Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 281 Dual Core Drivers
How to fight this battle?
In fact, I am afraid that the significance of deterrence is greater than the actual significance. Although Zhao Kuangyin is better at fighting, he also knows that the surrender of the Sixteenth State of Yanyun and the Liao Kingdom is the core interest of Zhao Guangmei's family.

To put it bluntly, Zhao Guangyi was a little greedy and wanted to take a bite out of this huge benefit, so he got confused and came out with the so-called 30 army.

It is most appropriate for the Liao Kingdom to be handled by the Shulu Department. Only such a peaceful reunification will get twice the result with half the effort, and there will be no conflicts after reunification.

In fact, after thinking about it afterwards, Zhao Kuangyin was a little scared. If the Song Dynasty really supported the restoration of the Bohai Kingdom after the unification of the Liao Kingdom, these people would definitely have many conflicts with the Shulu Ministry, and even military conflicts would occur.

Is this really a good thing for the Song Dynasty?

The Song Dynasty does not need to use their internal contradictions to rule. Development is the Song Dynasty's biggest and most important weapon. As long as the Song Dynasty can lead the local people to get rich, I don't believe that the people in those places will be disloyal to the Song Dynasty.

The Bohai Jurchens have been living together with the Han people since the Tang Dynasty. Almost everyone can speak Chinese, and the upper class nobles have basically integrated into the Han culture. What kind of country can this kind of regime be restored to?Isn't this just looking for trouble?

Therefore, in this battle, it is not important how to fight on the battlefield. What is important is how to appease Yan Yun and even the Khitan nobles who came to Beijing. There is really no second choice for this matter except Zhao Guangmei.

Although Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangmei are now somewhat competitive, he is not willing to calculate personal gains and losses when it comes to national affairs.

To put it bluntly, not everything in the Song Dynasty belongs to him. Zhao Guangmei did a great job. In the future, history books will not praise him as the founder of the country.

Just imagine for a moment, if the Liao Kingdom could surrender without fighting and surrender according to etiquette, how would the history books write about it?How will future generations evaluate him?

Damn it, it took me a lifetime of fighting to understand: It turns out that the benevolent is invincible.

As for Zhao Guangmei not knowing how to fight, it actually doesn’t matter. The Song Dynasty’s current equipment has been replaced countless times, and the hard power is there. This time, the Song Dynasty will focus on shock, and go straight to the A without any brains. Can win too.

Besides, isn't Gao Huaide also following him as a staff advisor? He just needs to be asked to listen to his brother-in-law more when he encounters something he doesn't know how to do.

Speaking of which, Gao Huaide, because he had been serving as an envoy to the Liao Kingdom for many years, almost all of his business was related to border trade, and his core interests were all in Khitan, but he was the only one among the old brothers who followed Zhao Guangmei. One road leads to the dark one.

However, in this expedition, Zhao Guangmei's speed was much slower than everyone in the world expected.

In addition to immediately ordering Dang Jin to lead the [-] cavalrymen to Youzhou Prefecture and take over Yanyun's military power from Handerang, he himself also took action and even ordered Dang Jin to attack the Liao Kingdom as much as possible. Stay restrained and don't rush into the fight.

At the same time, he also wrote letters to Guo Jin and Brother Yelvxiu, but most people don't know what he wrote.

Zhao Guangmei's deployment of troops this time was very complicated. Except for Yulong Banzhi, all the people in the front division of the palace accompanied the army. All the two armies of Shanghang followed the army. All the divisions accompanied the army, leaving only the infantry division division behind.

This girl is either going to fight or training.

With such a style of play, the Song Dynasty will basically use all its elites. The total main battle force will exceed 10, and it is not very reasonable.

Not only that, Zhao Guangmei also asked the board of directors for instructions with a thick plan, and held a meeting with a group of shareholders for less than half a month. After the meeting, she began to organize the top and bottom ranks of the three government officials in the forbidden army. , especially the middle-level generals who were constantly being transferred back and forth.

It is not difficult for anyone with a little knowledge to see that the Zhao brothers plan to use this expedition to carry out a complete military reform of the Forbidden Army.

This seems quite normal. After all, the Liao Kingdom will perish and surrender after this battle. Even if those die-hards escape, there will definitely be no threat to the Song Dynasty. If the Song Dynasty maintains this Two 10,000+ Forbidden Army and two 10,000+ Xiang Army are really not ridiculous.

And sure enough, almost at the same time, Zhao Pu and the prime ministers of Menxia Province received the "request for instructions" from Zhao Guangmei and others.

First, the Imperial Guard changed its name.

