Xu Ping has never been so serious about something in his life because he knows clearly what he is doing.

In his previous life, Xu Ping often heard that the Song Dynasty was an era when he valued literature and over military affairs. People who could recite a few poems and were very arrogant and longed for such an era, but those who were heartbroken to this dynasty and were very sad about the cowardly external cowards of this dynasty, hated them to the core.

Does this era emphasize culture over military affairs? Yes, and its severity is far beyond Xu Ping's previous life. However, the degree is beyond Xu Ping's expectations, but the connotation is very different from the understanding in his previous life. Emphasizing culture over military affairs is not a civil servant who discriminates against military generals.

To understand what it means to value culture and over military affairs, you must know where this statement originated from and why it appears. This statement does not originate from the Han Dynasty. To pursue its origin, you must start with a minority emperor with the word "wen" in his posthumous title.

Tuoba Hong later changed his surname to Yuan Hong, Emperor Gaozu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and was posthumously named Emperor Xiaowen. This man wrote a lot in the history textbooks of Xu Ping's previous life. He was a representative figure of great exchanges and integration of ethnic groups. During his administration, the Xianbei Northern Wei moved its capital to Luoyang and began the "Xiaowen Emperor Reform" known by historical books. The content of the reform has been detailed. In short, it is to learn from the political system of the Han Dynasty. The Xianbei changed the Han surname, changed Han fu, practiced Han rituals, and changed customs. The two words summarized, which is "Sinicization".

Communication and integration have never been one-way, nor can it be one-way. There is a Hu transformation, there is an anti-Sinicization, and there is an anti-Hu transformation. Since Emperor Xiaowen, the Hu people who entered the Central Plains anti-Sinicization, and the anti-Hu transformation of the Han people in the Central Plains were carried out simultaneously with the sinicization of some Hu people and the Hu transformation of some Han people. Later, the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties were both products of this process.

Emperor Xiaowen's reform was the climax of the active sinicization of the Xianbei people who entered the Central Plains. After him, he immediately entered another anti-sination process. The landmark event was the Six Towns Rebellion, which Xu Ping also called the Six Towns Uprising in his previous life.

Because of the capital being moved to Luoyang, the military and civilians of the six towns disappeared as the superiors of the entire dynasty, and they had resentment, so they rebelled. They retained the old customs of Xianbei, believed that the Xianbei upper class who moved south to Luoyang to promote the Han people's cultural rule, and forgot the old tradition of Xianbei and valued culture over military affairs. They attached great importance to the Han people's cultural rule, valued the Han people, valued the sinicization of Xianbei, and ignored them, the old Xianbei people. Only the sinicized Xianbei people could become high-ranking officials, and these old Xianbei people who retained the old customs of martial arts and illiterate were disarrayed by the court, and the country was not a country. This turmoil eventually destroyed the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then the Central Plains changed the dynasty like a lantern.

The dispute over the importance of civil and military affairs started from this time. Wen refers to the Han people's civil rule, and Wu refers to the old custom of Xianbei's martial arts. The sinicization is literature, and the anti-Sinicization is martial arts. Differentiating it by value orientation, but not Han people. Correspondingly, whoever is inferior to civil and military affairs is accompanied by sinicization and anti-Sinicization. With the exchange and integration of nations, national identity is no longer important, but cultural orientation is replaced. Wen includes the intellectuals of the Han people and the intellectuals who actively sinicized from foreign races. They think they are Han people, while Wu includes the original foreign races and Hu people, and they think they are Hu people.

In this collision between sinicization and anti-sinicization, both sides finished their performance in the Central Plains, accompanied by countless bloody killings. For example, Erzhu Rong quelled the rebellion of the Six Towns and killed all the Xianbei upper class after entering Luoyang.

When the Han people came to power, they excluded the royal family and promoted culture and education. When the Hu people came to power, they were young Chinese in Xianbei and were literati and had military skills. After hundreds of years of bloody struggle, they finally found an acceptable result between the two sides, which was the Sui and Tang dynasties.

After that, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. After two hundred years of troubled times, a military group composed of the Han people and the Hu people finally rose. Finally, the Zhou and Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty relied on this military force to unify the world. The inheritance of this force is the Imperial Guard.

History always does not follow people's wishes. As the Tang Dynasty moved to the mainland in large numbers, it combined with the Hu Han struggles for hundreds of years before, and finally formed a group of people from the Han people who became the Han people and the Han people who became the Han people. The Hu Han division, which should have been integrated, inexplicably went on another road.

