The "Art of War and Conspiracy of Sun Tzu" says: "The upper soldiers cut down the plot, the second cut the traffic, the second cut the soldiers, and the next attack the city; the method of siege is unavoidable." In China's history, however, some people have used strategy, diplomacy, and the use of troops with ease. With more than thirty people, without moving a single soldier, relying on his three-inch tongue and strategy, he conquered dozens of countries in the western region and stabilized the frontiers of the Han Dynasty, and was called the most cattle diplomat of the Han Empire.
Young Taishi
He is the famous Ban Chao, and unlike his father, brother, and sister, he is famous for the military and diplomacy! When Ban Chao was young, his father died early, and although his brother was a civil servant and wrote books for the state, the civilian officials were relatively poor. Even if Ban Chao, his mother and sister later went to the capital to join his brother, Ban Gu could not change the living conditions of his family.
In desperation, Ban Gu found a job for Ban Chao to copy books, called Lan Tai Ling. But Ban Chao had been working for a while, and he didn't want to do it. But it is not that he is so ambitious, but that his ambition since childhood is to be a diplomat like Zhang Qian! The "Records of History" records: "The eldest husband has no other ambitions, and he should emulate Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian in a foreign land in order to take the title of marquis." For Ban Chao, he was surprised by the opportunity.
Deter the good
After he gave up his work as LanTailing, he went to join the army, because the sergeant talent was really outstanding, and he soon assumed the position of false sima in the army. Later, when the Eastern Han Dynasty used troops against the Xiongnu, his unit accompanied dou gu, the lieutenant of Fengche, and he naturally followed suit, and this military experience made him appreciate by Dou Gu.
Because he led his troops to attack Yiwu and Pushihai, both of which were successful and won many enemy heads, Dou Gu felt that he was a talent and recommended him to another figure at that time, Guo Ke, and asked him to accompany Guo Ke on his mission to the Western Regions, and from then on Ban Chao began his extraordinary journey to the Western Regions. The "Chronicle of History" records: Taking Chao as a false Sima and sending his soldiers to attack Yiwu, he fought in the Pushi Sea, and beheaded many prisoners and returned. Gu thought he could, and sent and engaged Guo Gong to fear the Western Regions.
The place where it went with Guo Gong to the Xiongnu was called Shanshan. At that time, when the group had just arrived, King Shanshan was very kind to them, but suddenly he was not so respectful. Ban Chao, as a later excellent diplomat, showed his keen observation at this time, and he asked the other officials accompanying him: Do you think that King Shanshan is suddenly not so polite to us? This must be the reason why the Xiongnu envoys came to dissociate, and it is estimated that the King of Shanshan was hesitating to throw himself over there. Having figured this out, he summoned the waiter and asked: The servants of the Huns have been coming for so many days, where are they now?
When the waiter heard this, he was directly frightened and directly explained everything. Then, Ban Chao directly locked up this waiter, because he was afraid that what he knew would be detected by King Shanshan. Then he summoned his accompanying subordinates to drink, and while he was drunk, he suddenly said angrily: Let's come to the Western Regions together for the sake of making meritorious achievements? However, as soon as the Xiongnu attendants came, King Shanshan was casual with us, and did not pay attention to the etiquette of the envoys between countries. Isn't this just a plan to directly dedicate us to the Huns to ask for merit? What should we do?
When the subordinates listened, at the time of life and death, how sloppy, they said in unison: What do you say, we all listen to your "Now in the place of danger, death and life from Sima Ma." As soon as Ban Chao heard that everyone's thoughts were the same as his, he said: Don't go into the tiger's den to get the tiger? Now only by taking advantage of the fact that King Shanshan did not know that we already knew the truth, he burned the Xiongnu emissaries with fire, so that King Shanshan knew that it was not possible to surrender to the Xiongnu! Everybody said yes! They ran to the place where the Huns lived, arranged for people to hide behind the house, and agreed to start beating drums and shouting when they saw the fire.
The others waited with weapons to ambush the Huns. Ban Chao himself ran to the downwind place to set fire, his men beat drums, the Xiongnu envoys were frightened, and began to run around, Ban Chao killed three people in the first place, and the other people killed more than thirty people together, and the remaining more than a hundred people were directly burned by them with fire.
The next day they told Guo Ke, Guo Ke was frightened when he heard it, and felt that he was so reckless, afraid that he was going to ruin the relationship between the two countries, Ban Chao knew what he meant, so he signaled him to wait. So he found King Shanshan and showed him the heads of his Xiongnu envoys he had beheaded, so the whole country was shocked, and later King Shanshan sent his son to the Great Han as a hostage, and Ban Chao also comforted King Shan that the friendship between the two countries would not be interrupted. Later, the emperor learned of this and promoted Ban Chao to the rank of military commander and asked him to continue his mission to the Western Regions.
Ban Chao's approach at the moment of crisis was really bold and careful, you must know that at that time they were in other countries, although it was said that the two countries would not fight each other, but he could lead people to kill the envoys from other countries, what if the king of shan shanguo could not swallow this breath and did not let them go? However, this was also where Ban Chao was powerful, and in the short time he dealt with King Shanshan, he had penetrated his temperament and disposition, believing that once they killed the Envoys of the Xiongnu, they would only make him afraid and would never cause trouble. This is a necessary ability of an envoy, and it also represents his strength!
