35. In Chinese history, there is a north-south coincidence?
History will always provide us with some similar templates for future generations to learn from, and then let people form judgments about the future. In this sense, history is a mirror through which we can always see something, whether good or bad. Throughout Chinese history, it is not difficult for people to find such a problem, that is, the Xiongnu who endangered China during the Qin and Han dynasties are very similar to the Japanese who constantly harassed China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, but there is a difference in time between the south and the north. And against them, a "9" appeared quite coincidentally in history. In this "9", they were all beaten to the ground by me.
Tang Dynasty poet Wang Changling's "Out of the Stopper":
In the Qin period, the bright moon and the Han period, the Long March has not been returned.
But to make the dragon city fly will not teach Humadu Yin Mountain.
Before the poet wrote this poem, there was a historical background in China, that is, the ethnic minorities in the north, led by the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xia, Qiang, and Di, had torn the Central Plains apart. They burned, killed, looted, slaughtered cities and plundered land, savage and bloody. According to the "Jin Ji" and "Book of Jin", at that time, there was not one of the ten Han people in the Central Plains, "the north was desolate, the clothes moved south, Hu Di was everywhere, and the children of the Han family were almost slaughtered", and the Han people were sharply reduced to six or seven million, and they were almost wiped out.
This was one of the darkest years in human history, and our historians called it the "Five Nonsense Rebellions."
The Xiongnu in the "Wuhu" were the remnants of the Han Wu Emperor who were not wiped out; Xianbei, which originated from Donghu (not yet determined), was once enslaved by the Huns; Xian, a Caucasian (Caucasian Xiongnu) belonging to the Xiongnu tribes, was once a slave of the Xiongnu; Qiang, and the Han are brother nations, with the tribal blood of the Yellow Emperor and Yandi; Di, which is said to be of the same origin as the Qiang, but are two different ethnic groups.
Today, many scholars write history with the "five chaotic China" brushed aside, but it is undeniable that it is because of its existence that the people of the north have moved from the Yellow River valley to the Yangtze River valley to avoid chaos on a certain scale, so that the economic and political center has initially shifted to the south. Because I can't say what the benefits of this "transfer" were, I would like to retell the barbaric "pomp" of that time, one or two things are enough.
Shi Hu, Emperor Wu of Later Zhao, of the Qi tribe, claimed to be the king of heaven, brutal and lewd, but incredibly believed in Buddhism. He made the captive Han women as nuns, and when he met beautiful ones, he committed adultery, and even used them as "military rations", and even made living people into handicrafts for viewing. Shile, who established the post-Zhao regime, took hundreds of thousands of Han women captive, who were raised as domestic animals ("two-legged sheep") and were ravaged and killed at any time and place. After Ran Min destroyed Hou Zhao, he rescued these women, and there were only 50,000 of hundreds of thousands of people at that time. Later, Ran Min was defeated by Murong Xianbei, and all of these 50,000 women fell into the hands of Murong Xianbei. One winter passed, and the bones of these 50,000 girls were piled up on a hill outside the capital city of Later Zhao (Yecheng......
It's creepy!
Before Wang Changling's "Out of the Stopper", there was also a historical background, that is, the battle of Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi and others against the Xiongnu. Wei Qing's battle against the Xiongnu mainly consisted of seven battles and seven victories.
First War: In 129 BC, the Xiongnu raised troops to the south, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decisively appointed Wei Qing as the general of the chariot cavalry and led the army to meet the Xiongnu. This battle was Wei Qing's first expedition, and the Han Dynasty sent four sorties to attack at that time. The other three roads, two failed, all the way to no success, only Wei Qing smashed the dragon city (the place where the Xiongnu sacrificed to sweep the ancestors of heaven and earth), beheaded more than 700 people, and won the victory.
Second battle: In the autumn of 128 BC, the Xiongnu cavalry marched south again, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Wei Qing to the expedition, Wei Qing led 30,000 cavalry, drove forward, killed and captured thousands of enemies, and the Xiongnu were defeated and fled.
Third War: In 127 BC, the Xiongnu gathered a large number of troops to attack Shanggu and Yuyang. Emperor Wu avoided the real and attacked the false, and sent Wei Qing to lead a large army to attack the "old nest" Henan (Yellow River Hetao area) where the Xiongnu were entrenched. The Han army captured thousands of enemy soldiers alive and captured more than a million head of livestock, completely controlling the Hetao area.
Fourth War: In the spring of 124 BC, Wei Qing led a large army to march six or seven hundred miles, taking advantage of the darkness to surround the camp of King Youxian. At this time, the right virtuous king was embracing the beautiful concubine in the tent, drinking fine wine, suddenly heard the sound of killing outside the tent shook the sky, the fire was all over the field, the right virtuous king panicked, took hundreds of strong horses, broke out of the encirclement, and fled in the wilderness. The Han army won a complete victory and returned to the court.
Fifth War: In February 123 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Wei Qing to attack the Xiongnu, Wei Qing commanded the Han army, which was mighty and mighty, starting from Dingxiang, marching hundreds of miles north, and annihilating thousands of Xiongnu troops.
The Sixth War: It was the third major battle launched by the Han Dynasty government against the Xiongnu in order to completely defeat the main force of the Xiongnu. Wei Qing's army traveled more than 1,000 miles north, crossed the desert, and encountered the Hun army, the military Han shouted and killed the earth, and the Hun army was in turmoil, scattering and fleeing for their lives.
