If Shu Han didn't have the Northern Expedition and insisted on rest and recuperation, he would have won with a long-term plan, and the final result would only be sitting still, even being killed by Cao Wei before AD 263.
0 1. The founding purpose of Shu Han determines that it must go north.
The late emperor deeply felt that Han thieves were not at peace and were not partial, so he asked me to invite thieves.
Zhuge Liang moved out the late emperor Liu Bei in "A Model". One purpose is to win the support of the young monarch Liu Chan for the Northern Expedition. Is it filial to not change your father's ways for three years? Liu Chan, what do you think? Another purpose is to shut up the main pacifist faction in North Korea, that is, the main convalescent faction.
The Northern Expedition is not a military issue, but a political issue. It's useless for you to analyze the advantages and disadvantages militarily. The Northern Expedition will definitely be held. Because? Chinese thieves are at odds, not biased? The Northern Expedition was the foundation of Shu Han.
Zhuge Liang offered a moral banner and stressed that the Northern Expedition was imperative. Rational analysis is mainly about six unresolved topics of the latter model. However, these unresolved issues are still about strategy rather than strategy. The so-called strategy here is the rationality of the northern expedition, such as Cao Wei's predicament and his own difficulties; The so-called strategy is the inevitability of the Northern Expedition. What is the reason for this strategy? Little people? It's just that reason is a little cold, so Zhuge Liang can only insinuate and say ambiguously. However, we can talk generously.
Liu Bei took a group of troops from Jingzhou and the Central Plains, killed Yizhou, and then became king in this place. In fact, it is very despicable for Liu Bei to do so. The reason is that Yizhou has a monarch, a counselor and a stable political order. Therefore, Liu Beizhan Yizhou is a very immoral behavior. If this immoral behavior wants to become moral, it must have a moral banner. Otherwise, Liu Bei simply can't understand why he and his foreign troops want to enter Yizhou.
And this moral banner is the restoration of the Han Dynasty. Mountain occupation is only a means for kings and governors, with the aim of restoring the Han Dynasty. The morality of purpose conceals the immorality of means. In order to moralize this goal into the legitimacy of Yizhou regime in Shu and Han Dynasties, Liu Bei and later Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang had to carry out the Northern Expedition. Without the Northern Expedition, it is impossible to set up the banner of purpose morality.
02. Foreign war is the strongest means to solve internal problems.
After Liu Bei died in Baidicheng, the rear area of Shu Han immediately became unstable. Therefore, Zhuge Liang did not go to the north immediately after Liu Bei's death, but had to quell the internal rebellion first. The biggest civil war was the Pingnan-China War in 225 AD.
However, after the war, will the Shu-Han regime be stable? It is impossible to be stable, because unstable contradictions and soil always exist. The biggest instability is the contradiction between Yizhou aborigines and Jingzhou outsiders. Why do Yizhou people insist on recognizing Liu Bei and Liu Chan as emperors, and why do they allow Jingzhou and Zhongyuan departments to control state affairs?
However, it is impossible to solve the contradiction between aborigines and Hakkas. Therefore, internal problems will not be solved. Today is the rebellion in South China, and tomorrow is the rebellion in Hanzhong. Zhuge Liang doesn't have to do anything else, but desperately toss about internal rebellion.
Today, the people are poor and tired, and they are in Fukashi; If things can't stop, then life and work will wait.
The first meaning of this sentence is: if you don't hit Cao Wei, Cao Wei may come to hit you. In short, it is to fight. Instead of waiting for Cao Wei to beat you, it is better to take the lead in beating Cao Wei yourself.
But the second meaning of this sentence is the real meaning: Shu Han not only doubted the country, but also tired of the people. If you don't go to war with foreign countries, you can only wait for internal struggle, either local military rebellion or imperial factional struggle. So what? Things can't stop? .
How to solve internal contradictions and go to war with foreign countries has always been the strongest means. Simply put, it's called the contradiction of diversion. In fact, it is to solve more intractable internal problems with bigger external problems and solve problems at a higher level.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang did a good job. It's not that Shu Han doesn't want to rest, but that there is no chance to rest at all. If we can't handle the internal distribution of power and political distribution, how can we recuperate?
03. Has its own strategy, but the rest only belongs to Wei.
Now that Zhuge Liang is going to the Northern Expedition, there will be tension at home. In this tense atmosphere, internal contradictions have been temporarily put on hold, even suppressed to nothing.
Some units or organizations are so tired that leaders often go looking for trouble to engage in a big campaign that wastes people and money. The purpose of sports is not to solve the problems raised by sports, but to create a tense atmosphere? By the way. Solve chronic diseases that cannot be solved by conventional means.
This is the reason why Zhuge Liang can't recuperate and normalize the country. What about Soochow? Although Soochow has no ambition, it must create some tense atmosphere at home, but it is not necessary to be as strict as Shu Han. Because the Sun Shi family's roots in Jiangdong are too thick, this regime has its own legitimacy. In the later period of Shu Han, even after Zhuge Liang's death, we can relax it a little. But this is not because Zhuge Liang died, so no one did it, but because the environment allowed, so no one could do it.
Then, talk about recuperation. First of all, you should know what rest is. What we can refer to is the inaction in the early Han Dynasty, which does not mean that we will stop fighting or recuperate. What the hell is going on here?
Look at nothing but taxes. The state does not collect taxes or collects less taxes, and the bureaucracy is a bit lazy, and then there are fewer households and fewer people. This is rest and recuperation. Its function is to leave money and manpower to the society, not to concentrate it in the hands of the state.
Only Cao Wei can recuperate, but neither Shu Han nor Soochow can.
During the period of Wei Wendi, many Shu Han people and Wu Dong people fled to Wei. Wei also captured and captured many counties. Then, Wei Wendi is going to fill households and people for these newly affiliated counties, which is actually to collect taxes. However, sima yi admonition said:
The thief was tied up in a dense net and abandoned it. It is natural and comfortable to use an outline.
What do you mean by that? At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the law was forbidden in the province, and Sima Qian metaphorically said: the fish that escaped the net swallowed the boat, but the official ruled it. Is this sentence more like what Sima Yi said? In fact, they all have the same meaning, explaining what rest is.
The so-called rest and recuperation is bound to be reflected in finance, and anything else that does not engage in war or civil engineering is only appearance or result. Reflected in finance, that is, the state pays less or no taxes, and even allows ordinary people to evade taxes. If the people have money, the country will have no money, and then the country will naturally not and cannot do anything.