When Liu Kun was young ... he was really a frivolous and clever man; Zu Ti ... regardless of his early ambitions, he is also a hedonist.
Book of Jin Biography of Liu Kun and Zu Ti.
In the moonlight of Luoyang city and the cock crow in the wilderness, the scene of two teenagers dancing swords has become a legendary story. At this time, Liu Kun was just in his early twenties, and Zu Ti was a little older, but not more than twenty-five.
At that time, both of them were national books. Sizhou is the core of the country, Luoyang is the state, and the main book is in charge of all kinds of documents in the state. Young people are keen on talking about politics, which undoubtedly provides them with countless topics. At this moment, Emperor Wu has just died, and all the newly acceded to the throne are quietly discussing whether he is an idiot or not, and all kinds of social and political contradictions have been exposed very clearly. Obviously, it depends on who will light the fuse.
So Zu Ti said to Liu Kun: "The sea has changed, heroes have risen together, and the two of us are in the Central Plains, so we must avoid each other."
In some books, the phrase "My first step and I should avoid the Central Plains" is only understood as Zu Ti and Liu Kun want to achieve their own careers. I think Mitchell in the Tang Dynasty saw it more accurately. Zu Ti was "thinking about burning the Central Plains, but fortunately, the pace of heaven is more difficult". He is telling Liu Kun: For the sake of present friendship, let's not get too close, but let's not compete.
This is a fanatical dream and a bleak prediction. After the chaos in the real world, they all wanted to be heroes with independent-perhaps isolated-power, and never had a chance to meet again.
At first glance, Zu Ti's words, like the rhetoric of most young people, are just empty talk. Zu Ti's job shifted between several princes, but he was promoted step by step. Liu Kun seems to be proud of his official career and is active in an aristocratic cultural salon. He is one of the "twenty-four friends" of Jinguyuan. This group is brilliant, but it is not so nice to say that it is in and out of the door of power.
Neither of them was able to stay out of the chaos of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty. In the battle of vagrancy, former assistant Ji Shao used his body to protect Jin Huidi, and his blood spilled on Hui Di. According to the history books, "all the officials and servants fled" at this time, and Zu Ti can be seen among the fleeing people.
Since then, Zu Ti has settled down in Luoyang. He witnessed the disaster that the ancient city experienced later, but did not intervene in any dispute. The invitations of Yi, Gaomilu, Pingchang Gong Sima Mo and others have been rejected. When Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, appointed him as a model of joining the army and being a satrap of Yin Ji, Zu Ti's mother died, and he could even dismiss him in the name of mourning.
Liu Kun is deeply involved. After the first year of Yongkang (AD 300), in a series of boring and horrible turmoil, Liu Kun's activities were quite frequent. His opponent offered a reward for Liu Kun's brother's head, which was "sealing 3,000 infantas and giving 5,000 silks". Besides, it's not just the enemy who hates them. Liu Yu, Liu Kun's brother, is compared to grease, which means that if touched, it will inevitably be polluted. Liu Kun is very close to this brother, and his reputation will not be much better these days.
In fact, it was at Liu Yu's suggestion that in the first year of Guangxi (306), Liu Kun was appointed as the secretariat of Bing, and General Wei Zhen was appointed as the corps commander to lead the Xiongnu. This is still part of the prince's power and interest plan. Although Bingzhou is called the border pass, it is actually very close to the central government. South to Hanoi County, east to Sizhou and Jizhou. The weapons produced in Bingzhou are all elite, and the athletes and good horses in Bingzhou are famous in the Central Plains. Controlling Bingzhou means adding a strategic town in the north.
So Liu Kun probably didn't realize the significance of his trip at first. He left for the north at the end of September this year, and his life will be completely changed from now on.
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The experience along the way is obviously a test for Liu Kun. He has experienced war and is no stranger to bloodshed and death, but the scene before him is still shocking.
Two years before Liu Kun came to power, a powerful anti-government armed force appeared in Bingzhou, and the Xiongnu Liu Yuan established the Han regime. Since Wei and Jin Dynasties, Xiongnu and Jiezu have flooded into Bingzhou, and various ethnic conflicts have accumulated over time, and then broke out together. Within two years, the Xiongnu forces expanded rapidly, and a series of military towns such as Qiao Shi, Tunliu, the eldest son and Zhongdu fell into the hands of Liu Yuan. In other words, the administrative order of the secretariat of Bingzhou has been unable to reach the southeast of Dazhou.
