Dahan first prince

Chapter 322 Proclaiming emperor again?

Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of the year and the end of the year.

The 13th year of the Han Dynasty is about to come to an end, and it also heralds that the Han Dynasty is about to usher in a new era.

——Emperor Liu Ying is about to turn seventeen!

According to the edict of the first emperor Liu Bang, this year will be the year when the young emperor will be crowned as an adult and get married and take charge of the government.

In this regard, the princes of the Liu clan in the Kanto region are calm.

Even though it was known that this year's Yuanshuo Grand Court will finalize Liu Ying's coronation as a pro-government, none of the clan princes in the Kanto region were invited to Chang'an for an audience.

The reason is simple: According to the etiquette system, the crowning ceremony for men should be carried out at the beginning of spring.

Therefore, even if they did not receive the exact news, all the princes of Liu's clan knew that the coronation ceremony of the emperor Liu Ying would be held in the spring of next year;
The big wedding after the crown ceremony will be next summer.

Calculated in this way, the emperor Liu Ying will be crowned and married, and then take charge of the government. It will be around the fall of next year.

However, after receiving the news from the Central Plains, the inner feudal clans of Changsha and Nanyue, as well as several foreign feudal clans on the Korean Peninsula, each sent envoys to congratulate them.

For the envoy of the Changsha Kingdom, Prince Wu Hui, the Chang'an court naturally waited after hearing the words, and the emperor Liu Ying also expressed condolences.

——In just eight years after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the lineage of Changsha kings will soon be passed on to the third generation.

Wu Rui, the first king of Changsha, died of illness in the second year after the establishment of the Han Dynasty;
And the second king, Wu Chen, also played Chang'an at the beginning of spring this year, saying that he was about to pass away, and hoped that the court would allow the crown prince Wu Hui to inherit the throne of Changsha king after his death.

So this time, Changsha Kingdom sent Crown Prince Wu Hui, nominally to congratulate him, but in fact, it was to allow the soon-to-be-successful Crown Prince Wu Hui to be recognized by the Han family, thus gaining righteousness.

In this regard, Liu Ying said happily: It should be like this.

Because today, Zhao Tuo of Nanyue still holds half of the land in Baiyue in the south of the Lingnan, and the Changsha Kingdom of the Wu family still needs to exist.

But what makes Liu Ying a little bit embarrassed is that according to Liu Ying's previous memory, the crown prince Wu Hui, who will be in the pilgrimage this time, will only sit in the position of Changsha King for a short period of six years.

Six years later, the lineage of King Changsha will be passed on to the fourth King of Changsha: Wu You...

There is one more thing that Liu Ying doesn't know.

——According to the course of history, even the fourth Changsha king, Wu You, passed the throne to the fifth Wu Zhu after only being the king of Changsha for eight years.

However, when the fifth Changsha King Wu Zhu succeeded to the throne, Lu Zhi, Empress of Henkel, who belonged to the "peer age" with the first Changsha King Wu Rui, died of illness in less than two years;
Nanyue King Zhao Tuo, who was only one year younger than Wu Rui, lived until the fifth Changsha King Wu Zhu passed away, and Changsha Kingdom was turned into clan vassals, all of whom were still in their prime of life...

Liu Han Sheji had only passed down to the second generation, and the second generation, Liu Ying, was just about to become an adult, but Wu Rui's lineage, which 'started' almost at the same time, was about to pass down to the third generation.

Considering the tragic fate of Changsha's lineage of kings, and the necessity of Changsha's "Han-Vietnam strategic buffer", Liu Ying also made a promise early on: after the Grand Court, the Queen Mother will be asked to issue another imperial edict to recognize the crown prince Wu Hui's crown prince status, and sent elite soldiers to escort Wu Hui back to Changsha, ready to succeed the king of Changsha.

But for the South Vietnamese envoys who came to meet at the same time, Liu Ying did not have a good face.

Almost at the same time when the South Vietnamese envoys arrived, the emperor Liu Ying summoned the South Vietnamese envoys into the palace, and in front of courtiers and officials, reprimanded the South Vietnamese king Zhao Tuo for his rebellion and ulterior motives!

Because as early as last year, when the first emperor Liu Bang died, Wu Chen, the king of Changsha, sent a report: Hearing Liu Bang's death, Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, once again proclaimed himself emperor in Panyu, the capital of Nanyue!

As for why "again", it is about how the Nanyue Kingdom under Zhao Tuo's control came about.

——In the 28th year of Qin Shihuang, the world was unified, and the mainland of China belonged to Qin;

The first emperor, Yingzheng, who had unified the countries of the Central Plains and had ambitions for the whole world, cast his gaze around.

To the north, the first emperor dispatched General Meng Tian to lead hundreds of thousands of Qin Great Wall legions to attack the northern grasslands with the Great Wall as the starting point;
To the west, Yingzheng summoned the people of the old six countries, regardless of the intricate geographical environment in the southwest, he insisted on building a five-foot road among the thousands of miles of poor mountains and rivers!

