Foreword: Many emperors in history have the title of Emperor Wu, for example, Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che, Emperor Zhao Tuo of South Vietnam, Cao Cao of Emperor Wu of Wei, Sima Yan of Emperor Wu of Jinwu, Emperor Yuwen Yong of Northern Zhou, Emperor Liu Yu of Songwu, Emperor Wu of Liang, and Emperor Wu of Chen, etc. Emperor Wu explained that history has the highest evaluation of their meritorious deeds and deeds in life, so why is it that only Emperor Liu Che of Han wu is most qualified to be called Emperor Wu?
First, the question is raised
Back to the point, let's return to the basis of the question - why is it said that only Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, is the true meaning of "Emperor Wu"?
We can use Emperor Wu's countless destructions during his reign of fifty-four years and his art of governing the country as a supporting point of view.
<h1>2. Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty: Lucky one</h1>
Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty was the fourth son of Emperor Jing of Han, and it is reasonable to say that his mother Wang Meiren was born a lowly widow or a widow married twice, even if the heavens were broken, it would not be Liu Che's turn to be crown prince, because Emperor Jing already had an empress at that time, but unfortunately Queen Bo had no sons, and Emperor Jing's favorite concubine Li Rong had already given birth to the emperor's eldest son Liu Rong, and according to the ancestral system, liu Yan could not be turned. As for why Emperor Wu of Han was named Liu Yan, legend has it that when Wang Meiren was pregnant, he dreamed that Emperor Wen was leading a pig over, so after Liu Che was born, he simply called Liu Yan.
Figure 1: Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty
It is reasonable to say that Concubine Li gave birth to a son first, and then Liu Rong, as the heir of the empire, was a cooked duck - he could not fly. Unfortunately, Princess Li was an arrogant person, and in today's words, she had no brains, and offended the most powerful princess At that time, Liu Yan, because Empress Dou was not yet dead, plus she was the emperor's sister, so the eldest princess was one of the top three figures in the Han Dynasty at that time.
Photo 2: Princess Liu Yan
This is to start from a small thing, originally that is the same thing, once the eldest princess saw the limei who was the mother of the son at that time, and thought that Liu Rong would be the future emperor in the future, if the relationship between the li concubines was better, the future would still be the eldest princess who said one thing or the same? Because of his mother, the brother will have the possibility of hanging up one day or tomorrow, if you want to keep the glory and wealth, you can only find a potential person to invest, this is not it? The future emperor is the final investment.
But I didn't expect that the eldest princess was humiliated by Concubine Li, saying that if she wanted to marry Ah Jiao to his son, she simply wanted to climb high, and said the most ugly words of the women, which made Liu Yan angry, fuck, who is the old lady? The unique eldest princess of the Han Empire, the emperor still has to call me a sister, are you laozi?? In this way, the two sides tore their faces, and finally Liu Yan found Wang Meiren, who was a low-key person at that time, and finally formed a political alliance, that is to say, after Liu Yan ascended the throne, his daughter Ajiao must become an empress. Under the operation of the eldest princess, sure enough, the crown prince Liu Rong was deposed and finally forced to commit suicide, and Concubine Li was also beaten into the cold palace.
In 141 BC, Emperor Jing of Han died, and Liu Che, who was only 16 years old, ascended the throne as Emperor Wu of Han.
<h1>Third, the beginning of Wenzhi martial arts</h1>
After Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, the Western Han Empire had developed into one of the most powerful empires in the world after more than sixty years of rapid development. Who was the idol of Emperor Wu of Han? The First Emperor YingZheng Ha? At that time, the Western Han Empire was facing more complex problems, which can be said to be internal and external troubles.
At that time, the Han Empire only occupied the Central Plains and the Sichuan part of Hunan, with the powerful Xiongnu Empire in the north, Wei Manchu Korea in the east, Dong'ou and Minyue in the southeast, and the Nanyue kingdom in the south, and the Dian, Kunming, and Ailao in the southwest.
1. To the Huns
In 133 BC, the Han Wu Emperor Liu Che could no longer bear the greedy and rebellious Huns, and the young and vigorous man decided to tear his face with the Huns, so Liu Che decided to deploy a 300,000-strong army in Mayi with the advice of the chancellor Wang Hui, almost the entire elite of the Western Han Dynasty. If this ambush at Mayi was successful, the Huns would never have a chance to turn over. But did not expect the plan to leak, the military minister Shan Yu's hundreds of thousands of cavalry did not get fooled and ran away.
Figure 3: The Battle of The Han-Hungarian Desert North
After the defeat of the Mayi Siege, the Han-Hungarians tore their faces, and the Hundred Years' War between Han and Hungary began, why the Hundred Years' War? From the plot of Mayi to the eastern Han Dynasty defeating the Northern Xiongnu for more than a hundred years, the Han Dynasty completely conquered the Xiongnu.
2. To Wei Manchu Korea
For the four counties of the Han Dynasty on the Korean Peninsula, it was purely Wei Manchu Joseon himself who killed, and after daring to kill the envoys of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Han, feeling that Wei Manchu Korea was becoming more and more threatening to the Han Dynasty, decided to start an expedition to Korea in 109 BC. In 108 BC, Weiman Korea was occupied by Han troops, and Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty divided the territory of Weiman Korea into four counties, namely: Lelang County, Zhenfan County, Lintun County, and Xuanju County.
