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When mentioning the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, we have to mention such an evaluation: "Guoheng died with weakness, and Han died with strength!" ”
This is the evaluation of the Eastern Han Dynasty by the great thinker Wang Fuzhi in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties when he read the history, and the meaning of this sentence is that the change of political power in successive dynasties was generally due to the weakening of national strength and the incompetence of the army, which led to the invasion of foreign enemies and the destruction, but the Eastern Han Dynasty died because the national strength was too strong, and finally the internal struggle for power and power, resulting in a state of three-legged standing.
In fact, taking history as a mirror, this evaluation is in place, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north, Wei Qinghuo went to the disease to open up the territory, the Han Dynasty changed the weakness of the early Han Dynasty, and for the powerful Xiongnu could only respond with relatives, and began to rise strongly, whether it was the Western Han Huo to go to the sick wolf Juxu, or the Eastern Han Dou Xian broke the Northern Xiongnu, climbed Yanran Mountain, and carved stone to record merit. The Central Plains Dynasty has always been far ahead of the surrounding forces in terms of national strength and force.
During the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the idols of the military generals were wei qing and Huo Fuyi, who were awarded the title of marquis for meritorious service, and even Chen Tang, a small lieutenant of the Western Regions Capital Protectorate, dared to lead 40,000 people from several ragtag countries to directly attack the Xiongnu Shan Yu who occupied the Western Regions, and shouted out" That "those who commit crimes against the strong Han will be punished from afar"!
The idol of the literati was Zhang Qian, who chiseled out the Western Regions, and as a diplomatic emissary, he directly killed Fu Jiezi of the King of Loulan in Loulan, and the Eastern Han Dynasty single-handedly pacified Ban Chao of more than 50 countries in the Western Regions.
Although the court of the Han Dynasty was fiercely infighting, and foreign relatives and eunuchs took turns to take power, they were not soft on the outside, and both the civilian and military generals were practicing "those who commit crimes against the strong Han in the future, although they will be punished from afar"!
It can be said that hundreds of years have accumulated great prestige, and by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the Central Plains were in chaos, the princes in various places only regarded the Xiongnu, Qiang, baiyue, etc. as a source of soldiers and cannon fodder.
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For example, the famous White Horse Yicong under Gongsun Zhan was brushed out of the prestige of the Huns;
Xi Liangma's super arm shouted, and the Qiang people had to obey;
After Cao Cao pacified Yuan Shao, the biggest difficulty in attacking Wuhuan in the north was that he could not find a way and could not find a water source, and when he had a guide, the forwards led by Zhang Liao could defeat the large army of Wuhuan Wang, Shan Dun, and even beheaded him, according to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, killing and capturing a total of 200,000 people. The attack power of the Warlords of the Han Dynasty can be seen.
The Baiyue tribes in the south, Wuxi Man, etc. are even more miserable, whether it is Liu Bei or Sun Quan, through force coercion or interest temptation, they have recruited a large part of the Baiyue people to come out as soldiers to fight, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Meng Yue, Sha Moke and other barbarian generals are familiar.
The wudang flying army of the mountain warfare elite under Liu Bei's command was an important component of the source of soldiers was the barbarians.
Therefore, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, external force deterrence has always been a very strong existence, and the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty is because of the imbalance of internal struggles, first the Second Emperor Huanling disregarded the government, and then the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's dictatorship, which finally led to the Han Dynasty losing the hearts and minds of the people and rising up, and finally dying at the hands of Cao Pi.
The resurgence of ethnic minorities waited until the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, when the Sima clan attacked and killed each other and colluded with foreign tribes, which triggered the darkest scene in Chinese history.