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Whether it was right for the Zhao and Song dynasties to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun is a controversial topic.

Ever since Ma Zhi (also known as Zhao Liangsi) put forward the strategic proposal of Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, this issue has been debated within the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Even many scholars and history buffs in later generations are debating this issue.

It can be said that this issue has been debated for almost a thousand years.

There are many people who oppose it, and they think that Zhao Jilian Jin destroyed Liao and recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, which was a stupid thing.

However, there are also many people who think that Zhao Jilian Jin did the right thing to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Zhao Ji had twice plotted to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

The first time happened not long after the Jurchens raised an army against Liao, Zhao Ji wanted to take the opportunity to send troops north and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun by force.

This time, Tong Guan is also in command, and the soldiers and horses have been gathered, and deployments have been made.

At that time, Cai Jing was the prime minister, and he supported the dispatch of troops.

The combination of Zhao Ji, Cai Jing and Tong Guan is a combination for the Zhao and Song dynasties to recover the lost territory of the Qing and Tang dynasties and almost did not perish in the defeat of the Western Xia.

However, the sudden change in the southeast led to the cessation of the operation.

To be honest, the impact of the change in the southeast is too great.

If it weren't for the large-scale uprising in the southeast, the Zhao and Song dynasties would have to mobilize the western army to quell the rebellion, and then immediately go north to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, resulting in the loss of a lot of elite of the western army and the exhaustion of the division's veterans, and the battle of Yandi may not have failed.

Without the defeat of Yandi and the loss of hundreds of thousands of elite Song troops, it is unlikely that the Jin State would have gone south.

If there was no change in the southeast, the battle of Yandi would not necessarily be defeated by the Song army;

If the southeast change had occurred earlier, the Song army might not have been able to win the battle of Yandi after it had been fully rested.

If the change in the southeast occurs later, then Zhao Ji is likely to give up recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, in which case, it may lead to the independence of Northern Liao and become a satellite state of the Zhao and Song dynasties, serving as a barrier between Song and Jin. The worst result is that the Yanyun region will be occupied by the Jin State, and the Jin State will replace the Liao State. After all, the main force of the Zhao and Song Dynasty is still there, and the Jin State may not dare to go south.

Therefore, the change in the southeast is neither early nor too late, and it just rings the death knell of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

This second time is that the Zhao Song Dynasty was defeated by Li Cun in the south and lost half of the south, so that Zhao Ji's throne was unstable, and Zhao Ji needed a big victory to save his political life, so Zhao Ji wanted to join Jin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

However, this time Zhao Ji came up with a very absurd logic, that is, he thought that the recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun seemed to require the consent of the Jin people.

Later, the military failure of the Zhao Song Dynasty to attack Yandi, as well as its passivity in diplomatic negotiations with the Jin people, all stemmed from this erroneous guiding ideology of Zhao Ji.

If Zhao Ji had been bent on attacking the Liao State, which had been beaten to the death of the Jin State, instead of looking ahead and forcing the front-line soldiers to stand still, he might have defeated the Northern Liao, which had only tens of thousands of troops at that time, in the first battle.

In that way, although the Zhao and Song dynasties lost half of the southern part of the country, they had natural risks in the Yanyun region in the north and the Yangtze River in the south.

But Zhao Ji wanted to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and met Li Cun, an opportunist, and seized this opportunity, seized the Yanyun region in one fell swoop, and then came to close the door and beat the dog, destroying the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Historically, due to Zhao Ji's policy mistakes in the newly recovered Yanyun region, due to the Pingzhou incident caused by listening to the words of the Jin people and killing Zhang Jue, and due to the comprehensive factors such as secretly communicating with Yelu Yanxi and other things that did not handle the relationship with the Jin people, it eventually led to the failure of recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, and triggered the Song-Jin War, which buried the Northern Song Dynasty.

Later, this conclusion firmly covered Zhao Ji's head.

And because of the vivid renderings of the Ming Dynasty such as "Water Margin" and "Golden Vase Plum", Zhao

As a result, he became the most incompetent and desolate emperor, and the ministers around him were all female ministers.

Actually-

For the failure of Zhao Ji and the important ministers beside him to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, it is unfair to put the responsibility for the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty entirely on Zhao Ji and the so-called "six thieves".

Let's not talk about anything else, let's just say that Zhao Ji in history dared to make a decision to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and it should be said that he still has some strategic vision.

At that time, the Jurchens rose in the northeast and the Great Liao Empire was crumbling, and for the Zhao and Song dynasties, this was indeed a historical opportunity to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

And the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun is a historical complex that the Zhao and Song dynasties cannot get rid of.

This really can't be said because Zhao Ji is doing this to be a great achievement, opportunistic, and self-sufficient.

