The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

After New Year's Eve, it was a New Year's Day ceremony. I met envoys from various countries, received worship from officials, reviewed the three armies, etc., and all kinds of activities were arranged, more than usual. Although officials from the Ministry of Rites had already managed everything, there was no need for Zhao.

What does this emperor do? But every day, he sits upright like a star, surrounded by the moon, and comments around him, forcing him to pay attention to his behavior, and even the subtle details he doesn't pay attention to on weekdays, otherwise he will lose his national health by ginseng.

, so this year is so tired!

After finally passing the lantern festival on the 16th day of the first lunar month, Zhao Qi was idle, but when he saw the memorials several feet high on the table and the congratulations, several black lines appeared on his forehead. This was sent by the Shangshu Province after filtering it.

Otherwise, the hall would not be filled with worries. The Spring Festival holiday will end on the 22nd. All departments have to go to work and wait for his instructions to be implemented, so they can only work overtime to review.

"Haha, the pigeons have turned into eagles!" Zhao Qi looked at the melody and said with a chuckling. The faster he looked, the faster he saw, almost ten lines at a glance. Among them were written by students from the Imperial Academy, as well as ministers in court and ministers from various places, and even

There are also famous scholars who are famous in the country. Although their words and writing are different, their meanings are similar. In addition to praise, they are the ones who are regaining Yanyun, conquering the power of Dading, and attacking Liaodong again, attacking Huanglong directly, destroying the Jurchens and ushering in the Liao King.

Avenge your previous shame.

"Second Master, what kind of trick is this to turn into an eagle?" Jianxi, who was serving while on the side, asked in confusion when she heard the emperor muttering such an inexplicable word.

"I'm just making an analogy. If a pigeon can turn into an eagle, wouldn't the world be in chaos!" Zhao Qi sighed. From the memorial, he could see that the Song Dynasty was so excited that it was stimulated by a victory. He really thought that the Song Dynasty was invincible in the world.

After all, they wanted to roll up their arms and sleeves to go to the battlefield, but forgot to try their best to dissuade the emperor from preparing for military preparations before the war. In a blink of an eye, they changed from doves to hawks. This rapid change was not the case in Zhao Qi's opinion.

A good thing is a manifestation of fanaticism and irrationality, losing calmness and treating war as a joke.

From an economic perspective, "raising ten thousand soldiers is used. Daily consumption of gold is used." This is still the case. It is more than doubled in wartime. People eat horses and feed them. They don't count. They will provide pensions for casualties, reward military achievements, and consume weapons and horses to comfort them.

The local people, etc., cost hugely, all of which are astronomical figures. The savings of generations of emperors in the Han Empire, which was known as the wealthy and powerful, were cleaned by Emperor Wu Liu Che's several expeditions to the Western Regions, which made him a name for the emperor forever, but

The man who had exhausted his essence and blood also went up and down from then on.

The battle of regaining Yanyun took four months from preparation to the end of the battle. The Song Dynasty mobilized all the imperial guards and most prefectures except Jiangnan, with troops reaching more than 200,000. There were 60,000 or 70,000 civilians recruited.

The military expenditure reached 6 million taels of silver, totaling 70 million jin of copper coins, which was almost all the fiscal revenue of the Song Dynasty in one year, emptied all the accumulations of Zhao Jie's four years since he ascended the throne. The remaining in the armed warehouse was only enough to maintain the army.

The level of combat readiness is required, and you have to swing a big sword to fight again. These are just war consumption, not including the money and food required to form a new army and maintain the garrison.

Besides, people have headaches and fevers. Don’t mention such a big country. If nothing happens one day, it will catch up with a bigger natural disaster. The emperor only needs to take the lead in tightening his belt and saving money from his mouth.

It cannot solve the problem. If we persist in the battle regardless of the financial situation, there will be no way to increase taxes. I am afraid that these people will scold the emperor for being invincible and ignoring the people's livelihood.

Of course, this time, thanks to Zhao Qi's careful calculations, the dispatch of naval forces not only saved a lot of manpower transportation materials, but also had the effect of a surprise attack, bringing all the accumulation of Wu Shu in Pingzhou for many years into his pocket. How could he shout?

Zongfu had never made up his mind to ignite the imperial city, but as a result, most of the military rations needed could be solved on the spot, saving a lot of money.

In addition, there are some tricks to choose to send troops after autumn. The high and the horses are fat, and recruiting civilians will not delay the farming time. In the Youyan area, the grain harvest will be completed. The people have stored grain in their hands, and the income from beating the local tyrants will not be able to do so.

It will repeat that it was possible to transport food from China because of shortage of food. As a result, it became a bottomless pit. In the end, it was unable to maintain it. Not only did it drag down the domestic economy, it also struggled to make the Yan people furious and defected to the Jurchens.

Zhao Qiong knew that expanding territory, sweeping across the four barbarians, and establishing a demobilized and vast unified country can be said to be the ambition of every emperor. He also wanted to establish a superpower eight hundred years ago, spanning Asia, Europe and Africa, and it would be best.

