The night breeze blows, thousands of branches and leaves, humming in unison.
Zhao Kuangyin stood on the top of this dark night mountain with his hand, his eyes were collected from the Jurchen temporary camp in the distance, and a smile hung on his mouth.
At this time, it was the beginning of the month, and a crescent moon was dim, and most of the valley was still hidden in the darkness, and it was difficult to see the opposite side. However, with his eyesight, he could still see everything within this radius.
Under his sight. Tens of thousands of Song Army generals concealed all over this valley according to their distribution, but they were as straight as they melted into the deep dark night. Fortunately, he already knew their layout and location, but he also needed enough vision to be able to do so. Slightly see a clue.
Jin Wushu has fought on the battlefield for more than ten years, especially the art of field warfare. In the past, Zhang Jun used the nation's military strength to be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops. This time he was trapped in an ambush under the cloth of only tens of thousands of sergeants. There is no way to use force, to hit a wall everywhere, it is not for no reason.
Naturally, this is also because of the fact that he has always been suspicious, so that Jin Wushu still believes that his own side is really the gathering of the four major iron armies of the Song army, and has miscalculated the strength of his own side. However, his own soldiers use their lives. , For the commands he gave, like arms and palms, he didn't feel uncomfortable with the commands he gave, and he was able to create today's battle.
He remembered the situation in Lin'an at this time in the Di Bao and the secret memorial that had been continuously delivered in the past few days, and he could not help but sighed softly, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth.
This time, he decided to go to the court, and naturally it was not just a whim.
He deliberately left Lin'an to travel, and abandoned the prime minister Qin Hui who founded the country for more than ten years, and Yue Fei, who was born as a warrior, supervised the country to see clearly the current battle in Lin'an.
Yanwu cultivating literature, respecting scholars and guarding against military commanders is an ancestral practice established by the Emperor Taizu since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty. After more than a hundred years of accumulated practice, it has long been regarded as a matter of heaven and earth by any individual. It is not only Zhao Gou, Qin Hui, and Goulong Ruyuan who think so, even the Yue Fei generals who have suffered greatly, but since childhood, they feel that it is worthy of paying attention to literature and inferior martial arts, although they also have faint injustice in their hearts. Ming, but he didn't dare to think about reversing this situation.
Zhao Kuangyin is different from others. After all, this century-old method of emphasizing civil and military affairs is nothing more than a great Song national policy personally formulated in his hands.
He got up as a military commander, but he laid down such a rule. Everyone believes that the reason why Zhao Kuangyin set this Yanwu Xiuwen's Great Song State Policy is because he has seen too many of the five generations and ten countries. Soldiers are self-respect and dominate the emperor, so that the crown changes hands instantly, the monarch is impermanent, the country is impermanent, the world has been turbulent for more than a hundred years, and it is determined to guard against generals, so as to ensure the continuity and continuity of the Zhao family. year.
Zhao Kuangyin raised his head, a wry smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
His painstaking efforts were only for the people of the world, but unfortunately the people of the world still looked down upon him like Zhao Kuangyin.
Since the first emperor of Qin ruled the world, the Central Plains separated and merged, and wars were frequent. Even when the empire was unified, the tribes outside the Great Wall of China had always used their troops to detain their sides and plundered their horses. Even the strong Han and Tang dynasties could hardly escape. The Turks and the Huns were disturbed by the Turks and the Huns. Therefore, in the past dynasties, the number of people from military merits to the generals was the most. The movement affected the courts. Whether it was the period of the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the imperial examinations were first initiated. It should be no exception, so that in the late Tang Dynasty, it was difficult to prevent the ministries from being suppressed by the jurisdiction of the vassals in various regions, and the roots were deep and difficult to cure in the vertical direction. The root cause was planted here.
The disadvantage of a military commander as a country is not just that it is easy to support the soldiers and self-respect, which often shakes the status of the monarch. After all, these military commanders are born in military service, and marching is their strength. They are almost completely unfamiliar with the civil affairs. . After returning triumphantly, he was suddenly placed in a high position, occupying the central government and taking charge of the whole country. The complicated and trivial aspects of civil affairs during this period are very different from the battle of marching formations and swords. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, launching horses is a good general. The outstanding people who are good looks are really rare, and they are very rare.
Therefore, looking at the events of the pre-Han and Tang dynasties, only when the emperor's ability is excellent enough to control the overall situation can the world have a little political clarity, and the people of the world can have a little peace and time.
However, even if it is a prosperous age and has to meet a wise king who is powerful enough to control his ministers, it is easy for things to go to the other extreme.
After all, Tianzi's throne is high on the ninefold, sitting on it for a long time, no matter how wise and resolute the monarch is, in the cloud of flattery, but it is easy to lose the original intention and nature, just like the original Tang Xuanzong did not lose. A generation of Mingjun, when he grows old, he is uncharacteristically close to the little people and far away from the gentlemen, and the Tang Dynasty prosperous that he has managed by himself has pushed from the peak to the abyss of immortality.
And like the generations of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, they waited even more, and the disabled people abused them, and the ant people became cuddly dogs.
The suffering of tyrants is often worse than the disaster of war, and the people who suffer the most in this dire straits are always those who rise to fight.
