About Chapter 56 Story Synopsis: As early as the collapse of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe established by the Xianbei Tuoba tribe in the former Qin Empire, the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian ordered the Xianbei Tuoba tribe nobles to be moved to Chang'an, and the Xianbei Tuoba tribe and territory left in the northern Mongolian steppe were jointly managed by Liu Weichen, the leader of the Xiongnu Tiefu tribe who had submitted to the pre-Qin Empire earlier, and Liu Kuren, the leader of the Xianbei Dugu tribe. After the Battle of Weishui, Liu Kuren helped the former Qin Empire to attack the Houyan regime established by Murong Chui, but was defeated and died, and his son Liu Xian seized the position of the head of the tribe, regarded Tuoba Gui as a thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh, and wanted to kill him, and was blocked by Tuoba Gui's mother He Shi, and Tuoba Gui grew up with the help of his mother's tribe Xianbei Helan Department, inherited the position of the leader of the Xianbei Tuoba Department and the throne, Tuoba Gui led the people to move back to the old capital Shengle, And changed the name of the country to Wei, known as the Northern Wei Dynasty in history, Tuoba Jue re-annexed the grassland tribes with the help of the power of the Houyan regime, and successively defeated Liu Xian and Liu Weichen's tribes, and killed the feud Liu Weichen, Liu Weichen's son Liu Bobo led the troops to surrender to the Later Qin regime, and the Northern Wei regime became stronger and stronger under the leadership of Tuoba Jue, which also caused the fear of the Later Yan regime.

In this story, the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, under the leadership of the leader Tuoba Gui, relied on the military assistance of the Later Yan regime to establish the Northern Wei regime. Among them, the tragic experience of Tuoba Gui in his childhood is strikingly similar to the experience of Temujin, who later became famous in the history of our country, and it seems that the heroes of the nomadic people have a tragic childhood.

In fact, in the childhood stories of Tuoba and Temujin, we should not ignore the important characters behind them, that is, their mothers, Tuoba Jue's mother He Shi and Temujin's mother Ha Erlun. These two steppe heroes are in their mother's cultivation and help to establish immortal feats, which is enough to see that the nomads living on the steppe at the time of their rise, has always been in a relatively primitive social way of life, the power of maternal love is great, but the nomads often appear in this kind of mothers to help their sons build great causes, just to show that the living conditions of the nomads are closer to the life model of the matrilineal clan commune, and women have an indispensable role in the development of the entire tribe. In particular, some female figures who understand the righteousness and are more politically minded can play a vital role in the development of the tribe.

Let's carefully recall that the more famous female politicians in the history of our country seem to be the queen mothers of the dynasty established by the nomads, these queen mothers basically have a resolute and decisive character and admirable political vision, worthy of the honor of female politicians, and in the dynasty established by the ancestors of the Han people, only Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty can be called a female politician, but in fact, the reign of the Tang Dynasty is an inclusive era, The Tang Dynasty is also a great unified dynasty that has just ended the bloody integration period of ethnic integration, Wu Zetian is a strong woman who appeared in such a social background, and as a newly formed Han ancestor, Wu Zetian may also have nomadic blood, and the social customs of the entire Tang Dynasty are also nomadic characteristics, so it is no accident that a female ruler appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

In the dynasties established by the nomads, there are more female politicians, which is an inevitable trend, because the nomads are not particularly averse to women in power, their life on the steppe is relatively primitive, some traditions of the matriarchal clan commune are still in use, and the nomads from the strong to the creation of political power, the process is often very fast, and the life pattern of the mother clan commune can continue to be preserved for a period of time. So

In the middle and early stages of the establishment of power by the nomads, the status of aristocratic women was much higher than that of the Han ancestors. For example, the Empress Dowager of Civilization in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xiao in the Liao Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang in the Qing Dynasty, etc., these strong women all played an important role in the regime established by the nomads. The mother of Tuoba Jue that we talked about in the story is such a politically capable figure.

He was born in the Xianbei Helan nobles, should be the daughter of the nobles of the political marriage between the two tribes, married to the son of the leader of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, Tuoba Shiyiqian, Tuoba Yao, and later gave birth to Tuoba Jue, when the former Qin Empire destroyed the Dai Guo established by the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, he led the young Tuoba Jue to live in the Xianbei Helan Tribe, she used the grievances and hatred between the tribes on the grassland, and helped Tuoba Jue escape from death with her son many times, and successfully used the power of her own family to help Tuoba Jue inherit the position of the leader of the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe. He's youngest son Tuoba Yao was detained by the Later Yan regime because of the incident of asking for good horses and the Northern Wei Dynasty envoy, after the Northern Wei regime and the Later Yan regime became evil, Tuoba Yao was killed by the Later Yan Emperor, He also became ill and soon died, Tuoba Jue obeyed him as the Empress of Xianming.