The emphasis on culture and over military forces was particularly serious in this era because the power of the imperial guards had been restricted, just like a wolf was locked in a cage. Since Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, the new force that came up was the civil servant group. The civil servants' dispute in this era was still a continuation of the Hu-Han conflict hundreds of years ago. The civil servant group had a clear understanding of this point, and was also a military general who led the army, Yue Fei won the recognition and support of the civil servant group. The climax of the conflict between the two sides was reflected by Wang Anshi's reform. In addition to various chaotic reform measures, the most important thing in the military reform was to use the military achievements of opening the border of Hehuang outside the Hehuang border to start to clean up the imperial guard group. The seal of the piles and baojia was to completely uproot the group.

History is a little girl. You can look beautiful on the left and beautiful on the right, so you can dress up. This means that history is originally intertwined by many events. In order to illustrate a problem, you can take out an aspect to explain it. When the same thing is combined with different things, the meaning expressed may be completely opposite. Of course, there must be a logic behind history, but most people are not interested in seeking this logic, and history is just a topic of conversation. But for Xu Ping now, history is not a simple topic of conversation. He needs to find out this logic, which is related to his wealth and life.

History has its own trajectory. I thought that I could defeat the heaven and earth with just one thought. This idea should not be in the course of history. Xu Ping worked hard, worked hard step by step, and worked tremblingly, but finally walked on the track of history. His reform of the army was essentially following Yue Fei's path, but only specific means and external manifestations. His reform of the government was actually following Wang Anshi's path. Although the specific policies were huge, the things he had to do eventually came to the same end.

How difficult is this matter? Xu Ping was shuddered as long as he thought about the difference between valuing culture and minus military in his previous life and the valuing culture and minus military in this era. The things he wanted to solve could be changed beyond recognition in a thousand years and completely led to another direction. It is conceivable how much resistance this has to face.

The biggest evidence of the demise of culture and military force was raised. The Qing Dynasty was the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty had many similarities with the Xianbei Northern Wei, and the rebellion of the Six Towns led to the demise of the Northern Wei Dynasty as a warning. The harm of placing emphasis on culture and military force was to warn the bannermen and Han people who entered the banner should not be sinicized, otherwise the rebellion of the Six Towns was the lesson of the past. The second was to warn the Han people that you only had civil governance and no force, accept the rule well and do not rebel.

It was not because the upper class of the Qing Dynasty forced others to do it, but the intellectuals of the Han people themselves consciously added bricks and tiles to this discourse system. For example, Zhao Yi said in "Notes on the Twenty-Four Histories" that Emperor Xiaowen said: "The emperor is superior to literature, hates the ugliness of the original customs, and wants to change it with the Chinese style... It is because he wants to promote civil governance and compare it with ancient emperors, but he does not know that martial arts have gradually relaxed."

The most core point of the discourse system that emphasizes culture and neglects military is anti-Sinicization. This is not Huhua. The contradiction between Huhua and anti-Huhua has disappeared. The theoretical contradiction in the military system from the fundamental basis of establishing a military is sinicization and anti-Sinicization.

Using the discourse system of emphasis on culture and neglecting military affairs to discuss ancient dynasties, we cannot follow the Han Dynasty before the foreign race entered the Central Plains and before the Han Dynasty, because this was the characteristic of the Hu military culture. Its rise and fall was still there. It was originally a scene that was constantly staged for thousands of years on the grassland. However, this military culture came to the Central Plains and was eventually combined with the powerful culture and economy of the Central Plains. After decades of military strength, it could still use the material resources of the Central Plains to prosper.

The key to this is that since the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Central Plains dynasty has traditionally relied on. The military culture and system of the Han people have been severely suppressed by the Hu people for hundreds of years. The Han people themselves have lost their military confidence and passively and actively accepted the military culture brought by the Xianbei. From that time on military affairs, we can see that it is obviously different from the Han people.

