[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

The status of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun in the hearts of Song people is no less than the status of Taiwan in the hearts of Chinese people in later generations.

Both are historical issues that make people gnash their teeth, and they both guard the throat of the military. The difference between the two is nothing more than the throat on the road and the throat on the sea.

The sixteen prefectures of Yanyun are the pass for Bianjing to resist the northern nomads, while Taiwan was once the transit point for Chinese fighter planes to reach the South China Sea, and now it is also an important defense island chain on the southeast coast of China along with the Zhoushan island chain and the South China Sea Islands. one ring.

A large part of the reason why the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun became a defensive chain is that it includes the Great Wall of Qin and Han Dynasties. Although it seems that after these sixteen prefectures are divided, Daliao is still far away from the Bianjing city of Song Dynasty. However, the straight-line distances are all plain areas. Although there are rivers to protect them, under the conditions of freezing and freezing in winter, for Bianjing, there is almost no natural barrier.

In the absence of natural moats, if Bianjing wants to protect itself, it must divide its forces on the plain to dig trenches and build fortresses.

And it was this additional expenditure that to some extent greatly hindered the military development of the Song Dynasty, because this additional military expenditure was extremely expensive.

In the eyes of the ministers of the Song Dynasty, this expenditure can be completely saved. As long as the Song Dynasty does not go to war with the Liao Kingdom, there is no need to build these defensive facilities.

In fact, the money spent on building this part of the defense facilities, plus the military expenditure that the Song Dynasty needed to allocate to prevent the invasion of the Liao Kingdom in the north, was much higher than the annual coins that the Song Dynasty paid to the Liao Kingdom.

In addition, in the Chanyuan Alliance, in fact, the Liao Kingdom itself acquiesced in the right to use the two states of the Song Dynasty that Zhao Guangyi had brought back at that time. That is to say, the so-called Yanyun Sixteen States were actually the Yanyun Fourteen States, but Because the two states did not clearly state their return, their ownership is still in the hands of the Liao State.

It is precisely because of this that in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao State still used various excuses to regain control of these two states.

And since the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were divided out and left the control of the Han people for hundreds of years, from Song Zu to every general, they wanted to recapture these sixteen prefectures.

However, due to various reasons, it took a year until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty and the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to bring these sixteen states and counties back to the power of the Han people.

From being transferred to returning, more than 460 years have passed.

In the past four hundred years, it can be said that every general and every emperor has a dream in their hearts, and that is to take this piece of lost land back into their hands.

Every soldier wants to cross the Yellow River in his dream. The biggest regret of every old soldier is not being able to cross the river before going to eternal sleep. The young general also wants to cross the river when he steps into the battlefield for the first time.

The term "crossing the river" has become the obsession of all aspiring young people in the Song Dynasty.

As Zhengxia Anran expected, every general in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures could not resist the temptation, including Bai Jinxi.

That night, Bai Jinxi fiddled with the simple three-dimensional small map, looked at the inaccurate topographic map on it, and practiced and calculated by himself until late at night.

Xia Anran has been silently watching his back, and stayed with him until late at night.

If you don’t want Bai Jinxi to have the regret that every general of the Song Army has, if you don’t want the Song Dynasty to remain a weak Song Dynasty in later generations, if you want to stop the disaster of Jingkang a hundred years later, if you want to stop Mongolia’s iron cavalry... ...If he wants to keep the most gentle and benevolent dynasty of the Chinese nation...then his life plan must be changed.

Xia Anran sighed secretly in his heart, his mentality was old, those years in the Eastern Han Dynasty almost exhausted all his energy, and frankly said that he is completely different now from the Eastern Han Dynasty, he took this most livable dynasty as a vacation, What's more, the task is so easy, he also defaulted to the system to give him a vacation.

It's just that his man is really serious about living here, and he really wants to change this era... If that's the case, he can only do what he wants!

Before his little pride was born, he felt something soft rubbing against his abdomen. Looking down, it was the little leopard who had been slapped twice by him just now. The warm place was entrenched, and Xia Anran was about to put it down, but there was a rule set by the head of the family that small pets could not go to bed.

a lot?Duoduo is not a pet, Duoduo is a son.

But as soon as his hand touched the fur of the little milk leopard, he hesitated.

Yes, it is warm and feels good!

=w=

He tilted his head to look at Bai Jinxi, who was standing in front of the table and was rehearsing step by step with candles lit, and then frowned at Bai Jinxi, who was completely overturned. The little milk leopard was so shameful that he hesitated for 3 minutes.

