About Chapter 50 Story Synopsis: Former Qin Emperor Fu Jian gave an order, and the former Qin army began to retreat like the ground shaking the mountain, and the general Zhu Xu took the opportunity to shout that the Qin army was defeated! The former Qin army began to retreat from retreat to rout, Xie Xuan, the general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty on the east bank of the river, took the opportunity to give an order, personally led the Beifu soldiers to charge, and the former Qin army lost its armor and fled, the former Qin emperor Fu Jian and his remnants were defeated, and they had lingering palpitations about the defeat, and even the wind and crane chirping in the river valley were regarded as the sound of the Eastern Jin Dynasty army. At this time, Murong Chui, a former Yan nobleman, saw that Fu Jian was so embarrassed, and under the pretext of guarding against border troubles, he led his troops and horses to leave Fu Jian in an attempt to achieve greater development.

In this story, the former Qin army poured thousands of miles, defeated in a mess, the former Qin emperor Fu Jian was also wounded by an arrow, and the clan Fu Rong, who was deeply convinced by Fu Jian, was even more fatal, and the former Yan clan Murong Chui, who was once considered by Fu Jian to be treated well, left him to seek the opportunity to restore the country.

On the other hand, within the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xie Xuan, who was in charge of government affairs, was not surprised after learning the good news of the Battle of Weishui, leaving an allusion to the broken teeth for future generations.

Xie An, as a political figure who influenced the political situation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, performed before and after the Battle of Weishui, which is really remarkable, especially his attitude of not changing the color of Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, leaving a story to be talked about for future generations, I think Xie An may not be able to compare with his almost contemporaries Zhang Bin and Wang Meng in terms of governing ability and military attainments, but he is not shocked by the change, and the deep temperament of the city government is what we modern people should learn the most. Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, had a famous saying in "The Story of Yueyang Tower", that is, not to be happy with things, not to be sad about oneself, to worry about the worries of the world first, and to be happy with the joy of the world after the world. The Eastern Jin Dynasty also reached its peak under the leadership of Xie An.

With the victory of the Battle of Weishui, the Eastern Jin Dynasty army began a series of counteroffensives, once pushing the border line to the Yellow River Valley, but as the ruling class of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Shi landlord class failed to complete the important task of unifying Kyushu after all, and the various tribes of the northern nomads began to eagerly want to be sinicized under the short rule of the former Qin Empire. After the Battle of Weishui, as the main ethnic group of the former Qin Empire, the power of the Di people began to decline greatly, while the strength of other nomadic tribes increased relatively, and at this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was still the orthodox dynasty of the settled nation, could not completely solve the intensifying ethnic problems in the northern land in the intrigue of the Shi landlord class, so after the defeat of the Huangshui War, the various tribes of the nomadic tribes in the northern land began to move towards the road of independent statehood. By the time of the fall of the Former Qin Empire, there were as many as eight or nine feudal kingdoms emerging in the northern land, that is to say, the chaos in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms only began after the Battle of Weishui, and most of the sixteen people who could establish a state appeared after the Battle of Weishui. Therefore, some people use the Battle of Weishui as the dividing line, dividing the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms into two stages, however, I still firmly divide the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms into three periods with the degree of sinicization of the nomads at that time. Because the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period is the process in which the various tribes of the nomadic people began to move towards sinicization and formed a new Han ancestors and a new Chinese culture, which is the most positive aspect of the people left to us today during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

As we said before, today we can see the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and the "Book of Jin" compiled during the Tang Dynasty and the "Zizhi Tongjian" compiled during the Northern Song Dynasty contributed a lot, but because these two dynasties are too far away from the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period that we can know now may be far from the situation at that time, and even some stories may not necessarily be true. For example, in the story of this chapter, there is a dialogue between a farmer and the former Qin Empire emperor Fu Jian, this story should be fabricated by later historians out of thin air, not to mention that there was no television in ancient times, and the chance for the common people to meet the Son of Heaven is very small, that is, the farmer's rhetoric is by no means an ordinary person can say, and the ancient cultural popularity rate is extremely low, and the common people who can read and hyphenate are simply rare, and people with a little culture will never be able to farm in the fields. At least you have to be a gentleman in a private school in the village, so about the dialogue between Fu Jian and the farmer, scholars throughout the ages think that this is a fictional thing, which shows that the historical stories recorded in the official history are not necessarily true and credible, not to mention that during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, a large number of nomadic feudal states were established, and later generations of Han scholars scoffed at this, and it was fortunate that they did not have colored glasses to record the relevant historical facts.

