Since Zhao Zhen was seriously ill, he changed back to a single day court. The number of days he had been in the morning court was half less, and his days became much easier. The next day, Xu Ping went to the yamen to handle some chores, but he couldn't calm down no matter what, so he returned home early.

The small courtyard I bought when I first returned to the capital was already towering. The flowers and trees by the wall were blooming, and the sun was shining above my head. Xu Ping sat under the shade of the tree, but felt a little chill.

What is the most important thing for the country in this era? After all, it is still to raise soldiers. Xu Ping's reform in the Third Division was vigorous and seemed lively. After all, it depends on whether he could get money and whether he had more money to support soldiers. Other economic development and improving people's livelihood were just a side effect. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, he has been overwhelmed by the heavy military expenditure. He should do this first and have the heart to talk about something from top to bottom.

What are you doing to raise so many soldiers? No one can really explain it clearly. There are often various answers, but in the end, you still have to raise them. Not only can you not raise them, but you can only increase your employees and not be eliminated.

When Xu Ping thought of this, he felt incredible. A country had no clear political purpose, so he kept throwing his maximum financial resources into it. After spending decades, he would have no regrets and he would be willing to pay no matter how much the price he had.

Since the time of Taizu, this matter has emerged. At that time, the world was decided, and Taizu's attitude towards the army was contradictory and hesitated. He released military power with a glass of wine, reduced the vassal states, and collected local financial power, so that the centralization power could reach an unprecedented level. At this time, we must face this problem. What are the huge imperial guards used for?

Taizu once mentioned that he wanted to let all the martial artists in the world read all the books. What should he do? It is not that they can read, but that they should learn the truth from books and be loyal and righteous. This has nothing to do with respect to culture and suppressing martial arts, but that the army has a clear political purpose and knows what they do. With a clear political purpose, an army has a soul. Not to mention this era, even in Xu Ping's previous life, the country was newly established and pacified, the first thing to do was to let the army learn culture. This is a normal choice for a politician.

Unfortunately, this matter ended without success, and no one could explain why. In short, the role of the army was the famous saying of Taizu of Song, "Only raising soldiers in my family can benefit a hundred generations. It is because of the famine years, if there are rebellious people but no soldiers, unfortunately, if there are rebellious people but no soldiers, if there are rebellious people, if there are rebellious people but no soldiers." This article became the family law of the ancestors.

What to do to raise soldiers? This is very clear, but the emperors who suppressed the rebels. Several generations of emperors knew this well. In history, it was further developed in the rebellious period of Song Shenzong. "Those who were in chaos in their previous lives were all scoundrels who were not scoundrels. The art ancestor pacified the world and recruited all scoundrels who were not scoundrels who were in charge of the army, and they lived in camps. They were governed by the generals of the army. They were loyal to military laws and had good salaries, so that they could be respected, and they were given life and death, and they were not able to move. After the scoundrels who were gathered to form soldiers, they had to control them, and they did not dare to do anything wrong. They took their strength to protect the good people and each settled in the fields. Therefore, the peace of mind was determined, and there was no one who rebelled against the people. Since ancient times, there was no one who had been able to do anything."

At best, this kind of thinking is warlord thinking, using soldiers to control the people, and the throne is as stable as Mount Tai. At worst, this is no different from hiring Hu people as soldiers. It is just that the one who hires Hu people, but scoundrels who are not showing off. Too bad it is the scum of society.

This kind of people are needed for military service. How could their social status be high? "Good men do not serve as soldiers." This statement did not come from the Song Dynasty. Since the warlords of the Tang Dynasty became the country, Song Shenzong said it particularly clearly that there was a contradiction. Since the chaotic people in the previous life were all scoundrels who were not scoundrels, and scoundrels who were not scoundrels were recruited into the army, then there should be no scoundrels. In order to suppress the chaotic people, this army lost the reason to survive and raised a useless army.

If the gangsters were recruited into the government, there would be no gangsters in society, so the country and the people would be prosperous. Xu Ping thought of this statement and found it funny. Killing and setting fire to the golden belt is advocated by national policies.

There is such a thing in the world? Kind people are exhausted to raise those scoundrels and scoundrels? It would be strange if such distorted values ​​can have good results. God will not be blind.

And it has not been said that what would happen if the army raised in this way would face foreign enemies? The emperors had never considered this issue. This method is to raise wild animals in cages. When wild animals came outside, they used wild animals raised in this cage to deal with them. How could the beasts in the cage beat the real wild ones? What should I do if I couldn't beat them? I didn't dare to take the cage, so I swallowed myself in my stomach. In the end, the beasts raised could not beat foreign ones and fed themselves to the belly of foreign beasts. During the Jingkang Incident, the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the country, and it was destined to be determined when the national policy was decided. Thousands of calculations and treat their people as thieves, then of course they would become thieves. Will the thieves in the country have any good consequences?

