Geng Yi, a general who fell in love with Liu Xiu at the age of 21 and followed Liu Xiu, pacified 46 counties for the Eastern Han Dynasty and captured more than 300 cities.
However, he has been living tremblingly, because he knows that the end of Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, is a lesson from the past. Therefore, even though he was praised by Liu Xiu as Han Xin's second, he began to hide himself, and was basically hidden by Liu Xiu, no longer as the main general of one party.
In the end, at the age of 35, he voluntarily asked for his resignation and successfully avoided becoming the second Han Shin. He was a smart man, and his political acumen was as outstanding as his military brilliance.
And the Maoling Geng family, which was laid by him, had just risen in the historical starry sky of the Eastern Han Empire at this time.
One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither. There are only a few crosses, but they show the heroism of Geng Gong, a famous general of the Han Dynasty. In 75 B.C., the Xiongnu attacked the Western Regions, Geng Gong held the city of Shule for nearly a year, the water source was cut off, he worshiped the sky, and the spring water gushed out from the ground.
Facing a desperate situation, there were only a few dozen people at one time, but no one was willing to surrender, in the face of the surrender of the Xiongnu, Geng Gong killed the messenger, and would rather die than surrender. When the Han army arrived for rescue, they wept bitterly when they saw the tragic situation of Geng Gong and others, took them back to Luoyang, and gave them the highest reward.
This is the hero, this is the backbone of the big man!
Despite the injustice, the majesty of the Maoling Geng clan has not been extinguished, and they are about to use their family forces to give the Huns the final blow. Previously, after the founding of the Western Han Dynasty in 202 BC, it has been attacked by the Huns, in order to fight against the Huns, guard the glory of the Han Dynasty, from the Han Wu Emperor Yuanguang five years (130 BC), the Han Dynasty army began to last for more than 200 years of war against the Huns, and the last battle to defeat the Huns, and finally completed the final blow by the Maoling Geng family.
In the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Emperor Yongyuan (89 AD), the Han Dynasty three-way army set out to conquer the Northern Xiongnu, among which the foreign relative Dou Xian and the famous general Geng Bing, set off from Shuofang County, located in today's Inner Mongolia, and went north, soon, under the joint command of Dou Xian and Geng Bing, Geng Yi's nephew Geng Kui and Geng Tan led the army to break the Northern Xiongnu in the battle of Jiluo Mountain, and a total of "beheaded the king has been under (one) 13,000 levels, and obtained more than 100,000 horses, cattle, sheep, and camels......(Northern Xiongnu) and other 81 led more than 200,000 people before and after the surrender of the people", in the battle of Jiluo Mountain, the Northern Xiongnu fled in a panic, the Northern Xiongnu tribe suffered a devastating blow after years of conquest, and then was unable to fight back against the Han Dynasty, and Dou Xian was in the Maoling Geng family Geng Bing, Geng Kui, Geng Tan and others under the hard fighting, climbed Yanran Mountain (now in Mongolia) Le Shi Minggong.
History has engraved the great achievements of Dou Xian Yanran, but in fact, it was the Maoling Geng family who completed the feat of annihilating the Northern Xiongnu behind the scenes. Two years after Yan Ran's relegation, in 91 AD, Dou Xian once again led the army to crusade against the last remnant of the Northern Xiongnu, in this expedition, Geng Yi's nephew Geng Kui actually only took 800 cavalry out of Yansai (now Inner Mongolia Ejina Banner), and then in Jinwei Mountain (now Altai Mountain) unexpectedly broke the royal court of the Northern Xiongnu Shan Yu, captured the mother of the Northern Xiongnu Shan Yu [yān zhī], and killed more than 5,000 people below the king of the big tribe, the Northern Xiongnu Shan Yu escaped with only a few cavalry, and then disappeared.
