This Mr. Ba has made up his mind now that he will not hesitate to admonish Gao Shengtai's trip to the Song Dynasty. After all, after seeing the true situation of Song State with his own eyes, he already has a completely different judgment on the overall situation of the world.
In the eyes of the previous Mr. Ba, there was a Song generation who was very weak, and there was nothing to do with the foreign war. It could last for a hundred years, and even after the Bianjing imperial city was broken by the Jurchen cavalry, it was able to move the capital to the south of the Yangtze River. Establishing Zhao Song Huangzuo again, I don't know how many generations of family members have accumulated blessings, it can be regarded as an absolute anomaly.
Although at the beginning of the Song Dynasty’s southward move, several members such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong were also played as world famous generals in the battle against the Jurchen Dajin, but under the Song Dynasty system, they were immediately thrown into idleness, even if Yue Fei It is invincible on the battlefield, and there is no power to recover. The interval between them is really too short. Even in the past, several iron troops gathered to beat the Jurchen iron horses led by Jinwushu. When retreating, although the situation seems to be a change of master and guest, if you want to be more real, even at the peak of the Song Dynasty after the move to the south, it is far from regaining the entire territory of the Song Dynasty. territory.
At the time of Fang Shi, the flow of information was still quite difficult. This Mr. Ba was more attentive at that time to help Gao Shengtai make plans and deal with all the forces in Dali, but he could not fight the battle between Song and Jin. After understanding a general idea, although Yue Fei and other famous generals made great achievements that day, the time was too short, and they did not finally reverse the overall situation. They were impressed in the hearts of their opponents such as Jin Wushu and other generals of the Jurchen Kingdom. However, for a foreign strategist like this Mr. Ba, there is really not much concept. Therefore, before entering the Song Dynasty, he still felt that the Song Dynasty was weak since the beginning of his own country, and he did not feel it. At the beginning of the Southern Crossing, there was a moment of reversal of forces.
It’s just that Mr. Chin’s judgment was originally not based on a change in the understanding of the Song Dynasty’s military strength, but more from the Confucian scholar’s unconscious confidence in the words of the ancient sages in the depths of his heart. , It can even be said to be a kind of faith.
After all, in the Confucian classics, the emphasis has always been on kingly rather than overbearing. It emphasizes the rule of virtue to achieve the rule of great harmony. This way, you can be soft and far away, and come from all directions, you can use a kind of flexibility without warring The power to conquer the entire world.
Although looking at the rise and fall over the past millennia, this concept is somewhat idealistic, but since the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ousted hundreds of schools and dominated Confucianism, the ancestors of all the historians who initially spread the "Historical Records" began, the historians of the past generations, All of them are deeply influenced by Confucianism. Out of the mindset of the literati group assisting the king and ruling the world with benevolence and virtue, it is the right mentality. Since generations of literati and Confucian scholars have been fascinated by this slightly plausible history, they have become more fascinated by this mode of literati ruling the country, and even developed an abnormal pride or say from it. It's an arrogant mentality.
Since the founding of the country, the Song Dynasty adopted the national policy of promoting literature and suppressing military power and preferential treatment to literati. Although the founding father of the country had seen too much of the chaos since the late Tang Dynasty and the five seasons of the Tang Dynasty, he adopted a national strategy. However, for so many years, the literati of the Song Dynasty who held the state and governed the country over the years, would have ignored the situation of the Song Dynasty’s slack military equipment for so many years, and spared no effort to suppress the military suspicion, even if it is as good as Ouyang Wenzhong. However, the gentleman also tried his best to deal with Di Qing. Throughout the more than a hundred years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the literati's prevention and suppression of military commanders is far from being summed up by the four words of Wen Yuwu. At the root, it’s just that these literati are in this kind of self-expansion. From top to bottom, they really think that they can support a home country and become a distant person. Created a peaceful and prosperous age of thousands of times, even when the Jurchen Golden Iron Cavalry went south, he broke the Bianjing artifact, and took the two emperors of Hui and Qin into captivity. Forcing the Song Dynasty to move south, he had to settle down after a corner of the south of the Yangtze River. When these literati were shocked, they actually began to pick up their existing concepts again, which shows how deep-rooted this set of ideas is in the minds of Confucian scholars.
Although this Mr. Ba has seen too much power and tactics all the way in the Dali country, he also regarded his strength as a respect, so he was quite sober as a bystander when he read the Song Dynasty histories, but he was still quite sober. Once I was on the scene, I was unavoidable to be fascinated by the unavoidable feelings of the Confucian scholar throughout the ages, and I began to move a little closer to the thoughts of those Song scholars who were ridiculed as arrogant and mad. In Mr. Weiba's view, although Song is not able to use force, but with this culture and popular support, it may not be impossible to win the world with a kind of soft power.
