At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 638: Normal Peasant Uprising
On July 47, the 7th year of the Han calendar, the Global Datong Exchange Conference was held in Wu County, Kuaiji County.

Various schools of thought in the Han Dynasty sent representatives to participate. Although they were not called the Datong Society, these schools also took the Datong Rule as their highest political program.

In addition, the princes of the Han Dynasty also sent a number of representatives to participate. These representatives were mainly for learning. After more than 30 years of development, the princes of the Han Dynasty had achieved certain economic achievements, but because of their poor foundation, their culture was far inferior to that of the Han Dynasty, and they were even inferior to places like India, the Xiongnu, and Daqinzhou.

Finally, there is the Datong Association of various countries in Daqinzhou. Some of them are official representatives of their own countries, and some are still in the stage of uprising. They came to Dahan to learn about Dahan’s advanced ideas and concepts, and secondly, to get Dahan’s support.

As the host of the conference, Governor Liu Heng said: "The first Global Datong Exchange Conference is officially opened."

"The Han Dynasty's Emperor Taishang composed a song to welcome the opening of the Global Datong Association. Now it is being performed."

A band started playing next to the venue.

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The representatives of the Datong Association who came to Dahan were basically proficient in Chinese, and the lyrics were easy to understand, so these representatives of the Datong Association basically understood the meaning of the song.

The various schools of thought and representatives of the princes of the Han Dynasty did not have much feeling. After all, the Han Dynasty had enjoyed peace for more than 40 years, and two generations had not known what war was.

But for the representatives of Ptolemy's Pax Romana and the Greek Pax Romana, they had not yet seized the power of the country, and most of the Pax Romana members were slaves and poor people. They were the most deeply moved by this song. This song was simply talking about themselves.

So after the Han people finished singing once, these people sang it again in their own language. Many representatives of the Datong Society shed tears while singing, as their struggle with the slave nobles was still at its most intense moment.

When the members of the Datong Society who had revolted in Daqinzhou heard the words of the Emperor of Han, they all stood up and applauded. These words alone were enough to bring them great encouragement and support. Even the Emperor of Han agreed with their uprising against the slave owners.

Then, each country began to discuss the development of its own Great Harmony Society, and the first to speak was the representative of the Great Harmony Society of the Seleucid Empire.

It has been three years since the Seleucid serfs' uprising. They grew rapidly in the beginning, and within half a year they had grown to a force of over 100,000. They swept across the entire northern Seleucid Empire and at one point surrounded the Seleucid capital Antioch. Unfortunately, they did not have enough firepower at the time, and failed to capture Antioch, so they had to retreat in the winter.

At that time, the leaders of these rebels were full of confidence, thinking that they had swept the entire north in half a year. Moreover, at the critical moment of the survival of the Seleucid Empire, the southeastern provinces of the Seleucid Empire not only did not try to save the dynasty, but instead set up a southeast mutual protection and watched Antiochus IV fight against the peasant uprising. The enemy's division and disunity were naturally good news for the peasant rebels. They thought that they would be able to capture the capital in a year, and finally, like the Holy Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, overthrow this brutal slave dynasty and establish an equal and fair citizen state.

But the reality dealt them a heavy blow, and the siege of the capital became the most glorious moment of their uprising.

After the peasant army withdrew, Antiochus IV recognized the status quo of the southern provinces. If you want to establish a country, then establish a country. If you want to become an autonomous province, then become an autonomous province. As long as you raise the issue, I will recognize it. But if you want to stay in the Seleucid system, you must provide money, food, and manpower to help him suppress the peasant army in the north.

If you want to break away from the Seleucid Empire, then you should consider whether you can stop the Xiongnu Kingdom in the east. You should also think about whether you will have a good ending if the peasant army occupies the Seleucid Empire.

With threats and the rhetoric of "the lips and the teeth are cold", and the fact that the southeastern provinces had achieved their independence, they were indeed afraid of the Xiongnu State, and even more afraid that the peasant army would divide their land. In terms of maintaining their class interests, these slave nobles were still capable of taking action. So after these southeastern provinces got everything they wanted, they sent troops and food to help Antiochus IV.

