History is a book of merit, recording the rocky figures and deeds that flow through the years, but the merit book is too thick, and it is inevitable that some heroes will be dusted, but the reason why heroes are called heroes is because there is always a day when they are known and praised by the world. In 1990, it was a very ordinary year, no spaceships went to the sky, and no dragons entered the sea, but on an unknown Gobi Desert in Dunhuang, a station buried by wind and sand for thousands of years was excavated.
After rescue excavation and research, its true face has finally been revealed, which is a border station from the Han Dynasty period, called Hanging Spring Place. A caravanserai is a lonely tree, which coldly watches the rise and fall of the world, and finally hides all the merits with the yellow sand, and only learns about the prosperity of the Han Empire from the dry branches when later generations excavate.
In the ruins of the Hanging Spring, an important post on the border of the Han Empire, a document attracted everyone's attention. This "ChangluoHou Hanging Spring Expense Book" details the items used by Changluohou during his fifth mission to the Western Regions. Who is Changluo Hou? Why did he go to the West six times? Lone hero Chang Hui is also!
Once out of the Western Regions, the teenager went to Huafa
In the first hundred years of B.C., a rather famous mission in history marched towards the western region facing the rising sun, most of them were full of vigorous faces, even the oldest "old" was only about thirty years old, they shouldered the mission of the Han Empire and marched towards the vast Gobi Desert, but when they set out, they did not expect the Huns to be so cruel.
The leader of the mission was named Su Wu, and regardless of whether people were interested in history or not, they were all impressed by the deeds of Su Wu, who was a symbol of the integrity of the Han Dynasty, but under the story of Su Wu's shepherd, there was also a nameless Chang Hui. Chang Hui was a member of the Su Wu mission at that time to the Xiongnu, because Chang Hui was still only a nameless teenager at that time, so there are not many historical records of his youth, what we know is that Chang Hui was detained by the Xiongnu with Su Wu, and the betrayal of his deputy Zhang Sheng also stayed in the Xiongnu, which was kept for nineteen years.
We can't discover the deeds of life that may not have been recorded from the fog of history, but we can rely on our reasonable imagination to imagine his nineteen years, study hard, pretend to be dead-hearted, wait for the opportunity to escape, dream back to the Big Han, Chang Hui is not a breed.
Heaven always has the virtue of good life, and fortunately all of Changhui's efforts have been seen. In 81 B.C., nineteen years had passed since their mission to the Western Regions, and things were quietly turning around. The relationship between the Han Empire and the Xiongnu entered an ice-breaking phase, and the relationship between the two entered a period of relaxation, at least on the surface. When the Han Dynasty sent envoys to inquire about Su Wu's whereabouts, the Xiongnu, fearing that the matter would be exposed, falsely claimed that Su Wu was dead.
How could Chang Hui, who had been dormant in the Xiongnu for nineteen years, watch this happen and say that he would go back together. So Chang Hui came up with a way, he wanted to use the power of the ghosts and gods that the ancient people feared the most, and he asked the Han envoys to tell the Xiongnu that the emperor of the Han Empire dreamed of Su Wu herding sheep in the North Sea, and asked you to return the Su Wu envoys.
When the Huns heard this, their hearts trembled, could it be that this move violated the heavens? Under the operation of Chang Hui and the Han envoys, Su Wu, who had been herding sheep in Lake Baikal for nineteen years, finally embarked on the road of meeting the Han Dynasty, and the beard was white and still did not lose the integrity of the Han envoys, so that Su Wu was respected and worshiped by everyone after returning to the dynasty, and under the huge aura of Su Wu, although Chang Hui was also rewarded, he was still not the most outstanding one.
Just as people remember the first place in the class, the second place child is usually ignored, and Chang Huizhi is such a role for Su Wu. But time is a very magical thing, and we can't imagine what kind of fate Chang Hui will have after the baptism of time.
The Princess of Relief asked for relief and attacked the Xiongnu
Chang Hui returned to the big man who had been away for nineteen years, and his heart could not calm down for a long time, and he was wandering for half a life, and he was no longer a teenager when he returned. If it were me, I might have chosen to spend the rest of my life in peace, and loyalty to the country has been manifested in those nineteen years, but the hero has become a hero because of their persistence and absolute loyalty to the country.
Simply put, it is a brick, where it needs to be moved. As a lone hero, Chang Hui's nineteen years of life outside the country did not let him smooth out his ambitions, but rather a stepping stone that pushed him to another peak in his life.
