Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[Xin Qiji spent sixteen years to understand the Kingdom of Jin.

𝟞𝟡𝕤𝕙𝕦𝕩.𝕟𝕖𝕥】

But it took nearly forty years to understand the Southern Song Dynasty.

This is also the biggest shortcoming of "Ten Essays on Meiqin". Xin Qiji, a reformer, lacked a clear understanding of what the Southern Song Dynasty was like.

We have mentioned before that during the Longxing Northern Expedition, Wei Sheng's rebel army regained Haizhou and repelled the Jin army with the assistance of two other rebel armies, Li Bao and Wang Youzhi.

However, at the Longxing Peace Conference, the Southern Song Dynasty backhandedly ceded Haizhou to the Jin Kingdom, treating the results of the three-way rebel army's deadly battle as nothing.

After the peace negotiation, Wei Sheng was transferred to the nearby Chuzhou. He was first invaded and captured by his superior Liu Bao, and then was surrounded by the Jin army moving south.

Wei Sheng only led a partial division, but he still fought bravely with the Jin army for half a day without fear of death.

However, Liu Bao, who was only forty miles away, directly rebuked Wei Sheng when he asked for help: "If Fang makes peace, there will be no war."

Determined not to send a single soldier, he sat back and watched Wei Sheng, who was only forty miles away, die in battle and the entire army was destroyed.

Wei Sheng's death was only a microcosm of the military affairs of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, but it showed that the military management was rotten. It is difficult to save such an army with a policy.

Therefore, when Xin Qiji moved around in his early years, he always wanted to build a strong army. In order to build the Flying Tiger Army, the young Xin Qiji used many methods to mediate and even risked his life to secretly hide the gold medal that Song Xiaozong requested to disband the Flying Tiger Army. Finally, he succeeded with great difficulty. .

But after the Feihu Army formed, Xin Qiji was quickly kicked out on charges, and the Feihu Army was also taken over by others. It can only be said that the officialdom of the Southern Song Dynasty was too deep, and Xin Qiji really couldn't control it.

For this reason, after Xin Qiji was reinstated by Han Yuanzhou, he first sincerely informed Song Ningzong that "the Jin Kingdom will be in chaos and will perish", and then advised Song Ningzong that "it will take more than twenty years to defeat the Jin Dynasty." However, in the end, Xin Qiji aroused dissatisfaction from the extreme war faction headed by Han Yuanzhou. Depose everyone who agrees with Xin Qiji.

For example, the prefect of Luzhou stood up and criticized: The public has a desire for revenge but no strategy for revenge.

The martial arts student Hua Yue was even more fierce: the general was mediocre, the army and the people were resentful, the horse administration was not good, the knights were unfamiliar, heroes were not produced, heroes were not harvested, the food supply was not abundant, the situation was not solid, and the forts were not set up.

In a word: Northern Expedition? Just you?

Half a year after the incident, Han Zhouzhou still wanted the support of Xin Qiji, the leader of the battle, so he ordered Xin Qiji to be the governor of Shaoxing Prefecture and the pacifier of the East Road of Zhejiang Province.

This position faced the sea in the east and the Yangtze River in the north. It faced the key to ensuring the safety of water transportation. It was the biggest job in the Southern Song Dynasty at that time. Han Yuzhou's bribery intention was obvious, which made Xin Qiji furious:

"How can one use Jiaxuan to gain fame? How can Jiaxuan be willing to rely on Jiaxuan to seek wealth and honor?"

Han Yuzhou was also furious: If we leave Zhang Butcher, do we have to eat pigs with hair on them?

So this year Han Yuzhou went on the Northern Expedition and was determined to prove himself.

The Kaixi Northern Expedition started suddenly in such a careless environment. 】

In the Bianliang Emperor's Palace, Zhao Kuangyin's eyes shone.

Zhao Pu on the side also hurriedly recorded while shaking his head regretfully:

"It's a pity that I can't see the whole "Ten Essays on Meiqin" with my own eyes."

