Chapter 2 State and Politics

The momentum of the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time.

In order to complete the great cause of unifying the world and annex the princes of the eight gates, Yun Yi found that only strong military power was far from enough. The late Sui and early Tang Dynasties were a transformation period of Chinese society. Door valves, heroes, scholars and warlords competed to fight for the control of the whole world. The door valve forces are represented by the three gate valves of Li Yuan, Yu Wenhua and Dugufeng, while Haoqiang includes Li Zitong, Qian Duguan and Song Jingang. Since the establishment of Cao Pi's nine-pin Zhongzheng system, it has established the dominance of the scholars in the Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties for hundreds of years. However, due to the heavy war in the Central Plains and the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the scholars completely disappeared in the north, while the south carried forward the scholar system. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen Zhong, the founding emperors of the Song Dynasty came out of the Song Dynasty. Liu Yu, the other people in power are the scholars. The scholars are deeply rooted in the south of the Dajiang River. Even if Yang Guangnan destroys the State of Chen, they can't destroy the scholars, but the scholars have always come to an end, but as the saying goes, if they are poor, they change, they will be general, and they will be general for a long time. From this, the scholars also began to learn from door valves and began to transform into door valves and warlords, such as the State of Liang established by Xiao Xian and the State of Chu established by Lin Shihong. Warlords occupy the territory purely by force and claim to dominate. To quote today's language, it is a copycat army. Among them, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei and Wagangjun (now become Yunyi and Kou Zhong) are the best among them.

As far as the economic and cultural development level of the Sui and Tang Dynasties is concerned, the difficulty of door valves, heroes, scholars and warlords to take the world is also increasing from small to large. In simple terms, the door valve has money, power and system, rich money and power, and the scholar has power and system, while the warlord has nothing.

After careful analysis, the door valve has the innate advantage of unifying the world. Take Li Valve as an example. For a hundred years, Li Valve has been an official for generations. It can be said that it has its own fiefdom, as well as supporting laws and systems. It is not a problem to talk about Li Shimin, the second son of Li Yuan. Far-sighted, he is an immortal genius among the gatekeepers. He establishes the Tiance Mansion in one hand and is in charge of the conquest of the country. There are one long history and one Sima, two people engaged in Langzhong, two people in the military and public offerings, four people in the record, two people in the military, two people in the military in the record room, two people in the army, two people in the army, two people in the army, two people in the army, three people in total. There are 14 people in the clan, including Li Daozong, Li Shentong and other experienced people, and there are also a group of literary generals such as Li Jing, Fang Xuanling, Du Rumei, Changsun Wuji, Pang Yu and Yu Chigong.

If Li Valve is the master of Li Shimin, once he comes out of the customs and takes Luoyang, he will be invincible. Even if Yun Yi had a sense of foreformity, he was shocked after learning about Li Shimin's strategy and ability. This is also the reason why he and his two brothers are eager to calm Xiaoliang under a solid foundation, because once Li Valve takes Luoyang in advance, the difficulty of unifying the world will inevitably increase greatly. At that time, there will inevitably be a north-south confrontation, and the pace of unification will be delayed by at least ten years. In the original work, the reason why Kou Zhong accepted Cihang Jingzhai's opinion and peaceful reunification in the later period is that Li Valve has occupied the two thousand-year-old ancient capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, and nominally occupied orthodoxy. Even if there is no Turkic auspicious south, even if Song Que personally takes action, Kou Zhong wants to win Li Valve's victory or lose only in May 5th, because Li Valve no matter It has an advantage in name, economy, system, soldiers and weapons. At that time, it will inevitably evolve into a protracted war. The ending can be imagined, and it will repeat the tragedy of the Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Secondly, the world is strong and will not be willing to lag behind. Haoqiang can also be called a mixture of the family and the underworld forces. Although the family is not as rich and powerful as the door valve, it is enough for them to dominate the party. It is not too much to say that they want wind and rain. Taking Qian Duguan as an example, Xiangyang is located at the intersection of rivers next to the Han River, which is the place of Jingzhou in ancient times. If you go down the stream, you can easily take the land of Hannan in one day. It can be attacked, retreated and defended. It is the hub of the north and the south. Since Yang Guang was killed by Yu Culture and the uprising, there has been smoke everywhere. The "double knife" Qian Duguan is the leader of the Han Water School. He has good face in both black and white in the local area. He is engaged in the silk business and has a rich family background. The news of Emperor Yang's death came, and Qian Duguan was even more popular. He was elected as the leader by the local rich gentry and gangs. He drove away the Xiangyang Taishou, organized his own militia group, and took the power to govern.

