Chapter 1 When the Opportunity Knocks on the Door 12

Liu Cong didn't see how the Xiongnu and Han kingdoms were finished, he had been dominant on the battlefield, trapped Luoyang, fought Chang'an, and established immortal feats, but he had only lived happily for a few years in the harem, and he couldn't bear it.

In July 318, Liu Cong died, and Fan reigned for nine years. Emperor Zhaowu, the temple name is Liezong.

Liu Cong's life can be regarded as vigorous, the first half of his life in the corpse mountain and sea of blood on the battlefield to show his true character as a man, his treacherous and heroic, can be called a hero, the Xiongnu Han Kingdom reached its heyday in his hands. In the second half of his life, he was immersed in a coma in the harem where beauties gathered, and the gentle township was a hero's mound, killing the virtuous, believing in treachery, and in the history books of only a few hundred words, the generation of stupid and tyrannical kings who were alive jumped on the paper. The court was in a miasma, the people's livelihood withered everywhere, and the whole country began to decline.

It can be said that the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, the sheng is also Liu Cong, and the defeat is also Liu Cong. The Lord or the Faint King? Just like Wang Hun's comment: "I can't measure it here!" ”

Even if I can foresee his future, I'm embarrassed to say.

Regardless of whether it can be measured or not, if a person dies, Liu Cong should be given an evaluation: for the Huns, it is obvious that Liu Cong is a great figure. But for the Han Chinese, fuck it!

yes, just fuck it. A foreign ruler who has killed countless Han Chinese, I don't want to sing the praises of him.

Liu Cang ascended to the throne of God.

Liu Cang is actually a capable man, who once led the troops with Liu Yao, Shi Le, Wang Mi and other generals, and achieved quite successes, or can we attribute this to the Western Jin Dynasty being too cowardly? But the court struggle was definitely a good hand, eliminating Liu Yi, killing the ministers who opposed him, and encircling Liu Cong's reverence for the eunuchs, Liu Cang did a good job, and finally got everything he wanted: his father's throne,...... And his father's woman.

Being able does not mean that you can become a monarch who can make a difference. After succeeding to the throne, the first major thing Liu Cang did was not to give favors to the world such as amnesty to the world, and naturally he did not learn from Comrade Jin Sanpang to distribute candy to children across the country. Instead, he immediately ran into the harem and knocked down all the many queens left by the old emperor Liu Cong!

Don't laugh, this is actually the custom of the Huns, "When the brother dies, the brother marries his sister-in-law." Father died, marry his stepmother", at that time, the Huns who had been in the Central Plains for several generations, the sinicization has been quite serious, such as Liu Cong, through Shi Taoluo, not less than Han Confucianism. But this custom has been completely preserved by them, and it is still being carried forward until Liu Cang's generation. Liu Cang entertained with the queen mothers in the palace day and night, and was not sad at all about the death of his father Liu Cong. As for his father's funeral, naturally someone else will take care of it, Liu Cang is very busy, and he really has no time.

There is a character named Le Zhun, whose appearance at this moment seems abrupt. But when we knew that Liu Can's queen was Le's, and he also took advantage of the funeral of his father Liu Cong to overthrow the queen mother Le's. Le Zhun's appearance is so natural, Queen Le is his daughter.

The girl is not given for nothing, and she must get her money back when she has the opportunity. Le Zhun's conspiracy was already settled when he gave his daughter with both hands.

At that time, Le Zhun, who had already become the captain of the Great Sikong and Sili, did not miss any opportunity to eradicate dissidents, and used the hands of Liu Cang to kill Dazai and Liu Jing, the king of Shangluo, successively; Taishi, Changguo Gong Liu Yi; Da Sima, Liu Ji, King of Jinan; Da Situ, Liu Mao, King of Qi; King of Jinan, Great Sima Liu Ji. Taifu Zhu Ji and Taiwei Fan Long were afraid of being victimized and fled to Chang'an.

The entire court is only allowed to obey the order.

The mountain rain is about to come, and the wind is full of buildings, but Liu Cang is happy in the flowers and doesn't want to know. In the face of the growing Shi Le, Liu Cang trained in Shanglin in his spare time, preparing to recruit the person who was already strong enough to threaten his position, and in the face of the danger that was about to happen around him, Liu Cang was unaware.

Le Zhun's preparation was very inadequate, as the saying goes: if a scholar rebels, it will not be successful in three years. It's because I'm afraid that I won't be fully prepared. Obviously, Le Zhun did not have the procrastination of scholars, and in the face of a faint monarch who had just ascended the throne and messed around in the harem all day, it was enough to lead troops to rush into the palace. History: Led the troops to the Guangji Palace, arrested Liu Cang, and killed Liu Cang. The men and women of the Liu family, regardless of age and age, were killed in Dongshi. He also excavated the tombs of Liu Yuan and Liu Cong, cut off Liu Cong's body, and burned the Liu family's temple.

