Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 482 Competing in the Central Plains (34)

five months later
The winter of the 240th year of Duke Yan (450 years)
When Yan State was still busy suppressing various rebellions in the country, and fell into a ruling crisis due to the outbreak of the black epidemic, the war between Song and Wei in the Central Plains broke out again.

Song Emperor Liu Yilong has recharged his energy, restored people's livelihood, rectified the administration of officials, and trained soldiers over the years. He is confident that he has the strength to regain the Central Plains. Therefore, he often supports the rebels in Wei State and provides help to the rebels in Wei State.

The Wei State has been fighting almost every year for more than ten years, and it has never stopped. First, the Northern Expedition conquered Rouran again, and then annexed the Qin State established by the Xianbei people to the west, and wiped out the Liang State.

The nobles of Liang State fled to Gaochang in the Western Region, and rebuilt Liang State in Gaochang.

Even Khitan and Kumoxi, who had been plundering the Youzhou area of ​​Wei State, are now professing their vassals to Wei State, very afraid that Wei State will annex themselves.

In the country of Wei, in order to meet the material needs of successive years of war, the Xianbei military nobles exploited the Han people more and more seriously, and the Han-Hu conflict that had been eased during the Tuobagui period became fierce again.

Cui Hao, as a representative of the Han family, wants to follow the rumored Brahman who is poisonous and establish a peaceful and healthy hierarchy in the Central Plains.

Cui Hao suggested to Tuoba Tao that the high-ranking Xianbei nobles and the Han family are the first class, which is equivalent to Brahmans; the Xianbei low-level nobles and the Han family are the second class, which is equivalent to the Kshatriya; , which is equivalent to Vaishya; ordinary Xianbei herdsmen and Han ordinary farmers are the fourth class, which is equivalent to Sudra;

And intermarriage is not allowed between different classes, only within the same class.

Cui Hao hopes to complete the integration of the Xianbei ruling class and the Han upper class through this method, so that the Han family can be integrated into the ruling class and become a member of the ruling class.

For this proposal, the noble families of the Han people all agree, because they can jump from the ruled to the ruler.

It doesn't matter to the high-ranking nobles of Xianbei. Anyway, whether they are fused or not, they are the ruling class with the highest power, and there will be no difference.

It doesn't matter to the lower-level Han people, anyway, if they don't integrate, they will be enslaved, and if they integrate, they will still be enslaved, whatever, it has nothing to do with me being a farmer.

Only the low-level Xianbei nobles, Xianbei warriors, and Xianbei herdsmen strongly opposed Cui Hao's proposal for the integration of Han and Hu marriages, because if Cui Hao's integration plan was followed, these low-level Xianbei people who fought for the high-ranking Xianbei nobles would be from the ruling class. It is unacceptable for them to fall directly to the edge of being ruled.

Cui Hao's fusion and marriage plan is actually a combination of high-level Han people and high-level Xianbei people to enslave the bottom-level Han people and the bottom-level Xianbei people, only engaging in class oppression, not ethnic oppression.

For such a suggestion, Emperor Tuoba Tao was a little hesitant, but his heart was actually inclined towards fusion and marriage.

Because promoting the marriage between the Xianbei nobles and the Han family can stabilize the country and allow the Han family to help suppress the Han peasant army who are constantly uprising.

If the Han family is not integrated, then these Han families will always secretly assist the peasant uprising army in doing things, which is very detrimental to the emperor's rule.

The hesitation is worried that doing so will cause dissatisfaction among the Xianbei people at the bottom. What if the Xianbei people at the bottom rebel and overthrow the Xianbei people at the top?
(Facts have proved that after the in-depth integration of Sinicization and marriage, the marginal Xianbei people in the six towns really couldn't bear to fall from the ruling class to the ruled class, and directly rebelled to overthrow the upper Xianbei people.)
The news of Cui Hao’s proposal was known by many Xianbei people, so they deliberately made things difficult for Cui Hao, and picked faults in the national history compiled by Cui Hao, and finally let them find out the faults, and then jointly signed a letter demanding that Emperor Tuobatao be executed immediately Cui Hao.

Faced with the agitation of the low-level Xianbei nobles and Xianbei warriors, Tuoba Tao did not dare to fight hard after all, fearing that it would cause a civil war in Xianbei at this critical moment, so he chose to kill Cui Hao in order to calm the anger of the Xianbei warriors and let them Continue to conquer the north and south for yourself, and expand the territory.

The Xianbei people in the middle and lower classes hated Cui Hao, thinking that Cui Hao wanted to turn them into the ruled people like the Han people, and they would never be able to be prosperous and wealthy again.

The low-level Han people also have no feelings for Cui Hao. After all, the reforms proposed by Cui Hao have nothing to do with them. Whether they change or not, they are still the bottom.

