So what to do? Two Paths: Surrender and Die in Battle! At this time, someone stood up and said to Li Ling, "The general is powerful and powerful to the Huns, but he has fallen into this desperate situation today, and he only blames the heavens for not fulfilling people's wishes." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 But the general doesn't have to despair. The Marquis of Xunye was captured by the Huns, and now he has escaped and returned to China, and he is still reused by the Son of Heaven. Why don't you learn from Zhao Ponu general" The meaning of these words is obvious, and Li Ling is persuaded to pretend to surrender to the Huns and make another long-term plan...

But Li Ling, who was proud of his family, refused, "Stop." I will not die, and I will not be a strong man" means: Don't say it anymore. If I don't die, I will be too unmanly!

What is a real man? It is to be born openly and die as it should be! For Li Ling, what flows in his body is Li Guang's boiling blood, and it is the proud and fearless blood of the Han soldiers. Composing a heroic song for soldiers with a tragic life is the dream of the Li family for generations! Li Ling has made a choice: he will fight until the last moment!

This is the last battle and the last farewell. Li Ling ordered the soldiers to cut down the banner and bury the treasure. Then he looked up to the sky and sighed, and made a tragically final speech: "If we can still have dozens of arrows now, we can escape." But now, we have nothing, and instead of waiting until dawn and being captured by the enemy, it is better for the brothers to disperse. I do this in the hope that any of you will be alive and go back and report to the Son of Heaven" After the speech, Li Ling gave each soldier two liters of rice and a piece of ice. And make an appointment: everyone will run back to the border fortress of the Han army to meet at the barrier, and then return to China together...

In the middle of the night, Li Ling prepared to break through. The Han army beat the drum and found that the drum had been broken. As a result, Li Ling had no choice but to get on the horse with Han Yannian and lead more than ten people to launch a Jedi charge against the Huns!

Li Ling's move was to divert the attention of the enemy army, so that the brothers could escape. Sure enough, Li and Han successfully attracted thousands of Hun cavalry to chase after them. Han Yannian fought to the death!

Li Ling? He surrendered! Surrendered? Is this true? Eager to die in battle, it seems to be just Li Ling's empty words?

Li Ling's defeat was the last straw that crushed him. This straw is the shameful whistleblower Guan Dare! I seem to see that in the dark, Li Ling is led into the distance by an invisible hand of fate, and he can never turn back!

The place where Li Ling was defeated was only more than 100 miles away from Hanse, and more than 400 of his brothers successfully escaped. And the news of Han Yannian's death in battle and Li Ling's surrender was brought back to Biansai by them, and General Biansai sent the battle report back to Chang'an...

At this time, Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, was waiting quietly in the capital. His face was heavy and his expression condensed. He was not waiting for Li Ling to create a battlefield miracle, but he had prepared for the worst and waited for the news of Li Ling's death. Dying in battle seems to be Li Ling's best explanation to himself, his family, and his country. Liu Che thought so.

Accompanying Liu Che and other Hou Junbao were Li Ling's old mother and Li Ling's young wife. It was Liu Che who summoned them and made the two women observe the two women. The face-to-face person told Liu Che that "Li Ling's mother and wife are very emotionally stable, and there is no mourning of the dead" There is no mourning, which shows that they are still quite optimistic in their hearts. Is that really the case? Liu Che, who was in a heavy mood, seemed to see a trace of flame shaking in the depths of the darkness. He longs for the emotions of Li Ling's mother and wife, which can bring good luck to Li Ling...

Just when Liu Che was nervous, the military report came! Only then did Liu Che learn: Li Ling surrendered? Now, that's a big problem!

Surrender is a matter of one person; Upwards, it's an army's business; Further up, it is a matter of the country's face. Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, struggled all his life, practiced the iron-fisted fist of the Han Dynasty, and played the heroic style of the Han Dynasty! However, after decades of hard work, they were all smeared by Li Ling, who surrendered!

Liu Che was surprisingly angry. He immediately found Chen Bule, who was sent back by Li Ling to report the situation. Before, Chen Bule reported good news for running errands, and Liu Che rewarded him with a Lang official. Now in the face of Liu Che's scolding, Chen Bule was speechless and had no choice but to commit suicide...

Immediately afterwards, Liu Che convened a meeting of his ministers to discuss the surrender of Li Ling to the Xiongnu. In fact, there is no need to discuss it at all, above the temple, everyone scolded Li Ling one by one. However, one of the ministers was like a spectator, calmly watching the performance of his colleagues. And his performance was also spotted by Liu Che, who was watching the performance!

What is fate? Some people say: the fate of the strong is in their own hands. Because he can change the trajectory of an individual's life by virtue of his own strength. And the fate of the so-called weak is never in their own hands. Like duckweed in the wind, life and death are up to the sky, wealth is up to fate...