The process is simple and crude, and the results are immediate.

This coup d'état was devastating to the Xiongnu Liu clan, even if there were remnants of Liu Yao still in Chang'an, the Xiongnu Han State was only surviving and no longer in its former glory. Later, when Shi Le became king, Liu Yao's former Zhao was just delaying the demise of the Xiongnu Liu clan.

The coup d'état was successful, although the credit on the daughter's belly accounted for more than half, but the power in the hands of Le Zhun was still very excited for a while, calling himself "King of Han", placing hundreds of officials, and preparing to live a life in Pingyang City.

But controlling Pingyang City does not mean that you can control the entire Xiongnu Han Kingdom. At the very least, there are two people who will not listen to Le Zhun: Liu Yao and Shi Le. For Le Zhun, these are two very powerful people, in that era when famous generals are like carp across the river, the two of them are ranked very high, at least, much more powerful than Le Zhun.

The rebel army is already on the way, and it is two. Le Zhun has no reinforcements, all he has is a lonely Pingyang City, and even Pingyang City is not peaceful. Taking advantage of the civil strife of the Huns, a Han surrender general named Beigong Chun launched an uprising, but it was a pity that there were few responders, and the uprising was easily suppressed by Lezhun and Beigong Chun died.

This Beigong Chun is the Beigong Chun who attacked Liu Cong under Luoyang City, the fierce general of Xiliang.

The court of the Western Jin Dynasty will never reuse foreign generals, even if they are meritorious, after the battle is over, where will they come from, and they will come back next time they fight! Xiliang will not recognize Beigong Chun's merits, and it is not Zhang Rail who protects him, so why should Zhang Rail smile and be rewarded? On the contrary, he was jealous and ostracized by the Xiliang bureaucracy.

The battle was won, but neither side was pleased, it was suppressed everywhere, and Beigong Chun, who couldn't get along, surrendered to the Xiongnu Han State in this way. It wasn't until Le Zhun staged a coup d'état that he finally bubbled up in Pingyang City.

A generation of brave generals has vanished. In that era when he could have made great achievements, he was not given too many opportunities to write his own legend.

It can be said that no matter what era, the Han nation has never lacked warriors who ascend to the heights, especially when the nation is in danger! What is lacking is the awakened spirit of the numb people. And this requires the butcher's knife of the invaders and the blood of countless heroic martyrs and sages to awaken.

Almost, always.

The Beigong Chun, who took advantage of the chaos to raise troops, is also one.

Calling himself a vassal to the Jin Dynasty is almost the best and only way that Le Zhun can think of, and there is no other choice.

At this time of the Jin Dynasty, the emperor was Sima Rui, the emperor of the Jin Yuan Dynasty, and after the Jin Emperor was killed, Sima Rui re-established the stall of the Great Jin Empire in Jiankang (Nanjing). History distinguishes the Jin Dynasty, which only has half of the southeastern country, from the unified Jin Dynasty, and calls: the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

"Tu all the clowns dare to be kings, and the chaos of the Great Jin Dynasty makes the two emperors broadcast Yue. Today, send the second emperor Zi Palace in Jiangdong. At the same time, he presented the jade seal of the country that was robbed by the Xiongnu Han State when the Western Jin Dynasty fell.

The coffin is not on the table, the face is a problem. The jade seal of the country has a great origin, to start from the "and the bi", the dynasties have fought endlessly, it is said that if anyone gets the jade seal of the country, who has the "destiny of the Son of Heaven". The gift of Le Zhun is not insignificant.

Emperor Jin Yuan did not get the jade seal back, probably because Le Zhun changed his mind again. But in the end, the coffins of Emperor Huai of Jin and Emperor Chu of Jin were brought back, which was enough to make the Eastern Jin Dynasty happy, happy, happy, and that's all, without any support action. If Le Zhun was looking forward to reinforcements from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, then his disappointment must have been great.

At that time, Liu Yao, who was guarding Chang'an, held the official position of Xiangguo, the governor of the Chinese and foreign military, and among the Liu clansmen killed during the rebellion, including Liu Yao's mother and his younger brother. It is not an exaggeration to say that the hatred is as deep as the sea, and Le Zhun has no intention of wooing him. But for the great general Shile, he was moved.

Wild history records: Le Zhun gave his two daughters, who had been the empress and the empress dowager, to Shile in order to make peace with the army.

But judging from the later developments, Le Zhun failed very much, and lost his daughter, but did not return the peace of Shile. "It's the same whether to give it or not, and the benefits that Shiler wants are more than what he can give.

When Liu Yao's army marched to Chibi (Chishichuan in the northwest of present-day Hejin City, Shanxi, not Chibi in the Battle of Chibi), he met Taibao Hu Yanyan and Taifu Zhu Ji who had escaped from Pingyang City. After the catastrophe did not die, I met my relatives again, and it is estimated that they must have cried with a headache, and they have not seen each other for a few days. Liu Yao and the two of them had a lot to say, including, of course, the question of who should inherit the throne of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom.

