Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 352: Great trouble in the Central Plains, trading womens breasts for peace
Chapter 352: Great trouble in the Central Plains, trading womens breasts for peace
Cao Shuang thought for a moment and then said: "When Lingjun mentioned Wang Zhaojun's tragic story, I remembered that although the world is now divided into three parts, there are still Huns on the northern grasslands, and Xianbei is watching, although their strength has been greatly reduced.
, even after regaining strength, it is still a serious problem for the Central Plains!"
Bai Lingjun frowned and said, "I don't want my sisters to marry the daughter I may give birth to in the future. I heard people say that the consequences of marrying a princess are very bad, and my life on the grassland is also very bad."
Cao Shuang nodded and said: "Don't worry, my father will not use his daughter to marry the daughters of the people in the world, or use a woman's breasts to buy peace. As long as a few years pass, Wei will be able to deal with them."
During the reign of Emperor Han Yuan, Wang Zhaojun was elected to the palace as a "good family son".
In the first year of Jingning (33 BC), the Xiongnu Hu Hanxie Chanyu went to the court to see Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty. He volunteered to become the son-in-law of the Han emperor and asked for peace between the Han and Huns.
Emperor Yuan thought about it and agreed. After all, there were many marriages between Han and Hungarians in the Han Dynasty. This was an old tradition in the two Han Dynasties of exchanging women for peace.
In Chinese history, there have been many rough times, but only through marriages did the world have a chance to recuperate. The most typical one was the marriage between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.
When Liu Bang won the throne in the early Han Dynasty, the people finally lived a peaceful and contented life. They did not want to go to war with the ferocious foreigners, and they did not have the strength. After all, Han Xin had already been killed.
It is not that he has never fought against the Huns. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang led an army of 300,000 to attack the Huns, but was almost killed by Maodun Shanyu. Liu Bang had no choice but to adopt Lou Jing's policy of peace and marriage.
In 201 BC, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, personally led an army to attack the Xiongnu and was besieged at Baishan Mountain in Pingcheng. Liu Bang used Chen Ping's strategy and bribed the Yan family (Maodun's wife) of Maodun Shanyu to escape.
Originally, Princess Lu Yuan was sent to make peace with the Huns, but Empress Lu did not agree. Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, had to find a random daughter of the clan, named her a princess, and made peace with the Huns. From then on, the Han Dynasty gained 8 years of border peace.
peaceful.
For the sake of the overall situation, Liu Bang had no choice but to marry the Han Dynasty clan daughter to the Xiongnu Chanyu as the Yan family, using the woman's breasts in exchange for a short-term peace. The people of the two tribes could trade with each other, in order to dispel the Xiongnu's ambition to attack the Central Plains. This was Lou Jing
He proposed that a Han Dynasty clan daughter marry a Xiongnu Chanyu and become the Yan family. The two parties would become brothers and the people of the two ethnic groups would trade with each other.
So Princess Wusun unfortunately became the first marriage princess in the Han Dynasty to go to the Western Regions.
Princess Wusun's real name was Liu Xijun, and her father was the nephew of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che. He committed suicide due to an attempted rebellion but failed.
Liu Xijun's relatives were all implicated. She survived because of her young age and became the daughter of the guilty minister. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty later adopted roundabout tactics when fighting against the Huns, implementing the strategy of "diplomacy far away and attack close", and united with other countries in the Western Region to attack the Huns.
At that time, the powerful Wusun Kingdom became the main target of competition for the Han Dynasty. It sent envoys to the Wusun Kingdom to reach an intermarriage agreement with Wusun King Liejiao Miyuan.
At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appointed Liu Xijun as the princess, married to Wusun, and became the right wife of Liejiaomi, whose status was lower than the left lady of the Xiongnu princess. After the death of Liejiaomi, Liu Xijun followed the custom of Wusun and married Liejiaomi.
His grandson Junxu Mi became the right wife and gave birth to a daughter named Shaofu.
Princess Jieyou was the marriage princess who made the greatest contribution to the Han Dynasty among these women.
She was born into a royal family and is the granddaughter of Liu Wu, the third generation king of Chu. Because her grandfather Liu Wu and Liu Wu launched an army to participate in the "Seven Kingdoms Rebellion" between the kings of the same surname, and were defeated and died. As a result, the entire family became sinners. She and her family have always been subject to suspicion and suspicion.
Exclusion.
After the death of Princess Wusun who was sent to Wusun as an envoy to marry him, in order to maintain the alliance between the Han Dynasty and Wusun, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty agreed to the request of the Wusun Kingdom and sent the princess to marry the Wusun Kingdom in the Western Regions again. She was Liu Jieyou
, the later Princess Jieyou.
