Chapter Seventeen: Liu Yuan Opposes jin
Since the end of the Western Han Dynasty, some Xiongnu people scattered in remote counties and counties in the north, lived with Han Chinese for a long time, and slowly accepted Han culture. In the past, the Xiongnu nobles and the han dynasty officials and relatives could be said to be relatives of the han dynasty royal family, and later changed to the surname of Liu of the Han Emperor.
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"Liu Yuan Jianhan"
After Cao Cao unified the north, he divided the 30,000 tribes of the Xiongnu into 5 departments, each of which had a marshal, and the Xiongnu nobleman Liu Bao was the commander of one of the departments.
After Liu Bao's death, his son Liu Yuan succeeded him.
This Liu Yuan is not simple, he has read many Han books since he was a child, his literary skills are very good, his martial arts are also very strong, and the 300-pound bow is nothing in his hands. Later, Liu Yuan became a general under Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu in the Western Jin Dynasty, and stayed in Yicheng to take charge of 5 Xiongnu armies.
In 304, Liu Yuan returned to Zuo Guocheng, and everyone supported him to do more than that. At this time, the Xianbei soldiers became restless and raised troops to attack the Jin army. Liu Yuansu gathered 50,000 horses and personally led the south to help the Jin army. Someone didn't understand and asked him, "Why don't you take this opportunity to destroy the Jin Dynasty and instead help the Jin Dynasty?" Liu Yuan just smiled, only when he didn't hear it.
Liu Yuan knew in his heart that it would not be so easy to destroy the Jin Dynasty.
Liu Yuan himself also made a good calculation, he knew that the Han Dynasty was the longest and had the greatest influence in the hundred, and his fathers were all related to the Han Dynasty royal family. Yuan decided to establish the state as Han in the name of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Yuan was called the King of Han, honoring The Shu Han Emperor Liu Chan Xiaohuai.
"The Defense of Luoyang"
After that, Liu Yuan quickly captured several counties such as Shangdang, Taiyuan, Hedong, and Pingyuan, and his power grew. Some of the smaller anti-Jin forces of various ethnic groups also came to attach themselves to Liu Yuan.
In 308, Liu Yuan officially became Emperor of Han.
The following year, liu yuan, on the advice of Taishi Ling Xuanyuxiu, moved the capital to Pingyang (平陽, in modern Linfen, Shanxi) and concentrated his forces to attack Luoyang. The people of Luoyang did not want to be ruled by the Xiongnu. Therefore, Liu Yuan's two attacks were met with fierce resistance from the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang, and he had to retreat.
Not long after, Liu Yuan died, and his son Liu Cong succeeded to the throne.
In order to fulfill his father's wishes, Liu Cong sent the generals Liu Yao and Shi Le to attack Luoyang. At this time, the city of Luoyang was in danger, and all the soldiers and civilians did not slacken their efforts, still vowing to resist to the death, and finally because they were outnumbered, they were captured in 311 AD, and Emperor Huai of Jin slipped and made a prisoner. This Liu Cong was also cruel enough, and after entering Luoyang, he connived at the soldiers to burn and loot, did no evil, and killed a large number of Jin Dynasty officials and civilians.
Once, Liu Cong held a banquet, a large banquet for the courtiers. He actually asked Emperor Huai of Jin to pour wine for everyone in the green clothes worn by the slaves, in order to make fun of it. The old ministers of the Jin Dynasty who were present saw it, and their grief and indignation were unbearable, and they could not help but cry bitterly. The minister's cry made Liu Cong, who was originally full of enthusiasm, feel very unhappy, and simply killed the emperor and the old minister together.
After the death of Emperor Huai of Jin, jin officials in Chang'an supported Emperor Huai's nephew Sima Yi to inherit the throne, that is, Emperor Huan of Jin. At that time, the population of Chang'an City was very small, some officials of the Jin Dynasty were very pitiful, not even official uniforms, and the ceremony of the emperor's succession was very simple and not at all grand.
In 316, Liu Cong sent another man to attack Chang'an, and soon Chang'an City was captured.
Emperor Huan of Jin had no choice but to personally go out of the city in a sheep cart and surrender. He was also not treated favorably and was killed after being insulted.
At this point, the Western Jin Dynasty lasted for 52 years and finally perished. After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the five ethnic minorities in the north, namely the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xianbei, Xian, and Qiang, revolted one after another, and many established political power like Liu Yuan, and a total of 16 separatist regimes appeared before and after, which were known as the "Sixteen Kingdoms" in the calendar.
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Just don't say "money"
During the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a waiter named Wang Yan, who regarded himself as high and despised money, but Wang Yan married a money-hungry wife, Guo Shi.
Guo was the empress's cousin, and often bullied people and amassed money. Wang Yan was very unaccustomed to her, on the contrary, Guo Also looked down on Wang Yan's Qinggao. One night, when Wang Yan was asleep, Guo Shi found someone to take out a lot of money and used the money to surround Wang Yan. The next day Wang Yan got up and saw that there was money all around, and his wife was still standing next to him watching his jokes. Wang Yan did not touch the "money" and called out to the maid on the bed: "Quick, move the blockage away!" "Never say "money." Later, people took "A block" as a synonym for "money".