Brilliant and short-lived strong man general star - Hussar General Huo Tou Disease (4)
Chief Writer: Idle Student
In the Battle of Hexi between Han and Hungary, Huo went ill and won a great victory, and in one fell swoop surrendered nearly 100,000 people from Hun Evil and Hu Tubu. This is also very normal, the Huns are born to advocate force, believe in the strong, for this reason they are even willing to crawl at the feet of heroes, bow their knees, and be willing.
Therefore, Huo went ill and spent his time leading the Han army and 100,000 Xiongnu troops to cross the Yellow River and return to Chang'an in the south. Such a large-scale foreign descent is rare in the world, and the world is shaken by it.
But the most shocking thing was that at that time, when the Great Sinong Zheng, so many Xiongnu descended on the masses, food, clothing, shelter and rewards, then they had to spend money like flowing water, the housekeeper was difficult, and the steward of the great empire was more and more difficult.
Sure enough, under the order of Emperor Wu of Han, 20,000 carriages were requisitioned by the people (this move caused great harassment to the people), and a huge welcoming procession was formed to welcome the Hu people who came down, and supplied food and clothing along the way, in order to show the prestige of the country, and after welcoming back, they desperately rewarded them, Yifeng Huo went to 1,700 sick households (Note 1), sealed the evil king of Hun as the Marquis of Luoyin, and named his little king Hu Venini as the Marquis of Xiamo, Yan Fu as the Marquis of Huiqu, Fowl Li as the Marquis of Heqi, and Da Danghu as the Marquis of Changle... Before and after a total of thirty-two Xiongnu kings and their subordinates were rewarded, billions of copper coins were thrown out, together with the meritorious soldiers of the Han Army, This year Liu Che spent a total of more than 10 billion yuan, equivalent to the financial income of the Han Dynasty for more than two years, before the sale of the knight's more than three billion dollars was not enough, the loser!
Therefore, at that time, the minister Ji Dian said: "If the Xiongnu surrender to the Han Dynasty by the side of their lord, why should they cause a commotion in the world, and strike at China and destroy the people of Di with things!" And the treasury of the humble house rewards, and the good people serve, for example, if they serve the proud son. The courtiers do not take it for His Majesty. But Emperor Wu of Han not only did not listen, but also dismissed the official a few months later with a small mistake. This is the common disease of the dictatorial emperor, who loves face, is extremely generous to the outside world, and is unrestrained in his internal cohesion, and he will achieve ten thousand bones and dry bones, and one country will become the suffering of all people.
Later historian Qian Mu also commented: "China, with its superior human and financial resources, dealt with the Xiongnu with a lower culture and loose political organization, and adopted the offensive of the main force to break through, and won the victory over self-defense. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not wrong to attack the Xiongnu, but there were all kinds of unnecessary waste in Emperor Wu's internal affairs, so although the Xiongnu were defeated, China was also tired, so it was dissatisfied by posterity. ”
However, Liu Che believed that all this was worth it, as long as it was for the expansion and glory of the empire, the money that should be spent had to be spent, the money that should be spent was also spent when smashing pots and selling iron, it didn't matter if there was no money in the treasury, it didn't matter if there was no money in the treasury, it was out of the small treasury of the decay (Note 2), no matter how poor it was, no matter how poor it was, no matter how bitter it was. Only in this way can more soldiers be willing to die, and more Hu people can be converted to the Han, and when the Xiongnu rebel against the Yi Zhi people and leave the end of the day, this is called the completion of merit. As the Han Dynasty scholar Yang Xiong said: "And in his previous life, how could he have poured out immeasurable expenses, served the innocent, and was happy to look to the north of the wolf?" Those who think that those who do not work will soon die, and those who do not temporarily spend money will not be eternally peaceful, but they are masters who endure millions to destroy the beak of hungry tigers, and fill the gap of Lu Mountain with the wealth of the treasury without repentance. ”
Soon, Emperor Wu ordered that these tens of thousands of Xiongnu descendants be divided into five parts and scattered in Saiwai, north of the five western border counties of the Han Dynasty (Longxi County, Beidi County, Shangjun, Shuofang County, and Wuyuan County), because of its custom, called the Five Dependent States, thinking that the Han Dynasty was in the northwest of pingfan, and set up a subordinate state capital to be responsible for management. The lieutenant of the vassal state was both a military assistant to the Taishou of Ben County, and at the same time accepted the leadership of the central subordinate state. Later, these Xiongnu gradually merged with the Han Chinese, and were quite active in the Hexi area during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
The surrendered Huns instead became the iron wall guarding the border plugs of the Han Dynasty, so that the garrison of the border counties west of the north could be appropriately reduced, so the counties reduced their troops by nearly half the following year, saving a lot of military expenses in the border counties. Chao Que's "Words and Soldiers" once said: "Attacking barbarians with barbarians, the shape of China is also." "But at that time, when he was Emperor Wen of Han, the time was not ripe, and it was not until more than forty years later that Emperor Wu of Han realized it. It seems that Liu Che is not a loser who can burn money, and people really have far-sighted considerations.
