It was late at night, and Wang Yinglin saw that His Majesty was in deep thought, so he stepped back. When Wang De saw the little emperor in a daze, he was used to it. He quietly packed up his things, retreated to the front of the carriage, and put down the curtain and left His Majesty in the thought of it hard.

Zhao Bing knew how to avoid the autocracy of the army and form separatist forces, which should be an eternal problem with the rise of the dynasty. The Zhou Dynasty divided the kings into governing the world, and the result was that the countries were separated and heroes competed for hegemony; the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six countries, unified the world, and changed the feudal system to the county system to avoid the division of the country. While inheriting the county system, the Han Dynasty also implemented the feudal system of the princes and kings, suppressed local governments and participated in administration, in order to ensure the unity of the country. However, the rebellion of the princes and kings accompanied the whole process, and the rulers struggled to divide the feudal system and cut off the vassals.

After the Tang Dynasty unified the country again, it governed the local government with officials, and the vassal states were stationed in the borders. The princes were no longer divided into local governments to avoid their real authority from threatening the central government. However, they still did not escape the crisis of the army brought by the vassal states, until the "Anshi Rebellion" occurred. In the process of resolving this crisis, the rulers of the late Tang Dynasty reconstructed the spatial institutions and power structure of the vassal states, and eliminated the old forces of the vassal states in Guanzhong, Jianghuai, and Henan.

However, Zhao Bing knew that this policy did not completely resolve the crisis. The main line of conflict between the Chaozhou and the power of the former border town was still developing along this conflict between the Tang court and the former border town. It was only because the Tang court had established vassal states in the mainland, and the original two major military groups in the east and west had been broken up, so the conflict between the Chaozhou rebellion would no longer be as fierce as during the Anshi Rebellion. This was the lesson learned by the Tang court through the Anshi Rebellion and reconstructing the imperial space structure.

Since then, the Emperors of the Tang Dynasty have continued to suppress these old border forces. Although the methods and degrees of weakening these legions were not exactly the same, they were more proactive than Suzong during the chaos. At least subjectively, they would have regarded the original border forces such as Shuofang, Sizhen Beiting, Pinglu, and Youzhou as a potential threat, whether they were former rebels or counter-rebels.

At the same time, the above-mentioned emperors' suppression of these old forces was itself combined with the efforts to revive Tang Ting's own authority. Long before attacking the three major factions in Guanzhong, Tang Ting had already begun to develop the Shence Army, and gradually built a multi-dimensional spatial structure in Guanzhong where the Shence Army Town and the border town cooperated and restricted each other, and had a moderate decline.

The Song Dynasty also adopted this method in this regard, by constructing a centrally controlled imperial guard to curb the local wing army, and at the same time, using the wing army to suppress the imperial guards, achieving the balance of power envisioned by Zhao Kuangyin, that is, "the local army will rebel, and the imperial guards will suppress it; and when the imperial guards rebel, the local wing army will be transferred to the emperor to serve the king." In order to prevent military generals from achieving local separatism.

However, the effect seemed unsatisfactory. Due to the weak combat effectiveness of the wing army in the early stage, it was difficult to ensure the safety of the border. The Song court implemented the "renewal system" and mobilized the imperial guards stationed around the capital to guard the border. Under the names of garrison, garrison, and food, the imperial guards were stationed in the capital and in other counties, and rotated inside and outside, and returned to the capital regularly. In order to prevent the generals from being dictatorial, the imperial court temporarily appointed the garrison commanders, which caused the soldiers to be unaware of the generals and the generals to be aware of the troops, which was easy to control.

However, the Gengguan Law weakened the combat effectiveness of the army, resulting in the Song court's repeated defeats in the border war, which forced the Shenzong to abolish the Gengguan Law. The weakening of the imperial guards made more of the task of defending the border on the border local troops, and the combat effectiveness of the border troops far exceeded that of the imperial guards, resulting in unrest or major wars in the country, and the dilemma of mobilizing the border troops to resolve the danger.

The Tang court's policy of "suppressing the vassal state" was basically over in the late Yuanhe years of Emperor Xianzong. With the Tang court's elimination of the old forces of Guanzhong, Jianghuai and Henan vassal states, the crisis of the vassal states was basically over. One of the manifestations of the end of the crisis was that the spatial territory of the vassal states was basically stable after Yuanhe. Officials of the vassal states, especially a large number of civil servants, were sent to the vassal states to serve as commanders of the vassal states or subordinates of the shogunate, which was also an important manifestation of "centralization". However, these officials of the Tang court's dynasty did not actually constitute the dominant force for the future development of the vassal states, and replaced the old large army forces and transformed into local grassroots forces.

However, the Song Dynasty did a relatively successful job in this regard. After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin adopted Zhao Pu's strategy of "receiving wealth and releasing officials" and first removed the military power of the local governors by "releasing military power with a glass of wine", and then took the financial power to the court. In this way, local warlords had no soldiers and power to rebel, but they had no strength and financial resources.

At the same time, the Song court selected officials to serve local governments through the imperial examination system, and rotated regularly to prevent officials from serving in a place for a long time. The imperial examination system broadened the channels for selecting officials, causing local aristocratic families to fade away, and the gentry class to rise. The official system made it impossible for officials to serve in a certain place for a long time, which restricted the union with local forces and avoided the formation of separatist forces.

However, this history repeated in the Southern Song Dynasty, but this time the method was fierce and criticized by the world. After the Jingkang Rebellion, the central imperial guards were basically disbanded. Zhao Gou established the "Imperial Camp" based on his own marshal's mansion and the army of the kings in various places. At that time, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun and Wu Jie from Sichuan led one of the troops and renamed it "Zhangying Guardians".

However, most of these military armed forces were established in war. In a sense, they were all private armed forces of generals in command of the army. They were neither under the jurisdiction of the three yamen, nor could they be mobilized by the Privy Council. They only obeyed the orders of the main generals. More representative ones were such as the "Yue Family Army", "Han Family Army", "Liu Family Army", etc., as a result of the great enemy, Zhao Gou had to recognize the legitimacy of these troops to maintain his dominance.

As the War of Resistance Against Jin and the power of military generals continued to expand, Zhao Gou became more and more uneasy and became even more suspicious of the generals with military power. So he planned to regain the military power of local military generals. As a result, the four generals of Zhongxing were deposed and Yue Fei was killed, which allowed the already scattered military power to be concentrated in the hands of the Zhao Song royal family again, ensuring the continuation of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

As for Yue Fei's death, there are many statements and they are still debated. However, Zhao Bing thought that putting this matter under the historical background, Yue Fei's death was closely related to the complex political, economic and military situation in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. It was a victim of interest disputes and could also be considered a tragedy of an era. However, when the Mongols and Yuan dynasties rose, facing the threat, the Song court had to follow the old path and rely on the border troops to block the invasion of the enemy.

Although on the surface, in order to form separatist, in fact, the situation where the military generals controlled the local area was formed, which laid the groundwork for the demise of the Song Dynasty. This tragedy was also constantly staged in various periods of the Southern Song Dynasty. He believed that this was closely related to the situation of the war, the emperor's personal ability and the domestic situation, and was due to the prevention of separatist vassal states.
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