In this way, an aristocratic Confucian scholar who tried to establish a Brahmin caste system in the Central Plains was swallowed by the anger of the Xianbei warriors.

Cui Hao's death brought tears to countless noble families of the Han family in the north, while the Xianbei warriors celebrated with their crowns, but the lower-level Han people did not care.

It is the dream of the Confucian sages of all ages to build a society with distinct levels, each performing his or her own duties, and all classes loving each other. Cui Hao is not the first, nor will he be the last.

And another major event is "destroying Buddha". Tuoba Tao had long wanted to conquer Liu Song in the south, but years of fighting exhausted resources, so he focused on Buddhism.

Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains in the middle of the Later Han Dynasty, developed at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the two Jins quickly spread throughout the Central Plains. In these years, it has become a moth.

Contrary to what many people imagine, Buddhism was actually just a theory like Confucianism and Taoism at the beginning, and Buddha was just a thinker like Laozi and Confucius, not a god, but the disciples of Buddha’s later generations, constantly The myth of the Buddha, and eventually evolved into a religion.

The development of Buddhism is similar to that of Confucianism in the later generations. It was only a theory at the beginning, but generations of disciples of later generations made myths about the founder of the theory, which gradually turned this theory into a religion, and Confucianism gradually evolved into more and more like religion.

Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Buddha, their original intentions were good, they just created a theory for everyone to think about, but later generations of disciples made the founder a myth, turned the theory into a schoolboy, monopolized knowledge, and finally became a religion or similar religion that imprisoned thoughts.

The theory that originally enlightened the mind turned into a shackle that confines the mind in the end.

This has to be said to be an irony.

That's why it is necessary to smash the Confucian Temple and rescue Confucius!

Confucian who inspires thought deserves our respect, but those Confucian sticks who myth Confucius should be cast aside!
This is the truth that Zhuangzi said "the sage never dies, but the thieves never stop".

Because there are saints, all unruly people will use the banner of saints to oppress others, and use saints as their own protective skin. If you dare to oppose me, you are against saints, and if you oppose saints, you are treasonous!
This means that saints never die, and thieves never stop. If there are saints with high morals, there will inevitably be people who are young and small who will use saints to cover themselves with a layer of admiration for saints, so as to facilitate their own misdeeds.

When Buddhism first entered the Central Plains, it was generally good, at least more reliable than the metaphysics of the Jin Dynasty.

But after hundreds of years of development, they have gradually become moths. They have fat heads and big ears, hugging left and right, talking about Amitabha Buddha, but thinking about prosperity and wealth in their hearts, just like many Confucian scholars. Shouting the way of a sage, what he thinks about is enjoying luxury.

A large number of monks were forced to return to secular life, and they were subject to corvee and military service just like ordinary people, and they also had to pay taxes.

Those who dare not return to vulgarity will be killed without exception.

Some monks chose to submit, and they became taxpayers of Wei State, but some monks ran away to Liu Song in the south with gold and silver treasures, and went to the Southern Dynasty to develop Buddhism.

There are also a very small number of monks who choose to go to Liaodong Yan, mainly because Liaodong Yan is currently suffering from a plague, so people in the Central Plains are afraid to go, and the monks in Youzhou are too far away from the Southern Dynasties, so they choose to Liaodong Yan, otherwise No one dared to go.

The last major event of Tuoba Tao in these years is to implement the [equal land system], which distributes the wasteland equally to the refugees who have no land for cultivation. Those with less land can also receive wasteland for cultivation.

It is matched with the land equalization system, which is the [fubing system], that is, if your family divides the land, you will have to serve as a soldier for the imperial court at your own expense, and go to the square market to buy weapons and equipment by yourself.

The imperial court has allocated the land to you, and as a token of gratitude to the imperial court, you have to pay for the imperial court to serve as a soldier, which is very reasonable.

The land equalization system is the basis for the Fubing system to be implemented. If there is no land equalization system, or if the land equalization system is destroyed by land annexation, the Fubing system will disappear in fact.

This is normal. I will serve as a soldier at your own expense because the imperial court has given me land, so that I have the means of production. From now on, I can rely on farming to support myself, so of course I have to serve as a soldier at my own expense to repay the imperial court.

But if the imperial court's excessive taxation caused me to go bankrupt and sell the land, and my family couldn't even afford food, how could I continue to serve as a soldier at my own expense like before?

Therefore, after the Fubing system is implemented to a certain stage, it will inevitably disintegrate. This is an inevitable trend of social development.

After doing the above things, Tuoba Tao obtained a large number of soldiers and supplies, and finally had the confidence to go to war, so he sent troops south to attack Liu Song, wanting to teach Liu Song Emperor Liu Yilong a lesson.

(End of this chapter)