During the last years of the Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, but the so-called "heroes from the chaotic world", from a certain point of view, this chaotic situation also created an excellent opportunity for many talented people to compete for fame and profit. Han Sui is one of them, he is the tyrant of Xiliang, who once defeated Dong Zhuo and Ma Teng, lived to be more than 70 years old, but was always forgotten.
Although Han Sui was a relatively ambitious person, he was also a politically minded person. At first, Han Sui was just an official of Jincheng County, Liangzhou, and later after the unfortunate death of Yin Hua, the taishou of Jincheng at that time, he also personally escorted Yin Hua's body to Liqiu, which made Han Sui praise from many people in the city and accumulated a lot of praise for him.
In this move, we can see that Han Sui is a very good manipulator of people's hearts and is also very far-sighted. Sure enough, his reputation reached the ears of He Jin, who was holding a lot of power at the time, and he was soon invited by He Jin to enter Kyoto.
To know that a small official in a remote area can attract the attention of the powerful people in the capital, Han Sui is really a person who is not simple. However, after Han Sui entered Beijing, he found that He Jin's vision did not have his own long-term, to put it bluntly, his ability was not as good as his own, and he felt that he could not exert his ambitions under He Jin, so he still invited himself back to Xiliang.
Later, the Qiang people Beigong Boyu rebelled, attacked Jincheng County, and captured Bian Zhang and Han Sui as hostages. Han Sui found that the imperial court had not sent people to save himself, and the military strength of the Qiang was so strong that if he could get a place for the Qiang, it would be much stronger than serving the imperial court.
He was a rare hero, but he was definitely not a loyal vassal who was only devoted to the imperial court, so soon Han Sui and Bian Zhang surrendered to the Qiang people together.
Sure enough, Han Sui soon had a place in the Qiang clan, with heavy troops in hand. He led the Qiang army to attack Sanfu, and later Emperor Fusong and Dong Zhuo also went to suppress Han Sui's rebel army, only to be defeated by Han Sui, and the victory of this war gave Han Sui an army of 100,000, which was instantly famous in all directions.
Since Han Sui was able to rebel against the imperial court, it showed that he had no loyalty at all, and in order to further improve his status, he ruthlessly killed Beigong Boyu and Bian Zhang. After that, although Han Sui was not the leader of the Qiang people in name, he actually grasped the entire Xiliang and was the real overlord of The Western Liang.
Although Han Sui accepted Cao Cao's offer, he always had the psychology of wanting to rebel against Cao Cao, and later Ma Chao persuaded Han Sui to rebel against Cao Cao, and he also accepted Ma Chao's idea despite Yan Xing's advice. And this decision also had the later Battle of Weishui.
At this point, Han Sui could be said to have encountered a real opponent, and Cao Cao used a divisive strategy to annihilate the forces of Han Sui and Ma Chao. That is, the defeat at the Battle of Weishui, Han Sui had to flee back to Jincheng County, Western Liang.
At that time, Han Sui was actually very old, although some people persuaded him to defect to Liu Bei and fight against Cao Cao together, but because Han Sui had been the overlord of the party for a long time, he already had his own pride and was unwilling to bow his head and be an appendage of others. Therefore, he had been silently storing his military strength in Xiliang, wanting to confront Cao Cao, but unfortunately, this heroic ambition had not yet been completed, and Han Sui died of too much age.
We don't care whether Han Sui has morality along the way, but it is certain that he is indeed a tyrant, and his great ambitions are beyond the reach of ordinary people.
References: True Truth, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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