The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

"From the east of Shun'an army to Mozhou, they are all rivers, trenches, ditches, reeds and reeds, and springs are crisscrossed. This is the land of the Xiongnu Heavenly Prison, and they cannot gallop. They are also thirty miles northeast to Xiongzhou,

It is seventy miles east to Bazhou and the mouth of the sea water. They are all Yingtian embankments, and the water gradually fades. This is the land where the Xiongnu fell, so they cannot ride and shoot."

This boundless swamp is the nightmare of the Jurchen cavalry. They struggled and shouted, and wandered around like headless flies in this huge trap. Finally, the puddles became their resting place and remained in

It smells smelly and rots, and eventually turns into a lonely ghost and wanders around in Wen'an's desolation in this foreign land forever.

Zhao Qi had to admire Zong Han's wild survival skills. He actually hid in the depression for more than ten days. He played with the Song army's search troops in the hundreds of miles of reeds, relied on fishing and shrimps and eating reeds.

Gen survived and survived until the Song army withdrew from the siege. He hid in the daytime and ran around at night, and encountered the same embarrassing Wushu there. The two waited in the siege for several days, gathering the remaining troops who had escaped, but they could only count the numbers.

Thousands of people!

In this battle, the Song army beheaded more than 35,000 people, and those who died in the swamp could not count them at all, but this record was impressive. Not only did it severely damage the two Jin troops that invaded the Song army, but it also once again

It defeated the Jurchens' ambition to enter the Central Plains, greatly weakened the strength of the Jin army, and shocked the Jin Kingdom and the surrounding countries.

Wu Qimai said with a heartache: The failure of going south this time is the worst failure since the Jin Dynasty launched a war! This time, not only did the second prince Han Wuya, but the two leading figures of the war god Wanyan Loushi, Wu Qimai

The eldest son Zong Qing was captured. More than 300 generals of all sizes died. The elite army was 100,000, which was an unprecedented huge loss. This directly led to the sharp decline of the strength of the Jin army and became a node from prosperity to decline.

He lost the ability to launch a large-scale war again in a short time. He completely changed his defense against Song.

After the battle to destroy Liao, the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom finally realized the prosperity and prosperity of the Song Kingdom in the Central Plains. For the first time, they developed the ambition to occupy this land for a long time, so they wanted to completely conquer this land by force and make the Song Kingdom.

The people surrendered to the Jin Kingdom. But their actions not only failed to make his dream of ruling the entire Central Plains come true, but on the contrary awakened the bloodline of the entire Central Plains people and made the Jin Kingdom an enemy of the entire Central Plains people.

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The war was temporarily over. Zhao Qi stood on the Yijin Pass in Bazhou and looked north. The boundary of Yanjing was across the Border River. The place where emperors of the Song Dynasty thought about it for several generations, but they returned in vain again and again.

Hundreds of thousands of military troops were lost, but the brief occupation in the previous few years almost led to the destruction of the country.

"Second Master, it's time to leave!" Zhao Xin said softly.

"Well, we will come back soon, and there will be back to our Song Dynasty!" Zhao Qie said withdrew his gaze.

"Well, I will come with the second master to come and see you!" Zhao Xin said, holding the prince's hand.

"Haha, this may be the last chance. As soon as you enter the capital, it is as deep as the sea!" Zhao Qi said with a little melancholy. It is impossible for the emperor to travel like the light car in the past. He can go wherever he wants!

"Your Majesty, please move forward!" At this time, the Zhang Suo stepped forward and said. This time he had been appointed as the Gaoyang Road Pacifier, to govern Hejian, Ba, Mo, Xiong, Qing, Ji, Cang, En, Baoding

Yongjing, the 11 Prefectures and Prefecture Army of Xin'an, is responsible for the defense of the central and eastern Hebei Plain. It guards the Waqiao Pass of Xiongzhou, Yijin Pass of Bazhou and Yukou Pass of Xin'an Army, and the three Hebei Passes.

"Mr. Zhang. The Jurchens suffered this great defeat. Although they would not provoke a war again, they would not be willing to fail and would send troops to disturb the territory. Therefore, you should not only appease the people and let them return to their hometown as soon as possible, but also practice military troops diligently.

To prepare for border troubles!" Zhao Qi reminded him while walking that the ZTE Army cannot be stationed here forever. It is necessary to form a new border guard to guard the border. The troops were selected by Wumashan Rebel Army, and Zhao Bangjie was the general manager of the army. This person is

The title of the Supreme Emperor must be reused, but it still needs to be exercised.

"I am obeying Your Majesty's teachings and will never let you down!" Zhang Suo said respectfully.

"Pengju, you should act cautiously at the beginning. Do not act loyally and think twice when encountering things!" Zhao Qi said to Yue Fei again. This time he promoted him to the point of revenge of the Baoding Army again for his achievements in recapturing the Baoding Army.

