Zhao Hao knew very well that Wang Yanwu could write such an article, and he could not be blamed completely, nor could it all be blamed on the entire Shiren group. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info to say that someone should be responsible for this sick society, with his superficial understanding of history, he thinks that the root section should be the imperial society, the state system of monarchical supremacy and the political tradition of ancient times, specifically to the person, that is, the person in power - the emperor.

In Zhao Hao's view, ancient Chinese history is the history of continuous changes of imperial power, and the biggest feature is that the country is constantly subverted, especially in the era of frequent wars, changing emperors is as frequent as changing clothes, so it leaves an extremely embarrassing backlash problem for the Chinese people: which country should we be loyal to? Which emperor are you loyal to? Loyal to the previous dynasty, I am rebellious in this dynasty; And loyal to this dynasty, I am the 'lackey' of the dynasty.

Under the dilemma, some people have a nihilistic idea of not loving the country in their hearts, and the betrayer has a natural reason. Since we do not have a country that we can love eternally and sincerely, and the country is also the emperor's, then betrayal becomes a natural and strange thing. Every dynasty has a contemporary politically correct law, and the people have no choice but to become slippery and recognize the current affairs as handsome. Abstract moral problems turn into simple common sense problems, and everyone has to learn to be slippery and weak without principles.

In fact, the people of the occupied areas often do not care much about who the master of the country is, and as time goes by, people's hearts will gradually accept the facts, unless the alien rulers treat them as inferior slaves. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Chengda sent an envoy to Jin, passed through the homeland north of the Huai River, and wrote a lot of poems, one of which is a quatrain "Zhou Bridge - South Looking at Zhuque Gate and North Looking at Yide Building, All Old Royal Road": The north and south of Zhou Bridge are Heavenly Street, and my father is old and old; Holding back tears and asking the messenger, when will the six armies really come? But this is blatant cheating.

Similarly, in Fan Chengda's own diary "Lan Lu Lu", the real facts are recorded: "The people have also been accustomed to nonsense for a long time, and their attitudes and hobbies have become compatible with them. Writing Xiangzhou only said: "Yi Li often weeps and sighs, and instructs people to say: 'This Chinese Buddha is also! Where did the widow dare to stop the Song Dynasty envoy on the street of "Nanjing" in the Jin Kingdom and ask why the Song soldiers didn't fight back to their hometown! In the following three years, Han Yuanji sent an envoy to the Jin Kingdom, and recorded that the envoy avoided suspicion, hid in the car, and did not dare to talk to the local people, got out of the car to ask for water to drink, met children and women, and used language to probe and let his cronies go to secretly inquire many times, "Then I know that the people of the Central Plains have a grudge against the enemy, and every person who hates us cannot be raised!" ”

As a result, the vast majority of literati and scholars have bypassed the specific common sense problems and abstractly elevated the patriotic problems infinitely, leaving the common people at a loss. And a large number of ancient indignant youths, only look at people to carry the burden is not difficult, on the side to say cool words the most majestic mountains and rivers, to the big event, everyone has to hide and clumsy, thousands of horses together, openly and secretly become obedient to the people, and even change their course to become the official of the 'puppet dynasty', to serve the new emperor.

In the Song Dynasty, since its founding, it has faced a profound "international relations" dilemma, first facing the entire northern Khitan Liao, then the Jurchen Jin and the Western Xia of the Western Qiang, as well as the current military threat of the Mongol Yuan, the entire northern nomadic people have developed into a country that has gone to the Song Dynasty one after another to demand territory and wealth, and the war has become the biggest problem that the Song Dynasty emperor hesitated to work on.

In the eyes of the world, the Khitan elite army was only 100,000, the Jin army was only 60,000 when it besieged Bianjing, the population was about one million at the height of the Mongol power, and the population of the Song Dynasty exceeded 100 million, and the standing army was often more than one million. The Song Dynasty was the richest and most cultured dynasty in Chinese history, the richest and most powerful country in the world at that time, and the first time in Chinese history that the urban secular culture was highly mature and developed.

However, such a powerful empire is a small nomadic country that is inferior to a backward civilization, why? I believe that this is a problem that today's Chinese people are puzzled by, but the Song Dynasty scholars and literati still boast of their heroic heroism on the one hand, and on the other hand, they vigorously belittle the decline of foreign national fortunes, the courage of our army, and the embarrassment and filth of the enemy. In addition to not seeing the other party as a human being, he always gives the people a very wrong illusion, thinking that Hu Lu is just a rabble. However, as soon as the war broke out, all this kind of patriotic rhetoric and heroism were all in vain.

That being the case, then the emperor does not raise the emperor and does not collect the lost land, is it because the emperor's court has no intention of this, or is the army incompetent? With such a bad political, economic, social, and military management situation, do the civilian bureaucracy and the literati class have deep introspection and cognition? Even if people of insight are aware of it, it is also a moral emptiness, and the anxiety is greater than the insight and operation of political reform. Even in the policy theory of the Song people, it is the theme of empty talk of "peace or war", and only talks about national policy in a moral sense, and does not devote itself to reflecting on these difficult problems.

Is it true that these scholars and doctors in the Song Dynasty were all short-sighted, and the scholars were all empty talkers? Zhao Hao thinks that it is not, but that these people are unwilling to reflect on these problems under the current system. It is well known that when the Song Dynasty entered a modern economic and secular society, its political and administrative organization instead formed a paradoxical management system: on the one hand, the rule of the civilian bureaucracy was quite large and complex, and on the other hand, it was still a very simple centralized system.

A country that is rich and huge, chaotic and corrupt, sloppy and introphied, hedonistic and excessive, cowardly and selfish, withdrawn and conservative, moral and vain, this is the essence of the Song Dynasty as a whole. As a result, the system is chaotic, management conflicts, corruption is rampant, everything lacks effectiveness and high-quality operation, and corruption is becoming more and more widespread and cannot be stopped, resulting in people's hearts, morale, and national spirit are scattered, and there is only anxiety, malaise, confusion, loss of ground, and repeated defeats and reparations in response to difficult battles, and an atmosphere of decadence and failure pervades the society, and at the same time arouses extreme resentment, depression and frustration of mental and psychological disorders.

In addition, the greatest problem of the Song scholars was the insurmountable political barrier between patriotism and loyalty to the monarch. Song Gaozong Zhao Gou was afraid that the Northern Expedition would recapture his captured father and brother, and his throne would be returned, so subjectively he would rather buy the Jin people with money, money and territory, and at the same time instructed Prime Minister Qin Hui to implement the surrender policy, and operated a system that excluded the tendency of soldiers to support the army and self-respect, and even did not hesitate to destroy the Great Wall on trumped-up charges and put the famous general Yue Fei to death. Is there any real accountability for such an extremely selfish act of the emperor in the writings of scholars...... (To be continued.) )