Zhang Liang, whose name is Shiyan, comes from the Anding Wu clan in the Guyuan area of Ningxia today, and his family has been prominent for generations. According to the record of "Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms", his ancestor Zhang Er, the king of Changshan Jing in the Western Han Dynasty, was one of the heroes who helped Liu Bang fight the world.
And his ancestors came from the Western Han Dynasty, his grandfather was a county magistrate in the Cao Wei era, his father was a Taiguan commander, and his mother Xin was a scholar family in the Longxi area. It can be said that Zhang Liang is not only from a family of eunuchs, but also an out-and-out rich second generation.
The rich second generation is often misunderstood as a gentleman, but Zhang Liang is a good boy with excellent character and learning, with his excellent personal ability, he became an official in the court in the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty.
However, the Western Jin Dynasty regime was very short, and civil strife was frequent, and it was difficult to be an official in Beijing at that time, so to be honest, Zhang Liang did not mix well in the imperial court. In addition, the Eight Kings Rebellion broke out soon after, and these benevolent brothers of the Sima family started a big fight, and the political atmosphere of the entire Western Jin Dynasty court became even more smoky.
The situation is chaotic, and Zhang Liang is a little unable to sit still. Being an official in the imperial court not only has a hopeless future, but if you can't keep it, you will lose your life because of the power struggle one day.
In this case, Zhang Rail decided to find another way. According to the "Book of Jin", he secretly planned to base Hexi with many difficulties.
The Hexi Corridor in western China is located south of the Alxa Plateau and north of the Qilian Mountains. This area, far from the power struggle, has brought new hope to Zhang Liang. He firmly believes that if he can win Hexi, he will be able to achieve a career.
If you don't dare to do it, you don't dare to think about it. So, Zhang Liang wrote to the imperial court, saying that he wanted to be sent to work in the Hexi area. The imperial court was very happy that someone was willing to go to the west to engage in development, so it immediately appointed him as the assassin of Liangzhou.
However, after arriving in Liangzhou, Zhang Liang found that things were not as simple as he imagined. The people in the court who were more far-sighted than him grabbed a lot of them, and they all thought of the development of Hexi, but they also thought of the extremely fierce Xianbei nomads in Hexi.
If Zhang Liang wants to realize his ideals, he has to clean them up first.
Zhang Liang, a Xianbei man, showed a deep literati spirit during the Two Jin Dynasty and was good at poetry and painting, but when he was asked to go to the battlefield, he resolutely refused. The author believes that if Zhang Liang had known about this situation before, he might have changed his mind.
But now, there is no turning back for him. He must choose, either to recover Hexi, or to bury his bones in the desert, they are all similar roads, but it depends on how Zhang Liang chooses.
Faced with the threat of the Xianbei people, Zhang Liang felt lost and retreated. However, his heart is full of waiting for opportunities and anticipation of changing his fate. He had waited for many years, and for this moment, he had paid silently.
Everyone's life seems to be spent in waiting, waiting for opportunities, waiting for good luck, waiting for the turning point of life. However, what people end up waiting for is often death.
While death represents the end of everything, birth represents a new beginning. Death is not terrible, what really makes people feel hopeless are those who are alive but confused, they are like walking corpses, with no meaning in life.
And those Beijing officials who were waiting for death, the power struggle of the vassal kings, and their own coming to Guliangzhou were all just going to die in the end. However, if Zhang Liang can't change the outcome of his death, then he can at least write about his own death process.
He decided to give it a go and never back down. Facts have proved that he did not give up, but bravely faced difficulties, scattered his family wealth, and raised troops to revolt. After several years of hard work, he finally put down the riots in Hexi and achieved his goal.
After Zhang Liang put down the rebellion in Hexi, he immediately adopted the policy of resuming production, encouraging agriculture and commerce, recuperating and recuperating, and treated the people of Li with kindness, so that Hexi was in order, and the people attached themselves to him, and Zhang Liang became a real overlord in the Hexi area.
However, at this time, the world was already in turmoil, and many overlords, tyrants, and princes were no longer subject to the control of the imperial court. Due to the lack of good emperors in the ranks of the Jin emperors, these tyrants of the Ripping Autonomy showed no mercy to the imperial court.
From a formal point of view, they are still the official of the imperial court, and they are added to the rank of assassin in various places, but in fact they are not under the management of the imperial court. Even if they are unwilling to be controlled, out of the requirements of etiquette, as a local **, they also need to pay tribute to the imperial court on time to show the etiquette of the monarch and the minister.
However, most of the heroes severed their ties with the imperial court, whether it was important people or money. Only Zhang Liang, although he was in Hexi, he would send envoys to pay tribute every time according to the regulations, and he never stopped throughout the year, and this behavior was approved by the imperial court, which made his own illegal secession behavior gain unique legitimacy.
Zhang Liang's ability to govern the local area is indeed outstanding, especially among the broad masses of the people, and he has laid a solid foundation. Whether it is the Western Jin Dynasty or the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the gate lord clan is an unavoidable topic.
These great families in the land of China are powerful and intertwined, which is enough to influence the political wind.
Although Zhang Liang faced a rebellion in Liangzhou, the people supported him more. Although he had little interest in the hegemony of the king, he actively helped the imperial court to quell rebellions on all sides. He sees saving a hopeless regime as his own business, not caring about the outcome, only asking if it should.
Zhang Liang's behavior shows his righteousness and selfless dedication, and this spirit is worth learning from.
Sima Ye's image: Stick to the court, unswerving, Zhang Liang is loyal to the country, consistent, he is indeed worthy of the glory of the family, and he is worthy of the praise of Sima Ye, the emperor of Jinshu.
Quan Jin Wen" wrote: "Weier Liangzhou stabbed Shi Zhang Rail, is the heart of the royal family, the flag is flying thousands of miles, the star gallop lightning, marching into Qinlong, should work together to restore the Central Plains." ”
The flag is flying thousands of miles, the stars are flying, what a pride, what a grand ambition! In the fourth year of Jiaping (314), in May, outside the city of Liangzhou, the dead trees are new green, the barren grass is green, although everything is recovering, but the real spring has not yet arrived.
Liangzhou, which is today's Wuwei in Gansu, is the Kyoto of Wuliang, the capital of Hexi, and the largest ancient city in the northwest after Chang'an. In the vast wind and sand, Zhang Liang suddenly fell ill and finally died.
Before he died, he did not leave any great plans or tricks for governing the country, but just said calmly: "The plain coffin is buried thinly, there is no gold and jade, and the good looks are peaceful, so as to listen to the decree of the court." ”
After I die, I don't want a grand funeral, I don't want gold and silver utensils, I only need a wooden coffin, as long as the hundred officials in Liangzhou can report to the country and the people, I will die without complaint.
Guliangzhou) wind and sand raging, a leaf of petals fluttering in the yellow sand. The wind does not know where it comes, and the leaves do not know where it goes. Just like at this moment, the fate of people in troubled times is full of confusion and unknown.
The glory of the Jin Dynasty has become a thing of the past, and the legend of the Sixteen Kingdoms is slowly kicking off. The Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji once wrote: Longtou Road is not good, and Hu rode into Liangzhou City at night. The Han soldiers died many battlefields, and once lost all of Longxi.
Zhang Liang's ambition to break into Liangzhou alone is now only turned into dust, buried deep in the dust of history.