Then Xia Anran lay down, quietly lifted the quilt and hugged the little milk leopard in, so that Second Young Master Bai could not see him smuggling the little milk leopard up!

Well!The temperature of the little boy is so high!The fur is so soft, and the belly meat on the small belly is so soft, it's enjoyable to pinch.

Xia Anran took advantage of Bai Jinxi's concentration on looking at the map and Xia Duoduo was sleeping peacefully in the bird's nest, feeling relieved.

During the "massage" of the little milk leopard and the soft purrs, his eyelids began to fight. He shrank in the bed, looked at the straight back standing there with only his unlined clothes, and raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction.

very nice.

Nice to see him still.

After Xia Anran fell into a deep sleep, the man holding the flag stood in a stalemate for a moment, then his shoulders finally relaxed.

He slowly looked back at the person on the bed.

The young man's posture is not stable. His head and shoulders are exposed to the air, his head is bent down awkwardly, and his whole posture is a little curled up, which looks a little pitiful, which is different from his usual straight appearance.

...is it cold?

Bai Jinxi frowned, he took two steps forward, and was about to light some charcoal basins, when he saw a commotion in the middle of the quilt, a moment later a gray tail came out from the quilt, and shook twice outside.

The fur on the originally straight tail quickly exploded due to friction on the bedding, and the pointed tail swayed happily twice, looking extremely proud.

...If it wasn't for the fact that the tail was located on Xia Anran's front, Bai Jinxi might have thought that Xia Anran was finally turning into a prototype at first glance.

But obviously not, this is just a little animal that sneaked into the bed, afraid that it could not bear the heat of the bed to dissipate heat.

Sure enough, after a while, another hind paw emerged from the bed.

The plum blossom paw of the milk leopard at home was so big that it was exposed outside the quilt. Although it was very hot, the leopard firmly tucked its head under the quilt.

Apparently, it thought that as long as Bai Jinxi stuffed his head inside, he wouldn't be able to see that he would go to bed quietly.

And Bai Jinxi's behavior of not catching it for a long time also caused the little milk leopard to make a wrong judgment. It may be because the bed was too hot. After a few breaths, its other leg stretched out with confidence, two legs one at a time. The tail is exposed outside the quilt, the claws are facing outwards, and the long tail is flicked and flicked happily, especially proud of it.

Seeing this, Bai Jinxi sighed softly, raised his hand to extinguish the candle, walked to the side of the bed, and lifted up his quilt. During this period, the little milk leopard heard the movement and immediately remained motionless, pretending that he was an extra on the quilt A pattern, the mentality of wanting to lie on the bed could not be firmer.

The man picked up Xia Anran's quilt, and covered Xia Anran's shoulders first. His eyes swept across the frozen cat, and he groaned softly, and lay down.

The little milk leopard immediately noticed the boss's indulgence to him, but after a while, he got out of the bed, rubbed against Bai Jinxi's side and pressed his little paws on him, with an obvious flattering gesture.

The favored boss only glanced at him, stretched out his hand and pressed him into the gap between the two of them, and said softly, "Sleep, don't make trouble."

"Mi~"

The little leopard in the night could clearly see the man's expression, and immediately sensed that the man was in a good mood, so he turned over while Bai Jinxi held his hand, and put his fur belly under Bai Jinxi's palm , and then its two claws rose, its two legs were vertical, and it spread itself out into a long strip.

On the left is mother, on the right is father, this nest is fragrant and soft~

happy~

snort snort snort~

The next day, Xia Duoduo, who woke up at dawn, came out of the nest, walked to Bai Jinxi's pillow, gently brushed his father's hair with its beak, and made a chirping sound to wake his father up.

This is their tacit agreement.

As the saying goes, the early bird gets the worm. Although Xia Duoduo is not an ordinary carnivorous bird, he doesn't mind eating some small worms to supplement his nutrition, but the weather is cold and the bedroom door is closed. If he can't find a way to go out, he often goes out with Bai Jinxi when he goes out for morning exercises.

Although the Bai family has a martial arts arena, but during Bai Jinxi's morning practice, he often goes to the back mountain. Xia Duoduo hitches a ride. .

But the strange thing is, why hasn't Dad, who usually wakes up when he touches it, still awake?Could it be that the parrot hit the wrong person?I'm calling that stupid daddy who was sleeping like hell?

