Four hundred years of agitation: Murong Yong took over successive coups d'état in Western Yan, and Former Qin's internal strife was barely maintained

This article is the 194th in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

In October of the tenth year of Taiyuan (385 CE), seeing murong Chui's career flourishing, Murong Chong also began to stir up trouble, and sent Shangshu Ling Gao Gai to lead 50,000 soldiers to attack Later Qin.

Yao Cang showed no weakness and led his troops to meet the attack, and the two sides fought a great battle south of Xinping. As a result, Gao Gai was defeated and surrendered to Later Qin, and Murong Chong could be said to have lost his wife and folded his troops.

A few months earlier, Yang Ding had been captured by Murong Chong, and Gao Gai spared his talents and adopted him as a son. When Gao Gai failed, Yang Ding fled to Longyou and gathered the soldiers from the past.

Although Yang Ding was the son-in-law of Gong Jian and the brother-in-law of Gong Pi, he was also the great-grandson of Yang Nan and was once a warlord on the divided side. Now that the world was in chaos, Yang Ding could not willingly bend to the former Qin, and also wanted to restore the glory of his ancestors.

Therefore, Yang Ding moved the seat of government to Licheng, placed the reserve materials in Baiqing, claimed to be the general of Long Jun and the Duke of Qiuchi, and sent emissaries to the Eastern Jin Dynasty to claim the title of domain.

The Eastern Jin court smiled happily and temporarily granted him yang Ding's self-proclaimed title. Subsequently, Yang Ding seized the territories of Tianshui and Luoyang, and proclaimed himself the Assassin of Qinzhou and the King of Longxi.

At this point, the Qiuchi state was revived, and Yang Ding also became the founder of the houqiuchi state.

The failure of the rebellion against Later Qin not only caused Heavy Losses to Western Yan, but also swept Murong Chong's majesty, and the contradictions within Western Yan intensified, which triggered a series of turmoil.

After Murong Chong occupied Chang'an, he first liked Chang'an's victory, and second, he was afraid of Murong Chui's strength and did not dare to return to the east, so he urged farming, built palaces, and planned to live in peace for a long time.

However, the Xianbei people were bent on returning to the yan homeland and held a grudge against Murong Chong.

In February of the eleventh year of Taiyuan (386 CE), the left general Han Yan, in line with the wishes of the people, suddenly raised an army to kill Murong Chong, and Murong Chong's general Duan was made the King of Western Yan.

In March, Murong Heng and Murong Yong raided Duan Sui, killed him, and made Murong Heng's son Murong Yan the Prince of Yan, leading more than 400,000 Xianbei men and women to leave Chang'an and return to the east.

However, halfway down the road, regeneration changes. Murong Heng's younger brother Murong Tao (慕容韬) tricked Murong Yan into killing him at Linjin, and Murong Heng was furious and left Murong Tao behind.

Murong Yong and the Wuwei general Diao Yun led his soldiers to attack Murong Tao, but Murong Tao was defeated and fled to Murong Heng's camp, where Murong Heng made Murong Chong's son Murong Yao emperor.

However, the Western Yan soldiers did not recognize Murong Yao, who was only a few years old, and all defected to Murong Yong, who captured Murong Yao, killed him, and made Murong Hong's son Murong Zhong emperor.

Murong Zhong returned the favor with a peach, made Murong Yong a lieutenant, temporarily appointed Shangshu Ling, and was given the title of Duke of Hedong. Murong Yong enforced a loose and peaceful decree, and the Xianbei people temporarily settled down.

When the party arrived at Wenxi, they heard that Murong Chui had already claimed the title of emperor, and Murong Zhong and Murong Yong did not dare to continue to advance and built Yanxi City to live.

In June, another coup d'état occurred in Western Yan, with Diao Yun and others killing Murong Zhong, and murong Yong being elected as an envoy, the governor of the capital, the military forces of China and foreign countries, the generals, Da Danyu, Yong, Qin, Liang, Liang, Liang, Lu Shangshi, and the King of Hedong, and made Murong Chui a vassal.

As mentioned earlier, after Fei Pi was proclaimed emperor in Jinyang, Former Qin's former ministers responded one after another and agreed to join him in a crusade against Yao Cang. However, before they could act, the internal fight had already started.

In the first month of the eleventh year of taiyuan (386 AD), King Guang of Yizhou suddenly attacked Mu Maoxing of Hezhou at Yuhan, and Mao Xing sent the jianjie general Wei Ping to lead more than 1,700 tribesmen to attack Wang Guang at night, and was defeated.

In February, Wang Guang's brother Wang Mu of Qin prefecture sent troops to help Wang Guang, and Mao Xing defended himself around the city.

