[biography of figures] to solve the problem, the granddaughter of Liu Wu, the third generation king of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty, was ordered to marry to the Wusun country in the western regions in order to maintain the marriage alliance between the Han Dynasty and Wusun. He married three Wusun kings in his life until he was over 70 years old. He wrote to Emperor Han and had to return to his hometown.
[gentleman’s words] Jieyou has been seeking the best interests for his Han Dynasty all his life, but this is a lonely battle under siege, because the relationship between Wusun and Xiongnu can’t be separated by her little princess. She finally failed, but her spirit is immortal, and everyone who dedicated himself to some sacred deserves our respect, isn’t it?
A marriage without tears
In history, marriage is a political word.
Reconciliation refers to the marriage between the leaders of two different nationalities or two different regimes of the same race for the purpose of “for my use”. Although the initial motives of the two parties are not completely consistent, on the whole, they are all for avoiding war and maintaining long-term peace.
The medium of marriage is
emperor
Princesses of the family.
In this way, there are countless stories of blood and tears. The noble and noble women, who want to leave their warm hometown and marry far away in the wilderness beyond the Great Wall, have to endure great grievances and follow the customs of the Hu people – born in an imperial family, destined to become political tools and victims.
But history is history, Dynasty change, nation
Warfare
, where can I take into account a woman’s tears?
But there are also brave people who shoulder the mission entrusted to her by history with their weak shoulders. This refers not only to the well-known Wang Zhaojun, but also to a better woman, her name is Liu Jieyou.
In terms of blood relationship, Liu Jieyou is the distant niece of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty and the grandson of Liu Wu, the king of Chu. Liu Wu, the king of Chu, was one of the “rebellion of the eight kings”, so after the rebellion, the family declined unstoppably, and no one dared to get close to the descendants of traitors – although it was Liu’s blood, a noble of the Chinese dynasty.
But the emperor did not forget them. Attacking the Huns needed to unite neighboring countries, the most powerful of which was the Wusun country. Naturally, they need to be reconciled, and they need Royal descendants. The responsibility that no one is willing to resist falls on the declining Liu Wu family.
Worry relief is doomed to be a victim.
Princess Xijun, who had previously married to Wusun, was already suffering from life and died of Wusun. In order to unite Wusun, Emperor Han still let Jieyou marry away to Wusun, which is both emperor’s order and responsibility.
However, the beautiful girl of the kingdom of heaven wants to go to the wilderness and marry a foreigner she has never known – the famous Zhaojun in history was also in tears when she went out of the fortress.
But Jieyou had no tears, and history recorded that she “gladly obeyed”.
She did not know that her cousin had just died there, nor did she not know how backward and barbaric Wusun country was, nor did she not know what it meant to go, but she “gladly obeyed”.
It was a struggle.
As a royal descendant, she was discriminated against at birth and grew up in a declining family. Her childhood misfortune gave her courage and strength different from ordinary people.
Marriage is both a burden and an opportunity. She will contribute to the stability of the Han Dynasty, and she will become the messenger of border peace: because of her, how many wars can be avoided, how many soldiers can no longer bleed; Because of her, the descendants of the Wu family can look up and be human from now on.
Only no tears.
2 one man’s War
According to the customs of the nomads in the western regions at that time, the father died and the son was still alive – as long as the successor is not your son, you must marry your stepson or stepson – this is an animal behavior in the Central Plains, but it is the customs and systems of the Hu people.
A noble woman who is deeply influenced by the Confucian ethics in the Central Plains, once married, it means that she must marry many times, and marry her stepson – this kind of ethical humiliation can’t be borne by a normal person. Most of the princesses who were married died of depression. Some of them were acclimatized, some missed the Central Plains, and most of them could not bear the humiliation of this custom.
Princess Xijun wrote to Emperor Wu when “kunmo is old and wants to make his sun Cen zoshang Princess”. As a result, Emperor Wu replied “follow the customs of his country”. As a result, Xijun married his stepson and died of depression five years later; Even Zhaojun, who took the initiative to leave the fortress, wrote to the emperor before marrying his stepson, wanting to go back and disobey orders – they didn’t know that the system was inviolable, but it was a woman’s biggest humiliation, and they couldn’t stand it.
