Speaking of Xiangyang, I have to mention its historical origins, Xiangyang began with the Zhou Xuan King Feng ZhongshanFu (Fan Muzhong), which has a history of more than 2800 years, and is the main birthplace of Chu culture, Han culture and Three Kingdoms culture. Therefore, Xiangyang has been an economic and military important place in the past, known as "the first city in China", "Xiangyang with iron fighting", and "the place where soldiers must fight".
In that year, after the Mongol army tore open the defensive line in Xiangyang, it was able to smoothly go south.
It is said that in 379 AD, a war broke out in Xiangyang, but it was not a seizure of the city but a seizure of people.
From the time of the Wuhu Chaohua period to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism developed rapidly in the Central Plains. The senior monk Shi Dao'an became a monk at the age of twelve, and after receiving the "full ordination", he went to Yecheng twenty-four and became a disciple of the famous monk Tu Cheng. After Fo Tucheng's death, Shi Dao'an avoided the chaos of war and drifted away from the Jin and Yu areas, and later arrived in Xiangyang. The monk brought his 400 disciples to Xiangyang, and the Xiangyang Taishou Zhu Xu at that time welcomed the arrival of the senior monk, and he also built the Tanxi Temple for him.
Although the popularity of Buddhism was quite widespread at that time, it was still vague in its interpretation. From the Han Dynasty and Wei dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in the past few hundred years, there have been more and more scriptures from ancient India, but the names and ages of the people who have passed on the scriptures are not clear, and there are few results in the examination of posterity. Determined to focus on this, He became the first person in China to use native Confucian culture to annotate Buddhist scriptures, and completed China's first catalogue of Buddhist scriptures, the Catalogue of The Sutras of the Aggregates.
Moreover, Shakyamuni advocated that monks take "Shi" (Shakyamuni) as their surname, and thus the Chinese monk's surname became "Shi" from him onwards.
However, after hearing about the deeds of the senior monk, Jian Jian, who was far away in the north, admired him in his heart and wanted to invite the senior monk to come to Former Qin. But it was fruitless, so Jian Jian consulted with the ministers to see if there was any good way to invite the monk over. In the end, it was the martial emperor who came up with a trick: "coercion" by force, sending 100,000 troops to take the monks.
However, considering that the motive for sending troops was only to rob a senior monk, therefore, before the army left, Jian Jian specially explained to the general Fu Pi: "This time the army seems to attack Xiangyang, but in fact, it is only necessary to bring back the high monk Shi Dao'an." ”
And so, a strange war began.
Fu Pi's march was very low-key, and when Shi Dao'an heard the news that the army had crossed the Yellow River, he had his own considerations. At that time, Shi Dao'an had been in Xiangyang City for 15 years and recruited disciples. Therefore, he wanted to take this opportunity to let his disciples promote Buddhism along the Yangtze River Valley.
At first, Zhu Xu wanted Shi Dao'an to leave Xiangyang, but when he learned of Former Qin's intentions, he immediately took Shi Dao'an away from Tanxi Temple.
As a city too guard, although he wanted to protect the safety of the entire city, he was even more reluctant to let the other party snatch away Shi Dao'an. When Fu Pi came to Tanxi Temple with a large army, he had already gone to the temple. Therefore, Fu Pi guessed that Shi Dao'an must have been taken into the city by Zhu Xu, so he ordered the siege of the city.
At this time, the soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang City were strictly guarded, and even Zhu Xu's mother, Han Shi, personally climbed the city wall to inspect. Han found that the northwest corner of the city wall was relatively weak, and the enemy might attack from here. Therefore, Han took the maids of the family and the women in the city to build more than 20 walls here again, which was later called "Lady City".
Sure enough, Fu Pi led a large army to prepare to break the city from here, at this time Zhu Xu and others retreated to the "Lady City". In the end, the two sides fell into a stalemate, and Fu Pi's supply of grain and grass was about to run out, so he retreated to the suburbs. At that time, Zhu Xu also guarded very hard, seeing that the other side had retreated, thinking that he would definitely not launch an attack for a while, so he slackened off.
Moreover, at this time, a rebel general appeared within Zhu Xu, and Du Hu Li Bohu actually secretly united with Fu Pi. Therefore, under the combination of the inside and the outside, the city of Xiangyang fell. Fu Pi snatched Shi Dao'an and brought Zhu Xu back to Former Qin. For this result, Jian Jian was very satisfied, and he admired Zhu Xu very much. Although, in this confrontation, Zhu Xu killed many Former Qin officers and soldiers, in Jian Jian's view, this was Zhu Xu doing the duty of a Taishou.
However, Zhu Xu only had the Eastern Jin Dynasty in mind. Later, Zhu Xu found an opportunity and took advantage of the slack of the guards to escape, running all the way to Yiyang and hiding in Xia Yu's house. However, Jian Jian did not want to let go of such a talent, and after learning that Xia Yu had hidden him, he arrested Xia Yu. After that, Zhu Xu did not want to involve others and had to submit, and was appointed as Shangshu by Jian Jian.
Shi Dao'an was different, he had already arranged all his disciples, and this time he could go north to do another career. At that time, Jian Jian had great respect for Shi Dao'an, and he first made reparations, explained the intention of the army, and then placed him in the Five-Fold Temple in Chang'an. For Jian Jian's arrangement, Shi Dao'an was also very satisfied.
Since there were no restrictions on him, it was precisely here that Shi Dao'an could recruit disciples and promote the Dharma. And the people around him, after hearing about Shakyamuni, came to convert to him, and thousands of monks came. During this period, Shakyamuni also recommended the Kamezi Kingdom Master Kumarosh to Gong Jian, hoping to invite him to come and study the Buddhist scriptures together.
Jian Jian naturally wanted to, but King Guizi refused. Therefore, Jian Jian once again sent troops to rob people, and although he grabbed people this time, Former Qin was gone. Perhaps, Jian Jian had already decided that force could control all "talents", because at that time, he also wanted to "invite" Xie An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to be his attendant.
At that time, along with Shi Dao'an, he was also "captured" by Xi Chisel, a famous historian and writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, in Jian Jian's view, he was far inferior to Shi Dao'an. Because, Jian Jian once said to his subordinates, "I got one and a half people from Xiangyang with an army of 100,000." It seems that Xi Chisel can only be regarded as 'half a person'. This may be Jian Jian's view of "judging talents".
Jian Jian should be regarded as an emperor with a rough plan, and in that year, under the auxiliary government of Wang Meng, he unified the north, but after Wang Meng's death, he exhausted his military strength and gave up jiangshan to others after the Battle of Shuishui.
Resources:
[Records of the Sixteen Kingdoms of Spring and Autumn, Former Qin, Records of the Book of Jin, Records of Jian Jian, Zizhi Tongjian, Jin Dynasty XXII]