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The transformation of a social system from a state of casual peace to a compact state of war is like upgrading the operating system of a computer from xp to VIsTa, which is a painful experience. Freezes, crashes, information loss, and all sorts of incompatibilities will follow.

If we can survive, then a strict and efficient wartime system will rationally use every cent of social resources to the war, and will play a great role in winning the war. But if you can't make it, you may be defeated from the inside by your own people before the enemy attacks.

It is a pity that the Song Dynasty has always been in a state of being defeated by its own people from the inside, and there has never been a wartime system that can maintain the operation - throughout the upgrade process, the vast majority of programmers (literati doctors) in charge of the keyboard, out of their own short-term interests, are trying to help, trying to make the computer fall into a state of death forever, so that the wartime system will never appear.

As a result, this cowardly empire with a splendid culture is doomed to collapse from one collapse to another, until its final demise.

For example, at this time, Emperor Zhao Huan of Qinzong was shocked: even if the invading Jin soldiers have been destroyed, the imperial court still has no way to recover the lost territory!

Specifically, it is impossible to even send a few groups of people to those lost states and counties to serve as "receiving officers"!

“…… How unreasonable! The current imperial court is actually full, and there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses available? And even the royal guards of the palace are counted? Am I the lord of the Central Plains who rules over millions of people, or the chief of some small country in a remote state? ”

In the imperial study room of the Bianliang Imperial Palace, Emperor Zhao Huan, who had just returned from a banquet in "New Tokyo", knocked on the imperial case with great anger and scolded him very unhappily, "...... Don't you know that if the land of Hebei is not restored for a long time, the world will never be at peace? ”

“…… Although it is difficult to talk about this matter, it is true that there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses left in the imperial court, which is only enough to barely defend the imperial capital. ”

Prime Minister He Su replied helplessly, "...... Although the ministers have the intention of the Northern Expedition, there are no available troops in the DPRK and China. ”

-- Comrades who have read "The Water Margin" should know that the Northern Song Dynasty had a so-called "800,000 forbidden army," and its standing strength was one of the largest among all Chinese dynasties, far superior to that of the Han and Tang dynasties. But what about this combat power...... It's kind of miserable.

In the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, the forbidden army was equivalent to the national regular army, the box army was equivalent to the local armed police force, and the township soldiers were militia arms.

Unlike previous dynasties, the "forbidden army" of the Northern Song Dynasty did not refer to the royal forest army, but to the standing regular army of all countries. Theoretically, the forbidden army did not recruit from the people, but selected the best from the army. However, from the middle of the Song Dynasty, the decrees on this subject became waste paper. Not only did they begin to recruit a large number of soldiers from the civilian population, but the source of the soldiers and the purpose of recruiting them were simply incredible in the eyes of later generations!

-- Like other feudal dynasties, there were often disasters and famines in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a lifetime of famine will inevitably produce a large number of disaster victims and displaced people. These people can easily be hundreds of thousands, if not millions. If it is not handled well, it will inevitably break out in the peasant uprising. In other dynasties, most of the hungry people were allocated grain for relief or land for resettlement, but the Song dynasty was completely different. Once there was a famine in a certain place, the first thing the emperor did was not to release grain for disaster relief, but to send officials to plant flags to recruit soldiers, and recruit all the young and middle-aged men among the victims into the forbidden army. As a result, after each famine, the number of forbidden troops in the Song Dynasty increased significantly.

Why did the emperor of the Song Dynasty do this? Because in the emperor's eyes, the large number of victims gathered was a great threat to the ruling order. If it is simply a charity, there will definitely be omissions. For example, if officials are corrupt and falsify accounts, if the rescue is not good, it will provoke the people to revolt. In that case, it is better to take the opportunity to recruit them into the army. This is because the army is the most organized, and it has special barracks and financial guarantees. In this way, it not only appeased the victims and avoided civil uprisings, but also took the opportunity to absorb a large number of young and middle-aged people and expand the military strength, which can be called the best of both worlds. Even if someone wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, because the able-bodied men of the victims have been withdrawn and enlisted in the army, the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled cannot fight, and even if they want to rebel, they will not be able to make trouble.

