Text Foolish dreams: The Western Jin Dynasty perished
About the seventeenth chapter of the story briefly: In order to limit the development of Shile in the Kanto region, Sima Ye, the emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, who succeeded to the throne in Chang'an, canonized the leader of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe as the acting king, but the Western Jin Dynasty was already in turmoil, under the fierce attack of the Han Zhao generals Liu Yao and Shi Le, the last emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Ye, had to deign to surrender out of the city, and the Western Jin Dynasty also perished, and the edict of Sima Rui, the king of Langya, was stranded in Liangzhou.
In fact, the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty has long been a reasonable thing, we have repeatedly mentioned before, the Han Zhao Empire that destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty, nominally replaced the Western Jin Dynasty, but in fact its internal tilting is extremely serious, and the general of the Han Zhao Dynasty, Shi Le, has a self-respect, its strength has far exceeded the Han Zhao royal family, which also reflects the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the regime established by the nomads, because of their own lack of knowledge of the feudal dynasty, and the evil consequences.
However, as the ruling class of the Shi landlord class, the Jin Dynasty also had to suffer its own evil consequences, because of the selfishness and hypocrisy of the Shi landlord class, no matter whether the Jin Dynasty's national Zuo could continue or not, as long as the family was in power, the feudal dynasty would never be at peace.
As a regime established by nomads, the Han and Zhao Empires actually have every opportunity to avoid being held by the clans, but limited to the nomads' ability to design the system and the lack of cultural heritage, it is impossible to imagine a imperial examination system out of thin air, so the Han and Zhao Empire established by the Huns can only refer to the situation that the royal family and the clans in the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty were in power together to maintain their rule, and there will also be troubles and chaos. But the Han and Zhao rulers who racked their brains really didn't have a good way.
At this time, Shi Le, who occupied the Kanto, reused the local family clan to maintain his governance of the Kanto, and the family clan in these places was closer to the Hanmen Shu clan in the future, far stronger than the family clan in the center of the dynasty, coupled with the wisdom and decisiveness of the ruler Shi Le, the Kanto region controlled by Shi Le was far more stable than the Guanzhong region controlled by the Han Zhao Empire, Shi Le was nominally a foreign general of the Han Zhao Empire, but it was only a matter of time before he turned against the Han Zhao Empire.
However, Shile's ethnic group is actually a relatively small tribe among the nomads, and the nomads of the northern steppes should be that despite Shile's outstanding ability, the Qianren can not be better recognized among other nomads, even if Shile supports the local clans in the east, but in the same way, the clans do not have a particularly good solution to the thorny ethnic problems, although the Later Zhao Empire established by Shile used the method of Hu and Han partition, but it is not mature in terms of institutional design, which can be imagined. When Zhang Bin, who governed the country and the country, passed away, the family clan in the court would no longer pour their hearts and souls into the Later Zhao Empire, and the eloquent Shile drove the crane west, and it would be difficult for his descendants to maintain the normal operation of the entire regime, and the Qianren, as a small tribe of a nomadic people, also faced the fate of being annexed and assimilated.
Speaking of which, I think of the small tribes of those nomads, the smallest of these small tribes is estimated to be a nomadic family, and the slightly larger one may be a nomadic family, and the Qianren should belong to the weaker of the large tribes, of course, those big tribes that once dominated the northern grasslands are also developed from small tribes, and even said that they have become strong by merging many small tribes, and some of these annexed small tribes began to grow and grow when the tribal alliance declined. Some perished with the decay of the tribal confederations established by the large tribes.
When the tribal alliance led by the Xiongnu disintegrated, the small tribe Xianbei began to grow, and when Xianbei began to invade south, the same small tribe of Rouran began to rise, and when Rouran went into decline, the small tribe Ashina created the Turkic Khanate, and when the Turks went into decline, the small tribe of the Uighurs completely wiped it out, and the Uighurs are the ancestors of the current Uyghurs.
However, the northwest was too far away from the Central Plains Dynasty, and even if the powerful Uighur Khanate was friendly with the Tang Dynasty and jointly destroyed the Turkic Khanate, it was not able to deeply learn the system and culture of the Central Plains Dynasty, so that it was always fighting internally, and it fell apart under the blow of the Tibetan Plateau, which is now the ancestors of the Tibetan people, due to the special geographical environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there are fewer foreign nomads, relatively speaking, the relationship between the Tibetan and Tibetan people can be said to be in one line.
