Chapter 155: National Consciousness
In fact, China has always had a national consciousness, and it is a slander to say that China has no national consciousness. If you read Chinese history, you can see that Chinese has a very long understanding of the Chinese nation, and if you are not a Chinese nation, let you be strong in every way, Chinese history has only one attitude towards you: despise or even ignore. In the process of Qin's unification of the six countries, it was far more than the six countries that were unified, and the Qin State actually entered the pace of unifying the Central Plains after destroying the Ba State, the Shu State and the Yiqu State. And the state of Chu destroyed the state of Yue after being tightened by the state of Qin. The Central Plains and the Xiongnu in the north are also inseparable from Yan Zhao, but in the official history, these countries that are not small in scale compared to the Six Kingdoms, their extermination process is almost brushed aside, why? Because of the non-Chinese ethnic group, their status in culture and history is not important.
For example, in the history from the Jin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the largest proportion has always been Chinese orthodoxy. Although the orthodox court in China was often not the strongest court at that time, the official history often revolved around these small courts, and the court established by the Wuhu was ignored no matter how big and strong it was, and the Wuhu also sinicized itself in pursuit of long-term rule in order to rule the Central Plains.
For another example, there was a Han strategist named Wang Meng in the former Qin Dynasty in the Northern Dynasty, who said to Fu Jian, the king of the Great Qin, when he was dying: "Although the Jin Dynasty is located in the south of the Yangtze River, it is orthodox in China, and it is peaceful from top to bottom. After the death of the minister, His Majesty must not try to destroy the Jin Dynasty. Xianbei and Xiqiang subdued the nobles and thieves are the enemies of our country, and sooner or later they will become a scourge, and they should be gradually eradicated for the benefit of the country. Fu Jian has always obeyed Wang Mengyan, but he did not listen to this last word, and finally there was the famous Battle of Weishui in Chinese history.
The national consciousness of China can be said to be ancient, and it is not a pure blood relationship. Di Yi into China, China; Those who come out of Diyi in China, Diyi. In other words, our understanding of the Huaxia ethnic group is a cultural cognition, not a blood cognition.
Due to China's long history, the long-term regional stability in a large range, the political confrontation between the local and central governments can be said to have a long history, but this is not actually because we disagree with each other, the interests of different landlords in China's agrarian culture and political system are regionalized, so there is an international political joke that the Nanyang Navy Division wants to release himself after the defeat of the Beiyang Navy Division. This was not because the Nanyang sailors did not identify themselves as Chinese, but because China was not accustomed to international politics at that time and attached too much importance to domestic politics. Because for the Celestial Empire: domestic politics is always greater than international politics. International politics is always a small issue in our eyes, and only domestic politics is a big problem. But people at that time did not realize that with the advent of the industrial age, this situation had changed, because the industrial age had made the world smaller, and countries that were previously out of reach could suddenly go to war with us within a month or two. Therefore, as a political prophet, Li Hongzhang proposed: China has encountered a strong enemy unseen in thousands of years, and China is in a great change unseen in 3,000 years.
Therefore, China's national consciousness has always been there, unified and strengthened in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the historical jokes of modern times are actually just a manifestation of not adapting to the times, not that China does not have a national consciousness, how can the Chinese be understood by this kind of island country?! If they could understand, China would have ceased to exist a long time ago, and the reason why I could not conquer China was because I did not understand Han culture fundamentally.
Western Zhou feudal system and patriarchal system! In terms of bloodline and culture, the various ethnic groups in the Central Plains have been unified into the Huaxia people! For example, the defeated ethnic groups such as Beidi, Nanban, Dongyi, and Xirong were constantly annexed by it, and the concept of the Huaxia nationality became larger and larger.
The idea of China's great unification has a long history. During the Autumn and Warring States Period, the ideal emperor in Confucius's mind should have the authority to rule the world, and the so-called "Lile Conquest comes from the Son of Heaven". Confucianism, Taoism, Mofa, and other schools of thought all have the shadow of great unification. Lao Tzu advocated that "one" is the foundation, "Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things", and the great unification has since had an ontology.
Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, the car is the same text, the book is the same track, and the weights and measures are unified. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone" to establish the dominance of Confucianism in China; Implement the "Tui En Order" to strengthen the central government's control over the local government; Through the efforts of the Qin and Han dynasties, China formed the concept of national unification politically, economically, and culturally.
The struggle and redemption of the people of Zhao: Li Mu's good fighting and bravery still cannot reverse the Warring States period!
In an era when war has become the norm, what qualities do a soldier need to have? What kind of soldier can break out of the encirclement, charge into battle in the rain of bullets, and strategize to win a decisive victory thousands of miles away? In the view of Li Mu, a famous general of Zhao State, war is actually just a fragment of life. Li Mu's war is to give way to life, and in the eyes of thousands of soldiers, Li Mu is the most unlike general. "Qi Jian Po Mu, all are good generals" This is the evaluation of the four famous generals of the Warring States by the ancients, and the "Mu" of them is Li Mu. Compared with Bai Qi, Wang Qian, Lian Po and others, Li Mu's reputation is much smaller, but when Bai Qi was called the god of war of the Qin State and Lian Po was called the undefeated general of the Zhao State, Li Mu's story seemed to be more human.
