Chapter 25 Guanhe Dazhi hears the chicken and dances

——Zu Ti's recovery ambition "Wear the chicken and dance" and "Zhongliu hit the boat" are allusions that are familiar to the Chinese.But there are very few people who really understand the deeds of the protagonist Zu Ti in these two allusions. Zu Ti, courtesy name Shizhi, was born in Fan Yangqiu (now Laishui, Hebei).The ancestral family is the surname of Beizhou, "the official of the world is two thousand stones". Zu Ti lost his father when he was young, and his six brothers supported the family business together.When he was a teenager, Zu Ti "was open-minded by nature, didn't practice rituals, and didn't know the book when he was fourteen or five years old. Every brother worried about it. However, he was light on wealth and good at chivalry, generous and virtuous. Every time he went to the farmhouse, he always called him brotherly, scattered Gubo was poor in the Zhou Dynasty, and the township party and clan attached great importance to it. Later, he was the secretary of the Expo.

During the Taikang period of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty (around 290), Zu Ti, who was twenty-four or five years old, served as the governor of Sizhou together with Liu Kun. "I'm in love with each other, and we're co-sleeping together. When I heard a rooster crowing in the middle of the night, Cu Kun said: 'This is not a bad sound', so I danced." Since both of them are unruly knights, they often sit up at night and talk about world affairs, " Xiang said: "If the world is full of turmoil and heroes rise together, I and my subordinates will avoid each other in the Central Plains." From this, it can be seen that Zu Ti has foreseen that there will be a day when there will be a catastrophe in the middle of the country.

After the "Eight Kings Rebellion", the Jin Dynasty fell.In 311 A.D. (the fifth year of Emperor Huaiyongjia), Luoyang fell.Zu Ti led hundreds of relatives and township parties to avoid chaos in Huaisi (now Xuhuai area, Jiangsu Province).Along the way, Zu Ti walked on foot, giving up his chariots and horses to the old, weak and sick, and giving food, clothing and medicine to those in need.On the way to escape, he encountered many dangers and obstacles from bandits, but Zu Ti coped with them freely, showing strong organizational and leadership skills, and was promoted as the "walking master" by his peers.When he arrived in Xusi (now Xuzhou City), Sima Rui, the king of Langya at that time, appointed him as the governor of Xuzhou.Soon, Zu Ti was conscripted as a military counselor and sacrificed wine, and was stationed in Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu). (Xingzhu is one of the titles of the leaders of Wubi. It is also called Wuzhu, Battalion Commander, etc. Wubi organization is the people in the turbulent era in Chinese history who gathered in dangerous places in the mountains and forests for their own lives and property safety. A relatively independent self-governing organization of patriarchal societies and refugees was formed. Wubi had already appeared in the era of great turmoil in the last years of Wang Mang. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty and the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, due to the chaos of the world, Wubi was the most prosperous. "Yongjia Rebellion, people went into exile The scale of Wubi varies from hundreds to thousands. The leaders are mostly powerful and powerful families with high prestige in the village. The clan is the core of Wubi, and the refugees from all over the world form the core of Wubi. Grass-roots organization. Therefore, "recruiting exile" has become a major feature of Wubi. In addition, in the Southern and Northern Dynasties when the powerful and nobles controlled the government, Wubi was also the only performance space for the low-level tyrants to show their talents. Within the organization, management and communication can only be carried out by loyalty, credibility, justice and the personal charm of the Wubi owner. Patriarchal clan and kindness are the two pillars for the survival and development of Wubi. Of course, Wubi will also become the political situation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the future. An important factor of instability, many local tyrants have evolved into potential factors of unrest and candidates for a new round of elites.)

As a momentary hero, Zu Ti always cherishes the ambition of recovery.After Jin Mindi succeeded to the throne, he ordered Sima Rui, who was far away in Jiangdong, to lead his troops to Luoyang to serve the king.Sima Rui was committed to ensuring that a corner of the south of the Yangtze River was not lost, and had no intention (and indeed did not have enough strength) to carry out the Northern Expedition.Zu Ti presented the table and made an impassioned speech, and Sima Rui took advantage of it as a favor, giving Zu Ti the false title of Governor of Yuzhou, and symbolically allocated thousands of people's food and three thousand bolts of cloth for military expenses, allowing him Find a way to recruit soldiers.As for armored stomach bows and arrows, soldiers food and horses, King Langya no longer has any support.

The great hero Zu Ti could have attached himself to Sima Rui in the south of the Yangtze River, asking Tian Wenshe to enjoy the happiness of life.However, he set out resolutely and led the more than a hundred clan tribes who had traveled south with him before, and crossed the Yangtze River north from Jingkou.Traveling to the middle stream, Zu Ti drew his sword, looked at the vast river, tapped on the boats and said: "Zu Ti cannot clear the Central Plains and restore aid, just like the great river!" The speech was heroic, and everyone was moved. After crossing the river, Zu Ti stationed in Jiangyin, smelting weapons and recruiting soldiers.With more than 2,000 armed soldiers, Zu Ti began to march north.

At that time, the area to the north of the Yangtze River belonged to the three-no-regulation area after the chaos. Refugees and local residents everywhere set up Wubao armed forces, proclaimed themselves governors and prefects, and attached themselves to whoever was powerful, completely messing up the "law of the king".Zu Ti fought all over the country, defeating Jiangjiang Wu Zhangping, Fan Zhi and others.After the victory in the battle of Taiqiu, Zu Ti conquered Qiaocheng.Later, Chen Chuan, the owner of Pengpiwu, rebelled and returned to Shile, and attracted 50,000 elite soldiers of the Jie tribe from the great demon Shihu. Zu Ti went out to fight and confronted Zhao soldiers.