The experience of the Uighur Khanate is similar to the Jin State established by the Jurchen Wanyan tribe, but the main body of the Uighur Khanate has been retained, which is the current Uyghur people, but in fact, the ancient Uighurs and the current Uyghurs have many differences, the Uighur birthplace should be in the northern Mongolian steppe, and later migrated to the northwest region, the Uighurs belong to the yellow race, and they should not be much different from our current Mongols in appearance, and the current Uyghurs are similar to the mixed Chinese and Western, It is easy to distinguish from the Mongols in physiognomy, this is because the Uighurs should have historically integrated with the inhabitants of the Western Regions at that time, and the northwest region is at the throat of the Silk Road, where the Eastern and Western cultures meet, and it is normal for the Uyghurs to have Caucasian characteristics in the development of this day. It is ironic that some Uyghurs now claim to be descendants of the Turks, and even have the idea of restoring the Turkic Khanate.
What I want to say is that the Uighurs have nothing to do with the Turks, if there is a relationship, that is, the Turks once enslaved the Uighurs, and when the Turkic Khanate fell, it was the Uighurs who destroyed it, and the two are like the Xiongnu's Xianbei, Xianbei's Rouran, and Rouran's Turkic subordination, but the Uighur Khanate does not have the latter's ability to unify the northern steppes, and if the current Uyghurs claim to be the powerful Turkic descendants of the past, it is really a big mistake, even if they are counted as Uighur descendants, In fact, when you really explore the origin of the ethnic minorities living in the northwest, you will find that the current ethnic minorities in the northwest are often not particularly pure in blood, and even in terms of blood, these ethnic minorities are produced by the fusion of various tribes of many ancient nomads, and it is impossible to find a tribe that directly corresponds to the ancient nomads, formed unique customs and lifestyles, and can no longer be viewed through the eyes of ancient nomads.
The Turkic Khanate created by Ashina left to the northwest ethnic minorities is also called the language of the Turkic language family, but when it comes to the Turkic language family, it contains the language that many ethnic groups in the East and the West are still using today, and these languages are only similar in pronunciation and writing, the meaning is completely different, and it is not the only language. It is impossible to divide the ethnic groups by language, should all English-speaking countries be united? Obviously, it is impossible, and the various ethnic groups that use the Turkic language group cannot communicate with each other at all, and it is even more difficult for historical origins to converge, how can they be united in a nonsensical way.
Speaking of which, we might as well talk about the religion of the nomads, before we said that the nomadic life is actually very primitive, in the face of everything on the grassland, the nomads believe that there is aura, which is the theoretical basis of the shamanism believed by the nomads on the Mongolian steppe in the north, much like the primitive human understanding of all things, in fact, the living habits of the nomads are closer to the primitive society, with the development and migration of the nomads, shamanism has also been widely spread, and now there are many ethnic minorities still believe. Of course, the nomads who migrated to the northwest initially believed in shamanism, but because the living area was on the Silk Road where the East and West meet, they must be influenced by foreign religions, and during the Tang Dynasty, Islam was introduced to China, because Islam was born in the Arabian Peninsula, and the founder Muhammad used religion to unify the various tribes of the scattered nomads together to establish a strong Arab empire, so the Uighurs and other nomadic tribes who founded the country in the northwest also wanted to establish a country and become emperors. He began to practice Islam and continues to this day.
More than 100 years ago, the European powers began colonial expansion, which led to the invasion of backward countries that believed in Islam, and some people proposed to unify all religious countries and worship a single monarch together, aiming to confront the European powers, but now, it has been used by extremist organizations and evolved into a narrow pan-Islamism, endangering the stability and prosperity of the world.
Narrow pan-Islamism has also caused some extreme Uyghurs to have the idea of restoring the glory of the Turkic Khanate, and the blind respect for the Turks is also more than a hundred years ago, the European powers opened the door to ancient China, and foreign scholars who do not understand Chinese history generally regarded the Turks as the ancestors of the ethnic minorities in the northwest region, and wrote them into their own works, but later these Western scholars knew their own fallacies and corrected the mistakes in their own works, but this pan-Turkist trend of thought, However, it has been exploited by some extremist organizations with ulterior motives, and narrow-minded pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism are intertwined, which has given rise to the current East Turkistan terrorist situation in our country
As a Chinese who loves history, I firmly believe that with the prosperity and strength of our country, this vicious force that violates the laws of history, ignores historical facts, and ignores historical morality will eventually be eliminated, and history will always be written by a nation that respects it, and cannot be used by evil forces that violate morality and ethics.