About Chapter 19 Story Introduction: After the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were constantly ministers who advocated the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and supported the world, and Zu Di was the best of these ministers. He took advantage of the villages and forts in various places. Constantly striking at Shile, who occupied the Kanto region, achieved some success. However, he was suspicious of the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and finally died of depression, and the Northern Expedition led by the Eastern Jin Dynasty also came to an end.

This story shows that the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with the scholar landlord class as the ruling class, was simply unable to deal with the chaos in the north, and the intrigue between the families and the big clans seriously hindered the process of unification of the feudal dynasty. Even if Zu Di, who was born in a local family, had great ambitions, his achievements were so high that he eventually aroused the jealousy of the ruling class of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his military actions were restricted, and Zu Di also died with regret.

Zu Di's experience reminds me of Yue Fei, the two of them also have the ambition of the Central Plains of Beiding, but they are both feared by the rulers of the feudal dynasty, but Yue Fei's fate is even more tragic, he was framed by the traitor Qin Hui and died tragically in Fengbo Pavilion, and Zu Di was only restrained in military operations, and he died of depression, which can be regarded as a good death.

In fact, after the Sui and Tang dynasties, the ministers of the various feudal dynasties who were highly meritorious basically did not have a very good fate, the anti-gold hero Yue Fei was like this, Yu Qian, who led the defense of Beijing, was also framed and unjustly killed, and Yuan Chonghuan, who achieved the victory of Ningjin, was executed by Emperor Chongzhen Ling Chi.

Like Yue Fei's situation, it rarely appears in the feudal dynasty where the landlord class of the scholar clan is the ruling class, which has a lot to do with the officials who have made meritorious contributions to the family, and these officials from the family often only care about their own interests, and rarely appear to die for the sake of the feudal dynasty. When Sima Rui, the king of Langya, relied on the family to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty, about the Northern Expedition, it was only thunder and rain, Zu Di, who was born in the local family, even if he was a person of insight in the family, even if his merits and power were feared by the rulers, and his power was contained, but the feudal rulers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty actually knew that the family was difficult to deal with, and they did not dare to easily wave the butcher's knife to the loyal Zu Di. The rulers of the feudal dynasty of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who were highly meritorious and powerful in later generations, all chose to attack the imperial power without exception after gaining great fame and power, and then the rulers of the feudal dynasty with the scholar landlord class as the ruling class had no ability to solve the problem of the high achievements of the officials from the big families.

However, in the feudal dynasty where the landlord class of the Shu nationality was the ruling class, the power of the emperor was greatly consolidated, and the officials in the dynasty basically did not have much foundation, and most of them were born in the Hanmen Shu clan, even if they were highly accomplished, it was easy to solve, because there was no huge family as a support to threaten the imperial power, and the officials of the same Hanmen Shu clan also had a strong jealousy of the officials who were too famous, and they would also help the ruler to suppress these meritorious officials, and among these officials, the greater the merit, The more miserable the death, it has become a rule.

It can also be seen from here that when the feudal dynasty entered the era when the landlord class of the Shu nationality was the ruling class, the feudal imperial power was greatly strengthened, and all dynasties would improve some bad rules that threatened the imperial power of the previous dynasties, and in the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's power was the strongest among the feudal dynasties. It is also the highest stage of the development of centralized power.

In the feudal dynasty where the aristocratic landlord class is the ruling class, there are often few powerful ministers with high merit, mainly because the time of existence in this period is relatively short, and most of the rulers in the feudal dynasty are more wise and wise. In this period, the more famous minister was Zhou Yafu, who quelled the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, but there was also the younger brother of Emperor Jing of Han, King Liang Xiao, who had immortal merits in the rebellion, but Emperor Jing of Han, as a more strategic emperor, was very wise and decisive to solve the pressure from Zhou Yafu and King Liang Xiao, and ensured the normal operation of the Western Han Dynasty. Moreover, the period of the aristocratic landlord class as the ruling class was the period when Huang Laozhixue flourished, and the feudal dynasty also experienced the peasant war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and all the attention was on the development of the economy and people's livelihood.

