The struggle of the reborn prince

"It is said that the Song Dynasty was a beautiful era, but I can't feel it. I should let them see for themselves!" Zhao Tong read an online survey in his previous life and asked, "If you can really travel back, which era would you like to go back to?" ’ As a result, the Song Dynasty was listed as a ‘turtle head’, saying that at that time gdb ranked first in the world, anyone could pass the imperial examination to become a national civil servant, get a solid job, receive state subsidies, marry three wives and four concubines, and become an official He is also a businessman, and he is not afraid of the Disciplinary Inspection Commission making troubles, so he will live a happy and leisurely moth life.The first time to read VIP novels, come here[]

"This may be a paradise for literati and high-ranking officials, but it is not a soldier, a real soldier's paradise, but hell!" When Zhao Tuo really came to this 'beautiful era', he only felt helpless, even sad, Sad for this army.

When he first came here, he also thought that this is an era when foreigners invaded and the nation was in peril. He might be able to command thousands of troops, leap horses and spears, and become a generation of heroes who will be famous in history. Willing to give up the prince and become an iron-blooded soldier.But the reality shattered his good wishes. This is definitely not something that can be changed by giving up his identity, but that the current army is basically hopeless.

Speaking of the Song Army, this army is also well-known in Chinese history. He created a record of leading the army by civilian officials and created a historical precedent of emphasizing civil officials and despising military affairs.It is a good policy to say that governing the military with literature is a good policy, and most countries in the East and the West also adopt this system. It is not advanced, but things are afraid of going from the Antarctic to the North Pole.

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin launched a series of governance on the chaos of the country at the beginning of the founding of the country.First, the policy of "removing their power, controlling their money, and recruiting their elite soldiers" was adopted to eliminate the military power of generals who hold heavy soldiers.But it also opened a precedent for buying military power with money, which paved the way for the decline of this powerful army.

Immediately afterwards, according to the type of service, the Imperial Army was divided into the Guard Horse Army Division and the Guard Infantry Division. The so-called "three commanders" and the three yamen worked hard to check each other, changing the past system in which one general of the forbidden army commanded each army; then set up the Privy Council to divide the management of the army from the prime minister's hands, and gradually formed the Privy Council and the three yamen. The new system of soldiers.In this way, dividing the military power into three, each with its own duties and mutual restraint, became a basic national policy of the Song Dynasty.

This kind of system, in the words of the people of the Song Dynasty, is: "The law of the ancestors to command the army, the soldiers of the world are based on the privy secretaries, who have the power to send troops but not the weight of holding them; However, whenever there is an expedition, the emperor will order the commander in front of the battle, and the commander appointed is often not the general of the Sanya.However, the advantages and disadvantages are often symbiotic. Due to the strict rule and the multiple branches of government, although the threat of the central imperial power to the central imperial power has been eliminated, it has caused disadvantages such as independent governance, frequent restraint, lack of coordination, and difficulty in overall planning. To a certain extent, the combat effectiveness of the Song army was weakened.

The other is to carry out reforms in the military system. The Song Dynasty implemented the policy of strong stems and weak branches, and internal and external control.The army of the Song Dynasty was divided into four types: forbidden soldiers, Xiang soldiers, rural soldiers and fan soldiers.The forbidden soldiers are the central army and the regular army, the main combat force, and are mainly deployed in the capital and military locations.In the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiangbing was a local army in the national regular army. The old and the weak were retained to fill in. They not only maintained local security, but also engaged in this kind of labor.In addition, there are township soldiers and fan soldiers, both of which are militiamen defending the countryside and belong to the reserve service.

The Forbidden Army is the regular army of the Song Dynasty, where the elite of the Song Army resides.In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army, and to ensure that the most powerful army is in his own hands, Taizu also ordered the whole country to select brave and skilled soldiers, register and send them to the capital to supplement the vacancies of the Forbidden Army.At the same time, strong soldiers were selected as soldiers, and they were distributed to various places and recruited as usual.Later, wooden stiles were used as the superior and inferior, and distributed to various states to select according to the same.This ensures that the imperial army is full of strong soldiers.The imperial army changes its station every two to three years or even half a year to implement a new garrison law, but the generals do not follow suit. It is similar to the current swap of the commander of the large military region.

The purpose of improving the law is to make soldiers work and rest, know difficulties, know how to fight, learn mountains and rivers, and not be arrogant. In fact, it is to separate soldiers and generals, prevent the formation of deep-rooted pro-party relations between the two, and eradicate arrogant soldiers. Commit to the internal and external conditions of rebellion.However, soldiers will be separated and deployed in turn, which is not conducive to the formation of a concerted combat team, and its negative impact on weakening combat effectiveness is obvious.

