About Chapter 84 Synopsis: Liu Song Emperor Liu Yu died of illness and was succeeded by his son Liu Yifu, Liu Yifu was frivolous by nature and had too much fun, causing chaos in the Liu Song Dynasty. Liu Song Qunchen hurriedly abolished Liu Yifu and established Liu Yilong, the third son of Liu Yu, who was known as a virtuous person, as the emperor. After the death of the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba, his son Tuoba Tao ascended the throne, and Tuoba Tao heard that the domestic political turmoil caused by the abolition of Chang Liyou, the lord of Hu Xia, and then attacked Hu Xia. And successfully defeated Rouran several times, so that Rouran did not dare to go south easily, and the conquest of Hu Xia became the most important thing in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In this story, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty successively changed the throne, but the new emperors were all characters with certain political ambitions, the new emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao completely inherited his grandfather Tuoba Tao's superb command ability in military affairs, and at the beginning of his succession to the throne sent troops to Rouran and won the victory, and the new emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty Liu Yilong was also a more politically skilled figure in internal affairs, so that the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty have reached a relatively strong stage, which also laid the foundation for the confrontation between the North and the South of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty. However, at this time, there was still a chaotic situation of several countries standing side by side in the northern land, so the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao, who was good at military affairs, began to prepare for the unification of the north after defeating Rouran one after another and forcing Rouran not to dare to go south easily.

Soon, another Hu Xia regime that shared the Central Plains equally with the Northern Wei Dynasty had a political turmoil, and the Hu Xia lord Helian Bobo did not learn the lessons of the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing, and still wanted to change the crown prince on the issue of choosing a successor, which caused great dissatisfaction and indignation of the crown prince Helian Bobo

, Helian Bo took advantage of the opportunity to guard Chang'an, an important town in Guanzhong, and launched a rebellion to kill Helian Bobo's beloved younger brother Helian Lun, but Helian Bo wanted to take advantage of the victory to enter the army to dominate Wancheng and force his father Helian Bobo to take the throne, but he was killed by another younger brother Helian Bo, Helian Bobo lost his two sons one after another, and simply established Helian Chang as the crown prince, but after Helian Bobo's rebellion, Helian Bobo was suspicious and tyrannical in his later years, which made everyone in the Huxia regime endanger themselves, and the monarch and ministers left morality. The Huxia regime began to decline rapidly from its peak.

It can be seen that because of the wrong actions of Helian Bobo, the lord of Huxia on the issue of heirs, a series of tragedies of cannibalism within the Huxia regime were triggered, which of course also had a lot to do with the historical law that the cohesion of the tribes was lost after the Xiongnu Tiefu Department basically completed the sinicization. Even if Helian Bobo can learn the lessons of history and change the mind of the crown prince, after his death, the princes who hold military power will not be willing to be ministers, and the rebellion will definitely occur. Although the rebellion was eventually put down, the road to the end of the Huxia regime began.

We can see from Helian Bobo's self-reliance to the turmoil in the country caused by his abolition of Chang Liyu that Helian Bobo, the founding king of the Huxia regime, was not a very politically minded nomadic ruler, and Helian Bobo was able to establish a great cause in history, which was completely due to the tide of history that pushed the reckless man of this nomadic people to the top of the times, and he was the same as those who should not have died in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, which was purely caused by the historical law of national integration. If a figure like Helian Bobo were placed in a unified dynasty, he would never have been able to establish such a great cause.

It is even said that in the early days of Helian Bobo's defection to the Later Qin Empire, the Later Qin Empire was in a stage of thriving national strength, and Helian Bobo could only lead his subordinates to live a semi-nomadic and semi-settled simple life in the north of the Guanzhong region, and it was completely difficult to do anything about the establishment of a feudal state, but as the Xiongnu Tiefu Department entered the Guanzhong region and began to contact the Central Plains culture, the Xiongnu Tiefu Department embarked on the road of sinicization, and the Later Qin Empire reached its peak after successively destroying the Western Qin regime and the Houliang regime. And the main tribe of the Later Qin Empire, the Qiang people, has been militarily difficult to resist the attack of the nomads after basically completing the sinicization, so the Later Qin Empire is rapidly declining under the spell of the law of history, and Helian Bobo is lucky to become the tide maker in this period, and the Huxia regime established by Helian Bobo has replaced the Later Qin Empire and become the new master of the Guanzhong region.