At that time, the Han army out of more than 5,000 miles, the captured captured Northern Xiongnu prisoners, treasures, livestock driven back to the interior, its troops far, is the Han and Hungarian war for more than 200 years in the history of the most, and after more than 200 years of Han and Hungarian war blows, under the last blow of the Maoling Geng, the remnants of the Northern Xiongnu completely collapsed, after that, the rest of the Northern Xiongnu more than 20,000 people went south to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the other remnants moved west to Central Asia and Eastern Europe, setting off a wave of barbarian migration in Europe thereafter, and eventually led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
From the fifth year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty (130 B.C.) to 91 A.D., after more than 200 years of Han-Hungarian War, the Han nation finally completely defeated the Huns, firmly defended the Chinese Empire, and achieved the first complete victory of the agricultural nation over the nomads.
After the Great War in 91 AD, Geng Kui was awarded the title of Marquis of Suyi and Qin Langguan for his merits, and then unexpectedly broke the royal court of the Northern Xiongnu in Jinwei Mountain (now Altai Mountain).
Although affected by political struggles, the Maoling Geng clan gradually declined after the third generation, among the six major meritorious families of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Maoling Geng clan was different from other families, and derived a unique family style and moral integrity.
In the historical process of founding the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Maoling Geng clan made outstanding contributions to assisting Liu Xiu in starting a business. There are six major meritorious families in the Eastern Han Dynasty, including the Deng Yu family, the Geng Yi family, the Liang Tong family, the Dou Rong family, the Ma Yuan family and the Yin family (Yin Lu, Yin Zhi) family.
In addition to the Maoling Geng clan, Liang Ji of the Liang Tong family controlled the government as a relative, arrogant and domineering, and was killed and exterminated by Emperor Huan of Han and the eunuchs. The Dou family has also experienced ups and downs several times, and its descendants have repeatedly controlled the government as foreign relatives, fought to the death with the eunuch group, and finally failed and were wiped out by the eunuch group.
The Deng Yu family, the Ma Yuan family, and the Yin family (Yin Lu, Yin Zhi) family also declined and became the sons of gentlemen. However, the Maoling Geng clan achieved self-transcendence and gradually transformed into a family.
Different from the foreign relatives group and the eunuch group, the family began to engrave the concept, integrity, ethics, pursuit and feelings into the family style, they pursued interests, but it was the interests of the family and the country.
This kind of ideal and integrity is the real core of the spirit of the scholars. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the family and the pro-Han faction believed that Cao Cao was a Han thief because Cao Cao held Emperor Xian of Han hostage.
However, throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to fight against the profit-hungry eunuch group, many family members fought with the eunuch group one after another, and even some family members were exterminated.
In the last afterglow of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the family still followed one after another. Four years after Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was held hostage by Cao Cao to Xudu, Dong Cheng and others of the scholar clan tried to assassinate Cao Cao and were exterminated.
14 years later, in the nineteenth year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (214), the Fu family tried to assassinate Cao Cao unsuccessfully, so that more than 100 people were killed by Cao Cao. At that time, Cao Cao had unified the north, and many great families had bowed down under Cao Cao's authority, and Emperor Xian of Han was a complete puppet.
However, Geng Ji decided to hit the stone with an egg and make a last stand for the Han dynasty. In the twenty-third year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (218), Geng Ji and the imperial physician Ling Jiben and others took advantage of the opportunity of the Lantern Festival to lift the curfew and tried to gather people to attack Cao Cao's prime minister's mansion.
In the final battle, Geng Ji and others were all wiped out by the three clans, and the Maoling Geng clan was tragically wiped out in this final battle. Although this battle was futile, Geng Ji and others made the final sacrifice for the sake of the Han family.
This battle also reflected the ideals and integrity of the Eastern Han family.
In the face of authority, fame, status, and glory, the descendants of this family have chosen to make the final devastating sacrifice for their ideas, integrity, ethics, pursuits, and feelings, which is an internalized sentiment and integrity that transcends the loyalty of a family and a surname.
Although they were exterminated, the spirit of the scholars they inherited was inherited in countless families such as the Langya Wang clan and the Chenjun Xie clan. In the chaotic times of Wuhu and China, it was this spirit of scholars that allowed the Chinese nation to preserve the seeds of cultural spirit, so that under the impact of Mongolia and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Chinese nation has always been tenacious.
And the legacy of this family represents the blood, fierceness, courage, morality, responsibility and unhesitation of the Han nation during the establishment period. This legacy is deeply imprinted in the blood of the Chinese nation.
Salute to these families who are still alive and well.