There has always been a tradition in ancient China, called "harmony". When it comes to "harmony", there is an ancient blessing for people to get married, which is called "the good relationship between Qin and Jin will always be married". This "good thing between Qin and Jin" is "harmony".
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During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the vassal states fought for each other, and there seemed to be no peace. No matter whether it was a blood oath or any other method, there was no guarantee that you would not hit me, and I would not hit you. When Guizhou was at the end of its rope, smart people came up with the idea.
I came up with an idea, which is to marry your monarch’s daughter and sister to my monarch, and marry my monarch’s sister and daughter to your monarch. If we all keep in touch with each other and tie each other’s ties, there will probably be no fights, especially when the time comes.
Next generation, it will be even better. Your king will call my king grandpa, and my king will call your king grandpa, which will make it even harder to fight. So, during the melee in the Spring and Autumn Period, the two countries Qin and Jin
Countries that are close to each other will get married and marry each other's sisters' daughters, so as not to let the other party's expansion ambition harm themselves, and to forever be "the good friends of Qin and Jin"
But the irony is that the two countries Qin and Jin were one of the most fierce enemies in the Spring and Autumn Period. Now it became lively. The king's wife followed the king all day long, wiping her eyes and crying, or asking for help.
Let her brother go, or ask to save her brother, the nepotism is really twisted, and there is no trace of family affection. If we want to think about the problem from the fact of the idiom "Qin and Jin are good", then
, using this to bless a man and a woman for a good union is tantamount to a curse.
The marriage between vassal states is unreliable. Can the marriage between the emperor and the ministers be reliable? It is even more unreliable. When the world was unified, the emperor had many daughters, but there was only one emperor. Therefore, the emperor's daughters could only marry ministers.
At home, the emperor also used his daughter as a means to win over the ministers, but the emperor still did not trust the ministers, and the ministers still rebelled. If it were not like this, there would not be so many heroes killed in Chinese history, and there would be no
The powerful officials rebelled. It seems that nepotism is nepotism after all. Using the weakness of nepotism to bind the desire-filled hands of power cannot be tied tightly no matter what.
In China's long feudal society, "harmony" can be regarded as a unique "wonderful flower", which contains the helplessness and humiliation of the Central Plains royal family. You can imagine that the diplomacy of a huge country depends on a weak woman.
Take it, how despicable and sad this is!
During the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the country was powerful, but there was also a tragedy of "marriage": the daughter of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Princess Xijun, was burdened with the mission of reconciliation with the Xiongnu, and she married far away in Shuomo, a land of ice and snow. She was so delicate that she was used to it.
During the days when he was well-dressed and well-fed in the palace, he was extremely unaccustomed to the nomadic life of "felt as a room and the ground as a bed" in Hudi. He was depressed and unhappy, became ill from worries, and passed away at a young age.
Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty was sent to the Turks to make peace with her, but she remarried four times, which was considered very unfortunate. However, after she was captured by General Li Jing, who defeated the Turks, he thought she was "shameless" and beheaded the defenseless princess on the roadside.
Her husband Jyali Khan was pardoned
In the previous Tang Dynasty, "harmony" changed. It was no longer a sign of weakness and compromise, but an initiative of the Tang Dynasty to establish friendly relations with border minority groups. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who initiated the "Reign of Zhenguan", paid great attention to the same
relations with the surrounding ethnic groups, treating them equally with equal favor and power
In the winter of the eighth year of Zhenguan, Tuyuhun attacked Liangzhou. Taizong once again sent General Li Jing as the commander-in-chief of the march to Xihai Road to lead the army to conquer. The Tuyuhun troops who invaded the Tang Dynasty were killed and fled. A few days later, Tuyuhun sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty.
, willing to surrender. At this time, the old king had committed suicide, and his son Murong Shun was granted the title of King of Xiping County by Emperor Taizong. He still ruled the original tribe. However, Murong Shun was soon killed by tribesmen with ulterior motives. His son Nuo Gebo
After cleverly escaping the disaster, Taizong quickly sent general Hou Junji to quell the rebellion, and supported Nuo Gebo as Khan. Taizong named him King of Heyuan County. This young Khan was grateful for the great kindness of the Tang Dynasty.
, personally went to Chang'an to meet Taizong, and asked to be married to the Tang Dynasty. Taizong saw his heroic spirit, respectful attitude, and loved him. More importantly, out of consideration for long-term peace and stability, Taizong married his daughter, Princess Honghua, to Nuoge Boru.
After obtaining the treasure, he took the princess back to China with great gratitude. To this day, in a corner of the north bank of Qinghai Lake, there is a former site called "Black City". It is said that it was the palace built for Princess Honghua. Tuyuhun originally did not have a city.
Living in pursuit of water and grass, settlements began to be built for the arrival of the Princess of the Tang Dynasty.
In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Princess Wencheng married Songtsen Gampo on the order of Emperor Taizong and became the most successful "marriage" messenger in history. Her traces are left everywhere on the ancient road between Tang and Tibet, and her stories are passed down.
We know that even more than a thousand years later, the story of Princess Wencheng's "marriage" is still timeless and widely circulated, while those records of bloody hatred have long been lost in the long river of time and dusty in the dark corners of history.
