Because Zhao Bing knew in his previous life that after the invasion of foreign races, the resistance in the first few years was the most intense, but under the cruel suppression and comfort of foreign races, this resistance mentality would continue to fade away with the extension of time, until he accepted the rule of the foreign races with peace of mind, forgot his homeland, and even became an accomplice of the foreign races. Naturally, he would be regarded as a traitor and an enemy by the old master, and this phenomenon was extremely serious in the history of the Song Dynasty.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Shi Jingtang betrayed the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which failed several northern expeditions in the early Song Dynasty, resulting in the northern border being maintained north of the Old Yellow River. It did not completely occupy the old land of the Han people in history, nor did it incorporate the entire Central Plains into its own rule, causing the nation to split. But things were not unchanged. When the Han people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun became citizens of the Liao Dynasty, they began to undergo a comprehensive "Hu" not only in terms of personality, but also in their living customs, which gradually led to a change in the attitude of the Song people towards them.

In the eyes of the Song people, those who live in the "enemy territory", embrace "Hu ward", use "Hu rituals" and practice "Hu customs" are completely different for themselves. They call the Han people under the Khitan and later Jurchen rule "Northern people". This is a discriminatory title, and they regard them as potential enemies. The old Liao garrisons were all Han people, but in the writings of the Song people, they all became "captenders". Even the knowledgeable scholars and officials were like this, so there is no need to say about the lower-class military and civilians.

Even so, when it came to actual practice, the Song court presented another face to the Youyun Han people. Not only did it not find a way to eliminate the Song people's rejection of the Liao Han people and reduce the doubts in the hearts of the "Han people", it instead showed a distrust attitude everywhere, and did many things that did not treat the Youyun Han people as their people, but instead bullyed and betrayed them.

For the resettlement places for the reincarnated people, whether they surrender or return voluntarily, they must be sent to the mainland for dispersed resettlement, with the purpose of preventing them from contacting the "old master". However, compared with the military situation, the need for war is more important. It emphasizes "miscellaneous with the Han army" and "missing with the army" and refers to the misunderstanding of organization. Small-scale concentrated organization obviously has the consideration of easy control, so the subordinates are united with their small-scale organization, which facilitates the full use of their cavalry and shooting advantages during combat, which is to complement control.

Not only that, after the Han people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun entered the Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty court did not take any effective measures to avoid discrimination and exclusion by the Song people. "Princes and counties often do not care about food and clothing, and those who are under the pass, as for the places where people exchanged their names on the streets, they called them famous names, and were just beggars when they were old officials. Even if they saw it, they would not ask about it."

"And the officials from Yanyun and the two routes were scattered in China, and they gathered the people and attracted them to the mainland. The Chinese people were suspicious day and night, and the officials no longer treated them with courtesy. The two were resentful and fought many times." This made the conflict between the Han people in Youyun and the Song people increasingly sharp, and even triggered huge changes during the Jin and Song wars. It can be said that the series of stupid things done by the Northern Song court after entering Youyun made the Han people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun greatly disappointed him. This not only included temporary policy errors, but also the result of the long-term prejudice of the Han people in the Youyun.

In the army, the phenomenon of correcting people being excluded was even more serious. On the contrary, after the Jin Dynasty started the war against Song, it took the correct decision under the guidance of Han people such as Liu Yanzong. "The Jin people have already obtained Yan, and the salt law will be gone. The ever-winning army houses, farmland and soil will be given to the previous lord, and the Yan people will return to their hearts." Compared with the two, it is already obvious that the Han people will accept their hearts.

After the southward transition, the mutual distrust and discrimination caused by the division of north and south in history became more serious, and some occasional events deepened the contradiction between the two. Distrust was the mainstream attitude that had long existed in the Southern Song court. Including Zhu Xi, they directly regarded the reincarnated people and the eunuchs in the Han Dynasty and the vassal states in the Tang Dynasty as one type, believing that these people were the root causes of social unrest. Therefore, many reincarnated civil servants were not assigned real positions, and after adding extra funds, they were placed in various prefectures and counties.

The unstable policy of "reformed people" also caused dissatisfaction among a large number of reformed people. This dissatisfaction began to ferment from the Xiaozong Dynasty and later became more and more serious. The Southern Song army, especially the most combat-oriented troops on the front line, had hidden dangers in the management of the army due to the increase in the proportion of reformed people year by year. On the one hand, these Northern Army were excluded, and on the other hand, the Southern Song army did not have the advantage in number, causing the internal management of the army to be out of control. This made the Southern Song Dynasty continuously lose the hearts of the people in the north, not only completely ruined the possibility of the Southern Song Dynasty's northern settlement of the Central Plains, but also became an important reason for the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty...

