Just like the story in a martial arts novel, at every critical moment and key node, there will always be unexpected things that happen and change the original course of things. After a long period of reproduction and development, the Xianbei people who occupy the vast Mongolian steppe finally gave birth to a big man who led them from division to reunification - Tanshi Huai.

Tanshi Huai is not a member of the Murong family, and, quite unfortunately, according to the records in the history books, Tanshi Huai is not raised by people!

At that time, there was no university, and in the vast grassland, he couldn't even find a book, and the father of Tanshi Huai, who was born as a sheep herder, had only one way to get ahead: to be a soldier. So, a few days after marrying his daughter-in-law, Tan Shihuai's father rode on a war horse and took up a bow and arrow to "defend the motherland and the people".

When Tan Shihuai's father got the opportunity to visit his relatives, he went to see his delicate, gentle and lovely wife with excitement and the gold, silver and jewelry that he had snatched from the bloody struggle for three years, he opened the curtain of his tent, poked his head in, and was surprised to find that his son was full moon!

Whose?

The daughter-in-law's explanation was very far-fetched: I heard the sound of lightning and thunder while walking on the road, raised my head to see the weather, and accidentally a piece of hail fell into my mouth, which was slippery and sweet, and the taste was not bad, so I swallowed it, and it didn't take long for me to get pregnant, and ten months later, I gave birth! It's that simple.

It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, the important thing is that Tan Shi Huai's father believed it, from the original preparation to kill it to throw it away, as for Tan Shi Huai's mother, she must have been forgiven, from the fact that she was able to notify her mother's family in time to pick up the child and raise it, it can be seen that she was forgiven, it was quite favored!

Tanshi Huai's father must have been very uncomfortable at that time, and he wanted to cry! Most of the people who like to be fathers are not happy!

The story of Xianbei in the history books was written by the Han people, and this paragraph of Tanshi Huai more or less reflects the marriage situation of Xianbei society at that time: similar to many grassland tribes, Xianbei women have a certain degree of sexual freedom before marriage, and the marriage maintains the tradition of plundering women. That is to say, if a man wants to get married, he generally takes the robbery first, and then uses cattle and sheep as a dowry to serve his wife's family, and only after three years of service can he take his wife away freely. In other words, a daughter-in-law can be knocked unconscious first and then returned to her mother-in-law's house to deal with the aftermath.

So, the mystery of Tanshi Huai's life experience is not difficult to understand! The conclusion we can draw is that Tanshi Huai's father must not be his father!

Tanshi Huai grew up in his grandmother's house.

Usually, the life under the fence is not easy, but the sandalwood acacia lives a very easy life, although there is no parental favor, but there is no white eyes of the elders and bullying of peers, because he: brave and strong! Translated into the vernacular, it means: Be bold, grow strong! Belongs to the category that can not only fight, but also dare to fight!

When Tanshi Huai was fourteen or fifteen years old, his grandfather's cattle and sheep were robbed by a tribal leader, and the brave and strong Tanshi Huai went to chase after him alone, and after a big battle (one fought ten, I don't know how to fight), Tanshi Huai recaptured all the cattle and sheep that were robbed. Since then, the sandalwood locust has been deeply revered and convinced by the people of the tribe. This is a common truth in ancient and modern China and abroad: those with hard fists have prestige!

After growing up, the sandalwood acacia is still brave and strong, and the wisdom is even more amazing! Able to make decrees and hear lawsuits in tribal administration, no one dared to violate them, so he was elected as the tribal chief.

The great cause of Xianbei unification starts from Tanshi Huai!

In this world, anyone who can create a meritorious career, if it is not a father or father-in-law's background, most of them need to have some extraordinary skills: a little stronger than ordinary people, a little smarter than ordinary people, and even a little bit better luck than others,...... Able to survive in a treacherous battlefield environment, and able to get a slight head start in weird calculations. Then, you can recruit talents from all over the world, start a career, and achieve meritorious deeds.

The wise and brave sandalstone locust has these conditions.

Under the leadership of Tanshi Huai, his tribe grew stronger and stronger, and the Xianbei tribes returned to it. Tanshi Huai has established a large alliance of Xianbei people and unified Xianbei!

Since ancient times, the merit is greater than the unification, the first emperor is unified, the book is the same text, the car is the same axis, and the situation of creating a family in China for thousands of years. In the following 2,000 years, the Chinese nation suffered many hardships, experienced feudal towns, princes, and was harassed and bullied by foreign races, but the general trend of unification has never changed.

Although the unification of Xianbei cannot be compared with "six kings, one of the four seas", but it has eliminated tribal disputes and a period of peace and tranquility between the tribes.

It's just that China is still going on, and 5,000 years of civilization are endless! Xianbei has long been annihilated!

After Tanshihuai unified the Xianbei departments, it was divided into three parts: central, east and west, from the east of Youbeiping to Liaodong, connecting more than 20 cities such as Fuyu and 濊貊 [huì mò], which was the east; From the west of Youbeiping to more than ten cities in Shanggu County, it is the middle; From the west of Shanggu County to more than 20 cities such as Dunhuang County and Wusun, it is the west. The three departments are managed by adults, and they are directly under the sandalwood acacia.

The law of survival of the grassland is the law of wolves, and countless sheep interpret the truth of the law of the jungle with their lives. If you dare to beat a group of people by yourself, you will naturally not be a silent lamb.