Qian Duguan took advantage of the major forces competing with each other, sat in Xiangyang, watched the world, and met the source left and right, doing big business in exchange for what he needed, just like a king. However, a strong force like Qian Duguan has a fatal weakness, which is that they do not have a set of laws and systems to surround their own rule, which also causes the Yin Gui faction to easily control Xiangyang. Imagine why the Yin Gui faction could not influence the military and government of the Li Valve. In the final analysis, the Li Valve had the most rigorous and advanced management system (government system) at that time. Although Yun Yi was arrogant and obedient, he did not attack Xiangyang, because he knew that his brothers wanted to dominate the world, which could be said to be like walking on thin ice, and they lost all the game in a wrong step. At this time, he was fighting against the underworld forces such as the Yin Gui faction, and it must be himself who suffered losses. Therefore, Yun Yi also turned a blind eye to the underworld demons and other forces, no When you touch the foundation, you will leave some affection for your subordinates.

In the same reason, the scholars in the south will also bloom their last afterglow, trying to restore the glory of the past to dominate the world, and then Liang Xiaomian looks like a spokesperson for the world's scholars. Xiao Xian was originally the Southern Liang royal family in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and was also attached to countless scholars and large and small gangs in the south. The established Liang State was hidden as the largest force in the south, and its momentum was still above the Song Valve. After becoming emperor, Xiao Xian was even more invincible in the south of the Dajiang River. He successively captured Yulin, Cangwu, Panyu and other places, and kept recruiting soldiers. Ma, the number of troops has increased to 400,000, which is located in the south, and no one dares to stop the land of the two lakes. Unfortunately, I met Yun Yi, and the scholar system was destined to go down to the historical stage of China.

In April 618 A.D., Yun Yi led troops to raid Jiangxia. Although Xiao Liang's army was known as 400,000, in fact, the available soldiers were only 200,000, and most of them were navy, followed by foot soldiers, the least cavalry, and Jiangxia was the nest of Xiao's cavalry. Xiao Xian thought that the cavalry was three times as large as the other party's crowd, so he went out of the city to fight. Jiangxia's 60,000 cavalry met a total of 20,000 cavalrymen who had a long-standing Wagang army and well-equipped heavenly soldiers. They were like paper, and they were vulnerable to fight down.

In this battle, Xiao Xian's cavalry lost most of the time, and he also saw the power of the divine arrow and iron horse. In addition, he was originally a person who bullied the weak and had no ambition, so he immediately sent people to make peace. Yun Yi also knew the power of Xiao Liang's water army, and he couldn't take him down for a moment, so he stopped Jiangxia, practiced the water army, and suspended the war. If Yunyi's collection of the Wagang Army is the first step to change the pattern of the world in history, then the Battle of Jiangxia has completely changed the overall situation in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties in the history of the south of the Yangtze River, and also completely changed the historical trajectory of Later Liang.

Originally, Xiao Xian's sphere of influence was to Jiujiang in the east, to the Three Gorges in the west, to Jiaozhi in the south (Hanoi, Vietnam), to Hanshui in the north, and just this month Xiao Xian will move the capital to Jiangling (now Jingzhou). However, due to the loss of Jiangxia, all the important towns such as Yiling (now Yichang), Jiangling and Yidu were placed under Yunyi's tiger claws, which greatly reduced his power. He dared to move the capital to Jiangling. Now he can only stick to Jiangling and Baling (now Yueyang), so that the two places become horns, help each other, and completely become lambs to be killed. There is no more Ability to go east or north.

With the battle of Jiangxia, he not only annihilated Xiao Xian's cavalry, but also put him in a situation of being attacked on both sides. Xiao Xian still had a glimmer of vitality, which was the strength of the whole country. From Jiangling, he sent troops to solve the difficulties of Xiangyang. As long as Yun Yi could not take Xiangyang, he could not pose a threat to Jiangling. If he wanted to attack Baling, he must go against Jiangxi. Moreover, Yunyi's water army was still a little different from Xiao Xian at that time, and the victory or defeat was only four or six. On the other hand, Xiao Xian can join forces with Xiangyang at this time, send troops from Jiangling, and sneak attack Shen Gong City, Yunyi's base camp. At that time, the crisis will be solved by himself. However, once Yunyi takes Xiangyang, he will form an encirclement of Jiangling, and the cavalry can go directly to the south, attack Jiangling and Baling separately, and determine the universe in the first battle. From this, it can be seen that Xiao Xian is a short-sighted person and is destined to become a stepping stone for Yunyi to unify the world.

