Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

After all, the status of warriors in the Song Dynasty was very low.

In the past, the rewards for warriors were nothing more than the basic operations of rewarding silver for military merits, paying salaries, and pensions.

As for publicly commending and praising warriors, it will definitely not happen.

Let's just talk about Di Qing, a famous general in the Northern Song Dynasty during the Renzong period. Isn't this person awesome?

As soon as the Xixia people heard Di Qing's name, they immediately wanted to dig holes in place and bury themselves.

Di Qing spent his entire life on the battlefield, making great military achievements.

But Renzong wanted to let him enter the Privy Council, and was sprayed by those civil servants so that Renzong almost hanged himself.

In the words of civil servants, the Privy Council is the place where the ministers of the two governments stay, and it is the place where the military and government officials of the country and the dynasty are. How can humble warriors come in and defile the sanctity of this place?

Of course, Di Qing was still promoted to be a privy envoy.

But during his career as a privy envoy, he was attacked by this group of civil servants in every possible way.

Even a great writer like Ouyang Xiu hated him.

In the end, Di Qing was demoted and died of depression.

It can be said that a famous general like Di Qing was a tragedy that was strangled by the literati in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Praise warriors?

That's slapping the faces of civil servants!

There is a poem in the Northern Song Dynasty: All the nobles and nobles are full of scholars.

This is no joke.

In the Song Dynasty, the saying "A good man should not be a soldier, and a good iron should not be nailed" was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Soldiers have tattoos on their faces, which is considered a symbol of lowliness in people's eyes.

The whole society looks down on soldiers.

So in the later period, a considerable part of the Forbidden Army in the Northern Song Dynasty were either refugees or beggars.

"Tokyo Daily" represents the voice of the emperor, and today's praise of the fallen soldiers naturally shows the change of the emperor's attitude towards warriors.

And the original text is also very clear: there is a country, there is a family, and soldiers are the ones who defend the country and the family. They have given their lives, and we should respect them.

This is a very common cognition for people in the 21st century, but it is subversive for people in the Song Dynasty in the 12th century.

In fact, in the Song Dynasty, the rudiments of the concept of the state in Chinese history began to take shape.

Why do you say that?

Before the Song Dynasty, it was called Tianxia, ​​the emperor was the co-lord of Tianxia, ​​and Tianxia had no clear boundaries.

Even in the period of the Three Kingdoms, there was no clear boundary. After the three forces became emperors, they all thought they were orthodox, and the others were rebellious officials and thieves.

In the Song Dynasty, after the Chanyuan Alliance, the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom drew a clear boundary.

This breaks the concept of "world".

It further affected the field of ideology, making literati more enthusiastic about the distinction between Chinese and barbarians, and further strengthening their defense against barbarians.

This further promoted the formation of the prototype of the "country".

The current grim situation, at worst, may destroy the country and family, but at best, it provides Zhao Ning with an opportunity to unite internally.

It played a certain role in shaping the concept of "country" for him.

Let’s just say that today’s headlines resonated with many people.

Obviously, many people have begun to realize the importance of warriors, and no longer discriminate against warriors as in the past.

What Zhao Ning wants is to slowly change people's thinking. If you want to strengthen the military, you must let the soldiers be respected by the society.

On the third day of December, Jin Jun did not wait for the news of the peace talks.

On the fourth day of December, there was still no news.

At this time, in a mansion, the former Shaozai Tang Ke met the former Shangshu Zuocheng Geng Nanzhong.

Geng Nanzhong is not just as simple as Shangshu Zuocheng, he is also the teacher of Song Qinzong Zhao Huan.

He is an even more shameless capitulator.

"Mr. Geng."

"Tang Xianggong, you came to me suddenly, what's the matter?"

Tang Ke sighed: "Mr. Geng, you should know about these things that happened recently, right?"

"I know."

"What do you think?"

Geng Nanzhong said: "The official Yuji always has his own ideas."

"Just now the city was successfully defended, and the morale of the Jin people also suffered some setbacks. The Jin people took the initiative to ask for peace, but the officials did not express their views. I heard that the Ministry of Rites was still building a temple called the Martyr's Shrine yesterday to enshrine the warriors who died in battle. This is not blind Are you fooling around!"

As soon as he heard about the Martyr's Shrine, the scheming Geng Nanzhong even became gloomy.

It's fine to sing and praise in the "Tokyo Daily", but to build a ancestral hall for those Qiu Bamen?

Tang Ke said: "You are the teacher of the official family. The official family is now acting arbitrarily and killing ministers rashly. The Imperial City Secretary is doing more and more evil things, and he has unrestrainedly raised the status of warriors. If this continues, the consequences will be disastrous."

"Do not worry."

"Can I not be in a hurry? Even Feng Chen has been dismissed, and the officials don't care about the Jinren's peace talks!"

"Let me ask you, is the official family popular now?"

"This...I don't know."

Geng Nanzhong put down his teacup and said: "Don't forget that the Supreme Emperor is still in the palace. If the official family is unpopular, the Supreme Emperor will not sit idly by."

Tang Ke was slightly startled: "What do you mean?"

"Tang Xianggong, the situation has reached the point where you and I can't control it. The government's road is getting narrower and narrower. When everyone is dissatisfied, people's hearts will naturally favor the Supreme Emperor."

