At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, because of the power struggle between the scholars and eunuchs, the central system of the imperial court was paralyzed, and the local door valve forces took the opportunity to rise, which directly led to the situation of many warlords at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Among these three forces, after Liu Bei, as the patriarch, had the dream of restoring the Han Room, he struggled for decades, and finally although the world was divided into three parts, the weak force was inevitably destroyed after all, Liu Chan surrendered under the attack of Deng Ai, and at this point, the Han Dynasty, which lasted for hundreds of years, officially entered history, and also marked the failure of Liu Bei's desire to restore the Han Room.
At the moment of Liu Chan's surrender, I believe that there were countless people with helplessness and grief, and in the years after Liu Chan's surrender, this grief and helplessness not only did not disappear, but would increase with the passage of time, among them, the regret for the Han Dynasty, the sympathy for Liu Bei, and the contempt and ridicule for Liu Chan's capitulationists.
But all this is useless, the Han dynasty is finally destroyed, whether it is regret, sympathy or ridicule can not make the passing Han Dynasty reborn, so it is necessary to find a responsible person, Liu Bei was displaced, running around for half a lifetime and finally failed to revive the Han Dynasty, there must be someone responsible, right?
As the last surrenderer, Liu Chan naturally became the number one war criminal in Tianzi, and all kinds of ridicule and ridicule poured into Liu Chan, as the emperor who reigned for 40 years, he could not protect the inheritance of his ancestors, and he naturally could not escape the interference, does this mean that he is the culprit of the demise of Shu Han?
In order to change the problem of aristocratic politics, Emperor Wudi of Han promulgated the system of inspection and examination, which culturally deposed hundreds of families and respected Confucianism alone, and the core of the inspection system was selected and selected by local officials to be selected by the imperial court, and this system has been commemorated for 300 years.
Because being an official needs to be elected by others, after being recommended, he returned the favor, so repeatedly turned the inspection system into a way for the circles of scholars to blow each other up their popularity, and at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, all the counties and states of the Han Dynasty accumulated local door valve clans, that is, high-gate households.
These high-ranking households are entangled, and for a long time their prestige and power monopolize and control all the power and economic and connections of the county. The powerful families in these places have become local emperors, and without their cooperation, the local officials of the imperial court cannot gain a firm foothold.
On the other hand, if the magistrates of the imperial court want to exercise the power of the imperial court, they must cooperate with them, and if they do not cooperate with them, then it does not matter, and it is not difficult to change the one who is willing to cooperate with them. This is the historical trend of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, if you follow this trend, you can achieve certain results, if not, then finally become a string of names in history.
To put it simply, the imperial court needed to share power with this line of surnames, in contrast, after Liu Biao was appointed as the pastor of Jingzhou, he quickly seized the power of Jingzhou through the method of co-optation and marriage, and actually formed a co-rule. Sun Quan even intermarried with the Eastern Wu Menval Clan to co-rule, while Cao Wei directly promulgated the Jiupin Zhongzheng system to protect the power of the Shi clan.
And Liu Bei, this is an idealist, he and his team, are idealists, to restore the Han room as the goal of struggle, the Han room naturally will not, and will not share power to these big surnames, so the trend we see is that Liu Bei everywhere he goes, can quickly capture the hearts of the people.
However, they could not obtain the support of the local surname, always left, were betrayed in Xuzhou, and were as groundless as they were in Jingzhou for 20 years, and could not establish the support of the local warriors in Yizhou for 50 years.
For the capitulationists, if they maintain military superiority, they are enough to suppress, and when they are at a disadvantage, the opinion of the capitulationists becomes the last straw that crushes the camel.
In contrast to history, in Jingzhou, only Liu Bei's original subordinate faction controlled power, and in Yizhou, it was always Liu Bei's Jingzhou people and horses who held power, and even Jiang Wei, who surrendered from Cao Wei, could control the military power, but the people and horses of Yizhou could not be among the center of power.
As a result, the power of the Shu Han dynasty and the local strength are in harmony with each other, for these people, there is no sense of family and country, as for the Han room you want to restore, it has nothing to do with me, anyway, I can't get the benefits, why should I take the risk to complete the dream for you, changing personal loyalty may get more power, this is the situation that Liu Bei's forces are facing.
Because the romantic feelings adhered to were incompatible with the social reality at that time, or it could be said that they violated the direction of historical development, Liu Bei's dream was impossible to achieve in the end, and Liu Chan's final surrender was only to give the tragedy the most ugly ending.