? During the reign of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, there was a time when the national strength was empty. Because of years of war and turmoil, the people and the whole country were very tired and there was a shortage of materials everywhere. How to solve this situation? At that time, Liu Bang's method was the technique of Huang Lao, which ruled by doing nothing, did not require much of the people and developed on a normal track. If, like Qin Shihuang at this time, he is still controlled by the legalists in troubled times, the world will inevitably split and rebel everywhere.
? But what is inaction? What is its core? In fact, the main way to govern him by doing nothing is to reduce the control over the people, reduce taxes and penalties, weaken the power of the central government, make the local power stronger, make the people feel relaxed, not oppressed, and slowly restore and recuperate their national strength. But does inaction really mean inaction? I don't think so. Is this inaction based on your inaction or is it carried out in accordance with basic rules and regulations? In fact, you also want to achieve a certain goal through this unnecessary method. Under the method of inaction, people can at least eat enough, life will not be easily deprived, and they have a sense of security. In this case, their national strength will soon improve and become rich. Later, after the rule of Wenjing, the world was rich and the money was basically inexhaustible, and the whole Han Dynasty prospered again.
? Liu Che later succeeded to the throne, that is, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. Now he is facing such a rich and powerful country, which is rich in the world and has countless money. After he became emperor, he should be relaxed. But will he encounter problems and challenges? In fact, if you think about it carefully, this kind of inaction has a good side, but it will also have a bad side. Because doing nothing actually reduces the power of the central government and gives more power to local governments. This is a decentralized situation, which will lead to a very good life for local governments, but the power of the central government will be weakened. So what Liu Che did at this time was to regain power, but now power already exists. Like those landlords, they all have great power. How can they regain power? One of the simplest and most rude methods is to force them to hand over power directly, but this method has great problems, because the people must also understand the purpose of Emperor Wu's move. If they are forced to oppress them, they will rebel everywhere at the same time. Liu Che cannot suppress them in a short time, but it will consume a lot of national strength. So is there any other way? Later, various officials gave him some suggestions and methods, one of which was the famous decree. In fact, the law of Thun is to let the vassals in various places distribute their right land to their children and grandchildren. If they keep dividing it like this, the same piece of land will be divided into dozens and hundreds of different small places, so that the power of the whole vassal state will be weakened once, and Liu Che doesn't need to do anything at all, then the direct power within the vassal state will be halved, and they may also have civil strife because of various enfeoffment dissatisfaction, leading to direct disintegration. Later, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and other vassal states were too arrogant to take back their power directly through some means, and suddenly local power became very small, while the power of the central government was great. This is centralization.
? Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not centralized. Later, hundreds of schools were deposed and Confucianism was the only one. He advocates that the monarch, ministers, fathers, sons, sons and officials should be loyal to you, and people of different classes should be polite to people of different classes. He believes that in this way, the world can gradually stabilize, and officials and princes of all walks of life can also slowly stabilize. With so many schools, why did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty use Confucianism? In fact, for any monarch, using certain methods is for the benefit of the country and the stable development of the country. Maybe he doesn't believe in the idea very much, but he will use it as long as it is good for the country. Even if Emperor Wu later misinterpreted the original intention of Confucianism and had some formalism, his move was also very important.
? Later, in the northern part of the Han Dynasty, the Huns made trouble. Xiongnu has always been a great threat to the Central Plains, which has always existed and is difficult to solve. The place where these Huns live is very bad and the environment is extremely poor. It is lucky to find water. The whole area is desolate, and they can only live by grazing. It is a nomadic civilization. In fact, they were not here, but they were beaten here. Their lives are so poor that they don't even have enough food and clothing, and they are starving at any time. After eating this meal, you may not find the next one. When a person is starving to death, of course, he will try his best to grab food, so all kinds of wars are frequent at the junction of Xiongnu and Han. From time to time, they harassed the Han Dynasty and robbed some food, which made Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, very dissatisfied and wanted to attack them. The Xiongnu problem is very troublesome, because if you don't fight, you will continue to make trouble. If you ignore it, other places will think that the Han Dynasty is extremely weak and refuse to attack. This situation is very passive. But if you want to fight, there will be a big problem, because they are not familiar with the terrain on the Xiongnu side at all. If you want to fight, it will consume a lot of national strength and be very entangled. But then Liu Che decided to fight. He couldn't swallow this tone, so he assembled a large number of troops and stronger generals to send troops to suppress the Huns. After years of war, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent troops to beat the Huns farther and farther north and took all their land away. He almost hit the Xiongnu base camp in the north, but it was too far to manage, so he chose to stop here. This can also be said to be a great achievement. This trick is not something that ordinary people can do. It can be seen that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was also a talented person.
? After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty solved the Xiongnu problem, he was still not satisfied. He is curious about everything outside, but if he wants to explore the outside world, he naturally needs a way out. But the problem is that because of all kinds of terrain, there is no way to go north, south and east. Only the west, that is, the western regions, can take this road. This is the only way out. He used to be like Dawanguo, the BMW of the Western Regions, but they didn't agree. Instead, he killed the envoys of the Han Dynasty. Ignorant people are fearless. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very angry, of course, because an envoy represented the face of a country, but he was prepared to attack the Western Regions for this reason, but the war with Xiongnu all the year round almost exhausted his national strength. Where can he find the army at this time? He bought many soldiers and horses everywhere, and made many jailers use money to atone for their sins. He quickly assembled an army of 60,000 people and then went to war with the Western Regions. Although the result of the war was victory, it was very tragic, many people died and the national strength was almost exhausted. Even from the beginning of this war, it has been completely turbulent and turbulent. At this time, the world seems to be dying and the world is in chaos, which is the last thing an emperor wants to see. Liu Che does not care about people's lives at all costs for his own purposes.
? But in the end, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty came to his senses. He can't have the whole world, and his ambition can't be completely satisfied. Just like Han and Xiongnu, can Xiongnu all be killed? Certainly not, because the Huns are also a tribe, and they are scattered and can't be killed at all, but is that why they have been enemies and attacking him? This is obviously meaningless and far-sighted. Instead, it wasted national strength and put the country in crisis. But if the relationship with Xiongnu is not antagonistic, and the Han Dynasty is not influenced by Xiongnu, the only way is to find a way to coexist, so that both sides can survive without being threatened by others. Finally, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally realized this and did not let the Han Dynasty perish directly.
? But the question is why an emperor made such a big mistake and why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went to it. Now I think the root cause is his centralization, and no official dares to speak. According to records, 1 1 of Liu Che's 13 prime ministers were eventually dismissed or killed, and it is even more impossible for anyone to dare to make some suggestions. Therefore, in fact, the direction of the whole country was decided by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is inevitable that one will make some mistakes. Therefore, once Emperor Wu made a wrong choice, the country would immediately follow in the footsteps of this mistake and go to extinction. Nobody can stop it, and nobody dares to stop it. So this is also a serious mistake made by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. However, in his later years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally closed his hand and repented, which led to the fate that the great man did not go to extinction.
? The life of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was magnificent and colorful. He must be a powerful and talented monarch. Moreover, he defeated the Huns, respected Confucianism and centralized power, which also made the Chinese culture take a big step forward. But he will inevitably make some mistakes, but it is his good side and bad side that make this character more interesting and worthy of our discussion.