Foolish dreams: The death of Tuoba
About Chapter 73 Story Introduction: After the victory of the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Jue in the Battle of Chaibi, in order to learn the political system of the Central Plains Dynasty, he constantly came into contact with the Jiangnan scholars, and was influenced by the bad habits of the Jiangnan scholars, took cold food powder, so that he was moody and killed the minister in vain, after he ordained his eldest son Tuoba as the crown prince, he was killed by the second son Tuoba Shao, who had a grudge, and the prince Tuoba killed the rebellious Tuoba Shao, and under the support of the ministers, he inherited the throne of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Hei was the government and lenien, and the political situation of the Northern Wei Dynasty returned to normal.
In this story, after Tuoba Jue led the Xianbei Tuoba Department to occupy the Kanto region, in order to maintain his effective management and control of the local Han ancestors, the Northern Wei Dynasty led by Tuoba Jue continued to learn from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he also deepened his contacts with the Jiangnan scholars, the purpose of which was to make his tribe sinicized at the fastest speed, so as to facilitate his rule over the Central Plains, but with the deepening of exchanges with the Jiangnan scholars, Originally, Tuoba Jue, who was not very sinicized, saw the charm of Chinese culture, so without thinking and screening, he accepted everything about the family at that time, and as a result, he relied on the cold food powder commonly eaten by the Jiangnan scholars, and finally let him die.
Hanshisan, also known as Wushisan, is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine that appeared during the Three Kingdoms period, this medicine is made of five kinds of ore smelting, in the current words, the heavy metal content of this traditional Chinese medicine is seriously exceeded, so Hanshisan is very toxic, people can treat the symptoms of indigestion by taking a small amount, but taking a large amount of it, it can make people hot and dry, impulsive and irritable, long-term use can make people poison to death, the history records that Cao Cao's son-in-law He Yan took Hanshisan for a long time and a large amount as an aphrodisiac, and died of poisoning. However, after the end of the Three Kingdoms period, because the scholar landlord class became the ruling class of the society at that time, the scholars from the big families were prosperous and wealthy for generations, and had nothing to do all day long.
In fact, after introducing the drug Hanshisan, we seem to see the shadow of modern drugs, and we can compare Hanshisan to ancient drugs. Cold food was popular among the scholars at that time, resulting in these scholars in the mountains or open breasts, or cloak and scatter, or lead to singing, or run wild strange behavior, and these scholars' strange behavior was praised by later generations as the Wei and Jin demeanor, so the Wei and Jin demeanor is by no means an advanced cultural school, this culture is decadent, absurd, and completely unworthy of our current people's admiration and learning.
As a member of the ruling class of the feudal dynasty at that time, the scholars who admired the demeanor of the Wei and Jin dynasties had a huge negative influence on the ruling class, and it is no wonder that after the landlord class of the scholars became the ruling class, the northern land was full of smoke because of the continuous sinicization of the nomads, and the Western Jin Dynasty died in a short life, and the scholars who were driven to the Jiangnan area by the nomads still did not wake up, relying on the Yangtze River moat as a barrier, and continued to take cold food powder as a high-end atmosphere on the high-end behavior, and because of the humid climate in the Jiangnan region, Under the influence of the scholars in the south, the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Jue, came to the Kanto region from the Mongolian steppe in the north, in order to make his tribe quickly sinicized and maintain his dynasty to successfully complete the historical task of entering the Central Plains, Tuoba Jue did not distinguish between the scholar culture at that time, and did not know how to remove its dross and take its essence, and finally suffered from it, making his people betray and leave his relatives, and was killed by his son.
And about the ancestral motto set up by the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Jue that "the prince is made a prince, his biological mother will be killed" is also caused by Tuoba Jue when he learned the culture of the Central Plains, and the dross and essence were not distinguished, which is the same as Tuoba Jue taking cold food powder. This bad habit originated from the allusion of the crown prince Liu Fuling who killed his mother Mrs. Gouyi during the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was afraid of the recurrence of the chaos of Empress Lu in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, and after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, no emperor implemented this matter as a political system. However, Tuoba admired this very much, and even implemented the death of the son and the mother as a political system.