Zhao Kuangyin had fallen into his family since he was a child, and when he was an adult, he left home alone and walked the world alone. He started from tasting the world and founding himself as an emperor, and he wanted to reverse the old system of Han and Tang Dynasties. A brand-new system helps the people of Li people no longer have to endure the suffering of chaos at that time.
It’s just that knowing this is easy and hard to do, but it’s really not easy to do it.
After all, Zhao Song Tianxia was originally taken from the mountain corpses of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Although the capital was founded, the Southern Tang, Northern Han, and Northern Liao states are lined up. It can be said that since the day of the founding of the country, it was destined to continue to fight. Situation.
Therefore, although he also started his career with military service, he still decided to establish his own capital and national policy. Naturally, his original intention was not to depreciate the martial artist. He just hoped that he would be great for those military commanders who came from military service. It can be better to use nobility and honor to support the old with wealth and glory, but it must not be placed in the center of the country and taught by the state, but this meaning is really difficult to distinguish. Afterwards, Zhao Guangyi's position was incorrect, and he was prevented from growing suspicion. , Step by step, he came to the field like today.
And he promoted the status of scholars who made their way through the imperial examination to restrict the monarchy.
After all, since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the impermanence of the monarch, the impermanence of the country, and the former prominent family have long been ruined. This group of scholars, who are familiar with the history of the scriptures, are well versed in the science of governing the world, and it is the Zhao Song royal family that can rely on to govern the people. People in charge.
Moreover, when Zhao Kuangyin wanted to come, the path of scientific research was easy. Among these literati, there must be a considerable number of poor people from the folks. There are such officials who are familiar with the sufferings of the folks. Righteousness can play an immeasurable role.
Therefore, since the beginning of his own country, he openly claimed that the king was to rule the world with the scholar-officials, hoping to gradually restore the ambitions of the literati who had been smoothed by the chaos of the impermanence of the five dynasties and ten countries. Let them re-identify themselves as the main stratum of governing the country, and it is their responsibility to assist the emperor and rule the country and the world.
He even did not hesitate to swear a monument to restrain future generations and not to punish the people who stamped. His intention was not to buy people’s hearts, but to restrict the monarchy, to open up the way, and to benefit the literati who had the power to make the country, dare to speak out bluntly. According to the misconception of the emperor's heart, the Great Song Dynasty Bureau maintained the vitality of self-correction in the balance between the emperor and the courtiers.
However, when he returned to the descendants of future generations by fate, he found that the system he had set up by himself did not seem to be functioning exactly in accordance with the trajectory that he had imagined.
Qin Hui is good at power, and Yue Fei is injustice. Most of the people in the court of justice are thrown off the border. Most of the people in the court are the people of the country. Most of them are flattering people. Even the current conflicts between the Chinese officials and generals are also rooted in their own sources. The ancestral law made on that day.
In the meantime, naturally, after the destruction of the Bianjing artifact, its military importance increased, which caused the cracks that had been planted for more than a hundred years to erupt. However, this is also sufficient to illustrate the situation that I had envisioned in the past. There are imperfections, too wishful thinking.
However, he is the only one who understands the most in his heart. The original intention of establishing this national policy is that although he saw that the current situation was not satisfactory, he could not just overthrow this great Song Dynasty. After all, he thought of it. I have always believed that the promotion of literature and the suppression of military affairs, and the use of literati with civil administration experience to assist the emperor in governing the country in the age of peace should still be one of the most important systems to be followed when the country is peaceful. This principle can be repaired and improved. However, it is absolutely impossible to veto this, otherwise it would be a small matter to offend scholars all over the world. I fear that from now on, it will be difficult for the world to reproduce the current situation of the prosperity of the rule of culture for more than a hundred years.
It’s just that when he first arrived, the current situation was very troublesome, but it was imminent, forcing him to resort to thunderous means to frighten the emperor and stabilize the situation, but in this way, although the crisis that was already in front of him was already imminent. Suppressed, but also all the conflicts between civil and martial arts, all the causes of contradictions, and at the same time it was abruptly flattened.
Since that day, he expelled the Jinshi from the court, and regained Yue Fei, Liu Qi and other generals. No matter among the civil servants and military generals, his position is as solid as a rock and unshakable. As long as he stays in Lin'an city for one day, this civil servant The contradiction between the generals will be suppressed in this way, but this is after all a solution to the symptoms but not the root cause. If you can’t find the roots, find the root causes of all these chaos and resolve them, one day it will explode, I am afraid it is. Harder to clean up.
He didn't know why, he would actually return to this world more than a hundred years later. The strange encounters are rare in ancient and modern times. Even though he is talented and talented, it is difficult for him to see the situation at hand completely. So deliberately using this opportunity, after creating the desired situation, the Yujia personally conquered and left the center of the turbulent vortex, so that the intentional and unintentional civil servants and military generals appeared in Lin'an city. Give him a chance to sit on the sidelines, some time to think calmly.
He thought about the situations he had just seen on the Di Bao and the secret memorial, with a sneer on his face.
Almost everything that I want to see and what I should see has been exposed.
There are still some things that I don't understand, and maybe I have to wait until I return to Lin'an before I can really see the clues.
Liu Zifang walked gently behind him and called: "Your Majesty!"