In the ancient feudal society, the emperor was the ninth five supreme, was the first person in the world, it seems that in each dynasty only the royal family can rule the world, in addition, the people under the world are ants, the common people also seem to think that the distant emperor is the son of heaven, not to be offended, their respect for the emperor is the same, whether public or private, they will not be disrespectful to the emperor. I have to say that the feudal imperial power poisoned the thinking of the ancient people, so that the people would not have the idea of rebellion, unless they were forced into a desperate situation, otherwise the ordinary people would never have the slightest idea about the throne.
Of course, there will always be some strange people in history, who receive the emperor's greatest education every day, but they will not think that the emperor is destined by heaven, and as ordinary people, they are completely likely to become emperors, so there will be founding emperors of all dynasties. Especially the courtiers who were above the court, some of them were not inferior to the emperor at all in ability, some were founding heroes, highly respected, and highly respected, and some were important generals who had made great military achievements, and even the emperor relied on him to protect the homeland, and ministers with such status and power were most likely to have rebellious thoughts, and then usurp the throne and change the dynasty.
For example, the Han Dynasty, which enjoyed 405 years of the country, was mainly divided into the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the two overthrows of the Han Dynasty were all due to the internal strife of foreign relatives, they defeated the foreign enemies who invaded China, and also beat the Xiongnu who had caused headaches for many emperors in history to go far north, forming a situation in the south of the desert without a royal court, but who could have predicted that the Han Dynasty would be controlled by the powerful ministers of the dprk? Even the powerful Tang Dynasty was betrayed and rebelled by its own generals, that is, the famous "Anshi Rebellion" in history, which lasted eight years of war caused the Tang Dynasty to be seriously injured, a large number of people were lost, and the national strength was sharply reduced, and it turned from prosperity to decline.
This is the rebellion of the officials of the imperial court, as well as the rebellion of the people, the peasants can not bear the oppression of the imperial court, rose up to resist, and eventually led to the demise of the country, the new state to replace, such as the establishment of the Ming Dynasty is how, successfully let Zhu Yuanzhang, who was at the bottom of the society, turned into an emperor, and since then the Zhu family has become a royal family with a noble bloodline, both of which are rebellions within the state. Of course, there are also some countries whose demise is due to foreign enemies, such as Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms, the six kingdoms of Shandong were all destroyed by the Qin State, and the Song Dynasty, which was destroyed twice, was founded for more than three hundred years, and each time it perished because of external troubles, it was the only dynasty in history that did not die in civil strife.
Today we want to talk about the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty that has always been bullied by foreign enemies in the world's impression, why would no one be able to rebel successfully in three hundred years? Can we think that if there were no foreign enemies to attack, the Song Dynasty would be able to last longer than three hundred years, according to the Song Dynasty system, such speculation is likely to occur. First of all, let's talk about the background of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty was Zhao Kuangyin, who was originally a military general who was quite important to Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong, and before Chai Rong died, he instructed Zhao Kuangyin to assist the young emperor, but Zhao Kuangyin used the army in his hand to "add yellow robes and add his body" to plot a rebellion and successfully become emperor, this incident was called "Chen Qiao Mutiny", the mutiny with the least bloodshed.
After Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, he was afraid that he or his descendants would repeat the same mistakes and be usurped by the military generals who held military power in the DPRK, so he planned the matter of "releasing the military power with a cup of wine", took back the military power in the hands of the military generals, and successfully made the founding heroes abdicate, and he also adopted the suggestion of Zhao Pu, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, to implement the policy of emphasizing literature over military force, and since then the Song Dynasty has been using it, and for a long time, it has also formed a social and cultural atmosphere of emphasizing literature over light force. Such a policy led to the Song Dynasty always being in a weak position in terms of external military affairs, but on the other hand, this made the Song Dynasty without a substantial force within itself that could shake the imperial power.
Although the Song Dynasty emphasized literature, it would not allow a large group of civilian officials to form a force that could overthrow the imperial power, because the Song Dynasty adopted a rotation system, and the civilian officials in each place were mobile, they could not cultivate their own forces in the local area, and the civilian officials basically did not have the ability to form a strong army, so their threat to the imperial court was very limited.
Then the most threatening military generals were firmly controlled by the rulers, and the "separation system" made the soldiers and generals strangers to each other, so that there would be no example of the soldiers of the day supporting Zhao Kuangyin as emperor, and the Song Emperor let the civilian officials take charge of the army in peacetime, and only in the wartime would the army be handed over to the military generals, and at the same time, civilian officials would be sent to supervise the military generals, for fear that they had the intention of rebellion.
The song dynasty rulers' control over civilian officials and military generals was really harsh, so that there was not enough strength in the country to resist the dynasty, but there were always two sides to things, the bad side was that the people in power in the imperial court were mostly civilian officials, not thinking about the homeland in the face of war, blindly seeking peace, and being cruel and ruthless in front of the people, such as Cai Jing, the minister of adultery, wantonly looting the people's money, but the civilian officials rarely caused bloody casualties, so there were few large-scale peasant uprisings, even if there were hundreds of peasant uprisings, but the scale was generally small. It simply could not pose a fatal threat to the imperial court.
In addition, the military of the Song Dynasty is not strong, but the economy and culture are relatively prosperous, the people generally live and work in peace and contentment, the key condition for the peasant uprising is that the people do not have a good life, obviously the people of the Song Dynasty do not have enough reasons to set off a large-scale peasant uprising, so for three hundred years, the Song Dynasty has not been overthrown by the domestic rebel forces, but unfortunately it was finally defeated at the hands of foreign enemies.