Pictured: The expansion of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
In addition, Liu Chehuo's great action to get sick also made the vast grassland of 150,000 square kilometers from Jincheng (present-day Lanzhou, Gansu), Hexi, and to Yanze (also known as Puchanghai, more than 300 miles west to Yumen and Yangguan, that is, in present-day Lop Nur in Xinjiang) become a vacuum zone, and the xiongnu power was almost extinct, and the gate to the western region was completely opened. As a result, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty officially launched the great strategy of developing Hexi to communicate with Central Asia. Six years later, the Han Empire established Jiuquan and Wuwei Counties under the Qilian Mountains, and relocated some Han Chinese to this place, and in four years, set up Zhangye and Dunhuang Counties. For another three years, the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty was built all the way to Yumen Pass (Emperor Wu of Han). It is named after the jade imported from the Western Regions, and the site is in xiaofangpancheng, northwest of present-day Dunhuang, Gansu), which is known in history as "Xisai". In this way, all the way to the west, by the time of Emperor Xuan of Han more than forty years later, the entire thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions had all become vassals of the Han Dynasty, and the Silk Road that spanned Europe and Asia for thousands of years was unimpeded since then (Note 3).
Just as the so-called ploughing its court, sweeping its Lu, and ignoring the counties and counties, the clouds swept through, and there was no aftermath. In this way, the Xiongnu folded their wings and broke their wings, lost aid, and the end was short. Obviously, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty's management of Hexi and even the western region surpassed qin shi huang's strategy of attacking the great wall in the south and defending the north, standing on the shoulders of his predecessors, And Liu Che's gaze was far and wide.
It seems that the Han Dynasty's foreign expansion strategy is very simple, that is, two words, colonization. When it comes to colonial immigration, Chinese people often think of the great voyages of the West or the history of the united States, in fact, Chinese has not been cut off from the large-scale development of immigration for thousands of years, even in modern times, the cultivated land and cities of Chinese have been advancing to the Mongolian grasslands, northeast forests and Xinjiang deserts, and the reclamation is endless.
And Huo Went ill alone to get the four counties, once again created a legend, but also made Liu Che feel very contentious, love him almost more than his own son, Emperor Wu sometimes even thought, if Huo Go sick is the son of Yuan, Shuo must cultivate him to become the first emperor of ancient and modern times.
But it was a pity that Huo went to the wrong fetus, and he could only develop to the first god of war in ancient and modern times. Therefore, Emperor Wu found an opportunity to ask him to learn more from Sun Wu's art of war, strengthen his theoretical attainment on the basis of practice, and preferably write a book of soldiers himself. The eldest husband must not only be a famous general, but also a military man.
However, Huo Fuyi did not care about this, and even snorted coldly and proudly said, "Gu Fang is like an ear, so as not to learn the ancient art of war." ”
In the face of the earnest teachings of Emperor Wu of The Tang Dynasty, those who still dared to sneer at them were probably the only ones in this world who were sick.
