The establishment of a country has never been a simple rebellion, a thousand years of hegemony, a hundred battles successful, once the banner of the king is unfurled, even if you sit still, there will be a lot of arrows shot over, mercilessly. The road to statehood is long and arduous.

Not everyone in the vast Jin Empire was indulged in civil strife over power, or rather, Liu Yuan's actions woke some people up from the chaos of infighting. Faced with the rebellion that occurred around them, Dongying Gong and Bingzhou Assassin Shi Sima Teng quickly moved and sent troops to conquer.

Liu Yuan ushered in his first major battle after the founding of the country.

The two sides fought in Daling (Wenshui, Shanxi), and the process will not be elaborated. One is a strong soldier riding with the ideal of recovering the country; One is a tired and weak brigade that has just withdrawn from the battlefield of infighting.

The results speak for themselves, a big win.

The mourning soldiers are not necessarily victorious, but the tired soldiers are bound to lose. There is a war at home, and I don't know if my parents and fellow villagers are suffering from the poison of war. Only those who have fought in war understand war best, and even if the soldiers are not physically tired, their hearts are tired and panicked.

Sima Teng, who had lost the battle, ran away, taking his gold, silver and jewelry, his wife and concubine, and the remnants of the defeated army to Jizhou (and robbed a lot along the way), but he couldn't take it away, but he gave it away. Liu Yuan took advantage of the victory and sent the Jianwu general Liu Yao (his nephew and founder of the former Zhao) to capture Shangdang, Taiyuan, and Xihe counties one after another.

The situation in which Liu Yuan established the country was completely opened up in this war.

In the second year after the Battle of Daling, Sima Teng, who had run away, came back to kill. The counterattack was frenzied, but the ending was tragic. In the face of the powerful Hun cavalry, Sima Teng's counterattack did not bring him any practical effect except for allowing Liu Yuan to gain more victories and prestige.

If one victory is considered a fluke, another victory is inevitable. Luck makes everyone look sideways, but it is inevitably enough to make the hero bow down. After a duel with Sima Teng, Liu Yuan's reputation was gone, and he personally commanded the army to attack Huguan (now Huguan, Shanxi), aiming at the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Rebellion is such a thing, someone will take the lead, someone will follow up, especially when the situation is very good, there will never be a shortage of people who "win food and live from the scene", and of course, there will be no shortage of speculators who want to be "ministers of the dragon".

The victory of the anti-Jin war made the anti-Jin forces from all sides gather under Liu Yuan's command like a tide.

Wang Mi of Qing and Xu Prefectures, Jisang and Shile of Wei County, Xianbei Lu Zhuyan of Shangjun Prefecture, and Shan Zheng, the chief of the Di tribe, all raised troops in response and supported Liu Yuan as the co-leader.

As for the meaning of the word "co-master", it is very particular. Common owner, but not real owner. is like King Xiao Ming at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the co-leader of the Red Turban Army in the world, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang are his subordinates, but King Xiao Ming absolutely can't command the two of them. Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang can do whatever they want, and do whatever they want. Nominally, we follow you together, and if something happens, everyone can take care of each other, but in fact, we do our own things, and there are really three long and two short, don't come to me. This is the co-master. But if it's strong enough, that's a different story.

Here, note the man named Shiler, whom we will talk about in detail in a later chapter. In China, there were many founding monarchs with different origins. However, there was only one person who could ascend to the emperor's throne from the status of a slave, and that person's name was Shile.

A great inspirational story: Today, you must be no more humble than a slave, but tomorrow, you will be more successful than Schle?

At this moment, for Liu Yuan, what is missing? Let's go. Many times, action doesn't have to wait until everything is ready, but when everything is ready, action must be taken. Only action can take us from the ordinary to the brilliant. Only then can we gradually find the direction and succeed in moving forward even if we are at a loss.

Liu Yuan's actions were decisive and swift, to the north, he ordered Wang Mi, Shi Le, and others to capture the counties of Hebei, and to the south he once attacked the important city of Xuchang in the Western Jin Dynasty, and his troops even reached the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, Luoyang.

The victory of the conquest was accompanied by the expansion of the territory and the rapid increase in strength, and by 308, Liu Yuan, who was very fat and healthy, could no longer hold back the coveting of the emperor's throne. The clansmen are very eager, the Jin Kingdom is very weak, and they can't wait any longer, Liu Yuan is a little impatient.

In October 308, Liu Yuan officially proclaimed himself emperor in Zuoguocheng, with the country name "Han", and the amnesty territory, the year name "Yongfeng", which was the first year of Yongfeng. With the great general Liu He as the great Sima, the king of Liang, the Shangshu Ling Liu Happy as the great Situ, the king of Chen Liu, the imperial historian Hu Yanyi as the great Sikong, and the prince of Yanzhou County. The clan is close to the family, etc., and the king of the county is sealed, and the different surnames are poor by the merit, and they are all the princes of the county.

