Chapter 841: Reasons for the Failure of the Uprising
After Zhang Liang and Su Fan exchanged their cultivation experiences, they left without staying any longer.
His arrival gave Su Fan a clearer understanding of the current situation in the Qin Dynasty. After all, compared to the Confucianists behind Zhang Liang, Su Fan was a loner.
Although, he has also set up a restaurant in Donghai City in recent years. The dishes in the restaurant are based on the cooking skills of later generations, and the business is indeed booming.
And in just a few years, branches were opened in many counties and counties in Daqin, but Daqin suppressed business after all.
Therefore, the restaurant only has a dozen or so branches.
If it had been the Tang Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, they would have spread all over the world.
His main sources of information used to come from these restaurants.
After all, all religions and professions like to exchange information while eating. The restaurant will gather some information from here and then pass it on to Donghai City.
Not to mention the message time lag, the accuracy of the genuine message cannot be guaranteed.
It is naturally much worse than Confucianism.
Especially the lag in news, there is nothing we can do about it, even if this world is a mythical world, it is ancient, and communication is not developed.
Maybe Qi practitioners or gods, their means of delivering messages are no worse than modern technology, but those people in Su Fan Restaurant are just mortals.
Even if there are some martial arts practitioners, it is conceivable that they rely on their legs to convey messages.
As for training homing pigeons, this thing is even more unreliable. After all, even if homing pigeons are well trained, the possibility of encountering danger in the wild is still very high.
Any bird is a great threat to it.
As time went by, Su Fan didn't have much hope for the restaurant. The information he got was all trivial, and there was very little real military information.
Come to think of it, Da Qin is not a modern country with freedom of speech.
In Da Qin, only those genuine nobles dared to discuss world affairs freely in public. Ordinary merchants, hawkers, and even small landowners were not qualified.
He might be accused of leaking military information.
This is no joke, it exists.
The Legalists of Great Qin were so terrifying. It can be said that the people were severely suppressed. Compared to the Six Kingdoms, Great Qin's control over the people was very powerful.
The Six Kingdoms were almost free-range for the people, but the Great Qin was not.
This is also the reason why many places have never been able to accept the laws of the Qin Dynasty. The old Qin people of the Qin Dynasty, starting from Qin Xiaogong, have gradually become accustomed to it.
In the other six countries, some people cannot accept it.
This is why local rebels are like a spark that can start a prairie fire.
There is no way, if you have been suppressed for a long time, there will always be people who want to stand up and release, coupled with the temptation of those people.
More and more people are standing up to resist.
Therefore, the rebels are getting bigger and more numerous. If they cannot kill all the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, just suppressing those rebels will have little effect.
Just like the peasant uprising armies in the past dynasties, the uprising will never end unless all the high-level officials are killed.
The most obvious one is the Ming Dynasty, especially the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty and Li Zicheng's uprising. The uprisings spanned many decades, but they started in Chongzhen and Tianqi years.
In the Chongzhen period, until the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng conquered BJ City, and the Ming Dynasty was finished.
It can be explained that the main dynasty fell due to Li Zicheng's uprising.
After all, if Li Zicheng had not broken the Forbidden City and Chongzhen had not hanged himself, maybe the Ming Dynasty could still hold on. It would not be so easy for the wild boar skins in the north to go south.
As long as Chongzhen remains the Ming Dynasty's orthodoxy, he will still have a chance.
However, it is a pity that after the death of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, although the imperial court in the south quickly elected an emperor, it was a pity that the selfishness of the court officials led to the emergence of several imperial courts and constant internal strife, which consumed their own strength.
In this way, Ye Zhupi saw the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, and they decided to settle in the Central Plains.
It can be said that if Chongzhen does not die, the Ming Dynasty can still persist for a while.
Boarskin's army is strong, but their numbers are too small.
Of course, there are many reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but the direct reason is that Li Zicheng breached the Forbidden City, but Li Zicheng did not have the ability to withstand the wild boar skin.
Otherwise, Li Zicheng may be the next Zhu Yuanzhang.
It's a pity that there is only one Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Zicheng can only be a useless leader of the peasant uprising army.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty stopped Li Zicheng several times. Li Zicheng was caught once, but unfortunately he let him go.
Let him gradually develop and grow.
If all the uprising leaders and high-level leaders of these peasant armies were killed at that time.
Maybe there may be Zhang Zicheng or others in the future, but it can also be postponed, and maybe the Forbidden City will not be breached.
Of course, these cannot be assumed historically.
But Su Fan understood that the best way to put an end to the peasant uprising was actually to kill all their leaders and senior officials in the early stages. That would be easy.
For example, the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was so powerful that it almost overthrew the entire Eastern Han Dynasty.
Unfortunately, the leader Zhang Jue suddenly died of illness, leaving the Yellow Turban Army without a leader. Later, Zhang Jue's two brothers were killed.
In addition, those Qu commanders also fled and died, and the Yellow Turban Uprising became lonely.
This was true for both Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising.
The current uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang is huge and even bigger than the Xiang clan. They are the real peasant uprising.
But Su Fan was also the least optimistic about them.
There have been too many peasant uprisings in history, but almost none of them succeeded, except for Ming Taizu and the Taizu of later generations.
Everyone else is a pioneer for kings.
After all, most peasant uprisings are just resistance to oppression. Without a true program of action, they can only fail in the end.
In many peasant uprisings, these high-level officials had little knowledge and relied entirely on enthusiasm, which was fine at the beginning.
But as the chassis gets bigger and bigger, if you don't know how to manage the place, you can only slowly perish.
Compared with those wealthy nobles, their background is really poor.
Therefore, every time the dynasty changes, these peasant uprisings serve as wedding dresses for those people, consuming all the power of the last dynasty, and then others take advantage.
Such as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the late Qin Dynasty, the Yellow Turbans in the late Han Dynasty, and the late Sui Dynasty, etc.
As someone who had personally experienced war and even participated in dynasty struggles for hegemony, Su Fan knew very well the importance of knowledge.
There are many reasons for the failure of the Yellow Turbans, but the most important reason is that there are not enough talents. Those commanders can be generals, but not commanders.
After Zhang Jiao's death, almost no one could unify the Yellow Turbans. They fought independently and were naturally gradually eliminated by those local big clans.