Through the comparison of the three periods of feudal dynasties in the history of our country, there is only a period when the landlord class of the Shu nationality is the ruling class, and there are more powerful ministers with high achievements, and the feudal rulers are also trying to control the powerful ministers, which is also because the desire of the Hanmen Shu people to establish meritorious deeds is much higher than that of the royal family and the family, however, these children of the Hanmen Shu clan did not think that after they became famous, where would the current ruler be? When they achieved meritorious service, it was also the time when the ruling class was weak or incompetent, and these children of the Hanmen Shu clan who established immortal feats and were full of heartfelt feat even if they just wanted to maintain the stability and unity of the feudal dynasty, but in the end they were still feared by the rulers, and finally fell into prison and died in Huangquan, which is really a sigh, in fact, this is also the sorrow of the Shu landlord class. Moreover, the Hanmen clan who are in power will also attack each other and compete for power because of the ruling philosophy and their own interests, especially in the period when the ruler is relatively mediocre, this kind of political struggle is extremely strong and evolves into a party struggle. This is also the weakness of the landlord class of the Shu nationality.

Zu Di, who was born in a local family, was able to do his best to maintain the unity of the feudal dynasty, which is really commendable, but he should be glad that he is in the period when the landlord class of the Shi clan is the ruling class, otherwise he will also follow in the footsteps of Yue Fei. This is also a blessing in his misfortune.

And after him, Huan Wen, can not be said to be the only minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, even if the three Northern Expeditions, all in order to make a name for himself and increase his family experience, his character and morality can no longer be compared with Zu Di, and the later abolition of the emperor in power is even more shocking.

In comparison, Xie An, who was after Huan Wen, led the great victory of the Battle of Weishui, and kept half of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he must not be said to be a meritorious minister in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but Xie An is a pure heart and few desires, regardless of fame and fortune, and can be regarded as an outlier in the family, but he finally went down in history and passed on to future generations, and he is actually the highest level of the family, far more strategic than Zu Di and Huan Wen.

In fact, as far as the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty are concerned, even if the Central Plains of the Northern Formation is successful, the problems faced are even more thorny, mainly because the distribution of interests in the great unified dynasty is very different from the distribution of interests of the small court in a corner of peace, especially how to deal with the captured emperors, it is difficult for many current emperors to choose, so after the success of the Northern Expedition, the competition for the throne will be more intense, and the officials who command the army will be famous and powerful, and there will be major problems in the distribution of court power, Imperial power will certainly be isolated, or even lost.

Therefore, whether it is the Eastern Jin Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty, for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, it is only a political slogan of the small imperial court that retains half of the country and survives, and its rulers know that this slogan can not only cater to the hearts of the people of the whole country at that time, stabilize the political situation that is in danger, but also can be regarded as a political act of killing two birds with one stone when symbolically sending troops, but no matter what, it is impossible to return to the Central Plains.

Moreover, the south in history is not as rich and developed as it is now, but a barren country, full of miasma, our ancestors to the indigenous people of the south is even more contemptuous of the southern barbarians, only in the Three Kingdoms period after the establishment of the Eastern Wu and Shu Han regimes, our ancestors began to develop the southern region, the descendants of the Han ancestors who moved to the south are our current Hakka people, and at that time the descendants of some indigenous tribes in the south, many have survived to this day, that is, the ethnic minorities in the south now.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, the southern region was still in a semi-developed state, the population and production capacity were far inferior to the north that had been developed for thousands of years, and the climatic factors also made it difficult for the small court in the south to win the victory of the Northern Expedition. From ancient times to the present, the Northern Expedition can achieve victory is nothing more than the Ming Dynasty, but it is only a phased victory, the Yuan Dynasty did not fall, and the Mongolian army often invaded the northern Xinjiang, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di had to move the capital to Beijing, and during the Yuan Dynasty, the ruler did not pay attention to the Shu landlord class as the ruling class, which led to the domestic ethnic problems and its sharpness, and finally gave Zhu Yuanzhang the opportunity to succeed in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty are far from such a good opportunity, they are facing the nomads who entered the Central Plains, very yearning for a settled life, and doing their best to govern the Central Plains, it is impossible to be as unethical and brutal as recorded in the history books, this is just the prejudice of our Han ancestors against them.

Therefore, the Northern Expedition of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty was a difficult thing to complete.