Chapter 192 The Origin of Qiang Rebellion The Eastern Han Dynasty began in the southeast and died in the northwest.
Guangwu Zhongxing, flourished in Yougen, and declined in Yongliang.
The second year of Zhongping, March.
In the name of killing the eunuchs, Bian Zhang, Han Sui and others led tens of thousands of horsemen into Kou Sanfu and invaded Yuanling.
The background of the times that caused all this is the long-term contempt and trampling of the northwest region by the Kanto gentry group.
The rebellion of the Qiang people was caused by the imperial court's mistakes in its policy toward Guanxi over the years.
Navigating the Hexi Corridor, opening up the Western Regions, annexing the Qiang people, and cutting off the arms of the Huns was a large strategic plan, and its main purpose was to strengthen the Han government's control over the grasslands.
The Qiang people are different from the Xiongnu and Xianbei. By the late Eastern Han Dynasty, their nomadic nature had been greatly reduced, and their national characteristics had become half-agricultural and half-pastoral. Most Qiang tribes have mastered farming techniques and began a settled life of half-farming and half-pastoral. .
When Wang Mang was wreaking havoc on the Central Plains, a large number of Qiang people began to move to the northwest border counties on a large scale while the borders were unattended.
For the Qiang people, the original strategy has actually been formulated long ago: First, you can’t discriminate against others, you have to be open and tolerant so that people can blend in.
Second, Confucian culture must be penetrated. In other words, you must penetrate the Qiang people from many aspects of life, habits, customs, etc.
However, the court perfectly avoided these two correct choices.
Ban Chao died, and his successor was Ren Shang, a disciple of Empress Deng's father, Deng Xun.
Within a few years, this talkative talker knocked over the first domino of Qiang chaos - chaos in the Western Regions.
The Qiang people who became docile people, were stripped of their arms and placed in various counties, became the local bottom citizens.
They regretted that they had not chosen to fight with the Han people with dignity.
They regarded the Han people (like Ban Chao) as brothers, but the Han people (later the Guandong gentry) regarded them as cattle and horses!
They farmed the worst land, did the hardest labor, and were responsible for almost all military service.
No matter they were Han officials or powerful men, they did not treat the Qiang people as human beings.
The Qiang people live a more miserable life than before.
Strategically speaking, Cao Feng, the prime minister of the country, wrote a letter to build Xihai County. It is true that this area must be occupied.
But in the actual implementation process, the taste changed.
The rebuilding of Xihai County this time has become a big mountain pressing on the inner Qiang people. Most of the labor and troop garrison targets for these construction fell on the Qiang people in various places.
Both the Liangzhou governors and the Liangzhou wealthy families had a very leisurely life because of the existence of the Qiang slaves.
This is the second domino of Qiang chaos.
The third domino that toppled the Qiang rebellion was the imperial court's bloody suppression of the Qiang people. The chaos in the Western Regions was getting more and more serious. Based on the principle of proximity, reinforcements and supplies had to be sent from Liangzhou.
The Qiang people were unwilling to be cannon fodder, so they took up arms and resisted.
When the news came, the counties in the Western Regions treated them roughly as usual. Each county sent county soldiers to stop the Qiang soldiers. Some even burned the Qiang people's homes to ashes and brutally insulted the Qiang people's wives and daughters.
Blood feud! In this way, the Qiang people became a serious problem for the Han Dynasty, and the war continued endlessly.
Fighting means consumption, fighting for the treasury and the you really want to suppress the rebellion, it's actually not that difficult, but this involves a power struggle between the Kanto and Kansai factions.
Since ancient times, Kansai has produced generals and Kanto has produced prime ministers.
In order to guard against the powerful Kansai clan, the Kanto gentry group made huge preventive mistakes in the appointment of officials in Liangzhou and even the entire Kansai region.
Because the wealthy families in the northwest are martial, the Guandong faction has always been extremely vigilant against this group.
(Martyrs and military ministers often came from Liangzhou, and brave men from the northwest actually visited various states.) Therefore, Maocai and Xiaolian who were recommended by the entire Kansai basically did not return to serve in the west. Instead, a large number of them were transferred to the northeast to serve as border officers to resist the Xianbei, or they went to Kanto to find a place to arrange, while in Kansai they served as The officials are all Guandong nobles.
But when the Guandong nobles distributed it, they could put the people from Nanyang in Yingchuan and the related households in Yingchuan in Runan.
For example, Nanyang Yinshi.
When you marry, you should marry Yin Lihua! The Yin family gave birth to two queens. It was a famous family in the Eastern Han Dynasty and a famous family of relatives.
