Foolish dreams: Beiliang established a country
About Chapter 64 Synopsis: LĂź Guang, the lord of the Later Liang Kingdom, was frustrated in the successive crusades against the Western Qin regime and the Southern Liang regime, and was extremely angry, so he listened to the rumors and killed the Xiongnu nobles who submitted to the Later Liang regime, Fuqu Koji Porridge and Fuqu Luo Qiu, and ordered the bodies of the two to be transported back to the tribal station for burial, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the Xiongnu Fuqu tribe to the Later Liang regime. The Xiongnu Fuqu nobleman Fuqu Mengxun and his cousin Fuqu Nancheng rebelled one after another, and the two brothers persuaded and elected Houliang Zhangye Taishou Duan Ye as the king of Liang and established the Northern Liang regime. For a time, there was a situation of three countries standing side by side in the Liangzhou area, and at the same time, there was a war scene of mutual restraint between the three countries, which eventually led to the Houliang army that was preparing to crusade against the Northern Liang in vain, and the Southern Liang army died of illness due to the bald black lonely falling horse, and the main bald Lilu Gu returned to China to succeed to the throne.
In this story, although the establishment of the Beiliang regime was nominally created by the Han ancestor Duan Ye, the main ethnic group of its regime was the Xiongnu Fuqu Department, and the two brothers of the Xiongnu Fuqu Ministry, the leaders of the Xiongnu Fuqu Tribe, jointly elected Duan Ye as the king, which was nothing more than to use Duan Ye's prestige and power in the Houliang regime, as well as the identity of the Han ancestors of Duan Ye to complete the rule of the Han ancestors in the Liangzhou area and the Di people who were about to become the Han ancestors, so, as long as the time is ripe, It can be seen that the two brothers are very politically savvy and far-sighted, and Duan Ye, the ancestor of the Han nationality, is only a civilian official in the army that accompanied Lu Guang to the Western Regions, and has no foundation in the Liangzhou region, nor has any experience in commanding operations, so he is naturally not the opponent of the Fuqu Mengxun brothers who have both political acumen and military ability, and are guarding their homes, so it is a matter of time before the Beiliang regime changes hands.
Speaking of Duan Ye, who was supported as the lord of Beiliang, he had no roots in the Liangzhou region. In fact, which of the nobles in the Later Liang regime has roots in the Liangzhou region? After the pacification of the Western Regions, because the collapse of the former Qin Empire was blocked, the road to the east was blocked, and they had to occupy the Liangzhou region. Therefore, in the Later Liang regime, the native scholars and nomadic nobles in the Liangzhou area were inevitably excluded. And in the Houliang regime built by the Di people, the Han people in the Guanzhong area were also excluded by the Di people and the Qiang people, and Duan Ye was not such a veteran of the Houliang regime who was excluded from serving in other places? Therefore, the various contradictions within the Later Liang regime eventually led to the situation of the three countries coexisting in the Liangzhou region, and the fate of the Later Liang regime naturally hung by a thread.
From the establishment of the Northern Liang regime to the Southern Yan regime, which is very similar to the Later Liang regime that we mentioned earlier, we will find that although the two regimes have many similarities, they are not consistent in terms of internal contradictions. The internal contradiction of the Southern Yan regime is mainly composed of the nobles of the Xianbei Murong Department, and the internal contradiction of its ruling class is relatively simple, which is nothing more than the contradiction between the loss of national cohesion and the patriotic ideology of loyalty and patriotism accepted after sinicization after the disappearance of national characteristics, this contradiction still exists in the Houliang regime, but now in the Houliang regime, the contradiction between the local aristocracy and the foreign aristocracy is more prominent. However, in the context of the external environment and national integration, the two regimes are still very similar.
The deformed political state of contradictions between the local aristocracy and the foreign aristocracy within the ruling class of the Later Liang regime was more similar to the Shu Han regime established by Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period. The reason why the Shu Han regime first fell during the Three Kingdoms period was because the Jingzhou political group, which was in the ruling class within it, was foreign and contradicted with the local Yizhou political group. In the Later Liang regime, such a situation also occurred, but outside the Shu Han regime, there was a powerful Cao Wei regime controlled by the clan, and the local political group in Yizhou naturally chose to help the Cao Wei regime persuade the Shu Han regime to surrender, so the Shu Han regime surrendered under the incorruptible tongue of the native scholar Qian Zhou in Yizhou. The Houliang regime during the Sixteen Kingdoms period did not have such a powerful force as the Cao Wei regime outside, so if the nobles and scholars of these local nomadic peoples inside it wanted to find a way to be the masters of their own affairs, then the only way to go was to raise troops and stand on their own. Therefore, the Northern Liang regime and the Southern Liang regime that split out in the Later Liang regime were by no means accidental. The establishment of these two regimes was not only the situation of the nomads in the northwest region, after coming into contact with the culture of the Central Plains, and the rapid desire for sinicization of the nomadic peoples to establish a country and stand on their own, but also the failure of the Houliang regime to deal with the distribution of interests within the ruling class, which led to the contradictions between local political forces and foreign political forces and derived political consequences.