Under this thinking, the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty quickly transformed from the elite armed force of the country into a refugee camp for all kinds of life losers.

-- From the time of Renzong, the number of the forbidden army of the Northern Song Dynasty swelled dramatically. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of forbidden troops in the country had reached an unprecedented more than one million! After adding the Xiang army and the township soldiers, the total number of troops in the entire Northern Song Dynasty reached a terrifying two million!! The forbidden army stationed in Dubianliang alone exploded to 800,000...... This is the origin of the so-called "800,000 forbidden troops in Tokyo" in literary works such as "Water Margin".

What is even more terrifying is that this "800,000" is only the number of soldiers, and in fact we have to count many more family members of the military -- because the forbidden army has recruited a large number of disaster victims, and most of the young and middle-aged people among the disaster victims have their families with their families and have families to be resettled. So an incredible scene was born: the dignified capital of the Song Dynasty was Kaifeng, and the forbidden army barracks that should have been heavily guarded by the Jin Ge Iron Horse were actually like chickens and dogs jumping around the family area all day long, filled with a large number of old and weak women and children! The soldiers of the forbidden army lived with their wives and children in the barracks, and even opened restaurants, tea shops, and so on! And it's actually legal!!

-- An army that swelled so rapidly quickly outpaced the financial capacity of the imperial court. In addition, the wanton corruption of military salaries by officers at all levels led many officers and soldiers of the forbidden army to become deserters because they could not survive. For this reason, the imperial court had to allow the army to do business or farming to support itself.

Due to the fact that there has been no war for more than a hundred years in a row, plus the economic height has reached. The forbidden army of Bianliang, the director of the Jing Division, had no intention of training troops and martial arts. And the officers were busy collecting money all day long, and they didn't bother to put the army in order. Soldiers open small workshops, and officers open black brick kilns; The soldiers saved money to buy land and plant small vegetable gardens, and the officers forcibly occupied the land to open large farms; Soldiers rely on themselves and their families to do business, while officers directly drive soldiers to work as coolies...... The entire Beijing Division Forbidden Army went from small soldiers to officers, and the whole army no longer practiced martial arts, but made money by engaging in trading, trading, and farming!

Later, the "Great Song Army Enterprise" had covered everything from grain sales to brothels, and every year it created huge profits for officials' private pockets, and also saved the state a lot of military spending...... But it led to the complete destruction of the army's combat effectiveness.

Due to the low status of soldiers, officers generally deduct a large number of military salaries, embezzle soldiers' property, and even forcibly occupy soldiers' wives and daughters, and even sell soldiers' wives and daughters to their own brothels! As a result, a large number of deserters were introduced. In the beginning, the imperial court also pursued deserters or conscripted soldiers to replenish the army. But the officers are now that they can take the opportunity to report the vacancy to be greedy for military salaries! So they concealed the deserters, reported false names, and even took the initiative to drive the soldiers out of the barracks, and then reported them with false names...... There are even strange things such as ghosts who have been dead for more than 30 years and are still receiving salaries on the imperial court's list, so that they have caused a shortage of personnel in the Bianliang Forbidden Army, but there are a lot of them on the books.

Such an absurd approach finally led to a ridiculous scene: in the first year of Jingkang, when the Jurchen Iron Cavalry drove straight in, crossed the river to Bianliang, and faced the Jin army under the city, Song Qinzong finally broke through many obstacles in the process of preparing for the war, and completed the inventory of the Bianliang Forbidden Army, and now has 800,000 forbidden troops on the books, but in fact there are only 30,000! Ate a full 770,000 empty salaries!

What's even worse is that even the remaining 30,000 Bianliang forbidden troops are mostly useless.