In fact, from another point of view, Zhao Ji also has the courage to take responsibility, take advantage of the trend, and have a certain amount of political revenge.

Similarly, the positive enthusiasm of Zhao Liangsi, Tong Guan, Wang Hao and others to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun cannot be said to be creating a gap to satisfy their own selfish desires.

In fact, from another point of view, Zhao Liangsi, Tong Guan, Wang Hao and others are not seeking the highest interests for the Zhao and Song dynasties?

Others don't say it, only Tong Guan.

If Tong Guan didn't want to complete the huge regret of nearly two hundred years of countless generations recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun for the Zhao Song Dynasty, with his brilliant achievements and military exploits in the past, he would have been able to sleep soundly in the book of merit for the rest of his life.

If Lianjin succeeded in destroying Liao and recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, then Zhao Jike would direct and stage a vigorous historical drama.

Historically, it was the failure of Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, which unexpectedly evolved into a huge national disaster.

And in this life, as in history, Zhao Ji's recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun failed again, the only difference is that this did not evolve into a national disaster.

[In view of the general environment,

Got such a result, of course, this is due to a series of mistakes made by Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Cai You and others, but Zhao Ji, as the main decision-maker, should bear the main responsibility.

To be fair and just, Zhao Ji saw the historical opportunity, but he failed to grasp the historical opportunity, and he made many low-level mistakes:

It's like a royal pen burying trouble.

It is like giving Tong Guan "three strategies for patrolling the border".

Another mistake is that the policy of losing the hearts of the people made Hu Er in the Yanyun region very resentful of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, reusing Guo Yaoshi, a three-surnamed domestic slave, and letting Guo Yaoshi, a three-surnamed domestic slave, guard the frontier of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, and giving Li Cunhua the handle of the Song Dynasty.

It was this wrong decision after another that pushed Zhao Ji and his ministers to the judgment seat of history.

But—

In Zhao Ji's opinion, the biggest mistake he made, and what made him really lose was that he hurriedly gave Zhao Huan the position.

At that time, Zhao Ji thought that by doing this, perhaps the cadres would stop marching.

But it turned out that Zhao Ji really thought too much.

If Zhao Ji, who clearly knew that he could save the Zhao Song Dynasty and the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty by fleeing to Shaanxi, and did not rush to the throne to Zhao Huan, who was stupid, indecisive, rigid and self-serving, and had no experience in governance, he would not have been able to control the giant ship of the Zhao Song Dynasty that was riddled with holes, it would definitely be impossible for the Qian-Song Dynasty to distinguish the winner so quickly.

However, the wheel of history sometimes changes its direction in a single thought.

Zhao Ji is not a strong-willed person, nor is he a person who has the courage to meet challenges, in the face of Li Cunhua Song's accusations, in the face of the pressure of the court ministers, he hurriedly gave Zhao Huan the throne, hoping that his son would give him the aftermath, and he himself chose to escape.

After Zhao Huan succeeded to the throne, in the process of the struggle between the main battle and the lord and the ministers, he repeatedly jumped sideways between supporting the main battle and supporting the lord, which made the Zhao and Song dynasties lose completely.

Not only that, Zhao Huan, a dutiful son, also completely denied Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover Yanyun

The strategic decision of the sixteen states put Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Cai You, Liang Shicheng and other ministers to death, put Zhao Ji under house arrest in Longde Palace, and the recovery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures ended in complete failure.

The victor is the prince and the loser is Kou.

Zhao Ji turned a historical opportunity into a historical disaster, and he should be interrogated and criticized by history.

But sometimes when he woke up from a dream, Zhao Ji couldn't help but think, if he hadn't hurriedly given the Zen position to Zhao Huan, would he and the Zhao Song Dynasty not be such a miserable and humiliating end now?

To be honest, Zhao Huan put Zhao Ji under house arrest in Longde Palace, although Zhao Ji was very sad, he did not resent Zhao Huan, because it was indeed the choice that an ambitious and vengeful emperor would have, just like Li Shimin.

But the problem is that Zhao Huan only has Li Shimin's heart, and Li Shimin's ability is not at all.

Under the auspices of Zhao Huan, the Zhao Song Dynasty completely lost the capital to fight with the Daqian Dynasty, and the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty, including Zhao Ji, were also wiped out by Li Cun in addition to Zhao Gou.

Zhao Ji was so disappointed in Zhao Huan that he even resented him!

Soon after, Zhao Gou established the Western Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji inevitably pinned his hopes on Zhao Gou, whom he didn't like or paid attention to.

Of course, Zhao Ji hopes that Zhao Goubei is the same as Zhao Huan's filial son, a good boy who is really filial and can save him, the old father.

This is man's desire to survive, and human nature.

