About Chapter 23 Story Introduction: After Li Xiong, the emperor of the Cheng Han Dynasty who occupied the land of Shu, died of illness, because Li Xiong established his nephew Li Ban as the crown prince, causing the dissatisfaction of Li Xiong's biological son Li Yue, Li Qi and others, Li Yue and Li Qi took advantage of Li Xiong's illness to launch a coup d'état and killed Li Ban, who was filial piety, and Li Yue supported his younger brother Li Qi to succeed to the throne, but the two had no virtue and no talent, which made the Cheng Han Dynasty government miserable, and Li Shou, the royal family of the clan, raised troops to kill the two and seize the throne of Cheng Han. After several years of political turmoil, the Chenghan regime finally laid the groundwork for its demise.

This story is actually similar to the civil strife in the Later Zhao Empire we said earlier, but after all, the Cheng Han regime is a small country that favors the Shu region, and no matter how rich Shu is, it cannot support the huge expenses caused by the civil strife of the Cheng and Han regimes, not to mention the civil strife in this small empire. Even after more than 30 years of hard work by the founding emperor Li Xiong, the little wealth and people's hearts that he had accumulated were all exhausted. What Li Shou took over was nothing more than a mess. Moreover, the Cheng Han royal family, which is a group of Di people, must lack a certain mass base in Shu to rule. Especially when Li Shou raised troops to invade Chengdu, the people of Shu must have been at peace with everyone, and they were completely unwilling to see the scene of continuous military disasters. Therefore, this also laid a mass foundation for Huan Wen to perish the Cheng Han regime.

Cheng Han, as the first secession regime in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms established by the Di people, did not appear out of thin air, let's talk about some things about the Di people and Shu land.

As a nomadic people in ancient times, the Di people mainly gathered in the western region, that is, the current Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu, because the Di people gathered close to the Guanzhong region firmly controlled by the Central Plains Dynasty, the cultural etiquette system of the various tribes of the Di people has begun to be sinicized very early, and the way of life of its ethnic group has begun to settle down in the Qin and Han dynasties, so I think the Di people should belong to a semi-nomadic and semi-settled nation, and Di as a family name, there is no contempt for the meaning, there are historical records, The name of Di is related to the relatively low terrain where the Di tribe lives, which can be seen that our Han ancestors know much more about the Di people than other nomadic peoples, and get along with the Di people more harmoniously, and the name of the Di people is closer to the name of the current ethnic minority.

In fact, the Di and the Xiongnu, the Qian, and the Turks are all the same, and do not represent a specific race, but also have many tribes, such as Baima, Qingshui, Luoyang, etc., but through the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the name of the Diren ethnic group can be seen that the Diren should have broken away from the nomads, settled in these places, and named their tribes after the place name, in this regard, it is very similar to the county of the family at that time, and after hundreds of years of semi-nomadic and semi-settled life, The population growth of the Di people should be rapid and fast, and the mixed living of our Han ancestors, their customs and habits are very close to the Han ancestors, so the degree of sinicization of the Di people should be the highest among the nomads at that time.

In the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, there are some Di tribes that should have a very high degree of sinicization, especially the Bayi group to which Li Te, as the leader of the displaced people, can be seen from the fact that Li Teh can be elected as the leader by the displaced people, there is no big difference between the Bayi ethnic group and the Han ancestors, because among the displaced people, the Han ancestors should still account for the majority, but they elected a Di people as their leader, which shows that the Di people have no barrier with the Han ancestors in getting along with each other at that time. Moreover, the ancestors of the Han people have also accepted the Di people who have integrated into their own ethnic group.

Because of the infighting of the ruling class of the Western Jin Dynasty at that time and the advent of natural disasters, the people of the Bayi tribe, which had a high degree of sinicization, had to follow the poor Han ancestors to resist the rule of the Western Jin Dynasty.

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The Di tribe naturally belongs to the Di people living in the Bashu region, and the Bashu region has been an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack feng shui treasure since ancient times, and the products are rich and the region is rich, so in the history of our country, whenever the world is in turmoil, the warlords who often occupy the Shu region are able to establish a separatist regime, before the establishment of the Han Dynasty, there is a precedent for Liu Bei to divide the Bashu region and continue the Han Zuo. Especially when the internal turmoil of the Western Jin Dynasty continued, the Yizhou Assassin Shi, who ruled the Bashu region, also wanted to emulate Liu Bei, but was finally defeated by the rebel army led by Li Xiong, the son of Li Te, and Shu was also in the hands of Li Xiong, because Shu had unique conditions for establishing a state, and the Cheng Han regime was established. It can be seen that the Li Teh family of the Bayi tribe in the Cheng Han Dynasty has become the leader of the displaced people by mistake, but in the context of the skyrocketing population of the Di nationality and the civil strife in the Western Jin Dynasty, the earliest and deepest Badi people, Li Te Li Xiong and his son, successfully led the uprising of the displaced people, occupied the Bashu region with the conditions for establishing a state, and established the Cheng Han regime, which can also be said to be a historical inevitability.

