Why didn't Jiangxi have an emperor?

Jiangxi covers an area of 166,9 square kilometers, has jurisdiction over 11 cities and 1 counties, and Nanchang, the capital, has been the land of plenty in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times. It flows through the Ganjiang River in the province and the Poyang Lake, which is surrounded by the great lake. The mountainous areas in Jiangxi province have many regional characteristics, which make it difficult to give birth to an emperor.

From the establishment of the Qin Dynasty by Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng to the abdication of Qing Emperor Puyi in 1912, in less than 2132 years, 422 feudal emperors were born in China. Of course, this figure does not include the provisional regime calling itself the emperor. Among these emperors, there are three kinds. The first is the emperors of orthodox dynasties, such as Qin Shihuang and Emperor Gaozu. The second is the emperors of the separatist regime, Liu Bei, Sun Quan and Fu Jian. The third is the pseudo-emperor, that is, the emperor who is not recognized by history. They are divided into failed peasant uprising regimes and emperors such as Wu Sangui (pseudo-Zhou Emperor) and Liu Yu (pseudo-Qi Emperor) who are not recognized as recognized regimes.

The provinces with the largest number of ancient emperors are Henan Province and Shaanxi Province. Henan Province and Shaanxi Province are both North China Plain and Guanzhong Plain, which have the geographical environment and economic conditions for the birth of the emperor. Throughout the history of China, the emperors of a dynasty set up a regime to conquer the world, and they all chose a relatively rich place to prepare abundant grain and grass for the operation of the separatist regime. Moreover, the northern plain was open, and in the era of ancient cold weapons, they could gather troops and mobilize military supplies for the local separatist regime in a short time, overthrow the previous dynasty, and establish a new dynasty to be emperors themselves. This is one of the important reasons why Henan Province and Shaanxi Province are the cradles of Chinese national culture.

However, the geographical feature of Jiangxi Province is that it does not have the geographical environment and economic conditions for the birth of the emperor. The reasons are as follows: (1) The geographical feature of Jiangxi Province is not conducive to the development of mobile troops such as cavalry.

In ancient times, cavalry was equivalent to tanks on modern battlefields, with strong defense and high lethality, but cavalry was useless in Jiangxi. It seems that Jiangxi's topographical features are easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it is a strategic place. However, Jiangxi's geographical features are surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side, which seriously hinders the mobility of troops and lacks space for cavalry activities, which is not conducive to taking the initiative to attack the outside world. Naturally, there will be no leaders of any political power coming out of Jiangxi to unify the world.

Jiangxi is not only surrounded by mountains, but also surrounded by mountains and rivers. The whole province is isolated into separate small sections. If someone really wants to be an emperor in Jiangxi, it is very slow to deploy materials and troops. The ancients also said that "the soldiers are expensive and fast". If you want to win the battle, you must have convenient transportation and rapid marching speed. Therefore, food and grass can go to war first. However, the mountainous areas in Jiangxi hindered the traffic, which made it unsuitable to wage war, which also made it difficult for Jiangxi to have an emperor.

due to the shortage of cavalry, Jiangxi's force value is relatively low. There are open grasslands and plains in the north, which can breed many cavalry and war horses, and prepare for the emperor who competes for the central plains to establish a unified hegemony. However, there are no excellent war horses in Jiangxi. Once the separatist regime in Jiangxi is at war with the cavalry of the northern regime, it is more likely that the separatist regime in Jiangxi will be defeated. This is also the congenital condition that Jiangxi has no emperor. Second, Jiangxi's economy is backward, making it difficult to support the operation of separatist regime

Since ancient times, China's economic, military and cultural centers have been in the north. Before the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiangxi's agricultural development lacked the support of technology and manpower because of the closed geographical environment. After the Song Dynasty, with the war in the north and the southward migration of the Central Plains regime in the south, Jiangxi's agriculture was also vigorously developed. However, compared with other provinces, Jiangshan is divided into a small piece by mountains and rivers, which is not conducive to large-scale agricultural development. In terms of agricultural economy, it is inferior to nearby Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Because of underdeveloped agriculture, it is difficult to have a strong agricultural economic support to run against the central government. Naturally, an emperor will not be born.

compared with a straight line, although Sichuan is surrounded by mountains, there is a Sichuan basin in the center, which is a country of heaven and Sichuan. It can be unified to develop agriculture and cavalry, which is conducive to strategic depth. Therefore, since ancient times, Sichuan has also been the stronghold of separatist regimes such as Shu State. Third, the environment in Jiangxi determines that people lack the ambition to be an emperor. < P > Being an emperor requires people to have the courage and ambition to cross the rubicon. However, Jiangxi's closed geographical environment has become a self-sufficient land of fish and rice. Because there is no shortage of food, life is comfortable, and the people have no motivation to rise up, which is why emperors are rarely born.

Due to the richness of Jiangxi, a land of plenty, many scholars and talents have been born in history. For example, Jiangxi accounted for three of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties. Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong, the great literary figure, are both from Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, and Ouyang Xiu, a famous minister, is from Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province. During the Song and Ming Dynasties, Jiangxi-born Jinshi even occupied half of the imperial court, from which it can be seen that Jiangxi, a land of fish and rice, can flourish in culture despite its lack of innate conditions for the birth of an emperor!