The general manager of the army and horses of Dingzhou Road; Wang Jin was appointed as Zhongshan Prefecture and also served as the Pacification Envoy of Dingzhou Road; Chen Go was promoted to the Transport Envoy of the Two Rivers.

"The last general will definitely live up to His Majesty's expectations, reorganize the army and prepare for war, and recover Yanjing!" Yue Fei said with politeness. Since he followed the prince and the official ascended to the rocket, Dingzhou Road will govern Zhongshan, Bao, Shen, Qi, Guangxin,

Ansu, Yongning, Shun'an Eight Prefectures Army, from Changshan in the west, and bordering with Xiongzhou in the east and Yanjing in the east. This road guards the northern section of the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain. The mountains are wide and the rivers are flat, which is conducive to cavalry assaults. It is the first choice for the northern nomads from all dynasties to go south.

, the importance of strategic defense is self-evident. Now, he, who has only been in the army for several years, has been promoted to take on this task.

Zhao Qi then worshiped the soldiers of the Song army who died in this battle again, and asked Zhang Suo to erect the monument to commemorate it and personally bring the inscription. At this time, the three armies had finished rewarding, and the cannons were fired, and the Zhongxing Army troops and Henan were accompanying the expedition.

The prefecture and prefecture army returned south at the same time. As early as a few days ago, Zhao Xiao sent a letter to Bianjing and Datong respectively, and informed the prefectures and counties along the way to prepare corresponding items.

The army slowly moved, and the road back to Beijing seemed extremely long. Zhao Qi was lying in the car, very tired but unable to fall asleep. He was entangled by an inexplicable excitement. He thought that he wanted to manage an empire, but he couldn't say whether he was happy or not.

I was nervous, just like I was on the battlefield for the first time, I didn’t know what kind of future I would be waiting for. How will the history books comment on my extra stuff out of thin air...

Zhao Qiong had the same impression as most people in his previous life, believing that the Tang Dynasty was the peak of the development of Chinese feudal society. However, with his understanding of this world, although it was the darkest and most declining period, he had a deeper understanding of Song.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, the Tang Empire was just the end of the Middle Ages in China.

Indeed, under the seemingly brilliant and gorgeous cloak of the Tang Empire, swords and bloody storms flashed everywhere at all times. Despite the enlightened "Zhenguan Governance" and the flashy "Kaiyuan Prosperity",

But it cannot cover up the despicable despicableness of the Tang Dynasty, the cruelty of killing ministers, the catastrophe of the "Anshi Rebellion", the dirty eunuchs' abusive power, the separatist vassals of the feudal states, the disaster of the Huang Chao uprising, and the endless killing and disputes in the late Tang and Five Dynasties.

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Especially in the troublesome period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Martial men were in power, single men used power, regarded human lives as grass, regarded usurpation as a joke, regarded war as commonplace, and even led wolves into the house, cede land for glory, and ruined the good land of China, which was a terrible sight.

Zhao Kuangyin made the national policy of relegating martial arts and cultivating culture on behalf of Zhou, and made the oath to rule the world with scholars and officials, making the Song Dynasty the least killing ministers in ancient Chinese history, and it was also a rare dynasty that did not break out in a nationwide peasant uprising.

Song Taizu promoted civil governance and implemented the system of "separation of three powers" with great vision, dividing the administrative, military, and financial powers led by the prime minister in the past into three, and directly responsible to the emperor. In this way, it was difficult for ministers to "cover the sky with one hand".

In addition, the Song Dynasty also implemented a system of official positions and separation of dispatches. Only dispatches were the actual positions. At the same time, local officials were transferred once every three years, thus eliminating the emergence of factions.

In addition to secretly making a contract to "not kill scholars and officials or those who wrote to write to the story", the Song Dynasty also opened up a wide range of speech, opened up Qingming governance, and improved the status of the censorate. The establishment of the Censorate and the Censorate were two supervisors with similar responsibilities and extremely authoritative power.

,The public opinion institutions are generally held by those with academic, talented and well-behaved. They are also allowed to "listen to the wind and speak out".

The emperors of the Song Dynasty were generous to scholars and officials in order to jointly manage the world. They claimed that "the world is not the world of one person, but the world of the world." Although it was hypocritical, they opened up the historical precedent for restraining the imperial power and sharing the world with the king and his ministers.

. The court issued a policy that the emperor must fully solicit the opinions of his ministers and only then can he promulgate after "discussing it carefully". Otherwise, his subordinates can "refute" and refuse to execute the emperor's orders. The emperor has no other way except to replace ministers, so

Don't dare to "do chaos".

In addition, in the Song Dynasty, "members of the royal family are not allowed to serve as important central positions" to prevent the kings from causing chaos, to enhance the imperial examination system and recruit talents, to strictly prevent eunuchs from being dictatorial, and to interfere in politics in the harem... Under the implementation of a series of strict and lenient political systems

The civil servant system allowed power to be free and unrestrained, and the risk of being too big to be eliminated, creating the most enlightened era of ancient Chinese politics.

