Some people love to watch "Notes on the Tomb Robber", but often can't understand the plot, so they keep asking Sima some questions about the plot, such as the episode of "Restart", the Han Dynasty murals and sarcophagus found by the protagonist in the play, with eight characters engraved on them: "Hundred Yue Snake Species, South Sea King Weaving", so as soon as he turned around, the old brother turned his face full of questions towards Sima . Fortunately, in the Han Dynasty, Sima was still familiar. I think that when Liu Bangjun came to the world, when he was the prince of Han Xin and Peng Yue, he had successively crowned four tribal leaders from the southern Yue region as princes, namely the King of Dong'ou (Wenzhou, Zhejiang), the King of Nanyue (Guangdong), the King of Minyue (Fujian) and the King of Nanhai.
Yes, this South Sea King of the Great Han Dynasty is what is said in the "Notes on Tomb Robbery" as "Hundred Yue Snake Species, South Sea King Weaving". Baiyue does not mean that there are really a hundred Yue countries, but just a lot of words. Snake species, it is not really said that they are the descendants of snakes, but the southern climate is warm and humid, the jungle is dense, it is inevitable that there are many snakes. Weaving is the name of this King of the South Seas. Of course, compared to the other three kings, the power of weaving was the smallest, although he was also a descendant of Gou Jian, but his initial title was only the Marquis of Nanwu. Ban Gu's Book of The Former Han Dynasty records that it was not until the twelfth year of Han Gaozu that he was elevated to the rank of King of the South China Sea.
Moreover, this Kingdom of the South Seas has been maintained for a short time. There is a copy of the Song chapter from Liu An, the king of Huainan, which says that during the time of Emperor Wen of Han, there was a rebellion in the South China Sea, which directly led to the king of Huainan sending troops and defeating the rebels, and the former king of the South China Sea was taken away from his homeland and arranged to live elsewhere - in fact, this also meant the fall of the South Sea State. Therefore, the Song of the King of Huainan shows that the Nanhai Kingdom was the first of the four Yue kingdoms to die. It is precisely for this reason that the traces of the existence of the South Sea Kingdom in history are very small, and even the geographical location has not been clear for a long time.
In the west of Longyan City, Fujian Province, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Gansu provinces, there is a county named Wuping. This is the westernmost point of Longyan City, further west is Jiangxi, and to the south is Guangdong, so it is also a transportation hub of the three provinces, known as the Golden Triangle of Western Fujian. Wuping County, built in the fourth year of the Great Song Dynasty Shaoxing, is said to have personally sent officials to zhang jun, the envoy who presided over the government at that time, to build the earliest Wuping Tucheng, with a circumference of 280 steps, with Yongping, Nan'an, and Renhe and Three Gates. This earthen city, during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, was upgraded to a brick city, with a length of 736 zhang, opening 4 gates of Yingchun, Nanping, Qiucheng and Beigao, and opening water gates in the east and west to drain floodwaters. So what does such a small county, which was only built in the Song Dynasty, have to do with the Nanhai Kingdom mentioned earlier?
Because here, archaeologists have excavated more than 750 pieces of pottery, one of which has been identified as a court artifact of the Han Dynasty. The archaeological site is in The Back Mountain of Liu Wu in Wan'an Township, Wuping County. The question arises, far away at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Gansu provinces, until the Song Dynasty, why are there such high-standard artifacts in small counties that were not built until the Song Dynasty? Going back to the annals of history, people found that the location of Wuping County, which would belong to Minzhong County in the Qin Dynasty, became the fiefdom of a certain prince after entering the Han Dynasty. This prince is the king of the South China Sea. His territory probably included the areas of Changting, Meizhou, Chaozhou, and Ganzhou, and the center of his rule was the capital of the kingdom, which was wuping County.
Why Wuping County? Maybe it has something to do with the mountainous and complex terrain here. In the territory of Wuping County, there is Liangye Mountain in the northeast direction, known as the first peak of Wuping, which is rarely visited, and still has a wildlife sanctuary and a natural green gene bank, and became an official national nature reserve in June 2003. Ten miles to the west, there is the Lingdong Immortal Mountain, there are twenty-eight small caves on the mountain, thirty-six large caves, the mountains are stacked with greenery, the blue water is full of water, it is said that the famous Taoist and alchemist Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty at that time, he once visited here, built a temple here, and posterity called it the Ancestral Master Hall. Li Gang, the famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was also demoted to a county order here. He loved the Lingdong Immortal Mountain, so he set up a reading hall here and recruited rural scholars to study here.
