Chapter 33 2. The Most Expensive Drink in History

Song Taizu Chen Qiao was the supreme commander of the Later Zhou Forbidden Army before the mutiny. When he usurped power, it was a matter of course. At that time, Shizong Chai Rong died in the late Zhou Dynasty. Chai Rong died young, and his son Gongdi Chai Zongxun came to the throne at the age of seven.Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin was bullying the orphans and widows of Houzhou. In this way, when he usurped power, he almost did not fight with any bloodshed, and did not encounter any obstacles.Of course, after he usurped power, he had to ensure his long-term power.He is a rebel, of course he is afraid of rebels, so he asked Prime Minister Zhao Pu why the previous regime could not last long.

This Zhao Kuangyin himself was born as a high-ranking cadre. His father and grandfather were both cadres at the commander level of the military region, and his great-grandfather was also a magistrate of a prefecture or a county. A child who grew up in a military compound. Zhao Kuangyin didn't study hard all day long since he was a child, and got into fights until he got into the police station.The Public Security Bureau saw that this was the son of Commander Zhao of the military area, so they didn't dare to take care of him and released him.He is also a more heroic person, proficient in martial arts. Today in our Chinese martial arts, there are routines such as Taizu Changquan and the 64-way Panlong Cudgel. They were all invented by Zhao Kuangyin back then. He is a general.

Zhao Kuangyin identified a counselor named Zhao Pu. This buddy is talented and intelligent, and he is a typical self-taught intellectual.What kind of self-taught method?That's why Zhao Pu didn't read books, he only read half of the book. That's why people often say that half of the book governs the world.Zhao Kuangyin chatted with Zhao Pu, Zhao Kuangyin asked Zhao Pu, and he said, "Why did the emperor change his eight surnames since the Tang Dynasty?".Why since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor changed eight surnames. "I want to build a long-term strategy for the country. You said that the plan will be settled?" Give me an idea, how can we maintain the country's power for a long time.This Zhao Pu was very happy when he heard it, and immediately knelt down and replied: "Your Majesty's words are as good as this, and the gods and men of heaven and earth are blessed. It's not because of him. The feudal town is too heavy, and the monarch is weak and the minister is strong." Boss, what you say is world-famous Fortunately for everyone, there is no other reason for the rapid change of the country in front of it, but the power of the feudal town is too great.Feudal towns are the kind of generals with heavy troops in their hands, especially military generals. Their power is too heavy, heavier than that of the emperor, so they encourage regime change. "If you want to rule them now, there is no other ingenuity. You only need to take away their power, take in their elite soldiers, and control their money. Then the world will be at peace." If you want to rule them now, there is nothing else, just take their power and take them in. Soldiers, control their money and food, and the world will definitely be fine.Song Taizu was very happy to hear this: "Don't repeat your words, I have already explained it." You don't need to say any more, I understand.So he started to do this, starting from three aspects to control this group of people, power, soldiers, and money.A feudal town has no power, no soldiers, no money, what can it do?If anyone still listens to you, it's over, the problem is solved.

Song Taizu decided to change the situation of the separatism of the feudal towns since the Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, the Fubing system was implemented. The Fubing system means that there are no professional soldiers.Before the Tang Dynasty, where did the soldiers in China come from, that is, you farmed the land at ordinary times, and then you went there when the war came, instead of training soldiers there all day long for the war.The name of the military mansion, the grassroots organization of the Fubing system, is Zhechong Mansion. A Zhechong Mansion has 1,800 people and is under the jurisdiction of Zhechong Duwei.If a war breaks out, the imperial court temporarily selects a general to lead the troops of the Zhechong Mansion to fight. After the battle, the soldiers disperse in the mansion and return to the court.For example, this time to fight the Turks, the emperor transferred the Zhechong Mansion in Shandong, and then the General Zuowei commanded it.The next time we may fight Huihe, it will still be under the command of General Zuowei, but it may be transferred to the Zhechong Mansion in Longxi.In this way, the soldiers don't know the generals, the generals don't know the soldiers, and they can be separated in an instant after they have a short-term relationship with each other, so there will be no rebellion.

Usually his amateur identity is a soldier, and his main identity is a farmer, a professional farmer and an amateur soldier. He usually farms the land and then disperses after fighting. Moreover, there is no long-term running-in between the soldiers and the generals. The generals do not know which army they are assigned to Whether it has combat effectiveness, such an army must not have strong combat effectiveness.So in the Tang Dynasty, recruiting began. You recruited the army yourself and recruited professional soldiers.As soon as professional soldiers exist, their combat effectiveness will increase. The problem is that whoever recruits soldiers will take orders from them, and they will easily pose a threat to the central government.

The Anshi Rebellion is actually such a thing.An Lushan is also the envoy of the three towns of Fanyang, Hedong, and Pinglu, and governs our three provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, and Liaoning today. Then, he has 150,000 elite soldiers under his command, and the central army has only 120,000. A typical monarch is weak and his ministers are strong. So he was able to break out an eight-year rebellion at once.Later, when the Tang Dynasty fell, it was tantamount to dying in the hands of this feudal town.As soon as Song Taizu understood this matter, can he still be okay, he immediately started to take action, minimizing the possibility of rebellion from the three aspects of power, money, and soldiers.

The first is to centralize the military power and remove the military power of the generals of the forbidden army. This is the famous "drinking wine to release military power" in Chinese history.The group of people who fought the world with Emperor Taizu were all his buddies, the son of the director of the political department, the son of the chief of staff, the son of the logistics minister, all such a group of people, they all grew up in the military compound.Emperor Taizu summoned his buddies to drink, and when he was happy, Song Taizu said, I can't sleep well every day, I can't sleep.Then the generals were very strange: "Your Majesty is rich all over the world, why do you say that?" Taizu said: Because you were greedy for wealth and honor, you put this imperial robe on me and made me the emperor.You want to be the Founding Fathers and that's what drove me to this.What if one day your subordinates covet wealth and force you to become emperor, what will you do?What you say is unreasonable, I was forced to be the emperor...

Of course, the group of generals were terrified when they heard this, and kowtowed on their knees.So what do you think we should do? The emperors of the Song Dynasty were benevolent, and emperors of noble origin were generally nice to ministers.The emperors who came from hooligan backgrounds are not good at all, like Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng, Hong Xiuquan, let alone Hong Xiuquan, these people will all be killed if they leave the Ming Dynasty, and they will all be killed if a great revolution is launched. The emperor of the Song Dynasty said that it should be like this, the purpose of our war is not to enjoy it.

Now you can go home and stay.Don't fight anymore, you are already so old, go home and stay.If you want a house, I will give you a house, if you want land, I will give you land, if you want money, I will give you money.If you buy a few singers and dancers, you will have a lifetime.Then we, the monarch and his ministers, will form a family of sons and daughters. My princess will marry your son, and your daughter will marry my son. If this happens, the monarch and ministers will have no guess. The next day, these generals all signed up. I couldn’t ride a horse anymore, I had a foot problem, a fractured bone, or a problem with my prostate gland, so they all signed up one after another and stopped coming.You can’t ride a horse anymore, so you can go to another place to be a Jiedushi, but the real power of a Jiedushi is actually deprived again.Even if Yue Fei was also the Jiedushi of the three towns, with 12 gold medals, why didn't he come back obediently?Kill it when you come back.So at that time Jiedushi was just a false title, without any real power.