Chapter VII Under the Military Government System
A polity tends to be a "patron" with the greatest interests and a representative minority segment. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Novel ww
The Qin Empire itself was no exception, according to Zhang Jiashi's own understanding, the Qin Empire itself was a kind of peasant class as the largest representative (after all, its source of soldiers was mainly the peasant class), and some of the beneficiaries of the farming and warfare system existed as representatives of a few classes and succeeded in cultivating and warfare.
The Qin Empire's military merit title system is the most obvious in this regard.
Of course, this is not to say that the Qin Empire is not without nobles, on the contrary, these nobles tend to take a shortcut faster due to their own superior ability and the help of family strength at a large level.
Although Zhang Jiashi himself was unknown in the place of crossing, he quickly rose to become a person representing the interests of the royal family under the value of the First Emperor and deliberately supported him, and successfully continued the control of the Qin Empire clan over the world and the Qin Empire.
Perhaps in some respects, Ying Xun, as the grandson of the First Emperor, was a bit unjustifiable, but he failed in the representative of the close branch of Ying Ziying, who was the representative of the royal family, and the other distant branches of the Qin Empire simply did not have enough strength to confront the emerging forces led by Zhang Jiashi.
In such a situation, even without the edict of the First Emperor, Zhang Jiashi's own desire to become the controller of the Qin Empire is only an inevitability under more bloody means.
The appearance of the First Emperor's edict largely avoided the result that Zhang Jiashi really intended to bloodied the opposition in the Great Qin sect faction.
Zhang Jiashi himself may not take the initiative to do this, but it does not mean that Chen Ping and others will not deliberately guide Zhang Jiashi to raise the butcher's knife against these clans who are in fact not strong enough and are not convinced.
Because if you want to become a vested interest, then for the vested interests in the past, the results that await them are often quite bloody.
In fact, the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty was not so much a cover of opposition to the tyrannical rule of the Qin Empire, but rather a larger subversion of the Qin Empire by the nobles of the old Six Kingdoms.
It is a pity that they failed, and under the military blows of Zhang Jiashi, the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, who had suffered decisive defeats many times, tasted the bitter fruits of defeat again.
But what they left Zhang Jiashi was also a mess that made Zhang Jiashi helpless.
And the most important thing about this mess, Zhang Jiashi, is that he does not have enough and capable management personnel to provide favorable guidance for the reconstruction of the reclaimed area.
To a large extent, the operations of Zhang Jiashi, the rebels, and the corresponding personnel handling methods are the biggest reasons for this situation.
The Qin Empire itself has quite a sufficient number of officials, but in the midst of the war, these officials can almost be said to be seven or eight out of ten, and the rest are either once opposed to the Qin Empire, survived and hid with the people, or continued to spend their spare heat under Zhang Jiashi.
And even if you count some of the rebels under Zhang Jiashi's command who can be regarded as acquaintances or the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, such as Zhang Liang, Li Zuoche, etc., Zhang Jiashi is still an official under his command, which is simply not enough.
Therefore, under this premise, relying on officers to govern the place is something that Zhang Jiashi has to do.
Otherwise, even if Zhang Jiashi wants to increase his efforts to complete many things, I am afraid that few people will be willing to do it according to Zhang Jiashi's ideas.
This point is very fatal for Zhang Jiashi, after all, even now, the Qin Empire has treated the war against the Huns as the focus of the focus, but this does not mean that Zhang Jiashi does not care about local government affairs.
Zhang Jiashi could not face the dilemma of another fire in the backyard and a large-scale invasion by the Huns.
In such an environment, relying on the iron-blooded methods of the military to govern the local area, although there may be chaos, but there is no doubt that there may be more benefits.
Zhang Jiashi is not unaware of the defects of the military government system, and it can even be said that the military government system has relatively greater drawbacks than the system dominated by the scholars.
Because if the Shi clan is in turmoil and the army is relatively stable, then Zhang Jiashi can also rely on the strength of the military to quell the rebellion of the Shi clan. But if it were the other way around, Zhang Jiashi really couldn't expect even the loyal warriors to calm the chaos in the military.
