Human nature is selfishness and greed. Zhao Bing forgot who said this sentence. He has reserved agreement, because affairs always have positive and negative sides. There are many examples of people who can share hardships and hardships in the world, and they cannot share wealth and honor. However, there was no phenomenon of killing heroes in the Song Dynasty. He thought that Zhao Kuangyin had achieved wealth and honor, but he gave the country he created a dose of slow-moving poison, which left disaster to future generations.

The release of military power has always been a beautiful story in history. At a banquet with the generals, Zhao Kuangyin told the generals who supported him as emperor: Life is like a flash of time, but only a short moment. People who are greedy for wealth actually just want to accumulate wealth, enjoy more, and prevent future generations from falling into poverty. You might as well release military power, go to the place, buy more fertile land and beautiful houses, and establish an unmovable industry for their descendants. At the same time, buy more singing and dancing girls, drink and have a happy day and night, and end your life.

Yes, at this banquet, Zhao Kuangyin completed the great move to seize the military power of the founding heroes, which also allowed him to kill the heroes after he became emperor without the need to kill the heroes after he became emperor like Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang. At the same time, he made "release the military power, pursue wealth, and enjoy more" a major unspoken rule followed by the soldiers of the Song Dynasty and the family law adhered to by his descendants.

Perhaps Zhao Kuangyin's words were just to deprive the military power of the founding heroes, but the Song Dynasty he established first cut off the power of the military generals from the military system, and at the same time he valued culture and neglected military generals. As military generals, the soldiers followed this principle and created the prerequisite for "release military power". They only needed to "pursuing wealth and enjoy more". Therefore, the Song army became a trend in doing business. They were not necessarily the warriors who dared to sacrifice their lives on the battlefield, but they were always rich in money in the shopping mall. Even the famous Yue Family Army not only did real estate and hotel business, but also opened pawn shops and casinos.

Instead of killing the literati and officials, he also prepared amulets for the scholars. He did not kill the literati. Before Zhao Kuangyin died, he left a stele of the oath monument, which was placed in the secret room of the Taimiao Hall, and stipulated that when the new emperor ascended the throne, he would go to the secret room to recite the inscription. This inscription was the three ancestral teachings that later emperors must abide by, and the most important one was "not killing the literati and officials or those who wrote to write to talk about things."

Why is this the most important thing? Because it is equivalent to giving all literati in the world a gold medal to avoid death, and it is effective for life. This is much more effective than Zhu Yuanzhang's alchemy iron voucher! The Song Dynasty created a political pattern of governing the world with scholars and officials. But on the other hand, it also gave people all over the world the motivation to strive for study and enter the officialdom. The so-called "there is a golden house in books, and the beautiful woman in books" is said by Emperor Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty. This sentence has become an inspirational quote today, but it was really a true portrayal of scholars in the Song Dynasty, and the civil servant group has also embarked on the road of pursuing wealth and pleasure!

So we see that the Song Dynasty was the most prosperous period in Chinese history and the richest period, but it could not fight. At the same time, for more than 300 years, there was no phenomenon of rioters usurping power and seizing thrones like the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties. They were only greedy for money! However, the scene Zhao Bing saw now was even worse. It can be said that under his butt was not a throne, but a powder barrel.

After this era, although Zhao Bing did not like to study classics and history, he still gained something under the guidance of many masters. He found that before the Qin Dynasty, especially in the feudal society before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the social class was very strict, but the social order was relatively stable. There were few dynasties when changing dynasties, and fewer people rebelled in the lower classes.

Because at that time, when a person was born, he determined his fate and future. You are a slave, and you may be a slave for the rest of your life, and at most you will become a commoner, but it is not easy to become a noble, and it is even less likely to become a prince or a emperor. Similarly, you are a noble, even if your family is ruined, you are also a noble, and you are unlikely to become a slave. It seems to be similar to the "San Ge" in modern society. The caste system determines your status and is difficult to change from generation to generation. You can only settle for your career and have no intention of rebelling at all.

Before Qin, the emperors, princes, and ministers had only a question of how much power they had. It was a pyramid-shaped structure, and it was not said that anyone had particularly great power. Although the Zhou emperor had great authority, the princes also had their own fiefs and authority, and the nobles and officials also had their own fiefs and authority. This was a certain determinant. Moreover, at that time, people were ruled by this idea of ​​feudal system, and few rebelled in order to improve the hierarchy of their own class.