It is planned to split the Guard Horse Army Division, and separate the elite soldiers and horses such as the Crane Control Army and Long Jie Army from the Guard Horse Army Division. The remaining Guard Horse Army will be merged with the Guard Infantry Army, and at the same time, it will be merged with the Guard Infantry Army. The Xiang soldiers were merged, reorganized, disbanded, and renamed the Song Dynasty Homeland Defense Force, referred to as the National Defense Force.

That is to say, those who were not taken away during this expedition were responsible for those left behind.

It is planned to merge the two armies of Dianqian Division and Konghe Longjie to form the Royal Commercial Bank Guard Army of the Song Dynasty.

Just by hearing the name, you can tell that Zhao Guangmei is going to make a bigger move.

The Royal Commercial Bank Guards of the Song Dynasty are planned to be separated from the imperial court of the Song Dynasty. They will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council and will be directly controlled by the general meeting of shareholders of the commercial banks. They will not eat the finances of the Song Dynasty or the military pay of the Song Dynasty. They will only meet military needs and supplies. Provided by Song Dynasty Royal Commercial House.

In other words, if military rations were requisitioned from any prefecture or county during future expeditions, the commercial bank would have to write a check to the court.

Finally, it was planned to merge the foreign armies of the Song Dynasty with the Yi Army, the Dingnan Army, Zhao Dezhao's Zhennan Army, and some foreign vassal troops, and form the Kaijiang Army of the Song Dynasty. They were also not under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and were branches of commercial banks, and were allowed to be responsible for their own profits and losses. .

When Zhao Pu and others got the document, they were all stunned, and all the provincial prime ministers were also speechless.

This is Zhao Guangmei. If Xue Juzheng dares to make such an outrageous proposal, these prime ministers will have to beat him.

Lu Yijian looked at Zhao Pu in confusion, "Is this... what His Highness King Qin means? Does the Supreme Emperor also agree? Do the shareholders of the trading company also agree?"

"Ah."

"No, this...what are the brothers trying to do? If they want military power, why don't they just step down from the throne? Now that they have stepped down, why do they want to regain military power? Elite troops We have given them all, the Commercial Bank, and the Privy Council have become mere decorations? Will our province be abolished one day in the future? But aren’t they just taking off their pants and farting in vain? This world originally belongs to their old Zhao family, but on the contrary Commercial banks and shareholders’ meetings are not all members of their royal family.”

"Such a wild and unreasonable idea should have come from King Qin. How about... I go find him and ask?"

"Ask? Forget it, don't bother. There must be a reason for His Highness the King of Qin's opinion. Since the Supreme Emperor has already agreed, what else can we say? Ask, it seems that we people have any thoughts on military power. Similar."

"That's right. Your Highness, King Qin, has seen thousands of miles. There is nothing we can compare with. Even if you ask, you might as well approve Zhangtai first. It's not too late to ask after the matter is done."

Zhao Pu nodded when he heard this. He thought so too. Generally speaking, the two brothers can do whatever they want. Even if they take off their pants and fart, that's just what they want. Do you care? .

One country, two systems, two and a half armies, and the fact that they are responsible for their own profits and losses, haha, it’s really weird.But because it was done by Zhao Guangmei, even though it was weird, everyone actually found it acceptable.

In fact, this is indeed Zhao Guangmei's idea. Although this method seems absurd, it is actually the most efficient way to expand the empire, the most stable internal core, and even a relatively longer-lasting method.

After the country enters industrialization and modernization, dual core is not necessarily a bad thing. On the contrary, single core will be more likely to fall into decay and decline.

The most famous dual cores in history are undoubtedly the Dutch East India Company and the Korean East India Company. In fact, the current Song Dynasty Commercial Bank does have a bit of the style of the Song Dynasty East India Company, and is even larger than the historical East India Company. The company is a bit bigger, but the stock has always been highly restricted and has not been publicly listed on the secondary market.

But the real target of Zhao Guangmei's target is not the two East India Companies, but the Persian Red Guard in the 21st century.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhao Guangmei really feels that in terms of military philosophy, the Persian Empire is probably a whole street ahead of all the mainstream powers in the world. She has been working for hegemony by herself for more than 20 years and has almost conquered the Middle East. , from a purely military perspective, the development of the 20 years before Zhao Guangmei traveled through time was simply a military miracle.

Of course you have to learn good things.

There are two armies in a country, and the division of labor between the two armies is clear. One arm is only responsible for homeland defense. It reduces the proportion of cavalry, increases the construction of barracks, builds more infantry, and builds more forts. The training intensity does not need to be too high. A small number of elites can lead the army. Part of the Xiang army militia can be trained.

To be honest, Zhao Guangmei really doesn’t think there will be any foreign enemies in the Song Dynasty after the demise of the Khitan. It is unlikely that any of the few small countries that were separated from the Great Eclipse would have the ability to travel thousands of miles to cause trouble for the Song Dynasty.

