What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
When it comes to the division of feudal towns, we often have the illusion that the big men of the clan are shouting the slogan of "we are pests, we are pests" and stubbornly confronting the central government.
In fact, when the big man of the clan town confronts the central government, he usually talks about the grand truth.
First, they will certainly make all kinds of specious democratic theories out of thin air. In fact, the so-called soldiers are arrogant and generals, generals are arrogant, and handsome are arrogant. To interpret it in a lofty word, it is democratic politics. Because this is the standard power exercised from the bottom up.
And optimistically, the people below can kill their leaders at any time, and the leaders dare not serve the people below well?
Second, they will certainly demonize the central government of the Tang Dynasty through various forms, in short, the emperor is really not like words, and he knows how to reuse perverted dead eunuchs. All in all, the emperor was a money addict and liked to reuse the traitors who amassed money. In a thousand words, we have to achieve some kind of autonomy, and if the central government is allowed to put its hand in, we will become a hell on earth.
Thirdly, they will certainly emphasize the advantages of military autonomy. Everything is obvious, if the central government controls the military region, the emperor will definitely let all kinds of bullshit not civilian officials enter the military region to command blindly, and even let a large number of evil and perverted dead eunuchs enter the military region to command blindly; even more let all kinds of corrupt officials and corrupt officials manage the logistics of the army, then the national defense of the empire will be dangerous, and then foreign races may invade.
When I opened the history book, every word was written that the big man of the clan shouted that we were pests and that we were pests. Let you write like this, how can the big man of the clan town know how to beautify himself?
When I was a child reading the history of the Republic of China, I saw that all the warlords were evil and perverted, and I thought it was incredible; at that time, I thought consciously or unconsciously, the real history is definitely not like this!
Later, with the advent of the information age, seeing more and more historical materials left by the warlords themselves, they finally found that when they confronted the central government, they dressed themselves up so tall, and even more described the central government as the embodiment of the disaster to the country and the people. The point is, you don't look at it with prejudice, and you can't think they're complete nonsense.
Let's first look at the most unquestionable basic historical facts in the history of the late Tang Dynasty.
The emperor had to reuse the evil and perverted eunuchs, which was one of the most unquestionable basic historical facts in the history of the late Tang Dynasty!
No matter how everyone writes the history of that time, this fact, I believe no one will deny. That being the case, we can basically draw two more credible inferences.
First, this kind of fact is so rampant, there is no reason why the big man of the clan town should not talk about it when he confronts the central government?
Second, the reason why this fact has become so widespread is, to a large extent, due to the public opinion war of the big man in the town. Because of the interests of the big men of the clan town, they must so vilify the central government of the empire, because only then can they justifiably oppose the central government.
In fact, based on the public opinion propaganda of the central government, eunuchs will certainly be said to be loyal to the king, patriotic, and serve the people wholeheartedly, otherwise the emperor will reuse such people.
Some people may say that how can the emperor beautify such an evil and perverted thing as a eunuch as a representative of loyalty to the king, patriotism, and love for the common people? In this regard, everyone only needs to know the names of the evil incarnation of the Gestapo, the KGB, and the cultural group in the later generations, and if we only look at the popular information in the later generations, people will inevitably think that how can such evil and perverted things as the Gestapo, the KGB, and the cultural group be whitewashed? The problem is that at that time they must have represented justice and justice, representatives who served the people wholeheartedly. Otherwise, whether it is the Fuehrer or the great leader, what is the so-called thing to let such a person do his own thing?
Therefore, when the central government cuts the domain, an important content is to fight a public opinion war.
We cannot win the war of public opinion, and it is difficult to win a realistic war. The problem is that it is difficult for the central government to win this battle of public opinion.
When it comes to an important evil of the division of feudal towns, history books often talk about one thing, that is, many notorious feudal areas do not have a dime of tax into the central government.
This kind of statement in the history books is obviously looking at the problem from the perspective of the central government, so it will offend the most evil people by saying that this kind of problem is the problem of the town. And based on the perspective of the Phanjin area, it is obviously completely reasonable!
Do you think that in our Heshuo area, it is very easy to rely on the taxes of a province in Hebei and not to feed a large number of border guards with a dime from the central government, and to make the Khitan people dare not go south?
In fact, just by looking at the later history, we should know that this is something that is difficult to go to the sky. Because the Ming Empire, in order to support 100,000 so-called Guanning Iron Horsemen, the central finances were destroyed.
Is it easy for us, the military and people of Heshuo, not to ask the central government for a dime, but to rely on our local strength to achieve all this?
Based on the perspective of you, the traitors and corrupt officials, not only do we in Heshuo have to use our hard-earned money to support an army that can resist the invasion of the Khitan and Xi people, but we also have to hand you a large number of items for you to spend the day and wine? Do you still have humanity?
In fact, if you have a little bit of humanity, you should think that the people of Heshuo who provide a strong border guard must be living a non-human life, and our central government should tilt here in terms of policy, in short, allocate more funds to here. You are so good that you actually think that the people of Heshuo must have a lot of surplus in providing for a powerful border guard army, and that you economics are taught by physical education teachers?
When the central government talks about an important evil deed in the division of the feudal towns, it usually always talks about the refusal of the central government to appoint personnel.
The question is, what are the consequences of the Phan Town accepting personnel appointments from the central government? On the basis of its eunuch group, it entered the town in a big way!
If this is the case, is there anything wrong with the refusal of the central government to appoint personnel? Apparently not!
If the central government wants to carry out personnel appointments to the feudal towns, if it wants to occupy the commanding heights of public opinion, it must first abolish the system of eunuchs supervising the army! If this system could not be abolished, it would be too easy for the fan town to take advantage of public opinion when it refused the personnel orders of the central government.
Because the usual history books are from the perspective of the central government, we always feel that except for a few evil warlord leaders, everyone supports the emperor's cutting of the domain. Actually? Support the power of the clan town division, that is a lot to go!
Because in the public opinion propaganda of the big man in the town, the central government is the embodiment of evil, and in the simplest terms, after the Anshi Rebellion, the biggest feature of the politics of the Tang Empire is the eunuch politics! With the existence of this fact alone, the big man of the clan town can occupy the absolute initiative in the public opinion war.