Let’s look back at the government during the feudal dynasty. Since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted “Would you rather have a king, prince, general, or minister”, and since Xiang Yu pointed at Qin Shihuang’s chasing emperor and said, “That can be replaced”, he could choose to rebel. Because as long as the rebellion is successful, this person is simply unspeakable. Therefore, he must have “great ambitions” and those who want to be emperor. Even by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, it had been peaceful for a long time, but because he gave all the military power to An Lushan, he found that he had the opportunity to be an emperor, so he rebelled immediately. But he did not succeed. If he succeeded, the Tang Dynasty would also be a short-lived dynasty.

Now, although the Mongols have been repelled to Jiangbei, under their ten years of rule, people's thoughts have changed. In the past, Mongolia was just barbarians, both in the propaganda of the court and in people's feelings. However, the Song Dynasty, known as the great power of the Celestial Empire, was still not an enemy, and was destroyed by it. It can be seen that as long as you have enough strength, you can establish a country, wear a dragon robe and ascend the throne, you can take all the money and property in the world.

Of course, Zhao Bing was not a random guess. When the imperial court took refuge in Qiongzhou, the uprisings in Jiangnan began one after another. Although they were under the banner of restoring the Song Dynasty, once several cities were captured and had a certain scale, they immediately became king and emperor, and had long put the Song Dynasty behind them. Under pressure, the scholars followed the footsteps of the martial artists in hopelessness, accepted the enlistment of the Yuan court, and became pawns to maintain the enemy country, changing their courses to earn Yuan Dynasty money. All this shows that it is not only the bankruptcy of Zhao Kuangyin's ancestral system, but also the complete collapse of the ideological system in the past.

Chen Yizhong's rebellion also reminded Zhao Bing that it was not only the warriors who coveted the throne, but also the scholars. According to the interrogation records of Chen Yizhong and his gang sent back from the Ministry of Justice, Chen Yizhong refused to admit that he was the one who was doing it, saying that it was his subordinates, and he was completely unaware of it. The so-called military advisor Cai Rui could not stand the punishment and admitted that they had planned to assassinate him, and his confession was even more shocking.

After Chen Yizhong and his group returned to China, their lives became increasingly difficult. They had to try to maintain their lives and avoid persecution from the Yuan Dynasty. So they wanted to contact their former colleagues and hoped to improve, and even accept the conquest of the Yuan Dynasty. However, just after they got in touch with Liu Mengyan, the Qiongzhou Dynasty suddenly launched the battle to restore the country without any warning, and swept across the entire Jiangnan with a sharp and unstoppable momentum.

The change in the situation made Chen Yizhong think that being a good person is worse than being familiar with, and it would be better to return to the court. After all, he had the merit of supporting him at the beginning, but he had not taken action yet. The young emperor issued an order to suppress the traitors of the Song Dynasty, colluded with the Mongolian Yuan, and the old officials who served as pseudo-official officials, and surrendered without fighting, for a while, and scared him again. Instead, under the instigation of a group of old subordinates, he thought that only by abolishing the young emperor and establishing a new king could he return to the court. So under this guiding ideology, a series of actions were launched.

But Cai Rui thought further. They claimed that Chen Yizhong wanted to make a comeback with his reputation and power, and then eliminated the young emperor, and controlled the empress dowager to take power as the state affairs of Pingzhang, and re-establish a weak and incompetent emperor. He thought very well. Chen Yizhong would definitely use them, such meritorious ministers, so they cleared the old ministers in the court on the grounds of clearing the king, and then pulled him off on the grounds of Chen Yizhong's plan to assassinate the late emperor. In this way, a group of people led by Cai Rui could control the court, and finally forced "Emperor Yong" to abdicate, change the name of the country, imitate Shi Jingtang and the Mongolian Yuan peace agreement, and proclaim him emperor in Jiangnan.

Zhao Bing was still surprised after seeing it. Of course, it was not because of their methods, but because of their ideas. A group of down-and-out scholars like a dog were eager to become emperors, and they also attracted many supporters. This shows that the national policy formulated by Zhao Kuangyin had been broken by the scholars. They not only wanted the power to govern together, but also wanted this throne. Thinking about Han Xin back then, he could not resist the insult under his crotch but could not resist the temptation of power and wanted to rebel to become emperors. As a result, a year before Liu Bang died, Empress Lu was deceived into the palace by Empress Lu, and several palace maids strangled him with silk.

