About Chapter 40 Synopsis: When Fu Jian supported Wang to attack and destroy the Former Yan Empire, there was news that the Qiu Chi State that had submitted to the Former Qin Empire returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian appointed Yang An of the Former Qin Empire as the protagonist to lead the troops Zhang Tao ate and ate chickens to weaken the Former Liang regime and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yang An did not trust Fu Jian, attacked the Qiu Chi State, subdued many tribes of the Northwest Nomads, and captured the Shu land of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Meng led his troops to the west, persuaded the Former Liang State to claim Tianxi, and the power of the Former Qin Empire had expanded to the northwest region.

For the former Qin Empire to send troops to the northwest, I wrote in the story relatively briefly, in fact, there are many generals and characters involved, and the process is more complicated, but the final result is that the former Qin Empire basically controls the northwest region, and only the former Liang regime is nominally subjugated, but in essence it is still a separatist regime.

In this story, there is a country outside the Sixteen Kingdoms, that is, the Qiu Chi Kingdom, which we don't mention much in the story of the Sixteen Kingdoms, so let's talk about the Qiu Chi Kingdom and the relationship between the ancient local and central governments.

The Yang family, the founder of the Qiu Chi Kingdom, is also a group of Di people, like the Fu family who established the former Qin Empire. But they belong to the powerful branch of the Liuyangdi, that is to say, the Yang family and the Fu family are both Luoyangdi people, but the Fu family belongs to the big sect and the Yang family belongs to the small sect. As the leader of the Qingshui Di people, the Yang family has always accepted the orders of the Central Dynasty because of their weak strength, but in the Western Jin Dynasty, the Qingshui Di people have also gone through hundreds of years of development and gradually become stronger. Its tribal leader, Yang Maosou, took advantage of the various forces within the Western Jin Dynasty to tilt and the political situation was unstable. began to call the king self-reliance, and the history was called the former Qiu Chi.

Because the strength of the Qingshui people was limited, the Yang family only occupied the southeastern region of today's Gansu Province, and there were only a few counties under their control, so the Qiuchi people were few and weak, and their strength and influence were far inferior to the later established Cheng Han regime, Han Zhao regime and Later Zhao regime. However, because the location of Qiu Chi is considered to be a key point in the northwest region. Successive monarchs relied on political means to the left and right, facing the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south and the various empires established by the nomads in the north, whoever was strong depended on whom, and always maintained the status of Qiu Chi as a great dynasty and a vassal of the great empire. Until the time when the former Qin occupied the Guanzhong region, the monarch of the Qiu Chi State submitted to the former Qin Empire again, and sent the prince Yang An into the former Qin as a proton, and the former Qin emperor Fu Jian admired Yang An very much. recruited him as a colt, and Yang An also worked hard for the former Qin Empire. It can be seen that the nobles of Qiuchi State at that time knew that their country was too weak and difficult to have room for development, and they were willing to work for the Central Plains Dynasty.

Just when Fu Jian attacked the Former Yan Empire on a large scale, the newly succeeded Qiu Chi King Yang Su may have taken advantage of the Former Qin Empire to be busy occupying the Kanto region, in order to weaken the Former Qin Empire from behind, Yang Su turned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the royal family and clansmen, and finally broke out in the domestic melee of Qiu Chi, and the former Qin army led by Yang An destroyed the Qiu Chi State without wasted effort, and the former Qiu Chi perished.

After the battle of Weishui, the former Qin Empire collapsed, and the former Qin general Yang An, who defeated the former Qiu Chi, fled back to Qiu Chi's hometown, and re-led his subordinates to build the country and claim the king, known as Hou Qiu Chi in history, and Hou Qiu Chi was also weak in the country, and it did not attract the attention of these hegemonic empires at all during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, until the Northern Wei Dynasty unified the north, and only remembered that there was such a small country in the northern region, so it was quickly destroyed, and Hou Qiu Chi disappeared in the long river of history. Its Qingshui Di people are also integrated into the people of all ethnic groups in the northwest, Qiu Chi State can be said to have witnessed the turmoil and strife of the entire Sixteen Kingdoms period, because the main tribe that established Qiu Chi is too weak, in front of the other powerful nomadic tribes who founded the country and called the emperor, the Qing Shui Di people have no advantage at all, let alone any political achievements, although Qiu Chi was founded twice, and the existence time is about a hundred years or so, its country has not been included in the list of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and Qiu Chi can only be regarded as a local separatist force. Or it is similar to the Tusi regime in the southwest during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and calling it a country is a bit overestimating.