Zhao Kuangyin also felt it was a pity, but he also understood one thing:

"The ten treatises contain ten thousand words, and the explanations of later generations are extremely straightforward. To reconcile them, I'm afraid it would take fifty thousand words, which is really difficult."

This is true, and Zhao Pu also understood that this light screen in later generations is still similar to a storyteller, rather than an academic debate.

Just like the storytellers on the street, they will spare no effort to describe how majestic the scene was when Guan Yunchang beheaded Yan Liang, how majestic the horses were, how gorgeous the armor was, and how sharp the weapons were. The meaning is all the same in one stroke.

Later generations are thousands of years apart from this time, so they will not be interested in carefully studying a piece of Ping Rong strategy among the piles of old papers.

This method of war by land and sea cooperation, the practice of retaining the staff in their posts and removing their power, the discussion of making decisions, and the philosophical debate on the difference between the importance of the poor and the rich, etc., he and the officials are all familiar with it. Feel the novelty.

But for future generations, I'm afraid it will all be commonplace.

After all, later generations were called the "Age of Sea Power" at that time, and the emphasis on maritime divisions was unique in the past two thousand years.

"I understand a little about the others, but what does this political commissar mean?"

Zhao Kuangyin was very interested.

When talking about the deaths of Guo Jin and Yang Ye in previous generations, they also made it clear that the arbitrariness of one person in the supervision army led to a rift with the commander, which ultimately led to the death of the brave general in battle due to the arbitrariness of the supervision army.

But if we say that there are no positions similar to military supervisors in the military, we only need to look back fifty years of history to feel relieved.

Now that the destruction of the Tang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River has been determined, Zhao Kuangyin wanted to put together a charter for this military system before conquering the Northern Han Dynasty. Now the descendants' brief description of "Ten Essays on Meiqin" can be said to be a good rain after a long drought. .

But the problem is... I can't quite understand it.

Feeling the attention of the officials, Zhao Pu suddenly felt stressed, so he could only bite the bullet and explain:

"Politics are the ones who have the policies to manage things; entrusters should understand the meaning of entrustment and obedience."

"From this point of view, his position focuses on 'knowledge' rather than 'supervision', and his position requires a civil servant who is well-read and literate. I presume that his position may be to inform the emperor's orders."

This explanation was reasonable and reasonable. Zhao Kuangyin thought about it:

"So the armies of future generations will know their soldiers and their soldiers will know their government?"

With just a brief thought, you will know that there are many benefits. For example, if the soldiers can clearly understand the Song Dynasty's desire to restore Hebei and unify China, it will be difficult for the generals to rebel. If detailed regulations can be drawn up, perhaps they can go in another direction. Eliminate the disasters of vassal towns since the late Tang Dynasty.

But it is obvious that the cost of this military system will not be too small. The younger generation also said that the staff officer is to explain the strategic goals to the soldiers. It is obviously not enough to have a staff officer in the army. Now there are nearly 200,000 forbidden troops. Even if If a hundred people are placed in one place, two or three thousand people who can read, decipher, and manage politics will be needed.

So this also made Zhao Song Guanjia have a new sigh:

"The foundation of all systems lies in scholarship, and if we talk about scholarship, I am afraid that it will be the most prosperous in the past two thousand years."

"Of course, I finally did it so that our Song Dynasty would have no enemies from Liao, Jin and Xixia, so that the Song Dynasty would not be divided into north and south, and would not repeat the mistakes of my brother."

Zhao Pu bowed down and accepted the order sincerely.

Zhao Guangyi's face was full of resentment, he snorted and turned away.

…

Zhang Fei in Luoyang Villa was suddenly stunned:

"Butcher Zhang? Pig with hair?"

A simple title, but it immediately made Zhuojun Zhang Fei feel a little itchy.

The summary of "Ten Essays on Meiqin" is obvious to Kong Ming.

