In the ancient history of our country for thousands of years, the Central Plains Dynasty has always been closely related to the nomads, there have been peaces and wars, but most of the time, the nomads have been looking at the Central Plains, seemingly peaceful surface, but in fact the dark tide. In these thousands of years of harassment, only two ethnic minorities have completed their great causes, that is, the Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols and the Qing Dynasty established by the Jurchens, who entered the Central Plains and unified the world, but in history, the more famous ethnic minorities are actually the Xiongnu, who have dominated the north of the Central Plains since the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty. Why didn't the Huns establish any decent regime, and why were they so useless?
Although the Xiongnu were the biggest frontier trouble in all dynasties, the biggest defeat of the Xiongnu must have been the lesson given to them by the two great generals Wei Qing and Huo Quyi during the Han Wudi period of the Western Han Dynasty, and since then "there is no royal court in the south of the desert", but the Xiongnu do not remember the lesson, otherwise there would be no war between the Central Plains and the Xiongnu that has never completely stopped for thousands of years.
Whenever they developed their power, when the Central Plains Dynasty declined, it was the day of their rise, and the most serious one was the Wuhu Rebellion. Taking advantage of the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, many nomadic peoples from the north took advantage of the void to enter, and the Xiongnu Liu Yuan established the Former Zhao regime, borrowing the name of Fu Han.
Not only did the Xiongnu take advantage of the civil strife in the Western Jin Dynasty, but also took advantage of the Spring and Autumn Warring States, the Qin Dynasty and the Two Han Dynasties and other central plains civil strife, and the most powerful battle record was the Siege of Baideng, where Liu Bang, who defeated Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, almost died here. Although during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu suffered the heaviest blow, but in the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Decline of the Han Dynasty, the Southern Xiongnu swept in, first harassing the residents in the border areas, taking advantage of the opportunity to rob, and then entering the interior of the Central Plains, cai Wenji, a talented woman in the late Han Dynasty, was abducted at this time. But they could not set off a bloody storm in the Central Plains, because Cao Cao in the north beat them so hard that they did not dare to go south.
Since Cao Cao came to power in the northern part of the Central Plains, the Southern Xiongnu and Hu people rarely harassed and invaded the Central Plains, and even once submitted to the Cao Wei regime and paid tribute to the State of Wei. Why did Cao Cao have such power over the nomads in the north? Didn't Cao Cao always struggle with Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the south, and how could he still have the heart to engage the Huns? In fact, Cao Cao could not take care of them at that time, and was busy eradicating Lü Bu, and also busy taking Emperor Xian of Han from Chang'an to Xuchang to "blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes", originally Cao Cao did not have time to do his own business, and did not think of going on an expedition to Saiwai, and as a result, the Xiongnu bumped into Cao Cao's gun.
In 195 AD, the southern Xiongnu new Shan Yu - Hu KitchenQuan, coincided with the Central Plains chaos, so they took the opportunity to rebel, the Xiongnu army fought against the Cao army, and after the defeat submitted to Cao Cao, unfortunately surrendered is only a helpless move, seven years later, Hu Kitchenquan launched a rebellion against Cao Cao in Pingyang, but was defeated again, and surrendered to Cao Cao again.
But this time Cao Cao would not easily let them go, otherwise sooner or later it would become a disaster, so Cao Cao left Hu Kitchenquan in Xuchang and let him be an internal servant, and then let the Xiongnu nobleman Right Sage King manage the government, Cao Cao divided the Southern Xiongnu into five parts, each of which chose a distinguished person as a marshal, and did not let the Han people be Sima and used to supervise the commander. In this way, the administration of the Southern Xiongnu completely fell into the hands of Cao Cao, and they were no longer able to harass the central plains border areas.
So how did the Hu people get properly packed up by Cao Cao? The Hu people lived in the area of Wuhuan Mountain, so they were called "Wuhuan", at the end of the Han Dynasty, the combination of the three counties of Liaoxi, Liaodong and Youbeiping, was for the three counties of Wuhuan, similarly, they also took advantage of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, planning to invade the Central Plains, after the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao fell ill and died, the Yuan family lost power, Cao Cao occupied the Yuan family territory, after the remnants of the Yuan clan fled, and reached cooperation with wuhuan, who had always been good friends, Cao Cao naturally would not let Yuan Shao's forces rise again, and also in order to completely solve the problem of the three counties of Wuhuan entering the blockade, so he ordered an expedition to Wuhuan.
Although opposed by his subordinates, Cao Cao's decision was already made, so he sent his only supporter, Guo Jia, as a general to go on a crusade. In May 207, Cao Cao personally led a large army, and after more than three months of war, finally fought a decisive battle with the Wuhuan army at the White Wolf Mountain, the nomadic people's combat strength has always been very strong, but they lost to Cao Cao's elite troops Tiger and Panther Riding. After this battle, Cao Cao eliminated the remnants of Yuan Shao's forces, and also solved the threat of Wuhuan to the north, capturing more than 200,000 people, and Daigun Karasuma Xingdan was in Pufulu, and Shangjun Karasuma was in ThatLou to congratulate his name king.
It can be seen from this that Cao Cao was really a decisive person, who did not fall behind in the wars in the Central Plains, and also had the upper hand in the resistance in the border areas, so during the period of the Division of the Three Kingdoms, the Xiongnu Hu people could not set off a storm in the Central Plains, all thanks to Cao Cao's stubbornness in the north.
Cao Cao is known as the first tyrant of the Three Kingdoms, it is true that he is in the chaos of the world, but he is the founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms step by step, and in the late Three Kingdoms, the State of Wei became the strongest country, but unfortunately it was usurped by the Sima family, and indirectly there was a civil strife of the Eight Kings, which made the Xiongnu sweep back again.
Although the Xiongnu and the Han people in the Central Plains are mostly hostile to each other, after years of historical changes, most of the nomadic peoples in the north have formed a great integration with the Han people, and some ethnic minorities have even been completely integrated into the Chinese nation and become a member of the Han nationality, so it is not right to hold the narrow thinking of the past to look at the nomadic peoples, and it is necessary to examine the entire history with a fair and inclusive heart, so as to get some wisdom from it.