About Chapter 45 Synopsis, after the Former Qin Emperor Fu Jian unified northern China, he began a tentative attack on the Eastern Jin Dynasty when the Former Qin army attacked Xiangyang, an important city in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because of the desperate resistance of Zhu Xu, the defender of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the people of Xiangyang Army became a city, and the former Qin army took more than a year to conquer Xiangyang, Fu Jian thanked Zhu Xu for his loyalty, and let him be an official in the former Qin Dynasty, Zhu Xu for the future, he temporarily stayed in the former Qin as an official, but during the period when the former Qin attacked Xiangyang, there was a clan rebellion within the former Qin. Fu Jian had to suspend the attack on the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the squad returned to the court, and easily quelled the internal rebellion.

In this story, the instability of the Former Qin Empire has begun to emerge, but because Fu Jian's prestige still exists, the rebellion of the clan was quickly extinguished, and the nobles of the various tribes who submitted to the nomads of the Former Qin Empire saw this situation, and did not blindly follow the trend, but chose to continue to lurk inside the Former Qin Empire and continue to wait for the opportunity. From Fu Jian quickly extinguished the rebellion of the clan. It can be seen that during this period, the degree of sinicization of the nomads who entered the Central Plains was already very high, and it was difficult for the rebellious ministers and thieves who committed rebellion to have a successful political space and cultural soil.

In fact, in the middle and late period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, although there will be internal rebellions in the countries established by the various tribes of the nomads, the probability of success has been greatly reduced, and even the rebellions that occur will soon be quelled by the orthodox forces, which is also an important manifestation of the deepening of the sinicization of the nomads.

At that time, the tribes of other nomadic tribes who were subject to the former Qin Empire were actually growing and growing in the stable environment of the unification of the north, and constantly accepted the influence of Han culture. The study of the cultural etiquette system in the Central Plains is more profound, because they know that at this time, as the orthodox force of the former Qin Empire, the emperor Fu Jian's ability to control the country is still very strong, and the rebellion of the clan is difficult to win, and their own tribe is still in the development after defeat, and the strength is relatively weak.

The choices made by these nomadic tribes are very similar to the actions of the great families who were eager to become the ruling class in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and we take this opportunity to briefly talk about some things in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Eastern Han Dynasty has always been regarded as a continuation of the Western Han Dynasty, but in fact, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty have essentially different ruling class attributes, because the ruling class of the Western Han Dynasty is basically still in the stage dominated by the aristocratic landlord class, but at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, as a political group of relatives who transitioned to the scholar landlord class, ended the rule of the Western Han Dynasty and established a new dynasty, Liu Xiu, a distant relative of the clan of the Western Han Dynasty, stood out in the Zhulu rebel army under the banner of reviving the Han family, relying on the emerging family to dominate the world and build the Eastern Han Dynasty, so in the choice of the ruling class, the Eastern Han Dynasty abandoned the aristocratic landlord class and began to rely on the emerging scholar landlord class, but at the same time, because the scholar landlord class was in the development stage and could not adapt to the control of the entire feudal dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty also relied on the political power of eunuchs who thought they were reliable, The political forces of foreign relatives, although still in the position of the ruling class, have been weakened and marginalized.

Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, as the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born in a declining aristocracy, understood the suffering of the people, and attached importance to the development of agriculture during his reign, rectified the rule of officials, ended the turbulent political situation of the country at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, restored the broken social economy, and the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty also entered the right track, and later historians called it Guangwu Zhongxing.

After Liu Xiu's death, his son Liu Zhuang succeeded to the throne, the talented and intelligent Han Ming Emperor Liu Zhuang continued to deepen the reform process of Guangwu Zhongxing, built water conservancy, rectified the dynasty, strict laws, and also sent troops to the north to attack the Xiongnu, sent a squad beyond the Western Regions, so that since the end of the Western Han Dynasty out of the Central Plains Dynasty control of the Western Regions re-attached, Liu Zhuang also according to Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han lesson, vigorously weakened the power of foreign relatives, after his death, his son Liu Wei succeeded to the throne, Han Zhang Emperor Liu Wei was generous, and further pushed the Eastern Han Dynasty to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Emperor Liu Wei of the Han Dynasty died young, and his son Liu Zhao succeeded to the throne at the age of ten, resulting in the situation that the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty Emperor Liu Zhao was in power at the beginning of his reign, and the political power of foreign relatives had a tendency to rise, but after Liu Zhao became an adult, he regained power with the help of eunuch political forces and family members, and after taking power, Liu Zhao was diligent in government, inherited his father's generous temperament, and brought the Eastern Han Dynasty into the heyday of Yongyuan Zhilong. But he also inherited his father's weak body, also died young, his son Liu Long was born only more than 100 days ago was carried on the dragon chair, but the Han Emperor Liu Long died less than two years old, and the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty fell into the hands of the Empress Dowager Deng and the relatives headed by Deng Qiu.

