"Officials, these test papers are the test papers and names of those who passed the list in this encore."

Zhao Kuangyin didn't even look at it, and said, "How is my third brother doing in the exam?"

"The three great kings are extremely talented, poetry, essays, and strategies, and all of them are the top three. Only if the scriptures are slightly worse and forced, they are considered to be qualified. All the ministers in Chongwen Hall think that they should be the first name."

"The first...the first prize?"

"yes."

Zhao Kuangyin was simply incredible and said, "You guys are so proud, right?"

"This time, Enke adopted the method of copying and copying. How can we be favored? The test paper is here, and the official will know at a glance."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin first picked up the poem and essays and then couldn't help but cheer. He then took his prisoner theory and couldn't help but applaud.

Occasionally he laughed and scolded, "This kid would rather go to history books to search for Li Shimin's achievements than praise me, his elder brother, but he is arrogant."

After thinking for a while, he said, "By these two strategies, we can afford the word "Captain". We will post the test papers and record them in the palace newspaper. The information will be accepted."

"Looking further down, the strategy of the three kings is the real high."

"Oh? Can't I compare to Wang Pu's flat border plan..."

As he looked, Zhao Kuangyin's expression couldn't help but become serious.

In fact, when Fan Zhi and his team gave this question, the original intention was to reduce the difficulty of the exam. After all, Wang Pu's Pingbian Plan was called the first strategy of the Five Dynasties, and Chai Rong also highly praised it. For ordinary candidates, as long as they have read, read, and learned about this Pingbian Plan, and follow the Hulu's copycat, they can write something.

If you haven't even seen the famous Pingbian Ce, it means you don't care about national affairs at all, so how can you still get a jinshi?

However, although it can be seen that Zhao Guangmei's plan is still derived from the Pingbian Plan, it is a high-level view. In fact, the essence is still far above the Pingbian Plan, and she is more outstanding than the Pingbian Plan.

You should know that Wang Pu is Chai Rong's most trusted person. Even Zhao Kuangyin said after becoming emperor that if Wang Pu was still alive, I would not have the world like this.

As a result, it seems that at least in terms of knowledge, Zhao Guangmei is far superior to Wang Pu.

"Go and call the third brother to me."

After a while, Zhao Guangmei entered the palace with wood chips, and while walking, she muttered, "What are you doing? You have to call me? I'm doing carpenter work. Brother, you have to allocate some more money for me. The decoration is really too expensive, and I'm almost out of money. Hehe, I'll take you to my house to see it. The decoration is absolutely good, much better than your palace."

Zhao Kuangyin took his test paper and said, "You wrote this, the policy of pacifying the world?"

"Ah? I've finished the papers? So fast, when will I be the governor?"

Zhao Kuangyin snorted when he heard this, turned his head to Fan Zhi and said, "I will make an imperial edict, and add my third brother to the King of Qin and the governor of the Zhongyong Army."

"Here."

Zhao Guangmei was overjoyed: "King Qin? This is King Qin? It's the King of Qin Li Shimin, right? Brother, you are so good!"

Among the three kings, he occupied Qin, Fu Yanqing occupied Wei, and Li Yun occupied Jin, hum, when it was the second brother's turn, wouldn't he have no words for him?

At most, I would give Chu, Yan, Shu, etc., which sounds less domineering than the Qin, Wei and Jin dynasties.

"Don't interrupt, you, tell me about your plan."

"Oh, actually, is it the essence of Pingbian Sect of the former prime minister Wang Pu. He said it too briefly, I just enriched it."

Zhao Guangmei took the test paper with a smile and read:

"The strategy of flattening the border is to first south and then north, first easy and then difficult. The countries of the Southern Dynasties were rich and weak, so they could be used as military use."

"The strategy of pacifying the south is first in Jing and Hu. The ruler of Jingchu is suspicious, and civil strife in Hunan gradually arises. These two places can be defeated by one battle. Some can adopt a strategy of destroying Guo, some can lead them with a strategy of restraint, or instigate the Southern Dynasties to attack each other. I swallow them in the name of rescue, and they can all be defeated."

"After Jinghu is down, the liaison between the Southern Tang and Later Shu has been cut off, and there is no ability to form an alliance to resist the Song Dynasty, so that it can be divided and annihilated. I think that although the Southern Tang is rich and strong, the king of the country is very respectful and can be slowed down. Although Later Shu is weak, Meng Chang is a thief, who has always had ambitions and refused to surrender. His prime minister Wang Yan often compares himself with Prime Minister Zhuge, thinking of the Northern Expedition, and being a rat, is ridiculous and unreasonable."