At this time, no one would have thought that this glance that Liu Che had unintentionally glanced at would change a person's fate from then on. The father of Chinese historiography was born: Sima Qian!

After the legend of Sima was the Chongli clan of Si Tiandi in ancient times, he changed his surname to Sima when he was King Xuan of Zhou, and he has always been a historian. On the occasion of Hui and Xiang, Sima went to Zhou Shijin. After the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the world fell apart, and the Sima clan was also scattered everywhere. King Qin Huiwen sometimes had the mistake of destroying Shu; Sima Jin, the grandson of Sima Cuo, once fought the Battle of Changping with Bai Qi, and was later killed by King Zhaoxiang of Qin together with Bai Qi; Sima Chang, the grandson of Sima Jin, served as the chief iron official in the era of Qin Shi Huang, and then Sima Chang gave birth to Sima Wuze, and Sima Wuze gave birth to Sima Xi, which can be regarded as a short stage of career transformation. When Sima Xi's son and Sima Qian's father, Sima Tan, this generation returned to Taishi Ling and restored the ancestral business...

Throughout the ages, the so-called masters have always been precocious animals. At the age of ten, Sima Qian began to recite ancient texts; At the age of twenty, he traveled the world. Then he settled in Chang'an and traveled without trouble until he was thirty-six years old...

In 110 BC, Sima Qian was about 36 years old (another said: Sima Qian was 26 years old this year) Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. According to the rules, Sima Tan, who is a historian, should accompany him. But due to illness, he missed the Zen ceremony. Sima Qian temporarily accompanied his father. Sima Qian, who participated in the Zen ceremony, returned to Luoyang, and his depressed old father estimated that he would not live long, so he confessed two things to Sima Qian with tears: 1. Continue to be a historian in the family's ancestral business; 2Continue my father's legacy and write a history book that crosses the ancient and modern times...

Sima Tan finished his last words and left. Two years later, Sima Qian, as his father wished, became the Taishi Ling and began to write history books. For nearly ten years, Sima Qiandu lived a dull and obscure life. Until the moment of justifying Li Ling's defeat!

Liu Che asked Sima Qian, "What do you think of Li Ling's defeat and surrender" Sima Qian eloquently summed up the following three points: 1. Li Ling said goodbye to his parents and wife, fought hard to kill the enemy thousands of miles away to serve the country, and had the style of a national soldier. Unfortunately, the defeat of those who live in the rear, and whose wives and children are hot on the kang, have to say something cool. It's really not a low back pain when standing and talking; 2 With 5,000 infantry, Li Ling went deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, fought tens of thousands of cavalry, and fought until the last moment, and was desperate. With bare hands, you have to make the last fight with the Huns, although you are defeated, you can learn from the sun and the moon; 3 Based on Li Ling's personality, I don't think he really descended. As long as he doesn't die, he will definitely find an opportunity to continue to serve my big man in the future.

Sima Qian's words not only offended a bunch of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, but even the king of Yama. The so-called cow ghosts, snake gods, are the ministers of the Han Dynasty who speak cold words and don't know toothache; The so-called King of Yama is Comrade Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. Sima Qian scolded his colleagues in the Manchu Dynasty, we can see it. But why did he and Liu Che also carry it?

The problem lies in the eight words that Sima Qian commented on Li Ling: although defeated, it is still glorious, and the sun and the moon can be learned. Except for Liu Che, our basic understanding is probably that although Li Ling was defeated, he was glorious, there is nothing to be ashamed of, and he can stand the test of the sun!

This sentence is to defend Li Ling, that's all. But Liu Che thinks that the problem is not so simple. Liu Che felt: Sima Qianming is speaking for Li Ling, but in fact, he is scolding a person through Li Ling: Li Guangli!

Do you remember: Li Guangli went on several expeditions, but he returned with a crushing victory with absolute troops. It seems glorious, but in fact it is humiliating. It can be described in one sentence: although the victory is still defeated, the gods and ghosts cry. Now Sima Qian suddenly came to a "although defeated, it is still glorious, the sun and the moon can be learned", isn't that exaggerating Li Ling and belittling Li Guangli?

Don't forget: Who is Li Guangli? Liu Che! Scolding Li Guangli is tantamount to scolding Liu Che. Even the emperor dares to scold, you Sima Qian is simply looking for death!

I think that the above inference is simply Liu Che's personal conjecture. Maybe Sima Qian is just fighting for Li Ling. However, Liu Che can think of Pianpian, picking out big bones from the egg, and he can only say that he has a weak heart... Liu Che, who was weak-hearted, directly convicted Sima Qian of being falsely accused of death and was ready to do him!

In the Han Dynasty, not all capital crimes had to be killed. If you want to be immortal, there are two ways to choose: 1. Pay money to ransom people; 2. Death by rot and substitution. How much does it cost? 600,000 money; What is Corrupt Punishment? In layman's terms, it is castration of male roots. If you use a mathematical formula to convert simply, the male root of the Han Dynasty at that time = 600,000 money.

