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During the Jianwu period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, severe drought broke out in the Mongolian grassland, and thousands of miles of naked land, and people and animals starved to death one after another. The subsequent plague swept across the grassland tribes, and the powerful Hun Khanate divided the north and south. At that time, the Southern Xiongnu crawled under the Jinlong banner of the Han Dynasty, while the Northern Xiongnu were chased by the Han army. They crossed Jinwei Mountain, crossed Central Asia, and rushed to Europe.
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Southern Xiongnu were unwilling to serve the Han Dynasty, so they privately killed the pro-Han Shanyu Qiangqu and confronted the Han Dynasty. However, Yu Fuluo, the son of Qiang Qu, led the remaining troops to flee to the Han area. But after witnessing the split between the Han area with his own eyes, Fuluo's heart became enraged and also started to rob the family and claim to be the king. In
216, Cao Cao unified the north, and the various Xiongnu tribes successively came to surrender and re-entered under the Han Dynasty. In order to divide the Huns' forces, Cao Cao divided the Huns into five divisions on the left, left, north and south, and set up Sima to supervise the Huns' divisions. Among them, Liu Bao, the son of Yu Fuluo, was named the commander of the left division, and Liu Yuan was Liu Bao's eldest son.
Liu Yuan, a native of Xinzhou, Shanxi, is a direct descendant of the Maodun Shanyu family of the Xiongnu. Because the princess Liu surnamed joined the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty, after the Southern Xiongnu moved inward, most nobles took "Liu" as their surname to demonstrate their noble status.
Liu Yuan lived in the Han area since he was a child. He studied Han culture and was familiar with classics, history, philosophers, collections and military books. He has always had great ambitions and often said to people: "Suihe and Lu Jia followed Liu Bang but could not make achievements. Guan Ying and Zhou Bo met Liu Heng but failed to start education. I feel ashamed." For this reason, he worked hard to practice martial arts, studied riding and shooting, and gradually became a genius who was both civil and military.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, most people judged the fortune of others by their appearance. Liu Yuan is handsome, tall, and elegant. He will be praised whenever he is a good scholar. After Wang Hun, a great clan of Taiyuan, he praised him very much:
"This person has a very good appearance, I have never heard of it."
264, Liu Yuan entered Luoyang as the proton of the Huns. In the capital of the Great Wei Dynasty, Liu Yuan was deeply trusted by Sima Zhao and often invited him to visit the palace. After Sima Yan usurped the Wei Dynasty, he favored Liu Yuan even more. While chatting with Wang Ji, Sima Yan praised Liu Yuan in public;
"Liu Yuan's appearance is a clever secret, Yu and Jin Riyi are not as good as him."
As the son of Wang Hun, Wang Ji was influenced by his father since he was a child and maintained a close relationship with Liu Yuan. He took this opportunity to submit a memorial request from Sima Yan to take Liu Yuan as the commander to conquer the Wu Kingdom. However, before Sima Yan issued the order, he was fiercely opposed by Kong Xun and Yang Gui. In Kong Xun's eyes, Liu Yuan had lofty ambitions and outstanding talents. He was definitely not a person who had been under the control of others for a long time. Once he led his troops south to pacify Wu, he would destroy the Sun family and support the Liu family.
The kind man in Sima Yan's eyes
Not long after, the Di chieftain rebelled, and Liu Yuan's friend in the court, Li Rong, strongly advocated Liu Yuan to quell the rebellion, but was opposed by Kong Xun again. At that time, Li Xian was furious and denounced Kong Xu as jealous of his talents and his ability and meddling in other people's business. However, Kong Xun said:
"If Liu Yuan killed the tree function and seized Liangzhou, it would be a disaster for Liangzhou. If the dragon gets clouds and rain again, how could it curl up in the pool again!"
The chance of turning over twice in a row was destroyed by Kong Xun, and Liu Yuan was a little discouraged. In 278, Wang Mi, who was known as a knight, passed by Luoyang, and Liu Yuan specially arranged a banquet for him on the Jiuqu Riverside. However, when talking about the kindness of Wang Hun and Li Ying, Liu Yuan burst into tears and burst into tears. He sighed:
"From now on, I'm afraid I'll die of old age in Luoyang, I'll be farewell to you." After saying that, the two of them whistled to the sky, expressing their dissatisfaction, and then sang sadly again, drinking freely.
Liu Yuan's "unsatisfied" performance was seen by Sima You, who was entertaining guests not far away. He hurried to the palace and asked Sima Yan to kill Liu Yuan in person to eliminate future troubles.At this critical moment, Wang Hun actually guaranteed Liu Yuan with the lives of the whole clan's elders and young people, saving Liu Yuan's life.
Not only did Sima Yan not kill Liu Yuan, he also released him to the Huns a few months later, and ordered Liu Yuan to inherit the commander of the left. It is worth mentioning that just five years after Sima You asked for the execution of Liu Yuan, Sima Yan forced this talented and charismatic brother to death on the grounds that Sima You threatened his rule. However, Liu Yuan, who Sima You feared, was granted the title of the Northern Commander and held the military power of the left Xiongnu.