"This is indeed God gave me the friendly army of the Song Dynasty. The Shu road is difficult and difficult to defend. However, if my Song Dynasty has friendly army, I will definitely give up the pass and take the initiative to attack and fight against me in the field. I should lure them to defeat them, lead the Shu army to annihilate them on the Guanzhong Plain, and win in one battle, and Shu lands from the land of the land."

"After I have obtained Shu, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River have been fully controlled by me. I should train the navy, cover the Southern Han, encircle the three routes, and then go to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Then the enemy of the Southern Tang Dynasty will not be able to stop it. Since the Southern Tang Dynasty has disappeared, the south will be settled."

"After the south is determined, we should take Yanyun. However, I think that if you want to settle north, you must first Anxi and fight against Liao. It is better to be slow than hurry, and it is slow rather than fast. Youyan will seize the people and fight the people's hearts. The so-called superior army will attack the people. If a hundred thousand infantry will take the initiative to go north and fight with a million Liao army to fight in the wild, this is really a strategy for the military under the army, which is ridiculous."

After reading this, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but interrupt: "The previous strategy of Pingnan is quite meaningful, and many of the ideas coincide with me. But why should this strategy of Pingliao be slow rather than hurry?"

Zhao Guangmei sighed silently in her heart when she heard this, thinking, why is it? Isn’t it all the lessons of my good second brother?

But he solemnly analyzed: "I dare to ask my brother, who is stronger than the Khitan soldiers and horses, who is stronger than our Central Plains heroes?"

"Of course, our Central Plains soldiers are stronger, but..."

Zhao Guangmei continued: "But the battle between my Central Plains dynasty and the Khitan often wins first and then loses. Although there are constant small victories, it is still difficult to win big. My brother thought I was right."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded deeply and said, "It is precisely this principle. To be honest, in my eyes, the southern countries are just native chickens, tiles and dogs, and they are easy to do. Only the Khitan, whose national strength is far from comparable to the Xiongnu and Xianbei people. It is actually a concern for my Song Dynasty and a great enemy of life and death."

Zhao Guangmei smiled and said, "The advantage of our Song Dynasty is that our soldiers are elite, brave, and the soldiers are all professional soldiers. They practice day and night. Once we fight, we will never lose in the same number of wars. Even if we fight one against two, one against three, or even one against ten, the Khitan rats are not enough to compete with us. However... if there is a decisive battle, once the troops invested by both sides are more than 100,000, we will not be able to do it."

As he said that, Zhao Guangmei sighed himself.

In fact, if you study the Song and Liao War in depth, you will find that even after Zhao Da, the second brother or the eldest nephew, the Song army actually won more than lose less when fighting against Liao. The Liao army could not win the Song army in small-scale operations!

Of course, there are a few elites from the Liao Kingdom.

However, the Song army had a big disadvantage, that is, if the Song army had only 10,000 troops, it could achieve the effect of 100,000 troops in the Liao army.

But if the Song army had 200,000, then... the effect would be 100,000.

To put it bluntly, the Northern Song Dynasty was all professional soldiers. Compared with the temporary recruitment conscription like the Liao Kingdom, their advantages on the battlefield are really nothing but two points, and they are almost bullying people.

However, it is precisely because they are professional soldiers that there are many mountains among the imperial guards. To put it more, there are different from the imperial guards and the border troops of the military governors. In the imperial guards and the imperial guards, in detail, there are at least thirty divisions in the imperial guards! Each division has its own interests and calculations.

Take out one of these troops alone, which can defeat the Liao army, but if you take out all of them in one breath, it will be a waste of time.

Because large-scale combat is different from small-scale combat, each combat unit must have precise cooperation to win a big battle. However, often when the Song army fights against the Liao army, one or two troops will fall apart. If they don’t cooperate well, they will collapse and lose all the money.

The Liao army dealt with the Song army, and even the Zhou army before, and the Han army actually had one move: lure the enemy into deep, gather and annihilate it.

If I can't beat you, I will run away. If I run, you have to chase. As you chase, there will be a certain army running too fast, underestimating the enemy, or a certain army running very slowly and falling behind.

Then I concentrated my troops to eat the ones that were left alone first.

