Why do some people say that the Tang Dynasty often lost battles and the Song Dynasty often won battles, but the more you fight, the less land you have?

Su Fangding destroyed Baekje, Xueyantuo, West Turkic and East Turkic (jointly with Li Jing). Li Jing (Lian Hou) destroyed Tuguhun, and (Lian Su) destroyed East Turkistan. After the destruction, and (and excavate) tu Gu Hun. Xue destroyed Goguryeo. Will there be such a general of national mourning in the last 300 years of the Song Dynasty? Therefore, although the economic development in Song Dynasty was good, the military was really the younger brother, at the bottom of China Dynasty.

First of all, you should understand that although the Tang Dynasty has always been praised, it has never been richer than the Sui Dynasty. Although the Song Dynasty has been criticized by people, it is a weak country and rich people after all. It's not that the Song Dynasty was good, but the situation faced by the Song Dynasty was unprecedented. Moreover, the Song Dynasty killed Liao and Jin through the currency war step by step. Finally, the country is getting richer and richer, and Liao and Jin are getting poorer and poorer. The military system changed from conscription to recruitment, and the government's money was used to raise officials and soldiers. Moreover, due to the imperial examination, the literati class changed to professional civil servants. It doesn't matter who is the emperor, and whether the people live well or not, they all get paid anyway. So they told the emperor that there was no money during the war, unlike in the Han and Tang dynasties, when officials fought, the opportunity came. There is an idiom called "you will be in the phase".

Before the Tang Dynasty, this word was a reality in China, and the status of civil servants and military commanders could be freely changed. The state and society also highly respected the style of being both civil and military. For example, during the Warring States period, Shang Yang and Wu Qi presided over the political reform in North Korea and went abroad to lead troops to fight, all of which were flourishing. For another example, why did Li suggest using the conference semifinals as his general? Just because the conference semifinals can't read, it is unlikely that they will be recalled to the central government to be Zaifu after making contributions at the border, and it will not threaten his phase; And if the education of Han people is enough, going out is a general, and going in is a phase. How can he be good at power?

The military weakness after the Song Dynasty was not caused by the decline in the status of military attache. First of all, if you were from the Tang Dynasty, it would be difficult for you to win the situation in the Song Dynasty. It is difficult to win the nomadic people in the history of China, and it is even more difficult to win the nomadic people without the Great Wall. The situation in the Ming dynasty is not without it. On the contrary, it can fight many battles, but the court has no money, can't organize an army, and can't afford to supply food and grass. To put it bluntly, it is poor to death.

Giving the army too much power, whether modern or ancient, is quite dangerous. Since the Song Dynasty, there has been an insurmountable gap between civil servants and military commanders. Not only is identity difficult to change, but social status has also been pulled open. The penholder looks down on Qiu Ba more and more, and "both civil and military" and "appearance" have gradually become historical terms. Aliens entered the Central Plains from the Jin Dynasty. Northern Wei Dynasty, Northern Qi Dynasty and Northern Zhou Dynasty were not the Han regime, but these Hu people were completely sinicized, giving people a feeling of being unobtrusive. The subsequent Sui and Tang Dynasties were established on the basis of the northern Xianbei regime, and the social atmosphere was also greatly influenced by the Hu people.

In fact, the Song Dynasty corrected the whole history of China. After the Song Dynasty, the interior of the Central Plains was never carved up by the Hu people (such as the Anshi Rebellion). In terms of harmfulness, bureaucratic groups are like termites, slowly eating tree trunks; The military attache regiment is like a big axe, chopping directly at the trunk. Raising warlords, whether ancient or modern, is the most dangerous thing for emperors or ordinary people. Song dynasty was really not weak. If he were weak, he wouldn't have carried Liao, Jin and Yuan in the corner for so many years. It is true that he is too disabled. In the era of cold weapons, it is absolutely impossible for infantry to fight cavalry on the plain. Han Taizong also used cavalry to beat cavalry to win.

Human problems. Those who resisted the enemy in the Song Dynasty were not rewarded. In the early days, Chai Rong and other troops were limited, so it was not a disadvantage to fight Liao. When the enemy turned to internal defense, some brave generals died, and the court civil servants and bureaucratic groups were bent on limiting the role of military commanders. Even if they go out, they send a large number of overseers to contain the leading generals, but they don't know the soldiers (they often change people) and have no morale. Why did such an army win the battle? In addition to maintaining the necessary administrative system, the feudal government mainly spent money in two places: one was disaster relief, the other was war; In the eyes of modern people, most public administrative functions are solved by "local sages". There are two ways to spend money in war, one is conscription, and the other is able-bodied men. The former wants money, the latter is deadly. It's natural that you don't want to spend money when you spend your life.

A glass of wine to relieve the military power and change all the border guards into literati has doomed the Song Dynasty to be vulnerable once there is border chaos. The war between countries is about a nation's willpower and endurance!

Paying more attention to literature than martial arts is a pioneering political system created by the founding fathers of the Song Dynasty after profoundly summing up the harm caused by the separatist regime of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Since the Song Dynasty, the Chinese Empire has never intervened militarily! But the so-called "one cure, one injury" (a dream of red mansions Pinger language), since then, China children are no longer martial. The Chinese nation has a characteristic, that is, it takes advantage, and often says that it has lost a lot, or that it is difficult for itself! And if you lose the battle, you will say how brave you are! So do many people in China. They obviously didn't make any money when they went out to work this year. When they go home, they will drive luxury cars and smoke cigarettes, as if they have made a fortune, for fear that others will look down on them. If you earn a lot of money, you will be very low-key and cautious, or it will be difficult to earn so much money now. People are like this, and so are countries. It is difficult to record powerful dynasties; Weak dynasties, all recorded are excuses! And that little achievement!

Just like playing games, we won, but only one or two heads at a time. If we lose, ten people will die. Although the opponent's winning percentage is low, the number of kills and deaths is similar. The team with high overall winning rate is better than the others. The Tang Dynasty won a key battle, the Song Dynasty lost a key battle, and the Song Dynasty struggled to survive! For example, at the beginning of Li Shimin's Zhenguan period, he won several key battles, especially against the Turks, despite domestic troubles and foreign invasion, and since then he has stabilized the country.

Because the Tang Dynasty could not afford to lose, the decisive battle was outside the Central Plains. It's okay to lose once. With the productivity of the Central Plains Dynasty, you will soon be able to make up for the soldiers. However, in the Song Dynasty, people fought on their own land. If they win or lose, they will be more injured, their productivity will be weakened, and it will be difficult to replenish soldiers.

There is an essential difference between the failure of expansion and the victory of defense. Expansion and defeat do not lose land, as long as it wins territory, it will expand, while defense is just the opposite. It's no good winning or losing, so we have to cede land for compensation. The Tang Dynasty is attacking. Although losing more than winning, the territory will only grow bigger and bigger, while the Song Dynasty will only defend, even if it wins nine out of ten wars, the land area will become less and less. So what if you lose? You injured ten thousand people and eight thousand enemies. If you win, life may not be much better. Although I lost, I can take you down. Although I lost, I also let you know my strength. You have to work hard, but also be black and blue, reminding you of my pain and fear. Although I was defeated, you dare not underestimate me, dare not hit me again, be polite to me in the future, or you will die!