About Chapter 74 Synopsis: The son of the leader of the Xianbei beggar tribe who was destroyed by the Later Qin, Qifu Qiangui, took the place of his father to lead the people in Longxi, and when he saw the decline of the Later Qin Empire, he led the troops to rebel, and the beggar Qiangui, who was hostage in Chang'an, fled back to Longxi after hearing the news. The father and son took advantage of the time when the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing had no time to look west, successfully restored the country, and then built the Western Qin, and at this time, the lord of the Northern Liang State was defeated by the Southern Liang lord Bald Wei Tan, and occupied Guzang, begging to return to the father and son and taking advantage of the decline of the Southern Liang, and attacked the Southern Liang and obtained the Lingnan region. When the Western Qin was becoming stronger, the lord of the country was killed by his nephew the Qifu Mansion, and the begging and blazing pan killed the Qifu Mansion to regain control of the Western Qin.

In this story, the Xianbei beggar tribe, which had been destroyed by the Later Qin Empire, established the Western Qin regime again, and under the leadership of the leader Qifu Qiangui's father and son, the Western Qin regime successively defeated the Later Qin Empire, the Nanliang regime and the Aruo cadres of Tuyuhun, and its national strength was much greater than before it was destroyed. In fact, I think that the Western Qin regime at this time is the Western Qin regime among our sixteen countries. On the other hand, the Western Qin regime established by the brother of Qi Fu Qiangui was similar to the tribal alliance of nomads, which means that the Western Qin regime, which was destroyed by the Later Qin Empire, was more like a regime outside the Sixteen Kingdoms. For example, the Daiguo regime established by the Xianbei Tuoba tribe and the Tuyuhun regime established by the Xianbei Murong tribe and the Tuyuhun regime established by the Xianbei Murong tribe did not exist in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, but these two regimes were not included in the list of the Sixteen Kingdoms by later historians.

The restoration behavior of the Western Qin regime is very similar to the Daiguo regime and the Northern Wei Dynasty established by the Xianbei Tuoba Department in succession during the Six Kingdoms period, but the Xianbei Beggars did not change the name of the country due to the restoration of the country, so the Western Qin regime is the same as the name before and after, so our later historians did not divide the two regimes in detail. On the contrary, there is a clear distinction between the dynasty regime established by the Xianbei Tuoba Department and the Northern Wei Dynasty. However, after all, the Western Qin regime is still a relatively small kingdom among the sixteen kingdoms, and its scale and influence are still relatively small.

However, through the Sinicization process of the Xianbei Beggar Department during the Sixteen Kingdoms Period, after the restoration of the Western Qin regime, the Sinicization speed of the Xianbei Beggar Department was significantly accelerated, and under the leadership of the Beggar Qiangui father and son, the Xianbei Beggar Department took advantage of the decline of the Later Qin Empire and the Southern Liang regime to continuously expand its power in the northwest region. It is even said that at this time, the Western Qin regime was already able to threaten the Shanglong region controlled by Tuyuhun, which is the area of Qinghai Lake today.

Of course, according to the historical laws we said before, the Western Qin regime is the same as the Nanliang regime that was attacked by it. When its national strength becomes more and more prosperous, the degree of sinicization of its main nation will become deeper and deeper, the characteristics of the original nation will be lost, the cohesion of its nation will also be reduced, and the rebellion of the aristocratic clan will occur immediately. But at the same time, because of the deep roots of the patriotic ideology of loyalty to the monarch in Chinese culture, these rebellions are often difficult to succeed, although the beggar is attributed to the rebellion of the beggar mansion and is in a different place, but his crown prince Qifu Chipan still put down this clan rebellion and naturally inherited the position of the lord of the Western Qin.

It can be seen from this that when the Western Qin regime reached its peak of national strength, it was bound to decline in accordance with the historical law of national integration, just like the Southern Liang regime.

And just when the Western Qin regime began to charge towards its heyday, the Southern Liang regime also came to the brink of collapse. The Northern Liang lord Fuqu Mengxun became the last straw that crushed the Southern Liang regime. Although the Southern Liang regime was attacked by the Northern Liang regime and lost the important town of Guzang in Liangzhou, it did not perish immediately. However, it was already dying under the continuous expansion of the Western Qin regime.

In fact, according to the law of history we are talking about, the Northern Liang regime will also decline after gaining control of Guzang, but the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period when the Northern Liang regime dominated the Liangzhou region, there was an accidental situation, that is, the Beiliang lord Fuqu Mengxun was a strategist with great political ability and military literacy, and under the rule of Fuqu Mengxun, the Beiliang regime did not immediately show a scene of decline, but developed in the historical direction from dominating the Liangzhou region to completely controlling the Liangzhou region. However, once a heroic ruler like Fuqu Mengxun died, the Northern Liang regime was unable to elect a capable ruler, and its decline was inevitable.

