military strength, so as to achieve the final victory.

Anti-gold, it is imperative to change the law.

If you don't change the law, you will have a dead end; Changing the law, this is looking for death.

Suddenly, Zhao Pu somewhat understood the regimes that had been in favor of the south in the past. These regimes that favored the south not only inherited the maladministration of the previous dynasty, but also reduced the arable land, reduced the source of taxes, and lost the strong soldiers of the north, coupled with the developed commodity economy of the south, which was destined to be easy and comfortable.

In a comfortable situation, who will change the law and reform the maladministration!

Moreover, in a comfortable situation, the failure rate of change is very high.

Those who do not reform the maladministration and attempt to go on a northern expedition are often bloodied.

Among the southern regimes of the past dynasties, the Northern Expedition was bound to fail.

There is only one exception, and that is Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was the only one based in the south and the Northern Expedition was successful. Before him, the Northern Expedition had never been successful; After him, the Northern Expedition was never successful. He broke the curse of the defeat of the Northern Expedition, he defeated the northern soldiers with the southern soldiers, and did what the predecessors could not do, and it was impossible for future generations to imitate.

Later generations had a bad evaluation of him, thinking that he was a tyrant, that he had killed too many heroes and generals, and that he had even proposed to embezzle fifty taels of silver, peel the skin and fill the grass.

But I have to say that this king is great.

From the beginning of the Song Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in the past 400 years, the military strength of the Central Plains regime declined sharply, even if it found thousands of justifications, it was impossible to avoid the weak status quo, first defeated the Khitan, then defeated by the Western Xia, and was beaten out by the Jurchens, and finally destroyed by the Mongols, and the Han became fourth-class citizens.

However, this emperor was a shame, and he reversed the 400 years of weakness in China, and his military strength has rebounded unprecedentedly, with some style of the Han and Tang dynasties.

In the ranking of Chinese emperors, he can at least rank in the top ten.

"It seems that I have learned Zhu Yuanzhang's thick black!" Zhao Pu was a little lucky.

As a traverser, the biggest advantage is not to know the future historical trend, nor to know advanced technology, not to use good poetry to fool people, but to stand tall and look far.

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