Text: Foolish Dreams: Official Southern Expedition

About Chapter 46 Story Synopsis: The former Qin Emperor Fu Jian, who quelled the rebellion of the clan, saw that the civil strife had been quelled, and the military town of Xiangyang had been taken into his own hands, and he re-incorporated the capture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the submission of the Western Regions into his plan to unify the world, and immediately summoned the generals to inquire about countermeasures, Murong Chui and others with evil intentions tried their best to encourage Fu Jian to send troops to Jiangnan, although the clan Fu Rong strongly opposed it, but was refuted by Fu Jian, who was already confused, Fu Jian saw the large number of troops raised, and his heart was infinitely happy, even got carried away and said the words of whipping and breaking the flow.

When the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian was fully preparing to conquer the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the Jiangnan region, he also made military preparations for ordering the general LĂź Guang to send troops to the Western Regions at the request of the countries in the Western Regions to conquer the non-ministers, which shows that as early as the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the countries of the Western Regions have been eager to integrate into the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time, and as the ruler of the Central Plains Dynasty, Fu Jian has included the Western Regions into his plan to unify the world, which shows that during this period, Xinjiang has become an indispensable member of the Chinese national family.

As the various tribes of the Xianbei Murong tribe and the Xianbei Tuoba tribe that are subordinate to the Di people, they are unwilling to submit to the Di people who are also nomads, in fact, they are always looking forward to the major changes in the former Qin Empire established by the Di people, so that they can profit from it, eliminate the Di people who have enslaved them, and build a country belonging to their own tribe, especially the Xianbei Murong nobleman Murong Chui, who strongly touted and instigated Fu Jian to devote the whole country to conquer the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Because in the hearts of the non-Di nomadic tribes, they most want to see the situation of the two powers, regardless of whether the former Qin Empire wins or loses, they will inevitably take this opportunity to raise troops to build a country, and when the time comes, the former Qin Empire will suffer from the enemy, undefeated and defeated, in fact, Wang Meng's last words are also euphemistic to say this meaning, but unfortunately, the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian, who is inclusive of all rivers, does not understand Murong Chui's sinister intentions at all, nor does he understand Wang Meng's good intentions.

As a nomadic emperor, Fu Jian wants to become the emperor of the eternal world who unifies the world, sitting on the northern land, with a million troops in his hands, it is impossible for Fu Jian to give up the dream of dominating the world, in Fu Jian's view, sending troops to the south of the Yangtze River and expeditioning to the Western Regions is the most important thing he should do after unifying the northern region, not to mention that he is not thin on these foreign nobles, and he thinks that they will definitely help when the time comes, but Fu Jian does not realize that it is his magnanimity that makes these foreign races strength preserved, And then gave them the hope of self-reliance, especially the Xianbei Murong tribe that had established the former Yan Empire and the Xianbei Tuoba tribe that established the Dai State, these two tribes had established feudal regimes respectively, but they were all destroyed by the Di people with a deep degree of sinicization, these two nomadic tribes are naturally immortal in the heart of the country, and they hate the Di people to the bone, and they are fascinated by the continued sinicization, so they want to rebel against the rule of the former Qin Empire the most.

Because of the long-term survival of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe and the northern grassland, the degree of sinicization is far less high than the Xianbei Murong tribe that has been established in the Central Plains, even if the two nomadic tribes have been ruled by the former Qin Empire for a short time, and the difference in the degree of sinicization between them has gradually decreased, then these two tribes will merge into a more powerful tribe, and the Xianbei Tuoba tribe has lived in the northern Mongolian steppe for a long time, and its military strength is stronger, while the Xianbei Murong tribe has entered the Central Plains for decades, and the ability to gallop has decreased. Therefore, the final fate of the Xianbei Murong Department can only be annexed by the Xianbei Tuoba Department.

The Qiang people who are the same origin as the Di people are also in a very deep state in terms of sinicization, and their loyalty to the former Qin Empire is relatively high, and even in ancient times when there is no national concept, the Qiang people are more supportive of the rule of the Di people, but these two tribes are the same origin and not the same tribe after all, when the Di people are completely in the decline of the national integration, the Qiang people are not willing to stay on the broken ship of the former Qin Empire, they will start from scratch and rebuild their own empire.

However, because the Qiang people are also very sinicized, the empire they established will inevitably die before the countries established by the Xianbei tribes, and their ethnic groups will also die out before the Xianbei tribes with a deep degree of sinicization.

