Since ancient times, there have been constant civil and military disputes, some of which are indeed caused by the national system and social environment, and some of which are secretly manipulated or fueled by some people.

The more acute the contradiction between civil and military affairs, the more a country can develop a deformed national system, such as the all-round arrogance of the martial arts, or the indiscriminate suppression of the martial arts by the literati. And often the deformed civil-military relationship can always make a country quickly decline, whether it is too strong in military force or too strong in culture, but often the country will suffer from the bitter fruits of abnormal development.

For this emerging group under Lu Zhe's rule, there are not many examples worth learning from so far, but for Lu Zhe himself, there are many things that can be learned and need to be noted.

The military generals of the Sui and Tang dynasties formed some family of gate lords because of the special environment of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and these gate lords were in a fundamental sense some warlords led by clan forces, such as Yang Jian, who established a strong Sui State, was one of the warlords of the Guanlong family.

Yang Jian's establishment of the Sui State was supported by the seven great families of Guanlong, and the Guanlong family at that time had been married to the Xianbei and Di tribes in Wuhu Chaos for two or three hundred years because of the environment of the special period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Yang Jian himself is actually a strong Han nationalist, and his position is to restore the Han family's clothing, traditional culture, values, etc., and he has always regarded himself as "the liberator of the Han people" and "the savior of the Han people", and he is indeed working in the direction of restoring the prestige of the Han family.

It can be said that although Yang Jian came from the Guanlong region that had been Huhua, the Shandong region was Yang Jian's staunchest supporter, just because Yang Jian was committed to restoring the style of the Han family.

It is true that during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were Han people who were trying to restore the glory of the Han family, and Yang Jian was one of them, but his way of founding the country was destined not to use too drastic measures. After all, because the establishment of the Great Sui needs the support of the Guan Long family, some things can only be carried out in the way of boiling frogs in warm water, and cannot be rushed.

In order to ensure the stability of the country, but also to make the country stable in order to be able to confront the Turks on the grassland, Yang Jian could only use all means to win over the Guanlong family after the founding of the country, and during this period, it was indeed because of the support of the Guanlong family, so that the Great Sui had been strong in the war with the Turks, and more than once won brilliant victories in the war with the Turks, similar to the Western Han Dynasty that "expelled the Hu people for thousands of miles" There are many cases.

The threat of the steppe Turks to the Great Sui gradually decreased, but the Guanlong family, who had fought vigorously against the Turks, became increasingly arrogant. When Yang Jian realized that the Guanlong family already had a kind of danger that could not be dropped, he wanted to suppress it but was afraid that the Guanlong family would help him overthrow the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he could only strengthen the support of the Shandong families while being Huairou, but he had not been able to form a balance between the Shandong family and the Guanlong family before his death.

Yang Guang inherited Yang Jian's legacy and continued to support the Shandong family, but his approach to the Guan Long family was countless times more radical than Yang Jian.

Because he was too radical, Yang Guang was rejected by the Guanlong family in just five years after he ascended the throne, if it weren't for the Shandong family that supported the Yang family at that time, it had already developed, and the Guanlong family had undergone a purge against Yang Yong's family. There were also rebellions by the royal families and a number of them were purged, and the Guanlong family fell into a period of weakness, and may have fallen into civil war and civil strife at that time.

Yang Guang did a lot of things to suppress or even weaken the Guanlong family, the most powerful of which was the repeated eastward expeditions to Goguryeo. At least 600,000 troops were lost in the first conquest of Goguryeo, and although the Guanlong family was not exhausted in the course of this defeat, most of their forces were weakened.

The Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo was Yang Guang's weakening of the Guanlong family's lineage in the military, and he did achieve the goal of "battering" the Guanlong family. However, he forgot that those armies actually belonged to the Great Sui Empire, and even more forgot that the destruction of the Shandong lands by the expedition of the labor division was very strict, and the result was that although the goal of weakening the Guanlong family was achieved. However, it also harmed the fundamental interests of the Shandong family that supported him.

