Foolish dreams: Hou Yan Liguo

About Chapter 51 Synopsis: After the defeat of the Former Qin Empire, Zhai Bin, the leader of the Ding Ling people who surrendered to the former Qin Empire and moved to Luoyang, led his troops to launch a rebellion, and the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian ordered Murong Chui, who had gone to guard against border troubles, and Fu Pi, the defender of Yecheng, joined forces to quell the rebellion, but Fu Pi was indecisive by nature, and in the matter of Murong Chui's worship of the temple, he had a bad relationship with Murong Chui, but he failed to come up with an effective way to restrain Murong Chui, and as a result, Murong Chui took advantage of the time when he led the army to quell the rebellion, and killed the prison army Fu Feilong sent by Fu Pi, And Luoyang guard general Fu Hui learned that Fu Feilong was killed, afraid that Murong Chui led the army to rebel, refused to lead his troops into the city, Murong Chui simply listened to Zhai Bin's persuasion, formed an alliance with him, jointly launched a rebellion, and led the army eastward, ready to pacify the land of Guandong, when Murong Chui captured Xingyang, he proclaimed himself the king of Yan under the support of Zhai Bin and others, known as Hou Yan in history. At this time, Murong Hong, a former Yan nobleman who was an official in the Guanzhong region, Murong Chong and others also led their troops to rebel, Murong Hong also called himself the King of Yan, known as Xiyan in history, and the Xianbei Murong tribes who had submitted to the former Qin Empire responded to the newly established Later Yan regime and the Western Yan regime, and the national fortunes of the former Qin Empire also reached a critical juncture of life and death.

In this story, the Former Qin Empire, which had just experienced a crushing defeat in the Battle of Weishui, underwent earth-shaking changes within it, and the nobles of the Former Yan Empire, which had been destroyed by the Former Qin Empire, took steps to revive their homeland. Moreover, some of the weaker nomadic tribes began to become unbearable and lonely. With the collapse of the Former Yan Empire by the Former Qin Empire, the Gaoche people who moved from the Mongolian steppes in the north turned to submit to the powerful Former Qin Empire, and the Gaoche people were also called Ding Lingren by the Central Plains. With the unification of the north of the former Qin Empire, this part of the internal relocation of the Gaoche people should be in the great environment created by the former Qin Empire, its tribe has been greatly developed, when the ambitious tribal leader Zhai Bin saw the main ethnic group of the former Qin Empire Di people gradually declining in sinicization and war, he also had to find ways to lead his tribe to achieve a hegemony, but unfortunately, although the Gaoche people once dominated the grassland, but the number of Ding Ling people who moved to the Central Plains is limited after all, although after decades of development, However, the strength of Ding Lingren is still far inferior to the Xianbei Murong Department who once established the Qianyan Empire, and the degree of sinicization is far less deep than that of the Xianbei Murong Ministry, so in order to achieve his long-cherished wish of founding a country and becoming the king, Zhai Bin can only lean against the big tree to enjoy the shade, and chose to attach himself to the leader of the Xianbei Murong Department in the Kanto region, Murong Chui, and willingly bowed his head and continued to wait for the opportunity to stand on his own.

About the nomadic people of Gaoche, there are many historical records, we have said some before, this nomadic people is also a very early life in the northern Mongolian steppe, a relatively ancient tribe, in the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty developed to the most prosperous, but its strength is only a flash in the pan, when the former grassland overlord Xiongnu or moved south to Sinicization, or moved west to the far away, Gaoche people and Xianbei Tuoba gradually lost in the struggle for hegemony in the northern grassland, most of its people belong to the Xianbei Tuoba Department, Only some of the Gaoche people near Hebei moved to the Central Plains with the southward army of the Xianbei Murong Department, and began the process of sinicization, but because the Gaoche people in the Central Plains, also known as Ding Lingren, had limited strength, they could only temporarily attach themselves to the Xianbei Murong Department, but just a few years later, Zhai Bin's nephew Zhai Liao succeeded as the leader of Ding Ling, and led his troops to establish a small country called Wei in today's Jun County, Henan, Huaxian County, known as Zhai Wei, Zhai Wei maneuvered between the Houyan Empire that regained control of the Kanto region and the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, Finally defeated by the Later Yan Empire, its founding was only two years old, and after the death of the country, the Ding Ling people were completely integrated into the Xianbei Murong Department, and with the sinicization of the Xianbei Murong Department, it gradually integrated into the Han ancestors. Most of the Gaoche people who remained in the Mongolian steppe in the north began to sinicize with the entry of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe into the Central Plains, some continued to rely on the grassland overlord Rouran, and some moved west to the Western Regions, where they merged with other nomadic peoples, and finally formed one of the ancestors of various ethnic minorities in today's Xinjiang.

Through the development trajectory of the Gaoche people, we can see that the development process of a nation is actually very complex, to this day, no nation in the world can maintain its ancient and pure bloodline, and it is impossible to regard a certain tribe in ancient times as the ancestor of its own nation, in fact, looking at the world, the most powerful nation, the more complex the diversity of its bloodline, the more complex the diversity of the most backward nation, which is also the advantage of genetic diversity, For example, the American nation, the main ethnic group of the United States, the superpower of the world today, is formed by the whites, blacks and local Indians who have migrated to North America for more than 200 years, and the diversity of its ethnic blood can be said to be the most complex of various ethnic groups, but this is maintaining the genetic advantage of the American nation, while the primitive tribes in the African rainforest have no advantage in ethnic competition because of their relatively single ethnic origin, and these primitive tribes are still living a slash-and-burn life in the tropical rainforest. Therefore, the Gaoche people are by no means the single ancestor of a certain ethnic minority that we are now.

