Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 360: The villain who repeatedly rebelled, the slave of the fourth surname, Zuo Rong
Chapter 360: The villain who repeatedly rebelled, the slave of the fourth surname, Zuo Rong
The night time was slowly passing by, and the moonlight shining in the sky was getting brighter. Cao Shuang thought for a while and then said: "When it comes to villains who rebel repeatedly, there was someone who could compare to Lu Bu during the reign of Emperor Wu. Meng Dazhi."
Liu is also very abominable, that is Zuo Rong, who became a slave of the fourth surname in Xuzhou."
Bai Lingjun replied: "In addition to this person, Yingbu, who rebelled repeatedly during the reign of Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty, was also hated by others."
Lu Bu, the most powerful general in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, was nicknamed the "House Slave with Three Surnames" due to his capricious nature and irresponsible behavior, and his personal image was very poor.
In fact, in troubled times, there are not a few rebel generals who are more capricious than Lu Bu. Among them, there is one who specializes in "stabbing" his savior and indiscriminately killing the people in his path. His temperament is extremely cruel. This person is the Xuzhou Thief.
The leader is Zuo Rong.
Zuo Rong was born in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He was originally a local powerful man in Danyang County. Seeing the chaos in the world, he led a group of people to seek refuge with his fellow villager, Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian.
Tao Qian probably had a good relationship with Zuo Rong, so he appointed him Prime Minister of Xiapi. While governing Xiapi State, he was also responsible for transporting grain and grass from Guangling County, Xiapi State, and Pengcheng County to Tan County (Xuzhou Governance Office).
), which can be regarded as a "very rich" position.
Zuo Rong was a man with dirty hands and feet. He often used his power to withhold grain, grass and tribute, and stuffed them into his own pockets, accumulating astonishing wealth over time.
The reason why Zuo Rong is so greedy for money is that in addition to satisfying his own enjoyment, he also has a big purpose - building Buddhist temples. It turns out that although Zuo Rong was tyrannical and greedy, he was extremely devout to Buddhism. During his tenure, he spent huge sums of money to build Buddhist temples.
The scale is staggering.
Zuo Rong spent huge sums of money to build the Futu Temple in the south of the city and built the Lingyun Pagoda in the temple.
The pagoda is a nine-story octagonal structure with cornices on each floor. There are heavy towers under the tower and gold plates on top. It is extremely majestic.
The Buddha Temple is so large that it can accommodate more than 3,000 people reading Buddhist scriptures at the same time. Zhe Rong also painted the Buddha statues with gold and covered them with brocade cassocks, making them look extremely gorgeous.
While building Buddhist temples, Zuo Rong also ordained a large number of monks and nuns, bringing the number of monks in Xiapi City to more than 5,000.
Every time during the Buddha Bathing Ceremony, Zuo Rong would feast on the monks and set up dozens of miles of running water mats on both sides of the road to the Buddhist temple, where everyone could drink and eat. The total cost often reached hundreds of millions of dollars.
Therefore, during the Buddha Bathing Ceremony, there were often tens of thousands of people coming to worship the Buddha or eat and drink. It was precisely because of Zuo Rong's strong advocacy that Xiapi became an important Buddhist town in the country at that time, with great influence.
At the beginning, Zuo Rong, a man from the same county, gathered hundreds of people and went to rely on Qian. Qian envoys supervised Guangling, Xiapi and Pengcheng to transport grain.
Then the three county committees were defeated and a large pagoda temple was built. The upper part was covered with gold plates, the lower part was a heavy tower, and there were many halls and pavilions, which could accommodate 3,000 people. They had gold-painted statues and brocade clothes.
Every time the Buddha is bathed, there are always many places to eat and drink, and mats are laid out on the road, and there are more than ten thousand people eating and watching.
However, Zuo Rong's good days did not last long. When Cao Cao attacked Tao Qian in the name of "avenging his father" (193), Xuzhou fell into successive wars.
Under such circumstances, Zuo Rong was frightened and led more than ten thousand of his subordinates to go south to Guangling County to join the prefect Zhao Yu. Zhao Yu liked to make friends with guests, so when Zuo Rong arrived in Guangling, he treated him as an honored guest and treated him with good wine.
Serve them with dishes.
But instead of being grateful to Zhao Yu for taking him in, Zuo Rong was greedy for the prosperity of Guangling and the prosperity of the people. He immediately became interested in annexation, so that one day he would take advantage of a banquet to kill Zhao Yu, and then burn, kill and loot Guangling City.
