Nowadays, some historians in Vietnam miss the period when Vietnam and China "divided rivers to rule", and even drew the largest territory of Vietnam in history. It was like dividing rivers with China to rule. It can be said that Vietnam drank from the Yangtze River. .
What is the reality? Editor, today I will take a look at the territory of Vietnam's history. It is the territory of the South Vietnam Kingdom during the Han Dynasty drawn by Chinese scholars. Let's first talk about the history of the South Vietnam Kingdom. This South Vietnam Kingdom is actually the legacy of Qin Shihuang. Why do you say that? Because during the Qin Dynasty, Ying Zheng unified the whole of China. Seeing that the Lingnan area was not bad, he wanted to expand the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, so he appointed Tu Sui as the chief general and Zhao Tuo as the deputy general to lead an army of 500,000 to pacify Lingnan. During the war, the general died in battle, so Qin Shihuang replaced him with another general, named Ren Xiao. After pacifying Lingnan, it was classified as Nanhai County by Qin Shihuang, and Zhao Tuo was appointed as the magistrate of Longchuan County, and the magistrate was Ren Xiao.
During the reign of Qin II, there was great chaos in the Central Plains, and all the heroes rose up. No one had noticed Nanhai County yet. At this time, Ren Xiao was about to die. Before he died, he called Zhao Tuo and said: "We in Great Qin have no hope. Our Nanhai County is surrounded by mountains and the sea, and the terrain is steep. We can use this to build a country and prevent our Nanhai County from being invaded by the Central Plains rebels. "So he appointed Zhao Tuo as the county guard instead of himself. Zhao Tuo was not a coward and killed him immediately. The officials of the Qin Dynasty in Nanhai were replaced by their own cronies to consolidate Nanhai. At the same time, they took advantage of the chaos to merge Guilin County and Xiang County, calling themselves "King Wu of Nanyue." and established the Nanyue Kingdom.
Statue of Zhao Tuo
After Liu Bang became emperor, in order to recuperate and recuperate, he sent an envoy to Nanyue to return Nanyue to the Han Dynasty. Zhao Tuo thought about it and finally agreed. It was fine originally. Who knew that Liu Bang’s wife, Empress Lu, was an old woman who didn’t know what to think. Zhao Tuo was suddenly at odds with the South Vietnamese Kingdom, which made Zhao Tuo very unhappy, so Zhao Tuo proclaimed himself emperor, and Empress Lu sent troops to attack, but failed again and again. The war did not end until Empress Lu died a year later. South Vietnam also took the opportunity to expand its territory and incorporate the northern part of Vietnam into its own rule. After Queen Lu's death, the Han Dynasty and the Nanyue Kingdom reconciled and remained stable for a period of time. In the end, Zhao Tuo's descendants were too incompetent and caused civil strife, so they were destroyed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
The former site of the South Vietnam Kingdom
Because the South Vietnam Kingdom occupied the northern part of Vietnam, Vietnamese scholars began to put gold on their faces. The first to put gold on their faces was the former South Vietnamese regime, which had long coveted sovereignty over the Xisha Islands. Before its collapse, In 1975, the book "A Study of Huangsha and Changsha" was published, claiming that "the South Vietnam State is a Vietnamese country, established on the west coast of the South China Sea. Under the resistance led by Zhao Tuo, it was not seen that it had any contact with the Han Dynasty, but was influenced by the Vietnamese. I have learned Vietnamese culture, so I should belong to Vietnam.” In fact, most of the Baiyue people in South Vietnam at that time were regarded as Vietnamese, and this was used to claim sovereignty.
The Vietnamese worshiped Zhao Tuo
However, in fact, the South Vietnam Kingdom was deeply influenced by the Central Plains in terms of its political system, military system and culture. Its official text is the official script, and the setting of officials is also based on the Central Plains dynasty. As we all know, the territory of Vietnam is in For most of history, it was limited to the northern part of present-day Vietnam. Even Ho Chi Minh City still belongs to Cambodia. Saigon, the word "Saigon" actually comes from Khmer, not Vietnamese. Therefore, we can use history to defeat Vietnam's behavior of putting money on its face.
