Part 3 Biting

Chapter 1 The Sunset of the Han Kingdom

In 316, Liu Cong, the emperor of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, sent the general Liu Yao to capture Chang'an, and the central power of the Western Jin Dynasty of the Han people collapsed. By 318, Liu Kun was martyred, and the last bit of fire in the Western Jin Empire was extinguished.

At this time, Liu Cong seems to be the overlord of the north, in fact? Not yet. The places that Liu Cong can control are not more than Taihang in the east, Song and Luo in the south, Longban in the west, and Fenjin in the north, and they do not completely occupy the northern part of the Central Plains. At that time, there were several forces that coexisted in the north:

The first is Wang Mi's subordinate general Cao Wei. Cao Wei occupies Shandong and can be called the "King of Shandong".

As mentioned above, the "Flying Leopard" Wang Mi worked hard for Liu Yuan, the "Gaozu of the Han Dynasty", and conquered Luoyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, but after Liu Yao, a descendant of the Liu Han regime, the Central Army, turned his face due to the uneven distribution of spoils in Luoyang, he nominally attached himself to Shile.

Wang Mi knows in his heart that in troubled times, it is better to rely on himself than on anyone. In order to consolidate the old nest, Wang Mi appointed Cao Wei, a confidant general, as the general of Zhendong, and ordered him to lead the army back to Qingzhou, recruit soldiers, and open up the revolutionary base in Shandong.

Cao Wei left Wang Mi, and actually went all the way, sent troops from Luoyang, passed through Yanzhou, captured Wenyang Pass, crossed the mountains of Luzhong, and fell into the land of Qilu, and actually drove away the "King of Shandong" of the Western Jin Dynasty, Qingzhou Thorn Shi Gou Ling, called himself Qingzhou Thorn History, and had 100,000 soldiers.

Linzi, the capital of Shandong, is huge, and the surrounding area is very flat, so it can be said that there is no danger to defend. After Cao Wei occupied Shandong, he built a new city in the territory of present-day Qingzhou City, Shandong, merged Guangxian County into Linzi County, and then moved all the military administrative institutions of Qingzhou, Qi County, and Linzi County into the new city.

The new city is named Guanggu City, located in the south of Yaowang Mountain, east of the Yanghe River, west of the mountains, north of the thousands of miles of fertile fields, east of the Jiaodong Peninsula, south of the traffic to Huaiyi, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After all, Cao Wei was a Han Chinese, and his heart was inclined to the Eastern Jin Dynasty regime in the south.

The second is to occupy Shile in Hebei. Shi Le was nominally ordered by Liu Cong, but in fact he already had a territory, was very independent and powerful, and had a heart of disobedience to Liu Cong, which has been described above.

The third is the Xianbei Tuoba Department in the north of the Daibei, occupying the area of the northwestern part of Shanxi and the northwest of Hebei today.

Liu Cong, Cao Wei, Shi Le, and the Xianbei Tuoba Division, the four warlords carved up North China, each according to one side, and the other three parties nominally respected Liu Cong as the master, but in fact each had a ghost.

During the reign of Liu Cong, the system of hundred officials of the Xiongnu and Han States was reformulated. However, in essence, it still followed and further improved his father Liu Yuan's Hu-Han partition policy.

When Liu Yuan established the Han State, he set up a single in the left auxiliary and the right auxiliary to govern the Hu people. Liu Cong took his son Liu Cang as the big single Yu, and also set up left and right auxiliaries, each in charge of 100,000 Liuyi, and 10,000 in one captain. In addition, the left and right divisions are subordinated, each leading more than 20 million households, 10,000 households are placed in 1 internal history, and a total of 43 internal histories are set up, specifically ruling the Han people.

In the center, Liu Cong's son, Da Dan Yu Liu Cang, is also the prime minister, the general, and the king of Jin, and Da Dan Yu is basically the successor to the throne. Liu Yao, the king of Zhongshan, was named the Great Sima.

Liu Cang and Liu Yao are Liu Cong's right-hand men. Although Liu Cong's ruling body also absorbed some Han Chinese, the core power was still in the hands of the Xiongnu aristocracy.

In essence, the political system created by Liu Cong was developed and perfected on the basis of basically following the old Xiongnu system, and it had a huge cohesion for the Xiongnu tribes under the conditions of the time.

However, it is clear that this system is deeply flawed. Claiming to be Han but excluding the majority of Han scholars from participating in politics will naturally deepen ethnic contradictions, and this system is destined to be an unsuccessful precedent for ethnic minorities to rule the Central Plains.

Throughout Chinese history, behind every successful emperor, there is a queen who does not have much to do and a stable and harmonious harem, but Liu Cong's harem is never worry-free.

Although the Hu and Han cultures can be inclusive, it is difficult to eliminate the natural estrangement. As a nomadic people, the Xiongnu had many marriage customs that were not accepted by the Han culture. For example, Wang Zhaojun encountered the old Hun custom of "father dies and wife stepmother" and was messed up

once. In addition, the Huns also have the custom of "brother dies to marry his sister-in-law".

