川蜀征服后反抗 / Sichuan Post-Conquest Resistance

Sichuan post-conquest resistance / 川蜀征服后反抗 is the episode’s explanation for why the Song conquest of Shu produced recurring unrest. 170.宋太祖之死：烛影斧声，阴谋论中的人性谜团（下） argues that the problem was not simply local refusal to accept unification, but the interaction of military abuse, inherited tax burdens, and state monopolies on necessities such as tea.

The source centers the violence of commanders such as 王全斌 and the escalation around 全师雄. Plunder, killing, family destruction, and coercive sexual violence are presented as political causes because they made rebellion an intelligible response to conquest.

《资治通鉴·周纪》52丨 陈庄叛秦 端起碗吃饭放下碗骂娘 adds a much earlier, Warring States version of the same regional problem. After 秦国 conquers 巴国 and 蜀国, it leaves 蜀侯宁通 as a reduced ruler and appoints 陈庄 as chancellor; Chen Zhuang then kills Shu Hou Ning Tong and rebels. This case is less about taxed commoners than about appointed-governor secession risk, but it still shows that conquering Sichuan/Ba-Shu is not the same as governing it.

This concept keeps the wiki’s 先南后北 branch from becoming only a top-down strategy story. A conquest can be rational for the central state and still disastrous for a region when victory is followed by extraction and indiscipline.

Key Claims

• Local rebellion after conquest can come from material injury rather than cultural backwardness or mere separatism.
• Military indiscipline converts strategic victory into governance failure.
• State monopolies and inherited tax burdens can continue conquest violence in administrative form.
• A dynasty’s unification story should include the costs borne by conquered populations.
• Zhouji 52 adds that elite-level post-conquest delegation can also create rebellion when local authority, difficult terrain, and resource value are misread as a basis for independence.

Connections

• 四川, 王全斌, and 全师雄 - regional and actor nodes.
• 赵匡胤 / 宋太祖 and 先南后北 - central strategy context.
• Good Intentions Political Limits - broader frame for strategies that solve one problem while creating another.
• 北宋 - state that must govern the aftermath.
• 秦国, 巴蜀, 陈庄, 蜀侯宁通, and 受任地方长官割据风险 - Warring States post-conquest rebellion branch.