There may not be anything you have to do in this world, and when Li Mu is stationed at the border gate, he must often ask himself: "What am I doing this for?" When Bai Qi slaughtered the Six Kingdoms, Li Mu was still a small general at the border of Zhao State, wearing armor and holding a spear, on the hill where the sun set, Li Mu looked at the distant tent of the Hu people, and his heart was just more contemplative. "Historical Records": "Cheaply placed officials, the city rent is imported into Mofu, and it is a soldier's fee." Hit a number of bulls, learn to ride, be cautious, spy more, and meet soldiers. While other generals were thinking about how to win the war, Li Mu opened a market on the border to collect taxes to cover military expenses. After experiencing the Battle of Changping, the Zhao State was already poor and the people were tired, and Li Mu did not add trouble to the Zhao court, but raised his own funds. The contemplation of the border, Li Mu has gained.
Li Mu implemented a military-civilian integration policy in the army, fighting wars in wartime, farming in farming, and grazing sheep in idle time, which is similar to the combat strategy after the Qin Shang Dynasty changed the law. As the strongest northern tribe in the Autumn and Warring States Period, the Hu people have been a big problem for the princes and countries for hundreds of years by virtue of their unstable combat methods of lightness, speed, and coming and going. And when Zhao has Hu Fu cavalry, and then there are generals like Li Mu, it is undoubtedly a song "Liangliang" for the Hu people, and the history books have "mostly strange formations, Zhang left and right flanks hit it, and killed more than 100,000 Huns." Destroy the ragged, break the East Hu, descend the forest Hu, and run alone. After more than ten years old, the Xiongnu did not dare to approach the border city of Zhao", the fear of Li Muxu of the northern tribe spread like a virus, and with the defeat of wars again and again, Li Mu became the god of war in the hearts of Hu people.
At that time, there was such a saying: "Li Mu is here, Zhao Guo is here; Li Mu died, Zhao Guo died", when the Qin army broke through the Zhao defense line and encountered Li Mu's army, the Zhao ** team, under the leadership of Li Mu, fought a tug-of-war with the Qin army. After the Battle of Changping, the national strength of Zhao State was exhausted, and Zhao State no longer had more strength to support Li Mu's foreign war. And the temple of Zhao State, the people's hearts are lost, only seeking self-preservation, more and more dim, Li Mu is completely relying on his own supply and combat methods outside, in order to win more with less many times, resisting the attack of Qin's iron hooves, so that Wang Jian and other fierce generals are helpless, but it is a pity that Li Mu's self-sufficient combat mode is actually considered by the Zhao people to be a military order, and will become a huge threat to the Zhao court, which can be described as the sorrow of Zhao State.
Among the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, Qin Guo Bai Qi made the greatest contribution and killed the most, but he was backed by Qin's profound national strength; Wang Jian is good at strategy and is better at planning the overall situation, and is most famous for the battle to destroy the country; Zhao Guolian is quite good at defending but not good at attacking, and he has been seeking stability in the later period, without much credit; Only Li Mu, both offensive and defensive, the so-called "attack must be won, defense must be solid", among the four war generals can be called the first. The victory on the battlefield has achieved a high degree of attention from the nations, and the high attention has achieved Li Mu's status in the Zhao State, but this attention has gradually become an invisible pressure, which has increased the difficulty of Li Mu's communication with the monarchs and ministers. Most of China's generals are often good at military affairs, and they are always passive in how to actively communicate with the court, which makes the Zhao court, especially the ministers, gradually have great suspicions about Li Mu.
Li Mu was completely the captain of the firefighting team in the later period, where he was needed, and he went north to fight when he was needed at the border pass in the clouds; The western part of Zhao needed him, so he went south to fight against Qin; King Zhao suspected that he would disobey the orders of the foreign king, disobeyed the military order, and wanted to depose him, so he went home to retire; When he was needed again, he was asked to go out of the mountain, and he came out to continue the war, completely upright. Every time he wins a battle, Li Mu kills pigs and slaughters sheep, rewards the three armies, the soldiers at the border pass live such a life, Li Mu's border seems to have become a paradise for the soldiers and generals of Zhao State, there are victories in battles, and there is wine to eat after victory, so more and more soldiers are willing to follow Li Mu with all their hearts, and even those generals in the court are more and more jealous of Li Mu, which finally became Li Mu's urging rope.
People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and the Qin State has been attacking the Qin State for a long time, so they finally began to use the old trick - anti-intermittent scheme, "Qin Duo and King Zhao's favored minister Guo Kaijin, for the anti-intermediary, said that Li Mu and Sima Shang were opposed. King Zhao made Zhao Cong and Qi general Yan gather on behalf of Li Mu. Li Mu was not ordered, and Zhao made people capture Li Mu and behead him...... Destroy Zhao. "Zhao people seem to have been born with this kind of loss, there is Lian Po in the front, and Li Mu in the back. Everyone in Zhao was sad and angry, and everyone in Qin was happy. has no scheming, and will not deal with the relationship between monarchs and ministers, unlike Wang Jian who understands the way of being a minister...... This is Li Mu's fatal weakness.
One side of the water and soil to support the other side.
Looking back at the Warring States Period, which lasted for more than two centuries more than 2,000 years ago, there are significant differences in the temperament of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period: the Qi State is rich and still empty talk, and the Chu State is vast and comfortable. Compared with the barbaric and fierce Qin State, which rose rapidly, the Wei State was an arrogant but tired old power under the river. South Korea is purely a "wall grass" role, following behind a strong country, a strong country eats, and he drinks soup. The Qin State unified the Six Kingdoms, and the first to be destroyed was Korea, which basically had no decent resistance.
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