Jieyou must have known what was ahead before she got married, but the emperor’s order was hard to break, and she had to marry if she didn’t marry. But she didn’t cry and depressed. Behind her willingness to comply, there was a greater significance supporting her – national interests.
If a woman can get rid of the daily trivia, love, gratitude and hatred in her personal world and go out to see the world, it is always grand and admirable – this feudal noble lady who grew up in her boudoir since childhood knows very well what her shoulders are, and she goes out of herself.
The left wife of King Wusun’s army Xumi is the Hun princess. Jieyou married Jun Xumi and became the right wife.
From the beginning, Jieyou faced a very sharp struggle: Wusun was the object of the Han Dynasty and the Huns at the same time. The struggle between the two wives around King Wusun, the left wife who was born in the Huns and the right wife of the Han Dynasty, will no longer be a conflict of love, but a struggle for national interests.
At that time, Jieyou was 18 years old.
But not dominant.
Although the Han Dynasty was a Heavenly Kingdom with strong forces, it was beyond the reach of the whip. Wusun Kingdom and Xiongnu are both nomadic nations, and they are very similar in customs, systems and etiquette, and cultural styles. Many Wusun nobles in the court, even relatives or descendants of Xiongnu, can be described as “bone to bone”.
It is the right lady who relieves worries, and the left is the top in Wusun country.
So from the beginning, for the relief of the country with ambition, it was to fight alone.
3 Alien roots
In the harem, the exhausted Princess Shu taught the heroine to re-enter the palace and fight: “it’s not enough for a woman to get a man’s heart. The most important thing is power.”.
18-year-old Jieyou has understood this.
Wusun, one of the ancestors of the Kazak nationality in Ili today, lives in the area from the Ili River (now called Ili River) basin to the Manas River. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was the most powerful tribe in the western regions, with 120000 households and 630000 people. Take animal husbandry as an industry, and be good at raising good horses. Ironware has been used, and metallurgy, pottery making, leather making and wool weaving have also reached a certain level. Wusun is adjacent to the Chengguo countries south of Tianshan Mountain in the south, Dawan in the west, Kangju in the northwest and Cheshi in the East. On the long edge from east to north, it was entrenched by the strong neighbor Huns. The state system of Uzbekistan was still primitive slavery.
Therefore, from the exquisite Heavenly Kingdom to the ignorant and wild tribal nations, from the gorgeous palaces of the Han Dynasty to the dental tents in the grassland, from the delicate chicken millet to the fishy mutton horse milk wine, from the layers of deep clothes to the simple single dragon blanket, from the well written Chinese to the Wusun language, from the princess of the Han Dynasty to the right lady of the army, Jieyou quickly changed his role. She knows that she must first become a Wusun.
She was very successful. Although she was an alien Princess belonging to a foreign culture, she was loved by the Wusun people with her wisdom and the new culture of the Han Dynasty. But she had no children. When her first husband Jun Xumi died, only the Hun princess gave him a son, Ni MI. Because Ni MI was still young, the throne fell to his cousin “fat king” Weng guimi. However, everyone agreed that after Weng guimi, it was Ni Mi who succeeded him – which foreshadowed the misfortune of relieving worries.
According to the custom, Jieyou and the Hun princess married the fat king again, which proved to be a very lucky marriage.
Maybe they have the same temperament and have a very good relationship with their second husband. She gave birth to five children for the fat king and began to help the king participate in political, economic and military decisions – managing the backward Wusun country with advanced Han culture will naturally play a good role, and Wusun country will quickly become strong. Lian Jieyou’s maid Feng? He also married the noble General of Wusun. However, this situation has attracted the envy of the Xiongnu. The disgraced Xiongnu princess went back to her mother’s house to complain. Coupled with the replacement of the emperor in the Han Dynasty, her power began to decline. The Xiongnu should teach this disobedient neighbor a lesson. In the first three years of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty (71 BC), the Xiongnu sent troops to threaten Wusun in order to maintain its rule over the western regions. Shan Yu threatened fiercely, “go and take the princess!” Ask King Wusun to sacrifice a princess to relieve worries and cut off all relations with the Han court. Based on Balikun grassland, they tuntian Cheshi (Turpan Basin, Cheshi and other places), attacked Wusun, controlled and stabilized Northern Xinjiang, separated Wusun from the Han Dynasty, and took Cheshi as a bridgehead to develop to southern Xinjiang.
