How was the fascinating and confident ancient Yelang country destroyed in history?
Sima Qian was the first person to describe Yelang country. Biography of Southwest Yi: What is the length of the monarch of Southwest Yi? Yelang is the biggest. So how big is Yelang?
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Yelang kingdom is connected with Jiaozhi in the east, Yunnan in the west, Du Qiong in the north and South Vietnam in the south? Its scope includes today's Guizhou (not counting the northeast), eastern Yunnan, northern Guangxi and southern Sichuan border areas, with an area of over100000 square kilometers. It is really a big country in the southwest border far away from the Han Dynasty.
Yelang? This word first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty? Zhou Wuwang felling yelang? But what about this? Yelang? Is the Yelang country we are talking about unknown, will it really be? Yelangguo? What brought us into view was Zhuang Tuan, the general of Chu State in the Warring States Period. Zhuang Tuan was ordered by King Xiang of Chu to return to Yuanshui, started the Western Expedition and expanded to the southwest.
Zhuang Tuan is in Yibin? Abandon the ship and fight? South to Xuanwei, destroy Yelang country, as far away as Yunnan, accounting for Dianchi Lake. Return it to Chu? . However, Zhuang Tuan, who successfully completed the task, was unable to transfer soldiers because his retreat was cut off by Qin Jun, so he simply stayed in Yunnan and became the king of Yunnan. Yelang and Galand were under his rule when he was alive, but after Zhuang Duan's death, Yelang and Galand regained their independence, probably in 27 BC1year.
However, Yelang did not stay independent for long, and soon became attached to the State of Qin, which was stronger than Chu. In 22 1 year BC, Ying Zheng, king of Qin, unified the whole country. In central Guizhou? In the name of Gu Yuanling, Qianzhong County was established, and the next year, it was named "Qianzhong County". Yelang? Yelang County is located in Sinan in the middle of Zhangjiang River Basin.
Yelang county is rich in mercury and cinnabar. The management of Yelang in the Qin Empire was relatively loose, and the purpose of sending officials was only to collect mercury and cinnabar for the mausoleum of the first emperor.
No one expected that the feudal dynasty established by Qin with a history of more than 600 years turned out to be a short-lived ghost that only existed for 15 years, and was replaced by the Han Dynasty established by Liu Bang.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the rulers absorbed the Qin Dynasty? Waste packet, set up counties? Draw lessons and implement the county parallel system.
In 202 BC, Emperor Gaozu set up Sinan, located in the Zanghe River valley, which was a Yelang country. At this time, Yelang State had already transitioned from primitive society to feudal society, and implemented absolute monarchy politically. Jun? And then what? Zhong Yi? With absolute power, the throne is hereditary.
Historical records? Biography of Southwest Yi: Yelang? Farming and gathering in the city? According to bronze knives, hoes, shovels, axes, irons and cymbals found in ethnic tombs in Guizhou in recent decades, Yelang people have mastered the technology of using tools for agricultural production and unearthed many exquisite and durable pottery. The bronzes unearthed from the burial tomb of Yelang State in Leke, Hezhang, such as iron sword with copper handle, five-beard and two-piercing bronze ge, drum-shaped copper pot, three-eared copper pot and rectangular copper hoe, not only embody superb smelting technology and manufacturing process, but also have unique style and distinctive national characteristics. Yelang has no words, mostly stories and ballads. Yelang people have primitive religious worship. Bamboo? This is their totem. There is a story in Huayang National Records: there is a king of bamboo who thrives in dolphin water. There was a woman by the water's edge. Three big bamboos flowed to her feet and refused to leave. As soon as I heard my son's voice, I took it and broke it. I got a man, educated and talented, and became a hero. Zhu is a surname. The donation was cut off in the wild and turned into a bamboo forest. This bamboo king temple bamboo forest is also. ?
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the rulers practiced the technique of Huang Lao to recharge their batteries and recuperate.