Duoduo walked to the pillow and took a closer look, that's right!It's the smart one!

Strange, what happened to Dad today?

Duoduo fluttered its wings and jumped onto Bai Jinxi's body. Then he saw Xia Anran's hand resting on Bai Jinxi's body, and the two were sleeping very close together.

Huh?

Aren't they usually separated a lot?Duoduo tilted his head, but he also knew that it was a good thing to get close, so he flapped his wings happily.

But his good mood was quickly spoiled.

Because just under Xia Anran's arm, there is a furry.

Hearing the movement of his wings, Fluffy opened his eyes lazily, and yawned after seeing who it was.

The golden eyes met Xia Duoduo's peasy eyes and then blinked, and the corners of the mouth were raised to reveal a smile.

Cats don’t have as many facial muscles as humans. In fact, they can’t smile. The pictures of cats smiling on the Internet are actually taken by their owners from various angles or by chance.The little milk leopard is also a normal cat, of course it can't laugh, this movement is actually an expression of his cleft jaw, theoretically it should be meaningless, but at this moment, Xia Duoduo feels that it must be It is proud.

It, sleeping under his father's arm!

Sleeping between his daddies!

He didn't even sleep because Dad said he was too young and easily hurt.

Xia Duoduo endured it. He felt that he was a mature bird and could not be bothered by lowly creatures like cats.

Forbearance, a knife in my heart!

"Gah~~~~~~~"

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Early in the morning Xia Anran was busy in the kitchen, washing rice.

It’s the end of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year is approaching. In the Song Dynasty, it became popular to eat two bowls of porridge. The first bowl is Laba porridge at the beginning of the month, and the other bowl is porridge counted at the end of the month. Of course, these two bowls are both vegetarian porridge and sweet porridge.

This is because during the great prosperity of Buddhism in the Song Dynasty, Laba porridge was mostly shared. Some temples would give porridge to monks, donors and local rich people, and some neighbors would give each other.Laba porridge originated from a Buddhist story. When Sakyamuni had not yet become a Buddha, he decided to end his penance after eating a bowl of chyle from a shepherdess. He sat under the bodhi tree and became a Buddha on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In fact, it should be milk porridge.

But after Buddhism entered the Han Dynasty, because Emperor Liang Wu of the Southern Dynasties made a rule prohibiting monks from eating meat, no one can say whether milk is meat or meat, and the people in the mainland don’t like the taste of milk porridge very much, so over time, Laba porridge Then switch to vegetarian food.

It was almost the beginning of the twelfth lunar month when the Bai family returned home. Because the Bai family did not have a mistress, their family did not need to give away Laba porridge to outsiders, and the Bai family itself was the richest man in Jinhua, so naturally some local temples came to present Laba porridge.

But the porridge at the end of the twelfth lunar month is different.

The number of mouths refers to the number of people in a family, including the owner's family, child servants, and even pets, livestock, and people who go out.

When cooking porridge, of course, the population of the family is also counted. At that time, everyone in the family will be given a bowl, and those who are not at home will also be left with a bowl. This can only be cooked at home.

Xia Anran is preparing for the porridge, and now several senior members of the Bai family are making preparations here, because the Bai family does not have a mistress, so this pot of porridge is cooked by the elder brother Bai who is the head of the family.

Brother Bai's hands-on ability... You can see that Bai Jinxi has escaped for so many years after he became an adult.

So this year, when Big Brother Bai vowed to frankly say that his skills must improve, Second Young Master Bai and Third Young Master Bai agreed that we are a family, let's get through it together!

They also dragged Xia Anran, who was obviously a guest, into the kitchen together.

Fortunately, the kitchen of the Bai family has been expanded, otherwise it would be really difficult for four big men to squeeze in. All the ingredients have actually been prepared, and what the host needs to do is actually to make these soaked ingredients Pour in water one by one and cook.

In theory, this is an event with zero difficulty.

How can there be problems with cooking porridge like this?Before entering the kitchen, Xia Anran was also unexpected.

The raw materials used in Bai's porridge are rice, red beans, ginger, sucrose, and this time Lu Xiaofeng sent sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing.

So facing a pot, the chef's idea is to pour the same thing into the water for each person, stir it and cook it.

They are all a group of old men who don't cook, do you expect them to make some porridge that blooms?But it's that simple, but Brother Bai wants to be a demon.