For the ancestral precept of "the prince is set up as a prince, he will kill his biological mother", which is enough to show that Tuoba's ability to govern is still stuck in the simple and rude style of the nomads, and the son killing his mother is actually a thing that can only be understood and not spoken, after all, the harem concubines are all people, and it is impossible for anyone to die in order to give birth to a child, which led to the Northern Wei Dynasty period, no one in the royal family was willing to give birth to a boy for the emperor, until the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because the concubine Hu risked death for the emperor Tuoba Ke, also known as Yuan Ke, gave birth to a baby boy, Yuan Ke was grateful to the Hu family for risking death to have a son, and abolished this ancestral precept, but the Hu family could risk death to have a child in order to obtain political status, and he could also risk death to seize power, as a result, after Hu became the empress dowager of the Northern Wei Dynasty, its usurpation of power and interference in politics led to sharp internal contradictions in the Northern Wei Dynasty, uprisings and rebellions, the regime fell apart, and the Northern Wei Dynasty also perished through the hands of the Empress Dowager Hu. This also shows that this inhumane ancestral precept indirectly destroyed the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Tuoba Jue also left a more interesting ancestral motto, that is, when the queen is ordained, the alternative harem concubines must be cast by hand, and the successful person can be established as the queen, and the Empress Dowager Hu of the Northern Wei Civilization that we are familiar with is the successful person who casts the gold man, and is lucky to become the helmsman of the Northern Wei Dynasty, leading the Sinicization reform of Emperor Xiaowen that is respected by later generations. On the reason why Tuoba Jue set up the screening queen to "hand cast gold people, and the one who becomes auspicious", our current scholars are still constantly exploring and discussing, I think this ancestral training fully shows that although the Xianbei Tuoba Department has entered the period of basic completion of sinicization, there is still a certain gap from the basic completion of sinicization, this ancestral training is an important residue of the ignorant and primitive divination concept in the nomadic culture, in fact, in the middle and early period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Many nomadic leaders decide the future direction of their tribes and national events based on prophecies or strange scenes, which also shows that these nomads still retain some primitive and ignorant cultural concepts in the process of sinicization, and the Xianbei Tuoba Department that established the Northern Wei Dynasty is also not exempt from vulgarity.
However, although these nomads still have the primitive cultural concepts, but also basically accepted the baptism of the advanced Central Plains culture, after Tuoba Shao was killed by the second son Tuoba Shao, the fleeing prince Tuoba Hei rushed back after hearing the news, and was elected as the new emperor by the ministers of the court, which also shows that the Xianbei Tuoba Department has accepted the core idea of loyalty and patriotism of the Central Plains culture, although Tuoba Shao killed his father and usurped the throne successfully, but the emperor's throne has not yet been hot, and he was killed by Tuoba heir who has been established as the prince, All of Tuobashao's efforts were in vain, and his coup d'état ended in failure.
After Tuoba succeeded to the throne, he did not take advantage of the decline of the Later Qin Empire, which occupied the Guanzhong region, and took advantage of the fire to rob it, but stepped up the rectification of internal affairs, accumulated national strength, and accelerated the Sinicization process of the Xianbei Tuoba Department, and also took certain measures for Rouran, who dominated the Mongolian steppe in the north, which greatly hindered Rouran in the process of going south, and the national strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty also maintained a thriving rhythm. All the ruling actions of Tuoba laid a good foundation for the Northern Wei Dynasty to quickly end the turmoil of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
I think that if the Xianbei Tuoba tribe that established the Northern Wei Dynasty could not complete the historical task of ending the turbulent times of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Rouran tribe that rose in the Mongolian steppe in the north would take the opportunity to go south, and then the history of our country would show a different scene, but even if the Rouran tribe entered the Central Plains, because its civilization level was no different from the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, the torrent of history would not change, because the people who pursued equality, democracy and happiness have always been striving for the ideal goal in their hearts. As the ruling class of the feudal dynasty, the scholar landlord class will be abandoned by the people because of its own hypocrisy and selfishness, and the time when the Shu landlord class will appear on the stage of history will not change, so no matter how complicated the situation in the north is, Kyushu will be unified, and the newly formed Han ancestors and Chinese culture will continue to this day, but the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty fully complied with the trend of history, so that the chaos of the Sixteen Kingdoms ended in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In fact, when the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period developed to the time when the Northern Wei Dynasty occupied the Kwantung region, the nomads who entered the Central Plains region were difficult to find differences in customs, language and culture, and the most important stage of the bloody period of the entire ethnic integration was about to end, but history was waiting for one or several heroes, these heroes could be any nomadic people or Han ancestors, but the Northern Wei Dynasty provided several heroes who moved in line with the historical trend for this era. So the Northern Wei Dynasty finally completed the unification of the northern regions.
Compared with the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, in this period can be called a hero is the Northern Liang lord Fuqu Mengxun, the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing half a lifetime of fame, half a world of confusion, it is difficult to be considered a hero, but it is a pity that Fuqu Mengxun is just a person fighting, and its prince Fuqu Muqian has a cowardly personality, and will only compete for the wind and jealousy among the beauties of the harem, and the fate of the Beiliang regime can be imagined. And frustrated Meng Xun is already old at this time, if frustrated Qu Meng Xun can live to be a hundred years old, maybe history really has to be rewritten, but life is rare for seventy years, frustrated Qu Meng Xun is not a god, on the other hand, the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Jue is really a successor, although he was unfortunate in his later years, but the prince Tuoba Jun he set up is a tiger father without a dog, not only calmed the civil strife, successfully ascended to the emperor's throne, but also stabilized the country, eliminated the border troubles, and his greatest contribution to the Northern Wei Dynasty was that he gave birth to a talented son, This son is the Northern Wei Emperor Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao who finally ended the troubled times of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't change what happened behind him.