The approximate scope of the Bashu region is our today's Sichuan, which was also called Yizhou in ancient times. From the beginning to the end, I have always believed that Sichuan is a treasure of feng shui given by God to our country, its geographical area is dangerous, it is inland, but it is rich in products, occupying the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the two most important waterways in our country, and has completely favorable geographical conditions to attack and defend in troubled times. And as a corner of our country, it has a vast territory and a large population, but it is in the hinterland of the southwest. From the Warring States Period, the Qin State conquered the Shu State and occupied the Sichuan region, so it also had a stable rear and a large granary, which provided a material foundation for its unification of the world. Until the end of China's feudal society, the Sichuan region has always belonged to the rear of the Central Plains Dynasty and the granary. In the Central Plains Dynasty world chaos, when the heroes rose together, the Sichuan region is often in a state of independent kingdom existence, even in the modern Japanese invasion of China, the Sichuan region as the country's rear and support the country, out of Sichuan to resist the war of Sichuan military and civilians reached hundreds of thousands, and the Japanese invaded China for more than ten years, has never been able to set foot in Sichuan half a step, the Republic of China government moved the capital to Chongqing, in order to avoid the Japanese army, it can be seen that Sichuan is important to our country.

The Sichuan region has the Qinling Mountains in the north, the Hengduan Mountains in the west, the Wushan Mountains in the east, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south. Once the Central Plains Dynasty was in turmoil, the wolf smoke was everywhere, then the occupation of the Sichuan region has become the only choice for the troubled heroes who want to establish a country, the Shu Han in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, the Cheng Han in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the former Shu and the Later Shu in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the Daxi regime at the end of the Ming Dynasty all occupied the Bashu region and established the country. But these secession regimes often do not have a long-term national fortune, explore the reason, the ancestors of the Bashu region is an important part of our Chinese nation, and the relationship between the nomads and our ancestors is absolutely different, the Central Plains Dynasty tends to be stable, the people of the Bashu region are naturally very willing to return to the big family of the Chinese nation, and in the face of the Central Plains Dynasty, even if the Bashu region is rich, it is impossible to fight the prosperous Central Plains Dynasty in a corner, and although the Bashu region is steep, it is by no means a seamless egg, Moreover, the rulers of the Shu land are often paralyzed and careless because of the difficulties of the Shu Road, and act recklessly, and finally the people rebelled and left, and were attacked and destroyed the country, which should be the ancient precept that the time is not as good as the place, and the location is not as good as the people.

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, when Li Xiong occupied Shudi, in the face of the imminent collapse of the Western Jin Dynasty, the establishment of the Han regime was also Li Xiong's first choice, but, as far as the Di people are concerned, to be the first to establish an independent country in this period, in fact, it is also an inevitable trend of national integration, because the Ba Di tribe has the highest degree of sinicization, so the Di people as the model of the founding of the country and the emperor are also a good historical beginning of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and it also sounded the horn of national integration, and heard the clarion call of the Di people to build the country and call the emperor, Liu Yuan, a Xiongnu nobleman, also naturally responded, leading the Huns, who also had a relatively high degree of sinicization, to establish their own feudal empire.

I have always believed that during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, when the nomadic peoples established their own countries and called the king and the emperor, they actually narrowed the distance between them and our Han landlord class and entered the Han ancestors. Even if the rulers of the nomadic people are unwilling to take the initiative to carry out ethnic integration, they must also try their best to learn the cultural etiquette system of our Central Plains Dynasty to maintain the rule of their own nation, which just makes them unconsciously become the ancestors of our Han people.

The ruling class of the whole country is the same as the Later Zhao Empire and the Western Jin Dynasty, there are both the aristocratic landlord class and the scholar landlord class, so the civil strife of the Cheng Han Dynasty is also an inevitable trend of historical development, and even if the degree of sinicization of the Bayi tribe is high, there is still a certain difference between the royal family of the Cheng Han and the Han ancestors, and as rulers, they must also be hated by the Han ancestors, and the domestic contradictions are relatively eased during the reign of the wise emperor Li Xiong, However, after Li Xiong's death, due to the chaotic political situation in Cheng Han, various contradictions began to erupt, and the demise of Cheng Han was only a matter of time.