He took the loot south to Moling to defect to Xue Li, Prime Minister of Pengcheng ("When Cao Cao attacked Qian, Xu Fang was uneasy.
Rong then led tens of thousands of men and women and three thousand horses to Guangling. Zhao Yu, the prefect of Guangling, welcomed him as a guest. Rong profited from Guangling's supplies, then killed Yu while drinking heavily, and launched a large-scale plunder." The quotation is the same as above).
Just like what happened to Zhao Yu, Xue Li treated Zuo Rong as an honored guest, but the latter wanted to make Moling Yin rich and had many subordinates, so he took advantage of the banquet to kill Xue Li and then annexed his subordinates.
He also took refuge with Liu Yao, the herdsman of Yangzhou ("Pengcheng Prime Minister Xue Li was forced by Tao Qian and settled in Moling... Zuo Rong passed the killing ceremony", see "Three Kingdoms, Volume 49, Liu Yao, Taishi Cishi Xie Biography").
After Liu Yao took Zuo Rong in, although he wanted to use him to fight against Sun Ce, he did not want to follow in the footsteps of Zhao Yu and Xue Li, so he sent him to Zhu Hao, the prefect of Yuzhang, to help defend the city, and secretly warned Zhu Hao to beware of this person.
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But even though Zhu Hao took every precaution, in the end he failed to guard against Zuo Rong, the "white-eyed wolf" who specializes in killing his benefactors.
In the second year of the Xingping reign of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty (195), Zuo Rong indeed used similar tactics to kill Zhu Hao, and then established himself as the prefect of Yuzhang.
After Liu Yao heard the news, he was angry and regretful that he should not have eradicated this trouble earlier. In order to eliminate Zuo Rong, Liu Yao personally led troops to attack Yuzhang and defeated him with his superior force.
After Zuo Rong was defeated, he fled deep into the mountains. Since the local mountain people also hated him, they joined forces to hunt him down, killed him, and presented his head to Liu Yao.
At this point, after more than two years of harming Xu and Yangzhou, the "Zhongshan Wolf" Zuo Rong, who specifically attacked his benefactors, received the punishment he deserved ("For crossing the river, running south to Yuzhang, killing the county governor Zhu Hao, and entering the occupation
The city was later destroyed by Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, and he went into the mountains and was killed."
In the process of fighting for hegemony in troubled times, there were three famous generals in the early Han Dynasty, namely Han Xin, Peng Yue and Yingbu. After conquering the country for Liu Bang, these three people were all ranked among the princes and kings.
Among them, Yingbu was also called Yingbu because he committed a crime when he was young and had his face tattooed (that is, tattooed face). This tattooed warrior Yingbu was already ranked among the princes and kings. He was also the third emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Why did the famous general rebel twice?
The first rebellion was when Yingbu betrayed Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and took refuge with Liu Bang. Initially, Yingbu was a prisoner building an imperial mausoleum in Lishan Mountain, and he was in a state of chaos.
Yingbu relied on his own bravery to join Xiang Yu's men. Later, when Xiang Yu divided the princes, Yingbu was named "King of Jiujiang" and was highly valued by Xiang Yu. However, after he became the king of princes from a prisoner, Yingbu
His mentality has also changed.
When Xiang Yu sent troops to attack Qi, Yingbu not only failed to obey Xiang Yu's orders, but instead supported his troops for his own benefit. Later, after Xiang Yu defeated Liu Bang in Pengcheng,
Seduced by Liu Bang's interests, Yingbu defected to Liu Bang and joined forces with Han Xin to defeat Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu. For this reason, after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he enfeoffed eight kings with different surnames, and Yingbu was one of them. Subsequently, Yingbu became the second king.
It is easy to understand why he chose to rebel against Liu Bang for the first time.
After Liu Bang took the throne, because the eight princes and kings all had military strength, they were a hidden danger to his dominance. Therefore, Liu Bang decided to eradicate the kings with different surnames.
Han Xin, Peng Yue and others died one after another. Liu Bang's decisive killing behavior made Yingbu very afraid. He was worried that one day he would follow in the footsteps of Han Xin, Peng Yue and others. For this reason, he chose to strike first and lead the army to rebel.
Defeated and killed.
Throughout Yingbu's life, many people believed that he was "forced to protect himself" by rebelling against Liu Bang. However, Yingbu was a snobbish and profit-seeking person, but it was unwise to rebel twice.
If you rebel too much, no one will be merciful anymore...