In 221 BC, the Great Qin Empire overthrew the Six Kingdoms and realized the unification of China, and Ying Zheng became the first emperor of the Great Qin. However, the great unification of politics and military can be easily realized, and the lack of great reunification in culture will be the biggest defect of China's unification in the end. Ying Zheng then ordered a large-scale migration of the population of the Central Plains into the South China Sea, the birth of civilization, the integration of ethnic groups, the cohesion of the foundation, so that the Central Plains Qin people and the South China Sea Baiyue intermarriage and integration, the six countries thousands of maids and concubines sent to the South China Sea to settle down, Ying Zheng did not leave to destroy the six countries of one servant and one daughter, so as to truly make the Southern Barbarian state, the people of the Central Plains into the Central Plains civilization.
Let's take a look at the state of Chu at that time, at this time, it should be said that it was the southern China unified by the Great Qin. After the state of Chu was established from the Xiong clan to the king, its main expansion method was soft expansion to force neighboring tribes to submit. At that time, the neighboring tribes of Chu were all tribes that had not been "kingized", and these tribes were called the people of Huawai by the Central Plains civilization, or the primitive tribes living in the mountains and dense forests, or the fishing and hunting tribes living on the banks of the great rivers, and there was neither a formal form of political power, nor a strong sense of power, as long as the livelihood was relatively stable, it did not matter to these tribes whether they submitted to some threatening power or insisted on autonomy and self-reliance.
In this vast area of vast lakes and rivers and majestic mountains, only the state of Chu was a state that accepted the formal form of government of Zhou Tianzi. In other words, only the state of Chu had the conditions for a continuously expanding social organization in this area. However, if the Chu State wanted to continuously devour these tribes by force like the princes of the Central Plains, it was obviously beyond its strength, and its management could not keep up. As a result, there were all kinds of soft expansion that was done in the form of covenants. This kind of soft expansion was actually a compromise between the two sides, the subject tribe became a nominal subject of the Chu state, and the original subsistence land of the subject tribe became a fief given by the nominal king, and the subject tribe had to pay tribute (not taxes) to the Chu monarch, and could not rebel against Chu and stand on its own. Based on the strengthening of alliances and the balance of interests, the clan leaders who submit to the tribe can be officials of different sizes in the Chu State according to the strength of their own clan, and there are even many people who can do the most important things.
For the tribes that had good living land but refused to submit, the Chu State followed the example of the Central Plains princes and swallowed them up by force. The place annexed by force became the place under the direct control of the Chu royal family. These tribal groups were directly incorporated into the ethnic groups directly under the Chu royal family. In contrast to the soft expansion of the feudal tribes, over time, the Chu people gradually regarded this kind of tribe that was annexed by force and lost its autonomy (changed to the rule of the king) as a royal power.
In fact, the state of Chu ruled the South China Sea for hundreds of years, but it has never been able to effectively integrate the South China Sea into the civilization of the Central Plains. The way Chu governed the South China Sea was even looser than that of Zhou Tianzi's distant princes, and most of the tribes actually only had a tributary in the form of nothing. There are two main categories of people in the South China Sea: the first is the Nanyue people after Chu destroyed the Yue Kingdom, and they are called Baiyue or Yue because of the diaspora; The second is the original tribes of the South China Sea, which did not have a name in the first place. The Yue people mostly gather on the coast of the East China Sea in Fujian, and there are not many people who enter Panyu, Guilin, and Xiangdi, and they are incompatible with the indigenous tribes, and the struggle is very fierce. The indigenous tribes of the South China Sea, no writing, no law, wood and stone fishing and hunting, slash and burn, respect for wizards, almost like the ancient barbarian race. After the state of Chu nominally ruled these places, instead of setting up government rules in these places, in order for these places to be able to check and balance each other and not develop together, they often set up contradictions and disputes between the major tribes in these places. If the Great Qin did not implant the Central Plains civilization to govern it, it would make South China degenerate into a tribal struggle like the Hu people and the Xiongnu. At that time, the South China Sea will surely become China's most serious and long-lasting internal trouble.
For the long-term plan of China, and in order to truly make South China as rich and strong as Bashu and have a long stamina, it is necessary to overcome obstacles in the treasure land of the South China Sea at the moment and prevent it from being stripped out of the mother body of China. If the South China Sea is not to be divested, it must implement an effective rule of law in the South China Sea. And the essence of practicing the law must be based on the presence of a large army. If the army wants to be stationed for a long time, it is fundamental to have a stable life. From ancient times to the present, a man with a woman is a home, and without a woman, everything has no roots...
Thousands of soldiers for the Great Qin Empire, for the Chinese civilization to live in the South China Sea, can not make the soldiers lonely and homeless, on the one hand, the army encourages intermarriage and integration with the locals. On the other hand, after the fall of the Six Kingdoms, the concubines and maids who moved into Xianyang Beihan with the Six Kings City, thousands of women did not see anyone for life, and they were angry and resentful, so it was better to hand them over to the general Wang Jian as a whole, so that these thousands of women settled down in the South China Sea. Since ancient China, there has ever been a first emperor who did not covet beauty and the mind and courage of the world for the unification of Chinese civilization. Although Great Qin has not been eternal, the first emperor of Yingzheng must be a model for emperors through the ages.
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