Chapter 841: Reasons for the Failure of the Uprising

After Zhang Liang and Su Fan exchanged cultivation insights, he didn't stay long and left.

His arrival made the situation of the Great Qin clearer to Su Fan. After all, compared to the Confucianism behind Zhang Liang, Su Fan was a lone man.

Although he had also set up a restaurant in Donghai City over the years, the dishes in the restaurant, with the stir-frying of later generations as a foundation, were indeed booming.

And in just a few years, he had opened branches in many counties of the Great Qin, but the Great Qin suppressed commerce after all.

So the restaurant's branches only opened a dozen or so.

If it were the Great Tang or the Great Ming, it would likely have spread throughout the world.

His main source of information before was from these restaurants.

After all, people from all walks of life liked to exchange information while eating, and the restaurant would probe for some information from here and then pass it to Donghai City.

Not to mention the lag in message time, the true correctness of the message could not be guaranteed.

Compared to Confucianism, it was naturally much worse.

Especially the lag in information; there was no way, this world, even if it was a mythical world, was also ancient, and communication was not developed.

Perhaps Qi Refiners or gods and immortals had means of transmitting information no worse than modern technology, but the people in Su Fan's restaurant were all mortals.

Even if some practiced martial arts, one could imagine the result of relying on two legs to transmit information.

As for training carrier pigeons, this thing was even more unreliable. After all, even if carrier pigeons were trained well, the possibility of encountering danger in the wild was still very large.

Any flying bird posed a very large threat to it.

Over time, Su Fan did not hold much hope for the restaurant side. The information he inquired about was all trivial matters, and true military situations were also very rare.

Thinking about it, it was also true. The Great Qin was not modern times, with freedom of speech.

In the Great Qin, unless they were true nobles, they dared not discuss major world events freely in public. Ordinary small merchants and peddlers, or even small landlords, did not have the qualification.

If they were not careful, they would be labeled with the crime of leaking military information.

This was not a joke; it existed.

The Great Qin's Legalism was so terrifying; it could be said that the people were suppressed severely. Compared to the Six Kingdoms, the Great Qin's control over the people was very powerful.

The Six Kingdoms basically let the people be, while the Great Qin did not.

This was also the reason why many places could not accept the Great Qin's laws. The old Qin people had gradually become accustomed to it since Duke Xiao of Qin.

And in the lands of the other Six Kingdoms, some people could not accept it.

This was also the reason why local rebel armies were like a single spark that could start a prairie fire.

There was no help for it; having been suppressed for a long time, there would always be people who wanted to stand up and release it, plus the incitement of those people.

More and more people stood up to resist.

So the rebel army was getting bigger and bigger. If they couldn't wipe out all the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, just suppressing those rebel armies would have little effect.

Just like the peasant uprising armies of various dynasties, if they didn't wipe out all the high-level members, the uprising would never end.

The most obvious one was the Ming Dynasty, especially the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng's uprising lasted for decades, from the Tianqi period of Chongzhen's predecessors.

By the Chongzhen period, until the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng broke through the BJ city, and the Great Ming was finished.

It could be said that the Ming Dynasty mainly perished because of Li Zicheng's uprising.

After all, if Li Zicheng had not broken through the Forbidden City and Chongzhen had not hanged himself, perhaps the Great Ming could still persist, and the wild boars in the north would not have been so easy to move south.

Chongzhen, as the orthodox Great Ming, as long as he was still there, there would still be opportunities.

However, it was a pity that after Chongzhen died, although the southern court quickly pushed out an emperor, because of the selfishness of the high officials in the court, several courts appeared, constantly infighting and consuming their own strength.

This allowed the wild boars to see the weakness of the Great Ming court and have the heart to enter the Central Plains.

It could be said that if Chongzhen had not died, the Great Ming could still persist for a period of time.

The wild boars' army was strong, but their numbers were really too small.

Of course, there were many reasons for the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, but the direct cause was Li Zicheng breaking through the Forbidden City. It was just that Li Zicheng did not have the ability to resist the wild boars.

Otherwise, Li Zicheng might have been the next Zhu Yuanzhang.

It was a pity that there was only one Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Zicheng could only be a useless leader of a peasant uprising army.

And the Great Ming actually had several times to stop Li Zicheng; Li Zicheng was once captured, but he was released again.

That was why he gradually developed and grew.

If those peasant uprising leaders and high-level members had been wiped out at that time.

Perhaps there might be a Zhang Zicheng or someone else in the future, but it could also be delayed, and perhaps the Forbidden City would not have been broken.

Of course, these things cannot be assumed in history.

But Su Fan understood very well that peasant uprisings are best extinguished in the early stages by wiping out their leaders and high-level members, and then it would be easy.

For example, the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, the Yellow Turban Rebellion had great momentum and almost overturned the entire Eastern Han Dynasty.

It was a pity that Zhang Jiao, the leader, suddenly died of illness, the Yellow Turban Army was leaderless, and then Zhang Jiao's two brothers were wiped out.

Plus those channel commanders were either fleeing or dying, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion also declined.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising was the same.

At the moment, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising had great momentum, even bigger than the Xiang clan; they were the true peasant uprisings.

However, Su Fan was also the least optimistic about them.

There were too many peasant uprisings in history, but almost none succeeded, except for Ming Taizu and that Taizu of later generations.

Others were just forerunners for others.

After all, most peasant uprisings were just for resistance against oppression, without a true action program, and ultimately could only fail.

Many peasant uprisings, these high-level members, had no knowledge, completely relying on a cavity of hot blood, which was fine at the beginning.

But as the territory grew larger and larger, they did not know how to govern the local area and could only slowly perish.

Compared to those major clans and nobles, the foundation was really too poor.

So every time the dynasty changed, these peasant uprisings were just making wedding dresses for others, consuming the power of the last dynasty, and then others took advantage.

Such as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Yellow Turbans at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the end of the Sui Dynasty, etc.

Su Fan, who had personally experienced war and even participated in the struggle for the dynasty, knew very well the importance of knowledge.

There were many reasons for the failure of the Yellow Turbans, but more importantly, there was no sufficient talent. Those channel commanders could be generals, but not commanders.

After Zhang Jiao died, almost no one could unify the Yellow Turbans, each fighting their own battles, and naturally they were slowly eliminated by those local major clans. ===== CHAPTER 842 =====