"It is said that the Song Dynasty was a beautiful era, but I can't feel it, I should let them see it for themselves!" Zhao Tan saw an online survey in his previous life and asked, 'If you can really cross over, which era would you like to go back to?' As a result, the Song Dynasty was ranked as the 'turtle head', saying that at that time, the GDB ranked first in the world, and anyone could become a national civil servant through the imperial examination, hold an iron rice bowl, receive state subsidies, marry three wives and four concubines, be an official and a businessman, and be not afraid of the Commission for Discipline Inspection to find trouble, and live a happy and leisurely life of moths.

"This may be a paradise for literati and nobles, but it is not a paradise for a soldier, a real soldier, but hell!" When Zhao Ta really came to this 'beautiful era', he only felt helpless, even sad, and felt sad for this army.

When he first came, he also thought that this was an era of foreign invasion and national peril, and he might be able to command thousands of troops, leaping horses and spears, and become a generation of heroes who have left a name in history. But the reality shattered his good wishes, which is by no means something that can be changed by giving up his identity, but the current army is basically hopeless.

Speaking of the Song Army, this army is also famous in Chinese history, he created a record of leading troops with civilian officials, and created a historical precedent of valuing civil affairs over military forces. If we want to say that we can govern the military with culture, we cannot but say that it is a good policy, even if most of the countries in the East and the West adopt this system in modern times, it cannot be said that it is not advanced, but things are afraid of going from the South Pole to the North Pole.

At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin launched a series of governance of the military generals and the chaotic country. First of all, the policy of 'cutting off their power, controlling their money and valley, and collecting their elite soldiers' was adopted to eliminate the military power of military generals who held heavy troops. But it also opened a precedent for redeeming military power with money, laying the groundwork for the decline of this strong army.

Immediately after that, according to the type of army, the forbidden army is divided into the guard horse army division and the guard infantry division, and the front of the palace division is divided into three parts, collectively known as the "three divisions", the guards and horses are all commanding the envoys, the guards are commanding the envoys and the front of the palace are commanding the envoys, and the three yas are full of strength, containing each other, and changing the system of the forbidden army general commanding the armies in the past; Then the Privy Council was set up to divide the management of the army from the hands of the prime minister, and gradually formed a new system of the Privy Council and the three government commanding the army. In this way, the military power was divided into three, each with its own duties, and mutual restraint became a basic national policy of the Song Dynasty.

This kind of system, in the words of the Song people, is: "The law of the ancestors to command the army, the soldiers of the world, are based on the privy council, and they have the right to send troops but not the weight of holding troops; The soldiers of the Beijing division are always the three commanders, and they have the weight of the troops but not the right to send troops", and every time there is an expedition, the emperor will order the commander to go to war, and the commander appointed is often not the general of the three ya. However, the pros and cons are often symbiotic, due to the strict rule and the multiplicity of politics, although the threat to the central imperial power has been eliminated, but it has caused the disadvantages of independent affairs, easy to control elbows, lack of coordination, and difficult to coordinate, which has weakened the combat effectiveness of the Song army to a considerable extent.

The other is to carry out reforms in the military system, and the Song Dynasty implemented the policy of strengthening cadres and weak branches, and controlling internal and external systems. The army of the Song Dynasty was divided into four types: forbidden soldiers, box soldiers, township soldiers and vassal soldiers. The forbidden army is the central army and the regular army, and is the main combat force, mainly deployed in Beijing divisions and military important places. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Xiang soldiers were the local troops in the regular army of the country, which were retained by the old and weak, not only to maintain local security, but also to engage in this kind of labor. In addition, there are village soldiers and vassal soldiers, all of which are militias that defend the countryside and belong to the reserves.

The forbidden army was the regular army of the Song Dynasty and the elite of the Song army. In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army and ensure that the most powerful army was in his own hands, Taizu ordered the whole country to select brave and warlike soldiers, register them and send them to the capital to supplement the shortage of the forbidden army. At the same time, strong soldiers were selected as soldiers, and they were distributed to various places to recruit soldiers. Later, it was selected according to the same kind of state. This ensures that the forbidden army is full of strong soldiers. Every two or three years, or even half a year, the forbidden army changes its garrison and implements a change of military law, but the generals do not follow suit, which is similar to the current redeployment of the commander of the large military region.

The purpose of the law is to enable soldiers to work and relax, to know the difficulties, to know the battles, to learn about the mountains and rivers, and not to be arrogant, but in fact to separate the soldiers and generals, to prevent the formation of a deep-rooted pro-party relationship between the two, and to eradicate the internal and external conditions for arrogant soldiers and fierce generals to commit rebellion. However, the separation of soldiers and generals is not conducive to the formation of a fighting team that works together, and the negative impact of weakening combat effectiveness is obvious. ,

In short, a series of measures taken by Taizu to reduce military power and reform the military system effectively ensured the long-term stability of the Song Dynasty's army and completely put an end to the turbulent situation of military rebellion, and its results are self-evident. But its negative effects cannot be ignored. There is another big problem that affects the quality and combat effectiveness of the army due to the constraints on the system and personnel, that is, the so-called ancestral family law of the Song Dynasty was formed to suspect and suppress military generals. Therefore, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the martial artists took the full name of Daxing to protect their lives, and there were few famous generals after Taizong, and the only commendable Di Qing was also suspected and died.

