Loyal to the liver and righteousness, brave and brave to pass on the soul!
These eight words are used to describe the heavens. The three generations of the Meng family were loyal and loyal, serving Great Qin for generations and making immortal contributions to Great Qin.
However, it was after such a famous person, the minister of the pillar, the final fate was very tragic, and Meng Tian finally committed suicide and died.
A generation of famous generals did not die on the battlefield, but died at the hands of their own people, which is really infuriating.
Meng Tian (259 BC – 210 BC), a general of the Qin Dynasty, led an army to attack the State of Qi when he was young, and was highly valued by Qin Shi Huang.
After the unification of the world, the main enemy of the Qin Dynasty was the Xiongnu. Meng Tian then led an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north, recover the land of Henan, threaten the Xiongnu, and guard Great Qin.
Jia Yi wrote in the "Treatise on Passing the Qin": "But for more than seven hundred miles of the Xiongnu, the Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses. ”
When the Hu people saw Meng Tian, they were as scared as a mouse seeing a cat, and did not dare to come back to the Qin Dynasty. Qin Shi Huang was an emperor of the ages, and his strategic vision was beyond the reach of ordinary people, and he knew that the Xiongnu could not be destroyed, only to resist the Xiongnu.
Therefore, Qin Shi Huang asked Meng Tian to build the Great Wall in the north and use the natural dangers of the Long March to resist the Xiongnu. The Great Wall is a great project in China, which has benefited China for two thousand years and guarded the stability of China again and again.
MengTian guarded the frontier and defended Great Qin, but there was a coup d'état in Xianyang, and Hu Hai's intentions were wrong.
After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Zhao Gao revised the edict, originally Fu Su inherited the throne, but the edict was modified to Hu Hai to inherit the throne, so Hu Hai became emperor, and Fu Su committed suicide.
Meng Tian was the person who supported Su, and naturally became a thorn in Hu Hai's eye. After Fu Su was killed, Hu Hai decided to kill Meng Tian.
Meng Tian knew that he could not live, so he swallowed medicine and committed suicide, and a generation of famous generals fell. Before committing suicide, Meng Tian said two famous words from ancient times: "From my ancestors, and to my descendants, I have accumulated merit and faith in Qin III." Although he was imprisoned, his strength was enough to double his strength, but he knew that he would die and keep his righteousness, and did not dare to insult the teachings of his ancestors, so as not to forget his ancestors. ”
Meng Tianzu had served Great Qin for three generations, and although I was now a prisoner of the order, I had 300,000 heavy soldiers in my hands, and if I wanted to rebel, I also had the ability. But I am willing to die and stick to morality, and I dare not insult the teachings of my ancestors.
Meng Tian's meaning was very clear, he was loyal to Great Qin all his life, he would not do anything to be sorry for Great Qin, even if Great Qin let him die, he would have no complaints or regrets. Meng Tian is really a generation of loyal and good generals!
Four hundred years later, Cao Cao admired these two sentences of Meng Tian very much, he liked them very much, and whenever he was wronged, he always had to read them again to ease his mood.
What grievances can Cao Cao have? Cao Cao's grievances were very great, and everyone said that he was a Cao thief, had the intention of usurpation, and wanted to replace Han Tianzi.
However, Cao Cao did not mean to be emperor, he was loyal to the Han, for which Cao Cao also wrote a "Shu Zhi Ling" to express his ambitions. Cao Cao, like Meng Tian, was loyal to the imperial court and had no two hearts, and what Meng Tian said also said was inside Cao Cao's heart.
In the face of gossip outside, Cao Cao could only silently endure all the pain!
References: "History", "On the Passing of the Qin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", etc