Then, there was a serious famine in Bing. Liu Kun's predecessor, Sima Teng, actually fled under the double pressure of Liu Yuan and famine. When he left, he worked as a part-time trafficker, arrested a large number of conference semifinals and sold them to the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain as slaves. In addition, more than 10,000 fugitives formed his army, and the name of this team really pointed out the mentality of Bing people at this time, called "begging for work".
Liu Kun recruited more than a thousand people, and the road to taking office became a battle trip. Along the way, Liu Kun saw a large number of desperate refugees in exile and exposed bones in the wilderness. At that time, the wailing sound pierced the harmony between heaven and earth, and at that time, all was silent. The mountain road is steep, and thousands of people turn around Shan Ye. Being a senior government official does not bring a sense of security. Liu Kun wrote a letter on the way, in which he said with a slight exaggeration that he saw the enemy as soon as he opened his eyes. As long as he moves his heel, he may encounter new looting.
So the delay on the road is much longer than expected. I only got material support once in Huguan, and finally I ran out of food, relying only on wild vegetables such as Wei and fern to satisfy my hunger. Liu Kun was born in a noble family and lived a luxurious life when he was in Luoyang. Among his friends, there are many people like Shi Chong who are famous for burning money and being good at food. It is not hard to imagine that the food in front of him will make him particularly difficult to swallow.
After half a year, Liu Kun finally came to Jinyang, Bing. When a corner of the wall of Jinyang City is vaguely exposed in the gap between two mountains, it may make people feel relieved, but after entering Jinyang, they will find the scene here even more desperate.
Liu Kun, the secretariat of Bing State, has no office, because all the buildings in the temple were burned down. Thorns are everywhere in the city, jackals are walking in the streets, and dead bodies are everywhere.
In the poems describing this experience, Liu Kun vented his fragile sadness and expressed his yearning for the grand palace in Luoyang. Sentences such as "leaving the saddle with a sigh, tears streaming down my face" and "being far away from home, knowing life and death, being generous in the poor forest, and destroying Tibet alone with your arms around your knees" may make people feel that the author is on the verge of mental breakdown. However, this time the poet is more powerful than poetry.
Dry your tears, bury the body, cut off the thorns, rebuild the government, the city and the prison, and take the city gate as the battlefield to beat back the enemies who invaded again and again. On Liu Kun's way to Jinyang, Emperor Jinhui of Luoyang City died. When Liu Kun was carrying out municipal construction in Jinyang, his younger brother Liu Yu planned another coup. Now, however, all this has nothing to do with Liu Kun. What he has to consider is how to face Bing's immediate crisis.
At this time, the capital of the Han regime is Lishi, which is located in the southwest of Jinyang, only about 300 miles apart. It can be reached within one day. It seems that Jinyang's situation is quite dangerous, but Liu Kun has disintegrated the alliance of Xiongnu to a certain extent, making a large number of Hu tribes outside Xiongnu no longer express their loyalty to Liu Yuan. Coupled with other factors, in the end, it was the Huns who chose to move the capital.
The great turmoil in the north is still getting worse. Under the management of Liu Kun, Jinyang City has become a rare island. Finally, the population here is slowly gathering, and the crowing of chickens and barking of dogs are endless. Some echoes can be heard in the distance.
However, this is almost the limit that Liu has done.
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According to historical records, Liu Kun was good at wooing people from afar to join him, but he was unable to appease and control them. Therefore, after it is restored to a certain scale, this will happen. Within a day, a large number of refugees arrived in Jinyang City, and almost the same number of people left.
This may be largely due to Liu Kun's celebrity habits. In Luoyang city, Liu Kun's social circle is generally beyond the scope of royalty, government officials and senior intellectuals (several identities often overlap). Even in those years when he was lobbying around, he still kept in touch with government officials. Liu can easily make these people feel their charm and know how to make use of their psychological weaknesses. But at the moment, in the face of these hungry people from the bottom, even if full of sympathy, I'm afraid Liu can't help but alienate them and lack communication. Many times, he doesn't know what they need most urgently.
