Emperor Wu of Han was an unusual "wind and fire teenager"
Judging from various sources, Liu Che's boldness and imagination are also imaginative, such as he often disguises himself in a micro-line, and encounters several accidents.
He planned to attack Southwest Yi, and he chiseled the ground near Chang'an as a "Kunming Pond" in order to train the water army.
Within other limits he is also informal. For example, his mother had remarried, and there was a daughter of the Jin clan, and everyone hid it and did not dare to mention it, so when he heard about it, he openly personally sought out his half-sister and gave her the name Tian Zhao. His empress Dowager Wei was once a singer, and his beloved Lady Lee was once a prostitute.
Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty was a romantic
In his court, there were both formal Confucians such as Dong Zhongshu, witty figures such as Dongfang Shuo, and more famous scholars such as Sima Xiangru.
Let's look at his mourning of Lady Li's endowment (Ban Gu called Emperor Wu's own work), "Autumn qi dives with tears of misery, and the gui branches fall and die." Moreover, he seemed to see the figure of Madame Li and composed a poem: "Is it evil or not evil?" Standing still, it is too late! Then it is conceivable that he is not a character without emotion.
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Emperor Wudi of Han was an excellent boss
Liu Che did not actually command the battle in the battlefield, but whenever there was an important battle deployment, the arrangement of the so-called "battle sequence" of the present people was decided by himself.
And he knows how to use them well. Wei Qing was the younger brother of Wei Zifu, and Huo Fuyi was also Wei Qing's nephew, both of whom founded the Immortal Military Gong from a foreign relative. Huo Guang and Huo Wentyi became half-brothers, and later became the central figures in the court of the Han Dynasty. Only Lady Li's brother Li Guangli was appointed as the general of the Second Division, and the battle was unfavorable to the Xiongnu was considered the biggest mistake of Emperor Wu's appointment.
Emperor Wu's treatment of his subjects also depended on the person. He could see the great general Wei Qing in the toilet, and he could also meet the chancellor in the usual Yanju costume, only the right inner history (assistant confidential secretary) Ji Yan was bluntly said that the emperor was afraid of him, not wearing a crown for plastic surgery, otherwise he would rather retreat from the tent than go to see him. Later, because huaiyang was difficult to govern, he summoned Ji Dian to be too defensive, and Ji Dian refused to give up, and the emperor said: "Gu Huaiyang officials and people are not compatible, and I have the weight of the king, and I will rule it from lying down." He also knew that just by speaking out about the reputation of loyal subjects, he didn't need to be particularly cheered up, and he could handle this place very well. Later, Ji Dian spent ten years in Huaiyang and died in Renshou.
Emperor Wu of Han was a tyrant with a strong macho mentality
Emperor Wu of Han also had the problem of a general autocratic demon king. As soon as he toured various regions, the local people were too guarded or because of poor supply, or because the allocation in the territory was not up to the law, they all committed suicide. By the end of his reign, Korea and China were also shrouded in a politics of terror. Trusted ministers such as the Chancellor and the Imperial Counsellor also fell for a small matter, and those who failed could only be relieved by their deaths.
The emperor himself believed in the gods and immortals, and desperately wanted immortality. As soon as he was sick, he believed that someone had harmed him with witchcraft. According to folklore, the sorcerer puts poisonous insects and snakes in a vessel and lets them swallow and eliminate each other, and the last remaining monster is for the deception. The sorcerer manipulates the elf and plots to kill the enemy by cutting the wooden man and burying the underground with a curse charm.
Famous Witchcraft Incident: In 91 BC, Liu Che fell ill, and there are rumors in the palace that there are witches involving the empress and crown prince Liu Zhao. It turned out that Emperor Wu severely punished the law, the prince was benevolent, and often had rehabilitation. The Minister of Law Enforcement was deeply afraid that Liu Zhao's one-day heir would not be good for them. And Jiang Chong, the governor of Shuiheng (in charge of the forest garden near the palace), is also a "direct embroidery messenger" (the head of the secret service) who is even more dissensioned. Liu Che was recuperating in the palace, that is, the empress dowager asked the emperor, and he was not allowed to reach it. The crown prince was furious and captured Jiang Chong and put him to death, so Chang'an called the crown prince a rebel. As a result, both sides gathered armies, and the royalists and princelings fought in the capital for five days, "tens of thousands of dead". As a result, the crown prince committed suicide in defeat, Empress Wei Zifu also committed suicide, and Wei Qing was already dead. Emperor Wu later repented and built a "Si Womb" and also made it a "Platform for Returning to Wangsi".
Four years later, when Emperor Wu was in danger, he made an eight-year-old child, Liu Fuling, the crown prince, for Emperor Zhao, and the emperor also gave death the prince's mother, Lady Hook Yi, because "in the ancient country, the main mother Zhuangye was chaotic." Huo Guang and others were entrusted with "doing the things of the Zhou Gong".
