Remember Li Guang? As an early member of the Heavenly Heroes, Li Guang's historical status can be described as convincing. In later life, there was a person known as the reincarnated Li Guang, who was Wang Lin of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Wang Lin, Zi Heng. A native of Shanyin County (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang). A famous general during the Liang Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Wang Lin was born as an uncle of the state, and her sister was the favorite concubine of Xiao Xuan (also known as Emperor Yuan of Liang) the Prince of Xiangdong of Xiao Liang. Therefore, Wang Lin's career was very good at the beginning. But Wang Lin has an ability beyond ordinary people, that is, to never forget. Wang Lin could remember everyone he met, so when he was an uncle in the country, Wang Lin was familiar with the names of thousands of soldiers under his command, and the situation was in a bad state. This made Wang Lin extremely prestigious among the soldiers, and Wang Lin was very righteous to the soldiers under his command, so that the soldiers were very convinced of him.
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In the late liangwu emperor Xiao Yan, he accepted Hou Jing, a well-known tyrant of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, who was even more hateful than Dong Zhuo and claimed to be the Great General of the Universe. Hou Jing came to Emperor Liangwu's sphere of influence and soon began the Hou Jing Rebellion, with Hou Jing controlling the government and persecuting Emperor Wu of Liang, and soon Emperor Wu of Liang died. At this time, the xiaoliang imperial heirs recognized by Hou Jing were not recognized in Xiaoliang, so the Xiaoliang royal family revolted. As the king of Xiangdong, Xiao Xuan naturally also had the qualification to compete for the emperor. So Xiao Xuan sent an army to attack Hou Jing, and he sent the generals Wang Shengquan and Wang Lin to fight against Hou Jing, and the leader of Hou Jing's army was Song Zixian, and the two sides fought a fierce battle.
In this battle, Wang Shengquan and Wang Lin performed very well. When Wang Lin was fighting, his opponent Song Zixian had tied Wang Lin's brother Wang Xun to the city wall and let Wang Xun all turn to Wang Lin. In this regard, Wang Lin's reply was: "My brother failed to report to the whole country and came to persuade me to surrender, which is really shameless." After saying that, Wang Lin raised his bow and arrow and shot, and Wang Lin's army was greatly excited and quickly conquered the city. Soon, Wang Lin joined forces with Wang Sheng, captured Song Zixian alive, and basically quelled Hou Jing's rebellion.
Wang Lin's lord was Emperor Xiao of Liang, but Xiao Xuan was a very controversial emperor. Xiao Xuan is a great talent, but because of his appearance - one of Xiao Xuan's eyes is congenitally ill - his wife puts a green hat on him, and his wife Xu Shi specially shows half of his face to satirize Xiao Xuan's one-eyed, so there is an idiom of Xu Niang and half old. Xiao Xuan was originally a cultural person, giving people a very cultivated feeling, but no one thought that he would become an emperor, but history is so ridiculous, Xiao Xuan's father died at the hands of the evil people, as a royal family member Xiao Xuan raised the banner of revenge against traitors, and heaven gave him three generals, one called Wang Shengdi, one called Wang Lin, and one called Chen Baxian. Wang Shengjian was a loyal subject, Wang Lin was a pro-family, and Chen Ba was an anti-thief first. Employing people has become Xiao Xuan's eternal pain.
Xiao Xuan was a great talent, and when he learned that Wang Lin was deeply rooted in the hearts of the army, his heart was very afraid. Taking advantage of the mistake of Wang Lin's men to slaughter the city in disregard of military discipline, Xiao Xuan ordered Wang Lin to enter Beijing to admit his mistake, and then took the opportunity to imprison Wang Lin. This move made Wang Lin's men very angry and raised troops to attack Xiao Xuan's army. In desperation, Xiao Xuan could only let Wang Shengwei take Wang Lin to summon Wang Lin's old department, and during the battle, Wang Lin's old department saw Wang Lin, threw down all their weapons, and begged Wang Shengwei to release Wang Lin. However, Wang Shengdi did not dare to easily indulge Wang Lin's return to the mountain, so he had to take advantage of Xiao Ling's opportunity to attack his brother, let Wang Lin lead the old attack again, and let Wang Lin make meritorious deeds.
