Xuande

Chapter 107 They don't even know how to reflect! (The fifth watch asks for tickets)
Liu Bei has sufficient will and determination, but at present, he does not have the strength to change the general trend of the world. This is where he is most helpless.

He can only say to calm down the Taipingdao uprising as quickly as possible, kill all the leading group of people as soon as possible, and remove and relocate all the civilians who were coerced as much as possible, lest they be slaughtered as military exploits, and their corpses are scattered all over the field , that is too miserable.

Thinking of the Taiping Dao uprising, Liu Bei used to think that it was driven by the ambitions of Zhang Jiao and others, or that the scholars who were imprisoned by the party were secretly promoted because of their dissatisfaction.

However, based on his career as a scholar over the years, Liu Bei felt that there was no need for him to think of a scholar as terrible.

Are they really so awesome that they can be suppressed by Liu Hong and a group of eunuchs for more than ten years?

Scholars and the leader of the Taipingdao uprising actually couldn't urinate in the same pot. Scholars looked down on this group of "yellow turban thieves" just like they looked down on eunuchs.

However, the leaders of these Taipingdao uprisings are by no means farmers, nor are they illiterate, but a group of powerful, petty officials who practice Taoism, Huang Lao and prophecy.

The Taoist Huang-Lao theory used to be the official guiding ideology of the country in the early Western Han Dynasty. It was replaced by Confucianism later. The prosperity of the past.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, high-ranking scholars studied the Classics of the Five Classics and the Fourteen Schools of Law, and the second- and third-rate scholars studied the Classics of the Ancient Literature and other Confucian classics that did not have academic officials, or legal classics.

And the group of people who are not scholars, that is, the rulers at the grassroots level represented by local tyrants, are widely influenced by Taoism and the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements.

After the inheritance of hundreds of schools of thought was denied by the government, they turned to the opposition one after another. Except for the Legalists and the Military School, the rest of the schools all fell into the folk. .

Local tyrants have money, land, tenants, and food, and they can be regarded as the number one figures in the local area, but in the eyes of scholars, they are still old hats.

The scholars were all from Lao Luoyang, quite noble, and these local tyrants came to beg for food from outsiders, and they were not worthy of studying Confucianism, law and other official theories that are still used.

Their ascension channel was strangled to death, except for a few lucky ones such as Liu Bei, there was basically no possibility of ascension.

But people have money and leisure, have enough to eat and have nothing to do, so they naturally want to pursue culture and make themselves a bit more aggressive.

But they tried their best and couldn't find a way to learn Confucianism. In desperation, they had to find another way and learn things that the upper class didn't learn.

For example, Taoist classics, yin-yang and five-element theory, etc., the enclosure is self-sustaining and self-entertaining.

But after they have entertained themselves to a certain extent, they are also eager to be recognized, get the attention of the upper class, and even join the upper class.

However, when they are convinced that this possibility is extremely small, when they have suffered too much suppression and malice from the upper levels, they will be prompted to take extreme measures to gain recognition, and even become the recognizers themselves.

Its leadership took Taoist Huang-Lao learning and Yin-Yang and Five Elements learning as the main guiding ideology, and combined the two into one, making the Yellow Turban Army have an unprecedented large-scale cohesion.

Under the political situation in which the county was the country at the end of the Han Dynasty, leaving a county was equivalent to entering another country. There is no mutual trust at all.

It's not bad if you don't stab each other.

Even the army has a strong local color, obviously belonging to the same dynasty, even if the army from different places is forcibly kneaded together, there will be serious coordination problems.

Therefore, the conscription of the Han Empire is generally based on the region as a unit, such as the Liangjiazi of the Six Counties, the Knights of the Three Rivers, the Tuqi of Youzhou, and the Bingzhou Bingqi.

In such a situation where everyone has no consensus, the Taipingdao Uprising managed to blossom everywhere in the eight states, and people who could not understand each other's words in the eight states gathered together with the same thought, for the sake of the same One target fights the same enemy.

It can be said that this is a very threatening and combative idea, and the organization and nature of the Yellow Turban Army it created far surpassed most peasant uprisings that broke out in subsequent dynasties.