These are not the weakness of the Song army. In fact, Chai Rong was the same at that time. When he was fighting against the Khitan, Shi Yanchao, the most powerful general of the Zhou Dynasty, was chasing the Liao army too fast, which led to Fu Yanqing and Li Yun's rear army not following, and Shi Yanchao was kicked by the Liao army.

Originally, although this disadvantage is very big, it is not fatal.

However, after Zhao Kuangyin released his military power with a cup of wine, he checked the front office, the deputy inspector, the commander of the guards, the commander of the cavalry and infantry, the deputy commander, and the top officers, and the top officers, kept him away from him.

Or in other words, these positions have been part-time jobs by the emperor since then. Except for the emperor himself, no one in the army is qualified to command so many troops at the same time to complete a large war of over 100,000 or more than 200,000.

This was fine in Zhao Kuangyin's era, and even his original intention was that these officials would not be granted in the future. He himself was a test-in-chief in front of the palace, and he promoted dozens of commanders himself. He had no problem with being the Grand Marshal of the Three Armies, and he had no reason to grant these official positions to others.

But the other emperors after Zhao Kuangyin really don’t know how to fight!

This was the case that Zhao Er encountered at that time, because without the inspection and commander of the Ministry, no one in the Song Dynasty except him had the power and qualification to command the coordinated combat of dozens of corpses in the entire army.

Then he can only command himself.

What a fuck he is instructing!

In fact, the Song army did not lose at all in the Battle of Gluthorn River, and the divisions did not suffer much loss. Inexplicably, his command was gone. It was purely the result of poor coordination and chaotic command of the divisions. It looked like the generals were trying to kill him on purpose.

The generals didn't even take it seriously. They helped Zhao Dezhao become the emperor and wanted to continue to fight with the Liao army, but the main force was not damaged at all. As a result, they heard for no reason that the emperor had escaped and was defeated in confusion.

As for the formation maps I created later, it was already perverted. The principal had to praise his expert after seeing them.

When it came to Zhao Heng, some commanders simply stopped listening to the emperor, and they would command whatever they wanted. Anyway, I wouldn't listen. If you ordered you, I would hit me.

The reason why he was forced to command the army in person was because if he didn't show up, the generals had already started fighting on their own. They sent civil servants to pass the orders, but they didn't even look at them. They had to go to the battlefield and give orders in person. The people below dared not disobey, and in this way, the command was indeed not delayed, and the combat effectiveness of the Song army came back.

After the end of the Chanyuan Alliance, Zhao Heng's fear of the imperial guards was almost at its peak. From then on, he gradually became civil servants in charge of the army. Because there was no war in the Song and Liao dynasties, the military pressure was not that great. Then, he emphasized culture and neglected military forces, and the imperial guards were completely abolished.

When Zhao Guangmei thought of this, she couldn't help but feel heartbroken. It was obvious that our army in Song Dynasty was invincible in the world!

After shook the messy melancholy in his mind, Zhao Guangmei solemnly said to Zhao Kuangyin:

"My Song Dynasty's advantage lies in fighting small battles, while the Khitan's advantage lies in fighting big battles. The way of military force is to play to strengths and avoid weaknesses. Therefore, the core idea behind me is actually one: 'Work small battles, don't fight decisive battles, use the strategy of erosion to regain Yanyun and destroy the Liao Dynasty!'"

Zhao Kuangyin pondered and said, "That's why you said, if you want to settle north, let's settle in the west first?"

"Yes, Nazeli said later that our Song Dynasty should use Lin, Mansion and Yanzhou as the basis, and gradually encroach on the six Tubo tribes, the Li family of Xiazhou, the Uighurs, and the Guiyi army, stabilize the western front, suppress the Liao Kingdom, and lengthen the front."

"If the Liao Kingdom wants to fight us, we will defend it. Even if we set up defenses, build hard camps, and fight stupid battles, it doesn't matter if we lose one or two formations. As long as the front line is long enough, the enemy will advance and we will retreat, and the enemy will retreat and we will advance."

"Their Liao Kingdom is a conscription system, and we are a recruiting system. If a war lasts for one month, they will delay their production that year. If a war lasts for half a year, a great famine will occur across the country. If such a war lasts for two years, the people of their country will starve to death. If they fight with us, how can they have that strength?"