What is especially fatal is that Liu Kun is still a dude in essence. Once things get a little better, he can't restrain his love for luxury life, music and women. In the sixth year of Yongjia (AD 3 12), one year after the fall of Luoyang, he executed an important general for a musician at this tense moment. At this time, even Liu Kun's mother felt desperate for her son. She said:
"You have no vision, you can't control the hero, and you want to get rid of people who are better than you to reassure yourself. What else can you rely on to succeed? In this way, I can't escape the disaster you brought. "
The old lady's worry soon came true. The general's son avenged his father, took refuge in Liu Cong, a Hun, and brought all the military and political secrets of Jinyang. Then he led the Han army to kill him as a guide. What happened during the Xiongnu attack proved that Liu Kun did not win the loyalty of his subordinates in these years: Shangdang Prefecture surrendered, Yanmen rebelled by 50,000 people, Taiyuan Prefecture and other families in Bingzhou simply joined hands to offer Jinyang. Liu Kun only led dozens of knights to defeat Changshan, but his parents failed to escape.
Later, although Liu Kun won the counterattack with the help of Tuoba Xianbei, but his strength was hurt, he had to retreat to the north 100 kilometers and settle in Yangqu.
Liu Kun is inherently inflammatory, and if the opportunity is right, he can even make people make almost selfless dedication. But like all incitement, this influence is hard to last. So Liu Kun created hope many times, but failed to grasp it in the end.
On the other hand, Zu Ti is a completely different person.
After the chaos in the world and the chaos in the north, the Han population began to migrate to the south in large numbers. Zu Ti led his own people, hard time emerging and guests to join in, hoping to take refuge in Wise. This role suits him very well. When he was only 14 or 15 years old, Zu Ti had a reputation as "generous", and he was a leading figure. It seems that Zu Ti's style is in tune with the public. He gave up his chariots and horses to the old and weak, walked by himself, and did not make special rations of medicine, clothing and food. But at the same time, Zu Ti's authority as a leader cannot be challenged, and his management skills and strategies are also his specialty.
The life of refugees is extremely hard. In the process of migration, those who can survive have to become the army. Because, like what happened on Liu Kun's way to Jinyang, robbery will happen anytime and anywhere, so we must have enough military strength to fight it.
In troubled times, the identity of robbers is very complicated. With a little strength, everyone can do this kind of business. Even if both of us are unhappy-when we grow old, we will meet and rob strangers-those powerful armed refugees will also stare at the wallets of other refugees.
Zu Ti's team is such a powerful refugee armed force.
Traditionally, Si Marui, the king of Langya who ruled Jiangzuo (later Emperor Jinyuan), would find reasons to refuse a large number of militarized refugees to cross the river. But perhaps because Fan Yangzu's surname was "Zhou Bei's old surname", Si Marui felt that he could be trusted, and the group was once allowed to live in Jingkou. Zu Ti, who first arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, was poor and in rags. But one day, tourists found that his place suddenly took on a new look. When asked, Zu Ti's answer is very dull:
"I went to Qinhuai Henan last night and did a vote."
Of course, many robberies were not planned by Zu Ti, but the problem is that Zu Ti will provide asylum. When his men were caught by mistake, he tried to rescue them, but the state officials could do nothing. Everyone's right to life and property should be respected, and Zu Ti can't have any sympathy for this kind of humanitarian preaching. At this time, he obviously only pays attention to the support of soldiers, and he knows better than Liu Kun that to do this, you need to satisfy their desires in addition to infecting them with idealistic passion.
In the first year of Jianwu (3 17), Zu Ti crossed the river again and sailed to the center of the river. He said that after thousands of years, it is still inspiring: "Zu Ti can't clear the Central Plains, such as rivers!"
Obviously, the mainstream styles of Zu Ti and the government in exile in the Eastern Jin Dynasty are incompatible. Zu Ti is bent on the Northern Expedition, while the Northern Expedition only seeks the part. This is of course the main difference. And those senior intellectuals who are keen to talk about whether the nature of the world is nothingness or not, and what the personality of saints is, prefer to exploit ordinary people with an invisible hand, rather than blatantly killing people and stealing goods, which may be one of the differences between them and Zu Ti.
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Looking at Liu Kun's record in Bing, it may be depressing. Victory is often only to delay failure, while failure means the death of elite soldiers and the loss of strategic positions.
In addition to Liu Xiongnu in the south, Liu Kun's neighbor in the northeast is Wang Jun, the secretariat of Youzhou in the Western Jin Dynasty, who made his fortune by relying on Xianbei cavalry in the later period of the Eight Kings Rebellion. From the past, Liu Kun and He belong to the same political faction. Of course, everyone knows that this birth is unreliable.