In the end, the Han Dynasty's literature and the Hu tribe's martial arts combined together through the interaction, exchange and collision between the two sides. The Han Dynasty's tradition of military and civilian integration was divided from generation to generation, and the army was isolated from society, becoming a special group. They passed on from generation to generation, did not work, and lived on military pay. All parties accepted it, saying that people outside the army provided resources for this group, and this group protected people outside the army with swords and guns, just like the theory that Gao Huan said back then. The Song Dynasty collected wealth from the world to support the army was based on such a basis. Of course, the fact is that they did not play the responsibility of protection, and they asked for more and more resources. They could not defeat the enemy's battle, and they still asked for insatiable demands to make the country unable to support them. The conflict between the two sides naturally arises.

Only when the dynasty changes can this group be broken up, otherwise it will be unbreakable. The reason is very simple. This is the same method as Qin Shihuang's acquisition of the world's weapons, but it is much more clever. It is not to collect weapons, but to create such a completely parasitic group. They can only rely on the regime. Once the regime disperses, these people will have no food and clothing. Moreover, they are accomplices of the old regime. Unless the new dynasty wants to rebuild such a group and accept them, they will have to die. This is the foundation of their so-called loyalty. And all the military power in the world is received in their hands. No matter how poor the combat power is, they can suppress the rebels in the country.

Such a military group with parasitic nature in foreign cultures naturally carries the genes on the grassland. When profitable and victory is within reach, they show off their power. When foreign enemies are strong, they are afraid of the enemy like tigers, and cooperation with the enemy is the first choice. They are parasitized in their own country, separated from society and the people, and have no consciousness to defend their country.

Such a military group may have strong combat power when it first develops, and once it settles, it will quickly fall. Being able to fight is to grab more money. After it settles, as long as you carry a cage and walk the birds, you can take a knife from the parasitic mother body, so why bother yourself to blame yourself? If there is any disadvantage in external combat, surrender and shake, and suppression from the internal one will be extremely vicious, which is the gene in their bones.

Such a culture, such a group with a knife, seems to be a major harm to the country, and everyone calls it to beat it, but it is not. The key is that in such a group, people in such a group can live a medium or above life without production and get it without work, and it is hereditary. Since the formation of this group, many people have thought of living such a life. It is manifested as a military group that was the foundation of the world at that time. When the military power had no such power, some people wanted to change the name and continue to create another group. As long as the history of this military group is cleared and the theory is put into practice, the new group will have a foundation.

This group is also represented as a group of literati, can be represented as a group of eunuchs, can be represented as a businessman, or even banker, and various names. As long as it can be hereditary, gained for nothing and easily obtained social resources, some people yearn for it. The Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed and this military group went bankrupt. After hundreds of years, it can be resurrected with the Eight Banners system again, and it is possible to imagine its vitality.

Such a group of cultures naturally have an anti-Sinic nature. They may be Han people, but they will oppose Han culture to enter the army. During peacetime, when the military power declines, they will choose to be humble. Be cautious with the court, but be more harsh to their subordinates. Be cautious with the court to avoid disaster and be mean to their subordinates to make money. Once the war begins, they will threaten the country with war, only care about personal interests and ignore the great justice. When they win, they will show off their power and make excessive demands, and when they lose, they will be depressed and encourage surrender. When the country is in chaos, the court will lose authority, either cede the land and stand on its own, or turn to the enemy. They will have no feelings for the country and the people.

To recount the rise and fall of ancient times with emphasis on culture and over military affairs, if it was a Han Dynasty, the responsibility for the loss of the world would be placed on the civil servant group. If it was a Hu Dynasty, it would become a destruction of the country due to sinicization and did not preserve its own martial arts culture. The Han Dynasty valued the civil servants' death, and the Hu Dynasty was a sinicization. A discourse system and orientation were obvious. This does not require much effort from historical materials, because the martial artists group has the Hu cultural genes, and the Han Dynasty would inevitably despise it. This is inevitable and historical facts. As for the roles these people play in real history, it is no longer important. If there are people who do not match the above statement, it is a special case. The special case does not affect the overall judgment. As long as you believe it, it will be true.

The vitality of this discourse system is so powerful that it makes people feel frightened. When Xu Ping introduced ethnic minorities in his previous life, if they had a deep degree of sinicization, they would inevitably bring the natural weakness that they brought about. If they had a low degree of sinicization, they would add a sentence that this is a martial and good nation. It doesn’t matter what it looks like in history, as long as they are tenaciously not sinicized, it is enough.

To understand the nature of emphasizing culture over military affairs in this era, Xu Ping had references in his previous life.