In terms of two examples, such a thing is not necessarily unfounded.
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The first example is the Wangdun Rebellion.
The rebellion of Wang Dun, also known as the rebellion of Wang Dun, was a turmoil born in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which broke out in the first year of Emperor Yongchang of the Jin Yuan Dynasty and ended in the second year of Emperor Taining of the Ming Dynasty. Moved by Wang Dun, a powerful minister from the Langya Wang clan, he attacked Jiankang in the name of punishing Liu Kui and defeated the imperial army.
Wang Dun later appointed himself prime minister, killed Zhou Yi and others, and controlled the imperial court in Wuchang.
After the death of Emperor Yuan of Jin, Emperor Ming succeeded to the throne, and Wang Dun intended to seize the throne, but Emperor Ming was ready to fight back against Wang Dun. At the same time, Wang Dun was also ill, and in the face of Emperor Ming's crusade, he had to be led by his brother Wang Han and his subordinate general Qian Feng to fight against the imperial army, but ultimately failed. Wang Dun also died of illness during the war.
Wang Dun and his cousin Wang Dao were both the founding heroes of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Sima Rui, the Jin Yuan Emperor who was still the evil king of Lang, still had no prestige when he was in Jiankang, and no one paid attention to him from the Jiangnan scholars and even the common people, while Wang Dao and Wang Dun established prestige for him and established a court in a more stable place in the south. Wang Dao was in charge of policy affairs, while Wang Dun mastered military power and made great contributions to the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It can be seen that the status and influence of the Wang family.
However, after the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Rui hoped to weaken the influence of the Langya Wang clan, so he promoted Liu Kui, Diao Xie and other scholars to balance the Wang clan's power. Sima Rui was also afraid of Wang Dun, who held military power, and also alienated Wang Dao, who had once tried his best to support him.
At the same time, Wang Dun also gradually became proficient, such as selecting the officials of his subordinate prefectures and counties, and appointing He Qin, who was in danger of secession, as a general, and even intended to install a pro-trust state assassin. All these things disgusted Sima Rui, and Wang Dun was also very unhappy with Sima Rui's rebellion.
At the same time, Liu Kui, who was reused by Sima Rui, also did not like to see Wang's sitting big, and asked Sima Rui to weaken Wang Dun, and proposed that Sima of the clan should be appointed as the assassin of Xiangzhou and go out of Xiangzhou.
Sima Rui also asked Liu Kui and Dai Yuan to lead troops out of the town in the name of guarding against the northern Hu people, which made Wang Dun very angry. In the fourth year of Taixing, Yuzhou assassin Shi Zu died of illness, which made Wang Dun think that no one could threaten him militarily, and finally decided to raise troops to riot.
After defeating the army loyal to Emperor Jin Yuan, Wang Dun's troops forced Jiankang City, and out of desperation, Emperor Sima Rui of Jin Yuan ordered Baigong to meet Wang Dun in Stone City. Later, Wang Dun was appointed as the prime minister, the governor of the Chinese and foreign armies, the secretary of the book, the pastor of Jiangzhou, and the prince of Wuchang County.
and attacked Jiankang, Wang Dun reproached: "If you don't listen to me, you will almost be wiped out." Director Wang still ignored it, and Wang Dun couldn't help it. Wang Dun saw that the prince was brave and strategic, and everyone in the court and the opposition supported him, so Wang Dun planned to abolish him in the name of unfilial piety, so as not to hinder himself in the future, but he was strongly opposed by Wen Qiao, and the others also agreed with Wen Qiao, and Wang Dun could not succeed.
However, Wang Dun was very jealous of Zhou Yi and Dai Yuan's high reputation and talent, and killed them. Wang Dun also changed hundreds of officials and military towns, affecting hundreds of people, but the decision was changed at will. Soon Wang Dun returned to Wuchang and controlled the government remotely. Later, he added the governor of Ning and Yierzhou.
