The Song Dynasty was an extremely magical country in terms of combat power and financial power.

The Song Dynasty was the only country in history that had not suppressed commerce for a long time. Handicrafts and commerce were extremely developed. When it comes to financial resources, it could definitely be the richest man in the world.

Since ancient times, wealthy people may not be the old man, but wealthy people with resources are often the real old man.

In the famous Chanyuan Alliance in history, the Song Dynasty "seeked peace" from the Great Liao Dynasty and gave it to the Liao Kingdom 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 pieces of silk every year. It seemed to be a shameful country, but in fact, from the economic perspective alone, the Song Dynasty made a lot of money.

At that time, the annual fiscal revenue of the Song Dynasty was at least tens of millions of taels, and sometimes it could even exceed 100 million taels of silver, 100,000 taels of silk, and 200,000 pieces of silk. In fact, it was only 300,000 taels of silver, less than one percent.

In exchange, the Song and Liao dynasties became brotherly countries, the Song and Liao dynasties set up courts on the border and opened up trade. The Song dynasty said that they could earn at least 700,000 taels from the Great Liao dynasty every year, and the net income was nearly 200%, which was a model of free sex.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, the business of Liao Kingdom was almost nothing. Apart from selling some horses, they could only buy things from the Song Dynasty and make money. However, if they sold too many horses, they would raise cavalry for the enemy in disguise. So later the horses could not be sold. The Liao Kingdom could only sell some fragments of the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty could sell everything to the Liao Dynasty.

If this continues, the Song currency even directly replaces the Liao currency, and even the people of the Liao Dynasty only recognize the Song Dynasty's money.

From this point of view, the Song Dynasty actually made a lot of money. After all, the temporary face is indeed not as important as the reward of real money and weakening the enemy's strength.

Since ancient times, the war has been money. Whoever has more resources and better equipment will have the advantage. The Song Dynasty has made money from the Liao Dynasty for many years and gradually emptied the Liao Dynasty's financial resources. Logically speaking, it should be getting stronger and stronger. Then, the Liao Dynasty will be destroyed and the face will be recovered.

But it's just theoretically speaking. For the group of gods in the court, no matter how much money it is, they can't win a battle.

If this kind of financial resources is placed on the Han and Tang dynasties, it will probably be invincible. If it is placed on the Song Dynasty, it can only fight a currency war. It is really true that the Song Dynasty is rich and strong and weak.

If you don’t lack money, people, and resources, you just lack the ability to fight.

Thanks to the military-manager policy of the Song Dynasty, the Song army has the largest military expenditure in the world, but its combat effectiveness is terrible.

When a literati governs the army, every general in charge of war has a literati as a boss, not only but also changes positions from time to time. Today he is a general in this military camp, but tomorrow he may go to that military camp to lead the big-headed soldiers.

If a soldier does not know the general, the general does not know the soldiers, or even the officials does not know the general, and the general does not know the officials. If you can win a battle, you will be seeing a ghost.

When literati governed the army, they could not say that they could not do anything, otherwise the Song Dynasty would have died long ago.

But if a literati can cure the army, why do we still have military generals since ancient times?

It would be great if a literati governed the army and could fight wars.

Win? What kind of dreams do you have?

Therefore, this system must be changed, and it must be greatly improved. At least those who can win the war must lead the army to fight.

In this way, the literati will definitely not want to, which means they will lose a large part of their rights, but it doesn’t matter if they are unwilling to do so. Moreover, they should not worry about their rights now, but about their lives.

Zhao Yun, who was told by Zhang Sanfeng about the future, naturally knew what the main reason for the demise of the Song Dynasty. Now he looked at the civil officials of his helplessness and wished he could kill them all. If he could not govern the country, he would be very good at harming the people.

With the support of Zhang Sanfeng, Zhao Yun decisively began his own reform path, but reform is risky. If you are not careful, you may lose yourself.

Fortunately, there is Zhang Sanfeng behind Zhao Yun, and he is not afraid that those aristocratic families will directly join forces with military generals to gradually change the policy of literati governing the military.

During this period, the letter of advice and scolding from civil servants fell in front of Zhao Yun like snowflakes, but was burned by him without even looking at it.

The military generals were bullied by civil officials for most of the dynasties. At this moment, they had hope and were grateful to Zhao Yun and expressed their loyalty.

The reform lasted for three years, and during this period, countless monsters and monsters were killed by Zhang Sanfeng.

A large number of civil servants stepped down, and military generals took charge of the army and supported Zhao Yun. Ninety percent of the entire Song Dynasty's army was in the hands of the emperor Zhao Yun. It can be said that Zhao Yun's waist was even stronger than the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin's control over the army, even after releasing military power with a cup of wine, was still inferior to Zhao Yun now. In the entire court, no military general with a name and surname was not convinced by Zhao Yun.

For them, Zhao Yun, who handed over the power of generals from civil servants to military generals, was almost their reborn parents.

Zhao Yun was supported by all the military generals and directly held great power, asking for money and people, the Song army transformed into a top-notch army in the world.

Is the overall quality not good? Can't I improve it in a short period of time?

It's okay, let's take it slowly. We have money, but we don't have enough skills, so we can get the equipment.

The configuration of armor, weapons, horses, food and supplies, and the Song army can definitely make any army in the world jealous.

But Zhang Sanfeng felt that this was not enough. After all, their enemy was Dayuan, and the Yuan and Meng Empire that almost hit Europe in the future.

At this time, the Song army had just established themselves, and bullied Xia with money, food and equipment. Liao was fine, but compared with Mongolia, they were indeed not sure of winning.

Fortunately, Zhang Sanfeng had long considered this matter - why should he fight according to the current method?

Three of the four great inventions were all from the Song Dynasty, one of which was called Gunpowder.

However, since the invention of the things needs to be gradually matured and it will take some time to be widely used. Therefore, although the Song Dynasty had invented gunpowder at that time, there was no mature technology yet and it was used in the military.

But it doesn’t matter. The Song Dynasty did not have mature technology, and Zhang Sanfeng had it!

From muskets and cannons to black gunpowder formulas, Zhang Sanfeng knew everything clearly.

He and Gu Yunze and others have learned modern culture for a long time, including firearm drawings and gunpowder formulas from various eras.

With Gu Yunze's status, getting these things was just a matter of one sentence. After getting them, Gu Yunze sent all the things to Zhang Sanfeng, and Zhang Sanfeng also learned them by himself and figured them out.

Now, it's time to use it!

In addition to being famous for its prosperous business, the Great Song Dynasty also had extremely prosperous handicrafts. Isn’t that a coincidence!

We need resources, technology, and craftsmanship. Cannons and muskets that should not have appeared in this era have been continuously manufactured.

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So, one day not long later, when the invincible Dayuan Cavalry attacked a border city on the Song Dynasty, rushed to the black muzzles on the city wall with disdain, and was stunned to find that the times... seemed to have changed.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will have tactics bloom; if you are rich, you will have saturation bombing.
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