Chapter 196 A cup of wine releases military power
"This also led to the fact that no one could fight in the entire Great Song Dynasty, which is also the main reason why the Great Song Dynasty was poor and weak, you must know that the civil ministers and military generals should be coordinated with each other and check and balance each other, no one can leave it, no civil ministers can govern the country, no military generals can not determine the country, this is also the most important reason why the Song Dynasty is always defeated and bullied in the end, and the root cause is Taizu Zhao Kuangyin."
"In fact, although the impact of Zhao Kuangyin's move to release the military power is both positive and negative, I personally still think that the disadvantages of the negative impact are greater, and the bad impact on future generations is also deeper, if it is not such a move, the status of the military generals will not be lower and lower, and the later generations of the Great Song Dynasty will not become more and more miserable, and the corruption will not be so serious.
Qin Shi Huang: The fall of the Great Song Dynasty, Song Taizu buried hidden dangers is a reason, in the final analysis, these later emperors do not know how to be flexible.
Zhu Yuanzhang: The economic development is good, but the military is in a mess!
Zhu Di: I am also a military general, and I am also light on martial arts, I look down on literati, and I still value literature, I really don't know what to think.
This is also the biggest hidden danger left by Zhao Kuangyin, "Chongwen Light Martial Arts"! ”
"The Northern Song Dynasty implemented a policy of emphasizing civil affairs over military force and attaching importance to civilian officials, resulting in most of the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty being civil ministers, and they could not send a few capable generals to kill the enemy."
The Northern Song Dynasty's policy of emphasizing literature over military force led to a wave of people attaching importance to academics, which gave rise to such a sentence, "Everything is inferior, but only reading is high." ””
"Gaining fame has become the only pursuit of folk scholars, but this has also caused fewer and fewer people to practice martial arts, and there is also a large lack of military generals in the imperial court, and Wenchen has more understanding of the law than military generals, which is also an important factor in the Song Dynasty's emphasis on law."
Zhao Kuangyin believes that only in this way can we get rid of local undesirable factors and promote the improvement and supplementation of the law, but it also creates an important factor that has no ability to resist when foreign enemies attack.
"Due to the prevalence of the literary style, it did make the Song Dynasty quickly stabilize from the war and become vigorous and prosperous, but it also led to the slack of armaments in the Song Dynasty and the low status of the soldiers, which eventually led to being vulnerable in the face of foreign invasion, and could only cede land and pay reparations, and seek peace in humiliation."
"After Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he followed a set of ancestral family laws, that is, to set up full-time officials in the imperial court and divide functions and powers."
"The starting point of Zhao Kuangyin's policy is actually to guard against military generals, to prevent the division of feudal towns and the dictatorship of military generals, Zhao Kuangyin handed over the power of the prime minister to the Privy Council to take charge, and the financial power was divided by the three divisions, and the prime minister only had a little administrative power."
"At the same time, the Governor, the Privy Vice-Minister, and the Third Secretary were established, and from then on the power of the various officials in charge of the main powers was weakened."
"The decentralization of power will bring about the strengthening of Zhao Kuangyin's power, Zhao Kuangyin regards these as his henchmen, and does everything possible to deal with the prime minister and guard against ambitious people, which makes Zhao Kuangyin lose his supporters and lose the support of the people."
In this way, Zhao Kuangyin despised the military generals in order to praise the literati, which led to the military weakness of the Song Dynasty and laid a hidden danger for the Northern Song Dynasty in the future.
"If Zhao Kuangyin can live longer, maybe the policy will be reformed, I think, even if Zhao Kuangyin is still alive by then, he will not be able to fight back against foreign enemies."
In August of the ninth year of Kaibao, Song Taizu wanted to carry out the Northern Expedition again, but on October 19, Song Taizu died suddenly, leaving behind the historical mystery of "candle shadow axe", and his brother Zhao Guangyi was busy rectifying the government after he ascended the throne, and the cause of reunification was temporarily stopped. ”
"As I said before, there are few emperors behind the Great Song Dynasty who can resist major events, the emperor doesn't know that it's one thing, it's one thing for the emperor to be incompetent, and the hidden dangers left by Zhao Kuangyin are the main thing."
"It's ridiculous to take "Chongwen Light Martial Arts" as a group training, why not learn from the Ming Dynasty group training? ”
Zhu Yuanzhang: Old Zhao! How long have you been an emperor for now, and you're dead, do you want to check on your brother?
Zhao Kuangyin: I didn't expect that it would be this kind of ending, if I was still alive, how could I not find out the military problem in a campaign, my brother had already let me kill him, and his descendants could not, so I couldn't leave this hidden danger.
Li Zhi: I remember that Miss Zhang mentioned earlier that there should be five or six emperors in the Great Song Dynasty who did not act! How many generations has the Great Song Dynasty gone through? Isn't there a good emperor? It's unlikely!
"The Great Song Dynasty has gone through 18 generations of emperors, in fact, some emperors are good, a hundred kinds of people have a hundred opinions, a good emperor must have it, it depends on how you look at it, you see that Zhao Kuangyin can be ranked among the top ten outstanding emperors is a good emperor, then the disadvantages he left behind cannot be denied."
"Song Shenzong and Song Zhezong are considered good emperors of the Great Song Dynasty, but unfortunately they have great ambitions, but both of them died young."
"Almost all emperors in power will make some reforms that are beneficial to the country, but some reforms are not as harmful as their evils."
Zhao Kuangyin: Then do I really have no emperor in the Great Song Dynasty?
"Then I'm going to give Song Taizu a plate."
"Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, speaking of Zhao Guangyi, it is not good for Zhao Guangyi to lead the army to fight, and he is definitely good at politics and conspiracy."
"Originally, the "Golden Kui Alliance" Song Taizu passed on Song Taizong, Song Taizong passed on Tingmei, and Tingmei restored the virtue Zhao, and finally left the throne to his descendants. ”
And Zhao Guangyi was definitely the first loser in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the elite troops left behind after Zhao Kuangyin's unexplained death made Zhao Guangyi dry up at one time. ”
"Greed for merit and merit actually started the idea of the Khitan Youyun Sixteen Prefectures."
"The 300,000 army actually made Yelu Hugo defeat the army, and a generation of emperors finally escaped in a donkey cart and won the title of "Sorghum River Car God"! ”
"Subsequently, Song Taizong gave up the expedition and instead stuck to the city."
"In terms of domestic reform, Song Taizong relaxed the talent selection system, attached importance to agricultural development, returned wasteland to land, and dug rivers."
"In his later years, Song Taizong's temperament changed greatly, and he increased taxes on a large scale, and the heavy burden made the people miserable, and uprisings occurred frequently in various places."
"What does Song Taizu think?"
"Song Zhenzong, named Zhao Heng, is the third son of Song Taizong."
"In the early days of his reign in the Song Dynasty, because of his diligence in the government, the economy developed, and he could be called the ruler of the world."
"However, this situation did not last, in the first year of Jingde, the Liao people came to attack, and Song Zhenzong led his troops to recruit in person, but after the first battle of Lanyuan, he sued for peace with the enemy, and used money to pay tribute to ensure stability."
"This is the first time that the Song Dynasty has sued for peace with the enemy, and since then, the history of humiliation of the Song Dynasty has begun."
Song Zhenzong's method of "breaking wealth and avoiding disasters" brought a heavy burden to the people, and the people often complained. ”