It is said that even if the Jiangmen forces in the northwest are complicated, now the generals of the Great Song Dynasty have some strength, Cao Pan and Wang Yang are all here, and there is only one Shi family missing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, it's really not that simple.

What's the problem?

It is still a problem of the military system of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty army was divided into four categories:

The forbidden army is the central army, which belongs to the three ya;

The Xiang Army, which is a local soldier, belongs to the states;

The township soldiers, the militia, only defend their own places and do not go out to fight;

The soldiers of the Tibetan tribes united as soldiers and defended their places with the method of village soldiers.

Song Taizu used Zhou Shizong's method to promote the strong men in the Xiang army to the forbidden army, and those who remained were remnants of soldiers with little combat effectiveness to fill the number.

Therefore, when Lao Cao fought the Kunlun Pass Blocking Battle with a battalion of soldiers, no one in the DPRK dared to believe it, and they all felt that it was too fake.

As for the township soldiers and the Fan soldiers, they are not the official army of the state, so I will not talk about him.

Therefore, the center of gravity of all armed forces is actually the forbidden army.

Where the whole country needs to be defended, the forbidden army is sent to take turns, which is called "fanshu".

And the problem lies in this "fanshu".

When people talked about the military system of the Song Dynasty, most of them slandered it. It is believed that the reason why the Tang Dynasty was strong and the Song Dynasty was weak was because the Song Dynasty abolished the feudal towns.

This is!

When the Tang Dynasty was strong, there were no feudal towns at all. When Xuanzong set up a feudal town, it was because the national fortunes were declining and he changed to a defensive position.

The strategy shifted backwards and focused on running its own borders, which was the reason for the formation of the feudal towns.

As for the pros and cons of the feudal town, let's not talk about it, just talk about the Great Song Dynasty.

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty were all recruited, as opposed to the government military system. People also think that this is a shortcoming of the military system of the Song Dynasty, but it is not.

Although the conscription system has its shortcomings, it has considerable value both economically and politically.

The treacherous scoundrels of the people must have a place for him, and it is best to punish and influence them and change their nature.

Economically, this generation is the so-called "scoundrel", he cannot produce diligently, and it is extremely difficult to punish and reform him. It is only in the military that the most rigid rules can restrain him and make it change (a similar situation exists in today's society).

After 10 to 20 years in the army, after a long period of training, the essence of most people will change, and they can engage in production and become good citizens.

This is also one of the reasons why from the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty to the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was no large-scale peasant uprising in the last three hundred years of the Song Dynasty. Even if there is a counterpart, it has not gone out to the land of a province.

In the year of famine, the township was collected to fill the forbidden army. Think about it, the young thorns have been taken away, how can the people rebel?

Economically, it is inherently appropriate to divide the industry, and the common people pay to raise the soldiers, and they do not care about the war at all, which is beneficial to economic construction. If the government military system is implemented, the whole country will be soldiers, and this is the need today.

But if the soldiers can really resist the enemy, the civilians do not need to be all soldiers. Therefore, the system of conscription has its considerable value both economically and politically.

The legislation of the Great Song Dynasty has its profound meaning, but what it does cannot match its expectations, and the benefits have not been seen before they are visible.

As I just talked about the problem of the Fan Shu, the gradual corruption of the troops, and the system of the Fan Shu made the soldiers not know the generals, the generals did not know the soldiers, and it was not convenient for command and control.

The soldiers have not lived in the place for a long time, they are not familiar with the terrain, and they have no contact with the local people, and they are represented once every three years, but the cost of the road is equal to the expedition once every three years.

More importantly, whenever there is a flood or drought, most of them use recruitment as a strategy to relieve the famine, so the number of troops increases.

When the Song Dynasty opened the country, it was less than 200,000; In the last years of Taizu, it had increased to 370,000; In the last years of Taizong, it increased to 660,000; In the last years of Zhenzong, it increased to 910,000.

During the reign of Renzong, the Western Xia army rose and increased to 1.25 million. Although it decreased slightly, there were still 1.16 million.

Ouyang Xiu said: "The wealth of the world, from Huaidian to Wu and Chu, is all taken from the capital division. There is nothing to do, but the weight of the endowment is so heavy that it cannot be repeated. ”

There are so many soldiers, even if they can fight, there is a crisis, not to mention that they can't fight, and they are all humiliating to Liao and Xia.

Well, let's talk about the impact on the salt reform.

As mentioned above, the Great Song Dynasty is just the opposite of later generations.

Later generations of Huaxia also rotated to fight, but it was the generals who rotated in later generations. That is to say, the commanders of several major military regions, including the officers at the grassroots level, have been promoted and transferred, and it is the officers, not the soldiers, who have been promoted and transferred.

But the Great Song Dynasty was just the opposite, and it was the soldiers who moved, not the generals.

In the third generation, as soon as the soldiers became familiar with the local garrison, they were transferred, not to mention the labor and money, it was indeed not conducive to defense.

In this way, if the salt reform is promoted, it is not the generals of a certain node who will greet the generals, but almost reach an agreement with the generals of the entire northwest.

Moreover, it is true that the Western Army has been strict for several generations and has a strong army, but this also has a price.

"Da Lang also knows, what is the foothold of our few generals, there is no benefit, who will follow you?"

Pan Feng said the true meaning: "The reason why Jiangmen is called Jiangmen is because the promotion of our Song Dynasty officers implements a recommendation system. My Pan family raised troops as generals, so they are naturally people from my Pan family. This is the foundation on which the gate was built. ”

When the Great Song Dynasty was founded, several famous generals were recommended from generation to generation, as if they had joined the party, and they had already formed their own factions.

"However, lifting will be the foundation, and those unsightly things are the stone that binds everyone together!"

"The Western Army has no empty salaries and fake salaries, if the oil and water in the salt road are cut off again, then who will follow us!"

"If no one is following you, what is it called?"

“......”

Tang Yi sighed silently, which is also an important reason why he has not started military reform so far.

It stands to reason that as a person of later generations and a considerable interest in history, how could Tang Yi not know that the biggest problem in the Great Song Dynasty was actually the military system.

After changing the military system, even if Tang Yi doesn't do anything else, the life of the Great Song Dynasty is better than now, I don't know how many times.

However, why is he ready to use his hands and feet in the court, economically, and even culturally, but not to touch the army? Even if it touches, it will only be a small pilot in one Hades camp, and you don't dare to make any big moves?

It is because the more familiar he is with Jiangmen, the deeper he understands the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, and the more he dares not move.

If you don't get it right, you'll have a mess, and it's a big mess!

"I didn't say that I cut off the financial route of the soldiers of the Western Army." Tang Yi explained. "None of them are outsiders, I'll tell you the truth, the military system will be moved sooner or later."

"Even if I don't want to move, Your Majesty can't stand such a huge military expenditure for a long time."

A few people were stunned, "How to move?" ”

"It's too early to say that"

"I just talk about the salt reform, this thing is on the bow, it has to be sent, and it must be done. As for the oil and water ...... in the Northwest Army"

Tang Yi pondered for a moment, "Let's talk about it below, the salt road has to be broken continuously, this is a major event of the country, whoever blocks the road will die!" ”

"But I won't treat the soldiers badly, I'll find another way for you to make money!"

...... (To be continued.) )