As we enter February, the weather is getting warmer. Although there are still thousands of miles of ice and snow outside, the spring is cold, and the sun is lazy when it shines on people.

Du Zhongxiao sat in the study, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. Such a big battle must be reported to the imperial court, and it can't be cut first and then played, otherwise no one can afford to take responsibility, and Han Qi can't do it. More than ten days have passed, and there has been no news from the imperial court.

At this moment, Han Qi hurriedly came in from outside, saw Du Zhongxiao open his eyes, and said, "Jingluo, the imperial court has made an order!" ”

Du Zhongxiao got up and said with a smile: "Looking at the appearance, there is no need to say that the imperial court has agreed." ”

Han Qi nodded: "Yes, the imperial court agrees to force the party to return the defected Fanhu by force, don't humiliate the national body!" “

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and said, "It means that we agree to fight, and we must win." ”

Han Qi sat down and said, "Yes, that's what it means." Pang Xianggong and Gao Taiwei are not easy, they need you to fight a big victory, understand? ”

"Understood, the lower officials understood." Du Zhongxiao nodded. "This battle will not lose the expectations of your prime minister!"

Hequ Road won, Guangnan Pingnong Zhigao won again, and in recent months, the Song army has won many big victories, and the courtiers are angry. However, the emperor did not want to fight, and the prime minister Pang Ji and the privy envoy Gao Ruone advised him several times before he had to agree. It's just that after a series of battles, there is not much support for the river meandering road.

After waiting for so many days, Du Zhongxiao slowly guessed the thoughts of Pang Ji and Gao Ruone. They didn't want to fight, but as soon as Tanglongzhen won and the Song army had face, they should rest and recuperate next, and not start the war lightly. Di Qing returned to the court and asked them to decide to support Du Zhongxiao.

In the first battle of Quy Nhon Pu, Di Qing broke Nong Zhigao, and the emperor got a good news, and immediately urged the courtiers to discuss the reward, on the grounds that it was too late to persuade merit. With the train, after Di Qing defeated Nong Zhigao's main force, he soon returned to the capital, with the envoy of the Protector of the Sect as the deputy envoy of the privy council and the envoy of the southern court of Xuanhui, and the emperor intended to make him the privy envoy. It was to use Di Qing as the privy envoy to let Pang Ji and Gao Ruone support Han Qi and Du Zhongxiao in their use of troops.

Zhao Zhen did not, as historians say, establish the Song Dynasty's tradition of dominating military force with literature from him. In fact, when Zhao Zhen was in power, he has always been a privy envoy with military generals, Wang Deyong in the front, and Wang Yiyong in the back, but there is also a civil servant privy envoy. This time, he wanted Di Qing to be the privy envoy, and he was replaced by Gao Rune, that is, the two privy envoys were all military generals, and there was an unspeakable situation.

Whether Wenchen is the prime minister or the privy envoy, he is impermanent, and if he becomes a minister today, he may be left tomorrow. Military generals are different, once they are privy envoys, they will not be dismissed unless they are serious. If Di Qing and Wang Yiyong are privy envoys, they may not be replaced in the next one or two decades, and this situation will be very delicate. Wang Yi never said that he was originally a relative of a family, but Di Qing was born in the army, and he was a privy envoy for one or two decades, so he couldn't help but remind people of the situation in the five dynasties. In this situation, the rest of the rulers will be suppressed by him.

In Du Zhongxiao's memory, when he studied history, he said that Di Qing, who had been a privy envoy for four years, was attacked by Taiwan, and when he learned about Chenzhou, he was full of righteous indignation, thinking that it was a move by civil officials to crack down on and suppress military generals. I used to think like that, but now I feel that the scholar's opinion is not what to say.

The Privy Council is different from the Sanya, and is a bureaucracy. What are the consequences of letting military generals control the bureaucracy, historical examples abound. Di Qing's personal character and performance cannot be evaluated. As long as the beginning is opened, Di Qing will not rebel, and there will always be someone behind who will rebel.

The history of Du Zhongxiaoxue, because it originated in the period when the whole country and nation were passively beaten and ridiculed by people due to poverty and weakness, has some unique temperament. After the Song Dynasty, the military was not good, and since it was time to study the army itself, based on military theory, the military and political analysis and research. Historiography is not, and those who study history do not understand military affairs, so they fall into two categories.

One is that people can't do it, they don't have the temperament to be a soldier, and they can't fight bravely, so they can't beat others. It was even believed that the Han people had to introduce a martial spirit from the surrounding barbarian peoples. Another is that culture is not good, the entire national culture is weak in literature and does not advocate martial arts, and in terms of the specific political system, it is to respect literature and suppress martial arts. To change, it is necessary to change the culture and improve the status of the military, which corresponds to the warlord rule of that period. Of course, contrary to their conclusions, the warlords can neither resist external humiliation nor lift the national spirit internally, but instead drag the entire country and nation into the abyss. However, the fact that the facts are not important does not prevent them from interpreting history from this viewpoint, nor does it prevent them from controlling the discourse of history.