Even the United States occupied the land in later generations. But he also knew that it was good to have ambition, but he also had to consider the actual situation, because big things have great difficulties.

There are many empires in the history of this world, including the ancient Roman empires spanning the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa; the ancient Roman empires that exterminated ancient Greece, Carthage and ancient Jewish civilizations; the Mongol empires that almost conquered the world, etc.

They all had vast territory. However, these empires almost never really existed, or they collapsed and separated in a short time, split into countless countries and could not form true unity.

Modern people can turn the earth around in a day while taking a plane, and a satellite phone can receive messages from any corner of the world. But it was not possible in ancient times. Traffic was backward, information transmission was slow, and the border was overturned.

It will take half a month to know the news, and when people are sent over, they often make cooked rice. Zhao Qi also took advantage of this to make a beautiful time difference and seize the opportunity. On the contrary, he will also face this problem.

, unable to grasp the changes in the situation in real time, resulting in the situation getting out of control.

In China, the empires such as Qin, Han, and Tang with vast territory were established, and they dominated Asia, but they inevitably perished, either destroyed by civil strife or by foreign enemies. Although there were later political and social

Darkness, incompetence of emperors, economic collapse and other reasons. But this has a lot to do with the increasing widening territory that makes the central government significantly more difficult to control and the decline of the central totalitarianism.

Sun Tzu said: There is something to do without help, the army will not attack, the city will not attack, and the land will not fight. On the other hand, it means that there is something to do with the road, the army will not attack, the city will not attack, and the land will not fight.

Must fight'. However, in the real world, there are very few absolute must fight and absolutely uncontested places. The value of most areas and places will change with the distribution of power and changes in our enemy's strategy.

How to abandon the place where one must fight without fighting has become an important part of whether the balance of power can be effectively maintained. This requires consideration of the balance between goals and resources, and the relationship between interests and threats. If only threats are used to define interests, it will inevitably be a blind attack.

, causing waste of resources. We must clarify interests, especially the scope of geopolitical interests. If it is invaded, we must resolutely fight back. Otherwise, we must remain silent and not start a war.

The Jin Kingdom is a good example. At that time, the snake swallowed the Liao Kingdom with a storm, but it was indigestion. The domestic conflict could not be resolved, so it could only be resolved by war. Even without the monster Zhao Jie, the world was born and disturbed.

In history, there was no prosperous era that could be recorded in history. Instead, under the suppression of newly emerging forces, it had to gradually move south and was eventually destroyed by the Mongolian tribes he had once conquered.

Now that the Song Dynasty has just begun to revive, domestic contradictions have not been completely resolved, Zhao Xiao is very clear that with the stability of the country, the population is growing non-stop, which stimulates the growth of consumption and the business world, but also brings obvious tension in resources.

.More scholars are looking forward to obtaining official positions, more farmers need to cultivate land, and more people need to eat and dress. When these channels do not expand simultaneously, the contradiction begins to accumulate. In the following situations when the contradictions are still unresolved,

Various problems began to emerge, endangering the rulers. This required changes and resolved these problems to maintain the original social structure, the original political system and the stability of the country, so that a dynasty would last for more time.

The invasion of the Jin Dynasty experienced by the Song Dynasty was actually much less important to the Chinese bureaucratic system than the court politics. Although Zhao Jia's reform temporarily reversed the decline of the internal traditional departments,

But it strengthens the systems that should have been changed. All these efforts often have temporary effects, but they are like bright fur attached to the body with decayed internal organs. In the face of any test, this change is very fragile.

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Now that the Song army captured Dading Prefecture in one fell swoop, the first line of defense was formed with it as the outer edge; the second circle of defense was supported by Datong Prefecture, Yanjing Prefecture and Lingzhou; and the composition of the Yellow River natural danger was also formed;

The third line of defense ensures the security of the Central Plains. This circle also includes the richest and prosperous land in East Asia. The outside world is either bitter and cold or barren land. There is nothing worth looting except livestock, and it is occupied.

Every year, we have to spend a lot of money and energy to manage it. It can be said that it is a big hole that cannot be filled. Even in modern times, the country has to provide huge financial subsidies.

But Zhao Qi knew that there was oil, coal and various minerals underground there, but it could not be mined or used effectively in this era, and no one could take it away. So we can put down these places for now, and the priority is not how to put them in the first place.

Get all the good things in the world into your own hands. Instead, you should restrain your ambition to unify the world, lay a solid foundation, consolidate the foundation, manage the land you have obtained well, and at the same time, you can choose to seize it.

Strategic key areas lay the foundation for future breakthroughs, rather than blindly attacking, occupying new territory, and carrying more burdens.

Zhao Qi was thinking well, but the people's voice could not ignore it. How to cool down their hot heads, temporarily divert their attention from establishing unparalleled martial arts, and use this enthusiasm to achieve their own ideas...