In fact, all the historical stories that we can see today come from the stories of the previous dynasties that were officially written by the previous dynasties in ancient China, and even say that the history books of some dynasties are separated by many dynasties, and there are only official historical books after hundreds of years, so a considerable part of the historical stories are fabricated, tampered with, or adapted by later historians.

Because for the history of the previous dynasty, the historians of the current dynasty must be compiled according to the values of their own times, the purpose is mainly to cater to the rulers of the current dynasty to control the feudal dynasty ideologically and culturally, and at the same time, to cater to the inner wishes of the people of the current dynasty, then as the historian of the current dynasty, we must reprocess and sort out the historical materials of the previous dynasty, so that the historical stories we see now are very likely to be very different from the historical facts at that time.

In particular, the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, which we are mainly talking about now, in order to cover up the defects of the orthodox dynasty of the Chinese nation at that time, that is, the Western Jin Dynasty, in terms of governing ability, and at the same time to maintain the good image of the Chinese nation, they blamed the chaos in the northern region on the nomads at that time, so they called the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period the Five Hu Chaohua, and our people today are also keen to call this historical period the Five Hu Chaohua or the Five Hu Sixteen Kingdoms, which is actually extremely inappropriate. Or rather, it is extremely incorrect.

However, why cater to the ideas of the people of the current dynasty, the use of fabricated historical facts in the historical period before the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms did indeed occur a similar situation, we here is an example to illustrate, in the 24 histories of the "Historical Records", once by the famous modern Chinese writer Mr. Lu Xun called the swan song of the historian, without rhyme.

In this first general history of our country, such an incident is recorded, which is called the mystery of Qin Shi Huang's life history, let's talk about Qin Shi Huang's reign, the life experience of the first emperor through the ages, and the influence of the people on the history books.

As we all know, Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng is the first emperor in the history of our country, during his reign ended the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period for hundreds of years, and unified China. One of them is a more normal statement, saying that he is the child born to Prince Chu and Zhao Ji of Qin Zhuangxiang, and the other is that after helping Zi Chu win the throne of the prince of Qin, the wealthy Korean businessman Lü Buwei gave his pregnant Kaki Zhao Ji to Zi Chu, who was about to take over the throne of King Qin, and later Zhao Ji gave birth to a baby boy, who was made the prince of Qin's son Chu, and later this baby boy inherited the throne of King Qin, which was the first emperor of Qin who later led Qin to sweep the six countries. The second statement about the mystery of Qin Shi Huang's life experience, seems to be very dramatic, but this statement is not true, and now historians use the common sense of obstetrics and gynecology of modern medicine combined with the historical data of Zi Chu, Lü Buwei, and Zhao Ji's interaction time and activity trajectory, and easily see through the absurdity of this statement, but the story about Qin Shi Huang is the illegitimate son of Lü Buwei is truly recorded in the official history, I think the reason for this situation, It is Sima Qian, the author of the historical records, in order to cater to the hatred of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms for the destruction of the Qin Dynasty at that time, that kind of historical stories similar to wild history were included in his works. Moreover, Sima Qian lived during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it was only about a hundred years before the fall of the Qin Dynasty, at that time, most of the people under the rule of the Western Han Dynasty were also descendants of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, which shows how much the author of the official history needs to understand the people's feelings and public opinions!

And the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period we are talking about is also from the early Tang Dynasty by Fang Xuanling and others compiled the "Book of Jin" and the Northern Song Dynasty by Sima Guang and others compiled the "Zizhi Tongjian", China's ancient history developed to the Tang and Song dynasties, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties period of the national integration has been completed, the people of these two dynasties have become a new ancestors, or a new Chinese nation, in order to cater to the wishes of the huge Han ancestors at that time, these two historical books without exception chose to belittle the kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, So much so that to this day, many outstanding figures with outstanding political ability and outstanding military ability during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms are not well known to the public, and even the history book "Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms", which is closest to the society at that time, has not been handed down, which is also a great regret in the history of our Chinese nation. Although Sima Guang, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, adopted a large number of contents of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Sixteen Kingdoms in the Zizhi Tongjian, I believe that the feudal ethics and morality that had been formed in the Northern Song Dynasty must have had a negative impact on the history of the country established by the nomads during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, so even if we can see the whole history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period now, it should have been modified and distorted.