Zhu Dutou reported to Captain Huang the information he had obtained through the people in the rivers and lakes, and the result was similar to the information he had obtained from the detailed work he had sent. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Captain Huang Zu was still very happy, at least they proved the authenticity of their intelligence from the side.

People in the rivers and lakes, they have not undergone professional training, they do not know how to observe the correct military situation, they only speak by the phenomena they see with their eyes, and there is no convincing data------ but it is still good as circumstantial evidence.

The Tatar army began to move.

Captain Huang Zu said to Zhu Dutou: "They only rely on robbery to maintain their ------, it is better to say that they are only larger than the Liukou!" ”

Zhu Dutou had to nod in approval on the surface, but in his heart, he thought that they were much stronger than Liukou, and only the people of the Liuqiu Guards dared to think so.

During the Great Song Dynasty, there were indeed several influential mass incidents.

However------ the scale is not too large Li Shun and Wang Xiaobo uprisings occurred during the Taizong Dynasty of the Great Song Dynasty, involving only one province in Sichuan, with only tens of thousands of participants at the most, and the duration was only two years; During the reign of Huizong, there was the Fangla and Songjiang uprisings, the Fangla uprisings were still a bit large-scale, and the Songjiang uprisings could not even be called uprisings, and many people thought that they were just rogues who plundered everywhere; The uprising of Zhong Xiang and Yang Mo that occurred during the time of Gaozong was only around Dongting Lake, and because of the reason for relying on the water, it lasted a little longer, but it was only five or six years!

These mass incidents cannot be compared with the above-mentioned large-scale uprisings and wars of revolt by the common people in terms of the scale, scope, duration and historical impact of these uprisings, and they are not even comparable to the uprisings of the White Lotus Sect and the Tianli Sect in the middle of the Qing Dynasty in later generations.

There's a reason for that.

At the end of a dynasty, more and more contradictions accumulate, which are manifested in political decay and darkness, the formation of various interest groups within the ruling class, fighting each other for power, intensifying the struggle in the court, political instability, and the government's ability to control the state is greatly reduced.

When the degree of free economic development of the people is reduced, that is, when the interest groups almost monopolize all the upward paths, and the people of all strata cannot be promoted at all, there are always some people who choose to develop in an unorderly manner, which leads to the large-scale occurrence of mass incidents.

It is manifested in social life, that is, the ruling class is becoming more and more coquettish and lascivious, and the wind of lasciviousness prevails, while the people are full of complaints, and all kinds of rumors and proverbs are flying all over the sky. The more such rumors and proverbs spread more and more, and the more they were compiled, the more they became more and more divine, the common people would think that the dynasty was "exhausted", the atmosphere of public opinion for the change of dynasty was formed, and the careerists within the ruling group would also be ready to move......

At this time, the internal causes of large-scale mass incidents can be said to be fully possessed, that is, "the whole world is full of dry firewood" as often said in the history books, but at this time, it may not necessarily catch fire immediately, and a little bit of spark is needed.

This Mars is an external cause, specifically an accidental event that can trigger a mass event.

There are many factors that can be extrinsic.

Natural disasters, military disasters and other fortuitous events are possible, but this does not necessarily mean that these factors can be the trigger for mass events.

Natural disasters that occur during periods of relatively clear politics may be resolved by timely or appropriate government assistance; Wars waged to stop foreign aggression, whether active or passive, generally do not cause much resentment among the people.

There are several conditions for saying that those accidental events have become the fuse: first, the timing of the occurrence must be appropriate, and all the poor people have been forced to a dead end, and it is impossible to rebel if they want to; Second, the ruling group mishandled the situation, which further intensified the contradictions and eventually became impossible to clean up; The third is to have an outstanding organizer and convolist, who must have a certain prestige among the masses and have courage and leadership ability.

Only when the above conditions are met at the same time can an accidental event form an external cause that prompts a mass incident, and if there are both internal and external causes, the raging fire will spread rapidly.

As mentioned above, the Great Song Dynasty basically avoided large-scale mass groups during its more than 300 years of rule.

First of all, the ruling structure of the Song Dynasty is that the emperor and the scholars rule together, so compared to other dynasties, the imperial power is weak, and the scholar class has a great right to speak, Song Taizu also formulated the ancestral precept of not killing ministers, and has been observed by the subsequent emperors, the scholar class has a very strong sense of identity with the government, the ruling base has expanded, the political stability is relatively stable, there will be no fierce struggle within the ruling group, and the impact on the people is relatively small, as evidenced by the fact that there has never been a major coup d'état in the Song Dynasty.

The second was the economic policies of the Song Dynasty.

It is still the same evaluation, it is the only dynasty in history that does not take the emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce as a national policy, but encourages the development of commerce from top to bottom.

On the one hand, the Song Dynasty was very developed in industry and commerce, absorbing a large number of laborers and creating a lot of social wealth when it developed freely, so that the country's dependence on agriculture was greatly reduced; On the other hand, because there were more channels to earn a living, the peasants' incomes were diversified, and their dependence on land was reduced, which is the fundamental reason why the Song Dynasty never implemented a policy of curbing land annexation.

In addition, driven by the policy of encouraging industry and commerce, there was an unprecedented prosperity in the economy and science and technology, the living standards of the lower classes of society have been greatly improved compared with the previous generations, and there has never been a record in the history books about the death of a large number of people in the Song Dynasty, which fundamentally cut off the root cause of large-scale mass incidents.

The third is the Song Dynasty's policy of raising troops. Song Taizu did an in-depth study of mass uprisings, and he found that peasant uprisings were all caused by displaced people, so he paid special attention to the problem of displaced people, and while formulating other policies, he also made major changes to the military service system of the previous generation, changing the conscription system to a conscription system.

This system is somewhat similar to the professionalization of the military in circulation.

To put it simply, soldiers are recruited, not forcibly recruited, and they not only have to eat food, but also have to pay "wages".

Their way of recruiting troops is also very interesting: they recruit more troops in the year of a disaster, and recruit more troops in that place when a disaster hits.

On the surface, this was done to resettle the displaced people, especially the young and strong ones, but the actual purpose was to drain the backbone of a potential peasant uprising, thus achieving the effect of maintaining stability.

Finally, it should be particularly emphasized that the ******** of the Great Song Dynasty is now very acute, and other contradictions are often in a subordinate and secondary position.

Since its establishment, the Great Song Dynasty has been threatened by the Khitan and Dangxiang regimes, and has died at the hands of the Jurchens, and has been bullied by the Jurchen regime during the period of moving south!

When the Jurchens were destroyed by the Tatars, they had a bigger and stronger enemy...... Although they now have a peace treaty with the Tatars, the threat of their own people remains...... Therefore, all the attention in the Great Song Dynasty was on the Tatars, and the rest was not important for the time being.

The people of the entire Great Song Dynasty have mixed feelings about Liuqiu Island, and they don't agree too much with some of the views on Liuqiu Island...... But they naturally have a good impression of the island, at least they still fight the Tatars, which makes them happy, as long as they are always the enemies of the Tatars are their friends!

Then there are also some people in the northern Han people who have mixed feelings about their existence...... For example, people like Zhu Dutou.

After Zhu Dutou finished talking about what he heard from the people in the rivers and lakes, he said another thing, which scared Captain Huang Zu a lot...... The Tatars also summoned a lot of strangers to the Shandong region and Liuqiu Island! (To be continued.) )