Text: The Rise of Shile

About the story of chapter 14 briefly: Sima Yue, who held the power of the Western Jin Dynasty, poisoned the emperor Sima Zhen and made Sima Chi the emperor, and in the face of the attack of the Han and Zhao Empires, Sima Yue led his troops to battle, but Sima Chi was dissatisfied with Sima Yue's seizure of power, and sent troops to attack Sima Yue. Sima Yue suffered from the enemy on his back, sick and angry, died of illness in the army, the main force of the Western Jin Dynasty led by him was annihilated by Shi Le under the leadership of Wang Yan, Shi Le and the Han Zhao general Liu Yao joined forces to capture Luoyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, captured the emperor Sima Chi, Shi Le's strength increased greatly, and began to plot the Jianghan region.

This story illustrates that when the royal family takes over the power, regardless of the distance of the bloodline, the threat to the imperial power is inevitable, due to the internal struggle of the Western Jin Dynasty, the struggle between the aristocratic landlord class is too fierce, resulting in the complete collapse of the entire dynasty, even if the ruling family has some ideas and suggestions for governing the country, it can not be implemented at all, and the urgent national problems of the Western Jin Dynasty are not well solved, and finally evolved into a disaster in the Western Jin Dynasty, when the ruling Sima Yue knew that the country would not be the country, I wanted to lead the main force of the dynasty to meet the attack, but I didn't want to be supported by the emperor Sima Chi but took advantage of his absence in the court, united foreign soldiers and horses, attacked Sima Yue, Sima Yue died of panic, and the family headed by Wang Yan did not have any strategy at all, only knew how to arrange the back of the family, he wanted to send Sima Yue's coffin back to the East China Sea, it is very likely that he wanted to take the opportunity to flee to the Jiangnan region, but was finally defeated by the general Shi Le of the emerging Han and Zhao Empire, Wang Yan was captured, and he wanted to surrender but was killed, The Western Jin Dynasty also completely lost the capital to resist the Han and Zhao Empires, and from then on, the Western Jin Dynasty could only carry out passive defense against the attacks of the Han and Zhao Empires, and within a few years the two emperors were captured, and the Western Jin Dynasty finally went to extinction.

From the matter of Shi Le's annihilation of the main force of the Western Jin Dynasty, it can be seen that in addition to making some achievements in politics, the family is simply bound to death in the face of military struggle. It can be seen that the Western Jin Dynasty, dominated by the landlord class of the scholar clan, had no way to deal with the royal clan with heavy troops, and it was impossible to have a good solution for the nomads with strong force. Therefore, when the feudal dynasty with the landlord class of the scholars as the ruling class, in the face of the nomadic people who sharpened their knives and were eager to build the country independently, the emergence of the troubled times of the Sixteen Kingdoms was inevitably a historical trend.

When our Han ancestors called this period of the Sixteen Kingdoms period the history of Wuhu Chaohua, it can be seen that this history is the blood and tears of our nation, but I would like to express my own views here.

The name of Wuhu Chaohua or Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms is actually inaccurate, the regimes established at that time were actually far more than sixteen, and similarly, there were more than five nomads involved in the war, of course, this may only be an approximate title of our Han ancestors.

However, are it really the various tribes of these nomads who are messing with our land of China? In my opinion, this is not the case, in fact, what really disturbed the entire land of China was the Shi landlord class as the ruling class of the feudal dynasty at that time, because of the political short-sightedness of the Shi landlord class, the defect of the ruling ability, and too much attention to the interests of their own family, which eventually led to the emergence of the Eight Kings Rebellion. It's just that our Han ancestors are unwilling to admit that this period of history is caused by their own shortcomings, so they put the responsibility on the nomads, in fact, the culprit of the turmoil in the northern land for more than 100 years is the family that was in charge of the government at that time, the nomads are just taking advantage of the trend, because the country established by the nomads, the feudal system is not perfect, not to mention the national problems that need to be solved urgently, which eventually leads to successive changes of dynasty.

The feudal dynasty is like a training car in a driving school, and the ruling class is the coach, these nomads are the students, when the aristocratic landlord class is the coach, the students are still a blank sheet of paper, nothing, so the teaching process is relatively stable, and after the scholar landlord class becomes the coach, the students already know a little about it, and even eager to try, and the coach of the scholar landlord class is not doing his job, always sitting in the co-pilot thinking about his own home, and letting the students drive alone, so the car does not overturn is strange, However, the Shu landlord class was a very serious and responsible coach, and finally taught the students to become coaches.

Therefore, in my opinion, this period of history during the Sixteen Kingdoms period is not a kind of chaos at all. The real chaos is the ruling family.