Ban Chao took thirty people on an expedition to the Western Regions
Because Ban Chao had behaved too well in handling the affairs of the ShanShanguo, the emperor was shocked and admired his diplomatic talents, so he sent him to the Western Regions again, but before the envoy, the emperor planned to send him an accompanying army (referring to the Xiongnu envoys mentioned above, there were more than a hundred envoys), but Ban Chao refused... He said that it would not be enough for so many people, thirty people, and he did not know whether the emperor believed him too much, so he let him take thirty people on the road to the Western Regions. But what did he do with these thirty people?
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records: "''Official, Such as Ban Chao:' It is enough to wish to increase the number of people in this institute from more than thirty people." If there is no worry, the benefit is tired. ''
In the year when he first arrived in the Western Regions, it coincided with the establishment of the Guizi King by the Xiongnu, and this is not to mention that the Guizi King, with the power of the Xiongnu, ran amok on the border line of the Han Dynasty, burned and plundered, directly killed the king of Shule, and established another king to continue to run amok. Then Ban Chao first sent a person named Tian Wei to negotiate, saying that the current Shule Wang Tu question was not Shu Le's bloodline and should not be established, but the Tu Question did not take Tian Wei in his eyes at all. Tian Wei took advantage of his lack of preparation to kidnap the title and reported it to Ban Chao, saying that he would not kill him directly?
At this time, he showed the strength of Ban Chao, and when he arrived, he said not to kill, gathered his subjects, said that the king of Guizi had no way, and set up his brother loyal as the new king, and the subjects were very happy. Later, Ban Chao explained that if we directly killed the tuji and established a new king, there would be no difference between us and the Xiongnu, and the people would not sincerely surrender, and only after indoctrination would they be truly enduring. Later Shule submitted to the Han Dynasty for decades.
Ban Chao guards the Western Regions
After the Han Dynasty changed the emperor, it was when a country was fragile, Yanqi took the opportunity to attack the Western Regions Capital Protectorate, plus Guizi and Gu Modu joined the attack on the Western Regions Capital Protectorate. In the case of isolation and heavy troops, Ban Chao led the local soldiers and civilians to guard the capital for more than a year and guarded the territory of the Han Dynasty.
Later, Emperor Suzong of the Eastern Han Dynasty was afraid that Ban Chao alone would be in danger, so he ordered him to return to the dynasty. When the people of shule heard the news, they were frightened. A lieutenant said: I don't want to see the Envoy leave, and then I draw my sword and kill myself. On the way back to the dynasty, when Ban Chao arrived in this country, the princes of the country all hugged his horse's leg and cried and said that the Han envoys should not leave, and Ban Chao could not move at all. In the end, Ban Chao was touched by everyone's friendship and decided to stay! Back to Shule.
As soon as Ban Chao left, Shule's two cities rebelled again and submitted to Guizi, and after Ban Chao returned, he killed more than 600 rebel troops with heat, and Shule returned to all of them. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records that the super-hunted and beheaded the rebels, broke the head of the lieutenant, killed more than 600 people, and evacuated the re-establishment.
In the first three years after Emperor Suzong succeeded to the throne, Ban Chao also attacked Gumoshi City with 10,000 soldiers from Shule, Kangju, Yuzong, and Jumi, beheading 700 people and winning victory. Then, Ban Chao wrote to him that he wanted to lead troops to pacify the countries of the Western Regions: If he wanted to pacify the countries, he would ask for soldiers. Then Suzong allocated more than a thousand people to Ban Chao.
Ban Chao Wei earthquake far away
Later, Ban Chao led people to surrender successively: Shache, Fanchen, Wusun, Kangju, Guizi, Yueshi, Gumo, Wensu, and some countries of the enterprise, and the Book of Later Han records that under the leadership of Ban Chao, the Han Dynasty's rule over the Western Regions reached an unprecedented peak: the Western Regions were only Yanqi, Weishu, and Wei Plough had not been protected before, with two hearts, and the rest were determined.
Ban Chao Wanli marquis
In the sixth year of Jianyuan, Ban Chao gathered 70,000 soldiers from eight countries, including Guizi and Shanshan, to the Wei Plough Circle and personally lobbied Yan Qi and Wei Li, saying that the Han envoys had come to help the Three Kingdoms. Then, with his own three inches of incorruptible tongue, he made the lieutenant plough obedient. After the Yanqi rebellion, Ban Chao led the troops to quell the rebellion, beheaded 5,000 people, and established another Yanqi king, who completely submitted. At this point, the Fifty Kingdoms of the Western Regions were completely under the command of the Han Dynasty under the condition of diplomatic and military cooperation with Ban Chao. The Book of later Han records: "Therefore, more than fifty countries in the Western Regions were all subordinate to Yan.
Because of Ban Chao's great merits in pacifying the Western Regions, he was given the title of Marquis of Yuan: his title was Dingyuan Marquis, Yi Qianhu. Later, when Ban Chao was seventy years old, he wrote to the dynasty on the grounds of old homesickness. However, he went to Luoyang in August of the fourteenth year, and died a month after returning to his hometown: he died in September of the year, at the age of seventy-one. Ban Chao spent thirty-one years in the Western Regions, and almost all his life was dedicated to maintaining peace in the Western Regions, recovering the Fifty Kingdoms of the Western Regions, expanding the territory of the Great Han, guarding the frontiers of the Great Han, and also serving as an envoy to shock the Western Regions, so that the Great Han had no worries.