"So, although the Liao army has mobilized strong troops, it will not last long. As long as he retreats, we will fight back. We are professional soldiers. As long as he does not mobilize, we will definitely not be able to defeat us. If he does a major mobilization, we will not fight with him. Can the Liao Kingdom mobilize once a year to fight a big battle with us? This year, he will win five cities and ten cities next year. In such a long battle, although we will definitely spend a lot of money and will definitely feel uncomfortable, but the Liao Kingdom will definitely feel even more uncomfortable than us!"

Zhao Kuangyin nodded when he heard this. Although Zhao Guangmei's strategy was very conservative, it has to be said that it was almost foolproof. To put it bluntly, it was a war of attrition.

I am a recruiting army, are you afraid of consuming it with you? I usually have to spend money to raise soldiers if I don’t fight. When fighting, I have to consume money and food. When fighting, the soldiers are hungry. It’s just that there is a little more reward when fighting. Most of the reward is still paid out of the seizure.

The reason why the Song Dynasty did not dare to fight later was that the country was poor and could not afford to fight once it was fought was because it valued civil and over military affairs. The military expenditures could be moved at ordinary times. All soldiers were owed wages, so they had to pay the military wages as soon as they fought. Then the civil servant group was still corruption and deducted them from them at all. If they were not paid enough, they had to pay the money. Naturally, they could not afford it. This was completely different from the Songchu army at this time.

The Liao Kingdom is different. They have a conscription system. Each large-scale conscription is a one-time injury. If they cannot achieve a large-scale conscription battle for two consecutive years, they will collapse.

"What else?"

"Also, it's just a room. Since it's a war of attrition, the local people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are very important. In recent years, the Liao Kingdom has changed its national policy and started to do its best to manage Yanyun. The treatment of local Han people has improved a lot. If Yanyun's Han people are interested in Liao Kingdom, that place will be difficult to fight, so we must break their situation."

"I summarize this service into four strategies, namely 'cultural output', 'spy infiltration', 'money redemption', and 'economic dependence'. If you can finally peacefully reunify Yanyun, that's the best. If you can't, you can at least be much easier when fighting."

"I don't understand this paragraph very clearly. Please explain it in detail to me."

"The so-called cultural output is to strengthen the cultural identity, national identity, and identity of the Han people in Yanyun. We can completely use stories, books, cultural exchanges, etc. to make the people of Yanyun never forget national hatred, and at the same time convey to them more the idea of ​​our Song people living well. This is a paradise on earth, so that they can think about it day and night and hope that our kingly army will go north. If this is done well, Yanyun will actually be able to come back without fighting."

"The so-called spy infiltration is to send a large number of spies to Yanyun. On the one hand, it is to convey military information to us, but more importantly, it is to let them provoke ethnic conflicts in the Yanyun area. In fact, this is really too simple. Yelu Abaoji and Yelu Deguang killed hundreds of thousands of Han people. As long as they repeat this matter, keep mentioning it, and not forgetting this hatred. There are troubles from time to time and rebellion every now and then. Even if it is pacified, the rift between the Khitans and the Han people will become bigger and bigger. In the Liao Dynasty, there are quite a lot of conservatives who are unwilling to accept the Han people."

"It is easier to buy money, just to bribe and bribe the local grassroots officials. Now, the national policy of the Liao Kingdom is to govern Liao by the Liao people, Han people govern Han by the Han people. A large number of middle-level officials in Yanyun area are all Han people. As long as we have done a good job in cultural exports, we will give them a lot of money and fool them to secretly send our thieves to the Song Dynasty. Then do you think they are officials of the Liao Kingdom or our Song Dynasty?"

"You can even come up with another policy and spend money on Liaotou? As long as we acquire the Liao people's heads all year round, the Yanyun place will never stop. Yanyun's Han people will never be able to join forces with the Liao people."

"The so-called economic dependence is actually to indulge smuggling, support compradors, and carry out large-scale trade with the Han people in Yanyun. Even if it is dumping, it doesn't matter whether it makes money or not. The important thing is to let the powerful Yanyun gain benefits through trade with us, and even make the entire Yanyun economy depend on us. At that time, as long as we fight a big battle, we will break up, and they will collapse."

"With these four strategies, the Han people in Yanyun must be the people's hearts towards Song. If they fight, they will naturally achieve twice the result with half the effort. As my article said, if my strategy is implemented, if it takes less than ten years, the Liao Kingdom will become more and more exhausted, and the Song Kingdom will become stronger. If it takes less than twenty years, the Yanyun will become easier! If it takes less than thirty years, the Liao Kingdom will be overthrown."
Chapter completed!