After analyzing the situation, Wang Weng, the king of Wusun, wrote to the Han Dynasty that “the Huns and Cheshi invaded Wusun together, and only the son of heaven sent troops to save it”. Unfortunately, Emperor Zhao suddenly died at that time, and the country was in a period of turbulence, and the master could not be found. How could he care about these chaos in the western regions?
First class is two years.
Wusun was common with the Huns, and always maintained close contact with the Huns. The voice of domestic support was very loud, and it was not worth letting soldiers bleed for foreign women in the eyes of some people. Weng guimi didn’t give up his wife (few men have done this in history. To some extent, it’s ethnic minority men who are loyal). Of course, it also proves that understanding sorrow’s efforts in Wusun in recent years have not been in vain.
However, at present, the enemy is strong and we are weak, so we must work hard to support it. All he did to relieve his worries was for the big man, but when he was in danger, the big man ignored it.
4 hopeless efforts
Emperors who grew up in the folk since ancient times are generally quite professional and competent. It may be that they have learned about human suffering, and their horizons and experience are different from those of children raised in the deep palace and raised in the hands of women.
Emperor Xuan was almost silenced when he was a baby because of his grandfather’s evil and witchcraft of the crown prince. Later, he was adopted by kind-hearted people and grew up in the streets since childhood. “He is talented and studious, but he also likes Rangers, fights chickens and horses, knows the treachery in the rump, and the gains and losses of official governance”. Therefore, after the death of emperor Zhao, he became emperor, and there was a resurgence in the Han Dynasty.
But after several dynasty changes, Wusun was very hard. Xiongnu took advantage of the chaos to fight back and repeatedly harassed and coerced Wusun. After struggling for several years, Emperor Xuan finally freed his hand to deal with the Huns.
Han soldiers sent 150000 cavalry, and five generals separated and went out. Dispatch the captain Chang Hui to protect the Wu sun soldiers. Kun Mi himself led the 50000 cavalry under the Marquis Xi from the west to the king court of youguli, and captured Shan Yu’s father and sister-in-law, subordinate, famous King, Qianchang, and cavalry generals below 40000 levels, and more than 700000 horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys, and llamas. The Huns have been depressed for decades, and they have lived a peaceful life for several years.
If Jieyou happens to die at this time, it’s a perfect achievement. She has a husband who dotes on her, a national who supports her, a relatively stable world, and a broad enough political stage
Unfortunately, she is not dead, and her husband is dead.
This is a tragedy for her.
The man who loved her left. According to the last order of the first husband Jun Xumi, the throne was to be passed to Ni MI, the son of the Hun princess, and Ni Mi had grown up.
Ni MI is called “crazy king”.
It is understandable that he became a crazy king. He lived under the oppression of a Han Princess when he was a child. Looking at the Hun mother who was snubbed because of falling out of favor, he was neither liked nor welcomed by others – psychopathy is also normal.
When Weng Sumi was alive, he once wanted to establish yuan guimi, the eldest son of jieyousheng, as the crown prince, but I don’t know why he didn’t establish it, and he was vague when consulting historical books. As for why Ni Mi suddenly inherited the throne, the history books didn’t say it directly, but it was written on the side that Wu sun proposed to the Han Dynasty again, and the emperor wanted to marry his brother’s daughter. Everything was ready. On the way, I heard that Weng Xumi died, and Yuan guimi didn’t succeed to the throne, so I went back halfway.
The good day of relieving worries is over.
Hearing that the king died, the nobles of Wusun complied with the previous agreement and made Ni MI, the son of Xumi, king. The crazy king married Jieyou again and gave birth to a son called LingMi. Crazy king and Jieyou have a very bad relationship, and they are cruel and tyrannical, and gradually lose their hearts.