Sure enough, Liu Kun and Wang Jun fought a war for land, population and allies of ethnic minorities. As a result, Liu Kun's brother Liu Xi was killed, and the people in Dai Jun, Shanggu and Guangning counties were taken away by Wang Jun.
At this stage, Schleswig, a Jiezu, is rising rapidly. Liu Kun noticed this change very early and thought it was a good development. He hoped to persuade Schleswig to submit to the rulers. Therefore, Liu Kun specially found Schleswig's lost mother and gave it to Schleswig, and advised her to be loyal to the royal family and succeed in her career. Schleswig gave him a generous gift, but the wording of the reply contained irony: "There are different ways to achieve great things, which is beyond the knowledge of a pedant."
The next decision was almost fatal to Liu Kun. In the second year of Emperor Yan of Jin Dynasty (3 14), Schleswig prepared to make a long-distance attack on Wang Jun in Youzhou. At this time, Liu Kun could have sent troops to copy the back road of Schleswig, but he stayed put. The reason is that Schleswig wrote a letter to Liu Kun before the invasion. This time, he didn't say "unknown to pedants", but profoundly reviewed his mistakes, saying that Wang Jun was eliminated to serve Liu Kun. So Liu Kun was overjoyed. He announced the news to the counties to show the fruits of his sincere spirit accumulated over the years.
Maybe the news is still on the way, Wang Jun has been annexed by Schleswig, and Schleswig immediately pointed the gun at Liu Kun. At this point, seven of the eight northeastern states in the Western Jin Dynasty were under the rule of Schleswig-Holstein, and Liu Kun had to admit that he was sandwiched between the Huns and Schleswig-Holstein, and had "retreated into the valley, beginning with chaos and eventually abandoning it". But the truth may be worse, because neither of these two forces is beyond Liu Kun's control at the moment.
In August of 3 15, Liu Kun's army was defeated by xiang yuan. If the Huns were not eager to concentrate on winning Chang 'an, so they voluntarily retreated, there would be really no hope for Liu Kun to turn the situation around.
In 3 16, Liu Kun was appointed by the imperial court as the commander-in-chief and military officer of Hebei and Youzhou. Nominally, the territory under his control is getting bigger and bigger, so that it sounds ironic. He once incorporated the exiled army of Xianbei Tuoba, which seemed to restore some strength, but it was only a flash in the pan. 1 1 month, Schleswig's ambush tactics destroyed the army.
From then on, Liu Kun only belonged to Xianbei Department, and it was no longer an independent force. Fortunately, just like a politician with literati temperament in China's modern history, Liu Kun has a special ability, that is, he can constantly improve his reputation through failure. The spiritual significance of this point is still crucial. He has become a symbolic existence of staying in the north and serving the country faithfully.
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In the second year of Jin Taixing (3 19), Zu Ti's army confronted Tao Bao, a general under Schleswig-Holstein. The two armies have been stationed in two fortresses in the same big city for more than forty days. Both sides are exhausted and the food is running out.
So Zu Ti packed the soil in cloth bags and mobilized more than 1000 people to transport it to the high platform, as if it were rice. In addition, several people stopped by the roadside to rest alone, and only their burdens were filled with real white rice.
As expected, soldiers from Taobao attacked the lonely. The rice made them mistakenly think that Zu Ti had enough rations, so they lost the courage to continue fighting. Then, Zu Ti successfully robbed each other of their food supply, so Taobao had to escape with people under the cover of darkness.
This is probably the most famous fragment in the story of Zulu's Northern Expedition, and it is talked about because of its drama. However, this victory is not important, and the situation facing Zu Ti is still severe and complicated.
Refugees who were prevented from crossing the river, and of course the aborigines in Yuzhou, built docks in this area to protect themselves. According to the situation, the leader of the five treasures organization will accept the title of Jin government for a while and be subordinate to Schleswig for a while. Whether they form an alliance or attack each other is also changeable. Except for the post-Zhao regime of Schleswig-Holt, the biggest rival, with a little carelessness, these large and small docks may become enemies.
