The Song Dynasty was a country that was extremely magical in terms of combat effectiveness and financial resources.

The Great Song Dynasty is the only country in history that has not suppressed commerce for a long time, and the handicraft industry and commerce are extremely developed, and when it comes to financial resources, he can definitely be the richest man in the world.

Since ancient times, the rich may not be the uncle, but if there is money and resources, it is often the real uncle.

The Song Dynasty "sued for peace" with the Great Liao, and gave the Liao State an annual annual coin of 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk.

At that time, the annual financial income of the Great Song Dynasty was at least tens of millions of taels, and sometimes it could even exceed 100 million, 100,000 taels of silver, and 200,000 horses of silk, which was actually 300,000 taels of silver, less than one percent.

In exchange, the Song and Liao dynasties became brother countries, the Song brothers and Liao, and the Song Liao set up a field on the border to open up mutual trade, and the Song Dynasty could earn back 780,000 taels from the Great Liao every year, with a net income of nearly 200 percent, which can be called a model of white prostitution.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, Liao's business is almost equal to nothing, except for selling some horses to make money, you can only buy things from the Song Dynasty to make money, but if you sell too many horses, that is, you are raising cavalry for the enemy in disguise, so later the horses can't be sold, and the Liao can only sell some bits and pieces of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty can sell anything to the Great Liao.

In the long run, the Song currency even directly replaced the Liao currency, and even the Great Liao people only recognized the money of the Great Song Dynasty.

If you look at it this way, the Song Dynasty is actually earned by blood, after all, the temporary face is indeed not as important as the return of real money and the weakening of the enemy's strength.

Since ancient times, the war is money, who has more resources, who has good equipment, who has the advantage, the Great Song Dynasty has made money from the Great Liao year after year, and the financial resources of the Great Liao have been hollowed out step by step, it stands to reason that it should be stronger and stronger, and when the time comes, the Liao will be wiped out, and the face will be recovered.

But only theoretically, for the gang of gods in the court, no matter how much money there is, they can't win the battle.

This kind of financial resources are put on the Han and Tang countries, armed with a large army, and the eight achievements are invincible and invincible, and if they are placed on the Great Song Dynasty, they can only fight a currency war, and it is really not wrong to say that the Song Dynasty was rich and weak at all.

There is no shortage of money, no shortage of people, no shortage of resources, but there is a lack of people who can fight.

Thanks to the Song Dynasty's literati policy of governing the army, the Song army had the largest military expenditure in the world, but its combat effectiveness was miserable.

Civilians govern the army, and every general in charge of fighting a war has a literati as the top boss, not to mention, but also change positions from time to time, and today he is a general in this barracks, and tomorrow he may go to that barracks to lead the big soldiers.

Soldiers don't know generals, generals don't know soldiers, and even officials don't know generals, generals don't know officials, if you can win the battle, that's the hell.

The literati ruled the army, and it cannot be said that they would not know at all, otherwise the Song Dynasty would have died early.

But if the literati can cure the army, why should there be military generals since ancient times?

It would be good for a literati to govern the army and to be able to fight.

Win? What are you dreaming about?

Therefore, this system must be changed, and it must be greatly changed, at least let those who can win the war lead the army to fight.

In this way, the literati must be unwilling, which means that they will lose a large part of their rights, but it doesn't really matter if they don't want to, and they should not worry about their rights now, but about their own lives.

Zhao Yun, who was told the future by Zhang Sanfeng, naturally knew what the main reason for the demise of the Great Song Dynasty was, he was now looking at the help of Wenchen, and he couldn't wait to slaughter them one by one.

Zhao Yun decisively started his own road of reform with the support of Zhang Sanfeng, but reform is risky, and if you are not careful, you may lose yourself.

Fortunately, Zhao Yun has Zhang Sanfeng behind him, and he is not afraid of those families flipping the table, directly uniting with military generals, and changing the policy of civilian governance of the army step by step.

During this period, the admonitions and scolding books from civil officials fell in front of Zhao Yun like snowflakes, but they were burned by him without even looking at them.

The military generals have bullied most of the dynasties by civil officials, and at this moment, they can see hope, and they are grateful to Zhao Yun and offer their loyalty.

The reform lasted for three years, during which there were countless ghosts, snakes, and gods, but they were all killed on the spot by Zhang Sanfeng.

A large number of civilian forces have stepped down, military generals are in charge of the army, supporting Zhao Yun, and ninety percent of the army in the entire Great Song Dynasty is in the hands of Zhao Yun, the emperor, it can be said that Zhao Yun at this moment, the waist pole is even harder than the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin's control of the army, even after the release of military power with a glass of wine, is still not as good as the current Zhao Yun, the entire court, but there is no one who is not convinced by Zhao Yun.

For them, Zhao Yun, who handed over the military power from civilian officials to military generals, is almost their reborn parents.

Zhao Yun was supported by all the generals, directly held the power, asked for money, and wanted people, and the Great Song army was transformed into a first-class army in the world.

The overall quality is not good? Can't lift it up in a short period of time?

It's okay, mention it slowly, what we have is money, but the technology is not enough, so the equipment will make up.

Armor, blades, horses, grain and grass, the configuration of the Song army can definitely make any army in the world blush.

But Zhang Sanfeng felt that this was not enough, after all, their enemy was the Great Yuan, the Yuanmeng Empire that almost hit Europe in the future.

At this time, the Song army had just been established, and it was okay to bully and bully Xia and Liao with money, food and equipment, but compared with Mongolia, there was really no certainty of victory.

But fortunately, Zhang Sanfeng has long considered this matter - why do you have to fight according to the current method?

Three of the four major inventions are all from the Great Song Dynasty, and one of them is called gunpowder.

However, because the invention of things needs to gradually mature, it will take a while to be widely used, so although the Song Dynasty has invented gunpowder at that time, there is no mature technology, and it is used in the military.

But it doesn't matter, the Song Dynasty didn't have mature technology, Zhang Sanfeng did!

From muskets and cannons to black powder formulas, Zhang Sanfeng knows everything clearly.

He and Gu Yunze and others have studied modern culture for a long time, including firearm drawings and gunpowder formulas of various eras.

With Gu Yunze's status, getting these things is just a matter of one sentence, and after getting it, Gu Yunze sent these things to Zhang Sanfeng, and Zhang Sanfeng also learned them one by one to figure it out.

Now, it's time to use it!

In addition to being famous for its prosperous commerce, the Great Song Dynasty also had an exceptionally prosperous handicraft industry, which is a coincidence!

To have resources, to have technology, to have craftsmanship, to have artillery, a cannon and musket that should not have appeared in this era have been constantly manufactured.

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So, one day not long after, when the invincible Dayuan Iron Cavalry attacked a border city of the Great Song Dynasty, he rushed to the black hole on the city wall with a disdainful face, and was stunned to find that the times were ...... It seems to have changed.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, tactics will blossom, and if you are rich, you will be saturated with bombing.

With the financial resources of the Great Song Dynasty at that time, not to mention saturation bombing, it was no problem to bloom and bomb!