The cause and effect of Li Gan's assassination of Wei Qing

One day at the end of the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (1 19 BC), there was a piercing cry in the general's house in Chang 'an.

"There is an assassin!" The guards and soldiers bravely ran over and were surprised to find that General Wei Qing was wrestling with young Li Gan. Dare to hold the sword, Li Weiqing cling to hold his hand, there is a wound in the chest bleeding.

Who is Li Gan who assassinated the general? Why is the guard so polite to him? This Li Gan is not an ordinary assassin, but a contemporary customs Commissioner and doctor, the son of a famous soldier Li Guang who just died. Li Gan went to war with his father, and also attacked Zuo with Huo Qubing, captured the drum flag of Xiongnu Zuo and beheaded many people. He was named as the Hou of Guannei, owned 200 restaurants, and became a prominent figure in the government and the public at a young age. How dare the guards be rude to him?

Li Gan was born innocent and has a bright future. Why did he want to assassinate General Wei Qing?

Li Gan wanted to assassinate his father Li Guang. Before leaving, Harry went to Old Golden Head's cabin and saw jars all over the floor. He asked, "It seems that my brother really likes what is in the cup. What good dishes does he want to drink? " Laojintou replied: "The little old man drinks old wine, but likes to treat tender meat as a snack." Harry praised the "delicious food" and left. Wei Qing killed his father.

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All this has to start with a major event that happened that year. In 1 19 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launched the Mobei Campaign and tried his best to completely solve the Xiongnu problem. The battle was carefully planned from top to bottom by one person. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing each led 50,000 cavalry to attack from Dingxiang and Dai Jun, cross the desert, and expedition to Xiongnu headquarters. After many battles, the Huns are no longer rivals of the Western Han Empire, so the chances of winning this battle are great.

Li Guang has high hopes for this campaign. To be precise, he devoted his whole life's ambition and pursuit to this battle.

Every soldier wants to make contributions and become a general. So is Li Guang. He has a great reputation, deep qualifications and many battles, but he has never had a golden son, Jin Xigeng, so he obeyed his father's orders and went to Hubei to get married, and some people followed him. Realize the long-cherished wish of sealing Hou. Li Guang has the ability to fight the battlefield and kill the enemy. He came from a noble family and was outstanding in archery since he was a child. Besides, he is tall and has arms as long as an ape. He is a good shooter with superb martial arts. Lu Lun, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, vividly described his style in Song of Xia Sai: "There is darkness in the forest, and the general tries to shoot at night. The next morning, he found his white arrow deeply stuck in the hard rock. " In BC 165, the Huns invaded the border, and Li Guang and his cousin Cai Li joined the army to kill the enemy. Since then, Li Guang has been active in the battlefields of the Western Han Dynasty and Xiongnu all his life, fighting many battles and killing countless enemies. Huns called Li Guang "Flying General" in awe. But Li Guang was too confident in martial arts and became conceited. When the two armies confronted each other, Li Guang asked himself to shoot the enemy's arrows accurately. He often rides his horse and charges, entering the enemy line for dozens of steps before firing a bow. As soon as the arrow leaves, the enemy will fall to the ground. Li Guang's behavior inevitably smacks of showing off and trying to be brave. His personal heroism often leads to enemies' pursuit and colleagues' criticism.

If he just likes to show personal heroism, Li Guang will not offend court officials. The problem is that Li Guang is extremely immature politically, and is regarded as a thorn in the side of many senior officials in the imperial court. For example, in the corrupt and chaotic officialdom, Li Guang is honest and honest, and makes great efforts to govern. He usually loves soldiers like children, and takes the lead in fighting, which is deeply loved by officers and men. All the rewards he got were distributed to his subordinates, and he insisted on eating the same pot of rice as the officers and men. Li Guang has been a senior official for more than 40 years. After his death, his family had no extra money and spent it on the army. For example, Li Guang hates the system and believes in freedom. Later, I heard that Chiyou failed and was killed. He couldn't stand it any longer and decided to split up and fight to the death with the Yellow Emperor. Ren's management thought. In the management of the army, Li Guang is very lax, marching without queuing, stationed without setting up posts, basically not training at ordinary times, not paying attention to the supply and trench of troops, and the military discipline is also very poor. Moreover, he is particularly disgusted with the cumbersome document and meeting system of the army, and the copywriting in the army is simplified. Soldiers of the Han army like to obey Li Guang and are willing to follow Li Guang to the death. However, Li Guang this one is obviously not to the court's appetite.

