How timid was the Northern Song Dynasty?
At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was constant war with the Liao Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi are also ambitious. They wanted to recover their lost territory all their lives, but they didn't take advantage in the war with Liao, so they had to give up and make peace with Liao Nagong.
However, after the death of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi respectively, the Northern Song Dynasty gradually degenerated, not in other places, but in military affairs.
For example, when Daikin attacked Song Jun, Song Jun was defeated, so it was suggested that Song Huizong should train the army and strengthen its strength to resist Daikin's invasion. However, stupid Song Huizong thought that training the army would bring disaster to the country, and it would cost more to train the army than to please Daikin with money, so Song Huizong kept asking Daikin for peace with gold, silver and jewels.
Finally, under the incompetent governance of Song Huizong, Jingkang was humiliated. His second brother was taken away by Daikin, and most of the descendants of the Zhao royal family were slaughtered by nomadic people. Thousands of concubines and aristocratic women have long been ravaged by nomadic people. The mother of Zhao Gou, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, not only saved the Jin army from being ravaged, but also gave birth to two sons for the Jin people. You said it was shameful and timid.
The Southern Song Dynasty was even more timid.
After the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, Daikin still invaded the Southern Song Dynasty. At this time, two famous patriotic and capable generals appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, namely Han Shizhong and Yue Fei. Both of them made Jin Wushu, the general of Jin State who invaded the Southern Song Dynasty, suffer a lot and recovered a lot of lost land. Yue Fei even wants to go straight to Huanglong to destroy Daikin, which sounds so exciting.
However, Zhao Gou was frightened by 8 jin j, and in order to be nice to Jin Wushu, he killed Yue Fei, surrendered to Xu Jinguo, and attacked a lot of gold, silver and jewels for Xu Jinguo every year. You said that if you can fight, you must kill loyal subjects to please the enemy. It's really cowardly. Many people around Bian Xiao think that Zhao Gou is not a man. Zhao Gou has no children in history, so he is not a real man!
Why did the United States praise the Song Dynasty?
The Song Dynasty was timid, but it did have many powerful places. Such as culture, such as economy.
Culturally, there were famous Song Ci poems in the Song Dynasty, but there were also many great men in the Song Dynasty, such as the famous Sansu, Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Zhe, whose works have been passed down to this day and are loved by modern people.
Calligraphy is also very powerful. Even Song Huizong's and Cai Jing's calligraphy is a must of our time. There are really many calligraphers in Song Dynasty, which proves the prosperity of Song culture.
Although the Song Dynasty didn't find much military, its expenditure was greatly reduced, so the people of the Song Dynasty were the richest dynasty in ancient feudal society, and the Qingming Mountain and River Map was the best proof of the economic development of the Song Dynasty. At that time, the economy of the Song Dynasty was absolutely the first in the world, far ahead, and its economic status was just like that of the United States now.
It is precisely because of the highly developed culture and economy of the Song Dynasty that the United States wrote the timid Song Dynasty into the textbooks of American universities. They studied the economy and culture of the Song Dynasty!