"If you attack, you will protect each other, and if you retreat, you will defend each other. The answer is good, and this is one of the important reasons why our army has been able to win many battles, because we all understand that the brothers who stand by our side and behind us can trust each other's lives, and there will be brothers who will sacrifice their lives to help in times of crisis, and even if they die, they will have brothers by their side. Therefore, we can unite as one, and fight the enemy's position with the same hatred. Zhao Yu nodded after hearing this, "But what worries me is, what we could have done in the past, can we still do it now?" ”

Zhao Hao's words can be described as heart-wrenching, but he knows that it is better to say it now than later. The competition just now made him aware that there was a dislike among the generals, and the attitude of the generals of the first army often affected the views of the officers and men of the department, and small frictions over time would also lead to contradictions, until they evolved into confrontation between the two armies, and even swords and guns facing each other. If a war starts in this state, I am afraid that I have not yet been in battle, and I have already started to do it myself.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates were able to do it in the past, and they still dare not forget it today!" Jiang Cheng got up and saluted when he heard this.

"Your Majesty's words, your subordinates have always kept them in mind, how dare you forget them!" Zhao Mengjin also got up and saluted.

"Your Majesty, you can rest assured, once you have a call, you will definitely go thousands of miles away, and you will definitely live up to your grace!" Han Zhen also got up and saluted.

"I know that all of you are loyal to the country and to me, but now that the armies are stationed in all directions, you and the others are all princes who guard a corner. It is inevitable that there will be conflicts of interest with friends and neighbors, and then there will be resentment in the heart, leading to disharmony between brothers. Zhao Yu pressed his hand, let everyone sit down and continued, "Now that the strong enemy is on the side, war may break out at any time, what I am worried about is that you and the others will elbow each other because of the small estrangement in the past, and they may not be able to attack and protect each other, and retreat to defend each other." ”

"Your Majesty...... His Majesty is right, there are times when the various armies come in because of the order of defense and material allocation, but this will never affect the overall plan. Zhao Mengjin got up and hesitated and said.

"Didn't it really affect you?" Zhao Yu smiled and asked rhetorically, "A large number of smuggled sheep from Jiangbei crossed the border in the past, and it was from the junction of the two armies' defense lines that they crossed the border. I know that it is precisely because this army pursued the smuggler and crossed the line between the two armies, and the other army seized friendly ships and soldiers on the grounds that the other side crossed the border without permission, but let the smuggling ship go. ”

"Subordinate ......" Zhao Mengjin stammered and didn't know how to answer.

"Your Majesty, the commander, but this incident happened, because the subordinates were confused for a while, and intercepted the ships of the second army for some small grievances in the past, and detained the soldiers, which hurt the harmony between the brothers' troops. This is the fault of his subordinates, and please punish him. Zhuang Siqi, the commander of the Third Army, stood up and saluted and pleaded guilty.

"No, no, this is not the fault of Zhuang Dutong, everything is caused by me, if it were not for the fact that I mishandled the fight between the two armies in the past and favored my own soldiers, it would not have caused the next thing. If Your Majesty punishes him, please punish his subordinates! Liu Zhixue, the commander of the Second Army, hurriedly got up and asked for sin.

"Well, this seems like a trivial matter, if it were not the smugglers from Jiangbei who crossed the river, but the warships full of enemy troops or the enemy scouts who spied on the army, wouldn't it be a big mistake. I will punish you for drinking three bowls of wine, and if such things happen again, I will not be so polite. Zhao Yu said with a straight face.

"My subordinates know their mistakes, and I am willing to drink three bowls with Zhuang Dutong!" Liu Zhixue said, then took a jar of wine and poured wine for Zhuang Siqi personally, and said, "The fault of this matter is all on the Sprinkle family, and I hope that Zhuang Dutong will forgive me, don't worry about it anymore." ”

"How dare you, this matter is also to blame for my narrow-mindedness, forgetting the past feelings of caring for each other, and making mistakes, please don't blame my brother." Zhuang Siqi also hurriedly took the wine jar and poured it for Liu Zhixue, holding it with both hands.

"Come, come, brothers reconcile, let's drink two bowls together." Seeing this, Zhao Mengjin got up and raised his glass and said with a smile.

"When you reconcile them, there will be nothing to do with you?" Zhao Hao pointed at Zhao Mengjin and said.

