In 126 BC, Zhang Qian, who was forced to leave Chang'an for 13 years, finally returned to meet the Son of Heaven!
He failed to fulfill the entrustment of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to unite with the Yue clan (zhī) to fight against the Xiongnu, but he was still named Taizhong Dafu, and later was named Bowang Hou, why is this?
The time points to 139 BC.
That year, the young Zhang Qian, as a righteous envoy, set out from Chang'an and ran to the unexplored Western Regions to find the legendary Yueshi with the talisman given by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Previously, Zhang Qian was just an inconspicuous "Lang".
The trip to the Western Regions is dangerous for others, full of unknown fear and confusion.
But for the explorer Zhang Qian, it is an opportunity full of **: it is certain that when he returns, he will no longer be an unknown "Lang"!
Zhang Qian did expect the ending and predicted the hardships of the process, but he didn't expect that this time it would be 13 years, and he had a mission of more than ten years, and when he finally met the queen of the Yue family, he was like waste paper!
The funny thing is that in the more than ten years that Zhang Qian was detained by the Huns, he relied on this mission to persist in suffering until he found an opportunity to escape.
However, in the end, Zhang Qian changed his life against the sky.
There is such a story widely circulated in the grasslands:
The Huns occupied the territory of the Yue clan, cut off the leader of the Yue clan, and made his skull into a drinking vessel, and played with it at will;The Yueshi people turned their backs on their hometowns, lost their leaders, and swore bitterly that they would not be able to stand with the Xiongnu!Be sure to avenge the chief!
The Son of Heaven asked the Huns to descend, and they all said that the Huns broke the king of the Moon Clan, and used their heads as drinking vessels, and the Yue Clan fled and complained about the Huns, and there was no way to fight them. - "Historical Records".The fierce Xiongnu on the grassland, like a wild wolf, bloodthirsty and ** peep at the rich wealth of the Han Dynasty from time to time.
Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, once thought of beating the Huns in one go, but was surrounded by the Huns in Baideng and almost met the king of Hades. Since then, the Han Dynasty has basically relied on sending women and relatives to quell the Xiongnu rebellion, and has never thought of taking the initiative to fight against this wild wolf.
But Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was different.
The throne of the Han Dynasty passed to Liu Che's generation, and after many years of recuperation, Liu Che felt that he had the capital to help the founding emperor to be ashamed.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty grasped the training of the army on the one hand;On the one hand, the national finances were collected, and industries such as salt and iron were all nationalized and monopolizedOn the one hand, he collected information about the Xiongnu and formulated a battle plan against the Xiongnu.
In the process of collecting intelligence, the Yue clan appeared in front of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty many times, especially when he heard the slaves of the Xiongnu say that the Yue clan had a feud with the Xiongnu.
As the saying goes, "the enemy of the enemy is the friend", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty summed up the situation of the enemy and the enemy, and decided to give it a try, unite the enemy's enemy, and give the enemy a fatal blow!
The Han side wants to destroy Hu, hearing this, if you want to make a messenger, the road will be more Huns, and it is a messenger who can recruit energy. - "Historical Records".After the majestic Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty summed it up, he began to recruit envoys, Zhang Qian, the little-known "Lang", stood out.
Sima Qian wrote in the "Historical Records" that Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions to find the Yue clan must pass through the Xiongnu.
No matter how they disguised themselves, the team of more than 100 people still attracted the attention of the Huns.
As soon as the team came out of the border of Longxi, it was outflanked by the Huns, and then it was brought to the Huns as slaves and fed horses and chopping firewood.
Fortunately, after catching Zhang Qian's Shan Yu, who was ambitious and a little brainy, after judging Zhang Qian's intention to envoy to the Western Regions, he chose to coerce and lure Zhang Qian, trying to make Zhang Qian use it for him.
He married Zhang Qian to a beautiful Xiongnu woman, and this woman also gave Zhang Qian a smart and lovely son.
But Zhang Qian is not stupid, although he likes power, he is more loyal to his motherland and understands his responsibilities.
Therefore, Zhang Qian chose to take the plan as if he were fatal, and "enjoyed" the beauty and privileges given to him by the Huns, so as to paralyze the Huns.
In the long paralysis and waiting, Zhang Qian, after being detained by the Huns for more than ten years, finally waited for the opportunity to escape: the Huns thought that the Han people had become Xiongnu, and gradually relaxed their care of Zhang Qian
After going through thousands of hardships, Zhang Qian, with the help of King Dawan, found the Dayue clan.
But the Otsutsuki clan is in a safe corner, and has long lost the determination to take revenge.
Zhang Qian's persuasion failed, so he lived in the Da Yue clan for more than 1 year, observing and experiencing the folk customs and folk customs of the countries in the Western Regions, and most importantly, collecting all kinds of combat intelligence in order to report to the Son of Heaven, after all, the Da Yue clan no longer wants to fight the Huns, Zhang Qian, who has left Chang'an for more than ten years, can not cry to the leader empty-handed: Leader, your decision is not right, the Da Yue clan has long not wanted to do the Huns;I was arrested by the Huns and detained for more than ten years, but I still didn't forget my original intention and found the Dayue clan!
As a subordinate, Zhang Qian must share his worries and solve problems for the leaders and list various alternatives.
Therefore, he stayed in Yueshi for more than a year, collected all kinds of intelligence, and created all kinds of favorable conditions for fighting the Xiongnu;After returning to Chang'an, he reported his intelligence and analysis to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
Although the Yue clan didn't want to fight against the Xiongnu, the Western Regions was an important grain and land for the Xiongnu, and if the Han Dynasty could take control of the Western Regions, it would be a huge blow to the Xiongnu!
When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty heard this, it made sense, and he set out to control the Western Regions, and by the way, he promoted Zhang Qian.
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