Ran Ke was very dissatisfied with Wei Liao's praise of Dou Xian and belittling Wei Qing and Huo Quai, the two gods of war of the Han Dynasty, so the two argued in front of the public.

Ran Min felt very helpless, so he asked Wang Meng and said: "Jing Luo (Wang Meng's cousin), I know that you have always been unable to release the scroll, read the subset of scriptures and history, and are very knowledgeable, who do you think is greater in the achievements of Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, and Dou Xian?" ”

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, there is actually no need to divide these three famous generals of the Han Dynasty into high and low. However, since His Majesty has asked, the minister can answer. ”

Wang Meng straightened his clothes and said loudly: "If you want to compare the merits of two people, you can't just rely on the battle record. Huo Quai's wolf Juxu, Dou Xianyan's stone, it looks comparable, so the comparison of the battle results will be put aside first. If you want to compare, compare the strength of the opponents faced by the two! ”

"Huh?" Ran Min couldn't help but listen, and even those who were still expressing their opinions were stunned and listened one after another.

"In different eras, the opponents are naturally different. Let's talk about Wei Qing and Huo Quai's illness first. The peak period of the Xiongnu is undoubtedly the period of Mao Dun Shan Yu, at this time, the Xiongnu destroyed the Donghu, Dayue clan and other powerful tribes, unified the northern grassland, and had more than 300,000 people who controlled the strings! ”

"Han Gaozu Liu Bang tried to fight, but was besieged in Baideng, if it weren't for Chen Ping's beauty trick, Gaozu would probably have to say goodbye to the world that had just arrived."

Speaking of this, everyone present couldn't help but laugh.

For Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the country like a "little deflated three", there have been mixed reviews since ancient times, some people don't like him, some people admire him, and so on.

However, this siege of white mountaineering is really a stain that Liu Bang cannot erase in his life!

Wang Meng continued: "This battle scared Gaozu, so the Han Dynasty adopted the strategy of harmony for a long time in the future, which was actually to send women to ask for peace!" During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, although the Xiongnu faced by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were slightly weaker than those in the Maodun period, they were basically in their heyday. ”

"Look at the Northern Xiongnu faced by Dou Xian, compared with the Xiongnu in their heyday, they can basically be described as weak. As early as the period of Emperor Guangwu, the Xiongnu had been divided into two parts, the Southern and Northern Xiongnu, and became enemies! ”

As we all know, in order to fight against the Northern Xiongnu, the Southern Xiongnu took the initiative to annex the Eastern Han Dynasty and migrated to Senei. During the reign of Emperor Zhang, the Northern Xiongnu split again, and were beaten by the Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei, and the 58 subordinate departments such as Qulan and Hudu ran away and took the initiative to join the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, the Northern Huns made a locust plague again, and many people died and ran away, at this time, the Northern Huns did not say that they broke their wrists with the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is estimated that they did not have the courage to protect the board in the Western Regions! ”

"In short, judging from the strength of the opponents faced by both sides, the strength of the opponents faced by Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi is much higher than that of Dou Xian!"

Hearing this, Ran Ke couldn't help but applaud: "Hahahaha! Lord Wang, we are really heroes who see the same thing! I'll just say, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are definitely stronger than Dou Xian! ”

But Wei Liao still said indignantly: "Lord Wang, you are prejudiced!" ”

Seeing that Wei Liao was still not convinced, Ran Min shook his head angrily and funny.

In terms of fame, Huo Qubing and Dou Xian can be compared, while Wei Qing seems to be a little worse, because the generals of all dynasties have taken "Feng Wolf Juxu" or "Yan Ran Leshi" as the highest honor.

But Dou Xian has been criticized by successive emperors and ministers because of his bad deeds.

In the past, Dou Xian pacified the Xiongnu and became famous. So with Geng Kui and Ren Shang as minions, Deng Die and Guo Huang as henchmen, Ban Gu and Fu Yi all placed the shogunate, and used classic articles to take over the government and occupy important points.

For a while, there were many officials such as assassins and orders. Shang Shufu shot Zhi Shou and Le Hui committed suicide one after another because of their dissatisfaction with Dou Xian. The courtiers were shocked and looked forward to the wind.

Dou Du carries the special advance, Dou Jing is the ruling Jinwu, Dou Gui is Guangluqing, the brother is in the dynasty, the noble and prominent, tilting Kyoto. And Dou Jing is particularly arrogant, and prostitutes also rely on power to do evil. They abused civilians, plundered goods, usurped sinners, and robbed women. made Kyoto businessmen closed, such as avoiding revenge.

And the officials in charge were silent, swallowing their anger and not daring to play.

Situ Yuan An saw that the Son of Heaven was young and his relatives were in power, so he was deeply worried, and often whimpered and shed tears when talking about national affairs. Unfortunately, the Dou clan was too powerful at that time, and the father, son and brothers were in high positions and filled the court.

In addition to the above, there are still Dou Xian's uncle Dou Ba as the captain of the city gate, Dou Bao as the general as the master craftsman, Dou Jia as the second lieutenant, and more than ten people who serve as lieutenants, generals, doctors, and officials.

Dou Xian thought that he had made a great contribution to the Han, and he became more and more arrogant!

In the fourth year of Yongyuan (92 years), his henchmen Deng Die, Deng Lei, Guo Ju, and Guo Huang also colluded with each other, and some of them also entered and exited the harem, and fortunately the queen mother, so they wanted to rebel.

Emperor He learned of their plot, but was unable to contact the foreign ministers. Su Zhizhong often served the hook shield to order Zheng Zhong, who was cautious and scheming, and did not care about the party, so he recruited Zheng Zhong and planned to eliminate the rebellious party.

