In fact, the Han Dynasty's external dominance is still obvious to all.

Even some modern Western historical dictionaries describe the Han Dynasty as follows: The Han Empire is known to the Western world for its strong national strength, external expansion, and lasting strong unity!

In the eyes of many Westerners, the Han Empire was the only empire that the Roman Empire could contend with when it was dominant!

And in our east, the Han Empire, whether it was strong or in decline, maintained military superiority over the surrounding countries, so that the surrounding countries did not dare to be disrespectful to the Han Empire!

At the time of the foreign war, the national strength of the two Han Dynasty was still very strong.

Whenever the Central Plains Dynasty weakened, foreign invasions would also follow, and many dynasties died at the hands of foreign tribes, such as the Song Dynasty, such as the Jin Dynasty, such as the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Han Dynasty, even if the country was divided and the princes were divided, it was still able to defeat the barbarians in all directions and maintain a strong position internationally and militarily.

The death of the Han Dynasty was due to the local powerful clans, and the central government was weak and difficult to control.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the great thinker Wang Fuzhi's evaluation of the Eastern Han Dynasty when he read history was that "Guoheng mourned with weakness, and Han died with strength!" ”。

The meaning of this sentence is that the change of political power in the past dynasties is generally due to the weakening of the national strength and the incompetence of the army, which leads to the invasion of foreign enemies and perishes, but the Eastern Han Dynasty is because the national strength is too strong, and finally the internal struggle for power and power, resulting in a three-legged state of death.

In fact, if history is any guide, this evaluation is very in place.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north and Wei Qinghuo went to the disease to open up the territory, the Han Dynasty changed the weakness of the early Han Dynasty and could only make peace with the powerful Xiongnu, and began to rise strongly.

Whether it is the Western Han Dynasty Huo to go sick Feng Wolf Juxu, or the Eastern Han Dynasty Dou Xian broke the Northern Xiongnu, climbed Yanran Mountain, carved stone to remember the merits.

The Central Plains Dynasty has always been far ahead of the surrounding forces in terms of national strength and military force.

During the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the idols of military generals were generals like Wei Qing and Huo Qubing who were crowned marquis for meritorious service.

Even Chen Tang, the deputy lieutenant of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, dared to take 40,000 people from several countries to directly attack the Xiongnu Shan Yu who occupied the Western Regions, and shouted "Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away"!

The idol of the literati was Zhang Qian, who hollowed out the Western Regions, directly killed Fu Jiezi, the king of Loulan, in Loulan as a diplomatic envoy, and Ban Chao of more than 50 countries in the Western Regions in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Although the court of the Han Dynasty had a strong internal fight, and relatives and eunuchs took turns to take power, they were not soft on the outside.

Even when it came to the two emperors of Huan and Ling, who were in Zhuge Liang's mouth, the Eastern Han Dynasty still had Duan Cheng, Huangfu Gui, and Zhang Huan, who were known as Liangzhou Sanming.

These three people are like fire captains, once there is a rebellion between the Qiang and Xianbei tribes, they will be immediately transferred to the frontier to resist and suppress.

As long as these three people come out, they are invincible, so although they were already hundred-legged insects at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were dead but not stiff, but they could still maintain their strength on the surface.

However, under the strength of the surface, the Han Dynasty was already an undercurrent, the emperor did not like the scholars, the scholars did not like the eunuchs, and then looked at the emperor and the entire court.

Qianghu does not like the Han people, and the Han people also have many contradictions with Qianghu.

After decades of fighting, it only emptied the treasury, and it still couldn't solve the problem.

Under the consumption of successive years, the entire Han Empire was already in danger, until the last straw that broke the camel's back came.

It can be said that it has accumulated a great prestige over the past few hundred years, and when the Central Plains was in turmoil at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the separatist princes in various places just regarded the Xiongnu, Qiang, and Baiyue as military sources and cannon fodder.

The Han Dynasty of "Guoheng is destroyed by weakness, and the Han Dynasty is destroyed by strength" mainly refers to the Han nationality, such as Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, Sun Quan, etc. in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Eastern Han Dynasty is stronger, how strong is the nation, when the local is stronger than the central government, when the Hao is stronger than the imperial court, how can the dynasty not die?

But even so, the royal family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty did not have the strength, and the warlords around the country started by suppressing the Yellow Turban Army, and their strength was stronger than that of the imperial court, and their external strength was not softened at all.

Gongsun Zhan, the general of the white horse, once fought Wuhuan and fled when he saw him, and Cao Cao also conquered Wuhuan and killed Wuhuan Shan Yu.

Originally, the Shu Han in history also beat Meng Shu, etc., and Sun Quan also had a good fight against Wu Yue's mountain tribes.

Gongsun Zhan's famous White Horse Yicong was the prestige that was brushed up on the Huns;

As soon as Xiliang Ma Chao raised his arms, the Qiang people had to be obedient; After Cao Cao pacified Yuan Shao, he attacked Wuhuan in the north, and the biggest difficulty was that he could not find a road or a water source.

When there is a guide, the forwards led by Zhang Liao can defeat the large army assembled by the Wuhuan King Bandun in one battle, and even cut the battle.

According to the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, 200,000 people were killed and captured. The attack power of the warlords of the Han Dynasty can be seen.

As for the Baiyue tribe and Wuxi barbarians in the south, it is even worse, whether it is Liu Bei or Sun Quan, they have recruited a large part of the Baiyue people to come out as soldiers to fight through force or interest temptation, and in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Meng Huo, Shamoke, etc. are all familiar barbarian generals.

Liu Bei's Wudang Flying Army, an important component of the mountain warfare elite, is the barbarians.

Foreign wars, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and even later in the Three Kingdoms Ding Era, most of them were actually victorious, which is the origin of "the country is always weak to destroy, and the only Han is strong to die".

Therefore, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the external deterrence of force has always been a very strong existence.

The demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty was only due to the imbalance of internal struggles, first the two emperors of Huan Ling disregarded the government, and then the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's dictatorship, which finally led to the Han Dynasty losing the hearts and minds of the people, and finally died at the hands of Cao Pi.

Throughout history, the re-rise of those foreign minorities was not until the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, when the Sima clan attacked and killed each other and colluded with foreign tribes, which triggered the darkest scene of the Wuhu Rebellion in Chinese history.

The external troubles of the Eastern Han Dynasty were obviously the Qiang tribe in the west and the Xianbei tribe rising in the north.

As for the Northern Xiongnu, they were destroyed by the general Dou Xian as early as the Han and Emperor Emperors, and the Southern Xiongnu were weak, at most they were ponies of the Han Dynasty, even if they gathered their full strength,

The key is still Xiqiang, in the middle and late Han Dynasty, the Qiang people moved into Liangzhou because of the system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and wanted to sinicize these people of different races. But I don't know if the Qiang people in Liangzhou have been sinicized, but the Han people in Liangzhou have been Qiang.

Judging from the style of Han Sui, Ma Chao and others in Liangzhou later, it is obvious that these Liangzhou Han people have long lost the concept of etiquette, righteousness and honesty of the Han people in the Central Plains.

It is precisely because of the mixed Hu and Han people in Liangzhou that it is difficult to manage, and the Qiang people are fierce, so in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, it is not uncommon for the Qiang people to rebel.

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