vs 55 The Fundamentals of the Two Han Theory
His mind has been decided, and Zhang Jiao's spirit is actually better. While he could still support it, Zhang Jiao seized the time and introduced the origin and foundation of Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army to Zhang Qi in essence.
As a masterpiece of a generation, Zhang Jiao's vision is naturally profound, enough to see through the essence of things. Especially after experiencing the damage of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi backlash, his vision was able to rise again, and he got rid of the obsession he had when he was bent on launching the Yellow Turban Army.
With such a profound understanding of the instructor on the side, combined with the education in politics, economics and other disciplines received by the insolence in later generations, the insolence has a more essential understanding of the current situation in the world.
The Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, although they were both Liu's sons of heaven. But the blood relationship between the emperors of the two dynasties is actually not much. The more fundamental difference is the difference between the two Han Dynasty in the basic state policy of the imperial court. This difference in national capital made the problems that the two Han Dynasty had to face in their reign were very different.
The way of Han Gaozu to open the country was all based on his own literary and martial arts strategy, and he fought all the way. During this period, the princes were defeated, and there were dozens. Since the surrender of the third son of Qin, Gaozu Liu Bang, assisted by a group of capable civil and military generals, has successively exterminated all the princes, and defeated the strongest person in the world at that time - "Overlord" Xiang Yu, the throne can be said to have been won by himself.
If you look at it from the perspective of winning the country, in the eyes of arrogance, only Ming Taizu can compare with it in later generations. And the more righteous the country, the more beneficial it is to the emperor's ruling authority. In this way, in the inheritance of the throne, everyone in the world must jointly respect Liu as the Son of Heaven, so that the majesty of the Han court can be recognized by more people.
At this time, due to the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, the policy of relocating the world's wealthy families to Xianyang almost swept away the great surnames of the six countries. Therefore, in the early period of the Western Han Dynasty, there was no overly powerful local power. Local officials relied on the administrative power of the Han court, which was enough to easily uproot some of the less tame powerful families in the local prefectures and counties.
Therefore, the Western Han Dynasty, or the former Han Dynasty, because of the policy of "not Liu's not the king" left by Liu Bang, the biggest problem is not to suppress the ambitions of those bureaucrats with different surnames, but to solve the covetousness of the princes with the same surname for the throne. The famous "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms" is not the only example. On the contrary, it was the rebellion of ministers with different surnames, which was extremely rare in the last two hundred years of the Han Dynasty.
By the way, if there is a powerful tycoon in the local area, the governor of the prefecture and county also has the obligation to curb the development of the tyrant and effectively suppress it.
However, by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, along with Liu Che's ambitions, the pattern of the entire Han court had undergone tremendous changes.
The issuance of the "Tui En Order" made the power of the princes surnamed Liu seriously divided and weakened, and there were no more princes and kings who were strong enough to challenge the central court. And Emperor Wu Liu Che's war against the Huns not only exhausted all the wealth of the treasury, but also made the living environment of the small people in the world extremely deteriorate.
As a large number of yeoman farmers who provided taxes went bankrupt, the national strength of the Han Dynasty fell so seriously that Emperor Wu Liu Che finally had to issue the "Luntai Guilty Edict" to clean up the ruined situation in the country.
With the bankruptcy of homesteaders, those who survived in the countryside were naturally large families with relatively solid family backgrounds. With the help of the imperial court's seizure of the people's families, the land of bankrupt farmers was annexed by the wealthy and powerful families in the countryside. As a result, at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the prestige of the Six Kingdoms was uprooted by the First Emperor with the destruction of the Six Kingdoms, and the local Haoqiang, which was greatly damaged, finally took the opportunity to rise again.
Emperor Wu Liu Che, who was plagued by financial problems, although he also wanted to suppress the powerful in these places, in the end, in order to support the operation of the imperial court, he had to choose to openly sell his titles to the powerful families in order to raise the money needed to maintain the operation of the imperial court. This decision, made in the face of the bankruptcy of the imperial court, finally planted the seeds that led to the demise of the former Han and the recovery of the later Han.
This situation was maintained until the end of the Western Han Dynasty. Due to Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne and various natural disasters**, thieves from all over the world swarmed, kicking off the prelude to the troubled times. After more than 100 years of development, the powerful family in the world has become strong again. Taking advantage of this turmoil, the powerful built dock forts one after another, gathered private soldiers, and actively or passively participated in this dispute over the ownership of the world.
The rise of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu was the result of his strength and strength. Because Liu Xiu's cronies and generals were all from Haoqiang, when he was a Zhongxing Han and built the capital Luoyang, the court's attitude towards Haoqiang naturally changed from inhibition to laissez-faire.
Emperor Guangwu was a smart man, and of course he knew the drawbacks of doing so. However, he tried the strategy of "Dutian"1 and found that the power of the powerful clan was no longer suppressed. For the sake of the safety of the newly established Eastern Han regime, Liu Xiu had to acquiesce in the privileges of the powerful and no longer tried to suppress them.
Even the emperor couldn't help them, so the powerful clans in the world gained an unprecedented momentum of development. So much so that almost half of the scholars who served as officials to supplement the class came from all kinds of powerful families.
