The world is unified
Revenge seems to be the innate attack power of the animal kingdom, and it is an irrepressible impulse in the bones of human nature. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 What is even more terrifying is that this complex emotional impulse, which transcends ethnicity, gender, and national borders, is an energy shared by all human beings.
In ancient Greek myths and legends, stories of revenge, like the devil, permeated the world of the gods. Nemesis is everywhere, regardless of whether the world is dark or light. From these myths, we see the types of revenge: rational and irrational.
Whether in the West or in the East, rational revenge seems to be full of a romantic feeling. The routine of this kind of story is always that good people defeat bad people, good defeats evil, and the world returns to peace and calm. Irrational revenge is full of violence and blood. They don't fight for justice, they only slash and kill for big or small interests or just to vent their anger. is like the martial arts rivers and lakes, black eats black, white fights white, black fights melee, the sky is dark, and there is no distinction between right and wrong. This is a tragedy, an eternal tragedy, but it does not deserve the slightest mercy. However, there is an irrational revenge that has left an eternal pathos in the history of Western literature...
Further exploration will reveal that revenge, in the history of human development, even before the emergence of the state, or before the country has reached the stage of civilization and rationality, killing people to pay for their lives and repaying their blood debts and blood seems to be justified and unreasonable. Even this kind of violence will not be spat on, but will be passed down from generation to generation and become a classic.
The above stories, whether it is a fight between people and fate, or a fight between people, are all individual revenge. This method of individual revenge has a long history and long-lasting influence. But as time goes on, individual revenge evolves into group revenge, which is the most horrific act of destruction!
Let's cite the rebellion of Gongsun Shu and analyze the strange social psychology of Wu Han: In the confrontation between Gongsun Shu and Liu Xiu, both sides invested in their old capital. Gongsun Shu poured the strength of the whole country, and Liu Xiu basically put the outstanding generals and troops of the whole country into the western battlefield...
The rules of the game of war have an unwritten convention in ancient times, that is, those who surrender do not kill, and those who kill and surrender are ominous. Excluding a few people like Bai Qi and Xiang Yu who do not abide by the rules of the game, most people still abide by the rules. For example, when Wang Yi led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Kunyang City, Wang Feng couldn't help but say that he wanted to surrender, and he didn't agree to die. Why? Because Wang Yi knows: If Wang Feng descends, according to the rules of the game, he will not be able to slaughter the city.
Let's calculate, how many times did Liu Xiu persuade Gongsun Shu to surrender after Liu Xiu and Gongsun Shu handed over the army? Even when Gongsun Shu only had the lonely city of Chengdu left, Liu Xiu said kindly, "As long as you are willing to surrender, forget about assassinating Lai She and Cen Peng", but Gongsun Shu just didn't surrender, and his bones were harder than stones!
Gongsun Shu refused to surrender before his death, and Yan Cen could not represent Gongsun Shu. Therefore, Wu Han had to act according to the rules of the game and slaughter the city to vent his anger. We can think about it for Wu Han: If you don't slaughter, Gongsun Shu will be cheaper, then how to calculate the death of Lai She and Cen Peng? And Wu Han himself hit the city of Chengdu twice and almost died, how to repay this risk?
In that year, Gongsun Shu recruited Li Ye as a doctor, but Li Ye said that he couldn't afford it. Gongsun Shu ordered Yin Rong to bring poisoned wine and then go to the conscription. In the end, Li Ye committed suicide by taking poison on the spot. The same is true of Chen Xuan, who should not be called by Gongsun Shu and is willing to accept poisoned wine. Chen Ying, the son of Chen Xuan, wept blood and kowtowed, and was willing to pay tens of millions of money to redeem his father's death, so that he would be spared. To Wang Hao and Wang Jia. Gongsun Shu first detained his family members and forced the two to come out. Wang Hao was unwilling, so he drew his sword and killed himself. Gongsun Shu was angry and punished his family. When Wang Jia heard the news, he also committed suicide with a sword. There is also Fei Yiqi who is a leprosy and pretends to be crazy. Ren Yong and Feng Xin pretended to be blind and resigned.
This time Shu was pacified, and Liu Xiute issued an edict: posthumously rewarded Chang Shaowei Taichang and Zhang Long, who had persuaded Gongsun Shu to surrender at the beginning, and died of worry because Gongsun Shu did not listen. Table Li Ye's Lu. Chen Xuan has passed away, and he sacrificed in the prison and returned tens of millions of family money to the Qian family. Redress for Wang Hao and Wang Jia. Fei Yi, Ren Yong, and Feng Xin were specially called. Ren and Feng both died of illness, and Fei Yi was appointed as the Taishou of Hepu. There are also Gongsun Shu's generals Cheng Wu and Li Yu, all of whom are talented and use them.
