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Since the Qin Dynasty, ruiyi military merit has not been of much benefit to the country, and how much fiscal revenue can be added to the government by conquering such places as the Desert North and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau? Not only is there none, but the government needs to expend enormous resources to maintain these places. You said that civilian officials are against military merit, and if military merit does not bring benefits, how do you let them support Ruiyi military merit. Since the Song Dynasty, the bureaucratic class has not been for its own sake, and it is not at all the spokesman of the landlord class. The Western Han Dynasty was an obvious aristocratic structure of military merit.
Liu Han, Zhao Song, seemed to be really a paradise for readers, but no one thought that the barbarians who were equipped with iron tools provided by civilian officials and ate enough grain and salt provided by civilian officials were really harvesting the lives of Yanhuang's descendants, and even after being attacked in the north, there were still a large number of shameless villains who sharpened their heads and smuggled grain iron tools to allow the enemy to grow. Or Lu Xun understood that studying medicine could not save Chinese.
Personally, I think that the problem is not that the civilian class is allowed to manage the country, but that the civilian bureaucracy has not been managed well, and that the state system and policy lack long-term consideration, and that the concept given in the past life is unfortunately outdated, but the concept is deeply rooted and difficult to change. It was similar to What DongLin said back then, and then the emperor really believed it, and then that was it.
In the Song and Ming dynasties, the lifeblood of the country was controlled by civilian officials, and there was nothing wrong with it. The military attaché was afraid that he could not even control the army in his own hands. Since Nurhaci started his army, using the Liao people to feed Liaodong is just a beautiful fantasy, and in the end, it is not only necessary to raise it in Guannei, but also to lose a lot of money for cultivating cattle and seeds. Several governors of Liaodong have proposed a strategy of armed migration, that is, to establish a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains to Liaodong to reclaim land, and then rely on each other to defend with the city. The strategy proved to be indeed feasible, after the destruction of the city in Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of Liaodong people were plundered back to western Liaoning by Houjin to reclaim land, and a few years later Jin had the ability to carry out a long-term siege with the Ming Dynasty's strategy to attack the city.
The development of the northeast in modern times has also proved that the land in the northeast is fertile, in fact, the ancient strategy of collecting grain and recruiting troops on the spot has been effective in all generations, and it is also a rational method for solving the problems of displaced people in Guannei and successive disasters and famines. However, Liao's salary has become the vested interest of the bureaucracy, just as the land finance of this dynasty has become an important source of local finance, and it is unrealistic to expect the bureaucratic clique to give up its vested interests from the interests of the regime, and the treasury before the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself was unsustainable, but After Li Zicheng broke the city, he searched the family property of the Ming Dynasty officials and found that it was far more than a hundred times more than the national treasury, and only then did he have the feeling that the world was turbulent and did not blame the Chongzhen strange courtiers.
In fact, since the time of Li Chengliang, the northeast has always practiced the strategy of resettlement and filling in the border and merging the troops, the Liaodong general family itself is a large landlord in Liaodong, and most of the officers and soldiers under them are self-cultivators in Liaodong, and the strategic idea of the Liao people defending the Liao territory put forward by Wang Xiong and the two governors is that the reason why the first few defeats in the Later Jin Campaign is very important is that the logistical reliance on the difficulty of mobilization in the Guannei war and the weak will to fight of the combat troops are very related, and the strong combat effectiveness of the Warlords in Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty is because the invasion of The Later Jin invaded and infringed on the vital interests of the officers and men of Liaodong. The officers and men of Liaodong generally had a blood feud with Jurchen for generations, and the idea of emigrating to Liaodong was to use land and hatred to bind the displaced people, and to paraphrase Chairman Mao, that is, those guest soldiers who fought in different places in Guannei could not hate the influence of Houjin's lack of vital interests.
For example, Guangdong Yuan Chonghuan and Liaodong Mao Wenlong's attitude toward Houjin is very representative; Yuan Chonghuan came to Liaodong as an official, and Mao Wenlong Wu Sangui, these warlords, whose family interests are all in Liaodong, just as during the War of Resistance Against Japan, when Japan attacked Chiang Kai-shek in northeast China, they were not in a hurry, but they had to fight with the Japanese when they attacked Songhu Chiang Kai-shek. There must be a reason why bureaucratic countries have all sunk in recent times, and europe, ruled by the nobility, has risen instead. It is historical experience that the bureaucracy is bound to become a resistance to social change, so in modern times, the representative political system has gradually become the mainstream of modern democratic politics, after all, the bureaucracy has a natural conflict with the stability of the power structure and the need of capital to promote social change.
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