Every idiom has a story behind it that allows us to understand a piece of history. The idiom we are going to say today is no exception, "cast a big mistake". Behind this word, there is a story about spending a lot of money to kill 20,000 subordinates to consolidate his position, but finally letting his position be insecure. The master of this matter was Luo Shaowei, who was the last Wei Bo jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty. To say that the team he wants to get rid of is also the team left to him by the predecessors.
We all know that warlords and the state's army are not the same, and although they all fight for the country, the material material to which they are loyal is indeed fundamentally different. The army of the state is loyal to the country and the people, even if the leader of the country issues some bad orders, they will carry them out, just like what we call the loyal minister Yue Fei, no matter whether the crime the emperor has placed on him is true or not, he will completely obey the emperor's order to kill him, and quietly wait for the emperor to kill him. Warlords, on the other hand, pledge allegiance to interests and care about those who can give them the greatest benefit. Therefore, when they encountered the same situation as Yue Fei, they did not rebel and look for another leader. Usually, to have a warlord is to have a capital that can compete with the emperor.
In the story, 20,000 soldiers are killed, and their identities are warlords. This special unit has a special name "Tooth Soldier". The masters who established them were An Lushan and Shi Siming's old subordinate Tian Chengsi after the AnShi Rebellion, who was a military general who was recruited by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty after the defeat of this war. Although the emperor of the Tang Dynasty granted him the post of envoy of Wei Bojiedushi, he was still afraid that his status as a former Enemy of the Tang Dynasty would be suspected by the emperor, so in order to maintain his position, he began to train a group of subordinates. This group of subordinates made him ascend all the way, and made the emperor afraid of it, and he became the earth emperor of this place.
Not only that, but he was also very intelligent, and in this group of subordinates, he also selected a group of elite soldiers to serve as his own private army, obeying only his orders. This army is called the "tooth soldiers", and all their treatment is the best, the reward is the most, not only that, their behavior is not constrained, even if they violate some rules, they will not be disposed of. Of course, this army really let their founders enjoy the glory and wealth in the end, so that the emperor did not dare to move them, and he also successfully retained his position.
But their fate was about to change, and their master was dead. They began to fight for power, and no longer took Wei Bo's emissaries seriously, and everything in this place was decided by them. Luo Shaowei was the last emissary of jiedushi, and this warlord was also defeated at the hands of this person. Since it was not himself who was in power, Luo Shaowei united with his own relative Zhu Wen to provide all the grain, grass and salaries to the other side's 100,000 soldiers, and let them surround and suppress this warlord. The end result was that the warlords, including their families, were all killed. Although the warlord who endangered his position was gone, his position was even more insecure, and eventually Luo Shaowei lost this warlord umbrella, and the place was completely reduced to Zhu Wen's territory. Luo Shaowei changed from a prince of the party to a military general under Zhu Wen, which can be described as regretful. "Casting a big mistake" is also the origin of this matter.