But at the same time, Zhao Ji was actually ready to sacrifice or be martyred for the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Seriously, if Zhao Gou didn't save Zhao Ji because he wanted to defeat the Great Qian Dynasty, Zhao Ji would be very relieved, and even die in anger.

But Zhao Gou, like Zhao Huan, only didn't save Zhao Ji because he was afraid that Zhao Ji's restoration would take away his emperor's position.

The key is that Zhao Gou, like Zhao Huan, can only carry a gun in the nest, and strictly guard against his father, but he is also stupid, and he also loses the last bit of Jiangshan Sheji of the Zhao Song Dynasty to Li Cun, completely ending the 200-year foundation of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji was also very disappointed in Zhao Gou and resentful!

At this moment, seeing Zhao Huan and Zhao Gou eating dog, they blamed each other, and even wanted to throw their responsibilities on him, the old father, at this time.

Zhao Ji was completely desperate, feeling that it was not Li Cun who destroyed their Zhao Song Dynasty, but God who destroyed the Zhao Song Dynasty.

God not only gave them such a terrible enemy as Li Cun of the Zhao Song Dynasty, but also gave him waste sons like Zhao Huan and Zhao Gou, how could the Zhao Song Dynasty survive?

Zhao Ji looked at Zhao Kai and the other sons again, and then shook his head in his heart.

Zhao Ji knew that even if he passed the throne to Zhao Kai or any other son, he would definitely not be able to fight Li Cun, and his sons were much worse than Li Cun.

Even a fool like Zhao Huan knows that he has spent the past few years thinking and summarizing the big failures that have affected his life before, how can Zhao Ji not think and summarize?

Through full thinking and summarization, Zhao Ji admitted that although his failure also had the factor of God not blessing them in the Zhao and Song dynasties, as well as his own factors of poverty and luxury, and great joy, but more importantly, Li Cun seized almost every mistake and all opportunities made by their father and son, and maximized their benefits.

Zhao Ji thought about it and was extremely frightened, feeling that Li Cun was an enemy who was completely impossible to defeat.

"Clever and martial, there is no last resort. The talent of civil and military affairs is higher than that of ancient times. If you pull out people, you will not be selfish in the party, and if you have a negative career, you will make the best use of your talents. Traces of their hearing are not confused, and they are as good as streams. Every time there is a major event, it can be judged and traded-off. A thousand years can be called, just one person!"

"What's the use of blaming these two waste sons for such a terrible enemy as Li Cun?"

"The world often compares me to Jerod Yanxi. The world is wrong! I, Zhao Ji, am really not as mediocre as Yelu Yanxi, at least I won't kill my parents and sons."

Although Zhao Ji resented the death of Zhao Huan and Zhao Gou, the two dutiful sons and good sons, as a father, Zhao Ji still restrained himself from killing these two sons who he didn't want to look at again, but tried to say in a calm tone: "You two have a lifetime to argue the rights and wrongs of the demise of my Great Song Dynasty

Why rush to this moment?"

"It's all gone."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Ji turned around and walked back.

During his reign, Zhao Ji took good care of the royal family and the clan, so Zhao Ji's prestige among the royal family and clan of the Zhao and Song dynasties has always been very high.

Moreover, when Bianliang City in Tokyo was broken by the cadres and troops, Zhao Ji showed his due responsibility, and was even ready to die for the country, but he was stopped in the end.

In addition, most of the royal family and clan of the Zhao and Song dynasties blamed Zhao Huan and Zhao Gou for the fall of the Zhao Song Dynasty and their defeat by Li Cun.

The key is that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and in the city of the four kingdoms, there are also disputes, without Zhao Ji leading the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty, the royal family and clan of the Zhao and Song dynasties may fall apart, and then they will not be able to dominate the city of the four countries, and it is even possible to be bullied by the royal family and clan of the Great Liao Empire, the royal family and clan of the Li Dynasty, the royal family and clan of the Zhancheng Dynasty, and the clergy.

The key point is that no one can replace Zhao Ji as the leader of the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhao Ji's words, the royal family and clan of the Zhao and Song Dynasty have to listen.

Therefore, Zhao Huancai has not been liquidated, and Zhao Gou can only pick up a small life at this time.

Under the protection of Zhao Ji, although the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty could not liquidate Zhao Huan and kill Zhao Gou, this did not prevent them from counting the faults of Zhao Huan and Zhao Gou.

Stupid, ungrateful, self-serving......

Cowardly, selfish, relying on female cadres, ignorant of loyalty, and blind......

Listening to the evaluation of Zhao Huan and Zhao Gou by the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji couldn't help but think: "If Li Cun is my son......

Zhao Ji immediately shook his head self-deprecatingly: "How can I give birth to such a son who is heroic, martial arts, and has the virtue of the world and the merit of the world?"

Son-in-law?

This son-in-law is not bad, but it's a bit of a mother-in-law!

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