To the east, even though the first emperor was helpless against the boundless sea, he still sent Xu Fu to lead the fleet of seeking immortals;
And to the south, with Tu Sui as the main general and Zhao Tuo as the deputy general, they led a total of 50 Qin warriors to pacify the land in the south of Lingnan.

In the north, the great general Meng Tian was invincible, and the Qin Great Wall army was invincible. The grassland people were so shocked that they fled when they saw the black dragon flag.
In the tropical jungle in the southwest, relying on the five-foot road covered with the blood, sweat and bones of immigrants from the six countries, the Qin court achieved unprecedented preliminary control over the southwest region, and introduced Yelang, Yunnan and other southwestern countries as Qin foreign domains;

But in the east and south directions, Shi Huang suffered setbacks one after another.

——Xu Fu, who was ordered to go to the East China Sea, did not bring back the elixir for the first emperor Yingzheng, but logged in on the west bank of the Japanese country, and became the ancestor of the small days;
However, the army ordered to conquer Lingnan did not quickly conquer this land.

After three years of hard work, Qin Zhengnan's army suffered setbacks again and again, even Tu Sui, the leader who was as famous as Meng Tian, ​​unfortunately died in the battle in Lingnan;

Aware of the complex situation in Lingnan and the impossibility of conquest by force in a short period of time, Shihuang Yingzheng immediately ordered that Nanhai County be established in Panyu (now Guangzhou) to govern the four counties of Panyu, Boluo, Sihui, and Longchuan. General Ren Xiao is the captain of the South China Sea.

The current Nanyue king, Zhao Tuo, served as the county magistrate of Longchuan under the command of Ren Xiao, the captain of Qin Nanhai.

Sure enough, as the first emperor expected: after the Qin army was uncharacteristically and the military conquest was changed to Huairou Wenzhi, the plan to "conquer Lingnan" that had been stagnant began to advance in an orderly manner.

Especially after Longchuan ordered Zhao Tuo to implement the policy of suspending troops and promoting farming, and promoting the marriage of the soldiers of the Qin army under his command with the local people, Qin's control over the land of Lingnan gradually stabilized.

But it is a pity that, just five years after 'Nanhai County' was included in the territory of Yingqin, the first emperor Yingzheng who failed to return to Xu Fu finally died in the sand dunes;

After the second generation succeeded, Qin Ting's logistics transportation to Lingnan suddenly stagnated, and the blood transfusion from the Central Plains was lost. Nanhai County's "civilization" work in Lingnan suddenly stagnated.

Not long after that, the world was in flames of war, and South China Sea Captain Ren Xiao had no logistics support, let alone the ability to go north to support Qin Ting, so he couldn't afford it.

When he was dying, Ren Xiao gave an order: Longchuan ordered Zhao Tuo to take over the post of South China Sea Captain, and suggested that Zhao Tuo should destroy the road and separate the Lingnan in the Central Plains to avoid being affected by the flames of war.

After Ren Xiao's death, Zhao Tuo followed Ren Xiao's last wish and destroyed all the major communication routes between the Central Plains and Lingnan, and instead focused all his attention on the unification of Lingnan land.

In the history books, later generations can only see the first year of the Han Dynasty, which was the year when the son of the third generation was killed in Xianyang City, Ying Qin declared its demise, and the emperor Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was named King of Han;
But what few people noticed is that in the same year, the new Qin Nanhai Captain Zhao Tuo raised troops in Lingnan, annexed Guilin and Xiangjun counties, and took Panyu, the Nanhai prefecture, as the king's capital, and established himself as: Nanyue Wuwang .

In the next few years, it was the period when Chu and Han fought for hegemony in the Central Plains, and it was also the period when Zhao Tuo, the "King of Wu of South Vietnam", expanded his territory and further controlled Lingnan.

In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, the overlord Xiang Yu killed himself in Wujiang, the Han Dynasty was in full swing, and the world was unified;

Liu Bang, king of the Han Dynasty, became Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty; Zhao Tuo, the former Wu king of South Vietnam, had already established himself as Emperor Wu of South Vietnam in Panyu, the country of South Vietnam.

For Zhao Tuo, the "remnants of the former Qin Dynasty", and the separatist regime of Nanyue, the Han Dynasty naturally couldn't tolerate it, but suffered from internal unification, so they could only put it aside for the time being;
Three years ago, Liu Bang, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, finally completed the complete unification of the Han Dynasty before his own death, but he had no energy left to conquer South Vietnam, so he sent envoys south to negotiate peace with Zhao Tuo.

In the end, under the persuasion of "coercion and lure" by the Han envoy Lu Jia, Zhao Tuo finally agreed: go to the emperor's title, recognize the Han Dynasty as the suzerain of South Vietnam, and invite him to be a foreign vassal;

In exchange, the Han Dynasty also agreed that Zhao Tuo would retain the kingship, and Zhao Tuo would still rule the Nanyue Kingdom, and gave Zhao Tuo the Nanyue King Talisman and Seal.

So far, Nanyue, a separatist regime established in troubled times, has come to an end. With the passage of events, Nanyue should gradually complete the transformation of the separatist regime, foreign vassals, inner vassals, and clan vassal states, and finally be included in the Han Dynasty territory.

