Wang Huaqiang sneered: "To the south of Jincheng is the Qiang tribe, and then to the south, to the west is the Tuyuhun in the Hehuang area, they are of the same root and origin as the Xianbei people on the grassland, and they are also a branch of the Xianbei Murong clan.

Therefore, the Tuyuhun people also inherited the Murong family's nomadic and horse-raising lifestyle, although their tribe is scarce and far less powerful than the Turks in the north, but the trade of war horses, cattle and sheep with them is also a profitable business. ”

Mai Tiezhu scratched his head, and a look of doubt flashed on his face: "I have a little impression of the Xianbei Murong Clan, it seems that it was the former overlord of the northern grassland, and he also established the Yan Kingdom in the Central Plains, it was still a matter of the time of the Five Hu Chaohua, but they seem to be on the side of Liaodong, how could they come to this land of rivers?" ”

Wang Huaqiang glanced at the night outside, the watchman on the street was already reporting the third watch, he thought to himself that it was not suitable to walk to Zhengjia Village at night tonight, so he would simply go again tomorrow morning, and he had no intention of sleeping in the second half of the night, so he simply talked to Mai Tiezhu about the past and present life of the legendary family of the Murong family.

So Wang Huaqiang drank another bowl of water, moistened his throat, and told the past of Murong and Tuguhun in Hexi vividly:

Xianbei people are the descendants of the oldest nomadic people in northern China - Donghu, whose age is very long, but also before the Xiongnu, the word Xianbei in their tribal language means that there is a hook or belt with the head of the beast on the clothes, there is auspiciousness and the meaning of the beast, Xianbei belongs to the tribal alliance in the eastern part of the northern grassland at that time - Donghu.

Xianbei was first seen in the annals of the Western Zhou Dynasty, "Chinese? Jin Yu said. Zhou Cheng Wang Ji recited to pacify Wu Geng (son of King Xu. King Wu spared his life after the war. Sealed him in the land of Shandong, led the original Shang Dynasty remnants, and sent Uncle Guan and Uncle Cai to lead the tribe to guard, as a result, the three actually rebelled, fortunately Zhou Gong and Jiang Ziya to force, to quell the rebellion) After the rebellion, King Cheng personally came to Qiyang (now the northeast of Qishan County, Shaanxi), and assembled the princes of the world and the four Yi monarchs. Xianbei was also invited to attend, and like the Chu people in the Jingxiang area at that time, they belonged to the barbarians of the four directions, and could not go on the stage to worship, and could only guard the fire that sacrificed to the mountain god under the stage.

Wei Zhao, a famous scholar in the Three Kingdoms period, once believed that the Xianbei people were not Beihu, but belonged to a branch of Dongyi, and were good at archery, but in any case, the Xianbei people from the Zhou to the Han Dynasty were both good at riding horses. He is also proficient in archery and is a naturally excellent nomadic warrior.

The beginning of the Han Dynasty. The Xiongnu's generation of overlord Mao Dunshan Yu, defeated the Dayue clan in the west, broke the Donghu in the east, and established an unprecedented grassland empire, and the Xianbei tribe, as a part of the Donghu tribal alliance, retreated eastward after the defeat, and entered the deep mountains and dense forests around the Daxing'an Mountains in eastern Liaodong.

After more than 200 years of war with the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty, the strong Xiongnu were finally defeated by the Han Dynasty, and then divided into the north and south, the Southern Xiongnu became the Han people's Tibetan subordinate, and the northern Xiongnu who refused to surrender also embarked on a long westward journey, and only appeared on the Eastern European steppe more than a hundred years later, becoming the whip of God to destroy the Western Roman Empire, but the entire northern steppe, there was an ownerless vacuum period.

It was during this period from the middle to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty that the Xianbei people began to walk out of the deep mountains and dense forests where they had lived for hundreds of years, returned to the grassland, and returned to the nomadic habit of living in pursuit of water and grass from the life of cave dwelling, fishing and hunting. With the abundant pasture, the number of Xianbei people soon increased explosively, and in a hundred years, hundreds of large and small tribes were scattered, the most famous of which were the Tuoba clan who established the Northern Wei Dynasty later, the Murong clan who established the Yan Kingdom, as well as the Yuwen clan, the Duan clan and so on.

