Zu Ti: A famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who died before the Northern Expedition, who often made heroes cry

Although there is Kuang Jixin, it will be a happy person

The title of the poem was written by Li Bai, he was sighing at people like Zudi, I was determined to help the Jin room and regain the land, but in the end he was framed by the court and became a criminal. While lamenting that he had not met his talents, he was also grateful that the result was much better than that of the ancestors. At least, Li Bai can roam and enjoy the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

Mention Zu Ti, everyone should be very impressed, because he has a famous label, which is the idiom "smell the chicken and dance", but even so, the understanding of him is still very vague, and his I guess many people can’t read the name accurately, because I have pronounced it as "enemy" for a long time. In fact, this word should be pronounced (tì for the sound), which means far, and the original meaning of juvenile is late mature Paddy, this seems to fit exactly with the actual situation of Zuti's late blooming.

Zu Ti, with the word Shiya, was born in Baoding, Hebei, and a military strategist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was born in Fanyang Zu clan, served as Huqi Jijiu, Prince Zhongsheren and other positions. Later, he led the party to escape chaos in Jianghuai and was awarded the title of General Fenwei and Yuzhou Provincial Governor. He led the northern expedition and regained a large area south of the Yellow River in a few years, making Shile afraid to invade south.

However, because of the strong power, he was jealous of the Eastern Jin court. Later, the ancestors witnessed the conflicts between the courts, and the national affairs were frustrated. He died of anxiety and anger. At the age of 56, he was given away as a chariot general, and his tribe was taken over by his younger brother Zuyue. The great cause of the Northern Expedition also failed. He was loved by the people during his lifetime. After his death, the Qiaoliang people built an ancestral hall for him.

The ancestor's family lived in the north for a long time and belonged to the Northland tribe, with high officials of two thousand stone for generations. Fanyang was the site of the Yan Kingdom when it was in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Since ancient times, Yanzhao has produced many generous and tragic people, while literati and mosques are rare. Zuti has such a chivalrous aftertaste in his body. When he was young, he was born to be unconventional. He did not stick to the trivial, cares about money and righteousness, is generous and ambitious.

However, he was far behind in reading. The book stated that he was "sexy, he did not repair the instrument, and he was still an unknown book in the fourteenth year of the year." But for some reason, he suddenly woke up and studied hard. Reading books, studying the past and present, made great gains. Later, he was named Xiaolian. Perhaps, although he was an official at the time, he was a family leader, but if he really didn't know a few characters, I would be a little embarrassed to come.

He made friends with Liu Kun, who was also a famous general in the Jin Dynasty. The idiom “Wearing the Chicken and Dancing” refers to these two people. Somehow, Liu Kun retired from it in the later idiom. This may be because of Zu Ti’s Northern Expedition, especially after the Song Dynasty, this Zu Ti has always been a spokesperson for inspiring the restoration of the Central Plains, and also a model before inspiring future generations to advance.

Both of them are heroic. They often talk about major events in the world. They can't fall asleep in the middle of the night excitedly. They fill each other with chicken soup: "If the world is boiling and the heroes stand together, I and my step should avoid Zhongyuan's ears." It sounds a bit of a heroic taste.

Eight kings are in chaos and the world is fighting. When Zuti was 25 years old, he fought with three Sima families successively, and his official positions gradually expanded from Jiu Jiu, Master Book, and Zhonglang. But when the Hu people also got in, after they captured Luoyang and massacred the city, the Han people in the Central Plains could no longer play, and the five chaos in China, the darkest era in Chinese history has arrived.

During the Yongjia Rebellion, the Han people in the Central Plains had ten rooms and nine empty houses, and a large number of Han people went to the south. Zu Ti also led the township people to seek refuge in the south. He put his car, horse, food, medicine, clothes, etc. Take them out and share them. The expenses of these hundreds of companies are not small, but he, as the "host" of this ethnic group, has inherent heroic pride and great sense of security for everyone, and it is precisely under his leadership. Safe Nandu.

