The Xixia Kingdom was originally the kingdom built by the Dangxiang people on the deserted land of northwestern China. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Dangxiang people have helped the Li and Tang imperial family to settle the Huangchao chaos and establish special honors. They were awarded the land of Xiliang. The surname was Li, and he has since become a vassal in the northwest of the Central Plains dynasty in name.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, all the vassals supported themselves and formed their own systems. After the Huangchao change, the Li and Tang royal family declined and eventually fell apart. The Tang Dynasty lost its deer, and the world was conquered. Since the Central Plains has experienced In the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the party members also used this to expand to the surrounding areas, and Zhao Kuangyin, Chen Qiao’s mutiny, Huang Pao was added, and the orphans and widows of Zhou later took over the Central Plains artifacts, set Ding Bianjing and founded the Song Dynasty, although they also moved this northwest. The frontier was included in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, but the influence of the party members had already firmly penetrated this northwestern frontier.
Zhao Kuangyin, the first hero, could not tolerate the state of the land under his own rule as many vassals and towns as the end of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he refined military equipment to defeat the Northern Han Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty, and restore the Yanyun Sixteen Continents. The restoration of the prosperous period of the Han and Tang dynasties is an important task. Internally, it is also a cup of wine to release the military power and dismiss the generals of the generals. And like the party members who were entrenched in the northwest border on that day, they were naturally the target of Zhao Kuangyin's attention. When he was in office, he had always focused on weakening the military power of the party members. As for the party members’ actual dominance in the northwest border, Zhao Kuangyin also adopted the appointment of officials by the imperial court instead of appointing officials and subordinates by the local government. , Even the change of party leaders must be reported to the court for review and approval, and then the court will be granted the title of Jidu Envoy. Therefore, before the party is recruited, if it takes time, it may actually remove the evils of the town. In this northwest The county was opened in the border land, and it was included in the unified administration of the central imperial court.
It’s just that Zhao Kuangyin was in the shadow of axe and candle, died young, and when Taizong ascended the throne. Because of his improper reign, he was eager to develop frontier power in order to gain fame. Although the party members are entrenched in the northwest frontier, they are nominally after all. He was still a subject of the Song Dynasty, and over the years, even though he was reluctant to reduce the power of the vassals by the court, at least he still reluctantly cooperated with them. So Emperor Zhao Guangyi, the Emperor Taizong, who was dedicated to creating a majestic cause that day, naturally I will not focus too much on these party members, but rather impatiently place Qi Dajun to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty in Ping, and continue to conquer the Liao State in a row, which finally led to the great Song Dynasty since the founding of the country. The first fiasco.
The people of Dangxiang became accustomed to being the masters in this northwestern land. That day, because of the power of the reunited Central Plains dynasty, they met Zhao Kuangyin, a generation of heroes who came out of the corpses of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Under the weighing of power, I had to voluntarily consecrate the city and voluntarily belong to the vassal. Over the past few years, I have been deeply dissatisfied with the imperial government’s policy of weakening the vassal and strengthening the weak branches. It was only that day. In the late Zhou Dynasty, the great Song Dynasty launched the attack, the South and the North were invincible. Sincerely, it was a prosperous military force. There was no two at a time. Zhao Kuangyin's maneuvering skills were extremely clever, which made these party leaders dare not much. It's just a strange heart.
The hastily failure of Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi’s campaign against the Liao Dynasty is nothing more than exposing the true strength of the Song dynasty to all parties. In fact, this defeat is not the result of the ineffectiveness of the Song Dynasty’s army and horses. It’s just that the Emperor Taizong was too eager for quick success and instant benefits, but he did not! The book was reprinted on Shilu Literature Network! And many repairs, and the strength of the Liao Kingdom was not tested first, but just like this, he went straight to the north and the whole army was exhausted. Intent to complete his work in one battle, committing the military master's taboo of laboring far-reaching attacks without knowing the enemy's falsehood, this is the first defeat since the founding of the Song Dynasty.
During this period of time, Ren Dejing has also poured a few large bowls of wine. As the prime minister of Xixia, he has been in contact between the imperial party and the rear party over the years, and he has been busy with military affairs all day long. It’s been a long time since I’ve been indulging in alcohol like this. Although it’s not a strong drink, it’s a little bit drunk, and the guy who sits opposite him also listens to him quietly for most of the time. Drinking from bowl after bowl, but occasionally inserting a few comments between drinking, they can always hit the point, and the respectable chest makes him a rare confidant for a while. The feeling, could not help but flew in a timely manner, and talked endlessly.