As the power of the powerful clan in the court grew, the authority of the emperor of the Han family began to shrink. Of course, the successive emperors of the Han family were unwilling to tolerate this situation in which the ministers were strong and the lords were weak, so they naturally had to find ways to regain their authority.
In order to try to strengthen his control over the imperial court, so as to compete for power with the powerful families in the court, successive Han Dynasty emperors had to support their relatives and eunuchs to act as thugs and charge for themselves.
The strength of the relatives and eunuchs themselves is, of course, not very strong. However, there are so many powerful families in the world, so naturally they can't all have one heart. In order to overwhelm other powerful families, let more of their children enter the court as officials, and share the authority of the court, there is also a fierce mutual crush between the powerful and powerful.
For the sake of their own selfish interests, some weak heroes took refuge in their relatives and eunuchs, and paved the way for their own rise by striking at the rest of the heroes. As a result, those scholars who entered the court were divided into several different factions. There are those who take refuge in their relatives, those who are dependent on eunuchs, and those who strictly abide by their independence, and those who firmly oppose eunuchs and relatives.
Due to the "disaster of the party" more than ten years ago, there are not many officials in the current Han court who oppose the eunuch faction. And because most of the powerful clans resist the eunuch family openly or covertly, the eunuch faction can only call the wind and rain in the central court, and cannot really grasp a few counties and places.
As a result, the largest force in the Han court has actually become a neutral clan faction represented by the Runan Yuan clan and the Hongnong Yang clan. The position of this faction in the imperial court was never completely clear. They would neither confront the emperor head-on, nor would they explicitly strike at the degraded party lineage.
Because of the good handling of the relations between all parties, the neutral Shi faction was not only relied on by the Son of Heaven and the eunuch faction and took on the heavy responsibility of governing the country, but also was regarded as an alliance by the latent party members, and its prestige among the corporal people was not low. It can be said that no matter which faction comes to power, it needs the help of these officials who are entrenched in the central court to the local counties and counties in order to effectively govern the country.
Of course, the reason why the Runan Yuan clan and the Hongnong Yang clan can be neutral at ease is because the eunuch line and the opposing eunuch line are not very different from each other. If one side is completely defeated, then the victorious side will unceremoniously attack the Runan Yuan faction.
For this reason, this faction needs to maintain two mutually hostile forces in the government and the opposition at all times. Whichever side is weaker, they will secretly support that side.
The reason why Taiping Dao has been able to develop rapidly in the past ten years is inseparable from the covert support of the neutral scholar faction. Otherwise, no matter how high Zhang Jiao's strength is, after all, it is just a cloth cloth. If nothing else, the imperial court only needs to make a decree declaring Taiping Dao to be a so-called "obscenity"2, and then the county officials of the world can ban the public activities of Taiping Dao.
However, when the Taiping Dao Dynasty launched the "Yellow Turban Uprising" that shook the world, realizing the powerful destructive power of the Yellow Turban Army, the neutral scholar faction immediately felt the threat to itself, and very decisively determined the strategy of suppressing the Yellow Turban Army uprising with all its might.
If the Yuan clan and the Yang clan can not change their position of secretly supporting, Zhang Jiao said with emotion to Zhang Qiang, I am afraid that the Yellow Turban Army will have already entered Luoyang City and completed the goal of "Qingjun side, Zhongxing Han".
The ultimate goal of the Yellow Turban Army, which was personally said from Zhang Jiao's mouth, really surprised Zhang Qiang. Zhang Qi had some speculation about this before, but he felt quite strange and incredible. However, since Zhang Jiaodu personally admitted this, Zhang Jiao only felt that the bloody battle of the entire Yellow Turban Army suddenly became quite meaningless.
The ultimate goal of the million-level uprising of "both inside and outside, and the concurrent development of eight states" is not to change the dynasty, but to support the Han family and realize the revival of the Han Dynasty?
This is the biggest joke that Insolence has ever heard since he crossed over. It's a pity, after determining the authenticity of this goal, where can Zhang Qiang laugh?
Of course, due to the development of the situation, the Yellow Turban Army is no longer aimed at Zhongxing Dahan at present. Now, they are just fighting for their own survival. Zhang Qiang secretly speculated in his heart, but he was afraid that Zhang Jiao's injury would deteriorate so quickly, and it was also due to his heart disease caused by the impossibility of achieving his original goal?
PS: 1 Dutian: In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu adopted a policy to strengthen the feudal state's control over land and labor, and increase government taxes and service revenues. Specifically, it is the state and county to check the acres of land and the age of the household registration. This policy aroused widespread dissatisfaction among the powerful landlords, and "the county and state surnames and the army commanders and thieves rose up everywhere." Under pressure, Emperor Guangwu relaxed the scale of Dutian after quelling this turmoil. The order was thus reduced to a formality.
2 Obscenity refers to sacrifices that are not in accordance with the etiquette, sacrifices that are not appropriate, and sacrifices that are indiscriminate. In short, it is a temple worship religion that is not recognized by the state, and so on.