Zhao Fang shook his head and nodded: "Mr. Li, the business dealings between the northern and southern families are one thing, but there is no need to lie about some mutual evaluations because of business. In the eyes of the soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty, even if you have The identity of the Han people is that they are the descendants of the wolf and tiger soldiers of the Five Dynasties, and they were the ferocious and cruel warriors in power. You are not the Northern captives, who are?"
"When a warrior is in power, he becomes a prisoner?" Li Yun laughed hoarsely.
He pointed to his nose and asked: "I was born as a warrior, and now, given by Your Majesty, I have some power and position. Am I a prisoner?"
He also pointed to Yin Chang: "Yin stayed in Nanjing. He studied in Jinan Prefecture and was good at both civil and military affairs. However, he now has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands... Is he a prisoner?"
"When a warrior is in power, is he a prisoner?"
Li Yun nodded to Zhao Fang again: "Ambassador Zhao, what is the authority in your hands? How is the authority of those arrogant and powerful generals under you? The young man named Meng behind you should be a young man you are very optimistic about. After a few more In the next year, will he embark on an official career? Will he gain power? Will he be a prisoner by then?"
Zhao Fang also laughed: "Li Langzhong, you know exactly what I mean. I, Emperor Song, have taboos of Emperor Song, and have rights and wrongs that cannot be broken. Why bother with this."
Li Yun still sneered a few times, took a glass of wine from the table, raised his neck and drank it in one gulp.
In fact, compared with the benefits of the cooperation between the two companies, the naming of a farm area is really not a big deal.
It is true that Pinglu is a bit contemptuous; the military town set up by Zhou Dynasty on Nanjing Road is sometimes called Zhennan or Pingnan, and they are equally eyeing.
What's more, with the consistent temper of the Song Dynasty, he only talked about the campaign to conquer the north. Starting from Grandpa Yue who was determined to restore the country 80 years ago, those who have seriously implemented this goal have never had a good ending. After the failure of the Kaixi Northern Expedition, the abandoned pond trees were still tired of talking about soldiers, and everyone's hearts were cold.
But Li Yun had to struggle for a while, because after struggling, he could make Yin Chang, an important border minister who thought the Song people were weak, figure out where the Song people really felt about the Zhou Dynasty.
Over the years, the Great Zhou Dynasty has spent so much effort infiltrating the south, winning over many nobles and ministers in the south, and arranging countless channels for them to make a fortune together. Therefore, Yin Chang felt that once he took action, he would be able to destroy everything, but there was a central figure in the Great Zhou Dynasty. This view is: If we raise troops to go south, they are likely to be resisted desperately by the Song people.
Zhao Fang did not directly answer Li Yun's question, but his words told everyone the reason.
From the perspective of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty was the result of the rapid decline of the Jurchen's own military force, which was succeeded by the military force of the Han people and then replaced it. The foundation of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty lies in Han'er Yinggu, who originally succumbed to the bottom, but actually produced many heroes. The Great Zhou Dynasty was undoubtedly a Han regime, and it was an orthodox regime that overthrew the Jinlu rule for hundreds of years and restored the Han family in one fell swoop.
Some people believed earlier that the Zhou Dynasty retained many Jurchen and Khitan ministers, and even if it was to accommodate them, the court would not deliberately emphasize this point. But over the years, although the court did not deliberately emphasize it, as the etiquette and styles were gradually improved, many things became self-evident.
The ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, whether they were Han or Bei people, all recognized the core and dominant position of the Han in this regime. Many Jurchens had begun to change their Jurchen surnames to Han surnames, deliberately getting rid of their Jurchen identities. The Khitan people did not have any psychological burden on this, but several well-known Khitan families all worked hard on civil affairs because of the call of the then Prime Minister Yelu Chucai. In the scientific examination of the New Dynasty, many gentle and elegant bachelors emerged one after another.
The Jurchens and Khitan people had their own explanations for the situation in which various tribes bowed their heads.
The most mainstream one is still made by Yelu Chucai. What is said is that the Han family was originally the master of the Central Plains. It has been the elder brother and co-owner of all ethnic groups since the Han and Tang Dynasties. In the past few years, Tai'a has been in the opposite direction, mainly because the Zhao Guan family of the Southern Song Dynasty have been useless generation after generation, and they have treated the Han people. status was ruined.
Until Guo Jiedu of the Ding Navy succeeded the work of Guo Zhou in the Five Dynasties and swept across the Central Plains with powerful soldiers and generals. Even the Mongol Khan in the north was no match. Such an army would naturally not be able to succumb to foreigners, and it would be inevitable to take revenge. , complain if you have any complaints.
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In the process of Zhou's invasion, it was inevitable that people would be killed and those who were originally superior would suffer, but all races would suffer. All because this is to set aside a hundred years of chaos and reverse the righteousness of a thousand years. It is reasonable and in line with the general trend, and the Lords of Gonggun must pay attention to it.
This statement not only gave the foreign tribes a certain dignity, but also truly reiterated the strong military force of the Great Zhou Dynasty, reminding the tribes of the Bei tribe that it was their original tradition to bow to the strong. Therefore, this statement spread very quickly and was accepted by so many people. It will become official orthodoxy and will be recorded in history.