There was a person named Yin Xiu from the Yin family in Nanyang. When he was the governor of Yingchuan, he appointed many famous people in Yingchuan, such as Zhang Zhong, Zhong Yao, Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Tu and others. These people were also willing to respond to Yin Xiu's appointment. , rather than resorting to the tactic of pretending to be Yin Yu married Xun Shuang's daughter.
There is something fishy about this that cannot be described.
The final result was that in the evolution of the imperial officialdom of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Kanto gradually evolved into a gentry group due to the advantages and monopoly of the number of officials and the dense concentration of prefectures and counties, while Kansai remained a wealthy society in isolated islands.
This is indeed an institutional trick to prevent the "violent gold energy" in the northwest, but in the context of the Qiang people's internalization, it actually turns into a blind institutional poison.
When Wei Xiao was in Longxi, he had a very good relationship with hundreds of Qiang people; Fufeng Ma's Ma Yuan settled in Longxi for six years after suppressing the rebellion in the early stage, and the local singing and dancing flourished.
But as long as the officials from Guandong are in charge of Liangzhou, rebellions of various sizes will emerge one after another in Liangzhou.
For many ethnic issues, non-locals are often unable to understand the symptoms; non-locals do not care about the ecology and long-term interests of the local people at all.
In fact, the root cause of the continuous Qiang chaos lies in the fact that on the premise of preventing the wealthy families in the northwest from getting bigger, a large number of outsiders dominated the officialdom of the northwest. As a result, the entire Kansai region did not create a "positive cycle" of officials until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. and local reciprocity models.
In this situation, the Qiang people eventually became the miserable payers of the high-level game.
Liangzhou cannot be lost!
If Liangzhou is lost, Sanfu will be the border; if Sanfu moves in, Hongnong will be the border; if Hongnong moves in, Luoyang will be the border.
The ancestral mausoleums of the Han Dynasty are all in Sanfu. No matter how stupid Liu Hong is, he can't let his ancestors guard the border.
But this time the Liangzhou Rebellion was not caused by the simple Yellow Turbans, but by fierce locals.
Just as Liu Tao, the admonishing doctor, said: "I secretly saw that the world encountered Zhangjiao's rebellion in the past and the bandits in Bianzhang later. Every time I asked Yu Shu for help, my heart was burning, my heart was burning, and my body was terrified. Today, the Qiang in Western China are like this, privately The generals in the department are all senior officials with many degrees of experience. They are familiar with battles, know the mountains and rivers, and can be deceived."
They are familiar with warfare, know the terrain of mountains and rivers well, and are full of tricks.
These are not refugees, but the army!
The powerful Liangzhou army led the Qiang people in the vanguard and rebelled!
The emperor also knew it, but not long after the Yellow Turbans were suppressed, the treasury was empty and the court was unable to suppress the rebellion, so it could only ask the emperor's brother Liu Han.
But the emperor's brother is now in Guandong Pinghuangjin and can't escape.
Reluctantly, the emperor followed the advice of the general and Yuan Wei and reused Dong Zhuo.
This was a compromise made by the Kanto gentry. Although Dong Zhuo was from Kansai, he was also a disciple of the Yuan clan and an old official, and He Jin could also control him.
Everyone is happy to reuse Dong Zhuo.
In fact, everyone has a better candidate in mind-Duan Jiong.
However, no one wanted to call him out.
Because Duan Jiong was finally pushed out of the central government, if he came back, he would definitely become the spokesperson of the Liangzhou nobles and powerful people. Regardless of whether these noble people and powerful people were willing or not, there was only one choice.
So, what will happen?
In the local area, Liu Han controls the three states of You, Bing, and Liang; in the central area, this person will definitely be the assistant minister in the future.
According to this person's strength, can the nobles be fine?
Look at Bingzhou and then look at Youzhou. Which nobleman doesn't live like a dog?
The rest either ran away or no longer wanted to live and became a number under this sword.
Although Liu Han was busy, he also recommended a person to the emperor who no one wanted to recommend - Huangfu Song.
There are also people among the gentry who want to recommend Huangfu Song, but his reputation is really bad and they dare not mess with him. If Huangfu Song fails, then his family, the person who recommended him, will probably be doomed as well.
The reason why Liu Han recommended Huangfu Song was very simple: You, Huangfu Song, have been complaining all day long, saying that the Huangfu family was loyal to the Han, the court, and your Majesty. Now that the Qiang people have rebelled and Liangzhou is in chaos, go and quell the rebellion for me.
Huangfu Song knew that this was King Hejian's conspiracy, but he had to bite the bullet, otherwise the reputation of the Huangfu family would never be wiped away!
(End of this chapter)