Ban Chao's life is undoubtedly brilliant, but under this brilliance is full of tragedy, he was covered by the light of his brothers and sisters when he was young, he went to the Western Regions, and made great contributions to this nation, but no one understood, and he was forced to drive away his wife, and finally his son was framed and died after his death.
He was a lone traveler in the desert, in order to maintain the rule of the Western Regions for a lifetime, he was also covered by the glory of his brothers and sisters, when the name of his brothers and sisters was full of Luoyang, he was unknown, he was bold and informal, and he was incompatible with this family. However, the Confucian family produced a general with the title of Marquis Wanli.
Ban Chao Ban Chao (32-102), also known as Zhongsheng, was a native of Pingling County, Fufeng County. The ancestor of the Ban family was Ling Yin (Zai Xiang) Ziwen of the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period, it is said that this family was raised by tigers so it was called "Ban" (in Chu language, the original meaning of the word "Ban" is "tiger") The Ban family had many "Ren Xia Xiongbian" style figures, but later the Ban family became the Shuxiang Mendi family, and his father Ban Biao was the most famous "Confucian master" at that time. Perhaps in the future, Ban Chao's pen from Rong is precisely because of this bold temperament in his bones. He once went to look at someone, and the person who met him said, "You will be crowned marquis thousands of miles away in the future."
After the death of his father, the Ban family entered a predicament, and Ban Chao helped Ban Gu revise the history books, but this was not his interest, and in the boring work, he issued an exclamation that "the eldest husband should follow Zhang Qian's meritorious service in a foreign land, and An Nengjiu wrote a long time". Unfortunately, his life has not been satisfactory, and he has been doing nothing until he is forty years old, and the opportunity finally comes.
30 years of war in the Western Regions, 50 countries to serve the Han Dynasty, Wanli to find the marquis
In the sixteenth year of Yongping, Ban Chao followed Dou Gu on an expedition to the Western Regions and began his magnificent life. He defeated the Huns in Iwu and killed a great deal. This victory showed his bravery and ability. Later, Ban Chao became one of the envoys to fight for the countries of the Western Regions and was sent to Shanshan. The brave Ban Chao led his men in a raid on the Huns who were three times their size, and this victory shocked the king of Shanshan, causing Shanshan to turn to the Han Dynasty.
Ban Chao won the respect of the countries in the Western Regions with iron blood and benevolence, and the means of rigidity and gentleness made the countries in the Western Regions submit to the rule of the Han Dynasty, and later the Problems of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu came again, and there were many city-states that betrayed the Han Dynasty, Ban Chao did not leave the Western Regions, stayed, in the face of the betrayed city-states, Ban Chao quickly gathered an army to destroy the rebels. When Ban Chao was preparing to destroy Shache, his good comrade-in-arms Shule Wang Zhong betrayed him under the temptation of Kangju. The Kangju people outside the Onion Ridge also came to the aid of the rebels. Later, Ban Chao designed to kill Zhong, and finally settled the Western Regions Ban Chao was appointed as the new Western Regions Protector for his merits in pacifying the Western Regions.
Ban Chao then destroyed the last three vassal states of the Xiongnu, yān qí, Weishu and Wei Plough. The three kings were captured, and they were taken to the place where they were killed in the past capital, and the heads were sent to Luoyang to report victory. Ban Chao stayed here for half a year until order was restored. By this time, more than fifty countries in the Western Regions had all been under the command of the Han Dynasty. The following year, the Han Emperor issued an edict commending Ban Chao
"Twenty-two years in and out, Mo Bubin. Establish its king, and appease its people. Do not move China, do not bother the warriors; get the sum of the far and the same; and cause the heavens to curse, and shame to repay the soldiers. ”
With great achievements, Feng Ban Chao was made the Marquis of Dingyuan, and the prediction of "Sealing The Marquis of Wanli" became a reality.
He was a lone traveler in the desert, walking on a lonely road.
The reason why he is a lone traveler in the desert is because Ban Chao is lonely, in the distant western region, there are not many Han family members, not many people understand, he is only doing what he thinks is right, single-handedly maintaining the han dynasty's rule in the western region, and even forced to drive away his wife.
A timid envoy, in order to avoid danger, made up Ban Chao"
Embrace a loving wife, hold a beloved son, and be happy with a foreign country."
