Chapter 38 8. The split and demise of the Northern Wei Dynasty

After the "Heyin Change", the Northern Wei Dynasty had actually perished, and the so-called "Northern Wei Dynasty" in history since then was nothing more than someone else's vest, a puppet on a stage. On the high mountains in the beautiful land, there are three ponds, which are so deep that they are called Qilian Lake. "Qilian" means "heaven" in Hu dialect, so Qilian Lake is also Tianchi.When Er Zhurong was young, his father Er Zhu Xinxing took him to swim on the pond, and suddenly he heard the sound of flutes and drums.Xinxing then said to his son: "According to the ancients, anyone who hears this voice is a public servant. I am old this year, so I should be your ear. You will encourage me."

At this time, Er Zhurong, who had power over the Northern Wei Dynasty, finally fulfilled that ancient legend.However, he still has loftier ideals. He repeatedly hunts and trains soldiers, and suffers from it.Good friend Yuan Tianmu persuaded him to relax, and he raised his arms and said: "The empress dowager, she can't be self-righteous. Those who worship the emperor, this is a common festival of the people and ministers. Ge Rong's disciples are originally slaves. Self-declaration is like a slave going away, and he will rest if he is captured. He has been favored by the country for a while, but he has not been able to open up the country. He has been mixed in the sea, so why should he be honored today! If you hear that the imperial court is still lenient, this autumn I want to join my brother Jielushi The horse, the school hunted Songyuan, and made the embezzlement and nobles shortlisted to fight the tiger. Still left Luyang, experienced three thorns, and learned that the wild north filled six towns. When returning to the army, he flattened Fenhu. Next year he will be concise and fine riding, separated Jianghuai, Xiao Yan, if he surrenders, begs for thousands of households. If he does not surrender, he will cross thousands of horses and go to bind him. Wait for Liuhe Ningyi, eight appearances to be clean, and then brothers and sisters will worship the emperor, patrol the four directions, observe customs, govern politics and religion, and so on. It can be called Xun Er. If the hunting is stopped today and the soldiers are slack, it can be reused."

Although he was born in the Hu family, the dream of unifying China, clarifying the universe, and making the world stop fighting is still an ideal worth pursuing in his opinion.Er Zhurong is a contradictory figure.Although later generations did not think highly of him, at that time, all the heroes in North China were willing to use him, and one can imagine his extraordinary charisma. In time, he could have performed better on that stage, but history cannot assume.This troubled hero, at the age of thirty-eight, was murdered by the grudge Emperor Wei Xiaozhuang in Luoyang. Er Zhurong's nephew, Er Zhuzhao, who was more than brave but not resourceful, led his troops into the city of Luoyang, and let the soldiers loot and kill, Luoyang was reduced to ruins.Qihu soldiers captured the 24-year-old Emperor Xiaozhuang at the time, and Er Zhuzhao tied the rebellious emperor with iron chains on the gate tower of Yongning Temple in Luoyang to show the public.Grinning his teeth in the bitter new wind, the unlucky emperor who jumped like a rabbit caught a cold, and wanted to ask Er Zhuzhao for a turban, but failed.During those few days, what floated in the wind was the emperor's desolate cry. "Luoyang Jialan Ji" records the final fate of the rebellious emperor: "The emperor was locked on the gate tower of the temple. In December, the emperor suffered from cold and begged for a kerchief with the sign, but the sign did not agree. The emperor was imprisoned and returned to Jinyang, where he was hanged on the third day. A first-class temple. The emperor is going to pay homage to the Buddha, wishing not to be a king."

The emperor is finished, what about the traitors?Not much better. Most of Ge Rongjun's descendants flowed into the Bingzhou and Sizhou areas, totaling more than 200,000 people. They launched 26 uprisings in several years. Er Zhuzhao killed nearly half of them, but they still couldn't suppress them.He was quite troubled by these six-town surrenders, so he asked Gao Huan for advice on how to deal with them.Gao Huan thinks: This group of people can't be killed forever, why don't you send someone you trust to lead them, if they make mistakes again, you can directly settle the score with the person in charge, wouldn't it save trouble?Er Zhuzhao scratched his head, I don't seem to have such talents under my command!He Bayun, the eldest of the three He Ba brothers who attended the meeting next to him, hurriedly said, I think Gao Huan is very good!When Gao Huan turned around, he punched him, knocked out a tooth, and taught him that we should listen to the opinions of the leaders more. It is not our turn to speak on such a big matter!

