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There are Khitan and Northern Han in the north, and Southern Tang in the south.During Song Taizu's reign, the strategy of "first south and then north" was adopted to gradually unify the country.

"Putting away elite soldiers, depriving them of power, and controlling their money";
"Great wine releases military power", "weakens prime minister power", "deposes branch counties", "strong cadres and weak branches"

In order to meet the needs of centralization, Zhao Kuangyin re-planned the three major systems of political affairs, military affairs and finance to make them parallel to each other, and set up other institutions such as Yushitai.

The official system in the Song Dynasty was divided into official, post, and dispatch. "Official" is a kind of hierarchical treatment, which is used for salary determination, indicating the level of salary and grade. "Position" is just a false title, such as bachelor, waiter, etc., not a position.Only "dispatch" is the actual position and holds real power.

According to the actual situation, Zhao Kuangyin set up Shenzhi Zhengshi, Privy Envoy, and Three Secretary Envoys in the central government to weaken and divide the power of the prime minister and implement the separation of military, civil, and financial powers.In the local area, civil servants were sent to serve as magistrates; a general judge was set up to check each other.

Set up transfer envoys at the local level to transfer most of the local income to the central government; local judicial personnel are served by civil officials sent by the central government, and the death penalty must be reported to the central government for review and approval.

After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin changed the privy envoy to be in charge of military orders, mobilized the forbidden army, and stood side by side with the prime minister.

Zhongshu Sheng and the Privy Council are known as the "two government".

Major events of the Privy Council must be reported to the emperor for approval.

The prime minister and the privy envoy played separately and did not know each other.

The emperor thus controlled the political power and military power respectively.

In order to introduce talents, Zhao Kuangyin set up a number of Hanlin scholars, who were responsible for drafting imperial edicts for the emperor, including the appointment of prime ministers and foreign letters of credence.Hanlin bachelors also serve the emperor as "preparation advisers" and can directly propose policies on state affairs to the emperor.

"From these points, it can be seen that Zhao Kuangyin has carefully calculated and calculated in order to control the separation of powers, weaken the power of officials, and strengthen the rule of the imperial power, and his steps are also detailed and effective."

"This not only shows that Zhao Kuangyin, who was not yet an emperor, is a military general, but also a Confucian general. Although these thoughts are planned and coordinated by his subordinates, they cannot be separated from his suggestions and opinions."

"Zhao Kuangyin has experienced so much in his life, so he will naturally pay attention to so much."

"He can summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the previous dynasty and even the past dynasties, and choose a policy policy that is more suitable for the national conditions of the Song Dynasty."

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in the Song Dynasty, it fully absorbed the lessons of the long-standing abuses in the imperial examinations of the Tang and Five Dynasties, and adopted a series of measures to prevent the passing of time in the imperial examinations.

Court lock system: After the candidates for the examiners are confirmed, they will be locked in the court immediately to cut off their contact with the outside world, so as to avoid the phenomenon that the examiners leak the test questions to relatives and friends.

Sealing system: that is, after the examinee’s exam is over, a special person will paste the name, hometown and other parts of the examinee’s test paper with paper, and then hand it over to the examiner for evaluation.The name cannot be opened until the final statistics of the results, otherwise it is cheating.

Transcription system: After the examinees handed in the test papers, the imperial court hired a group of scribes to re-transcribe the test papers before handing them over to the examiners.

"This not only reminds us of the imperial examination system of later generations, but even some of these methods have been used to this day. I have to say that Zhao Kuangyin does have his merits in terms of talent selection."

Zhao Kuangyin exerted great power to govern the Yellow River, which has an important impact on the national economy and people's livelihood.

In the third year of Jianlong, Zhao Kuangyin ordered embankments and dams to be built along the Yellow River, and a large number of trees were planted for flood control.

Therefore, during the 17 years of Taizu's reign, the Yellow River, which is known for its yellow damage, has only recorded more than a dozen collapses, and there have been no serious disasters.

Zhao Kuangyin also paid attention to agricultural production, reduced corvee, and collected taxes exclusively.

A small part of local taxation is used as local expenditure, and the rest is controlled by the central government.

In the second year of Qiande, Zhao Kuangyin issued an order that all the private rents and monopoly income collected in various places every year, except for local expenses, should be transported to the capital, and the place should not be occupied.

Zhao Kuangyin clarified the administration of officials, persuaded and rewarded farming and mulberry, and promoted social and economic development. These measures not only healed the wounds of 200 years of war as soon as possible, but also quickly pushed the Song Dynasty to an unprecedented prosperous situation, and the famous "Jianlong Rule" appeared in history. ".

Zhao Kuangyin, who was born as a military general, was naturally very sensitive to military power. He divided the command of the imperial army into three, all of which were directly responsible to the emperor.And set up the Privy Council, the Privy Council has the right to deploy troops but does not directly command the army.However, the generals in command of the army did not have the right to deploy troops, making them check each other.

The Forbidden Army selected the best and strongest soldiers from all over the country. Zhao Kuangyin initially selected strong soldiers as samples and sent them to all parts of the country to order local recruitment.

At that time, the standard of the imperial army was pipa legs, that is, those with thick thighs, and those with axle body, that is, those with broad shoulders and thin waist, and a height of five feet five inches to five feet eight inches.The imperial army gathered in the capital, and Taizu personally taught them, strengthened their training, and gave them better salaries than other states.

About half of the Forbidden Army is stationed in the capital and its vicinity, and the other half is divided into frontiers and several important towns in the interior; the Forbidden Army must change its defense once a year or two. "Soldiers don't know their generals, generals don't know their soldiers", "Soldiers are impermanently handsome, and handsome are impermanent teachers" and "Generals can't specialize their soldiers".

Zhao Kuangyin pursued the concept of "Wen Yi Jing Guo" and resolutely implemented the basic national policy of "You Wen suppressed Wu".

Through a series of major measures such as respecting Confucius and Confucianism, perfecting the imperial examinations, creating palace examinations, enriching salary and promoting integrity, the dark situation of martial arts dictatorship since the end of the Tang Dynasty was completely reversed, and the culture of the Song Dynasty flourished unprecedentedly, so that later generations said that "the Song Dynasty was a paradise for literati." "The praise.

In the first year of Qiande, Pingjingnan collected Gao's books to enrich the three libraries.In the third year of Qiande's pacification of Shu, Sun Fengji went to Chengdu to collect 13000 volumes of books.

In the ninth year of Kaibao, the Southern Tang Dynasty was pacified, and the prince Xima Lu Guixiang was sent to Jinling, where he collected more than 2 volumes of books and 1200 volumes of books of Wu and Yue.Extensive collection of private collections, stipulates that anyone who has a book to donate will be valued according to the value of the book. If there is no library, it will be sent to the Academy for questioning. Officials are appointed to official positions, such as Sanli Shebi, Sanchuan Penggan, The scholar Zhu Zai contributed more than [-] volumes of books and gave them the name of the department.

Through the collection and donation of books, the government's collection of books increased to 8 volumes in Kaibao.It laid the foundation for the official collection of books in the Northern Song Dynasty.

"This series of policies is easy to say, but it is still difficult to implement."

"Zhao Kuangyin is indeed the founder of the Song Dynasty. From the perspective of these systems alone, he can be called a generation of Mingjun."

"This is such a good concept and idea. If it continues under Zhao Kuangyin's administration, then the Great Song Dynasty may present a different situation."

"It just backfired."

"Zhao Kuangyin's position as the emperor is too comfortable. The position of the emperor naturally aroused his younger brother's curiosity."