From the very beginning of its founding, the Han Dynasty began a peace trip with the Northern Xiongnu, a situation that was interrupted during the strategic counter-offensive of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu. However, during the period of Liu Yi, the eleventh emperor of the Han Dynasty, there was another famous and pro---- Wang Zhaojun married the Xiongnu Hu han evil Shan Yu as the Fu clan (empress), which is the famous allusion to zhaojun's departure.
Zhaojun waded through the mountains and rivers, crossed the vast desert, and came to the court of the Xiongnu King (near Ulaanbaatar, the capital of present-day Mongolia), where he suffered a lot along the way and made great contributions to the peaceful coexistence of The Han and Hungary. There is more than one road from the Western Han capital Chang'an (present-day Xi'an) to the court of the Xiongnu king, and the road from which Zhaojun went out of the jam is not recorded in the historical records, so it has become a topic that people want to understand but are difficult to understand.
From Chang'an to the Court of the Xiongnu King, there are two major natural dangers that the Yellow River and the Yin Mountains cannot be bypassed, so there are roughly two main routes. One is to go north from Chang'an to the Qin Straight Road, which Qin Shi Huang built in the past; the other is to cross the Yellow River to the east into Shanxi and then to the north. Judging from the historical situation at that time, these two routes had their own advantages and disadvantages, and both could become the routes chosen by Zhaojun. Today we'll take a look at exactly where both routes pass.
The first route: Qin Straight Road
In 212 BC, Qin Shi Huang sent the general Meng Tian to build the Qin Straight Road to quickly connect Guanzhong and the Hetao region. Qin Zhidao stretched from Yunyang County (present-day Beiliangwudi Village, Chunhua County, Shaanxi) near the Qin capital in the south to Jiuyuan County (now Mengjiawan Village, southwest of Baotou, Inner Mongolia) in the north, passing through 14 counties such as Xunyi County, Huangling County, Fu County, Ganquan County, Zhidan County, and Ansai County, with a total length of more than 700 kilometers, with an average width of about 30 meters and a widest area of about 60 meters. If measured by the width of the widest place of 60 meters, even if it is now the Qin Straight Road is quite wide, it was absolutely rare in the world at that time.
Judging from Qin Shi Huang's desire to control and expand the territory, the Qin Straight Road can be understood as the "war readiness highway" of Great Qin, the main purpose of which is to quickly drop troops and logistics materials to the north. Of course, objectively speaking, it also provided convenient conditions for the exchange of north and south in later generations.
In 60 BC, after the death of the Xiongnu Xulu QuanQudan, there was a problem in the succession power of shan Shan, resulting in a division within the Xiongnu, and a situation in which the number of singles coexisted. According to the Book of Han? The Biography of the Xiongnu records that in 52 BC and 43 BC, the Xiongnu Huhan Evil Shan Yu (the son of Shan Yu of the Void Lu Quan Qu) twice entered Chang'an from qin to seek the support of the Han Dynasty. In 36 BC, the Xiongnu ended their division and returned to the royal court. In 33 BC, Hu Han Evil Shan Yu once again went to Chang'an to request reconciliation with the Great Han Dynasty and relatives, and the Han Yuan Emperor gave Wang Zhaojun as his wife, and then Hu Han Evil Shan Yu took Wang Zhaojun out of the blockade.
Because these times han evil single into Chang'an, they all took the Qin straight road that was close and wide, so many people thought that Wang Zhaojun should be out of the direction of the Qin straight road. The specific route is: starting from the Western Han capital Chang'an, first passing through Zuo Fengyi (Han County, northeast of Chang'an), then passing through Beidi County (present-day Qingyang, Gansu), Shangjun (present-day Yulin, Shaanxi), Xihe (present-day Dongsheng District, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia), Shuofang County (present-day Hangjinqi, Ordos City), and then to Wuyuan County (present-day Baotou City, Inner Mongolia), which basically follows the direction of the Qin Straight Road. After passing through Baotou, it traveled west to Linhe County, Shuofang County (present-day Bayannaoer Linhe District, Inner Mongolia), crossed the Yinshan Mountains from Gaoque, and then headed north to the territory of present-day Mongolia.