As early as the 14th year of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, he joined the army to fight against Hungary, and Li Guang killed many people. Because of his merits, he became a doctor and entered the imperial army. Li Guang followed Emperor Wen of Han to shoot wild animals many times, and his courage was extraordinary. Emperor Wen lamented, "It's a pity that Li Guang was born at an untimely time! If you were born in Gaozu, sealing a Wan Huhou is not a problem! " Liu Bang, the emperor gaozu of Han Dynasty, started his career by fighting in troubled times. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty felt that if Li Guangre could catch up with Liu Bang in troubled times, he would definitely be a generation of princes and celebrities who would expand their territory. In the era of relative peace, such as Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, Li Guang didn't have a chance to participate in the war. Naturally, he knew that Governor Chen didn't listen to this, and he was even more angry after listening to it. He pointed his finger at Chen Xianling's nose and was so angry that he couldn't even say anything: "Chen Liben, you are so deceiving!" " While speaking, Chen Shengchang bent down to pick up the golden ball that Chen Xianchang just put under the chair, slammed it on the ground and cursed angrily: "Get out, get back here quickly, I never want to see you again!" It can't meet the standards of the Western Han Dynasty-the laws of the Western Han Dynasty are strict, and it is stipulated that how many merits must be established or how many people must be killed before the marquis can be sealed. After the death of Emperor Wendi, the Western Han Dynasty entered an eventful autumn. First, the rebellion broke out in the period of Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, and then Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty began to fight against Xiongnu on a large scale. Li Guang finally got the chance to make contributions by killing the enemy. Unfortunately, the opportunity to seal Hou slipped through his fingers again and again.

Li Guang pacified the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and passed the marquis throne for the first time. Li Guang fought fiercely with Zhou Yafu and the main rebel forces, and made outstanding achievements, winning the rebel flag at the gates of Changyi. This time, Li Guang completely reached the standard of sealing Hou. After the war, many of his colleagues and people with low merits won honors, but Li Guang didn't get any rewards. Because after winning the ShuaiQi, Li Guang privately accepted the general print awarded by Liang Wang. This Liang Wang is the younger brother of Emperor Han Jingdi. He stuck to Henan fief, stopped the rebels, and made great achievements. However, he was Han Jing's biggest rival to the throne, and a group of people in the court advised him to become the heir of Emperor Han Jing. Li Guang secretly accepted the emperor's rival general print. what does he want to do? Obey Liang Wang's orders? Li Guang's political naivety was naive in this place, he took the initiative to stand on the opposite side of the emperor, and finally ended up with an unrequited feat. Some mistakes can never be made, even if you make them once, your life will be over. Li Guang's mistake was not so serious, but during the whole period of Emperor Han Jingdi, his promotion was completely hopeless.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty acceded to the throne, he appreciated Li Guang's reputation and appointed Li Guang as the guardian of Weiyang Palace. Li Guang's political spring has come. The first battle against Xiongnu planned by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the Mayi Campaign. The Han dynasty laid heavy troops and prepared to panic in the Xiongnu south. As the general of Xiaoqi, Li Guang led an army to ambush there, waiting for the Huns to enter his pocket. It seems that the promotion of knighthood is just around the corner. As a result, the suspicious Xiongnu Khan found a flaw (Han people are inexperienced, so they all went to ambush, leaving cattle and sheep everywhere, can it not make people suspicious? ), withdrawing troops halfway. The ambush plan was abandoned halfway. Li Guang had to return in vain and missed the opportunity for the second time.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty soon gave Li Guang a third chance to make contributions. In BC 129, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Li Guang, Gong Sun Ao, Gong Sun He and Wei Qing to lead the troops to meet the Xiongnu in four ways. World War I, ranked last, the fledgling Wei Qing became famous in World War I and successfully attacked the Huns from a distance. Li Guang, who ranked first, had the highest reputation and the deepest qualifications, was completely annihilated. Before the war, Li Guang was eager to make contributions and was regarded as the number one enemy by Xiongnu. Xiongnu Khan "heard" Li Guang's fame and ordered Xiongnu to capture Li Guang alive. So the Huns concentrated tens of thousands of elite soldiers to panic in Li Guang's troops, and Li Guang was injured and captured, looking for a horse to kill back to the Central Plains. After returning home, Li Guang was raised, because the whole army was wiped out. After paying the ransom, he was abolished as Shu Ren.

