The Song Dynasty was a glorious dynasty, why did it end up in ruin?

The Northern Song Dynasty has experienced a total of 168 years from the Song Dynasty Taizu Zhao Kuangyin to the capture of Huizong and Qinzong, and some people believe that this period of history is the most prosperous period in Chinese history except for the Tang Dynasty, and the economy and culture have been greatly developed.

So what caused the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty?

Direct reason: Can't do the Jurchen! There is a good saying, barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, the Jin soldiers at that time, that is, the Jurchen tribe was in the early stage of civilization development, everyone had meat to eat together, shoes to wear together, and battles to fight together, unity is strength; Compared with the Song soldiers who had a lot of personnel at that time, but the morale was weak and the troops were weak as a whole, the cohesion of the Jin soldiers was very strong, and everyone had heard of many battles in which fewer won more, such as the Battle of Julu, the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, etc., but the Jurchen fought the Song soldiers, and almost every game was won with less!

If you can't beat it, you can only drop it!

Indirect reason: There were a lot of soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty, why couldn't they do a lot of gold soldiers in terms of number? Just said that Song Bing's strength is very weak, what is the reason?

Commander, no! As the saying goes, the train runs fast because of the headband! At that time, the commanders of the Song soldiers were not the kind of goods who could lead troops to fight!

Thomas the Train is better than you!

Let's analyze two of these important figures!

Tong Guan is a eunuch who can fool! He helped Cai Jing, the head of the six thieves, become the prime minister, and he knew that he had accumulated wealth all his life, and Huizong passed on the throne to his son Qinzong, and his son couldn't get used to it, so he slaughtered Tong Guan!

I hope this wine is not for Song Jiang, but for Tong Guan

Gao Yu, according to legend, was appreciated by Huizong because he could play football, but this character is actually a man of all-round talent in civil and military affairs, one is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and this alone makes Huizong love him very much; In addition, this kid's skills are not bad, so Huizong later gave Gao Yu all the important positions in the forbidden army! But Gao Yukong has a talent, and he doesn't work properly! There is literary brilliance, and as a result, the people's fat and ointment are looted everywhere and dedicated to Huizong, which is called "Birth Gang"; has martial talents, but it turns out that it is not good to lead the troops, and the soldiers of the forbidden army have all become Gao Yu's house slaves!

Let's talk about this later! These two locomotives were not brought well, and the small train of the Song Dynasty army could only wait for it to derail! Overturning is faster than turning over the face People who lead troops to fight are not good, this is only one of the reasons for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty! There are many more reasons to dig deeper, so let's list them:

Partisan war! Huizong continued to play Wang Anshi's reform of the law, but it backfired, and the change became a struggle between parties.

Huizong's luxury! In the previous article, it was said that Huizong was a great talent, but the literati had a problem that they liked flowers, birds, fish and insects, which led to many officials offering cultural relics to their liking. Loot the people's fat and people's ointment!

Therefore, the peasant uprisings in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty were also continuous, and the Fangla Uprising and the Songjiang Uprising were all caused by this reason!

This is because the rulers delegate power to others, and they have very little power in their own hands, thus giving others an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Because the military strength of the Song Dynasty was too weak, it was invaded by foreign tribes in this way. So it will perish.

Although the economic strength of the Song Dynasty was very developed, its military strength was really backward, and no matter how much money there was, it could not be exchanged for peace, which was a more ancient truth, and it was expected that it would eventually perish.

In 1276 the Song Dynasty fell and was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty (960-1279) was a dynasty in Chinese history that inherited five dynasties and ten kingdoms under the Qiyuan Dynasty, divided into two stages, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, with a total of 18 emperors and 319 years of reign.

In 960, the Later Zhou generals launched the Chenqiao Mutiny, supported the return of Song Prefecture to the German army, made Zhao Kuangyin the emperor, and established the Song Dynasty. In order to avoid the chaos of the division of the late Tang Dynasty and the dictatorship of the eunuchs, Zhao Kuangyin adopted the policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing the military, strengthened the centralization of power, and deprived the military generals of their military rights. After Song Taizong succeeded to the throne, he unified the whole country, and Song Zhenzong gradually entered into the ruling world after concluding the alliance with Liao.

In 1125, the Jin State invaded the south, resulting in the disgrace of Jingkang and the destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty. King Kang Zhao Gou ascended the throne in Yingtianfu in Nanjing and established the Southern Song Dynasty. After the peace conference of Shaoxing and the Jin State with the Qinling-Huai River as the boundary, in 1234 the Union and Mongolia destroyed the Jin, in 1235 the Song and Yuan Wars broke out, in 1276 the Yuan Dynasty captured Lin'an, after the Battle of Yashan, the Southern Song Dynasty perished.

Introduction to the Song Dynasty:

The Song Dynasty was an era of high prosperity in China's history in terms of commodity economy, culture, education, and scientific innovation. Some people estimate that China's total GDP in 1000 was 100 million US dollars, accounting for 450 US dollars of the world's total economy, exceeding the 400 US dollars of Western Europe at that time.