According to the conclusion of the archaeological community, Gao Que Sai is at the mouth of the Dabatu Ditch north of Nārren Ubor Gacha in Inner Mongolia's Wulat Houqihu and Wendur Town. However, the high que in the route out of this article can be understood as a broad concept, pointing to the exit from the Yin Mountains to the desert in the north. There may be two more such exits: one is the Shilanji Pass (northeast of present-day Bayannaoer Linhe District, passed by the National Highway G242 Ganlin First Class Highway), and the other is Jilusai (northwest of present-day Bayannaoer County, Inner Mongolia, southwest of Wolf Mountain, south of The Hallunga Gorge). Legend has it that Wang Zhaojun lived in the chicken deer for 2 years, every day there are morning chickens singing, there are deer singing at night, the locals think it is auspicious, they named it "chicken deer plug". It is not known which exit is coming out.
This is the Qin straight road route of Zhaojun out of the plug, which looks more reasonable, and some tiles from the late Western Han Dynasty have also been excavated in the area of Baotou City, with the words "Shan Yu HeQin", "Long Live the Thousand Autumns", "Changle Weiyang" and so on. However, there is also a view that in ancient China, there was a rule that the concubine did not take the repetitive road, and the Xiongnu went south from the Qin Straight Road when they were hired, and naturally could not take the Qin Straight Road when they returned with Zhaojun. Moreover, in Hohhot, he has also unearthed heqin bricks, engraved with words such as "Shan Yu Heqin", "Long Live the Thousand Autumns", "Changle Weiyang" and so on. So, regardless of whether the Xiongnu will act according to the customs of the Central Plains, will there be another route for Zhaojun to go out?
The second route: cross the Yellow River in the east and head north along the Valley of the Fenhe River in Shanxi
Before he was married, Hu Han evil Shan Yu took the Qin straight road into Chang'an, in addition to the straight road, it may also be related to the Xiongnu civil unrest, and can only enter from the western saikou of the Yin Mountains. By the time Zhaojun left the plug, the Xiongnu were already unified internally, and they were all under the control of Hu Han and The Evil Shan Yu, so it was also possible to take the plug mouth in the east of yin mountain. The specific route can be as follows: starting from Chang'an to the east, crossing the Yellow River to Pu'ao (present-day Yongji, also known as Pusaka in ancient times) in the southwest of Jin, then going north along the Fenshui River Valley, passing through Taiyuan, Xinzhou and other places, then passing through Yanmen Pass to Shuozhou Youyu County, entering Dingxiang County (present-day Hohhot City and Linger County, Inner Mongolia) in the Hetao region, and then from Hohhot to the north, from Daqingshan Baidao or other Saikou to enter the desert to the Xiongnu court.
Compared with the Qin Straight Road, although this route may be farther around, it also has its advantages. Although the Qinzhi Road is straight, the place where it crosses the mountains and mountains is relatively remote, far less prosperous than the Shanxi route. Prosperity naturally has the advantage of prosperity, and pro-Xiongnu is a major event between Han and Hungary, and the pro-family team can get sufficient logistical supplies and the care of local governments along the way.
Speaking of the Saikou from Hohhot to the north out of Daqingshan, although there are several north-south holes, the White Road is the main passage connecting the north and south of Daqingshan, and it is also an important part of the ancient grassland Silk Road, named because of its white surface. Baidao is also known as the "Northern Silk Road" and "Tea Road", ancient inland merchants transported silk, cloth, tea and other commodities through the white road to the desert steppe of Ulaanbaatar, Russia and other places, and the cattle, horses, alpacas, fur and livestock products of the northern nomadic people also entered the interior from the white road. According to the Taiping Huanyu Chronicle, quoted in the Jizhou Tujing, the white road can be opened to traffic, and the rest of the Kongdao are "small and there are many inferiors".
The White Road runs north from Bakouzi Village in the northwest of Hohhot, passing through Shawanzi, Laterite Kiln, Jiao Zan Tomb, Majiadian, Pailouguan and other places, to Shildeng out of Daqingshan to Wuchuan County, and the route is basically the same as the S104 Huwu Highway from Hohhot to Wuchuan today.
Although it has been thousands of years since Zhaojun was released, because of her great contributions, people can't help but explore all of it. Since there is no clear record of its route out of the plug in the historical materials, there are some different conjectures and inferences of later generations.