Reading history is always exciting and bloody, especially the history of the Han Dynasty.
Su Wu did not have any materialized merits in history, but he spent his life preaching the great Han Dynasty. In Ban Gu's "Biography of Su Wu", Su Wu was evaluated as follows: "To be in the four directions, not to dishonor the king's orders."
We all know that the Huns exist in history with a bloody, violent image, but Su Wu, who was trapped in the Huns, did not encounter the blessing of the God of Death, was it because the Hun King believed that the heavens had the virtue of good life?
No, that's because he's afraid, it's because he knows that "if you kill my messenger, you will be punished from afar"!
The Han Dynasty, one of the most powerful dynasties in China, can be said to be strong from the beginning to the end, and there is even a saying that "the country is destroyed by weakness, and the Han independence is destroyed by strength". And the phrase "those who commit crimes against the strong han will be punished from afar" that has been widely circulated to this day is also what Chen Tang, a famous general of the Han Dynasty, said.
It is said that "the dragon has reverse scales, and when it is touched, it is angry", so in the matter of invading and killing the Han Dynasty, it is the reverse scale of the dragon of the Han Dynasty.
Let us see what the fate of the kingdoms that killed the envoys was.
Lü Jia, the chancellor of the State of Nanyue, had brazenly killed the envoys sent by Emperor Wu of Han. As a result, the South Vietnamese state was penetrated by the Five-Way Han Army, and the country was destroyed by death.
Wei Joseon, they killed the Han envoy For no reason. As a result, Korea was also destroyed by the troops sent by Emperor Wu of Han.
The Loulan and Cheshi in the Western Regions were attached to the Xiongnu, believing that the mountains and rivers were far away, not paying attention to the Han Dynasty, and even killing Han envoys many times. As a result, Emperor Wu of Han sent Zhao Baonu to attack Loulan and Cheshi and capture the King of Loulan.
Far west of the Pamir Plateau, Dawan in present-day Uzbekistan also paid a heavy price for killing Han envoys. After hearing about this, Emperor Wu of Han decided to send an unprecedented army to destroy the Great Wanguo. In this regard, the secretary of state firmly opposed it on the grounds that the cost was enormous.
However, Emperor Wu of Han firmly said: "If we do not destroy the small country of Dawan, the western countries such as Bactria will despise the Han Dynasty, and wusun, Luntai and other countries will also kill and hate the Han envoys, so that foreign countries will laugh at us!" Therefore, Emperor Wu of Han imprisoned all the ministers who opposed his expedition to Dawan, and then used the strength of the whole country to finally defeat Dawan and kill the king of Dawan.
It is precisely because of these strong attitudes that there is a story of Su Wu later.
Su Wu led the mission to the Xiongnu, and his deputy Zhang Sheng became involved in the political conspiracy of the Xiongnu and almost assassinated the Xiongnu Shan Yu. Shan Yu was about to kill Su Wu in anger, but in the face of the butcher's knife, Su Wu gritted his teeth and said: South Vietnam, Dawan, and Korea were all destroyed by killing Han envoys, and now only the Xiongnu are left. If you kill me because I don't surrender, the catastrophe of the Huns will begin today!
The Xiongnu, fearful of the great Han dynasty, had no choice but to exile him to today's Lake Baikal.
The lessons that history has taught us have never been unforgettable, but the national majesty of our Greater China has always been inviolable, whether ancient or modern.