The reason why Xiao Xuan attacked his brother was because Xiao Xuan was not originally an emperor with a formal claim. Father Xiao Yan was killed, and any brother could succeed to the throne, and since Xiao Xuan was called emperor, naturally there were brothers who disobeyed, and Xiao Yan could only pacify these brothers. However, at this time, Xiao Xuan still had internal and external troubles, the external troubles were East and West Wei, and the internal troubles were not only the brothers' rebellion, but also Chen Baxian. Wang Lin is a brother-in-law, which is called foreign relatives, and hundreds of years ago, foreign relatives usurped power endlessly in history, so Xiao Xuan could only suppress Wang Lin. However, in the face of the so-called hidden dangers of foreign relatives, Chen Baxian already had the ambition to dominate the south. Xiao Xuan had no choice but to let Wang Lin occupy Lingnan, hoping that Wang Lin could become a stumbling block for Chen Baxian. Because Chen Baxian's main force was in Jiaotong (present-day Vietnam), there was no way, who let the Chinese sphere of influence of that era govern Vietnam.
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For Xiao Xuan's appointment, Wang Lin did not seem to be aware of her crisis. Wang Lin believed that the crisis of the country at this time was in the north, and he hoped that Emperor Xiao Xuan would not let himself go away, but he did not know that this would make Emperor Xiao Xuan more taboo, so Wang Lin had no choice but to go south.
Wang Linnan went, and Chen Baxian did not dare to move. However, Heaven gave Xiao Xuan three generals, but also gave him three foreign enemies, namely Western Wei, Northern Qi, and Xiao Clan Relatives. However, Xiao Xuan let the two generals balance each other, and Wang Shengyi used it to fight against Xiao's clan relatives, at which point Western Wei and Northern Qi relaxed.
In order to stabilize Western Wei, Xiao Yi once surrendered to Western Wei. However, Xiao Yi hoped that Western Wei would return the occupied land, which made Western Wei dissatisfied. Don't forget that not long ago, Murong Shaozong, a famous general of Eastern Wei (the predecessor of Northern Qi), who was known as the Chosen One, died inexplicably in front of the Southern Expedition to Xiao Liang, and the whole world said that the Chosen One came from Eastern Wei to Western Wei. At this time, Western Wei saw that Xiao Liang was worried about internal and external troubles, and the domestic momentum was certain, and they all wanted to negotiate externally, and Xiao Xuan in Xiao Liang's territory actually made unreasonable demands, so Western Wei no longer hesitated and sent a large army to directly attack Xiao Xuan.
Xiao Yi was completely unprepared for a surprise attack by Western Wei, because he only remembered that Western Wei had been defeated by Eastern Wei not long ago, and he did not know that although Western Wei and Eastern Wei were fighting each other, they were still brave in attacking the southern front. At this time, Xiao Xuan urgently transferred Wang Lin back to King Qin of Jingqin. However, China was too big, and although Wang Lin tried her best to move north, on the way from Lingnan (Guangzhou, Guangdong) to Jiangling (Jingzhou, Hubei), it was reported that Xiao Xuan was attacked by Western Wei and committed suicide.
The grief-stricken Wang Lin began a legendary moment of her life. When he heard that the lord of the country, Xiao Xuan, had been killed, Wang Lin ordered the whole army to wear filial piety. At this time, Western Wei established a new Western Liang in Jiangling, wang Lin led an army to attack, and swore an oath in Changsha, including Xiao Shao, the king of Changsha, and all the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were honored as wang lin's allies.
Wang Lin's main purpose was to retrieve the body of Emperor Xiao Xuan of Liangyuan. Therefore, he declared himself a vassal of Northern Qi at this time, with the aim of keeping Northern Qi from attacking him. For Western Wei, he was also called a vassal, with the purpose of returning Xiao Xuan's body. However, Wang Lin also claimed to be a vassal of Xiao Yuanming of the Xiao Liang Dynasty, which was the power of Wang Shengjie. Since then, Wang Lin has become a courtier of the three families, but she was the tide maker at that time.
But Wang Lin's actions gave another person room to show, and this person was Chen Baxian. At the time when Wang Lin went north to save Xiao Xuan, Chen Baxian also went north, supported Xiao Fangzhi as emperor, and killed Wang Shengwei. At the same time, Chen Ba first summoned Wang Lin and gave him a high official.