Her life spanned three dynasties: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. Her three husbands were all kings of Wusun.
He lived in Wusun for half a century and has been active in the political arena of the Western Regions. He made great contributions to containing the Xiongnu and strengthening and consolidating the relationship between the Han Dynasty and Wusun.
Until she was over seventy years old, she wrote to Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty to pray for her to return to her hometown. Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty felt deep sympathy for her, agreed to her request, and sent someone to welcome her back to Chang'an, so that she could enjoy the same etiquette as a royal princess.
Emperor Yuan ordered Huhanxie Chanyu to be given five palace maids, and Wang Zhaojun asked to marry Huhanxie Chanyu.
Emperor Yuan wanted to break the contract because of Wang Zhaojun's beauty, but because of the serious breach of trust, he had to marry Wang Zhaojun to Hu Hanxie Chanyu. After marrying the Chanyu, Wang Zhaojun was called "Ning Hulan";
Han Xieshanyu wrote a letter promising to maintain peace on the Han-Hungarian border forever.
Later, Wang Zhaojun gave birth to a son to Hu Hanxie Chanyu ("Book of the Later Han Dynasty" recorded as two sons), named Yitu Zhiya Shi, who was later named King of the Xiongnu Youri Zhu.
Huhanxie Chanyu reigned for twenty-eight years and died in the second year of Jianshi (31 BC). Before his death, he confirmed his eldest son Diaotao Mogao as the successor, which was the successor to the Chanyu Dynasty.
According to the customs of the Xiongnu, Fuzhu Leruo, the Chanyu, wanted to marry Wang Zhaojun as his Yan family. Zhaojun wrote to the court, requesting to return to the Han Dynasty. Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty asked her to obey the customs of the Xiongnu, so Wang Zhaojun married Fuzhu Leruo again.
Tan Chanyu became the Yan clan.
She gave birth to two daughters for Fuzhu Leruotian Chanyu. The eldest daughter was named Xubu Juci, and the younger daughter was named Dangyu Juci.
In the first year of Hongjia (20 BC), the Chanyu Fuzhulei Ruotang died, and Mi Xu succeeded him as the Chanyu Souxie Ruotang.
Wang Zhaojun's daughter Xu Bujuci volunteered to enter the palace to serve the Queen Mother in the second year of Yuanshi (2) for the sake of peace between Han and Hungary. The peace between Han and Hungary has been maintained for decades.
In the early Han Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty sought peace with the Xiongnu and sacrificed the Han clan's virgins to the Xiongnu Chanyu. It was intended to exchange temporary humiliation for precious time to recuperate and recuperate. It was a passive and last resort measure.
However, the marriage arrangements after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were fundamentally different from those in the early Han Dynasty. At this time, the Huns were very weak and frightened by the strong political, economic and military strength of the Han Dynasty, so they took the initiative to surrender and propose marriage to the Han Dynasty.
Although the peace built on women is not very glorious, even a powerful leader like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would not care about the life of a mere woman. Fortunately, after all, women have no status in his eyes. If he can use a few
The woman can have peace for a period of time, which is great.
The Han Dynasty did not marry the princess to the Xiongnu Chanyu in a solemn reciprocal marriage, but gave maidens to the Xiongnu Chanyu in a proud manner.
Its purpose was to make the Xiongnu surrender to the Han Dynasty forever with its kindness and power. Therefore, the Han Dynasty's peace treaty with the Xiongnu could basically be said to be a policy for dealing with hostile countries.
In the Han Dynasty, there were 13 "marriage" princesses, but most of them were not of royal blood. They basically chose folk girls or maids to accept the emperor's title and become princesses to marry to the Huns. To put it bluntly, they were all fake princesses!
The life of the princess is destined to be tragic. The moment she is named a princess means that from then on they will only be a bridge between the two countries' diplomacy and a tool to maintain peace. They cannot refuse, and their sorrows and joys are ignored. They can only sacrifice themselves to safeguard the two countries.
the stability of the country.
Getting married is not as beautiful as imagined. The Xiongnu are nomadic people who make a living by grazing animals and live in tents. In summer, the environment is fine, but in winter, the conditions for living in tents are very difficult.
Moreover, there is a peculiar custom common among ethnic minorities in the north, that is, "a wife's stepmother repays her widowed sister-in-law".
That is, after a man dies, his heir or son will marry his stepmother or sister-in-law.
The Huns do not pay as much attention to ethics and seniority when getting married as the Central Plains people do.
Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty all married the Xiongnu Maodun Chanyu, and three generations of princesses married the same Chanyu. But even so, Liu Bang and his children and grandchildren had to admit it. Who could make him unable to defeat them?