[Inscription: This article is the tenth section of the author's series of articles "Former Qin Fengyun" the fourth "Characters of the Palace of Yi"]
【Introduction】
◇ Review of the contents of the previous section: Sikong Li Nong, Jin Ziguanglu Doctor Lu Ming and Wei Xiao, three important ministers, visited the door on the day of Shi Hu's raising grandson Shi Min's family festival. Wei Jian and Lu Ming showed concern about the situation in Later Zhao, causing Shi Min to worry, and Li Nong shifted the topic for him. However, Shi Min was suspicious of Li Nong's arrival.
◆ Introduction to this section: Introduces Shi Min's family lineage and reveals the background of the era in which the personality characteristics of this historical controversial figure were formed. Knowledge of literature and history, introducing the situation of the "beggar army" at the turn of the two Jin Dynasties.
★ The story takes place in August 344 AD. Where: Shi Min reviews his trip to Shangbaicheng (上白城, in present-day southern Wei County, Hebei) in his mansion.
Shi Min was driven back to Yecheng from Shangbaicheng. This time he went out to Xiangguo at the will of the Heavenly King, and inspected the situation of the construction of the palace everywhere. After moving the capital to Yecheng, Shi Hu took Xiangguo as his companion capital.
After completing his errands, Shi Min took a detour to Shangbaicheng (上白城, in present-day southern Wei County, Hebei) in Guangzong County. This trip is not related to business.
As the sixteenth anniversary of his father Shi Zhan's death approached, Shi Min recalled many things when he was a child. Shangbaicheng is the place where Shi Zhan lived in those years, and there are many of his past. Therefore, Shi Min's trip obviously has the meaning of tracking his father's footprints.
The adopted grandson of the Heavenly King was a Han Chinese, whose original surname was Ran, the character Yongzeng, and the small character Thorn Slave, whose ancestral home was Neihuang County, Wei County (present-day Neihuang County, Henan). His ancestors served as the governor of Liyang during the Han Dynasty, and his grandfather Ran Long was a general under Chen Wu, the leader of the Beggar Army, and his father Ran Liang lived in the Beggar Army when he was young.
Regarding the relationship between the Shi Min family and the Beggar Army and Shi Le and Shi Hu's uncle and nephew, it is a long story, and it needs to be said from the beginning.
In the first year of the reign of Emperor Guangxi of Jin (306), Sima Yue, the king of the Eastern Seas who controlled the imperial government, transferred his younger brother Sima Teng from the Prefecture Assassin Shi to the post of CheQi general and governor of Yecheng ( 邺城) and the military governor of Yecheng ( 邺城) and the town of Yicheng ( 邺城) the governor of Yicheng. Liu Kun was also sent to serve as the Assassin of The State of Hezhou.
At that time, due to Liu Yuan's rebellion and natural disasters, the people were not happy. There were more than 10,000 officials who followed Sima Teng to Jizhou, including his subordinates Tian Zhen, the Tian Lan brothers, and Li Yun.
Shi Min, whose original surname is Ran, is a small character, a thorn slave
However, at this time, Jizhou was also stirred up by Ji Sang, Shi Le and others who had risen up. With so many people coming at once, eating became a big problem. In desperation, Sima Teng had no choice but to make his people go to pieces, and wherever there was food to eat, he would go there, known as "begging for work".
Many of them are from the military, and when there is war and chaos, coupled with ethnic conflicts, they support the crowd to protect themselves, so that the wandering food team has a clear military nature, so it is also known as the "beggar army". Tian Zhen, the Tian Lan brothers, and Li Yun and others became the leaders. Later, they placed their families in Shangbaicheng, Guangzong County, which became the base camp of the Hebei Beggars Army.
Shi Le, the leader of the Qi clan, regarded Sima Teng as an enemy—it was this person who used the cruel method of "Erhu Yiyi" to smuggle him as a slave from Hezhou to Shandong. Sima Teng defended the city for less than a year, but was attacked by Ji Sang and Shi Le, and was killed when he fled. The brothers Tian Zhen and Tian Lan avenged Sima Teng and beheaded Ji Sang. Shi Le fled back to Hezhou and annexed the Xiongnu Han State, making a comeback two years later.
Another leader of the Beggars Army, Li Yun, followed Sima Yue to Henan and participated in the defense of Luoyang.
At that time, there was also a beggar army in Henan, led by a leader named Chen Wu, who used Junyi (浚宜; present-day Xiangfu District, Kaifeng, Henan) as his base camp. Although they were loyal to the Jin Dynasty, they only obeyed Sima Yue's political enemy Gou Xi. The composition of this beggar army is more complex, most of them are displaced people from the north and south of the Yellow River, and Shi Min's grandfather Ran Long belongs to this category.
