A Warlord in the Late Northern Song Dynasty

To be honest, I just want to see a group of people travel back to the Northern Song Dynasty, where they establish their own independent regimes, with a dozen or twenty regional military governorships, to give the Northern Song scholar-officials a bit of the shock of the late Tang Dynasty warriors.

The horses trampled Tokyo, killing Zhao. From the emperor to the ministers, not one of them escaped death.

To be honest, Wanyan Aguda was a true hero. He accepted all ethnic groups (partly due to the relatively small number of Jurchens), rarely engaged in massacres, was undefeated in battle, and had a broad mind. Given the Northern Song Dynasty's absurd diplomacy, he remained remarkably composed.

Regarding the Song Dynasty's emphasis on civil affairs over military affairs, you need to understand why. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the military forces that originally protected the borders went out of control. Many generals turned against the people of the Central Plains during the internal strife, and cannibalism became commonplace.

Please have mercy.

In the Song Dynasty, soldiers could not be loyal, could not achieve merit, could not win battles, and could not consider themselves human. Because if you were loyal, could you compare to Yue Fei? If you could win battles, could you compare to Wei Qing? Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, the only way to live well was to be a treacherous minister, sell out the country, and stab someone in the back, because being a loyal minister was against the law. This was the reality of the Song Dynasty.

The civil service group that rose to power through the imperial examinations was mainly from the south, a loosely organized group centered in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang as its wings. It was only after the establishment of the Donglin Academy in 1111, with the Luoyang faction cooperating with the Zhejiang faction to secretly oppose the reforms, that the organization…

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One crucial reason why the Ever Victorious Army surrendered to the Jin Dynasty was the Northern Song Dynasty's outrageous actions. Originally, the Song and Jin had agreed not to accept any of their respective defector generals. However, the Song Dynasty turned around and recruited Zhang Jue, a Jin defector. Zhang Jue, unable to defeat the Jin, fled to the Song Dynasty, which accepted him.

🙂A disgrace to the Song Dynasty, twelve imperial edicts summoned the army back. I'd rather pay tribute every year than see even a fraction of my homeland returned.