At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, it seemed that Zu Ti was not very good at dealing with these dock owners. The struggle caused by poor communication lasted for almost two years, and another dock owner who had always been inclined to the Eastern Jin Dynasty switched to Schleswig. At this time, Zu Ti adjusted his strategy. Although it is impossible to know exactly what method he used, he did make several powerful semi-separatist forces willing to accept his command. Zu Ti is open to the weak wharf owners on the south bank of the Yellow River. Because they often send their sons to Schleswig as hostages, they are allowed to join both Jin and Zhao at the same time, and from time to time they send guerrillas to raid in disguise to show that the latter Zhao side has no friendship with themselves.
This humane approach made these dock owners feel grateful, and since then, they have become Zu Ti's eyes in Schleswig. The first hand of the intelligence war made Zu Ti win successively on the battlefield, and almost recovered all the areas on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Out of caution, Schleswig stopped military activities in Henan, so the production here finally got a little room for recovery.
In the war-torn years, this little recovery is enough to make people feel lost. At the reception of a military-civilian get-together, an old man in Yuzhou compared it to his father, and described the current situation with "three mornings are long", to the effect that with the blessing of General Zu, the days are bright and bright.
Schleswig-Holstein began to be nice to Zu Ti. He sent someone to repair the graves of Zu Ti's ancestors in the post-Zhao era and asked Zu Ti to open its border trade. Zu Ti's response is typical of China's wisdom, that is, no response.
But this does not mean that Zu Ti disagrees with Schleswig-Holstein's proposal. He just won't answer. The result of unlicensed trading is also quite ideal. "The profit is ten times, so both public and private are rich and the horse is profitable."
Admittedly, the victory of Zulu's Northern Expedition described in Biography of Zu Ti is not without exaggeration. Less than 20 years after Zu Ti's death, a minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty reviewed the benefits of his land reclamation, and his conclusion was rather pessimistic. Therefore, the situation at this time is likely to be that Zu Ti has indeed made great achievements, but it is unable to fight again. Temporary peace and trade are the best choices for both sides.
Scholar-officials in Song and Ming Dynasties were conditionally hostile to the peace talks. This was not the case in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but resentment still existed. Accepting Schleswig's request publicly is likely to cause unnecessary dissatisfaction, so Zu Ti didn't do it, preferring to turn a blind eye. Even if it is investigated, it is nothing more than dereliction of duty, and for officials of the Jin government, I am afraid there are few more common and insignificant sins than dereliction of duty.
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Liu Kun has always been optimistic about Zu Ti's administrative and military talents. When I heard that Zu Ti was appointed, I wrote to my relatives and friends and said, "I am waiting for my pillow and determined to fight the enemy. I am often worried that Zu Ti will beat me to it."
But he has no chance to compete with Zu Ti. Even, Liu Kun failed to see Zu Ti's greatest victory since the Northern Expedition in Taixing three years (320). Two years ago, Liu Kun was killed.
Liu Kun has always had a good relationship with the Xianbei tribe and won their support many times on the battlefield. So after losing Yangqu, he went to Ji Cheng, Youzhou, and went to Duan Pi, a Xianbei people. Liu Kun is still unwilling to give up, still fantasizing enthusiastically about how to make contributions to the imperial court in Heshuo area, and how to cut off the heads of Liu Cong and Schleswig-Holt with the famous knife presented by the Jin and Yuan emperors. But the Xianbei tribe has never been stable. Worst of all, Liu Kun's son was involved in their civil strife.
Duan Pipi respects Liu Kun very much. It should be said that this Xianbei person should be regarded as an upright and good man on the whole, but he is not a saint. He can't help but worry that others will use Liu Kun's appeal to create trouble, which will be a fatal blow to him.
Liu Kun had a premonition that he would die, so he wrote this poem:
There is a hanging wall at the grip, which is a Jingshan ball.
However, he is too ambitious, and it used to be Wei Bin's fault.
How grateful is Deng Sheng? He came all the way for help.
Bai Dengxing rebelled and Hong Men was attached to Liu Hou.
Zhong Er and Five Sages and Xiaobai shoot hooks.
Master Nenglong, ask the party and the enemy!
In the middle of the night, I sighed on my pillow and wanted to swim with my children.
I am a long-lost husband. Why don't I dream about Zhou?
Who knows Santa Claus Day, knowing that life is so carefree.
Xu Anni is sad for Lin, and Sisi is weeping.
Before the work is built, the setting sun suddenly flows west.
Time is not with me, and it seems like Yunfu.
It's windy in Zhu Shi, and Britain is falling in autumn.
The narrow road praises the canopy, and terror destroys the double shovel.