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In the southeast of Yelang, there was a country called Nanyue, which existed in the Qin Dynasty.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, due to the lack of national strength, South Vietnam could only acquiesce in the southwest, and Zhao Tuo, the king of South Vietnam, gradually expanded:
He calls himself? Emperor Wu of South Vietnam? And then what? Yellow house on the left? Like the dignity of the son of heaven, I don't care about the Han Dynasty.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after Zhao Tuo's death, serious differences occurred in South Vietnam. South Vietnamese Prime Minister Lu Jia insisted on opposing the restoration of Han Dynasty and killed Queen Tan. The South Vietnamese Dynasty openly opposed the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty felt that the time was ripe and sent heavy troops to attack South Vietnam in multiple ways. Yelang country is located in the traffic arteries of Beijing, Lingnan, Yunnan and Bashu, and has close contacts with South Vietnam, so it is naturally involved in this war.
In BC 135, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Tang Germination to be assigned to Panyu, the capital of South Vietnam. People in South Vietnam knew that the envoys of the Han Dynasty from afar must have no good intentions, so they took out the citric acid sauce that was forbidden to be exported by the Han Dynasty to entertain Tang Meng. Tang Meng had never seen citric acid sauce before, so he asked the attendants of South Vietnam around him what it was. The attendant replied that this is the citric acid sauce of Shu County. Tang Meng also asked how the government of Shu County's citric acid sauce appeared in Yelang. The attendants continued to answer that they were transported to Yelang from Shujun via Songjiang. Songyou River originated in the northwest of Panyu, the capital of South Vietnam, with a wide river surface. Therefore, Tang Meng thought that the Han army could also use the Songyu River to attack and destroy South Vietnam.
Tang Meng returned to Chang 'an and reported this important situation to Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and put forward a? Kill two birds with one stone? Method:
On the one hand, relying on Yelang's elite soldiers to attack South Vietnam from Songjiang, on the other hand, taking this opportunity to set up counties in Yelang's territory and send officials to bring Yelang into the jurisdiction of the central government of the Han Dynasty to eliminate Yelang's scourge.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accepted Tang Meng's suggestion and appointed him as the envoy to Yelang.
At that time, Hou Yelang's name was Duotong. We don't know what kind of person he is or what kind of dialogue he had with Tang Meng.
But the result is good after all:
Han set up officials in Yelang area, and took Duotongzi as the county magistrate, set up Nanyi, Yelang County and Hanyang Dewey, and implemented the policy of imprisonment.
In BC 1 12, the South Vietnamese state revolted and the imperial court recruited foreign troops to participate in the war. There is a movie called "Galand" in Yelang country. The monarch of Galand is worried that once the troops travel far away, the small party congress around him will take the opportunity to occupy his territory, so he defected and killed the messenger in charge of conscription and Qianwei as the governor. After the Han Dynasty's war against South Vietnam, the Han division leveled Galand and set up a county in the south of Yelang. Qianwei and Zhang Si counties were classified as Yelang, and all of them were incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty. Duke Yelang was crowned king and given to Wang Yin. What does the southwest monarch look like? Yelang alone and Yunnan are subject to Wang Yin? .
In 27 BC, the Yelang Wang Xing and Wang fought for land and population, and the war continued and the society was in turmoil. The prefect asked the imperial court to send troops. General Wang Feng adopted the advice of Du Qin, commander of the armory, and appointed David Li Chen as the prefect to destroy Yelang Wang Xing. Yelang Wang Xing is arrogant and doesn't care about the Han Dynasty. When Chen Li and Yelang Wang Xing met, they took very different troops: Chen Li only took a dozen people, while Wang Xing took ten city lords and thousands of soldiers and horses. Chen Li listed Wang Xingzhi's crimes and immediately killed Wang Xing. Dozens of castellans were frightened and said they would join the imperial court. After Wang Xing's death, his father-in-law, Weng Zhi, and his son rallied and contacted the neighboring twenty-two cities to continue the rebellion. Chen Li used a double agent, and the rebel team changed. After killing Weng Zhi, he surrendered to the Han Dynasty and Yelang was destroyed.
Yelang Kingdom has existed for 200 to 300 years, and developed a relatively advanced social form and political structure in the remote and occluded Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
Tang Meng's mission is the prelude to Yelang's demise. After all, reunification is the main theme of China's history.