It's not just the military that is interpreted, but so is the historian's interpretation of technology. Why did they lag behind at that time? One is that people are not good, they have no scientific spirit, they do not have rationality, they are born ignorant, and they do not accept their enlightenment. Another is that culture is not good, especially the Confucian culture, which occupies the main position, is not good, it is inherently unable to produce science and reason, and it will inevitably suppress science and reason. As for why Confucianism is like this, it doesn't matter, what matters is the mainstream culture, and changing the family is nothing more than criticizing them by changing their names.

The interpretation of history is that one person is not good, and one culture is not good. It doesn't matter if the ancestors were once brilliant, the more brilliant they are, the more harmful they are, so big that they are difficult to turn around, and it just so happens that they fall to the lowest point in their time.

If people can't do it, it means that they have to completely accept other people's things, except for bloodline and body, it is best to change them all. There are even more sensible people who advocate that even the bloodline and language should be replaced. And these people, who happen to have come back from learning the things of foreigners, should naturally be the objects of learning by others. It is even better if culture is not good, they have learned other people's culture, and they do not need to study culture seriously, so they naturally become cultural masters. As long as you turn two pages of the book, shout that race is not good, and then shout that culture is not good, you are not only a master of history, but also a master of culture.

At a time when the old is new and learning needs to be introduced, this kind of rhetoric is normal. Time is too late, carefully study every problem clearly, and slowly introduce and absorb the knowledge from the outside, the country and the nation have no time. It is necessary to break all the bottles and cans, introduce and attract advanced knowledge as soon as possible, and stand up at the most critical moment. But after such a period, to insist on this method is to be lazy. In terms of military theory, many textbooks have written about the constituent elements of combat effectiveness, and they will not come to such a conclusion or form such a view. Quoting scriptures and classics is useless without the background of the times, and it is meaningful to seek truth from facts and start from the most basic research.

Why can't the military strength of the Song Dynasty? The root of the disease fell from the late Tang Dynasty, the womb of the warlord. Coupled with the civilian regime, it is necessary to eliminate the danger of military generals subverting the regime, and the two are superimposed and fall deeper and deeper. This is not only the case in the Song Dynasty, but also in many countries in later generations. As long as the army of the regime born out of the warlords does not carry out radical changes, there is nothing that can be fought.

What would China be like if the warlords had held out until the end of World War II? How strong can the military be?

The establishment of the Song Dynasty was based on the premise that Taizu mastered the military strength of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and usurped the Zhou, and the army was the foundation of everything. If there is an army, there is the world of the Great Song Dynasty, and the warlord color of the army is particularly strong. And there are five generations of lessons, in order to prevent the army from being abolished without authorization, a series of measures have been taken from Taizu to Taizong. Logistics has been separated from the army, the personnel and supervision powers of the generals have been stripped away, and the high-level command system has been completely abolished, with the battalion as the basic unit of the army. Among the elements of combat effectiveness, the crucial organizational power has been abolished, and it is strange to be able to fight.

The current forbidden army is not bad in terms of the quality of its soldiers, its weapons and equipment, its proportion of services, and its training level. What do you have to say? The experience of a military general in managing and commanding an army is 500 people in a battalion, and there is no essential difference in the future. If there are many soldiers to fight big battles, and if there are few soldiers to fight small battles, strategic command is completely blank.

But for the emperor, the most reliable force is precisely the forbidden army. This is a forbidden circumstance, and it is easy not to let the minister interfere.

Zhao Zhen is not advocating literature and suppressing martial arts, on the contrary, he has a fan-like mind and wants to completely return the military power to the generals. The Northwest uses Wenchen as the commander, one is to continue the tradition of Zhenzong, and the other is that there is no way. It's not that the generals have not been used, the early commanders of the war were the generals, and the defeat was too ugly, and there was no way to use Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan.

Why did the Northwest lose? Zhao Zhen's thoughts are different from those of the ministers of the DPRK and China. He believes that the combat effectiveness is not good, there are no good generals, the country has been peaceful for a long time, and has not selected outstanding talents. As long as there are good generals, the war will not turn out like that.

The fierce general starts from the army, this sentence was said by Han Fei, and it is in the same vein as the Legalist official as an official. But in Han Fei's era, there were almost no people who were handsome in all aspects. Not only his time, but also very few later years. A fierce general can start from a pawn, but it is difficult for a coach to do so, except for some exceptions, which happened to collide, such as Yue Fei.

Zhao Zhen thinks that the coach is no different from the fierce general, the fierce general starts from the army, and the coach should be the same. Only in this way can the current military and political system of the Song Dynasty be correct. In the selection of generals of the forbidden army, non-commissioned officers are selected, and the brave ones are included in the four armies, and the officers at all levels are released. After that, if there is a war, then the promotion is based on military merit, which is the standard procedure from the army.

Di Qing meets these conditions and is the most ideal general in Zhao Zhen's eyes. Di Qing can do it, others can do it in the future, and the forbidden army will definitely do it. Zhao Zhen values Di Qing, not because of personal feelings, the two actually don't have much intersection, the important thing is that Di Qing is in line with Zhao Zhen's political correctness.

Whether it is Pang Ji or Gao Ruone, including Han Qi, they do not have a clear understanding of this. It's just that from their standpoint, they don't want Di Qing to be the privy envoy, and they need Du Zhongxiao's military exploits at this time, so they just happen to support him.