Characters and story series of the Two Jin Dynasties and The Northern and Southern Dynasties (50) - Shi Le

Shi Le (274–333 CE), a native of Wuxiang County, Shangdang County (present-day Wuxiang County, Shanxi), was a member of the Xiong ethnic group. Emperor Kaiguo of Zhao after the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

Shi Le's ancestors were descendants of the Xiongnu Side Branch Qiangqu Tribe, his grandfather was named Ye Yiyu, and his father, Zhou Yuzhu (Zi Qiyi Jia), was once a tribal leader. Shi Le's nickname was Zao Le, when he was a teenager, Shi Le worked as a small trader in Luoyang, and when he grew up, he replaced his father to supervise and govern the Hu people under his control, because Shi Le was very capable, so the Hu people he managed trusted Shi Le. In 302 AD, a famine broke out in The Prefecture and social unrest broke out, and Shi Le was sold to Shandong as a slave by Ma Teng's men of the Dongyin Company, but it did not take long to regain his freedom.

In 304 AD, the flames of the Rebellion of the Eight Kings were ignited everywhere in the Central Plains, the people were displaced, the displaced people revolted everywhere, and Shi Le, who became a bandit, gradually grew, and later Sima Ying's original general Gongshi Fan raised troops in Zhao Wei, and Shi Le led his men and horses to defect to Gongshi Fan and officially changed his name to Shi Le. After that, Shi Le followed Gongshi Fan around Yecheng, until 306 AD, Gongshi Fan was defeated by Gou Xi, Gongshi Fan was killed in battle, so Shi Le defected to Ji Sang's team, because Shi Le repeatedly made military achievements, he was named a sweeping general by Ji Sang, but it did not take long for Ji Sang's team to be defeated by Gou Xi, Shi Le collected the remnants of the defeated army and defected to Liu Yuan, who established the Han State, because Shi Le helped Liu Yuan to subdue the Karasuma people and his people, and soon received Liu Yuan's appreciation and weight. In 308, Liu Yuan sent the Fujun general Liu Cong and ten other generals to occupy Taihang to the south, and sent the Auxiliary Han general Shi Le and ten other generals to the east to the Zhao and Wei regions. Soon Shi Le captured Huguan and Yicheng and beheaded Feng Chong, the governor of western Jizhou, so Liu Yuan granted Shi Le the generals and Kaifu of Andong, and set up Changshi and Sima to the left and right.

Shi Le developed and grew step by step in this way, when the number of soldiers slowly increased, Shi Le specially set up a gentleman's camp (a battalion of readers and celebrities and sages), using Zhang Bin as a counselor, with Diao Bing and Zhang Jing as his right-hand man, and there were strong generals such as Zhixiong, Hu Yanmo, Wang Yang, Tao Leopard, Lu Ming, and Wu Yu under the account, Shi Le also paid attention to absorbing and annexing the Hu people and the People of the Northern Mountains of The Prefecture to himself, and with sufficient soldiers, strategists and military generals, Shi Le began to expand, and in 310 AD, the Xiongnu Han Emperor Liu Yuan died, and Liu Cong was called emperor. Jiafeng Shile was made the Grand General of the Eastern Expedition, the Assassin of Hezhou, and the Duke of Ji County. Later, Shi Le's guerrilla warfare made his army more powerful, not only defeating the elite of the Jin Dynasty, but also attacking Luoyang together with Wang Mi and Liu Yao. In 312 CE, Shi Le defeated Gou Xi at Mengcheng (mengcheng County, Bozhou, Anhui) and subjugated sima Zuo, and then used the feast to kill Wang Mi and subdue his soldiers, so Liu Cong appointed Shi Le as the general of Zhendong, the governor of You'er Prefecture, and the military commander of You'er Prefecture.

In 313 AD, Shi Le broke the Duan clan of Yecheng and was annexed. In 314, Shi Le took advantage of Wang Jun's and Liu Kun's grievances, wrote a letter and sent hostages to Liu Kun to ask for peace, and took this opportunity to eliminate Wang Jun, Shi Le returned to Xiangguo (襄国, in present-day Xingtai, Hebei) and gave Wang Jun's first rank to Liu Cong, who then appointed Shi Le as the governor of Dadu, the military governor of eastern Shaanxi, the general of the Horse Riding Army, And DongDan Yu, and added the second county. In 315 AD, Shi Le was crowned Asan Dongbo, and Shi Le's eldest son Shi Xing was made the son of Shangdang Guoshi. In 316, Shi Le defeated Liu Kun and took Hezhou, and Liu Kun was forced to defect to Youzhou. In 318, Liu Cong fell ill and died, and the crown prince Liu Cang was killed by Jin Zhun shortly after succeeding to the throne, and Jin Zhun proclaimed himself king of Han. Shi Le then personally led 50,000 troops to attack Jin Zhun, and at the same time Liu Yao also went north to attack Jin Zhun, and immediately became emperor in Chibi, appointing Shi Le as the Grand Sima and Grand General, adding Jiu Xi, adding ten counties, and making him the Duke of Zhao. Subsequently, Shi Le attacked the capital Pingyang, and more than 100,000 people of all ethnic groups surrendered to Shi Le, who burned the Palace of Pingyang after taking pingyang city, leaving troops to defend and returning to Xiangguo. In 319, Liu Yao conferred on Shi Le the Dazai and the leading general, and became the King of Zhao, but Liu Yao listened to rumors and intercepted Shi Le's mission, and the death of the envoy caused Shi Le to form a vendetta with Liu Yao, who claimed to be a great general, Da Dan Yu, Ling Ji Zhou Mu, and Zhao Wang, and officially established Later Zhao in Xiangguo, that is, the throne of Zhao.