Next, we will talk about the second major event that affects Chang Hui's life, and the key character Princess Jieyou should appear.
In the second year of the first year of the taichu Dynasty, Princess Xiaojun, who had gone to Wusun and kissed, had died of illness for a long time, and for the sake of the entanglement of interests between the two countries, Wusun wrote to ask the Han Dynasty to send another princess to make peace. At this time, princess Jieyou, who was a sinner, became the best candidate for peace, and from then on, the relationship between Wusun and The Great Han was closely linked by Princess Jieyou.
History is always much crueler than the TV series, the princess who came to Wusun on behalf of the Great Han became the right lady of the Wusun King at that time, and above her there was also a left lady from the Xiongnu who accompanied the Wusun King for a long time, so the dispute between the left and right wives was not only for the status of the two people, but also for the status of the Han and the Xiongnu.
In 74 BC, the relationship between the Xiongnu and Wusun was at odds, and the war was about to break out, and princess Jieyou kept writing to the Han Dynasty to request troops, but at that time, when Emperor Han Zhao was critically ill, no one was willing to take care of a small Wusun state thousands of miles away. Princess Jieyou, alone, resisted the pressure of the Xiongnu and Wusun pro-Hungarian factions, and insisted on constantly asking the Han Dynasty for help for three years. In 72 BC, Emperor Xuan of Han promised to send envoys to check it out, and Chang Hui, who had lived in the Western Regions for nineteen years, became the leader of the Han Dynasty envoys to Wusun, just like Su Wu at that time.
Chang Hui, who came to Wusun, was relatively speechless with Princess Jie, only two lines of tears remained, the time of youth had passed, the two had no time to tell each other about homesickness, how to solve the current predicament is important. Chang Hui proposed to send troops to Emperor Xuan of Han to annihilate the Xiongnu in one fell swoop, so as to avoid any trouble.
In 71 BC, the mighty 150,000-strong army divided into five roads and marched to the western region, and the opportunity to solve the problem of the heart was at hand. However, heaven sometimes resembled a naughty child, the 150,000 troops of the Han Dynasty did not play a decisive role, and the Xiongnu did not surrender under the siege of the Han army, on the contrary, the 50,000 Wusun army led by Chang Hui played a role in breaking the Xiongnu.
The winter of 71 BC was not a cold winter for Chang Hui, even in the western region. Because the Xiongnu, who had suffered successive blows, decided to break the ship and fight hard, Shan Yu personally led the troops to fight with Chang Hui and his party to the death. In this war, the Xiongnu were attacked from three sides by Chang Hui's subordinates, and the Xiongnu lost three-tenths of the population, mostly young and middle-aged laborers, and the Xiongnu no longer had the strength to fight with the Han. Without the stumbling block of the Xiongnu, the prestige of the Han in the Western Regions was even better, and Wusun and other Western Countries had a stronger sense of belonging to the Han Dynasty.
With the help of force, unprecedented
Chang Hui, who defeated the Xiongnu, became a hero of the Han Dynasty, and after returning to the Han Dynasty, he was immediately named the Marquis of Changluo, and the golden Wanliang was not a word, at this time, Chang Hui had to be white, according to common sense, he should be raised for a long time, but the famous figures in history were destined to have no connection with "common sense". After the First Sino-Hungarian War, Wusun completely submitted to the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Xuan of Han wanted to reward Wusun heavily, and decided to let Chang Hui once again send an envoy to the Western Regions to reward Wusun.
As a courtier, Chang Hui had no objection to Emperor Xuan's decision, but as a person who had lived in the Xiongnu for nineteen years and sent many missions to the Western Regions, he had his own unique views on the countries of the Western Regions.
In his many years of missionary career, Chang Hui found that the countries of the Western Regions were vacillating between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, and whoever was strong was inclined to whom, referred to as the "riding the wall", how could the bloody Chang Hui tolerate it. Therefore, he wrote to Emperor Xuan of Han, asking him to bring an army to teach the countries of the Western Regions a lesson when he was on his mission to Wusun.
Emperor Xuan of Han, who had just ascended to the throne and had defeated the Xiongnu, was full of concerns about this, preferring to take pacification measures against the Western Regions and did not agree to Chang Hui's policy of sending troops. In orthodox history, Huo Guang belongs to the negative power figures, but in this matter, Huo Guang has made a lot of contributions, he acquiesced to Chang Hui's leading five hundred people to the Western Regions, acquiesced to Chang Hui's "'lesson'" plan, and even implied Chang Hui: you can do it cheaply! How convenient how to come!
