Why do the Kanto gentry despise and even resent the Xizhou gentry?
It's shameful to say that it's all because Xizhou scholars blocked them from getting rich.
Because of the avoidance principle of the Three Mutual Laws, local officials in Xizhou are generally from Guandong. These people come here to make a fortune.
Most of them are greedy, cruel and willful, and only know how to exploit and bully the Qiang people, herd horses and livestock, and obtain good wealth. Moreover, because they are in a remote place and have no moral concerns about their hometown, these people are not greedy.
How can the Qiang people endure both abuse and greed?
So the Qiang people rebelled, and this time the rebellion was different from the past. That is, since the Qiang people were suppressed in the former Han Dynasty, a large number of Qiang people migrated to the fortress in the past hundred years, and even penetrated deep into the areas of Sanfu and Sanhe.
These attached Qiang people also could not escape the oppression of the officials, so during this chaos, the Qiang people inside and outside the wall responded to each other and supported each other, directly bringing the war to the core area of the Han Dynasty.
The annexation of the Qiang people was originally a national policy continued by the Han Dynasty. Its original intention was to disperse and disrupt the Qiang people, and then assimilate the Qiang people to the rehabilitated Han people, and then become the Han Dynasty's household registration system for the people.
There are examples to follow. During the reign of Emperor Wu, the Yue people were included and achieved great results. But why did they fail when they came to the Qiang people?
It turns out that the internal areas of the Qiang people are different from the internal areas of the Yue people. The areas that the Yue people rely on are the Jianghuai area, which is vast and sparsely populated, and there are not many conflicts with the local Han people. But the Qiang people are different. The areas they migrate to are Guanzhong and Sanhe
The area is the core area of the Han people.
When these Qiang people come here, they will not only be out of place, but will also be enslaved by the Han people based on their superior status. This enslavement and suffering, in turn, strengthens the identity between the Qiang people.
At the beginning, the rebellion of the Qiang people did not affect the Guandong people's ability to gain wealth, but instead allowed them to make greater war fortunes.
At the beginning of the counter-rebellion, the Han Dynasty deliberately guarded against the northwest warriors and did not let the northwest heroes participate in the counter-rebellion. Instead, they continued to recruit soldiers and horses from Guandong to counter the rebellion.
In fact, it was the ancestral precept of the Han Dynasty to prevent the warriors of Xizhou from committing crimes. During the two Han Dynasties, Xizhou had a series of strong and independent powers. Among them, Lu Fang, Wei Xiao, and Dou Rong all had a decisive impact on the situation of the world.
Later, when Guangwu pacified Xizhou, he moved the Kui Xiao party members to Hongnong and the east of the capital. Dou Rong, Liang Tong, Ma Yuan and other Xizhou warriors were also transferred away from Xizhou and used for other purposes. Two thousand people in the Xizhou area
The positions of Shi, governor, and guardian were almost all from Guandong.
Therefore, this time when the Qiang rebelled, the generals dispatched by the Han Dynasty and the county soldiers recruited came from Guandong.
At the beginning, the imperial court sent generals such as Deng Zhi, Sima Jun, and Pang Shen, all of whom were from Guandong, but they could not quell the war.
The reason why the war dragged on for such a long time was that the Qiang people were determined to fight without fear of death. But this was not critical, because past rebellions had also been put down.
The key here is that the people of Kanto discovered that this war was not a bad thing.
If the Qiang people cause rebellion, won't they be able to capture prisoners and make them slaves?
Therefore, when the Qiang rebellion began, the county chiefs in Xizhou did not directly put down the rebellion, but used it as an excuse to start plundering the Qiang tribes under their rule. This situation directly expanded the situation of the rebellion. Originally, there were only a few
Partial rebellions began to spread throughout Western Province.
However, these Qiang people were just forced to rebel. In fact, they did not have enough preparations. They almost always used bamboo poles and branches to replace spears, or used eucalyptus as support. In short, their combat effectiveness was very poor.
But in this case, the heavily armed county officials could not control it.