After all, the Khitan Liao Dynasty, which was once strong in the past, is now falling apart. On the contrary, this has always been weak in the Southern Song Dynasty, survived under the iron hoof of the Jurchens, and can maintain a pattern of fighting against the Jurchen Jin Kingdom. , In time, I know that Jurchen Jin Country is just another Liao State.
What's more, even before making such a judgment, Mr. Ba originally thought that Gao Shengtai’s trip to the Song Dynasty was really inappropriate. After all, Dali has always pursued the national policy of shutting down and shutting the country since the beginning of its independence. This is not historical. The ruler of the state of Dali is a person who only knows how to be successful, and it is actually determined by the topography of the mountains on the southwestern border.
Since the Xuanzong reign of the Tang Dynasty, the six branches of Nanzhao came into one line, until today, Dali, after hundreds of years, the situation in this southwestern kingdom has not changed much.
This southwestern border land has a humid and hot climate, and the hills are everywhere, and the miasma is everywhere. On the one hand, this makes it difficult for Dali to contribute to the population, and it is difficult to achieve such a leap-forward development, but on the other hand, it has also become a natural barrier for Dali. From the Tang to the Song, Nanzhao-Dali can rely on this mountainous terrain to resist powerful enemies from the outside, whether it was the powerful Tang Dynasty in the past, or the plateau Tubo where its troops were prosperous. There was no real intrusion into the foundation land, and until the Song, Liao, and Xixia kingdoms were in power, these big countries that constrained each other and attacked each other, even under the Yin Jian of the previous dynasty, there had never been the idea of arrogantly using swords and soldiers in Dali.
Therefore, the Chengdu Fu Road and Tongzhou Fu Road, which were promised to be ceded to the Dali Kingdom in the Qin Hui Letters, are all fertile fields located in the rich land of Bashu, but in the eyes of this Mr. Ba, this is the case. For Dali, the meaning of place is really limited.
The climate and scenery of the land of Bashu are almost completely different from that of the southwestern border where Dali is based, and it is located in the plains, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend. With Dali’s national strength, even if the Song Dynasty really cut out this place in accordance with the agreement, I'm afraid it will be difficult to keep it for a long time.
What's more, the two places, geographically speaking, were originally the most complicated place between the Song, Jin, and Xixia angles. Originally, there was a break between Song and Jin. They have basically maintained a relative balance of power. Naturally, they can each other. There is nothing wrong with each other, but if such a big turmoil occurs between the Song Dynasty, and at the cusp of this kind of turmoil, to cut this fertile field to Dali, or even just show this kind of intention, I am afraid that it will be inevitable. It has caused great powers such as Jin, Xixia and other big countries to chase and wrestle. In terms of the national policy that Dali has been pursuing since then, there is really no need to get involved in such a quagmire.
Although Mr. Ba once said that he had hoped that Dali could one day enter the Central Plains and compete with other countries in the world, but he also deeply knew that all this could only be in the Gao family. Duan, in the center of the Dali court, was able to dominate the whole family, so as to pack up the powers of different regions and integrate all the powers of Dali, it is possible to start planning things. Now, although Gao Shengtai's talents and ambitions are a temporary choice, but In the situation that the centipede of the Duan family in Dali is dead but not stiff, it will take a lot of time to realize the first step of replacing the high-level segment. It is definitely not something that can be accomplished overnight. Under such circumstances It is really unwise for Gao Shengtai to fall into this completely unpredictable storm for the land of the two residences that Qin Hui promised.
"No!" Going beyond the expectation of Mr. Ba, Gao Shengtai shook his head slowly: "Mr. Gao also deeply agrees with what he said. Given time, I may not be able to go north to the Central Plains in Dali and compete. The qualifications of the world, however, are by no means today. The kingdom of abundance in Shu sounds exciting, but under the current situation, what Qin Hui threw out is nothing more than a hot potato!"
"Ah?!" The Mr. Ba was stunned by Gao Shengtai's words, and it took a long time before he recovered. He looked at Gao Shengtai, and said with some uncertainty: "Since Junhou has seen so clearly. Understand, then set off in such a hurry to rush to the Southern Song Dynasty, do you have other plans?!"
"Not bad." Gao Shengtai looked out the window and sighed softly: "This time in the Song Dynasty, what Gao wanted was originally not the land of the two residences in central Sichuan, but something else!"