Chapter 371: The Rise and Fall of Tuoba Dai Country
Murong Nan nodded: "Yes, the Tuoba tribe participated, but they did not join the princes, and only did the job of guarding the fire. After all, compared with the various princes in the Central Plains, the Tuoba tribe at that time
The tribe is still too weak to even have a vassal."
"Later, during the Warring States Period in your Central Plains, the Tuoba clan on the grassland was just a member of the Donghu alliance in the east. When the Xiongnu rose, they defeated the Donghu, while the Tuoba clan fled eastward and entered the Daxianbei Mountains.
From then on, the Huns, the overlords of the grassland, submitted to them and regularly paid tribute to them with cattle, sheep, war horses and women.”
"Oh, by the way, that Han general Li Ling from your Han Dynasty surrendered to the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu Chanyu married him a woman from the Tuoba clan as his wife. She was probably a tribute from the Tuoba tribe."
Liu Yu smiled and said: "I have heard about this too. Fortunately, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought back against the Huns. The Hundred Years of Han-Hungarian War finally defeated the Huns. Otherwise, how could there have been the rise of Xianbei?"
Murong Nan nodded: "Yes, but during the melee between the Five Chanyus of the Later Han Dynasty, the Tuoba tribe was still hiding in the deep mountains and old forests of the Xianbei Mountains. At this time, the Donghu tribe that had been dispersed gradually emerged from the forests of Baishan and Heishui.
When they came out, there was a powerful tribal leader named Tan Shihuai who unified all tribes in the grassland. He used the name Xianbei as the collective name for his tribe to distinguish him from the Xiongnu."
Liu Yu frowned: "This Xianbei is what we Han people call us. Xianzhe means widow, humble, and lowly. It means that Xianbei people are few in number and their race is low. It is not a good name."
Murong Nan sneered and said: "You Central Plains Han people regard yourselves as the proud sons of heaven. There are barbarians everywhere. Even the names given to them are all kinds of despicable names. Xianbei and Xiongnu are not good words. Forget it, don't mention it.
This. Tan Shihuai was a hero of his generation. He defeated the Eastern Han army one after another and was so powerful that all the tribes in the grasslands who did not move westward with the Xiongnu headquarters all called themselves Xianbei. Even the former Xiongnu Zuoxian King
The descendants of the Yuwen tribe also changed their name to Xianbei people."
Liu Yu softly said "Oh": "The Yuwen tribe turned out to be Hun nobles?"
Murong Nan nodded: "Yes, they are the descendants of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu and Nan Chanyu. Therefore, during the Tanshihuai period, they were granted the title of Lord of the East and commanded Liaodong. At that time, our Murong tribe was also their subordinates.
A small tribe in China did not become popular. As for the Tuoba tribe, it was around this time that they left the Xianbei Mountains and went to the grasslands of Hulunbuir to become a nomadic tribe again."
"In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yuwen tribe had a powerful leader named Yuwen Mona. He moved from the Yinshan area with twelve subordinate tribes to the western Liaoning area. His subordinates persuaded him to call him the king of heaven, and he was also the highest leader among us Hu people.
He was worried that the Han people would send troops to attack, so he only used the word "Heavenly King" in Xianbei language, which was transliterated as Yuwen. This is the origin of the Yuwen tribe."
Liu Yu said with a smile: "It seems that Yuwen and your Murong tribe are named Murong because they are closely related to each other."
Murong Nan smiled slightly: "Yes, because after Tan Shihuai's death, the grassland became ownerless again. Although each tribe called themselves Xianbei people, there was no unified core tribe that could command everyone. The Yuwen Department and our Murong family started from
Liao land, and the Tuoba tribe came out of the Xianbei Mountains. Their leader Tuoba Mao, after more than ten generations, finally formed a climate in Mobei and became the overlord outside the Great Wall."
"Our Murong family has gone through many years of struggle, defeated the Yuwen clan, and unified Liaodong, while the Tuoba clan took advantage of the Eight Kings Rebellion. Liu Kun, the last loyal minister of the Jin Dynasty, defended Jinyang and invited Xianbei soldiers and horses many times.
They came to help defend, and they took the opportunity to expand their power from Mobei to Monan, becoming a powerful country beyond the Great Wall with a territory thousands of miles away and controlling hundreds of thousands of people. And they also took the name of Jianguo, and they can be regarded as a force in the world."
"But the Tuoba family never waited for the good opportunity to take control of the Central Plains like our Murong family. On the contrary, they fought for power and had constant vendettas among themselves. For example, the former leader of the Dai Kingdom, Tuoba Shi Yijian, successively gave birth to his subordinates
The general Chang Sun Jin and his son Tuoba Yanjun assassinated him, and the country also fell into division and disputes, so Qin took the opportunity to send troops to destroy it."
Liu Yuqi said: "It is understandable to say that the general assassinated the lord and wanted to usurp the throne, but what about this son killing his father?"
Murong Nan said seriously: "That Lord Tuoba Yan is the eldest son of a concubine and has not inherited the power of the country, but he is a brave man and has made many military exploits, so he feels unfair. The person who instigated him to rebel and kill his father is his cousin Tuoba Yan.
Bajin."
"Back then, Tuoba Shiyi was the crown prince and eldest son of the Dai Kingdom. However, because the Dai Kingdom was weak and the Shizhao Empire in the Central Plains was powerful, he went to the Zhao Kingdom as a hostage. His father, the previous king, died violently, and he was elected by all the ministers in the country.
His younger brother Tuoba Gu was the monarch, but Tuoba Gu welcomed Tuoba Shi Yijian back from Zhao and gave the monarch to his brother. Tuoba Shi Yijian was so moved that he publicly vowed to give half of his kingdom to him in the future.
The land will be distributed to Tuobagu's sons."
"Decades have passed, and Tuoba Gu has been dead for many years, but Tuoba Shi Yijian did not return half of the land to his son Tuoba Jin as promised back then, so this man harbored resentment and deliberately
Get close to Tuoba Yanjun, who also has grievances, and instigate him to rebel."
"Tuoba Yanjun was born to Tuoba Shi Yijian when he was a hostage in Zhao State and his maidservant. He was of low status, but he was the eldest son of a concubine. Later, after Tuoba Shi Yijian came back from Zhao State, I, Murong, became powerful and took over.
In the Central Plains, Tuoba Shi Yijian proposed to me, Dayan, and married the Murong clan princess as his wife, and gave birth to several sons. Tuoba Jin then instigated, saying that Tuoba Shi Yijian wanted to make Princess Murong's son happy
When he ascended the throne, he planned to get rid of Tuoba Yanjun, but Tuoba Yanjun was defeated when he faced the Qin army. He was afraid of being held accountable, so he simply killed his father and his brother."
"Since then, there has been civil strife in the dynasty. All the tribes are no longer willing to listen to Tuoba Yanjun, the murderer of his father, and have rebelled against the dynasty and returned to Qin. The Qin army, led by Liu Weichen, the leader of the Tiefu tribe of the Xiongnu who was defeated by the Tuoba clan, led the army with a large army.
Attack Dai, destroy them in one fell swoop, capture Tuoba Yanjun and Tuoba Jin, and send them to Chang'an to be broken into chariots and executed, in order to warn the world about the fate of those who kill kings and murder fathers."
Liu Yu laughed and breathed a long sigh of relief: "What a wonderful story. Tuoba Yanjun really deserves his punishment. It's a pity that more than ten generations of Daiguo people and hundreds of years of struggle were ruined by this idiot. By the way."
, you Murong family united with the Yao family and the Qiang people, didn’t you want to find the descendants of the Tuoba family to restore the country together?”