However, Emperor Wu was not only not angry when he heard this, but was very happy, no way, he just liked this empty-eyed boy.
The Song Dynasty military theorist He Wentuna said: "The law has a definite conclusion, but the soldier is impermanent." Keeping a certain book, and responding to an infinite enemy, the number of victories and defeats is terrible. "The ancient battle was fought in the mountain plains; the present war was fought in the steppe desert. The terrain is different, the opponents are different, if you stick to the ancient art of war, it is a paper talk. In the field of war, theory is always pale, and only rich war practice is the most important. Huo Fuyi was a man who understood, so he did not learn the art of war, and was obviously a genius similar to Xiang Yu. As the saying goes, "If you win and change, you will win and not speak to the people, then people will not know why they are so." It is a pity that he lived too short and did not write his own works on the practice of war and pass it on to future generations, otherwise China's cavalry tactical system would have developed more rapidly, and it would not have lagged behind the northern Hu everywhere.
Emperor Wu really admired such a Huo's illness, so he specially ordered someone to build a large mansion for him. When it's done, let him see if he's satisfied. Who knew that Huo went to the disease and did not go to see it at all, and refused to take a bite. Although he was born in Qiluo and took it for granted, he did not indulge in it, otherwise he would just stay in Chang'an and enjoy the blessings, so why would he throw his youth Shaohua into the wind and frost outside the plug and fight against any Xiongnu?
Therefore, when Emperor Wu asked him why, Huo Quyi only replied with one sentence: "The Xiongnu have not perished, and there is no home to do!" ”
Huo went ill to be a man who did not say much, and had the courage to take responsibility. His words were never much, but the words were cut to the point - is it not fragrant to have the money to build a big mansion and serve as military expenses to fight the Xiongnu? For Huo Toyi, having something is only a low-level happiness, and asking for something is a high-level happiness, and his "request" lies in the annihilation of the Xiongnu, not the rich and gentle countryside of Chang'an. As long as the mission is not achieved, the grassland is not empty, and the mansion is large and luxurious, it will not be able to keep him. Those who can't keep him, let alone his heart. Perhaps, if the heavens did not take him away so quickly and let him live for even twenty more years, the Xiongnu would really be destroyed by him, without waiting for Chen Tang in eighty years.
In short, this is said to be bragging. Huo's illness is enough to inspire the world, it not only inspired Emperor Wu and his subjects, but also inspired the Chinese hot-blooded boys for a thousand years, and it even inspired the entire Chinese nation to work hard and strive for self-improvement. Since then, whenever Hu Atmosphere is arrogant and the nation is in danger, there are always benevolent people in China who remember this sentence, stand up, rush forward, forget their lives and forget their deaths because of their duties, and march forward with all their hearts and minds, using flesh and blood and life to expel Hu Yu and defend their homeland. Whether the country is broken or the family is destroyed, or the mountains and rivers are broken, as long as this spirit is there, China will never die.
Some people sprinkle long speeches, but the listener is drowsy and sleepy, and has the miraculous effect of hypnosis; but Huo Fuyi only said a short nine words, but he heard that people's blood was strong and their souls were upward.
Note 1: At this point, the number of households sealed by Huo Fuyi has reached 10,300, and he and Wei Qing are the same as 10,000 households.
Note 2: According to the Book of Historical Records and Pingzhuan: "And those who surrendered were all clothed and fed county officials, and the county officials did not give it, and the Son of Heaven was a loss of food, and he was relieved of public opinion, and he was forbidden to hide in the imperial palace to support him."
Note: 3: Studies have found that the Eurasian steppe (from present-day Shanxi Province, China to the outskirts of Vienna) spread much faster than the agricultural areas to the south. Therefore, in a way, Chinese and even the entire world people must thank Huo Forsho, a 19-year-old young general, in just one year, to lay the foundation for the two-thousand-year intersection of the major civilizations of the East and the West. Until now, the Belt and Road Initiative will continue to provide growth engines and new opportunities for global development. Huo Xiaojun, famous throughout the ages, has made great achievements!