As the saying goes: Trees have roots and water has their source. Nothing happens for no reason. There is always a reason. As a later generation, Zhao Bing naturally has the opportunity to look back on history and can discover a clear development context. It is not just as simple as disgust and distrust. It is a political drama that lasted for a century, above the Song Dynasty, below the local government, southerners and northerners, civil officials and military generals.

In Zhao Bing's view, the root of the conflict between the north and the south is the first thing that is the money matter, then the human matter, and finally the power matter:

At the beginning of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the north suffered a long war and economic depression; the south was less affected by the war, and Jiangnan was already a prosperous place. Even Yunnan, Guizhou and Lingnan were gradually developed, forming an economic situation where the south was strong and the north was weak. However, the northern people established the Song regime, and the southern people were naturally at a disadvantage in politics.

The subsequent new and old party struggles vaguely divided the north and south regions. Most of the new party were southerners such as Wang Anshi, Zhang Dun, Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu; representatives of the old party were Sima Guang, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Liu Zhi, Han Qi, etc. One of the reasons why Sima Guang criticized Wang Anshi's reform was that the southerners could not rule. He once said lightly: "The people of Fujian are cunning, the people of Chu are easy. Now the two prime ministers are all from Fujian, and the two participating in politics are all from Chu. They will definitely lead the people of the village party. How can the customs of the world be more pure!" In other words, in a sense, this is the openness of regional discrimination in the court!

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the conflict between the southerners and the northerners became even more powerful. Not only did the great scholar Zhu Xi look down on the northerners, but many southern scholars and officials criticized the northerners for being rude and stupid in their poems and essays. Open the "History of the Song Dynasty" and look at the "Biographies of Treacherous Ministers" almost all of them were southerners. Zhao Bing thought it was very interesting at that time. Since the Jingkang Incident and the southward transition, the Song Dynasty has been facing a strong enemy like the Jurchen Jin Dynasty and the Mongol Yuan, and was always facing the danger of national destruction. Such a strategy of choosing to resist to the end is still a diplomatic conversation and has always been the main debate within the court, which has affected the relationship between civil and military affairs.

At the beginning of the southern transit, because the army around Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou was limited and faced the invasion of the Jin army southward, he had to pay attention to appease and recruit these converted people as a supplement to the grassroots army. Most of the northerners were warriors, and they were determined to restore their homes on the battlefield, so they were naturally the main war. However, southerners who were born in the economic and prosperous background of the society entered the officialdom through the imperial examinations, mostly focused on stabilizing the political situation in Jiangnan, and had no chance of winning the war. They favored peace and insisted on being at the same time.

In Zhao Bing's view, it is precisely because of the different considerations of the people in the north and the south that they have different positions and views, which lead to different views on survival and development, reality and ideals, partial stability and recovery. The cognitive differences are entangled with the problems of the north and the south and the civil and military issues, and have an impact on the political environment. The relationship between the people in the north and the south and the political environment, the Song-Jin, Song-Meng made the problems more complicated.

The Song Dynasty moved the capital to Lin'an and was more conducive to the literati of Fujian Road, Zhejiang West Road and Zhejiang East Road. Therefore, the situation where the southerners ruled the northerners ruled the army gradually became fixed. Especially under the national policy of emphasizing culture and neglecting the military, the southern literati who entered the imperial examination system were dominant. For those from the north, an intellectual breakwater was naturally built. There were differences in closeness and distantness between people and people, and it was easy to cause political ecology imbalance, forming political struggles, laying hidden dangers for their future melee.

For the survival and development of the small court and for political interests, the issue of war is not just a dispute over political views, but also elevated to personnel grudges and the so-called problems of people, but also to the problems of people in the north and south. In terms of economy, the south was strong and the north was weak. In politics, the southerners mastered the political arena of the Southern Song Dynasty. Most of the northerners were displaced and mostly military generals. So you see that the status of the northerners and southerners in the Northern Song Dynasty was obvious in the military and political positions. Therefore, in the Southern Song Dynasty, the political form of the northerners dominated the army and the southerners dominated the rule was formed.

Since the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty, several major events, the death of Yue Fei, the rebellion of Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan, Li Qiong, and the killing of Qu Duan, and the end of Meng Gong's depression, although there are different reasons, the complexes of the north and south seem to be quite related. Zhao Bing only looked at Yue Fei's origin and experience and knew that the responsibility of the northerners touched the hearts of the ministers and emperors of the southerners. Recruiting surrenders and rebellions are often a precursor to local plots, and without exception, they all involved the complex contradictions between the commanders of the southerners, civil officials and the military generals of the northerners.