Antiochus IV privatized all the factories he had built at great expense in previous years in the cities of Antioch and Damascus, which he still controlled, and used them to bribe local nobles and powerful people to support himself.

The nobles of both places also hated the peasant uprising army's equal land policy, especially the nobles of Antioch. When the peasant uprising army came here, they robbed all their manors and killed all their relatives. They knew more deeply that the peasant army was not only against Antiochus IV, but also against the nobles like them. If the peasant army really came to power, none of them would have a good end.

With Antiochus IV's superb political integration ability, he formed an army of 4 people. At the same time, the southeastern provinces also supported an army of . Antiochus IV led this -strong army and fought a fierce battle with the peasant army that swept in outside the city of Antioch in the second year.

The peasant uprising army was defeated and fled back to the north after losing 3 troops. Now Antiochus IV led the noble army to turn defense into offense, and the peasant uprising army of the Seleucid Empire had become precarious.

The members of the Seleucid Empire's Datong Society knelt in front of Xu Aimin and said, "We ask the Holy Emperor to save our Holy Word Army because we are also members of the Datong Society."

Xu Aimin said regretfully: "You are born to help yourself. You made a huge mistake at the beginning of the uprising. You should have attacked Antioch in one go and not given the Seleucid nobles a chance to breathe. If you had done that, you would be facing a Seleucid Empire in disarray now."

The chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty is the best example of this. From the time his father led 800 prisoners to revolt to the end of the Qin Dynasty, it took less than three years. The rulers of the Qin Dynasty did not have a clear understanding of the changes in the world before they were destroyed. The rulers such as the First Emperor did not have time to correct the wrong policies of the Qin Dynasty before they were destroyed by the rebel forces.

This can be seen from the various means used by Emperor Qin Shihuang to unify the six kingdoms, to the rigid means they used to deal with the rebels at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

When facing the uprising army, the first emperor had no choice but to suppress it. The only political policy he adopted was the enclosure movement, but this intensified the conflicts in the entire north, forcing the tyrannical Qin to divide its troops to suppress Yan and Qi. The tyrannical Qin could not concentrate its main forces to fight the Han army, which was one of the main reasons for their failure. It can be said that all the actions of the late Qin Dynasty in the war against the tyrannical Qin were extremely clumsy.

But this was not the case when Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms. He used every possible means in military, political, diplomatic, and espionage warfare.

After failing to defeat the Zhao army after two battles against a military power like the State of Zhao, the First Emperor immediately changed his strategic direction. He first destroyed the State of Han, and then bribed Zhao's prime minister Guo Kai and used a strategy of sowing discord to force Li Mu to death.

The attack on Wei was carried out by flooding Daliang. The attack on Chu was carried out by a war of attrition, which wore Chu out. The attack on Qi was carried out by using diplomacy to force Qi to surrender.

When the Qin high-ranking officials faced the rebels, they did not take them too seriously at first. By the time the rebels grew too strong to be contained, it was too late for them to change their strategy.

"The mistakes we made previously cannot be made up for. We only ask the Holy Emperor to support our Holy Word Army."

Xu Aimin asked in return: "How many people do you have in the northern territory occupied by the Holy Word Army?"

The leader of the Seleucid Holy Word Army was stunned and said, "I'm not sure, probably between 200 million and 300 million?" He didn't know why the Holy Emperor of the Han Dynasty asked this question? What did this have to do with their current opportunities?

The reason why the leaders of the Seleucid Holy Word Army came to the Han Dynasty was to ask for help. He wanted the Han Dynasty to support them with arms and food so that they would have enough logistical supplies to continue fighting.

Even though the Seleucid Army of the Holy Word still has an army of over 100,000, they no longer have enough money to buy guns and artillery. Most of the land on their territory is deserted, and there is not enough food and supplies to support them, so they continue to fight.

