As February begins, the weather gradually warms up. Although it is still thousands of miles outside, the spring is chilly and the sun shines on people, it is lazy.

Du Zhongxiao sat in the study, with his eyes closed and pretended to sleep. Such a war must be reported to the court. He cannot be executed first and then reported, otherwise no one can bear the responsibility, and Han Qi will not do it. More than ten days have passed, and there has been no news from the court.

At this moment, Han Qi hurried in from outside, saw Du Zhongxiao opening his eyes and said, "Master, the court has issued an order!"

Du Zhongxiao stood up and smiled and said, "Looking at my husband's appearance, there is no need to say that the court has agreed."

Han Qi nodded: "Yes, the court agreed to force Dangxiang to hand over the defected foreign households by force, and do not insult the national system!"

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and said, "It means that we agree to play a game, and we must win."

Han Qi sat down and said, "Yes, that's what it means. It's not easy for Mr. Pang and Mr. Gao to win. You need a big victory. Do you understand?"

"I understand, the official understands." Du Zhongxiao nodded. "This time I go to the battle, I will definitely not lose what you guys want!"

Hequlu won, Guangnan Pingnong Zhigao won again. In recent months, the Song army won many times, and the court officials became energetic. However, the emperor did not want to fight. Prime Minister Pang Ji and Privy Councilor Gao Ruonai advised him several times, so he had to agree. However, after a series of battles, he did not support Hequlu.

After waiting for so many days, Du Zhongxiao slowly guessed the thoughts of Pang Ji and Gao Ruonai. They didn't want to fight at first. Once Tang Longzhen won, the Song army had face and should rest and not start the battle easily. Di Qing also made them decide to support Du Zhongxiao.

In the battle of Guirenpu, Di Qing defeated Nong Zhigao. The emperor received a good news and immediately urged the court officials to discuss rewards, because it was too late to persuade me. With the train, Di Qing defeated Nong Zhigao's main force and returned to the capital soon, using the governor of the Guardian Kingdom as the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council and the Southern Envoy of Xuanhui. The emperor intended to make him the Privy Councilor. It was precisely to use Di Qing as the Privy Councilor to let Pang Ji and Gao Ruonne support Han Qi and Du Zhongxiao to use troops.

Zhao Zhen did not establish the tradition of using civil servants to control martial arts in the Song Dynasty from the beginning. In fact, Zhao Zhen was in power and always regarded military generals as Privy Councilors. In the past, Wang Deyong was Wang Yiyong was Wang, but there was also a civil servant Privy Councilor. This time, he wanted Di Qing to be the Privy Councilor, but Gao Ruonne replaced him, that is, the two Privy Councilors were all military generals, and an unspeakable situation occurred.

Whether civil officials are participating in politics for prime ministers or deputy Privy Councilors, they are impermanent. Today they become, but tomorrow they may be fine. Military generals are different. Once they are Privy Councilors, they will not be dismissed unless they have any major mistakes. If Di Qing and Wang Yiyong were Privy Councilors, they might not be replaced in the next 10 or 20 years. This situation would be very subtle. Wang Yiyong would not say that they were originally from a noble family, but Di Qing was born in a rank of a rank of ranks and served as Privy Councilors for 10 or 20 years. This situation would be suppressed by him.

In Du Zhongxiao's memory, when studying history, when Di Qing, who had been a Privy Councilor for four years, was attacked by the censors and came out to rule Chenzhou, he was indignant, thinking that it was a civil servant's attack on suppressing military generals and reached the pinnacle. He once thought that, but now he felt that the scholars' views did not know what they mean.

The Privy Council is different from the Three Yamen, and is a bureaucratic organization. What are the consequences of letting military generals master the bureaucracy? There are many examples in history. It cannot be evaluated based on Di Qing's personal character and performance. As long as Di Qing starts and does not rebel, there will always be someone who will rebel later.

The history of Du Zhongxiao's study started with a period when the entire country and nation was passively beaten and ridiculed. Military was not good after the Song Dynasty. Since the military was not good, it has been analyzed and studied military affairs based on military theory. History is not. People who study history do not understand military affairs, so researchers have classified them into two aspects.

One is that people are not good, they do not have the temperament of being a soldier, and they are not brave enough to fight bravely, so they cannot beat others. They even believe that the Han people must introduce the spirit of martial arts from the barbaric nations around them. The other is that culture is not good, and the entire national culture is weak and does not advocate martial arts. Specifically in terms of political system, they worship culture and suppress martial arts. To change, they should change culture and improve the status of military personnel, which corresponds to the warlord rule of that period. Of course, the facts of history are contrary to their conclusions. Warlords cannot resist external humiliation, nor can they inspire national spirit internally, but instead drag the entire country and nation into the abyss. However, the facts are not important, which does not prevent them from explaining history with this view, nor does it prevent them from controlling the discourse power of history.