During the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in addition to the separation of political powers in the north, there were also many dock walls that supported the masses and protected themselves
In March of the fifth year of Yongjia (311), Sima Yue, who was hiding in Xiang County (襄县, in present-day Shenqiu County, Henan), fell ill and died, and in June Liu Yao and Shi Le attacked Luoyang and captured Sima Chi, the emperor of Jin. Seeing that the western Jin Dynasty was gone, Li Yun took Sima Yue's son back to Jizhou. After the defeat of Chen Wubing, he was forced to temporarily surrender to Shi Le. Shi Min's father thus fell into the hands of Shi Le, who was only twelve years old at the time.
Ran Liangxiao was fierce and powerful, brave in battle, not afraid of death, Shi Le was overjoyed, so he asked his nephew Shi Hu to adopt him as an adopted son. Shi Hu changed his name from Ran Liang to Shi Zhan. Shi Zhan soon grew into a tiger general under Shi Hu's tent, and made many military achievements, becoming a general lieutenant, a general of Zuo Ji shooting, and the Marquis of Xihua. When he was killed in the Battle of Gaohou, Shi Min was only seven or eight years old, and Shi Hu raised him as an adopted grandson.
ShangbaiCheng was located in the east of the Later Zhao capital Xiangguo, and the distance between the two places was only two hundred miles. Its identity and status are very special: on the one hand, it has long been part of the territory of Later Zhao, and the people living here are all subjects of Later Zhao; on the other hand, as the base camp of the Hebei Beggar Army, the Han people occupy most of it and have their own armed forces.
The arrival of Shi Min caused quite a stir here. Not only because he was the adopted grandson of the king today, but also because he had a relationship with the people here.
It turned out that Chen Wu's surrender was only a stopgap measure, and he soon betrayed Shi Le and was appointed by the Eastern Jin Dynasty as the general of Zhenwu and Chen Liu Neishi. In April of the second year (319) of emperor Taixing of the Jin Dynasty, Chen Wu died of illness, and before his death he appointed his uncle Chen Chuan to assist his young son, and instructed his followers not to serve the Hu people in the future. However, Chen Chuan could not convince the people, and fell out with Shi Zudi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, yuzhou, and soon submitted to Later Zhao. Shi Hu took him back to Xiangguo and instead sent Taobao to guard Henan. More than 5,000 households that moved north with Chen Chuan were also arranged in the Guangzong area.
Shi Le changed his hostile attitude toward the "Beggar Army" in return for his favor to Guo Jing
After Li Yun returned to Hebei that year, he attached himself to Wang Jun of Jin Youzhou, and was defeated and killed two years later when he fought with Shi Le. With the defeat of Wang Jun, Guangzong's beggar army also had to surrender to Later Zhao.
Today, the leading figures in Shangbaicheng are all Li Yun's old departments. After the ceremony, the guests and hosts sat down, and after a period of greeting, these people began to ask Shi Min about sikong Li Nong's recent situation. Shi Min smiled and told them that Li Sikong was all right, but he was very busy. Aside from dealing with the affairs of the dynasty, in accordance with the will of His Majesty the Heavenly King, he had to meet with the great monk Buddha Tucheng every day.
Then, they asked about Guo Jing, the assassin of Jingzhou. Shi Min replied that Lord Guo had been staying in Jianghan all these years and had never returned to the Dynasty, so he didn't know much about it. He could see that the people here had great respect for Shi Guojing in Jingzhou.
Guo Jing was loved by the white people of Shangbai, and there was a reason for it. He is the savior of all the people here.
In that year, Shi Le attacked Shangbai City and prepared to slaughter it. Ever since Ji Sang died at the hands of the Beggars, he regarded this Han-dominated armed force as an enemy, leaving no living mouth once victorious. This time, it will not be an exception to the base camp of the Beggars Army.
As the execution was about to take place, Shi Le caught a familiar face in the crowd. This man is half a hundred years old and must be white. He immediately stepped forward and asked, "Are you Guo Jing, a native of Wu (in present-day northeastern Jiexiu City, Shanxi)?" The dying old Hanmune nodded. A dramatic scene appeared, only to see Shi Le fly off his horse, violently hugging the old man tightly, and saying loudly: "You are my benefactor!" I am the Hu man you saved back then! ”
Guo Jing can be called an outstanding figure in the history of ancient ethnic relations
The old man named Guo Jing blinked his eyes and thought for a while, and finally remembered that when he met a young Hu man who had fallen down on the road in his hometown in Hezhou, he told him that he had to flee because of the famine in his hometown. He had always been friendly to others, and he did not have Hu Han in his heart, so he bought food and clothes for this young Hu man. He had never imagined that the young Hu people he had rescued in those years were actually Shi Le, the leader of the Qi Clan, who was now ruling the world!