After the Battle of Mobei, Emperor Wu of Han began to turn his attention to the south, preparing to solve the problem of the Restoration of the South Yue State to Nanhai County, Xiang County, and Guilin County, when the three southwestern kingdoms bore the brunt of it. Soon Emperor Wu of Han mobilized the Han army of Bashu to attack Yelang and the State of Dian in the south, and soon Yelang and the State of Dian announced their submission to the Western Han Empire and joined forces with the Han Empire to encircle the State of South Vietnam.
Figure 4: Expedition to North Korea
3. Restore rule over the South
For the Eastern Ou and Minyue kingdoms, as early as 202 BC, after the founding of the Han Dynasty by Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, he was restored as the king of Minyue. Wuzhu became the first frontier princes of the Central Dynasty of the Western Han Dynasty. The ancient city of Chengcun was built by the king of Minyue and called himself the queen. During the reign of Wuzhu, he maintained good relations with the Central Han Dynasty. After Wuzhu's death, infighting broke out in the Minyue state and frequently provoked wars. Once he attacked Dong'ou in the north and South Vietnam in the south, the name of the Minyue state was greatly shaken, and many princes surnamed Liu in the Western Han Dynasty were all following the Minyue kingdom.
Yu Shan, the king of Dongyue, a descendant of King Wuzhu of Minyue, eventually developed to the point of engraving the "Emperor Wu" seal, established himself as emperor, and rebelled in an attempt to gain independence from the Han Dynasty. Unfortunately, he met Emperor Wu of Han. Soon hundreds of thousands of troops of the Western Han Empire entered Fujian from Jianghuai, defeated the Minyue army, and finally forcibly moved the Princes and nobles of Minyue into the Central Plains.
In addition, after the death of Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, the generation of the South Yue state was not as good as the generation, in 112 BC, taking advantage of the civil unrest in South Vietnam, Emperor Wu of han sent 100,000 troops to attack the south vietnamese state in three ways, and soon the capital of the south Vietnamese state of Panyu was occupied by the Han army, and then the Han army took Yelang and the State of Dian without stopping to force the mourning prison to submit to the Western Han, so that Lingnan and southwest were once again included in the administration of the central government.
By the time of the Change of the Western Han Dynasty, the Western Han Empire had restored the territory of the Qin Dynasty.
Figure 5: Pingnanyue, Dong Ou
Because after the envoy to the Western Regions, Han Bujian and others, were killed, the entire Western Han Empire was furious, in 109 BC, Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty appointed his brother-in-law Li Guangli as the general of the Second Division, leading 6,000 Forest Troops, sending 20,000 prisoners of various counties and states a total of 20,000 people to start an expedition to Dawan, because it was the autumn harvest before the departure, a rare locust plague occurred in the Kwantung, and the large army gathered in Dunhuang did not have sufficient supplies and embarked on the journey. Emperor Wu of han ordered that as for military food, it would be collected from the countries of the Western Regions along the way. Those who refused to hand over grain were all regarded as allies of Dawan, destroyed their cities, and exterminated their clans, and for a time the countries of the western region were shaken, and who knew that the Han army was already a beggar when they crossed the great desert and later arrived in the western region, although they fought for their lives or failed in battle, for a time Li Guangli and others led the remnants of the army to flee back to Chang'an.
Figure 6: Expedition to the Kingdom of Dawan
After the defeat of the expedition to the Great Wan, Emperor Wu of han could not bear it, this time the Western Han Empire once again formed a large army to kill the Western Regions, but this time the Han Army had a total of 180,000 people, and soon the Han Army had sufficient grain and grass and logistical support like a tide, the first to be slaughtered was the Luntai State, followed by the killing of the King of the Great Wan, the countries of the Western Regions surrendered, so that the prestige of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions completely surpassed the Xiongnu, laying the foundation for the establishment of the Later Western Regions Capital Protectorate.
<h1>(4) Destroy and cripple the state</h1>
1. Xiongnu 2. Nanyue Kingdom 3. Dong'ou 4. Min yue kingdom 5. Yelang 6. Dian kingdom
7. Korea 8. Thirty-six countries in the Western Regions
<h1>5. Conclusion</h1>
These great feats of Emperor Wu of Han, comparable to qin shi huang, were based on the accumulation of a large amount of wealth in the western Han dynasty for generations, which led to the loss of half of the population of the entire Western Han Dynasty at that time, but the author believes that the merits of emperor Wu of Han were greater than that, because the promulgation of the edict of the reincarnation of the Han Dynasty made the Han Dynasty avoid the old path of the Qin Dynasty, which was also the first time that an iron-blooded monarch dared to admit his mistakes.
As history has said of him: he built a nation of unprecedented dignity, he gave an ethnic group the confidence to stand tall, and his name became the eternal name of a nation. Therefore, Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che is the most qualified to have the title of Emperor Wu.