After the unification of the Xianbei tribes, Tanshi Huai attacked in an all-round way, plundered the Eastern Han Dynasty in the south, rejected Ding Ling in the north, attacked Fuyu in the east, entered Wusun in the west, and completely occupied the original territory of the Huns, its territory was more than 14,000 miles long from east to west, more than 7,000 miles wide from north to south, and the mountains, rivers, rivers and salt ponds were within its jurisdiction, becoming a veritable grassland overlord.

The Han Empire can't govern it at all!

Let's talk about the two battles between Xianbei and Dahan.

After all, the self-sufficient Han people could still survive without Xianbei cattle and horses, while the Xianbei herdsmen had to rob the Han people's cloth and clay pots, as well as iron pots and grain.

In 166, tens of thousands of Xianbei cavalry entered the nine northern counties of Han, and Hanzhong Lang retreated Zhang Huandu's army.

As far as the development of later events is concerned, it can be seen that the losses of the Xianbei people in this battle are insignificant, because the powerful Han Empire actually proposed peace after the war! …… When the men of a country are unable to effectively resist external humiliation, they have to build the hope of peace on the breasts of women. This kind of thing, they are familiar with it! Of course, not only to be close, but also to add officials to the knighthood (crowned king).

Sandalwood locust is not accepted!

There is only one reason for not being accepted, and the flashy bounty is not as much as the robbery. Conquer a city, everything in it belongs to you, cloth, money, women and slaves, you can grab whatever you want! Could it be that the emperor's daughter has a rare object on her body more than other women? That's even more important!

Since then, the incursions of the Xianbei tribes on the Eastern Han border have become more frequent.

In 177 A.D., Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty ordered Xia Yu, the captain of Wuhuan, to break the Xianbei Zhonglang general Tian Yan and the Xiongnu Zhonglang general Zang Min each led more than 10,000 cavalry people, respectively from Gaoliu (now Yanggao, Shanxi), Yunzhong County (now northeast of Inner Mengtuoketuo), Yanmen County (now northwest of Dai County, Shanxi), and attacked Xianbei in three ways. The Han army went out of the fortress for more than 2,000 miles, and the Xianbei leader Tan Shihuai ordered the eastern, central and western three adults to lead the crowd to meet the battle, and defeated the Han army, and the Han army died seven or eight out of ten.

The significance of defeating the Han army is significant: a broader space for development, a more stable living environment, more material (grabbed) support, and so on.

Most importantly, the tribes have a higher sense of identity with the sandalwood locust.

Under the leadership of Tanshi Huai, the development momentum of Xianbei is very good, not only has won foreign wars one after another, but also there are no domestic disputes, and the tribes live in harmony and happiness. It should be said that Tanshi Huai is a person who can not only establish his position militarily but also make political achievements, such as unifying Xianbei and coordinating the relationship between various ministries; For example, the army once sent troops to catch the fishermen of the Japanese Kingdom to teach the Xianbei people to fish (at that time, the Xianbei people did not know how to fish), and since then, a nutritious meal has been added to the table of the Xianbei people - fish, which greatly relieves the food pressure of the Xianbei people.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and in 181 AD, Tanshi Huai died!

The pace of Xianbei people's expansion came to an abrupt end!

After the death of Tanshi Huai, Xianbei split, Xianbei in the west rebelled, and Monan was divided into three groups from the east of Yunzhong: one is the Budugen group, with tens of thousands, according to Yunzhong and Yanmen, the second is the Kebineng group, which is distributed in Daijun, Shanggu and other places, and the third is a number of small groups under the leadership of the original alliance "Eastern Lord", scattered in western Liaoning, Youbeiping and Yuyang.

In the post-Tanshihuai era, the strongest and most influential Xianbei group was the Kebineng Group.

About Kebineng, it is really an inspirational example of the growth of small people into big people in that era. A child from an ordinary herdsman's family can't even remember when he was born! However, he was elected as the leader of the tribe by virtue of his distinctive qualities (bravery, fairness in law enforcement, and not greedy for money), and although his tribe was small and almost negligible in the Xianbei family, this small tribe grew up under the leadership of Kebineng and gradually became stronger.

The era in which Kebineng lived coincided with troubled times, it was an excellent opportunity for development, but it was also born at the wrong time, because there were not only Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu in that era, but also Cao Cao and Liu Bei, even his original neighbor Yuan Shao, which was so powerful that it was a mess and could not be provoked! God gave him the opportunity to develop and grow in troubled times, but it cut off the possibility of him entering the Central Plains and competing in the world.

In the process of adjoining Cao Wei, relying on the repetition of war and peace, Kebi was able to seek his own best interests, obeyed Cao Cao's orders, and served Cao Pi's holy decree (to attack Shu Han), and was also named "King of Attached Righteousness" by Cao Pi. He also fought many times with Cao Wei's generals on the northern border alone, seriously threatening the northern border of Wei. until he was killed by the Wei Assassins.

The Kebineng Group was the second powerful Xianbei regime established by the Xianbei people, and it commanded more than 100,000 Xianbei tribes and more than 100,000 horsemen, posing a serious threat to the northern border of Cao Wei. However, after the assassination of Kebineng, the regime collapsed, and the Xianbei tribes once again fell into division and warfare, and the tribes entered a period of independent development.

The Xianbei Murong family we are going to talk about in this article has gradually developed and grown in such a turbulent historical environment, and has come to the world step by step from the primeval forest of white mountains and black waters.