After he entered the summer, even though he was in a high position, he had no worries about what he had learned, but he has been in a position for a long time. He has not been able to point out the country from the standpoint of a Song man like he is now, and talk about the situation in the world. Speaking of rising, it never meant to stop.
Zhao Kuangyin looked at Tan Xing Zhengnong's respectfulness, raised his neck and poured a bowl of wine into his throat, a faint smile floated at the corner of his mouth.
He has always been accustomed to the light cavalry leader. This time, the imperial driving conquests and the great victory over the class will still require a full set of ceremonial driving. The slow and sloping ostentation really makes him quite uncomfortable.
What's more, with regard to the situation in Lin'an, he has always had his own channel to grasp all the information about Lin'an, so he can certainly judge the current situation in Lin'an. how is it.
Although the current situation in Lin'an City is still in his expectation, it is just that the competition between civil and military forces is not the blessing of the state. Now the foreign aggression can be regarded as an end for the time being, and it is time to start to solve the problems in the middle of the country. He still drove back to Lin'an as he did when he was on the march.
In the battle of Song and Liao Dynasty, although the Song army was defeated, the losses were not disastrous, but after all, the vitality was not lost, and the situation was not too uncontrollable. However, the bad was when the Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty was bad. At best, he was only a talented general who only knew for a while, but he never learned the emperor's mind and perspective like his brother Zhao Kuangyin. When he wanted to show his ambition, he suddenly suffered defeat, and his fighting spirit disappeared from then on. Throughout his life, he dared not to refine his military equipment anymore, and the idea of aligning the army to the north, on the contrary, was growing more and more peaceful. Although still professing not to forget to revitalize the secluded swallow land as his own duty, he dare not take any practical actions anymore. .
After all, Zhao Guangyi became the emperor from the night of the sound of the axe and the shadow of the candle. His position was not right, and the government and the people knew it. Although there was no other force in the Song Dynasty that day to fight against it, Zhao Guangyi was suspicious of ghosts. My heart has never let go.
Since he became a human being, he has lived under the wings of Zhao Kuangyin, and he has nothing to do with martial arts, or even his heart and soul. No one can compare with Zhao Kuangyin. Although Zhao Kuangyin has always loved him, he has even talked a lot. There is a meaning to be taught by the emperor, but Zhao Guangyi's heart is 1.2 million points that he does not want everything in this life to be gifted by his brother. The reason why he took the risk that day was in the shadow of the axe. Seizing the throne of the Song Dynasty is actually the reason for this inferiority complex.
Zhao Kuangyin smiled bitterly, then raised his head and drank a large bowl of wine.
Since devoting himself to his descendants, and coming to this era a hundred years later, although he first strategized himself and seized the power of Qin Hui in the court, he returned to lead the army to conquer himself, and the prince of gold was abroad, but there was not much. Time can really be free, just before him! This book is reprinted on Shilu Literature Net! The world was founded and the world was founded for decades. The perspective and mind of the world are very different from those of others, even in this stormy storm. At this time, he still had the unreleased scrolls in his hand, and he had almost gone through all the major affairs of the dynasty during the past hundred years.
There is the Song Dynasty essay system and military strategy, but most of them were made by Zhao Kuangyin, the founding king, and passed down from generation to generation to this day. They are only the founding kings of all dynasties from the past to the present. I am afraid that there is no one like Zhao Kuangyin. With such an occasion today, I was able to return to the era a hundred years later, as a king again, accumulating the gains and losses of a hundred years of experience, to check the pros and cons of these system strategies that I personally set up, so I can understand what is after today. In Zhao Kuangyin’s view, this is the most important question for the Song dynasty today that requires thoughtful and careful consideration.
From Fang Jin’s perspective, the various strategies formulated by Zhao Kuangyin himself on that day, although strictly speaking, can’t be said wrong. Over the past hundred years, a rich and prosperous Great Song Dynasty has been created. There are still many shortcomings that have to be modified, so that the Song Dynasty, which was created by itself, has not only been unable to move northward and regain the land of the ancestors of the Yanyan ancestors. Bianjing's divine weapon, robbed the two emperors and went north, leading to a humiliation and shame that China has never had in thousands of years.
