About Chapter 72 Story Synopsis: The bald Wei Tan, the lord of the Southern Liang Kingdom, after getting Gu Zang. Successively defeated by the Northern Liang regime and the Hu Xia regime, resulting in its internal instability, the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing saw this opportunity to send two large armies to conquer the Southern Liang and Hu Xia respectively, and the two armies were defeated one after another. Yao Xing was unwilling to fail, and sent an army to conquer Hu Xia, which led to a rebellion of the clan, which led to another failure of the expedition, although Yao Xing quelled the rebellion, and the power of Later Qin was also tossed and plummeted.

In this story. After the bald Wei Tan, the lord of the Southern Liang Kingdom, gained control of Gu Zang, the lord of the Northern Liang State, Fuqu Mengxun was naturally unwilling to let the important town of Liangzhou fall into the hands of others, and the Fuqu Meng Xun in order to seize Gu Zang and dominate the Liangzhou region, so, while the Later Qin Empire was busy dealing with the Hu Xia regime and raised troops to attack the Southern Liang regime, although it won a small victory, but Gu Zang was still in the hands of the bald Wei Tan, and after the Later Qin Empire lost Gu Zang, its sphere of influence also withdrew from the Liangzhou region, which can be seen, Guzang, an important town in the Liangzhou region, is very important to the heroes who want to dominate in the northwest region. Let's take this opportunity to talk about the city of Guzang.

Guzang is today's Liangzhou District of Wuwei City, Gansu Province, as early as the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because the Western Han Dynasty needed to control the nomads in the northwest region, and built a city in the nomadic territory seized by the Han army, among which Wuwei, Jiuquan, Zhangye, Dunhuang and these famous cities in the northwest were established during this period, among which Wuwei as the name suggests is to highlight the martial arts prestige of the Han Dynasty and get its name, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, because a large number of nomads rose in the northwest region, Wuwei County is called Guzang because of its proximity to Guzang Mountain, Of course, the name Guzang is a transliteration of the nomadic language at that time, but we have not been able to verify what Guzang means. However, Wuwei is located on the Silk Road, since the beginning of the city, its rapid development, soon became the pearl of the northwest region, the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, in the Liangzhou region of the five regimes have four of the capital here, or moved the capital here, which is enough to show that Guzang in the political, cultural and economic military has a pivotal position in the northwest region.

Therefore, when the lord of the Southern Liang country bald and humiliated Tan just gained control of this famous city in the northwest, he was attacked by the lord of the Northern Liang country, Fuqu Mengxun, but because of the strong city of Guzang, although the Fuqu Mengxun won a small victory, it was difficult to attack, so he had to lead the army to return, but of course, the lord of the Northern Liang country, Fuqu Mengxun would not give up lightly to Guzang, and this retreat can also be regarded as a tentative attack in turn, and Fuqu Mengxun will definitely find an opportunity to fight again. After the Nanliang regime gained control of Guzang, its national strength also reached its peak stage, and according to the historical law we frequently talked about, the Xianbei bald tribe, the main tribe of the Nanliang regime, was about to decline.

In this way, the control of the Nanliang regime over the uncle was only temporary, and when the Xianbei Bald Hair Department entered the largest and most advanced city in the northwest region at that time, they also lost themselves in this prosperous ancient city and began to speed up the pace of sinicization. Therefore, from now on, it was difficult for the tribes of the Xianbei Bald Tribes to win the wars against other nomads. Only the war with the Qiangqi ethnic group that has basically completed the sinicization can still maintain a certain chance of victory.

Then, when Liu Bobo, who had just established the country and became king, wanted to curry favor with the bald Wei Tan, who had greatly increased his strength, but the invitation to reconcile with his relatives was rejected by the bald Wei Tan, so Liu Bobo personally led a large army to conquer the Nanliang regime. The Xianbei Bald Department was defeated in the war with the Xiongnu Tiefu Department because it had entered the period of basically completing the sinicization, but because they lived in Guzang for a relatively short time, the characteristics of the nomads were still relatively obvious, although the war was lost, but it also caused great losses to the Xiongnu Tiefu Department, although in this war, the two nomadic tribes were both defeated. However, the Qiang tribe that has basically completed the sinicization is still unable to defeat these two nomads who have begun to sinicize.

