About Chapter 85 Story Synopsis: The Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao, who had pacified the Rouran border troubles, led his army westward to attack Hu Xia, Hu Xia's lord Helian Chang was defenseless, and with the strong defense of Tongwan City, Tuoba Tao could not attack for a long time, so he had to retreat, but most of Guanzhong was occupied by the Northern Wei Dynasty. Helian Chang saw that the Northern Wei army retreated, and sent his brother Helian Ding to prepare to recover Chang'an, Tuoba Tao took the opportunity to lead the troops to attack again, Helian Chang was in the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, lost the capital of the city of Tongwancheng, and Helian Ding fled to Shangqi together, Tuoba Tao took advantage of the victory to pursue, captured Helian Chang, Helian Ding inherited the position of the lord of Hu Xia in Shangtai, Helian Ding heard that the lord of the Western Qin Kingdom died of illness, so he wanted to seize the land of Longxi, to restore the ancestral industry. And the lord of the Northern Liang Kingdom, Fuqu Mengxun, also wanted to capture Western Qin, but was repelled by Western Qin, and the three kingdoms of Western Qin, Northern Liang, and Hu Xia launched a life-and-death war in the northwest region.

In this story, the talented Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao waved his army in the Guanzhong region, defeated the Hu Xia regime, and captured the Hu Xia lord Helian Chang, in the process, the Northern Wei army led by Tuoba Tao encountered a great opportunity for the weather to plummet, and crossed the Yellow River on ice, so that the Hu Xia lord Helian Chang was caught off guard and could only sit and wait for death. In the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, there are many scenes that change the pattern of war because of the sudden drop in temperature, such as the battle of Shenhepi that we talked about earlier, and Murong De's establishment of the Southern Yan regime, all due to the sudden drop in temperature, so that the founding kings of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Yan regime, Tuoba Jue and Murong De, quickly achieved the war goals they wanted.

Here we are not advocating that it is the destiny of heaven that they were able to establish great deeds, but to illustrate the fact that the climate of the Sixteen Kingdoms period belonged to the meteorological cold period, so the situation that the rivers could freeze as soon as possible during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

In fact, many meteorologists have analyzed the meteorological conditions recorded in ancient books and concluded that the periods of war and chaos in history were basically in the meteorological cold period, and the prosperous periods in history were basically in the meteorological warm period. It can be seen that climate change is also determining the trend of historical civilization.

In fact, this notion is actually quite correct. Because the ancients are also people, they also have to eat, drink and wear, especially the nomadic life in the north is more primitive, the dependence on the climate is more intense, and the climate change is more sensitive, when the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties are in the cold period of meteorology, the ecological environment on the northern Mongolian steppe is bad, there will be frequent natural disasters, the nomadic people can not live normally in the northern Mongolian steppe, they must choose to migrate to the warm south in order to survive, In this way, a large number of nomads went south to the Central Plains during the Western Jin Dynasty, and there was a turbulent era in the history of our country. The Sui and Tang dynasties entered the warm period of meteorology, so in the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were relatively few natural disasters, and the grain output was of course steadily increasing, so the Sui and Tang dynasties were very famous in the history of our country. In the Song and Song dynasties, it entered a meteorological cold period, so there was a situation where the nomads went south again, but because the ruling class of the Central Plains Dynasty at this time was already a more capable Shu landlord class, the nomads were blocked from going south in the Yellow River Valley, which also led to the confrontation between the three dynasties and the Song Dynasty. It can be seen that it should have been common for rivers to freeze in advance during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and ancient historians used this scenario to highlight the legitimacy of the dynasty, also because the ancients were backward in natural science and could not understand the impact of climate change on the feudal dynasty.

For the Huxia regime, the climatic cold period allowed the regime to reach its peak state and quickly and completely embark on the road to demise. Although Helian Bobo was alive, the capital built by the city of Tongwan was solid, but the clever Tuoba Tao used the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain and successfully occupied this historical city, and the Xiongnu Tiefu Department that established the Huxia regime could only withdraw from the Guanzhong region, but at this time, the power of the Xiongnu Tiefu Department still existed, and the newly succeeded Huxia lord Helian Ding certainly wanted to make plans to restore the country. Extremely similar to the Hu Xia regime, after reaching its peak, the Western Qin regime that occupied the land of Longxi also rapidly declined, and the land of Longxi became the ideal place for the Hu Xia lord Helian Ding to re-lead his subordinates to build a feudal state. Therefore, in the process of the westward expansion of the Northern Wei regime, the Hu Xia regime, the Western Qin regime, and the Northern Liang regime launched a fierce confrontation in the northwest land.

Among them, the Hu Xia regime completely lost the Guanzhong region under the blow of the Northern Wei Dynasty, except for the Shangqi region, which is now the Tianshui region of Gansu, and hundreds of thousands of troops, basically nothing, so the Hu Xia regime can be said to exist in name only after Helian Ding succeeded to the throne. After the Western Qin regime reached its peak, due to the death of the lord of the Western Qin state, the Western Qin regime also declined under the blows of the Northern Liang regime and the Hu Xia regime.