In April, Mao Xing suddenly went out of the city to attack Wang Guang, defeating him, and Wang Guang fled to Qinzhou. Pilan, a Xianbei man in Longxi, captured Wang Guang and sent him to Later Qin.

After defeating Wang Guang, Mao Xing wanted to go to Shangyi to attack Wang Tong, and the Qi people of Fenghan hated the war, killed Mao Xing together, elected Wei Ping as the assassin of Hezhou, and sent emissaries to ask for instructions from Xiang Pi.

After Zhi Pi got the report, he was speechless, but at this point, he could only take Wei Ping as the general of the Fu Army and the assassin of Hezhou, and by the way, Lü Guang as the general of the car and the pastor of Liangzhou.

As a result, all the messengers who conveyed the appointment fell into the hands of Later Qin and could not be delivered at all.

In June, Gong Pi made Wang Yong the Governor of Chinese and foreign military forces, Situ, and Lu Shang Shu as the left chancellor, Tai Wei and Donghai Wang Qiang as the Grand Sima Commandery, Sikong Zhang Oysters as the Tai Wei, Shang Shu Ling Xu Yi as sikong, and Si Li Lieutenant Wang Teng as the grand general of the hussars and Yi Tongsan division.

Therefore, Wang Yong passed on the princes, prefectures, counties, lords, and Hao clans in various places, and ordered them to lead the tribes under their command for a period of time in early October, at Linjin to join the Lingpi.

At the call of Wang Yong, Jiang Yan of Tianshui, Kou Ming of Feng Yi, Wang Zhao of Hedong, Zhang Yan of Xinping, Du Min of Jingzhao, Ma Lang of Fufeng, and Wang Min, the general of Jianzhong and the muguan of Gaoping, all of whom had tens of thousands of soldiers, sent emissaries to Report to Former Qin, and all of them were awarded the posts of general and county sheriff and given the title of marquis.

The champion general Deng Jing (son of Deng Qiang) also raised a force of 5,000 men in Pengchi, echoing Dou Chong head-to-tail, threatening to jointly attack Later Qin, and Qiu Pi made Deng Jing the capital Zhaoyin.

Just then, a small episode occurred in Yuhan, and an unexpected tyrant appeared.

Although Wei Ping was elected as the Assassin of Hezhou, the Zhongyi clan of Wuhan thought that he was too old to accomplish his deeds, wanted to depose him, and feared the strength of his clan, and did not decide for many days.

Qiren Qingqing stepped forward and said to the generals, "Important matters should be decided in time, otherwise there will be changes." All you have to do is ask Wei Ping to call a party and watch my actions. ”

At the seventh banquet in the beginning of July, Xiao Qing pulled out his sword and said to the crowd: "If there is chaos today, we are united in solidarity, and we cannot accomplish great things without a wise monarch." Duke Wei was old, and he should let Xian, Di Dao chang, although he was a distant relative of the royal family, but he had lofty ambitions and was slightly wise, and he should be made the leader of the group in order to rush to the big car. If the kings disagree, speak out now. ”

Looking at the murderous Qingqing, the crowd did not dare to disobey, and no one dared to look up. Therefore, he elected Zhi Deng as an envoy, the governor of longyou, the general of Fujun, and the duke of Yong, He'erzhou, and Liuyang.

Briefly introduce the next Tonden, which is the last cruel person of the Zhi clan.

His father, Gong Chang (苻敞), served as a lieutenant Sima (太尉司馬), a Taishou (陇東太守), and a jianjie general during the reign of Gong Jian (苻健), and was later killed by Gong Sheng (苻生).

From an early age, Gong Deng was brave and arrogant, rough and vicious, and he was not surprised by him. After growing up, he read a lot of books and became respectful and loyal, but he was still a warrior in his bones.

After Zhi Deng took control of the overall situation of Yuhan, he immediately led 50,000 soldiers to the east of Long County, attacked Nan'an, Kezhi, and then sent emissaries to request instructions from Zhi Pi.

In August, Gong Pi made Gong Deng the Grand General of the Expedition to the West, kaifu Yi Tongsan division, the king of Nan'an, the governor of Zhijie, the governor of the prefecture, all of whom were formally appointed according to his self-designation. With Xu Yi as his right chancellor, he left Wang Tengzhen to guard Jinyang, and the right servant Yang Fushu to guard Huguan, personally leading 40,000 soldiers to march to Pingyang.

No one expected that when He Pi went south to Pingyang, he actually embarked on a road of no return. What was even more surprising was that the person who killed him was not Yao Cang, but Murong Yong.