At this time, Wang Lin's strategic goals were twofold, one was to return Xiao Xuan's body to Western Wei, and the other was to make enemies of Chen Baxian, because Chen Baxian had already established the Chen Dynasty and overthrown the Xiao Liang regime.
Yuwen Tai, the Western Wei ruler, was keenly aware of the changes in the times and agreed to Wang Lin's request to return Xiao Xuan's body. At this time, Western Wei had changed its name to Northern Zhou, and Yuwen Jue succeeded to the throne as Heavenly King, and there was a constant struggle with Yuwen Tai's interests. Therefore, Western Wei and Northern Zhou returned Wang Lin's wife and children twice, and Xiao Ling's coffin and more than a thousand retinues once, which was a response to Wang Lin's loyalty to the ancestors in the chaotic world. Wang Lin buried Xiao Xuan in Changsha, and in the stormy Southern and Northern Dynasties, Wang Lin's loyalty made everyone in the world look sideways.
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Wang Lin hid Xiao Xuan, and his historical mission had been completed. What's next? Wang Lin didn't know either.
If Wang Lin had the ambition to dominate the world, he would not win back the body of a dead man in the chaotic world, but would seize the power of the world. There was no mistake, that person was Chen Baxian. When Wang Lin avenged Xiao Xuan, Chen Baxian occupied Jiankang and became the one who influenced the situation in the world.
Wang Lin wanted to overthrow Chen Baxian and restore Xiao Liang's regime. Therefore, he attacked Chen Baxian, and with the help of Northern Qi, Wang Lin supported Xiaozhuang to restore Southern Liang, and Wang Lin became the southern Liang's bull's ear holder. With the help of Northern Qi, Wang Lin repeatedly attacked the Chen Dynasty.
But so what? The Chen Dynasty had replaced the Liang Dynasty. When Wang Lin attacked Chen Guo, the fire meter could suddenly change the direction of the wind and blow to his side. The siege of the city can suddenly break out of the plague in the city, and the soldiers and civilians have suffered countless casualties. Wang Lin became a firefly in a chaotic world, burning the value of loyalty at the cost of her life.
Wang Lin eventually died at the hands of the Chen Dynasty general Wu Mingche. There is nothing to say about Wu Mingche's approach, as a general of the Chen Dynasty, his historical role was to suppress rebellion. However, after Wu Mingche caught Wang Lin, half of the generals in the army knelt down and pleaded for Wang Lin. Hearing that Wang Lin was killed, Tian Fuye was old, knowing and not knowing, the smeller could not but weep, just like General Xi Liguang. (Judging by his sense of integrity, although General Li Guang's courtesy and good temptation, he could not add to it.) ）
After Wang Lin's death, Emperor Chen hung his head on the city wall for public display. However, Wang Lin's old subordinate Zhu Wei risked his life and asked for Wang Lin's first rank to be returned. Emperor Chen Returned Wang Lin's first rank for the sake of false fame or for the sake of people's hearts. Zhu Wei temporarily buried Wang Lin in Bagong Mountain, and thousands of old people came to attend the funeral to pay tribute to Wang Lin.
Wang Lin was a traitor to the Chen Dynasty, so the Chen Dynasty did not give Wang Lin a name, and Zhu Wei believed that Wang Lin died for Northern Qi, so he went to Northern Qi alone to ask for glory for Wang Lin. This is simply unbelievable, Zhu Wei is a Chen Guoren, running to the enemy country to ask for honor for the old boss. Zhu Wei firmly believed that he could, because he knew the value of Wang Lin's loyalty, which was a virtue passed down from generation to generation!
Northern Qi really agreed, and Northern Qi posthumously gave Wang Lin the title of Governor of the Fifteen Prefectures, Yangzhou Assassin History, Shizhong, Tejin, Kaifu, and Lu Shang Shushi, with the nickname "Zhongwu" and buried in a reed wagon.