The Supreme Emperor he was talking about was Song Huizong Zhao Ji.

Chapter 33 Song and Jin Arms Race?

On the fifth day of December, it snowed heavily.

Zhao Ning got up from Zhu Lian's bed and smelled it, it was still fragrant.

Women are made of water, soft and fragrant.

"Guanjia, are you leaving so early?"

"I have something to do today."

After Zhao Ning got dressed, he went back to Tangmu Pavilion and took a hot shower, feeling refreshed immediately.

After breakfast, just after dawn, he left the palace.

Zhang Shuye was already waiting outside the palace.

Along the way, he saw some common people running out and cutting down some trees on the side of the road to use as firewood for their homes.

Jing Chao originally wanted to stop it, but was stopped by Zhao Ning.

Jing Chao said: "Officials, cutting down trees on the side of the road is expressly prohibited by the imperial court."

"Let's let them go for now, now is a special period." Zhao Ning squinted his eyes and looked at those people who were hunched over and running quickly holding firewood in the wind and snow, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

Jing Chao said: "The government is sympathetic to the people, and the people will know the painstaking efforts of the government."

People like Jing Chao also come from humble backgrounds, and he can understand how difficult it is for those people.

This may also be the reason why he chose to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff instead of surrendering to Yue Fei in the orthodox history.

After all, it is too difficult for people at the bottom to climb up. If they are promoted, their gratitude will be engraved in their hearts.

In fact, the management in the city is much looser now than in the past.

It may also be that the officials have no intention of governing, or it may be that everyone feels that at this time, internal conflicts should not be caused any more.

But some people don't think so, and some people just feel that their interests have been damaged, and they want to start fighting back.

The carriage soon arrived at the North and South Workshop, Zhao Ning got off the carriage, and several officials from the Military Weapons Supervision were already waiting for the driver at the door.

"The ministers and others see the officials."

Zhao Ning got down from the carriage and said, "Everyone is welcome."

"Thank you."

The Military Weapons Supervision was the official office in charge of weapons manufacturing in the Song Dynasty, but this place was not the Military Weapons Supervision, but the North and South Workshops.

The Military Weapons Supervision is the government office, but the actual manufacturing of weapons is the North and South Workshops.

Military Weapons Supervision was originally a weapon manufacturing yamen in the Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there was no military weapons supervisor, but the North and South Workshops, which were managed by the Yantie Division under the Yantie Division, one of the three envoys.

Later, Wang Anshi reformed the law, and Shenzong and Wang Anshi were probably "Tang fans", thinking that restoring the Tang Dynasty system could enrich the country and strengthen the army.

The Military Weapons Supervision was established by Wang Anshi's New Deal. Lu Huiqing, the general of the New Deal at the time, personally presided over the reform and established the national military management system of the Song Dynasty.

However, the yamen actually manufactured by Kaifeng Mansion were still in the North and South workshops. In the Shenzong era, the North and South workshops were changed to East and West workshops.

The leading official is the Military Weapons Supervisor, and the supervisor here is the official name.

Li Chong, the military supervisor, said: "Officials, this way please."

"Li Qing."

"The minister is here."

"I'm here today mainly to request some weapons with Mr. Shu Ye to prepare for defense against the enemy."

"I understand that the officials and Uncle Ye can ask for anything, and I will do my best."

Li Chong spoke very beautifully.

"Let's look at the manufacture of the trebuchet first."

"Officials, please."

Wanyan Zonghan is now playing fake wars while quickly preparing for the next larger-scale siege.

Naturally, Zhao Ning couldn't be idle. Now that the war machine of the Great Song Dynasty was in motion, it should be in full operation.

Wanyan Zonghan besieged Taiyuan City for nine months this year and gnawed down Taiyuan City.

All the defenders of Taiyuan City were martyred.

How tragic the Battle of Taiyuan was, it is unimaginable to those who have not personally experienced it.

It is also enough to explain Wanyan Zonghan's terrible will and powerful means in the war.

The enemy Zhao Ning is facing now is definitely the strongest army in the world.

Moreover, Wanyan Zonghan led all the famous generals of Jurchen at this time, as well as the most talented Hanchen who surrendered from the Liao Kingdom.

Those Crusaders in Europe, in front of the Golden Army at this moment, can only be crushed into scum.

It's such an opponent, so naturally we have to do our best to prepare, and we can't relax for a moment.

Zhao Ning brought everyone to a place where trebuchets were made.

Catapults developed to the Song Dynasty, and their technological level has reached its peak.

This thing was learned by the Jin people during the Song and Jin battles, and the Jingkang disaster, the Jin people swept away all the weapons in Tokyo City and brought them back to the north, and took away all the craftsmen and talents.

This led to the rise of Mongolia, the destruction of the Kingdom of Jin, and the inheritance of all the armor forging, gunpowder technology, and trebuchet technology of the Song Dynasty.

The Mongols further brought these to the West during the Western Expedition.

Therefore, you can understand that the Northern Song Dynasty was at the highest level of human craftsmanship at this time.

The Great Song Dynasty was not only culturally developed, three of the four great inventions belonged to the Song Dynasty.

The imperial examination is not just about the Four Books and Five Classics.

Zhao Ning was shocked when he saw the rows of trebuchets standing there.

A few days ago, the trebuchets on the turret were more or less damaged, and most of them needed to be replaced. These were replaced.