The Blissful Great Song

It's strange that modern people think the Song Dynasty army was so weak. If it was so bad, why wasn't it destroyed by the Liao Dynasty? The Mongols took forty or fifty years to conquer the Song, while their conquest of Europe took only a short time. Even stranger is that the Song Dynasty had a 70% win rate in foreign wars, higher than the Tang Dynasty. Why doesn't anyone consider it strong? 😁

The biggest problem right now is that the emperor, who is over 30 years old, doesn't even have a woman, and the officials below him aren't making a fuss. 🙂

Emperor Renzong's biggest problem was that he had no sons. I've only read half of it, and it hasn't been explained yet.

It's ridiculous that the author wrote so much but didn't mention the protagonist sleeping with any women in the harem. It's laughable that there wasn't even a single description. Does the author mean that the protagonist, even as emperor, wouldn't be interested in women? And would he even become a eunuch? If he slept with any women and I just didn't see it, then I'll just pretend I didn't read anything.

Historical texts contain significant errors in their understanding of the Song Dynasty. The period from the fall of the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty was only a few decades. The military history of the Song Dynasty should be examined in the context of the Five Dynasties period.

The naval battles are written so childishly. In Japanese literature, a family might struggle to muster even a few thousand men on land, yet Fujiwara could immediately field 200 ships at sea. After losing over 100 ships and 6,000 men, Fujiwara even stole several ships, rockets, and crew members. Instead of trying to get them back, the Japanese pirated the ships a while later.

No wonder there were over a hundred posts, and they were all suppressed. After more than twenty years, they've accomplished nothing. They've implemented reforms for over a decade, but every battle they win is a Pyrrhic victory. Are they possessed by the vengeful spirits of Song Dynasty officials?

After reviewing the book, I noticed that every enemy in it is well-equipped and powerful, and no matter how they fight, they are likely to inflict some losses on the Song Dynasty. Every battle fought by the Song Dynasty is extremely fierce.

After 30 years, it's become this pathetic. Incompetent at everything, can't even grasp power. Boring, not a satisfying story.

Fully equipped with ballistae, crossbows, and bolts—is this a siege? And those grenades! You inflicted a 2:1 casualty ratio. How did you manage that?