In fact, in the feudal dynasties in which the Shu landlord class was the ruling class, that is, the six dynasties of the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the ethnic problem still existed in these six dynasties, but the feudal dynasties basically maintained a stable state of great unification, and even if there were nomads who entered the Central Plains, the country they created must also use the Shu landlord class as the ruling class.

Therefore, I think that this period of history during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms is not a chaos of the five people, but a chaos of the scholars. Therefore, in the previous text, there is no mention of the words of Wuhu Chaohua, only this historical period is called the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, in fact, the accurate name should be the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, because the history of our country is inseparable, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms existed in the south and north of our country at the same time, and the Sixteen Period is only the history of the northern region of our country, and then we say the origin of the name of the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

As we said earlier, there were not sixteen countries in this historical period, so why should it be called the Sixteen Kingdoms period? This is because the historian Cui Hong of the Northern Wei Dynasty compiled the history of the establishment of various countries in the north of our country during the same period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty into a chronicle history book, named the Spring and Autumn Period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Cui Hong selected sixteen countries to name this history book according to the standard of Anbang's destiny, so it has been used by later historians, calling this history the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, we are not very easy to understand Cui Hong's standards, in fact, I think that it is a country that has enjoyed the country for more than ten years, exactly sixteen, but, this period, The Western Yan established by the Murong Department of the Xianbei tribe happened to be ten years old, but if you want to count by month, it should be less than ten years, and the influence of the Western Yan is relatively low, and there is no fixed territory in the early period of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the Tuyuhun and the predecessor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which are also built by the Xianbei Murong Department, are far away from the Central Plains, so they are not counted among the sixteen countries, so only sixteen countries have enjoyed the country for more than 10 years during this period of time, and the territory is relatively stable, so it is reasonable that this history is called the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms.

In 304 AD, in this year, Li Xiong established the Han Dynasty, followed by the Hun Liu Yuan established the Han Zhao, this year became the beginning of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, to 439 AD, the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao defeated the Northern Liang established by the Lu Shui Hu people Fuqu Mengxun, and the northern land was reunited, which is also regarded as the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and it is also the beginning of the Northern Dynasties, so the Sixteen Kingdoms period only existed in Chinese history for a short period of 139 years, which is in the history of our Chinese nation for thousands of years. It's just a short note, but this history has left us with too much blood and tears for people throughout the ages to be reluctant to mention, but through this gloomy morning haze, we seem to see the sun that is slowly born, and the sun seems to be softer and more vibrant.

In this turbulent tide of the times, there have been countless tide makers of nomads and settled peoples, who are the heroes of our Chinese nation. The Spartacist we are talking about is a Spartacian hero, but he is far more thoughtful and effective than Spartakus.

When Shi Le completely wiped out the main army of the Western Jin Dynasty and captured Luoyang, its own power had begun to grow, and the then Han Dynasty Emperor Liu Cong also began to devote himself to the capture of the Guanzhong region after capturing the Western Jin Dynasty Emperor Sima Chi, and his main energy was to eliminate the aristocratic forces of the Western Jin Dynasty entrenched in Chang'an and restore his Han family, which actually gave the Kanto region to Shi Le. In fact, from here we can also see that as a nomadic emperor, just eager to achieve the results he wants, in fact, for the control of the entire dynasty, there is no good method and system, which eventually led to the demise of the Han and Zhao Empire, of course, Shile as a nomadic courtier, also has no feudal culture at all, let alone the idea of loyalty and patriotism, when its power is strong, self-reliance is a matter of course. In fact, you can see from here that such a chaotic situation occurred throughout the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and it was precisely because of the vulnerability of the Western Jin Dynasty that the nomadic people who had won repeatedly did not have time to accept the cultural etiquette system of the Han people.

With the end of the Eight Kings Rebellion within the Western Jin Dynasty, the nomads began to use force to integrate with the local Han ancestors in the Central Plains, where the war was extinguished, and this process of integration was not completed until the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian unified the north. After the Battle of Weishui, the vitality of the former Qin Empire was greatly damaged, and the northern land returned to war, but at this time, even though the nomads established many more countries than before the war, the civil and military ministers of each country began to learn from our Han ancestors for the respect for imperial power, so this is also a process of reintegration.

When the Northern Wei Dynasty founded by the Xianbei people rose, began to annex the northern countries, until the Northern Wei Dynasty Xiaowen Emperor Sinicization reform, the nomads who lived in the Central Plains for more than 100 years began to yearn for the great unified civilization of the Central Plains Dynasty, so this stage is the basic end of ethnic integration. This is also the reason why I divide the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period into three parts, these three stages are the integration of the nomads and our sedentary peoples, and the integration is basically completed.