Three Kingdoms Liang General Series of He Qi (Part 1)
Cooking wine on heroes, but also about the characters of the Three Kingdoms.
Needless to say, the Three Kingdoms era can become the most familiar ancient history for the public, or the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" plays the most critical role. Although people have become familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms in recent years, the first impression of the main figures in the history of the Three Kingdoms is still unable to get rid of the influence of the interpretation. In fact, it doesn't matter, after all, the same person has two different versions of history and interpretation, and it is also interesting to discuss the differences between each other, which incidentally makes a large number of Three Kingdoms figures become household names.
However, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is, after all, a novel and a literary work, which requires a lot of adaptation of history. The novel as a whole must have a theme, the storyline should be focused, the main contradictions should be prominent, and the drama should be strong enough, which is an inevitable requirement of a novel. Under this premise, it is very normal for some characters to increase or decrease the roles, and some events to expand or skip.
As the main axis of the novel, Cao Wei and Shu Han are the two main camps, Cao Wei's side of the historical data is rich, the ready-made historical figures are sufficient, and it is more convenient to adapt. The Shu Han side of the historical data is lacking, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and other historical books shu Han camp characters are few, there are still a large number of characters who have been brushed over, but it is necessary to increase the role of Shu Han, so people such as Guan Ping, Ma Dai, Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, etc. in history who basically only have names and no specific deeds have a rich opportunity to appear in the interpretation. There are even fictional characters such as Zhou Cang who occupy a certain amount of space. This is all to balance the proportion of plots with Cao Wei.
As a supporting role, the Eastern Wu camp is relatively miserable, and many characters with personal biographies in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" have become passers-by, and even some figures with a very important position in history have not been given the opportunity to appear in the performance.
The protagonist of this article, He Qi, has a detailed record of more than 2,000 words in the personal biography of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Song's notes, and the official to the rear general is completely absent in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It is no exaggeration to say that He Qi is the biggest general of the Three Kingdoms that Yanyi missed. At the beginning of this issue, I will introduce you to this forgotten celebrity.
He qi (?) –227), courtesy name Gongmiao, was a native of San'in County, Huiji County. According to Yu Qian's "Book of Jin", He Qizushang originally did not have the surname He, but the surname Qing, in order to avoid the secrecy of Liu Qing, the father of Emperor Liu Hu of the Han Dynasty, changed his surname to He, which should be taken the word "Qinghe". Other Qing surnames changed their surname to Jing, which is probably pronounced similarly. This is not a rigorous examination, just speculation. Most people avoid changing their surnames, so the Qing surname that has been passed down to today is very rare.
He Qi's birth was not bad, his uncle He Chun served as a waiter and Jiangxia Taishou during the Han An Emperor's time, and his father He Fu served as the governor of Yongning County. Although it is not a first-class family, it is also a well-off family. Initially, He Qi worked as a county magistrate in the local area, and later served as the acting governor of The County.
There was a county official named Si Cong who did something wrong and did a lot of illegal things. As a county official, he even knew that the law and broke the law were still particularly rampant, and the original text of the history book was "light heroes for adultery", and this was also necessary? It is clear that the acting county magistrate is not taken seriously. So Heqi planned to punish Si Cong. His subordinate master hurriedly advised: "Si Cong is a large clan in the county, and his power is very large, and the people of the nearby Shanyue are all attached to him, and if they punish him today, tomorrow they will bring disaster." The master book did not say that it was okay, and He Qi listened to the strike and ordered Si cong to be arrested and arrested and immediately beheaded.
The "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of He Qi" says: Qi heard that he was furious and immediately beheaded him. From the ethnic party, they were entangled, and more than a thousand people raised troops to attack the county. Qi led the people, opened the city gate to attack, broke it, and threatened to shock the mountain.
As soon as Si Cong died, the Si family immediately gathered more than a thousand people to attack the county seat. He Qi was not afraid at all, and opened the city gate to lead the officials and people in the city to take the initiative to attack. It is estimated that the Si family is used to running amok in the local area, and they did not expect the new county magistrate He Qi to be so fierce, and the local bullies were defeated and lost by He Qi and the common people. The news soon reached the ears of the nearby Shanyue people, and The prestige of Heqi spread locally.
Later, when rebellions broke out in Da mo and Fengpu, He Qi was reappointed as the acting governor of Da Mo County, and it took a month to quell the rebellion.
