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Today, let's talk about the famous general Meng Tian of the Qin Dynasty, if you like it, pay attention to and like it, more exciting stories, and then launch. Meng Tian's ancestral home is Mengshan in Qi State, and his hometown is 75 kilometers away from Liancheng Township, Bianjiachengzi Village. According to research, "Meng" takes Mengshan as its clan. In his ancestors, he was a native of Qi, and during the Warring States Period, his grandfather Meng Yu Yu surrendered to King Qin Zhao, led the army to attack Han and Zhao, and tired officials to "Shangqing". His father, Meng Wu, was also a Qin general, who served as the internal history of Qin, and joined forces with Qin general Wang Jian to destroy the Chu State. Meng Tian was born in a family of famous generals. Deeply influenced by the family environment, he has great ambitions since he was a child, and is determined to charge into battle and serve the country. He was gifted and intelligent, familiar with military books, and gradually cultivated a high military literacy.
In 221 BC (the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang), Meng Tian was made a general, attacked the state of Qi, and was worshiped as Neishi (the highest administrator of the capital of the Qin Dynasty) for his meritorious service to breaking Qi
After the Qin State annexed the world, Meng Tian was ordered to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north. Recovering Henan (now the area of Yikezhao League in the south of Hetao, Inner Mongolia), from Yuzhong (now north of Yijin Huoluo Banner in Inner Mongolia) to Yinshan, 34 counties were established. They crossed the Yellow River again, occupied Yangshan, and migrated people to enrich the border counties.
Subsequently, Meng Tian presided over the construction of the Great Wall from Lintao (now Minxian County, Gansu) in Longxi in the west to Liaodong (now in Liaoning) in the east, connecting the Great Wall of Yuanyan, Zhao and Qin. The Great Wall took advantage of the terrain and took advantage of the natural danger to set up fortresses, which effectively curbed the southward advance of the Xiongnu. Later, he was sent to open a straight road for Qin Shi Huang to tour the world, from Jiuyuan County (now southwest of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia) to Ganquan Palace, cut off the mountain range, fill the deep valley, the total length is 1,800 miles, but unfortunately the repair was not completed. Meng Tian was stationed in Shangjun for more than ten years, threatening the Huns.
Qin Shi Huang respected Meng Tian very much, trusted and praised his talents, and was close to Meng Tian's younger brother Meng Yi, Meng Yi was the official to the supreme secretary, and accompanied Qin Shi Huang in the same car when he went out, and he was in front of Qin Shi Huang when he was inside. Meng Tian served as a foreign minister, and Meng Yi was often an internal strategist, and was known as faithful at that time. Therefore, the other generals did not dare to compete with them for favor.
Meng Yi has a strict rule of law, never favors the powerful, and no one dares to compete with the Manchu Dynasty. One day, the chamberlain Zhao Gao committed a major crime, and Meng Yi sentenced him to death in accordance with the law and removed him from his eunuch position, but was pardoned by Qin Shi Huang. From this time on, the Montessori brothers became Zhao Gao's heart disease.
In the winter of 210 BC (the 37th year of Qin Shi Huang), Qin Shi Huang fell ill on the way to the political tour and sent Meng Yi to worship the mountains and rivers to pray for blessings. Soon Qin Shi Huang died of illness in the sand dunes, and the news of his death was blocked, Zhao Gao was worried that Fusu would succeed to the throne and Meng Tian would be reused, which would be unfavorable to him, so he withheld the edict and conspired with Hu Hai to usurp the throne.
Fu Su, the eldest son of Qin Shi Huang, disagreed with some of the extreme policies implemented by Shi Huang and Li Si and others, and "counted the books and discussed them" made "the first emperor displeased". Therefore, he was forced to stay away from the capital and go to the Meng Tian army as a supervisor. Meng Tian had a very good relationship with Fusu and had similar political views, and they "lived in Shangjun for more than ten years" and jointly led the long-term struggle against slaves. Meng Tian also worked with another general, Yang Wengzi, to "belong to the quicksand in the west, attack Liaoshui in the north, and form Korea in the east", and "it was the time when Meng Tian might revitalize the Huns". The prominence of his position made even Prime Minister Li Si secretly worried that his position was threatened, and he was alive and heavily armed, and he was with Fusu, who had a certain opinion of Li Si, which made Li Si often have scruples. Zhao Gao coerced and enticed, forcing Li Si to conspire with them and forge a posthumous edict. The "edict" accused Fusu of not being able to make meritorious service abroad, but resented his father, so he sent an envoy to give his son Fusu and Meng Tian death on fabricated charges. Fusu committed suicide, Meng Tian had doubts in his heart, and asked for a revital.
The envoy handed Meng Tian over to the officials, and sent Li Si and others to replace Meng Tian in charge of the army and imprison Meng Tian in Yangzhou. After Hu Hai killed Fusu, he wanted to release Meng Tian. However, Zhao Gaoshen was afraid that Montessori would be favored again and disadvantageous to himself, so he insisted on destroying Montessori. It was spread on the issue of establishing the crown prince, and Meng Yi slandered Hu Hai in front of the first emperor, so Hu Hai imprisoned and killed Meng Yi. Qin II sent people to Yangzhou to kill Meng Tian.
The messenger said to Meng Tian, "You have sinned too much, and Meng Yi deserves to die and sit down on you." Meng Tian said: "From my ancestors to my descendants, I have been born and died for the Qin State for three generations. I command an army of 300,000 men, and although I am imprisoned, I am powerful enough to betray. But I know that I should die in obedience. The reason why I did this was that I did not dare to insult the teachings of my ancestors, and I did not dare to forget the kindness of my ancestors. ”
The messenger said, "I have only been ordered to put you to death, and I dare not report the words of the general to Your Majesty." Meng Tian sighed: "How did I offend God?"He was put to death without sin?After being silent for a long time, he said: "My sin should have been killed, and I went to Liaodong to build the Great Wall and dig ditches for more than 10,000 milesThe king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die!In the end, Meng Tian made the awe-inspiring decision to swallow the poison and end his life. And Cao Cao, who "coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes", highly recognized Meng Tian's words, and even read them every time he was wronged.