Shi Le said with tears in his eyes, "Engong, your brother Guo Yang is also my savior!" Hearing this, Guo Jing was confused again. Shi Le quickly explained to him, "Engong doesn't know! After the breakup that year, I was sold to Shandong by Sima Teng. Fortunately, when he was passing through Taixing, he met a kind man named Guo Yang, who took care of him all the way and saved him from death. Talk to him, it's actually your brother! Grace, are you saying that this is providence? Guo Jing smiled bitterly and thought in his heart, "Of course it is Providence, our brothers were kind enough to save you, but how many Han chinese have you killed over the years!" ”
Next, Shi Le asked Guo Jing why he had also joined the Beggars Army. Guo Jing told Shi Le that later he could not live his own life, so he had to follow his neighbors to Jizhou to beg for work and settle here. Shi Le wiped away his tears, led Guo Jing to the big tent, and ordered the preparation of wine and vegetables.
Seeing that the neighbors were about to be buried alive, who did the kind-hearted Guo Jing have the heart to drink? He saw that this Hu man was not completely unsympathetic, so he made a request that his neighbors be spared death. Shi Le was unwilling and did not say a word. Guo Jing enlightened him and said, "I know that you are avenging General Ji Sang, but the people who persecuted him in those years either went back to The Prefecture or were already killed." These people in front of you are your fellow countrymen, there is a way is 'the mountain is high does not cover the sun, the rich do not suppress the township party', if you can raise your hands high, everyone is grateful, and they will help you fight the world in the future! ”
The dual identity of the descendants of the "Beggar Army" and the adopted grandson of the Hu monarch has created Shi Min's special personality characteristics
Shi Le felt that this was very reasonable, so he ordered that the people be spared death, and that they be incorporated into his army and handed over to Guo Jing to command. Guo Jing followed Shi Le from then on and continued to be the assassin of Jingzhou.
This experience of gratitude and gratitude made Shi Le realize that if he wanted to achieve a great cause, he should let go of his personal grievances. From then on, he gave up the practice of blindly slaughtering the beggar army. That year in Qinling, the great monk Buddha Tucheng praised Guo Jing as a person who did good deeds, and said that this was the matter.
After socializing with the leading figures in Baicheng, Shi Min offered to meet his own township party, that is, Chen Chuan's subordinates. That was the main purpose of his trip.
Not too long ago, more than a dozen people came, all middle-aged and elderly, all claiming to be shi Zhan's old. Shi Min ignored the obstruction of the people and insisted on performing the gifts of the younger generations, which made these people excited and burst into tears one by one. This scene is very different from the previous polite scene.
During the banquet, Shi Min left all these people behind and arranged to be seated. Having had enough to eat, he refused the warm and thoughtful arrangement of the city lord and offered to stay in one of his father's old homes.
It turned out that Shi Min's visit also had a purpose, that is, to see if he could learn something about Sikong Li Nong's life. Li Nong went out from here, and because he was loyal to the current king and quite capable of literature and martial arts, he gained Shi Hu's trust and value.
Sikong Li Nong also has a background in begging for a living army
Sikong Li Nong has always avoided talking about his own life. It is generally believed that he is only a side branch of the Li Yun family. However, once Zhang Jackal quietly told Shi Min that Li Nong was most likely a descendant of Li Yun. Shi Min reminded Zhang Jackal at that time that Li Yun had been chased by the former emperor Shi Le on his way back to Guangzong on his way back from Luoyang, and in the panic he had killed all his wives and children, which was known to everyone. Zhang Jackal laughed and said nothing after hearing it.
In fact, Shi Min attached great importance to Zhang Jackal's words. Because this person was protecting himself from You Lun at that time, the distance between Yuan Xiang and Shangbai was not more than a hundred miles, and he must have heard some wind noise. As for why this jackal took the initiative to reveal the family background of an important courtier, Shi Min Baisi did not understand it.
This was a confidential matter, and Shi Min naturally would not seek confirmation from Li Yun's old ministry. He came to the old home of this old man surnamed Zhou, first asked Zhou Laohan about his father's situation, and then euphemistically cut to the right topic.
However, Zhou Laohan did not know anything about Sikong Li Nong's origins, and he also complained that these people from Henan had been suppressed by Li Yun's old ministry, and they suspected that there was Sikong Li Nong's support behind them.
Shi Min did not make any statement on this. Li Yun's old department had a large number of people, and it was expected that he would have the upper hand here. It is precisely for this reason that just now in front of the leading figures, he is extremely humble to his father's past, which is deliberately done for them to see.
This old man of Zhou was a person who had seen the world, and he saw that Shi Min was very fond of his father's old feelings that day, so he asked if he could take his son Zhou Cheng to the capital. Shi Min agreed.
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