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The six towns became chaotic, and the Northern Wei Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline as the first domino
First of all, this incident is the Six Towns Uprising. The Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), as the first dynasty of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, successively defeated the regimes of Kumoxi, Gaoche, Rouran and Houyan since its establishment, and then unified the north by overthrowing the Great Xia, Northern Yan and Northern Liang, and stood side by side with the Liu Song (later Southern Qi) regime in the south, forming a pattern of confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Because the Northern Wei Dynasty was established by the Xianbei Tuoba clan, Xianbei was another powerful ethnic group that rose in the north after the Xiongnu, and also became the first ethnic minority in Chinese history to unify the north.
In 493 A.D., the Northern Wei Dynasty also had a far-reaching event: the capital was moved to Luoyang, just as 100 years ago, the Northern Wei Dynasty's Taizu Daowu Emperor Tuoba Jue made the country name "Wei", and moved the national capital from Shengle City (now Inner Mongolia and Lingel County) to Pingcheng (now Datong, Shanxi), the Northern Wei Dynasty Xiaowen Emperor moved the capital to Luoyang is also an important part of its Sinicization reform, through the transfer of the political and economic center brought about by the relocation of the capital, the Northern Wei Dynasty strengthened its rule over the Yellow River Valley, and the Central Plains region that was originally withered due to war was revitalized again.
By the time of Emperor Xiaoming, the grandson of Emperor Xiaowen, the number of households in the Northern Wei Dynasty had more than doubled compared with the first year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty, reaching more than 5 million households, or about 35 million people. Since the Wuhu Rebellion, the trend of population decline in the north has been completely reversed, and at the same time, the national strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty has also reached its peak, and its territory is from Liaoxi in the east, to the east of Xinjiang in the west, to the Qinling Mountains and Huainan in the south, and to the Mongolian Plateau in the north.
However, while the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty made the Central Plains region achieve great development, it also laid the root cause for the outbreak of the Six Towns Uprising. The so-called six towns refer to the six military towns set up on the border north of the capital city of Pingcheng (Datong) in the early Northern Wei Dynasty, which are Woye Town, Huaishuo Town, Wuchuan Town, Fuming Town, Rouxuan Town and Huaihuang Town from west to east. Due to the fact that in the early period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Rouran, who occupied the Mongolian steppe, was its main enemy, so the Northern Wei Dynasty deployed its main military forces in the six towns.
Each of the six towns in the north has a town general, and the town will be served by outstanding military talents among the Xianbei nobles, and most of the soldiers in the garrison are the clansmen of the Tuoba Xianbei Alliance and the sons of the powerful landlords in the Central Plains. It can be said that these six towns are a lifeline of the national defense of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and enjoy a high status in the military and political system of the Northern Wei regime.
The murals in the tomb of Xu Xianxiu, the king of Wu'an of the Northern Qi Dynasty, unearthed in the eastern suburbs of Taiyuan, Xu Xianxiu is a military general of the Han nationality, and Mrs. Xu is a Xianbei dignitary.
However, with the unification of the north by the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Rouran regime also declined under the blow of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and could no longer pose a fatal threat to the Northern Wei Dynasty.
As a result, while the military status of the six towns declined, the political status also began to lighten, and the generals of the six towns, no matter how many great military exploits they made, were always excluded from the upstarts and could not step into the high-level decision-making stage of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Moreover, the Xianbei people in the six towns are different from the Sinicized Xianbei who were deeply influenced by the agricultural civilization of the Central Plains, and they still retain the language and customs of the original Xianbei people, which has become the biggest obstacle to the Sinicization reform of Emperor Xiaowen.
After Emperor Xiaowen moved his capital to Luoyang, focused on the Central Plains, and shifted the focus of expansion to the south, the impact on the Northern Wei Dynasty gradually declined. Especially after the death of Emperor Xiaowen, due to the construction of the new capital Luoyang and the exhaustion of the country's financial resources by the southern conquest, the Northern Wei Dynasty was unable to pay the huge military expenditures of the six northern towns, which were unable to achieve self-sufficiency due to natural conditions.
So in the extravagance and corruption of the Xianbei aristocracy who moved to the Central Plains (Gaoyang Wang Yuan Yong was rich and mountains and seas, his residence and garden were as luxurious as the imperial palace, with as many as 6,000 servants, 500 prostitutes, and tens of thousands of dollars for a meal. He and Hejian Wang Yuanchen fought for wealth, and the degree of luxury and luxury exceeded that of Shi Chong and Wang Kai of the Western Jin Dynasty), and the soldiers of the six northern towns were in poverty and hopeless promotion, and the Huns from Woye Town broke the six Han Baling and shouted the first rebellion, and the rest of the towns responded.
