Chapter 118 Cao Cao's Toughness! (2/3)
In addition, the long-term competition between the Kanto tyrants and the Northwest tyrants was made for the dynasty. In order to explore the foundation of the Northwest tyrants and avoid the loss of Guandong's manpower and material resources due to Ping Qiang, they repeatedly proposed in the court to abandon Liangzhou and move Liangzhou people to mainland prefectures and counties.
Moving is a wonderful way to crack down on the forces of the rich. When a family relocates, they will be excluded by the local rich family when they arrive in a new territory, which often leads to a decline in the family. The Qin and the Western Han Dynasty have been implementing the policy of relocating wealth, moving the rich family to Guanzhong to avoid their excessive growth. It was not until the time of Emperor Yuan of Han that the rich family had stopped because of the unstoppable growth in the court.
The current policy of the Kanto family is a replica of the Western Han Dynasty's relocation of the rich, but the host and guest are the opposite. In order to defend their hometown and foundation, the Northwest rich family fought bloody battles on the battlefield, and they also fought against the Kanto family several times in the court and faced tit-for-tat.
As early as the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, facing the Western Qiang crossing the Great Wall and invading Liangzhou, the Nanyang Xungui Group in the court suggested giving up Liangzhou. Although he was from Guanzhong, he was a famous general who was rooted in Liangzhou, wrote a letter to firmly oppose it. Fortunately, in this period of the rise of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of Han ordered Ma Yuan to lead his troops to quell the Qiang Rebellion.
During the Yongchu period of Emperor An of Han (1o7-113), the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty declined. As the Qiang Rebellion became more and more intense, Pang Chan, a court official who was born in the Kanto family, repeatedly suggested giving up the Western Regions and was ridiculed by the scholars and officials in the West Prefecture.
Pang Shen used the reason that the country was not useful, so he persuaded the general Deng Qi (son of Deng Yu) who was born in Kanto to give up Liangzhou, but was still rejected by court officials who were born in the northwest.
In the fifth year of Yongchu (111), Xianling Qiang invaded Henei from Bingzhou, only a river away from Luoyang. The Eastern Han Dynasty court was in great shock and decided to abandon Longxi and northern Shaanxi counties and move people into the mainland.
The people of Liangzhou were relocated and did not want to leave their hometowns. Local officials destroyed their farmland and houses, and forced them to leave, causing a large number of people to die on the road, almost causing large-scale civil unrest. In addition, the strong opposition of the wealthy families in the northwest had to be suspended.
Wang Fu, a famous scholar in Liangzhou, hated the short-sighted behavior of the Guandong wealthy and harming neighbors. He wrote in his famous book "The Theory of Qianfu":
"The Qiang and the enemy betrayed... After a thousand miles of the world, there was no remains. The enemy's money was destroyed and the disasters continued day and night. The people were destroyed, and the sun and the moon were burning out, and the people in the inner counties were not affected. All of them should indulge in order to wait for the weather. If they were intent, would they be human hearts!"
The central government is unreliable, and the people of Liangzhou can only rely on themselves to gallop across the battlefield and defend their homes. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Shun of Han and Emperor Huan of Han, three famous generals were produced among the rich families of Liangzhou, namely:
Huangfu Gui (named Weiming), Zhang Huan (named Ranming), Duan (named Jiming), known as Sanming, Liangzhou, achieved a major victory in the war against the Qiang. Duan even implemented a genocide policy rare in Chinese history against the Qiang people, and temporarily suppressed the Qiang rebellion.
However, as the Eastern Han politics ran wildly on the road of corruption, the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han. Although it was quickly suppressed, people were confused and the border was unstable. Liangzhou once again broke out in Qiang Rebellion, and there were also Han tycoons in Liangzhou. The Eastern Han government sent Huangfu Song, Sun Jian, and Dong Zhuo who were good at fighting, but still could not pacify them.
Situ Cui Lie, who was born in Kanto, once again suggested giving up Liangzhou. Fu Xie, a rich man from Liangzhou, was furious and denounced him on the spot:
If you kill Situ, the world will be safe!
