In the morning, Ye Huan followed Sima Guang to the palace, of course, Ye Huan was not qualified to enter the palace at this time, so he could only wait for Sima Guang's news in a restaurant near the palace. Sure enough, two hours later, Sima Guang hurriedly came to Ye Huan, saying that the official family wanted to see him.

With the pass in Sima Guang's hand, Ye Huan followed him into the palace, and the road was unimpeded. The palace of the Great Song Dynasty and the palace of the Ming Dynasty are simply incomparable, not only simple, but also very small, which is the first impression left by the palace of the Northern Song Dynasty to Ye Huan. Among the previous dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty was undoubtedly the richest, but even so, the imperial palace of the Northern Song Dynasty was so simple and small, which can only show that the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty had a good habit of thrift and thrift. Except, of course, for a few people.

Ye Huan followed Sima Guang to the imperial study, and he finally saw the Great Song Emperor in the Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon, Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu is about the same age as Ye Huan, and he looks like he is only about twenty years old. But Zhao Xu's face had a sickly paleness, although it was very light, Ye Huan could also see that Zhao Xu had a problem with his body, which should be a natural problem.

This is why Zhao Xu died at the age of only twenty-four in history, Ye Huan looked at this Zhao Xu at the same time, Zhao Xu was also looking at this Ye Huan. Ye Huan is already very delicate, and his temperament is as dusty as an immortal, so the first image is very good.

"Grass people, Ye Huan, see the official family." Ye Huan smiled and bowed.

Zhao Xu walked in front of Ye Huan and helped him up and said, "Mr. Ye doesn't have to be like this, this is not above the court, you and I don't have to be formal, please take a seat first." ”

Zhao Xu was so polite, of course Ye Huan would not help his face, and after sitting in the seat, Zhao Xu also sat next to him, "Master Sima, you can sit too." Zhao Xu pointed to the other one and smiled at Sima Guang.

After Sima Guang also took a seat, Zhao Xu said: "Mr. Ye, the widow came here to ask Mr. Ye for advice. ”

"Don't dare to ask for advice." Ye Huan smiled and said, "It depends on whether the official family has the courage to do so." ”

Zhao Xu looked at Ye Huan in surprise when he heard this, but he didn't expect Ye Huan's first sentence to ask him if he dared, as a Zhao Xu who aspired to become the first emperor of the ages, of course he dared to listen, nodded and motioned for Ye Huan to continue.

Ye Huan's face turned straight and he said: "If the Great Song Dynasty continues to get by like this, in a few decades, the Great Song Dynasty will be destroyed by the alien race." I once deduced the luck of the Great Song Dynasty and found that the luck of the Great Song Dynasty was about to dissipate. ”

Zhao Xu and Sima Guang's faces changed greatly, they never thought that Ye Huan would say such a desperate thing, although they also knew that the Great Song Dynasty court and army were almost rotten to the roots, but they really didn't expect that someone would dare to say such a thing.

Seeing Zhao Xu and Sima Guang's somewhat ugly faces, Ye Huan sneered and said, "If you want to hear good words, I can also say a few words to you." ”

Zhao Xu sighed and shook his head: "No need, the widow has actually thought of it a long time ago, in order to prevent the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, the widow wants to start a war, and conquers Western Xia first." However, the Western Xia army is brave and good at fighting, and even if our Great Song army is more numerous than them, it is very likely that it is not an opponent. ”

Zhao Xu's vision was very accurate, Ye Huan nodded and asked, "Yes, then why?" ”

Zhao Xu replied truthfully: "It is a national policy of emphasizing civility over military force, and after so many years, the status of civilian officials is much higher than that of military attachés, and military attachés are discriminated against......

Although Emperor Zhezong was only twenty years old, he had already seen what caused all this, that is, the national policy of emphasizing literature over military force. At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Da and Zhao Er began to use the national policy of emphasizing literature and light military force in order not to have anything like Zhao Da in a yellow robe. Let the civilian officials suppress the military attachés, at first it was fine, the civilian officials and the military attachés were evenly matched, but later, the civilian clique became more and more powerful, and the military attachés were more and more excluded.

The status of military attachés is not as good as before, which has brought about a phenomenon that those who still have some ability will definitely continue to study and gain fame, and will definitely not join the army. Because in the eyes of the people of the Song Dynasty, joining the army was a shameful thing, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty also discriminated against the soldiers, but praised those who only knew how to dance and write.

This is one thing, and the other is that the erosion of the Great Song army has reached an outrageous level. For example, a general should be in charge of 10,000 people, but the actual number is only 6,000, or even 5,000, or 4,000. These generals still had 10,000 men under their command, and the amount of empty pay was too great.

Coupled with the uneven quality of soldiers, those in society who can't get along and can't eat before they go to the army, can you expect a group of gangsters to fight? Moreover, the army of the Song Dynasty rarely trained in peacetime, and basically the military attachés asked their soldiers to farm for them, or do business to make money, which seemed to have become their money-making tools. But despite this, these greedy moths still refused to let go of the slightest opportunity to make money, sucking the blood of the Great Song Dynasty.

The cost of the army, combined with the high salaries of Song officials, and the annual payment of annual coins, made the treasury unable to make ends meet. So at this time, Da Song seems to be prosperous, but in fact it is already a paper tiger, and others will fall to the ground if they touch it casually. This is also the reason why the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State later joined forces to attack the Great Liao, but so many Great Song troops were beaten by so few Great Liao, which made the Jin State discover the weakness of the Great Song Dynasty, which led to the later Jingkang disaster.

To sum up, that's a one-sentence thing, no money, heavy literature over military force. As long as these two problems are overcome, the Great Song Dynasty will soon become strong.

"Therefore, as long as we change the national policy, abolish the emphasis on literature and light on military force, and change it to emphasize literature and heavy military force, in this way, Wen can govern the country and secure the country, and military can protect the family and defend the country, and the Great Song Dynasty will become extremely strong." Ye Huan agreed with Zhao Xu's words very much, and finally made a conclusion for him.

Zhao Xu frowned and said, "The widow knows that this will make the Great Song Dynasty strong, but the scholars will definitely not agree to this matter." ”

"Disagree?" Ye Huan sneered, and a touch of killing intent flashed from his eyes, "If you don't agree, kill it." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Xu and Sima Guang both looked at Ye Huan strangely, and Ye Huan was a little inexplicable, "Do you have flowers on my face?" ”

Sima Guang shook his head and sighed lightly: "The Great Song Dynasty does not kill the scholars. ”

Ye Huan was embarrassed for a while, Da Song didn't kill the doctor, what did the doctor care about the most? Of course, it is reputation, and if that is the case, then destroy their reputation and let their name be remembered for ten thousand years.

Seeing that Ye Huan was slow to answer, Zhao Xu just wanted to ask a question, but heard Ye Huan say: "In that case, why don't we let these people agree to revise the national policy?" ”

"Oh? Could it be that Mr. Ye already has a way? Zhao Xu's eyes lit up, and it would be nice to get the officials to agree.