Chapter 385: Northeast Xiaoqiang Goguryeo (1)
According to the source record of this nation in the "Northern History", as early as the period of Emperor Yao in Chinese myths and legends, the Emperor of Heaven descended a great god named Huan Xiong, who came down to the world.
This Huan Xiong is the concubine of the Emperor of Heaven, and it is estimated that he is not happy in the Heavenly Court, so he thought of walking in the world in a chic manner, and this walk will reach the Korean Peninsula.
At that time, there was a bear and a tiger living together in a cave, and they prayed to the gods in front of a big tree all day long, wanting to become human and become husband and wife.
As a result, the great god of Huanxiong was moved by it, and left some sacred objects such as garlic heads, telling this bear and a tiger that after eating it, he would spend a hundred days in the dark, and if he could not see the light of day, he could become a human.
The bear and the tiger divided and ate these fetishes, and the bear endured the darkness for a hundred days, and finally became a woman, but the tiger ran out of the lake halfway to see the light, and as a result, he became an adult, and he could not be married to the bear.
The bitter bear girl ran to pray under a big tree where she had made a wish every day, hoping that her tiger brother could become a man and fulfill her original wish.
But the way of heaven is ruthless, and the great god of Huanxiong was a little unbearable after seeing it, so he turned into the shape of a tiger, turned into a human in front of the bear girl, and intersected with it.
Because of his divine ancestry, he quickly became the leader of the local tribe, and fifty years after Emperor Yao ascended the throne, he established a state in Pyongyang, known as Danjun Joseon, and the demigod Tanjun survived for almost 2,000 years.
Later, the dynasty of the Central Plains changed, and when the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang, the Shang Dynasty was noble. The sage of Bigan's name, Tsuiko, fled to Korea. Tan Jun sees this person as very talented. So he gave up the throne to the son. He went to Asda Mountain in the area of Kaesong in central Korea today and became a mountain god.
Since then, the dynasty has entered the era of letter history from the age of mythology, and the dynasty was named a countdom by the Zhou dynasty, one of the eight hundred princes of the Zhou dynasty, and in the entire eight hundred years of the Zhou dynasty, it maintained the nominal respect and tribute to the central court of the Zhou dynasty, and its power gradually developed from Liaodong to the Korean Peninsula and reached the Han River basin.
In the Warring States period, due to the rise of Yan State, which was one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. Unable to resist, the Korean dynasty began to move eastward continuously.
On the occasion of the intersection of Qin and Han, Lu Juan was named the prince of Yandi by Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, Lu Juan rebelled, and fled to the Xiongnu after defeat, and his general Wei Man, with more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated general, crossed the Yalu River in the east, and fled to the territory of Yuzi Korea.
Probably because of the overall level of development of the Korean dynasty at that time. Both the economy and the military are still in the stage of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and they are far from being compared with the army of the Central Plains after hundreds of years of war.
The more than 1,000 people brought by Wei Man were like alien visitors in front of the North Koreans. Soon captured the capital city of Wangxian and destroyed the Emperor Joseon.
The last king of the Joseon Dynasty, Xuan Zhun, fled south to the south of the Han River, he could not defeat the army of the Central Plains, but it was more than enough to bully the local primitive tribes, and finally he established the Mahan in the local area, while the other part of the clan nobles fled north to the more barbaric Buyeo country, intermarried with the locals, and settled.
As for Wei Man, who occupied the Nestle, he himself became king in the homeland of Wai Son Joseon, a country known as Wei Joseon, which is basically the area between the Yalu River and the Han River in present-day North Korea.
Because the Han Dynasty was established at that time, there was a big trouble for the Xiongnu in the north, and they were unable to clean up Wei's Korea, so Liaodong Taishou agreed that Wei Man would be a foreign minister and guard the border for the Han Dynasty, so as not to make the barbarians invade the territory.
