About Chapter 76 Story Introduction: After the Southern Yan Emperor Murong De died of illness, because he had no heirs, he ordered his nephew Murong Chao to inherit the throne, Murong Chao was beside him, and he was still not confident after succeeding to the throne, and listened to the words of the fifth floor of the grandson of the minister, so that the clan Murong Zhong, Murong Fa and others were forced to launch a rebellion, Murong Chao quelled the rebellion, forced Murong Zhong away, and wanted to formulate a strict punishment law to strengthen national control, but was stopped by the ministers, Murong Chao simply indulged in drinking and fun, and also sent troops to rob the people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty as a singer, and entrusted all the government to Gongsun Wulou, the nepotism on the fifth floor of Gongsun caused the domestic monarchs and ministers of Nanyan to leave morality, people's minds changed, and Nanyan's national strength also went downhill.

In this story, the Southern Yan regime gradually revealed the image of the country under the rule of Murong Chao, but we carefully analyze what Murong Chao did, his fear of the prestigious clan, this is the true nature of the emperor, the emperors of all dynasties have suppressed some prestigious clans, and Murong Chao's treatment of Murong Zhong, Murong Fa and others is completely the essence of the emperor's behavior. And Gongsun Wulou, the minister of the Southern Yan regime, took advantage of Murong Chao's psychology and gained great favor and trust, but Murong Chao could not be regarded as a mediocre lord, at least when he was ready to formulate a strict law to control the country, he was opposed by the ministers, Murong Chao did not insist on going his own way, nor did he suppress and kill the ministers because of this, but after his governing concept was denied, Murong Chao's approach was slightly extreme.

However, in fact, the Southern Yan regime, as a relatively weak country in the Central Plains at that time, was sandwiched between the two powerful Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it was actually difficult for the ruler of the Southern Yan regime to make a difference. Especially in the later period of Murong Chao's reign, the domestic situation of the two strong neighbors of the Southern Yan regime, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, tended to stabilize in the midst of constant internal strife. It is completely difficult for Murong Chao to do anything in external expansion, which is why he behaves so bohemianly. It can be seen that Murong Chao, the lord of Southern Yan, is not a useless person, but a relatively intelligent monarch who can follow the trend of history, and his sadness lies in the fact that he was born at the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms and inherited the throne of the weak Southern Yan regime.

As we said before, at this time, the Xianbei Murong Department has basically completed the sinicization, and the demise of the Later Yan Empire and its branch Nanyan regime is the inevitable law of historical development.

Although the historical records of him are not comprehensive, we can see from his slanderous remarks about Murong Chao that Gongsun Wulou has a clear insight into Murong Chao's psychological dynamics, and every word he says can be said to Murong Chao's heart, so Murong Chao tried his best to eradicate the clan Murong Zhong and Murong Fa who were guarding the field, forcing these two to launch a rebellion, and finally escaped from the Southern Yan regime. And Gongsun Wulou also took this opportunity to win the trust of Murong Chao, coupled with Murong Chao's governing philosophy was not willing to give up on the hearts of the ministers, Gongsun Wulou was even more unscrupulous in seizing power, and finally made the Nanyan regime in the court full of miasma, showing the scene of the country's demise.

And as the ruler of the Southern Yan regime. Murong Chao has a lot of trust in Gongsun Wulou, in fact, he is also a laissez-faire attitude towards the government, because he really has no way to turn the tide, he can only indulge in silk and bamboo wind music, waiting for the day of the death of the country, but it is precisely because Murong Chao sent troops to rob the people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in order to get more singers, which caused great indignation inside and outside the court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which finally laid the groundwork for the demise of the Southern Yan regime.

In fact, the internal relations of the Southern Yan regime were not complicated, and unlike the Later Yan Empire, which was replaced by the Northern Yan regime during the same period, rebellions and coups were frequent, and the emperors of the Later Yan Empire had almost no good deaths. And there was only a rebellion of Murong Zhong and Murong Fa within the Southern Yan regime, but this rebellion was completely forced out by Murong Chao, the lord of Southern Yan. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the loss of cohesion of the Xianbei Murong Division. We talked about before that the former Yan Emperor Murong Wei was extremely distrustful of the clan Murong Chui, but Murong Chui would rather embark on the road of escape than raise an army to rebel. However, Murong Zhong and Murong Fa, the clans of the Southern Yan regime, did not have Murong Chui's consciousness at all, and launched a rebellion when they were wronged and suspicious, which was of course a manifestation of the loss of national cohesion. And Murong Chao's governance of the Nanyan regime, although there are no significant results, but his ability to listen to the words of the ministers and give up the ruling concept of strict punishment and strict law is also worthy of recognition, so the internal contradictions of the Nanyan regime are not sharp, but its external survival pressure is extremely huge.