After Sima Yan's death, the father-in-law Yang Jun took over the Great Jin regime. He had no talent and was worried that Sima and the kings would not accept it, so he tried his best to win over Liu Yuan as a foreign aid. At that time, the Jin Dynasty was strong, and Liu Yuan had few soldiers and had few generals, so he had to surrender to Yang Jun's command and pretend to serve him.
291, Yang Jun was killed, and the Sima kings entered the capital one after another to disrupt the government and attack each other, resulting in a sharp decline in military strength and a decline in people's livelihood. In order to seize the power of the court, Sima Ying, who was in charge of Yecheng, took advantage of the emperor's brother to specially ordered Liu Yuan to supervise the military affairs of the five Xiongnu tribes.
Shortly after Liu Yuan was granted the title of title, Liu Yuan's uncle Liu Xuan summoned the nobles of various tribes of the Xiongnu to have a secret talk. They jointly recommended Liu Yuan as the main force, hoping to take advantage of the chaos in the world to revive the country and restore the business, and recreate the glory of the Huns in the past. However, Liu Yuan was trapped in Yecheng and was unable to escape for a long time. After taking leave with Sima Ying but failed, Liu Yuan ordered Hu Yanyou to return to the Huns and recruited five troops and the powerful troops of the Hu to wait for the opportunity.
304, the dizzy Sima Ying deposed the crown prince Sima Qin and held Sima Zhong hostage to rule the world. However, Sima Teng, Wang Jun and others joined forces with the Xianbei and Wuhuan to attack Sima Ying. Sima Ying was defeated and asked for help from Liu Yuan in panic. After staying in Yecheng for many years, Liu Yuan finally waited for a good opportunity to escape. He tricked Sima Ying on the pretext of returning to the Huns to transfer troops and left Yecheng to the east.
Liu Yuan died of illness
As the saying goes, "The dragon finally returns to the sea", as soon as Liu Yuan arrived at Zuoguocheng, he threw Sima Ying behind. He was respected as the Great Shanyu by the five tribes, holding 50,000 powerful soldiers in his hand, and was eyeing the Great Jin Dynasty. While chatting with Liu Xuan, Liu Yuan once said:
"Dayu went to the Western Rong, King Wen was born in the Eastern Yi, and heaven gave him people with virtue. Now we carry tens of thousands of armor, all of which can be ten. Going south will surely destroy the Great Jin and achieve the great cause of Emperor Gaozu of Han. Even if not, we will not lose the hegemony of Cao Wei."
Liu Yuan's wolf ambition is obvious. However, he was not a brave but unscrupulous man. He had been immersed in the Han area for decades. He knew that in the name of restoring the Huns, he would inevitably arouse strong opposition from the Jin people. Therefore, Liu Yuan respected Liu Chan as Emperor Xiaohuai, established the country with his descendants of the Han Dynasty, proclaimed himself the King of Han, and changed his reign to Yuanxi.
After Liu Yuan founded the country, Wang Mi, Shi Le and others came to join forces and became important generals under Liu Yuan's command. As for the Great Jin Dynasty, Liu Yuan launched a crazy attack. In the battle of Daling, Liu Yuan defeated the Jin Dynasty general Nie Xuan and occupied most of Bingzhou. Not long after, he adopted the advice of the Han minister Wang Yu, bypassed Liu Kun, who was a headache for him, and attacked Luoyang from all sides.
However, under Luoyang City, Liu Yuan believed in the prophecy of "Xinwei's year of success", and stopped attacking Jin, but instead governed the national affairs and rectified people's livelihood, waiting for the arrival of the "Xinwei year". In 310, 60-year-old Liu Yuan did not wait for the "Xinwei Year", but waited for his death. Six years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Yuan died of serious illness and left the throne to his eldest son Liu He.
When Liu Yuan first started his rebellion, he recruited soldiers and won the hearts of the people, but he had some cleverness. However, his capital for making his fortune was mainly the five Xiongnu tribes. Faced with these tigers and wolves, Liu Yuan's method of "governing the country with Confucianism" could not restrain the kings and generals at all. Therefore, in the middle and late period of Liu Yuan's rule, the Huns' tribes plundered the property and children of the people in the country, burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. Accompanying the first country of the sixteen countries was the corpses everywhere, the bones were covered with and the ten or two were left. The source of all this disaster did not come from the enemy, but from the Hu and Han division within the "Han".
After Liu Yuan's death, Liu He, who succeeded to the throne, extended his claws to his younger brothers. Among the descendants left by Liu Yuan, five people died in destruction and became the souls of Liu He's sword. However, Liu He was not satisfied. His purpose was to kill all Liu Yuan's sons except him. The pretentious Liu Yuan must have never imagined that the world after his death was far more exciting than before.