On the issue of paying money and corrupt punishment, Sima Qian's thinking is very clear: as long as he can, even if he borrows from a loan shark, he must borrow money to redeem his life! Money borrowed can be repaid; If the root is gone, how can it be continued? It's a pity that soon, Sima Qian discovered a terrible problem: money is really not ordinary and difficult to borrow...

I heard that the saddest thing in life is that people die and the money is not spent; I also heard that the saddest thing in life is that people don't die, but the money is gone. For Sima Qian, his sorrow is: he is not dead yet, and others will not lend him money!

Why not borrow? The reason is simple: he is poor. Han Dynasty people such as Li Guang, Zhang Qian, Gongsun Ao, Yang Fu and others were condemned to death because of their defeat in battle. But they are all rich people, pay money to redeem their lives, and in less than a few years, they are good men again, and they make a comeback... The reason why these people are rich is because their professions are oily and water-worthy. Sima Qian was the Taishi Ling, in charge of history, astronomy, and calendar. With such a profession, it's good to be able to support the whole family, but you still want to have extra money? With such a job with no oil and water and no future, who would dare to lend him hundreds of thousands of dollars? Even if you have money to borrow, you probably won't have to wait for someone to pay it back...

Sima Qian, who couldn't borrow money, still had two ways to go: one was to cut his roots in pain, and the other was to die.

Death seems like the best option? Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated. Since Confucius and Mencius, this is the most manly sentence that a scholar has uttered when facing a desperate situation in life. Even when Su Wu faced the interrogation of Wei Lu, he set an example and attempted to commit suicide and martyrdom. For a man with backbone, enduring the punishment means living, and it also means that his reputation will be in vain, and he will become a laughing stock for a lifetime! All of this can be described in one sentence: life is better than death!

"Some are dead, and he is still alive; Some people are alive, he is already dead" This is the interpretation of the values of life and death by the famous modern poet Zang Kejia, "People are inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hongmao", which is the most classic interpretation of death made by Sima Qian, the father of historiography two thousand years ago!

At that moment, to live or to die? A problem indeed! Sima Qian, who was extremely sad and indignant, stood on the edge of the cliff of life, raised his noble head and shouted, "I want to live." To live is not to perpetuate the decaying flesh, but to live for an incomparably noble ideal. This ideal is: when studying heaven and man, through the changes of the past and the present, it will become the words of a family"

Lu Xun once said, "A true warrior dares to face a bleak life", and Sima Qian composed a tragic song with his bleak life. Lu Xun called this song "the swan song of the historian, the rhyme of the separation", and the name of this song is "Historical Records"! Ranked first in the twenty-four official histories!

History written by the victors is often mixed with grossly unjust lies. If there were no "Historical Records", the three generations of the Li family we know today would probably be like this: Li Guang disobeyed military orders and committed suicide in fear of crime; Li dared to be careless and died of injuries in the line of duty; As for Li Ling, he is undoubtedly the most typical traitor. On the contrary, if there is no disaster of Li Ling, it may not be possible to produce the great "Historical Records", and the persecution of people by **** obscenity makes peerless historians see the truth of history and the value of life more clearly! He wrote about Li Guang's military exploits and wanton killing, and also wrote about the glory and shamelessness of the Western Han Dynasty!

Sima Qian defended Li Ling with a fearless body, and even more defended his own dignity and supreme pride. This kind of defense reverberates in the heart, and heaven and earth are moved. Two thousand years later, it seems to be still resounding throughout the world, shaking your and my hearts!

Sima Qian's inner struggles were all written by him in the "Book of Reporting to Ren'an". In the famous article that made the ghosts and gods cry, Sima Qian revealed the secrets of his heart. It's that he didn't abide by the rules of the political game, so that he ended up with a bleak life... Please note: Sima Qian's failure to comply is not because he is not politically ignorant. I strongly believe that he studies history, world, and humanities, and understands the codes of politics better than anyone else. Because he understands, he has had a breath of qi in his heart for many years. It is this spirit that has allowed the Chinese nation to stand tall in the world for thousands of years. This breath is called righteousness!

Sima Qian said in the "Book of Reporting to Ren'an": He and Li Ling are just general friends, and the two are usually busy with their own work, and they have never drunk or chatted together. The reason why he defended Li Ling was purely to say a fair word. And because of justice, I endured humiliation and burden, and tasted the warmth and coldness of the world, is this respectable or sad?

I think: At that moment, the lonely Sima Qian must have realized a truth: Liu Che did not understand him for the time being, and he will definitely be able to read him one day in the future; Even if Liu Che can't read him, after a thousand years, there will definitely be people who will be proud of him!