Author: Zhao Xinfang.
Yanghu (221-278), the son of the character uncle, was a native of the southwest of present-day Fei County, Shandong. He was not only an outstanding military strategist in the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, but also a literary scholar, the author of "Please Ping Wu Shu", "The Biography of Lao Tzu" and "Jin Li" and "Jin Law" that he was ordered to revise. There are many stories about him.
Taishan Goat, also known as Taishan Goat, is a goat surname scholar clan in Taishan County, ancient China, and many people in the clan held important positions in the imperial court from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Yanghu comes from this family. It is said to be Cai Yong's grandson (to be verified, because Cai Yong only has one daughter, Cai Yan). His father is the Taishou of the Shangdang, his wife is the daughter of Xiahou Ba, and his sister is the queen Jingxian, Sima Shi's successor wife.
Although he was born so noble and had an enviable family environment, he did not sit back and enjoy his success, studied hard, studied diligently, consciously and respectfully, and did nothing, and successfully avoided the wrestling between Sima Yi and Cao Shuang in the family relationship, and the possible disasters such as Xiahou Ba's surrender to Shu. Although he couldn't do without the Coats around him, his own foresight had to be admired.
At the age of 44, the Sima family, who had an in-law relationship, came to power, and Yanghu, who did not fight for power, rose to the top of the country. Although Sima Yan intends to support, he is also inseparable from his own virtues of integrity, modesty and prudence, and diligence.
Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty Sima Yan).
By the time Yanghu came out, the Shu State had already perished, and the Wu State had become the last opponent of the Jin State. He served as the left servant of the Jin State, responsible for managing the military affairs of Jingzhou and guarding Xiangyang. After his arrival, he opened a school and carefully pacified the common people, which was welcomed by everyone. The stone city 700 miles from Xiangyang was guarded by the Wu army, and the Wu army of the stone city often came to Xiangyang to harass it.
He adopted a series of clever tactics to make Wu Guo relax his vigilance and automatically withdraw the defenders of Shicheng. After the environment was relaxed, he also promptly reduced his border troops by half and used them to build military cantonments, and after a few years, more than 800 hectares of land were reclaimed, and the accumulated grain could be used for ten years of military needs. At the same time, he built five cities in dangerous places on the border, and gradually encroached on a large area of land west of the stone city of Wu over time.
On non-principled issues, he adopted a friendly and gentle approach to the soldiers and common people of Wu. The people of Wu who came to vote for the Jin Kingdom in the past wanted to go back, and he gave the green light. The soldiers went to the border of the two countries to hunt, and he repeatedly ordered that they should not cross the border, and at the same time sent people to take the initiative to send the prey hunted by the Wu people in the territory of the Jin State. At that time, the state of Wu was under the brutal rule of the last emperor Sun Hao, and many Wu people voluntarily came to join it.
After all, they are two countries, and there are occasional misfires in the border areas. Yanghu was very "moral" in war, never carried out surprise attacks, and the generals of the Wu army who died in battle, he admired his spirit of dedication to the country, and gave him a grand burial, and his family treated him with courtesy when he came to the funeral.
Once, he captured two children of the state of Wu, and he sent someone to send them back. The troops cut the grain from the farmland of Wu, and he always gave silk to the owner of the farmland as compensation. Once the lord of Wu was sick, and he also sent someone to send medicine. The people of Wu persuaded their lord not to take the medicine sent, and the lord of Wu said that he could trust Yanghu and would definitely not poison him. For a long time, the two countries maintained a state of peace and tranquility.
The brutal rule of the late emperor Sun Hao made Wu society more and more unstable, and in the winter of 266, Wu moved the capital from Wuchang back to Jianye, which made the armament of Wuchang in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River lax. In 267, Yanghu wrote to Sima Yan and asked for an immediate army to attack Wu. Sima Yan was moved, but under the interference of some opposition ministers such as Jia Chong, Xun Mian, and Feng Zhen, Sima Yan had no choice but to postpone the discussion of this important matter. Yanghu looked up to the sky and sighed, it would be a pity if he didn't hurry up.
Later, Yanghu became seriously ill, and Emperor Wu of Jin agreed to let him return to Beijing to recuperate. When he was dying, Emperor Wu of Jin, who came to see him, recommended Du Pre to take over his class. Soon after, Yanghu fell ill and died. Two years later (280), according to Yanghu's plan before his death, Du Pre and his deputy general Wang Jun led an army of 200,000 to attack Wu in six ways. In March of the following year, Wang Jun's water force first broke through Jianye and captured Sun Hao, the late emperor of Wu, and China was once again unified.
There is a touching detail in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Sima Yan came to the house to express condolences to Yanghu, and after Yanghu recommended Du Prognosis, he immediately burned the recommendation performance, Sima Yan said that the recommendation is a good thing, why burn the recommendation performance? Yanghu said that if the public recommendation of officials in the court is successful, and the person who is recommended will thank me in private, I am not willing to do this kind of thing.
Yanghu has been guarding Xiangyang for ten years and has made remarkable achievements. The people of Xiangyang commemorated him, often stopped to set up a temple for him on the Da Xian Mountain where he was alive and sang wine and words, and sacrificed all year round, and the visitors who came and went in the past generations read the inscription without being sad and weeping, so it was called "the tablet of fallen tears".
The years are not informal, and the seasons are like a stream. The Tang Dynasty poet Meng Haoran once visited this place with his friends, and wrote a poem "Ascending to the Head with the Sons" when his heart was surging: ". .The sheep monument is still there, and I am in tears after reading it. Lu You, a famous writer in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote in "Water Tune Song Head. In the words of "Duojinglou", the famous sentence "Uncle has been alone for a thousand years, and the name and the Han River flows".
About author】Zhao Xinfang is a native of Nan'an District, Chongqing.
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