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During the Great Turmoil, the land of abundance, with its abundant resources and large population, could easily become a separatist regime.

In addition, Shu is a hot land, and the Sichuan Basin, which has the land of abundance, is fertile and rich in grain, with a large population, and has always been a rare place to start.

Moreover, the high mountains around Sichuan are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the people are fierce, whether it is finance and taxation, or the source of soldiers, it is easy to become a blessed land for separation.

Therefore, in a period of great turmoil, it is easy for Shu to erect a banner of righteousness to close the passes such as Hanzhong and the Three Gorges and become a local government on the separatist side.

Therefore, there is the title of "the world is not chaotic before Shu is chaotic".

For example, Liu Yan, the Yizhou Mu at the end of the Han Dynasty, easily seized Shu land.

After the gradual unification of the Central Plains Dynasty, because Shu was easy to defend and difficult to attack, it often became the last unified secession regime, so there is a saying that "the world has ruled Shu but not governed".

For example, after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and pacified the world, the Ming Xia regime established by Ming Yuzhen, who was entrenched in Sichuan, became the last secession regime to be eliminated.

Because Shu is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the capture of Shu is usually to use the overall situation to offset the advantage of the secession regime.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei was able to establish Shu Han through Zhang Song's dedication to the map and Fa Zheng's internal response. After pacifying Zhang Lu and winning the Battle of Hanzhong, he easily closed the Hanzhong Pass and cut the alleged emperor to establish the Shu Han regime.

After the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, when the Hun Liu Yuan had not had time to establish the Han State with hundreds of officials in the annexed states, Li Xiong had already established the Chenghan secession regime in Shu. Relying on the natural advantage of Shu land that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Cheng Han persisted for nearly half a century, and if it were not for the decadence and cruelty of the last emperor of Cheng Han, Cheng Han might have been able to hold out for a longer time.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi, also established the Daxi regime in Shu and fought against Li Zicheng's Dashun and Southern Ming.

Therefore, there is the title of "the world has been flattened".

Due to the unique conditions of Shu, originally, even if the Daqian Dynasty conquered Shaanxi like the Jin State in history, it would not be possible to take Shu easily.

In other words, if Zhao Gou led people loyal to the Zhao Song Dynasty to manage Shu well, and then stubbornly defended Shu with natural risks, it would not be so easy for the Daqian Dynasty to be unified.

Fortunately!

Zhao Goujun was not right-hearted, appointed treacherous and evil, rewarded and punished unfairly, and persecuted Liu Qi, Li Yanxian and other loyal ministers and good generals, resulting in the death of the hearts of the people of the Western Song Dynasty and the outbreak of the Miao Liu Mutiny.

And Li Cun keenly seized the God-given opportunity of the Miao Liu Mutiny, and took a two-pronged approach:

On the one hand, Li Cun sent Chen Hoop, Li Yanxian and others to capture the thief and capture the king first, and controlled the small court of the Western Song Dynasty headed by Zhao Gou, eliminated the central system of the Western Song Dynasty, made the Western Song Dynasty dragons leaderless, and gave the Western Song Dynasty huge psychological pressure;

On the other hand, Li Cun decisively sent Liu Qi to lead the army to the west.

Although there was also a Zhang Jun in the middle who tried to "help the general of the building and turn the tide to the top", however, Zhang Jun was more than loyal, but his ability was insufficient, and he lost the last bit of capital of the Zhao and Song Dynasty to resist the Daqian Dynasty in the first battle.

In the words of Lu Jiang: "Zhang Juncai is extremely short, although the righteousness is extremely clear, but he does not know anything at all." Lifted the east, but fell to the west; It is difficult to achieve great things if you know this place but forget it. ”

After defeating the main force of the Song army, Li Cun sent a large surrender team into the Sichuan-Shaanxi region to surrender the troops and local officials of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

The emperor of the Western Song Dynasty was captured by the Great Qian Dynasty to Bianliang City in Tokyo, and the main force of the Western Song Dynasty was scattered by the cadre army, and the cadre army also took this opportunity to successfully enter the Shu land, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the unification of the world was already the trend of the times.

At this time, anyone with a little brain can't hit a stone with an egg, because that is pure and pure is looking for death.