In the Zhou Dynasty, the only disadvantage caused by this statement is that the official reputation of the Zhao family in the Southern Song Dynasty continued to be harmed. Except for the founding emperor Taizu, who conquered four hundred military states with one stick, the emperors of successive generations after Taizong and Zhenzong were belittled as wastes and idiots. Especially those who abandoned the territory of the north and the Central Plains and caused hundreds of millions of people to fall into the hands of foreigners. Recently, there have been special mockeries for them.
In contrast, on the Song Dynasty, there was also political propaganda directed at the Zhou Dynasty.
This type of political propaganda almost all repeatedly emphasizes the ferocity of the northern warrior group, and follows the trend, comparing the Great Zhou Dynasty to Fangzhen, the warriors of the Five Dynasties who achieved great success with strong soldiers and horses... This statement actually contributes to the prestige of the Great Zhou army, and even vaguely In response to the political propaganda of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it linked the Great Zhou Dynasty to the Five Dynasties Zhou, and covered up the ridicule of the Northern Caotai team by the literati of the Southern Dynasties.
But the Song State kept doing this all the time because this kind of propaganda hit Zhou's weakness.
This weakness is not the weakness of Zhou Dynasty, but the weakness of Zhou Dynasty in the eyes of many people of Song Dynasty. It is something that the army and people of Song Dynasty cannot accept under any circumstances.
Since ancient times, it has been difficult for civil servants to coexist with martial arts, and it is difficult for martial men to practice civil servants. This is what is said about getting it right away but not curing it right away, and about taking things against the grain and obeying them.
The Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties followed the Five Dynasties, and the greatest characteristic of the political situation of the Five Dynasties was the brutality and murderous nature. The corruption of its political atmosphere and the extent of its poisonous harm were rarely seen in the annals of history. Many knowledgeable people in the Song Dynasty analyzed this.
Up to now, people in the Song Dynasty generally believe that this situation is mainly due to the fact that the Five Dynasties regime was mainly established in the hands of military generals, and the rampage and tyranny of these warriors were no less generous than the chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, which caused the people to suffer. It is getting worse with each passing day, and the fields are covered with bones in the Central Plains, Hebei and even the south of the Yangtze River. The thorns are everywhere and the people are living in dire straits. Hundreds of years later, the bloody records are still horrifying and unimaginable.
After Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty came to the throne, he once said to Prime Minister Zhao Pu: "Fangzhen was brutally abused in the Five Dynasties, and the people suffered from it. I ordered more than a hundred Confucian ministers and officials to be selected to rule the vassal. Even though they were all corrupt, they were not as good as the military ministers. also."
In the eyes of the founding king of the Song Dynasty, even if the more than a hundred Confucian ministers who governed the place were all despicable villains, they would not cause as much harm to the people as a single warrior in the feudal town. These words of Song Taizu are not a slander against warriors, but are iron-clad facts that have been proven countless times with blood.
The emperor has two evils, how to choose?
The scholar-bureaucrats and the people of the world have endured the harm caused by warriors for hundreds of years. Almost every family has died because of it. Almost everyone is the lucky one left in this terrible world. What would they think of Wu Fu taking power?
Therefore, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, it has always tried its best to suppress warriors and suppress military power, so much so that it castrated its newborn dynasty into docile and weak pigs and sheep.
Of course, this was because the emperors of the Song Dynasty sought to centralize power to protect the imperial power. More importantly, the entire Song Dynasty, whether the royal family, civil servants or ordinary people, could never bear the tragedy of another military rebellion. In order to prevent the extremely bloody Five Dynasties from reappearing, they felt that any price was bearable.
More than two hundred years have passed since the disaster of the Five Generations of Warriors. Ordinarily, that terrible memory should be indifferent. After constantly suffering the humiliation of defeat in foreign wars, a somewhat martial spirit should have emerged within the Song Dynasty.
Unfortunately, there are, but not many.
Because the cruel reality still kept reminding the people of Song Dynasty and telling them the horror of warriors taking power. The latest one happened in the Kingdom of Jin in the north. A group of defeated soldiers from the wilderness could actually seize power by force and change the world's great countries.
During this process, the originally powerful Jin Kingdom became so weak that the Japanese invaders from the northern grasslands invaded several times. For several years, the war was in chaos. The Zhou army, the Jin army, and the Mongolian army came and went. Not only the military states suffered disasters. Dozens or hundreds? How about hundreds of thousands or millions of people who died in the war?
Such a tragic scene happened right next to Da Song, on this couch so close at hand. What do people from the Song Dynasty think about it?
The prime ministers in the Song Dynasty could have a fierce fight with the Zhou Dynasty out of the need to consolidate their power. Anyway, this has been a tradition since the founding of the Song Dynasty.
The dignitaries of the Song Dynasty, inside and outside, could work closely with the caravans of the Great Zhou Dynasty for the sake of gold and silver. Anyway, being an official for thousands of miles is just for money. If you make money first, everything else will be easy to talk about.
But if the North tried to use force to change the situation, countless Song people would be frightened and furious. They will never accept the recurrence of the terrible situation of Wu Fu's country, and they cannot tolerate the recurrence of nightmares that have been circulating for hundreds of years.
Therefore, no matter how weak the Song people as a whole are, there will always be people who jump out and fiercely resist the evil Beibei in their hearts.
In Jinghu No. 3 Road, Zhao Fang is the leader among people with such determination and ability, and there must be many others in other places. The Southern Dynasties were prosperous, with more than 50 million people living there. Even if one person out of ten resists, that is a vast ocean worth five million people. How can it be easy?
