In January of the first year of the Common Era, important cadres in the camps of Liu and Kui died, and the whole army mourned.

On Liu Xiu's side, the Marquis of Yingyang and the general of the conquest sacrificed to the military camp where he died of illness.

We are no strangers to the outstanding performance of the general in the past in the eventful years. Since Liu Xiu attacked Kui Huan head-on, he has defeated Lao Kui's generals many times and made great contributions.

Before Liu Xiu's expedition to the west last year, he was supposed to play as a striker with Lai She, but they all set off, and had to return to their station halfway due to illness. After Lao Kui evacuated Luoyang, Liu Xiu returned to the east, passed by Huangcheng, and specially went to his reward soldiers.

Liu Xiu's trust and favor for the sacrificial general cannot be concealed.

This time, he personally set up a banquet, drank wine with the sacrificial generals and soldiers, enjoyed the martial arts of the Yellow Gate, and only stopped late at night.

At this time, the sacrificial general was sick, and Liu Xiu specially gave him a thick and soft bed, a mattress, and a quilt for his own royal use, and also asked him to move his living and office buildings to a place with better conditions, so as to facilitate his illness and care.

But General Sai insisted on being with his soldiers in Wangcheng.

He is our acquaintance, a perfect man of the generation. In this era of moral decay and frequent wars, he demonstrated the dazzling light of the Chinese humanities tradition with his noble character, outstanding literary brilliance, outstanding combat achievements, dedication to duty, and frank and sincere behavior!

For his immortal death, we should remember it with extreme reverence.

He grew up in a wealthy family, but lived a frugal life, whether it was his own private property or the rewards of his superiors, but he had money to distribute immediately to the soldiers and staff around him, and when he died, his family had no money and no strange clothes;

He held a military position, often ordered like a mountain, took the lead, crisscrossed the field, and always maintained a tireless habit of learning, read poetry and books, selected talents, watched his Confucianism, drank and entertained, and sang a pot of songs.

He acted impartially, strictly abided by the law, and managed discipline in the army in his early years, even if the staff around Liu Xiu violated the law, he did not forgive, and later he led the troops to take charge of the people, cherished the people for the government, and did his best to govern the army in the autumn, defend the city and resist the enemy, and the superior (Wu Han) retired, he still stuck to his post, although he died, all the dedicated and disciplined cadres can be cited as bosom friends;

He dedicated himself to public service, devoted himself to his work, never thought about other things, including the plans of his heirs, and told his family to be buried in a thin ox cart when he died, and not to publicize it, ask about private matters, and never speak again.

In his time and in later generations, he won the respect of almost everyone.

As soon as he died of illness, Liu Xiu arranged for a state funeral.

The hearse passed through the road, and the riders on the road were all in tears!

His coffin arrived in Luoyang, and Liu Xiu asked the hundred officials to escort the funeral.

Where the mourning music begins, the simple car is plain clothes. When the cadres and the masses saw it, they wept all over the city!

Liu Xiu personally dressed filial piety for him, went to the city gate to greet the coffin, attended the funeral, went to his cemetery to mourn, and went to his home to comfort his relatives.

From welcoming and seeing the coffin of the general to attending the above activities, Liu Xiu was always sad and full of tears.

Then, Dr. Fan Sheng wrote a letter proposing that the cadres and masses across the country learn from the sacrifice, and Liu Xiu agreed very much and adopted it.

Since then, every time the imperial court has a meeting, Liu Xiu sighed: "How can I get a minister who worries about the country and serves the public like a general in the future?!"

Liu Xiu said this, which is not only a remembrance of the general, but also an encouragement to the ministers.

However, if he always said this, the other ministers would inevitably have thoughts in their hearts.

Let's study hard to sacrifice the general, we are also very good!

Of course, everyone muttered in their hearts, and no one dared to say it.

Wei Wei Cho period is different, he has a straightforward personality, and he always wants to say what is in his heart.

Once, Choshi said to Liu Xiu: "Your Majesty is a benevolent and righteous king, and he often misses the sacrifice of the general, and everyone understands. But His Majesty often said this in public, and the ministers were ashamed that they were not as good as the generals, and they were very afraid. ”

Liu Xiu felt that his words were reasonable, so he no longer talked about the sacrifice of the general in public.

Besides, Kui Huan is here, there is no way, he himself is dead.

Lao Kui was already ill, and with depression, his condition became more and more serious. Due to the constant fighting, the production was wasted, and there was a shortage of food, and the Jicheng area was also famine. Lao Kui himself was not only hungry all the time, but sometimes he had to go out of the city to find food himself.

One day, he went out of the city to look for food, and after half a day's effort, he found a little soybeans and millet, and he boiled them into dry rice.

Yes! Alas!

The world is so exciting, why is there no place for my old kui?

Power is so tempting, why can't I be a brother?

Lao Kui thought that he was the king of Shuoning, and he originally planned to compete for the position of the first brother, but now he is down like this, which is really depressing and unwilling.

Burned by anger and resentment, he died of depression.

His subordinates Wang Yuan, Zhou Zong and others immediately supported his youngest son Kui Chun as king, and continued to confront Liu Xiu with Jicheng as a base.

In this regard, many historians have recorded it as "lingering", and we can only say that Wang, Zhou, and Xiaokui are really helpless.

Wang and Zhou know very well that things have reached this point, even if they surrender, there will be no good end, so let's just do it to the end.

Because he was busy supporting a new master, formulating new plans, and creating a new situation, Kui Huan's burial was very simple and sloppy, and historians felt that there was nothing to record.

On the side of Bashu, Gongsun Shu readjusted the generals of the aid army from the perspective of cold lips and teeth, withdrew Li Yu, and sent Zhao Kuang, with Zhao and Tian Yi leading the army to support Kui Chun.

