The Song Dynasty had a huge standing army, why did it still perish?

The Song Dynasty was divided into the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, most of which focused on cultural and economic development, and adopted a policy of emphasizing literature over military force, resulting in the Song Dynasty's cultural and economic prosperity and development, but its military strength was extremely weak. In the eyes of all countries, the Song Dynasty is a piece of "fragrant gluttony", and everyone wants to take a bite.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin was afraid that the military generals of the DPRK would have too much power, so he launched a coup d'état, implemented the policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force, strengthened the centralization of power, and also took back the military power of the military generals, because he was through the "Chenqiao Mutiny" and established himself as the king to sit in this position, fearing that other military generals would follow this behavior, support the army and overthrow his rule.

Zhao Kuangyin also introduced a new military system, "Change the Military Law", stipulating that soldiers need to be frequently replaced, which can avoid too many contacts between generals and soldiers to deepen their feelings, and is conducive to centralizing power. However, when it came time to actually fight, because they did not understand the characteristics of the soldiers, it was difficult to send troops in a targeted manner, and the combat results were greatly reduced.

The social status of military generals is declining day by day, and more and more people are abandoning martial arts and following literature. Song Huizong took the initiative to discuss with Jin to attack Liao, but the Song Dynasty army was defeated by Liao, Jin saw that Song's strength was so weak, so he went south to fight Song, and the Northern Song Dynasty had no power to resist, and was defeated and captured by Jin, which was the "shame of Jingkang", and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

King Kang Zhao Gou was lucky and ascended the throne in Nanjing Yingtianfu and established the Southern Song Dynasty. The Jin Dynasty did not stop its aggression, and Zhao Gou had to keep fleeing to avoid the attack. Jin Bing chased after him and was beaten by Yue Fei to the point that he did not dare to cross the river, and the war came to an end temporarily.

By the time of Song Xiaozong, although he really wanted to recover the Central Plains, some of the main battle generals passed away after taking the lead, and the matter could only be put aground. Later, most of the energy of the Southern Song Dynasty was focused on internal governance, and it was powerless externally.

In 1278, the last battle to resist the Yuan army was defeated, countless soldiers and civilians committed suicide and martyrdom, and the Song Dynasty was completely destroyed.

In the era of war, it is not possible to have an empty economy, and it cannot resist the aggression of other countries, so it can only be used as a wedding dress for others.

In their eyes, the standing army is an ordinary army, and it is not given enough attention. I didn't think about going to war in my heart.

Because the Song Dynasty did not pay enough attention to these standing armies, and most of the rulers maintained a dominant attitude, the policy was not right.

Although the standing army of the Song Dynasty was huge, their combat strength was not as strong as the quantity.

The Song Dynasty did not pay enough attention to the army, and the Song Dynasty attached great importance to culture and did not pay much attention to martial arts.

Because the Song Dynasty emphasized literature over martial arts. The army is not trained. There are empty numbers but no combat effectiveness. There are also very few good generals.

Because the Song Dynasty at that time was too heavy on literature and light on military force, there were still some weaknesses in the military, which led to its demise.

Although the armament is strong, the military generals are not very capable. The soldiers lacked training for a long time, and the overall combat effectiveness was very weak.

It is true that today's people no longer adopt the old theory of taking the contempt for the two Song Dynasty, and there is also a positive evaluation of the Song Dynasty army, and there are also discussions on the military and military failures of the Tang Dynasty, such as these examples mentioned by the landlord.

But it is precisely because we understand the situation better today that we will describe Tang with sheng and Song with wealth, judging from military achievements alone, Song is indeed not outstanding, and the two Song Dynasty may indeed have more elite generals who are not known to us, but they are dragged down by their own performance in history, and we have no way to get an objective evaluation of their true strength.

Then the example given by the landlord ......Actually, ......From the title, you can see that the authors take a one-sided argument and try to be different in order to attract readers.

The Song Dynasty was not a poor and weak country. Rather, it was a more prosperous dynasty. In fact, the judgment of "weak" is mainly from a military point of view, which is basically consistent with historical facts.

Let us make a simple analysis from two aspects: the political attitude of the Northern Song Dynasty emperor to develop military affairs and the reasons for the border troubles of the Northern Song Dynasty. In fact, judging from the history of the five dynasties, the five dynasties were short-lived and could not escape the fate of the "death of the two emperors". Military generals basically seized power by military strength.

When the first emperor was established, the throne passed to the second generation, and the next generation of generals took power. Later Zhou, Song Taizu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, "wore a yellow robe" to seize the throne of the Later Zhou Dynasty and died in the second generation of the fifth dynasty.

In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Five Dynasties, Song Taizu deprived the generals of the right to hold heavy troops by "drinking to explain the power of the army". Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty did not pay enough attention to and invest in military development, which led to the "weakness" of the military. None of the later emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty changed the passive military situation.

On the other hand, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the northern minority regime and the Western Xia regime did not have the ability to have a long border line from the west to the northwest, and there were no important passes and defenses, and there was no in-depth border defense, which objectively caused a passive situation of military defense, and subjectively also caused the military weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Although the Northern Dynasty was militarily mediocre, in the Northern Song Dynasty for more than 100 years, despite the continuous invasion of the frontier and the repeated reparations, the Central Plains, especially the Yangtze River area, in a peaceful environment, the economy and culture have been greatly developed, the city of the Northern Song Dynasty was about a thousand years ago, with a population of more than one million, and was the largest city in the world. How to view the "weakness" of the Northern Song Dynasty and the high development of economy and culture? In fact, the judgment of "weak" is mainly from a military point of view, which is basically consistent with historical facts.

Let us make a simple analysis from two aspects: the political attitude of the Northern Song Dynasty emperor to develop military affairs and the reasons for the border troubles of the Northern Song Dynasty. In fact, judging from the history of the five dynasties, the five dynasties were short-lived and could not escape the fate of the "death of the two emperors". Military generals basically seized power by military strength.

When the first emperor was established, the throne passed to the second generation, and the next generation of generals took power. Later Zhou, Song Taizu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, "wore a yellow robe" to seize the throne of the Later Zhou Dynasty and died in the second generation of the fifth dynasty. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Five Dynasties, Song Taizu deprived the generals of the right to hold heavy troops by "drinking to explain the power of the army".

Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty did not pay enough attention to and invest in military development, which led to the "weakness" of the military. None of the later emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty changed the passive military situation. On the other hand, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the northern minority regime and the Western Xia regime did not have the ability to have a long border line from the west to the northwest, and there were no important passes and defenses, and there was no in-depth border defense, which objectively caused a passive situation of military defense, and subjectively also caused the military weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty.

There are some differences. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a forbidden army, a Xiang army and a vassal army, and there were also township soldiers to talk to. The Southern Song Dynasty did not have a vassal army. The Northern Song Dynasty was dominated by the forbidden army. The Southern Song Dynasty was based on the garrison of the good key touch army as the main force of Liangchun.