Yan Shu also understood that Zhao Zhen was for his good. Keeping him in the palace is actually protecting him.

In the first year of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Shu was promoted to the governor of the political affairs (deputy prime minister) and the Shangshu Zuocheng. In the second year, because of the admonition of the queen mother, she "served the crown to pay homage to the temple", and degraded Bozhou and Chenzhou. Five years later, he was summoned to the post of Shangshu of the Criminal Department and the Imperial History Zhongcheng, and was reinstated as the third envoy. At that time, Li Yuanhao was proclaimed emperor, established the Western Xia Kingdom, and sent troops to the Shaanxi area, while the Song Dynasty was repeatedly defeated and retreated. Yan Shu made a comprehensive analysis of the military situation at that time, found the reasons for the defeat, and in view of the existing problems, after asking Renzong, he did four major things to strengthen the armament: abolish the supervision of the army by the ministers and give the army commander the right to decide on major affairs in the army; recruit and train archers for use in battle; clear the long-standing backlog of property in the palace and subsidize the military salaries at the border gates; and recover the materials that had been misappropriated by various divisions to enrich the national treasury. As a result, the Song army quickly quelled the Western Xia invasion.

But because of this, he has an excellent relationship with the warriors.

At the same time, he is a simple and mighty person, treat people with sincerity, although he is rich, but his life is quite simple, and he is willing to reward talents, when the world's famous people, such as Fan Zhongyan, Kong Daofu, Ouyang Xiu, etc., are out of his door, and can know the rich in the cold, marry his daughter to him. When Yan Shu was in power, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Fu Bi were all reused, and the Taiwan Pavilion also had more sages for a while, and did many major things that were beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood.

He stirred up the storm in his life, and he was already sitting on a powder keg. If military power is involved again, this powder keg must explode.

You must know that civil officials, no, they should be called political figures, they never care whether what they do is beneficial to the country and the people, they always value political interests.

Yan Shu wanted to remind Zhao Zhen not to detonate this powder keg, but looking at Zhao Zhen's eyes, Yan Shu knew one thing very well.

Then he knew that if the emperor really made up his mind to mobilize other armies, it would not be easy to do, after all, the warriors of the Great Song Dynasty had been suppressed by the literati for decades, but this did not mean that there were no orders. For example, the Yang family, as long as the emperor gives an order, they will still listen.

It's just that in this way, the contradictions between the monarch and the minister will only intensify. After Taizong, after the civil officials killed a group of elite military generals, the power of civil officials gradually climbed to the peak, and the military generals began to be suppressed, but the emperor's recent behavior is to promote the military more and more......

Be. Demons and monsters need the power of martial artists, and civil officials basically don't need it. But Your Majesty, don't you know life, why don't you ask about death?

These demons and monsters have been recorded in all dynasties, but none of them have the ability to cause trouble to the imperial court. Warriors do.

Not to mention anything else, if you take down all the civil officials who have recently fought with the emperor and do not work with the new policy, the entire court will be paralyzed.

Of course, if one after another is dismissed and even beheaded, as long as the emperor has the courage to roll in the heads of people who are not afraid of killing, and there is the ferocity of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms of the year, then it is really possible for the dynasty to be reshaped, and the entire social order will be reshaped, of course, the Ming Dynasty will be chaotic for a while, and then countless people will die because of this, and even people will rebel.

But a dynasty that obeys the emperor's orders may be born in this way.

Hard bones are not as many as soft bones, which has been proven in five generations and ten countries. The reason why there are more hard bones in the court today is because most of them are the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty will not cure the sins of literati.

Zhao Kuangyin is a military general who rebelled and seized power, and he knew that it was difficult to control the arrogant soldiers, so after becoming the emperor, he tried not to reuse it as much as possible, and even guarded against the generals like thieves. And governing the country needs talents, and if you don't reuse military generals, you can only reuse literati. During this period, ordinary people could pass the imperial examination to make themselves "Makita Lang and ascend to Tianzitang" at dusk. The founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin formulated a series of policies that emphasized literature over military force, and spent money to buy peace, resulting in the uselessness of military generals, and other reasons, which caused the status of literati to rise sharply.

Zhao Kuangyin once swore an oath in the secret room of the Taimiao, and the later monarchs sacrificed and the new prince ascended the throne, all of whom must read the inscription: 1. The descendants of the Chai family shall not be punished if they are guilty, and if they commit rebellion, they shall be given in prison, and they shall not be tortured and killed by the city, nor shall they sit on their subordinates; 2. They shall not kill the scholars and doctors and the people who write the book; 3. The descendants who have this oath will be killed by heaven.

Zhao Kuangyin's policy ensured the safety of the literati in the Song Dynasty, and it can be said that the literati of the Song Dynasty truly gained the dignity of the literati! Moreover, the civil servants of the Song Dynasty were extremely high, and the emperor consciously took out a large part of the state income to "reward" every scholar and doctor. It is "those who are favored by the hundred officials are afraid of their insufficiency, and those who take wealth from the people do not keep them." ”

With such an emperor, the big green scarves will unite around the emperor. At least that's what the civil servants are trying to build and maintain.

But now, the emperor frequently used the army. What does he want to do?

Yan Shu looked at the emperor and his chamberlain who looked wrong, the fear in his heart could be imagined, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, please think twice! Your Majesty, please think twice! Your Majesty! You can't do this! Little demons and monsters, nothing to worry about. Once the sword and soldiers are used, not only will the martial arts regain power, but the Great Song Dynasty will also be unstable! Your Majesty! Your Majesty will think twice!"

What a monster. Yan Shu didn't care, he was afraid that Zhao Zhen would eat the marrow and know the taste, and really reuse the martial arts.

And this is likely to happen. After all, what is the situation now. The Khitans and the Western Xia people have all bullied the Great Song Dynasty, and how did the Great Song Dynasty turn the corner?

That's not the credit of the old coins. Only if the army can fight, the year coin is useful. If the army can't fight, no matter how many coins you have, it's useless.

Yan Shu, who presided over military reform, knew this point better than anyone else. The so-called "New Year's coin" is actually nothing more than the act of civil officials to grab merit.

Fighting, they can't. That's a joke.

That's why they fooled the Great Song Dynasty into coming up with the New Year's coin, and then they got this peace merit.

If the battle is won, the money will be given, and Song Zhenzong personally defeated 200,000 iron horsemen under Tanyuan City, but in the end he signed an alliance with Tanyuan that was unfavorable to Song. Although historians speak highly of it, believing that the Northern Song Dynasty used 300,000 silver silk per year to end the 25-year war, in exchange for precious peace, and won a rare development environment, its importance cannot be overemphasized.

But the nomads did not produce, and the military defeat of the 200,000-strong army made them themselves feel better.

The Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, saying that it was a military victory, but if the Han Dynasty was like the Song people, constantly giving New Year's coins and constantly giving life to the Hu people, it would be the end of the Han Dynasty, and there would be no day when the Xiongnu perished.

If you win, you have to give money and benefits, which is also the most special Oriental unique.

It is difficult to find a second case in the entire history of the world.

Because people elsewhere are "stupid"?

They don't understand that it is "stupid" to demand compensation after winning a war and to develop their own hard power? They should give money and food to the enemy country so that they can develop it, and the "political wisdom" of fighting another war is really unique to Asia!

Because it is impossible for ordinary people to fool the past.