The Qin Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty are two great unification dynasties in Chinese history that deserve to be regretted, and they are also sweeping the unification of Liuhe China and are also unique innovations
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Prosperous times, but in the end they were also proved and abandoned by history, leaving behind two notorious short-lived dynastic titles, and finally Han and Tang inherited the mantle, completing a new round of transformation of the prosperous world, according to the nostalgic thinking inertia of the Chinese people, they will always regret the rapid death of Qin and Sui.
The reasons for the demise of Qin and Sui are very similar, in a word, it can be said that they have gained their momentum but not the time.
As we all know, the secret of Qin's victory over the world is to have an invincible army, and the army is
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The Qin system is also able to concentrate all national resources in the army, which is the root of maintaining the strong combat effectiveness of the Qin army and the loyalty of the soldiers.
However, after the death of Qin Shi Huang and his eldest son Fu Su and the general Meng Tian, the military at the top of the rule was gradually shaken and divided because Qin II could not meet their political and economic needs, and the contradiction between the powerful factions in the northern army and Hu Hai Zhao Gao became more and more acute, and even the Shubian army was repeatedly uncontrolled by the central government.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the rebellion of the Six Kingdoms resurged, at the same time the peasant movement rose and fell, the Central Plains fell into a state of war, the military layout of the external emphasis and the internal lightness made it difficult for the Qin Central Committee to support itself, while the Northern Army and the Southern Army refused to return to help, and sat by and watched the collapse of the State apparatus of the Qin Dynasty.
Like the Qin Dynasty, the rise of the Sui Dynasty was also based on the situation, and this "potential" borrowed was much more complicated than the military merit group of the Qin Dynasty, and it was the Military and Political Group of Guan long with blood ties, so after Yang Jian founded the country, the Political and Economic Benefits of the Guan Long Group were also the most, and the dominant position in the government and the opposition was unshakable.
By the time of The Sui II, the Sui Emperor could clearly feel the threat of the Guanlong family to the imperial power, so he deliberately supported the Jiangnan and Shandong cliques in the south to balance the monopoly of the Guanlong clique, so the Sui regime gradually lost the support of the Guanlong family in the northwest, and when the shortcomings of the Sui Emperor's new policy were exposed, none of the highly respected Guanlong predecessors spoke out, which eventually led to social unrest, followed by the Yang Xuangan rebellion and the Li Yuan rebellion, which were all internal games in the upper echelons of the Guanlong family.
In addition to the factors of division within the upper clique, there were also mistakes in the direction of reform.
Judging from historical experience, after the first generation of emperors pacified the world, when they ruled the country with the ideology of the legalists, focusing on building orthodoxy and establishing majesty, they naturally wanted to focus on ideological construction, supplemented by the strategy of enriching the country and strengthening the army, while after the second generation of emperors took the throne, they wanted to be kind to the world, to administer benevolent government, to win the hearts and minds of the monarchs and subjects, and to stabilize the rule of the regime and rule without doing anything as the first priority, it was not a big step forward, and the interests of the upper and lower classes were broken and reset, which was also a factor that could not be ignored by the death of Qin and Sui II.