Liu Yuan was very happy that he finally became the emperor; The relatives are very happy, the relatives of the emperor and the country, not more than ordinary; The ministers are also very happy that the establishment of the country and the founding of the country are considered to be solid, and the glory and wealth have finally been settled. From then on, he no longer followed the rebel Liu Yuan, but followed the emperor Liu Yuan. The same person, just because of the different identities of different periods, the difference is essential.

In the second year (309), Liu Yuan, who became the emperor, moved the capital to Pingyang (once before, from Zuoguo City to Puban), because someone told him that Pingyang was prosperous, according to Pingyang, three years of Bike Luoyang.

Luoyang is the capital of the Jin Kingdom, and the capture of Luoyang means the destruction of the Jin Kingdom in a sense, and the temptation is not small. Liu Yuan took his subordinates, wrapped them in felt bags, drove herds of cattle and sheep, and moved the capital.

Liu Yuan, who had moved the capital, couldn't wait to prepare for the battle to capture Luoyang. It's just that until Liu Yuan's death, he didn't see the grand occasion of the Hun cavalry stepping on Luoyang, on the contrary, his army was repeatedly defeated under the city of Luoyang and was stagnant. Of course, Liu Yuan didn't know these things at this moment, his mind was full of dreams of dominating the world, and he was actively working hard for this dream.

That's it, we always do our best for a good vision, and no one strives for a failed outcome. Even if there is only one point of hope, that is the source of our strength. Although the celestial phenomena are fake, the hope that can be brought to Liu Yuan is real. Liu Yuan did it all, just for the dream of dominating the world.

If a person is lucky, he can grow two taels of fat by drinking cold water. In April of that year, just when Liu Yuan was thinking about the plan to defeat the Jin, Zhu Dan, the general of the Jin State, came to defect. In China, we often call those scum who have abandoned their ancestors and betrayed the motherland and the nation "traitors", and the bloody facts tell us that such people are the most hateful, more hateful and more harmful than those enemies with open swords and guns. is talking about Zhu Dan, Liu Yuan has not asked questions, Zhu Dan can't wait to state in detail the weak situation of Luoyang's garrison, and persuade Liu Yuan to take the opportunity to send troops to attack, and he is willing to be the vanguard.

Why did the Chinese nation hate those traitors the most in the past 5,000 years? The enemy is not terrible, what is terrible is that those who were originally our comrades turned out to be enemies, and once traitors appear, all the old bottoms and secrets are put on the enemy's table.

Zhu Dan is not typical, a thousand years later, there is a person named Zhang Hongfan, who once engraved on the stone tablet of Yashan: Song Zhang Hongfan destroyed the Song Dynasty here.

There is such a lesson that we should always keep in mind and never forget: there is no China after Yashan.

Humiliation, we gave it ourselves!

Liu Yuan sent troops. In terms of geographical location, Liu Yuan's attack on the Jin State should be called the Southern Expedition, which was the first Southern Expedition, and there will be a second and third expedition in the future.

Ordering Zhu Dan to be the forward governor, the official position is really not small, but after all, it is a job to work the battlefield. It is not easy to be a traitor, not only to betray information, but also to show loyalty by deeds. Liu Jing, the general of the Jin Dynasty, was the governor of the capital and attacked Liyang (northeast of present-day Jun County, Henan Province) and quickly conquered it; Liu Jing then fought with the Jin general Wang Kan in Yanjin (now north of Yanjin County, Henan Province), and defeated him again, but it was a hard-fought battle, the Xiongnu army suffered heavy losses, and the red-eyed Liu Jing ordered more than 30,000 Han men and women captured to be thrown into the Yellow River to drown after defeating Wang Kan.

Closing our eyes and meditating, we can't imagine how tragic the scene was at that time, so we have to write it aside.

This is a big matter, and it is right to kill the enemy on the battlefield. However, it is not right to kill civilian prisoners after the war, the ancients said: killing prisoners is ominous, and killing civilians is even more ominous.

Li Guang, the flying general of the Western Han Dynasty, could not be a marquis for life, and a very important reason was that he once buried more than 800 prisoners alive at one time. The fortune teller told him that only this time, he would bury all his meritorious titles, and that he would bring disaster to his descendants. It's a pity that General Fei is enough to do the martial arts of "looking for white feathers in Pingming, not in the stone ridge", but he is not allowed to be a marquis for life, isn't it a curse? Later, Li Kang and Li Ling, I don't know if they ever complained.

Liu Yuan expressed considerable anger at Liu Jing's actions, "Jing He will see me again!" And how can the way of heaven tolerate it! The one I want to get rid of, Sima Shi'er, what a crime for the fine people! However, after the anger, Liu Yuan's treatment of Liu Jing was very light, and Liu Jing was demoted to the rank of general of Pingyu. More than 30,000 lives were only exchanged for Liu Jing's demotion. Because, after all, no one wants to pull the main general out and cut it down just because he killed a captive, especially if he killed a foreign race.

However, there were very few people who could have such insight in that era. In the era of killing, human life was like ants, all the powerful people looked up at the cake of power, and no one cared about the grass people begging under their feet. Just for this, praise for Liu Yuan.