The Song Dynasty was a dynasty in history that belonged to the "cultural prosperity", in which civilian officials occupied an important position, that is, the status of civilian officials was higher than that of military attaches. Such a dynasty is unique in history. After Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty, he attached great importance to the management of civilian officials, which was related to Zhao Kuangyin's launch of the Chen Qiao Mutiny.
Zhao Kuangyin was able to establish the Song Dynasty, that is, he had military power, so after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, although Zhao Kuangyin did not kill the founding heroes of the Song Dynasty, the military power of these founding heroes was taken back, which is the right to release the military with a cup of wine. After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the development of the cultural field reached a peak, and even all dynasties were unique.
In the three hundred years of the existence of the Song Dynasty, one place must have had a great influence on the Song Dynasty, and that was the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. To this day, people are certainly not unfamiliar with this place in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, but most people know the name of this place, but they do not know where this place is. Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are now Beijing, the northern part of Tianjin (north of the Haihe River), the northern region of Hebei and the northern part of Shanxi.
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures was a "disaster" for the Song Dynasty, and since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have been requisitioned, but until the fall of the Song Dynasty, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures have not been recovered. The Song Dynasty lost Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and from then on, the good days of the Song Dynasty came to an end, first being bullied by the Liao State in the north, the Liao State was bullied, and then another Jin Dynasty /
In short, after the loss of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, the Song Dynasty had no peaceful days. Even during the Jin Dynasty, every year the Song Dynasty had to pay tribute to the Jin Dynasty, so that the Song Dynasty had a peaceful life, that is, spending money to buy peace. Until the fall of the two Song Dynasties, yanyun sixteen states were not recovered, you know, the ancient yanyun sixteen states were a place where soldiers had to fight.
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is the geographical barrier of the Central Plains, the northern nomads entered the Central Plains bridgehead, lost yanyun sixteen states, it can be said that the northern nomads can enter the Central Plains with one horse. This area is still a place for raising horses, and no cavalry can only rely on the flesh and blood of infantry to resist the onslaught of cavalry on the plains.
From this point of view, the importance of the Song Dynasty to Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures must have been known, but until the fall of the Song Dynasty, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures were not recovered. Like the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also recovered the homeland of the north from south to north, but Zhu Yuanzhang took only one year to take the capital, and more importantly, Zhu Yuanzhang took yanyun sixteen prefectures by the way.
First of all, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures within a year, because Zhu Yuanzhang's opponent and Zhao Kuangyin's opponent were not the same. In other words, the enemies faced by the Ming Dynasty were not the same as those faced by the Song Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was faced with a corrupt Yuan Dynasty that had changed ten emperors in seventy years, and the internal friction was serious, and the "disease of wealth and nobility" was naturally indispensable, and some people did not even know the feeling of riding on horseback.
Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the strategy of "slowly becoming king and accumulating grain in a wide range," and his strength gradually increased, and he successively destroyed these powerful enemies such as Chen Youyu and Zhang Shicheng. The Song Dynasty faced the peak of the Liao State, and although the Great Song had money, this money was not used where it should be used. More importantly, at that time, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures were ruled by nomadic names for nearly fifty years.
In addition to the Liao State, the Song Dynasty at that time also had to face the Western Xia, and the emergence of the Western Xia contained a large number of elite border troops in the northwest. Comparatively speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhao Kuangyin were both founding emperors, but Zhu Yuanzhang's ability was obviously one notch higher than That of Zhao Kuangyin. As the saying goes, "A thousand armies are easy to get, but one will be difficult to find." "Zhu Yuanzhang is a typical strategist.
For the Northern Expedition plan, the Ming army did not rush to directly attack Dadu, but first captured Henan, Shandong and other regions, strategically isolating Dadu. From this point of view, the effect of the strategy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang is obvious. The commander of the Song army was Song Taizong, and Song Taizong was a literati, which was a small witch compared to his brother's martial general origin.
More importantly, Emperor Taizong of Song carried forward Song Taizu's set of "wu not controlling the troops", the commander had a supervisory army around him, and the command was actually in the hands of the supervision army. In this way, there is nothing wrong with it, but the problem is that the supervision army does not know how to fight at all, and this will miss the big thing. On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang was much more outstanding; according to the battle conditions of each battlefield and the combat characteristics of the generals, it was naturally much easier to appoint fierce generals such as Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, and Chang Yuchun, so as to face the corrupt Yuan army.