It is no wonder that the Eastern Han Dynasty retreated steadily at the beginning of the war, and the defeat was like a mountain, which could hardly contain the Yellow Turban Army's attack.

Zhang Jiao is indeed a talent, but the sharp social conflicts in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were the main reason for this situation.

But from the bottom of his heart, Liu Bei didn't want the Taiping Dao incident to really break out, although he knew that there was a high probability that he would not be able to prevent it from happening.

To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is also for the ambition of some people. The general public who really need to improve their situation are the group of people who sacrifice the most and get the least reward.

And even if it was such a small reward, the uprising had to be really successful, and if it failed, there would be nothing——the butcher Huangfusong would chop off [-] heads and cast it into Jingguan.

It can be said that they got nothing.

From the very beginning, they were doomed to get nothing.

Although the Taipingdao uprising cannot get rid of the bewitching taste of the magic stick, the main components are ordinary people who have lost hope in life.

Initiating this uprising, Zhang Jiao must have noticed the widespread dissatisfaction with the Han Dynasty in society, so he thought he could succeed.

But where do the majority of participants have any understanding of reality?

Their average prenatal education level of education is not enough for them to have any cognition. It is nothing more than being deceived by the magician's rhetoric, believing in the destiny, and really hungry. In order to have enough food, so for the magician It's nothing more than charging forward with ambition.

The scale is also very large, the scope is also very wide, and the number of people who died because of this is very large, and the death is very miserable.

What is the point of this uprising?

some.

This uprising dealt a heavy blow to the ruling power of the decadent Eastern Han Dynasty. The central government became weaker and the local centrifugal forces became stronger.

But all this was meant to happen.

The Eastern Han Dynasty had been riding away on this road, and the demons and ghosts of the Luoyang court were accelerating this process from top to bottom all the time. speeds up the process.

After the Taipingdao uprising, did Liu Hong become a wise king?

Has the eunuch restrained his behavior?

Have the corrupt officials disappeared?
Has the gentry stopped its intellectual monopoly?

Did the powerful landlords stop annexing land?
Have ordinary people's lives gotten better?
No, nothing has changed, it's just sped up, the situation is getting worse, and it's getting more and more out of hand. No one is trying to save the situation from a good direction, but pushing all this to continue to develop more and more.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was still teetering on the verge of collapse. It was not until Liu Hong's life was dying, and the man who represented destruction entered Luoyang, and finally burned Luoyang with a big fire, that all this finally came to a total collapse.

Is everything getting better?
Liu Bei didn't want to think too much about the truth, he only looked at the most direct result.

After the Luoyang court's authority collapsed, did the people's life in the world get better or worse?Are fewer people dying or more?

This conclusion, at this moment, no one knows except Liu Bei, and Liu Bei is the only one who knows.

He also knew that the doomed failure of Taipingdao would not only not wake up the imperial rulers, not only would it not allow them to adjust their policies, but would instead make the imperial rulers further believe that they were destined, invincible, and extremely correct.

They will only make it worse!

They will only think—look, the rebels have been completely wiped out by us, we have won, we have not lost our destiny, and the favor of destiny is still there!
The rulers at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty never really reflected on themselves!

They don't believe in science, they only believe in destiny!
They will never think that their own policies have gone wrong because of the armed resistance of the people. They will only be more intoxicated by the results of repression and victory after another, and they will be more convinced that they are right!

If we are wrong, why are we still successful in repression?
Unless they are killed in one blow and physically wiped out, all immature resistance will only aggravate their baseless arrogance!
So Liu Bei knew that the road of that group of people was not a good road. Since it has been proved that this road will not work, then they should not pay such a big sacrifice in exchange for a more tragic ending.

Should try to find a way to go.

Liu Bei wants to follow his own path, and he has gradually figured out a path that can be followed.

The first step of this road is to gain important political and social status, and the second step is to find ways to reduce the impact of the Taipingdao uprising on the whole society.

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PS: After thinking about it, let’s add it to the fifth watch today, and officially resume the third watch tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)