Yang Guang was the first to open the imperial examination, and then excavated the Grand Canal, and almost all the things related to "merit in the future, disadvantages in the contemporary" were almost done again, but he forgot one thing, that is, to pay attention to public opinion, and as a result, Empress Xiao, who was the only one in his life, was said to be extravagant.

The final result of the Yang family's suppression of the Guan Long family was that the Guan Long family was overturned to the ground, and the Li Tang Dynasty did everything to smear the Yang family from the moment it was established, and it really achieved the step that history was written by the victor.

In the history written by the Li Tang royal family, the two generations of emperors of the Yang royal family were both extravagant and extremely cruel people, but the fact is that Yang Jian favored the lonely queen all his life, and Yang Guang only favored Empress Xiao all his life.

What is the most open-eyed and nonsense? It was only to cover up that the Li Tang royal family was able to rise with the Turkic thighs, and to erase a series of brilliant victories of the Great Sui against the Hu people of the grassland, only for Yang Guang's time when he was trapped in Yanmen Pass. In order to cover up the shame of Li Tang being forced to Chang'an by the Turks after the founding of the country, he infinitely ignored and smeared the Sui army's war with the Turks.

Until Yang Guang was killed by Yu Wenhua, the national population of the Great Sui was still 46 million, but the so-called Zhenguan Shengshi population of the Li Tang royal family was only 32 million.

In ancient times, whether the society was stable or not, or whether the country was strong or not, was often measured by the contemporary population, and on the other hand, the price of food was also the best comparison.

How is the national strength of a country, but also depends on the evaluation of outsiders, the international friend at that time, the king of Gaochang Guo, Lu Wentai, has always believed that the national strength in the early Tang Dynasty is not comparable to the former Great Sui, he once said such a thing openly to his own people: "Go to me into the court, see the north of Qin and Long, the city is depressed, and there is no longer a Sui comparison." (See Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 195.) Ko Wentai entered the court in December of the fourth year of Zhenguan (630), which was the year that Shi Chen praised the most. Food & Commodities Journal".

In fact, throughout Li Shimin's life, the Tang Empire not only could not compete with the previous dynasty in terms of economy, but also in terms of population. Three years after Li Shimin's death. Once, his son, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, asked Hubu Shangshu Gao to fulfill: "How much did the hukou increase last year?" Gao replied: "Last year, there were 150,000 more households. By the way, Li Zhi asked about the situation of households in the Sui Dynasty and now, and Gao Cheng replied: "During the opening of the Sui Dynasty, there were 8.7 million households in the country, and now there are 3.8 million households in the country. (See Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 199.) It shows that after nearly 40 years of recuperation after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, its population was still less than half of that of the Sui Dynasty.

From the comparison of the economic and demographic conditions of the two generations, the comparison of the national strength of the Tang and Sui can be seen.

Perhaps it was a lesson from the Yang royal family's suppression of the military that was finally overturned, after the establishment of the Li Tang royal family, there were very few things to suppress the military general group, and in the later period, it can even be said that it was unrestricted indulgence, and it was made to integrate the military and politics into a moderation, and it was for an incomprehensible reason to infinitely increase the strength of the Hu bloodline generals. Finally, the hellish gate of the "Anshi Rebellion" was opened.

In just 53 years, I don't know how many dynasties appeared on the land of China, only a few months or even a few years of short-lived dynasties, and the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and the five more powerful dynasties fought back and forth, until the early days of Zhao Kuangyin's founding of the country, the population dropped directly from more than 60 million in the late Tang Dynasty to less than 16 million.

In the Song and Song dynasties, drawing on the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Zhao dynasty implemented the national policy of comprehensively cultivating literature and martial arts, and infinitely elevated the status of scholars. Infinitely reduced the status of the general.

In fact, the cultivation of Wen Yanwu was not due to the complete independent will of the Zhao Dynasty, but the civil and military officials at that time learned enough lessons from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, whether they were civil officials or military generals, and they believed that the military should be restrained. We can't let the heavy military and light literature of the Sui and Tang dynasties happen again, and we can't let the military generals have the opportunity to harm the country again.

