The glory of Liu Che's life began in 141 BC. In this year, he ascended the throne as emperor, known as Emperor Wu of Han.
Ordinary people's children, from childhood to listen to the story is Chang'e running the moon, is the houyi shooting day.
The story that Liu Che listened to since he was a child is: your grandfather was besieged by the Xiongnu in Baishan Mountain, your grandmother was insulted by the Xiongnu for writing letters, and your aunts, aunts, and sisters were forced to leave their homeland to the Xiongnu to "make peace".
After Liu Che ascended the throne, he was not willing to continue to live this life of nest. He checked the treasury books and found that his grandfather and father had left a lot of wealth. At this moment, Liu Che had the determination to fight back.
After being called empress, the first big thing Liu Che did was not to fight the Xiongnu.
Empress Dowager Dou had been in charge of some of the imperial government since the time of Emperor Jing of Han, and Liu Che had to report everything to her. His ambition, in front of this old lady, could only be silenced. For 16-year-old Liu Che, the emperor deserved to be really depressed.
Many nights, Liu Chuyue paced under the moon, contemplating the future of the Great Han. Grandpa reigned for eight years, only busy quelling the rebellion of princes with different surnames, and Grandma did not know how to govern the country at all. From the hands of Grandma and Emperor Hui, Grandpa took over a mess, doing nothing to cure, recuperating.
My father wanted to show his ambitions, but he did not expect to encounter the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms, so he could only continue to recuperate. Fortunately, the result of recuperation is not bad, leaving an adequate treasury.
No one imagined that the country, although skeletal, was malnourished. Liu Che knew from the beginning that the country in his hands was like a machine without thought. The road to a strong country in the Han Dynasty has a long way to go.
When Liu Che was wandering under the moon and thinking hard about the strategy of governing the country, a 40-year-old Confucian named Dong Zhongshu was lamenting that Huai Cai had not met, and could only teach and educate people in his hometown.
Dong Zhongshu is the representative of the ten-year cold window, and the ideal of life is to be able to settle the country, and more specifically, to "be a teacher of the Son of Heaven". To this end, he was familiar with the Spring and Autumn Ram Biography and studied Confucianism all his life.
Dong Zhongshu served as an academic adviser to Liu Che's father, but the Huang Lao thought of the Han Jing Emperor ruling without doing anything was far from Dong Zhongshu's thought, and Dong Zhongshu could not be reused.
Unable to become tianzi's teacher, Dong Zhongshu could only recruit apprentices in the folk and spread Confucianism.
The new emperor ascended the throne and stirred up a pool of spring water in Dong Zhongshu's heart. However, what he did not expect was that the moment of blockbuster would come so quickly.
In 140 BC, the second year after Liu Che ascended the throne, a civil service examination was held, officially called "Measures for Raising The Virtuous". The examination process is very simple, all localities recommend the most learned people in the local area to the central government to take the exam, Liu Che personally came up with the question, the exam question is only one: how to govern the country.
Dong Zhongshu wrote a treatise called "Three Strategies for Heaven and Man" and put forward the idea of "deposing a hundred families and respecting Confucianism alone." Liu Che read this paper and couldn't help but clap the case.
Dong Zhongshu walked into Liu Che's sight with the first place result, and Bo Le and Maxima hit it off, shocking the government and the opposition.
For countless days and nights, Liu Che and Teacher Dong talked with each other and imagined the situation of "great unification". Happy Liu Che, even forgot that every word and deed had already fallen into the eyes of his grandmother.
Empress Dowager Dou was a sincere supporter of Huang Lao's thought, and Liu Che's desire to overthrow his ancestors' methods of statecraft was undoubtedly to seize power from his grandmother, who began a years-long secret war between his grandchildren.
In the power game, Dong Zhongshu left jingshi. On the day of his walk, he walked through the streets of Chang'an City, walked out of the city gate, and looked back at the tall city towers. It was difficult to go back again, this was his final fate with Chang'an City.
Dong Zhongshu would not have known that he would leave a strong mark on Chinese history together with the name of Emperor Wu of Han.
A few years after Dong Zhongshu left, in 135 BC, Empress Dou died, and Liu Che took over the power and officially began to exert his ambitions.
In this year, Shan Yu, the leader of the Xiongnu, wrote a letter asking the Han to send a princess over. When Liu Che received the letter, he couldn't help but scold. Two years later, Liu Che decided to set up an ambush at Mayi and besiege the Xiongnu 100,000 cavalry. This is the "Ma Yi Conspiracy" in history.