After Gan Zhuo knew that Wang Dun had won the victory and killed Zhou Yi and others, he obtained the Yu Yu banner from Wang Dun's order to Taicheng, and declared that he was afraid that his attack on Wuchang would force Wang Dun to kidnap the emperor, so he decided to withdraw to Xiangyang. Commanders Qin Kang and Le Daorong persuaded Gan Zhuo to divide his troops to cut off the mouth of Pengze Lake, cut off the contact and support of Wang Dun's troops in Wuchang and Jiankang, and let Wang Dun's people disperse automatically. But Gandra was very resolute and flatly refused.
At the same time, Wei Yi's subordinates, who attacked Changsha, captured Zhou Gai and Zhou Qi, whom Sima Cheng sent to ask for help, and Wei Yi told Zhou Qi that Wang Dun had defeated the imperial army and was in charge of the Jiankang Dynasty, and Gan Zhuo had also returned to Xiangyang, and that reinforcements would not come again, and asked Zhou Qi to persuade him to surrender and break the army's heart. Zhou Qi pretended to agree, but told the people in the city that reinforcements were coming, and encouraged him to continue to hold out, but was eventually killed, and Zhou should be tortured to death. Later, Wei Yi's attack turned fierce, and he shot the court article sent by Wang Dun into the city, and the people in the city were very sad and sorry when they knew that the court was defeated.
After more than 100 days of attack and defense by the two armies, Liu Yi, the Taishou of Hengyang, was killed in battle, and the soldiers were killed and wounded, and they were finally broken, capturing Sima Cheng and others, and killing Shi Yukui, the king of Chen. Wei Yi also sent Sima Cheng and Lingyi Xiong to Wuchang in a car, and Wang Hui was ordered by Wang Dun to kill Sima Cheng on the way. After Yi Xiong arrived in Wuchang, he was still high-willed and not afraid, and Wang Dun was afraid of his upright words and released him, but Wang Dun soon sent someone to assassinate him.
After Gan Zhuo arrived in Xiangyang, his family advised him to guard against Wang Dun, but Gan Zhuo did not listen, and ordered his soldiers to disarm and cultivate, and he would be furious whenever he heard the advice of Wang Dun. Xiangyang Taishou Zhou was worried about Wang Dun's secret order, pretending that there were many fish in the lake, and asked Gan Zhuo to send all his soldiers to fish. Later, Zhou Xi led his troops to attack Gan Zhuo in Gan Zhuo's bedroom, killed him, beheaded him and sent it to Wang Dun, and killed several of Gan Zhuo's sons. Later Wang Dun appointed Zhou Fu to replace Gan Zhuo.
After Wang Dun took control of the government, most of the tributes from all directions entered his palace, and at the same time, he controlled the appointment of Xiangzhou Mu, and all the appointments were made by his cronies or the clansmen of the Langya Wang clan. At the same time, with Shen Chong and Qian Feng as the masterminds, they will obey their plans. He also appointed Zhuge Yao, Deng Yue, Zhou Fu, Li Heng, Xie Yong and others, and even connived at Shen Chong and others to do wrong. Wang Dun's cousin Wang Ling advised Wang Dun many times, but was assassinated by Wang Dun. In the same year, Sima Rui became ill and finally died of illness, and was succeeded by the crown prince Sima Shao.
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Another example is the Hou Jing Rebellion, which has a greater impact in history.
The Hou Jing Rebellion, also known as the Taiqing Rebellion, refers to the armed rebellion of Hou Jingdong, a Liang general of the Southern Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties of China. Hou Jingben was a rebel general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, who was taken in by Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang, and because of his dissatisfaction with the Liang Dynasty and the Eastern Wei Dynasty, he rebelled in Shouyang in 548 in the name of the Qing monarch.
In 549, Hou Jing captured Jiankang, the capital of the Liang Dynasty, starved Emperor Wu of Liang to death, and took control of the military and political power of the Liang Dynasty. After Hou Jing raised his army, he successively supported and deposed the three puppet emperors of Xiao Zhengde, Xiao Gang and Xiao Dong, and finally established himself as emperor in 551, with the name of Han.