In ancient China, the most economically rich and culturally advanced was the Kanto region, which is now Shandong, Henan, and Hebei, and the Xianbei Murong Department took advantage of the civil strife in the Later Zhao Empire, which occupied the northern region, and entered the Central Plains, occupied the Kanto region, and established the Qianyan Empire, but because of the incompetence and political corruption of the emperor of the former Yan Empire, he was soon reused as a son of the Hanmen, The former Qin Empire that occupied the Guanzhong region was destroyed, but the nomads who created the former Yan Empire, the Sinicization process of the Xianbei Murong Department was not interrupted, but continued to thrive and grow in the core area of this Han culture, and continued to grow, in the battle of Weishui, the news of the defeat of the former Qin Empire came, the former Yan Empire clan Murong Chui raised troops to restore the country, and the Xianbei Murong Department living in the Kanto region responded one after another, in just a few years, Murong Chui basically completed the great cause of recovering the country, regained control of the rich Kanto region, and set the capital Zhongshan, That is, today's Xingtai, Hebei.

As the outstanding leader of the Xianbei Murong Department, Murong Chui did not choose to take Yecheng, the capital of the former Yan Empire, as his capital after the restoration of the country, but chose Zhongshan in the Hebei region, which is not far-reaching, Hebei is close to the Mongolian grassland in the north, at this time, the Xianbei Tuoba Department of the same origin as the Xianbei Murong Department is killing the Quartet with its own support in the Mongolian grassland, and its degree of sinicization is not as deep as the Xianbei Murong Department, so the military strength of the Xianbei Tuoba Department is naturally stronger than the Xianbei Murong Department, and it will inevitably become a strong enemy of the Houyan Empire in the future, so Murong Chui focused the country on the Hebei region, which naturally meant to guard against and control the Xianbei Tuoba Department. And the Hebei region is also close to the Xianbei Murong Department of the Longxing land of the Liaohe River Basin, the future of the country is in danger, and its descendants can return to the Longxing land of the tribe back then, in order to make a comeback, it can be seen that Murong Chui is really well-intentioned, but later history proves that Murong Chui chose to put the capital in Zhongshan, which did play a certain role in the continuation of the national Zuo of the Later Yan Empire, after the death of Murong Chui, the Xianbei Tuoba Department that dominated the northern Mongolian steppe waved south under the leadership of the leader Tuoba Jue, In one fell swoop, he conquered Zhongshan, the capital of the Houyan Empire, and the emperor of the Houyan Empire, Murong Bao, did lead his troops back to his hometown in the northeast, but because the Xianbei Murong Department was no longer able to produce a leader with brains and abilities like Murong Chui, and at this time, the Xianbei Murong Department also basically completed the sinicization, militarily it is difficult to match with other tribes of the nomads, and culturally it is difficult to compete with the ancestors of the Han people.

Murong Chui is the youngest son of Murong Hao, the founding emperor of the former Yan Dynasty, and the Later Yan Empire he established regained control of the Kanto region, and it is well deserved to revive the former Yan Empire as its own responsibility, but Murong Hong and Murong Chong, who raised troops in the Guanzhong region, did not have such a good background as Murong Chui, which also caused a major factor in the short life of the Western Yan regime, although the Western Yan regime was also created by the Xianbei Murong Empire, but the Xianbei Murong Ministers in the Guanzhong region were basically in the former Qin Empire when the former Yan Empire collapsed. Forced to move from the Kanto region to the Guanzhong region, these people were homesick, Murong Hong and others took advantage of the psychology of the Xianbei Murong tribe in Guanzhong, played the banner of returning to the east, and deceived the troops to raise troops, as a result, when Murong Hong defeated the main army of the former Qin Empire in Guanzhong and occupied Chang'an, Murong Hong wanted to occupy Guanzhong and fight against Murong Chui, his subordinates opposed it, and he himself was killed by the subordinates. It was not until Murong Yong, who was willing to lead the people to return to the east, that the Xianbei Murong tribe who lived in the Guanzhong region returned to the east under the leadership of Murong Yong and occupied the Shanxi region, that the Western Yan regime had a stable territory and set the eldest son, that is, today's eldest son of Shanxi, but because this part of the Xianbei Murong tribe had a small number of people and was unwilling to be hostile to the Houyan regime in the Kanto region, the ruler of the Western Yan regime had a low rank and insufficient prestige among the nobles of the Xianbei Murong tribe, and finally in the orthodox dispute of the Xianbei Murong tribe, The Western Yan regime was annexed by the Later Yan Empire, and the subordinates of the Xianbei Murong Department were reunited and began the process of finally completing the Sinicization.

As we said before, in the process of the Wuhu Rebellion, the leading role was mainly played by the Qiang and Xianbei groups, so when the former Qin Empire established by the Di people annexed the former Yan Empire established by the Xianbei Murong Empire, and unified the northern region, the power was still strong, and the people of the Xianbei Murong Tribe, who had a large population, were reluctant, and seeing that the Di people had basically completed the sinicization and they could only be jealous, they must have rolled their eyes and looked forward to the rapid decline of the former Qin Empire. As a result, the leader of the Di people, Fu Jian, launched the battle of Weishui, which pushed the powerful empire he created to the abyss of no return, and the fiasco of the former Qin Empire was the result that the vast number of Xianbei Murong tribes under his rule were most willing to see, when Murong Chui and Murong Hong led the tribes in the Kanto region and the people in the Guanzhong region to rise up and restore the country, the Di people who had basically completed the sinicization were simply unable to extinguish the jealousy and anger of the Xianbei Murong tribe, so the former Qin Empire and its main ethnic group, the Di people, were about to face the catastrophe of annihilation.