Besides, the main generals sent by Li Cun to attack the Song Dynasty this time were Liu Qi and Li Yanxian.

Li Cun made Liu Qi and Li Yanxian the chief generals of the Song Dynasty.

On the one hand, of course, it was a declaration that Zhao Gou betrayed the loyal ministers and good generals who had made great contributions to him, and it was not worth serving Zhao Gou, so that the Western Song Dynasty would be divided from within and the combat effectiveness of the Song army would be disintegrated.

On the other hand, Li Cun was also showing his courage in employing people to the military generals of the Western Song Dynasty, so that the military generals of the Western Song Dynasty could see that he even dared to appoint the two young generals of the Western Song Dynasty who had just surrendered to him as the commanders of the Song Dynasty, so that they could rest assured that they would boldly serve themselves without any worries.

(Of course, this is also because Liu Qi and Li Yanxian are indeed talented generals.) ）

It is precisely because he saw Li Cun's rare courage in ancient and modern times, that the people sent by Li Cun to surrender the Song army and local officials in the Western Song Dynasty have received good news one after another, and the Song army has surrendered one after another, and the cities and fortresses that were originally under the control of the Western Song Dynasty have also surrendered one by one.

On the same day that Zhao Gou was escorted to Bianliang City in Tokyo, Zhang Jun led all his men and horses to surrender to the Daqian Dynasty.

Soon after, Shaanxi made Wang Shu lead nearly 40,000 western troops to surrender.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Guangshi and Shaanxi Liulu Jingluo pacified the envoys who led their respective men and horses to surrender.

Liu Guangshi had a great enmity with the Daqian Dynasty for killing his father and brother, so his surrender to the Daqian Dynasty attracted much attention.

After Li Cun learned about this situation, he simply transferred Han Bei, the capital supervisor of the Third Military Region (that is, the Yundi Military Region), to Shaanxi, with the elite of the cadre army as the backbone, and filled it with the well-educated and well-trained Song army of Sun Sandu, to form a new military region, and at the same time appointed Liu Guangshi as the capital supervisor of the Third Military Region, and became the partner of Su Dong, a veteran general of the cadre army, and the two jointly guarded Yundi.

Not only that, Li Cun also boldly promoted Wang De, a general under Liu Guangshi, to be the deputy governor of the Third Military Region, and also the commander of the elite of the cadre army, and became the No. 3 person in the Third Military Region.

From the very beginning of its establishment, the cadres had two clear concepts.

The first concept is that the overseers who represent the imperial power command the army.

The second concept is that the cadres and the army are a system of dual commanders.

From the beginning of the establishment of the Tiger Ben Army, to the establishment of the Great Qian Dynasty, and to the present, the command of the army by the supervising army representing the imperial power is one of the core ideas of the cadre army.

To a large extent, the reason why the cadres are extremely effective is that the cadres are an army with ideas and beliefs.

The ideology and belief of the cadres and the army come from the command of the army by the supervising army on behalf of the imperial power.

However, after all, there are a few all-rounders in this world, and in order to prevent the army from rebelling and rebelling, Li Cun must divide power and govern the army.

In this way, the generals who are good at fighting wars are specifically responsible for fighting wars and training the army, and they are also the nominal supreme commander of the army.

In terms of level, the level of the two is actually the same.

In reality, these are two systems.

- the supreme commander of the army, a military officer belonging to the army; The overseers belong to the political officers of the army.

Fearing that the division of power was not clear, Li Zheng made a provision at the beginning of the establishment of the army: when the opinions of the supervising army and the military commander of the army were at odds, the supervising army could call off the order of the military commander, but in wartime the supervising army must unconditionally obey the order of the military commander, and at the same time, both sides could report the dispute to the higher authorities and wait for the ruling of the superiors.

In layman's terms, in the cadre army, it is the supreme commander of the army who has the say in wartime, and it is the supervising army that has the say in non-wartime.

It should be emphasized that neither has the power to mobilize the army, and the power to mobilize the army is in the Privy Council.

In other words, after Liu Guangshi defected to the Daqian Dynasty, Li Cun not only did not suspect Liu Guangshi because Liu Guangshi had a grudge against the Daqian Dynasty, but also promoted Liu Guangshi to be a high-ranking political official at the head of the cadre army and one of the two leaders of the Third Military Region.