In the words of Big Brother Bai, it’s been a long time since he had a family reunion, so it’s better not to pour in the same thing for one person, just pour in a mixture, there is me in you, and you in me, isn’t it.

How auspicious!

Xia Anran also has no objection, even if the sucrose is released early because the current extraction technology is not perfect, it will be bitter, but he thinks this is a bowl of porridge, it doesn't matter if it is a bit bitter.

Until he heard Big Brother Bai say that water can easily dilute feelings, so it is better not to release water.

Brother Bai's two younger brothers were silent for a while, looking at his brother with disbelief in their eyes.

Soon after, Brother Bai was pushed to the door of the stove, and his younger brother took away his right to start the stove. Bai Jinxi listened to the advice of the cook at home, lit the fire to boil water, put rice in after the water boiled, and then put the white rice in turn. San Shao’s red beans, Bai’s elder brother’s ginger, during this time, Bai’s elder brother got a stirring job. When the boiling white rice and red beans gradually exploded, the smell in the air was no longer thin water vapor, but the unique smell of grains. rice aroma.

The fire in the stove was very warm, and everyone had nothing to do while waiting, so Xia Anran opened another pot to stir-fry peanuts. Peanuts, also known as long-lived fruit, are a must-have dish during the New Year's Eve, and they are also given as New Year's gifts. Decent things, so the Bai family has a lot this year.

Xia Anran thinks fried peanuts are one of the most direct and delicious ways to eat them, especially with moss strips...but there are no moss strips here.But it doesn't matter, choose the round and plump peanuts and soybeans, stir-fry them with low heat, and then sprinkle with salt, no matter whether it is hot or cold, it will have a unique taste.

The first pot of fried soybeans and peanuts has been placed in front of the second and third young masters of the Bai family. The two of them have to choose to eat with their hands. There was absolutely no difficulty, but at this time there was no one else in the room, so the two gentlemen chose the most comfortable and least particular way of eating after closing the door.

The peanuts are very hot just out of the pan. At this time, the peanuts are not easy to be salted because of the rich oil on the surface, especially the salt used by Baijia is sea salt, which has large particles, so it needs to be ground and used.

The third young master of the Bai family is responsible for this task. The salt that has just been crushed can be used immediately to taste a special umami taste, which is the taste of the ocean.The coarse salt after grinding is uneven in thickness, especially when it is just broken open, there will be a small amount of moisture inside, and salt is a species that is easy to absorb moisture, and the salt grains with a little moisture can adhere to the fried food above.

Sprinkle with a little sugar, the sugar will easily stick to the stir-fried food when it melts under heat, and the taste of each bite is different, and no matter what kind of taste it is, it can't take away the sweetness of peanuts and soybeans. taste.

It is easy to bloat if you eat too much.

The last bit of peanuts was fried separately, without any seasoning, Xia Anran planned to put them in the porridge after a while.

The hot porridge will slowly soften the crispy peanuts. When you eat it, the part inside the porridge is crispy, but the part on the porridge is still crispy.

The taste is superb.

After Xia Anran was done, he put it in the stove. He put out the fire, and used the residual heat of the stove to keep the peanuts' taste.

About half an hour later, Xia Anran was responsible for putting his part into the pot.

The powdered sugar slowly dissolves in the reddish-brown thick liquid, and then the sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing is added. After the sugar is melted with the residual heat of the stove, the porridge is ready.

Every move of Big Brother Bai during the whole process was in the eyes of the two younger brothers. Thinking about it, this year's porridge should be the most normal taste of the Bai family in recent years!

——This is what everyone thought before picking up the porridge bowl.

But after taking the first mouthful of porridge with a spoon, their expressions froze.

There is no problem with the taste, but why... it is raw?

How can this be!Why can some people cook porridge as raw porridge?

At this moment, Xia Anran has only one thought - Brother Bai, you either marry a wife who can cook, or...you should work hard to make money!

While everyone in the Bai family ate this bowl of strangely flavored porridge in silence, there was one person who couldn't even finish a bowl of porridge.

This person is Zhao Zhen.

The emperor, known as Renzong in later generations, is 19 years old this year, and his 20th birthday will be in April next year.

He was only 13 years old when he came to the throne, and for six years since then, the government of the Great Song Dynasty has been in the hands of his mother.

Zhao Zhen's adoptive mother, Empress Dowager Liu, is a legendary figure. She was born poor and even remarried. The position is only half a step away, and he has held real power for more than [-] years but has never killed a courtier.