Considering that Dou Xian was stationed outside, he was afraid that he would raise troops and cause chaos, so he endured it after making a decision.

On the occasion of Dou Xian and Deng Die's class returning to Beijing, he was overjoyed with the emperor, and issued an edict to let Dahonglu go to the suburbs to greet him, and reward the officers and soldiers in the army according to their ranks, so as to calm their hearts.

After Dou Xian entered the city, he and the emperor went to the north palace in person, ordered the generals to guard the south and north palaces, closed the city gates, arrested Deng Die, Deng Lei, Guo Ju, and Guo Huang, and sentenced them to death. and sent someone to take back Dou Xian's general seal, and named him the champion marquis, so that he and Dou Du, Dou Jing, and Dou Gui all returned to the fiefdom.

After Dou Xian, Dou Du, and Dou Jing arrived in the fiefdom, they were all forced to commit suicide.

In the tenth year of Yongyuan (98 years), Dou Gui was also forced to commit suicide by Liang Tang. Those who were retained were also dismissed and returned to their hometowns.

As for the counterattack against the Xiongnu, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing and Dou Xian, who has greater merit. Needless to say, it is naturally Wei Huo's and the others.

In addition to the opponent's strength, combat record, and influence, Ran Min believes that the necessity of sending troops and the situation of friendly troops can still be compared.

Since ancient times, we have paid attention to "the division is famous", which can also be said to be the "justice" of sending troops.

Han and Hun feuds, Gaozu had the siege of Baideng, and Lu Hou was also humiliated by the Huns, and there were constantly Xiongnu Koubian during the Han Dynasty, burning and plundering.

Therefore, from the standpoint of the Han Dynasty, from the perspective of revenge, it is just to send troops at any time, and it cannot be considered that sending troops lacks justice just because the Xiongnu did not harass them for the time being.

Let's look at the period of Emperor Wu first, although the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu adopted the strategy of "harmony", but the Xiongnu repeatedly deviated from the covenant, and the Koujing was burned, killed, and plundered, especially the Bank of China said that this big traitor taught Shan Yu to be tough on the Han day and night, and attacked the border.

In every war, the Han Dynasty had to pay a large amount of money and goods like a tribute. And "harmony" is a very humiliating thing in the first place.

During the period of Emperor Wu, the rule of Wenjing "recuperation", the national strength has been thriving, although it will consume national strength, but it is very necessary to use military means instead of "harmony" to completely solve the threat of the Xiongnu, and it is a natural thing!

Looking at Dou Xian again, the necessity of sending troops is very controversial.

First of all, the Northern Xiongnu were far away from the Han Realm, and the Southern Xiongnu were separated from the Han Dynasty, and their strength was also very weak, so it was impossible for Koubian to be able to defend the Western Regions at most.

Secondly, the political situation in the Eastern Han Dynasty was unstable at that time, and there were natural disasters, and the history recorded: "For several years, the autumn crops were not ripe, the people were not enough to eat, the warehouses were empty, the country had no savings,......, and the people's urgency was also very much." ”

It can be seen that the timing of Dou Xian's dispatch of troops at this time is not very good, and the loss of national strength will be very huge. Finally, let's talk about the necessity of Dou Xian's troops in terms of benefits.

Don't forget, there was still a Southern Xiongnu between the Northern Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty, and the results of the war were beyond the reach of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the Southern Xiongnu were very enthusiastic about the war, and it seemed that they were dreaming of unifying the Xiongnu, but fortunately Dou Xian was not so stupid, but even so, the Southern Xiongnu also increased their strength greatly, and they rebelled many times in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, causing a serious threat.

In addition, there are Xianbei people, the Northern Xiongnu were defeated, Xianbei will occupy the old land of the Northern Xiongnu and absorb the remnants of the Northern Xiongnu.

In short, judging from the necessity of sending troops, Dou Xian's dispatch of troops to attack the Northern Xiongnu was actually harmful to the Han Dynasty.

However, Dou Xian himself has a hard time, this guy fainted and assassinated the Empress Dowager's fortunate minister Liu Chang, and was convicted of the incident.

Empress Dowager Dou obviously would not really kill Dou Xian, after the guidance of the master, Dou Xian asked to attack the Northern Xiongnu to atone for the death penalty, so the fate of the Northern Xiongnu was so inexplicably decided.

Speaking of friendly forces, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing faced the Xiongnu, it was really a one-on-one battle between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.

Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also wanted to help the whole thing, so he sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions to unite the Dayue clan, but unfortunately, the Dayue clan was happy to return.

Of course, Huo Qubing still has the ability, there are a small number of surrendered Hun cavalry, let's count it as a friendly army, this is also a prerequisite for Huo Qubing to be able to go north into the desert for thousands of miles to hunt and kill, desert operations, and there was no satellite navigation at that time, familiarity with the terrain is crucial.

Look at the unlucky Li Guang, just because there is no Hun guide, the result is either lost or ambushed.

Look at Dou Xian again, it is a gathering of helpers, first of all, the Southern Xiongnu are very hardworking, in fact, the crusade against the Northern Xiongnu is proposed by the Southern Xiongnu.

Secondly, there are the servant armies of the Hu people, Wuhuan people, and Qiang people.

There's no need to worry about getting lost!

The debate caused by such a topic as the envoy of Goguryeo made everyone present wander out of the world, and even Ran Min was stunned for a long time before he thought of what he was going to do.

Ran Min said loudly: "Okay." Discuss a high and low matter for the famous generals of the Han Dynasty, you should debate in private! ”

Everyone shut up.

"Rank envoy, I have said that I have to discuss two things with you."

Hearing this, the people of the small countries and tribes present could not help but feel numb in their scalps.