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Speaking of the Song Dynasty, it is estimated that those intellectuals will be excited, the reason is very simple: that was the happiest era of the literati doctor, the Song Dynasty from the founding period, set the "right text" policy, because the founder of the Northern Song Dynasty Zhao Kuangyin himself was a military general to seize power, so he did not have any reassurance about these military generals, soon after coming to power, he "released the military power with a cup of wine".
The high-ranking warriors were driven home to enjoy the blessings, and then began to reuse the literati who had no power to tie the chicken, and the later rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty also continued this basic principle. After years of development and improvement, the literati doctors of the Northern Song Dynasty were indeed more useful than at other times.
Specific measures are mainly reflected in three aspects: one is to revitalize the education of schools, according to historical records, the Northern Song Dynasty's Taixue heyday reached more than 4,000 people, but also founded a lot of famous academies, which shows the high degree of popularity of education at that time;
The Northern Song Dynasty not only abolished all the ills of the Tang Dynasty, such as "warm scrolls" and "public recommendation", but also implemented a more reasonable system of sealing, transcription, and palace examinations, and also expanded the number of admissions by nearly twenty times; this is not to mention, the students of the Northern Song Dynasty could directly become officials in the examination, and their career promotions were relatively smooth, unlike the Tang Dynasty, which also had an official examination.
The last one is this salary and all aspects of treatment, the Northern Song Dynasty not only strictly implemented the principle of "courtesy can not be inferior to the people, punishment can not be a doctor", but also gave those literati doctors and their generous treatment, officials in addition to Feng Lu, Lu Mi, but also have the supply of professional fields, servants (retinues), feeding horses and millet, etc. On this point, Zhao Yi, a famous scholar during the Qing Dynasty, once had a very vivid description: "Those who are caught in the hundred officials are afraid of their inadequacy, and those who take money from the people do not leave anything behind." "With so many benefits, it's no wonder that intellectuals dream of crossing back to the Song Dynasty."
What is surprising is that even so, it still can't hide the fact that those very good celebrities were active in the political arena of the Song Dynasty, the most typical of which are Di Qing, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, etc., which are all well-known figures of women and children.
It is a pity that those generals who are not very famous and fight wars are quite powerful, but everyone has not remembered a few, so today we will introduce you to a typical example, he is Li Bao in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Li Bao is a native of Heze, Shandong, although he was born into an ordinary peasant family, but he did not follow the living habits of his fathers, all day facing the loess and facing the earth and dealing with the land, nor did he honestly study hard in the cold window, looking forward to the day to realize his wish of "going to the Tianshe Lang and ascending to the Tianzi Hall", but all day long in the streets, most of the things he did were out of tune, and the people at that time saw his virtue and gave him a very suitable nickname of "Splash Li San". But there is a saying that is very good, called "fighting righteousness every time there are more slaughtered dogs, and the negative heart is more than a reader", this sentence is mostly suitable for Li Bao's body, although he is not doing the right thing, he is very righteous, and has courage and insight, with this, he will be mixed up in the political arena of the Southern Song Dynasty in the future.
In 1139, Li Bao gathered a crowd to resist Jin in Puzhou (濮州, in modern Juancheng, Shandong), but due to the disparity in strength between the two sides, Li Bao fought a defeated battle, and afterwards, he quickly defected to Yue Fei, who was the most famous at the time, and then was ordered to sneak back to Shandong to contact the anti-Jin rebels in the name of Hebei Road commanding the loyal rebel army. The following year, the Jin army moved south again, and Li Bao did his best to cooperate with Yue Fei in battle, attacking the Jin army many times in Shandong, making it difficult for the Jin army to take every step forward, and also providing Great support for Yue Fei to defeat the Jin army. Later, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty signed the very humiliating "Shaoxing Peace Agreement".
Although the Song Dynasty paid the price of silver, 250,000 taels of silk, horses, and the dignity of being a vassal of Jin, after all, it returned the Southern Song Dynasty and Jin for more than 20 years of peaceful coexistence. In the eyes of Emperor Gaozong of Song, who had already been frightened, this was already a very good deal.
What Zhao Zhuo did not expect was that a treaty could maintain his peace for a while, but it could not maintain a lifetime, and it was always common to renege on the covenant, not to mention that the other party had changed the emperor. In 1161 AD, Yan Liang killed Jin Xizong and established himself as emperor, and as soon as he came to power, he directly said his three major wishes: "All major national affairs are self-made, one also." Shuai Shi cut down the country, and insisted on his monarch to ask the chief to ask the guilt in the front, and the second also. The world is absolutely beautiful and the wife is three. Now that the first wish has been fulfilled, the second and third wishes can only be realized by attacking the Southern Song Dynasty, so he disregarded the agreement between the two countries and brazenly sent troops to invade the south.
Yan Liang's troops were divided into four routes, of which 70,000 troops were sent by sea and more than 600 warships were sent in an attempt to take the southern Song Dynasty capital Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in one fell swoop. Li Bao was serving as the deputy commander of the Horse Infantry Army on Zhejiang West Road at that time, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he immediately led his boat division to land in the East China Sea, and attacked wei Sheng's army inside and outside, and successively defeated the Jin army in Xinqiao, Guanzimen, And Shayan. Then he led a naval army of 3,000 men and 120 warships from Jiangyin into the sea to the north to meet the Jin Army Boat Division.
Because the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, Li Bao specially did something before going out on the expedition: folding arrows in public, leaving a suicide note, and explaining his own aftermath one by one, to put it bluntly, it was to tell everyone that there were only two results in this trip, "if you didn't succeed, you would become a benevolent person", there was no reason to come back alive, the commanders all did this, and the soldiers below were naturally also inspired, one by one, as if they were dead, and broke out with amazing combat effectiveness.
Not long after, Li Bao's men had already reached the sea near Jiaoxi Chenjia Island, when the Jinguo fleet was moored to shelter from the wind, Li Bao took advantage of the weakness of the Jin army's poor water warfare and the flammability of the tanker's oil sails, and took advantage of its lack of preparation, with the help of the south wind, with rockets, artillery, and other weapons to fire attack, the Jin soldiers were suddenly hit by this blow, the square inches were in chaos, there were countless casualties, Li Bao and other burned almost, he personally took the weapons to the battlefield, annihilated the main force of the marine division in one fell swoop, and greatly increased the anti-Gold morale of the southern Song army and people. Not long after, there was a coup d'état within the Jin Dynasty, Yan Liang was killed, Jin Shizong completed Yan Yong's succession, the war between the Southern Song Dynasty and Jin was over, and Zhao Shuo, who was ready to flee at any time, finally calmed down. However, he was also completely tired of this, and decided to abdicate the throne and let his son Song Xiaozong succeed to the throne. Li Bao, who made special contributions in this battle, was also named the Emissary of the Jing Navy and the Envoy of the Coastal System.
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