Don’t underestimate the four words "safe southern crossing", the current situation is chaotic, thieves are everywhere, not to mention the warlords, local tyrants, begging troops and other armed forces, even the refugees are mutual for survival. Looting, there is also a category of people who are specialized in getting rich by robbery. For example, Shi Chong, who later became rich in an enemy country, made money by looting merchant ships.

Since everyone is doing this business, Zu Ti is certainly the same, but he himself does not shy away from doing such a thing. Someone came to Zuti’s house as a guest and saw many rare treasures in his home. He told them directly that they were robbed by himself. Later generations called this story "Nantang Yichang" because he robbed them. Nantang was a place where the wealthy gathered at that time.

He also has a group of people called guest righteous people who have just arrived in this unfamiliar Jiangnan, in order to survive, they also do some looting. It can also be imagined that there are many people doing it anyway. If he wants to realize his great aspiration of the Northern Expedition, everything depends on talent to speak. So some people put this robbing of wealth and self-help on the righteousness of the nation, so Zuti has also become a chivalrous thief, forget it, I will not comment on this.

After the Nandu, Sima Rui of the Eastern Jin Dynasty still values ​​Zu Ti very much. First, he was named a general Fenwei, and then he added a Yuzhou governor. This is a bit of a trick. Yuzhou is in the Central Plains and has already been The squabbling of Husbands made it uninhabited, and it was in the hands of Hou Zhao Shile.

Sima Rui’s thoughts are actually not difficult to understand. Of course, we must support the restoration of the homeland, but the most important thing is to gain a firm foothold in Jiangdong, and the rest will be discussed later. But Zu Ti is a strong man who has made the Northern Expedition and restored the country. Then give you the Yuzhou, if you have the ability to lay down, the land is yours. As for the military expenses, please understand. They only gave Zuti 1,000 people’s food and 3,000 pieces of cloth, and if the armor was not given, the soldiers would recruit themselves.

This Zuti is really bloody, and he took a thousand little brothers across the river to the North Expedition, and the ship reached the middle stream, and he fought hard and vowed: "Zu Ti Those who cannot clear the Central Plains and restore the economy are like a big river!" The rhetoric is heroic, and everyone sighs. Great Jiangdong never returns, Zuti means that he will never return without success. This is also the source of the idiom "Zhongliu hit Ji".

With this little faction, it is very difficult for the people to make great achievements immediately, and the food and grass are also unsustainable. Therefore, after Zu Ti has recruited several migrants, he began to attack Wu Fort. The so-called Wubao is a kind of stronghold built by some wealthy houses in order to protect themselves.

According to Mr. Chen Yinke’s textual research, the dock that Zu Ti attacked was Taoyuan as Tao Yuanming referred to. It was made up of powerful and powerful refugees who had failed to cross the southern border. They defended themselves according to risks and formed a semi-militarized unit. Old and weak plowing the fields and weaving, strong men resist foreign invasion. These docks were large and small, and they also attacked each other. Once they were breached, men were killed or incorporated, and women were robbed of food. In other words, Zu Ti’s actions at this time were actually indistinguishable from bandits.

Zu Ti accumulated strength and began to confront Shile head-on. Due to the support of the local people and repeated victories, the southern part of the Yellow River was the land of Shanxi. He is very capable of leadership, and his subordinates will be rewarded for their small achievements. The book contains "Professional and frugal, persuade the farming mulberry, self-restraint, no animal assets, the children work hard, bear the lumber salary, but also bury the dead bones, for the sacrifice, the people feel happy."

he had bought wine There was a sense of elders in the local celebrities who said, "We are so old! What a hatred for our parents!" Naige said, "Fortunately, I will be free from prisoners, and I will meet my beloved father and Xuanjiu. Forget about the sweetness of the sugar, why chant grace and dance." From this perspective, Zu Ti is still very popular.

