Since Zhao Zhen was seriously ill, Ririchao changed back to Single-Day Chao. The number of days in the early dynasty on the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is reduced by half, and the days are much easier. The next day, Xu Ping went to the yamen to deal with some chores, but his mood couldn't calm down no matter what, and he returned home early.

The small courtyard I bought when I first returned to the capital was already a big tree at this time. The flowers and trees by the wall were in full bloom, and the sun was shining overhead, Xu Ping sat in the shade of the trees, but felt a little chill in his body.

What is the most important thing in the country in this era? Speaking of which, it's still raising soldiers. Xu Ping's reform in the Third Division is vigorous and vigorous, and it looks lively, in the final analysis, it still depends on whether he can get money and whether he has more money to raise soldiers. Other economic developments and improvements to people's livelihood are only incidental. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, he has been overwhelmed by heavy military spending, and he has done this thing well first, and only then can he have the heart to talk about other things from top to bottom.

What are you doing with so many soldiers? No one can really say clearly, there are often various answers, but in the end, they still have to be raised. Not only can we not afford to raise them, but we can only increase the number of employees, not lay them off.

Xu Ping thought about this and felt incredible, a country has no clear political purpose, so it smashes the greatest financial resources into it with its head shut. After decades of smashing, there are no regrets, and no matter how big the price is, it will not hesitate.

Since the time of Taizu, this matter has already appeared. At that time, the world was initially decided, and Taizu's attitude towards the army was contradictory and hesitant. A glass of wine released military power, cut down feudal towns, and collected local financial power, so that the centralization of power reached an unprecedented level. At this time, we must face this problem, what is the huge forbidden army used for?

Taizu once mentioned that he wanted to let the world's martial artists study, what do they do when they study? It is not for them to be literate, but to learn from books and to know loyalty. This has nothing to do with advocating literature and suppressing military force, but to let the army have a clear political purpose and know what it does. With a clear political purpose, an army has a soul. Not to mention this era, even in Xu Ping's previous life, the country was newly established, and the first thing after the pacification was to let the army learn culture, which is a normal choice for politicians.

It's a pity that this matter ended without a problem, and no one can say what it is. In short, since then, when it comes to the role of the army, it is the famous sentence of Song Taizu, "The matter of my family, only raising soldiers can benefit a hundred generations." In the year of hunger, there are rebels but no rebels, and unfortunate years are born, there are rebels but no rebels. This became the ancestral family law.

What do you do with soldiers? This could not be clearer, the suppression of the rebels. Several generations of emperors are well aware of this, and in history, it was further developed by the time of Song Shenzong, "Those who were chaotic in their previous lives are all scoundrels." Yizu pacified the world, gathered the scoundrels from all over the world to think of soldiers, and the battalions were used to live, the military was controlled, and the military law was moderated. The scoundrels and unscrupulous people have gathered to serve as soldiers, and they have to control them, but they dare not do anything wrong, because they use their strength to protect and support the good people, and each has a field. Therefore, the cause of peace is determined, and there are no rebels, which has not been reached since ancient times. ”

This kind of thinking is, at best, a warlord mentality, using soldiers to control the people, and the throne is as stable as Mount Tai. At worst, this is no different from hiring Hu people as soldiers, but it is not Hu people who are hired, but scoundrels, and it is the dregs of society to hear the ugly point.

This is the kind of people you want to be a soldier, how can their social status be high? "A good man should not be a soldier", this saying did not come from the Song Dynasty, but appeared since the warlords of the Middle and Tang Dynasty became the country. Moreover, Song Shenzong's words contain a contradiction in his very clear words, since those who were chaotic in their previous lives were all scoundrels, and those who were scoundrels were recruited into the army, then there should be no chaos. This army, which is in order to suppress the rebellious people, has lost its reason for existence and is raising a useless army.

If the hooligans are recruited into the government, there will be no hooligans and ruffians in society, so the country and the people will be safe. Xu Ping thought of this statement and felt funny, killing people and setting fire to the gold belt, which is advocated by national policy.

Is there such a thing in the world? Kind people are tired and tired to support those scoundrels? It's no wonder that this kind of distorted values can have good results, and God will not be blind.

And it is not said that what will happen to the army raised in this way if it faces foreign enemies, several emperors have not considered this problem. This method is to raise wild beasts in cages and provide them, and when wild beasts come outside, they use the wild beasts raised in this cage to deal with them. How can a caged beast beat a truly wild one? What if you can't beat it? He didn't dare to go to the cage, so he turned around and swallowed himself in one bite. In the end, it is the beast that is raised that cannot defeat the foreigner, and feeds itself into the belly of the alien beast. The change of Jingkang and the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty were destined from the time of the national policy. If you do everything you can to prevent your own people as thieves, then of course you will become a thief, and will there be any good results for the thieves of the country?