Therefore, Er Zhuzhao felt that Gao Huan was a loyal and reliable person, and he assuredly handed over the people of the six towns to him.After Gao Huan got the authorization, fearing that Erzhu Zhao would repent, he immediately summoned the people from the six towns and fled to the east of Taihang Mountain.Murong Shaozong reminded him that Gao Huanxiong is the best in the world, you are letting the tiger go back to the mountain.Er Zhuzhao refused to listen and put Murong Shaozong in prison.He didn't realize the seriousness of the problem until news came that Gao Huan had robbed Er Zhurong's wife, Princess Beixiang, of 300 horses on the way. He went after Gao Huan himself, but he had the same problem as Xiang Yu. The Hongmen banquet was all set up, but he believed that the other party was a good person, so he couldn't make up his mind, so he finally let Gao Huan go.

Since then, Gao Huan has risen in Hebei with the people of the six towns as capital.In 532 A.D., Gao Huan and the Allied Forces of the Erzhu Clan fought decisively at Mount Hanling in the southwest of Yecheng. They defeated the Allied Forces of the Erzhu Clan, which was known to have 200,000 soldiers, with a force of 30,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. Gao Huan replaced the Erzhu family and became the overlord of North China. Previously, Erzhu Tianguang commander He Bayue, Yu Wentai and others entered Guanzhong to quell the uprising in Guanzhong and quelled the rebellion.After the Battle of Hanling Mountain, He Bayue took the opportunity to join forces with Qinzhou Governor Hou Mo Chenyue to wipe out the remaining forces of the Erzhu family in Guanzhong.Then, Gao Huan used another plan to instigate Hou Mo and Chen Yue to kill He Bayue.

The generals in Guanzhong supported the young Yu Wentai as the leader and killed Hou Mo Chenyue. From then on, Yu Wentai became the master of Guanzhong. He was also the only character in Northern China who could fight against Gao Huan in that era. In 534 A.D., Yuanxiu, Emperor Xiaowu of Wei, whom Gao Huan established, escaped from Luoyang and defected to Yuwentai in Guanzhong. Gao Huan had to change Yuan Shanjian as Emperor Xiaojing.From then on, the Northern Wei Empire officially split, and Emperor Xiaojing, controlled by Gao Huan, moved his capital to Yecheng. Because it was located in the east, it was called the Eastern Wei Dynasty.Shortly after Emperor Xiaowu fled to Guanzhong, he was killed by Yu Wentai, and he appointed Yuan Baoju as Emperor Wen, which was the Western Wei Dynasty.

From then on, the Eastern and Western Weis fought endlessly, and the Chang'an and Luoyang roads became the Shura field where Gao Huan and Yuwen Tailong fought. The new wind from the six towns brought yellow sand all over the sky, obliterating the once powerful Northern Wei Dynasty under the thick yellow dust.Since then, people have been going around endlessly in the circle of Sinicization-Huhua-re-Sinicization-re-Huhua. However, time will change everything, and finally one day, those people who once stubbornly rejected another culture, consciously or unconsciously, merged their blood and culture together in the subtle influence of the years.

The ancestor of "Tian Khan" came from the Li family in Longxi, which is a common surname of the Han people.His grandmother was the daughter of Duguxin, a descendant of the Huns; his mother came from the Dou family, which was also a Chinese surname changed from the Hedouling family of the Xianbei family; his wife, Empress Changsun, also came from the Xianbei surname Baba... He is called "Tang Taizong" by the Han people, and "Tian Khan" by the Hu people. He has the martial arts and fraternity of the Han people, and he also has the martial arts of the northern Hu people who are brave and good at archery.

This is how the second great era of glory in Chinese history has come.When we sing praises of this great era, don't forget that the city of Rome was not built in a day, and the city of Chang'an was not built in a day either.