After Meng Tian defeated the Xiongnu and resisted the enemy for thousands of miles, he led his troops to continue to hold the border. According to the tactic of "using danger to control the blockage" and using the city wall to control the cavalry, Meng Tian mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and people to build the Great Wall, connecting the protective walls in the north of the Qin, Zhao, and Yan kingdoms during the Warring States Period, and renovating and reinforcing them.
The Great Wall of more than 5,000 kilometers, which stretches from Lintao in the west to Liaodong in the east, was built to defend the northern agricultural areas from the invasion of nomadic Hun cavalry. Meng Tian played a major role in the construction of the Great Wall, which stretched for more than 10,000 miles, leaving a huge cultural treasure to future generations. In fact, Sima Qian's evaluation of the construction of the Great Wall in Sima Qian's "Historical Records" is one-sided, he only sees the labor of the people on the construction of the Great Wall, but does not see the importance of building the Great Wall to the long-term stability of the Central Plains. Secondly, Meng Tian only connected the Great Wall of Qin, Zhao, and Yan, and the amount of work was far less than Sima Qian thought. Finally, Meng Tian and Gongzi Fusu had written to Qin Shi Huang many times to ask for the reduction of forced labor, and at the same time, they discussed with Fusu how to reasonably arrange manpower to reduce forced labor.
At the same time, Mengtian set up 44 counties along the Yellow River Loop, all of which belonged to Jiuyuan County. A set of administrative structures for border control has also been established. In 211 B.C., more than 30,000 criminals were sent to the Zhaohe and Yuzhong areas to reclaim land to develop the economy and strengthen the military reserves. These measures have played a positive role in strengthening border defense.
In addition, Meng Tian sent men and horses to build a wide straight road from Xianyang, the capital of Qin, to Jiuyuan, overcoming the dilemma of traffic congestion in Jiuyuan. This has not only strengthened the economic and cultural exchanges and integration of the people of all nationalities in the north, but more importantly, it is of great strategic significance for mobilizing the army and transporting grain, grass, equipment, and materials. General Meng Tian was stationed in the nine counties for more than ten years, and was respected and trusted by the first emperor.
Let's talk about the legend of Meng Tian and the legend of making a pen.
In 223 BC, the Qin general Meng Tian led his troops to fight abroad, and he had to write war reports regularly to submit to Qin Shi Huang. At that time, people used bamboo sticks to write, which was very inconvenient, and they had to dip it again after dipping it in ink and not writing it a few times. One day, when Meng Tian was hunting, he saw a rabbit's tail dragging blood on the ground, and he couldn't help but feel inspired.
He immediately cut off some rabbit tail hair, stuck it in a bamboo tube, and tried to use it to write. But the rabbit hair is shiny and shiny, and does not absorb ink. Meng Tian tried a few more times, but the effect still didn't work, so he casually threw the "rabbit quill" into the stone pit in front of the door. One day, he stumbled upon the brush that he had thrown away. After picking it up, he noticed that the wet rabbit fur had become whiter.
He dipped the rabbit quillin pen into the ink tray, and the rabbit tail became very "obedient" and wrote very smoothly. It turned out that the water in the pit contained calcareous. After soaking in alkaline water, the grease of the rabbit hair is removed and it becomes soft, which is said to be the origin of the brush.
In fact, the excavated artifacts have proved that the brush existed long before Meng Tian made the brush. However, as an improver of the brush making process, Meng Tian's contribution is also indispensable. It is said that Meng Tian made a pen in the Zhongshan area of Zhao Kingdom, which produced the best rabbit hair, and took the best autumn rabbit hair. The three bamboo brushes of the Qin tomb in Yunmeng, Hubei Province, use the bamboo pen tube, chisel the hole at the front end of the pen tube, insert the pen head into the hole, and make a bamboo tube of the same length as the pen tube to make the pen cover, put the brush in the pen cover, and then glue it firmly. For the convenience of taking the pen, there are 8 in the middle of the pen cover5 cm long rectangular hole groove, bamboo tube painted with black lacquer and painted with red lines. It can be seen that the production of this Qin pen has adopted a complete set of production technology, and it is quite similar to the modern pen and its production method, compared with the Chu State pen in the Warring States Period, it has made great progress.
According to legend, Meng Tian once took sheep hair in Shanlian Village to make pens, and was regarded as the ancestor of the pen by people in the local area. It is also said that Meng Tian's wife Bu Xianglian is a native of Shanlian Xibao, and she is also proficient in pen-making skills, and is offered as "pen lady". Meng Tian and his wife taught the pen-making skills to the villagers, and the local pen workers built the Menggong Temple in the west of the village in order to commemorate them, and the small river that passed around the village was renamed Mengxi, and Mengxi became another name for Shanlian.
Legend has it that March 16 and September 16 of the lunar calendar are the birthdays of Meng Tian and Bu Xianglian, and the villagers will hold a grand temple fair to commemorate their ancestors. Therefore, although Meng Tian could not obtain the patent right of the brush, the pen he made was better than that of his predecessors and contributed to the reform of the brush. There is history to see that many talented people did not die on the battlefield, but died in the hands of their own people, whether they were caught in the enemy's discordant scheme, or framed by villains, there are too many unjust deaths, and they would rather offend the gentleman than the villain, which is a summary of the lesson.