The Western Jin Dynasty experienced the rebellion of the Eight Kings, which was completely corrupt, the government was difficult to maintain, and when Sima Yue became the final winner of the Eight Kings, Li Xiong of Bashu also established the Shu state. At the same time, the Xiongnu Liu Yuan in the north was also called the King of Han, and in 308 AD he was proclaimed emperor, established the Zhao Han, honored Liu Bang as his ancestor, and Liu Bei was also posthumously crowned the throne.
Liu Yuan wants to conquer Guanzhong, relying on the weakened Xiongnu is still a little difficult, fortunately Liu Yuan is not fighting alone, in the process of becoming king, he accepted two fierce generals, that is, Shi Le and Wang Mi, today Xiaobian will tell you how Shi Le and Wang Mi joined Zhao Han.
Shi Le was a Shangdang Wuxiang (i.e., southeastern Shanxi), and his ancestors were the noble sons of the Xiongnu Beibu and Qiangqu. Grandfather Ye Yigan and father Zhou Yuzhu ruled a small tribe. But his father was too fierce, the opponents were cruel, and they committed the anger of the people, and finally Shi Le came up in advance to manage the affairs, and only then suppressed the anger of the people.
At that time, Guo Jing of Wu County and Ning Chai of Yangqu were very concerned about Shi Le, and Shi Le was very grateful, so he went to their house to work as a sharecropper. Later, there was a famine in Hezhou, Shi Le and his subordinates were separated, and returned to Ning Chai from Yanmen Pass, but Lieutenant Kitazawa wanted to arrest him and sell him, and Ning Que hid Shi Le to escape the disaster. Shi Le wanted to go to the capital Liu Chuan, and met Guo Jing halfway through.
Guo Jing and he were crying with their heads, and Shi Le and he said: "Now there is a famine, you can't stay in one place, the Hu people are experiencing famine, you can take them to Jizhou to sell grain, you can give two benefits." ”
Shi Le was betrayed, and Sima Teng asked the generals Guo Yang and Zhang Long to capture Hu ren and send them to Jizhou to charge the army, and Shi Le was also among them, and was often humiliated by Zhang Long. Later, Guo Jing sent Shi Le to guo Yang's nephew Guo Shi, who was Guo Jing's brother. Shi Le received a lot of care from Guo Yang and Guo Shi. Later, Shi Le was sold to Shi Huan as a slave, and later released by Shi Huan. After that, Shi Le went to Ki Sang's men with the ability to soma, robbed everywhere, bribed Ki Sang, and became a slave, and became a group of thieves.
In 305 AD, the Gongshi clan rebelled, and the cavalry numbered tens of thousands, and Shi Le and Ji Sang heard about it and fled with hundreds of their men. At this time, Shi Le changed his name to Shi Le. In 306 AD, when Gongshi Clan was in Hakuba, Gou Xi came to conquest, shi le and Ji Sang both fled, Shi Le took the shepherds, plundered the county, and recruited Yamazawa's outlaws to respond to Ji Sang. Ji Sang called himself a great general and said that he would help Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, kill Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, and Ma Teng, the company of Dongying.
By March 307, Sima Teng, the military governor of Ji and Ji Prefecture, was stationed at Yecheng. In May, Ji Sang entered Yecheng, killed Sima Teng, and then fled to Yanjin and attacked Yanzhou to the south. Sima Yue was very afraid of this rogue, so he asked Gou Xi and Wang Zan to go on a crusade, and Sima Yue fled to Guandu to cheer for Gou Xi. Ji Sang and Shi Le were defeated by Gou Xi, and took their own men to Liu Yuan, but were stopped at Chiqiao by Jizhou's assassin Shi Tingshao, and were defeated again, and in December, Ji Sang and Shi Le fled separately, and Ji Sang went to Ma Mu and was finally beheaded. Shi Le fled to Leping and defected to Liu Yuan with Zhang Beidu and Feng Motu, who had taken refuge in Shangdang.
Liu Yuan made Zhang Beidu the Prince of Pro-Han, Feng Motu the Governor of The Capital, and Shi Le the Auxiliary Han General and the Prince of Heping Jin. At this time, Leping's Zhang Fu strength had two thousand soldiers and horses, hidden in Leping, and Liu Yuan wanted to recover it, but it never worked. Later, Shi Le, who had been to Leping, came out, pretended to be guilty and fled to Leping, snatching Zhang Fu's soldiers and horses and offering them to Liu Yuan. Shi Le was therefore promoted to the rank of Governor of Shandong to conquer the military forces, and his men happened to be Zhang Fuli's gang.
Shi Le went from a small slave to the peak of his life and became a general, but the other person, Wang Mi, was different.
Wang Mi was originally a rich man, talented, and also loved to play. In March 306, Liu Bogen rebelled, and Wang Mi rebelled with his servants. Wang Jun of Yongzhou enlisted Liu Bogen and destroyed him. Wang Mi was embarrassed, and the troops gathered in Haizhu were defeated by Gou Xi's younger brother Gou Chun. After that, he fled to Changguang Mountain to become a thief. Originally, he wanted to fight in Qingzhou and Xuzhou, but he was beaten by Gou Xi. Wang Mi retreated, gathered those outlaws, boosted morale, and finally drew a draw with Gou Xi. After that, it was Kou Taishan, Chen, Runan, Yingchuan, and Xiangcheng. In April 308, six months before Liu Yuan became emperor, he entered Xuchang, and in May, plundered in the direction of Luoyang. He was defeated by Situ Wang Yan at Qilijian.
After that, Wang Mi felt that it was not very good to rely on himself, and he had to find a big tree to lean on, he was in charge of the whole country, Shu Han was far from taiyuan, Xiliang was far away, and there was no future, he wanted to come and go, only Liu Yuan of Shanxi was worthy of trust, so he still crossed the river to surrender.
Liu Yuan relied on these two generals to finally defeat Luoyang, so how did Luoyang fall? What role did Shi Le and Wang Mi play in this? The next article will introduce the fall of Luoyang and the death of Emperor Huai of Jin.
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