Therefore, in Zhao Kuangyin's view, the current strategy is revised and the country is redefined so that the world will rise to peace in the future, and the government and the people will become more prosperous. At least it will not be as strong as it has been in the past 100 years. Cultural relics are prosperous, but the courage is exhausted. This is the most important issue at the moment. Otherwise, if he is now in power, he can keep the border safe, but if he is replaced by a cowardly guardian king in the future, Huanghuangda Isn't Song going to be reduced to a country where Yi Di will trample and bully again.
Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the country, puts more emphasis on the foundation of the world. As for the stormy power of Qin Hui under Lin'an City, the Jurchen golden iron cavalry army is staring at it, perhaps in the eyes of others, there is a lot of cloud pressure. The city wanted to destroy the city, but in Zhao Kuangyin's eyes, it was just a momentary disturbance, and he really didn't care too much about it.
Listening to Ren Dejing's talk, Zhao Kuangyin also expressed his appreciation for the scribe dressed up by the vendor.
Zhao Kuangyin thinks carefully these days. Under the current situation, his strategy of using culture and martial arts must be revised. However, as early as when he just established the foundation and established the country, if everything Everything can proceed as he expected, so perhaps the Song Dynasty was already in a different situation.
It’s just that it’s too late to say anything. As early as that day, his brother Zhao Guangyi completely abandoned the strategy he had set, and when he rushed to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty, he was destined to try that first after the founding of the Great Song Dynasty. The defeat of Da Song was doomed to the cowardly and weak situation when Da Song faced the alien cavalry for more than a hundred years.
Their brothers were originally from a family of generals, but in the chaos of the five generations and ten countries, the impermanence of the monarch, the impermanence of the country, even the emperor, the emperor, can fall to the ground at any time, the family of the family since the Han and Wei, Most of them broke their homes and destroyed their lives. What's more, the family of Zhao Kuangyin was just a small commander. As the times deteriorated, as early as when Zhao Kuangyin was a child, he had already fallen in his family. Zhao Kuangyin and his successors Several younger brothers and sisters, it can be said that they have grown up in a poor environment since childhood. His third brother Zhao Guangmei and his age are very different, but Zhao Guangyi has followed him since childhood and brought it out by him. For Zhao Guangyi In terms of speaking, his elder brother is not only a Yan brother, but also a half-hearted father.
Zhao Kuangyin has never concealed anything from his younger brother since he was a child. Whether it was martial arts practice or military strategy, even after the Song Dynasty Zhou, the emperor became the emperor, he has been dedicated to teaching. No matter how hard he teaches, no matter how hard Zhao Guangyi studies, no matter how hard he is in martial arts, he is in the world, or even the king. Compared with his elder brother, there is always an insurmountable distance between the attainments of Taoism, and even in Zhao Guangyi’s view, no matter how hard he works, there seems to be no possibility of such a distance being narrowed. It is constantly expanding.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this feeling that the most gloomy part of Zhao Guangyi’s character was created. Gradually, he and his brother were not as close as before, and they were not as close as they were before. He Learned to hide his own thoughts, and also learned to do some deviant things without telling his brother, and even cultivated power in the dark, and even started planning for a long time ago to find a suitable opportunity for the one he once loved the most. Brother, issued a fatal blow. Just because in his mind, the obvious difference between him and his elder brother in all aspects has long been explained as because the two people have different powers, which is the supreme power of the emperor. This made his brother be able to be vertical and horizontal in all aspects, calling the wind and rain, and his brother's light looks so dazzling, incomparable and unpredictable, so from that time on, Zhao Guangyi has secretly decided. Determined, in any case, he must also grab the throne of the emperor, and he must also prove that the original gap between him and his brother is only because of the difference in position, only because of what he has mastered. Power is different, not him Zhao Guangyi is really inferior to people everywhere, absolutely not!
Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but sigh softly.
With his ability, he has not never experienced the thoughts of his brother, and even Zhao Guangyi's actions that he thought secretly in private, he was already insightful. If you know the palm, it's just him that day, so he didn't expect that Zhao Guangyi would really take this step, and that he would really come to this step.
He is the most important brotherhood, even after the founding of the country, he did have the thought of passing on the throne to his brother. Zhao Guangyi was appointed king of the Jin, knew about Kaifeng government affairs, and fulfilled the military and political affairs of the Song Dynasty. They were all handed over to him, but as the country was founded, the deep side of Zhao Guangyi's nature gradually emerged, which made Zhao Kuangyin have to start thinking about something else.
