There were many famous generals of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and Wang Mao could not fail to mention them. And Liu Yuxi's "XisaiShan Huaigu" is also too good:
Wang Maolou shiped down to Yizhou, and the Jinling King's qi was eclipsed.
Chihiro's iron lock sinks to the bottom of the river, and a piece of stone descends out of it.
The past has been hurt several times in the world, and Yamagata is still cold.
This is the day of the four seas as home, so xiao Xiao Lu di autumn.
The beginning is the momentum of thousands of miles, reminiscent of Lao Xin's so-called, jingo iron horse, swallowing like a tiger. But Liu Yuxi is nostalgic after all, and then the pen turns and talks about sad things - the old fortress Xiao Xiao Lu di autumn, full of eyes only to see the decaying grass wandering in the sky, the hero buried his bones, and made a miserable cut in the barren land. I myself like nostalgic articles. However, the more heroic stories are written, the more they are excessive. Nostalgia articles are well written, but there are too few. Well-written Huaigu articles, such as Liu Yuxi's "Xisai Mountain Huaigu", are interesting to see the appearance of Wang Mao, who commanded the building ship down to Yizhou and received the jinling king's qi.
Wang Mao (王濬), courtesy name Shizhi, was a Native of Hongnong Lake (present-day Lingbaoxi, Henan). The Book of Jin begins with Mingzong, saying that although he was a teenager with "beautiful appearance" and proficiency in classics, he was not praised for not paying attention to fame and not restricting his own behavior. Only later did he change his way of dealing with the world, mastering cheerfulness and "having great ambitions". Although the Book of Jin says that Wang Mao was a late apostate, this "late" would not be more than thirty years old. Because after Wang Mao reformed himself, he was appreciated by Xu Miao, and finally became his son-in-law.
There is another good story in the history books about this matter. It turned out that Xu Miao's daughter was virtuous and virtuous, but because her vision was too high, she had not chosen a suitable husband, in modern terms, an older leftover woman. Xu Miao, who was a father, was naturally very worried, so he invited the officials to a banquet and let his daughter check the character of the people in the inner room to choose a husband. Wang Mao was an official in Hedong at the time, and was one of the officials of the Assassin Shi clan, so he was also on the list of invitees. Probably because of Wang Mao's beautiful appearance, Xu Miao's daughter took a look at him at a glance and pointed at Wang Mao and said that she wanted to marry him, so Xu Mi married her daughter to Wang Mao. And Xu Mi himself was by no means an unknown person, he successively served as Cao Wei Shangshulang, Yingchuan Diannong Zhonglang and gave him the title of Marquis of Guannei, Liangzhou Assassin History, Great Si Nong, Guanglu Dafu, Sikong and other positions, during his tenure, he broke the foreign prisoners, an ordinary people, quite a political achievement, deeply respected by the imperial court. In the first year of Jiaping (249 AD), when Xu Mi died, he was "buried with public rites, and he was known as Mu Hou", and in the sixth year of Jiaping (254 AD), the imperial court remembered the Qing Festival, Xu Mi was on the list, and his family was given "two thousand valleys, three hundred thousand dollars, and announced to the world", and his grace could not be described as unrelenting. And the people of the world also praised him, "Xu Gongzhi is high-minded, and he is bold and fierce." Its giving is also high but not fierce, unintended but not introduced, broad and keeping the covenant, fierce and wide. The saint is embarrassed by the qing, and Xu Gong is easy to do", Xu Mi has both virtue and virtue, and is lenient and strict for the government, and it is difficult for others to be honest and honest, but it is easy for him.
To be such a man's dragon-riding son-in-law, Wang Mao can be said to be extremely lucky; but his luck is more than that. The Book of Jin once recorded that Yang Hu was extremely appreciative of Wang Hao, "knew how to treat him well", and regarded him as a confidant. The person of Yang Hu is not unimportant to Wang Hao; if you want to talk about Wang Hao, you have to mention Yang Hu. It can even be said that if there is no Yang Qi, Wang Mao is still Wang Mao, but it will never be the Wang Mao we know in the history books.
