Why didn't Zhao Tuo return to aid Qin and set himself up as king in Lingnan? What are the advantages of doing so?

After the death of Emperor Qin Shihuang, the tyranny of Hu Hai, his successor, Qin Ershi, caused armed uprisings in various places. Zhao Tuo was originally a general of the Qin Dynasty, and Ren Xiao went south to attack Baiyue. During the turmoil at the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo seized Lingnan and established the Nanyue Kingdom. So Zhao Tuo was originally a loyal general of Qin Shihuang's subordinates. Why did Qin Shihuang immediately turn himself into king after his death? Does he not want to return to Qin, or he already has the heart to be independent? I don’t think it’s not that Zhao Tuo really doesn’t want to return to his teacher to rescue the Qin Empire. Z1z

did not support Qin's reason:

1, from the outbreak of the Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising in 209 BC to Liu Bang’s invasion of Xianyang in 206 BC, it took only 3 years. The fate of Qin was determined by the Battle of the Giant Deer in 208 years, which was even shorter. It's only two years. There is no record that Zhao Tuo was not ordered to lead the Lingnan Qin army to rescue in the second generation. Even after the second generation saw the defeat of Julu, he rushed to order Zhao Tuo to strengthen. Based on the traffic level at the time, he ordered from Xianyang to Guangzhou. After Zhao Tuo was ready to go north to reach Guanzhong area for rescue, two years was not enough. Z1z

2. Qin started a war of 100,000 Qin troops to conquer the South Vietnam area from 219 years ago, and it was not until 214 that South Vietnam was basically calmed down. In 208, there were only six short years. I think that the Qin army has not yet established a foothold in Nanyue. If the main force of the Qin army is transferred back to the north at this time, it may even be gone.

Although Zhao Tuo’s Qin army has only 100,000 people. However, these 100,000 people will definitely not be the quality of the 300,000 prisoners led by Zhang Han Qin Jun. Since Qin Shihuang will choose these 100,000 people to go south to Nanyue, which was absolutely barren at the time. It shows that this Qin army must be one of the elites who participated in Qin's annexation of six countries. Regardless of the geographical background at the time, if this Qin army fought against the 200,000 Xiang Yu Liu Bangjun, victory would not be difficult. . It’s just that because of the initial occupation of the Lingnan area, there is no time for him to look after, and there is no way to go north. Otherwise, even for Zhao Tuo’s personal purposes, it is very possible to go north to the Central Plains to grab the chessboard with the peasant army.

So I think Zhao Tuo did not go north to rescue Qin, mainly because of the above two reasons.

set himself up as the king in Lingnan to judge the situation

According to the "Historical Records of Nanyue Biography", at that time the Southern Army was under the command of Nanhai County Lieutenant Ren Xiao, and when Ren Xiao was about to die, he would take his dragon Chuan County magistrate Zhao Tuo came to him and said to him: “I heard that Chen Sheng and others launched a rebellion. The Qin Dynasty pursued a tyrannical and innocent policy. The people all over the world felt resentful. Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, etc. At the same time, the prefectures and counties gathered the people and formed the army to fight for the world like tigers. The Central Plains was turbulent and turbulent. I don’t know when to find peace. The heroes betrayed the Qin Dynasty and opposed each other. Ren Xiao summoned Zhao Tuo and explained to him. He relied on Nanhai County’s favorable terrain near the mountains and the sea to build a country to resist the invasion plan of the Central Plains uprising troops; and immediately issued an appointment document to Zhao Tuo, letting Zhao Tuo act as Nanhai County Lieutenant, He told him "Qin Zheng has no way, Central Plains is disturbed, Panyu, the mountains are dangerous, the South China Sea is blocked, and there are thousands of miles from east to west. There are quite Chinese people who complement each other. This is also the lord of a state, and the country can be established as Qin Zheng has no way, so it is not saved. Qin Jun also sat idly by. Zhao Tuo sent instructions to the troops at various gates in Nanling to defend against danger to prevent the insurgent troops in the Central Plains from invading. He also took the opportunity to kill the officials of the Qin Dynasty placed in Nanhai County and replaced them with his cronies. Soon he established himself as the king of Nanyue.

Zhao Tuo was the deputy commander of Qin Shihuang's 500,000 army to suppress Nanyue in 219 BC until his death in 137 BC (the fourth year of the founding of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty). He participated in the governance of Lingnan for 81 years. In the meantime, he has been implementing the policy of "harmonizing the Baiyue", which promoted the integration of the Han and Vietnamese peoples and brought the advanced culture of the Central Plains to the land of Nanyue, so that Nanyue has been better developed.