The scholars of the various schools of thought in the Han Dynasty shook their heads in disappointment when they heard this. They have all become separatist forces and don't even know how many people are under their rule. How can they recruit soldiers and collect taxes? You don't even know how much wealth and manpower you have in your territory. How can you concentrate the power in your territory to deal with powerful enemies?
Xu Aimin continued to ask: "Have you completed the equal distribution of land in the territory of the Holy Word Army?"

"Because the war is urgent, we haven't had time to distribute the land equally." Then he saw the disappointed look of the Han emperor and explained to himself, "It's not that we don't want to distribute the land equally, but the war is too urgent. In addition, there are not many people in our Holy Word Army who know how to count, so we can't distribute the land equally. We have promised the soldiers that as long as we defeat these nobles, we will give them land."

Xu Aimin shook his head and said, "Whether you want to do something or not and whether you can do it or not are two different things. When the Han Dynasty was founded, there were not enough talents. But my father used ropes as simple measuring tools to distribute land to the people one acre at a time and won the support of all the people."

"Although you are called the Army of the Holy Word, you have learned the principles of my father. But you have learned but never put them into practice. Let me ask one last question. You have occupied the northern part of the Seleucid Empire for three years. Have you established a taxation system?"

The leader of the Seleucid Army of the Holy Word lowered his head and remained silent. If they could have established a complete taxation system, they would not have declined so quickly. There was no shortage of hatred for the slave nobles in the Army of the Holy Word, and many of them had deep blood feuds, so the fighting morale of the Army of the Holy Word was higher.

But their logistics could not sustain such a large army. They had spent most of the wealth confiscated from nobles and powerful people in the past two years. Now they could still survive by relying on the wealth confiscated from nobles and powerful people in their territories. But now they did not even have nobles and powerful people, nor a stable financial system. The Seleucid Army of the Holy Word was on the brink of collapse.

When Xu Aimin saw his look, he showed an expression of disappointment. Representatives of other schools of thought and princes of the Han Dynasty also showed disdain. You say you are the Datong Society, but you don’t even implement equal distribution of land. What kind of Datong Society is this? It’s just a large group of bandits.

It can only be said that the history of the Han Dynasty is still too young. Xu Aimin, the various schools of thought of the Han Dynasty, and representatives of princes from all over the country do not understand the history of the Han Dynasty for the next 2000 years.

In fact, bandits like the Seleucid uprising army are the norm for peasant uprisings. They rise quickly and fall suddenly. An uprising that can last for three years is already a relatively outstanding example. After all, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which could directly shake the foundation of the Eastern Han Dynasty's rule, was put down in just eight months.

It was normal for Li Zicheng to have hundreds of thousands of troops to be destroyed. If the ice age at the end of the Ming Dynasty had not been so horrific and the ruling order of the Ming Dynasty had not completely collapsed, Li Zicheng could easily have summoned hundreds of thousands of refugees. It would have been almost impossible for Li Zicheng's bandit army to enter the capital. But when he faced the more organized Qing army, he easily destroyed the entire country.

It may be that Chinese civilization really began to become rigid and corrupt. The quality of the leaders of the various rebel armies at the end of the Ming Dynasty was obviously more than one level lower than that of the end of the Yuan Dynasty. They would only wantonly destroy the existing system, but could not lead their subordinates to establish a new system to replace the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, there was no hero of Chen Youliang or Zhang Shicheng's level.

It is impossible for someone like Xu Fan, who has received a complete education in dragon-slaying techniques, to appear in this era. What Xu Fan learned is aimed at the world's top imperial education, which is a natural enemy restraint.

In the history of peasant uprisings, there is only one example like Xu Fan, who attached importance to the organization of the army and the education of soldiers from the very beginning. After occupying a piece of land, he attached importance to the control of the grassroots and was able to divide the land and unite the vast majority of farmers. This example is the closest to Xu Fan.

However, because the only sample of the number of peasant uprisings in the Han Dynasty was Xu Fan, this led to the fact that Xu Aimin, the various schools of thought in the Han Dynasty, and the various princes of the Han Dynasty all overestimated the upper limit of the rebel army.

