Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 500 Journey to the West ([-])

After several days of travel, Xu Xiake finally came out of Ziwu Valley. The terrain here is extremely dangerous. He not only sighed: "If Zhuge Kongming had followed Wei Yan's suggestion, the five thousand elites would probably have died in Ziwu Valley for nothing."

The total strength of the Shu Han is only [-], and most of them are farm soldiers, that is, they farm in peacetime and fight in wartime. The real standing soldiers are only [-]. Of the [-] standing soldiers, there are only [-] elites.

So don't think that the [-] elites mentioned by Wei Yan are very few. In fact, the [-] elites are already all the elites of the Shu Han.

The end of Ziwu Valley is the outskirts of Chang'an, and Xu Xiake was stopped by Wei soldiers stationed there.

"Stop, where is it?" At the exit of Ziwu Valley, soldiers from Wei State at the outpost stopped Xu Xiake, thinking that Xu Xiake was a spy of Qi State.

"I am Xu Xiake from Yan State, and I have come back from traveling around the world." Xu Xiake answered truthfully.

In order to be able to enter Wei State safely, Xu Xiake had asked Xiao Luan to write a letter of introduction to Wei State in advance, declaring that he was only here for a tour and had no malicious intentions.

Although Qi and Wei are hostile countries, it is not enough to kill a wanderer who does not affect the relationship of interests.

In order to show his respect for talents, Xiao Luan sent a lot of gold and silver treasures to the state of Wei, telling them not to embarrass Xu Xiake. The emperor Tuo Bahong of the state of Wei also ordered the generals in Chang'an to let Xu Xiake go.

Four years ago, Empress Dowager Feng, who led Wei Guo to recuperate, carry out Sinicization reforms, and ease the conflict between Hu and Han, passed away.

When Xu Xiake showed the badge given by Xiao Luan, one of the leading military officers of the Wei State immediately said respectfully: "It turns out that Mr. Xu has long heard that you have traveled around the world, and our emperor is also very interested in a talent like you. You go to the capital to talk."

"Thank you." Xu Xiake was very humble, and returned the salute to the Wei officer.

Immediately, Xu Xiake first went to Chang'an to rest. After all, the road in Ziwu Valley was not easy to walk, and he was also very tired.

During these days of rest in Chang'an, he was not idle, and carefully observed the customs and customs of Chang'an in the state of Wei.

One day, when he was wandering in Chang'an's Fangshi, he found a girl who bought horses in the east market, saddles in the west market, bridles in the south market, and long whips in the north market. Why are there so many weapons and equipment used to kill the enemy?
Is it possible that a woman disguises herself as a man and joins the army for her father?
Xu Xiake thought in his heart, after all, Wei State is an equal land system plus a government military system, and those people who have divided the land are government soldiers, and they want to serve as soldiers for the court for free. If there is no male in the family, don’t they have to disguise themselves as men? , which can be inferred from the system.

Soon after, he left Chang'an and went all the way to Pingcheng, the capital of Wei State.

But when he just arrived in Pingcheng, he was told that Emperor Tuoba Hong had gone south with an army of 30 to conquer Jin, and he might have arrived in Luoyang by now.

So he waited for the emperor to return to the capital in Pingcheng. By the way, he inspected the capital near the grassland to see the customs of the Xianbei people.

However, more than three months later, a shocking news came.

Emperor Tuoba Hong's southern expedition to the Jin State was defeated by Sima Xiu, the Supreme Emperor of the Jin State. Tuoba Hong had to withdraw his troops and return to Luoyang, and set up his capital in Luoyang. The reason was that Luoyang was closer and the southern expedition was more convenient for revenge. There is less resistance to Sinicization reform.

The 51-year-old Sima Xiu, who was growing stronger and stronger, became famous in the first battle with 20 breaking through [-]. However, he also fell ill in this battle and died of illness half a month later.

After Sima Xiu died of illness, Emperor Liu Jing still failed to get the chance to be in charge of the government, and the power of the government was in the hands of the Empress Dowager Liu Chuyu.

After the death of a supreme emperor, another empress dowager, the emperor Liu Jing of the Jin Kingdom has never had real power since he ascended the throne. He was depressed all day long, and died of depression a few days later.

Sima Bin, the son of Liu Jing, came to the throne, and the empress dowager Liu Chuyu was promoted to the empress dowager. Since the young emperor Sima Bin was only five years old, the empress dowager Liu Chuyu was in charge of the court and listened to the government behind the curtain.

Empress Dowager Feng left to the north, and Empress Dowager Liu came to the south.

After the news that Emperor Tuobahong chose Luoyang as his capital reached Pingcheng, the Xianbei nobles in Pingcheng were excited and immediately rebelled.

Xu Xiake had no choice but to stay in the city, not daring to leave the city for fear of being killed by the rebels, so he could only wait for the end of the war before going to meet the victors of the war.

A few months later, Emperor Tuobahong's anti-rebellion army arrived in Pingcheng, and with the help of the Han family, they defeated the Xianbei nobles who launched the rebellion.

The emperor of the Xianbei people actually united with the Han family to attack the Xianbei nobles. The development of the situation has reached such a point.

"This Great Wei, is it the Great Wei of their Han people, or the Great Wei of our Xianbei people?"

More and more Xianbei people are asking this question in their hearts, why did their emperor take the lead in rebellion?

Xu Xiake thought this was a very interesting thing, so he also wrote about Tuoba Hong in "Journey to the West".

Xu Xiake was protected by the soldiers of the State of Wei and headed to Luoyang. On the way, he heard about the radical reforms carried out by Emperor Tuobahong in the past few months.

Position Luoyang Chinese as the national language of Wei, and prohibit Xianbei people from speaking Xianbei.

Following the example of the Han regime, salaries were distributed to officials, and officials were prohibited from relying on plundering the people to make up for their families.

It is forbidden to wear the traditional clothes of the Xianbei people, and only Han people are allowed to wear them.

All Xianbei people must be changed to Han people's names, Xianbei people are encouraged to intermarry with Han people, and the offspring of Xianbei people and Han people are all regarded as Han people.

The establishment of the caste system of aristocratic families and the actualization of Cui Hao's original proposal, the high-level Xianbei nobles and the Han family will join forces to rule the lower-level Han people and the lower-level Xianbei people. In the future, they will only engage in class oppression, not ethnic oppression.

The emperor changed the Han surname to "Yuan". The reason why he changed the surname to "Yuan" is because "Yuan" has the meaning of "initial", "origin" and "first" in Chinese. Using "Yuan" as a surname means that, Our caste is the most honorable in the future.

Tuobahong's reforms made the whole Wei Dynasty go crazy in an instant, and the Han family all praised Yuanhong as an emperor through the ages and a wise king forever!
But the middle and low-level nobles of Xianbei and the lower-level Xianbei people scolded Tuo Bahong for being a tyrant through the ages and a foolish king forever!
The same person, in two different groups, can get completely opposite evaluations.

The Han families in the north have been waiting for this day for too long, and they finally have a monarch they are willing to serve.

The vast majority of Xianbei people feel that they have been deceived. We help you conquer the north and south, expand the territory, and you, the dog emperor, are not only ungrateful, but also kill the donkey and expel us from the ruling class ranks, hateful!
As for Xu Xiake's evaluation of what happened in just a few months, his evaluation is very brief, but very enlightening, that is:

"Northern Dynasty, already Huaxia!"

Just one sentence, a few words, showed Xu Xiake's attitude, and also explained the core of this matter.

(End of this chapter)