The peasant uprisings at the end of Qin all took place in the six countries of Kwantung, so why did Qin not have an uprising?
Updated on: 23-0-0 0:0:0

In the 900th lunar month of the 0th lunar month of BC, in the area of Daze Township in present-day Anhui Province, an army of 0 people was shaken due to the loss of rain.

In the same month, an officer in the army caught fire, and the commanders Chen Sheng and Wu Guang killed the lieutenant in the confrontation and announced their "true identities"—the former was the rightful heir of the dynasty, "Fusu", and the latter was "Xiang Yan", the general of the Chu state—and officially declared their rebellion against the imperial court.

Subsequently, this rebel army quickly moved towards the old Chu capital of Chenyi, and the Chu people who passed through also led the people to join the rebel army.

By the time of Chenyi, the size of the rebel army had reached tens of thousands, and there were 700-0 chariots and thousands of cavalry troops.

與此同時,齊地士人、東楚士人也在當地起事回應。

The picture shows the general situation of the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

As long as you find the location of Chen Yi in the map, you will find an important information -

Chenyi is close to the old Wei land.

We must know that the old Wei land was the most central part of the world, and it was almost the hub of vertical and horizontal activities during the Warring States Period, so the Wei scholars became particularly good at speculation.

於是,魏籍士人迅速回應,諸如周文、周巿、武臣、陳餕、張耳等外籍士人先後起事,整個東魏地隨時沸騰。

在東魏地附逆後,叛潮以野火燎原之勢快速蔓延。

The Jin began to attack in all directions in the name of the king of Chu, and they poured down the Yellow River into the land of Old Zhao and then into the land of Yan, and the dynasty's rule in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River quickly collapsed.

So far, we can divide the territory of the Qin Dynasty into two parts, one for the activities and occupations of the rebels, and the other for the areas that were still loyal to the imperial court, and then make some simple analysis.

Thereinto:

The main activities and occupation areas of the rebel army are mainly in the old Chu State, the old Qi State, the old Wei State, the old Zhao State, and the old Yan State, and there are also activities in the old Korea but the climate has not been formed, but it should be noted that not the whole territory is rebellious;

The areas that are still loyal to the imperial court are mainly in the old Qin land, the old Shu land, and the old Ba land, but there are also some areas of the old Six Kingdoms.

Specifically—

In the territory of the old Chu state, Eastern Chu (the area around the lower reaches of the Yangtze River) and Western Chu (the area around the southeast of present-day Henan Province, the southwest of Shandong Province and Anhui Province) were the birthplaces of the rebellion, while the Southern Chu did not have a large-scale rebellion in either the Jianghan region (captured by the Qin State in the late Warring States period) or the Badong area (captured by the Qin State when the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms).

In the territory of the old Zhao State, Handan, Zhongshan, and Daijun were seriously rebellious, but Taiyuan was much smaller than Jing;

In the territory of the old Wei state, the eastern territory (present-day Henan Province, the western part of Shandong Province, and the northern part of Anhui Province) was almost entirely annexed, but the western territory (the southern part of present-day Shanxi Province) was relatively stable.

Qi and Yan are all rebellious.

Some historians believe that the degree of antipathy of the people in each region to the Qin Dynasty varied, which is manifested in the fact that Qi and Chu were the most disgusted, and that the Three Jin Dynasty mainly followed the crowd, and that the Qin people did not care at all - this view is not advisable.

Because all we have to do is show the map and we'll find --

Eastern Chu and Western Chu are located diagonally opposite the Xianyang side, while Qidi is located at another diagonal diagonal corner, which is prone to rebellion due to the long distance;

Eastern Chu, Western Chu, and Qi were closely connected to the Eastern Wei land located in the Central Plains, and the Wei scholars were good at speculation, so it was normal for the Eastern Wei land to be rebellious;

The Eastern Wei Dynasty is located in the center of the world, and it is easy to spread along the plain to the plain area of the Zhao Land and the entire Yan Land;

南楚由於與中原有大別山之隔,故義軍不可能在第一時間蔓延至此;

Due to the separation of the Taihang Mountains in the Western Wei Dynasty and Taiyuan, it is impossible for the righteous army to spread here in the first time;

The geography of Badi and Shu is more closed, so it is more difficult to spread in the first place;

As for the old Qin land, it was the Gyeonggi region where the imperial court was located, and this area was not prone to rebellion.

As of now, we will find -

In the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the old Qin land, as the Gyeonggi region, was not prone to large-scale rebellions in itself;

Due to the geographical pattern of Western Wei, Southern Chu, Badi, and Shu, it was impossible to pull into the rebellion at the first time;

As for what we think is a bit special in the above areas,It is mainly because the rebellion is spreading so quickly in the East that we ignore the above basic common sense

This one is something like-

In the great uprising at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were large-scale anti-Qing uprisings in the south and northwest, and the northeast also responded with the uprising of the banner people, but why did there not appear a certain scale of uprising in Hebei?

In fact, simply because the imperial court was in Hebei, the capital and surrounding areas were not prone to uprisings, and no one would think that the Qing court did not exploit the people of Hebei.