Wang Lin has a lot of moral qualities, similar to Li Guang's birth at the wrong time, similar to Guan Yu's righteous thin cloud sky. In the chaotic world of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people's hearts are dark, and in the moment of fighting with each other for etiquette, Wang Lin is like a day star, although he is a star inconspicuous in the dark night, he is a harbinger before the dawn. The world has been in the Southern and Northern Dynasties for too long, Chinese is tired of the chaos, and it will be united for a long time, and the world should be unified. Wang Lin's character illuminated the chaotic night sky of the Northern and Southern Dynasties like a rising star, and the dawn was coming, and the world was about to be unified.
The moral character that Chinese respected, benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, gentleness, courtesy, and frugality, would soon be valued by the imperial court. The loyalty and righteousness of Wang Lin have since been respected by future generations and have become the common belief of the people of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Wang Lin's story is more difficult to find, mainly because this name is too ordinary, just in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, his name is exactly the same several. The Wang Lin I want to talk about in this episode is Chen Lin of the Southern and Northern Dynasties Liang Chen, and in the process of searching, I confused his deeds with others. During this period, the deeds of another person made me very sad, he was Wang Shengjie.
This series of articles is called "The Hero of the Punishment Heaven", which says that "the Punishment Heaven Dance is dry, and the fierce ambition is always there". The characteristics of this type of person are to share worries for the country, but their ambitions are difficult to achieve. Wang Lin is in this category, Wang Shengjie is another category, he is worried about the country, but the ambition can be realized, and finally die where he wants. Wang Shengquan was loyal to the Xiao Liang royal family all his life, but he died at the hands of Chen Baxian, the ancestor of the Chen Dynasty, and was a vassal of the fallen country. Although his deeds are very regrettable, as a courtier, he has the merit of supporting the country, can maintain the stability of the country's political situation, and has already done his duty. His death should be said to be without regrets, so Wang Shengdi was not included in the category of "heroes of punishment".
There are many people in history who are similar to Wang Monk's debate, the former dynasty has Zhuge Birthday, and the later generation has Zheng Chenggong. Zhuge Shi was loyal to Cao Wei throughout his life, Sun Wu attacked, and Zhuge Shi resisted Sun Wu. However, after Sima Shi usurped power from Cao Wei, Zhuge Shi attacked Sima Shi. Zhuge Shi failed, but he was a loyal vassal of Cao Wei. Zheng Chenggong resisted the Qing Dynasty all his life, and was able to visit the Ming Taizu Mausoleum in Nanjing, which can be described as a lifetime of loyalty. However, Zheng Chenggong's anti-Qing exploits did not succeed, not because he himself did not have intentions, but because history chose the Qing Dynasty, as Zheng Chenggong's exploits, the Kangxi Emperor's evaluation was in place: Zhu Chenggong was a widow of the Ming Dynasty, not a thief of the chaos of the Fallen. Therefore, people like Zheng Chenggong, Zhuge Sheng, and Wang Shengjie are all people who have achieved fame and success, and cannot be regarded as heroes of the heavens.
Wang Lin is different from them, Wang Lin is a typical person who sacrifices his life for righteousness. Wang Yinglin once said in his appraisal of history in the "Chronicle of Sleepy Studies" that in ancient and modern China and abroad, things were accomplished in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Zhang Liang Zhang Zifang in the Spring and Autumn Period and Zhang Liang in the early Han Dynasty. In contrast, Zhuge Liang bowed down and died. And Wang Lin of Liang and Zhang Chengye of Tang, although things did not come to fruition, there were also things passed down from generation to generation.
We Chinese are very utilitarian and dare to compete for the benefits of the smartest people in the world. But we Chinese are also very stupid, knowing that we are going to kill the head, and we must rush up. "It doesn't matter if you behead, as long as the doctrine is true." This spirit can actually be seen from the ancient predecessors, Zhuge Liang can see it, and Wang Lin can also see it. What they pursue may not be realized by us, but through the Chinese characters, we can resonate with these ancients and experience the great minds of the ancients.
After these myths, there is an image that is touched there - holding the hand and fighting without a head. "The heavenly dance is dry, and the fierce zhi is always there." This kind of character that transcends time and space is the historical force contained in our Chinese nation.
I am reminded of a poem by Yu Shaobao in the Ming Dynasty: "The fire burns back to the spring haohao, and the flood furnace shines through the night." This is probably the best evaluation of Wang Lin.