It is not surprising that Dang Jin, the general who once held the power of the imperial guards during the Taizu period, was a Hu people. The imperial guards group was originally composed of the Chinese Hu people and the Hu people. I would like to emphasize again that this group of people is naturally illiterate. After the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, Taizu advocated civilized governance and wanted military people to read as much as possible. Dang Jin checked the direction of the wind and wanted to learn to say a few literary words to express himself as well. He left the image of Lu Pu in front of Taizu, but in fact he was used to currying against Song Taizong who had not yet ascended the throne.

, I was a person who was very good at devoting his favor. Once in court, he asked someone to help write the statement he wanted to say on the tablet and memorize it in advance. As a result, when he met Taizu, he forgot it for a while and couldn't say it for a long time, so he had to say: "I heard that the ancient style is simple and simple, and I hope the official family will rest." The words were completely inconspicuous, which made Song Taizu confused. This matter was a joke in the court. He explained: "I saw those poor people who were very worried about the book bag, and I also lost a few words to let Your Majesty know that I was studying too."

This incident was used by Xu Ping in his previous life as an example of the Song Dynasty's worship of literature and suppressing martial arts and forcing military generals to make a fool of themselves. In fact, it is hard to say whether Dang Jin really memorized and forgot about it. He was a person who pretended to be simple and actually good at ease. He memorized and forgot about it, which was more in line with his personality than to say it in front of Taizu. Let Taizu know that he wanted to lose his literati book bag, and expressed that he agreed with the trend of promoting civil governance. Without doing so, it means that his simplicity is to meet Taizu's preferences from two aspects.

In Xu Ping's previous life, something happened to be a contrast with this.

Many big names and even senior officials at that time liked to speak English in front of the journalists. In fact, they were facing their own journalists and their audiences, who were talking about their own affairs, but they had to mix English in their words. This habit was actually no different from the performance of Dang Jin when he met Taizu. It was just that when facing the situation, lowered his head and saluted the group culture that had the advantage. Dang Jin bowed his head and paid tribute to the Chinese civil servant group, while English-speaking people paid tribute to foreign cultures. For some people with identities, if they wanted to say something like Dang Jin and said it wrong, it would be more exquisite and pleased people from both groups at the same time.

After understanding Xu Ping's previous life's admiration for foreign countries and the xenophobia caused by this, he understood the Song Dynasty's emphasis on culture and military affairs.

In the early Five Dynasties, the Hu tribe had the upper hand, so he focused on martial arts and neglected literature. As time went on, the Hu tribe was in the sinicization and gradually changed to focusing on culture and neglecting military. By the establishment of the Song Dynasty, all this had already happened naturally. The dispute between civil and military was a dispute between sinicization and anti-sinicization. When sinicization became the mainstream, then emphasizing civil and military over military was the mainstream.

If Xu Ping had not had his own personal experience and understanding the situation, he would not have thought that this is the meaning of valuing literature and neglecting military. In that era, the system of valuing culture and neglecting military discussion had changed into another form. Originally, this was a word used by foreign races to anti-Sinicization, but after being transformed into a tree, it became a completely different form. Wen and martial arts were replaced by civil officials and military general groups, and then played out. Emphasizing culture and neglecting military was a fact of the Han Dynasty, with historical facts all present. Even historical materials were not needed to be searched for, just change the conclusions.

It will cause such confusion to Xu Ping. Naturally, this little girl in history is happy to dress up. There is another more important reason. In the dynasties before Song and He, the Han people who embraced foreign civilizations and actively transformed into the Central Plains, showed their identity as military generals. In Xu Ping's previous life, the country's gates were wide open, and they were the first to be dazzling in the outside world. People who admired foreign countries and fascinated foreigners showed their identity as the opposite of military generals.

The overlap of inner identities and the appearances shown are exactly opposite, and the people who are thousands of years apart resonate with each other. The discourse system of emphasizing culture over military affairs has been redesigned to raise the status of their fellow travelers in the past two thousand years. The word used by foreigners to prevent Chineseization was dressed up as weakness in the Han cultural genes, and the root of the Han cultural inferiority was proved.

What is derived from this is that the Han people should not make mistakes in valuing culture over military affairs, and actively embrace new civilizations and welcome the new era. The parasitic group dressed as a military group has disappeared, but put down their swords and guns and picked up the awls, their fellow travelers are using another method to fantasize about establishing another hereditary group dressed in something else.