However, just as Zu Ti was fighting hard and pushing forward and crossing the river to clear Ji Shuo, the imperial court was worried that he would support himself and his tail would be too big, so he sent Dai Ruosi as the governor to Zu Ti’s superior, who was actually the supervising army. Zu Ti was very unhappy and surprised. Worried that when Dai Ruosi came to hinder his great cause of the Northern Expedition, he felt sick and died in anger. He was 56 years old.

The highlights of Zu Ti’s life are concentrated in the latter half of the Northern Expedition. He is praised as a national hero by later generations, and he is also crowned as "He died before he became a master. Makes the hero burst into tears." But I think the so-called national hero at this time is nothing more than saying that he is fighting against the Huren, and this is the so-called Huren. Many of them are actually Han. Besides, many Huren are also consciously aware. Or unconsciously accepting Sinicization, especially in the Northern Wei Dynasty, even if Shile was the main attacker of ZutiHe is also a native of Yushe, Shanxi. Is it possible to say that as long as he is fighting across the river, he can be regarded as a national hero.

Zu Ti died before the Northern Expedition, which is really embarrassing, but judging from the situation at the time, it is still not the time, that is, the situation has not yet reached the time when the Central Plains can be restored. In the place where Zuti recovered, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was the rear base area, could not provide him with logistical support. It would be unsustainable to rely on his own supply alone, so failure was also inevitable.

Furthermore, the imperial court officials acted to restrain Zu Ti and died because of this anger. In fact, I think it is appropriate to say whether Zu Ti thinks too much, or if his temperament is slightly smaller. I think that the Sima family itself is a powerful minister, and it finally achieved the purpose of usurping the throne when they held military power. Their control of military power is highly sensitive. It should be said that it is a normal administrative arrangement to send a supervisor to Zuti to supervise. Ti can only be directly governed by the emperor.

So I think that Zuti’s death should not be caused by the imperial court sent people to suppress anxiety and indignation, because the people who came are not yet in place, and you don’t know how to come. Whether people support you or make trouble for you, in case it is someone who is of great help to you, it is not known how, as soon as the court announces that Zuti will arrange a boss, this Zuti will be "sorrowed and angry." Isn't this a weird thing.

To sum up, the reasons for Zuti’s failure in the Northern Expedition were many. It was not that the Eastern Jin regime did not support it, but that the national power at that time was not able to compete with the north. The Eastern Jin regime’s first solution was internal The stability of the army can only be symbolic support. Therefore, Zuti relied on the soldiers recruited by the people to fight with the all year round. The well-trained northern army went shopping. Although he had won some victories, it was short-lived. Sexual, failure is inevitable.

Zu Ti’s achievements in the Northern Expedition are somewhat accidental, that is to say, there are some luck factors. At that time, the Huns noble Liu Yao and the leader of the Jie clan clashed with each other, which gave the ancestors a fight. Ti provides an opportunity to take advantage of contradictions and defeat each other.

It is good to say that Zu Ti was worried and angry and died, but he was worried that the Northern Expedition could not be sustained, the ideal could not be realized, the promise could not be honored, and the pride of slaughtering Ji was in reality. In front of him, he pushed himself to a dead end, made meritorious deeds, and served the court as impossible. This is what Zuti worries about. And to say that Zu Ti was frustrated and dying because of the Northern Expedition was fettered. It is a bit taken for granted. It is to exaggerate the image of Gao Zuti. Even if there is, Zu Ti himself was too worried.

Another digression, Zu Ti was later annihilated, but this has nothing to do with Zu Ti. After his death, his younger brother Zu Yue took over his subordinates. He was trusted by people with the help of his brother’s aura. Quan Qing, but later because he was dissatisfied with the imperial court for not reusing him, he led the entire family to defect after Zhao, that is, defected to his brother Zuti's dead opponent Shi Le.

Shi Le never put Zuyue in his eyes. At the instigation of the power ministers, the Zu clan was invited to the capital and deployed heavy soldiers in the banquet room to escort the Zu clan males to the market for execution. Women are slaves and servants. If the ancestors are aware of Jiuquan, I don't know what to think.