Speaking of Yue Fei, a famous patriotic general during the Southern Song Dynasty in my country, many people may know it. The Yue family army he created by himself made the Jin people at that time terrified. The Jin people at that time had such a proverb: It is easy to shake the mountain, but difficult to shake the Yue family army. However, such a patriotic hero finally succumbed to the hands of the traitor Qin Hui, making his wish to "go straight to the Yellow Dragon Mansion" unfulfilled, leaving behind an eternal hatred! This also caused many people to complain about it later.
Some people even asked this question: If Yue Fei did not die and continued the Northern Expedition, would the Southern Song Dynasty be able to unify the whole of China? For this issue, we must consider it comprehensively in combination with history, but what is certain is that if Yue Fei is not dead, at least the Jin people will not easily attack the Southern Song Dynasty, and may even recover some lost territories in the north, but it is really not a unified whole of China. an easy thing.
Because the competition between great powers is about comprehensive national strength. We can now analyze whether there is any difference between the two big countries of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom of the Jin people from the perspective of military and financial resources. First, let's look at the military strength of the Southern Song Dynasty. According to historical records: the army of the Southern Song Dynasty generally had four elite troops, the first was Yue Fei's Yue Family Army, the second was Wu Zhang's Wu Family Army, the third was Han Shizhong's Han Family Army, and the fourth was Liu Qi's Bazi Army.
But if they can attack and seize the fortress, it must be the Yue family army. The Wu family army is good at defending. , but it also fought the battle of Shunchang. After Yue Fei was killed, when the Jin people invaded south again, Liu Qi was defeated and retreated to Jiangnan, and his reputation was greatly reduced. Therefore, if Yue Fei did not die and continued the Northern Expedition, the Yue family army had to act as the main force and forge ahead alone.
However, how many soldiers were in the Yue army at that time? According to historical records, there were only 100,000 Yuejia Army in its heyday. If the "Fire Head Army" in the army was removed, the number of regular soldiers was only about 88,300. As for the golden soldiers facing the Yue Family Army, even if Yancheng and Yingchang were defeated one after another and suffered heavy casualties, Jin Shuai Wanyan Zongbi had an army of 70,000 troops. In addition to the troops from the northeastern hometown and the troops from Hebei and Yanjing, the Jin Army still has a strategic reserve of at least 200,000 people who can face the Yue family army.
This does not include the troops used in the Sichuan-Shaanxi region on the west line and the Lianghuai region on the east line who were pinned down by Wu Lin and Han Shizhong. Therefore, in terms of military strength, the Jinren have an absolute advantage. Some people may say that, fighting troops is more important than skill, but don't forget, the Yue family's army is all the way north. In addition, the farther north the food and grass go, the longer the supply line will be, which will consume the strength of the Yue Family Army!
In fact, Yue Fei in history has seen this problem for a long time. In his "Fighting the Golden Policy" he played to the court, he proposed to recruit troops to expand the Yue family army to more than 200,000 people. It can be seen that Yue Fei in history has never despised Jin Bing! Now, let's go back and look at the financial resources of the Southern Song Dynasty who wanted to "go straight to Huanglongfu". In an important historical note of the Song Dynasty, "Chicken Ribs", it was recorded that the more than 100,000 people of the Yue family's army needed 5.6 million yuan of money and more than 70,000 meters of rice per month.
If the price of rice at that time was converted into taels of silver, the annual expenditure of the Yue family army was as high as 9,240,000 taels of silver, while the total fiscal revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty government was only 13,600,000 taels of silver.That is to say, the Southern Song government spends about 70% of the total fiscal revenue every year just to support the Yue family army. Now I understand why Song Gaozong in history always thinks about negotiating peace with the Jin people! Although the official family of the Southern Song Dynasty was timid and cowardly, financial constraints were still the main problem.
Of course, Song Gaozong listened to the slanderous words of the traitor Qin Hui and killed Yue Fei. This had nothing to do with the financial resources and military affairs of the Southern Song Dynasty. It was purely a poisonous scheme by the Jin people to divide their rulers and ministers. If Yue Fei did not die, the Southern Song Dynasty in history would not be able to unify China, but with the prestige of the Yue Family Army, it could at least deter the Jin people in the northern Xinjiang and declare the national prestige of our great country in the Central Plains!