After all, he was not only the filial son of the Queen Mother Du, not only the eldest brother of Zhao Guangyi, but also the lord of the great Song Jiangshan community, and the king of the world’s billions of subjects. Annoying, he really watched too much, and too tired of it. He would rather bear the name of being unrighteous. In Song Dynasty Zhou, even though it was a confidant's subordinate staged a drama with a yellow robe added to the body, if it weren’t for him to watch After Zhou Shizong's dragon took control of the Bintian, there was a doubt about the Lord and the country on Monday. Under such a situation where the four barbarians are waiting, if there is no one who can really support it to take charge of the overall situation, I am afraid that the rivers and mountains of the Central Plains have just settled down. , And to fall into a situation where the alien race is rampant, torn apart, so in my heart, there is not much resistance to Yi Song Dynasty Zhou, otherwise, with his temperament, how dare those tribes really disobey him.
He thought that Zhao Guangyi was deeply attached to his brothers, brothers, and handed over the throne to Zhao Guangyi. It turned out that he didn't give up much, but after gradually seeing the things that Zhao Guangyi had done secretly, he couldn't help but survive. A little bit of doubt.
In this chaotic world for too long and too long, finally there was a chance of peace. If he picked the wrong prince of the follow-up, and after more than a hundred years of war, the hope of rejuvenating the Han and Tang Dynasties is here. Annihilation, then he really can't forgive himself anymore.
So during those years, in addition to continuing to reuse Zhao Guangyi, he also began to deliberately assign important responsibilities to his third brother Zhao Guangmei and his eldest son Zhao Defang. In fact, his original intention was just thinking about this. Zhao Guangyi was wary and vigilant, but he didn't expect that his second brother would take the risk in such a desperate way, creating the scene in the night of axe sound and candle shadow.
As Zhao Kuangyin thought, a wry smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Even now, he has never really had much in his heart to blame his younger brother because of what happened that day.
He knows Zhao Guangyi's behavior very well, and he still believes that his second brother is not a real hero, and even what happened on the night between the sound of axe and the shadow of the candle is likely to be temporary on his impulse. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin's prestige was prosperous, and his eyes and ears were all over the court and the public. If Zhao Guangyi really had a planned operation, he could not hide Zhao Kuangyin's eyes and ears. It was this sudden attack that caught Zhao Kuangyin by surprise. After all, he has always been. I trust my brother too much. Even in the imperial ban, Zhao Guangyi has always come and go freely, and Zhao Kuangyin has absolute confidence in his martial arts, and he never really felt that Zhao Guangyi might threaten him. All of these accidentally collided together, which made Zhao Guangyi's success that night really bewildering.
But this can be said to be the worst situation.
Zhao Kuangyin thinks about these days carefully, and I really wish that his younger brother is really an inexperienced hero. He really deliberately tried to usurp the throne from the very beginning, and he really worked hard from the beginning, and cultivated enough to support him in the ruling and opposition parties. Ascended to the throne and proclaimed the emperor, so that he would not worry about his improper throne after the death of Zhao Kuangyin, and that his throne would not be recognized by the minister of the court, so he was eager to conquer foreigners. This has since been referred to as the direction of attention of the government and the opposition.
"Inferiority and arrogance..." Zhao Kuangyin meditated on Zhao Guangyi's evaluation of Zhao Guangyi given by the scribe who had just faced him.
No one knows better than him that this little brother, who has been under his light wings for a long time since he was young, will inevitably make him, who is also an arrogant brother, have some thoughts of resistance in his heart, which will inevitably make him. This younger brother wanted to surpass himself one day, but Zhao Guangyi was not really such a person who didn’t know the importance. At that time, the reason why he had just succeeded to the throne after the night of the sound of the axe and the shadow of the candle, he hurriedly ordered the army. The Northern Expedition really had a reason why he had to do it.
After all, Zhao Kuangyin has been in the world for seventeen years. He has opened up his words and spoke well. He has received all the hopes of the people from the sky. The ministers of the Central Government are all attached to it. Such a force would have been unshakable at all. If it had not been for Zhao Kuangyin, it would have been there. He wanted to use Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi to take over the imperial line, and he repeatedly stated the ministers of the imperial court. Therefore, under such sudden circumstances, the courtiers had no way to find out the true situation. Even if they were puzzled in their hearts, they did not stand to say more. What? Otherwise, even if Zhao Guangyi takes risks, he will never sit on the throne of Emperor Song Dynasty.
