Text: Old Werther (author original authorization)
The Gongsun clan of Liaodong, since the time of Dong Zhuo, this veteran warlord has been independent of the world, wandering among the central plains powers, becoming a rather powerful separatist force. After the death of the "head of the family" Gongsun Du and Gongsun Kang, because Gongsun Kang's two sons were not yet minors, the position of lord was passed to Gongsun Kang's younger brother Gongsun Gong. After this person ascended to the throne, he was made a cheqi general by Emperor Wen of Wei, and his title was changed from Marquis of Yongning Township to Marquis of Pingguo, becoming native to Liaodong, because Pingguo County was located in Liaodong County (present-day Gaizhou, Liaoning). Soon after Gongsun Gong ascended the throne, he also sent his eldest nephew Gongsun Huang to Luoyang to serve as an internal servant at the side of Emperor Wen of Wei, so that a hostage was placed within the Cao regime to show his loyalty.
After Gongsun Gong ascended to the throne, Liaodong also bid farewell to an old friend, the famous hermit Guan Ning (Zi You'an). Earlier, when Guan Ning came to Liaodong for refuge, the asylum seekers generally stayed in the southern part of the county (around present-day Dalian), only Guan Ning went north to the valley in the northern part of Liaodong County (probably in the area of present-day Benxi in Liaoyang), and stayed until Cao Cao pacified the Yuan clan, and after the Central Plains were slightly settled, many people chose to return to their hometown, but Guan Ning and his friend Wang Lie remained in Liaodong, during which the imperial court called several times, and he did not go to his order (on the one hand, Guan Ning held the festival by himself, on the other hand, because Gongsun Kang held several summons). In the fourth year of the reign of Cao Wei (223), Situ Huaxin once again recommended Guan Ning to Emperor Wen of Wei, who also saw the hidden discord between his uncle and nephew in Liaodong, and that wang Lie had already taken up his post in Luoyang at this time, and Wang Lie had died in Liaodong, so he decided to answer the call, but he did not go directly to Luoyang, but only took his family and subordinates across the sea and returned to his hometown of Zhuxu (present-day Anqiu, Shandong). Before leaving, Gongsun Gong also sent clothes and property to the southern suburbs of Xiangping, but Guan Ning did not accept it, and also sealed and returned all the property donated by Gongsun Du and Gongsun Kang's father and son.
By the way, guan Ningzhi Huaxin was recommended, and he also had an old relationship with Guan Ning, he had been with Guan Ning in the vegetable garden to plant vegetables, when the two saw a small piece of gold on the ground, Guan Ning saw it, but did not pay attention to it, lifted the hoe to go, just like hoeing off the tiles and stones on the vegetable ground, and Hua Xin picked up the gold, he thought about it for a while, and finally threw it out. Another time, Guan Ning and Hua Xin were sitting on the same seat reading, when a high-ranking official and nobleman passed by the door by car, Guan Ning turned a blind eye and read as usual, while Hua Xin put down the book and ran out to watch. Guan Ning saw that Hua Xin was like this, so he cut open the mat, separated the seats, and said to Hua Xin, "You are not my friend." This is the allusion to "Guan Ning cutting the mat".
Although Guan Ning was slightly harsh on his friends, Hua Xin still had to recommend Guan Ning to the imperial court, which also showed the depth of their friendship. After Guan Ning returned to his hometown, he also repeatedly refused to be summoned by the imperial court, and after Emperor Wei Ming ascended to the throne, Emperor Wei Ming issued an edict to ask Shi Chengxi of Qingzhou about the situation, and Cheng Xi sent people to investigate and replied: "Guan Ning has a clan member named Guan Gong, who is now a state official, and Guan Ning is a neighbor, and the subject often lets him listen to the news. Guan Gong said: "Guan Ning often wears a black hat and a cloth dress, which varies with the season or is single or clamped, and can walk in and out of the inner and outer courtyards with a cane without support. The sacrifices throughout the year are always strongly supported by themselves, changing clothes, wearing coarse silk cotton scarves, wearing all the white cloth single clothes of the past in Liaodong, personally arranging food offerings, and kneeling in salute. Guan Ning lost his mother when he was young, did not remember her appearance, and often deliberately added wine and tears. In addition, his house is seventy or eighty steps away from the pool, and in the summer, he washes his hands and feet in the water and walks in the garden. Therefore, the subordinate speculated that Guan Ning was humble and humble. The black hat that Guan Ning brought with himself also had the reputation of "Liaodong Hat", although this hat was only worn after he returned to his hometown.