However, Helian Bobo was not a ruling emperor after all, and his greatest achievement was only to defeat the dying Later Qin Empire and make Liu Yu's Northern Expedition fall short. Therefore, after Helian Bobo became the ruler of the Guanzhong region, he was completely unable to govern his own country, and he could not learn from history, but caused a series of political turmoil within the Hu Xia regime, and finally laid the groundwork for the demise of the Hu Xia regime. Therefore, I think that Helian Bobo is not a hero of the nomads during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, at best, he can only be said to be a hero with considerable military talent, and he is a hero who has been pushed out by the tide of history. The Huxia regime was established and destroyed because of Helian Bobo, which shows that Helian Bobo was definitely not a qualified founding king, because his military ability and political talent were far from each other, and he could not maintain the stability of the regime.

In fact, we carefully analyze the time when the Xiongnu Tiefu and Xianbei Tuoba entered the Central Plains, we will find that the time when the two nomadic tribes entered the Central Plains is extremely close, and the two nomadic tribes fought for hegemony in the northern grasslands, resulting in a victory and a defeat, but the winner defeated the Houyan Empire and entered the Kanto region, and the loser took refuge in the Later Qin Empire and entered the Guanzhong region, so this also shows that the degree of sinicization of the tribes of these two nomads is also extremely close, but, Why did it end modestly and not nonsense that it was the Northern Wei Dynasty established by the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, not the Huxia regime established by the Xiongnu Tiefu Tribe.

Of course, this is directly related to the fact that the Xianbei Tuoba Department is more powerful. However, after the fall of the Later Qin Empire, the Xiongnu Tiefu Department also completely occupied the Guanzhong region, and the people under its rule were not much worse than the Northern Wei Dynasty that occupied the Guandong region, and the cultural and economic level of the Guanzhong region was not much different from the Guandong region, so it depends on the difference in the personal ability of the rulers of the two feudal dynasties that competed for hegemony around the Central Plains.

The leaders of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe who established the Northern Wei Dynasty from Tuoba Jue to Tuoba heir, and then to Tuoba Tao, none of the three generations of ancestors and grandchildren were mediocre and incompetent, and although Helian Bobo, the leader of the Xiongnu Tiefu Department who established the Huxia regime, defeated the Later Qin Empire with guerrilla tactics, although he was lucky to occupy the Guanzhong region, his political talent was low, and he could not be compared with the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty. If it is said that the ruler of the Huxia regime, Helian Bobo, has outstanding political ability and military ability, perhaps history will really be rewritten, and the historical task of unifying the north may fall on the shoulders of the Xiongnu Tiefu Department who established the Huxia regime, but unfortunately, Helian Bobo, the lord of Huxia State, is not an emperor who can stabilize the country, but can only be regarded as a military general in the troubled times. In addition to using tyrannical means to treat the civil and military ministers and the people, there is no commendable place for the construction of the country, and although the Northern Wei Dynasty experienced a short period of dynastic civil strife after Tuoba Jue was killed, but the subsequent ruler Tuoba Hei was completely able to set things right, protect the territory and the people, and make the Northern Wei Dynasty embark on the road to a strong country, in contrast, the Huxia regime gradually declined under the rule of Helian Bobo, and the regime established by these two nomadic people with a comparable degree of sinicization, With the huge difference in the ability of the rulers to govern, two very different paths were taken.

In fact, Helian Bobo, who is so capable, even if he lives for a few more years, may enter the ancient imperial sequence of being both the founding king and the king of the dead country. But Helian Bobo was lucky enough to die before the country died, leaving the messy regime he had created with his own hands to his son Helianchang, who had no chance to govern and reform the country at all, and faced the invasion of the already powerful Northern Wei Dynasty. Then, the fate of the Huxia regime can be imagined.

Helian Bobo's worthlessness in governing ability contrasts with the extraordinary ability of the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty, and with the rapid decline of the Hu Xia regime, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty entered a prosperous historical stage under the leadership of the rulers. However, Liu Yilong, the ruler of the Liu Song Dynasty, who created a scene of national peace and security in the Jiangnan region, did not have the military talent of his father Liu Yu, so the Liu Song Dynasty did not put the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains on the agenda, and the ruler of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Tao, took the historical task of unifying the north and unifying the world on his shoulders after continuing to succeed in attacking Rouran.

At this time, the most powerful regime in the Sixteen Kingdoms was the Huxia regime that occupied the Guanzhong region and was established by the Xiongnu Tiefu Department, but the Huxia regime also declined in the last years of Helian Bobo's rule, and the Beiliang regime that dominated the northwest region and the Northern Yan regime that established the country in the northeast region were in the heyday, and the Western Qin regime that occupied the Longxi region was also in the heyday, so for the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao, it was easiest to succeed in defeating the remaining regimes in the Sixteen Kingdoms. Moreover, the defeat of the Huxia regime could enable him to grasp the Central Plains region as soon as possible and lay the foundation for his unification of the north, so Tuoba Tao began to send troops to the Guanzhong region.