In 318, Duan Piju killed Liu Kun, causing a large number of Hu and Han people to defect to Duan Mo and Shi Le, while his own strength was greatly reduced, and with the help of Duan Mo, Shi Le sent Shi Hu and Kong Cang to attack Duan Pi, and captured Duan Wen duan and Duan Pi at Ti Ci (present-day Ling County, Dezhou, Shandong). In 322 AD, Shi Le invaded the Eastern Jin Dynasty again because Zu Di was dead, and Zu Yue, who succeeded Zu Ti, could not resist and retreated south to Shouchun, Shi Le then left troops in Tunyu Prefecture, YuZhou entered Later Zhao's sphere of influence, at the same time Shi Le also sent troops to harass Xu and Yan Erzhou, and the troops stationed in the Eastern Jin Dynasty only retreated south, in 323 AD, Shi Le sent Shi Hu to attack Cao Ling, who had been dividing Qingzhou, and occupied Qingzhou. Beginning in 324 AD, Later Zhao began to attack Former Zhao, former Zhao was invincible, and Later Zhao had the four prefectures of Si, Yu, Xu, and Yan. In 328, Later Zhao and Former Zhao launched a decisive battle at Chenggao (present-day Xingyang, Henan), Former Zhao Liu Yao was defeated because of his contempt for Shi Le, and was captured by Shi Lesheng, the former Zhao crown prince Liu Xi who remained in Chang'an abandoned Chang'an and fled to Shangyi (present-day Tianshui, Gansu), the Guanzhong rebellion, Later Zhao immediately took Chang'an, Former Zhao Liu Yin led a large army to counterattack Chang'an was defeated by Shi Hu, former Zhao's princes and ministers were captured by Shi Hu, in the same year Shi Le killed Liu Yao, former Zhao died. In 327 CE, Shi Le sent Shi Hu to defeat tuoba nana, the dai king, and zhao occupied almost all of northern China, with the exception of the three regimes of Former Liang, Duanbu Xianbei,and Murong Xianbei's Liaodong state.

In 330 AD, Shi Le was called the Great Zhao Heavenly King, in September Shi Le was officially called emperor, and Lizi Shi Hong was made crown prince. In 333, Shi Le fell ill, Shi Hu entered the service and ordered his relatives and ministers to see Shi Le, and ordered Shi Hong, the king of Qin, who was in charge of military power, to return to Xiangguo and design to kill him, and in August of the same year, Shi Le died at the age of sixty and was buried in Gaoping Mausoleum.

Allusions to Shi le

Origin of cucumber

The original name of the cucumber was courgette, which was brought back by Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty when he went to the Western Regions, and the renaming of the cucumber to cucumber began in Later Zhao. After Shi Le ascended the throne as emperor in Xiangguo, he was annoyed that the people of his country called the Hu people, so he issued a decree that no matter what he said or wrote, he strictly prohibited the appearance of Hu characters, and those who violated it were beheaded. One day, when Shi Le summoned an official, he was very dissatisfied when he saw Xiangguo County's Shou Fan Tan wearing patched and torn clothes. He asked, "Fan Tan, why did you come to see him when you were not dressed properly?" Fan Tan did not know how to answer well in the panic, and replied casually: "This is all blamed on the Hu people for not being moral, and snatching away all their clothes, so that I had to come to the court in rags." As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he had violated the prohibition and hurriedly prostrated his head to plead guilty, and When Shi Le saw that he was convicted, he would no longer pursue it. When it was time to give lunch after the meeting, Shi Le pointed to a plate of courgettes and asked Fan Tan, "Does Qing know the name of this thing?" Fan Tan saw that This was Shi Le deliberately testing him, so he respectfully replied: "Purple case delicacies, silver cups of green tea, golden bottle of manna, jade plate cucumber." When Shi Le heard this, he smiled with satisfaction, and since then the courgette has been called a cucumber.

Deer killed whose hands

Shi Le feasted on the emissaries of Goguryeo and Yuwen Wugu, and when he was in the middle of the wine, he said to Xu Guang, "What kind of monarch am I equivalent to that of the founder of the foundation since ancient times?" Xu Guang replied, "Your Majesty's god Wei Wu Hongmou is slightly better than Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bang, and his talent is slightly superior to that of Emperor Cao Cao of Wei, and no one can compare since the Three Kings, it can be said that he is second only to the Yellow Emperor!" Shi Le smiled and said, "How can people not be self-aware, aren't your words too much?" If I meet Han Gaozu, I will serve him in the north, and I will fight side by side with Han Xin and Peng Yue to be the first. If you encounter the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, when they gallop together in the Central Plains, it is unknown whose hand the deer died. The eldest husband should act in a bright and upright manner, like the sun and the moon, and cannot be like Cao Cao and Sima Yi's father and son, bullying orphans and widows, and seizing the world with fox charm. I should be between the two Liu, how can I compare with the Yellow Emperor! "The group of courtiers all said long live, deer dead who has this allusion passed down.