The Thoughts In Form Of Border About Governing Frontier Region Of Politician In Mid-later Stage Of Dong Han Dynasty

It was Qin and Han Dynasty in ancient times of China that thegoverning-frontier region thought shaped, of which mid-later stage of Dong HanDynasty is a quite important part. After middle stage of Dong Han Dynasty, thestate of politics was immersed in disorder, with the young emperor succeeding tothe power, Wai qi celebrated in politics, Huan guan taking the power and politicalrules abolished. This situation had taken a bad turn especially after the period ofAn emperor when there are some faults in national policy, putting armed forceson Qiang, Xian bei and other nationalities year after year, coupled with frequentflood and dry disasters which brought great destroy to the feudal economy. As aresult, the conflict between presents and landlords aggravated and socialcontradiction increasingly worsened. At that time, faced with the situation ofinterior worries and extemal distress, some people with consciousness of distressattempted to search the effective scheme to change the present state and save thecrisis of society. So they wrote books in which they exposed the state of Huanguan and Wai qi taking the power by turns and govern rules loosen and politicsrotten and they came up with a series effective political views including thethoughts of governing the frontier area. The representatives of these people areWang fu, Cui shi, Zhong changtong, Xun yue and Xu gan and etc.On the ground of learning from the lessons in history and deeply analysisingthe border situation of that time, these politicians presented systematic thoughtsand views about governing the frontier area. Generally there are following points: Firstly, the nation must pay great attention to frontier and consolidate the arms andselect the general cautiously and strengthen army; Secondly to govern the areaboth in central and on border and oppose to discard the frontier area and let thepeople on border enter inland; Thirdly, to encourage immigrants to settle infrontier area and to recruit people to tap the border and to develop the economyand to select the officials in frontier; Fourthly, to make ready to give aids toinvaded frontier area; Fifthly, to make those people who are brilliant andknowledgeable about military be regional officials for long time and pay highwages to them; sixthly, to hold on the idea of popular-oriented and etc. Searchingthese politicians' idea of governing the border in the mid-later stage of Dong hanDynasty can not only take hold of contemporary trend of politics, economy andnational relation, but also can give us great value to make research in Dong hanhistory and inspire us to sum up historical law and lessons.