In the thousands of years of China, countless dynasties have risen and fallen, but the doubtful thing is that there are countless peasant uprisings in Chinese history, and there are 43 times that are particularly large and sufficient to pose a threat to the dynasty, including the Cheng Sheng Wu Guangzexiang Uprising, and then to the Yellow Turban Army at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Yellow Nest at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Qing Dynasty. The only one who can be said to be worthy of the trumpet is Zhu Yuanzhang, who established the Ming Dynasty and became a model of di si counterattack. What exactly caused the ancient peasant revolts to be so unsuccessful? We may look at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the end of an anti-king, there are almost no good people.
In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty Emperor repeatedly used troops to expropriate the people to dig canals, coupled with the outbreak of drought and floods, which led to uprisings everywhere, and finally the Sui Dynasty fell to the end of the historical curtain, "Sui and Tang Dynasty" recorded that there were 18 anti-kings against the Sui Dynasty, although many things in the yanyi were fabricated, but the 18-way anti-wang, such as Dou Jiande, Li Mi, and Wang Shichong, were real.
They raised the banner of anti-Sui and resisted tyranny, so can they really be called good men? Zhu Cang, the worst of the anti-kings, may say it all.
Zhu Cang's family situation was not too bad, he served as a county official in The Father County of Bozhou, Anhui, and was still a small civil servant, and in the eleventh year of Emperor Zhao's great cause, Zhu Cang accompanied the army to recruit the Changbai Mountain rebel army, and took the opportunity to lead other people who did not want to join the army to rise up, Zhu Cang took the opportunity to make trouble in the drama, calling himself the King of Jialou Luo, and many people gathered to respond at that time. Zhu Cang led his people, they did not raise volunteer soldiers to fight against the Sui Dynasty as in the book, but burned and plundered in Jingzhou and other places, and everywhere they went, the people did not have a good life.
However, the world was in chaos, and the Sui Dynasty could not find the experience to care for Zhu Cang in the south, and in 618, Zhu Cang was proclaimed emperor in Champion County, changed his era name to Changda, and led an army to capture Yanzhou. And Zhu Cang, who became the ruler, can be said to have fully exposed his cruel original surname, in the second year of Wude (619), Zhu Cang already had 200,000 troops, robbing in the Hanshui and Huaihe generations, like locusts, Zhu Cang never bound his hands, so many soldiers had no rules, Zhu Cang's troops would not operate, and every time they broke through a county, they would eat all the grain here, and then move again, like locusts.
This also led to the fact that Because Zhu Cang was not good at management, the supply of military supplies could not be improved, and when his subordinates reported that there was a shortage of military food, Zhu Cang actually said: "There is no better food than human flesh, as long as there are people in other towns, why worry about starvation!" Zhu Cang can also "be cruel" to his own subordinates.
At that time, sui dynasty officials Lu Congdian and Yan Zhitui lived in Nanyang after they fell into the wilderness, and Zhu Cang invited him to be his guests, but as a result, Zhu Cang's army lacked food, so he ate all the families of the two, and he also levied women and children from various castles to supply the army with military food, so many people betrayed him.
In the end, Zhu Cang also received retribution, and he gradually became lonely, and he defected to Wang Shichong, and after Wang Shichong defected to the Tang army, he directly beheaded Zhu Cang in Luoyang, thanking the world, and the people hated him very much, beating his body with stones, and in a moment the tile pile was like the size of a grave.
It can be said that the leaders of the uprising are basically as low-status as Zhu Cang, and some are even poorer, and after enjoying the glory and wealth, they are unwilling to give up the taste of power, which leads to the corruption of the rebel army from top to bottom, and failure becomes inevitable.