Review
We have all read the story of the sin of Bearing Jing in the primary school textbooks: the general of the Zhao State, Lian Quite, was not convinced that Lin Xiangru, who was born from a lowly background, had a higher position than himself, and vowed to humiliate him. Later, Lian Po found out that Lin Xiangru was for the stability of the Zhao Kingdom and did not bother with himself, and under shame, Lian Po carried a thorn on his bare upper body to lin Xiangru's door to plead guilty, and finally the two of them were released from their previous suspicions.
This story is a good story, but it always feels a bit unfinished, in fact, in history, the endings of Lian Po and Lin Xiang are very regrettable.
Zhao Xiaocheng king's lost hand
The story of "Bearing jing and pleading guilty" occurred during the reign of King Huiwen of Zhao, when the State of Zhao could be described as a powerful country, diplomatically similar to the King of Qin, and militarily invincible. For a time, the scenery of the Zhao kingdom was infinite, until the death of King Huiwen of Zhao, and his son Zhao Xiaocheng took the throne.
When the new king ascended the throne, he was naturally suspicious of all the former courtiers, as the saying goes, "one son of heaven and one courtier." King Zhao Xiaocheng was no exception, and after taking office, he spent all his thoughts on cultivating his own cronies, and he delayed state affairs when he came and went.
All this was seen by the ambitious Qin state, when the qin and Zhao countries were on the verge of war, in this context, the king of Qin said to his subordinates that he was not afraid of honesty, but was afraid of Zhao Kuo, the son of Zhao Hao, and this word reached the ears of King Xiaocheng of Zhao.
King Xiaocheng of Zhao was overjoyed, and believing that he had found a way to oppose the Qin army, he actually removed Lian Po, who had made great achievements in battle, and let Zhao Kuo, who was just starting out and had no actual combat experience, lead his troops against the Qin state.
As everyone knows, all this is the conspiracy of the King of Qin, and under such a psychological battle, King Zhao Xiaocheng is about to lose is a mess, and he still feels complacent.
The fiasco at the Battle of Changping
At the time of the war in the Qin state, Lin Xiangru was actually very ill, but he still dragged his body to the king of Zhao Xiaocheng, pleading not to temporarily change the general, because Lin Xiangru knew that although Zhao Kuo was full of military books, he lacked actual combat experience, and it was easy to be played between the cunning and vicious Qin people.
Although Lin Xiangru had already spoken to this point, King Xiaocheng of Zhao was still unmoved and insisted on using Zhao Kuo. Instead, he doubted Lin Xiangru's motives for writing the book, and Lin Xiangru had to return with sadness and indignation.
The subsequent story is familiar, this Zhao Kuo is the founding figure of the paper soldiers, under his command, 400,000 Zhao soldiers were buried alive by the Qin general Bai Qi, Zhao Kuo himself was killed by several arrows, and the situation of the Zhao State became extremely dangerous because of this Battle of Changping, and the Qin Dynasty could annex the Zhao State at any time.
A silent ending
Lin Xiangru disappeared into the long river of history after his negotiations with King Xiaocheng of Zhao were fruitless, and the final outcome of Lin Xiangru was not explained in the later history books, because Lin Xiangru's body was already in a bad mood when he wrote to King Zhao, so people speculated that during the period of the Battle of Changping, Lin Xiangru also died.
This person who has dedicated his life to his country, the person who angrily rushed to the crown for the sake of the country and the King of Qin, the person who threatened to splash the blood of the King of Qin for five steps, the person who repeatedly let zhao Guo gain advantage in diplomacy, in the end he was jealous of his own king, and ended up with a tragic ending of quiet death, but it was really regrettable!
Bumpy old age
After the defeat of the Zhao state, with the undead country, but it was a storm, at this time the State of Yan launched an attack on the State of Zhao, and King Xiaocheng of Zhao had to ask Lian Po to come out of the mountain, and Lian Po was also very depressed after being removed from his post by King Xiaocheng of Zhao, and in addition to the death of lin Xiang, the succession of changes brought a lot of blows to Lian Po.
However, at present, Zhao Guo urgently needs himself, and Lian Po can only put on the battle once again. In the end, Lian Po not only defused the attack of the Yan state, but also directly led the army to the capital of the Yan state, causing the Yan state to cut off the land and pay compensation, and all kinds of begging for forgiveness, which was the end.
King Xiaocheng of Zhao found that his misunderstanding of Lian Po was too deep, this old man had rarely lost in his life, if he had let him fight with Bai Qi in the first place, would zhao Guo's 400,000 good boys have been able to escape the fate of being buried alive?
Frustrated, King Xiaocheng of Zhao enfeoffed Lian Po as The Prince of Xinping and also appointed Xiang Guo, and Lian Po's status in the Zhao State also reached its peak, which can be described as "under one person, above ten thousand people".
But fate seems to be addicted to Lian Po's jokes, King Xiaocheng of Zhao also died suddenly, and his son King Xiangxiang of Zhao fully inherited the bad habit of his father's suspicion of his former subjects, and Lian Po was deposed again, but this time Lian Po could not bear it and directly rebelled. After all, in terms of generations, this Zhao Mourning Xiang King is a figure of the young grandson of Lianpo, who is tolerable and intolerable.
However, Lian Po's rebellion was false, and his "temper tantrum" was true, because he did not seize power after defeating the Zhao general Le Cheng, but only ran to the territory of the neighboring State of Wei to recuperate.
Honest and old, still able to eat or not
Zhao Guo lost Lian Po, and was frustrated militarily, and King Xiang of Zhao decided to invite the old general Lian to go out of the mountain, so he sent emissaries to wei to check on Lian Po's recent situation, and Lian Po was naturally willing to serve Zhao Guo, so he ate a bucket of rice and ten pounds of cooked meat in front of the emissary, and after eating a horse and dancing knife to get a gun, he did not look like an eighty-year-old man.
What Lian Po did not know, the emissary had already been bribed by his own enemies, and when reporting to King Xiang of Zhao, the emissary deliberately added oil and vinegar, so that King Xiang of Zhao decided not to appoint Lian Po again.
In the end, Lian Po died in the Chu Kingdom at the age of eighty-four with the thought of his homeland, and this veteran who witnessed the rise and fall of the Zhao Kingdom did not know how he felt at the end of his life.
epilogue
No one has the ability to stop the wheel of history, but Lian Polin and the two really let Zhao Guo gain a firm foothold in the Warring States period when the masses were competing for hegemony, and the two people with such merits were suspected by their own kings and framed by their own political enemies, and their enthusiasm was nowhere to be found.
When future generations look through the history books and look back at this period of history, they will surely leave a sigh after another!