Comprehensive martial arts: Summon the thunder and lightning general, I will rule the world

However, for someone like Zhu Houzhao, he chose to attack directly and arranged for Zhu Wusi to massacre these officials, gentry and landlords. The officials, gentry and landlords of the Southern Song Dynasty were also worried that Zhu Houzhao would treat them in this way.

Naturally, he had to strongly support Zhao Kuangyin in dealing with Zhu Houzhao.

Regarding this, Zhao Kuangyin didn't know whether he should be happy or helpless.

It was indeed a good thing for Zhao Kuangyin that the officials, gentry and landlords could continue to support him. Without the support of the officials, gentry and landlords, the Song Dynasty would probably have been destroyed.

There is no way, the gap between the military strength of the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty is too big.

This is true even with the almost full support of the official gentry and landlord class.

After all, in terms of military strength, the Southern Song Dynasty itself was no match for the Ming Dynasty.

Even with the full support of these officials, gentry and landlords, they would still be somewhat inferior if they wanted to compete with the Ming army.

What made Zhao Kuangyin helpless was that these officials, gentry and landlords were too rich.

When he shared the world with the scholar-officials, Zhao Kuangyin had the idea of ​​strengthening the scholar-official class and then working together to deal with the military class, thus stabilizing his own rule.

But he didn't expect that these officials, gentry and landlords were so rich.

Much richer than Zhao Kuangyin initially thought.

Should we say that he is worthy of being an official, gentry and landlord?
The Song Dynasty is theirs!
However, at this time, without the support of the official gentry and landlord class, it would be almost impossible for them to fight against Zhu Houzhao.

Now Zhao Kuangyin can only place his hopes on Torre and others.

At the same time, he also expected that the Ming Dynasty's expedition would fail because the route was too long.

After all, war is not just a battle of military strength, it is also a contest between national strength.

The logistics of material transportation is also very important to them!
In Zhao Kuangyin's opinion, even Zhu Houzhao could not bear such a large-scale transportation of materials!
On the contrary, the Song Dynasty could fight on its own land, and its material consumption was almost one-third of that of the Ming Dynasty, or even one-fifth!
It's not like they don't have a chance!
As for those lands and cities that were captured by the Ming Dynasty, let them be captured!
This is not permanent!
They also believed that once the Ming Dynasty's logistics problems arose, the cities and lands that the Ming Dynasty had captured would have to be returned.

It's just a pity for those officials, gentry and landlords, they might be purged by Zhu Houzhao.

The war between the two sides is still in full swing, and Cheng Zhibao has also demonstrated his strength as a white-clothed soldier fairy, although he is definitely not as good as another soldier fairy in leading troops to fight, well, that is, the future Han Xin!
But now Cheng Zhibao is simply a nightmare for Zhao Kuangyin.

Yue Fei's army went to fight against Wu Qi's army, and Zhao Kuangyin also arranged Cao Bin and Han Shizhong to fight against Cheng Zhibao.

Although these two were also rare generals, they were still far behind Cheng Zhibao, especially in cavalry. The gap between the two sides was even more obvious, and they were beaten badly. It was also thanks to their choice to defend the city, and Cheng Zhibao's side was mostly cavalry, which was not convenient for attacking the city. Otherwise, the Southern Song Dynasty would probably have been defeated all the way through the city.

But even now, no army in the Southern Song Dynasty dares to leave the city, otherwise, they are likely to encounter Cheng Zhibao and the Thunder Dragon Riders!
Zhao Kuangyin had no other options for this. He helplessly discovered that if he wanted to fight against the Snow Dragon Riders, it seemed that the only way was to cross the river in the south!
Many times, Zhao Kuangyin really wanted to ask the sky, why does the Ming Dynasty have so many talents?
Not to mention Zhang Juzheng and other talented people, they are all very outstanding people!
If it weren't for people like Zhang Juzheng, with the intensity of Zhu Houzhao's reforms, the entire Ming Dynasty would have been in chaos long ago.

Of course, this chaos does not refer to military chaos!
The military was in chaos. In fact, the Ming Dynasty had always been in chaos. After all, Zhu Houzhao had killed so many people in the previous years. How could the Ming Dynasty be said to be peaceful?
What we are talking about here is not chaos, but chaos in government affairs. At least until now, the Ming Dynasty has not been continuously reforming, and there have been problems in government orders. The ability demonstrated by Zhang Juzheng and others in reform and overall management is unimaginable to many people.

In Zhao Kuangyin's view, this was also one of the main reasons why Zhu Houzhao could carry out reforms without restraint. If it were only the army, even if Zhu Houzhao could suppress the reforms, he would have messed up the Ming Dynasty. You know, Zhu Houzhao had offended the vast majority of officials, gentry and landlords.

As a result, Zhu Houzhao was able to achieve this, and Zhao Kuangyin was envious and jealous.

At the same time, he also envied the army under Zhu Houzhao and wondered why Zhu Houzhao had so many excellent troops.

To be honest, in fact, throughout the Song Dynasty, a lot of money has always been spent on the military.

Just like in the original history, it is not impossible to say that the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty rather than by inflation.

After all, at that time, the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty was very developed, and they would give soldiers a lot of money. Especially when the Southern Song Dynasty implemented a conscription system, soldiers needed a lot of money, especially when going to war with the Yuan Dynasty, the military expenditure was an astronomical figure.

No matter how rich the Southern Song Dynasty was, it would still collapse after decades of continuous wars.

It's not that the Southern Song Dynasty was incompetent, but that the Yuan Dynasty was too powerful!
The Yuan Dynasty had so much territory and so many people, and they plundered resources all over the world. The Southern Song Dynasty had to fight against the Yuan Dynasty with the power of a country, which was really not easy.

Of course, there are also some problems with the official gentry and landlord class itself.

Anyway, Zhu Houzhao himself was dissatisfied with the official gentry and landlord class. If these guys met him, they would surely die.

In any case, there was no way Zhu Houzhao would let them go.

Zhu Houzhao could actually understand that they were rebelling against him at this time, but although he understood them, he still had to kill them.

Zhao Kuangyin expressed his envy. He spent so much money on the army every year, but the fighting power of the Song Dynasty was far inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty.

This difference is a bit too big, isn't it?
Obviously, the Song Dynasty's military expenditure is among the highest in the entire Zongwu Continent!
However, the Song Dynasty was far inferior to the Ming Dynasty in military strength, which was a bit screwed. All the money was spent, but the military strength of the army did not improve. This was a depressing thing for the rulers.

However, they had to do this. If they didn't give so much money, no one would come to the army. Could Zhao Kuangyin force conscription directly?
If I really did that, then the army in the Song Dynasty would be in chaos. The status of soldiers in the Song Dynasty itself was not very high. If there was no money, could we still expect them to fight for the Song Dynasty?
They no longer have the money to protect the Song Dynasty! (End of this chapter)