Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 220 Support
Fan Zhuoyuan said: "Do you want to support me to fight for the world?"

Yun Long also stopped being secretive, and said frankly: "I don't know if General Fan has this idea!"

Fan Zhuoyuan's heart moved, Song Ting treated him like this, of course he would not be without ideas, he was dealing with the Yingui faction, but he was actually thinking about how to arrange the current situation.

On the surface, he said solemnly: "Struggling for world hegemony can be achieved with just a few words. Do you know why Daming Zunjiao failed?"

Yun Long said: "Fang La's high-ranking officials are not good at using troops, and they have no vision. In the early days, they won six prefectures and 52 counties. When the situation was good, they didn't compete for strategic places like Jinling to consolidate the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

After governing the local government, he allowed his subordinates to behave mischievously, which was not as good as the original Song court bureaucrats and subordinates, which aroused complaints from the local people.

The most important thing is the misjudgment of the imperial court's determination to suppress. Unexpectedly, after two months, Tong Guan led the elite Western Army to suppress, and the result was a crushing defeat. "

Fan Zhuoyuan nodded. The Yingui Sect had seriously analyzed the failure of Fang La's uprising.

"Sect Master Yun's analysis is very reasonable, but even if Jinling is finally occupied and ruled by the river, Fang La and others will only delay the time of defeat."

"General Fan, please explain in detail."

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "In addition to the strategic governance mentioned by Sect Master Yun, I think there are two more points.

First, there is no real army capable of fighting tough battles in the military. Although there are millions of people, they are more like a mob.

They were easily wiped out by the Western Army, and they were almost powerless to resist. Compared with the Yellow Turbans in the late Han Dynasty and the Yellow Chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, they were not even a star and a half away.

Second, in addition to catering to the peasants in politics, it did not actively attract businessmen and scholar-bureaucrat groups to join.On the contrary, for wealthy bureaucrats, it is basically killing them all, and forcing all such people to the opposite side.

Since it was a rebellion, the initial stage was the time to vigorously gain support from all sides, but doing the opposite would only make oneself weaker and weaker. "

Yun Long objected: "Fang La's uprising was originally based on the banner of attracting the lower class people. However, if he conquered a land and did not try the local powerful literati, how could he win the support of the lower class people? Isn't it different from the Song Dynasty?"

Fan Zhuoyuan shook his head and said, "That's why Sect Master Yun and Fang La didn't figure out what the people really want."

Several people stared at Fan Zhuoyuan in surprise, waiting for him to finish speaking.

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "The common people never care about the fairy sitting on top of their heads, they only care about their own one-acre land.

The reason for supporting Fang La's rebellion is because the imperial court's taxes are too heavy, so that there is not enough food in a good year, and the other one is land annexation!
As long as these two points are resolved, the support of the people can be effectively obtained. If everyone can have their own land and the taxation is reasonable, even if the original scholar-bureaucrats are still appointed, they will not care too much.

Of course, in order to effectively distribute land, it is inevitable to crack down on the corresponding local tyrants and evil gentry, but the operation in the middle cannot be done arbitrarily, there must be rules, and this requires a complete administrative structure.

So in turn, most of Fangla's high-ranking officials who were born in Jianghu and peasants had to absorb scholar-bureaucrats. "

As he said that, Fan Zhuoyuan paused, and then said: "There is another reason. The world has not yet reached the end of the dynasty, and the bureaucracy has not completely decayed. It is different from the situation at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it is very difficult for the rebellion to succeed."

Yun Long and the others were all frowning, and Yun Long couldn't help but ask, "If you let General Fan stand in Fang La's place, what would you do?"

Fan Zhuoyuan thought for a while, and he remembered that according to the original history, even the Jin people occupied Yanyun, and even broke through Taiyuan, dividing Shaanxi and Central Plains.

When they finally attacked Kaifeng, there was nothing they could do.

Until Song Qinzong, a silly bird, appointed warlocks, what kind of six Ding Liujia, heavenly soldiers and generals, and took the initiative to open the door and go out to fight the Jin army.

As a result, the Jin army took advantage of the situation and rushed into Bianjing, which led to the shame of Jingkang.

This was purely done by the royal family of Zhao and Song Dynasties. After the Jin soldiers plundered Bianliang, Zongze quickly regained it, and fought several victories, gradually stabilizing the turbulent situation.

At that time, as long as the center moved closer and continued to stabilize the situation in Bianliang City, coupled with the ubiquity of anti-Jin rebels in various places, and the Song Dynasty Imperial Army gradually learned to fight from dough, it was absolutely possible to continue to fight against Jin.

Later, Wanyan Gou fled to Lin'an, but he also had enough strength and resources to conquer his homeland in the Northern Expedition and win the Northern Song Dynasty.

But it was also because of the incompetence and cowardice of the Zhao Song royal family, who were willing to rule the river, abolished their martial arts, and Fengboting killed Yue Fei, which completely cut off the hope of the Northern Expedition.

Judging from the above situation, the Song Dynasty seems to be weak during this period, but in fact it has great potential, and the bureaucracy can still operate very efficiently. Therefore, under the strong military pressure of the Jin Army, half of the country can be kept, unlike the Liao Dynasty. Immediately extinguished.

On the contrary, the invasion of the Jin army also disintegrated the problem of redundant officials and soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty to some extent, cut off a big cancer, and made the operation of the national organization more efficient... I have to say it is a black humor.

Yun Long asked herself to implement the strategy of conspiracy from Fang La's point of view...

The only way Fan Zhuoyuan can think of is to climb the technology!Because purely based on the productivity at that time, if I used a group of militiamen with little combat experience and poor equipment to fight against the Western Army, which had been generals for generations, it would only end in a disastrous defeat.

Even if the strategy is implemented correctly and the natural danger of the Yangtze River is seized, the Song court can still expand the navy in the upstream Xiangfan area.

And it will take at least two or three years to integrate resources by yourself, and it would be courting death to engage in a strategic decisive battle with Song Ting in these two or three years.

Only by learning from Huang Chao and Li Zicheng, as a rogue, you can live longer, but with Song Ting's potential, it will be a matter of time before you lose yourself.

Only by advancing technology, developing gunpowder, artillery, and firecrackers, and engaging in cheap musketeers and spearmen, can barely close the gap in strength with the Western Army, and then try to farm and accumulate resources in the rear, or it may be successful.

But Fan Zhuoyuan will not say these things. In fact, Song Ting already has gunpowder, artillery, and even blast furnace steelmaking technology. As long as they are not stupid, under the continuous external pressure, it will be a matter of time before they develop a gun.

If Fan Zhuoyuan is allowed to rebel now, even if he is advancing technology, he may not have much advantage. The military rebellion depends to a greater extent on his political superiority. If he wants to win the army, he must first win the government.

Political strength directly determines military strength. Although the current Song Dynasty politics is corrupt, it is not yet corrupt. When Cai Jing and Tong Guan step down and civil servants like Li Gang Zongze come to power, they will still have a certain strength to stabilize the situation.

So Fan Zhuoyuan shook his head at Yun Long, "In Fang La's position, at most, I can only deal a heavier blow to Song Ting and make it go to extinction faster, but I can't really overthrow Song Ting."

Yunlong was obviously very disappointed, getting this answer from Fan Zhuoyuan, a hero who is proficient in politics and military affairs, basically there would be no misjudgment.

"But...if you don't want to stand in Fang La's position, don't start an incident in the Jiangnan area where the scholar-bureaucrats are powerful.

Instead, choose a place with natural dangers to separate one side, but it may not be impossible, as long as there is a suitable opportunity, just like Xixia. "

(End of this chapter)