Why?
Because these Guandong people are not only ruthless to the Qiang people, but also ruthless to the Xizhou heroes under their rule. They usually either guard against or suppress them. Now, if these people are asked to go up and stop the Qiang people, how can these people be willing?
The officials in Guandong are all exiled officials. Without the support of powerful people in these places, they would not have many troops. In addition, they are here to make money and not to risk their lives, so they only need to defend their own city and ignore everything else.
As for those Qiang people who burned, killed, and looted, it was not their hometown anyway, so they didn't feel bad about it.
After all, the interests of the Kanto people are in Kanto. What do the interests of you Kansai heroes and people have to do with them?
Some county officials even saw that the Qiang rebellion was getting more and more violent, and directly stated that they wanted to move to counties to avoid the enemy.
To put it bluntly, he just wanted to run away when he saw that he had messed up.
Since we are moving to the county, we need to bring the people with us. But the people love the land, and their homes and fields are all here. How can they be willing to follow the Guandong people to move away?
If the people didn't leave, the county chief couldn't leave. So, the Guandong people ordered them to destroy crops, demolish houses, and razed camp walls. In short, they forced them to leave.
Now, not only the Qiang people rebelled, but these Guanxi people also rebelled because of the harsh treatment of the Guandong people. Now the Xizhou rebellion became even greater.
At this point, it was no longer the matter of these Xizhou governors, it had already reached the then chariot and cavalry general Deng Zhi. He directly wanted to abandon Liangzhou at the court meeting.
The impact of this incident is still great, which means that the Kanto people completely ignore the interests of Kansai.
But fortunately, some of the people in Guandong were sober at that time and knew that Liangzhou could not be abandoned. However, with the people of Guandong as the general, it could not be pacified several times. Everyone at the top and bottom knew that the interests involved were too great.
Everyone knows where the huge sum of money spent on this war went.
You must know that in order to quell the rebellion, the imperial court successively dispatched Sanhe, Sanfu, Runan, Nanyang, Yingchuan, Taiyuan, and Shangdang troops totaling 50,000 people. Later, more troops were continuously added, and more than 200,000 troops were stationed in the three states.
The military expenditure here is almost more than 24 billion yuan. This money has been embezzled by the Kanto generals, enriched privately, and bribed the middle officials. The thieves are suppressing more and more, and the Kanto generals are also getting more and more
fat.
The generals are greedy for money, so how can the soldiers below have the fighting spirit?
Another key point is that these Kwantung soldiers are foreign soldiers, and the quality of their discipline depends entirely on the restraint of the generals and the adequacy of supplies. But now that the higher-ups are so corrupt, these foreign soldiers can only rob them themselves.
In this way, no one at the top or bottom has the will to fight, and they cannot get the support of local powerful people. Can this war be won?
Therefore, the Kanto generals were defeated five times in succession.
Deng Zhao was defeated by Jixi, Ren Shang was defeated by Pingxiang, Sima Jun was defeated by Dingxi City, Ma Xian was defeated by Shegu Mountain, and Zhao Chong was defeated by Manyin River.
At this stage, even the country knows that the people from Guandong can no longer use it. Otherwise, if this continues, the counties in Guandong will also be in trouble because of raising military expenses.
At this point, the Han Dynasty could only make a decision that went against their ancestors, which was to use local generals and soldiers from Kansai.
In order to defend their hometown, these people must be full of fighting spirit.
So during the period of Emperor Huan, the Han Dynasty began to change its past tradition and no longer idle the Guanxi soldiers, but became the absolute main force of the Pingqiang.
One thing that makes the Kansai soldiers better than the Kanto soldiers is their tactics. The Kansai soldiers have more cavalry, so they are equipped with a large number of cavalry teams, which is suitable for mobile counterinsurgency.
Among them, the two cavalry troops protecting the Qiang captains were Huangzhongyi Congbing and Huangzhongyi Congbing Qianghu. Together with Wanqi, they became the absolute main force in countering the rebellion.
