<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > preface</h1>
During the Western Jin Dynasty, due to the poor rule of the Sima family, foreign invasions led to the whole world falling into a divided situation.
The Sima family failed to govern the Jiangshan well, although Sima Rui crossed south to protect half of the country, but the authority of the Sima family was greatly weakened, the imperial power began to be controlled by the Mengmen clan, and the north could no longer be recovered, and soon the land of China fell into a long-term confrontation between the north and the south.
In fact, since the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the southern regime has not given up recovering lost territory, organized the northern expedition of the army many times, and a number of outstanding generals have emerged in the southern dynasty, such as Liu Yu and Huan Wen, whose northern expedition has achieved very good results. However, the Southern Dynasty has never been successful, which has a great relationship with the frequent infighting in the Southern Dynasty, and the confrontation between the North and the South has been countless for hundreds of years, and the number of civil unrest in the Southern Dynasty is innumerable.
Civil strife continued, the throne changed hands many times, and in the midst of frequent infighting, the Southern Dynasty also exhausted its own strength, and it was no longer possible to resist the Northern Dynasty.
Among the many civil strife in the Southern Dynasty, there are also some special laws, such as some places are very prone to civil unrest, and Jiangzhou is one of the representatives. Jiangzhou became a processing plant for anti-thieves at that time, and most of the rebellions had close ties with Jiangzhou, especially those officials who served in Jiangzhou, who were embarrassed to say that they had been officials here without rebellion.
But throughout Chinese history, rebellions in Jiangzhou in other periods are very rare, so why did rebellions occur frequently in Jiangzhou after the Western Jin Dynasty?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > jiangzhou origin</h1>
Jiangzhou really became a large region independently during the Western Jin Dynasty, and in the first year of Yuan Kang, the Western Jin government officially established Jiangzhou, but they did not expect that this move brought great danger to themselves and later countries.
Since the Western Jin Dynasty, most dynasties have continued the establishment of Jiangzhou and did not let this area be deposed, but Jiangzhou has never been divided and has become a paradise for rebels.
Jiangzhou will have this special change, obviously has a great relationship with its establishment, Jiangzhou was relatively large at that time, but its core area is very critical, the Western Jin Dynasty regime is from the original Jingzhou, Yangzhou two large states, separated from a large part, together to form Jiangzhou.
The core area of Jiangzhou is exactly stuck in the middle of Jingzhou and Yangzhou, occupying the entire middle section of the Yangtze River. Because of this special location, Jiangzhou became a barrier to the capital of the southern regime, and the enemy who went down the river had to break through Jiangzhou to threaten Nanjing and other places.
Similarly, Jiangzhou has also become an important passage to the east of Jingzhou and other places, whether it is the rebel forces that appear in the Jingzhou area itself, or the north has come from here, if you want to go further, you must break through Jiangzhou. In this way, Jiangzhou has become the key to the competition between many forces, and it is also doomed to be unstable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > strong</h1> strength
Jiangzhou has such an important geographical location, which makes it have absolute strength. After the emergence of the Southern Dynasty, the rulers realized that Jingzhou, Yangzhou and other places were too powerful and had to weaken them, so they constantly divided the resources of these two places to Jiangzhou.
In this situation of continuous strengthening, Jiangzhou has a strong strength, and in its heyday, Jiangzhou had 11 counties under its jurisdiction at that time. This is placed in any era, is an extremely powerful state capital, Jiangzhou also has many overseas Counties, a large number of displaced people gathered in this area, suddenly let the population of the place rise rapidly, likewise, Jiangzhou is in the middle of the Yangtze River, the property is also very rich, so the local economy is also quite developed, here is undoubtedly an important economic pillar of the Southern Dynasty.
Economic and human resources can represent the strength of a state capital, and there are few places in the Southern Dynasty that can be compared with Jiangzhou.
In addition, Jiangzhou also manages many important cities, which also makes the probability of Problems in Jiangzhou even greater.
Jiangzhou not only controls part of Changsha, but also controls the important cities such as Wuhan, Fuzhou, and Nanchang, which in modern China are the capitals of various provinces, which shows their importance. It almost grasped the lifeblood of the Southern Dynasty, and being an official in such a place would of course have a great sense of superiority, and in fact, becoming the supreme governor of this place was equivalent to the king of a country.
For those who are officials in Jiangzhou, they not only have this strength, but also can threaten the capital at close range, in the face of the temptation of power, I am afraid that few people can withstand it, which will lead to so many rebellious officials.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > turbulent times</h1>
The perennial rebellion in the land of Jiangzhou, in the final analysis, still has a great relationship with that era, and there are many periods of confrontation between the north and the south in history, but in the chaotic war years such as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, although there are many turmoil, but like the many warlords in the south, they still maintain a certain balance, and it is difficult for anyone to eat anyone.
The Southern and Northern Dynasties were somewhat special, when the state system was not mature, and the checks and balances on power were not strong enough, so the emperor's ability to bind the local area was naturally not as strong as that of later generations.
This also led to the extreme instability of the southern dynasty's rule at that time, and coups d'état often occurred, and Jiangzhou was naturally not much better due to its special position in this context. Areas like Jingzhou are also blessed places for rebels, and people often rebel here.
Another point is that the Southern Dynasty generally gave local officials great power, and also assigned some important figures to guard the key places.
In places like Jiangzhou, there are often clan offices and some important ministers, and these people originally had a very high status in the dprk, and with the fact that they gained a place like Jiangzhou, even if they originally had no undivided thoughts about the throne, they might not be able to hold back, and it was only a matter of time before they went to rebellion.
At that time, the imperial court did not have a good solution, and could only rely on this system to barely maintain its own rule, which made it difficult to quell rebellions in various places, and often there would be multiple rebellions in one place. There are few such special cases in later generations.
epilogue
Jiangzhou itself was established to prevent the rebellion of the important town, but unexpectedly, Jiangzhou became the key place of the rebellion of the important town. Later, the Southern Dynasty chose to constantly divide Jiangzhou in order to avoid such a big threat in Jiangzhou, and gradually the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou became smaller and smaller, and it lost its original strength.
But although places like Jiangzhou have been weakened, other places are easy to develop, and without a good system of checks and balances, it will not curb the emergence of rebellion, after all, for many people, the temptation of power is really irresistible, given such conditions, there are really few people who can really endure, and the southern dynasty has many rebels, which is also the result of that special era.