Seventh battle: Wei Qing took advantage of the victory in the Battle of Mobei to pursue and kill and capture more than 19,000 Xiongnu officers and soldiers, defeating the main force of the Xiongnu. From then on, the Xiongnu gradually migrated to the northwest, and there was no royal court in Monan, and it was no longer able to pose a military threat to the Han Dynasty.
These seven battles, together with Huo Quzhi's two great victories in Hexi in the spring and summer of 121 AD, are a total of 9 times.
The two generals, Wei Qing and Huo Quai, basically solved the problem of the Xiongnu in northern China, but many years after they left, the problem of the south and south of China appeared, and like the Xiongnu, the people suffered deeply, and it was the Japanese Kou. For this reason, Yu Dafu also wrote a poem "Traveling in the Mountain Qi Gong Ancestral Hall", which is somewhat similar to Wang Changling's "Out of the Stopper". Two of the sentences are: But make the southern Xinjiang fierce general, do not teach the Japanese to cross the river. It also writes about the great feelings of patriotism of the Chinese people.
Like the Xiongnu, China suffered a lot from the invasion of China's coastal provinces by the Ming Dynasty to the defeat of China in the late Qing Dynasty. Similarly, in the process of the Chinese people fighting against the Kuo, many national heroes have emerged, and Qi Jiguang is one of them.
Coincidentally, in the fortieth year of Jiajing (1561), thousands of Japanese invaders landed in Taizhou. Qi Jiguang led his army to attack, and thwarted the invasion of the Japanese invaders nine times in a row and rescued thousands of exiled refugees in Ninghai Jianjiao (now Sanmen), Linhaihuajie, Shangfengling, Baishuiyang, Taiping (now Wenling), Xinhe, Changsha and other places. It is known as Taizhou's great victory in history, also known as Taizhou's nine battles and nine victories. Completely wiped out the Japanese who invaded Taizhou. Here's how it happened:
In the spring of the 40th year of Jiajing (1561), the Japanese invaders plundered Taozhu and Qitou in eastern Zhejiang, and Qi Jiguang led his troops to Ninghai, defeated the Japanese in Longshan, and chased them to Yanmen Ridge. The Japanese invaded Taizhou by dividing the troops in three ways, and the soldiers arrived in Xinhe, and Mrs. Qi Jiguang mobilized women to cooperate with the defenders to defend the city. Flags were displayed in the city, and the sound of guns and cannons and shouts of killing was loud. Looking from afar, the Japanese thought that the city had already been prepared, and did not dare to attack rashly. After Qi Jiguang learned about it, he immediately sent Tang Yaochen's troops to aid Xinhe and defeat the Japanese invaders.
During the Xinhe War, Qi Jiguang's main force arrived in Taizhou and fought with the Japanese in Huajie, a few miles away from Taizhou. Qi Jiguang led his troops to thwart the enemy's situation with firearms, and pursued them fiercely, and most of the Japanese robbers drowned in the water. On the 25th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, 2,000 Japanese invaders arrived in Datian in the northeast of Taizhou. Qi Jiguang took the initiative to meet the battle, set up an ambush in the upper peak mountain in the east of Baishui Yang, and after the enemy entered the canyon and entered the ambush circle, he concentrated his forces to block the waist and attack.
The Japanese were defeated and retreated to the hill, and climbed the boundary ridge first, resisting desperately, and the Qi army risked death to attack and destroy it in one fell swoop. Count and destroy 344 enemies and capture the leader of the Japanese invaders.
After the Battle of Shangfeng, the Japanese who had fled from the front of the Ninghai regiment gathered 2,000 people and joined 18 ships and landed in Changsha (southeast of Wenling) on 17 May. Qi Jiguang fought a joint operation by land and water, and defeated the Japanese invaders.
In a month's time, Qi Jiguang won successive victories in Xinhe, Huajie, Shangfengling, Changsha and other battles, nine victories in nine battles, and completely annihilated the Japanese invaders who invaded Taizhou.
Although these nine battles and nine victories are not as happy as Wei Qing and Huo Quai's fight against the Huns, they are also extremely exciting. And the coincidence between the two is much more than just "9". The term Japanese pirates who invaded the coastal areas of China and Korea from the 14th to the 16th centuries were also known as the Japanese invaders during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Coincidentally, the Xiongnu harmed the Central Plains for 700 years, and the time for the Xiongnu to harm China was not short.
The Xiongnu, in the cold northern Gobi Desert steppe, the geographical environment of its survival, so that it has a lot of congenital deficiencies, in the threat and invasion of the Central Plains for up to seven centuries, bloody and cruel, no righteousness and morality, always robbed the wealth of the Central Plains, to meet their survival needs, until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty crippled, broken, split and fled.
The living environment of the place of origin is similar to that of the Xiongnu, and it has a strong sense of distress and a national character full of aggression. Since the Ming Dynasty, a large number of Japanese pirates have used North Korea as a springboard to coerce China, and for a long time they have regarded China's coastal areas as a place for looting and killing people.
From ancient times to the present, the Chinese nation has been an extremely obscure nation, and today's China is growing up with a generation of young people with soul, blood, ability, and moral character. They have not forgotten history, worked hard, and are practicing the great Chinese dream. And history always tells people that nothing can be presented in the image of time alone as an isolated phenomenon.