Moreover, Guan Ning had already noticed that Gongsun Gong gongsun Yuan's uncle and nephew had a gap. In addition, Gongsun Gong also had a big problem, that is, he had the disease of "yin dissipation", and he became an eunuch and was still weak, so if this was the case, could he command the sea to be strong? Therefore, not long after, in the second year of Cao Wei Taihe (228), he was expelled from power by his nephew under the orthodox name of his father Gongsun Kang and put into prison. This eldest nephew was ambitious and bent on doing something like a snake, but unfortunately he ended up ruining his family and the lives of many innocent people.
At the beginning of Gongsun Yuan's ascension to the throne, it aroused the vigilance of the Cao Wei government, and Liu Ye wrote to Emperor Ming of Wei, believing that the Gongsun clan had a long way to go and had mountains and seas as obstacles, and now that they had gone through three generations and won the hearts of the people in the local area, if they could not be eliminated now, I was afraid that there would be disasters in the future. At the same time, Gongsun Yuan's older brother Gongsun Huang, who was a hostage in Luoyang, also expected that his brother would rebel in the future, hoping that the imperial court would cut him off. However, Emperor Wei Ming did not listen, and Since Gongsun Yuan was still honest when he first ascended the throne, Emperor Wei Ming recognized Gongsun Yuan's status and worshiped him as a general of Yang Lie and a Taishou of Liaodong. However, not long after, Gongsun Yuan sent people to the sea to contact Sun Quan, who had just been proclaimed emperor, and also said that after saying that the State of Wei could not treat the heroes kindly, he was ready to plot against his own land, so he was willing to emulate the former Chen Ping and Geng Quan and serve His Majesty as a precursor. However, this matter still missed the wind, so it was not long before the Cao Wei court issued an official document to Liaodong and other counties, criticizing Sun Quan's previous behavior of pretending to bend the knee to the imperial court and hide evil intentions, hoping that the officials and people in Liaodong and other places could change from evil to righteousness and regain their hearts toward the imperial court. But in fact, Gongsun Yuan is still playing his duplicitous game.
In the sixth year of Cao Wei Taihe (Wu Jiahe's first year, 232 AD), the Cao Wei court was a little unaccustomed to Gongsun Yuan's duplicitous methods, so he ordered Runan Taishou Tian Yu to go to sea from Qingzhou, and Youzhou Assassin Shi Wang Xiong sent troops from land to attack Liaodong, resulting in the failure of both large armies. In itself, before this crusade, there were also people within Cao Wei who opposed it, and Jiang Ji believed that if the crusade failed, he would be driven to become a thief and should first eliminate the great harm (Shu and Wu); the Gongsun clan "entrusted the hostages for generations, and there was no shortage of job tributes", even if it was successful, it would not gain much, and if it failed, it would be resentful and untrustworthy. At the same time, Cao Zhi, who was sullen and unhappy in the local area, also believed that the gains were not worth the losses, and shu Wu was by his side. King Chen, who was only eight buckets high, also adhered to the consistent Confucian idea of moral rule, believing that it was necessary to lightly dispense with pu fu, and then make the virtuous generals and make themselves peaceful. Earlier in the same year, after Sun Quan sent a group of people overseas to capture thousands of natives and returned as slaves, he sent the general Zhou He and the lieutenant Pei Qian to go north with an envoy to contact Gongsun Yuan, mainly to obtain the scarce horse industry resources of the Wu state. However, at this time, Yu Tuan, a former Wu state minister who was exiled to Jiaozhou, believed that the Liaodong Road was far away, and sending people there to ask for horses would not benefit, but would only deplete manpower and financial resources; however, Yu Tuan wanted to advise but did not dare, and asked Jiaozhou to assassinate Shi LüDai to send a message, but Lü Dai refused. Moreover, unfortunately, the mission encountered wind and waves on the way back, and was intercepted by Cao Wei when it was sheltered from the wind at the easternmost tip of the Shandong Peninsula, and all the members of the mission were beheaded by the Wei general Tian Yu. Afterwards, Sun Quan regretted it and wanted to recall Yu Feng, but Yu Tuan had already died.
Although neither Wei nor Wu gained much benefit from this twist and turn, it also made the ambitions of the Gongsun clan of Liaodong grow larger and larger, and they had embarked on the road of "wanting to cross the river with a wine jug".