After purging other clan forces, Xiao Yi, the king of Liang Xiangdong, sent Xu Wensheng and Wang Seng to fight against Hou Jing, and the tide of the war gradually turned around, and Chen Ba, who was stationed in Lingnan, went north to join Wang Seng and regained Jiankang in 552. Hou Jing fled by boat and was killed by his subordinates, and the rebellion was finally quelled.
After the Hou Jing Rebellion, the social economy of the Jiangnan region was devastated, which aggravated the situation of weak south and strong north. In the Hou Jing Rebellion, the Shi clan not only fully exposed their decay and incompetence, but also suffered an extremely heavy blow, which greatly increased the decline of the Shi clan in the Southern Dynasty.
Chen Ba, who was born in the Han people in the south of the Yangtze River, took advantage of the situation to rise first, replaced the Liang Dynasty 5 years after the chaos, and established the Chen Dynasty. The two countries of the Northern Dynasties, especially the Western Wei Dynasty, took advantage of the Hou Jing Rebellion to annex a large area of land in the Southern Dynasties, and their national strength increased dramatically, laying a solid foundation for the Sui Dynasty to unify China.
Later generations believed that in addition to its epoch-making significance for the changes in Jiangdong society, the Hou Jing Rebellion also affected the situation of the whole of China and brought about great changes in the pattern of the Later Three Kingdoms. The Hou Jing Rebellion brought the Southern Dynasties to a collapse and aggravated the situation in which the South was weak and the North was strong, and both the North became the beneficiaries of the turmoil.
As a result, the balance of power between the three countries was broken, and the time for the reunification of the North and the South was greatly shortened. Among them, the Western Wei Dynasty took advantage of the Hou Jing Rebellion to expand its national strength to the fullest. In the Hou Jing Rebellion, Xiao Jing, the grandson of Emperor Wu of Liang, who was excluded by Xiao Yi, was a vassal of the Western Wei Dynasty, and Yuwentai took the opportunity to send Yang Zhong and other generals to plunder the Liang soil.
In 55o, the Western Wei Dynasty broke Liu Zhongli and captured Handong, in 552 it took the land of Jianbei, in 553 it occupied Bashu, in 554 it captured Jiangling, killed Xiao Yi, and once invaded Xiangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and its territory more than doubled. In addition to the territorial expansion, the dividends brought by the Hou Jing Rebellion to the Western Wei Dynasty and its successor Northern Zhou were the enhancement of economic strength, the improvement of strategic position, and the improvement of the diplomatic environment.
At the same time, although the Eastern Wei Dynasty and its successor Northern Qi also gained some benefits from the Hou Jing Rebellion, such as the capture of the Jianghuai land of the Southern Dynasty, but due to the constraints of the internal and external situation, its gains were far inferior to the Western Wei and the Northern Zhou, and later the Northern Qi wanted to get involved in the south of the Yangtze River by supporting Xiao Yuanming to succeed to the throne, but was crushed by Chen Baxian, and soon after due to the imperial government, the Northern Qi was destroyed by the Northern Zhou.
In addition, the Hou Jing Rebellion caused frequent movement of people between the north and the south, and the sacredness of the respective imperial systems of the north and the south was also diluted, which objectively promoted the social and psychological identity of the north and the south. All in all, the Hou Jing Rebellion changed the pattern of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, making the Western Wei and Northern Zhou become the most powerful states of the Later Three Kingdoms, laying a solid foundation for the Sui Dynasty to unify China.
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Zhang Jiashi really doesn't want his efforts to come to naught because of the "reincarnation of history", Zhang Jiashi knows that the military government pattern is an existence that a great unified dynasty must avoid, so in Zhang Jiashi's heart, he made up his mind, that is, under the premise of the situation, he will try his best to avoid this trend of some signs and eliminate it in the bud.