If you accidentally crossed. And if you accidentally travel back to the Liang kingdom during the Southern Dynasty in 536, then whether you are in Shijing or in Zhumen, you will hear the words describing Chen Qingzhi, the general of the Liang state.
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The famous general Master Mo Zi was imprisoned, and thousands of troops and horses avoided the white robe
According to historical records, Chen Qingzhi in his early years did not have any experience in leading soldiers, and it was not until he was 41 years old that he received his first important military position and was entrusted with the heavy responsibility of receiving shi yuan monks from Xuzhou in northern Wei.
In May of the same year, Chen Qingzhi was like a kaihang, with 2,000 people defeated by 20,000 troops, can be described as the peak of his debut, in a series of subsequent wars, Chen Qingzhi even broke out amazing combat effectiveness, with 7,000 people in the Northern Expedition, the Northern Wei was turned upside down, but unfortunately, Chen Qingzhi's expeditionary army, which should have had greater merits, was completely destroyed after a flood, and he himself also had the same record as before after that flood, and ended up depressed.
So what is it that makes this famous man feel like he was robbed of all his talents after a fiasco?
Chen Qingzhi and his Northern Expeditionary Army failed in large part because they were isolated and helpless, so why were there no reinforcements? Traditional historians believe that they were jealous of their peers, and feared that they would be picked up by him, so they did not try to seek reinforcements from the Liang government.
However, this view is difficult to convince, because we can imagine, even if the Emperor of the Liang Dynasty did not think of it at that time, but the think tank around him did not think of this problem, the situation at that time was clear, the great Northern Wei, forced Chen Qingyi to push flat, no one can stop. At this time, the Liang Dynasty sent grain to Chen Qingzhi because of the Song soldiers, so that he could achieve greater merits, but the Liang Dynasty did not. In fact, this is not a question of whether Liang Chao wants to think or not, but a question of whether he can or cannot.
The Population of the Liang Dynasty was not enough to launch a war of annihilation
Regarding whether we can first discuss the national strength of the Liang Dynasty, which is inseparable from the population, so the population is an important indicator of a country's strength. According to later research, during Chen Qing's Northern Expedition, the population of Northern Wei was about five million households. The population of the Southern Dynasty was about 3.77 million households, far smaller than the population of the Northern Wei, which caused the Northern Wei to be far superior to the Liang Dynasty.
However, it should be known that the north is more war-torn while the south is relatively stable and socially stable. But why is the population gap between the north and the south so large? So here we will mention another problem, "Dressed in the south crossing".
At the time of the great turmoil in the north, many clans chose to move to the south, but what did they do after they arrived in the south?
Of course, the land was annexed, so these families owned this large amount of land, and they could not cultivate it themselves, so there were many bankrupt small farmers dependent on them, so in the official population booklet, the population of the south was actually much larger.
The family clan controls population and land
According to the speculation of many experts and scholars, a large amount of land and population in the Southern Dynasty were controlled by the southern migration clans and local clans at that time, who built their own manors and military fortresses, and had their own private soldiers, who did not belong to the jurisdiction of the imperial court, neither obeyed the servitude nor paid taxes. Therefore, the South will be in a weak position in the comparison of national strength with the North.
In addition to the reasons for the weak national strength, the army mobilization system of the Southern Dynasty also inherited the military system of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the army cultivated its own land to support itself, but the land annexation was serious, and many soldiers went bankrupt, and these bankrupt soldiers either fled or self-harmed. Even during the Southern Dynasty Liang Dynasty, soldiers were recruited to lock them up and avoid escaping.
Therefore, Liang Guo's weakness can be seen from this point. Moreover, the Liang government itself had limited financial resources, and it was unable to support those world soldiers and military households without the complete military mobilization system of the Northern Dynasty. Therefore, these also doomed Liang Guo to be unable to send a large number of troops to support Chen Qingzhi, which also doomed Chen Qingzhi to no longer be able to organize the Northern Expedition after the total annihilation of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
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