In Chinese history, there is infinite wisdom, and Taoguang yang is a very important strategic means, which can be used both in personal life and work and in a huge national strategic level. Since ancient times, China has had many large-scale strategic actions at the national level that have been successful, which is very worthy of people's study.
At the beginning of Liu Bang's unification of China and the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the people of the Central Plains were very tired, production withered, and the national strength was weak, and even Liu Bang, the emperor's carriage, could not find a few horses with the same coat color, let alone build a powerful army and cavalry.
But just when the people needed to rest and recuperate, hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu cavalry who had unified the northern steppes roared in.
Due to the large-scale civil war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the defense of the Great Wall had been abandoned, and the Xiongnu cavalry effortlessly crossed the Great Wall from outside the Cyprus and roared into the agricultural area to burn and plunder.
As emperor, Liu Bang had the responsibility to protect his people from foreign nomads, otherwise his imperial throne would not be stable, so he personally led an army of 320,000 people on the expedition.
The so-called large army commanded by Liu Bang is almost all infantry, many of them were peasants yesterday, and this morning the officials stuffed a piece of wood into their hands, put a bronze or iron gun head on the wood, if there are enough red cloth strips, and then tied a few red strips of red cloth that have been torn into lines near the gun head, it is a red tassel gun, the whole army raised the red tassel gun, it is really a large forest of red weapons to kill the enemy, and the light reflected by the polished gun head shines dozens of miles away, which can frighten many timid people.
The border people who had been attacked by the Hun cavalry rejoiced, thinking that the emperor and the large army he commanded were still good, and that the dead Huns must be destroyed.
However, Liu Bang knew what kind of goods his army was, and he understood that in order to deal with these fierce and vicious people of the Xiongnu, he could not rely on fear, but must rely on real military strikes.
But how easy is it to strike at the cavalry with infantry?
Liu Bang was determined to find out the Xiongnu's falsehood and fight a decisive battle with them, so as to win or lose the battle, so he sent more than a dozen groups of emissaries to the Xiongnu to communicate and negotiate, in fact, to spy on the virtual reality.
The Xiongnu were thieves, and I heard that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty personally led a large army to come, and if the elite of the whole Han Dynasty came, even if the Han army was defeated with the strength of the Xiongnu, it would be a heavy casualty, so they deliberately showed weakness, hid the elite soldiers and fierce generals, and sent some old and weak soldiers to ride skinny horses slowly on the roadside and camp, luring Liu Bang to rashly advance.
Most of the Han dynasty emissaries who arrived at the Xiongnu returned and reported to Liu Bang that the Huns were not so terrible, and that as long as 108,000 Han troops were gathered together, they could defeat the Xiongnu. Among the emissaries, only Lou Jing, who had grown from a coachman to a minister, said that the Xiongnu were strong, and the Huns must have deliberately shown weakness, and the strength of the Han army could not be rashly ventured into a decisive battle with the Xiongnu.
The ambitious emperor was very annoyed by Lou Jing's words that would destroy his own prestige, and ordered him to be imprisoned and punished again after the triumphant return of the army.
Angered by Lou Jing, Liu Bang not only ordered a large army to go to meet the battle, but also personally led a 100,000 vanguard troops to rush to the front.
Unexpectedly, however, when Liu Bang personally led the Han army forward to Baishan Mountain, the city of Datong Pingcheng, he was ambushed and surrounded by an army of 400,000 Xiongnu and trapped for seven days and seven nights.
Finally, Liu Bang used the scheme of the strategist Chen Ping to send gold and silver to the wife of the Xiongnu leader Mao Dun Shan Yu, and the emissary said to The wife of Mo Dun with a three-foot incorruptible tongue that there were many beautiful women in the southern Han Dynasty, and if the Xiongnu defeated the Han Dynasty and entered the Central Plains, there would be a large number of beautiful women around the Han Dynasty in the future, and you would not be favored.
Mrs. Mo Dun is a knowledgeable person, know that the central plains in the south are a lot of water spirit beauty, think about it carefully, heck, this is true, if There are a lot of Han Dynasty beauties around Mo Dun, then I don't have a status? No, we must not let Mo Dun be fascinated by the beauty of the Central Plains, and we must try our best to tie him firmly to the old woman.
So with the help of the pillow wind blowing by the Xiongnu women, Mao Dun agreed that as long as there were enough gold and silver treasures, Liu Bang could be let go of a way to live, so Liu Bang was able to break out of the siege.
Liu Bang, who had returned from the breakthrough, was severely beaten by reality, and he released Lou Jing and respectfully and humbly asked him how to deal with the Xiongnu.
Lou Jing, who had eaten and drunk enough to receive Liu Bang's promise of promotion and knighthood, proposed a plan to Liu Bang with a full burp: "In addition to continuing to give the Xiongnu a large amount of gold and silver treasures, he also married Liu Bang's daughter to Mao Dun Shan Yu, and in order for Mo Dun Shan Yu to give birth to a son, Liu Bang would become a grandfather, and the grandson would not casually go to war with the grandfather!" ”
Liu Bang's face was uncertain when he listened: he commanded a large army to run back from the siege, relying on Xiongnu women, and now to ensure the safety of the Han Empire, he still had to rely on women, and he relied on his own daughter! Shame on you!