However, it was not Zhao Kuangyin’s influence on the Great Song Dynasty Hall that made Zhao Guangyi more uneasy, but more of his unparalleled prestige in the Song Dynasty army. Zhao Kuangyin was originally an emperor with a bow and horse. The legend that the roots of the dragon sticks across the world’s forty-eight continents predates the spread of the world’s nine continents. It is basically an existence in the army that has been mythological. When it was the time, the strategy of the Song Dynasty to control the military with culture was not even invented, but it should be. Those in the army of the time who were able to conquer and fight well and were brought out by Zhao Kuangyin were not completely old. The foundation of the Song Dynasty relied on such an army that could be said to be completely living in the shadow of Zhao Kuangyin. With support, how could Zhao Guangyi feel at ease.
So when he took the throne, he began to prepare for a large-scale conquest, that is, he hoped to use the opportunity of war to re-establish his authority in the army. He did not really lose sight of the situation at the time, and it should not be completely. He did not listen to his brother Zhao Kuangyin’s explanation, but the newly succeeded emperor official really needed one war after another to enable him to be in the army of the Song Dynasty. Become an existence that can replace Zhao Kuangyin.
He failed, but he also succeeded.
After conquering the Northern Han Dynasty with the elite soldiers and heroes left behind by Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi kept running and drove the Song army to launch a full-scale attack on the Liao, thus creating this century-old weakness of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin had just placed himself on the body of his descendants, and when he had just seen this paragraph of historical records, he couldn't believe his eyes.
He knows Zhao Guangyi very well. His younger brother may not be a qualified emperor, but he is definitely a qualified fighter. He absolutely does not believe that Zhao Guangyi would not be able to see that he would conquer Liao under the situation at the time. How out-of-pocket the state is. He absolutely does not believe that Zhao Guangyi would not be able to assess that the same army that had been exhausted after the Northern Han Dynasty was destroyed by pacification, and without stopping to mobilize again to attack the Northern Liao Dynasty, the odds of victory during the period will be so weak that it is too difficult. The point of appraisal.
But Zhao Guangyi really did just that.
Zhao Kuangyin didn't understand why his younger brother made such a mistake until after examining many transcripts before and after the war.
Perhaps in Zhao Guangyi's view, this is not a mistake at all, but just a gamble, to use Song Jiangshan, use Chinese luck, to bet on his position as the emperor of the emperor, and to bet that he can sit firmly in this great Song Jiangshan.
Perhaps Zhao Guangyi never thought of winning this battle against the Northern Liao Dynasty from the beginning. He knew very well that Zhao Kuangyin’s prestige in the Song army could not be replaced by a two-match victory, but for Zhao Guangyi In other words, a big defeat may also bring him the same effect.
After the defeat in the battle against the Liaoning, most of the old generals who were able to conquer the war and were picked up by Zhao Kuangyin with one hand have become scapegoats for this defeat. Zhao Guangyi was left idle and dismissed. , And Zhao Guangyi’s selection of candidates to replace them does not focus on the ability to fight, but only whether he believes him or not, and only cares whether he is a pro-confidant of Zhao Guangyi.
This battle enabled Zhao Guangyi’s bloodless dungeon to firmly grasp the army of the Song Dynasty, but countless old generals who were accustomed to fighting were left idle, and countless elite soldiers and powerful generals who followed Zhao Kuangyin’s north-south conquests buried their bones. The land also made the soul of the great Song army almost wiped out, making Huanghuang Huaxia, facing the realm of the four barbarians, weak for a hundred years, and even being trampled by the Jurchen’s iron cavalry through the Bianjing artifact. S.
If he could use his scheming and power tactics to govern the country instead of seizing power, perhaps the Song Dynasty would have been in a different situation long ago? !
Zhao Kuangyin sighed slightly, feeling lost, and turned his eyes to Ren Dejing who was sitting in front of him.
These things, based on his knowledge of his mind and his understanding of Zhao Guangyi’s dealings with people, have only recently gradually figured out. This Xixia scribe, as an outsider more than a hundred years later, can see this step. , But it is really not easy.
"Actually, I think the party members live a hard life." Ren Dejing was already quite drunk at the moment, but he changed the subject and said, "It's just that they are willing to suffer, stubborn and stubborn. Inextricably!"
"Oh?" Zhao Kuangyin asked with interest: "It is said that Xixia's national strength has been booming in recent years, but I don't know where the suffering comes from. I would like to hear more!"