The story of Su Wu.

Su Wu is the son of Su Jian, a satrap with lofty ideals in China. In his early years, he took his father's shadow as his own lang and moved to the stable prison in the middle of the school.

In 100 BC, the Xiongnu regime acceded to the throne, and Han was honored as his father-in-law. As a gesture of friendship, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Su Wu to lead 100 people to Xiongnu, accompanied the Xiongnu emissary detained in the Han Dynasty to return home, and gave Khan a generous gift to express his gratitude. ? Unexpectedly, when Su Wu completed his mission and prepared to return to China, civil strife broke out in the upper Huns, and Su Wu and his party were implicated, detained and asked to betray the Han Dynasty and submit to Khan.

At first, Khan sent Wei Law to lobby Su Wu, promising him a generous salary and high-ranking officials, but Su Wu flatly refused. Seeing that persuasion was useless, the Huns decided to use torture. It was winter and it was snowing heavily. Khan ordered Su Wu to be placed in an open crypt, with no food or water, hoping that this would change Su Wu's faith.

Over time, Su Wu was tortured in the cellar. When he was thirsty, he ate a handful of snow. When he is hungry, he chews his sheepskin coat. When he was cold, he curled up in the corner to keep warm with a fur coat. After many days, Khan saw Su Wu dying and still refused to give in, so he had to let Su Wu out.

Khan knew that there was no hope of persuading Su Wu to surrender, but he respected Su Wu's integrity more and more, didn't have the heart to kill Su Wu, and didn't want him to return to his own country, so he decided to exile Su Wu to Siberia's Baikal region and let him shepherd sheep. Before he left, Khan summoned Su Wu and said, "Since you don't surrender, I will let you herd the sheep. When these sheep give birth to lambs, I will let you go back to your big man. "

After being separated from his companions, Su Wu was exiled to the inaccessible Lake Baikal. He found that these sheep were all rams. Here, you can't escape on your own. Su Wu was accompanied only by envoys representing the Han Dynasty and a small flock of sheep.

Su Wu takes this messenger to herd sheep every day, thinking that one day he can bring it back to his own country. When he was thirsty, he ate a handful of snow. When he was hungry, he dug up wild fruits collected by wild rats to satisfy his hunger. When he is cold, he uses sheep to keep warm. In this way, day after day, year after year, all the oxtail ornaments hung on the envoys fell off, and Su Wu's hair and beard turned gray.

In Lake Baikal, Suwu Shepherd 19. For more than ten years, Khan, the Xiongnu who ordered him to be imprisoned, has died, as has Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and his son Han Zhaodi has succeeded to the throne.

In 85 BC, when civil strife broke out in Xiongnu, Khan had no strength to fight against the Han Dynasty, and sent messengers to make peace. Emperor Hanzhao sent messengers to the Huns, demanding the release of Su Wu, Chang Hui and others. Xiongnu lied to the messenger that Su Wu was dead.

The second time, the Han Dynasty sent envoys to Xiongnu. Chang Hui bribed Khan's men to meet the emissary in private. After knowing the details, the messenger severely criticized Shan Yu and said, "Our emperor killed a goose in the forest garden with a silk tied to its foot. That is a letter written by Su Wu himself.

He said he was herding sheep in Beihai. How can you lie? Khan was shocked and said, "Su Wu's loyalty touched the birds!" He apologized to the messenger and promised to send it back to Su Wu. ?

When Su Wu went to preach, there were more than one hundred people accompanying him. This time, only Chang Hui and other people came back with him. Su Wu was just forty years old when he went to the embassy. He suffered in Xiongnu for nineteen years. In the sixth year of Zhao Di's reign, that is, 8 1 year BC, Su Wu finally returned to Chang 'an. After returning to Chang 'an, everyone went out to meet him and praised him as an upright gentleman.

The following year, Shangguan Jie, Shangguan 'an and Sang Hongyang were charged with rebellion. Su Wu has a good relationship with Shangguan and Sang Hongyang, and his son is also involved. Su Wu was removed from office. After the death of Emperor Zhao, Su Wu was created as the Hou of Guan Nei for his participation in the establishment of Xuan Di, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

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Character evaluation:

Li Bai: "Su Wu lived in Xiongnu for ten years. The white goose is flying on the forest fly, and a letter is passed in the air. The shepherd suffers, and the sunset dies. Drink the ice in the moon cave on an empty stomach and eat the snow in the sky on an empty stomach. The sand in the east is far away, and the river in the north is separated. Tears turned Li Ling's clothes into blood. " ?

Wen Tingyun: "Although our special envoy, Su Wu, has gone in body and soul, the temple still exists, and these trees still exist. The detention of the North Sea book is cut off, and the moon is above the head; The hungry sheep are back, and the vast grassland has been blackened by dusk. Go back to your visit tower, but there is no sign; The crown sword is like life, and it is in the prime of life. Marquis Hou Feng commemorates the emperor, who has never met his subjects; Empty to the eyes of the first emperor, lamenting the past years. "

Ouyang Xiu: "Poet, Miao music and. Su Shi and Shi Li in the Han Dynasty, Cao Zhi and Liu Shi in the Wei Dynasty all started. " ?

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Su Wu