Territory Unification: Attempt To Discuss Fate Of The Emperors And Officials Of The Previous Dynasties In The Early Period Of The Song Dynasty

Territory unification is our country's eternal topic. Gradually, along with the completion of the Northern Song Dynasty's unification, it appeared a problem on how to deal with the kings and officials of capitulation. According to my investigation, there isn't a special paper involved in the problem in contemporary academic circles.This article is divided into three chapters: First chapter elaborates the general outlines of the former various power on the eve of the Song Dynasty's establishment as well as Northern Song Dynasty's unified advancement. First narrates the demise of the Houzhou Dynasty and the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty. Then from the angle with the Northern Song Dynasty's relation, and the carry on the classification for the eight established separatist political regimes like the Houshu Regime and elaborated the Northern Song Dynasty's unified advancement. Finally sum up the reason of the Northern Song Dynasty's unification.Second chapter specifically elaborates the emperors and the officials' fate of the former dynasties at the beginning of Song Dynasty. First simply summarizes the various former countries' emperors and the officials' government positions' fluctuation after their surrender. And then generalizes the different ways on dealing with the surrendered kings, sums up their different fate. Generally speaking, the surrendered kings experience the process of being given favored treatment - being put under house arrest - being slaughtered. This is this article's center section. Third chapter analyses the characteristics of the processing ways' of the surrendered kings at the beginning of Song, and their fate difference during the TaiZu's and TaiZong's times, and then explores the reasons of the difference's coming about.Finally this article put the former emperors and the officials' fate at the beginning of Song into the ancient China times—this broader space and time, elaborates the former emperors and the officials' common fate, and has highlighted the former emperors and the officials' different fate in Song Dynasty. From the angle of the former emperors and the officials' fate, has explored certain characteristics in the so-called Tang and Song transformation times.