It was at this time that Kansai General also emerged from this process. Because Kansai soldiers can only be commanded by Kansai General, the importance of Kansai General can be imagined.
Among the many Kansai generals, three are the most outstanding.
They are Huangfu Gui, Zhang Huan, and Duan Jiong. Among them, the first two are both used to suppress and appease the Qiang, and only Duan Jiong belongs to the Qiang sect.
But no matter how the three of them solved the problem, they all won the love of the Kansai soldiers. Compared with the Kanto generals who were not military-minded and corrupt, they were brave and good at fighting, well versed in military strategies, took the lead, and cared about the soldiers.
Even Dong Zhuo, who was known for his violent temper, was rewarded by the court with nine thousand pieces of cloth and silk after he performed meritorious service with Zhang Huan. He distributed all of them to the officials and soldiers, leaving nothing behind.
Comparing the Kanto generals and the Kansai generals before and after, they can be described as clouds and mud.
Relying on kindness and protecting their hometown, Guanxi generals and their hometown children finally pacified the Qiang people and stabilized the border affairs in Xizhou. I thought everything was back to the starting point, but the world-famous people in Guandong were planning to go to Xizhou again to serve as officials.
When making money.
They found that everything had changed.
During the long period of fighting the rebellion, the Kansai families have mastered huge amounts of force and have their own interest groups. It is now difficult for the Kanto people to do whatever they want in Xizhou.
Therefore, the Guandong nobles who controlled the imperial court successively transferred Liangzhou Sanming and Xizhou away from Xizhou for various reasons. However, these three people may still have Han Dynasty in mind and did not support their own troops.
But after leaving their homeland and losing their military power, the three people could only rely on various political forces until they were ruthlessly abandoned.
In fact, the Kansai Group, which has grown up and possesses its own extremely powerful force, is very powerful. With the Liangjiazi of the six counties as the core, Qin and Hu Yicong as their wings, and Qiang and Hu as their minions, they have experienced hundreds of battles and are powerful in all directions.
Originally, they were still loyal to the Han Dynasty under the leadership of Huangfu Gui, Zhang Huan, and Duan Jiong, but with their tragic decline, they were once again played by the Guandong people.
The Kansai Group, which grew again, decided to be incompatible with the Kanto people.
It was also because of this deep-seated contradiction that Liu Hong arrived in Chang'an and quickly gained the support of the Kansai warriors. These Kansai people decided to fight a war that would determine their future destiny and return the Kansai people to the center of power.
Therefore, the Guandong court sent a letter to Liu Hong of Chang'an this time.
Liu Hong, who knew what he could rely on, was not a little embarrassed when he saw this extremely insulting memorandum. Instead, he passed it on to all the Kansai generals.
When these men saw those arrogant Guandong people once again accusing them of being barbarians, they were filled with hatred and shame. The crowd was furious. In the court and in front of Liu Hong, they vowed to fight to the death with the Guandong people.
Looking at the powerful general below, Liu Hong also drew his sword and pointed it to the east, roaring:
"Then fight them!"
"war!"
For a moment, the crowd was in uproar.
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Since the Kanto court despises Kansai so much, the heroes of Kansai will defend their glory with iron and blood.
Then Yuti flew from outside Chang'an and set off towards the counties of Yongliang and Yi.
Among them, the most popular direction is the northwest, which is the direction of the six counties. They are the three counties of Tianshui, Longxi and Anding in Liangzhou, and the three counties of Beidi, Shangjun and Xihe in Shuofang.
Liu Hong wants to recruit the children of six counties to come to Chang'an to defend the Han Dynasty.
When the Emperor of Han ordered troops, the six counties would naturally be summoned. They did not recognize the new imperial court in Guandong. To these people, the latter's talk of breaking the heavens was treason.
In this way, thousands of heroes from six counties were summoned, bringing their own provisions, weapons, spears, armor and horses, and rolled into Chang'an along the galloping road.