The Houliang regime not only has to reap the consequences, but also has to move towards political turmoil and finally demise in the law of national integration that the Juche nation has basically completed its sinicization and its regime will inevitably disappear.
Let's go back and talk about some of the situation of the Xiongnu Fuqu Division. The name of the nomadic people who established the Beiliang regime in the history books is generally said to be founded by the Xiongnu Lu Shuihu lineage. The fact that a tribe of the nomadic people is called the Lushuihu system sounds like this nomadic tribe is by no means a simple nomadic tribe, but a tribe composed of a series of nomadic tribes with a very chaotic bloodline. In fact, the origin of the Lushuihu system is indeed extremely extensive, and it is difficult to name it after a tribe, so the Lushuihu system is also called Zahu by the ancestors of the Han people, that is to say, many nomadic tribes of the nomadic tribe live together and produce a new nomadic people. In order to facilitate the recording of this history, I changed the founder of the Beiliang regime to the Xiongnu Fuqu Department. Mainly because the establishment and prosperity of the Northern Liang regime all depended on the leader of the Xiongnu Fuqu tribe, Fuqu Mengxun, so it is reasonable to name the main tribe after the actual founder and ruler of the Northern Liang.
And the name of the Xiongnu in front of the Lu Shuihu system is completely to put gold on their faces, because in these various tribes of the nomadic people who live together and merge, they have all been subjugated by the overlord of the steppe, the Xiongnu, so the nomadic tribes of the Lushuihu family call themselves the descendants of the Xiongnu, and the historians of our Chinese ancestors also describe him in the history books as the Xiongnu Lushuihu system, and in fact, because the nomadic tribes of the Lushuihu family are very complex, Their blood relationship with the main tribe of the Xiongnu is very likely to be far away, and even far less than the bloodline of the Xiongnu Tiefu and Xianbei Dugu of the same era, we talked about in the story of the nobles of the Xiongnu Mengxun and its Xiongnu Fuqu tribe, their ancestors because they held the position of Fuqu official in the tribal alliance of the Xiongnu, so they took Fuqu as their surname, and their descendants gradually developed into a tribe, And this tribe gradually lived with other nomadic tribes in the Zhangye Lushui area, and finally merged together, and was gradually called Lu Shuihu by the ancestors of the Han people, so the Fuqu Department is only a branch of the Lushui Hu system, and the nobles of the Xiongnu Fuqu Department during the Sixteen Kingdoms period and which other nomadic tribes were integrated, we do not know, we replace the Lu Shuihu system with the Xiongnu Fuqu Department, just to facilitate the history of the Beiliang regime, In fact, the Lu Shuihu system included the Xiongnu Fuqu Department.
Therefore, the history books are more rigorous about the founder of the Beiliang regime as the Xiongnu Lu Shuihu lineage.
Because at this time, the main ethnic group of the Xiongnu has been in the Han Zhao Empire and the Later Zhao Empire at the time of the demise, to the extinction, although the name of the Xiongnu also appeared in the later historical period, but these Xiongnu people have been unable to compare with the Xiongnu who dominated the northern Mongolian steppe for hundreds of years, these Xiongnu bloodlines are more or less mixed with the genes of other ethnic groups, it can be seen that Lu Shuihu is at the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms, as if it is impossible to be under the rule of the Xiongnu anymore. It is absolutely impossible for its bloodline to have too many genes of the main tribe of the Xiongnu, and its pretending to be the name of the Xiongnu is nothing more than to show its own clan, which comes from the once powerful Xiongnu.
According to our national concept today, the nomadic people of the Lushuihu family should be regarded as a new ethnic minority formed by the fusion of many ethnic groups, and their relationship with the Xiongnu should be very distant. Therefore, we must not regard the Beiliang regime as a reflection of the imminent demise of the Huns. At the same time, we should also understand that the tribes of the various nomadic tribes living in the Lushuihu system in the Liangzhou area are the same as the Xianbei bald tribe, and have achieved good development in the stable and peaceful environment of the Liangzhou area for many years, and have come into contact with the advanced Central Plains culture.
Whether it is the Northern Liang regime or the Southern Liang regime, they all represent the fundamental interests of the vast number of nomads in the Liangzhou area at that time, that is, in these two regimes, the nomads in the Liangzhou area began to enter a more comfortable and happy settled life, however, these two regimes constructed by the local nomads lacked the recognition of the Han ancestors, especially the local families in Liangzhou at that time who could represent the interests of the Han ancestors were too contemptuous and too suspicious, and finally made the local families in the Liangzhou area self-reliant, this is the Xiliang regime that we will talk about later, and I will not say more here.