The 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation can actually be seen as a history of unremitting self-improvement and resistance to foreign enemies. It is impossible to find an accurate language to describe the complexity of Chinese society, and its multi-ethnic fusion and the collision of different cultures make the Chinese nation inclusive.
In recent history, imperialism has described Chinese as the "sick man of East Asia", which is caused by the opium epidemic, but in history, Chinese is a well-known Shangwu family.
Whether it is Bai Qi, the "god of war" of the Qin Kingdom, or Huo Qi's Disease in the Han Dynasty, or Li Bai and Xin Qi, it can be seen that the able people in ancient China were able to write and fight, so when did this atmosphere disappear?
Zhao Kuangyin's concerns
China's dynastic change has always been a pattern, and this pattern is central expansionism. The Central Plains, which was dominated by the Han Chinese, continued to expand its territorial scope, allowing the Turks, Xiongnu, Mongols and other foreign tribes to gradually submit to the process.
Therefore, we can see the kaiyuan prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and we can see the great prosperity of the early Song Dynasty, but until the arrival of the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolia has become the latest ruling force in China, which is enough to see how weak the Song Dynasty is.
After the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he fell into the trouble of Jiangshan, and he analyzed the reasons for the demise of the Tang Dynasty, believing that the Tang Dynasty was too martial, resulting in the combat effectiveness of every ordinary person being very strong, and the combat effectiveness of the army being stronger.
Although foreign enemies do not dare to invade, but the interior is easy to be breached, once someone rebels, the emperor is simply powerless to resist.
Therefore, there is also the spectacle of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji fleeing Chang'an in a hurry after the An Lushan rebellion, which also shows from the side how powerful the Tang Dynasty's feudal envoys were.
Zhao Kuangyin himself was well versed in his way, after the success of the "Chen Qiao Mutiny", he gained supreme power and became the new emperor of the land of Shenzhou, and the first thing he did was to "cut the domain".
The famous incident of "releasing military power through a glass of wine" in history was planned by Zhao Kuangyin, who directly returned the power of the whole country to the imperial court through these two so-called "banquets", completely obliterating the possibility of rebellion of local princes in the future.
At the same time, Zhao Kuangyin believed that if the dynasty wanted to have long-term peace and stability, it was necessary to eliminate this social atmosphere of "shangwu", so in the Song Dynasty, people began to vigorously develop the construction of spiritual civilization, and song ci reached its peak during this period, but if a country could not fight, there would be more people who beat you.
The reason why the Song Dynasty was destroyed, and even in history, there were horrific events such as "Jing Kang Shame" was because of the dissipation of the martial wind, in other words, because the "soul" of the Chinese nation was gone.
How the Song Dynasty lost its bloody nature
The establishment of the Tang Dynasty was largely due to Li Shimin. Many people may see Li Shimin in TV series or movies as a bookish person, but in fact, Li Shimin is the "god of war" of the Tang Dynasty, and after Li Yuan rebelled against Sui, almost every major battle was fought by Li Shimin.
Therefore, when a general like Li Shimin became emperor, he naturally could also convince his military generals, because when he met a superior who knew more about military affairs than himself, I believe that no military attaché would not be convinced.
Under Li Shimin's hands, the Tang Dynasty reached its peak, it can really be said that the four parties came to congratulate, the major tribes in the country were satisfied, the surrounding small countries paid tribute, and even the Uighur state in the east sent a delegation to visit, and for a time the Tang Dynasty was golden and brilliant.
However, when Li Shimin died, the remaining emperors were not as good as one, and in Li Longji's generation, not to mention the martial arts that began in the Tang Dynasty, there was not even a little blood, and when facing the Anshi rebellion, he could only choose to run.
After Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, he thought that he was very similar to Li Shimin, first of all, they were all all-rounders of literature and martial arts, and even Zhao Kuangyin also had ancestral martial arts - Taizu Long Fist and Taizu Stick Method Blessing, so all he had to do was not to follow the old path of the Tang Dynasty.
The first is that the central government has regained power, and the second is that it is not martial but shangwen, and these two measures can be said to have directly led to the demise of the Song Dynasty in the future.
Without the bloody Song Dynasty, from top to bottom, the wind of literature and art, the emperor wrote calligraphy and poetry every day, and the common people also dreamed of spring and autumn, wandering in the illusory hall all day.
This was the case with Emperor Huizong of Song, whose attainments in poetry and calligraphy were even higher than many literati, and whose original "thin gold body" created a new genre in the history of calligraphy, but in the position of emperor, he was quite bad.
When the Jin army took him and his son Song Qinzong all away, the Northern Song Dynasty collapsed, but the matter was not over, and the Jin people brought all the families of Hui hui and the Second Emperor of Qin to the extremely cold land in the northeast, many of whom were concubines and princesses.
The women of these princes and nobles could only be slaves and prostitutes, and the Jin people did not forget to continue to extort the Southern Song Dynasty, threatening the lives of the Second Emperor, resulting in the people of the Southern Song Dynasty being oppressed and could only feed on tree bark.
I have to lament that the cruelty and brutality of the Jin people are indescribable, they single-handedly created the greatest catastrophe in the history of Han civilization, and the rulers of the Song Dynasty could only promise and did not dare to fight with the Jin people to the death, but turned their heads to bully the common people, and the end of the world was reversed.
The struggles of the Southern Song Dynasty
After the Song Dynasty moved south, more and more people in the DPRK and China realized the importance of the word "bloody", but it was easy to talk about it, and how difficult it was to do it, and the problem caused by too many civilian officials was the lack of talent in the war.
Besides Yue Fei, who else could say the words "Jing Kang shame, Yu Weixue, courtiers hate, when will it be extinguished"? However, even such loyal and good generals have also been framed by villains inside and outside the DPRK, and thus they are afraid that they will not be able to live forever.
The rulers were afraid, they were extremely afraid that they would become the next Song Huizong or Song Qinzong under the iron hooves of the Jin people, they just wanted to keep their dragon chair, and asked them to wash away the shame of their ancestors, which was a completely impossible thing.
In the end, when those who had the bloody courage to sacrifice in the DPRK really sacrificed, the Song Dynasty came to the end of its life.
Kublai Khan finally brought his nomadic people to the Central Plains, and the Yuan Dynasty, the first ethnic minority dynasty in Chinese history, was finally established, which was a shame for the Song Dynasty and a shame for the Han Dynasty.
So that later, after Zhu Yuanzhang established daming, he continued to expand outwards, seemingly to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, to pacify the frontier, and he knew that only by subduing all the barbarians could the country achieve real stability.
However, in the late period of the Ming Dynasty, it was already lacking in skill, the Song Dynasty's non-martial style had a far-reaching impact, and the people had experienced nearly a hundred years of Yuan Dynasty rule, and the heat in his heart that belonged to the Han nationality was difficult to ignite, and the Chongzhen Emperor could only sadly choose to commit suicide, and did not dare to carry a knife to the battlefield.
The Song Dynasty, as a turning point in the transformation of the chinese nation's personality, made all Han people pay the price of blood, and a batch of enthusiastic men passed away, leaving only sensen white bones, and the future dynastic rulers could not reverse the situation.