Chapter 13 "God-given" empire

——The great cause of the Huns to restore the "Han" Sima Ying's side is really a fool.As soon as the Xianbei army led by Wang Jun arrived, Sima Ying was defeated, and fled south to Luoyang with the foolish emperor Sima Zhong. Liu Yuan, already a "big chanyu", heard the news at this time, and sighed: "Sima Ying didn't listen to me, and was defeated in one battle. He is really a stupid slave! But I have an appointment with him, so I have to save him." Just now Getting rid of Sima's control, Liu Yuan really wanted to help Sima Ying again under his inertial thinking at first, and wanted to send more than 20,000 of his subordinates to fight against Xianbei.

Liu Xuan and others immediately stopped him and persuaded him: "The Jin Dynasty had no way, and we have been using the five tribes of the Huns like slaves. Now the father and son of the Sima family are fighting each other. This is God giving us the opportunity for the Huns to recover our great cause. It is against the sky. Ominous, against the public will not help. If you don’t take what God wants, you will be blamed instead, please think twice!” Liu Yuan is such a smart person, he immediately took advantage of the slope to descend, and he sighed: "You are too right. How can the emperor's career be determined. Dayu came from Xirong, and (Zhou) King Wen was born in Dongyi. A man of virtue. Now we have a strong army of one hundred thousand, one of them can be used as ten, and the Jin Dynasty will be destroyed by drumming, and there is a tendency to destroy the ruins! If we do well, we can become the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and we will not lose if we fail. Cao Wei’s hegemony.” At this point, the scheming Liu Yuan pondered for a moment, half talking to himself and half talking to the five Hun chieftains present: “In the name of restoring the great cause of the Huns, the people of the Jin Dynasty will not respond to us. The Han Dynasty I have enjoyed the world for a long time, and kindness and virtue are in the hearts of the people. At the beginning, Emperor Zhaolie (Liu Bei) was able to compete with the world with a mere state (Shu). According to my name, I am the nephew of the Han Dynasty. Brother, it is reasonable and reasonable for brothers to die and brothers to succeed."

Therefore, Liu Yuan became the King of Han, and ascended the throne in Zuoguo City in the first year of Emperor Hui of Jin Yongxing (304).In this way, Liu Yuan became the founder of the first regime of the Sixteen Kingdoms.It seems ridiculous now that Liu Yuan respected Liu Chan, the descendant of the Shu Han Dynasty, as Emperor Xiaohuai, established the three ancestors and five gods below the Han Gaozu, and pretended to be the heirs of the Han Dynasty to establish the country. Liu Chan, who was "unhappy to miss Shu" and died peacefully, never dreamed that decades after his death, there would be a "grandson" of the Huns under his banner to restore the "big man" in the Fenshui River Basin. Leaking out such a roughly talented grandson.This is really a great historical humor!

Not long after Liu Yuan established the state, the clan of the Western Jin Dynasty and Ma Teng of the Dongying Company sent General Nie Xuan to conquer, and the two sides fought fiercely in Daling.In this battle, the five armies of the Xiongnu showed their might and defeated Nie Xuan's Jin army.Frightened, Sima Teng hurriedly led more than 20,000 households from Bingzhou to rush to Shandong.Taking advantage of the victory, Liu Yuan sent his nephew Liu Yao to conquer Taiyuan, Tunliu, eldest son, Zhongdu and other places in one fell swoop. In the next year, Liu Yuan defeated Sima Yu and other Jin troops sent by Sima Teng, but in the Battle of Banqiao, Liu Kun, governor of Bingzhou of the Jin Dynasty, defeated Liu Yuan's former general Liu Jing and occupied Jinyang.

After Liu Yuan was frustrated, he was at a loss for a while, and wanted to withdraw his insurance, but his Han ministers Wang Yu and others came forward to advise: "...If your highness can order you to go out, make a decisive move, Xiao Liu Kun, Dinghedong, build The title of emperor, conquering Chang'an and making it the capital, and sweeping Luoyang with all the people in Guanzhong, it must be as easy as pie!" Liu Yuan was overjoyed and said: "This is exactly what I want to do." So he entered and occupied Hedong, captured Puban, Pingyang and other places, and defeated Xianbei, the four tribes of Shangjun.Wang Mi (the one who drank with Liu Yuan in Jiuqu), the thief Wang Mi in the Jin Dynasty, Shan Zheng of Di Chief, and Shi Le, the leader of the Jie tribe, all admired his reputation and took refuge under Liu Yuan's banner.Liu Yuan promoted these people one by one.

In the second year of Yongjia (308) of Emperor Huai of Jin Dynasty, Liu Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, changed his Yuan to Yongfeng, and moved his capital to Pingyang (now Linfen, Shanxi).At that time, seven of the eight kings in the "Eight Kings Rebellion" had been ordered to return to Huangquan, and Emperor Hui of Jin was also poisoned to death by Sima Yue, king of the East China Sea. , that is, Emperor Huai of the Western Jin Dynasty. After Liu Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, he aggressively attacked Jin.He ordered his son Liu Cong and Wang Mi to attack Luoyang, and sent Liu Yao and others to lead the Xiongnu army as backup.The allied forces of the Xiongnu were victorious all the way, defeating several Jin armies dispatched by Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, and Pingchang Company Mamo one after another.After the winning streak, Liu Cong suddenly became proud. Soon, the Han army was successfully attacked by Yuan Yanren, the prefect of Hongnong in the Jin Dynasty who had feigned surrender, and returned in a big defeat.

Annoyed, in the winter of that year, Liu Yuan sent Liu Cong, Wang Mi, Liu Yao, Liu Jing and others to attack Luoyang with 50,000 cavalry, and Hu Yanyi led the Han infantry to defeat the Jin army in Henan and surrounded the Luoyang City.But the good times didn't last long. Generals Hu Yanhao and Hu Yanlang of the Han Army were killed one after another, and the Xiongnu army seized their strength. Liu Yuan was convinced that his minister, who was capable of divination and calculation, was less than what Xiuzhi said, so he would no longer attack the Jin Dynasty, and waited for the prophecy that "Xinwei won Luoyang at the age of Xinwei".He granted amnesty in the territory, enfeoffed the princes and clan, made his wife Shan the queen, and made his son Liu He the crown prince.

In the fourth year of Yongjia (310), Liu Yuan died of illness. After reigning for six years, he was posthumously named Emperor Guangwen, and his son Liu He succeeded him. Under the banner of "prospering the Han Dynasty", Liu Yuan used his dead body to revive his soul. He was indeed very politically minded and politically skilled at the beginning of his army.After Liu Jing captured Liyang, he brutally drove more than 30,000 Han people into the Yellow River and drowned. Liu Yuan was furious after hearing the news, and immediately ordered Liu Jing to be demoted.However, because he had been in Pingyang for a long time, he could not restrain the wolfish sons and five generals of the Xiongnu headquarters at all, causing the people in the areas captured by the Han army to "displace and scatter, and ten of them did not survive. Eh, Bone Yokoye".At the end of his reign, he saw that the ethnic hatred between the Xiongnu and the Han people was hard to extinguish, and "calling the Han with respect for others" would not work at all, so he had to abandon the "Han Confucianism" he had learned since elementary school and restore The old system of the Xiongnu implemented the "divided rule between Hu and Han". Although this move was "a last resort" by Liu Yuan, it also became the "magic weapon" for many minority regimes in the sixteen countries to rule in the future. They followed suit one after another. Although their lives were short Indeed, it also accelerated and deepened the integration of the Chinese nation in troubled times.