Zhao Bing knew very well that Wang Yanwu could write such an article, and he could not blame him completely, nor could he blame them all on the entire scholar group.?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

In Zhao Bing's view, ancient Chinese history is a history of constant change of imperial power. The biggest feature is that the country is constantly being subverted, especially in eras with frequent wars, changing emperors is as frequent as changing clothes, so it leaves the Chinese people with an extremely embarrassing problem of rebellion: Which country should we be loyal to? Which emperor should we be loyal to? Be loyal to the previous dynasty, I am rebellious in this dynasty; and be loyal to this dynasty, I am the "loose dog" of the current dynasty.

In a dilemma, some people have a nihilistic concept of not loving the country, and betrayers have natural reasons. Since we do not have a country that we can love sincerely forever and sincerely, and the country is also the emperor, then betrayal has become a natural and strange thing. Every dynasty has a contemporary politically correct law, and the people have to become sloppy and those who know the times are heroes. Abstract moral issues have evolved into simple common sense problems, and everyone has to learn to be slick and weak without principles.

In fact, the people in the occupied areas often do not care much about who the master of this country is. Times change, and people will gradually accept the facts unless the rulers of foreign races regard them as second-class slaves. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Chengda went on a mission to the Jin Dynasty and passed his hometown north of the Huai River. He wrote many poems, one of which was "Zhouqiao - Looking south at Zhuquemen and North at Yide Tower are all old imperial roads": The north and south of the Zhouqiao Bridge are Tianjie, and the elders waited for the year; they held back their tears and asked the envoys, when would the six armies really come? But this was a clear cheating behavior.

Also in Fan Chengda's own diary, "Langguilu", there is a real fact: "The people have also been accustomed to the customs of Hu for a long time, and their attitudes and hobbies have changed." The writing about Xiangzhou is just saying: "Li Li often shed tears and sighed, and instructed people, saying, 'This is a Chinese Buddhist!'" Where did the old man dare to stop the Song Dynasty envoy on the streets of the Jin Dynasty "Nanjing" of the Jin Dynasty and asked why the Song Bing did not come back to his hometown! Three years later, Han Yuanji went to the Jin Dynasty to envoy to avoid suspicion, hid in the car, and did not dare to talk to the local people. He got out of the car and asked for water to drink. When he met children and women, he used language to test it and asked his confidants to secretly ask for questions many times, "Then he knew that the people in the Central Plains were there, and he hated that we could not take it!"

As a result, most literati and clear-headed guests bypassed the specific common sense problem and abstractly raised the patriotism problem infinitely, leaving the people at a loss. A large number of ancient angry young people only looked at people carrying loads without any effort, and were the most arrogant and powerful. When major events came, everyone could hide their shortcomings. Tens of thousands of horses were silenced, and they became obedient people on the open and secret covers, and even changed their courses to become officials of the "pseudo-gong" to serve the new emperor.

By the Song Dynasty, since its founding, it faced a profound dilemma of "international relations". First, it faced the entire northern Khitan Liao, followed by the Jurchen Jin, the Western Qiang Xixia, and the current Mongolian Yuan. The entire northern nomadic peoples have developed unprecedentedly and have become one country after another to demand territory and wealth from the Song Dynasty, and fighting with war has become the biggest problem that the Song Dynasty emperors hesitated and worked hard.

In the eyes of the world, the Khitan elite soldiers were only 100,000, the Jin army surrounded Bianjing at only 60,000, and the Mongolian forces were the most powerful. The population was about one million, while the Song Dynasty had a population of over 100 million, and the permanent army was often more than one million. The material civilization of traditional China had reached its peak by the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was the richest and most cultural dynasty in Chinese history, the richest and most prosperous country in the world at that time, and it was the first time in Chinese history when urban secular culture was highly mature.

However, such a powerful empire is a small nomadic country that is inferior to backward civilization. Why? I believe this is a question that Chinese people today are puzzled. However, while the scholars and literati of the Song Dynasty still boasted of their heroism and heroism, while trying their best to belittle the fortunes of foreign countries. Our army was unworthy of the courage of thousands of men, and the enemy was as dirty as rats. In addition to not treating the other party as human beings, they always gave the people a very wrong illusion, thinking that the barbarians were just chaotic bandits and rats. However, as soon as the war broke out, this patriotic bold words and heroic spirit were all lost.

Since this is the case, then the emperor and the imperial court are not recruited and the lost territories are not accepted. Is it because the emperor and the court are unintentional to this, or the military generals are incompetent? Such a bad political, economic, social, military management situation, civil service group, and literati class have profound reflection and cognition? Even if a person with knowledge has noticed it, it is just a moral empty theory, and the feelings of worry are greater than the insight and operation of political reform. Even in the policy theory of the Song people, it is also the theme of "harmony or war", and only talks about national policies in the moral sense, and is not committed to reflecting on these difficulties.

Are these scholars and officials in the Song Dynasty really short-sighted people, and scholars are all empty talkers? Zhao Bing thought it was not, but these people were unwilling to reflect on these problems under the current system. As we all know, when Song entered a modern economic and secular society, its political and administrative organization formed a contradictory management system: on the one hand, the rule of civil officials and bureaucracy is quite huge and complex, but on the other hand, it is still an extremely simple centralized system.

A country that is rich and huge, messy and chaotic, dispersed and internally fucked, enjoyable and overly gentle, cowardly and selfish, retreating and conservative, moral and vanity is the substantial image of the overall Song Dynasty. As a result, the system is chaotic, management conflicts, and everything lacks the effectiveness and high-quality operation. The ** is gradually flooding and cannot be banned, resulting in people's hearts, morale and national spirit being dispersed, and there is only anxiety, listlessness, confusion, loss of predicament, difficulty in dealing with the battle, and repeatedly ends with a crushing failure and separatist compensation. An atmosphere of depressed failure permeates the society, and at the same time arouses partial resentment, depression and upset mental disorders.
Chapter completed!