The fortune-telling civil servant turned to the officer for help.

Paying more attention to literature than martial arts is a very obvious cultural feature of the Song Dynasty, because the rulers of the Song Dynasty suppressed military commanders for their own interests, and at the same time, in order to balance the relationship between military attaché s and civil servants, they suppressed the political status of military attaché s in various ways. Song Taizu worried that his country would be seized by military attache, so he suppressed military attache. Song Taizu, who started from mutiny, was still afraid of military attache, because he won the throne by force, so he decided to change the trend of autocratic military attache for hundreds of years. After some planning, he dismissed many founding heroes from their official positions through a banquet, which is the famous "one glass of wine to disarm and return to the field" in history. At the same time, the power to govern the country was handed over to the civil servants of the Song Dynasty.

Since the founding monarch set the policy of governing the country by scholar-officials, the descendants of the royal family naturally have to strictly abide by it, and civil servants have since ushered in their most glorious era in the Song Dynasty.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, some civil servants were demoted to Wu Zhi, which reflected the low status of military attache. In many dynasties in ancient China, there was a phenomenon of "leaving the army and entering the phase", but in the Song Dynasty, there was a situation of "not exchanging weapons for articles", which means that civil servants were unwilling to take the post of military attache. It can be seen that the phenomenon of worshipping and restraining martial arts in the Song Dynasty was very serious, and even many civil servants had the psychology of "humiliating the army". Why is this happening?

The civil servants in the Northern Song Dynasty did change their military attaché s. Even if they did, they made mistakes and were demoted to military attaché s. This "demotion" fully shows that it is a punishment for demotion. On the contrary, it is a matter of "promoting to a higher position and making a fortune" for military officers to become civilians, and these phenomena are all caused by the idea of valuing literature over martial arts in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The formation of the atmosphere of worshipping and restraining martial arts in the Northern Song Dynasty has a lot to do with centralization. The rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty paid great attention to the growth of warlord power. In order to strengthen the power of the central group, they have always adopted a policy of forcibly suppressing the power of military commanders. It is under this kind of intentional suppression that it is conceivable that the position of military attache has always been at the bottom, and it is difficult to realize self-worth and has no lofty aspirations.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, many famous soldiers who made great contributions recalled to the imperial court immediately after they made great achievements, resulting in few people willing to become military attaché s, and many soldiers with ideals and ambitions were buried in this background.

In order to balance the relationship between civil servants and military attaché s and despise military attaché s, although Song Taizu began to suppress military attaché s at the beginning, after all, these people helped Song Taizu to establish the Song Dynasty, and the country of the Song Dynasty was partly attributed to these military commanders. In the early days of the People's Republic of China, military attaché s looked down on civil servants, and most of them were rude, which was directly reflected in their actions, causing great contradictions at that time.

In order to solve this problem, they began to take back the power of military commanders and make up for it in other ways. Over time, the military attache's power cannot be expanded, and his position naturally falls behind.

The rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty believed that once a military commander rebelled, the consequences would be greater than that of a civilian. Therefore, shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, military attaché s began to be suppressed, and the status and power of civil servants were gradually improved, which led to the situation of worshipping and restraining martial arts. It is precisely because of this idea that competent military commanders are unwilling to take office, incompetent military commanders are produced, and even civilian officials go to the battlefield, which eventually leads to the decline of the Song Dynasty.