From this, we can see that the decline of the Western Qin regime and the Hu Xia regime is very similar, both are caused by external strong enemies, but in comparison, although the Western Qin regime is smaller, its rulers are more competent rulers, and the Western Qin regime has also resisted the attack of the Liang regime and the invasion of the Hu Xia regime several times. So that the Western Qin regime did not reach the state of existence in name only.

However, in general, the Western Qin regime and the Huxia regime were both in decline in the historical law of great ethnic integration. Even the rulers of both regimes are trying to delay the demise of their own regimes. However, after the main tribe was basically sinicized, it was difficult to resist the attacks of other nomadic peoples militarily, so it can be said that although the rulers of these two regimes were exhausted and painstakingly ran their own regimes. However, these two regimes are still on the verge of extinction amid internal strife and external troubles.

In fact, the Huxia lord Helianchang and Helianding and the Western Qin lord are not a mediocre and incompetent monarch, these three people have a certain degree of military talent to varying degrees, and they should be regarded as a ruler who can expand the territory in any unified dynasty, but they can only be a king of the dead country under the historical torrent of national integration.

When we look at history, we always say that history is strikingly similar. In fact, we analyze in detail the regimes established by these nomadic peoples in the Sixteen Kingdoms, without exception, all of them follow the historical law of the decline of the regime after the Juche tribe basically completed the sinicization, and then went to extinction. Therefore, when we understand the laws of history, we also roughly understand the future, because history is strikingly similar.

Of course, this sentence also applies to the view that reading history is to read people's hearts, and people's character and virtue are nothing more than that, and there is basically no difference between the ancients and today. Through the joys and sorrows of the ancients in doing things, it also tells us how people today do things. There is naturally nothing wrong with the view that reading history is reading people's hearts, but when I look at history, I still like to look at the laws in it. At the same time, we also take a look at the sophistication of historical figures. In fact, in the later chapters of this book, we also analyze specific historical figures, and also express some of my own opinions. But I'm still adamant. Under the general law of the historical trend, no matter how high or low a person's ability is, he cannot change the direction of the historical trend. Here I will cite a well-known figure to illustrate.

Yue Fei is a well-known anti-Jin hero today, Yue Fei once put forward a slogan in the process of resisting Jin, that is, to smash the Yellow Dragon and welcome back the second emperor of Huiqin. Let's not talk about whether his slogan catered to the psychology of Zhao Gou, the son of heaven at the time, let's just say that the Jurchen Wanyan Tribe, which had just emerged in the northeast to establish the Jin Dynasty, would never let Yue Fei cross the Shanhaiguan. Yue Fei's achievement was only to defeat the Jin army in the Central Plains by taking advantage of the patriotic psychology of the remnants of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time and the Jurchens' unfamiliarity with the terrain of the south and their inadaptability to the climatic conditions in the south, but could Yue Fei fight to the northeast? The white mountains and black waters there were by no means something that tens of thousands of his Yue family's army could tread. Even if Yue Fei had the determination to smash the Yellow Dragon and welcome back the Second Emperor of Huiqin. But he could never succeed. Moreover, the rise of the Jurchen Wanyan tribe was also a last resort for the nomads to go south after they developed and grew and were limited by the harsh natural environment in the north. None of the Central Plains dynasties established by the Han ancestors in history could completely and thoroughly control the northeast region and the Mongolian steppe region in the north, where the nomads originated, which is a historical necessity and a law of history. Yue Fei's slogan is completely against the trend of history and will never succeed.

Thus. Helian Ding, the lord of Hu Xia, had the same idea as Yue Fei, and wanted to restore the glory and glory of his homeland. However, Helian Ding could never succeed in the face of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was also established by nomadic people. Even if Helian Ding was able to defeat the Western Qin regime and seize the land of Longxi, in the face of the powerful Northern Wei Dynasty, the Hu Xia regime would also be destroyed. Although the lord of the Western Qin State tried his best to block the attacks of the Northern Liang regime and the Hu Xia regime at the end of the twilight, the Western Qin regime also had to go to extinction after the Juche nation basically completed the sinicization. Although the Northern Liang regime had such an eloquent king as Fuqu Mengxun, in the face of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which completed the unification of the Central Plains, he also had to bow down and surrender, and finally surrendered. And the Northern Wei Dynasty, like the regime established by other nomadic peoples, will also collapse and perish after the main tribe completes the sinicization. This is the historical law of the nomadic people's entry into the Central Plains, and it is also the historical law of the nomadic people's acceptance of the advanced Chinese culture. This is not the case with the regimes established by the nomads during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, all of which went into decline and then perished in an instant during their heyday.