However, Liu Che's first battle against the Xiongnu ended in failure. This failure made him especially worried about a person.
This person's name is Zhang Qian.
When Zhang Qian was 23 years old, he worked as an attendant next to Liu Che, but among the many attendants in Jianzhang Palace, Liu Che never saw him.
In the year of Liu Che's ascension to the throne, the border guards captured a Xiongnu soldier and received an important message: in the distant western region, there was a country called Yueshi, and the Xiongnu and Yueshi were old enemies.
In order to unite the Yue clan against the Xiongnu, in 139 BC, Liu Che issued a paper recruitment order, recruiting volunteers to represent the Han dynasty on behalf of the Yue clan. Zhang Qian stood out in this draft.
In 139 BC, Zhang Qian left Longxi with a team of more than 100 people and headed for the Yue Kingdom. When he left, Liu Che handed over Han Jie to Zhang Qian with his own hands. Four hands clasped together to achieve a commitment between two men.
If you want to go to the Yueshi, you must go through the Xiongnu. Zhang Qian had just arrived at the Xiongnu and was captured. Shan Yu of the Xiongnu looked at these Han people and showed a disdainful smile: "The Yue clan can't go, just stay with the Xiongnu." ”
There is no better way to completely change a person than to change his faith. The Xiongnu arranged a marriage for Zhang Qian and helped him raise his children. Everything seems to be developing in the direction expected by the Huns, and Zhang Qian is becoming more and more "Xiongnu". However, in the dead of night, he would quietly take out the hidden Han Festival, stroke it over and over again, and could not bear to put it down for a long time.
The sun rises and the moon sets, the bucket turns to the stars, and the lonely smoke of the desert drifts in Xiao Xiao's horse hiss for ten years. The rain, snow, wind and frost outside the plug have eroded the traces of time, and have never erased a person's heart.
In 129 BC, Zhang Qian touched his son's sleeping face for the last time and embraced his gentle wife. Taking advantage of the laxity of the Xiongnu guards, he fled the surveillance of the Huns with his retinue.
They headed west to complete their unfinished mission.
In the year zhang qian left Chang'an, a young man named Wei Qing was feeding horses in the palace of Liu Che's sister, Princess Pingyang, with a humble status and living a poor life. The greatest wish in life is to be able to get rid of the identity of a slave and live the life of an ordinary person.
This year, Liu Che visited his sister's house, took a fancy to the Princess Mansion's Ge Ji Wei Zifu, and brought her into the palace. At the same time, wei Zifu's younger brother Wei Qing was also taken away.
When Wei Qing entered the palace, his nephew Huo Fu had just turned one year old. At that time, no one thought that the two nephews and uncles would enter the hegemony of a generation of monarchs.
Zhang Qian has been gone for ten years, and there is no news. The Xiongnu often provoked trouble at the border, And Liu Che did not want to wait any longer, and a big plan was quietly formed.
In 129 BC, the Xiongnu raised an army south, and Liu Che sent Wei Qing, Li Guang, Gongsun Ao, and Gongsun He to lead their troops to meet them. The four-way army attacked at the same time, and only Wei Qing won a complete victory. The fledgling Wei Qing, who became famous in World War I, was given the title of Marquis of Guannei by Liu Che. This battle completely washed away the humiliation brought to Liu Che by the "Ma Yi Conspiracy".
Liu Che was very excited, he was in the next big game of chess, this victory, this game of chess will live. He circled a region on the map, and Wei Qing looked at it, looked at each other, and understood the monarch's strategy.
The following year, Wei Qing led 30,000 troops out of the Wild Goose Gate Pass, and the Xiongnu were defeated and fled in a hurry. Wei Qing drove forward and recaptured the Hetao area. This is the place where Liu Che originally circled. This area is rich in water and grass, and the terrain is dangerous, Liu Che set up Shuofang County here, and migrated 100,000 people to settle in the past.
At the same time as Wei Qing's great victory, there was a great piece of good news that made Liu Che even more excited: Zhang Qian had returned.
Zhang Qian has been in the Western Regions for 13 years and is familiar with the topography of the Western Regions. Liu Che ordered Zhang Qian to accompany the army, and the Han's victory rate against the Xiongnu was getting higher and higher.