The political purpose is fundamentally wrong. No matter how much the army is improved, it will be useless. Military organization, improved weapons, cavalry armor, sufficient money and food, etc. are all details. Military is part of politics, and war is the continuation and intensification of political struggle. Only when the political purpose is clear and the political work is solid can there be an army that dares to fight and can fight well. What is the difficulty of fighting? Xu Ping remembers that a great man in his previous life said that there is nothing clever about fighting. Simply put, it is just a few words. If you win, you fight, and if you can't win, you leave. Only those who know political work can fight, and those who don't understand politics will not fight.

Needless to mention that era, it was this era that confirmed the confirmation of this sentence. Which army could fight the most between the two Song dynasties in history? The Yue family army was the worst among the generals of ZTE in terms of military quality, sufficient money and food, and high titles. At the same time, Zhang Jun's personal army was known as the "martial arts team". The soldiers were all martial arts doctors, and they were just one step away from being rampant. You should know that Yue Yun made countless military achievements when he was unjustly killed, but he was just a Zuowu doctor, two levels higher than the martial arts doctor. But the Yue family army was the best. If Zhang Jun was not the worst in the war, he was also one of the worst. However, in the end, he lived a good life and was ranked first among the four generals of ZTE. He was the first to be the Prince of Qinghe in his life. When Yue Fei died, he was the number one accomplice, and thus he mastered military power. If he was wrong in politics, he would only be wrong in military affairs.

Why can the Yue Family Army fight? Because the Yue Family Army was the army with the clearest political purpose at that time, which was to fight the northern expedition and restore the old rivers and mountains. For this political purpose, their political color was the most distinctive and they could make any sacrifices. When an army "freezes to death and does not demolish houses, starves to death and does not plunder", it is no longer the army that "recruits all scoundrels and does not show off". Such an army will be despised by the people, and will say "good men will not serve as soldiers"? It is natural to burn incense to welcome them.

So since he was in Yongzhou, Xu Ping did not provoke the regular army of this era. If he could not afford to offend, could he still be able to hide?

If one day, if you need to meet the foreign enemy by yourself, Xu Ping would rather reorganize the army. The current imperial guards are not only unavailable, but also difficult to reform. Military officers of all levels of the world are unwilling, and the emperor is also unwilling. That is the foundation of the Zhao family. In the family law of the ancestors, other decorations are all decorations, and this is the most fundamental one.

Whether it is a standing army or a militia, recruitment or recruitment are not the most important thing. The most important thing is that such an army must truly grow on the soil of its own country, and cannot be a national and military skin. For the army, if it wins, get rewards, and loses, turn around and rob the people they protect. "Bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like combs." How can such an army protect the country?

The army should be political, not shouting political slogans, which have no effect. Instead, it should clarify the political purpose and have a good political style. If nothing else, you can always follow the "Yue Family Army" a hundred years later? If the requirements a thousand years later exceed this era, what is native to a hundred years can always be learned. The army should be politically conscious, which means that the organization, discipline, actions and even training of the army should be consistent with the clear political purpose. To defend the country, it is not to shout such a sentence to the officers and soldiers of the army, but to make the organization, system, training, discipline, style and other aspects meet the requirements of this political purpose. Those who do this should be highlighted and promoted, and those who do not do this should be eliminated. Those who do this should be allowed to respond to actions that conform to this principle, and actions that do not conform to this principle should be looked at side by side.

To do this, it is necessary for the entire army to start from the beginning, from organization to organization, from every move to the passage of government orders, is completely different from before. Even Xu Ping's heart is unable to complete such a move.

If the Imperial Guard is a pus, it is better to let it rot and squeeze. It is undeniable that there are excellent generals and brave soldiers in the Imperial Guard, and such people can even account for the majority, but under the current military system, they are suppressed so much that they cannot emerge. Their number accounts for the majority, but they are not the mainstream of the army. If there is no war, or even war, without external factors, these excellent soldiers will waste their lives. Di Qing in history rose to a higher position after the Northwest War, and it is impossible to lose it.

The vigorous promotion of several civil officials and generals, he was part of the civil officials seizing military power from the three yamen. Yang Wenguang has been wandering in the lower-level military officers. Without Fan Zhongyan discovering him, he might have been a poor-ranked military officer for the rest of his life. Without Di Qingnan's later campaign, his name might not have been left in history. As for the nameless family, he went from being a farmer in Xu Ping's family to the rampant in less than ten years, partly because of military merit, partly because of Xu Ping's identity, partly because of Zhao Zhen's appreciation.

Xu Ping could wait, but because although Zhao Zhen had various problems, he was an emperor with great professional qualities. The emperor was a profession for him, and he was conscientious and responsible. His special life experience made him not as a criterion for his ancestors as other emperors. Among the emperors of the Song Dynasty, he was the one who transferred the power to the outside dynasty.
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