The inheritance of these customs of the Xiongnu has its historical and national reasons. As an ethnic minority, the population is already sparse, and the living environment is relatively harsh, so it is natural to have an instinctive worry and panic about the demise of the race. Therefore, it is not surprising that the custom of "father dies and wife dies and stepmother" and "brother dies and marries his sister-in-law" arises by using all human resources as much as possible to ensure the reproduction of offspring.

Liu Cong, the second generation of the Xiongnu Han monarch, was born and raised in the Central Plains, and was sinicized since his father Liu Yuan, and his own degree of sinicization has been very high. However, on the issue of marriage, hormones are obviously better than the Four Books and Five Classics, and Liu Cong openly argues with the Han people's etiquette.

Liu Yuan's first empress was Huyan. The Huyan family, the wang clan of the Huns, the Huyan clan gave birth to a son Liu He for Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan's second empress, Empress Shan, was the daughter of Shan Zheng, the chief of the Di tribe. Shan Zheng led his troops to Liu Yuan, and Liu Yuan saw that his daughter was beautiful, so he accepted him as a concubine and gave birth to a son, Liu Yi.

Liu Cong was born to Liu Yuan's concubine, Mrs. Zhang.

Liu Cong's wife is Huyanshi, the cousin of Liu Yuan's first empress Huyanshi, who gave birth to Liu Cong's son Liu Cang. From the perspective of Han culture, the relationship between the father and son of the Liu family is more magical:

1. Liu Cong and his father Liu Yuan are "uncle's brother-in-law".

2. Liu Cong's half-brother Liu He should be called Liu Cong's "cousin".

If this kind of intermarriage pattern of relatives and relatives tongue twisters appears in the pure Han cultural circle, the old men and old ladies of the Guangcun Touda Information Center "Mazaziza" exchange information and editorials from one to another, it will make people look up. In the Xiongnu culture, it is not strange.

In June 310, Liu Yuan died, and Liu He ascended the throne, but not long after, he was killed by his younger brother and cousin uncle Liu Cong. Liu Cong wants to push Liu Yi, the son of Queen Shan, to the throne, Liu Yi is not stupid, he sees Liu He's fate clearly, and his fate is still important, so he refuses.

I'll stop acting, I'll do it myself. Liu Cong dropped "The Self-cultivation of Actors", succeeded to the throne as the emperor, and respected Queen Shan as the queen mother. Mrs. Lihuyan was the empress, and her son Liu Cang was named the king of Hanoi and the commander-in-chief of the three armies (the general of the Fu army, the governor of the Chinese and foreign military).

Wait, Liu Congli's queen mother is Liu Yi's mother, Queen Shan, not his own mother, Mrs. Zhang? Right. Liu Cang is the successor? It seems to be, but it's not. Liu Cong did not appoint his son Liu Cang as the crown prince, but named his younger brother Liu Yi as the emperor's younger brother and respected Liu Yi as his successor.

This strange approach is really incomprehensible. Some people say that it was Liu Cong who was grateful to Liu He for being killed, and Liu Yi was not the emperor but gave way to him.

This reason is nonsense. First, Liu He was killed completely because of Liu Cong's strong strength, and Liu Cong didn't need Liu Yi to be the emperor if he wanted to be the emperor; Second, Liu Congzun's younger brother Liu Yi completely handed over the military power to his son as the successor, can this successor take over?

Why does Liu Cong respect Liu Yi as the emperor's younger brother? There are two explanations:

The first explanation is the popular one. Liu Cong was not born to the queen, he came from a partial house, he killed his brother and stood on his own, he couldn't get over his face, he had to act like "I killed my brother for the country, not for myself to be the emperor";

The second explanation is full of toxic hormones. Arino History said that after Liu Yuan's death, Empress Dowager Shan was still young and beautiful at this time, and Liu Cong, the S wolf, did not care about the chaos

's infamy, and had an indescribable relationship with Empress Dowager Shan. Liu Yi couldn't hold his face, and persuaded his mother that the Empress Dowager Shan committed suicide in shame.

Hehe.

Liu Cong's approach, the first to jump out to oppose it was naturally Liu Can's mother, Queen Huyan. The son Liu Cang is the most competitive candidate for the crown prince, but there is a royal brother in front of him, and Queen Huyan is gone: the father dies and the son succeeds, and it is common in ancient and modern times. What is the Imperial Brother? A hundred years after Your Majesty, will the Liu Cang brothers still live?

Can Liu Congyan know?

In 312, Empress Huyan died, and under the leadership of Liu Cong's mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, Zhang Huiguang, the daughter of Liu Cong's uncle Zhang Huan, was appointed as the empress.

In Liu Cong's life, the women he married were all his relatives, and he was also a wonderful flower in history.

Men were often dissatisfied with their mother's arranged marriages, and emperors were no exception. Zhang Huiguang was not favored by his cousin Liu Cong, and then died depressed, and at the cost of his youth and life, he won a floating name - Empress Wuxiao.