It's far away. Let's talk about it when we come back. Of the four forces, the warlord is the weakest, like a congenitally deficient baby, and everything should start from scratch. First of all, Yun Yi raised a flag for himself to get the support of the people in the world. The flag is "prosperous Huaxia", in order to establish an orthodox status and justify it.

In 221 BC, the Qin Dynasty unified the division of the heroes since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The Han people called themselves Huaxia, that is, the Huaxia people in the pre-Qin period. From the Han Dynasty, the Han people gradually replaced the old names such as Zhuxia and Huaxia. The word Huaxia first comes from "Shangshu • Zhou Shu • Wucheng": "Huaxia is barbarian, and it is not careless." "Hua" means "glory", "Xia" means "Chinese people", and Huaxia can also be said to be a person from the Central Plains. In Kong Yingda's "Spring and Autumn Zuo Zhuan Justice" in the Tang Dynasty: "China has great etiquette, so it is called summer; it has the beauty of clothing, which is called Hua."

It can be seen that Huaxia is the ancient name of the Han nationality and China. Yun Yi proposed to put up the banner of "prosperous China", which can not only unite the Han people, but also unite the Central Plains. When he enters Luoyang, he can successfully become the orthodoxy of China, reduce the pressure of the south and the north, and also attract more talents.

Next, we will talk about the "money", "potential" and "system" of Yunyi's copycat army. At this time, some people asked why Liu Bang, who had no money, no power and no system, was also a warlord. Why could he defeat Xiang Yu, a rich, powerful and system, and thus win the world? The answer is actually very simple. There is an easy-to-understand word, that is - milk powder.

Assuming that Liu Bang and Xiang Yu are both newborn babies, but due to congenital reasons, Xiang Yu's ancestors are from the family of the State of Chu. In Chu, they can be said to be rich and powerful. They develop much faster than Liu Bang and eat normal milk powder. Liu Bang, on the other hand, is much more depressed. People who don't have milk powder to eat are looking for milk powder to fill their stomachs by stealing or robbing. It can be imagine that Xiang Yu must be Liu Bang, a powerful country in the early stage. If you go all the way down, Xiang Yu can be said to be a sure victory, but unfortunately, something happened. In the middle of the battle between Chu and Han, Xiang Yu's milk powder maker hung up, but Xiang Yu resolutely refused to hire a new milk powder master and was self-sufficient. As a result, he accidentally added melamine to the milk powder, causing self-eating consequences. On the other hand, Liu Bang is not. Liu Bang asked for a milk powder master everywhere and finally achieved results. Coupled with years of training, he knew the quality of milk powder at a time, so he chose good milk powder, which was not like Xiang Yu. He poisoned himself but did not know the whole thing at all. In the later period, Liu Bangjian grew up healthy to **, while Xiang Yu, an unlucky child, grew into a big idiot. ** to the idiot, the result was self-evident. Xiang Yu ended up in Wujiang, while Liu Bang won the world.

I guess some officials will be impatient before they see it. You said a lot, so what is this milk powder? The answer is the focus of this chapter - talent and system. Talent and system can be said to be the best nutrients for the growth of a regime.

The reason why warlords are copycat armies is that both aim to dominate the whole social consciousness flow, because whether it is stealing or robbing, it is a process of growth. Water is weak, but everything is born. Although the warlord is the weakest, he is also the strongest. Weakness only refers to the innate weakness, but strong means that he has the strongest future. This is also one of the reasons why Yun Yi and Kou Zhong chose the Wagang Army to attack, because the warlord is a piece of white paper, and the blueprint drawn has infinite possibilities. The three Yunyi brothers were clear at the beginning, but the times made heroes. After a series of hard work such as Yipinju, the Four Great Treasures, Pegasus Ranch, Xiangjia Wealth, etc., the three brothers had money. Through Jingling and Liangdu, they had half of the "potential". Now there are only two things missing, that is, milk powder, that is, the system. And the "potential" of the other half - talent.