, do not think about repaying the rumors of the country. Fortunately, when Emperor Zhang of the Tang Dynasty was the last sage of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he refuted the rumors of this emissary and sent him to serve under Ban Chao. Ban Chao did not punish the rumor maker, but sent him back to the capital. He explained to his subordinates that he didn't want to get his hands dirty. And if you leave such a person with more than enough failures around, then nothing can be done.
Although he resolved the crisis with tolerance, in order to block the slander against him within the court, he had to drive away his wife, and the little warmth in his life was deprived. He can only be invincible, intimidating and invulnerable. No one knows his inner loneliness and bitterness.
Even in that era of advocating side work, Ban Chao was lonely. Posterity Comments:
Its use of troops relies heavily on strategy, is good at using contradictions, and takes advantage of the situation to guide them, so that the weak can prevail over the strong
。 In fact, this is also a last resort. His Han direct subordinate troops were at most less than two thousand people, and he could only rely on the trust of the countries of the Western Regions, which would not be permanent and unconditional, he could not fail, he could not even pay a heavy price for victory, he had to rely more on scheming than force, so he rarely fought the enemy through fierce battles, but did not hesitate to use deception repeatedly, but he had to find a balance between fraud and integrity. In the war he and his backbone troops charged forward, and in the distribution of the spoils of war he was very generous to the nations, which earned him the respect of the armies of all countries for his bravery, wisdom and impartiality.
Lonely for half a lifetime, the hero is homesick.
The hero also has a twilight year, in the blink of an eye he has been in the Western Regions for thirty years, he is homesick, many times the emperor wants to go home, and finally with the efforts of his sister, he finally returned to his hometown after thirty years of absence.
He was finally on his way home. Thirty years ago, it was on this path that he began his struggle. At that time, the road was desolate and cold, and there was war and danger lurking everywhere. And now, on the avenue guarded by barracks, post stations and beacon towers, merchants and merchants are flocking to the scene of peace. The men who used to travel west with him had disappeared, and he was the only one on the way home. Back in Luoyang, the prosperity here is still the same, but the eldest brother is gone, the younger sister has been widowed for many years, and Tianzi has changed two, he feels so strange and lonely. He was treated as a hero, appointed as a shooting lieutenant, and a month later he left this world alone.
After Ban Chao left, because of the greed of his successor in just five years, the whole territory of the Western Regions rebelled, and the gate of the Jade Gate was closed again, and later Ban Yong fought in the Western Regions again.
Ban Chao's son Ban Yong not only inherited his father's legacy, but also inherited his strong and brave qualities, and he once successfully recovered some of the lost land. Ensured the smooth flow of the Silk Road,"
At this point, the Western Regions were no longer extinct
”。 Yet he received less sympathy and trust than his father. During an unjust imprisonment, Ban Yong was deposed from his post and died of depression after returning home. The situation in the Western Regions became unmanageable. From then on, the Central Plains Dynasty's ability to control the Western Regions was very weak, until the powerful Tang Dynasty army once again planted the red flag on the Tianshan Mountains and re-established the Capital Protectorate in the Western Regions—and this was already five hundred years after Ban Chao's father and son ran the Western Regions.
Ban Chao was lonely both before and after his death, and his exploits relied on personal courage, tenacity and wisdom. Not many people understood, apart from the desire to make a career, what drove his thirty-year-long struggle in the far reaches of the sky. His son still had to face the question of the benefits of using troops in the Western Regions. In the eyes of the people at that time, this vast land had no use at all, only meant endless spending of money, endless trouble, and the "people of Yidi" had no faith to speak of, and in this era of rapid use and crisis, "Weide is all over the world" is simply a good joy and a fool's dream. Later generations of literati and inkers even regarded Ban Chao as the object of ridicule for giving up his life and seeking fame and forgetting his life--such as the words of Chao's complement"... The name of the name is like a ban chao, sealing the marquis, and calculating the fear of twilight. "It seems that the terrible thing is not to live a lifetime, but not to live forever." Wang Chuanshan, who had become a slave to the country, insulted Ban Chao wantonly in his "Treatise on Reading through the Classics", calling him a braggart king and an ambitionist
Here is the Silk Road. This long road connecting Europe and Asia has witnessed the vicissitudes of two thousand years of history, where many cultures meet, and this road passes through many Hu merchants, stagecoach pawns, monks who propagate the Dharma, and believers who seek the Tao. This is the longest road in the world, a unique road.
Ban Chao dedicated his life to this lonely road, for which he struggled for thirty years without being understood, he drove away his wife, and his son also inherited everything he had and wanted to fight on this road.