This Is How the Song Dynasty Turned Out (Platinum Upgraded Version)

Since Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao rebelled and used force to seize the power of the Later Zhou Dynasty, they were very wary of the situation in the Five Dynasties period when princes were entrenched and attacking each other. They were even more afraid of being conquered due to doubts about the legality of the "yellow robe", so they "released their military power with a glass of wine" to consolidate the foundation of imperial power. At the same time, the external threat of confrontation between neighboring regimes existed for a long time. The Song Dynasty also tried to take into account domestic and foreign affairs to expand its territory. It failed in important battles with the Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Mongolian-Yuan wars, and failed to realize its long-cherished wish for unification. The pattern of internal and external troubles formed the basic national policy of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty to "defend the internal situation and weaken the external situation" and "strengthen the branches and strengthen the weak branches". He focused on preventing internal chaos and passively defended himself externally. Compared with military officers, the monarchs of the Song Dynasty believed that civil servants would not pose a substantial threat to the imperial power. The tendency of "advocating literature and suppressing military affairs" cultivated through the imperial examination gradually became apparent. The political status of civil and military officials became increasingly disparate, which gradually formed the governance philosophy of "cultivating civil servants and cultivating civil servants." The Zhao and Song dynasties were born out of sorrow, poor and weak, and the overall country was weak. However, the wealth was hidden among the people, and commerce and trade reached its peak. During the two and three hundred years of the Song Dynasty, it created brilliant economic and cultural achievements, ranking at the forefront of the world at that time. It is worthy of being a splendid era of prosperous civilization in Chinese history. However, due to the "swords and guns stored in the treasury, the horses released in the Nanshan Mountains", they blindly followed the "ancestral law" and implemented the policy of "valuing civility over military force", failing to "migrate with the times" and failing to update the national governance model, which resulted in passive diplomacy and weak military, which eventually led to the end of the dynasty.