About Chapter 57 Story Introduction: Later Yan Emperor Murong Chui learned that Tuoba Jue refused to pay tribute to famous horses, so he began to ponder the Northern Expedition Xianbei Tuoba Department, but at this time, the Later Yan regime has not been able to fully control the Kanto region, in the north and south directions of the Later Yan regime, there are Zhai Wei regime and Western Yan regime, Murong Chui in order to obtain the Northern Expedition Northern Wei regime has a stable rear, so the attack on these two regimes on the agenda, soon, the relatively weak Zhai Wei regime's founding monarch Zhai Liao died of illness, and his son Zhai Zhao succeeded to the throne, Murong Chui took the opportunity to send troops to attack Zhai Wei and wiped him out in one fell swoop. Immediately afterwards, Murong Chui sent troops to attack the Western Yan regime with the power of victory, and used the suspicious tactics to eliminate the main force of the Western Yan army in Taibi, and then took advantage of the victory to march and destroy the Western Yan regime, and the Later Yan regime has since dominated the Kanto region and restored all the territory of the former Yan Empire.

In this story, as a national hero of the Xianbei Murong Tribe, Murong Trai can be said to be brave and strategic, and the destruction of the Zhai Wei regime and the Xiyan regime shows Murong Trai's superb military command ability. But in fact, any war related to the fate of the country is a great competition of comprehensive national strength between two hostile countries, and the same is true for the Later Yan regime to defeat the Zhai Wei regime and the Western Yan regime, at this time in the Kwantung region, although the three countries stand side by side, but the Later Yan regime in terms of comprehensive national strength, far more than the Zhai Wei regime and the Western Yan regime, especially the Zhai Wei regime with only a few cities, its main tribe Ding Lingren originally entered the Central Plains region very few, plus the Zhai Wei regime in the process of establishing the country, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Later Yan regime continued to have wars, The Ding Ling people who entered the Central Plains region have long been consumed in the sinicization and war. Therefore, when the tribal leader Zhai Zhao went to the Xiyan regime to seek refuge, Murong Yong, the lord of the Xiyan State, dared to kill him, which also shows that the power of Ding Lingren had been extremely weak at that time, and the political status and political influence of Zhai Zhao, the leader of Ding Ling, were useless to the Xiyan regime. After the fall of the Zhai Wei regime, the remnants of the Ding Ling people who stayed in the Central Plains were also integrated into the Xianbei Murong Tribe, and later with the sinicization of the Xianbei Murong Tribe, they became the new Han ancestors.

Comparatively speaking, the Xiyan regime is far stronger than the Zhai Wei regime in terms of comprehensive national strength, although it cannot be compared with the Houyan regime, but it can also fight with the Houyan regime, but why is it that in less than half a year, the Xiyan regime was wiped out! I think there are mainly the following reasons, firstly, in the Battle of Taibi, the ruler of the Later Yan regime, Murong Chui, used his troops properly, which made the main force of the Western Yan regime exhausted, and finally lost all in the Battle of Taibi, secondly, the emperor of the Later Yan regime, Murong Chui, was the youngest son of Murong Hao, the founding emperor of the former Yan, and was the highest ranking among the nobles of the Xianbei Murong Department at that time, and Murong Yong, the emperor of the Western Yan regime, was only a descendant of Murong Hao's uncle, belonging to the distant branch of the Xianbei Murong Department, and Murong Yong relied on seeking power and usurping the throne to ascend the throne. It is difficult for Murong Yong to obtain the heartfelt support of the vast number of Xianbei Murong subordinates who are deeply sinicized. In the end, the Xianbei Murong tribe in the Western Yan regime was eager to return to the east, unwilling to kill each other, and longed for a peaceful life, and these tribes and the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Yan regime should also know that returning to the protection of the more powerful Houyan regime may make their lives more stable in the future, so it should be the strongest desire of the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Yan regime at that time to take refuge in the Houyan regime.

It can be seen that in the war with the Later Yan regime, the Western Yan regime basically had no possibility of winning, and Murong Chui's superb military command skills conformed to the development of the historical trend, and also adapted to the most simple popular opinion of the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Yan regime, and the Western Yan regime was soon annexed by the Later Yan regime.

Regarding the fact that the Later Yan regime was able to defeat the Zhai Wei regime and the Western Yan regime in a relatively short period of time, I think this is more dependent on the strength of its own national strength, and it has little to do with the degree of sinicization of the Xianbei Murong Tribe, and as early as the Xianbei Murong Tribe, which established the Western Yan Regime, was eager to return to the east, we can see that the Xianbei Murong Tribe, at this time, was actually not much different from the Han ancestors, and the Xianbei Murong Tribe, which followed the hegemony of the Former Yan Empire and entered the Kanto region, lived in the Kanto region for only about 40 years. Some of them were moved to the Guanzhong region by the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian, and they had such a strong desire to return to the east, and even risked the disapproval of the world to launch mutinies one after another, and elected the tribal nobles who were willing to return to the east as the leader. Then there is only one possibility, that is, at this time, the degree of sinicization of the Xianbei Murong Department is already relatively high, or it is about to be basically completed. With the collapse of the Later Zhao Empire established by the Qian people in the internal strife, the Xianbei Murong tribe, who had lived in the Liao River valley for generations, entered the Central Plains, controlled the Kanto region, and established the Qianyan Empire.