Analyze all aspects of the reasons why Emperor Wu became "faint"
Why is it that a monarch who is so shrewd and powerful and dictatorial, when it comes to disposing of the succession of the heirs, is so foolish and has no claims? Even father and son meet each other with soldiers, causing disaster to the army and the people? This was not a separate issue between Liu Che and Liu Zhao, but was related to the Western Han Empire that Emperor Wu had single-handedly arranged.
After Emperor Wu inherited Wenjing, he continued to centralize power. In 127 BC, the princes of The Rao Dynasty divided the disciples of The Sons and Sons of Yi, and ordered the various articles to be on. In 122 BC, the King of Huainan and the King of Jiangdu rebelled, and after the slashing, "tens of thousands of people died of Marquis Haojie". In 112 BC, due to the discrepancies and inferiority of the gold used by the princes to the imperial family, 106 people were knighted. The marquises since Gaozu were thus deposed. And Emperor Wu's use of Sang Hongyang, Dongguo Xianyang, and Kong only to manage money cannot be regarded lightly by us as "businessmen participating in politics."
They did not use commercial organizations and merchant capital to enhance the functioning of the government, nor did they use the government's authoritarian power to support the development of commerce in order to expand the financial resources in the future. And deer coins are all temporary fund-raising methods that are used as a means of military consumption. In this way, the emperor was in control of 50 to 60 million people from above and above, and none of them had an effective middle-level institution or relied on local history or relied on economic interests as a hub between the upper and lower levels. Even if the History of the Taishou Thorn is no more than the emperor's representative, the election of filial piety in various places can still only accept the will of the center, so the emperor's actions can only expand and protect his own authority. This situation shows one of the biggest weaknesses of China's traditional monarchy.
Qian Mu once said: "The central government is frugal and does nothing to rule, and it can no longer hide the vitality of all parties in society." "The Han Wu method is to use a movement to replace the inadequacy of the organization. If there are uneven differences everywhere and they cannot be supported for uneven development, full mobilization and regular activities can also be counted as a way out. Some people say that he "struck the eagle as a cure" He himself once said to Wei Qing: "If you don't go out to conquer the division, the world will be uneasy." Today's so-called "To ex-temalize the problem."
The true history of declaring war on the outside world
It was only Han Wu who pacified South Vietnam, invaded Korea, added troops to the southwest, and used Zhang Qian to pass through the western regions, and all the places where the traditional Chinese power that was originally in historical geography could reach, or had exceeded. And he attacked the Xiongnu eight times, and he had exhausted all his troops. There is something that nomadic peoples cannot reach in Fighting the Han People, because they are cavalry in peacetime and do not need to be mobilized. They attack or plagiarize, often reaping the rewards. China's conquest of the Xiongnu is like the imperial history into the clouds, "from it like a shadow". Liu Che's attack on the Xiongnu in 119 BC can be regarded as a major victory for the Han army, but as the people of the time said, "a thousand miles to bear the burden of feeding, leading more than ten bells to a stone." As a result, 140,000 private horses were sent out of the Cypriot officials, and the weight was not counted, and less than 30,000 were put into the Cyprus. By the end of Emperor Wu's reign, "the number of soldiers and revolutions, the people bought more and more, and the five doctors, thousands of husbands, and conscripted soldiers Yixian". That is to say, many ordinary people have long been paid for exemptions from military service, and when it comes to conscription, even the number of personnel below the rank of subordinate officer and non-commissioned officer is easy to make up.
Emperor Wu's strength depended entirely on the support of these internal centralized powers and regular external conquests. The way of his reign was not lost, but was forced by the coercion of hundreds or even nearly a thousand people at a time under the strict law of catching thieves, and so on for half a century. When his movement is difficult, his organizational weaknesses are easy to see through. At this time, the problem of succession occurred, and not only did he feel embarrassed himself, but his subordinates were also secretly discussing their own misfortunes. Superstitions and misunderstandings, as well as liu che liu's personality differences, coupled with the tendency of bureaucracy to be rigid in personnel, only helped to make his family tragedy more important.
However, the early precocious maturity of Chinese politics, without waiting for the organizational power of the economy and the legal system, is already as mentioned above.
In the third year of Emperor Wudi's ascension to the pole, that is, in 138 BC, the fact that "the river overflowed the plain, the great famine, and the cannibalism of man" appeared in the official records. That is to say, it shows that the power of nature cannot be avoided, because of the control of water and the relief of famine, China must organize a great empire to deal with it, and there are often narratives of water and famine in the "Benji of Emperor Wu". The defense line stretching for more than 2,000 miles in the north coincides with the "15-inch rainfall line". To the northwest of the line, where the annual rainfall is less than fifteen inches, it is impossible to run agriculture, but only a place for nomadic people to enter and exit, and this threat also forces China to deal with it in a unified manner. Liu Che's use of Wei Qinghuo to "pass through the desert" (through the desert area) was a feat in military history, but his hope of destroying the Xiongnu could not be realized. The battle between the two sides of the next 15-inch rain line will continue for about two thousand years, until the Kangxi Emperor defeated Gal-dan with new artillery and forced him to commit suicide, which relieved the advantages of the nomadic cavalry, which shows that history is not all man-made, and we cannot ignore the importance of weather and geography two thousand two hundred years later.