The Later Qin Empire not only lost the war against the Nanliang regime and the Huxia regime one after another, but also lost the national cohesion after the main ethnic group basically completed the sinicization, and the rebellion of the clan began to appear, and the Later Qin Empire also fell to the brink of collapse. Actually, this situation in the Later Qin Empire. After the Nanliang regime seized Guzang, it was also staged, but the Nanliang regime was not the protagonist of the Sixteen Kingdoms period. In fact, after the war between the Nanliang regime and the Huxia regime, there were several rebellions within the Nanliang regime, but they were all suppressed by the bald Wei Tan. This is also due to the rapid sinicization of the Xianbei Bald Hair Department after entering Guzang City, and at the same time, because the idea of loyalty and patriotism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, these rebellions have all been put down. In other words, during this period, both the Southern Liang regime and the Later Qin Empire entered a stage of decline. It's just that the sinicization of the Qiang ethnic group that built the Later Qin Empire has been basically completed, so the decline of the Later Qin Empire is more serious, and the Xianbei bald department that built the Southern Liang regime is just entering the period of basically completing the sinicization, and the speed of its decline is relatively slow. However, as the control time of the Nanliang regime over Guzang increased day by day, the degree of its sinicization naturally became deeper and deeper day by day. Then, when the Xianbei Bald Department could not control Guzang, the demise of the Nanliang regime would not be far away.

Speaking of which, we can see that the nomads who can really enter the northern region of our country can speed up the pace of sinicization, which has a lot to do with the areas they control. If the area controlled by these nomadic tribes is a place with deep Chinese culture, the sinicization of these nomads will be very fast, and the regime they establish will easily disappear, especially the nomadic people with relatively small tribes, when they suddenly control the region with a deep culture in the Central Plains, their own national attributes will be quickly lost, and then lead to chaos and collapse of the regime they established. The Cheng Han regime, the former Qin Empire, the Later Liang Empire, and the Former Yan Empire established by the Xianbei Murong tribe all died out according to this historical law.

Regarding the law of historical development during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, we have always been unable to avoid a core, that is, the Central Plains culture, which has gone through more than 2,000 years, can also be called the Chinese culture before the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Since ancient times, the continuous migration and conquest of nomads have developed and grown around the key points of learning from our Central Plains culture, which is precisely because the Central Plains culture is the most advanced culture in the society at that time, so it can attract nomads to learn by all means, and find ways to sinicize. At the same time, it is also because of the infusion of these nomadic cultures. Our Central Plains culture is also constantly inclusive, bringing forth the new, showing rich vitality.

The Guanzhong region controlled by the Later Qin Empire and the northwest region affected by its sphere of influence have such a complex political situation, in fact, it is also another bloody annexation of ethnic integration formed by the Qiang ethnic group after the basic completion of sinicization, which is also a part of the formation of our Chinese culture. As a matter of fact. The direct cause of the chaos in the Sixteen Kingdoms was the completion of the sinicization of the three nomadic ethnic groups that entered the Central Plains at that time. The period of existence of these three ethnic groups is the early period of the Sixteen Kingdoms period when the Xiongnu ethnic group basically completed the sinicization, the middle and late stages of the Sixteen Kingdoms period when the Qiang ethnic group basically completed the sinicization, and the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period and the early period of the Northern Dynasties period when the Xianbei ethnic group basically completed the sinicization, from which we can also see. The Northern Dynasties period is actually a continuation of the bloody period of ethnic integration during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and the later period is also a critical period for these nomads to finally complete the sinicization. In the middle and late period of the Northern Dynasties, under the leadership of the Xianbei ethnic group, all the nomadic people in the northern region finally completed the sinicization during this period. Since then, the culture of the Chinese nation has also shown a new side.

Let's go back and look at the Xiongnu Tiefu tribe, which has been established as a feudal state, they completed the sinicization of their tribe by establishing the Huxia regime at the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, which is enough to show the gap between them and the Xiongnu ethnic group. In fact, we can see them as a unique nomadic people, in fact, in our later historians' definition of the Xiongnu Tiefu Division, saying that they are more scholars of Zahu, in fact, the establishment of the Huxia regime of the Xiongnu Tiefu and the establishment of the Northern Liang regime of the Xiongnu Lushui Hu system are relatively similar in the complexity of the tribes, it should be more appropriate to call it Zahu.

Although these two tribes established certain meritorious deeds at the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, because of the complexity and particularity of their tribes, it was difficult for their tribes to work together to seek greater development. However, the Xianbei Tuoba Division, the main tribe of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which finally ended the turmoil of the Sixteen Kingdoms, is the purest branch of the Xianbei ethnic group.

With the collapse and collapse of the Later Qin Empire established by the Qiang group, the Northern Wei Dynasty established by the Xianbei group will also show its skills on the historical stage, and the Xianbei Tuoba tribe occupying the Kanto region also faced many problems during this period, especially the primitive nomadic life mode that this tribe has just broken away from and transformed into an advanced settled life mode, the ruling class of the Northern Wei Dynasty must face great internal pressure, and after the main body of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe left the northern Mongolian steppe, His slave Rouran quickly became the overlord of the northern Mongolian steppe, and of course Rouran had to ask for greater returns from his former master, so the external pressure on the Northern Wei Dynasty was also huge, and we will talk about the changes in the Northern Wei Dynasty during this period that finally ended the turmoil of the Sixteen Kingdoms in the next chapter.