The political forces of foreign relatives united with the political forces of eunuchs to support the young clan Liu Hu as the emperor, and Liu Hu, the emperor of Han An, had no power in his hands, and although the family within the Eastern Han Dynasty was dissatisfied with the control of the government by relatives and eunuchs, and tried to launch a coup d'état to eliminate these two political forces, but because of the relative weakness, he was defeated by these two political forces. The struggle between the three political forces of the scholar clan caused chaos within the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Han Dynasty began to decline.

Emperor Liu Hu of the Han Dynasty died of a violent illness on the way to play, and the political forces of relatives and eunuchs fought because of the support of the emperor, and finally the political forces of the eunuchs defeated the political forces of the relatives, and supported the young clan Liu Bao to inherit the throne, although the Han Shun Emperor Liu Bao was young but also unwilling to be the puppet of the eunuchs, so soon after his succession to the throne, he relied on the power of the family to successfully suppress the eunuch political forces that held the power of the court, and took the power of the court and government into his own hands. However, at this time, after many years of internal infighting within the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government was relaxed, the officials were corrupt, and the financial difficulties were difficult, and the local natural disasters continued, and the people of all ethnic groups continued to revolt, and Liu Bao's political talent was mediocre, and after weakening the political power of the eunuchs, he reused the political power of his relatives, which re-triggered the internal turmoil of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and laid the groundwork for the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After Liu Bao died, his one-year-old son Liu Bing succeeded to the throne, the power of the court was in the hands of the political forces of relatives headed by Liang Ji, Emperor Liu Bing of the Han Dynasty died less than three years old, Liang Ji supported the young clan Liu Zhang to succeed to the throne, the Han Emperor Liu Zhang was smart and precocious, and at the age of only eight he reprimanded Liang Ji for flying and domineering as an emperor, Liang Ji was afraid that Liu Zhang would liquidate himself when he became an adult, so he poisoned Liu Zhang to death and supported the clan Liu Zhi to inherit the throne.

After Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty came of age, he was dissatisfied with his relative Liang Ji who was in charge of power alone, and used the political power of the eunuchs to kill Liang Ji, while Liu Zhi was extravagant and lascivious, ignoring the government and politics, and all the power of the court and government was in the hands of the eunuchs. After Liu Zhi died of illness, because he had no children, Liu Hong of the clan was established as the emperor, which was the notorious Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty believed that the eunuchs were better than the Emperor Heng of the Han Dynasty, and the political power of the eunuchs was maximized, because the eunuchs were from a humble background and had physical disabilities, so after they gained power, they sold their official beards and showed their ability to collect money, which led to the political darkness of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the people were miserable, and finally broke out in the Yellow Turban Uprising, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was completely caught in the whirlpool of decline.

After the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, his son Liu Bian succeeded to the throne, and the political forces of the relatives led by He Jin wanted to clear the political forces of the eunuchs with the help of Dong Zhuo, the assassin of Liangzhou, who held heavy troops, but was exterminated in advance by the political forces of the eunuchs, and the political forces of the family that were constantly excluded destroyed the political forces of the eunuchs, and wanted to wait for the sky to build their own feudal dynasty, but Dong Zhuo led the troops into the dynasty to abolish the young emperor of the Han Dynasty Liu Bian, and supported the succession of Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, driving out the political forces of the family and taking over the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, Dong Zhuo's perverse behavior caused the dissatisfaction of the warlords who relied on suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising to develop and grow, and the warlords from all walks of life jointly promoted Yuan Shao, who was born in a big family, as the leader of the alliance, and formed an alliance to fight against Dong, aiming to restore the Eastern Han Dynasty controlled by the political forces of the big family, but the warlords from all walks of life did not contribute to the strength of the work, and soon collapsed, and Dong Zhuo was killed by the general Lu Bu in the scolding, and the Eastern Han Dynasty completely fell into a power vacuum, and the warlords from all walks of life fought for territory and killed each other, and the wandering Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie was taken in by the warlord Cao Cao, At this time, the family saw the opportunity to become the ruling class completely, but Yuan Shao, who had high hopes, was extremely stupid, and defeated the weak in the competition between the strong and the weak, and the political forces of the family had to rein in their edge, and continued to wait for the opportunity in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms to make the final preparations for becoming the ruling class.

After Cao Cao's death, his son Cao Pi used the promulgation of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system as a bargaining chip in exchange for the support of the political forces of the family, abolished Liu Xie, the emperor of Han Xian, and established the Cao Wei regime, completely ending the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty.