After two lifetimes, Zhao Bing has seen everything in the world and has also understood that there is no perfection in the world. As he often said, there is no winning tactic on the battlefield, and there will be no ever-winning army. The same tactics and the same army may not necessarily produce the same effect in different situations and environments. Everything needs to be measured.

Then you can't say that the "internal real and external false" strategy formulated by Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is wrong. This is just a policy he formulated against the situation at that time, and it is also inappropriate to blame the weakness of the Song Dynasty for it. The wrong thing is that the successors were unable to adjust and change the policies after the situation changed. However, Zhao Bing felt that those successors were also a bit unfair to say this.

Later generations commented that the Song Dynasty had been peaceful for three hundred years and its internal affairs were stable, which was a rare period of stability in ancient Chinese history. But what Zhao Bing heard and saw after coming to this world was not exactly like this. Stability does not mean that there is nothing in the world. Agricultural society has weak risk resistance. People may rise up if they are not careful when dealing with natural disasters. The same was true in the Song Dynasty. According to literature records, the people in the Song Dynasty carried out more than 400 incidents, which can be said to be the highest in all dynasties, but the scale is very small.

Why is such a strange situation? Zhao Bing also tried to seek the truth. Judging from the official history and unofficial history he collected, Taizu's strategy of "inner real and external virtual" was actually after Taizong's death. Everyone found that this method could not be played anymore. The Liao Kingdom had a huge threat and the Western Xia was also rising. The troops who could fight were piled up together and could not cope with the dangerous situation of the ever-changing northern border.

So Zhenzong began to adjust the military system, saying: "If the troops on the three sides are promoted to imperial guards due to matters, the so-called forty-four imperial guards are already." During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, almost all the troops were distributed on the northern border and the capital Kaifeng. According to this calculation, more than 70% of the troops in the world were used as border guards. Then, the capital's imperial guards were reduced. There was almost no defense south of the Yellow River, which actually turned the inner reality into the inner virtual.

The civil war revival has always been a trouble that most emperors of the Song Dynasty had to face. Even Song Renzong, known as the benevolent king, was no exception. Under the rule of Renzong, which was praised in history books, news of rebellion gathered in the localities one after another. Among them, the larger one was the uprising of Wang Lun and Zhang Hai, whose deeds were sporadically seen in many historical materials. Zhao Bing even guessed this

Wang Lun is probably the prototype of Wang Lun, the leader of Liangshanpo in "Water Margin", but the storm he caused was much bigger than in the novel. At that time, there was a famine near Yizhou. For some reason, Wang Lun led his men to kill the leading officer and raised his flags and soldiers. The reason why he is famous is that Wang Lun is wearing yellow clothes, which shows that he is obviously going to the throne, so he has attracted the attention of the court.

Wang Lun's mobile combat capabilities are also quite strong, robbing Yi, Mi, Hai, Yang, Si, Chu and other states, and roaming Huaihai, as if there were no one on the road. If you rely solely on these records, you might immediately think of Huang Chao at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty. However, the following records will make you wonder if you have read it wrong, because Wang Lun's army at the heyday: "It has reached two or three hundred people compared to the Supreme Gaoyou Army."

Zhao Bing suspected that he had read it wrong at that time. Wang Lun started to attack Zhucheng, Lianyungang, Yangzhou, Sihong, Bengbu and other places in a short period of time, with only more than 200 troops at most. He felt that the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty's imperial guards was not as good as that of the Liao Kingdom and Xixia, but it was definitely not something that Wang Lun could fight against. Even if one hundred people changed, it would be exhausted. Moreover, without professional equipment, it would be difficult to capture the city no matter how many troops were. Not to mention hundreds of people, it would not be easy for thousands or tens of thousands of people to build a city with complete fortifications.

At that time, when there was something wrong in the local area, the imperial guards and the imperial guards could provide support nearby, but now the main force of the imperial guards is far away from Jiangnan, stationed in Huaidong, Huaixi, Sichuan, and Jingxi, and the capital area. If there was something wrong in the local area, it would be a little far away and could not relieve the immediate thirst. Although a state military system based on the prefecture has been established, the number of personnel and weapons is different.

Due to the limitation of the production capacity of firearms, the Northern Expedition was launched immediately. Firearms could only be given priority to the imperial guards and the imperial guards. The main equipment of the state army in most areas was the cold weapons eliminated by the main force. Only the state army close to the front line could equip some firearms. Therefore, these local army lacked combat effectiveness, and there was no problem in maintaining public order and suppressing bandits and robbing. When encountering strong slang armed forces like the Yang family in Bozhou, they would be powerless.

However, the Song Dynasty was not safe and sound. The war in Yunnan was still ongoing. Now that Sichuan and Shu were collected, Yunnan was separated as an enclave, and the war must be ended as soon as possible. The Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Li District has completed the land transformation, but small-scale rebellions still occur from time to time, and are facing the expansion of foreign vassals such as Chameng and Annan. These all require strong military force to deter.

Therefore, Bozhou's disobedience to the king's law only amplifies this crisis, and the harm of "internal deficiency" is also highlighted. The prime ministers of various provinces here have experienced wars and come from the brink of life and death. Of course, they are clear about the consequences of internal air defense voids. In addition, the improvement of financial conditions also gives them the confidence to expand their army.

After Zhao Bing formed a decision to expand the army at the court, he immediately proposed to hold a meeting while the iron was hot, and ordered relevant personnel from the Ministry of War to prepare a plan for expanding the army, so that the Privy Council could formulate a blockade plan to cope with the current situation in Sichuan and Guizhou.

After all, Chen Renweng was his father-in-law and best understood the emperor's intentions. The Ministry of War quickly came up with a plan to expand the army. After making an overall plan, they believed that it would be appropriate to add five armies, and they stationed in Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong and Guangxi respectively. The capital area also had to station one army to ensure the safety of the capital and prevent Yuxi Timur from invading Jiangdong and the embarrassing incident of defending the capital again.
Chapter completed!