In fact, the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period is so complicated, because although the various regimes established by the nomads are in accordance with the laws of history, their main tribes are moving towards sinicization, and the country is therefore going to disappear, but there are too many accidental events, such as the Later Zhao Empire established by the Qiang people, and the Beiliang regime we are talking about today, although their rulers are very eloquent and can slow down or slightly change the historical process, but they can definitely not change the direction and trend of the entire historical torrent. In fact, it is not only the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, but also the convergence of accidental and inevitable historical events. The history of civilization of our entire Chinese nation is made up of accidental and inevitable historical events, but the development of history is always based on the inevitable trend as the final result, which is of course mixed with many accidental events, so our history presents a rich and colorful scene, emerges countless characters with different images, leaves countless historical stories with endless aftertaste, and produces a colorful Chinese culture. This is what makes history readable, watchable and referenceable.

And what we are now talking about is the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, which is also the key period for our Chinese culture to integrate the nomadic culture and promote the formation of a new Chinese culture, so each regime in the Sixteen Kingdoms period represents one or more cultures, and these cultures are inclusive and antagonistic, which also shows that each regime in the Sixteen Kingdoms period has a different political pattern, but these cultures eventually converge into a new Chinese culture. It is a pity that this important historical period has been forgotten by people today. When people were chattering about the Chu-Han War and the Three Kingdoms fighting for hegemony, they didn't know that because there were no stirrups, there would not be so many exciting horse battle scenes. When people are happy to tell the heroes of the Sui and Tang dynasties and the past of the Ming and Qing dynasties, they don't know that because of the change of the ruling class, these dynasties can maintain a long time to enjoy the country, and so many interesting historical events and historical figures have been produced.

The Western Qin regime mentioned in this chapter is only a small regime occupying the Longxi region, and the Western Qin regime is only a drop in the ocean in the history of our Chinese civilization, but it has made extremely important contributions to the development and development of the Longxi region and even the entire northwest region. However, there are very few people who can know about the Western Qin regime now.

In fact, most of the regimes in the Sixteen Kingdoms are the same as the Western Qin regime, only a corner of the country, and the national Zuo is only a few decades old, and they have not left too many marks in the history of our vast civilization, but only left the notoriety of Wuhu Chaohua and the general concept of Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms.

When the Western Qin regime re-established by the Xianbei Beggars continued to expand in the northwest region, it annexed the Aruo cadres under the Tuyuhun regime established by the Shuchu tribe of the Xianbei Murong Tribe, which shows that Tuyuhun belongs to a country of tribal alliance nature, and its regime should be composed of many nomadic tribes, the most powerful of which is the Shuchu tribe of the Xianbei Murong Tribe, and at the same time, there are so many nomadic tribes under the control of Tuyuhun that we can't tell them all clearly. However, one thing we can know is that the strength of the various tribes that make up the country of Tuyuhun is not too strong, and the strength of the largest tribe, the Xianbei Murong tribe, may not be comparable to the Xianbei Bald tribe that established the Nanliang regime. This should have something to do with the geography of the Qinghai region. Even today, the Qinghai region is also a part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and its geographical environment is relatively harsh, and the ecological environment is naturally not too good, and the ecological environment of the Qinghai region during the Sixteen Kingdoms period will not be much better than today. Therefore, the Tuyuhun national strength established by the Xianbei Murong tribe who moved to the Qinghai region in this area should be average or weak, and it can even be said that it cannot compete with the various Liang regimes and Western Qin regimes in the northwest region. Similarly, the regimes established by the nomads in the northwest also knew that the ecological environment in Qinghai was relatively harsh, survival was difficult, and more importantly, the civilization was too backward, and they would live better in Liangzhou, which was close to the Central Plains. Therefore, Tuyuhun did not have much influence on the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms. During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the various regimes in the northwest region also did not launch any large-scale offensive against the barren land and backward culture of Tuyuhun, because these nomadic people who were influenced by the culture of the Central Plains were no longer willing to return to the primitive living conditions of the past, and the competition for living space with Tuyuhun was only a hand-to-hand move, or a homeopathic move to the mouth.

It can be seen from this that the regime established by the Western Qin regime and even the various nomads in the northwest region still takes the occupation of the Liangzhou region as its national strategy, and is not interested in other regimes, so if the Western Qin regime wants to make great progress in the Liangzhou region, it must deal with the Northern Liang regime and the Southern Liang regime, and the Southern Liang regime has become a grasshopper after the autumn, but the Northern Liang regime is in full swing, so of course, the Western Qin regime is an old lady who eats persimmons and picks soft pinching, and the Southern Liang regime has therefore reached the moment of life and death. At the same time, the Western Qin regime will not be merciful to the Beiliang regime at its peak, and will also adopt the methods of encroachment and harassment to weaken the Beiliang, after all, there is a Xiliang regime behind the Beiliang regime that makes the frustration like a fish in the throat. Therefore, if the Northern Liang regime wants to become the hegemon of the northwest region, it must solve the threat of the Western Liang regime, so when the Western Qin regime is at its peak, the political pattern of the northwest region is also quietly changing.