When later generations were exploring the Great Song Empire and really began to reign over the world, most people put this point in time on the day when the Great Song declared war on the Great Liao, and in that year, the Great Song Dynasty demanded that the Great Liao return the sixteen states of Yanyun, which was strongly opposed by the Great Liao.

They thought that the Song Dynasty was wishful thinking, but they didn't expect that the Great Song they faced was far from the Great Song Dynasty of the past, and in a very short period of time, the Great Liao Kingdom, which had ruled the grassland and Yanyun for hundreds of years, fell apart under the blow of the Great Song Dynasty.

For the first time, the whole world saw the power of the Great Song Dynasty. And the most intuitive result of these triggers is that in the next tens or even hundreds of years, the Great Song Dynasty began to conquer the world. Whether it is Dali Jiaozhi in the south, or the Tibetan tribes in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, or the nomadic regime in the Western Regions and even Central Asia.

They all encountered a life-and-death choice, either surrendering to the Great Song or being eliminated by the Great Song.

So they thought that this was the beginning of the real rise of the Great Song Empire.

But I have a different opinion, I think the earliest change in the Great Song Dynasty should be the edict of Song Zhenzong in November of the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, it is from that edict that the Great Song Empire, which has been founded for fifty-two years, really began its own transformation...

———— "The Conqueror of the World* The Rise of the Song Dynasty"

"What's the matter? Happy to be like this? ”

Song Zhen looked at Zhao Pan'er with a smirk, Zhao Pan'er pouted, and the corners of her mouth couldn't stop rising: "I won't tell you..." ”

Song Zhen was lying on the bed sorting out the documents, there were too many things he wanted to do now, although he was only King Wen now, whether it was Zhenzong or Wang Dan, the status of Prince Song Zhen was basically determined.

In other words, the current Song Chun is the king of Wen on the surface, but he can exercise the rights of the crown prince.

Because of this, Song Zhen is under a lot of pressure now.

He wondered where his first move should be.

"Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!" A word with a strong Xiangtan flavor appeared in Song Zhen's mind.

What you have to do next will inevitably cause some people to fight back, and in serious cases, it may even cause rebellion, so the importance of military power will be revealed.

Because he has seen the modern army, Song Zhen is not interested in the army of this era. Moreover, the soldiers of this era also have a black face, which looks extremely bad.

The so-called black face, is to tattoo words on the face, this behavior first originated in the Five Dynasties period, they in order to prevent soldiers from fleeing, and tattooed words on their faces, it has been proved that this behavior is really good, the number of soldiers fleeing is much lower than that of non-black faces.

However, in the Song Dynasty, whether it was the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, there was no mention of military personnel in the express regulations of the government, and a large part of the reason why there was a Song Dynasty military face in later generations was due to the treatment of soldiers in the Song Dynasty and other related issues.

For example, the Song Dynasty's box army, that is, the local army, a considerable part of the box army is from the criminals who have been assigned, and some of them are from the recruitment of local bandits.

In addition, due to the long service period of the Song Dynasty army, they often enlisted at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and they could only retire at the age of sixty or seventy, and the commanders would also deduct their salaries.

Not to mention these, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty still had to serve the officials, send them to usher, carry the sedan chair to carry the flag, carry the burden of transportation, and that's it, they had to build houses for them, work as construction workers, and if they didn't do it, then they would be engaged in military law.

In this case, the number of deserters in the Song Dynasty army increased, and in order to control the deserters, the officers came up with the method of black noodles, so they began to expand the tattooing, and the box soldiers and forbidden soldiers who were not criminals also began to tattoo.

So the black face became the nameplate of the soldiers.

This situation continued until the Southern Song Dynasty, with the outbreak of the Song-Jin war at the turn of the two Song Dynasty, and the frequent wars of the Song-Meng, Song-Yuan Dynasty later, the status of the soldiers began to improve, and the tattoos became less and less.

This has to be said to be a great irony, in peacetime the status of the soldiers was reduced, they tossed the soldiers hard, causing the soldiers to flee in large numbers, and then extended the behavior of punishing criminals to the soldiers, just to prevent them from fleeing. In the era of frequent wars, with the improvement of the status of soldiers, this kind of behavior gradually died out.

The proverb that cold knowledge, good iron does not nail, and a good man is not a soldier comes from the Song Dynasty.

This suppression of the military can be said to be the greatest impact of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms on the Song Dynasty, starting from the rebellion of the feudal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty and then to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms for more than 70 years, the two add up to almost a hundred years.

In the past hundred years, the warriors have greatly demonstrated their lower limits, and various rebellions and rebellions have emerged one after another. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is not only an era of collapse of social order, but also an era of collapse of moral order, collapse of national order, collapse of human order, in this era, you can find the most disgusting, the most corrupt, the most unbelievable things that human beings can do.

The Song Dynasty, which was killed from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, naturally felt particularly deeply about this kind of thing, so it became inevitable to worship literature and suppress martial arts, and the suppression of martial artists became inevitable.

After all, the army of this era is fundamentally two varieties of the modern army, not to mention compared with the PLA.

But the crux of the matter is that there is never a thing that has the best of both worlds in the world, especially in the country, if you suppress and humiliate the warriors, don't think about how much strength the warriors can exert in foreign wars.

So with the gradual demise of the most elite generals and soldiers in the early Song Dynasty, the military strength of the Song Dynasty began to decline all the way until the outbreak of the Song-Jin War and the appearance of that man.

He redefined the meaning of the army, freezing to death without demolishing houses, starving to death without plundering. He rebuilt the soldier's sense of honor and mission, but fell under the twelve golden gold medals...

Every day is clear, every day is clear!

Song Zhen put down the pen in his hand and sighed, the military power must be held tightly, but the transformation of the army must not be left behind, the existence of the feudal army, it is time to be swept into the garbage heap of history!

"Makiyuki, I have a father..."

Zhao Paner's Wu Nong's soft words interrupted Song Zhen's train of thought.

"What?" Song Zhen didn't react for a while.

"What daddy?"

Zhao Pan'er pursed her lips and smiled: "Today, the sage took me to Kou Lao's mansion and wanted Kou Lao to accept me as a righteous daughter, and he agreed!" ”

Song Zhen was immediately overjoyed: "Really fake? Kou Laoxi, that stubborn old man, would actually agree to such a thing? ”