At this time, Liu Xiu was also keenly aware of the new changes in the situation in Xizhou, and while ordering Feng Yi to act as the Taishou of Tianshui County and intercept the reinforcement army led by Zhao Kuang, he quickly made a new deployment for Kui.

Let's talk about Feng Yi first.

Feng Yi got the order, immediately started work, took the initiative to find a battle, and made every effort to intercept and encircle and annihilate the soldiers who came to aid Kui. After a year, Zhao Kuang and Tian Yi were finally caught and cut.

At the same time, Feng Yi also actively, actively and creatively cooperated with the Han army in a new round of encirclement and suppression of Jicheng, the base camp of the Kui army.

Wise and brave, strict in governing the army, caring for the people, not arrogant, very low-key, and focusing on heavy work, this is Comrade Feng Yi's consistent style.

When the Han army's new round of encirclement and suppression of the Kui army lasted for a long time and there was no progress, the generals were a little discouraged and wanted to retreat, Feng Yi always immediately stood up to do in-depth and meticulous ideological work, took the first step to the battlefield, and took the lead in the generals, risking the arrows and stones to inspire everyone.

In fact, Feng Yi was already seriously ill at this time.

In the summer of 34 AD, the Han army attacked Luomen Mountain near Jicheng (now southeast of Longxi County, Gansu), but before it could be taken, Feng Yi died of illness in the army.

When the bad news reached Luoyang, Liu Xiu was naturally grieved and called "Jiehou" to show his merits, and his son Feng Zhang inherited the title.

As everyone knows, among Liu Xiu's apprentices, Feng Yi is the most true, and the seemingly monarchy, master and apprentice between the two is actually a father-son relationship, which is extremely close.

In this regard, in addition to Liu Xiu's grief at the time and giving him great grief, he has never forgotten it all year round, so much so that he told his descendants behind him that he must be kind to General Feng's descendants.

For General Feng, we should remember it as affectionately as we did with General Xianzun. No matter how busy we are, we must also express our heartfelt sorrows.

Among Liu Xiu's many apprentices, fans, and generals, we can't make a political review or a coffin for everyone, but we should pay more attention to a few eye-catching performances.

When it comes to virtue and talent, Deng Yu and Ma Yuan are the first to be recommended; Speaking of the victorious generals who attacked the city, they were Wu Han, Geng Yi, and Jia Fu; And when it comes to military offense and government affairs, of course, Feng Yi and Kou Sui.

Looking back on General Feng's life path, in addition to his morality, talents, and achievements, there are several aspects that are worth understanding.

First, Feng Yi is a stickler for the style of learning that integrates theory with practice.

He was a scholar in his early years, proficient in poetry and the art of war, with a very high theoretical level and a very thick foundation. What is commendable is that, like Liu Xiu, he was able to combine these theories well with the fight against wars and the administration of government, innovate methods, and apply them flexibly, so that he was often invincible and uneasy.

Second, Feng Yi has the wisdom of knowing people and is good at handling interpersonal relationships.

As a local deputy department-level cadre, he was not interested in other people who claimed to be kings and hegemons, but admired Liu Xiu, who did not kill indiscriminately or loot. He was captured by Liu Xiu when he went on patrol, and asked to go back to pack up and dedicate the city, most historians believe that this is a melodrama that he directed and acted in to Liu Xiu. In fact, Liu Xiu was alone at that time, his eldest brother was killed, and he had almost no place to stand. However, Feng Yi has already shown absolute loyalty to him, and his knowledge of people is indeed superior.

He handled the relationship with the leaders, colleagues, and the masses very well, and was both honest and frank, humble and round, but also adhered to his duty and did not lose his integrity, which was manifested in Deng Yu and Ma Yuan.

We have already told you about the fact that he has always maintained a special and close relationship with the main leader Liu Xiu, treated his colleagues with humility and courtesy, and won the support of the broad masses of the people.

In the spring of 7 years ago, when Feng Yi served as the general of the expedition to the west instead of Deng Yu, Deng Yu was really unwilling to accept his defeat with the respect of the great Situ, and asked him to immediately join forces to attack Chimei. In fact, Deng Yu had no authority to do this at that time.

However, Feng Yi considered that he was his own leader after all, and he had a deep relationship with Liu Xiu, although he knew that he violated the principles of the organization and was a bit risky, after repeated persuasion was ineffective, he still made a sacrifice and followed him to fight together and share the responsibility for the defeat.

Third, Feng Yi was strict in governing the army and won deep support.

Among the generals who made great contributions to Liu Xiu's conquest of the world, many of them were controversial at the time and in later generations, and the main focus was that while they made meritorious contributions, they often indulged the troops and brought disasters to society and the people. For example, Wu Han was called "a fierce general who slaughtered the city", "greedy for merit and easy to kill", and rarely failed in his life; Geng Yi was known as "Tu Bo", and slaughtered 300 cities in his life. They usually use the method of allowing their subordinates to grab a handful as an incentive, and every time they win a victory, they "take a few days off" and let their soldiers come around.

After Wu Han invaded Chengdu, he also killed civilians, burned and plundered, and cut tens of thousands of people. Geng Yi has been crisscrossing the field for 14 years, slaughtering more than 20 cities on average every year, and everywhere he passes, it is often a ruin.

However, Feng Yizhi's army was disciplined and controlled. He rarely suffered defeat in his life, and everywhere he went, he always made no mistakes and left no stone unturned.

He defected to Liu Xiu in his early years because he had long heard that "only General Liu (Xiu) will not be taken captive", and he has been practicing this concept of governing the army since he got Liu Xiu's true biography.

Therefore, not only the common people support him, but whenever the army is reorganized, many officers and men are vying for him to lead.

General Feng Yi, please go!