The more I read "History of the Song Dynasty", the more humiliation I can feel.
Foreign wars have been lost again and again, and they have been honored again and again.
But the number of troops in the Song Dynasty was unprecedentedly large, and military expenditure accounted for seventy or eighty percent of the country's revenue.
If you were a bandit in the late Northern Song Dynasty, I hope to see the essence of this problem through your life.
You are a thief who robbed homes and houses for many years, and was later recruited by the imperial court to become a "glorious" soldier.
Today's imperial court implements a conscription system, from bandits and bandits to ruffians and hooligans on the streets, and disaster victims outside the city, and recruits idle people in society.
This move of the imperial court not only solved the problem of the source of soldiers, but also caused no trouble and uprising, which was simply a multiplicity of stones.
You have just entered the barracks, and an lieutenant is taking a roll call, which is the accent of your hometown, and you say hello in the local dialect.
As soon as the lieutenant heard this, hey, fellow, he pulled you into his team, and you usually communicate in local dialect, talking about the beautiful scenery and food of your hometown, and the loneliness of people in a foreign land is gradually fading, and you can be regarded as having a place to rely on.
Within a few days, you received the task of transporting a batch of goods to Bianliang.
But you were soldiers, when did you become darts? But an order is an order, and you have a question mark on your face and follow the commander to the ordnance workshop.
Just approached, the first thing I heard was the sound of loom weaving, walking into the workshop side of the four rows, each row of more than a dozen looms are working, sitting in front of it, but a group of five big and three thick old men.
They expertly picked out the threads, their rough fingers darling through the soft, thin threads.
Look at the proficiency of the movements, no worse than the little lady weaving cloth at the entrance of the village, what you don't know is that these are just a drop in the bucket.
There are more than 20 kinds of blacksmiths who produce agricultural tools, carpenters who make furniture, gold and silver jewelry, handicrafts, and embroiderers.
You seem to understand what is going on in front of you.
The imperial court gave food and salary, except for the money for some raw materials, other venue fees, transportation costs, etc., which was simply a million profits.
You and your colleagues carried forty carts full of goods to the capital.
You ask the lieutenant, isn't it necessary for the army to be transferred?
The lieutenant smiled and said, "It's not easy to appoint this thing!" "As a human spirit, you understand it immediately.
From magistrates to generals, to lieutenants, these small leaders, who are not vested interests? You are happy in your heart, and if you are promoted, you will be rich.
Escorting goods is also hard work. On a rainy night, because I didn't catch the post station, there was already a group of people inside to take shelter from the rain.
Not only escorted a lot of supplies, but also brought female dependents.
The young lady's clothes were wet, and they were still a little guarded at first, and they were all relieved to see that you were officers and soldiers.
You are like a beast that hunts all year round, entering the human world, and suddenly a young sika deer comes to you and stretches out unguardedly......
You look at the lieutenant, and sure enough, there is desire, cruelty, restraint, and scruples in his eyes.
You know this, and whisper a few words in his ear, and he nods at you with a bright eye.
The colleagues who can come to take charge of the goods are not good people, they are all former ruffians, bandits and robbers, you can consult with them.
It didn't take long for the front and rear doors to be blocked.
The people who should have been guarded fell under the knife one by one, leaving only the lieutenant and the young lady in the house.
The rain poured down, and a delicate flower in the corner of the wall was destroyed by the torrential rain one after another.
You didn't leave a single one alive, and you divided the money. Courage and ruthlessness are the way of survival of bandits, so the culprits are bandits who do not exist.
When the lieutenant saw that you were so good at doing things, he quickly promoted you to the rank of officer, and you became an officer.
When your goods arrived in Bianliang, they had risen by several percent, and they didn't pay taxes when they entered the city.
In less than two years, the rank of lieutenant was promoted to lieutenant, and you rose to lieutenant.
But you didn't have long to be complacent, and the general changed.
Your boss is very worried, in order to avoid the military generals from supporting the army, the general will be changed once in two or three years, because Emperor Taizu is a yellow robe, supported by his subordinates, and then released the military power with a glass of wine, and took back the power of the generals without hurting and angry.
At that time, it was promised to the children and grandchildren of his subordinates, so the attitude of the Song Dynasty towards military generals was: military attachés were allowed to be prosperous, but military attachés were not allowed to take power.
Although the imperial court emphasized literature over military force, because it was bullied by Jin and Liao all the year round, paid tribute and became vassals, and relied on military attachés, more and more troops were recruited.
Sometimes it is inevitable that money and grain will be in arrears, and the court may not be unaware of these tricks of seeking wealth in the military camp. But Wenchen's side also received a lot of benefits.
But the treasury is empty. As long as the emperor doesn't make trouble and doesn't need money, everything will be fine.
When the new general came, he did not rectify military affairs, but first took away the power to do business. He wants to use this to cultivate his descendants, and old generals like you are already in a high position, and the price of wooing them is too great. If a new one is promoted, the one who is promoted will naturally be grateful and become his descendant.
In this way, you were marginalized with the commander, and while the newly appointed lieutenant did not understand the situation, you deliberately misled the specific amount of money to be handed over to the various government offices.
Because this piece cannot be put on the ledger, there is no evidence left. The captain is also shallow-eyed, and if he has more money, he will taste it, which will lead Ying Tianfu Yin to think that the newly appointed general wants to swallow the benefits alone.
Directly came to the door to question, the general knew that it was you who dug the pit, but under the operation of your commander's relationship, the civilian official was very dissatisfied with the change of the person in charge. The general had no choice, so he brought your commander up again, and he was unwilling, so he disrupted and adjusted all your personnel.
When you look at the roster, you don't know your boss or your subordinates, and you don't take it personally, but as long as you can still do business and make money. Before power could be stabilized, news came from the imperial court that the Jin army had come over and wanted to send your troops to the front.
When the army is drawn up, and the hundred of your subordinates on the roster return, you know a few embroiderers and boiler burners, and you don't know any of the rest. Those who beat armor have gone to hoe, and those who have made bows and arrows have gone to make furniture.
The troops also issued armor like tattered copper and iron, and the bows and arrows taken out of the storehouse were crooked, even the feathers of the arrows were crooked. As you know, there's nothing good about the arsenal, but seeing this tragic situation makes you wonder if the general is deliberately trying to kill you.
You just want to run away, but you have become a captain, and you will have a good life in the long run, so will you run away and become a bandit again? I heard that there are few Jin soldiers, and many ants can bite and kill elephants, so I really can't run again. In this situation of suspicion at the top, and parallel goods at the bottom, you went to the battlefield.
There was a sound of fighting in the distance, and the earth began to shake frequently. A group of strong men dressed in exotic costumes and riding tall horses come into view, like herdsmen riding horses on horses and grazing a herd of cattle and sheep.
Everywhere they went, there was a sea of corpses and blood, and the Song army fell like a broken straw. The knife in your hand has only cut the unarmed people, how have you ever seen this kind of killing god.
You ask your subordinates to rush forward, turn around and run away. The experience of being a bandit allows you to trek through the mountains for two days and one night. Knock on the door and you feel saved.
The old man let you into the house and struck you in the head with an axe from behind while you were drinking.
The old man gritted his teeth and shouted: "Those who are soldiers deserve to die, and deserters deserve to die." ”
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