When Song Zhenzong fought against Liao, it won a tactical victory with the advantage of local operations, but it signed an unequal treaty and sent money to Liao every year to ensure peace. His method was to buy peace with money, but it ensured the peace of the Song-Liao border for decades. But why did Song Zhenzong's move be criticized repeatedly in later generations, and even become a stain since he ascended the throne?
What makes these two people do the same thing, but get different evaluations? This is entirely because their follow-up measures after signing the treaty are completely different from whether to retaliate against the enemy.
Song Zhenzong signed an alliance in Gatestown, but it didn't want to change for decades. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/004 (the first year of Jingdezhen), Liao invaded the south and achieved remarkable results in a short time. Song Zhenzong, with the support of the hawk minister Kou Zhun, personally marched the northern army. Song Jun won the tactical victory through hard work. However, when the two countries negotiated, the Song Dynasty fell behind. Although the two countries were about brothers, the Song Dynasty needed to give Liao hundreds of thousands of coins every year. In the eyes of many people at that time, although the two countries were peaceful for decades, there is no doubt that they were bought with money in the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, since Song Zhenzong in the Song Dynasty, the national military deployment has achieved strategic contraction. The army of the Song Dynasty no longer tended to expand to the outside world, seeking no merit but no fault, so that the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty gradually decreased from then on until its demise. ?
Emperor Taizong was supposed to sign a peace treaty with the Turks, but after a few years, the Turks perished. At the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, because of the large-scale war, its military strength and economic strength could no longer support large-scale operations against Turks. Therefore, when the Turkish army suddenly besieged Chang 'an, the Tang Dynasty had no ability to fight against the Turkish army, so Emperor Taizong had to sign a humiliating treaty with Tu.
Although it paid a heavy price, the Tang Dynasty did not encounter a war and gained a breathing space. And you can use the strength accumulated in just a few years to finally wipe out the Turks. Moreover, it is very good, and it can also solve external threats and smoothly enter the prosperous time of Zhenguan. ?
After the signing of the treaty, the spirits of the two countries were completely different? It can be said that after the signing of this treaty in the Song Dynasty, the whole country was immersed in the excitement of peace brought by the signing of the treaty. The combat effectiveness of the army is also declining year by year. In addition to the Xiliang Army in the Northern Song Dynasty, the army in the Song Dynasty has almost begun to rot from its roots, and it will no longer be the spirit of swallowing mountains and rivers and unifying the Central Plains in the Northern Song Dynasty.
On the contrary, the army of the Tang Dynasty, after the destruction of the Turks in the Tang Dynasty, not only did not rest on its laurels, but actively expanded abroad. It laid a vast western region in the west, destroyed Koguryo in the east, and defeated the Japanese army who intervened in Korean Peninsula affairs. It was not until the Anshi Rebellion that the expansion of the Tang Dynasty gradually declined. ?
Conclusion: In our later generations, the title of Fu Song in the prosperous Tang Dynasty is reasonable. Although the Song Dynasty was rich, its military was weak and its war winning rate was not high. The Tang dynasty was powerful, but it was built on a multi-ethnic army that dared to speak and expedition. It can be said that only when the military is rich and strong and dares to struggle will there be real strength and our nation stand on the top of the world!