Chapter 2 The prologue begins with the return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin

The end of the story is also the prelude to the story of the Sixteen Kingdoms In November of the fifth year of Xianning in the Western Jin Dynasty (AD 279), the Jin army aggressively attacked Wu. Only half a year later, Dongwu, which was lingering in a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, perished. The separation of the three countries is finally over. A few months later, Sun Hao was escorted to Luoyang. Emperor Wu of Jin was not bad, and granted him the title of Marquis of Guiming. On this day, Emperor Wu of Jin summoned Sun Hao, pointed to the seat set up for him and said, "I have reserved this seat for you for a long time."

Sun Hao replied: "When I was in the south, I also set up this seat for Your Majesty." Emperor Wu of Jin didn't care about his answer, so he laughed it off. But who would have thought that this turned out to be a terrible prophecy?Thirty years later, Sima Yan's descendants had to continue to maintain his Great Jin Dynasty in that southern seat. In the first year of Emperor Hui of Jin Yongxing (304 A.D.), Liu Yuan, an aristocrat of the Xiongnu, proclaimed himself King of Han in Zuoguo City (now Lishi, Shanxi) and declared independence; He called himself the King of Chengdu in Chengdu.All of this makes people with a little brain believe that the rulers of the Sima family should pay their debts for their extravagance, and all of this also announced the beginning of the troubled times of the Sixteen Kingdoms: a few years later, Liu Cong, the son of Liu Yuan, successively After conquering Luoyang and Chang'an, after insulting the last two emperors of the Western Jin Dynasty, they were killed. The rulers of the Jin Dynasty and the gentry officials were driven to the south, where they began their careers in partial safety.

In the north at this time, the chaos has only just begun.After Liu Cong's death, the north was divided into two Zhao states: Liu Yao and Shi Le, one west and one east, each occupying one side.Shi Le, as the first real man of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, won the successive battles between the two Zhao kingdoms.However, the troubled times did not end there. Twenty years later, when the Qin State of the Di people and the Yan State of the Xianbei people established their own countries on the land of the two former Zhao countries and continued to confront each other, perhaps today's people You can understand what is called "ethnic conflict".After Fu Jian wiped out his strongest opponent, Murong Yan, and many surrounding small countries, it seemed that the world should return to unity, and the subsequent Feishui war brought the north, which had been quiet for several years, back to its former state.Yao Chang and Murong Chui, as two "traitors of Fu Jian" and a generation of traitors, tore the huge former Qin territory to pieces.The emergence of Hou Qin, Hou Yan, and even many small countries such as Hou Liang, Xi Qin, Xia, etc., made people wonder whether this troubled world will last forever?

Fortunately, a new force has sprung up further north.Tuoba clan's Northern Wei Dynasty became a powerful force in the Central Plains without everyone knowing it. With the decline of the sixteen countries one by one, the northern part of China was finally reunified into a complete country, but when these became reality At the time, it had been 135 years since the beginning of the troubled times. During this period of nearly one and a half centuries, the separation and reunification of the land of the Central Plains was as unpredictable as the mouth of the Yellow River at that time. In this battle for the Central Plains, there are wise lords, virtuous ministers, tyrants, and There are treacherous men, of course, who can be called heroes.The stories of the Three Kingdoms are well-known, and the characters of the Three Kingdoms are well-known to women and children, but compared with the Sixteen Kingdoms period, which spans more than double its time span, it can be said to be "insignificant".

In the sixteen countries, almost every country can tell a large number of legendary stories, telling a large group of influential figures.So, let's start with the decline of the Jin State and the rise of the Southern Huns, and enter the war-torn era of the Sixteen Kingdoms.