The Study On Gong Sunzan Military And Political Group In The Eastern Han Dynasty

Gong Sunzan Group,rising in the warlord strife at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty,was a crucial military and political force.For more than ten years,the Gong Sunzan group occupied You Zhou and fought fiercely against the forces of Han Fu,Yuan Shao,Liu Yu,and Wu Huan.They also actively expanded southwards to Qing Zhou and Yan Zhou.In the late chaotic Han Dynasty,Gong Sunzan gradually formed a military and political group,where he was elected the core leader,through the ties of kinship,consanguinity and personal loyalty.The dominant members in this group with powerful military were the middle and lower classes in You Zhou and Ji Zhou.Gong Sunzan group united the rich room and adopted the policy of storing the farming and attacking the strong and powerful people.The reason was not just political but economic distress.The financial sources of Gong Sunzan Group can be divided into two periods according to chronological order.In the early stage,Gong Sunzan Group mainly relied on the Eastern Han Dynasty government’s national finance as its economic source and supplemented by the war booty of the nomadic ethnic groups such as Wu Huan and Xian Bei.These two ways were also important reasons for the rapid rise of the Gong Sunzan Group.Due to the collapse of the government of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the change of foreign policy of Liu Yu,the shepherd of You Zhou at that time,Gong Sunzan Group’s economic resources gradually dried up.Therefore,Gong Sunzan turned to unite with You Zhou’s rich man and occupied its land and labor force by fighting against the strongmen.This measure ensured Gong Sunzan Group’s economic source in the later period and made its relationship with the rich and powerful clans in You Zhou gradually deteriorated,which foreshadowed its collapse.The fall of the Gong Sunzan Group was closely related to the Yuan Shao Group in Hebei.However,the two sides cooperated briefly to expel Han Fu.But they soon fell out of control of the Hebei region,which led to years of war.Behind this series of wars were a massive contradiction between the two sides in geopolitics and social class.The emergence and collapse of the Gong Sunzan group was not a simple scene on the late Han Dynasty’s historic stage.Still,it also had an essential impact on Yuan Shao,Cao Cao,the nomadic people outside the fortifications,and the political pattern of the North.