I thought that when someone like Xu Fan occupied a place, he would immediately start to establish a ruling system, and gain the support of the people by distributing equal land. He then relied on the equal land distribution to gain the support of the people, quickly built a military system, and then expanded his strength like a snowball, defeating the powerful Qin in three years. This should be the norm for peasant uprisings. Even if the lower limit is a little lower, they should always establish a complete rule that can conscript soldiers and collect taxes.

After all, if you want to defeat an organization like a country, you have to organize a national organization with stronger combat effectiveness. The grassroots ruling system, taxation system, and conscription system are indispensable.

But today, after listening to the Seleucid Army of the Holy Word, they realized that the bottom line of the rebels was so beyond their imagination. They had no political system or military system, and they didn't even have a taxation system. Their financial income depended entirely on confiscating property. They were simply a large group of bandits. No wonder they couldn't even defeat the corrupt slave aristocracy.

Then there were also several small countries' Holy Word Army, their situation was similar to that of the Seleucid Holy Word Army, but their situation was even worse, they had basically been defeated by the slave nobles, their large army was dispersed, dozens or hundreds of people hid in the mountains, relying on fighting the mountain kings and occasionally going down the mountain to rob the nobles' manors, barely surviving. They said they were a revolutionary organization, but in fact they had degenerated into bandits.

Xu Aimin shook his head helplessly and said, "What you need now is not material support, but to learn how to use the "Record of the Holy Word" to guide you in establishing an uprising regime."

"The first sentence of the Book of the Holy Words is about finding your revolutionary allies and strengthening your own forces, identifying your enemies, dividing and disintegrating them, and thus defeating them. However, judging from your actions, you have not united your allies, but have united your enemies instead."

The leader of the Seleucid Army of the Holy Word was unconvinced and said, "We have united our allies. We, the Army of the Holy Word, represent the civilian slaves of the Seleucid Empire. We also know clearly that Antiochus IV is our enemy."

Xu Aimin said: "Uniting allies is not just talk. What can you do to unite allies? Have you taken any concrete actions to get the civilians and slaves of the Seleucid Empire to support you? You have neither distributed land equally to the civilians of the Seleucid Empire to win their support, nor have you established a sound taxation system under your rule. You want to get money only by robbing. Isn't this pushing the low-level nobles, citizens, and even civilians with a certain amount of farmland of the Seleucid Empire into supporters of Antiochus IV?"

"From your statements, I know that you only read the Sacred Words but do not practice them. You also drove your allies to the enemy's side. How can a mob like you defeat the slave nobles?"

Xu Aimin thought for a moment and said, "When you return to Daqinzhou, go to Yanzhou Governor's Office first. I will send someone to teach you how to establish an uprising regime."

Upon hearing this, the leader of the Seleucid Holy Word Army said helplessly: "Thank you, Holy Son of Heaven."

Although this posture is different from what they imagined, if it can teach them how to fight, it can be regarded as establishing a connection with the Han people.

Then, members of the Carthaginian and Roman Pax Romana explained how their countries would build a holy world of Pax Romana.

Since Carthage defeated Rome with the support of the Han Dynasty and got rid of the heavy burden of reparations, the country began to prosper from decline. The Carthaginians rebuilt a huge merchant fleet and monopolized more than half of the Mediterranean's maritime trade. They even used the Suez Canal, and trade ships began to appear in the Seleucid Empire and the Huns. Coupled with the New World trade system they established themselves, they already looked like the coachmen of the sea.

After conquering the Celts, the Carthaginians focused their construction on the three Celtic islands. They built aqueducts and canals, reclaimed land on the islands on a large scale, and distributed the land to citizens. At the same time, they redeemed Carthaginian compatriots in various city-states throughout Daqinzhou. Now the number of Carthaginian citizens has exceeded 300 million, and the land is increasing at a rate of more than 100 million acres per year.

(End of this chapter)