Gongsun Yuan first sent Su Shu and Sun Zong to claim the title of vassal to Sun Quan and offer mink horses. After Sun Quan was trusted, he secreted a large amount of hormones in his body, and he was still not dead to the "ally" of the Gongsun clan, and sent Taichang Zhang Mi, Jin Wu Xu Yan, and the general He Da to lead tens of thousands of troops, jinbao treasures, and nine tin reserves, to Liaodong to crown him as the King of Yan, and the titles of Tuoyou and Qing'er Prefecture Seventeen Counties and Seventy Counties. However, Wu Guoqun still advised Sun Quan not to be too favored, after all, this "ally" was too far away to rely on. Zhang Zhao, the elder of Eastern Wu, even said that Gongsun Yuan was only afraid of Wei's surrender, and if he re-surrendered to Wei one day, His Majesty would make fun of the world, causing Sun Quan to almost move the knife with Sun Ce's orphan old minister. However, the group of ministers finally failed to move, and Sun Quan's emissaries once again set out on the road. Sure enough, this time Gongsun Yuan exposed his two-faced nature, first killing the envoys holding the documents, and then sending troops to attack the other members of the mission that landed at Dajin (near present-day Lushun). Afterwards, Gongsun Yuan passed all the first ranks to the Wei court, and also used this to obtain the official positions and titles of Grand Sima (大司馬), the Duke of Lelang (樂浪公), and Zhijie (持節), which was the seventh year of Wei Taihe (233 AD). This time, the envoys sent by the Wei court also tasted a little of Gongsun Yuan's cattiness, because the ji official sent by Gongsun Yuan to Luoyang earlier (the small official in charge of the prefecture and county and in charge of the shang ji) had reported: "There is a man named Zuo Junbo in the mission, who is infinitely powerful and is not an ordinary person. Gongsun Yuan was greatly frightened, so he led the soldiers to surround the hotel where the emissary lived, and then came out to meet the emissary, and several times made evil remarks to the accompanying domestic guests, and after the emissary returned to Luoyang, he explained the matter to Emperor Ming. The resentment of the Cao Wei court towards Gongsun Liaodong also began to increase, and Gongsun Yuan also went from letting Wei and Wu shuangshuang suffer damage to a situation that made Wei and Wu both dislike.
Immediately after, the two major rivals of the State of Wei, Zhuge Liang (died 234) and the Xianbei Lord Kebineng (died in 235), both left the world, Gongsun Yuan felt that it should also be slightly restrained, and in the fourth year of Qinglong (236), the Cao Wei court accepted the SuShen clan to offer the ya (The Su Shen clan was a nomadic people living in the Ussuri River and Heilongjiang River valleys), 80% of which was not offered by the Sushen people, but Gongsun Yuan found a few yuanyi savages to join in the fun, setting off emperor Wei's saints. It is comparable to the sages of the martial king Zhou formula in the past. But this did not impress Emperor Wei's heart, and in the same year, Sima Yi, the grand lieutenant of Cao Wei, also offered a white deer, which was also Xiangrui, and compared Xiangrui from afar. Therefore, Emperor Ming of Wei made up his mind to prepare for a crusade against Gongsun Yuan, and made the former Jingzhou Assassin Qiu Qiu Jianshi the Assassin of Youzhou, but this land crusade failed again.
In July of the following year, Gongsun Yuan did not stop, simply proclaimed himself the King of Yan, changed his name to Yuan Shaohan (obviously to compete with Cao Wei for the orthodoxy of the Continuation of the Han Dynasty), and set up a hundred officials of civil and military affairs to compete with Cao Wei. At the same time, he also issued a seal to the Xianbei chieftain and instigated the Xianbei people to harass the Central Plains. Gongsun Yuan's subordinate Shi Guoxin (史郭昕) and Liu Pu (柳浦), who had joined the army, were also instructed by Shangfeng to give the imperial court a watch and praise their own lord. At the same time, these private courtiers of the Gongsun clan also showed a little bit of the "Yan independence" ideology that emerged after many years of service: "Those who are known to the family such as ministers are the lords of the second generation, and the third generation is the king." The subjects were born in the land of the desolate race, out of the Gui Dou, there was no great aid to Wei, and the world was subordinate to the Gongsun clan, and the retribution and gift of life and gifts lay in the power of death. "But this obviously exposed the heart, I am afraid that I am going to attract some soldiers."
The following year (238, the second year of Cao Wei's reign), Cao Wei did indeed send Sima Yi to conquest Liaodong, and the scheming Sima Yi had already asserted gongsun's strategy: if Gongsun Yuan abandoned the city and left, it would be the best strategy; if he relied on the terrain of Liaodong to resist the crusading army, it would be the middle strategy; if he would only stick to Xiangping, it would be the next strategy. After Sima Yi set out from Luoyang, he passed through his hometown of Wen County, Hanoi (present-day Wen County, Henan), where he accepted the hospitality of his father and elder in his hometown, and also gave him a poem "Conquest of Liaodong", which also expressed his willingness to retire in Wuyang, a fiefdom once he succeeded, but the later "Tsuka Tiger" still wanted to enter the human world to eat people.