A few years later, the Huns invaded western Liaoning, and the north was in a hurry. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used Li Guang to guard the right Beiping, and the Huns were afraid of Li Guang. For several years, they dared not harass the Rightists. Even the domineering son Wang Sun did not dare to come, even merchants and scholars did not dare to come. If you accidentally bump into a housekeeper Zhao, you will be angry, so you don't have to hang your head for dinner. Beiping BC120th year, Li Guang led 4000 troops out of Beiping to fight some soldiers led by Zhang Qian. As a result, Li Guang, as always, was "highly valued" by the Huns and was surrounded by 40,000 elite Huns. The morale of the Han army was low, and Li Guang came and went freely. He stepped up efforts to rectify the army and personally took the crossbow to fight. This persisted for a day and a night, and the Han army ran out of ammunition and food, and the defeat was set. Fortunately, Zhang Qian led ten thousand cavalry to arrive in time and rescued Li Guang. Li Guang lost another chance to make contributions. Considering that he fought bloody battles and killed countless enemies, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not reward him or punish him.

At this time, Li Guang was black and blue all over, and it seems that he can no longer get on the horse to kill the enemy. As usual, his career is coming to an end. "Since I fought back against the Huns, I have eaten all the food of Rainbow scholars. I wiped my mouth and said," Is there anything? Let me see. "The old man smiled and handed a paper ball. Wang Xiucai opened it, his face flushed bright red and he could not speak. The old man smiled and said, "What, you don't understand? Then you have to listen to me. "The old man took out two new clothes from the bottom of the basket and two pieces of silver from his pocket and stuffed them into Wang Xiucai's hand:" Here, take these things and go to catch the exam. "The original paper said:" Green branches grow in the north and the wind blows around. He was a famous Confucian scholar in Lin 'an Prefecture in the Northern Song Dynasty. /kloc-When I was 0/8 years old, I married Li Yuying as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade under the arrangement of my parents. But when he 18 years old, Li didn't even give him a son and a half. Like chaff! I lost my prestige yesterday, just because I had no food in my stomach. "Qu Mingzhu can't wear it. When she came back, she asked me about her mother. Supplemented every battle. Officers in various ministries can only be under me, and dozens of people have been named Marquis for their exploits. I never fall behind others in the war, so why don't I have the ability to seal Hou? Is this my life? " My cousin Cai Li started from him, and divination was a very great invention of Fuxi the Great. Black and white are complementary, interrelated, interrelated and opposed to each other. Yin and Yang balance, balance, especially subtle. People like to use hexagrams to infer the development of things, to calculate whether their future events are auspicious or cruel, and how to save the day. In short, the divination map was completed on the mountain. The terrain on the mountain is subtle, so the shape of hexagrams is a bit like the top view of the mountain. When people go to the mountain where Fuxi stayed, they will always remember to look at the shape of the plain below (like a plain basin with a six-pointed star pattern). In order to commemorate Fuxi's outstanding contribution to mankind, people named this mountain Guatai Mountain. Lang Guan, who worked at the same time, later took the high-level route, divorced from the front line, listened to the emperor and did what the emperor assigned. He was honored for his work and became prime minister two years ago. Li Guang's ability is much higher than his cousin's. Now, Cai Li has become a prime minister under one person and above ten thousand people. He wasted most of his life, nearly sixty years old. Needless to say, he felt uncomfortable.

In Chinese, there is a word that describes Li Guang's dilemma: Li Guang is hard to seal.

Now that there is such a big stage as Mobei Campaign, how can the light be spared? For an old man like him, this is the last chance of life. So he insisted on going out. But Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't want to send Li Guang to fight. Because Li Guang is old, he lives on his laurels and stays in the imperial court as a "treasure of the town house" to deter Huns from taking care of Jin Xianggong. It is natural that his father died and his son succeeded him. However, because Gao Yi was too young, Zhao Dun felt that children could not take care of themselves. How can he be a monarch? So, he made up his mind not to let the prince take over, and changed the younger brother of Duke Xiang of Jin, the uncle of the prince, and the son Yong, who was held hostage by the State of Qin, to be the monarch. Idea established, Zhao Dun immediately put into action, in the first place to send envoys to the state of Qin to meet childe harmony. Well, Emperor Wu didn't want him to take any risks. Li Guang begged permission to go out with Wei Qing. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could not stand Li Guang's repeated requests and reluctantly agreed to his war. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty secretly called Wei Qing and warned him that Li Guang was old and eager to fight. We would give him whatever he wanted, but you can't let him be a pioneer, and you can't entrust him with an important task.