Talents and systems complement each other. There are four main sources of talent for Yun Yi. One is that talents are sent to his door. Yun Yi silently writes the classics in the vertical and horizontal pavilion every night, so that people can print them into books, and establish a vertical and horizontal academy in Shen Gong City to attract talented people from all over the world. The other is to engage in the imperial examination. Yun Yi has done it again, but it is obvious that who is in the mood to take the exam in the war? Not big; the third is to cultivate by yourself. Yunyi's Divine Arrow Hall has been developed. Although it has achieved some results in martial arts, there is not much progress in literary talent.

In the end, Yun Yi had to rob talents, which was also the reason why Yun Yi captured Li Mi and recruited his old department. If Yun Yi's men were already full of talents, Li Mi would have been in a different place. In order to get talents and let all kinds of heroes support him, Yunyi even changed the national policy of "deposing a hundred schools and respecting Confucianism" since the Han Dynasty. At this time, he took the opportunity to put forward the national policy of "hundred schools of thought contending", aiming to revive a hundred schools of thought, for his own use, and strive for talents in the greatest range.

However, although the slogan of a hundred schools of thought contend is loud, it is not the mainstream of social orthodoxy after all, so the effect is not very significant. Fortunately, the system can make up for the lack of talents to a certain extent. The unification of the world by the State of Qin is the best example. If there is no Shang Yang's change, there will be no foundation of Qin and Han in China. Under certain conditions, the social form can be developed. To be honest, today's society is the best example.) Yun Yi, with modern thinking, has always believed in this famous saying. Although the end of Sui Dynasty was a period of social transformation, he also knew that everyone or country had a limit to the jump or transformation. Yunyi did not want to jump into the air and fall to death or transform into half to be disfigured, so he decided to jump from a feudal society to a semi-feudal and semi-capitalist society first.

When it comes to this, we have to talk about the state and political system (system) established under Yunyi's sphere of influence.

The state body is the nature of state rule. It is the fundamental attribute of the state reflected by the status of all social strata in the state, and the state body is ultimately determined by the nature of the mode of social production. Since the establishment of power, Yun Yi has given full play to the advantages of civil servants in his previous life and devoted himself to the transformation of the national body, but after a period of time, he was completely disappointed. As the saying goes, productivity determines the relations of production, and the state also belongs to the relations of production. Only when the contradiction between productivity and production relations leads to a change in the mode of social production will the national system change accordingly. To change the state, there must be a working class. The working class and capitalists are like twins. If there is a working class, we must vigorously support capital merchants, otherwise everything will be empty talk. From this, it is inferred that for the emergence of capitalist merchants, it is necessary to liberate agriculture and liberate the peasants from the land, so as to transform them into the working class. After thinking about it, there is only one way, that is to launch the "Agrarian Revolution" war.

The agrarian revolution is a major initiative of China's revolutionary cause and the cornerstone of the success of the revolutionary cause. During the Second Domestic Revolutionary War, the Party carried out a revolution in the revolutionary base areas to fight against local tycoons, divide land, abolish feudal exploitation and debts, and meet the requirements of farmers' land. Yun Yi combined the experience of his previous life to formulate a complete agrarian revolution route. That is: relying on poor farmers and hired farmers, uniting with middle peasants, restricting rich farmers, protecting small and medium-sized workshops, eliminating the gate valves of scholars, and turning rich and strong land into the land of farmers. All anti-feudal factors were mobilized to ensure the victory of the agrarian revolution.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the agrarian revolution, under the rule of Yunyi, land committees were established by Shenjiantang at all levels to ensure the development of the agrarian revolution by force, and those who do not obey will be killed without mercy. Investigate the land and population, mobilize farmers to clean up the landlord's property, burn the deeds, debts and account books, divide livestock and houses to poor employers, and hand over cash and gold and silverware to the public. Measure the land, distribute it, publicly announce the distribution method, insert a stone, and write the owner, hill name, place name and area on the stone. As a result, Yunyi was widely supported by the vast number of farmers and volunteers from all over the country. There were countless people who came to the same party, and the number of troops soared to 200,000.

"The prosperity of China", "the struggle of a hundred schools of thought" and the "land revolution" are the three major policies of Yunyi.