The political purpose is fundamentally wrong, and no amount of improvement in the army will help. What army formation, improved weapons, cavalry armor, sufficient money and food, etc., are all details. The military is a part of politics, and war is the continuation and intensification of political struggle; only when the political purpose is clear and the political work is solid can there be an army that dares to fight and can fight well. What's so hard about fighting? Xu Ping remembered that a great man in his previous life said that there is no ingenuity in fighting, simply put, it is two sentences, if you win, you will fight, and if you can't win, you will leave. Only those who can do political work can fight, and those who don't understand politics will not fight.

Needless to say, that era is the same as this era confirms the truth of this sentence. At the turn of the two Song Dynasty in history, which army could fight the most? The Yue family's army talked about the quality of soldiers, the sufficiency of money and food, and the high rank of officials, all of which were relatively poor among the major generals of Zhongxing. At the same time, Zhang Jun's pro-soldier team was known as the "martial arts team", and the soldiers were all martial arts doctors, and they were almost one step away. You must know that Yue Yun had made countless military exploits when he was unjustly killed, but he was only a Zuowu doctor, two orders higher than a martial arts doctor. But Yue's army is the most capable of fighting, and Zhang Jun, if not the worst in the war, is also one of the worst. However, in the end, it was Zhang Jun who lived a long life and mixed well, he ranked first among the four major generals of Zhongxing, and was named the king of Qinghe County, and he was the first accomplice in the death of Yue Fei, and thus mastered the military power. If we are politically wrong, we will only be wrong militarily.

Why can the Yue family army fight? Because the Yuejia army was the army with the clearest political purpose at that time, that is, to go on the Northern Expedition and restore the old rivers and mountains, for this political purpose. They are the most politically charged and can make any sacrifice. When an army "freezes to death and does not demolish houses, starves to death and does not plunder," it is no longer an army that "recruits scoundrels and unscrupulous people." Will such an army be despised by the people again, and will it still be said that "a good man is not a soldier"? Burning incense to greet each other is a matter of course.

So from the time he was in Yongzhou, Xu Ping didn't provoke the regular army of this era, he couldn't afford to provoke, couldn't he still hide?

If one day, he needs to meet foreign enemies by himself, Xu Ping would rather reorganize the army. The current forbidden army is not only unusable, but it is difficult to reform it. Officers at all levels, large and small, were unwilling, and the emperor was equally unwilling. That is the foundation of the Zhao family, in the ancestral family law, everything else is decoration, this is the most fundamental.

Whether the standing army or the militia, conscription or conscription, in fact, is not the most important, the most important thing is that such an army must really grow on the soil of its own country, and it cannot be a two-layer skin of state and military. For the army, if you win the battle and get a reward, if you lose, you turn your head and rob the people you are guarding, "bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like grates", how can such an army protect the country?

The army should talk about politics, not shout political slogans, and the slogans themselves have no effect. Instead, it is necessary to clarify the political purpose, to have a good political style, and if nothing else, it can always be on par with the "Yuejia Army" a hundred years later, right? If the requirements of a thousand years later exceed this era, what is native to a hundred years can always be learned. When the military stresses politics, it means that the organization, discipline, action, and even training of the military should be aligned with a clear political purpose. To say a word about defending the homeland and the country, it is not to shout such a sentence to the officers and men of the army, but to ensure that the establishment, system, training, discipline, work style, and so on all conform to the requirements of this political purpose. Let those who do this stand out and promote them, and those who don't do it will be eliminated. It is necessary to ensure that actions that conform to this principle are echoed by all people, and those that do not conform to this principle should be looked at by everyone.

To achieve this, it is necessary to start from scratch everything in the entire army, from organization to establishment, from every move to the passage of government decrees. Even if Xu Ping's heart is not able to complete such an action.

If the forbidden army is an abscess, it is better to let it rot and crush it. It is undeniable that there are excellent generals and brave soldiers in the forbidden army, and such people can even account for the majority, but under the current military system, they are suppressed to the point that they cannot stand out. They are in the majority, but they are not the mainstream of the army. If there is no war, or even a war, without the support of external factors, these outstanding soldiers will also waste their lives. Historically, Di Qing rose to the throne after the Northwest War, and he was indispensable for the vigorous promotion of several Wenchen border marshals, and he himself was part of the Wenchen's seizure of military power from Sanya. Yang Wenguang has been wandering in the ranks of low-level officers, and without Fan Zhongyan discovering him, he may be a petty military attache for the rest of his life. And if he hadn't followed Di Qing to the south later, maybe his name would not have been left in history. As for the nobody Gao Daquan, in less than ten years, he went from a Zhuang guest in Xu Ping's family to a rampant, partly because of his military exploits, partly because of Xu Ping's identity, and partly because of Zhao Zhen's appreciation.

Xu Ping can wait, also because although Zhao Zhen has all kinds of problems, he is a very professional emperor. The emperor was a profession for him, and he did his duty. Due to his special life experience, he did not regard the family law of his ancestors as a guideline like other emperors. Among the emperors of the two Song dynasties, he was the one who was the most generous in ceding power to the foreign dynasties.

Zhao Zhen doesn't know if he wants to be a good emperor Xu Ping doesn't know, but he can feel that Zhao Zhen has been working hard to play the role of emperor. The emperor can do his duty, why doesn't Xu Ping do his duty?