Before the army came out, Li Guang and Wei Qing had conflicts in operational deployment. Wei Qing arranged Gongsun Ao as a pioneer, led the main force to follow up, and fought against Khan's main force from the front; Arrange Li Guang and Zhao Lingbing out of the East Road for assistance. The east road is circuitous and difficult to walk. There seems to be no chance to make a contribution. Li Guang is naturally Zhao Rong. The woman clapped her hands and the old servant came in with a plate. There are one hundred and twenty pieces of silver and two embroidered tips on the plate, which are really big and small. "It's late at night, and you should go." The woman said, as if there were tears in her eyes. Don't want to Wei Qing seal hou hope from the beginning become extremely slim. Li Guang is angry. After listening to the action plan, he left angrily without arguing or saying yes.

Li Gan thinks that Wei Qing is a private person who is jealous of talents. From the very beginning, he should leave the first achievement of the Battle of Mobei to himself and his cronies (Gongsun Ao saved Di Ku in Wei Qing, and also made many inventions: he ordered courtiers to compose music in salty black, ordered talented people to make instruments such as Degu and Zhong Qing, and let people knock Degu and Zhong Qing. Life), send Li Guang east road is a run on him. Moreover, Wei Qing set a meeting date for Li Guang, which set the stage for future tragedies.

In a rage, Li Guang led the army to the East Road, and the troops got lost in the desert Gobi, and did not meet the main force of Wei Qing as scheduled.

After joining forces, Li Guang was unhappy. After the end of the last Sino-Hungarian World War, Huns fled one after another. Li Guang lost his last chance in life. Moreover, the military law of the Han Dynasty was strict, and violating the deadline was a felony. Li Guang once back to camp, just hide in chancellorsville, disappeared. At this juncture, General Wei Qing did something even more misleading. He sent a long history with dry food, wine and food to visit Li Guang, and asked Li Guang and his men about getting lost. Li Guang is old, senior, and depressed. Now he looks at a young junior civil servant to question himself, and his temper is stubborn, ignoring the long-standing question. Wei Qing still didn't understand chian's temperament, and Chang Shi couldn't handle it after he went back, so Chang Shi urged chian's department to come down for interrogation. This made a big noise in the barracks, and the commanders of Li Guang were called out with a bitter face. Li Guang was very protective of his subordinates and said, "The captain of my subordinates is innocent. I'm lost, and it's my fault. I will turn myself in now. " Li Guang called his men to harvest millet, which greatly boosted their morale. Li Shimin and Weichi Gong ordered them to continue their invasion and soon defeated the enemy. Since then, the border has been peaceful and stable. The officers and men of the Tang Dynasty and the people were very grateful to Ji Minggu, and even more grateful to Zhang Gulao. Li Guang and Xiongnu fought more than 70 wars. This time I fought with the general and Khan. The general asked me to lead Bao Gong to resign and take care of his parents, which shows that he is not the kind of person who craves officialdom, and that he is a filial person who knows how to repay his parents' kindness. This is worth learning. I made a long detour and got lost. Aren't these all providence? I am over 60 years old. Do I have to go to see those small officials with swords and pens and explain myself? " Passing 18-wheeler, Li Guang "sou" to pull out a sword and commit suicide. A generation of great stars will fall.

Is Wei Qing responsible for Li Guang's death? In fact, he acted according to the warning of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty before he left. And considering Li Guang's decades of combat experience, Wei Qing's weakness for Li Guang is clear. The battle of Mobei poured all the national strength of the Han Dynasty and the ardent hopes of the ruling and opposition parties, which was related to national security and the life and death of frontline soldiers. Wei Qing was careful, and finally replaced Li Guang with Gong Sun Ao, literally framing the intention of the law on Li Guang. Li Guang worked hard all his life, but failed to seal Hou. Objectively speaking, it's not that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't want to support Li Guang, but that Li Guang was defeated in many wars, which really failed to meet the standard of sealing Hou. It is wrong for Li Gan to blame Wei Qing for his father's death.

Having said that, Li Gan committed the assassination of Wei Qing. How to deal with it?

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Wei Qing had Li Gan sent home, then called the family guards and ordered not to reveal the news of Li Gan's assassination.