"Your Majesty, do you still have subordinate matters?" Zhao Mengjin was stunned for a moment, put down the wine bowl and said, "It's because the subordinates can't command the army, and the royal majesty is not strict, which makes Your Majesty worried, and the subordinates also punish themselves with three bowls!" ”

"That's another thing, I said that I had to transport food for the Huguang army last year, you should know that the upper reaches of the river will enter the dry season first, and if you are late, the river will be narrowed, the water depth will be insufficient, and it will be difficult to sail. But why did you take advantage of your position as a privy deputy to change your plan without authorization, replenish the Jiangdong armies first, and postpone the replenishment of Huguang, if it weren't for the abundant rain this year and the delay in the dry season, I am afraid that all the armies in Huguang would be hungry and would not be able to receive winter clothes and be frozen, and you can bear this responsibility? ”

"Your Majesty, this matter ...... This matter is the fault of the subordinates! Zhao Mengjin clicked his mouth twice, bowed his head and saluted.

"It's not your fault, do you still have to blame others?" Zhao Hao slapped the chopsticks in his hand on a few with a snap and said sharply.

"Your Majesty, this matter is the fault of your subordinates!" At this time, Liu Zhu stood up again and said.

"What does it have to do with you? Do you still want to cover each other! Zhao Yu glared at Liu Zhu and said.

"Your Majesty, the real blame for this matter lies with me, and the matter is all due to the change of guard with the inland water army at that time. At that time, the naval army stationed in the Ezhou area used their spare time to build a water village, reclaimed some barren land, and planted rice, thinking that there would be a harvest at that time, and they would be more comfortable. However, the military order is like a mountain, and seeing that the harvest is about to be harvested, but the defense must be moved, and the subordinates want to exchange the unrecovered rice and Jiang Zhishuai for some money and grain, but they are refused, so they have been uncomfortable in their hearts, so they moved some hands and feet when they delivered materials last year, and wanted to give them some color. Now that I think about it, if I miss a big thing, my subordinates will really die a hundred deaths, but it has nothing to do with Zhao Zhishuai! Liu Zhu said with a look of remorse.

"You can't blame Liu Dutong for this matter!" Jiang Cheng also stood up at this time and said, "This matter is a lack of consideration by the subordinates, I want the officers and soldiers of the water to work hard for a year, reclaim the barren fields, but when they are about to harvest, they return empty-handed, but they just want to exchange with half of their subordinates, but they are refused." In hindsight, no matter who it is, they will be resentful, which leads to what happened later, and it is the fault of the subordinates to chase the root cause! ”

"I'm glad you can admit your mistakes, but it's still my fault, and I deserve three cups of punishment!" Zhao Yu said that he first drank the bowl of wine in front of him, and then ordered a bowl of wine for the attendant Xiao Huangmen to pour wine.

"Your Majesty......" Seeing this, all the generals got up in unison and raised their wines.

"Let go, the reason why the armies are not in harmony is because of the responsibility of the chief, so that the upper and lower levels are effective. As the head of the army, I deserve to be punished! Zhao Yu waved his hand to let everyone put down the wine bowl, and drank three glasses in a row.

"Your Majesty, be strict with yourself, and your subordinates will admire you, but you must also take care of your body, don't hurt your body because of this, otherwise your subordinates will have no face in the world!" Zhao Mengjin couldn't help but cry when he saw this.

"Your Majesty take care, all of your subordinates have forgotten Your Majesty's teachings, so as to hurt the feelings between the armies, if you commit any more crimes in the future, we are willing to be military law, even if you die, there will be no complaints!" Jiang Cheng also said with red eyes.

"Come, we have done this bowl, and if we do something treacherous again in the future, we don't have to wait for Your Majesty to punish you, and I will judge myself to thank Your Majesty for your kindness!" Han Zhen first drank all the wine in the cup, and the others also drank no wine left.

"Sit down!" Zhao Yu drank three bowls in a row, although the degree of wine was not high, but the drink was a little strong, he slowed down and let everyone sit down and said, "In the past, there were constant turmoil in the court, so that the court was sluggish and disasters occurred frequently. I thought that the root cause was that after the return of the dynasty to Lin'an, some courtiers began to let themselves go, forgetting their previous aspirations to restore the country, and then began to form parties for personal gain, fighting for power and profit for their own interests. However, I am glad that the armies are still loyal to their duties, which has served to stabilize the situation and make me rely on it. ”

Zhao Yu drank more wine and talked more, but his mind was still sober, thinking about the Chinese revolution in his previous life, he also went through twists and turns, and he also had these situations in front of him, but they were still able to overcome difficulties and move towards victory step by step, and the experience was not impossible to learn from. The reason why Qiongzhou was able to develop and grow rapidly at the beginning was not only forced by the situation, but also because all the ministers were able to focus on the overall situation and the big picture, and individuals could unconditionally obey the interests of the country, regardless of personal gains and losses, and even endure humiliation and burden, until they sacrificed their lives!

