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Throughout history, since ancient times, China has divided administrative regions through terrain such as mountains, rivers and lakes. After all, people living in different regions have different cultures, economies, and living habits, and this division is conducive to the management of the Central Dynasty. However, from another point of view, most of the political districts surrounded by mountains and rivers are dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is of great strategic significance, and it is a place where soldiers and families of all generations must fight. If the power of the Central Dynasty declines, these areas will easily form four places, or even be controlled by warlords, thus threatening the central government or establishing itself as an emperor, so whenever there is chaos in the world, those dangerous places will be fought back and forth by all sides.
▲Sichuan Guangyuan Sword Gate Pass
Relatively speaking, Sichuan Province is the most important area in China's strategic position. It should be pointed out that Sichuan was named after the "Sichuan Gorge Four Roads" set up in the Song Dynasty, which roughly includes today's Sichuan, Chongqing, southern Shaanxi, northeastern Yunnan and northwestern Guizhou, and the area should not be underestimated. "Shu Dao Difficulty" has clouds: "Shu Dao is difficult, it is difficult to go to the qingtian!" In fact, this already reflects the strategic position of the Bashu region in ancient China. Looking through the historical materials, it is not difficult to find that in every chaotic world, if the warlords can occupy the Bashu region, even if they cannot achieve national unification, they can also establish a divided state. For example, the Qin state in the Warring States period was based on Guanzhong, and after annexing the two countries of Bashu and Shu, it was able to dominate the world and eventually unify the six kingdoms.
▲Chen Sheng WuGuang uprising scene painting
After Qin Shi Huang established the Great Unification Dynasty, he hoped that Jiangshan could be passed on forever. However, Hu Hai's harsh government led Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to launch an uprising in Daze Township, and the local magnates responded one after another to resist the tyranny. In the third year of Qin II (207 BC), Xiang Yu destroyed the main force of the Qin army in the "Battle of julu", and the Qin Dynasty subsequently perished. After the "Feast of the Hongmen Gate", Liu Bang was crowned king of Han by Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, for his merits, and ruled over Bashu and The Hanzhong area. After Liu Bang obtained Bashu and Hanzhong, he took Bashu as his foundation, accumulated strength according to Guan Zishou, and secretly crossed Chen Cang to occupy the land of Three Qin.
▲Chengdu Plain
It was only at this time that Liu Bang had the capital to compete with Xiang Yu, changed the decline of repeated defeats before, and finally defeated Xiang Yu in the "Battle of Xiaxia" in the fifth year of han (202 BC) and established the Western Han Dynasty. Zhuge Liang pointed out in the "Longzhong Pair", "Yizhou is dangerous, fertile and wild, the land of heaven, and Gao Zu became an emperor because of it." Of course, hundreds of years after Liu Bang's founding of the country, his descendant Liu Bei also achieved imperial success by dividing Bashu. Since ancient times, Bashu has had the saying that "the world is not chaotic before Shu is chaotic, and the world has been ruled after Shu".
▲ "Anshi Rebellion" Tang Xuanzong fleeing stills
As the three major economic centers of the ancient country, the Bashu region, relying on Shu embroidery brocade and salt and iron trade, can fully support the establishment of a new dynasty; secondly, Sichuan's terrain is dangerous, known as "one husband when the pass, ten thousand people can not open", can be used as an excellent barrier for the feudal dynasty, used as a refuge. In December of the fourteenth year of Tang Tianbao (755 AD), the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out, and Tang Xuanzong Li Longji fled all the way to Shudi, so that his life was not in danger, and Chengdu Prefecture was upgraded to Tang Nanjing. Coincidentally, in the fifth year of Qianfu (878 AD), the "Huangchao Rebellion" broke out, and Emperor Li of Tang also followed Emperor Xuanzong's example and went to Sichuan. Relying on the rich foundation in Sichuan, the Tang army accumulated economic strength for the counterattack on the Huangchao regime, and finally successfully quelled the rebellion and returned to Chang'an.
▲The scene of the Sichuan Army soldiers going out of sichuan to fight the war was restored
It should be pointed out that Sichuan was not only a strategic place that soldiers and families had to fight for in ancient times, but also played an important strategic value in modern times. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China's economic strength and military strength were backward and inferior to the Japanese army, resulting in the northeast, central And southern China falling into the hands of the enemy. The Nationalist government moved into Chongqing and used it as its wartime capital. Relying on its dangerous geographical advantages, Sichuan has become an important barrier for our country and is also the base camp for the Nationalist Government to command troops from all over the country to resist the Japanese army during wartime, making great contributions to the victory of China's War of Resistance Against Japan. Therefore, some scholars lament that as long as Sichuan Province is still there, China will definitely not perish.
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General History of China