Among the thousands of heroes from the six counties, there was one named Zhang Liao. Although he was from Yanmen, he also brought his children from his hometown to join the recruitment. He was Zhang Liao from Mayi.
Like countless good family members in the six counties, Zhang Liao, who was born into a powerful family in Mayi, also received severe training since he was a child.
In addition to learning Yayan since he was a child, he also had to learn Xianbei and Xiongnu dialects. Yayan was to make it easier for him to travel to the capital in the future, while Xianbei and Xiongnu dialects allowed Zhang Liao to deal with local relations.
As the front line against Xianbei, Yanmen rarely needed this kind of language, and there were many Huns in Yanmen. The local Zhang family rarely had to deal with these people whether doing business or recruiting Huns warriors.
In addition to these language studies, Zhang Liao also needed to learn some scriptures. Although it was not much, he must be able to read and write, because this was a compulsory study for the good families in the six counties.
But these literature and arts are just embellishments in Zhang Liao's life of more than ten years. All the good family members in the six counties only have three things on their way to growth, that is, swords, bows, and horses.
Zhang Liao got his first real sword from his father when he was ten years old. Before that, he had used wooden swords for several years to train basic fighting skills. Zhang Liao spent his childhood playing with knives.
After he grows up, Zhang Liao will join the hunting with the wealthy sons of Yanmen.
Only during hunting could these frontier warriors master archery and horse fighting skills and mounted warfare tactics. Because hunting is the activity closest to war, this can be seen from the Xianbei people.
The reason why the Xianbei people are natural cavalry is because they have a lot of hunting activities and have honed their combat skills and coordination.
But the Xianbei people's training is just like cavalry at best. It is completely different from the Liujun Liangjiazi's method of cultivating knights and warriors.
Hunting by Han knights is almost like a small war.
Every son of a wealthy family must prepare his own food, riding, war horses, and weapons. Then once he hunts, he must endure pain and obey military laws regardless of whether it is cold or hot, whether he has enough sleep or not.
During hunting, a qualified knight from the Six Counties must understand the habits of prey, learn to observe the hunting ground, be able to deal with various emergencies from his mount, and most importantly, use the sword and bow in his hand to kill.
In this way, Zhang Liao would participate in hunting with his friends from Yanmen every year, and his patience, courage, and combat skills grew from this process.
Although Zhang Liao is young, he is very brave.
Among his peers, he is most praised for his bow skills. He can shoot hundreds of shots without interruption during hunting, and he can also shoot at the sky. He is already at the level of a prairie archer.
But hunting can only hone the riding, shooting and coordination of the children of the six counties, but he cannot hone the impact of cavalry fighting.
For the knights of the Han family, their world-leading ability is the impact of a horse, and several Han family sudden riders cooperate in a battle formation, so that one man can act as five barbarians.
Therefore, in order to practice the cavalry tactics, Zhang Liao also participated in the local cavalry competition in Yanmen. This is a competition in which each other uses a headless horse to attack each other.
Because of the danger, there are only a few people who can participate. Therefore, in order to hone their combat skills, heroes like Zhang Liao need to travel to several places in Yanmen, Beidi, Shangjun, and Anding. It is also through this kind of competition that the children of the six counties have
their respective social circles.
This time Zhang Liao participated in the recruitment of Han Emperor Liu Hong because he was invited by a friend.
This man is Fu Xun, a wealthy family in the north. After his family is Fu Jiezi, his uncle is Fu Xie. Fu Xie was left by Zhang Wen to guard Xingyang, but later he decisively abandoned the army and left during the Henan Shi rebellion.
I originally wanted to go back to Kyoto directly, but I didn't know about the national western inspection until we were on the way, so I rushed to Chang'an without stopping and stood on Liu Hong's side.
During this western expedition against the Kwantung Army, many generals in Kansai sided with Liu Hong. As far as one county in the North was concerned, the Fu family, the Liang family, and the Xie family all sacrificed their outstanding sons and vowed to
To win this battle.
For the good fortune of the Kansai generals in the future, this time, they are united as one.