Wen Qi, who was appointed by Wang Mang as the Taishou of Yizhou, trained farmers and soldiers in the area under his jurisdiction and reduced the number of people. When Gongsun Shu was proclaimed emperor, Wen Qi stubbornly refused to take risks, and Gongsun Shu detained his family and promised to "surrender and seal the marquis", but Wen Qi never surrendered. After the pacification of Shu this time, Liu Xiu was named General Zhenyuan and Marquis of Chengyi.
In the end, the West is salty, and you can't return to your heart.
Gongsun Shu left, and a stupid and respectable opponent left Liu Xiu like this. Now, except for Lu Fang, who is dependent on the Xiongnu forces and occasionally makes trouble in the north, the general trend of the world is like a big drama on the stage.
Many years ago, when Liu Xiu traveled around the country to sell grain, he thought about what providence was, and was determined to solve this heavy historical topic. Years later, Liu Xiu felt as if he had solved this historical mystery. In his opinion, the so-called providence is the will of the people! A hero who has made great achievements, but conforms to the will of the people, and slashes the chaos of the world.
Many years ago, Liu Xiu, who was willing to farm, thought about selling grain, thought about studying, and maybe thought about something else, but he never thought about rebellion. However, the rebellion entangled him like a monster, and this entanglement was 14 years! For 14 years, he wielded a sharp sword, swept the world, and wiped out all demons. However, when he looked back, there was no excitement or relief in his heart. On the contrary, there was an inexplicable emptiness and exhaustion, and like a snake that was constantly chopping, it tightly entangled him. This kind of weariness of war may be in his bones. If it weren't for the chaos in the world, he would still be a conservative peasant. The demons shook and forced him to fight in the east and west, and when only Kui Huan, Gongsun Shu, and Lu Fang were left, he was already tired of it and didn't want to fight.
But Kui Huan and Gongsun Shu repeatedly refused to listen to the edict and forced him to use his sword. Now, they are like a cloud in the sky, drifting away with the wind. It seems that Kui Huan and Gongsun Shu came to this world, just waiting for that gust of wind to turn them into nothing!
In addition to the war, we can also list a lot of things that Liu Xiu doesn't like: beautiful women, music, food, treasures... Liu Xiu is a very restrained and extremely wise person. Such people are quite scary. Whoever wants to be his enemy is tantamount to death! We might as well imagine: If the world is not chaotic, Liu Xiu may be able to mix 10,000 yuan households, be sent to the county to make a local report, spread the glorious concept of hard work and prosperity, and then wear a big red flower to be embraced and returned to his hometown. But history is so ridiculous, it provided Liu Xiu with a huge stage and pushed him to the position of a giant!
Sometimes, the stage of history is like the arena of the Olympics – anything is possible! Liu Xiu unexpectedly embarked on the road of rebellion, and finally reached the Ninth Five-Year Supreme. Just like Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, he was pushed all the way by the wind and waves of history. Miracles, as if they only belong to the Liu family...
On December 1, Ma Cheng was appointed as the Grand Sikong.
This year, Wang Chang, Geng Kuang, and Kou Sui passed away successively. When Geng was seriously ill, Liu Xiu visited the patient several times, and named Geng Guang's fourth son Geng Guang and fifth son Geng Ju as Zhonglang generals. There are six Geng Yi brothers, all of whom are blue, serving medicine in the province, and they are proud of the world. After Geng Guo died, the eldest son Geng Yi and the second son Geng Shu had been made marquis, and the third son Geng Guo should inherit his father. Geng Guo is sparse and willing to give up the marquis to the sixth brother Geng Ba.
In this year, Zhang You, a barbarian from Jiuzhen County, led the people to belong to the clan and was named the Emperor of the Han Dynasty by Liu Xiu.
This year, the Wolf Qiang and the tribes invaded Wudu County, and were defeated by Ma Yuan, and more than 10,000 people surrendered. So Longyou was quiet. Ma Yuan opened the letter of grace, lenient to the next, appointed officials to their posts, but the general general, and the guests were full of people.
Lu Fang was supported by the Huns and Wuhuan, and he was on the border for many years. This year, Liu Xiu ordered Du Mao to guard the north, govern the Flying Fox Road, build pavilion barriers, and repair beacons. Dozens of battles with the Huns and Wuhuan were fought for hundreds of years, and they could not be defeated. Liu Xiu also issued an edict that "if the border officials are not strong enough, they will defend the battle, pursue the enemy, and do not abide by the law of stay"
This year, Liu Xiu summoned Liangzhou Mu Dou Rong and the five counties of Hexi Taishou into the court. They did what they were told. After coming to Luoyang, the first thing he did was to hand over his seals. Liu Xiu did not allow it, and immediately summoned him, rewarded him with grace, and moved the Jingshi. Soon, Liu Xiu issued an edict to entitle Dou Rong as Jizhou Mu, Wuwei Taishou Liang Tong as Taizhong Doctor, Wuwei County Guzang County Magistrate Kong Fen as Wudu County Cheng, Suiyang County Ling Ren Yan as Wuwei Taishou.