At the border of Fujian and Guangdong, there are a number of two or three hundred meters high Qifeng Mountains, one of which is shaped like a lying lion, which is named Lion Mountain. The summit is full of strange flowers and grasses, and there are small rivers between the peaks that run around the mountain, and the riverbed is washed away by the flood to form many tank-shaped caves. This results in a lot of landscapes. In this dialect, the peak of the mountain is also called "岽". The most famous one is Chang'an Point. Legend has it that at the beginning of the construction of a new city nearby, the builder of the city is the famous "three points of the world Zhuge Liang, unified the Jiangshan Liu Bowen" - Daming sincere Bo Liu Bowen, he once planned to build a dam near this area to intercept the river as a lake, and for this reason from the Jiujiang River in Jiangxi to transport the sacred stone, as a result of passing through Chang'an Pointe, the sacred stone can no longer move, thus left as Chang'an Point.
Because of the dangerous geography of Chang'an, whenever there is a disturbance between soldiers and bandits, the villagers will take refuge here. Once a group of strongmen surrounded this mountain, did not retreat for a long time, and had the potential to sit and wait for the mountain to run out of food. So a clever maid came up with a clever plan to persuade the people on the mountain to take out all their clothes and dry them in a conspicuous place on the top of the mountain, and when the robbers looked at it, the clothes were washed correctly, and it could be seen that the water source on the mountain was sufficient, so they sadly broke the siege.
However, this is also such a dangerous terrain, but it is in line with the needs of such a weak prince of the South China Sea To build a city, because there is South Vietnam in the west and Fujian in the north, and the tight pressure of the two big countries is enough to annex such a small country as the South Sea Kingdom at any time. In the end, it makes sense to choose this place as the site of the capital. Of course, this is actually no way to do it, according to the law corresponding to the title and the fiefdom, the king of the South China Sea is justified in the name of the fief, should be the South China Sea. At that time, the South China Sea was a county established by the Qin Dynasty, with jurisdiction bordering the South China Sea in the south, hezhou in the west, and Nanling in the north, including parts of present-day eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong, central Guangdong, and western Guangdong. Under the county, there are four counties: Panyu, Longchuan, Boluo, and Sihui. The central area is in Panyu County.
Therefore, originally, the king of the South China Sea should go to Panyu County (present-day Panyu District, Guangzhou) to become the king, but with his strength, how could he confront the king of Nanyue, who was rich and powerful, so in the end he could only choose Longchuan County, one of the four counties in the northeast direction, and finally came to Wuping on the border of Fujian and Guangdong, relying on the support of the king of Minyue and the dangerous terrain to live. However, if the terrain is dangerous, can it not ignore the strong people in the vicinity? It turns out that the King of the South China Sea was not destroyed by the King of Nanyue and the King of Minyue, but it aroused the covetousness of the King of Huainan.
Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, his birth mother was actually a concubine of Zhang Ao, the prince of Zhao in the early Han Dynasty, who offered her to Liu Bang and subsequently gave birth to Liu Chang. However, the han dynasty was chaotic, and soon after, Zhang Ao and this concubine, who had already entered the palace, were involved in right and wrong. So Liu Chang's birth mother eventually committed suicide in anger. As a result, the old woman's anger was inherited to her son, and Liu Chang was untamed when he was young. In the historical records, because he resented the chancellor Peiyang Hou for not saying a good word to his old wife, he hid the hammer in his sleeve a few years later, and suddenly attacked peiyang Hou and killed him.
Photo - Overlooking Longchuan County, Guangdong
It was also such a cruel King of Huainan who regarded the small South China Sea Kingdom as a piece of fresh meat. At that time, he was in contact with the Minyue State to plan a joint rebellion, and it was probably for this reason that the small country loyal to the Han Dynasty, Nanhai, became a thorn in the eye. In the end, he found an excuse to slander the rebellion of the King of the South Sea, and then defeated it. It is also because of this reason that the ancient South China Sea Country has become a strange legend and has become the inspiration for "Notes on tomb robbery".