What do you mean? Hard and soft.
The title of this poem is To Lu Chen. Later, this poem touched many readers, especially the last few sentences were sung repeatedly, but it did not touch the recipients at that time. Lu Chen replied trembling: "This poem contains the emperor's ambition (digging: referring to some allusions used in it), which is not what a courtier should say."
Lu Qian is a mediocrity, and Liu Kun should also know this. About this time, he wanted to talk to someone too much, but he couldn't find anyone.
After repeated hesitation, Duan Pizhen finally started work. Liu Kun was hanged. According to the concept of Han people, you should leave a whole body, which is a very kind way to kill people.
It was the rulers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who were unkind. The strength of Duan is still very strong. His loyalty to the court is entirely out of personal morality, and the court has no way to control him. Therefore, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in memory of Liu Kun, he was afraid of offending Duan Pihao. In the end, after research, the court decided not to mourn for Liu Kun.
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One night three years later, Zu Ti looked up at the sky. He suddenly saw a rare star on the dividing line of Yuzhou. Zu Ti had an ominous premonition. He said, "This is for me."
In July this year, the court appointed Dai Yuan, a servant of Shangshu, as the general of the Western Expedition, and concurrently served as the military commander of the six countries, namely Zu Ti's immediate superior. The land in Henan has been restored, and now someone will cross the river to pick peaches.
In addition, Dai Yuan is a native of Jiangnan. In the north, he has no homeland, no ancestral graves, no childhood memories, and no lost or dead relatives and friends. This kind of people have always been the least enthusiastic about recovering the Central Plains, and the government's policy intention of arranging Dai Yuan to hold the above positions is too obvious.
Zu Ti is very ill, and the bad news is still coming. The contradiction between Jingzhou Wang Dun and the Jin government is intensifying day by day. In the event of civil strife, it is even more impossible to invade abroad. Zu Ti doesn't think much of Wang Dun, but now he doesn't have the strength to yell at Wang Dun people in printed matter as he did then. His last bit of energy can only stay on the barricades of the camp. He knew that once he was away, the army of the late Zhao would be killed, and the peaceful days of the people in Yuzhou would come to an end.
Many people saw the strange star, and their anxiety about state affairs led them to the same conclusion: General Northwest will die this year.
In September, Zu Ti passed away, and people in Yuzhou wept for their parents. Qiaocheng and Liang Shi also established a shrine for them. The ghosts of the refugees he plundered in those years naturally went unnoticed.
When planning the Northern Expedition, the Jin government only gave him 1000 people's rations, 3,000 pieces of cloth, no soldiers and no weapons and armor. Without that dirty first bucket of gold, Zu Ti can only accomplish nothing. His transformation was very timely and the situation was slightly stable. He became a diligent, honest and fair local official. Or have to admit, at that time, in that case, someone may be morally higher than him, but it is almost impossible to do things better than him.
Sometimes, thinking about this will inevitably make people's hair blocked or have a more pessimistic feeling about history. Therefore, I would rather put the following scene at the end of the article.
There are many things around Jinyang City, and the city is embarrassed. So, Liu Kun climbed the stairs by the moon to clear the noise, and people outside the city couldn't help sighing. After mid-June, Liu Kun played Hu Jia. In the tragic music, the knights of the conference semifinals began to cry and even sobbed in a low voice. Everyone's heart is full of the scenery of his hometown desert. At dawn, Liu Kun blew Hu Jia again, forgot about the war, turned his horse's head and left.
This passage appeared in the Biography of Liu Jin Shu Kun, but it was not included in Zi Tongzhi Jian. Sima Wengong is a down-to-earth and rigorous historian. Probably, he can't imagine such a legendary event.
But if this is true, it is not difficult to explain. War and hatred turn people into beasts and killing machines, but it will always be like this. When animalization reaches its peak, people will become extremely vulnerable. There is a point in the soul, and when you press the button, it will collapse.
Retreating the enemy is not a deliberate strategy. Liu Kun is just tired and bored. He needs an empty place to vent his emotions in the way he knows best. When he walked up to the high tower, he had no enemies in his heart and no audience.
Then, the melody played by Liu Kun is lighter at this point.
At dawn, Hu Qi's figure disappeared in the smoke. Liu Kun slowly put down his Hu Jia, still immersed in his own state, not aware of the changes outside the city, only feel soft to the extreme.