In the face of a huge mutiny, the Northern Wei Dynasty had to collude with the Rouran people who originally set up the six towns to defend to suppress together, under the attack from both sides, the uprising of the soldiers of the six towns in the north failed, and more than 200,000 captured soldiers and civilians in the six towns were escorted to Jizhou, Dingzhou, Yingzhou and other places for resettlement, so far the six towns were abandoned. However, the Six Towns Uprising still triggered a domino effect, and uprisings also occurred in Guanlong, Hebei and other places, and the national strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and the regime began to crumble.
King Erzhu Rongqin, the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty changed from real power to puppet operation
In April 530 A.D., after the defeat of Wan Qian Chou Nu and his capture, the Six Towns Rebellion came to an end temporarily, but during this period, a riotous operation of the Northern Wei royal family directly cut off the fate of the dynasty, which was the same as the Eastern Han Dynasty in the late Eastern Han Dynasty General He Jin's secret edict Dong Zhuo entered Beijing to punish the ten permanent servants, which led to Dong Zhuo's dictatorship of the dynasty. At that time, Emperor Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty was young, and the young Empress Dowager Hu Ling was in charge of the government.
On the one hand, the Empress Dowager Hu "personally saw all the opportunities, and made decisions", with a strong ability to make decisions on state affairs, and at the same time strong in martial arts, proficient in archery, and can be regarded as a heroine in the female who can write and martial arts, but on the other hand, the Empress Dowager Hu is also good at scheming, the most ruthless, for the right to murder Emperor Xiaoming's cronies, Emperor Xiaoming secretly ordered the Qihu warlord Er Zhurong who garrisoned Jinyang to enter Luoyang to help him seize power, and the Empress Dowager Hu learned that after the two lovers were provoked to kill Emperor Xiaoming, as a result, Er Zhurong invaded Luoyang to support Emperor Xiaozhuang (Yuan Ziyou), And booby-trapped more than 2,000 people of Empress Dowager Hu and courtiers, known as the "disaster of Heyin" in history.
Since then, the Northern Wei Dynasty was controlled by Er Zhurong, and the Yuan royal family was reduced to a puppet, as the contradictions between the two sides continued to intensify, Er Zhurong was killed by the desperate Xiaozhuang Emperor Yuan Ziyou, but then Emperor Xiaozhuang was also killed by Er Zhurong's cousin Zhu Zhao, and the political situation of the Northern Wei Dynasty fell into turmoil again. Taking advantage of the chaos, Er Zhurong's subordinate, Gao Huan, who was born in Huaishuo Town, one of the six towns in the north, continued to expand his power, and he also raised troops in the name of King Qin to overthrow the Erzhu group, supported Emperor Xiaowu Yuanxiu, and became the actual controller of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Like Er Zhurong's thoughts, intimidated that Luoyang was the seat of the Northern Wei Tuoba clan, Gao Huan also took Jinyang as his old nest. He established the Great Prime Minister's Mansion in Jinyang to remotely control the Northern Wei court. However, Emperor Xiaowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty was unwilling to be Gao Huan's puppet, and after the failure of the attack on Gao Huan, he abandoned the country and fled to Guanzhong Daxing Taiyu Wentai. Gao Huan immediately set up Yuan Shanjian as the emperor and moved the capital to Yecheng (the junction of Linzhang, Hebei and Anyang, Henan), known as the Eastern Wei Dynasty in history. In 550 AD, Gao Huan's second son, Gao Yang, forced Yuan Shanjian Chan to give up the throne, and the Northern Qi Dynasty replaced the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
And into the Guanzhong Emperor Xiaowu, because of the incest with the three cousins, was considered by Yuwentai to be immoral, and then the relationship between the two deteriorated, Emperor Xiaowu was born in one of the six towns in the north of Wuchuan Town Yuwentai poisoned, another Yuan Bao torch as the emperor, the following year after Yuwentai's death, Yuwenhu forced the Western Wei Gong Emperor Chan to give Yu Wenjue, the Northern Zhou replaced the Western Wei. The northern region changed from the confrontation between the Eastern Wei and the Western Wei to the confrontation between the Northern Zhou and the Northern Qi. The Guanlong Group, with the Wuchuan military aristocracy as the core, also began a history of nearly 200 years in China.
Therefore, looking at the process of the fall of the Northern Wei Dynasty from the peak, the chaos of the six towns in the north can be said to have toppled the first domino of the fall of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Er Zhurong's military dispatch to King Luoyang Qin was the beginning of the Northern Wei royal family becoming a puppet. So if you travel to the Northern Wei Dynasty and get the bad card of Emperor Xiaoming, can you reverse the fate of the Northern Wei Dynasty?
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