You must know that the Great Song Dynasty has passed more than 100 years of peace, not to mention young people, even white-headed old men on the border, who do not know how to fight in their lifetimes. After more than 100 years without war, the armament of the Beijing division has long been corrupted, and those forbidden soldiers are experts in provoking chickens and dogs in the market, oppressing the good, but when it comes to going into battle, few people can hold swords and guns.

In general, the Bianliang Forbidden Army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty was like the children of the Eight Banners in the late Qing Dynasty, and there was basically no need to count on their combat effectiveness.

In the just-concluded Second Battle of Bianliang, the Song army defending the city claimed to have 70,000, but most of them were temporarily recruited township soldiers and militia and other "irregular troops", and even monks and Taoist priests were forcibly conscripted to fight - this kind of completely untrained troops, at best, can hold on to the city and throw stones, and going out of the city to fight in the field is tantamount to looking for death - the real forbidden army was originally only 30,000, and 10,000 escaped in the first attack out of the city, although the second raid was fruitful, But the 4,000 warriors who left the city were almost completely wiped out...... Coupled with the losses in the defense of the city, there are only about 10,000 forbidden troops left in Bianliang today, plus those very unreliable militias, how can they still expropriate the lost territory?

-- The Jingshi Forbidden Army is already rotten, and the rest of the little that is not rotten has been wiped out, so what about the local forbidden army?

Since the main military pressure of the Song Dynasty was in the north, the local forbidden army was also mainly divided into two parts, the Hebei Forbidden Army stationed on the Song-Liao border and the Guanxi Forbidden Army against the Western Xia. Among them, after the signing of the Tanyuan Alliance and the peace of Song Liaoxie, the Hebei Forbidden Army and the Beijing Forbidden Army were the same as the Beijing Forbidden Army that had not been fought for a hundred years, and they were also rotten. The Kansai Forbidden Army maintained a certain combat effectiveness due to its perennial struggle with the Tangut people, and it also became the only mobile combat force that could fight at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty -- whether it was the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, the extermination of Fang La, or the fight with the Jin soldiers on the Hebei battlefield, they all relied on the Kansai Forbidden Army.

But the problem is that after a whole year of high-intensity attrition war, the Kansai Forbidden Army has been annihilated by the Jin soldiers with more than 200,000 living forces, and another 200,000 have become deserters. In addition, when the Song and Jin Dynasty formed an alliance to attack Liao, they suffered two defeats in Yanjing City...... At present, Shaanxi is already crying and filial piety, and even the strong men who cultivate the land are about to be pulled out, and the remaining soldiers and horses have to resist the Western Xia, and they really can't draw troops anymore!

As for the forbidden army in the south, the number was already scarce, and the total was less than a fraction of the northern forbidden army, but the situation of armament corruption was even more severe. The only troops that could barely fight had already been pulled to King Qin of Bianliang, and then annihilated by the Jin soldiers one by one...... At present, the Jiangnan and Huguang regions are completely undefended, and if the Fangla Rebellion breaks out again, I am afraid that it will immediately sweep hundreds of states and counties!

In the face of such an unprecedented dilemma of "no soldiers in the world", what should those scholars and doctors of the main battle faction in the court take to go to the Northern Expedition to recover the lost territory?

-- The army of the Song Dynasty adopted a system of professional mercenaries, and there was no reserve system in the localities, and once the limited number of professional troops was exhausted, it was difficult to replenish them quickly. And it will take at least half a year for a unit to start from pulling strong men and training officers until it forms combat effectiveness!

What's more, today's Great Song Dynasty is not only in the ruins, but also facing the haze of a royal infighting......

“…… Qi Guan's family, the current Guanxi Forbidden Army has suffered heavy casualties, and it can no longer be transferred in a hurry, otherwise it will be equivalent to sending the west of Tongguan to the Xixia Party members. The Hebei Forbidden Army and the Beijing Forbidden Army were all beaten to pieces, and there was not a single ...... At present, the Great Song Dynasty has no soldiers to fight! ”

Prime Minister He Su said, "...... Moreover...... Forgive the minister, for example, the biggest worry of today's family is not in Jinyu, but within the Xiao Wall! ”