Yang Hu (羊祜), the character uncle, was born in the famous Han and Wei dynasties, and his ancestors were famous for Qingde in the past. His mother was the daughter of the Han Dynasty's famous Confucian Cai Yong; his sister Yang Huiyu was the successor of Sima Shi, the Emperor of Jinjing, and his wife was the granddaughter of The famous Cao Wei general Xiahou Yuan, whose family lineage can be described as extremely prominent; after the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jin Dynasty, successively appointed Yang Hu as a general in the Chinese army, and added a permanent attendant to the posts of Shangshu Right Servant and Wei General, "the responsibility of handling the heart", and relied heavily on him. However, unlike other children of the scholar clan, although Yang Hu was born into a family and held a high official position, he was humble and courteous, never boasted of himself, and also had great respect for the reputation of Jia Chong, Pei Xiu and other former dynasties. The sheep has the heart of respect on the inside, and the meaning of the people on the outside. In the fifth year of the Tai Dynasty (269 AD), Sima Yan planned to break Wu and make Yang Hu the military governor of Jingzhou, a false festival, and scattered the generals changshi and Wei to leave the town of Southern Xia. Yang Hu built a school there, appeased the local people, and "won the heart of Jianghan"; the Eastern Wubian general Lu Kang, who was in line with him, also respected him and was introduced as a confidant. Lu Kang once fell ill and went to Yang Qi for medicine, although the generals did not listen to him, and said, "Where will Yang Qi be a person who poisons people"! It can be seen that people affirm him at the time. Yang Hu not only praised him very much at that time, but also highly praised him in later generations. Wang Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty said that he "has not been a sage like his uncle since the Wei and Jin dynasties." Therefore, to be appreciated by such a person who has praised the world all over the world before and after his death, Wang Mao cannot but be said to be lucky.
But Wang Mao's luck was based on his own considerable strength.
Wang Mao had previously served in Hedong, in charge of documents and prosecuting illegalities, and the Book of Jin described the unclean officials as fleeing from the wind, and although this song description was somewhat exaggerated, it could also provide a glimpse of Wang Mao's own means and courage. He was later promoted to Berkshire (present-day Chongqing) as too punctual and made many moves to stabilize the local population. Because Ba County is connected to Eastern Wu, war may occur at any time, and most of the local people will not raise boys after giving birth. Wang Mao's clear rule of law and leniency gave birthers the opportunity to recuperate, "thousands of people who lived"; later he was transferred to Guanghan Taishou, also practicing benevolent government, "the people rely on it". From these records in the Book of Jin, it can be seen that the main reason why Wang Hao was able to get Yang Hu's appreciation was probably because he was capable and had political achievements.
In the summer of the eighth year of the Tai Dynasty (272 AD), because wenshan baima Hu invaded the local people of all ethnic groups, Yizhou (present-day Chengdu, Sichuan) assassinated Emperor Fuyan to fight, and most of his staff thought that Emperor Fuyan would lose this trip, and they advised him, but Emperor Fuyan did not listen; after the army arrived at Guanshan, Yamen Zhang Hong and others felt that the road was dangerous and afraid that the Hu people were too powerful, so they rebelled and killed Emperor Fuyan. The imperial court changed Wang Mao's order to be the Assassin of Yizhou, and Wang Mao planned to kill Zhang Hong and others, and was made the Marquis of Guannei for his merits. Regarding the fact that Wang Mao became the assassin of Yizhou, there was such a record in the Book of Jin: "Three knives were hung on the beams of the bedroom in the dream of the night, and the sword was also a knife, and the sword was alert, and the meaning was very evil." Li Yi, the master bookkeeper, said to He Yue again: "Three knives are state characters, and one is beneficial, and the Ming Dynasty is its Linyi Prefecture Hu?" It was as if Wang Mao had become the Assassin of Yizhou, but there was a premonition. The Book of Jin is full of gods and strange words, which is not enough to believe, but during Wang Mao's tenure in yizhou, he adopted a policy similar to that of Yang Hu, with gentleness and force to resist, so that most of the barbarians around him came to surrender. Because Wang Hao had such outstanding political achievements, Yang Hu valued him more and more, so when the imperial court planned to promote him to the position of Right Guard General and Grand Si Nong, Yang Hu secretly requested that Wang Hao continue to serve as the Assassin of Yizhou. The reason why Yizhou is important is because the strength of the sailors in the Western Jin Dynasty is not as good as that of Eastern Wu, and if you want to pacify Wu, you must use the flow of water on the Yangtze River to break it. And Yang Hu suggested that the imperial court stay as Wang Mao, which showed his appreciation for Wang Mao; and as he said to his nephew Yang Ji a few years ago, "Mao has great talent, will want to help him, and will be available", Wang Hao is a person with great talent, if he can give him what he wants, he will be able to become extraordinary. And Wang Mao really lived up to Yang Hu's expectations and began to make boats.