Unlike Empress Han Lu, Tang Wulong, and Qing Cixi, she is one of the rare women who did not leave a notorious reputation after taking part in politics.

During her more than [-] years in politics, she stabilized the mess left by her husband, opened the imperial examination, and even started the military examination, and paid attention to water conservancy projects.

The comment left in the "History of the Song Dynasty" in later generations is also "the inside and outside are awe-inspiring, and there is no major loss." That is to say, she was born as an ordinary person who was once looked down upon by her father-in-law Zhao Guangyi. In the past few years, he has achieved what is difficult for an ordinary emperor to do without major faults.

Moreover, the most rare thing is that the road she walked was not stained with anyone's blood.

Her style is simple and simple, and under her leadership, Renzong's character is also moving in this direction. Therefore, even after entering the most prosperous period of a dynasty, the style of Renzong's royal family in the Northern Song Dynasty still did not follow the luxurious route, and remained simple. Driven by the royal family, it was rare for the people to be extravagant during the Renzong period.

But at the same time, a high-handed, indifferent, and strong mother also brought Renzong a character weakness that would never be changed in his life-he was afraid of strong people, and he was also afraid of confronting them with a tough attitude.

During his administration, when faced with the joint crusade by his ministers, he mostly ended up dodging and retreating, and rarely took a tough stance.

This made Renzong unable to protect the people he cared about many times, nor did he have the firm heart to persevere with what he wanted to persist, and it always ended in dismal.

But now, none of this has happened.

Zhao Zhen, who was also holding a bowl of porridge, was full of surprise and astonishment.

He couldn't even hold the soup spoon in his hand, and almost broke the spoon on the ground.

"Love, Ai Qing, please say it again?" The young emperor blinked his eyes, "I just... didn't understand."

Seeing that the official was so shocked that the expression of the official who claimed to be me was different, he respectfully recounted what he had just reported.

This person is the head of the First Division of the Imperial City Division. As the spy agency of the Northern Song Dynasty and the sharp blade and eyes in the hands of the emperor, this person looks extremely generous and kind.

Different from the image of a cruel official in ordinary people's minds, he is the type who always stuffs a few candies in his sleeves when walking on the street to deal with children begging for sugar.

But no one in the court dared to underestimate him.

The officials in the Song Dynasty were very numerous, so the transfer of officials was very rapid. Either they were impeached, or they made mistakes. They will be relocated in about a year, and it is possible to move left or right.

And this official, he has been in the position of the head of the imperial city for nearly 20 years.

His existence, just like the existence of the king and prime minister in the court, is the two pinnacles of the Song Dynasty court.

It can be said that as long as they are there, any person with a bad intention will have to weigh what he wants to do, what he plans to do, and what he plans to do.At the same time, the officials were able to still have a certain amount of power to manage the government when the Empress Dowager Liu was in power when it was not justified, which was also the escort of these two people all the way.

But now, the person who has protected Zhao Zhen for more than ten years has told him a shocking secret.That is - Zhao Zhen is not the son of the Eighth Princess Di Niangniang, but his mother, someone else.

Empress Liu was the cinnabar mole of the first emperor back then. The two met as teenagers, and after that they were repeatedly beaten with clubs. Finally, they were admitted to the palace after the first emperor accidentally picked up the throne. However, although Empress Liu was very favored for a long time, The first emperor also wanted her to be the empress, but because of her unclear identity, the courtiers opposed her.

Therefore, she was expected to give birth to the eldest son of the emperor, so there was a reason for her to be named empress.

It's a pity that Empress Liu's stomach is not up to par. At this time, the first emperor was also worried that he had no parents, so he made a foolish move. He said that whoever gave birth to the emperor's eldest son first would be the queen.

Empress Liu was in a hurry at the time, and happened to find out that her personal servant girl was accidentally pregnant when she was carrying her when she was not in good health.

So she had an idea, lied that she was pregnant, and planned to adopt the child of the maidservant to raise.

Originally, everyone was happy at this time, but it happened that at almost the same time, another concubine in the palace was also pregnant. The girl gave birth unexpectedly prematurely.

This girl gave birth to an unlucky thing again. Although there is no record, folk rumors say that she gave birth to a civet cat. The first emperor was a person who believed in gods and ghosts. The cold palace.

Later, Empress Liu's maid gave birth to a prince, which was recorded in Empress Liu's name, and Empress Liu was therefore named empress.