During the Song Dynasty, Confucianism was revived, Cheng Zhu Lixue appeared, science and technology developed rapidly, politics was enlightened, and there was no serious eunuch dictatorship and warlord separation, and the number and scale of mutinies and civil unrest were relatively small in Chinese history. Due to the promotion of Champa rice in the Northern Song Dynasty, the population grew rapidly, from 37.1 million in 980 to 126 million in 1124.

First, the military system cannot keep up; Second, in order to prevent the dictatorship of military generals, the command of the forbidden army was divided into three, and third, civilian officials were emphasized.

The Song Dynasty was rich, it was not comparable to Ren and the dynasty, China invented since ancient times, more than half of it came from the Song Dynasty, and the surrounding countries competed to reserve Song Dynasty coins, and the Central Plains had a money shortage;

And the Song Dynasty focused on commerce and trade, which was different from the Tang Dynasty (rewarding).

A country that is so fat that it drips with oil, and the surrounding countries will not watch you eat bread, so he drinks porridge?

After Taizu seized the power of the generals with a glass of wine, the "commanders of the military regions" could not move a single soldier without permission, Yue Fei is an example (so the Song Dynasty is also the only dynasty that has not mutinied).

There was an accident at the border, and according to the previous means of communication, it is estimated that the daylily is also cold, and a report every day asking for the transfer of troops is drip war, and the master is also panicked and has no backbone

The Song Dynasty was a typical internal strength and external weakness, and there was still a certain number of internal security forces (equivalent to the armed police), and the external People's Liberation Army was not good in terms of quality and quantity.

In addition, the Song Dynasty was also a typical literati politics, everyone wrote lyrics, Mo talked about the country, and in the end, everyone was finished!

The Song army resisted for 40 years... In the end, after the Song army lost the land of Sichuan and Shu, it was basically over. And the emperors of the Song Dynasty had the courage to resist, so they had to run away... The Song Dynasty went to attack Luzon (Philippines) However, it was unlucky to encounter a storm and the whole army was wiped out... You must know that this is the last army of the Song Dynasty.

The capital has been broken, the people's hearts have been lost, and the morale of the army is weak. Coupled with the fact that the king lacks enterprising spirit and does not have a general who can take charge on his own, what should he do? It is an indisputable fact that the military weakness of the Song Dynasty is indisputable.

This involves a matter of the system, and it cannot be explained in one sentence. Generally speaking, at that time, the literati were not good, but the martial arts were not.

The Great Song army was mostly northerners. The land of the Southern Barbarian countries was hot and humid, and the Song army was also invincible.

The Ming Dynasty fell, Wei Zhongxian of the Donglin Party, who is the culprit.

Zhao Kuangyin started as a mutiny, and he was suspicious of military generals, which was the main reason for his demise.

Hello. The Song Dynasty (960-1279) was divided into the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, collectively known as the Two Song Dynasties. In 1127, the city was besieged by the Jin army, and the second emperor of Huiqin was plundered by the Jin people to the city of the Five Kingdoms.

History calls Jingkang's shame or Jingkang's disaster. In the same year (1127), King Kang Zhao Gou ascended the throne as Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty and changed his name to Yuan Jianyan. In 1235, the Mongol army invaded the south for the first time until 1279, when the Southern Song Dynasty fell.

The actual demise of the Southern Song Dynasty should be in 1276 when Zhao Yu was captured and Lin'an surrendered, but the last two emperors were exiled for 3 years and finally destroyed by the Mongols, so the Southern Song Dynasty should be in 1279).

To put it simply, the Northern Song Dynasty was 960-1127 and was destroyed by the Jin, and the Southern Song Dynasty was 1127-1279 and was destroyed by the Mongols.

In addition, from 420 to 479, the first dynasty of the Southern Dynasties in the Northern and Southern Dynasties era was also the Song Dynasty, known as the Southern Song Dynasty or Liu Song Dynasty in history. In 479 AD, Emperor Shun of the Song Dynasty Liu Zhun ceded the imperial throne to Xiao Daocheng, and the Southern Song Dynasty was replaced by the Southern Qi.

Due to the worship of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Taoist priests won honors, gradually intervened in court politics, and used imperial power to crack down on other folk sects such as Buddhism, witchcraft, and Mingjiao, causing dissatisfaction among other believers. The popular uprising led by Fang La, who believed in Mingjiao, is a confirmation of history.

The political line of being conservative and stealing peace and the ideological line of respecting Confucianism and Taoism led to a deeper and deeper crisis in the politics of the Song Dynasty. The ruthless oppression of the people by the rulers provoked continuous peasant uprisings, which greatly shook the Song Dynasty. Although, since the reign of Zhenzong, people of insight have repeatedly written to reform the government, such as Wang Yu's suggestion of "five things", Song Qi's proposal to exempt "three redundancies and three fees", Fan Zhongyan's "new policy", Wang Anshi's implementation of "law changes", etc., but these have failed to save the decline of the Song Dynasty.

Song Huizong believed in Taoism all his life, until he became a prisoner of the golden ladder, he still wore a purple Taoist robe and a scarf on his head. Such an end is also the greatest irony and the best rebuke of Taoism.