Some people may say, but didn't Liu Guangshi completely lose his military power because of this?

Be.

This is indeed the case.

However, Li Cun handed over the trump card army of the Daqian Dynasty, that is, the Tabai Army, which Han Bei had been personally commanding, to Wang De, the number one general under Liu Guangshi.

To outsiders, Liu Guangshi does not seem to have lost his military power.

Besides, this is not aimed at Liu Guangshi, but except for very special circumstances, there are now very few supervisors who directly serve as the supreme commander of the army.

The situation is similar to Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun.

Li Cun transferred Zhang Xian, the capital supervisor of the First Military Region (that is, the Pingzhou Military Region), to Shudi, and formed a new military region with the elite of the cadre army as the backbone, and at the same time appointed Zhang Jun as the capital supervisor of the First Military Region, becoming Li Cun's favorite general Yue Fei's partner.

The difference is that Li Cun did not let Yang Yizhong, the number one general in Zhang Jun's hands, go to the First Military Region to serve as the deputy commander, but transferred Yang Yizhong to his own pro-army commander, and transferred Niu Gao to the First Military Region to serve as the deputy commander.

However, at the same time, Li Cun transferred Zhang Jun's nephew Zhang Zigai to Yue Fei to serve as the commander of the first army, and Zhang Jun's absolute confidant Tian Shizhong (Zhang Jun's son died early, Zhang Jun married his widowed daughter-in-law to Tian Shizhong, and since then Tian Shizhong has also called Zhang Jun "father", which is half a son) was transferred to another army under Yue Fei as a supervisor.

Looking at it this way, Zhang Jun seems to have risen instead of declining and has not lost his military power.

Li Cun once again showed the world his courage in employing people.

Actually-

After being defeated in the decisive battle of Fuping, the Song army still had considerable combat effectiveness.

At that time, if Zhang Jun had made proper arrangements and used the Beishan mountain system, he could still block the attack of the cadre army, even if he had prepared for the worst, the Song army could also concentrate its forces to hold Liupan Mountain and keep the vast area west of Liupan Mountain.

However, before the decisive battle, Zhang Jun only thought of victory but did not expect defeat, so once defeated, he was at a loss and did not know how to clean up the mess.

As a result, Liu Qi entered Shu in the first battle, and the war situation in Shaanxi was completely out of control.

Zhang Jun beheaded Zhao Zhe in Pizhou for questioning, demoted Liu Xi, the commander of the capital, to a regimental training envoy, and placed him in Hezhou to live idle.

After this, Zhang Jun ordered all the armies to return to their original ways and disbanded the corps.

It is precisely because of this that the armies were surrendered by the Daqian Dynasty one after another.

After that, Zhang Jun himself retreated to Qinzhou worriedly, under the escort of nearly 10,000 guards.

Yao Xing chased to Qinzhou.

After Zhang Jun learned of this, he wanted to organize an army to fight Yao Xing.

But Zhang Jun's guards captured Zhang Jun and offered it to Yao Xing to surrender.

On the way to Bianliang City, Tokyo, Zhang Jun took the opportunity to leave the words "Zhang Jun is loyal, unswerving" and then hanged himself from a crooked neck tree with a belt.

In a nutshell.

Whether it is an official of the Western Song Dynasty or a general of the Western Army, as long as they are willing to surrender to the Daqian Dynasty, the Daqian Dynasty will be properly resettled, regardless of previous suspicions, and talented people will even be promoted and appointed.

And in this case, there is still the stubborn one, Li Cun also ruthlessly ordered Liu Qi and Li Yanxian to send troops to exterminate them, and they raided the family and asked the clan, killing chickens and monkeys.

Therefore, under the grace and power of Li Cun, coupled with Zhang Jun, Wang Shu, Liu Guangshi and other generals and local officials of the Western Army who took the lead in surrendering to the Daqian Dynasty, and Zhang Jun and a few other people loyal to the Zhao Song Dynasty were martyred for the Zhao Song Dynasty, after the Western Song Dynasty was completely leaderless and had no resistance forces, the last part of the Song people who were still holding on to the Daqian Dynasty and refused to surrender to the Daqian Dynasty also gave up resistance, or returned to the Daqian Dynasty, or lived in seclusion and no longer asked about the world.

