Why do so many people want to praise Li Guang and step on Wei Qing? In a word, scholars have been useless since ancient times
Because they're all talking about themselves. Li Guang is the shadow of their "talents", who is from a famous family and cannot be reused. And Wei Qing was born as a slave, but under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he relied on his talents to rise to prominence, except for the time when Zhao Xin rebelled, he was almost invincible. This is absolutely difficult for them to accept.
And most of the literati are unwilling (appreciated by the boss), and they don't seem to be hard-headed, so they use Li Guang to comfort themselves. What about a hard head? Li Guang was hard-headed, and finally committed suicide without being crowned. In the battle of Moxi, Li Guang pinned down King Zuoxian, and 5,000 cavalry fought against King Zuoxian 40,000, and the battle losses were equal. In the battle of Mobei, Huo Qubing beat King Zuoxian, 50,000 cavalry + more than 100,000 infantry, and sealed the wolf.
As the second strongest Xiongnu, King Zuo Xian only has a "mentally retarded" like Li Guang, who dares to attack with 5,000 people. What's even more ridiculous is that Wei Qing became famous, and Li Guang dared to attack north from Yanmen with 5,000 people. Out of the Yanmen to the north, the route of death, none of the past dynasties have been victorious, including Liu Bang and Yang Guang. Li Guang's hard head stems from the mentally handicapped, and the literati of the past dynasties are not mentally retarded, so they laugh at Li Guang and light Weiqing.
Li Guang himself also has a big reason, when he pacified Wu Chu, he actually accepted the finance given by the king of Liang, resulting in military merits were not rewarded, and he liked to take risks in fighting with the Huns, relying on his high martial arts to fight the crowd less, and many times his soldiers were killed and wounded, and he was also captured by the Huns. Wei Qing is the head of the word, every time there is a big soldier palace, he is outnumbered by the crowd, even if he does not win, he will not be defeated, so the credit is getting bigger and bigger, Wei Qing is steady and steady, not to mention how high the command art is, but he never takes risks, so it is difficult to fail once.
Li Guang's grandson, Li Ling, inherited Li Guang's adventurist spirit and asked Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to bring 5,000 infantry to sweep the Xiongnu, but the whole army was annihilated and captured. Cheng does not know the evaluation of Li Guang, Li Guang leads the troops freely and loosely without discipline, but in the event of a Hun raid, the whole army will be wiped out, Cheng does not know how to lead the troops The discipline is very strong, the soldiers are very hard but have not failed, which shows that Li Guang has a problem with the method of leading the troops, it is not normal to be able to seal the marquis, it is normal not to be a marquis, and the probability of his method of leading troops to fight is very low, because the probability of failure is too high.
There is also Wei Qing who does not conform to the literati's setting of the general, which makes the literati unhappy, they feel that the general should die on the battlefield, be shrouded in horse leather, or be killed by the emperor, they feel that Wei Qing has made a bad start, that is, the generals can actually be meritorious and die well, which is not good for the stability of the country, and the sword should be cast into a ploughshare after the war is over, and existence itself is a mistake.
These literati and all regard themselves as high-minded, and they hope that they will be valued by the court and even the emperor, just like Jiang Ziya and Zhuge Liang. However, they do not have any great talents for governing the country, and they are often not very ambitious, in this case, they must be unwilling to see people from domestic slaves making meritorious achievements, which is also the reason why they belittle Wei Qing and respect Li Guang, because Li Guang is not willing to do so at the same time and has some grievances with Wei Qing.
People should respect people who are more capable than themselves, just like Su Shi, Su Shi did not have any military merits, but viciously attacked Wei Qing, in this matter, Su Shi was very shameless. Su Shi is very talented in literature, people like him and respect him, but Su Shi's vicious attack on Wei Qing is a big stain on Su Shi.
The civil officials of the Song Dynasty did their best to suppress the military generals for their own selfish interests, and their behavior was very harmful to the country and the nation. One of the major flaws of the Song Dynasty was that it did not trust the military generals, which led to the fact that the Song Dynasty was never strong and brilliant, and the history of the Song Dynasty was humiliating. Because the emperor of the Song Dynasty did not trust the generals, and because the civil officials of the Song Dynasty tried their best to suppress the generals, the Song Dynasty became a very humiliating king