Human nature is so complex, and ideas always change with the changes of the situation. In the past, in Qiongzhou, everything was under one's nose, and with the limitations of conditions, even some bad thoughts had to be hidden. But now when we arrived in Jiangnan, we had a little bit of a high sky and the emperor was far away. Some people would inevitably think of Lao Zhao's national policy, make money unrestrainedly, and even develop a sense of being unjust. Qin Linfeng is an example. Although killing him can shock him for a while, he is afraid that it will be difficult to control his life.

Zhao Bing knew very well that if he indulged the Chinese civil and military officials in the court to make money, it would not take a few years. This new army that he had worked hard to train would re-take the old path and no longer have combat effectiveness. This would lead to the deterioration of the government, the corruption of officials, and the destruction of officials, and soon end. However, if strict restrictions were imposed and officials were prohibited from doing business and making money, it would likely cause dissatisfaction, threaten his rule, and even his own safety.

"Your Majesty, Secretary Jiang passed on a letter, please tell me!" When Zhao Bing was thinking about how to get rid of the last day, Cai Ruoshui came in and reported.

"He wrote to me privately, aren't he afraid that the Empress Dowager will blame me?" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"Your Majesty is joking. Shangshu Jiang once submitted a memorial to ask the Empress Dowager, but there were only three words on it - asking the emperor, so Shangshu Jiang sent it to Your Majesty again intact!" Cai Ruoshui said with a smile.

"Haha, the Queen Mother is asking me to retreat without a break!" Zhao Bing smiled and took the memorial carefully. It was indeed the Queen Mother's imperial criticism on it. Jiang Qi's memorial said that after the army expanded its troops on a large scale, new recruits were about to be completed, but there was a serious shortage of grassroots officers, and the new army training brigade's student soldiers had not yet graduated, so it was difficult to supplement them in full. In addition, the civilian personnel stationed by the Ministry of War were seriously insufficient and it was difficult to carry out work.

"Ruoshui, you immediately draft an order to Ni Liang, and ordered him to follow the orders of the Ministry of War, draw a thousand officers and soldiers below the commander from each brigade of the Guardian Army, and hand them over to the soldiers to send each army; orders to the Ministry of Rites Xu Shangshu and the Ministry of Personnel Chen Shangshu, and order them to select a group of people who are familiar with military affairs from the Tai students assigned by the Imperial College to hand them over to the Ministry of War, and add them to each army to serve as the Yuhou of each army." Zhao Bing saw that he ordered Cai Ruoshui to draft an order.

"Your Majesty, the brigades of the guards have transferred so many officers at once, it's probably going to affect the morale and combat effectiveness, right?" Cai Ruoshui said in surprise after hearing this.

"No, the guards gathered all the elites of the army, received new regulations and regulations, and also went to the battlefield. Even ordinary soldiers were elites of ten. They were competent in each army as team chiefs, and they were assigned to each army to be promoted. However, many of our guards had military achievements, but because they had no official quotas, they could only serve as soldiers, or even ordinary soldiers. The vacant quotas could be filled by them. Isn't it the best of both worlds?" Zhao Bing waved his hand, "As for the missing quotas, they can be selected from the new training camp. The backbone of the guards is still there, and they can restore their combat power without much training!"

"Your Majesty said it well, but it's a pity!" Although Cai Ruoshui agreed with the little emperor's statement, he still felt a little distressed. He also knew how much His Majesty had been concerned about the guards. At first, there was only one battalion of the guards. He personally selected officers to organize training and expanded step by step to the current level. It can be said that he could name the officers above the head of the brigade, and now he has been transferred for their future. I believe the little emperor is not feeling well.

"No matter how hard the guards can fight, there are only 50,000 people. It is impossible to defend Jiangnan, and it is even more difficult to defeat the Mongolian Yuan and recover the Central Plains. However, if they are distributed to the armies as seeds, they can lead out troops that also have the combat effectiveness of the guards. Why worry about not being able to unify China!" Zhao Bing said.

"What Your Majesty said is exactly. If the entire army is as strict as the guards in front of the imperial guards and loyal to His Majesty, then you can rest assured!" Cai Ruoshui said with a smile.

"This is something that cannot be said again. Now which army is not the army of our Song Dynasty, how can we distinguish between relatives and closeness!" Zhao Bing frowned, but he also knew that what he said was right in his mind. You must know that the guards were his last support. They not only shouldered the task of protecting the capital and following their battles, but also suppressed rebellion. Therefore, in addition to being strong in combat, the guards in the front of the imperial army are also the most loyal to themselves. Assigning them to the army as officers at all levels can restrain their chief officers and act as their own eyes and ears at critical moments, so as to ensure the loyalty of each army to them for a certain period of time...
Chapter completed!