After reading the part of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, I deeply feel that Emperor Wu is really an extremely three-dimensional person. Although his expansion of territory is suspected of being reckless, he has also left a strong mark in history. Therefore, I would like to write a special column about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to conquer the Quartet. This article is the general process of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to conquer Minyue and Nanyue.
In 135 BC, the king of Minyue sent troops to attack the border of Nanyue, and the king of Nanyue kept the agreement with Emperor Wu and felt that he could not send troops without authorization. Seeing that the fire burned his eyebrows, he hurriedly sent someone to ask Emperor Wu for help.
Looking at the urgency sent by the king of Nanyue, Emperor Wu appreciated the loyalty of the king of Nanyue in his heart, and deeply felt that this was a good time to subdue Minyue, so he mobilized a large number of troops to rescue Nanyue.
The army had not yet crossed the Yangshan Ridge, and Wang Ying of Minyue arranged his troops in formation, bent on defending the danger and resisting to the end. But warfare depends not only on the art of war, but also on the people's hearts, and if the people's hearts are not aligned, it is difficult to do everything.
At this time, Ying's younger brother Yu Shan saw that the Han Dynasty army was menacing, and King Ying, the king of Nanyue, made up his mind to fight a battle. Yu Shan quietly held a small meeting with the ministers and nobles.
In their opinion, it was precisely because Ying sent troops to attack South Vietnam without authorization that the Han Dynasty sent troops to crusade against the guilty. Now that the Han army has a large number of troops and strong strength, even if it is defeated by luck for a while, the Han Dynasty will definitely not give up, and will definitely send reinforcements until it wins. At that time, how could all of us have died a good death? Now we have killed Ying, and sincerely pleaded with the Han Emperor, if the Han Dynasty saw our sincerity and withdrew the Han army, it would naturally protect our entire territory of Minyue, and if the Emperor of the Han Dynasty rejected us, then we would fight to the death, and we would really not be able to do it, so we would simply flee to the sea.
After listening to this remark, everyone said that this was thoughtful, and they all stood on Yu Shan's side, and assassinated the king of Minyue immediately.
They sent envoys to give the head of the king of Minyue to Wang Hui of Daxing, and Wang Hui was very happy when he saw it, and said that since you have sent the head of the king of Minyue and asked the court for guilt, then we will stop the army for the time being. Later, he reported the matter to Han Anguo, the great farmer, and sent an envoy with the head of the king of Minyue to quickly enter Beijing to report to Emperor Wu.
Emperor Wu issued an edict to withdraw the army, and named Wuzhu's grandson Xiangjun Chou as the king of Minyue.
But at this time, Yu Shan's prestige in Minyue had reached its peak, and most of the people supported him, so Yu Shan claimed to be king by himself. When Emperor Wu found out, he felt that it was not worth sending a large army again, so he named him the king of Dongyue.
In this way, Minyue can be regarded as a successful incorporation.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also sent Zhuang Zhu to explain the intentions of the imperial court to the king of Nanyue and to commend him for his loyalty to the Han dynasty. Zhao Hu, the king of Nanyue, was grateful because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was grateful for his conquest of Minyue, and not only sent the crown prince Ying Qi into Beijing to be Emperor Wu's guard, but also said that he would pack his bags and go to Beijing as soon as possible to meet the Son of Heaven.
After Zhuang Zhu left, the ministers of Nanyue did not agree with Zhao Hu to go, and the ministers said that the Han Dynasty sent troops to Minyue in order to exert pressure on Nanyue, and we should put ourselves in a correct position. Besides, we have always been polite to the Han Dynasty, and we must not listen to the words of the envoys of the Han Dynasty and go to the court to see the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that it will be difficult to come back if we go.
So Zhao Hu claimed to be sick and never came to see Emperor Wu again.
Zhao Yingqi, the prince of Nanyue, married a Handan woman in Chang'an and gave birth to Zhao Xing. After Zhao Yingqi inherited the throne, the imperial court sent envoys many times to remind him to enter Beijing for the pilgrimage, Zhao Yingqi only wished that the emperor would be far away, everything had the final say, and he did whatever he wanted, fearing that once he entered the court, the imperial court would restrain him like binding the princes of the mainland, so he kept pretending to be sick and not going.
