Be exiled
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-air crypt and cut off.
Su Wu
For food and water, I hope it can 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'll let you go herding sheep. When these sheep give birth to lambs, I will let you go back to the Central Plains. "
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. The only person who accompanied Su Wu was Jingjie, who represented 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 is thirsty, he eats a handful of snow. When you are hungry, dig wild vegetables and catch rabbits to satisfy your hunger. When he is cold, he uses sheep to keep warm. In this way, day after day, year after year, Jingjie's oxtail ornaments all fell off, and Su Wu's hair and beard turned gray.
return to one's country
In Lake Baikal, Suwu Shepherd 19. For more than a decade, Khan, the Hun who ordered his imprisonment, has passed away. Even in Su Wu, Emperor Wu died and his son succeeded him, namely Zhao Han. At that time, Khan carried out the policy of reconciliation with the Han Dynasty, and Zhao Han immediately sent a special envoy to bring Su Wu back to his country.
Later, the envoys of the Han Dynasty went to the Xiongnu area. At first, Huns Khan said that Su Wu was dead. Later, he learned that Su Wu was still alive from the people who were detained together, so he threatened that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty killed a wild goose in Shanglinyuan, and the goose's foot was tied with silk, which clearly stated that Su Wu was in the swamp in the north. Khan had to return Su Wu and other nine people.
In the sixth year of Zhao Di's reign, that is, 8 1 year BC, Su Wu finally returned to Chang 'an. 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.
After the three major battles of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu's military strength was greatly reduced and they had to flee to Mobei. At the end of Yuanshou, the Xiongnu nobles expressed their request to the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty also intended to have a truce. The purpose of Xiongnu aristocratic kinship is to restore the unequal relationship between Han and Xiongnu before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which is of course unacceptable to the Han Dynasty. It is unacceptable that the Xiongnu nobles who have always plundered the Han Dynasty surrendered to the Xiongnu and became the foreign ministers of the Han Dynasty. In this way, the two sides exchanged envoys to negotiate many times, but because the two sides refused to give way to each other and even threatened to detain the envoys, they could not reach an agreement, thus forming a situation in which they fought and talked from Ding Yuan to Taichung for more than ten years. It is against this background that Su Wu sent envoys to Xiongnu.
Su Wu
In the first year of the Han Dynasty, because Huns Khan asked for relatives again and returned the envoys detained by the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Su Wu, a corps commander, to lead 100 people to the Huns with a large number of gifts to return the Huns envoys detained by the Han Dynasty. At that time, some Huns were prepared to kidnap Khan's mother and retreat. Su Wu's special envoy John Zhang participated in this action.
After the incident, Su Wu was implicated. Xiongnu Khan used various methods to coerce Su Wu and persuade him to surrender, but all of them were rejected by Su Wu. Khan was helpless, so he was exiled to the lonely and desolate North Sea (now Lake Baikal) to herd sheep. He claimed that he would not let Su Wu go back until the ram gave birth to a lamb. Su Wu went through a lot of hardships there, often digging grass seeds in the rat's den to satisfy his hunger, but the continuous festivals (j and jīng jié) he held while preaching never left his body. Over time, even the hair on the joints fell out. Even so, his loyalty to the Han Dynasty did not waver.
After Emperor Zhao ascended the throne, Xiongnu sent envoys to the Han Dynasty to seek relatives in the sixth year of Emperor Zhao (8 1 year BC).
Before that, Han had asked Su Wu to return to China for many times, and the Huns all pretended that Su Wu was dead. Later, when the Han envoy returned to the Huns to inquire about Su Wu's whereabouts, he said: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty shot down a wild goose in Shanglinyuan, with silk books tied to its feet, saying that Su Wu was now in the North Sea. Khan was frightened and had to allow Su Wu to return home with Korea.
Su Wu was imprisoned in Xiongnu for 19 years, at the prime of life, and when he returned home, he was all white. In recognition of his achievements in respecting the Han Festival, Emperor Zhao made him a vassal country, with a grade of 2,000 stones, and rewarded him with 2 million yuan, and occupied two hectares of public land and a residential area. When Xuan Di proclaimed himself emperor, he was awarded the title of Prince Guan Nei Hou, and later he became a vassal of Youcao. Su Wu's patriotic spirit of staying in Hu Festival was admired by later generations, and his deeds were compiled into songs, plays and stories, which were widely circulated.