In 123 BC, Wei Qing led an army to a fierce battle with the Xiongnu in the Dingxiang area. The two sides fought for several months, and the Xiongnu suffered heavy casualties. The leader Yi Zhixiao was forced to leave the Yinshan area and lead his troops to the northern part of the desert. At this time, a bad news came: the old nest was taken by someone.
A group of 800 cavalry, avoiding the large army, ran hundreds of miles and unexpectedly killed the Base Camp of the Xiongnu. The commander of this team was none other than the eighteen-year-old Huo Fuyi.
The first battle was successful, and in the spring of 121 BC, Liu Che ordered Huo to lead the army from Chang'an alone, driving for more than a thousand miles, without stopping, until it reached the Dunhuang area. In the summer, Huo Wentai once again led the minister to drive straight into more than 2,000 miles, deep into the Qilian Mountains.
After the two wars, the Han army penetrated deep into the Hexi Corridor and opened the road to the western region. Liu Che looked at the map again, and his game of chess was playing more and more wonderfully.
Seeing the defeat and retreat of the Xiongnu, in 119 BC, Liu Che took advantage of the victory to pursue, gathered 140,000 warhorses and 500,000 infantry, led by Huo Quyi and Wei Qing, and divided the troops into two roads across the vast desert to sweep away the Xiongnu. This battle was later known as the "Battle of Mobei".
In this battle, the Han army annihilated more than 90,000 Xiongnu troops. The Xiongnu fled in defeat and were no longer able to compete with the Han Dynasty.
In order to completely eliminate the Xiongnu, Liu Che made a decision: he sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions again. He had long heard Zhang Qian say that the Western Regions were not only the Yue Clan Kingdom, but also the Dawan and Wusun Countries. This time, he wanted to unite more countries.
Zhang Qian did not complete the original plan, but established a great cause. With Zhang Qian's westward journey, eastern civilization flowed to the world, and also brought a more open world to the Han Dynasty.
In 115 BC, Zhang Qian returned to Chang'an. This time, he brought back a lot of exotic items. When Liu Che tasted the refreshing wine and the sweet pomegranate, he began to miss a young figure unusually.
After the Battle of Mobei, in 117 BC, Huo died of illness at the age of 24. Liu Che was so sad that he buried him in Maoling. From the time Huo went ill and died, these loyal and righteous people who accompanied Liu Che went away one by one. In 114 BC, Zhang Qian died, and Liu Che allowed him to be buried in his hometown.
In 106 BC, Wei Qing died, and Liu Che ordered him to be buried in Maoling. Two years later, Liu Che received news that Dong Zhongshu, who had resigned from his post and was teaching and educating people at home, had died.
Liu Che was very sad and was buried in the western suburbs of Chang'an. Years later, he passed the cemetery, and when he was in the past, he was embarrassed and shouted to stop the convoy. He stepped out of the carriage and bowed deeply in greeting in the direction of the cemetery.
The strength and prosperity of the great Han has never been the credit of his Liu Che alone. Without these loyal and righteous men who were born into death, Liu Che would only be Liu Che and would not have become an emperor for eternity.
Years go by, people come and go. Liu Che also grew old and began to think about the right and wrong of this life.
Today's big Han is no longer like when he was in the hands of his ancestors. The rise of Confucianism became the core value of the country; the territory was vast, the borders were stable, and the camel bells on the Silk Road also rang for decades.
Liu Che found that he had done a lot of wrong things in his life. Changing the system and going out to fight is for the stability of the world. However, "for this he had to work for the people". As a result of the exhaustion of the army, the people are hurting their money, and the people are not happy.
"If the future generations do as they did, they will be the traces of the fall of Qin." As a result, Liu Che wrote a self-condemnation edict, stopped the 40-year-long conquest, and began to recuperate like his grandfather and father, becoming the first emperor recorded in the literature to use self-criticism to sin against himself.
The Han Dynasty escaped the tragedy of the early death of the Qin Dynasty, and the foundation was inherited. In 87 BC, Liu Che died at the age of 70 and was buried in Maoling.
In the last days of his life, Liu Che may have thought about the evaluation of future generations. But he should not have imagined that thousands of years later, posterity would call him and Qin Shi Huang together as "Qin Emperor Han Wu" and give him the supreme historical status.
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【Text| Nantang Past】
【Editor| Daniel Lee 】
【Typography | Drizzle】