Xu Ping asked himself, "I am not worthy of being a small person like me in my previous life, but how many people dare to do what they are going to do now with confidence?" The Imperial Army Group is much more stubborn than those who are not in the past life.

Xu Ping could not predict the difficulties he would face one by one, but he could realize how many difficulties and obstacles would be there in his previous life, and he would be shattered by a huge wave. He would accidentally be crushed to pieces and even erase his name from history.

My father-in-law Lin Wensi gave himself the word Yunxing, which means "clouds flow and rain, and the world is peaceful." When he took it, he was just a beautiful wish, but Xu Ping really wanted to bear the responsibility of "peace of the world". He did not dare to hope to bring peace to the world forever, but at least when facing foreign enemies, he could no longer let this parasitic military group fight against foreign enemies and make money like in history, and he would not have to go to battle with his life. When he could not support himself, he transformed himself into the front of the enemy and burned thousands of miles on the disarmed Central Plains land.

During the Yongjia Rebellion, the Central Plains sank, and this land had lost the martial ethics of the Han people. What Xu Ping had to do was to establish the martial ethics of the Han people on the Central Plains. If the heaven had the virtues of both civil and military, this was the act of recreating the heaven and earth. Whether it was difficult or not, he knew it.

The military system of the Han people is actually simple. It has nothing to do with recruiting soldiers or regular conscription. It is to integrate with this land at the bottom of the culture and psychology. Soldiers are the people. If they need to wear military uniforms, they will wear military uniforms. When they need to take them off, they will take them off. Wearing military uniforms is the soldiers, and taking off military uniforms is the people. In the future, there will be no warriors, and no one should jump and say, "We fight for wealth and honor, and find a title for marquis immediately." Only soldiers who face foreign aggression and go to battle to kill the enemy bloodily.

The military and civilians are one, but the things in their hands are different. When foreign enemies invade, they should rise up and resist, regardless of treatment or their future, because this is their own responsibility.

The Master said, "Once I follow my Tao, I will be loyal and forgiving myself." Taking up swords and guns to fight for the country is the loyalty of the people. Giving titles and rewarding those who have made meritorious is the forgiveness of the country. If the people lose their loyalty, they will be punished and killed. If the country loses its forgiveness, they will rise up and attack.

Under this military culture, the core manifestation is that soldiers and generals are not allowed to be hereditary, and the army cannot rely entirely on class laws.

It is normal for generals who have joined the army in the past dynasties to appear, as long as this is under the normal military system. However, all the soldiers and generals in the army cannot come from the same group and will be inherited from generation to generation.

Just like in this era, literati have no chance to join the army. If there is no one above appreciates you, you can only be a small soldier. With military merits and promotion, first of all, you must be qualified to plan military merits. If you kill enemies in front of the battlefield, if you are just soldiers, then the reward is given to you, and the promotion of military merits is for the commander. In the army, small soldiers basically have no chance to become commander. If you can change their status, it is best to be promoted to Banzhi. Whether it is Di Qing in history or Ren Fu, who died in battle at the foot of Tiandu Mountain, they can become generals from Banzhi to release troops from Banzhi.

Banzhi cannot be compared to later military academies, because military academies are open to the whole people and serve the army, but Banzhi is not. Turning the military academies into a form of Banzhi and closing it to society will form the tendency of the army to separate from the country and society. After being separated from the country and society, the army will have the need to combine with the ruler individually, whether the person is called the emperor or a name. Only by combining with the supreme ruler can they transfer social resources themselves. This combination is not loyalty to the rulers, and loyalty is just an external appearance. Once the ability to transfer social resources to them is insufficient, they will change their masters.

Rulers like such a group because of their appearance loyalty. As long as you have money to them, they will be your most loyal slaves, happily carrying out their mission of suppressing all opposition forces at home. It doesn’t matter if you lose foreign wars, as long as you pay a higher price than others, your status is still as solid as gold. However, the wealth in the world is limited, and people’s greed is infinite, one day the rulers will not be able to afford the price, and many of them will transform into finding the person who can afford the money.

Such a group will have a rapid decline in combat power and the world's wealth will be consumed quickly. The balance ability in the middle, coupled with various factors, becomes a very important factor in the length of a dynasty's existence. If you have a strong enemy inside and outside, the cost will be smaller. If you are surrounded by strong enemies, the world will soon be unable to bear it. A regime with strong ability to make money will last longer, while a regime with weak ability to make money will quickly perish.