In the process of sinicization of nomads,I think it should be divided into three stages,The first stage is that the nomads have just begun to sinicize,The second stage is that the sinicization of the nomads is relatively deep,The third stage is that the sinicization of the nomads has reached a very deep stage,At the same time, when the sinicization of the nomads reaches a very deep stage,Then the process of sinicization of the nomads tends to end,The nomads are no different from the ancestors of the Han people,The country established by the nomads has no need to exist,So in the history of our country, The states established by the nomads are often in decline after the main tribe has basically completed the sinicization. And the early stage of the establishment of these countries is often in the stage of sinicization of its main tribes,When the main tribes enter the deeper stage and the very deep stage of the sinicization process step by step,The country it built has also entered a stable period and its heyday,Compared with the country established by the ancestors of the Han nationality,Because the nomads from the deep stage of sinicization to the basic completion of the sinicization of the time experienced is relatively short,So the country established by the nomads often directly from the heyday into the decline period,During the lack of the middle period, So much so that the states established by the nomads often only exist for about 150 years.

However, during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, because many nomadic tribes entered the Central Plains, the degree of sinicization of these nomadic tribes was uneven, and the ruling class of the Central Plains Dynasty was in a great turning stage of the entire feudal society. The various tribes of these nomadic peoples with different degrees of sinicization will determine the success or failure of the country established by their tribe in the Central Plains because of the stage of their own tribe in the process of sinicization, so the former Qin Empire established by the Di people, who first reached a very deep stage of sinicization, was able to defeat the tribes of other nomads and unify the northern region.

After his tribe unified the northern region, Fu Jian, the leader of the Di people, firmly believed that his temporary recruitment of a million troops could easily flatten the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, and said the arrogant words of throwing whips and cutting off the stream, at this time Fu Jian was too superstitious about the huge military force, forgetting the military common sense that the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, the former Qin Empire raised a million troops, how much grain and grass would be consumed, and a large number of labor force filled the army, how to carry out the country's production, Fu Jian completely ignored it, He may want to have such a huge army, it is completely possible to pacify Jiangnan in a short time, as long as everything is not a problem in time, but Fu Jian forgot the truth that the ruler is long and the inch is short, although the former Qin army has a million, not only the grain and grass are very huge expenses, but also the ancient news is blocked, the command system is backward, how to make so many troops prohibited, the same pace is a very difficult problem, so although the former Qin Empire has millions of troops, but there are many problems, no matter what, Fu Jian also issued an order to march.

In fact, there is a good precedent in the history of pacifying the Jiangnan region, and the time span is very close to Fu Jian's unification of the north, which is the successful case of the Western Jin Dynasty to defeat the Eastern Wu that occupies the Jiangnan region, when the Cao Wei regime controlled by the Sima family defeated the Shu Han regime, the Western Jin Dynasty that had just been established after more than ten years of war preparations, only sent troops to attack the Eastern Wu regime, because of the full preparation, the timing was accurate, the Western Jin Dynasty was very smooth pacified the Jiangnan region, and the world was unified, At this time, the Former Qin Empire was not fully prepared to send troops to the south, and its main tribe, the Di people, was full of contradictions with other nomadic tribes, and the large-scale conscription made the people who had just lived a stable life have strong resistance, so that the military spirit was extremely unstable, and finally laid the groundwork for the fiasco of the Battle of Weishui.

Due to the internal contradictions of the former Qin Empire and the unstable morale of the million-strong army commanded by Fu Jian, it is conceivable that the possibility of the former Qin Empire pouring the strength of the whole country into the southern expedition can be said to be very small, and we have also said before that no matter which of the war between the former Qin Empire and the Eastern Jin Dynasty wins or loses, the tribes of other nomadic tribes who are unwilling to submit to the Di people will inevitably take the opportunity to raise the banner of resistance, and the northern land controlled by the former Qin Empire will inevitably fall back into a fragmented situation, and the war with the Eastern Jin Dynasty will be defeated and defeated. The main ethnic group of the former Qin Empire is in the very deep stage of the sinicization process, and is already facing the trend of the gradual extinction of the main tribes, and the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian has migrated a large number of Di people in the Guanzhong area to live in various parts of the north, which accelerates the time for the completion of the Sinicization of the Di people, so the decline of the former Qin Empire is just around the corner, not to mention that the desperate former Qin Emperor Fu Jian is going to take the initiative to launch a war related to the fate of the entire country and nation, which shows that the prospects of the former Qin Empire are not optimistic, The fate of the Di people is not optimistic, and the outcome of the war with the Eastern Jin Dynasty is not optimistic.

Facts have proved that in the battle of the former Qin Empire and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the former Qin Empire's million army was vulnerable, and the entire battle of the Qin Dynasty basically had no ups and downs, leaving only the former Qin army's rumors, the collapse of the grass and trees, and when the main army of the former Qin Empire fell for thousands of miles, the tribes of the various nomads rose up to stand on their own, and the former Qin Empire tended to collapse.