"The master of softness and strong minister" became a prominent feature of the politics of the Song Dynasty. Enlightened politics enabled the Song Dynasty to realize the "decentralization" under centralization, and the dawn of democracy had begun to emerge. At that time, Africa was still a primitive society, and America was still a wilderness.

Europe was wandering in blood and darkness. The Song Dynasty, which had the most advanced political system and the most democratic style at that time, was far ahead of the entire world...

In ancient and modern times, almost all dynasties and countries have fallen from moral decline, and the Song Dynasty cannot be kept alive. The Zhao Song Dynasty also went through politically active reforms to activism and then to selfish desires, and militaryally, from seeking victory to fighting without favorability.

Then to blindly seeking peace, the culture has gone from being generous and kind to being complacent and then to being shameless and shameless, and finally has no choice but to decline.

Although Zhao Kuangyin designed the most advanced political system in the world with his superhuman wisdom, he could not guarantee that his descendants could be as talented as himself, know others and be good at responsibilities, be as diligent as himself, and work hard to govern. Song finally left

When the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, it is all related to the moral decline and strategic mistakes of his unworthy descendants.

When Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Cai Jing and others sat firmly in the court. The monarch and ministers brought the arrogance, extravagance, debauchery and shameless things in the world to the extreme. The shamelessness of the monarch and ministers in the dynasty, especially the literati, caused "disorder and destruction" and "defeated by oneself.

"Social ashing", "Social elites" with "scholar character" were almost all excluded from the core of power. When the rule was facing collapse, the opposition's social elites became those who fought against the enemy and saved the nation.

The backbone wrote the most tragic scene...

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Although Zhao Qiong did not study the modern state system in depth, he also knew that the civil service system had become the mainstream of the world, and the separation of powers had also become a symbol of modern democratic countries, which was enough to illustrate the advanced nature of this system.

, mostly to overcome past bad policies, the system established by them is of many reference for future generations.

The "family world" system itself determines that this system is to maintain the inheritance and rule of the Zhao regime. After Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he deeply understood the illegitimate and domineering of the five people during the Five Dynasties, so he focused on the appointment of civil officials who were from the imperial examination.

He once said: Even if all civil officials are corruption, it is less harmful than appointing military generals! It can be seen that the purpose of the formulation is to replace the aristocratic politics and military politics in the past, to achieve the effect of being strong, weak, and to emphasize civil and suppress military affairs.

The system is a good system, and it also achieved the expected results, consolidated the centralization of **ism, took care of all aspects of interests, and adjusted the internal contradictions of the ruling group well, making fewer major periods of the Song Dynasty's rule over the past hundred years.

**, thus ensuring the great development of its social economy, science and technology culture. However, due to the limitations and particularities of history, the civil servant system of the Song Dynasty also brought various serious political consequences.

First of all, due to the low power of the prime minister and the power of the censors, many political parties have led to the mutual restraint. Officials are conservative, and redundant officials are flooded in the court, and their administrative efficiency is low. It is said in history that "the current Secretariat is the democratic, the Privy Council is the chief of soldiers, and the Three Departments are the chief of

The finances are not known to each other. Therefore, the money is scarce and the Privy Council has increased its troops; the people are trapped, but the three departments are constantly getting money. The Secretariat regards the people's difficulties but does not know how to reduce the troops. The Three Departments are lenient in order to save the people's difficulties and control the state's use

The position is not in the Secretariat." This also led to the Jin army crossing the Yellow River, and the court has not yet discussed a solution to it, which is a great irony.

In addition, in order to restrain the local area, the Song Dynasty added many official positions, making the bureaucratic system huge. The Secretary of the Central Committee, the Secretary of the State Council did not deal with the government affairs; the Minister of the State Council did not receive provincial positions; the left and right counselors spoke without reproach, and they became a residence

Lang, the daily life is not a memorable pen;... As for Pushe, Shangshu, Cheng, Lang, Langzhong, and Yuanwai, those who are in charge of his official position do not know his position, the secretary, the two provinces in the hall are in name only, the nine temples and the five supervisors, especially

An empty official. But not doing anything does not mean not paying wages, which has caused financial constraints, and the national economy is exhausted every day, and nine out of ten sheep and shepherds become a true portrayal.

Furthermore, although centralization can help eliminate military separatism, it will be too corrected, resulting in excessive weakness in local areas. Local officials obey the central government's orders in everything, cannot be independent in government administration, and all taxes are collected from the central government, so local areas are poor and weak and cannot be built, and once something happens

It is difficult to deal with the situation. It is because the troops are collected, the wealth is collected, the rewards and punishments are collected, and everything is collected. The consequence is that "the disaster of Jingkang, the enemy's cavalry, will all be dispersed."

'Overcorrection' solved the temporary difficulties, but in the long run, several generations of emperors dared not violate the ancestral system and were unable to be brave enough to correct the reforms, which eventually led to extremely serious consequences, which not only affected the development of the country, but also led to a weak situation in the Song Dynasty... (

To be continued...)