
From Peasant to Court Official
朝为田舍郎
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I admire this writing style. The descriptions of the expressions of many characters are very three-dimensional, and the stories are also very sequential and smooth. It is really a good book in the history genre.
To be honest, the writing style of the old thief is still on point, and the early plots are also smooth and smooth, but the recent plot is really a bit poisonous. Since a person like Song Gensheng is not suitable to be an official, then he should not be allowed to be an official, right? Do you have to stick to your ideal and let Gu Qing work hard for it? If he has the ability, he will fight with the powerful on his own. The supporting characters will be willful and the protagonist will pay the bill. This kind of plot is not without poison. Anyway, I don't have much desire to watch it anymore. If we say that the plot of the fight with Ji Wen and Li Linfu can be rated seventy points, even if it is a bit deliberately blunt, it also plays a role in connecting the past and the future, gradually paving the way for the protagonist's scheming. But Song Gensheng fights with the powerful, and the protagonist comes to rescue him. This plot is even rated at 50 points. It is not only blunt, but also uncomfortable. The most outrageous thing is the character of Li Twelve Niang. She looks down on the protagonist's actions of fighting far away from the temple, but then turns into "the rich and powerful make the tillers have no land, and they have no choice but to let it go." What's going on? It's not okay for the protagonist to stay away from the temple struggle. I, Li Twelve Niang, just sit back and watch the tillers lose their land, okay! Old Li Laf. Starting from her double-standard behavior, her character is really more disgusting than Song Gensheng.
Good books shouldn't be drowned out. Lao Zei's historical articles have always been my favorite. I hope they will continue to be good!
Old thief, are you starting a new book? How many years has it been? I've been waiting for it every day, month and year, and finally got what I hoped for. When it's released, we'll be together and do our best.
The benefits of the Jiedushi system are actually very obvious. People in some places still support Jieduzhi, and the number of Jiedushi's victories in foreign wars is actually quite high.
The military system in ancient China has gone through several changes. After the collapse of the Han Dynasty, the military system of the Qin and Han Dynasties was unsustainable (because the Qin and Han Dynasties must have strong basic management and mobilization capabilities before they could have a universal military system for the whole people) From the Three Kingdoms to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the aristocratic families became larger and wars were frequent. Grassroots management could not go down to counties. Conscription was unsustainable, but wars still had to be fought. Why did the ethnic groups that entered northern China after the Western Jin Dynasty quickly die out and disappear from history? There is a very important reason. Most of them cannot recruit strong men, and it is difficult to get food from the countryside. They can only rely on people of their own ethnic group to fight in wars. They die a lot and are consumed quickly (actually, during that chaotic period, China's rural areas, especially the north, built a lot of forts and walls, and inherited the Qin and Han traditions. Chinese people have weapons in every household, and some even have crossbows. With weapons, they can naturally protect their homes. In the Han Dynasty, the Huns and Xianbei invaded south and were often beaten back by the people.) This kind of ghost situation It's strange that the barbarians often refused to touch them and their heads were bloody. Many times they still killed the barbarians. In the north, many aristocratic families had their own armies, and the aristocratic families' courtyards were built almost like fortresses. This situation turned into the military household system and the military household system. In the military household era, ordinary people were no longer recruited to join the army. However, due to frequent wars, heavy burdens, and low status, military households also fled in large numbers. Later, it became the military household system. It was first pioneered by the Western Wei Dynasty. In the early days, the soldiers were supervised by their own ministers, brought their own bows and swords, and were not registered as household members. The generals were given the Xianbei surname regardless of their ethnic origin. The soldiers worked in farming during peacetime and were dispatched during war. They were exempted from corvee service and taxes, and all weapons and horses for combat had to be raised by themselves. It can be said that the soldiers were all middle-class small landowners, much like European knights. Hua Mulan is the prototype of the Xianbei hereditary Fubing family. Poetry has a prototype. Both men and women in the Xianbei Fubing family are good at martial arts (the Tang Dynasty named General Xiaolie). Originally, Han people were restricted from serving as soldiers (in fact, this restriction did not control much). The Li family and those Guanzhong soldiers who joined the army in the Qin Dynasty were not mostly Han people, but the Xianbei surname was used to cover it up. And the armies of those aristocratic families are not all Han) The advantage of the government army system is that it has a small burden and can raise troops with the lowest financial burden. But it didn't work anymore. The Xianbei soldiers fought countless battles and consumed a lot of money. A large number of Xianbei men died on the battlefield (this is one of the reasons for the demise of Xianbei). As the war expanded, only a large number of Han people could be allowed to join the army in the late Northern Zhou Dynasty. Later, the conditions for the soldiers continued to be relaxed to the peasants. A very important reason for the collapse of the Tang Dynasty's military system was the destruction of the equal land system. You had to ensure that the tillers had their own land so that they could afford military service. So the soldiers began to flee in large numbers. In the early Tang Dynasty, they inherited the legacy of the previous dynasty and respected the guards. However, by the time of Wu Zetian, the guards were often borrowed by aristocratic bureaucrats for private service, which led to the social shame of serving as government soldiers Then the recruitment system gradually replaced the government soldiers system, and there was no way to reduce the pressure on the central finance (I did not want the central financial burden to be so heavy) The Tang Dynasty has long been affected by the decrease in copper coins due to foreign trade, depleted mines, and private hoarding. Deflation was already extremely serious during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. However, the climate was favorable and grain production was very high. Money was expensive and grain was cheap. The traditional taxation system