When Wei Man's grandson Wei Youqu arrived, due to the operation of three generations, he felt that he had some family funds and capital, and began to gradually disregard the Han Dynasty, not only cutting off the tribute to the Han Dynasty, but also accepting fugitives from the Central Plains. Unfortunately, he met a generation of eloquent Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Needless to say, the deeds of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty are basically summarized in one sentence: the places I see and hear must be conquered; Whoever does not listen to me will destroy the country.
In the second year of Yuanfeng (109 BC), ten years after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to Wei's Korea to negotiate, demanding that Korea resume tribute to the Han Dynasty and not accept fugitives from the Central Plains.
As a result, he did not let Wei Youqu succumb, and because he was afraid of the punishment of ineffective work after returning to China, he actually assassinated a Korean prince who saw him off on the Yalu River, and lied to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that he had killed a Korean general.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very happy to hear the news and made him the lieutenant of Liaodong County. Wei Youqu couldn't swallow this breath, and sent troops to attack Liaodong County and killed Shehe, which gave Emperor Wu of Han the best reason to go to war.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once again sacrificed the killer weapon of the army of labor prisoners, dispatched 50,000 troops, and attacked Wei's Korea from both land and water, although Wei's Korea after decades of development, it can be regarded as a small power in the Northeast, but it can compare to the regular army of the Central Plains, which lasted for several years and was finally wiped out by the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up four counties of Lelang, Xuansu, Zhenfan and Lintun in the hometown of Wei's Joseon, which was also the first time that the Central Plains Dynasty set up formal county institutions in Korea, among which the county seat of Xuanwu County was called Goguryi County, which was also the first time that Goguryeo was officially seen in the annals.
Due to the vast and sparsely populated area of the four counties of Korea, a large number of small tribes existed in the high mountains or vast grasslands, living a life of fishing, hunting or nomadism, and it was difficult to manage them like ordinary agrarian Han areas.
In addition, Korea was too far away from the central area of the Han Dynasty, so it could only adopt a similar way of ruling the Lingnan region as the Sui Dynasty, that is, the feudal system, the officials and people of the Han Dynasty only lived in the cities of the counties, and the vast area outside the city was indirectly managed by granting official positions to the local tribal leaders, so the Han Dynasty's dominance over the four counties of Korea was very weak.
There is also a country called Buyeo in the north of Wei's Korea, which was established at the end of China's Warring States Period, bordering Xianbei in the west and Korea in the south.
After the Buyeo Kingdom passed to the third monarch, because he had no son, the throne was given to his younger brother Xie Yu Lou, and as a result, there was a person named Gao Doumo, who was a descendant of the former Korean royal family who had taken refuge in the Buyeo State for many years.
As for Xie Yulou, who was defeated, he fled all the way east, until he fled to Ka Yewon, on the east coast of present-day Korea, and established the Eastern Buyeo Kingdom.
In the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, the Golden Frog King of the Eastern Buyeo Kingdom had a concubine named Zhu Meng, because he was not welcomed in the country, so he ran south to the area of Gaoguryi County, Xuanfu County, which belonged to the Buben Buyeo, and married the daughter of the last king of the Buben Buyeo, successfully annexed the country of the old father-in-law, and slowly developed here
Jumong used various means, including betting on the territory of the arrow, and annexed a large number of small tribes around the area that were still in the primitive tribal stage, and gradually developed and grew, and finally officially established the Goguryeo Kingdom in the hometown of the original pawn Buyeo, which was still nominally under the jurisdiction of Xuansu County.
Zhu Meng had a wife and son Lili when he was in Dongfu Yu Kingdom earlier, and he did not take his wife and children with him when he ran abroad, and later married the daughter of the former husband Yu Guojun in Goguryeo, and gave birth to two sons, Boiling Stream and Wen Zuo.
When Jumong later developed and became the king of a country, his wife and children who were originally in Dongbuyu were also picked up by him, and Zhili was made the crown prince, and the other two sons Zhilu Dao had no place for himself in Goguryeo, so he took his subordinates all the way south to the Han River.
Jumong's youngest son, Wen Joo, later founded Baekje and annexed the remnants of the Korean dynasty two hundred years ago, so in terms of blood, Baekje and Goguryeo can be said to have the same roots. (To be continued......)