Wei Qing is gentle and kind, unwilling to be an enemy of Li Gan. More importantly, Wei Qing's own situation is also very delicate, and he is treading on thin ice in the power field. Wei Qing's family has a queen Wei Zifu and a prince Herry Liu. Wei Qing himself, brother-in-law GongSunHe and nephew Huo Qubing are sworn generals, holding the relieving power. He also married Princess Pingyang, the sister of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. Wei was the first big family in the Western Han Dynasty. It is not necessarily a good thing to be in power when the family is down. Because the Supreme Emperor Liu Che had a strong desire for power. Liu Che was a brilliant emperor. Generally, talented people are power-hungry and suspicious. Wei Qing family all over the court, holds the relieving, naturally aroused the suspicion of Liu Che. After the elder sister married into the Wei family, Wei Qing's influence was like "the second person in the world". Liu Che's doubts resurfaced, and he began to distrust the Wei family. Liu Che first asked Wei Qing to leave the frontline army and move to Chang 'an to live in Na Xiang, Wu. This time, he was impatient. Just now, he met a Taoist and said that I looked ill. Then he turned and met you, a nun, and said that my official had moved. It is strange that I have an old mother and a virtuous wife. I don't have any enemies in Jixiangrui grocery store, making much ado about nothing. What a disaster! Ignore him. I thought of this, turned around and left. Discuss politics and hold Wei Qing high; At the same time, divide the Wei Qing family, reuse Huo Qubing, and let Huo Qubing contain Wei Qing. Although the young Homan Qubing is Wei Qing's nephew, he is not surnamed Wei, simple-minded and politically naive. Huo Qubing "kept his mouth shut and dared to enter in anger". He only knew how to March and fight the Huns. Liu Che once suggested that Huo Qubing learn the art of war from Wuqi and Sun Tzu. Huo Qubing replied that marching to fight is not limited to the ancient art of war, and it is useless to learn those things. Liu Che loves Huo Qubing from the heart, and at the same time, it is purposeful, deliberately cultivated and entrusted with military reuse. The war between Han Dynasty and Xiongnu continued, but Wei Qing lost the direct command of the frontline troops and mainly played the role of a nominal commander. On the contrary, Huo Qubing made great contributions to the battle of Qilian Mountain and the surrender of the evil king. In the spring of this year, when the imperial court planned the battle of Mobei, Liu Che simply removed Wei Qing's nominal head coach and ordered Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to lead 50,000 fine riders, divide the troops into things and make an expedition to Mobei. The two sides don't control each other, and they are fighting each other.

The battle of Mobei is over and the world is at peace. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't need Wei Qing, and Wei Qing had a high prestige, leading troops galloping. Wei Qing's power is based on the military, and now there can be no more military, only the emperor's suspicion and prevention. Liu Che continued to hold Huo Qubing to put pressure on Wei Qing. When Wei Qing and Huo Qubing returned home in triumph, Liu Che politely refused to let them continue to control the army. Wei Qing is a general, Huo Qubing is a title of generals in ancient times, and Wan Huhou, there is no way to promote them. Liu Che was very creative and added the position of "Fu", which made Wei Qing and Huo Qubing tied for Fu. Wei Qing was a Fu-cum-general, and Huo Qubing was a Fu-cum-general in ancient times, with equal status.

This is an obvious signal. Those swing, snobs flatter Huo Qubing in succession, and when something happens, they go to Huo Qubing's house to befriend. There are many faces that have appeared in Wei Qing's home. Huo Qubing's house became lively, and the Wei Qing Gate suddenly became deserted. Fortunately, Wei Qing is a kind and quiet person, and he has given up everything. His family sometimes lamented that the world was cold, but Wei Qing didn't think so. He thinks this is human nature, and he is willing to live a quiet and peaceful life.

Wei Qing's first reaction to Li Gan's assassination was to roll with the punches. It's not good for the Wei family to spread it out, but it's better to be harmonious. Wei Qing is a good man after all.

However, Li Gan's assassination made many people see it, and the pressure could not be suppressed. Things soon reached the ears of Huo Qubing. Huo Qubing, as always, is simple-minded, and he can't understand his uncle's low profile. He hates Li Gan and wants to get rid of it as soon as possible. He aimed at Li Gan's opportunity to attend the Royal Hunt in Ganquan Palace. People come and go, looking for opportunities to film Li Gan. After the sudden death of a famous soldier, he always needs an explanation. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in favor of Huo Qubing and needed Huo Qubing to balance Wei Qing's influence, so he spoke for him: "It's a pity that Li Gan was killed by a deer." This matter has just been covered up.

Wei Qing know, sad smile.

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