Water warfare has a long history, and in recent terms, the Battle of Chibi in the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD) is a household name. However, the scale of the building ship made by Wang Mao this time was unprecedented in ancient times, "One hundred and twenty steps, more than two thousand people." Take the wood as the city, get up the building, drive the door four times, and all the horses on it have to ride back and forth. He also drew the head monster on the bow of the ship, fearing the god of the river." Such a large-scale shipbuilding work, Eastern Wu could not have been unaware. In fact, Wang Mao went down the river with the sawdust produced by the people building the ship, and was discovered by the Eastern Wu Jianping Taishou Wuyan, and played the Wu lord Sun Hao, asking for an increase in Jianping's troops, but Sun Hao did not listen. Wu Yan had no choice but to order people to set up iron locks in the river, hoping to temporarily block the jin army's offensive.
However, although Sima Yan showed his determination to cut down Wu, it was not a good time to cut down Wu at that time. The main reason is that there were certain contradictions within the Western Jin Dynasty.
Sima Yan's father Sima Zhao originally had the intention of "first fixing Bashu, and three years later, due to the trend of the current, advancing both land and water", and then ping Eastern Wu, but in the second year of Xianxi (265 AD), two years after the fall of the Shu state, Sima Zhao died of an acute illness, and Sima Yan hastily took the throne. Originally, the former ministers of Taiban Cao Wei were dissatisfied with Sima Zhao and others' murder of Cao Xian, the duke of Gaogui Township, and coupled with the fact that Sima Yan had no military merits and was unable to calm people's minds, the situation in the DPRK and China was not very stable, so Sima Yan adopted the policy of "outside the country must first be inside", starting from within the Jin Dynasty, cultivating his own henchmen, and eliminating his political enemies. As for the military division Laotun after the Jin Dynasty destroyed Shu, and the lack of a strong water army to fight against Eastern Wu, it is true that Wu was shelved, but it was not the main reason. Because even two years later, that is, in the tenth year of the Tai Dynasty (274 AD), the famous Eastern Wu general Lu Kang died, and Yang Hu went to the table to ask for a cut, but Sima Yan refused.
The matter of cutting down Wu seems to have been shelved. It was not until the fourth year of Xianning (278 AD), when Yang Hu died, that Sima Yan's political clique was missing a man of both culture and martial arts, and that the situation in Korea and China changed again, and the matter of cutting down Wu was brought up again. This is closely related to Sima You, the King of Qi.
