A key node in ancient history : Reflections on the ancient history of the Far East (a place called "Tianxia") (1) Since Qin Shi Huang unified the world, before modern times, it was 1840

A Key Node in Ancient History: Reflections on the Ancient History of the Far East (known as the "Tianxia" Place) (1)

Since Qin Shi Huang unified the world, before modern times, that is, before 1840, the world has experienced a total of four crises, or rather, the key choice points of history, these four key choice points are: the Chu-Han War, the Wuhu Chaohua, the Anshi Rebellion, and the Ming Dynasty and Qingxing.

The first time node, the Chu-Han War, tested whether qin shi huang could stand firm in the great unification system that had laid the foundation for the unification of the world. If the victor of the Chu-Han War is Xiang Yu, then the world will fall back to the era of hegemony, the feudal system will continue to exist, the world will still be divided into different plates (regional kingdoms, that is, the so-called princely states), the hegemon can only be strong when it is strong, for a time the various princely states will be united together, once the hegemon loses power, aging, and death, the world will fall apart again, the princes will return to their own politics, and the war will also recur with the death of the overlord. It is conceivable that in later history, the invasion of the northern nomads will still occur according to the laws of geography, then, in this case, the nomadic peoples will enter the Central Plains when the Central Plains as a whole declines, and become the masters of the Central Plains for a period of time, but with the nomadic peoples, settlement and civilization, they will also accept the hegemonic culture and sub-feudal system, and finally, repeat the mistakes of the previous generation of hegemons, after the disappearance of a generation of hegemons, the world will fall apart again, waiting for the next nomadic people to enter and produce a new hegemon. In a time to rule the world, and then wait until the overlord disappears again, fall into the cycle of re-division, re-entry, re-emergence of hegemony, and then split, and eventually it will be like India, wave after wave of invaders bring wave after wave of hegemony, temporarily unify the panorama, but every time it is not long, the hegemon will fall back into the division after the disappearance, waiting for the next foreign invasion, the cycle begins again, such a history is like sedimentary rock, is a conqueror constantly entering the historical cycle of dominion, re-entry, and re-domination, It can be said that the current great power in the East will become the India of East Asia.

Thanks to Liu Bang's cunning and his broad mind and fickle mind, as well as the great achievements of Zhang Liang, Han Xin, Xiao He and other literary and martial arts ministers, xiang Yu eventually became the target of public criticism and failure, thanks to Lu Jia, Jia Yi's keen vision, sense of distress, as well as Emperor Wen of Han's Huairou Na advice, Chao's mistake of forgetting life and death, Zhou Yafu's use of soldiers like gods and the courageous persistence of Emperor Jing of Han, Dong Zhongshu's ingenious strategy, and Emperor Wu of Han's heroic strategy, After several generations, the system of centralized power and great unification has finally been stabilized so that this historical path that originated in the Spring and Autumn Warring States and emerged through the unification of Qin Shi Huang can be steadily preserved, and truly lay the foundation for the historical trajectory of the later inland.

The second time node is the Five Hu Chaohua, which tests whether the unified system under the heavens is stable. If this system is not stable, then the fate of the world will be like the Roman Empire, under the invasion of barbarians and the purge of foreign spiritual forces, and eventually disintegrate and form many regional countries, in that case, the current eastern power will be the Europe of East Asia.

Fortunately, because the pattern of the world is made up of a huge central plain, the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain as the center, surrounded by some small river valley plains and low hills, outside the words are some, relatively speaking, in ancient times not easy to develop the place, for example, cold forests, dry grasslands, desert oases, plateau hills, humid and hot rain forests, these are impossible to produce a high level of development comparable to the inland high level of development of the form of civilization, doomed, can only produce some low level of development, The human groups that are seriously lagging behind the interior of the world, in addition, these human groups, mainly from the north, belong to different stocks, and after entering the interior, because the ground is adjacent, they rub shoulders with each other, cannot be separated, compete with each other, and the fierce competitive environment of war constantly prompts them to adopt the system of centralized power and great unification, and this story is exactly the same as that of the Warring States, and eventually becoming a new unification and centralized power is inevitable within the interior, and at the same time, after they enter the interior, The environment in which they originally lived was vacated, filled with new human groups, threatening them from behind, and together with the civilized people who were originally in the interior, they retreated to the south, thus forming a situation of attacking the newly entered human groups in the interior from the north and south, and under the threat of the pressure of the north-south attack, these newly entered, the human groups in the interior had to concentrate their forces, so that the environment forced them to adopt a centralized unified system, and this unified system was originally readily available in the interior. Therefore, they will unreservedly study, absorb, and inherit the original centralized and unified system of the interior, which is inevitable from outside the interior, from the inevitable trend of internal and external, naturally, the human groups newly entering the interior have completed the inlandization in organizational behavior, and at the same time, in order to be able to effectively maintain this unified system, these newly entered human groups have to accept the ideology that matches the great unification system of the interior. That is, the ideology of the Confucian confluence of confucianism and law has enabled them to completely complete the inlandization from the inside out, and finally to completely assimilate into the interior. As for the foreign spiritual forces that entered the interior during this period, Buddhism as a moderate religion, he did not reject the original ideology of the mainland, but only focused on monastic cultivation, and was not willing to interfere in secular affairs, so it just complemented the original ideology of the mainland, patched and upgraded the ideology of the mainland, but enhanced the ability of the ideology of the mainland, and finally, this foreign spiritual force was absorbed by the ideology of the mainland and became an organic part of the new and more perfect ideology. On the contrary, it has maintained the strength and flexibility of the mainland ideology and the role of this ideology in safeguarding the unity of the mainland. In the end, for these reasons, the great powers of the East, safely, but also for a long time through this crisis.

(To be continued)