How to evaluate the reform of the military system in the early Song Dynasty

The military system of the Northern Song Dynasty was mainly aimed at checking and balancing military attachés, and those who raised troops did not bring troops, those who led soldiers did not raise soldiers, and soldiers did not know generals, nor did they know generals, and their combat effectiveness was naturally greatly reduced. It should be said that the main purpose of the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, to prevent internal troubles, and to prevent the rebellion of military generals was successful, but the serious consequence was a serious decline in the ability to fight foreign wars, and finally led to the destruction of the country.

** There is a forbidden army, and the local government cannot have military force, and the general judge is sent to supervise.

The forbidden army plus the local box army. Redundant soldiers, redundant officials, redundant officials, and extremely wasteful.

<> "The Song Dynasty carried out military reform during the period of Song Shenzong.

The sixth emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Jimiao, was called "God", in the feudal and superstitious social environment, the word "God" is more important, some people say that although Song Shenzong reigned for less than 20 years, he had a warm heart for the country, and insisted on improving the country's situation through changing the law, which is worthy of praise by future generations.

In fact, the reason why "God" was chosen as Zhao Ji's temple name at the beginning means that this person has indeed carried out a lot of military reforms for the country, but foreign wars are still repeatedly defeated, and the lives of the people have not been improved.

Song Shenzong Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne in 1068, when the Northern Song Dynasty's politics, military, and people's livelihood were already very bad, the Northern Xia and Northern Liao, constantly violated the border of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji sent many soldiers and generals, but failed to improve the status quo, in order to strengthen the army, he carried out a series of changes, but basically did not succeed.

Years of conquest led to the emptiness of the treasury, the people were overwhelmed, the people were not able to make a living, Song Shenzong ordered to reduce taxes, but at that time most of the fields were in the hands of the big landlords, ordinary people were just working, they themselves could not meet the food and clothing, let alone pay taxes, and the big landlords were reduced because of the reduction of taxes, the oil and water were more sufficient, the gap between the rich and the poor in society was getting bigger and bigger, the rich people could get huge profits through usury, and the poor people could not even eat.

In addition, Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi tried to strengthen the country's political and military team through the appointment of talents, but due to the Song Dynasty's "heavy literature and light military" ideology rooted in the political team, the political team was incompetent, in the Song Shenzong period, there were more than 25,000 ** in the country, these ** led the imperial court every year, and also customized new clothes, the cost was not small, but there were almost no talents.

Everyone thinks that as long as they can write some articles and draw some good paintings, they can get a frank and skillful career, Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi tried to find a group of talents in such a team and change society, however, this is absolutely impossible, and in the end, the people who are sent to the battlefield are either pedantic and incompetent civil officials, or gentlemen.

People's livelihood and politics are not good, let alone military, due to years of war, the country has recruited a large number of soldiers, the number of more than one million, although the food cost is huge, but the quality of the army is not guaranteed, the Northern Song Dynasty perennial "heavy literature and suppress the military", do not know how to train the army at all, soldiers and generals as a game, never take it seriously, the weapons used by the army can only be used as decoration, can not fight at all, this is also the direct cause of repeated defeats in wars.