Tubo may still have some potential. After destroying the Liao Kingdom, it can be considered to be beaten, or simply incorporated into the territory.

It is most appropriate for fiscal funds to be used to support the defense force, because the cost of the defense force is relatively fixed, and unexpected expenses are not large. If you encounter a militaristic ruler, you don’t have to worry about military expenditures draining the national finance. Bu Shuo said that one day when the enemy invades, the court can also come forward to carry out general mobilization.

The Trading Company Guards are an army solely for offensive support. They are mainly responsible for safeguarding the trading rights of trading companies and protecting their global trade from infringement. To put it simply: open the door for free trade.

Commercial banks need to make a profit, whether it is trading or fighting, they must have enough profits to have the motivation to expand. To put it bluntly, military expenditures must be less than the profits from trade. This can well restrain the imperial court's militarism.

Moreover, the commercial bank controls such an offensive army. To put it bluntly, it will have more specific requirements for the practicality of the army, and can effectively prevent corruption, slackness, and other problems within the army.

Because this army wants to make money.

This is equivalent to deepening the nature of the Privy Council's supervision of military tenders.

And in fact, this army will not be the main force in the Song Dynasty's foreign wars. The real main force will be the expansion army composed of the Dingnan Army and the Guiyi Army.

I really learned from modern Persia.

The Persian Red Guards have a very important principle: try not to personally participate in foreign wars.

Instead, they send instructors, technical guidance, and even political commissars, and then through a large amount of foreign aid, including but not limited to aiding hospitals, schools, building roads, railways and other infrastructure for neighboring countries, infiltrating the other side's military, and then By the way, provide some weapons and ammunition to your neighbor's army and form an unbreakable brotherly alliance with them.

But it also gives these allies a great deal of autonomy.

Economically, these armies are highly dependent on the Persian Red Guards, but they have little dependence on their own governments. They can change the governments as they please and subvert them as they please. Whether they are corrupt or traitors, it does not matter at all. The combat effectiveness of the army. Anyway, when the government army faced these vassal armies of Persia, they were just like chickens and dogs and had no fighting ability.

Persia, relying on these vassal armies, almost defeated the most domineering and invincible army in the world in 20 years.

Unfortunately, he hasn't killed many people yet, and he really hasn't spent much money. Only in a few really tough battles will he send the Persian Red Guards to take action.

Back and forth, Persia led his more than 200 men to kill at least thousands of people in a certain country. They were so anxious that they were unable to do anything about him. The so-called blockade, sanctions, and suppression were all against him. He went with the Persian government, but what does this have to do with the Persian Red Guard?

Who stipulates that the military must obey the government?

Do you want to give up on the good? In essence, the Song Dynasty is about to enter an expansion cycle. If it follows the traditional expansion route, it is indeed difficult to have a good way to maintain and manage territories that are too far away. If it lasts, it will be a replica. It's just Chou Lijian, or the Great Empire. This kind of hegemony can't last long at all, at most one or two hundred years, and after the hegemony ends, it will inevitably encounter backlash.

This kind of pirate thinking is not in line with the wisdom of the Song Dynasty, and he does not like this always such a rigid way of expansion.

On the contrary, this Persian-style expansion gave him hope.

For thousands of years, a nation that has always insisted on staying away from the poker table even in decline still has a few tricks up its sleeve.

The biggest hidden danger of this kind of gameplay is that the army cannot lose its tail and can easily become a warlord, and the warlord will become An Lushan's problem.

However, as the Song Dynasty completely entered the civil economy and cities gradually moved towards industrialization, warlords certainly needed to be supported, but did these warlords really have the ability to bite back their masters?

The army in the agricultural era had knives in their hands, could rebel if they had food, and could even rob if they had no food. But how could today's Forbidden Army be so simple?

As long as the lifeline of military production is in the hands of commercial banks, who dares to rebel?If warlords cannot win the hearts and minds of the people and are not supported by the people, rebellion will be a joke.

A certain northern cook has proven with his own personal experience that the era of warlord rebellion against the central government is over.

In fact, the third level of this expansion method is to deliberately cultivate warlords. It is just deliberately cultivating warlords from other countries. As long as the warlord itself is strong enough, the neighboring country will be unified or completely reduced to a vassal. It's a matter of time, and as long as the Song Dynasty Commercial Bank always controls the core military industry, it will never have to worry about backlash.

What if one day, a warlord in a certain place is overthrown by the locals because of excessive expropriation, or the locals inexplicably develop nationalism, then... what does it have to do with the Song Dynasty?

The Song Dynasty would never take the initiative to send trading bank guards to other countries to seize land.

This is what is called a true teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

(End of this chapter)