The Zhao royal family, the civil official group, and the military general group, from the common will of the three parties, the Great Song military did indeed achieve self-restraint in the early years of the Great Song Dynasty. However, in the following periods, the scholars completely forgot the agreements or rules formed at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the overall rise of the scholars did not respect the military clique in the minimum etiquette. Not only did they not respect the military's self-restraint, but the scholars practiced the military again and again, and the deformed development of the Great Song Dynasty began with the scholars continuing to practice the military.

It is recorded that during the invasion of the Jin State, they crossed the Yellow River and even killed the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty military did not resist, more than 400,000 Northern Song Dynasty troops abandoned the Bianjing court and fled to the south, and more than 100,000 Northern Song Dynasty troops even simply surrendered to the Jin State and attacked the Great Song Dynasty.

During the Mongol invasion to the south, it is recorded that the Great Song Dynasty had more than 3.5 million troops, the Southern Song army lost in the Great Patriotic War was more than 1.6 million, and the remaining 1.9 million Southern Song troops surrendered to the Mongols. Perhaps at that moment, the original Southern Song Dynasty troops looked at the continuous reading of scholars jumping off cliffs and martyrdom, and they should feel more relieved of hatred than compassion or sadness, after all, the scholars really provoked the military group in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty for 319 years.

"So...... Literature cannot be excessive, and martial arts cannot be strong. ”

Lu Zhe said that his mouth was dry, of course, he did not directly talk about the two countries of Sui and Tang, but created a special environment, fictionalized two countries, and used the way of deduction to explain the history that happened after the founding of the Sui and Tang Dynasty in a narrative method similar to storytelling.

The ministers who listened to Lu Zhe's story were basically high-ranking and powerful people, and they could also be said to be the elite of the contemporary generation, who fell into a long silence after listening to the story.

When Lu Zhe talked about the Sui and Tang dynasties, he focused on the dangers of the family, and had to make them think about whether to suppress the emergence of the family.

Hearing the harm done to the country by the military general group, they also wondered if Lu Zhe was going to start restraining the military as rumored.

But later, Lu Zhe talked about the consequences of the strong civilian officials, and they overturned Lu Zhe's speculation that he wanted to suppress the military.

In the development of history, it is impossible not to completely fail to exist in the family, and generally there will be a group of ministers from the dragon in the country, and these nobles are actually the group of people who are most likely to become the family, and they have that kind of influence and enough connections.

"Huh?" Lu Zhe smiled dumbly when asked about related topics, and only after laughing enough did he answer: "The strength of the family is something that everyone is committed to and works hard for, and loneliness cannot stop people from developing and working towards the prospects they think are good." ”

Guessed wrong? At that moment, many people looked at each other, and they became a little ignorant again.

"We are divided, the local is suppressed, and the non-local is to encourage the strong." Zhang Liang reminded in a low voice.

Lu Zhe smiled.

In addition to Lu Zhe, a founding monarch, the successors and the ruling government, the Taiwei Administration, the General's Mansion, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate actually formed a pattern of co-governance, and the five aspects formed a relatively stable political phenomenon, and the king was more like a supervisor.

Under the system of feudal feudalism, especially in the case of extensive feudalization, while ensuring the strength of the country, it forms an overall advantage over the vassals of the sub-feudal lords, and all the ruler of the country needs to do is to throw those with special ambitions out of the country. These guys can go to fight with other races to establish their own family business, and strive to get support from the locality, as long as the ruler can make the native country strong, the suppression of those feudal vassals will not change, and then grasp the absolute power of the feudal feudals, in fact, they can completely control the situation.

"What we have to discuss next is," Lu Zhe looked at the dozen or so people present, and looked over one by one: "How to formulate a reasonable and withstanding scrutiny of the sub-sealing system." In the sub-sealing system, two branches are divided, one is the outer separation, and the other is the internal separation. What kind of basic national policy should be adopted between the two? ”

At this moment, everyone who could be present was full of spirit, and what they call today may determine the fate of this land under their feet for thousands of years to come. (To be continued......)