Chang Hui, who led five hundred envoys, successfully completed the task entrusted to him by Emperor Xuan of Han, and now that the award of the award was completed, the punishment should also be put on the agenda. On the way back to China, Chang Hui chose the target of the attack - Guizi.
Guizi's relationship with the Han Dynasty dates back to the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Guizi had already become a vassal state of the Western Han Dynasty as a small state in the Western Regions, but their king was very cunning, and he made another small state in the Western Regions a vassal and imprisoned the prince Lai Dan. How could Tianzi tolerate such a ridiculous thing at his feet, so Emperor Wudi of Han sent Li Guang to go on a crusade against Guizi, and rescued the prince Lai Dan and made him a lieutenant, managing the affairs of the Wheel for the Han and guarding the border.
As a small country, Guizi did not know the height of the sky and provoked the Han Dynasty again in a deadly manner, and the Guizi King and the Guizi nobles killed Lai Dan, who had become a minister of the Han Dynasty. This should have provoked the wrath of Emperor Wu of Han, but after killing Lai Dan, the cunning King Guizi sent envoys to confess his mistake to Emperor Wu of Han and asked Emperor Wu of Han to let him go. After measuring the value, Emperor Wu of han thought that attacking a small country was a move to exhaust the people and hurt their wealth, so the Guizi state escaped the fate of destroying the country.
By the time of Emperor Xuan of Han, the old King Guizi had died, and the new King Guizi was the prince at that time, and the Guizi noble guyi had also obtained a good one, and Chang Hui felt that the opportunity had come.
However, from the analysis of the situation at that time, Chang Hui and his party only had five hundred people, even if they were one enemy and ten enemies, they could not attack a country, and the population of Guizi could reach 80,000, which belonged to the relatively largest country size among the many countries in the western region. There must be something outstanding about the history of The Famous Qing, just when everyone thought that Chang Hui had nothing to do, he did something that no ancient person could do before--to suppress yi. Many countries in the Western Regions are the vassal states of the Great Han, not only Wusun who have just fought side by side, each small country has few troops, but when they are combined, they can become a large army.
So Chang Hui exerted the true strength of a diplomat, and with his three-inch tongue and the heavenly power of the Great Han, he successfully gathered an army of 50,000 people in three small countries in the western region and drove to Guizi in a mighty way.
Fifty thousand troops approached the city, the king of Guizi was frightened like ashes, Chang Huiyi saw the drama, he first sent emissaries into the city to angrily scold the king of Guizi, repeat the matter of prince Laidan, and condemn the unrighteous land of the Guizi people. King Guizi did not dare to speak out in the face of the condemnation of the envoys of the Han Dynasty, and then looked at the 50,000 troops under the city, and the King of Guizi was immediately convinced, and he sent someone to request reconciliation: The past is all in the sins of the father and the king and the guyi, and has nothing to do with me, and I am willing to sacrifice the guyi to pray for innocence.
Chang Hui saw that King Guizi was weak, thought that he could win without a fight, and sent emissaries to tell King Guizi to hand over his wings. When King Guizi saw the messenger's letter, his heart was very happy, and his life was finally saved, and he immediately sent Gu Yi wuhua to Chang Hui's army. Chang Hui placed Gu Yi under the gate of Guizi City and assigned special personnel to accuse Gu Yi of killing Prince Lai Dan, and finally killed him under the city gate.
postscript:
No war can make Kamezi submit, and Chang Huishi is the first in the past. After the end of the Guizi Kingdom, the 50,000 Western Alliance was also disbanded, and Chang Hui led 500 men and horses to return home victoriously. It is worth mentioning that King Guizi also took his daughter to Chang'an thousands of miles away to meet Emperor Xuan of Han, and really surrendered to the Great Han Tianwei.
For the diplomats of the same period as Su Wu, Chang Hui was far less famous than Su Wu, but those who had seen Chang Hui's deeds could not but recognize Chang Hui's outstanding diplomatic strength, but only the diplomatic strength was outstanding?
The most shining thing about Chang Hui is that he is loyal to the country, he began to send envoys to the Western Regions from a young age, successively served as the emperor of the Three Dynasties, became an envoy six times, the Xiongnu and Guizi became defeated generals, putting the princess in peace, the Silk Road was opened, the stability of the Western Regions, which point was separated from Chang Hui's efforts? People usually remember the world's highest mountain, but they can never remember the second highest mountain, often benefiting Su Wu, no less!