Some friends may have noticed that He Qi is not quite powerful, how can he always be the acting county magistrate? Quite simply, first of all, the official position of county magistrate needs to be selected by qualified talents through the inspection system, which has a set of systems, and He Qi has not been selected by the state, so naturally he cannot be formally appointed, but can only be an agent. Second, huijian county at that time belonged to the poor countryside and uncivilized areas, full of mountains and yue, a large area that was not under the actual control of the imperial court, and the officials who came here were usually officials who were degraded and punished, and most of the "serious officials" were reluctant to come, so they could only appoint some local people to manage on their behalf.
It doesn't matter, it is gold that always shines, and as the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty gradually spreads to Jiangdong, the opportunity of He Qi will also follow.
In the first year of Jian'an (196), Sun Ce, who swept through Jiangdong, finally reached Huiji. He Qi, who had a keen sense of smell, decisively threw himself into Sun Ce's command. At that time, Wang Lang, the Taishou of Huiji Commandery, fled all the way from Zhishou Shanyin to Dongye, roughly equivalent to from present-day Shaoxing to Fuzhou. The nearby Houguan County Governor Shang raised troops to help Wang Lang, and Sun Ce appointed Han Yan, the governor of Yongning County, as the southern capital lieutenant, and raised an army to fight against Shangsheng, and the vacant position of Yongning County Governor was filled by He Qi.
As a result, this Han Yan was really unable to do it, and actually lost to Shang Sheng, so He Qi succeeded Han Yan as the southern governor. These were all people from Huijian County, and they knew the roots, and Shang Sheng knew that he was not He Qi's opponent, so he sent emissaries to take the initiative to seek peace.
The general trend in Jiangdong is very clear, sooner or later it is Sun Ce's territory, and it is certainly not enough to seek peace, He Qi analyzed the situation to the emissaries, hoping that Shang Sheng could surrender. After the emissary returned to his life, Shang Sheng also agreed to surrender and sent someone to send Yin Shou out of the city.
Shang Sheng wanted to surrender, but the people below did not agree. His subordinates Zhang Ya and Zhan Qiang killed Shang Sheng without stopping, Zhang Ya claimed to be the Supreme General, and Zhan Qiang claimed to be a taishou. Huiji County is very large, equivalent to today's Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, don't look at today are all developed provinces on the eastern coast, in the Han Dynasty 1,800 years ago, this is completely a barbaric land to be developed. Except for a few cities, it is basically the world of the Shanyue people.
The area is so large that it is impossible to cover it as strong as Sun Ce, so the solution to the problem of Zhang Ya and Zhan Qiang was handed over to He Qi. The number of thieves was superior, and He Qi's side could not take advantage of the hard fight, so he temporarily suspended the troops and waited for the opportunity. Soon there was a conflict between Zhang Ya and her son-in-law He Xiong, which could have been harmless, but after He Qi heard about it, he secretly asked some Shanyue people to spread rumors, making the two people jealous of each other. The contradiction between Zhang Ya and He Xiong is getting bigger and bigger, and they even threaten each other with force.
A rift appeared inside the thief army, and He Qi seized the opportunity to attack Zhang Ya and break it in a big battle. Zhang Ya, as the leader of the thieves, was defeated, and the thief army quickly disintegrated, and the other thief armies also surrendered.
The "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of He Qi" says: Ya and his son-in-law He Xiong fought for power and two obediences, and Qi lingyue people were intertwined because of the incident, so they caused doubts and obstructed the army. Qi Nai entered the discussion, the First World War broke the elegance, the strong party was frightened, and led the crowd to surrender.
After Dongye and Houguan were pacified, Sun Ce divided Dongye County into four counties, adding three new counties: Jian'an, Hanxing, and Nanping, all of which were under the jurisdiction of He Qi, the southern governor. Some articles say that this was the first time that the Han Dynasty set up counties in the Fujian region, representing the first time that the Fujian region was truly included in the effective jurisdiction of the Central Plains Dynasty, but this is not accurate.
From the fourth year of Yongjian (129) when the northern thirteen counties that originally belonged to Huiji County were separated to form Wu County, Huiji County also had fifteen counties. Beginning in the third year of Chuping (192), the internal administrative divisions of Huiji County began to change, and new counties were constantly added, and by the eve of the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the last year of Jian'an, Huiji County had increased to twenty-six counties. Therefore, there is no need to elevate the significance of Sun Ce's new three counties.
As a representative of local talents, He Qi was promoted by Sun Ce as filial piety and finally got his official status. However, Sun Ce died too early, five years after Jian'an (200), with the assassination of Sun Ce, the situation in Jiangdong was unstable at the beginning of Sun Quan's rise to power, and internal and external troubles were constant, especially in the remote areas of the southern part of Huiji, and rebellions arose one after another. Heqi could only act as a fire brigade leader and traveled to various counties.