Jieyou has been there for decades, and it is impossible to establish his own son to succeed the throne, while the Wusun nobles abide by the former covenant and establish nimi as king, which is a very subtle signal.
It explains and understands the tragedy of worrying about life.
5. Worry free and never die
When Jieyou came to this strange land, she thought she could change something. The woman who walked out of herself wanted to “recommend Xuanyuan with my blood” with her own warm blood. She did try her best, but she was unable to return to heaven. At critical moments, the results always prove the vanity of this effort.
When fighting for the throne, the nobles unanimously asked the descendants of the Hun princess to inherit the throne, and she failed.
I had to marry Ni MI, who inherited the throne. I want to continue to maintain my influence in Wusun country through my wife’s status, maintain the stability of the Han world, maintain the descent of the Han nationality – and even give birth to a son for this man I hate very much. However, the Chinese people are indignant at the perverse actions of nimi. She finally couldn’t stand it, so she fought back.
The princess told the Han emissary that the people of Wusun were harmed by the crazy king, and the people’s hearts turned against him. It was easy to kill the crazy king. So the “Hongmen banquet” was set up, and the main crazy king attended the banquet. After the reception, the soldiers were asked to hit the crazy king with their swords. The sword fell and only hurt the crazy king, who fled on horseback. The son of crazy King led the army to surround the princess and Han envoy in Chigu city. A few months later, Duhu Zhengji led the troops of many countries to save the city, and the siege was lifted.
Jieyou held a “Hongmen banquet”, but fate seems to have been mocking this woman who has been working hard – Ni MI was only injured but not dead. Domestic support for the nobles who stood on the side of the Huns sent troops to fight back. The siege lasted for months, and the Han Dynasty sent troops to break the siege. Not only that, the Han Dynasty also sent a fool to coordinate this matter, this person is called Zhang Weng.
The Han Dynasty sent him out to secretly protect the princess. But it was impossible not to do it on the surface, so the two officials who started the incident were dragged to Chang’an to behead, and Zhang Weng was sent to interrogate the princess, and the Deputy envoy was sent to treat Ni Mi’s injury.
Zhang Weng really tortured the princess and scolded her by dragging her hair. The Deputy envoy professionally cured Ni Mi’s injury (are these two people of Hun descent? It’s not easy to be stupid to this extent). Jieyou was unlucky in the end. He designed to usurp the throne but failed. His mother’s family came to mediate, but the people he sent were two fools. But this woman was as stubborn as a cactus. She quietly wrote to the emperor of the Han Dynasty. As soon as the emperor saw that this was good, he immediately pulled Zhang Weng back to Chang’an, beheaded him, and the Deputy envoy castrated him as a eunuch.
The domestic Huns are powerful. No matter how powerful they are, it is difficult for them to support the overall situation. The Wusun nobles of Hun descendants shouted for revenge. There was nothing but division. Yuan guimi, the eldest son of Jieyou, ruled the larger places, and Wu Jitu, a descendant of Xiongnu, ruled the smaller places. Civil strife began from then on. A few years later, the eldest son died, Jieyou’s grandson inherited the throne, and people returned to the opposite little Wusun country – the Huns were too powerful in Wusun, and Jieyou failed completely.
She married this nation at the age of 18 and worked hard for 60 years. In order to turn this alien land into a part of the Han Dynasty, she married, had children, participated in politics, and seized power – she did everything, but ended up in failure. She was tired.
She wants to go home.
Go back to the place where she dreams and gives everything.
So the princess wrote to the emperor of Han and asked to return home.
Two years later, Jieyou died.
Greek mythology says that Sisyphus was punished for pushing the stone up the mountain because he offended the god Zeus – it’s not difficult for a God, but the stone will always fall at the end, and Sisyphus will push it up again and again——
Facing countless and even ultimate failures, Jieyou has been struggling. Finally, Wusun country was divided into wars and chaos, farther and farther away from the Han Dynasty – but she tried her best, and tried her best – so Jieyou won’t die.