Without Liu Yao's explicit or implicit instructions, Hu Yanan and Zhu Ji know what to do, and who else can be more suitable than Liu Yao? Especially when all the people who are more suitable than him are dead!

In October 318, Liu Yao ascended the throne as emperor and changed to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. At this moment, it has only been three months since Liu Cong's death, but current events have been turned upside down and irreversible. Liu Yao made Shile a general, and he was a horn with each other, and jointly attacked Pingyang.

Le Zhun should have expected it, but he finally took that step. Perhaps, just because he is already the daughter of the Queen Mother, but he has to exercise the obligations of the Queen Mother, which makes him angry? No! It must have been the sudden infinite expansion of power that fascinated his mind, thinking that as long as Liu Cang was dealt with, everything would be fine. It's just that it's easy to get Liu Cang, but it's very difficult to get rid of Shi Le and Liu Yao, what they want is the same unlimited power as him, and he created this opportunity for them.

Le Zhun went to Liu Yao to make peace, and I don't know what to use as an excuse to explain the killing of Liu Yao's mother, brothers, and all his clansmen. We really don't need to know that this is a very stupid and naïve action, and it has no meaning except to grow the morale of others and destroy their own prestige.

Liu Yao's answer was very good: "Liu Cang is a faint monarch without a way, and there is no fault in killing him." If he doesn't die, how can I be emperor? Got it? As long as you surrender, I will count you as a meritorious servant. ”

The words are very straightforward and sincere. But, do you believe it? Anyway, I don't believe it, take 10,000 steps back, even if the revenge of the mother, brother and clan is not avenged, then is it possible to let Le Zhun go? Of course not. At that time, Liu Yao had already ascended the throne, the emperor of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, and it was his responsibility and obligation to avenge the former emperor Liu Cang, and it was also where the righteousness lies. Otherwise, how can Liu Yao, the emperor, be recognized, and how can he convince the subjects of the world?

Give hope to the enemy, please note that this sentence is not to give the enemy a future. A hope is enough to ruin your enemy's intentions and your determination to break the net.

Burdened with a deep hatred of the sea of blood, Liu Yao did not say that he wanted to share the sky with Le Zhun Lao Feifu, and summed it up, the sentence "killing is meritorious" made Le Zhun hesitate. Oh, yes! If you fight, you will die, and if you surrender, you may live, who doesn't hesitate?

This "hesitation" finally took Strangle's life.

In the face of the dilemma of death, when there is a desperate situation everywhere, there is a hope called survival, and the desire for life makes people willing to try all opportunities, the chance to live. Even if it is a straw that does not exist at all, as long as the word "help" is written, I am still willing to do my best to grasp it. After all, there are very few people who sacrifice their lives for righteousness, and most people will not regret discarding everything when they are faced with a choice between life and death, as long as they can save their lives. Lezhun's younger brother, Lemin, is one of those people.

In December 318, Le Zhun was killed by his brother Le Ming. Subsequently, Le Ming surrendered to Liu Yao and presented the jade seal of the country. Cause? The reason is simple, he believes in Liu Yao's promise more than his brother. In his opinion, Le Zhun's hesitation is to seek death.

Well, you die, but don't bother us all.

In fact, Liu Yao's lies are not clever, and he can judge the truth at a glance, but Le Ming's fear of death and his strong desire to survive make him more willing to believe that Liu Yao's words are true.

At that time, Shile was also marching to Binh Duong, but no one surrendered to him. Shi Le was furious and sent the main force to attack Pingyang, but when Shi Le conquered Pingyang City, Le Ming had already surrendered to Liu Yao with 15,000 people in Pingyang City. One step late, except for the dilapidated Pingyang City, Shi Le didn't get any benefits.

Liu Yao didn't fulfill his promise, the enemy is in front of him, where is there any merit to support! On the contrary, the anger of revenge is higher than everything else, and the Le family has no value to use (the beautiful queen and queen mother were given to others), Liu Yao did not hesitate to raise the machete of revenge and behead the entire Le clan.

Many years ago, there was a man named Zhang Xiu who not only killed Cao Cao's son and nephew, but also his personal general Dian Wei, but later, Cao Cao took him in and did not embarrass him. That's because there is a reason for it, and Cao Cao himself is at fault first; It was the beginning of the great cause, and Cao Cao needed the help of a sage and could not be embarrassed.

Obviously, the Le family did not possess any conditions that Liu Yao had to rely on.

Liu Yao, who had taken revenge, was very comfortable, and the evil anger that was held in his heart finally came out, and he was about to lie down on his dragon couch to sleep peacefully, when he suddenly found that next to his couch, there was actually another strong man, Shi Le, who was stronger and burlier than him.

Shocked him into a cold sweat.