In the eighth year of Jian'an (203), He Qi entered Jian'an County and set up a capital in the local area, showing his determination to suppress the local powerful. At the same time, Sun Quan ordered 5,000 soldiers to be mobilized in each county throughout huijian county, led by each county chief, all under the command of He Qi. Apparently, Sun Quan intended to launch a general offensive against the rebel forces of Huiji.
The rebel leaders Hong Ming, Hong Jin, Yuan Yu, Wu Wei, and Hua Dang each led tens of thousands of households to form a defensive line in Hanxing, Wu Wu led 6,000 households to Da tan, and Zou Lin led 6,000 households to Gaizhu. The decisive battle between the Sun family regime and the local powerful was here.
The "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of He Qi" says: The county is under the command of five thousand soldiers, and each of the county governors will be subject to Qi Jiedu. The thief Hongming, Hongjin, Yuan Yu, Wu Wei, Huadang and other five people led each of them to 10,000 households, Liantun Hanxing, Wu 5,000 or 6,000 households in Beitun Datan, zou lin 6,000 households in Beitun to build bamboo, and the same sweat.
I don't know how everyone feels about this record. Each county had to recruit five thousand soldiers, and how many counties were there at that time? Twenty-three.
The author deeply doubts how Sun Quan gave Zhou Yu 30,000 people during the Battle of Chibi.
Twenty-three counties, can He Qi lead an army of 100,000 to quell the rebellion? Impossible. Then make a half-fold discount of fifty thousand, which may be more reliable.
Looking at the strength of the rebels, five people each led ten thousand households, plus two six thousand households, these seven people also had at least sixty thousand troops. Of course, the use of the word "household" throughout the rebel army is also very profound, obviously the rebels are essentially local people, Yamakoshi dragging their families to rebel against the Sun family regime, and the Yellow Turban Uprising is very similar, it looks scary, but there are actually far fewer combat effectiveness. But since users are measured by at least one soldier per household, the figure of 60,000 rebels is not much water.
Assuming that Huijian County could not provide five thousand soldiers in full per county, that would take less than half of the whole number of fifty thousand, against the rebels sixty thousand, which seems to be too much for Sun Quan in 203.
In fact, There is really no shortage of human resources in Jiangdong, but these populations are scattered in the clan gates, deep mountains and old forests, and mountain yue tribes, and it is difficult to effectively manage it. It is a spectacle that the number of troops in the foreign war is stretched to the limit, but during the counterinsurgency war, the two sides were able to assemble such a large number of troops.
Let's look at the process of the two sides fighting. As mentioned earlier, the main force of the rebels was gathered in Hanxing County, and He Qi then marched to Hanxing. Passing through Yu Khan, He Qi ordered The Governor of Songyang County, Ding Fan, to stay behind to prevent the rebels from cutting off the rear road.
Although Sun Quan had already ordered the other county magistrates to listen to He Qi, Sun Quan did not have enough prestige, and this Ding Fan felt that he was still at the same level as He Qi not long ago, but now he wanted to listen to him, too faceless, so he found an excuse to shirk and did not stay in the rear. When He Qi learned of this, he immediately cut off Ding Fan's head. There was no fear in the army, and from then on there was no one who dared not obey orders.
After rectifying military discipline, He Qi sent others to stay in the rear and lead his own troops to attack. In a great showdown, the rebel leader Hong Ming was killed on the spot, and the remaining thieves Hong Jin, Yuan Yu, Wu Wei, and Hua Dang all surrendered. Then He Qi turned to Gaizhu and Datan, and the two thieves who supported the "six thousand households" were also defeated and surrendered.
The "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of He Qi" says: Whoever beheads six thousand ranks, famous marshals and birds, restore the county, and send out tens of thousands of troops, worship as a lieutenant of Pingdong.
After this great armageddon in the south, there was never a rebellion of such a scale, although small groups of bandits and Yamakoshi still existed for a long time, but overall did not set off a big wave. He Qi made great contributions to the Jiangdong clique's foothold in Huiji County, restoring and consolidating effective jurisdiction over the southern counties of Huiji, a battle of great significance.
As the number one counterinsurgency expert in Eastern Wu, He Qi certainly would not only serve in Huiji County. The counties of Jiangdong all faced the same problem, so Heqi had many tasks. After that, how He Qi will perform, the next issue will continue. Interested partners please click to pay attention to it, but also welcome to read the past Three Kingdoms character series articles, your support is my continuous update of the biggest motivation, thank you!