Therefore, sincere unity is one of the magic weapons to overcome countless difficulties and obstacles and move towards victory. The problems that arise today come down to this: one is the freedom to act politically. Failure to ask for the opinions of superiors and respect the decisions of superiors; Speak casually, be different, and replace policy with feelings; acting alone, or shirking for an excuse; Two-faced attitude, yang and yin, deception and concealment.

Second, in the formation of a separate party, it has set up a situation of its own, emphasizing independent activities, the ideology of self-centeredness is serious, the people are not moved, there is no discipline, only the interests of the individual and the group are supreme, and the individual system is implemented; As long as the following obeys, and you can not obey; rebelled against the imperial court, despised his superiors for his own merits, and went directly to the imperial court to solve the problem beyond his authority; striking at others, exalting oneself; There is no principle in the selection of officials, and they are promoted and attacked at will; Emotional cohesion, mutual protection; Secret hook-ups, factional activities.

Third, in terms of ideology, we attach importance to personal interests and despise national interests. Everything starts from the individual, and everything expresses the individual; Putting personal interests above all else; arrogant, pretentious; personal prominence, self-improvement, flattery; Boasting and exaggeration, limelight, not seeking truth from facts to understand the specific situation, not treating problems seriously and prudently, extravagant and superficial, unwilling to endure hardships and hard work, and out of touch with the locality.

The root of the problem was found, and Zhao Hao also thought that it must be solved, otherwise it would not only be difficult to complete the great cause of reunification, but also difficult to maintain the current situation. However, it is not realistic to think about solving it, and it is likely to lead to new chaos. In order to pay for the huge military expenditure, the Southern Song Dynasty imposed heavy taxes on the peasants. In order to dispatch the military rations on the border and carry out the war, the burden can only fall on the ordinary peasants.

In addition, when the government was in financial difficulties, in order to provide emergency relief, it issued indiscriminately a type of non-convertible paper money called huizi, which caused a vicious inflation of the currency, high prices, and further deepened financial difficulties. Faced with this worsening financial difficulties, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jia Yidao promulgated the Gongtian Law. The amount of land owned by the big landlords was restricted, and more than one-third of the land was bought by the government and turned into public land, which was handed over to tenants for cultivation, and then the tenants used their rents as military rations.

This method is intended to achieve the two purposes of suppressing land and dispatching military rations, but in fact it is a compulsory method of equalizing land to restrain large landlords from concealing tax evasion and ensuring military supplies. An attempt to overthrow the mature private ownership of land in order to save the financial crisis. From the point of view of the goal of stabilizing the state's finances and guaranteeing military supplies, this can be regarded as a method, and even some scholars in later generations have a good opinion of the public land law, believing that it not only has a positive effect on curbing annexation, but even thinks that it contains a certain socialist tendency, because it deprives some large landowners of their land in the form of redemption, and allows landless tenant cultivators to have their land.

But it was this kind of policy that seemed to benefit both the country and the people ended in tragedy. This is because the Public Land Law was initially aimed at officials and large landowners, but it soon lowered the standard of buyback, and the objects of expropriation were mainly shifted to the small and medium-sized landlord class and some upper-class peasants. Suppressing mergers and acquisitions was not the original intention of the Public Land Law, and in the end, it did not have much of a restraining effect on the big bureaucrats and big landlords.

As for the middle-level executors between the upper and lower levels in the process of implementation, due to the insurmountable corruption of the bureaucracy, the provisions of the Gongtian Law were further seriously distorted, and people would naturally think that this phenomenon still existed in the Xining New Law, and even in later dynasties, which made the Southern Song Dynasty society, which was already at the end of its rope, feel even more turbulent and crisis.

Therefore, in Zhao Yu's view, Jia Rudao's policy of implementing the public land law is good, but the fault is that he is in a hurry to achieve results and forcibly pushes forward regardless of the actual situation. It always feels like he is fighting windmills in the Don Quixote style, and he is challenging the mature feudal private ownership of land. People will naturally associate his single-mindedness with Wang Mang. In short, the Public Land Law used the coercive power of state administration to change the land ownership system, and involved the large landlord class, the small and medium-sized landlord class, the upper class peasants, and a small number of landless tenant farmers.

Although the current situation is much better than the situation during Jia Yidao's administration, Zhao Yu's rectification will also involve many officials, affecting their vital interests, and it is easy to trigger a backlash. But he knew that as long as the army was not chaotic, he would be able to control the situation steadily. Therefore, today's edict to the generals in Beijing to shoot arrows is to reveal the wind to them, but they did not expect to find that there is also a tendency to form similar parties in the army, so he can only start by rectifying the army. After all, the army was built by itself, and there were no forces involved, and in addition to national law, there were still military discipline constraints, so it was easier to move......