Sima You was originally Sima Zhao's second son, but because Sima Zhao's brother Sima Shi had no sons, he succeeded Sima Shi as his heir. According to the Book of Jin, Sima You was "clean and peaceful, pro-virtuous and charitable, loved the scriptures, could belong to the text, was good at rulers, and was known to the world", which was deeply pleasing to Sima Zhao, and even had the idea of abolishing Sima Yan and replacing Sima You. The book of Jin is slightly thin and not enough to argue whether Sima Zhao really had this intention, but the discord between the two brothers should be a fact. When the two birth mothers, Empress Wenming Wang Yuanji, died, she cried and said to Sima Yan: "Tao Fu is anxious, you as an older brother can't stand it, when I die, I'm afraid you will have a dispute, now I'm going to die, I hope you remember my words and be more tolerant of him." From this incident, it can be seen. In addition, the reason why Sima Zhao-Sima Yan was able to inherit the imperial inheritance was more because of Sima Shi's sudden death during the conquest, to which Sima Zhao himself also expressed his position, "This King of Jing (Sima Shi) is also the world, I He and Yan", whether this is Sima Zhao's political show or not, but if according to the "normal process", Sima You should be the best candidate to inherit the unification. Third, at this time, Sima You was in his prime; Sima Yan's son Sima Zheng was born stupid, and after a hundred years, how could the emperor succeed? Under such circumstances, the clamor for Sima You, the king of Qi, to rise, forcing Sima Yan to use Wu to establish his military feats and stabilize the situation through other political means, so as not to make public opinion in the DPRK and China more and more biased toward Sima You.
In fact, in the seventh year of the Tai Dynasty (271 AD), there was a political incident in which the powerful minister Jia Chong left the town of Chang'an. The reason for this is that Jia Chong had two daughters, the eldest daughter Jia Zhao married Sima You and became the Princess of Qi; the second daughter Jia Nanfeng married the later Jin Hui Emperor Sima Zheng, so Jia Chong's political stance in the court was very delicate. His forced departure from the town was undoubtedly due to Sima Yan's request for a statement. The Book of Jin attributed Sima Yan's hesitation in the matter of cutting down Wu to Jia Chong and Xun Xun Chen's advice that it was impossible, but in fact put Sima Yan's consideration of the situation on the two subjects. However, Wang Mao is clearly on the margins in this political competition. Shortly after remaining in Yizhou, he was given the title of General of Long Jun and Superintendent of Liang Yizhu and continued his shipbuilding work.
Despite the profound political intentions behind Sima Yan's decision, Wang Mao's table in the fourth year of Xianning (278 AD) is still very moving, as if it is enough to become a reason to influence Sima Yan's decision: "The number of ministers visited Wu Chu and was similar, Sun Hao was absurd and fierce, and Jing Yangxian was foolish and complained. And depending on the luck of the times, it is advisable to quickly conquest. If we do not cut it now, the sky will be unpredictable. If Hao Hao dies, he will establish a virtuous lord, and if he has his place in the civil and martial arts, he will be a strong enemy. The subject has been a ship for seven years, and the day has decayed, and the subject has been seventy years old, and there is no day of death. If the three are obedient, it is difficult to figure out, and I sincerely hope that Your Majesty will not have a chance to crash."
He mentioned three points in the table: First, Eastern Wu Sun Hao was so cruel that the people's hearts were unstable, and this was a good time to fight him. If one day he suddenly dies and Eastern Wu establishes another sage, then our chances of winning will be greatly reduced. Second, seven years have passed since the beginning of the manufacture of ships, and the ships have deteriorated day by day, and I am afraid that they will no longer be able to use them. Third, now that I am over seventy years old, I may die at any time, and your Majesty will have to look for a new general. The time and place are favorable, and if you miss it, I am afraid that Wu Wu will not have another chance.
Sun Hao's brutality has a long history. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that every time Sun Hao feasted on the courtiers, he would ask them to get drunk, and set up dozens of Huang Menlang next to them, so that they could observe the final performance of the courtiers, and if there was something improper in words and deeds, "the big one is punished, and the small one thinks that he is guilty." There were thousands of concubines in the harem, and the slightest displeasure was thrown into the river and drowned; "or stripped of man's face, or chiseled the eye of man.... It is to centrifuge up and down, And Mo weihao does his best"; Yang Hu also mentioned sun Hao in the Shangshu of the first ten years of Tai's reign, "arbitrarily and arbitrarily, and more taboo than the next". And the seven years of shipwrecking that Wang Mao said were indeed six or seven years from the eighth year of the Tai Dynasty (272 AD) to the present four years of Xianning (278 AD); and Wang Mao himself died in the seventh year of Taikang (286 AD), when he was eighty years old, and pushed back to the fourth year of Xianning, he was indeed an old man who was more than an ancient rarity. Even if the martyrs are brave in their twilight years, they will eventually have an end. We can't know whether Wang Mao had an agitated and helpless mood in his heart when he saw that the ships were becoming more and more decayed and his own age was getting older, but fortunately, in this year, Sima Yan finally agreed to attack Wu.