Murong clan is rumored to be the descendants of the medieval tribal leader Gao Xin, living in the northeast Yi, the earliest ancestor can be tested is the leader of the Three Kingdoms Mo Huba, he led the clan to move to the area of Thorn City in western Liaoning to establish a state, called Xianbei, self-established as a big single Yu.

Mo Hubao likes the Han people's step shake crown, which is a kind of hat with a pendant, and can be shaken step by step when walking, so the name is step shake, Mo Huba also takes this as his surname, calling himself Bu Shao, and over time, Bu Shao is homophonized as "Murong". In the last years of the Three Kingdoms, Murong Ba's son Murong Shegui was made a single Ziyun: "The virtue of Mu Eryi (ancient refers to heaven and earth), following the appearance of Sanguang (sun, moon and stars)", so Murong is the surname.

Murong Shegui has two sons (these two are recorded in history, judging from the vigorous reproductive ability of the Hu people, it is likely that there are more than that), one is the eldest son Murong Tuguhun who was born when he was in love with a low-status female slave girl before making a fortune, and the other is the sister-in-law Murong Diao who was born to the main wife he married later.

The two brothers have grown up playing together since they were children, the eldest brother is like a father, and the relationship between the two is very good, but the day has come, Murong Shegui has finally returned to heaven, according to the rules, Murong Diao inherited the Murong tribe, and the eldest brother Murong Tuguhun took 1,700 accounts and tens of thousands of livestock to divide the land and stand on his own.

This kind of tribal separation on the grassland will always bring a series of troubles that are difficult to solve, the most direct problem is the grassland, after Murong Tuguhun separated from the Lu, it was difficult to find a suitable grassland for a while, so he could only settle down on the edge of Murong Headquarters, after a long time, there was inevitably a conflict between the two tribes, and the horses on both sides ran to each other's grassland when they were grazing, and the herdsmen also had a conflict over this, first a quarrel, and then a fight.

At that time, when Murong Diao rushed to deal with the matter, he was obviously biased towards the people on his own side, which caused Murong Tuguhun's dissatisfaction, and he said angrily: "Don't you think I'm too close to you and get in the way?" Well, I'll take my tribe away, thousands of miles away from you, and I won't be in your way. "Then let all the tribesmen pack up their tents overnight and prepare to move west.

Murong Diao realized that he forced his eldest brother away, and did a little too much, so he caught up with the Tuyuhun tribe that had set off the next day, and the brothers sued for the past over the years, and then hugged their heads and cried, in the face of the family offensive, Murong Tuyuhun, who had already made up his mind to leave, decided to gamble again, put a mare, and see where it went, if it returned to the direction of the Murong tribe to the east, it would return to the Murong tribe, if it was to the west, then continue to travel west, he said that this is God's will, and the will of heaven will decide the fate of the two brothers' tribes.

As a result, after the mare was released ten times in a row, they all ran to the west, and the matter had come to this point, Murong Diao could no longer dissuade him, so he could only say goodbye to Tuyuhun with tears, and watched his eldest brother take his tribe to the west.

Murong Tuyuhun went all the way to the west on the prairie, because his tribe was lonely and could not gain a foothold everywhere, after decades of long travel, he actually crossed the entire prairie and came to the Hehuang area (today's Qinghai), which is a high-altitude area, desolate and uninhabited, even in modern times, it is a no-man's land, and the Tuyuhun tribe settled here, named the country, and established the Tuyuhun country.

Speaking of the Murong headquarters in the east, the Central Plains at that time, the Han dynasty was in decline, the warlords were divided, and they entered the era of the last years of the Three Kingdoms.

Even after the Three Kingdoms in the Central Plains returned to the Jin Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty suffered a decline in national strength due to the internal war of the clan and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and a large number of losses of the regular army of the imperial court.

Finally at the end of the Eight Kings Rebellion, the Hu soldiers in the official army of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Hu tribes around the country rebelled, and in a short period of time, the Hu people around the country responded, and in about a hundred years, they successively established the five Hu regimes of the Xiongnu, Qian, Xianbei, Di and Qiang in the Central Plains, which was the first disaster in the history of the Han people - the Five Hu Chaos.

This gave the Xianbei tribes room for full development, and the Huns and Turks on the grassland, with the continuous development and growth of the tribes, there will inevitably be fierce conflicts between each other for water, grassland, population, etc., and the Murong clan also realized that if they only keep the old land and do not develop, sooner or later there will be infighting, so they set their sights on the Central Plains in the war. (To be continued......)