But Lou Jing said, "Your Majesty, there is no way to do this, we must be patient, patient, do a good job in the production of the Central Plains, accumulate wealth, and accumulate until our strength is strong enough to launch a counterattack!" ”
Liu Bang was very reluctant, "When can you fight back against the Xiongnu?" ”
"At least until we have enough horses to form hundreds of thousands of cavalry, as fast as the Huns' four hundred thousand cavalry!"
Liu Bang listened without speaking, just clenched his fists in his sleeves, there was no expression on his face, but his heart was extremely desperate, he was 56 years old, he had been wounded many times in the war, after this battle of Baishan Mountain, he was very aware of the strength of the Xiongnu army, and estimated that he would not be able to survive the day when he would fight back against the Xiongnu and win a complete victory.
Stills of Liu Bang
Of course, Lou Jing knew Liu Bang's thoughts, "Your Majesty, if you want my Great Han Dynasty to become the Heavenly Dynasty of the Ten Thousand Kingdoms, the only way to do it now is to learn from the Yue King, who has used ten years of life and ten years to teach to destroy the Wu Kingdom, which has a thousand chariots and 100,000 troops, and to destroy the Xiongnu who control the strings of millions, it may take decades, our generation can't do it, and the next generation, maybe the next generation can't do it, and the next generation!" One day, the Huns will be destroyed! ”
Liu Bang was helpless, but the reality was like this, for a long time, after he figured it out, his eyes gradually became firm, and he immediately thought of many realistic problems: his daughter can be born at will, even if there is no daughter, in the folk to find a woman who is willing to bear the burden of humiliation and go deep into the Xiongnu's lair to recognize as her daughter, but what if the silver is not enough?
Lou Jing had long been confident and suggested: "Your Majesty, you can immediately move more than 100,000 people from the former Six Kingdoms aristocratic haoqiang family east of Chang'an to the capital Chang'an, which can not only get enough taxes for these rich nobles in Chang'an's commercial trade, have the financial resources to give to the Xiongnu, but also consolidate the defense of Chang'an, and more importantly, eliminate the unstable factors of the old aristocratic forces of the Six Kingdoms and ensure the long-term peace and stability of the Han Empire." ”
Helplessly, Liu Bang felt that this plan could be done, so he did it, and gave a large amount of gold and silver to the Xiongnu continuously, and At the same time, Liu Bang also found a woman in the folk, recognized it as his daughter, and married Shan Yu.
This is a shameful thing for the entire Han Dynasty, but there is no way, can not defeat the Huns, can only use this method of bearing the burden of humiliation, wait until their own strength is strong.
After Liu Bang's death, the Xiongnu had a fever in his head and even sent someone to say that he planned to marry Liu Bang's widow Lü Shi.
How did this come about!
The ministers of the entire Han Dynasty were enraged, and many shouted that they would fight the Xiongnu to the death.
But Lü Shi remembered her husband's Taoguang cultivation strategy, and said lightly that his old age and decay were not suitable for serving Shan Yu, and it was better to send some young and beautiful women to Shan Yu.
Sure enough, the Lü clan sent a batch of gold and silver treasures and a group of beautiful women to Shan Yuhou, and the Xiongnu army did not go south in a big way, and the politically unstable Han Dynasty gained a chance to breathe.
With regard to the powerful Xiongnu, the Han Dynasty endured, from Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, to Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, who had gone through seven emperors in a total of more than seventy years; no matter how the domestic political situation changed, the Xiongnu externally adhered to the policy of Taoguang and obscurity, and internally adopted a policy of recuperating with the people, encouraging production, and taking care of the poor endowment, accumulating national strength little by little.
When liu che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, finally accumulated enough national strength, established a strong mobile cavalry corps, compared with the Xiongnu cavalry troops, completely achieved "Kou can go to me can also go", with strong national strength to support the large-scale strategic counterattack war against the Xiongnu, victory is a matter of high probability.
We see in the history books that the champions Hou Huo and Hou Weiqing of Changping commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, across the desert, like a storm, continuously attacking the Xiongnu's nest, and finally beating the Xiongnu into the long river of history, and the iron-blooded conquest was happy and vengeful, but as everyone knew, the Han Empire had silently endured for more than seventy years for this moment, from the emperor to the courtiers, and then to the ordinary people!
The story of the early Han Dynasty taught future generations what is the taoguang of the country, when facing a powerful enemy, you can first avoid its limelight for a period of time, bury your head in your own internal affairs, and one day you can launch a counterattack to defeat the enemy!
Behind the words "those who commit crimes against strong men will be punished from afar", behind the words of countless people who endure humiliation and carry the burden silently forward.
The author believes that the performance of Taoguang's obscure strategist behavior generally has four characteristics: First, when the strength is not good, it deliberately hides its own strength and long-term planning goals and paralyzes the opponent; second, temporarily abandons the external offensive and concentrates all its efforts on developing internal forces to wait for the opportunity to come; third, waiting for the opportunity is not just to die quietly, etc., but to take the initiative to do something when necessary, and create favorable conditions to strive for the early arrival of the opportunity for decisive victory; fourth, when the conditions are ripe, we must use thunder action to lock in the victory.
Let's see if this has been the case for decades!
Today, the superpower that hysterically suppressed us has been established for 245 years, and according to the law of historical cycles, it is about to set over the west mountain.
Our generation will witness the great history of the Chinese nation returning to the top!