The Song Dynasty collected wealth from the world to support soldiers, and even the royal family had to endure concessions, not to mention other groups. The ability to support such a military force was naturally a little stronger. However, this military force was born to suppress the internal force. It was born without combat power in the face of external enemies. If it stabilized the internal force, it would eventually be destroyed by external enemies.

The army is a special group and must talk about class. But if there is only one class law left in all things and management methods, the army will become a private army and a personal item for the commander. The loyalty of the army to the country is replaced by the loyalty of the commander to the country. Under the logic of buying interests in exchange for military support, it is cheaper to buy the commander to the army than to buy the army.

Who to fight for? Singing slogans is useless, only by system guarantee. When a general in the world and commanders absolutely control an army, no slogan is useful. Why should the leader of the military law be independent of the commanders? It is necessary to supervise the implementation of the system. Xu Ping established the Military Law Department, which was originally a military law rule since the Han Dynasty.

Obeying commands and obeying all actions is the duty of a soldier, not the same as being a soldier. The former refers to the responsibility of a soldier, while the latter refers to a soldier being a slave to the commander. Command does not come from the individual, but from his identity and the power granted by the state. Individuals and positions must be distinguished, and the system must first ensure this.

The world is about sacrifice and military affairs. War is a national event, and the army is a major weapon for the country. How can a few ambitious people use it as a tool for themselves to win the title of marquis and seize wealth? Even if the soldiers are for a lifetime, they are only civilians in military uniforms, rather than a group of hereditary people who are separated from society and have nothing to do with the country and nation. The military and civilians are one, and only under this logic can the title of marquis be honored.

During the Yongjia Rebellion, the transit of clothes and the sinking of the Central Plains, the military traditions of the Han people were lost under the huge military strike. If there were two virtues of civil and military affairs in the world, then since that time, the Han people had lost the martial virtues of the world.

The exchange and integration of nations cannot be simple Chineseization, so how can one-way exchange be discussed? In this process, there is the Chineseization of the Hu people, and there is also the Hu people of the Han people, which is also accompanied by oppositional thoughts and actions. The formation of this military tradition and political structure is completed through the exchanges and collisions of various aspects such as forces, culture, interests, etc.

To say that this military tradition carries Hu Feng, it is not that he was brought to the Central Plains by the Xianbei people, but developed after entering the Central Plains. There are Hu customs, and naturally there are also contributions from Han people, especially the great families of the northern families and Han literati.

When I was a child, I watched a movie. After sitting down, the first thing I asked the adults was: "Who is a good person? Who is a bad person?" Children need to use this kind of thinking to understand the world. But in the face of the torrent of history, they also have to use this kind of thinking to find out who is a good person and who is a bad person, so they can only deceive themselves.

If the Han people and the Hu people who actively become sinicized are called Han people, and the Hu people and the Han people who actively become sinicized are called Hu people, then in the process of exchange, integration, and collision, the Hu people provided military practice, and the Han literati established a theoretical foundation.

Of course, this refers to a general idea. Military theory also contributed to the Hu people, and the Han people also participated in the practice.

Theory is born based on practice and belongs to practice, thereby guiding practice. It is believed that there is a truth born in nature. As long as you can find it out, the world will be peaceful. The Chinese do not have this cultural tradition. The way of heaven is permanent, but the world is impermanent. Although the way of heaven is permanent, it cannot be understood. Only impermanent world events can provide you with a way to understand the way of heaven.

First of all, the new military practice replaced the traditional military practice, and a new theoretical system was produced.

In Xu Ping's previous life, there were many educated people. When talking about military affairs, they would speak Alexander and Napoleon. If you ask him about traditional Chinese military culture, he would look disdainful and disdainful: "Garbage, what's there to discuss?"

If you are defeated, no matter what the reason is, you must face such a result. The brave ones stand up hard, pat the dust on their bodies, and continue on the road. But the cowardly ones will not stand up from now on and lie at the winner's feet.

After the Central Plains subsided, a large number of Han literati were talking about Alexander and Napoleon later on, talking about the Hu generals who entered the Central Plains. I don’t know why I was defeated, so naturally I couldn’t talk about how to win. However, after all, I still had to learn from the enemy.

Being on your own cultural imprint, carrying the genes in your culture, and then learning, knowing the truth, and knowing why is it true. If you regard imitation as learning and see the enemy doing this, so you defeat me, I just need to do this too. This is not learning, it is just an animal's stress response, and at most it brings a little wisdom of human imitation.