All of the above is the information that Zhao Zhen has found before, and all of this has nothing to do with him, because in the story he knows, he was adopted by the emperor who had no heir after the son of Empress Liu died of illness at the age of six , his biological father is the Eight Great Kings, and his biological mother is Di Niangniang.

But now the Imperial City Secretary has informed.

No.

He is indeed the son of the late emperor.

He is the legendary "unlucky thing."

It was just that Xia Anran wanted to eat a melon, but Emperor Renzong, who was almost killed by the melon, only felt that the mouth of the sweet and dense porridge he ate just now was full of bitterness.

The author has something to say: ah, yes, you all know what happened yesterday, and the author never expected that... such a thing would happen.

What's even more amazing is that although there was no Zuohua yesterday, it was the time when everyone participated in Zuohua the most. 80.00% of the comments were calling for Zuohua...

What's the matter with you?I remember that you were still calling: Da Da, you talk too much!

Don't worry about Amway!

I am so tired of turning pages like you.

After about a month... you guys have changed.

Gee.

I didn't save what I said, and now I feel a little hurt in my heart. (cover chest)

Let’s get down to business first: According to the setting of "Seventh Five-Year" OR "Third Five", the replacement of the civet cat for the prince is like this. Empress Dowager Liu and Concubine Li conceived together, and Concubine Li gave birth prematurely. After having a son, he was sealed.

The real prince (Zhao Zhen) was pretended to be the third prince of the eighth prince and raised until he was six years old (or eight years old) and was adopted by the late emperor.

In other words, Zhao Zhen is the rightful prince. He used to think that the Eighth Prince was his own father, but in fact the Eighth Prince was his uncle.

But in history, Zhao Zhen regarded Empress Liu as his own mother, and his own mother was actually Empress Liu's maid, and the maid's pregnancy was agreed between Empress Liu and the first emperor.

Empress Liu is the cinnabar mole of the first emperor, but she was born with a problem, so the first emperor could not justify her as an empress, so he could only use the status of mother and child, but Empress Liu could not give birth, so the emperor knew about empress Liu's surrogacy. The courtiers don't know.Empress Liu's maid gave birth to a baby and had to be adopted by Empress Liu. Empress Liu raised children more strictly, but overall, she was good to Zhao Zhen.

And she is really a remarkable woman, she was really born from the grassroots, she went to the highest point cleanly and did not pave the way with killing, but her attitude towards Zhao Zhen is also complicated.

It's true that Concubine Li died of illness by herself, and Empress Liu didn't need to do anything, because it's normal to adopt the child of a maidservant.After Concubine Li died, Empress Liu treated their family well. For details, you can search Baidu Encyclopedia. It is really wonderful.

Later, Empress Liu took the last few steps, but still did not take the road of becoming emperor. After she died, Renzong knew the truth. The Eighth Prince told him, and said that his own mother was killed by Empress Liu, so Renzong found Concubine Li. It was found that she was buried with the ceremony of the empress dowager, and she was well preserved. It was indeed a normal death, so Renzong treated Empress Liu's family kindly because she suspected empress Liu's guilt.

This story combines both.

The setting of "Seventh Five-Year" is really subtle. The play of replacing the civet cat with the prince is actually to let Renzong take charge.Because in history, Renzong was not able to govern until the death of Empress Liu, and having a mother who is too strong can easily make boys weak in character.During the Seventh Five-Year Plan, Bao Zheng was able to jump and upgrade all the way because the emperor supported him, because he needed strength to compete with Empress Liu for the imperial court.

Bao Zheng was able to get up because of the support of the Eighth Prince.

The Eighth Prince is undoubtedly a royalist.

But because the author needed Renzong to be in power early, I just used this setting, which is not the case in history.

About the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

The Sixteen States of Yanyun was the remuneration paid by Shi Jingtang, the founder of the late Jin Dynasty between the Tang and Song Dynasties, to the Khitan (Liao) in order to obtain the throne. Before the founding of the Song Dynasty, it was already the territory of the Liao Dynasty. He wanted to take back Yanyun Sixteen States, but failed.Later, it was briefly taken back at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty jointly destroyed the Liao Dynasty. The request of the Song Dynasty was to take back the sixteen prefectures. The sixteen prefectures of Yun came to the hands of gold, and at the same time the Song Dynasty lost a large area of ​​land in the north and became the Southern Song Dynasty.Later, it was not until Zhu Yuanzhang built the Ming Dynasty that this land returned to Han rule.