In just over half a year, the Shaanxi region was completely free of armed forces to resist the Daqian Dynasty, and Shaanxi Dading was completely incorporated into the territory of the Daqian Dynasty and became an inseparable part of the Daqian Dynasty.

In less than a year, Shu was also settled, and it was completely incorporated into the territory of the Daqian Dynasty and became an inseparable part of the Daqian Dynasty.

The northern region of Shaanxi (that is, the northern Shaanxi region of later generations), in the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, together with Jingchuan and Quanjin, was the northern barrier of the core of Guanluo in the Central Plains Empire, and it was also the nearest springboard for the southward advance of the Saiwai powers from the Hetao area, and it was one of the plots on the two "straight lines" between Guanluo and the Saiwai.

In the northern part of Shaanxi Province east and west of the Yellow River, the Quanjin Dynasty was the only way for both sides inside and outside the Great Wall to launch deadly attacks on each other.

The western part of Shaanxi is Longshan, the northern part is the Loess Plateau, the east of the Yellow River runs through the north and south, and flows to the east near Tongguan, and the south is the Qinling Mountains across the east and west.

According to Helan and Yinshan Mountains, relying on the danger of mountains and rivers, it has a very thick strategic depth from the hinterland; Secondly, in the north of the plateau, along the line of Dingbian, Jingbian, Hengshan, and Yulin, the deployment was carried out to control the entrance and exit of the Loess Plateau, and even if the defense line was lost, the ravines of the Loess Plateau could be relied on to hinder the enemy's offensive.

With the strategic location of Shaanxi, the Daqian Dynasty could finally fully defend against the Western Xia, so that the Tanguts could no longer invade the Daqian Dynasty.

In addition, the Wei River from west to east, not only connects the major cities in the Guanzhong Plain, but also brings fertile soil and abundant water for the development of agriculture here, making it rich in grain, fully guaranteed self-sufficiency, and even wealthy.

In addition, since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Kanto is a prime minister, and Kansai is a general".

This "Guan" refers to Hangu Pass, so Kansai is Shaanxi.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the Xiongnu continued to plunder in the south, and out of resistance and self-defense, the Qin people had to fight by force, which formed the custom of martial arts in Shaanxi.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, Guanxi Zhong, especially represented by Shaanxi Guanzhong, has always had this martial spirit.

In addition, the best way to fight the nomads is cavalry against cavalry, and this treasure land is an excellent horse-producing area, so most of the people here are good at pommel horse riding and shooting.

Therefore, the people here have been one of the most warlike soldiers in all dynasties.

In other words, after getting Shaanxi, the Daqian Dynasty got another excellent source of soldiers.

During the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, Shu was definitely the strong backing of the Central Plains Dynasty.

After the annexation of Shu, the Qin State obtained a stable source of wealth and food, which supported the hegemony of the Qin State to unify the world after swallowing for two weeks and dying;

Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, also took Shu and Hanzhong as his bases, secretly crossed Chencang into Guanzhong, and then ignored the heroes from a high position, and then pacified the world and established the foundation of the Han Dynasty for 400 years.

In addition to Yang Guozhong's selfishness, Shu was indeed an important town for the defense of Tibet in the Tang Dynasty, not only with enough soldiers and food, but also loyal to the Central Plains Dynasty, so it became Li Longji's safe haven.

Today, the Daqian Dynasty has won the Sichuan-Shaanxi region and has all the foundations of a powerful dynasty.

It is indisputable that the Daqian Dynasty established by Li Cun completed the unification, and Li Cun became one of the first emperors of the ages who will surely go down in history.

Of course, the territory of the Daqian Dynasty established by Li Cun is far from being compared with the Han and Tang dynasties, and even with the Ming and Qing dynasties in history.

But even so, so far, Li Cun's achievements are dazzling enough.

Therefore, after completely incorporating the Sichuan-Shaanxi region into the territory of the Daqian Dynasty, Li Cun granted amnesty to the world and announced to the world that the Daqian Dynasty completely replaced the Zhao and Song dynasties, no, it completely surpassed the Zhao and Song dynasties and became an undisputed unified dynasty.

And the Zhao and Song dynasties have since become history.

An era has come to an end.

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