This time, Pingwu's momentum was extremely large. In the fifth year of Xianning (279 AD), Sima Yan took the Zhenjun general Sima Ling the Prince of Lang, the General Ofe Andong Wang Hun, the Jianwei General Wang Rong, the Pingnan General Hu Fen, the Zhennan General Du Xian, the Longjun General Wang Hu, and the Badong Overseer Tang Bin as generals, and made a major attack on Wu in six routes. At this time, Eastern Wu was indeed already "the king of Jinling's arrogance", and it took only four months for the Western Jin army to capture Jinling, "Haowen Mao's army flag armor, belonging to the Heavenly Man River, the power is very strong, and it is not brave." When he saw the monarch who was known for his cruelty standing in front of him, Wang Mao, who walked into stone city, was probably very spirited. Perhaps at this time, he could finally prove to his fellow villagers that Yan Que an knew the ambition of the Honghu - the Book of Jin once recorded that when Wang Mao was repairing the mansion, he opened a road dozens of steps wide in front of the door, and someone asked, he said: "I hope that in the future this road can accommodate the honor guard under the long halberd banner." At that time, people laughed at him for not knowing the height of the sky, but Wang Mao proudly replied, "Yan Que An knows the ambition of the Honghu."
But the matter is far from over, and it can even be said that the follow-up development is completely unexpected by Wang Mao.
During the initial strategic deployment, Sima Yan asked Wang Hao to attack Jianping and receive Du Pre-Festival, and to receive Wang Hun's temperance after Moling. Du Pre, however, said to the general under his account, if Wang Mao can take Jianping, then he will inevitably be able to go down the river and drive straight in, at that time, the prestige has already been revealed, and it is not appropriate to be under my command; but if he cannot take Jianping, this person, I have no reason to command him. Therefore, he wrote a letter to Wang Mao, encouraging him to drive directly to Eastern Wu, "Zhen Lu is still the capital, but also the matter of the world." Du Pre was a famous general of the Wei and Jin dynasties, who was magnanimous and generous, "tireless in teaching people, sensitive to things and cautious in words", so he completely delegated power to Wang Mao and did not interfere. However, Wang Hun's attitude was completely opposite to Du Xuan's. Before he reached Moling, Wang Hun ordered Wang Hun to stay for the time being, but in view of Du Qian's previous attitude, Wang Hun claimed that the wind ship could not be stopped, and went straight into Eastern Wu, grabbing the first prize. Wang Hun was indignant in his heart, and he accused Wang Hao of not listening to his own command, and falsely accused Wang Hun of secretly detaining Eastern Wu's belongings. Although Sima Yan vetoed the proposal of recalling the lieutenant general Wang Mao, he still issued an edict rebuking Wang Mao for his arbitrary and arbitrary behavior, and Wang Mao had to repeatedly defend himself, believing that "the soldiers took advantage of the victory and were fierce and strong", and if they insisted on the previous military strategy, I was afraid that the battlefield would change rapidly and delay the good time to cut down Wu; and "the generals of president Jia Chong, from Zhendong, and the generals of Zhendong, Hun, Mao, and Bin, were all subject to the degree of moderation", and the edict did not specify that Wang Mao was required to accept Wang Hun's moderation, Yunyun, and the second king's resentment deepened. Although many people ridiculed and ridiculed his slander against Wang Hun at the time, Wang Hun was determined to be just and to give away, which made the newly attached Wu people feel quite afraid in their hearts, and they were born in the Taiyuan Wang clan and were noble, so when discussing rewards and punishments, they favored Wang Hun's side, "with Mao as the auxiliary general, the world is resentful." Wang Mao himself was also indignant, and every time he visited him, he would talk about his merits in conquering Eastern Wu and the grievances of being slandered by Wang Hun's father and son, so that his words and deeds were not inferior, and Sima Yan tolerated him.