The sixteen prefectures of Yanyun are not the fault of the Song Dynasty, but a problem left over from history, but this place is indeed a confidant of the Song Dynasty.

These sixteen prefectures include most of the Great Wall of the Qin and Han Dynasties, that is to say, the original nomads were trapped outside the Great Wall, but now they are all inside the Great Wall.

It can almost be said that Tianjin, Beijing, northern Hebei, and northern Shanxi all belonged to Liao State north of the Yellow River.

Almost all of them are farming, plowing, and districts.

As a result, nomads began to turn to nomadic + farming + animal husbandry.

Is the Qingming Riverside Picture a good green area outside the city?That's because Bianjing planted many, many, many trees outside the city in order to prevent the northern nomads from going south quietly.Moreover, in order to prevent the northern Liao Dynasty from going south, the military expenditure of the Song Dynasty was spent on building fortresses every year. Everyone knows that having a natural moat means that your enemies only come from two to three directions, and you can avoid one place for defensive measures, but The Northern Song Dynasty was besieged by enemies from all sides, and the defensive measures were perfect*4, and the maintenance cost was even higher.

The Chanyuan alliance is not an unequal treaty. Song and Liao are brothers, and whoever is older is the brother. But Shi Jingtang, who ceded the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, signed a father-son agreement. He is the son, and Liao is the father.

For the Song Dynasty, the pocket money that "rewarded" Liao at that time was really far less than their military expenditure.

In the eyes of young people, this is suffocating, but the Song Dynasty has been trying to find a way to regain Yanyun Sixteen.It's a pity... the decades of peaceful life signed by the Chanyuan Alliance not only fattened the Song Dynasty people, but also fattened the Liao people.

The Han people's nomadicism has always relied on several steps forward in terms of technology.

For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used crossbows and ring-shoudao (iron OR steel) to defeat cavalry, Tang used weapons and armor (Modao, etc. + Mingguang armor), Ming used guns and policies to defeat nomads, but what the Song Dynasty encountered was a [mineral, Daliao, which has technology and talents, how can we fight this?

And the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom did a very clever thing-she forbade the Liao Kingdom to sell horses to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Without horses, the level of technology is about the same, and the smelting technology is equal, can infantry fight nomads, can they win?This is similar to modern infantry vs tank soldiers

Of course, these are not completely insurmountable - use human life to block them.

This is how the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation were fought. No matter what kind of war, except for the current long-range precision strike, it can actually be fought like this. As long as you have enough lives, you can stop it.

The Song Dynasty was also blocked in this way, but this is the disadvantage of the literati governing the country.

Forget these things and don’t mention them, otherwise I will have nothing to write in the future! !

The problem with the Song Dynasty is that it was the first dynasty to govern the country with Confucianism, so many things have no personality. You can’t blame Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, nor can you blame Confucianism. Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was only a kind of theory in the Song Dynasty, and it was over-interpreted in the Ming Dynasty (Because Zhu Yuanzhang claimed to be a descendant of Zhu Xi) it became a kind of persecution.What's more, these are a kind of theory in themselves. The knife can cut vegetables and kill, and the responsibility is not with the knife.

There are problems with the basic national policies of every dynasty in China, but you can't see them when you are in them.

For example, the Great Qin "ruled" the country by law, and the people suffered so much in the end that they could only expose the rebellion. Do you know why the Great Han was able to stabilize the people's hearts smoothly?Because the first few emperors of the big man commuted their sentences, commuted their sentences, commuted their sentences again.

It cannot be said that the current situation is necessarily correct, but one of the advantages of modern China is that the policy of governing the country is often fine-tuned.

In fact, many systems must have been beneficial to the country when they were first established, but there are too many smart people.

This is also the reason I said in the Red Mansion Scroll that Xia Miao said during the scientific research [businessmen will lead to a large accumulation of capital, which will affect the market and officialdom with capital, and then feed back to businessmen].The balance among them is beyond the grasp of the world.Because they cannot guarantee that every generation of emperors is a genius.Even a genius, if raised in the deep palace, will be raised and abandoned.

Even in China, not every ruler can grasp the balance,

You will definitely ask... Then why did the Song Dynasty, which valued business, not have large-scale accidents.

Because they... have one of the most delicate prerequisite problems that cannot be satisfied and are suppressed, that is, the officialdom in the Song Dynasty is too fast...cough.Of course, there are still many complicated issues, so I won't go into details.