In 113 AD, more than 20 years had passed since the first army was sent to rescue Nanyue, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty continued to send people to persuade the king of Nanyue to come to the court. Who is the one who sent it?
This is going to talk about the Queen Mother, before she married Zhao Yingqi, she had a relationship with An Guo Shaoji, a native of Baling. This time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent An Guo Shaoji to Nanyue to persuade Zhao Xing and the Zhu family to come to meet the Son of Heaven.
As a result, after Anguo Shaoji arrived in South Vietnam, the old relationship with the Hu family was rekindled, and everyone in South Vietnam knew about it, and the impact was very bad. The people of Nanyue said that the Queen Mother was a Han Chinese, so she naturally looked towards the Han court and would not really think about the Nanyue Kingdom.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was naturally happy and immediately approved, and formulated a seal letter for important official positions, and other official positions were arranged by the king of Nanyue himself, abolishing the punishment of tattooing words on the face and cutting off the nose of the Nanyue Kingdom, and replaced it with the laws of the Han Dynasty, which was the same as the princes of the Inner Dynasty, and all the envoys sent to the Nanyue Kingdom stayed in the Nanyue Kingdom and were responsible for governing the region.
The following year, 112 B.C.E. Zhao Xing, the king of Nanyue, and the queen mother of Nanyue, prepared to meet Emperor Wu in their suits.
But there is a person who has always had an opinion on the annexation to the Han Dynasty, he is the prime minister of Nanyue at that time, Lu Jia is very old, has served as three generations of kings, and there are more than 70 people in the family who hold important official positions. He repeatedly persuaded the king of Nanyue to maintain the previous relationship with the Han Dynasty, and seeing that the king of Nanyue had made up his mind, Lü Jia couldn't help but feel sorry, and said many times that he was sick and did not want to meet the envoys of the Han Dynasty.
The Hui clan and Zhao Xing, the king of Nanyue, wanted to use the Han envoy to get rid of Lü Jia, so they set up a banquet and ordered the ministers of civil and military affairs to accompany the Han envoy to drink, during which the queen mother said to Lü Jia: "The submission of Nanyue to the Han Dynasty is greatly beneficial to the country, why don't you agree, Prime Minister?"
The Han clan originally wanted to use this to provoke the Han envoy and let the Han envoy make a move, but these people hesitated, watched each other, and no one dared to launch. Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Lü Jia hurriedly left the banquet, refusing to see the king of Nanyue and the Han envoys again, and secretly plotting with his cronies to rebel.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty heard that Lü Jia refused to obey the orders of the king of Nanyue, and the queen mother and the king of Nanyue were weak and could not be controlled, making the ministers cowardly and indecisive. He wanted to send troops to attack South Vietnam, but he thought that sending 2,000 troops would solve the problem. Zhuang Shen was appointed to lead the troops, and Zhuang Shen thought that 2,000 people were far from enough.
At this time, Han Qianqiu, who had been the prime minister of Jibei, volunteered, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent him and his younger brother Hule to lead 2,000 troops to South Vietnam.
As a result, as soon as the Han army entered the border of South Vietnam, Lü Jia rebelled. Zhao Xing, the king of Nanyue, the queen mother, and the envoys of the Han Dynasty were all attacked and killed, and the Han army led by Han Qianqiu was annihilated.
When Emperor Wu of Han heard about it, he realized that his previous arrangement was really a bit underestimated. So, he first rewarded Han Qianqiu and Yule who died in battle. In the autumn, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent the Bofu general Lu Bode, the Lou Boat general Yang Fu, the Ge Boat general Guiyi Hou, and the Nanyue general Jia and Zhidu to lead troops to attack Nanyue.
In 111 B.C., all the South Vietnamese troops in the city surrendered, since then, the South Yue country was suppressed, and the Han Dynasty set up nine counties in South Vietnam, such as Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin, Hepu, Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, Rinan, Zhuya, and Dan'er.
Next, let's continue to see how Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty expanded his territory step by step. Welcome to pay attention not to get lost~
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