"Brother Imperial, I am injured and can't stand up easily. Please forgive me for being disrespectful."
Seeing Zhao Kaile stop his horse, Zhao Gou did not stand up to salute. The wound on his crotch was not yet clean, but he did not dare to use his legs. If the wound burst, he would have to cut it permanently.
Injured and unable to stand?
Only then did Zhao Kai realize that Zhao Gou was sitting on a soft couch. His legs and feet should have been injured.
"Since you are injured, let's sit down and talk." Zhao Kai looked at Zhao Gou, who was dressed as a prince of the Song Dynasty, and frowned again, "I heard that you have worshiped Wanyan Wu Qimai as your father and changed your surname. Wanyan, now he’s called Wanyan Zonggou...Is this a problem?"
Zhao Gou smiled bitterly: "My brother is trapped in the enemy camp and can't help himself. In order to save his life, I can only recognize the thief as his father... This matter is not my fault!"
"Oh?" Zhao Kaixin said: You are still making excuses! Did you have no control over killing Yue Fei?
Zhao Gou sighed and said in a complaining tone: "On that day, the country was in great calamity, my father died for the country, and my younger brother was not the only brother who fell into the hands of the enemy. But the eldest brother spent money to redeem them all, but he did not redeem my younger brother... ....”
Having said this, Zhao Gou shed tears... He was so wronged!
Why did he not redeem him even though he had redeemed them all? Are you, Zhao Huan, short of these two dollars?
If you want to redeem him, he will be romantic and happy in Jinling now, and he can be romantic and happy for a long time!
When Zhao Kai heard what he said, he sneered in his heart: The boss has seen through you! If it were me, I wouldn't redeem you!
"So you helped the gold thief invade Huainan?" Zhao Kai said, while thinking: You can't help yourself if you accept the thief as your father, and you will die if you don't. So being a leader is always voluntary, right? If you hadn't volunteered, Wu Qimai wouldn't have dared to send you to lead the way!
Zhao Gou smiled bitterly and said: "How can I help the gold thieves enter Huainan? The battle in Huainan was all directed by the fourth prince Wu Shu. I thought I would win, but I didn't want to be defeated by the powerful official Zhao Mingcheng of Jinling. I really didn't expect... ..."
Zhao Kai snorted and thought to himself: That's not how powerful Li Qingzhao's husband is, but that Zhao Huan accidentally changed the emphasis on civil service over military affairs to a combination of civil and military affairs, so that the army of the Southern Song Dynasty could really be managed responsibly. .....Although the management is not very good, it is better than no one taking care of it and several groups of people holding each other back!
Zhao Gou breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Zhao Kai was speechless. Now he came alone and in a boat, and he was seriously injured and couldn't even escape. If Zhao Kai didn't follow martial ethics and wanted to kill a seriously injured person like him, then he would have no choice but to sit back and wait for death!
Now Zhao Kai seems to still miss a little bit of brotherly love, so let's get down to business!
"Third brother," Zhao Gou said, "Although I am in Jin camp, my heart is always towards the Song Dynasty!"
That's the opposite!
Zhao Kai thought: When you were in the Song Dynasty, your heart was towards the Jin Dynasty! Otherwise, why did you kill Yue Fei?
"Really?" Zhao Kai asked, "Brother Ninth came here today, do you want to return to the Song Dynasty?"
Zhao Gou shook his head and said: "Third brother, now is not the time for my brother to return."
Zhao Kai looked at Zhao Gou and asked coldly: "Then what are you doing here?"
"Brother Chen is here to remind Third Brother that if the Song Dynasty wants to regain its homeland, it must let Wu Qimai be the emperor of the Jin Kingdom for a few more years!"
Haha, the fox’s tail is finally exposed! Zhao Kai smiled, "Why did Ninth Brother say this?"
Zhao Goudao said: "My brother has been in the Jin camp for a long time, and I already know all the truth and falsehood... This country of the Jin people is quite different from our Song Dynasty. The power is not vested in the king, but in the consultation of the powerful ministers." political system, and also based on the Jurchen nation as the basis for collegiality.
Therefore, their internal constraints and conflicts between various factions are very serious, and naturally they cannot use their strength in one place.
And the current emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Wu Qimai, is a weak leader. His strength is far inferior to that of the descendants of the Aguda faction and Sun Nianhan, the chief minister and minister of Wanyan... Therefore, he is unable to gather power. All the Jurchen tribes have great power.
This Jurchen's power cannot be concentrated, and her power cannot be used in one place. It will not be so difficult for our Song Dynasty to regain the lost ground. "
Zhao Kai snorted: "It's nothing more than feudal politics and tribal leaders discussing politics... Although the power cannot be concentrated in one person, it will not be worse than one person.
Moreover, since all armies have their own masters, they will naturally do their best when doing things. Although factional strife is unavoidable, the competition between factions, if the able can be respected, would not be worse than the civil-official partisanship in the Song Dynasty before the war was declared, right? "
Before Zhao Kai passed through his soul, he also had some understanding of the political system of ancient society—from computer games!
And after coming to this era and sitting in this position, my understanding of this aspect is of course even deeper.
In his view, ancient political systems were generally a mixture of enfeoffment and centralization... No matter how enfeoffed the monarch was, the monarch always had territories directly under the jurisdiction that needed officials to manage. In the territories directly under the jurisdiction of the monarch, the authority of the monarch was often very great. , which is actually centralized.
