Chapter 637: Evaluation of the Victor (Author's Note Included in the Article, Very Long, Please Subscribe with Caution)

The game between the two major factions ended in the most tragic way, the Danming Rebellion. The moderate faction did nothing and did not participate personally, but they had the last laugh and took over the highest power after the war, which continues to this day.

Looking from the past to the future, the victory of the moderates is the general trend of history. If we follow the path of the hardliners, we will inevitably end up with no family and no heirs. The moderates close their doors and recuperate, while continuing their inaction and doing everything. Only by means of this method did Yiqimen realize the true renaissance.

As everyone says, heroes should not be judged by their success or failure. However, history has its own lessons. If Wu Yi is allowed to go back to the past, even if he is not ashamed of the moderates' actions, he will still choose to support the moderates for no other reason, because this is the right path.

The winner's evaluation of the loser, which falls in the history of history, is that they are bellicose and militaristic, leading wolves into the house. At the same time, they affirm the defense of Yi and Xia and warn future generations to be careful of aliens.

Because of this, Xuan Zhenzi used this example to refute Wu Yi's example at this time. And Wu Yi is really the first high-ranking member of a sect to recruit aliens as disciples (Shan Hui is a witch) after the Danming Rebellion.

(Author's note: I thought about whether to write it for a long time, but finally decided to write it. Otherwise, there will be more than a hundred chapters of ambushes, and my head will explode. What is the prototype of the story? What is the innuendo behind it? If it is just It's a pity that readers didn't understand it if I was moved by it.

If readers have a little understanding of Chinese history, coupled with my many hints, they should be able to tell that the Danming Rebellion in the article refers to the Anshi Rebellion. The backgrounds of the two are different, and the process and results of the events will naturally not be the same. Please do not copy some characters mechanically.

The Tang Dynasty was the most open dynasty in ancient my country. After the Tang Dynasty, it gradually declined and closed down in many aspects, and the cycle of chaos and chaos continued.

The Danming Rebellion in my writing focuses on ethnic issues, and now I will mainly talk about ethnic issues in the Tang Dynasty.

As I said before, I have no intention of inciting ethnic relations. Everything is recorded in history books. In fact, if you read my article carefully, you will find that San people still cherish their lives.

The royal family of the Tang Dynasty was of ethnic minority descent (Xianbei), so the Tang Dynasty was also very open to ethnic issues.

When middle school students look through history textbooks, they can still find the words of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty: "Since ancient times, China has always been valued and despised by barbarians and barbarians. I love them all."

I say this not only because of my bloodline, but also because at that time, a large number of ethnic minority generals served as high-level officials in the military, and there were a large number of Jizhou prefectures on local borders.

During the Anshi Rebellion, 80% of the Han nationality were Han descendants under the command of An Lushan, the Jieduzhi of the three towns (because of the recruitment system, the government military system was replaced, the Jiedushi had financial power, and the soldiers were mothers if they had milk).

On the contrary, there were many ethnic minority generals like Gao Xianzhi and Ge Shuhan among the counter-insurgency teams, and they were even the mainstream in the early days.

Therefore, to sum up, the Anshi Rebellion, a common problem in the middle of the dynasty, was the result of the population trap, that is, the growth of resources could not adapt to the growth of the population. In short, there was not enough food.

The reason why it appeared in this way was a systemic problem and had little to do with ethnic groups. However, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it was a fact that ethnic minority generals occupied the top ranks of the army.

Why are the Han people unwilling to join the army? Because under the military system, they are tax-free and have a high status. After retirement, they can still serve as grassroots cadres of the country. However, under the recruitment system, they are just a bunch of rough guys. Their superiors arbitrarily deduct soldiers and their status is not high. It is difficult to support a family (here refers to ordinary soldiers, the general's bodyguards, whose status and treatment are very high. These are also the general's private soldiers. They basically rely on these people to fight wars, laying the hidden dangers of separatism).

As for why the government military system collapsed, I won’t say much, otherwise I could say tens of thousands of words.

With the development of social economy, Han people have more choices, such as becoming civil servants. But a country is destined to need a certain military presence, and ethnic minorities who are brave and good at fighting naturally fill this gap.

Let’s talk about the prototypes of the moderates and the hardliners. In fact, it was the Niu-Li party struggle in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The Niu Party was actually somewhat beautified in the article.

The Niu-Li party struggle is an unglamorous aspect of ancient my country, and most middle school students are not aware of it. Textbooks that build cultural confidence will not include much text here.

In fact, except for the late Qing Dynasty, basically the records of the last years of the dynasty in textbooks are extremely pitiful.

As most people know, it may be that when I was studying Li Shangyin, my Chinese teacher taught me about it. Since you may not be able to use this function or are not accustomed to using Baidu, I will explain it in the most concise words here.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the world was dominated by aristocratic families. With the rise of imperial examinations in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, ordinary landlords began to enter the officialdom. Niu Dang (the moderate faction in the novel) was the representative of this group of small and medium-sized landlords, that is, the middle class.

Correspondingly, Li Dang (the hard-liner in the novel) is the original group of powerful families, mainly the Guanlong nobles. The royal families of the Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang dynasties were all this group of people, and they were extremely prominent.

Let’s talk about the main differences. The foundation of Li’s party is the army. Only constant war can bring them honor and military exploits and maintain their status.

And war will inevitably collect taxes. The upper-class nobles cannot collect them, and the people at the bottom are too poor to collect them. Only the middle class, which is the foundation of the Niu Party, will be attacked, and the Niu Party will naturally oppose it.

There is no benefit in such things as party struggle. I oppose everything the enemy insists on, and I insist on everything the enemy opposes. In the end, one must die. As the other side of the contradiction, what survives often disappears on its own.

The Li Party's proposition was objectively conducive to maintaining the unity of the Tang Dynasty, but when the party was fighting, they opened fire from all sides without considering the people's ability to bear it, and they were extremely corrupt, resulting in more defeats than victories in the war.

The Niu Party's proposition was objectively conducive to recuperation, but when the party was fighting, all border areas were abandoned (it did not happen, but even some areas with opportunities to recover were abandoned, which was a pity). Even in the late Tang Dynasty, the territory was extremely large.

The strong dynasties in China had such a large territory, not because of insufficient military strength, but because of insufficient finances, because they needed to rule costs, and often these areas did not have much benefits. In addition to enhancing the self-confidence of the people, the benefits were negative.

After stabilizing the security of the farming areas, the dynasty generally stopped expanding, otherwise there would be censors who jumped out to say that the emperor was militaristic.

When the Niu and Li parties were fighting, these costs were paid by the Niu Party, and in the end the Niu Party did not get much benefit, and the benefits were monopolized by the Li Party. The Niu Party was naturally unwilling.

The general trend of history is the gradual rise of middle and lower landlords. In the Song Dynasty, there were no more aristocratic landlords. The Niu-Li factional dispute was the last glory of the aristocratic families. When the Huang Chao Rebellion broke out, all the landlords fell into the homes of ordinary people.

In summary, the Niu-Li factional dispute came after the An-Shi Rebellion, and there was no direct causal relationship between the two. The novel was written at my convenience. If you make mistakes in writing essays or use the wrong allusions, don't blame me.

Although the novel has a prototype, it still says the same thing as before, don't copy it mechanically, analyze specific problems specifically, and arm yourself with scientific ideas.

I hope you enjoy reading it. It doesn't matter whether you agree with my point of view or not. I hope you can learn to look at problems with a materialist historical perspective, don't follow the crowd, and make your own judgments. )