I don't like my cousin for a reason. As early as when Liu Cong captured Luoyang, he fell in love with Liu E and Liu Ying, the two daughters of Taibao Liu Yin, and wanted to be the left and right concubines.

What's even more strange is that these two women are also relatives of Liu Cong.

Because, Liu Yin is a close relative of Liu Cong himself. Liu Cong, a semi-Sinicized Hun baby, feels a little too much so far. Whether it is the supreme or the grassroots, they all have the idea of covering up their ugliness, and they are poked in the back, and no one can not care.

Let's test the attitude of the ministers.

The result of the temptation? Liu Cong was very excited. Liu Cong is good at understanding people's clothes, and the ministers are understanding, not only unanimously agreeing, but also finding a theoretical basis for the boss to marry Er Liu.

Liu Yannian, Liu Jing, a Dazai, a Taifu, talented and rich: We often hear Liu Yin himself say that he is a descendant of Liu Kanggong of the Zhou Dynasty, and he is not from the same clan as you, so what does it matter if he marries his two daughters?

Liu Cong couldn't help but pat his thigh after hearing this: a pair of talents!

Liu Cong, who abandoned his psychological burden and regained the confidence of his close relatives, worshipped Liu Yin's two daughters as noble concubines. This is not the end, since there is a perfect theoretical basis, you have to use it thoroughly, or not waste more? Liu Cong, and then incorporated Liu Yin's four granddaughters into nobles. In this way, the six nieces and aunts of the Liu family entered the palace together and served a man with the same surname.

The greenhouse messes up the season, and the hormones mess up the generations. Liu Cong's journey of hunting for beauty, like Anta, will never stop.

One day, Liu Cong went to the house of Jin Zhun of the Central Protector Army to drink. During the banquet, there were two women to toast, snow face willow eyebrows, red lips and teeth, Luo sleeves fragrant, pearl and green swaying, coquettish voice, Yingyan Tufang......

Hibiscus is like a willow like an eyebrow, how can Liu Cong not hang down?

Jin Zhun saw it in his eyes, thousands of thunders surged in his chest, but his face was as calm as Pinghu, and he arched his hand and said: These little girls are named Yueguang and Yuehua, I wish Your Majesty eternal peace in the dragon body.

Liu Cong's three souls have lost two souls, the dragon body is still safe, but a restless heart has nowhere to put it like red-hot charcoal. The emperor who fought in the south and the north and was born on horseback with great strength, once the fire of evil desire burned, a 5-kilogram dry powder fire extinguisher would not work. Liu Cong hastily ended the banquet, and immediately brought Jin Yueguang and Jin Yuehua back to the palace for a night.

If there is a knife on the head of the color character, then Liu Cong is equivalent to Ling Chi several times. However, this time, this knife stabbed firmly into the not very healthy body of the Xiongnu Liu Han regime, and twisted it a few times.

The minister offered his daughter to the emperor, except for Wei Zaode, the first assistant in the late Ming Dynasty, who died in order to survive (but was killed by Li Zicheng's military clipping of his head), the rest just wanted to live a jeweled life with his daughter. However, Jin Zhun sacrificed his daughter, and his ambition was not here.

He's playing a huge game of chess.

After the second Jin entered the palace, Jin Yueguang was especially lovely, and after only more than ten days, he became Liu Cong's queen.

There are too many beauties hoarded, and the balance of the harem is a headache, and the beauties will inevitably have opinions about the promotion of job titles. This is difficult for the horny Liu Cong: Jin Yueguang was promoted to the upper queen, Liu Yin's granddaughter was promoted to the left queen, and Jin Yuehua was promoted to the right queen.

Up and down, left and right, if it weren't for the "lower queen" not sounding, it is estimated that Liu Cong would have to give the whole one. The three queens stand side by side, there is no one before and no one after them.

The important minister Zuo Sili Lieutenant and the imperial historian Chen Yuanda, a sincere person, admonished: The three queens stand side by side, which is not in line with the program of the court, and there will be great trouble in the future.

The emperor has so much to do with you! As a result of Chen Yuanda's advice, he was transferred to the right Guanglu doctor, ascended and surrendered secretly, and lost his military power and supervision power.

What are the three queens? Later, the eunuch Wang Shen's adopted queen also became the queen, and now it was okay, and she made up enough of the 4 Qs in the playing cards. It seems that Liu Cong is not only lustful, but also quite rebellious.

Indulge in wine, play with beauties in the harem day and night, so do you still have the heart to do political affairs? Liu Cong handed over the major affairs of the DPRK and China to Wang Shen, the godfather-in-law, and Jin Zhun, the father-in-law, for a decision. Except for Liu Cong, there is no second one in the world.

The wars continued year after year, and the discipline of the imperial court was corrupted, which was often accompanied by catastrophes. Sure enough, there was a big locust plague in the east of the river, and the land was full of hunger, and the common people could not bear the suffering, and many rebelled. Whereabouts? Most fled to Shile, with more than 200,000 households; There are more than 100,000 defectors from the Di and Qiang ethnic minorities.

The turbulent regime of the Xiongnu Liu Han soon ushered in a bloody coup d'état as scheduled.