Otherwise, wouldn’t the monarch become the Emperor of Japan?
But Japan's shoguns and daimyo all have territories directly under their jurisdiction! How else to become a general? Be a famous person? Therefore, Japan under the feudal dynasty still had elements of centralization.
And no matter how centralized power is, subject to productivity and technological levels, the emperor cannot rely on officials to control everything!
Therefore, feudal elements existed in most ancient dynasties. It's just that the forms are different, and the degree is different...not all feudalism is like the Western Zhou Dynasty, Western Europe, and Mongolia, which reached the level of feudal states.
The feudalism of feudal states and nation-building is often accompanied by "Xia Jun Yimin", and it is a kind of feudalism of conquerors.
The feudalism that existed within the unified dynasties of China often did not take the name of a state, but appeared in the form of the manor system (which controlled a large amount of land and population, forming a de facto separatist regime), the chieftain system, and the Jiedushi system. .
The system that links military service to land distribution is actually a feudal remnant... By granting land, feudal dependence is formed, and it also gives local governments a basis for self-government and self-defense.
The government army system designed by Zhao Kai when he "reopened the Song Dynasty" (not exactly the same as the government army system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties) was actually a land military service system, a residual feudal system.
If the control is not good in the future, there may be big feudal lords who separatize one side in the camp and field roads... The local military government has soldiers, fields and people (tenants). Once the control is out of control, it will be the Jiedushi, the chieftain, and the name. Lord!
Of course, that is something that may happen in the future. But at present, the land military service system undoubtedly provides Zhao Kai's regime with cheap, high-quality and sufficient soldiers!
In addition, the monarch cannot actually rely entirely on civilian officials to rule... Zhao Huan has already tried it!
In today's troubled times, if we rely entirely on civil servants, civil servants will become samurai. Once this transformation is completed, the civil servants who transformed into warriors will also become feudal warlords... and no one has stipulated that scholar-bureaucrats cannot change careers and become warlords!
Historically, many of the Hunan-Huai warlords in the late Qing Dynasty were scholar-bureaucrats!
Hearing what Zhao Kai said, Zhao Gou couldn't help but shout in his heart: His third brother is indeed better than his eldest brother! Of course...it's definitely not as good as him!
If Zhao Kai continues his path, it will be nothing more than the reappearance of the Tang Dynasty - no matter how strong his control over the soldiers is now, it will be useless!
Historically, Li Shimin did not have strong control over the army?
But in the end, wouldn't it still be a separate feudal system?
And if he follows Zhao Huan's path... Zhao Gou doesn't know what will happen? Maybe the merchants and gentry officials in the southeast will have full control of the power?
Will the Emperor of the Zhao family still need it then?
The true way to peace is based on the ancestral family laws of the Song Dynasty...the soldiers must be raised and crippled! Use the useless soldiers to restrain the scholar-bureaucrats, and then let the scholar-bureaucrats rectify the useless soldiers.
Zhao Gou sighed. He had no use for all his imperial skills!
"Third brother is really smart, I admire you!" Zhao Gou had no choice but to follow Zhao Kai's words, "Third brother, since various factions compete and the capable are respected...then third brother feels that once Wu Qimai loses power, Who will emerge as the winner?"
"Isn't it Wan Yan Xie?" Zhao Kai asked.
"Xie Ye is already terminally ill and will die soon." Zhao Gou said, "Furthermore, Xie Ye's power is not great, and even if he is a king, he will be a weak king. The power will be in the hands of Ban Bo, who is very fierce!"
"Who will become the new Banbo Jilie?" Zhao Kai asked again.
"Judging from the current situation," Zhao Gou said with some melancholy, "the new Banbo Jilie is either Wanyan Zonghan or Wanyan Zongqian!
Zong Han is the eldest grandson of the Wanyan family, and he has made great contributions and has outstanding talents. Now he controls the territory of East Jingdong Road.
Zongqian was the eldest son of Wanyan Aguda. Aguda had many descendants, and they all respected Zongqian. Now the Aguda faction still firmly controls the territory of Nanjing Road and Hebei East Road... It is more powerful than Zonghan's faction!
No matter which of the two factions wins the competition, the future Emperor of Jin will be more powerful and talented than Wu Qimai! "
Zhao Gou paused, then looked at Zhao Kai who looked unconcerned, and then said: "So I think... our Song Dynasty still needs Wu Qiu to buy this weak leader of the Jin Kingdom! If he can If he maintains it for a few more years, he might be able to support his own heirs. And when Wu Qimai is raising his own heirs, he will definitely suppress the Zong Han and Zong Qian factions and prevent them from making contributions and expanding their power. The third brother will not Is there a chance to send troops to Jinling? If the third brother can get all the wealth in the southeast, are you afraid that you will not be able to expel the Jin people and restore your homeland?"
Haha, you Zhao Gou, you are instigating a civil war in the Song Dynasty!
Zhao Kai thought to himself: But this Wu Qimai is indeed not as powerful as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, and Wanyan Zongbi... and after this current failure, Wu Qimai's power will be even weaker. Under the leadership of a weak leader like him, the Kingdom of Jin is likely to languish in the next few years.
"Brother Ninth turns out to be a lobbyist for Wu Qimai!" Zhao Kai laughed, "I already know it. Brother Ninth, please go back. I hope we won't meet on the battlefield in the future."
And in the future... Zhao Gou breathed a sigh of relief.