The process of history is always composed of one pair of contradictions. Which aspect and which contradiction is the main one is to understand history first. The world's major events are not just war, but in war, whether it is theory or practice, sinicization and Hu Feng are the main contradictions. The Hu Feng here does not mean that the imperial guard group is still Hu people, they are Han people, and the sinicization of the Hu people entering the Central Plains has been completed. Or it is more appropriate to put it another way, because it also contains Hu Feng, whether it is still a matter of Chineseization or opposition to sinicization is the main contradiction in military theory and practice at this time.

In the historical trend, we should not use children's thinking to find good people and bad people, but understand practice and grasp the main contradiction. Xu Ping believed that the imperial guard group as a whole was an enemy that blocked him from going further, but Xu Ping had no prejudice in every individual, every person, whether it was a general or a soldier.

Ren Fuzhong died in a battle and Xu Ping gave the highest honor and greatest respect. He would not look down on him because he was an imperial guard. Who is the enemy and who is a friend? The imperial guards are the enemy as a whole, but some generals in the imperial guards may be allies. Even if they are not allies, he performed his duties and made his own sacrifices, which is still respectable.

Han Changluan was a powerful minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty's late lord Gao Wei. He was a Han man of Hu Hua. His favorite thing to say was: "The dog and the man are so impatient, but he only needs to be killed!"

The source of this imperial guard is such a group, which is only changing colors in the long river of history. In the course of history, their style, habits, and customs are constantly changing, but the essence of anti-Sinicization has not changed.

Xu Ping raised his head and looked at the green mountains not far away. A valley between the two mountains leads directly to the desert grassland. He will fight from here to north. Yuan Hao is not worth mentioning. Next time, he will welcome the Khitan army on the former border between the Han Dynasty.

Xu Ping knew that his future life would be extremely difficult. Even though he knew that Emperor Zhao Zhen and the civil servant group would stand on his side, he was still walking on thin ice and would be crushed to pieces if he was not careful. But he still chose to take on this burden and could not retreat. How could he retreat? No matter how difficult it was, he had to carry it on.

There is no way, I am a dog, and the people I am about to face feel impatient and cannot kill me. I am not willing to die, but I always have to care about my wife and children, and those who have high hopes for me. The Longyou Army fought all the way, and there were always people on the roadside burning incense to welcome me. Xu Ping wanted to repay the incense.

If you want to completely change the imperial guards, you must first defeat their spiritual sustenance in the north. Destroy a party and line up under Yinshan to fight against the Khitan army. If you lose, Xu Ping will thank the world for his death. He deserves to die! As Ren Fu said, as a general of the court, I cannot lead troops to destroy the thieves. It is a death sentence. What else is worth winning? For Xu Ping, it is a new beginning, and everything can be done calmly. For the Khitan, if you lose, everything is over.

Turning back, Xu Ping took out the talisman from his Protectorate's Mansion and said aloud: "Gan Zhaoji, come out and obey the order!"

Gan Zhaoji's legs became weak and he rose from the train. He stepped out of the train and sang his promise with his hands: "The last general Gan Zhaoji, please listen to the order of the guardian!"

Xu Ping handed the talisman to his hand and said sternly: "From Zhenrong Army to Qingzhou, 500 miles, I will give you three days to get there. One day late, twenty rods, two days late, fifty rods, three days late, one hundred rods! Less than three days late, you will send your followers to bring your head and return to the Protectorate's Mansion to pay the military order!"

Gan Zhaoji knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Who dares to violate the order of the Protector!"

Xu Ping looked at him and said in a deep voice: "No need to say whether you dare or not! I have leniently pleaded for you. If you violate the limit, you will be punished by death! You hold our military order and hold the sword of the Emperor of the Protectorate and go to Qingzhou. You order Xu Huaide to order all the troops and horses within five days from your arrival. Who should send the troops and army should not be issued, and you will take it with you. From the sixth day, Xu Huaide will command the gathered troops and horses, go north along the Maling River, take Huanzhou, and go to Weizhou. The army here is heading north today. When I arrive in Weizhou, Xu Huaide will arrive. If not, he will be punished by death!"

Gan Zhaoji kowtowed and said, "Abide by the orders of the guardians! If you violate the order, you will be a death sentence!"
To be continued...