There's a reason for that.
Wang Mao himself did a great contribution to wu, but as far as his origin was concerned, there was no other record except for the "family lineage of two thousand stones", which can be regarded as unknown. Wang Hun is from the Taiyuan Wang clan, but is a high-gate giant clan. The discussion of Wu Wu is not so much a contradiction between Wang Mao and Wang Hun as it is a contradiction between Han Men Shushi who has robbed Wu of his first merit, which has aroused widespread dissatisfaction among the Korean sergeants. Therefore, the record in the Book of Jin is also "suppressed by hun father and son and haoqiang, and repeatedly played by Youji". Including when Wang Hun had previously filed a complaint against Wang Hun, "Yousi Sui followed the cart sign of the Si" and actually suggested that Sima Yan detain Wang Hao and recall him. It can be seen that Wang Hun's father and son are not the only ones who target Wang Hun. And Sima Shi won the world, most of them relied on the strength of the warrior clan, so he never dared, nor did he want to easily offend the people in the dynasty because of a Wang Mao. But after all, Wang Yan had the merit of cutting down Wu, and giving him the title of General of the Auxiliary State was already biased, and if Sima Yan did not "tolerate it" again, I was afraid that it would be criticized by the world, so Sima Yan's good tolerance for Wang Mao was, to some extent, actually a last resort.
Wang Mao's authorities were confused and refused to aggrieved himself. Fortunately, one of his relatives, Yizhou Protector Fan Tong, reminded him in time. Fan Tong said that when you return triumphantly, you should retire to the mansion and no longer live in the world; if someone asks about Pingwu, you should answer, this is the virtue of the Holy Lord, the strength of the group, where is my credit! This is the wisest thing to do to save yourself. Only then did Wang Mao realize that if he faced Sima Yan with such an attitude again, he was afraid that one day he would touch the bottom line of the monarch and lead to the disaster of killing himself. So he listened to Fan Tong's advice, and from then on he "no longer pretended to be a vegetarian, but a jade food brocade, indulging in luxury to escape himself." Such an attitude of retreating into progress has made the people of the world even more unfair. Therefore, even though there was suppression by the clan led by Wang Hun's father and son, "Dr. Qin Xiu, Crown Prince Shima Mengkang, former Wen Ling Li Mi, etc. also expressed their grievances." Under the pressure of public opinion, Sima Yan finally promoted Wang Hun to the position of grand general of the Zhen Army, and Jia San rode Chang Shi and led the rear army general, "and then turned to the great general of the Fu Army, the Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division, Jia Tejin, the scattered riding Chang Shi, and the rear army general as before."
However, even though Wang Mao's official position was later promoted, the enmity between the two kings did not disappear throughout his life, and even extended to the next generation. When Wang Hun went to visit Wang Hao, Wang Hao always strictly fortified, I am afraid that he has the intention of harm, "his suspicion is so." Wang Hun's son, Wang Ji, "for the sake of his father, every row of Wang Hao, when discussed and ridiculed." Probably because the family had such an attitude, after Wang Mao's death, the Jin room did not give him enough fair treatment. The Book of Jin says, "There are two grandsons in The Book of Jin, but there is no tooth record across the river", and later even if Huan Wen, a powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, went to the table and said that Wang Mao's two grandsons were now over sixty years old and their families were poor, "Sincerely and gracious, less demure, posthumously record the old xun, and compile the tin mao soil", they should be given certain preferential treatment, but the imperial court ignored them after all.
But as far as Wang Mao himself was concerned, despite such twists and turns and grievances to get what he deserved, he still got a stable enough ending in the end. And my favorite is also at the end of his biography, the "Book of Jin" recorded such a passage in a way full of warmth and clarity -
Tai Kang died in the sixth year, at the age of eighty, and was known as Wu. Burial BaiGu Mountain, the big camp area, the burial wall thursday fifteen miles, face open a door, pine cypress luxuriant.
The pines are lush and really nice.
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