The slogan of the king of Chu

The slogan of "all rich, all rich" was put forward by Zhong Xiang.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhongxiang, Wu Lingren of Dingzhou, used religious activities to organize people in his hometown. Farmers who join his organization, the rural community, must pay a little money and food, and the community implements mutual assistance and economic assistance, so they can "thrive in the fields and have rich physiology". He declared: "The law is divided into the rich and the poor, and the law is not good. I am a lawyer and I will wait for the rich and the poor. "

This represents the peasants' political proposition of equality in wealth and social status, which is a step further than Wang Xiaobo's thought of "equalizing the rich and the poor" in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

The strict gap between the rich and the poor and the disparity between the rich and the poor in feudal society will inevitably lead to farmers' struggle for personal freedom and against economic exploitation. The insurgents headed by Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao are powerful and deeply supported by the people.

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Reasons for the failure of Yao uprising

1, which is difficult to achieve "wealth equality"

Shortly after Zhong Xiang's uprising, he imitated the imperial edict of the Song Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor, changed his title to Tian Zhan, made his wife Yin Shi the queen and his son Zhong Ang the prince. Only 40 days after the establishment of the Dachu regime, Zhong Xiang was killed, and his successor, Yang Yao, established a new King Dasheng regime. Zhong Yi, Zhong Xiang's youngest son, was made a prince. Starting with Yang Yao, everyone should bow to him.

Yang Yao's regime also established an official post, whose name, dress and etiquette specifications were the same as those of the Southern Song Dynasty. The residences of Yang Yao and Zhong Yi are also called "Inner" like the imperial palace in the Song Dynasty, and there are also three official armies. In order to show nobility, Prince Zhong also decorated the dragon bed, dragon and golden chair on the dragon boat. "Waiting for the Noble" seems to be "different inside and outside".

In addition, as early as before Yao Uprising, Dongting Lake area was riddled with long-term extortion and robbery by nomadic people, and its economy was seriously damaged. In order to destroy the insurgents, Song sent Li Gang to occupy the rich villages near Dongting Lake, leaving the insurgents with no rivers to fish, no land to farm and a serious shortage of food. It also caught up with the catastrophic drought in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the farmland was barren. Countless people starve to death in this country, and many people have to sell their wives to live.

The purpose of "balancing the rich and the poor" is to improve people's lives, but farmers are even more miserable. Instead of "flourishing sericulture and abundant physiology", they "have no food to eat" and even abandoned their wives and children and were displaced. In order to prevent Cheng Changyu from being stationed in Dingzhou, the rebels set fire to the city, and the flames soared into the sky for several days. All the houses in the city were reduced to ashes, and Dingzhou was in ruins.

2. Blind peasant uprising

There were hundreds of peasant uprisings, large and small, in ancient China. Although there were more or less reasonable reasons for the uprising, they eventually fell into a cycle of seizing political power, plundering wealth and improving their hierarchical status. Their ultimate goal was to change the dynasty and establish a new feudal regime.

In this process, on the one hand, due to their own limitations, farmers often have the weakness of arrogance and extravagance. For example, Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although the uprising situation declined after his capital was Tianjing, he still devoted himself to rectifying the government and was addicted to beautiful women, and his revolutionary fighting spirit had already been thrown into the sky.

On the other hand, farmers often vent their dissatisfaction and resentment against rulers by killing people and slaughtering cities. "Huang Chao killed 8 million people, and Zhang Zhongxian slaughtered all Sichuanese. "This kind of extreme behavior will inevitably lead to the strong revenge of the rulers, and then launch a larger-scale extermination action against the insurgents, which will lead to a vicious circle of" massacre ". No matter what the war situation between the two sides is, the ultimate victims are only the Lebanese people and innocent soldiers.

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