In fact, in ancient China, because of the lack of food sources, the population has always remained at about forty or fifty million, China's population began to increase dramatically, that is, after the Longqing switch in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty introduced alien species sweet potatoes and corn, these two plants have a high yield, feeding a large number of people, to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, China's population has exceeded 100 million. Therefore, in the various historical periods before the Ming and Qing dynasties, the population of our country is not very large, and the same is true during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, because a large number of people moved south with the Jin Dynasty, and the population of the north was relatively reduced, and the nomadic tribes who were fierce by nature but had a small population entered the northern region to begin to establish a country, in order to maintain the rule of their own countries and increase taxes to help, the various countries in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms not only conquered each other, but also plundered each other's population. can only be left and right between the big powers, and survive.

As a local separatist force, Qiuchi State and the warlord secession at the end of the Tang Dynasty are fundamentally different, because Qiuchi State was founded by nomads relying on tribal power after all, and the warlord secession at the end of the Tang Dynasty has no national attributes at all, mainly because of the defects of the political system, so I think Qiuchi State should be the prototype of the Tusi system created during the Yuan Dynasty, but the power of Qiuchi State is also far greater than the local Tusi in the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the capital of founding the country and becoming the king, The Qiu Chi State should be regarded as a small secession regime established by the nomads.

In fact, in ancient China, not only in the war-torn turbulent times there was such a small secession regime, in the great unification of the dynasty there are also some small local secession regimes, the more famous is the Tusi regime of the Yang family in Banzhou, Banzhou is now the Zunyi area, since the end of the Tang Dynasty Taiyuan Yang Duan recovered the Banzhou captured by the Southern Zhao, in the period of more than 700 years, the chief officials of the Banzhou region have been monopolized by the Yang family, until the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Yang family's power in Banzhou is too strong, seriously interfered with the Ming Dynasty's management of the place, and the Wanli Emperor made a painful decision to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to finally exterminate the power of the Yang family. The Qiuchi State during the Sixteen Kingdoms period was actually the same as the affairs of Gubanzhou, except that Qiuchi was more powerful and more attention-grabbing, and was soon destroyed by the Northern Wei Dynasty that unified the north.

In ancient times, because of the low productivity, the connection between the various regions is not close, and it is normal to have things like Qiu Chi and Banzhou, and because the population is limited in ancient times, often a political force controls the populous and rich areas, and the surrounding areas are either surrendered or captured, and gradually form several relatively powerful political forces, among which the most populous and geographically richest political forces can also stand out and become the controllers of the world. The political forces in various places rose again, and the competition between the rich and the poor and the population of the region was renewed, and so on, forming the principle that ancient China must be divided for a long time, and the division must be united for a long time.

As a nomadic tribe, their living habits and customs are very different from our Han ancestors, and even different from the surrounding nomadic tribes, so they build each other's country, conquer each other, also because of the relationship between the region and population, the various tribes of these nomads have established a large and small, weak and strong, the big and strong are often located in a rich area, the Han ancestors have a large population, but the process of sinicization is very fast, and the extinction is also very fast, and the small and weak are often located in remote areas. The population of the ancestors of the Han nationality is very small, and the probability of being able to survive is increasing, Qiu Chi State is a typical example, and the same is true of the various Tusi regimes in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because their existence and demise are basically related to the stability of the central dynasty, and have little to do with them, so the central dynasty only turns a blind eye to their existence, and will not easily make a big move, but the Qiu Chi State during the Sixteen Kingdoms period and Banzhou during the Ming Dynasty are because of the development of too strong power, which seriously threatens the control of the central dynasty over the locality, It was eventually wiped out.

In fact, until China's modern society, the central government's control over the localities is still very weak, especially for the villages, towns, and towns, and many small population gathering places are sparsely populated because of the remoteness of the region, resulting in the management of these places in the form of family patriarchs, which is closely related to the backward productive forces. Therefore, in ancient society, the establishment of many feudal dynasties often occupies several regions with rich and large populations, and those poor and remote places are basically drifting with the tide, and because of the changes in the natural environment, the wealth and poverty of the region are also changing, and the population is also moving, and these areas have increased and decreased, resulting in our feudal dynasty not having a fixed territory, and it is more appropriate to call the control area of each dynasty the sphere of influence.

The same is true during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the former Qin Empire occupied several important areas in the Kwantung region, captured the rulers of the former Yan, and the people in many small places naturally became the subjects of the former Qin Empire, and the Kwantung region became the sphere of influence of the former Qin Empire, because during this period, the former Qin Empire also occupied the Central Plains, and the power was not large, and took the opportunity to occupy the Shu land of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, its strategist Wang forced the Qianliang regime, and only the Qianliang regime was still gritting its teeth in the entire northwest land, and the Qianliang regime that had been continuously attacked by the Qianqin Empire was also not stronger than Qiu Chi, and in the face of the Central Plains Dynasty's step-by-step pressing, the melon ripening of the Qianliang regime was just around the corner.