China has a feudal history of more than two thousand years, since Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and established the Qin Dynasty, and then to the last feudal dynasty in history, the Qing Dynasty, in which the dynasties changed, divided for a long time, and were divided for a long time.
As the supreme ruler of each dynasty, in order to stabilize the throne, what they are most afraid of is that the generals with military power will rise up and threaten their own rule, so they have taken various measures to prevent it.
For example: the division of the early Han Dynasty, the tutelage order of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the right to release the army from a cup of wine, and so on.
Even though the rulers took various measures to prevent it, there were still generals who rose up to rebel. However, some generals have heavy troops in their hands, and they can obviously rise up and call themselves emperors, but they did not do that, why would they rather be killed by the emperor than resist?
These generals and celebrities Qingshi, from the beginning to the end, were unwilling to oppose, originally loyal subjects, and have always adhered to the attitude of "repaying the king's intentions on the golden stage and promoting the jade dragon to die for the king" or holding the idea of "the king let the subject die and the subject have to die", and the representative figures are mainly: Meng Tian, Zhou Yafu, Yue Fei, Yuan Chonghuan, etc.
Meng Tian was holding a heavy army at that time, and the Meng brothers were also quite important to Qin Shi Huang.
After Qin unified the world, Meng Tian was ordered to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north. Recover Henan, from Yuzhong to Yinshan, set up thirty-four counties. Later, it was built from Lintao in Longxi in the west to the Great Wall in Liaodong in the east. The Great Wall took advantage of the terrain and set up fortresses through natural dangers, effectively curbing the southward advance of the Xiongnu. Later, he was sent to open a straight road for Qin Shi Huang to tour the world, from Jiuyuan County to Ganquan Palace, cutting off the mountain range, and filling in the deep valley, with a total length of 1,800 miles. He was stationed in Shangjun for more than ten years and threatened the Xiongnu. His younger brother Meng Yi was Qin Shi Huang's personal bodyguard, the official was the supreme secretary, and when he went out, he accompanied Qin Shi Huang in a car, and inside he served in front of Qin Shi Huang.
However, after the death of the First Emperor,
Zhao Gao, worried that Fu Su would succeed to the throne and that Meng Tian would be reused and unfavorable to himself, so he withheld the edict and plotted with Hu Hai to usurp the throne.
He forged a will and accused Fu Su of not being able to make meritorious contributions outside the country, but instead resented his father and emperor, so he sent emissaries to give gongzi Fu Su and Meng Tian to die on a fabricated charge. Fu Su and Meng Tian both committed suicide.
Zhou Yafu did two brilliant things in his life, one was to garrison The Willow, strict in governing the army, and contributing to the defense of the capital Chang'an from the trampling of the Xiongnu iron horse. The second was to command the pacification of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, smash the conspiracy of the princes to try to split and divide the territory, and maintain a unified and stable political situation. Zhou Yafu made great contributions to consolidating the rule of the Western Han Dynasty. However, in his later years, he was not welcomed by emperor Jing of Han, and he had a stubborn temper, and was caught with a small pigtail when his son bought funeral goods for him.
In prison, the jailer said that Zhou Yafu was going to rebel?
Zhou Yafu said that I did not conspire against me, you should not frame me.
The jailer said, why do you want to build weapons if you don't rebel?
Zhou Yafu said that it was a funeral after my death.
The jailer said, that means that you will rebel after you die.
Zhou Yafu was humiliated by this and could not bear it, so he closed his mouth and protested, and five days later, he vomited blood and died.
Yue Fei's Yue family army was even more famous in the Southern Song Dynasty: "It is easy to shake the mountains, and it is difficult to shake the Yue family army."
Yue Fei was a famous anti-Jin general in the Southern Song Dynasty, but Emperor Gaozong of song and Chancellor Qin Ju (秦桧) were bent on seeking peace and urged the class master with twelve "golden cards".
On the other hand, because Emperor Gaozong of Song did not want Yue Fei to wash away Jing Kang's shame, he welcomed back Emperor Huizong of Song. Therefore, in the process of Song Jin's peace negotiations, Yue Fei was falsely imprisoned by Qin Ju, Zhang Jun, and others. In January of the twelfth year of Song Shaoxing (1142), he was killed along with his eldest son Yue Yun and his general Zhang Xian on trumped-up charges.
Yuan Chonghuan entered the army in the forty-seventh year of the Wanli Calendar (1619), and later served in the Eastern Liaoning Border Pass through self-recommendation, and received Sun Chengzong's important town of Shouningyuan. In the war against the enemy, he won the great victory of Ningyuan and the great victory of Ningjin, but because Wei Zhongxian was not allowed to resign and return to his hometown.
After Emperor Mingsizong Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, Yuan Chonghuan was able to reactivate, and after Chongzhen repelled Emperor Taiji in 1629 and relieved the siege of Jingshi, Wei Zhongxian's Yu Party impeached Yuan Chonghuan on charges of "killing The Island Marshal (Mao Wenlong)", "negotiating peace with the Qing court", and "being an enemy of the city". After retiring from the Jin army, many people in the DPRK and the Central Ministers believed that Yuan Chonghuan had let the Qing soldiers enter the customs, so they slandered Yuan Chonghuan for colluding with the Later Jin army, and Zhu Youjian was also very suspicious of this.
At this time, Hou Jin Jun also designed to alienate Emperor Taiji and took the opportunity to implement a counter-plan, and Yuan Chonghuan was eventually executed by Zhu Youjian who believed that he had a secret agreement with Hou Jin and was executed by Ling Chi.
In feudal society, the monarch has always been jealous, and the monarch must rely on the general, but he is also guarding against the general, which has led to the death of many generals who have died very unjustly, or have been alienated, or suspected, or "cunning rabbits, running dogs cooked", or jealous. They held half of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and they were once in the battlefield for a while, and they could be called emperors, but it was precisely because of the great tricks of the tree, but in the end they were given death by the emperor, and they still held the idea that "the king's life cannot be violated", and did not resist, which made posterity regret.