After the Later Yan regime launched the war to pacify the Kanto region, the subordinates of the Xianbei Murong Department naturally had to choose a suitable country for themselves in the Western Yan regime and the Later Yan regime to ensure that their sinicization could continue smoothly, and the Later Yan regime was of course their best choice, so the Later Yan regime only took a few months to complete the national mission of restoring the glory of the former Yan Empire. In fact, the Former Yan Empire and the Later Yan Empire during the Sixteen Kingdoms period were completely one country, but because the two countries lived in different eras, and the fall of the Former Yan Empire and the establishment of the Later Yan Empire were only fourteen years apart, later historians just called them for convenience, so there was a distinction between before and after. Speaking of which, we will take this opportunity to talk about the dynasties in the history of our country that were artificially divided into front and back, east and west, north and south.

When it comes to the dynasties before and after, the most famous in the history of our country is the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the naming of these two dynasties, and we just talked about the former Yan Empire and the Later Yan Empire is relatively close, are in the previous dynasty after the demise, its noble children took the opportunity to restore the country, to create the next dynasty of the same name, and the ancient people of our country in the order of the establishment of the front and back, to name the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms period of the politician Zhuge Liang's "Teacher Table", there are "pro-virtuous ministers, far villains, This ancestor Han is so prosperous; Pro-villain, far virtuous minister, after that, the Han Dynasty so fell into decline", in which the first Han is also called the former Han Dynasty, which refers to the Western Han Dynasty, and the Later Han Dynasty refers to the Eastern Han Dynasty, but at the end of the Tang Dynasty, China's history entered the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and there happened to be a Han regime established by a person named Liu Zhiyuan in the five dynasties, which was called the Later Han Dynasty by later historians, so after the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the name of the two Han regimes established by the Liu Bang family began to be different from the location of the capitals of the two dynasties. They are called the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty respectively.

Although the rulers of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty are in the same lineage in blood, I think that the two dynasties are very different in the attributes of the ruling class, the Western Han Dynasty is in the most prosperous period of the aristocratic landlord class as the ruling class, so the Western Han Dynasty gives people a feeling of prosperity and prosperity, while the Eastern Han Dynasty is in the decline period of the aristocratic landlord class as the ruling class, and the Eastern Han Dynasty is built under the support of the three political forces of eunuchs, relatives, and scholars, and these three forces are tilted against each other. It caused political turmoil within its ruling class, so the Eastern Han Dynasty gave people a sense of decay and weakness.

After talking about the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, I will go further to talk about the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty during the slave society period, these two slave dynasties are far away from this year, and there are few relevant documents, and people's understanding of this period is mostly through the "Romance of the Gods" and some small stories of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. are in the most prosperous period of the ruling class, but the ruling class of the Western Zhou Dynasty is the slave owner class, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is the same as the Eastern Han Dynasty, in the decline period of the slave owner class as the ruling class, with the development of productive forces, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty has been unable to effectively manage and control the vassal states under its rule, the reign of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is also known as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with the advent of the Warring States Period, the aristocratic landlord class transformed by the slave owner class has re-become the ruling class of ancient society in China, China's social attributes have also entered the feudal society.

And the last dynasty that was artificially divided into before and after was the Song Dynasty established by Zhao Kuangyin, but the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the Two Weeks Dynasty not only had the difference between north and south and east and west in naming, but also its ruling class was completely in the period of rule of the Shu landlord class, and the Shu landlord class during the Southern Song Dynasty was not in a period of decline, in fact, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were simply a normal inheritance relationship, but under the blow of the nomads, the land area was constantly shrinking, The capital was forced to move from Kaifeng in the northern region to Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, so this artificial division was mainly for the convenience of recording the historical events at that time, and did not play any role in the essence of the feudal dynasty.

In short, the reason for the distinction between the Zhou Dynasty and the Han Dynasty is more because of the internal factors at work, that is, the change of the attributes of the ruling class within the dynasty, which makes the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty appear a political fault, while the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty are divided before and after, and it is more external factors at work, that is, the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty are constantly shrinking under the blow of the nomads, and they have to favor the Jiangnan region, which makes the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, The Southern Song Dynasty saw a change in the area of rule.

Let's go back and look at the former Yan Empire and the Later Yan Empire mentioned in this chapter, they belong to the special case of artificially dividing dynasties, and the reason for the ruling fault in the Yan Empire established by the Xianbei Murong Department is neither the change of its internal ruling class, nor the blow of a simple external enemy, but more because of the formation of the intricate social form of the nomads in the process of sinicization, in fact, the formation of the troubled times of the Sixteen Kingdoms is the same reason, detailed analysis, The shadow of the low political ability of the landlord class can still be seen here.