Because no matter how strong Tan Sitong is- "I smile at the sky with my horizontal knife" (in the long run, it is for the benefit of the people), there are also many angry people who throw vegetable leaves at him at the mouth of the vegetable market! The first volume of the Anthology makes it very clear: from the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, no matter how the times change, in China, the strong enemy occupying the central city has always been stubborn and stubborn.
It's not just the number of troops, defensive deployments, or weaponry. As leaders have already pointed out: "My country ... The workers are weak... It is impossible to form a tight force on its own alone. The Yellow Turban Army will encounter fierce resistance in various places, and the specific reason for this lies in the public opinion in different regions.
Why did the aggressor have the support of his own people? Why did the commoners under the old system fight for the nobles? Because although they are also enslaved, these people are also vested interests in a certain sense in essence, but they themselves do not understand, or they do not say anything about their wealth.
What is public opinion? From ancient times to the present, the greatest public opinion is not the opposite. Rather, it wants to establish a fair and stable social order, and thus build a better life. Simply put, as long as the basic life can be lived, who wants to live a real knife licking blood?
Xiaoice the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, whether it was the large-scale reduction in grain production caused by successive years of natural disasters, or the people at the bottom suffered more severe land annexation, since not all peasants could not survive, it was a suitable choice to live together. How can the Zhang family brothers, who have no specific theoretical program, take on the core of establishing a new order?
In fact, there is no need for officials and troops to go out, as long as 30 percent of the landlords everywhere do not use their people as cattle, and 30 percent immediately carry out "rent reduction and interest reduction" after seeing the fierce rebels. Incidentally, in the name of organizing the "Nursing Home Militia", it promised that with military merit there was a possibility of crossing the class, and naturally there would be a large number of armor protection teams to respond.
The largest landlord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Ling Emperor, did just that. In March, the Ling Emperor pardoned the world's party members. A large number of scholars, who had previously been exiled because of the "scourge of the party," were allowed to return to Beijing to become officials; the secretary of state was allowed to nominate children or non-governmental talents to the bus office for interviews; and various localities were quickly recruited to buy horses to suppress the traitors.
This series of measures led to the emergence of a large number of important figures in the Later Three Kingdoms era, such as Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, Dong Zhuo, etc., all of whom represented the interests of landlords. This is how the post of state pastor came about. Emperor Ling said: From now on, don't talk to me about any county guards and county clerks, and don't feel that Thorn Shi is still a false official.
The three powers of a state's military and political supervisors are all vested in the state pastoral staff. The meritorious deeds of the bandits are all your state pastors, and if there is a problem, you are all responsible. I'm only responsible for looking at the results, and the issue of prevarication between departments is no longer a matter. In this way, from the perspective of the balance of power, it may not be good enough, but do you think That Master Zhang will still have a chance?
Once the "Cao Cao" held great power, they returned to their hometown, which had been accumulated for generations. With their strong economic strength, they can quickly reintegrate the various veins hidden in the depths of society. Only they know where the grain depot in their hometown is. Understand how much the local iron and salt taxes are, and know where the door valve talents in their hometown are.
This is the powerful force that can really take over the local area when the world is in chaos. Only they can bring about sustainable development such as food taxation, weapons manufacturing, and resources and military salaries. Cao Ren: After Haojie rose up, the yin knot teenager got more than a thousand people. Cao Hong: General Hong's family has more than a thousand soldiers. Li Dian: Thousands of guests are in The Chengshi.
Lü Qian: The general guards the lake and land. Xu Chu: Gather thousands of young people and clans, and strengthen the walls to the Imperial Court. Tian Domain: Led his clan to subordinate hundreds of people. All of them are based on the clan that the family has accumulated for many years as the core, and incidentally invite rebellion, absorb displaced people, and use them for their own use. The displaced people's army that lost its land obviously did not have such a skill.
Liu Bowen once introduced the peasant uprising to Zhu Yuanzhang in this way, which has the following 7 aspects: 1. Blasphemy against saints and corruption of ethics. 2. The attack is unrestrained and like a stream. 3, or descend or reverse, mutual suspicion. 4. Can not be self-sufficient, do not know the art of war. 5. Plundering people's property, only taking and not raising. 6. Narrow-mindedness and mutual attack.
7. Gather when you win, and scatter when you lose. These 7 aspects are not removed, although they call themselves rebels, but the grass is a thief. Yes, the Yellow Turban Army was originally a displaced army. They have no sustainable logistical support, like locusts occupying one place and grabbing one place. This one was finished, and another rush to grab the next one.
The ordinary peasants who were harmed could only be forced to follow the procession, and finally became a huge tumor in society. Because they do not have the ability to reorganize the relations of production. This is also the real reason for the well-known phrase in the middle school history books: "The fruits of victory have been stolen" - limitations.
Brother Zhang Jiao, have they ever proposed a clearer and more reasonable plan? In addition to pointing out the result of "years in the koshi, yellow sky when standing", even the banner of "Hirata Equal Grain" does not exist. How sustained? Of course, this is not to say that the common people at the end of the Han Dynasty were necessarily dumber than those at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason why the latecomers can shout the slogan is only the deepening of their understanding of things on the basis of their predecessors after successive failures. But then again, these three powers have been put down, and are the princes of the dead willing to return the power again? I think that when Gao Zu's white horse made an oath, those who were not surnamed Liu could not be crowned king.
And when a piece of paper named Zhou Mu and the red-headed documents that were actually wang ye were sent down, the last breath of the big han was also tossed clean. The readers who were killed and feared, and the secretaries of state who were deeply trusted by the central government, no longer trusted the dividends of the dynasty's career, so they simply began to change themselves to the Hao clan, tun the land, hide the population, gather the dead, and win the hearts of the people.
During this period, such as the patriotic young Cao Cao also resolutely resigned from the central government, went home to study and farm, and waited for the opportunity to move. A large number of officials have submitted resignations, or passive sabotage has ceased to be in power. The most famous one in the middle is called Sima Zhi. Emperor Ling ordered him to become the Taishou of Julu County. Because they are not accustomed to the chaos of bribery in the official arena, they resolutely refrain from buying and selling official positions.
On the way to office, he denounced the various ills of the last days in generous language, and chose to commit suicide to mingzhi. Qing officials can't survive, can this big man still be saved? To suppress the Yellow Turban Army, the central army such as Lu Zhi and Huang Pusong was indeed the main force. However, the encirclement and suppression of separatist forces in various places has also played a considerable role. In 189 AD, after comparing the previous generations to an advanced age, the Han Ling Emperor chose to die at the age of 33. In fact, the Eastern Han Dynasty is also really dead.