Finally, under the promotion of Fu Xie, the Eastern Han Dynasty organized the remaining government forces of Liangzhou, and the governor of Liangzhou Geng Bi was commanded by Liangzhou Geng Bi. Geng Bi was suspected of Geng's family in Julu, Guandong, and appointed traitors to poison Liangzhou. On the way, the Liangzhou rich clan who served as other officials raised troops to mutiny and killed Geng Bi.
Fu Xie defended Hanyang with a widowed army (in Liangzhou, not Wuhan) and died heroically. The Eastern Han Dynasty's control over Liangzhou was completely lost. This time their opponent was no longer the savage chief of Xianling Qiang or Shaodang Qiang, but Han Sui, a famous Han Chinese in Liangzhou and his Han and Qiang coalition forces under him.
At this point, Liangzhou's wealthy family was basically extinct or died in a foreign land. The remaining ones were coerced by the Qiang people and half were desperate about the court. They resolutely cooperated with the rebel Qiang, not only seizing Liangzhou, but also leading them to attack Chang'an and become enemies with the Han Dynasty.
Not only that, the reason why the Liangzhou nobles broke with the Eastern Han government was that there were many long-term grievances and complex reasons. In order to prevent local officials from combining with local forces and forming separatist positions in the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty designed a system of appointing foreigners as local officials.
In other areas, people from neighboring counties with little cultural differences are sometimes selected as officials, but in Liangzhou, in order to prevent the powerful Liangzhou tribes with strong force, people from the Kanto region are interested in using people from the Kanto region to be local officials.
These families are thousands of miles away. In order to ensure their safety, they suggest giving up Liangzhou and moving their residents inland. When governing, they are often greedy and ruthless. The wealthy families in Liangzhou hate them to the core and are also dissatisfied with the Eastern Han government behind them.
The official selection system of the Eastern Han Dynasty was also very unfavorable to Liangzhou, and prefectures and counties elected filial and honest people based on their population. Due to the decline and long-term wars, Liangzhou's population has sharply decreased. This way of departure is very narrow. He can only make a breakthrough by making military achievements and mostly hold military positions on the border. In addition to the intentional exclusion of the Kanto family, the Liangzhou family's voice in the court has become smaller and smaller, and the centrifugal force is naturally greater and greater.
In addition, in the long-term Han-Qiang war, the Qiang people joined the Han and Han people joined the Qiang people. While the Qiang people were sinicized, the Han people in Liangzhou also began to become Qiang, becoming violent, cruel and bloodthirsty. Dong Zhuo is a typical example. The so-called ethnic integration has always been two-way. In this way, they can't pee in the same pot with the cultural wealthy families in Guandong.
In the first year of Zhongping (184), the Qiang people took advantage of the Eastern Han Dynasty to concentrate their efforts to pacify the Yellow Turbans and revived again. This time, the Qiang people led Beigong Boyu, who was deeply in the sinicization of the local great families, respected the local Han family, and robbed Bian Zhang, a famous Han scholar in Liangzhou, and Han Sui became the leader. Bian Zhang, and Han Sui himself had already transformed into Qiang, so he simply joined the gang and led his army to attack Liangzhou and Chang'an.
In the same year, Huangfu Song, the nephew of the famous general Huangfu Gui of Liangzhou, quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion and established a great achievement. Yan Zhong, a wealthy clan of Liangzhou, persuaded Huangfu Song to launch an army to rebel, eliminate the Eastern Han Dynasty, and establish a regime of Liangzhou people. However, Huangfu Song was one of the few wealthy clans in Liangzhou who transformed into cultural geniuses. If he refused, Yan Zhong fled.
In the fourth year of Zhongping (187), Han Sui led the Han-Qiang coalition forces to attack Longyou, and the Hanyang Kingdom, a powerful Hanzhou tribe, raised an army to respond. The powerful Han people joined the rebels one after another.
At the end of this drama, Dong Zhuo, a government officer from Liangzhou, entered the court and recruited Ma Teng and Han Sui. He transformed himself and replaced Han Sui and became the representative of Liangzhou people. It was at this time that Jia Xu served as Dong Zhuo's aide.
However, Dong Zhuo's barbaric style of Qiang and Hu Hua was not tolerated by the rich cultural families in Kanto, so there was Yuan Shao outside and Wang Yun inside. He attacked him from both inside and outside, and took his life.
Chapter completed!