How could General Yunchang lead the army to suppress Jingbei and fight with Cao Jun for a long time without anyone complaining about his suffering?

How could Yide lead his army westward to Liangzhou to quell the rebellion and die without any complaints?

Of course, there were things like coal cakes, decoctions, medicinal powders, etc. to relieve the soldiers' hardship.

However, starting from Jingzhou, he insisted on opening private schools in the army to enable the old soldiers to learn how to read and digit, which was also indispensable.

At least, there are not many people in the army who are looking forward to returning to the north and returning home to rid their hometown of Cao's thieves.

As for the sea and land coordination, it was even simpler. He remembered that there was a battle called the Inchon Landing on the Korean Peninsula in later generations...

On the contrary, it was the simplest idea of ​​seeking wealth and defeating wealth alone that made Kong Ming savor it for a long time. For a moment, he suddenly remembered the equally huge empire in the west at this time.

When later generations talked about Rome in the pre-Han Dynasty, they still talked about the Senate. After that, no matter how Rome was divided into two or changed, they only heard the name of the emperor but not the discussion of the Senate.

Or is it a true manifestation of these simple six words?

[In 1206, when Ningzong of the Song Dynasty was passive, Han Yuzhou launched the Northern Expedition arbitrarily.

The Song army came out in four directions and formally attacked the Jin Kingdom.

As for why it is said that the Kaixi Northern Expedition was careless, you can know it just by looking at Suzhou.

Guo Ni, the governor of Shandong Province who attacked Suzhou, was a fan of Zhuge Wuhou and often compared himself to Zhuge Liang. When he had nothing to do, he imitated Zhuge Liang and posed with a feather fan, and wrote on the feather fan: "Three visits frequently trouble the world, two people are planning to trouble the world." "Chao Kai Ji Lao Chen Xin", but what this guy did is simply not comparable to a hair on the head of Zhuge Wuhou.

Suzhou is located at the junction of Song and Jin Dynasties, and most of the people in the city are Han people.

This city briefly returned to the Southern Song Dynasty during the Longxing Northern Expedition. At the same time, the Jin Kingdom exploited the Han people too harshly. Therefore, Suzhou does have the meaning of "looking south to the king's division for another year." In Guo Ni At the beginning of the attack, people in Suzhou City kept tipping him off.

Moreover, after hearing about the Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty, a rebel army active in Suzhou at that time also took the initiative to come to help. They were more familiar with Suzhou and could be said to have penetrated all the holes in Suzhou, and took the initiative to take the lead in the siege.

Suzhou seemed to be able to conquer it with just one more charge, but at this moment Guo Ni, who was posing behind him, slapped his forehead:

MD, the credit for destroying the city will be taken away by the rebels!

This was not allowed for Guo Ni, so under his military order, the Northern Expeditionary Army bent their bows and arrows under the city, aiming at the rebels who were fighting the Jin people on the city wall.

"Historical Records" records: The loyal and righteous man who dared to die had already climbed up because of his thin flesh. Our army was jealous of his achievements and shot him from below.

The Han people who wanted to be internal responders were suddenly chilled:

"We are a family, how can we escape from being killed?"

As a result, the crumbling Suzhou City was defended by the Jin army.

Later, when the reinforcements of the Jin army arrived, the Northern Expeditionary Army also began to flee without end under the leadership of Guo Ni.

The Jin army, which had the advantage at that time, teased Guo Ni:

Song and Jin were originally friendly, but now they have begun to provoke Tian Junmai, the brave general who defends Hao. If you hand over this culprit, you will be spared.

Guo Ni tied up Tian Junmai and gave it to Jin Jun without saying anything.

The Jin army kept their word and spared Guo Ni's life, but continued to pursue and kill Song soldiers.

There were more than 30,000 people at the time of the expedition, but when they returned to Lingbi, only more than 5,000 remained.

Such a Kaiju Northern Expedition would naturally have no chance of success. 】