In the early stage of the Song Dynasty, because of the continuous wars, the army could still have actual combat training, and the combat effectiveness was still there, but with the signing of the 'Lanyuan Alliance' with the Liao State, the opponent disappeared overnight. Although there were still battles on the Western Xia side from time to time, most of them were dealt with by the border army, and the forbidden army basically stopped. Without war, there is no risk, in peacetime there is no danger of death, and the treatment of the forbidden army is good, and being a soldier has become the first choice for employment.

Some scholars are always named Sun Shan when they are admitted to the Jinshi, and their health is not very good when they go to be soldiers, what should they do if they can't dance with knives and guns, and if they understand people, they will guide them, then they will take the martial arts examination to become an officer! As soon as these people heard the 'latrine', they didn't test the big sword anyway, they only needed to write a paper on the art of war, and they were better than those martial artists who were born in the army, so batch after batch of scholars who studied literature and martial arts could not succeed, and only talked about soldiers on paper appeared in national defense, and as a result, martial arts became a shortcut for these inferior scholars to mix with official positions! Now that the poor people have been resettled, the homeless victims who have caught up with the famine have to give a way out, so the army has played another role in maintaining social 'harmony'.

In ancient times, a disaster and famine would inevitably produce a large number of victims, and they could only wander around through the state without food, and they were not afraid of ten or eight, but if these people did not get it right, it would be 100,000 or million, and once it was not handled well, the disaster relief would not be timely and would provoke a civil uprising. In the Song Dynasty, this was not a problem, once the famine occurred, the first thing the emperor did was not to open a warehouse and release grain, but to erect a recruiting flag and send those young and strong people to the army to eat official meals. In this way, both the military strength and the disaster victims are appeased, and nothing is delayed, so everyone is happy, so why not!

The big-headed soldiers are more to support their families, the treatment here is good, as long as they are tall and big, and there is no strict retirement age limit, as long as they mix well, and they don't catch up with the northwest to 'exercise', their grandchildren can be raised, and as a result, there are groups of bearded soldiers in the forbidden army, and it is not good that three generations of a family can be soldiers in one class.

A hundred years of peace, brought economic prosperity, to the present dynasty, now the Great Song Dynasty has no officials and no business, everyone to participate in the era of economic construction, the forbidden army is often stationed in the big city, where can they still sit still, have the heart to compete with swords, guns and sticks, but also rushed into the commercial sea. Wearing this skin, there can be many conveniences, who dare to trouble them, the past dynasties have never heard of a lawsuit with 'Qiu Ba' can win.

The officer opened a large restaurant, and the soldier opened a grocery store; Officers dared to seize farmland to open farms, and soldiers dared to plant a small vegetable garden on the side of the road; Soldiers rely on themselves and their families to operate, and those who become officials directly send soldiers to work. Soon, 'military enterprises' spread all over the country, and the figure of soldiers appeared in various industries, and when you see those wearing military decoration houses and building houses, don't think that they are engaged in 'military-local co-construction', it must be a military camp contractor team, and there are officers in and out of brothels, and it is not necessarily that you are visiting the kiln to find a lady, it is likely that he is the boss...

It's been a long time, the officers are too lazy to do business, don't the soldiers all go to business, I don't blush when you make money, and I don't want you to do some exercises, and you don't want military salaries. In this way, some soldiers are unhappy, you deduct my salary, what kind of soldier am I, turn my head and say goodbye, at first the officers did not settle the accounts, and sent people to chase and arrest, and then I thought, you run, all run away, it's good to run, Lao Tzu is still on the roster for you, and I will sign for you to receive the military salary.

As a result, the wind is blowing more and more fiercely, the courage of the official is getting bigger and bigger, Tong Guan sent troops to receive military pay and materials and moved directly to the house, Defense Minister Gao Yu sold all the military camps, engaged in real estate development, those soldiers who have no ability and dare not run They also found a way out, what kind of work is there at home, as small as watching the door and sweeping the toilet and emptying the toilet, to repairing the garden, building a mansion and sending them directly to do it, asking for money or not, no matter how full they eat!

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"Alas, this is my dignified Song army!" Zhao Ta sighed after reading the top-secret intelligence of the army that Huang Jingchen collected for him, shook his head and smiled bitterly, he thought that they had been buried enough in this history book, but he didn't expect the reality to be even more cruel, and directly dispelled his idea of transforming the old army.

Zhao Ta had imagined in advance that he would bypass the rule that 'the clan cannot lead troops' and transform an army by bribing agents to control and transform it, but now he knew that the road was no longer passable, and he was worried that he would put millions of family fortunes into it, and he might not be able to fill the stomachs of these people, and in the end he would be busy in vain.

"Can we establish a new type of armament, adopt modern training methods, use modern firearms to fight, so that only one elite soldier can change the pattern of war, after all, this is a precedent, the 'Eight-Nation Alliance' with muskets and artillery, only used only 2,000 people to kill all the way to Beijing, occupy the capital of a country..." When Zhao Ta found that the door was blocked, he had to find a way to jump out of the window.