In fact, from the fact that the He family used the relationship between the various nomadic tribes in the northern Mongolian steppe to help Tuoba Jue regain control of the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, we can see that the nobles of the various tribes on the Mongolian steppe have a certain blood relationship, and the Xianbei Dugu Tribe, who once managed Tuobaju's mother and son, also has an in-law relationship with the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, so Liu Kuren, the leader of the Dugu Tribe, is polite to Tuoba Jue's mother and son, but when the interests of the tribe conflict, this in-law relationship is completely unreliable, from which we can also see, In the struggle between nomads, there is also a common state of integration between each other, especially between nobles, so we still have to distinguish just by relying on the ambiguous accounts of these tribes in the history books. Take the Xianbei Lonely Department as an example, listen to its tribal name seems to be a branch of the Xianbei tribe, but in fact the origin of this tribe has nothing to do with Xianbei, according to the current historians speculate, the Xianbei Dugu Department should be in the early period of the Sixteen Kingdoms when the Han and Zhao Empire collapsed, the Huns who were unwilling to stay in the Central Plains returned to the Mongolian steppe to re-establish the tribe with the local Xiongnu remnant tribes, because of the meaning of loneliness and loneliness, so they named their tribe after Dugu, soon, The powerful Xianbei Tuoba tribe began to dominate the northern Mongolian steppe, and the Dugu tribe changed its flag when it was weak, calling itself Xianbei, and we now call the Dugu tribe Xianbei Dugu tribe.

In general, the integration between the various nomads on the Mongolian steppe in the north is actually a complicated and chaotic process, in comparison, the integration of the nomads and the Han ancestors is simple and clear, as long as the nomads begin to use the cultural etiquette of the Han ancestors, the political system to establish their feudal state, the nomadic people have entered the period of basically completing the sinicization, when the feudal state they established is gone, the nomads have completely entered the final completion of the sinicization period, until the formation of a new Han ancestors. And among the nomads who continue to maintain a backward mode of life on the steppe, war and peace occur because of each other's competition for the means of subsistence, which is also a process of integration between nomads, and this process is going on all the time in the ancient steppe. For example, the Mongolians that we all know well, they were formed in the late Northern Song Dynasty by the Mongolian Qiyan leader Temujin to complete the unification of the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian steppe, in fact, until the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the Mongols in the northern Mongolian steppe and the northwest region were also in a state of coexistence of various tribes, and each tribe has greater or lesser differences in language, culture and customs, in fact, these tribes can be defined as different ethnic groups from our perspective today. But because of the glory of the Mongol and Yuan Empire, these tribes were willing to call themselves the descendants of Genghis Khan, so there is today's Mongol tribe.

Therefore, the naming between the northern nomads is often named according to the most powerful nomads in the same living area, during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Xianbei tribes were strong, so the other nomads called themselves Xianbei tribes, in fact, these tribes are likely to originate from the nomads on the Xianbei in blood, but because they are in the same living area, there is little difference in customs and habits between them, Therefore, the historians of our settled peoples often write vague or self-talk about these nomadic peoples, resulting in the situation that many nomads in ancient China do not understand and are not familiar with.

Let's look at the process of Tuoba Gui leading the Xianbei Tuoba tribe to conquer the entire northern Mongolian steppe, we can also see a large number of nomadic tribes of a certain tribe appearing in large numbers, which is similar to the Xianbei beggar tribe to conquer the nomadic tribes in the Longxi region, there are also many similarities, but the Xianbei beggar tribe in the Longxi region is bigger, that is, a large one is pulled out in the silk, a group of nomadic small tribes merge with each other, and the slightly stronger Xianbei beggar tribe has become the leading boss in the Longxi region. And the annexation between the tribes of the nomadic tribes on the Mongolian steppe is a contest and duel between kings, these so-and-so tribes are all ruthless characters who have multiplied in the Mongolian steppe for hundreds of years, even if the Xianbei Tuoba tribe dominated the Mongolian steppe in the north and established a dynasty, but the Xianbei Tuoba tribe under the leadership of Tuoba Gui has been greatly damaged under the conquest of the powerful former Qin Empire, and at this stage can only temporarily live under the fence of the Houyan regime with the help of political means. Relying on the Xianbei Murong Department, which is about to basically complete the sinicization, to control the northern Mongolian steppe region.

When Tuoba Jue's wings were growing, Murong Chui, the emperor of the Later Yan regime, was by no means an idle person, and naturally felt the threat from the Mongolian steppe in the north, so he resorted to the trick of detaining the envoy after Tuoba Jue refused to do so, forcing the Xianbei Tuoba Department to break with the Later Yan regime as soon as possible, Murong Trai naturally intended to use this as an excuse to seek an opportunity to completely solve the Northern Wei regime.