In 319 A.D. (the second year of Emperor Taixing of the Eastern Jin Dynasty), Zu Ti and the later Zhao Bing faced each other in Junyi.Jin soldiers stationed troops in the east, and later Zhao troops stationed in the west. The two sides held a tense stalemate for forty days, and their food and grass were exhausted. Zu Ti sent people to fill cloth bags with sand, pretending to be edible rice, and sent more than a thousand people to Dongtai, where the Jin soldiers were guarding.Then, he sent several people to pick up the real rice (also in the same cloth bag), and pretended to be exhausted and lay down beside the road panting for breath.When Zhao Bing in Xitai saw it, he immediately sent elite soldiers to attack. The bearers all pretended to be frightened and fled away according to the strategy.Afterwards, General Zhao opened the bag and saw that it was full of high-quality rice. He deduced that the Jin army had enough food.In ancient times, people fought for food and grass, and when they saw that the enemy was full of food, they were naturally discouraged.

Shi Le sent a general to transport food with a thousand strong donkeys to support the Hou Zhao soldiers in the west platform of Junyi City.Zu Ti set up an ambush in Bianshui to get all his food.Later, Zhao soldiers had no food, so they retreated without support.Since then, the Zuti army will send troops to attack Shile's Zhao army based on Fengqiu and Yongqiu many times, causing Shile's power to shrink rapidly in Henan. At the same time, Zu Ti also reconciled the contradictions between the Jin generals in Henan and the leaders of Wubao, showing good fortune and misfortune, and finally made these people obey his orders.As for the owners of Wubao in the Henan area, Zu Ti also expressed his understanding of their expedient measure of sending hostages to Houzhao, and handled political disputes flexibly. These Wubao made Hou Zhao take it for granted that these Wubao landlords were loyal to their team.

In gratitude, the master of Wubao often sent secret messages to Zu Ti, reporting the marching intentions and routes of the Hou Zhao army one by one in advance. "(Ancestor) loves people and corporals, although they are sparsely connected with lowly officials, they are all treated with kindness and courtesy, and the south of the Yellow River is the land of Jin."The folks in Henan were very grateful for Zu Ti's benevolent and benevolent government, and wrote songs to praise its beauty.Liu Kun was also very moved by this old friend's martial arts and martial arts, and praised Zu Ti in the letters with his old relatives.The court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty moved Zuti to be General Zhenxi.

Because of the presence of Zu Ti, Jiehu Shile, who claims to be invincible and invincible, never dared to invade Henan again, and sent people to repair Zu Ti's mother's tomb in Chenggao County. Shi Le also wrote a personal letter to Zu Ti, asking for "transmission to the market".Although Zu Ti did not reply to the letter, he allowed the army and civilians to trade with Jiehu in Hebei to exchange their needs. Just when Zu Ti wanted to "push forward to cross the river and clear Jishuo", the Eastern Jin Dynasty court became suspicious of his supporters and sent Dai Yuan, a literati from the Jiangnan gentry, as the governor to go out of Hefei to contain Zu Ti.

The ancestors planted trees, and the descendants took advantage of the shade. Zu Ti felt very uncomfortable.At that time, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dun and Liu Kai had a bad relationship and attacked each other.Zu Ti knew very well that the great cause of the Northern Expedition would run aground because of internal difficulties.So worried and angry, he still stepped up all military preparations and commanded the construction of Wulao Jiancheng while sick. In October 321 A.D., there was a change in astronomy, "the demon star was seen in Yuzhou".The ancients were superstitious, and the terminally ill Zu Ti also knew astronomy. At night, he looked up at the starry sky and sighed: "This star should be on my body! I wanted to march to pacify Hebei, but the sky wanted to kill me. This is a bad sign for the country." A few days later, full of regret, Zu Ti died of illness at the age of fifty-six. Hu Zeng, a Song Dynasty man, wrote an epic poem expressing his historical regret for Zu Ti’s death due to illness: “Riding the horse forward to Yuzhou, the ancestors were lonely and the water flowed away. At that time, there were three more years of life, and Shi Lexun was a prisoner.” Mao Zedong also had a lament in "Seven Laws Hongdu": "It has been another year since I arrived in Hongdu, and the ancestors beat the oars to this day. Hearing that the rooster has listened to the rain in the south for a long time, he immediately waved the whip in the north." After Zu Ti's death, Wang Dun, who had been rebellious for a long time in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was overjoyed. He had been afraid of Zu Ti's conspiracy before, "so he got to be reckless." (It is recorded in the book that the general Wang wanted to go down and divide the trees, and he sent to join the army to sue the imperial court, satirizing the time. Dare not to be inferior! Destroy the face and go without even a moment, I will send three thousand soldiers to the ground!" Wang stopped after hearing this.) The Eastern Jin Dynasty sent Zuti's younger brother Zuyue to replace his brother to lead the army, but failed every time, and was defeated. The large tracts of land in Henan recovered by Zu Ti were finally captured by Hou Zhao. Shi Chen compiled a biography of Liu Kun and Zu Ti together, and had a very pertinent evaluation in his praise: When Liu Kun was young, he had no high morals at all. He walked under Jia Mi's door all day long, drank in the Shichongjin Valley Garden, and talked and laughed at Sima Lun's shogunate. He was really a frivolous and lucky person!In the early days of Zu Ti's youth, his loyalty was scattered and he gave alms to the poor. In the middle of the night, when he heard the rooster dancing, he thought about the fires and prairie fires in the Central Plains.However, once the country is in trouble and the royal family falls, the two of them will use their own talents, and they will be heroic, strong in the wind, strong in integrity, donate their lives to righteousness, and will not hesitate to die. The Rise and Fall of the Zhao Dynasty after the Shi Clan of the Jie Family From Crazy to Perish