It can be seen that from the perspective of the motivation for marriage, there are the following two situations:
First, the economic strength and overall national strength are used as the starting point to decide whether to make peace. This point includes two situations: First, when the Central Plains Dynasty was weak, in order to obtain border peace, it had to make peace with ethnic minorities, such as in the early Han Dynasty.
The marriage between Liu Bang and Modun Shanyu; secondly, when the Central Plains Dynasty was powerful, ethnic minorities took the initiative to propose marriage to the Central Plains Dynasty in order to seek recognition and support from the Central Plains Dynasty, or because they yearned for the Central Plains' advanced production and lifestyle, such as the Western Turks in the Tang Dynasty
multiple marriage proposals
The second is to achieve the purpose of "using barbarians to control barbarians" through the policy of marriage. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, through the marriage alliance with Turks, Turkic nobles entered the royal family, treated them preferentially, took advantage of their relatively familiarity with their own nation, and granted them official titles and titles, thus achieving
domination of the Turks
However, there is one thing that Yunzheng has never figured out: why, no matter what the circumstances, the women who marry are Han women who marry outside the house, rather than women who marry inside the house?
If when the Central Plains dynasty was weak, women could only pay for the helplessness of men. Then when the Central Plains dynasty was strong, why were the Central Plains women the unlucky ones? Why couldn't it be the other way around, allowing the princesses of these "barbarian" countries to marry Han Chinese?
Where is the emperor?
Besides, the Central Plains dynasty and its married women often lost money when they went to foreign countries. Even the powerful Tang Dynasty was no exception. For example, in the fourth year of Jinglong, Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty not only paid tribute to Princess Jincheng to the Tubo people, but a year later Tang Ruizong also paid tribute to the Tubo people.
The land of Jiuqu in the west of the Yellow River was ceded to Tubo. From then on, Tubo gained strategic and geographical advantages. This could be regarded as the most costly and humiliating marriage in the history of the Tang Dynasty. It was also the beginning of the Tang Dynasty's land cession. "Tubo already had Jiuqu, and its land was fertile."
, Kanton soldiers and livestock were raised, and they were close to the Tang Dynasty, so they rebelled again and began to lead their troops into the invaders." The Tubo people not only enjoyed the royal beauties of the Tang Dynasty, but also occupied a strategically important land with fertile water and grass in the Tang Dynasty, and also plundered the Tang Dynasty people.
The Tang Xuanzong period was an intensive period of humiliation and marriage in the Tang Dynasty. During this period, Princess Yongle, Princess Yanjun, Princess Donghua, Princess Yifang, Princess Gu'an, Princess Jingle, Princess Dongguang, etc. were given to the barbarian Khitan one after another.
However, in the end, the Khitan people and Xi did not appreciate it and slaughtered several of the princesses who had paid tribute. Later generations of "Cambridge History of China, Liaoxi, Xia, Jin and Yuan Dynasties" said: "In 745, the Tang court tried to establish a new intermarriage alliance.
The relationship with the Khitan was restored, but it failed and the royal bride sent was killed." This move of the Tang Dynasty caused great disgrace to the people of the country.
Because of these precedents, Yun Zheng hated the Han Chinese who married their daughters for marriage. His consistent view was: Do you want to get married? OK, you can marry your daughter and come to our heaven.
Originally, this was just a thought in his heart. Even if he traveled to such an "ancient world", he never expected that such a thing would actually happen one day, and it would really happen to him.
This day was exactly the fifth day after Yunzheng defeated Yelu Pingcheng. He received the letter of credence written by the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom. The letter of credence should only be submitted to the Emperor of Wei, but this time the Liao Kingdom was too lazy to do so.
After going through the formalities, he sent the credentials directly to Dading City in Zhongjing of the Liao Kingdom where Yunzheng was stationed.
The edict was written in a very large Wei style, that is, parallels, five, and six. Yun Zheng, a "great writer", could not ask others what the edict meant. He could only think about it slowly by himself. Although he finally understood it, he still couldn't understand it.
I was also a little dizzy.
In fact, after going round and round in the edict, the meaning is very simple, there are three:
The first is to cease the war immediately, and the Liao Dynasty will marry Princess Qionghua to the prince Yun Zheng, the prince of the state of Yun in the Great Wei Dynasty.
Second, the Yun family immediately resumed aid to Daliao.
Third, regarding the ownership of the Liao territory currently occupied by the Yun Family Army, Xiao Tianzuo, the Northern King of the Liao Kingdom, will personally go to Zhongjing to discuss with Yun Zheng.
Yun Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and announced the credentials to the generals. All the generals of the Yun family army were greatly encouraged.
The Liao Kingdom has been suppressing the Wei Dynasty for so many years. In fact, it has been suppressing the Yun family for so many years. Now the Yun family finally counterattacked, and defeated the arrogant Liao Dynasty in one go.
The favorability immediately increased. Even some veterans who were dissatisfied with Yunzheng's excessive power were convinced at this moment. Yunzheng's prestige in the entire northern Xinjiang suddenly reached a height that was unimaginable before.
Looking at the excited generals under his command, Yun Zheng said with a smile: "The envoy of Liao is not far away now. Let's have a good rest and be in the best condition tomorrow to 'greet' our old friend King Xiao."
The generals immediately burst into laughter
----------I went back to my hometown to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. I insisted on updating two books, which almost exhausted me to death. Now I'm finally back. I'll probably have a good sleep tonight...
