The Song Dynasty had two large-scale incidents of cutting military power, the first time, which is known as the cup of wine to release military power, Song Taizu in order to avoid the Song Dynasty again since the late Tang Dynasty five dynasties since the division of the feudal town, the military generals can not be lost, so they cut a large number of military generals' military power, the power back to the central government, to avoid the division of the feudal town.
The second large-scale seizure of military power occurred in the early Southern Song Dynasty, when the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty were still in frequent wars, in order to resist the southern invasion of the Jin army, the Song Dynasty had to let some talented military generals dominate the heavy troops, thus, the Southern Song Dynasty's military power was divided into a combination, and many military generals were also the military power of several towns and festivals, like Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, zhang Jun, and even the three towns and the three towns.
In fact, since the jin army invaded the south at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to deal with the increasingly pressing Jin soldiers, and in order to turn the tide of the war, Li Gang, the minister of the main war faction, proposed to Song Qinzong that several generals should set up feudal towns on the border with the Jin state and grant them real power to resist the Jin people.
However, Song Qinzong rejected this opinion, and to be fair, Li Gang's opinion at that time was very good, and things were urgent, and if he did so, although it would bring hidden dangers to future generations, as far as the situation at that time was concerned, it was very good.
At that time, Wu Jiu and Wu Lu brothers controlled Sichuan, Yue Fei controlled Jingxiang, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Jun were in the southeast, and several heavy military groups had initially formed.
With the conclusion of the Song-Jin peace agreement, these military generals with military power in hand made Song Gaozong quite jealous, and the army in the hands of the military generals was even given the name of "Yue Jia Jun", "Han Jia Jun", and "Wu Jia Jun", which was unacceptable to Song Gaozong.
Not only that, these military generals not only had soldiers in their hands, but also money, as if they were the domain towns of the Tang Dynasty, like Wu Jie, the Wu Xuan brothers, who controlled Sichuan Shu, known as the "Kingdom of Heavenly Palace", Han Shizhong controlled the land of Jiangnan Anointing, and later after Han Shizhong handed over his military power, he only handed over the interest of Yi (that is, long-distance trafficking) as much as one million yuan, which shows the strength of these military generals.
The rapidly expanding power of the warlords posed a serious threat to the central government, especially after Emperor Gaozong of Song's transformation of Miao Liu.
With the stabilization of the political situation, at the suggestion of Emperor Gaozong of Song, Zhang Jun began to attack Liu Guangshi, stripped him of his military power, and ordered the staff officer Lü Zhi to go to moderation, Liu Guangshi was the first target, through which it was Yue Fei's turn, Zhang Jun sent people to Yue Fei's army to act as a supervisor, but it was not long before the Huaixi Mutiny occurred, Liu Guangshi's general Li Qiong wrapped 40,000 Huaixi troops into the Jin Kingdom, which shocked the Song Dynasty and the opposition, and Song Gaozong had to order Liu Guangshi to be comforted, but the goal of cutting the military power remained unchanged.
Then, after Qin Ju was alone, he framed Yue Fei, and Han Shizhong had to surrender his military power in order to protect himself, and with Yue Fei's death, he announced the success of the Song Dynasty's second slashing of military power, but such success was exchanged for the death of the famous general and the great river and mountain.