Not only the interpretation of military affairs, but also the interpretation of science and technology. Why did they fall behind at that time? One is because people are not good, they have no scientific spirit, are not rational, are born ignorant, and have not accepted their enlightenment. Another is that culture is not good, especially the Confucian culture that occupies a major position, they are born unable to produce science and rationality, and they inevitably suppress science and reason. As for why Confucianism is like this, what is important is mainstream culture. If they change one, they are nothing more than criticizing it with another name.

The explanation for history is that one person cannot do it, and a culture cannot do it. It is not important for the ancestors to be glorious. The more brilliant it is, the more it means the greater the harm, and it is so big that it is difficult to turn around. It just so happened that they fell to the lowest point in their time.

If a person doesn't work, it means that he has to accept other people's things completely. In addition to bloodline and body, it's best to change them all. There are even more wise people who advocate that even bloodline and language should be replaced. And those of them happen to learn from foreigners, so they should naturally be the objects of learning from others. If culture is not good, it's even better. They have learned other people's culture and do not need to study culture seriously. They naturally become cultural masters. Just turn two pages of the book and shout "A race is not good, and then shout "A culture is not good," and you will be both a history master and a culture master.

When it is time to destroy the old and establish the new, it is normal to introduce and learn. It is too late to study every problem carefully and slowly introduce and absorb external knowledge. The country and nation have no time. It is necessary to break through the great foundation, break up all bottles and jars, introduce and attract advanced knowledge as soon as possible, and hold on to it at the most dangerous moments. But after such a period, it is necessary to stick to this method, which is that scholars are lazy. In terms of military theory, the constituent elements of combat effectiveness are written in many textbooks, and they will not draw such conclusions without any condoms, forming this view. It is useless to quote classics and lose the background of the times. It is practical to seek truth from facts and make sense from the most basic research.

Why was the Song Dynasty's military power not good? The root cause of the disease was falling from the late Tang and Five Dynasties. The warlords' fetal disease. In addition, the civil government had to eliminate the danger of military generals subverting the regime. The two were added to the deeper and deeper. Not only in the Song Dynasty, but in many later countries, this was like this. As long as the regime army derived from warlords was born, there was nothing that could be fought without thorough reform.

If the warlords had persisted until the end of World War II, what would China look like? How strong is the military strength?

The establishment of the Song Dynasty was the premise that Taizu usurped the Zhou Dynasty under the premise that he was the military power of the Later Zhou Dynasty. The army was the foundation of everything. With the army, there was the world of the Song Dynasty, and the army had a particularly strong warlord color. With the lessons learned by the Five Dynasties, in order to prevent the army from abolishing and establishing the army, a series of measures were taken from Taizu to Taizong. Logistics were independent from the army, and the personnel and supervision power of the generals were stripped of the high-level command system, and the battalion was completely abolished, with the battalion as the basic unit of the army. Among the combat effectiveness elements, the vital organizational power was abolished, and it would be strange if it could be beaten.

The current imperial guards have good quality of soldiers, good weapons and equipment, good military ratio, good training level, and professional regular army, but they lose as soon as the scale of the war is large. What is there to say? The experience of generals in managing and commanding the army is 500 people in a battalion, and there is no essential difference when going up. The more soldiers they lead to fight big battles, and the fewer soldiers they lead to fight small battles, and the strategic command is completely blank.

But for the emperor, the most reliable force is the imperial guards. This is the imperial guards, and the ministers are not allowed to intervene easily.

Zhao Zhen did not respect civil and suppress military affairs. On the contrary, he had a confused mind, wanting to completely hand over military power to the generals. The northwest used civil officials as commanders, one was to continue the tradition of Zhenzong, and the other was that there was no way. The generals were not useless. The early commanders were military generals. The defeat was too ugly, so there was no way to use Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan.

Why was the Northwest defeated? Zhao Zhen’s idea was different from that of the ministers in the court. He believed that the lack of combat effectiveness was because there were no good generals. The country had been in peace for a long time and had not selected outstanding talents. As long as there were excellent generals, the result of the war was not like that.

The saying that the powerful generals started from the army of the soldiers was said by Han Fei, and it was in line with the Legalists’ official lineage. However, in Han Fei’s era, there were almost no one who was a general in the field. Not only was there a few more years later. The powerful generals could start from the army of the soldiers, but it was difficult for the commander to do so. Except for some special cases, they happened to collide, such as Yue Fei.

Zhao Zhen believed that the commander was no different from the powerful generals. The commander should be like this. Only in this way can the current military and political system of the Song Dynasty be correct. The generals of the imperial guards were selected and soldiers were eliminated. The brave ones entered the squad or joined the fourth army, and were released from outside to become officers at all levels. Then, if there is a war, they will be promoted according to military merits, which is the standard procedure for starting from the military.

In Zhao Zhen's eyes, Di Qing meets these conditions, he is the most ideal general. Di Qing can do it, but others can do it in the future, and the imperial guards will definitely do it. Zhao Zhen values ​​Di Qing not because of his personal feelings. The two actually don't have much interaction. What's important is that Di Qing is in line with Zhao Zhen's political correctness.
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