In short, Taizu's series of measures to seize military power and reform the military system effectively ensured the long-term stability of the Song Dynasty army and completely ended the turbulent situation of military chaos. Its effectiveness is self-evident.But its negative effects cannot be ignored.The quality and combat effectiveness of the army were affected due to system and personnel constraints, and there was another big problem, which was the formation of the so-called ancestral family law of the Song Dynasty that suspected and suppressed generals.Therefore, in the Northern Song Dynasty, warriors took the name of great fortune to protect their lives. After Taizong, there were few famous generals, and the only one worthy of praise, Di Qing, was also jealous and died.

In the early Song Dynasty, because of the continuous wars, the army could still have actual combat training, and its combat effectiveness was still there. However, with the signing of the "Chanyuan Alliance" with the Liao Kingdom, the opponent disappeared overnight.Although Xixia still fought battles from time to time, most of them were dealt with by the frontier army, and the forbidden army basically stopped.If there is no war, there will be no risk, and there will be no danger of death in peacetime, and the treatment of the imperial army is good, so serving as a soldier has become the first choice for employment.

Some scholars always lose their names in the Jinshi examination, and they are not in good health when they go to the army. What should they do if they can't wield a knife and gun?These people suddenly realized when they heard the 'toilet', anyway, their mother's martial arts don't test big swords, they only need to write a treatise on the art of war, and they are better than those warriors who came from the army, so batch after batch they studied literature and martial arts No, scholars who only talk on paper showed up in national defense, but martial arts became a shortcut for these low-level scholars to get into official positions!Now that those poor people have been resettled, the homeless victims of the famine must also be given a way out, so the army has played another role in maintaining social "harmony".

In ancient times, a famine would inevitably produce a large number of victims. If they had no food to eat, they could only wander around across the state. Ten or eight of them would not be afraid, but these people would be hundreds of thousands or millions. In time there will be a popular uprising.In the Song Dynasty, this was not a problem. Once a famine occurred, the first thing the emperor did was not to open warehouses to release food, but to set up a recruiting flag and send all the young and strong to the army for official meals.In this way, it not only supplements the military strength but also appeases the victims, and nothing will be delayed. Why not do it if everyone is happy!

The big head soldiers are more to support their families. The treatment here is good, as long as they are tall and big, and there is no strict retirement age limit. As long as they are good and they don’t catch up with the Northwest to "exercise", they can raise their grandchildren. , As a result, there are groups of bearded soldiers in the imperial army, and maybe three generations of a family can serve as soldiers in the same squad.

A hundred years of peace has brought about economic prosperity. In this dynasty, now the Song Dynasty is an era where there are no officials and no businessmen, and everyone participates in economic construction. The forbidden army is often stationed in big cities. How can they sit still? Thinking about competing with swords, guns and sticks, he also rushed into the business world.Wearing this kind of skin can bring you many conveniences. Yamen servants and tax collectors dare to trouble them. In all dynasties, it has never been heard that they can win a lawsuit with 'Qiu Ba'.

The officers set up a big restaurant, and the soldiers opened a grocery store; the officers dared to seize the farmland to start a farm, and the soldiers dared to plant a small vegetable garden on the side of the road;Soon "military enterprises" spread all over the country, and soldiers appeared in various industries. When you see people wearing military decorations and building houses, don't think they are engaging in "military and local joint construction". Going in and out doesn't necessarily mean visiting a brothel to find a lady, it is very likely that he is the boss...

For a long time, the officers are too lazy to work hard to manage the business. Aren’t the soldiers all doing business?As a result, some soldiers were not happy, you deducted my military salary, what kind of soldier should I be, turned my head and left without saying goodbye, at first the officers didn’t settle their accounts, and even sent people to chase and arrest them, but after thinking about it, It’s good if you all run away, I’ll put your name on the roster, and I will sign for you to collect the military pay.

As a result, the wind became more and more fierce, and the officials became more and more courageous. Tong Guan sent troops to collect the military pay and supplies and moved directly home. The Minister of National Defense Gao Li sold the barracks and engaged in real estate development. They also found a way out for the soldiers who didn't dare to run. What kind of work was there at home? It was as small as guarding the door and sweeping the floor and emptying the toilet, as big as repairing the garden and building a mansion.

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"Oh, this is the army of my majestic Song Dynasty!" Zhao Tuo sighed after reading the top-secret information on the army that Huang Jingchen had collected for him, and shook his head with a wry smile. The reality was even more cruel, and it directly dispelled his idea of ​​transforming the old army.

Zhao Tang had imagined in advance that he could circumvent the rule that the clan cannot lead troops, and control and transform an army by buying agents. Now that he knew that this way was no longer feasible, he was worried that he would spend millions of dollars in it. I can't fill the stomachs of these people, and in the end I am busy for nothing.

"Can you build a new type of armed forces, adopt modern training methods, and use modern firearms to fight, so that only one elite soldier can change the pattern of warfare. After all, there are precedents. It only took 2000 people to fight all the way to Beijing, and occupied the capital of a country..." When Zhao Tong found that the door was blocked, he had to think of a way to jump out of the window.