Chapter 79: Our arsenal determines the national policy
Chapter 79: Our arsenal has internally determined the national policy
During this inspection, Zhao Ji was very dissatisfied with the lack of weapons in the arsenal.
Although the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty and the soldiers of the Xiang army stationed in various states did have weapons in their hands;
However, the armaments in the arsenal in the capital are insufficient, and the arsenals in the various states should not be much better either.
Once we go to war with the Jin Kingdom, wouldn’t we suffer the first loss in terms of weapons and equipment?
It should be a golden soldier who can't defeat a fast horse and a scimitar...
This may be the reason why there has been no war between the Northern Song Dynasty and the (Khitan) Liao Kingdom for 115 years since the Chanyuan Alliance!
Although there were frequent border battles between the Song Dynasty and Xixia, these were matters that could be settled with annual coins, and the emperors and scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty did not regard them as major events that could threaten the country's survival. p>
Therefore, in the later period of the Song Huizong Dynasty, the original owner of Zhao Ji's body, he increasingly ignored military preparations.
Zhao Ji knew that as early as 80 years ago in the first year of Kangding in the Renzong Dynasty (AD 1040), after the Song-Xia War broke out, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi jointly served as deputy envoys of Shaanxi Economic Strategy to pacify and recruit, and adopted the "long-term garrison in the fields".
"The strategic policy of "consolidating the northwest border defense, forcing Xixia and the Song Dynasty to negotiate peace...
At that time, after the discussion, the situation in the northwest of the Song Dynasty became peaceful. Renzong summoned Fan Zhongyan back to the court and was appointed deputy privy envoy. Later, he paid homage to the governor and initiated the "Qingli New Deal" to implement reforms...
In the fourth year of Qingli (1044), Fan Zhongyan, who "worried about the world's worries first, and rejoiced after the world's happiness", went to Shu Renzong, and the Song Dynasty should implement four national policies:
"The first is peace, the second is defense, the third is war, and the fourth is preparation."
The court should strive to do seven things:
First, the secret is the management strategy; second, discuss military garrison; third, focus on sending generals;
Fourth, eager to teach how to fight; fifth, train volunteers; sixth, build the outer city of the capital; seventh, secretly plan the crusade.
From the beginning of the implementation of the "Qingli New Deal", they began to reform the civil service, eliminate redundant personnel, and appease the generals. Soon after, because the New Deal disturbed the interests of vested interest groups, it encountered resistance and opposition from many ministers, and Renzong also began to waver... The "Qingli New Deal" was frustrated and the reform failed...
At that time, external affairs arose again, Fan Zhongyan requested to go out on patrol, and Renzong appointed him as the Xuanfu envoy to Shaanxi and Hedong...
Zhao Ji lamented that if the "Qingli New Deal" implemented by the sage Fan Zhongyan seventy or eighty years ago had been successfully implemented, not only would the country be rich and the people strong, but the army would also be the strongest in Asia and even the world, right?! However, Zhao Ji saw that the "Qingli New Deal" as early as 76 years ago can still be used as a reference for the current Northern Song Dynasty.
However, more than half a century has passed and times are different. The national policy proposed during the "Qingli New Deal" of "the first is peace, the second is defense, the third is war, and the fourth is preparation" should be slightly adjusted.
Zhao Ji said to the accompanying eunuch: "Bring me pen, ink, paper and inkstone."
The attendant eunuch obeyed the order and immediately took out the imperial pen, ink, paper and inkstone he carried. After all, the Zhao family is good at calligraphy and painting and also likes to write poems and lyrics, so the eunuch accompanying him must always have the imperial pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
The attendant eunuch ordered the clerks in the armory to bring the desks, wipe them again and again, and lay rice paper and paperweights with dragon-carved jade stones for Zhao Guan's house. He grinded the ink and raised the royal wolf hair above his head with both hands.
The guards of this arsenal were kneeling in the arsenal, which seemed empty because there were not many weapons, trembling with fear and sweating...
He thought, could it be that the Zhao Guan family inspected the arsenal and found that there was a lack of weapons and lax armaments, so they blamed me out of holy anger?
Zhao Ji took the brush from the eunuch's hand, put it on the rice paper, and recalled what he knew about the "Qingli New Deal". The national policy proposed by Fan Zhongyan was "the first is peace, the second is defense, the third is war, and the fourth is war."
"Prepare".
Zhao Ji did not use the thin gold body created by the original owner, but instead used Taizu's wild cursive script and quickly wrote a few lines:
Today’s national policy.
One is to prepare, the second is to defend, and the third is to fight!
Zhao Ji also briefly considered whether he should make the word "harmony" the last national policy?
No!
No more peace!
The Song Dynasty must never negotiate peace with enemy countries again!
As a son of destiny, I have come from modern society. I have long known that no matter whether it was the Northern Song Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty in the future, anyone who negotiated peace with an enemy country would suffer humiliation. The most important thing is that the peace negotiation could only be temporarily suspended in humiliation, and it would eventually end.
Because of this, the country was destroyed.
Even if the emperor dies in Sheji!
I also want to give it a try.
What's more, with the historical knowledge and basic knowledge of modern science that I, a time traveler, have mastered, I will appoint good ministers and generals, prepare armaments in advance, train soldiers, and try my best to develop muskets and artillery before the Jin attacks the Song Dynasty.
Then, I, the Song Dynasty, should be able to counterattack Qiang Jin!
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