Chapter 165: The History of Great Changes
Although the computer has become VR, the basic functions of personal terminal devices such as mobile phones will not change the way they are used, no matter how much technology changes.
Find out the search software and pop up the projection.
He only needs to rely on the strokes of his fingers or the movement of his eyes to control the huge projection screen.
"Enter the search keyword, Chinese history, and search. ”
Called Xun Ze to speak up.
The search results page of the profile appeared in front of Woo Xun Ze, and the ad was placed in a special corner on the far right, and the search results were in the center.
All the search results of the same type were merged, and Xun Ze needed to further confirm what type of search results he was looking for.
"Select A Brief History of China, Text Version. ”
After hearing the words of Xun Ze, the mobile phone immediately turned the projection screen into a text version of the history of China, and at the same time added the classification of each dynasty.
With a flick of your finger, you will be drawn to the constitutional era of the Three Kings in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Gunpowder, navigation, and constitutional monarchy.
In the vast history of Chinese civilization, there are many times worth talking about. However, if we want to talk about the origin of the industrial revolution, we cannot avoid the era of the constitution of the three kings.
When the decaying Han Dynasty entered its final years, people thought that this dynasty, which had been inherited for hundreds of years, would eventually come to an end.
But just as there were leaders like Wang Mang and Liu Xiu who could continue the life of the empire in the late Western Han Dynasty, there were also three extremely good leaders in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce.
These three great leaders stood up in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the country was in chaos and order collapsed.
Among them, Cao Cao quelled the chaos of the northern warlords, Sun Ce conquered the disobedient south, and Liu Bei punished Yizhou, which was the first to become independent.
After restoring the order of the country, the three did not think about how to defeat each other and unify the world at the first time, but met in Luoyang and discussed the constitutional monarchy, which was an extremely great system at that time.
And it also left the most valuable legacy for the renaissance of the Song Dynasty in the future.
The establishment of a constitutional monarchy represents the end of the imperial era for the first time in history. After that, Liu Bei built Shu into a handicraft base for the Han Dynasty, which supplied a steady stream of gunpowder and various handmade products to the north and south.
Sun Ce turned the south into a wharf for the Han to explore the outside world, established commercial ties with ancient India and many countries in the Middle East at that time, and began to bring the seeds of excellent crops from Southeast Asia back to China for planting.
The Northern Group, led by Cao Cao, represented the most powerful force of the Han Dynasty.
To the west, the Silk Road was reopened and the countries of the Western Regions were conquered.
To the east, Goguryeo was destroyed and the Korean Peninsula was brought under the rule of Huaxia.
To the north, he drank horses from Beihai and established Beihai County, completely driving the nomads to the west.
Cao Cao led his mighty legions to wipe out almost all the alien races that could threaten the Central Plains.
The constitutional era of the Three Kings lasted until 420 BC, and China returned to the era of warlord warfare.
However, the legacy left to China in the constitutional era of the Three Kings has always existed.
In order to avoid nostalgia for the Constitutional Era of the Three Kings, the Tang Dynasty on the one hand committed to restoring the Chinese territory of the Constitutional Era of the Three Kings and establishing colonies in various places, proving that under the rule of the imperial family, China did not decline.
On the one hand, the large-scale burning of books related to the constitution of the Three Kings shows the correctness of the royal family ruling the world.
However, this practice of the Tang royal family was forcibly terminated in Li Longji's later years.
After Li Longji ascended the throne and ended the situation of imperial infighting, in order to avoid being ousted from the throne by his own son, he had to rely on the aristocratic power dominated by the slave owner An Lushan, and handed over a number of colonies to An Lushan to rule.
This led to An Lushan's ambitions to swell unprecedentedly, and he hid from Li Longji to form a large number of alien legions, and sent a lot of technology to Western countries in exchange for their support, which led to the slow rise of Western civilization.
In 755 A.D., slave owners and new aristocratic forces dominated by An Lushan set off a huge rebellion, known as the Anshi Rebellion.
The Anshi Rebellion was the first war in world history in which both sides used gunpowder weapons on a large scale.
Arquebuses, artillery, and grenades were widely used in the war, making the war more brutal than ever before, and several cities were directly razed to the ground.
Because all the elite troops of the Tang royal family were stationed in the colony, the Li Tang royal family suffered repeated defeats in the early days of the war.
After the capture of Luoyang, Li Longji felt that Chang'an could not be defended, so he led the royal family to flee west.
However, Yang Yuhuan, who was called the Holy Empress by later generations at that time, led a part of the soldiers who swore to defend Chang'an to stay, and appointed Guo Ziyi, who put forward the theory that 'the army should fully use new flintlock pistols and eliminate arquebuses', as the commander, defeated An Lushan's army on the frontal battlefield, forcing An Lushan to stop the attack.
Subsequently, Li Bai, the most famous swordsman in Chang'an City and the last cold weapon master in Chinese history, led the Qinglian Brotherhood to infiltrate Luoyang and assassinated An Lushan, leaving the rebels leaderless and finally defeated one by one.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the Li Tang royal family tightened the slave trade unprecedentedly, resulting in a lack of slave labor in a large number of factories and plantations in the Tang Dynasty, and forced to hire natives with high wages and short working hours, and also protected by national laws.
To a certain extent, this has slowed down the country's development and narrowed the gap between the West and China.
At the same time, after the Anshi Rebellion, the weakness of the Li Tang royal family was exposed to the eyes of the colonies.
However, within a few years, the colonies outside the Tang Dynasty began to refuse to obey the orders of the Li Tang royal family, and began to cultivate their own forces and armies.
In 907, after gradually losing power, the Li Tang royal family refused to implement a constitutional monarchy and was ousted from the throne by angry new nobles.
Huaxia is once again in a chaotic situation.
In 960, Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty with the help of new nobles, but after he ascended the throne, he betrayed his promise to restore the upper and lower houses of the Upper and Lower Houses in the constitutional era of the Three Kings, massacring the new nobles and strengthening the imperial power.
Zhao's actions led to the dissatisfaction of the new nobles, who supported Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Guangyi to kill Zhao Kuangyin, ascend to the throne, and re-establish the upper and lower houses.
The establishment of the House of Commons meant that the imperial power was once again under control. Although the Zhao and Song royal families had the intention to change all this, under the repeated opposition of the new nobles, it led to less and less power in their hands.
At the same time, the new aristocracy also set off a huge Renaissance movement, believing that the two-emperor rule and the three-king constitutional system in the Han Dynasty era were manifestations of human civilization.
During this period, the idea that imperial power was not the only one spread throughout the land, and the enlightened people soon aspired to expel the imperial power from the court once again.
So in 1127, the new nobles forced the Zhao and Song royal families to sign a treaty and give up all rights.
After nearly 1,000 years of history, the constitutional monarchy has once again come to China.