At the beginning of the southern transit, the Song court faced destruction at any time. It can be said that it was the time to use people. For the Southern Song Dynasty, in addition to distributing relief money, distributing land, plowing oxen and seeds for resettlement, it was a common practice to put males into the army. The Yue family army, which Zhao Bing admired the most, was largely inseparable from the continuous joining of the northern counterparts and supporting the rear. Niu Gao and Dong Xian in the team were all converted. Even when the Song and Jin Dynasty started to discuss peace, Yue Fei still sent people to carry wax pills and bounty to the north to lure heroes of the Central Plains.

However, it was precisely because of suspicion of military generals such as Yue Fei that court officials and Zhao Gou gradually became more vigilant about the return of the northerners. Especially after the signing of the "Shaoxing Peace Agreement", in order to prevent the excuse of Jin to invade the south, Emperor Gaozong strictly prohibited the border generals from accepting northerners who had crossed the Huai River while repatriating the newly reincarnated people. He even issued documents directly to warn generals such as Yue Fei to not recruit people who came back from the north. However, whenever there was a tense situation of military confrontation in the Song and Jin Dynasties, he would send border officials to recruit northerners and give generous rewards.

In Zhao Bing's view, when it comes to dealing with the reincarnation, both the emperor and the civil servants in the south were full of the routine of killing donkeys, and they had already been established, so they were fully revealed in terms of ideology and behavior. After that, Mongolia went south to destroy the Jin Dynasty, and the Central Plains fought in wars. For a time, many generals from the Jin Dynasty and civilians moved south to the Song Dynasty and became new reincarnation people. Among these people, many people grew up to be a member of the Southern Song Dynasty and a powerful army because of their outstanding military achievements.

Liu Zheng joined the Song Dynasty under Meng Gong's command during the Jin Dynasty. During the Xinyang Battle, he "became a vanguard, and twelve brave men at night, crossed the trough and climbed the city, and captured his guards." Meng Gong praised him for "successful filial piety", and later moved to Tongchuan to appease the envoy, and was in charge of Luzhou. Jiang Cai was plundered to Heshuo when he was young, and later fled back to the Southern Song Dynasty to "belong to the Huainan army, and was famous for his good combat." He would rather die than surrender in the battle of the famous general Li Tingzhi in the Huainian area to fight against the Yuan army.

Zhang Shijie, who was familiar with Zhao Bing and worked with him for many years, was originally a member of the Yuan general Zhang Rou. After surrendering to the Song Dynasty for fear of crimes, he made many military achievements. According to the script, when the Yuan army attacked near Lin'an, he should have led his army to serve the king, fighting hard until he died in the battle of Yashan. He could have become one of the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty. However, because he was a thug, he was still alive, but he was not bad to him. He has been serving as the Privy Councilor for so many years and is also considered an excellent minister.

During the initial confrontation between the Song and Mongolia, it was the converted people recruited from the north that greatly curbed the powerful Mongolian cavalry. However, from the standpoint of historical justice, Zhao Bing, during the fierce war, the Southern Song Dynasty's overall salary and treatment of the Northern Army was first-class, even better than that of the Southern Army. However, as time passed, it caused dissatisfaction among the Southern Army's officers and soldiers. The Southern Army was dissatisfied with the good treatment of the Northern Army and had to get a share of the pie.

It should be said that the problem arose. Li Quan, the famous leader of the Shandong Red Coat Army, once wandered around Jin due to the suspicion of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Mongolians caused serious damage to the defense of the Southern Song Dynasty and Huai River, and even caused the Southern Song Dynasty, which was once in the upper hand, to lose repeatedly. This is a bloody lesson. The one who was even more unlucky than Li Quan was Liu Zheng. After Jia Sidao controlled the government, he implemented the "planning method", with the goal of rectifying corruption in the army as a guise, and took the opportunity to attack those generals who made outstanding contributions and disrespect Jia Sidao's authority.

In other words, Jia Sidao was playing the role of eliminating the power that disobeyed himself and supporting his subordinates Li Tingzhi, Lv Wende, Lv Wenhuan and others. For this reason, he successively cleaned up many senior generals of the Southern Song Dynasty who were disrespectful to him. Liu Zhong, who entered the Song Dynasty from Jin to Song, made many military achievements in the battle against the Mongolian army, and turned to rebel against the Song Dynasty because he was worried about disaster. Liu Zhong, who was well versed in the deployment of the Southern Song Dynasty's Jiang defense, became the vanguard of the Mongolian Yuan army to destroy the Song Dynasty. Luzhou, where he was stationed, was originally an important defense center for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the Southern Song Dynasty. The central breakthrough he proposed to directly take Xiangyang; the grand strategy of forming a navy army and sweeping the Southern Song Dynasty actually determined the final direction of the Song-Meng decisive battle.
Chapter completed!