Chapter 90 Different Paths to the Same End

In May 465 AD, the 25-year-old Emperor Tuoba Hong of the Northern Wei Dynasty died of illness, and the 12-year-old prince Tuoba Hong succeeded to the throne, and the Empress Tuoba Hong, who was only 25 years old Feng was promoted to the Queen Mother.

After Yihun is the leader of the Xianbei Yifu Department, the Yifu Department from Tuoba Jue called the acting king, taking advantage of the war in the northern grassland, moved west to the vicinity of Qinghai Lake, successively attached to Tuyuhun, Nanliang, Western Qin, Northern Liang, after the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed the Northern Liang, the Yifu Department was attached to the Northern Wei Dynasty, because it was the same source as the Tuoba Department, the Yifu nobles were also in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and when Tuoba Hong succeeded to the throne, the Yifu nobles Yihun used the emperor's trust, excluded dissidents, suppressed political enemies, monopolized the political power of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and often bullied the emperor and the queen mother.

Empress Dowager Feng is also the daughter of a very person, she was originally the grandson of the Northern Yan Emperor Feng Ba, because of the death of the Northern Yan and moved to Pingcheng with her family, and then because of Tuoba Tao's rebellion, her whole family was killed, because she was young, she was left in the palace as a maid, and then Tuoba was fortunate to be named a nobleman, much favored, and then named the queen.

Empress Dowager Feng was convicted and won the grace of Tuoba Jun, and also had infinite kindness to Tuoba Jun, and the two were of the same age, close to each other, during Tuoba Jun's reign, he worked hard, including many of them Empress Dowager Feng participated in it, Empress Dowager Feng was even more admiring Tuoba Jun for Tuoba Jun to be able to use Han Chen regardless of clan, and Tuoba Jun's concept of governing the country also deeply affected Empress Dowager Feng, because the two fell in love with each other, after Tuoba Jun's death, Empress Dowager Feng even wanted to self-immolate to accompany the funeral, but was rescued by the ministers of the left and right, facing the advice of the ministers, Empress Dowager Feng knew that she had a long way to go, and only by continuing to expand her career could she make her beloved smile Jiuquan, so Empress Dowager Feng immediately wiped away her tears and supported the crown prince Tuoba Hong to ascend the throne as emperor.

In the face of the great rebellion of the powerful minister Yi Hun, Empress Dowager Feng secretly conspired with Yi Hun's political enemies, and finally in the second year of Tuoba Hong's succession, he killed Yi Hun and wiped out his henchmen, and in view of the complicated domestic situation, Empress Dowager Feng came to the dynasty to control the system and grasp the power of the court.

At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty had pacified the northern countries for less than 30 years, and with the ups and downs of the political situation in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the noble remnants of the Sixteen Kingdoms were also in turmoil and rebellion with the government, which also became an urgent problem to be solved in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Feng was born in the Han people, but her family has been subordinate to the Xianbei Murong Department for generations, belonging to the Huhua Han people, for the grievances and hatred between the Hu tribes in the north, the iron-blooded hatred between the Hu people and the Han people, the Empress Dowager Feng has some understanding, in the face of the mixed environment of the Hu people and the Han people in the Northern Wei Dynasty, she vigorously advocates learning the advanced cultural etiquette system of the Han people, abandoning the bad habits of the Hu people, so that a large number of Hu people are integrated into the Han people, greatly alleviating the ethnic contradictions in the Northern Wei Dynasty, so that the remnants of the sixteen gradually have cultural resonance, give up the idea of recovering the country, And with peace of mind, it is rooted in the land of China.

Empress Dowager Feng also referred to the old system of the Wei and Jin dynasties and implemented a series of reforms in the Northern Wei Dynasty, continuing the Sinicization process of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so that the etiquette system of the Northern Wei Dynasty was gradually no different from the dynasty created by the Han people.

Empress Dowager Feng vigorously cultivated Tuoba Hong, the crown prince of Tuoba Hong, in the reform she advocated, and let him personally participate in it, laying a solid foundation for the Sinicization reform of Emperor Xiaowen, which went down in history.

As he grew older, he began to be dissatisfied with Empress Dowager Feng's dominance of the government, and often interfered and obstructed Empress Dowager Feng's decision-making, and the relationship between the two evolved from a dispute of resistance to a situation like fire and water. Empress Dowager Feng had no choice but to force her to abdicate as the emperor and set up her son Tuoba Hong as the emperor, and the contradiction between the two was even deeper.

Although Tuoba Hong abdicated as the emperor, but he always controlled the authority and successively killed the ministers of the Empress Dowager Feng's cronies, and soon Tuoba Hong held a grand military parade in the northern suburbs of the capital city of Pingcheng as the emperor.

Tuoba Hong's actions made Empress Dowager Feng deeply uneasy, she clearly knew that her painstaking management of the Northern Wei Dynasty must not be abandoned halfway because of Tuoba Hong's intervention, Empress Dowager Feng immediately began to fight back, and finally because Empress Dowager Feng's reform was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, she won the power struggle with Tuoba Hong.

In June 476 AD, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty suddenly became martial law for no reason, the palace garrison was more encrypted and impermeable, Tuoba Hong was captured when he met the Empress Dowager Feng, the Empress Dowager Feng counted his crimes, put him under house arrest in the palace, and soon, the Emperor Tuoba Hong of the Northern Wei Dynasty died violently, and everyone said that he was poisoned by the Empress Dowager Feng. After Tuoba Hong's death, the Northern Wei Dynasty reappeared in chaos, and the remnants of the nobles of the Sixteen Kingdoms were ready to move, Empress Dowager Feng continued to hold the power of the court, and spared no effort to implement the new policy, and the Northern Wei Dynasty finally stabilized.

In September 490 AD, the Empress Dowager Feng of the Northern Wei Dynasty died because of her nickname Civilization, known as the Empress Dowager of Civilization in history, the Emperor Tuoba Hong of the Northern Wei Dynasty was pro-government, that is, the famous Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty in Chinese history, the Sinicization reform it carried out, and finally made the establishment of nearly 20 countries, for the disaster of the north for more than 100 years of Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xia, Di, Qiang and other tribes integrated into the Han nationality, since then there has been no chaos in history due to ethnic disputes such as the Sixteen Kingdoms.

This is the end of the historical story of the Sixteen Kingdoms. However, the book is not finished......