On January 1, the 13th year of Jianwu (37), Da Situ Houba died.
In February, Liu Xiu sent Ma Wu to garrison the Hutuo River to guard against the Xiongnu.
Lu Fang ordered his troops to stay in Jiuyuan County with Yu, and he personally went to attack Yunzhong County, but he couldn't attack it for a long time. At this time, Sui Yu communicated with the Han army and wanted to coerce Lu Fang to surrender. After Lu Fang learned the news, he and more than ten horsemen died in the Xiongnu. The rest of the people will all return to Yu, and Yu will descend to Han. was named by Liu Xiu as the Five Plains Taishou, engraved Hu Hou... At this point, the world is finally unified!
Liu Xiu is similar to Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and there are also dissimilarities. The similarities are all eloquent people; is not similar, Liu Bang loves to brag. Liu Xiu rarely plays false, and is basically a pragmatist.
Liu Xiu, a pragmatist, is now faced with a heavy problem: the world has been calmed, how to settle the brothers around him who share weal and pain?
Liu Xiu is not the first to encounter this problem, and it will not be the last. His eighth ancestor, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty and the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, once created an unprecedented example: under the sky of the Liu family, all kings with different surnames must die! So Han Xin, Peng Yue, Yingbu and others fell one after another! Liu Bang's mode of killing heroes, Han Xin had summarized it for him long before he died, and the scientific name was called: The cunning rabbit died, and the lackey cooked; The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden; The enemy country is broken, and the ministers are killed.
We know that love has a strong exclusivity and a strong possessiveness. But in fact, the most exclusive and possessive thing in the world is not love, but power! Power is like a magic wand, as long as you hold it, you can go crazy in an instant. Any politician, when the two of them are like glue and knees, and when they intersect like milk, any words about the alliance and the sea and the sea can pop out. But if they turn their faces against each other, it will become faster than the weather in June, and more vicious than a cobra!
Comparison between the two: Liu Xiu has generals like Han Xin such as Geng Yi, and there are also generals like Xiao He, such as Kou Sui. But according to his observations, he hadn't found anyone as shameless as Han Xin who temporarily reached out to the official. Therefore, it is obviously a mistake of dogmatism to let him copy the model of the eighth ancestor Liu Bang to kill heroes.
In fact, Liu Xiu has invented a development model that suits him as well as others. Hundreds of years later, this model was directly borrowed by a person named Zhao Kuangyin, and was signed by later generations with a new term, which is called "a glass of wine releases military power"
Yes! Liu Xiu didn't want to use the knife, and he didn't want to leave any sequelae on his power. His trick is to let many brothers know that they are bored, say goodbye to power, and go home to enjoy their old age in peace!
Zhu Hu played "the ancients were entitled, and no kings were added", so on the 27th, Liu Xiu issued an edict: some of the remaining princes surnamed Liu in the Western Han Dynasty were demoted to marquis: Liu Xing, king of Changsha, was the marquis of Linxiang, Liu De, the king of Zhending, was the marquis of Zhending, Liu Shao, the king of Hejian, was the marquis of Lecheng, and Liu Mao, the king of Zhongshan, was the marquis of a single father. On the 28th, he also reduced his uncle Liu Liang, King of Zhao, as the Duke of Zhao, and the two sons of his eldest brother Liu Xuan: Liu Zhang, King of Taiyuan, as Duke of Qi, and Liu Xing, King of Lu, as Duke of Lu. At that time, it was estimated that there were 137 people in the Western Han Dynasty surnamed Liu who were made marquis by Liu Xiu. As for the different surnames of Hou in the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu did not recognize them, except for one person: Zhang Chun, the fifth grandson of Zhang Anshi, Marquis of Fuping, and the son of Zhang Fang. Liu Xiufeng Zhang Chun was the Marquis of Wushi, and Shiyi was half of the Marquis of Fuping.
On March 11, Liu Xiu issued an edict: Kong An, a descendant of Yin Shang, was the Duke of Song, and Ji Zhou, a descendant of Ji Zhou, was the Duke of Wei.
The province was merged into the 13 countries of the Western Han Dynasty: Guangping was merged into Julu, Zhending was merged into Changshan, Hejian was merged into Xindu, Chengyang was merged into Langya, Surabaya was merged into Guangling, Zichuan was merged into Gaomi, Jiaodong was merged into Beihai, Lu'an was merged into Lujiang, and Guangyang was merged into Shanggu.
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