During this period, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty gradually stabilized in the midst of civil strife. In succession, two powerful figures emerged from these two dynasties to control the political situation. Therefore, the rapid decline of the Southern Yan regime was entirely caused by external pressure.

We can also see from this. Murong De, the founding monarch of the Southern Yan regime, was able to lead the Xianbei Murong tribe who guarded Yecheng in the Later Yan Empire to establish a state on the land of Qilu, completely relying on the fact that the Northern Wei Dynasty was busy governing the Kwantung region that had just been occupied, and had no time to look south. The Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River also had a large-scale civil strife, unable to go on a northern expedition, which gave Murong De the opportunity to make contributions, and Murong De took advantage of the internal strife of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to continue to raid the land of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, making the power of the Southern Yan regime reach the maximum, and at the same time, the degree of sinicization of the Xianbei Murong Department under the command of Murong De also continued to reach a very high level in the feudal state in the Kanto region. Then, the rapid decline of the Southern Yan regime is also an inevitable trend presented by the laws of history. So Murong Chao is the successor. No matter what they do, it will be difficult to reverse the decline of the Nanyan regime, let alone stop the pace of the demise of the Nanyan regime.

In fact, it is in the land of Qilu occupied by Murong De. During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, there was also a nomadic people who established a separatist regime in this area, which we have not mentioned in the previous historical stories, so we will take this opportunity to talk about this regime and those regimes that were not included in the list of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

This regime is the Duan Qi regime established by the Xianbei Duanbu, the Xianbei Duanbu is a nomadic people who opened the door of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, this tribe in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, helped the last prince Sima Yue in the Eight Kings Rebellion to control the power of the Western Jin Dynasty, but after Sima Yue died, the Western Jin Dynasty died in the Han Zhao Empire, and the Xianbei Duan also took refuge in the Han Zhao Empire's general Shi Le, and later with the establishment of the Later Zhao Empire by Shile, the Xianbei Duan Department was attached to the Later Zhao Empire, but, With the situation of the Later Zhao Empire falling apart after Ran Min usurped the throne, Duan Niche, the leader of the Xianbei Duan Division, led the people to enter the Kanto region with the Xianbei Murong Division, and Duan Niche occupied Guanggu, which is today's Qingzhou region of Shandong, and established a regime, the country name was Qi, and the history was called the Duan Qi regime, but Duan Niche was loyal to the Later Zhao Empire, and the leader of the Xianbei Murong Tribe, who was symmetrical to the emperor, made a big accusation, which caused Murong Jun's strong dissatisfaction and great anger, and as a result, under the blow of the Qianyan Empire established by the Xianbei Murong Department, Duan Niche was finally defeated and diedThe Duan Qi regime also perished, because the Duan Qi regime only enjoyed the country for six years, only experienced one monarch, and did not have a very important impact on the strategic pattern of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, so we did not mention this regime in the historical story section.

Because of the large number of regimes established by the Han ancestors and nomads during the 16th period, the relationship between these regimes was extremely complicated. In order to explain the historical process of this period clearly, we naturally have to make corresponding deletions, for example, because the Duan Qi regime only had contact with the former Yan Empire established by the Xianbei Murong Tribe, and basically had no intersection with the other regimes in the Sixteen Kingdoms. Therefore, we did not talk about this regime in the historical story section, and similarly, the Duan Qi regime was not included in the list of the Sixteen Kingdoms by later historians because it existed for too short a time and had little influence.

We have talked a lot about the regimes that were not among the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, such as the Zhai Wei regime established by the Ding Lingren, the Qiuchi regime established by the Di people, the Tuyuhun regime established by the Xianbei Murong tribe, the Ran Wei regime established by the Han ancestors, the Daiguo regime established by the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, the Xiyan regime established by the Xianbei Murong Tribe, and the Duan Qi regime established by the Xianbei Duanbu. Among these regimes, I think the most influential on the strategic pattern of the Sixteen Kingdoms period is the Ran Wei regime established by the Han ancestors and the Xiyan regime established by the Xianbei Murong Ministry, because these two regimes respectively defeated the Later Zhao Empire and the former Qin Empire that once occupied the Central Plains, so that the period of sinicization of the nomads entered the period of continued integration and the basic completion of the integration period, so it is a pity that these two regimes were not included in the list of the Sixteen Kingdoms.

Among them, the Xiyan regime existed for more than ten years, but because the stability of its regime was too short, it was excluded from the sequence of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and the Ran Wei regime eventually led to the disintegration of the country because of the perverse actions of the ruler Ran Min, and in just three years, this regime that people are proud of today perished. But the establishment of the Ran Wei regime led to a prestigious empire during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the only Former Qin Empire among the Sixteen Kingdoms to unify the northern regions. As a result, the great integration of nationalities during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms also presented a new stage.