In the third year of the Qingli period in Emperor Song Renzong, Zheng Jian, the envoy of Shaanxi fourth Road, made a formal proposal to build Shuiluocheng. However, this border city construction triggered a year-long debate between the city construction and the anti-city construction. In order to prevent the occurrence of "no military commanders can work for the court", the court finally chose to reconcile the civil-military relationship instead of solving it according to the actual military

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... uation. Putting this controversy in the political environment of valuing literary talent above martial arts in the Song Dynasty, we find that Emperor Song Renzong's choice is actually an adjustment of the civil-military relationship that has reached the tension limit.