could not continue. At this time, the Tang Dynasty's financial problems were already huge, and the taxation situation was getting worse. Tang Wuzong's extermination of Buddhism at least solved the financial problems for several years in the late Tang Dynasty. Tang Xuanzong gave more rights to local military towns, empowered military commanders, financial control and supervision of inner states and counties. There were a total of nine Jiedushi and one Jinglue. By the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the number had increased to 9 Jiedushi and two Jinglue. In this way, the Tang Dynasty actually underwent a huge change, from inheriting the strong foundation of the Qin and Han Dynasties, focusing on the inside and the outside, to a situation of strong branches and weak trunks. There was no strong army in Chang'an (from the time of Wu Zetian to Tianbao, the garrison in the Luoyang capital area of Chang'an, which had not fought for decades and was almost exhausted), but there were strong troops at the local borders that had experienced hundreds of battles. It is not impossible to have Jiedushi, but the problem is that if you give him the position of three military commanders and control the most elite army in the Tang Dynasty, it is difficult to reassure people. If you only control the army of one Jiedushi, Anlushan will not be able to rebel. Other Jiedushi can also extinguish him (after all, most Jiedushi are still loyal to the Tang Dynasty), and Anlushan is still very loyal in the early stage. But during this period, Tang Xuanzong could be said to be extremely mediocre. He had nothing to do but fight with his sons every day. After all, he had already killed three sons and could not kill the only remaining legitimate son. Military generals like An Lushan were involved. The struggle in Chang'an was inseparable from An Lushan. Some people shouted at him to kill him every day, while others wanted to defend him. The emperor's noncommittal attitude finally made An Lushan rebel Normally An Lushan would be transferred back to Chang'an as an official, but it can be said that the struggle in Chang'an was completely messed up What's more terrible is that you let him control so many Jiedushi's troops, so he was finally forced to rebel as he wished. Then both parties were dumbfounded and no one benefited. He didn't expect that he was so weak, except that the prince finally defeated his father and became the emperor, but in the end it was at the expense of the Tang Dynasty and the country, Uihe and Tubo, saw the weakness of Chang'an. The existence of feudal towns in the middle and late Tang Dynasty also objectively extended the life of the Tang Dynasty. It is undeniable that these feudal towns absolutely tried their best to protect their own territory. In fact, for most of the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the separatist feudal towns were only a small part, and most of the feudal towns could still be controlled (some were still very loyal to Chang'an, and Chang'an could receive most of the money and grain from the Jiedushi envoys). The official laws of the Tang Dynasty could still be implemented in most of the feudal towns system. The separatist feudal towns attempted to stay away from centralized power, but they could not completely negate the central rule. Local civil servants could also appoint In order to protect their own territory, The feudal towns are actually very good to the people and protect trade. It can even be said that under the governance of some feudal towns, the people's lives are better than under the governance of Chang'an. The three towns in Hebei are supported by the people in their hometowns. The output of cattle, sheep and horses in the three towns in Hebei is the first in the world. Under the governance of Sanfan Town in Hebei, everyone has to admit that Hebei is prosperous and the people are rich. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, Yan Gaoqing wrote a letter saying: "Today Hebei is prosperous, the people are rich, well-dressed and well-dressed, and they are invincible in the world. The local Jiedushi manages the place better than Chang'an. The living conditions of the people in the three towns of Hebei are not good. No, this joke actually existed in the Tang Dynasty Because the feudal towns were better managed and had enough financial resources to support them, they were able to be self-sufficient in money and food. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River was diverted. Before the climate turned cold, the agricultural environment in Hebei was actually very good But Jiedushi would dare to conquer his superiors if he was not a soldier or even his relatives. There were many rebellions in the Tang Dynasty, and this trend has been followed in the Northern Song Dynasty. Rebels in the Northern Song Dynasty often rushed to Kaifeng to set fires, and Song Renzong was almost burned to death by the rebels. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the lower-level vassals often killed Jiedushi or held them hostage to rebel. The vassal towns also had a particularly high number of foreign war victories. The Northern Jiedushi and Uighurs also won many wars with Khitan. External expansion may not be possible, but you must do your best to protect your hometown. In Sichuan, Tubo was even beaten miserably. In the Battle of Weizhou, Tubo also joined forces with the food army to attack Sichuan. The result was a disastrous defeat. A series of disastrous defeats at the hands of local vassals in Sichuan, which was a very important reason for Tubo's eventual decline (overall, Tubo lost more when attacking the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty and won less, except for Wu Zetian and the Anshi Rebellion, who took advantage) To the Southern Song Dynasty Evaluation They all relied on Fang Zhenxiang and Jujiao to quell the chaos, so Fangzhen's soldiers could not be said to have done nothing to the Tang Dynasty At that time, if the vassal town continued to be maintained by the Southern Song Dynasty, there would never be the shame of Jingkang, because the Jin army would be beaten back by the local vassal town. The Song Dynasty took away all the local power, money, food and troops, leaving the place empty and without military power. Only the border had combat power, so they died so tragically.
Since the title of the book is "Chaowei Tianshelang", let's start with the poems (the last words have the same pronunciation)! The great Gargamel, please improve me
It's really poisonous. The male protagonist is a pedantic young man. The male protagonist forcibly promotes him to be the county magistrate. However, he insists on fighting with the powerful even though he knows that it will bring disaster to the male protagonist's life. The female protagonist also protects the male protagonist personally. The male protagonist runs back from Chang'an and they live and die together. Is this the pretentiousness of literary youth, the mirror in their hearts?
Li Longji was an out-and-out foolish emperor, and he was considered the most emperor of all time by Wu Zhou Tianshu.
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