But it is exactly the same as the memory of Liu Ying's previous life: before Liu Bang's death, Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue who had just promised to be "a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty", turned his face around after Liu Bang's death and declared himself emperor in Panyu again!
Although Liu Ying also understands in her heart that the situation in South Vietnam is very similar to that of Treasure Island in later generations, whether it is due to geographical terrain or political considerations: the unification of force is not the most cost-effective option, nor is it necessary plan.

But even if she had a clear understanding of this and knew clearly that in this life, the court of the Han Dynasty still wanted to send Lu Jia to go there again so that Zhao Tuo could go to the emperor's title, Liu Ying still couldn't bear the anger in her heart.

——The old man is obedient to you, and you brazenly call yourself emperor when the old man dies?

Isn't this bullying honest people! ! !

Therefore, Liu Ying did not suppress the anger in her chest at all, but vented all her dissatisfaction with Zhao Tuo on the South Vietnamese envoy.

Because Liu Ying knew: In this matter, anyone can give in, only Liu Ying can't.

Gein, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and under the same sky, there will never be a second 'emperor'.

Zhao Tuo has proclaimed himself emperor in Lingnan, if Liu Ying can still talk and laugh happily, that would be abnormal!
Sure enough, after Liu Ying showed her teeth and claws, "Is Zhao Tuo lighting a lantern in the latrine?", the South Vietnamese envoy bent his knees almost at the speed of light;
And said cryptically: Oh, my king regrets this too much, so he sent me here this time to discuss with His Majesty, how to solve this matter...
Hearing this sentence, Liu Ying also knew the truth that things must be reversed at extremes, and left on the spot with a few cruel words such as "make the king like to do it for himself", "when the army arrives, he will become a powder", and then walked away.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Changle Palace also released a rumor, clearly warning the South Vietnamese envoys: The Han Dynasty has no room to back down on this matter!

Zhao Tuo had to go to the emperor's title, and he had to go to court again! ! !

When the matter developed to this point, the South Vietnamese envoy finally stood up and said that he 'can't sit on the throne';
Empress Dowager Lu Zhi followed suit and asked the envoy to set off immediately to ask Zhao Tuo for instructions, and then picked up the Han Dynasty for a return visit: Lu Jia.

So far, the matter of Zhao Tuo proclaiming himself emperor has basically been settled.

If there is no accident, when Lu Jia goes to persuade him, Zhao Tuo will go to the emperor's title again to ask his ministers, saying that Nanyue has been "a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty for generations".

As a reward, the Han Dynasty will also give some symbolic items, such as a handle of a royal sword, a piece of Shu brocade, etc., to reward Zhao Tuo for "understanding the righteousness".

Sending off the South Vietnamese envoy and the Han envoy Lu Jia, the young emperor Liu Ying also calmed down a little.

Looking back on this farce, Liu Ying also realized that Zhao Tuo's proclaiming himself emperor this time was not so much a "big ambition" as a test.

Just as Liu Ying had just succeeded to the throne, the Huns sent the letter of credence to humiliate the Queen Mother Lu Zhi.

It's just that Zhao Tuo, who was in trouble in Lingnan, obviously didn't have the confidence to directly humiliate the Empress Dowager Lu Zhi like the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun, so he proclaimed himself emperor to test the new emperor Liu Ying's attitude towards Nanyue.

If Liu Ying showed a cowardly expression of "I beg you not to become emperor", then Zhao Tuo would be happy, and then prepare to go north to the Central Plains and restore the Great Qin;

If Liu Ying expressed a tough attitude of "it's hard to do, then don't do it", Zhao Tuo would have to recruit troops to prepare for the Han army's southward march to Wuling;

And Liu Ying's performance this time was considered the most normal and most easily accepted by both parties.

——Liu Ying didn't say weakly, "As long as you don't proclaim yourself emperor, you can do whatever you want", nor did she say too forcefully, "I'll beat you to death";
In this way, the face of the central government of the Han Dynasty has been preserved, and the prestige of the Han monarch has been preserved to the greatest extent;

On the other hand, on Zhao Tuo's side, there is no need to resort to swordsmanship for this, just kneel down and profess the minister, and this matter can be turned around.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't make any sense.

After this incident, the status of the word "Nanyue" in the heart of the emperor Liu Ying was slightly improved.

This is not to say that Liu Ying thinks that Nanyue is more powerful, but that the priority of solving Nanyue is higher than before.

As for the court of the Han Dynasty and the officials in the court, there is also a recognition that "the matter of South Vietnam needs to be more cautious".

As for Zhao Tuo, he also used this to test out what he least expected to see.

——Xinjun Liu Ying is not a soft persimmon to be fooled easily.

The South Vietnamese mission left before Dachaoyi, which can be regarded as a temporary incomplete end to the South Vietnam matter;
But at the end of autumn and August, when the entire court was busy with the Mid-Autumn Harvest, the emperor Liu Ying once again summoned the ministers of the court to discuss matters in the Changxin Hall of Changle Palace.

Regarding the content of the discussion, the emperor Liu Ying did not hide it.

--North Korea.

To be precise, it is the Korean peninsula that has been changing in the past few years...

(End of this chapter)