Foolish Dreams: Hu Xia and Western Qin (II)
About Chapter 86 Story Synopsis: Under the joint attack of Beiliang and Tuyuhun, the lord of the Western Qin State had to surrender to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao ordered the Emperor to lead the troops to attack Hu Xia with him, not wanting the Western Qin tribes to rebel, but the Western Qin tribes were defeated by Helianding, and had to lead the troops to surrender to Hu Xia, so the Western Qin perished. Helianding, the lord of Huxia, knew that although he had destroyed the Western Qin, the land of Longxi had been divided between Beiliang and Tuyuhun, and in the face of the Northern Wei army, he had no power to fight back, so he had to lead his troops to try to attack Beiliang, and then use the land of Liangzhou as the capital to restore the country, but Helianding's troops were intercepted by Tuyuhun when crossing the river, and Helianding was also captured, so Hu Xia perished.
In this story, the Western Qin regime and the Hu Xia regime perished one after another, although the dynasty that destroyed these two regimes was not the Northern Wei Dynasty, but in essence, their demise was directly related to the westward expansion of the Northern Wei Dynasty's power, and even said that the Western Qin lord was already the whole country surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty at the end of the twilight, but because the unwilling to surrender the troops launched a rebellion and were intercepted by the Hu Xia regime halfway, and the Hu Xia lord Helian Ding was also forced by the pressure of the Northern Wei Dynasty to lead his troops to attack the Northern Liang regime, but was intercepted by Tuyuhun and led to the death of the country, Helian Ding, the lord of Hu Xia, was also given to the Northern Wei Dynasty as a meeting gift by Tuyuhun. Moreover, the Western Qin regime and the Hu Xia regime had already lost all their land before the fall of the country, and the rulers of these two regimes all wanted to rebuild their countries by conquering the lands of other regimes, but they were intercepted and gave up. Moreover, there is not much difference in the time of the demise of these two regimes, it can be said that they perished at the same time, and the enjoyment time of the Western Qin regime after the restoration of the country and the Huxia regime are basically the same, which also shows that the progress of the sinicization of the main tribes of the two regimes is basically the same. Therefore, we will also put these two regimes together.
With the demise of the Western Qin regime and the Hu Xia regime, the Northern Wei Dynasty was still two regimes away from unifying the northern region, one was the Northern Yan regime in the western Liaoxi region, and the other was the Northern Liang regime in the Liangzhou region, the Northern Liang regime was still in the rule of Fuqu Mengxun, and the national strength was still in its heyday, and the Fuqu Mengxun also knew that the Northern Wei Dynasty was bound to win the Liangzhou region, so like Tuyuhun, he adopted the strategy of calling the ministers and paying tribute to delay the national fortunes of the Northern Liang regime. Therefore, the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Tao, knew the truth that the weak first and then the strong, not to mention that the Northern Liang regime had already surrendered, how could there be a reason to raise his hand and slap the smiling face, so it seems that the situation of the Northern Yan regime occupying the western Liaoning region is precarious.
After the fall of the Huxia regime and the Western Qin regime, the main tribes of these two regimes, the Xiongnu Tiefu and Xianbei beggars, were also integrated into the people of all ethnic groups in the northwest region, because these two tribes are not a large ethnic group after all, after more than 1,600 years of history, we can no longer see the national relics of these two tribes today, but we must still have the genes of these two tribes in the ethnic minorities and Han people in the northwest today. However, the customs, language and culture of these two tribes are not known to us.
Regarding the relationship between the nomads in history, we have always said that the ancients had no national concept, and did not attach importance to the role of the nomads, and called them more arbitrarily, but we can see from the tribes of the Xianbei beggar tribe that the nobles of the Xiongnu Lu Shuihu family launched a rebellion, and we can see that the tribes of these nomads should be inseparable from each other, because they are all nomads in the northwest region, and their ancestors should all come from the northern Mongolian steppe. Their customs and language and culture are certainly not very different. The mutual support and dismantling of each other by these nomadic tribes during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms was also entirely caused by political purposes. It can be seen that the tribes of these nomads can be regarded as a unified whole, but there are also relatively small differences in the various parts of the whole.
In fact, the various tribes of the nomadic people are also constantly fighting for unification in the northern Mongolian steppe and the northwest region, until a great era comes, the nomadic people have come into being a great leader, and since ancient times, the various tribes of the nomadic people who have fought for hegemony in the northern Mongolian steppe and the northwest region have finally been integrated together to form a great nation, and this nation has also established a great feudal empire. This great era was the Tang and Song dynasties, the great leader was Genghis Khan Temujin, the great nation was Mongolia, and the great feudal empire was naturally the Mongol Empire. We will take this opportunity to briefly talk about the Mongol Empire.
Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, the nomadic tribes of the northern Mongolian steppe were in a state of dispersion, and the tribes that were able to annex the various tribes that dominated the steppe also established a loose regime of tribal alliances. With the great development and prosperity of Chinese culture in the Tang and Song dynasties, the tribes of the various nomadic tribes in the northern Mongolian steppe also began to embark on the historical process of unified feudalization, with the decline of the Liao Dynasty established by the Khitans and the Jin Dynasty established by the Jurchens, the bloody situation of the various tribes of the nomadic tribes was once again staged on the northern Mongolian steppe, among the six most powerful tribes, the Mongolian Qiyan tribe laughed to the end under the leadership of the leader Temujin, and Temujin completely completed the conquest of the various tribes on the Mongolian steppe. And it was influenced by Chinese culture, changed the established regime to follow the tribal alliance structure, began to refer to the Central Plains Dynasty code system to establish a feudal state, and according to the tribal name of the country named the Great Mongolia, so the nomads in the territory of the Great Mongolia have called themselves Mongolia, and the name of the Mongolian nation has been determined. With the large-scale westward expedition of the Mongols, the tribes of nomads who called themselves Mongols must have increased, and as a result, the number of Mongols also increased on a large scale, and to this day, the Mongols are a huge nation.
With the continuous expansion of the Mongols, the territory of the Mongol Empire encompassed almost the entire Eurasian continent, and now many people talk about it, but this territory was divided with Temujin's four sons and their descendants with the death of Temujin, and the Mongol Empire became a nominal large empire, in which the Central Plains region and the northern Mongolian steppe were left to Temujin's youngest son Tulei, and Tulei's son Kublai Khan won the victory in the war for inheritance, and under the influence of the Central Plains culture, Kublai Khan officially changed the name of the country to Dayuan, And set the capital of Dadu, which is today's Beijing, and the history of our country has entered the period of the reign of the Yuan Dynasty. With Kublai Khan's defeat of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty completed the historical task of unifying Kyushu, and the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty continued to accept Chinese culture in order to maintain their rule, and the Yuan Dynasty became the first unified dynasty established by nomads in the history of our country. The other regimes separated from the Mongol Empire, such as the Chagatai Khanate and the Kipchak Khanate, because they are far away from the Central Plains and lack the baptism of Chinese culture, they cannot be regarded as regimes in the history of our country.
Therefore, the most important influence of the Mongol Empire on the history and culture of our country is the Yuan Dynasty, and the nobility of the Mongol Empire is also the Zhengshuo of the Yuan Dynasty for their own nation, that is to say, the Yuan Dynasty is actually the main body of the Mongol Empire, and the regimes established by other descendants of Temujin are similar to the vassal states of the Yuan Dynasty. And with the passage of time, these regimes and the Yuan Dynasty in the political system and cultural etiquette are also gradually distancing, and even sword soldiers, so, as the Yuan Dynasty was driven back to the Mongolian steppe by the peasant rebel army, these nomads who call themselves Mongols broke out again annexation wars, but Mongolia as the ethnic name of many nomads was retained, until the middle and early Qing Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes were completely pacified and became part of the Qing Dynasty.
Although after the death of Temujin, the struggle for dominance within the Mongol Empire has not stopped, but for this tribe that can successfully destroy the Jin Dynasty to defeat the nomadic tribes of the Southern Song Dynasty to occupy the Central Plains, other steppe peoples are very admired and envious, and with the coming to power of Kublai Khan, the historical task of unifying China and Kyushu has been completed. In this way, all the nomadic tribes sang the praises of the Mongols, and it was only natural that they would call themselves Mongols.
After the death of Kublai Khan, the successive rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were basically unable to govern this huge country, and around the right to rule, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty and their ancestors of the Mongol Empire were inextricably contested, and the entire Yuan Dynasty failed to deal with the relationship with the Han ancestors and implement the national oppression regime, which made the Shu landlord class, which represented the fundamental interests of the majority of the Han ancestors, began to abandon the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and finally in this peasant uprising one after another, the last ruler of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yuan Shun, fled north, The Yuan Dynasty's rule over Kyushu in China came to an end.
From the establishment of the Mongol Empire to the end of Yuan Wangchao's rule over the whole country, a total of fifteen emperors have been experienced, among which there are also scenes of the empress dowager coming to the dynasty, among which the most effective emperors are Temujin and Kublai Khan, and the other emperors have redundant names and have not contributed much to the land of China, so I will not introduce them one by one. At the same time, it also shows that the various tribes of the nomads are constantly annexed and warned, and the final result is to become a unified nation.