Before the arrival of the Wei army, in order to save the soldiers, Gongsun Yuan once again declared himself a vassal to Sun Quan. Sun Quan still remembered the last time Gongsun Yuan sent someone to take Wu Fang's envoys to Cao Wei to ask for a reward, and he had to refuse. However, Wu Chenyang advised, "No, we might as well send some strange soldiers to find out, if the Wei army fails, we are interesting enough, if the Wei side wins, we will go to rob and get some benefits." At the same time, Emperor Ming of Wei was also concerned about whether Sun Quan would be a soldier, and the Wei general Jiang Ji replied that Sun Quan was short-sighted and too far away from Liaodong, and at most he would send a few people to rob something, so there was no need to worry. When Sima Yi arrived at the front line, he found that what Gongsun Yuan had executed was exactly the strategy he had expected. At that time, Gongsun Yuan sent the generals Beiyan and Yang Zuo to lead tens of thousands of troops, relying on the favorable terrain of the Liao River, to build a fortified fort around Liao tunnel County (or Liaojun County, northwest of present-day Haicheng, Liaoning) to prepare to defend against the Wei army's attack. However, before Sima Yi led his army to arrive, Cao Wei also won two allies, one was Gongsun's sworn enemy Goguryeo, and earlier Goguryeo also beheaded the emissaries sent by Sun Wu and passed them on to Wei Ting; the second was one of the leaders of the Xianbei people, Mo Hubao, probably because Mo Huba was not rewarded by the Gongsun clan and was dissatisfied, so he attached himself to Cao Wei, and Mo Hubao's troops came to follow Sima Yi along the northern foothills of the Lu Mountains. After Sima Yi's army arrived on the battlefield, it also ushered in new allies: Yuan Xi to Liaodong brought the right Beiping Karasuma Shan Yu Kou Lou Dun, the Governor of Liaoxi Karasuma, Wang Huliu, and others, leading more than 5,000 people to surrender. Unfortunately, this small profit is not enough to change the war situation, and can only be regarded as clearing some obstacles for Sima Yi next year. However, probably because of the cooperation of the Wuhuan people and the xianbei people, Sima Yi's army played a suspicious operation, multiple banners, pretending to go south, and Beiyan and others tried their best to chase south. Sima Yi, however, sneaked across jishui and headed north to Xiangping, probably also going round with Mo Hubao's men and horses. After Zhi Beiyan and the others noticed that they had turned north, they were attacked by Sima Yi with ambush troops, killed seven and eight, and rushed to Shoushan. At the same time, lelang and Daifang, two counties on the Korean Peninsula, had already been raided by the Wei navy, and even sent emissaries sent by the Japanese evil Matai queen Beimihu to the Gongsun clan to Luoyang.
(Today's First Mountain, taken by the author in 2012)
After Beiyan fled to Shoushan, the Wei army won three more battles, and the Liao tunnel, which Was unable to conquer by Yiqiu Jian, was already under Sima Yi's command and besieged Xiangping. Gongsun Yuan had to move from the middle strategy that Sima Yi had predicted to the next one.
At this time, it is the height of summer and July, and Xiangping has been raining continuously for 30 days. Liaoshui soared. Although the Wei army had the advantage of using a sea vessel from Liaokou to Xiangping City, but the water depth of the flat land was several feet, Sima Yi's troops were quite panicked and wanted to move the camp, Sima Yi strictly ordered those who dared to move the camp to behead, and all the governors ordered Shi Zhangjing to still violate the order, and there was no trouble for the chinese side of the army after the beheading. Gongsun Yuan looked at Wei Jun, who was soaked in water outside the city, and also breathed a sigh of relief. All the generals advised Sima Yi to order an early siege of the city, but Sima Yi did not listen, and decided to spend time with Gongsun Yuan to fight for supplies, and at the same time to rob the enemy's supply personnel who were collecting and grazing cattle for their own use. At this time, even the imperial court in Luoyang had heard about the difficulties on the front line, and the courtiers said that they should recall the expeditionary army, but Emperor Wei Ming, believing that Sima Yi could establish meritorious service, did not order him to return to the division.
After the rain, Sima Yi finally began to order a siege of the city. At this time, Gongsun Yuan could not laugh out loud, because his supplies were indeed inferior to the Wei army, yan fang had begun to eat people, and the general Yang Zuo surrendered to the Wei army, and the Wei army was also setting up various equipment to prepare for the siege. Finally, in August, a long white star with a length of tens of meters flowed from the southwest of Xiangping City to the northeast and fell on Liangshui (Taizi River), and the city was shocked. This added variables to the already unstable Yan army's heart, so Gongsun Yuan sent people to beg for surrender, but Sima Yi did not allow it, saying, "If you can fight as a battle, you cannot defend it, you can't defend it, and you can only surrender and die." If you refuse to face it, you will die and do not need to be sent to your post. At this time, the city of Xiangping was close to collapse, and Gongsun Yuan had to take his son Gongsun Xiu and hundreds of cavalry to flee from the southeast direction overnight, but he was intercepted by the Wei army, and both father and son were beheaded. Soon after, Xiangping also completely fell, and the rule of the Gongsun clan in Liaodong came to an end.
After Kecheng, Xiangping City suffered another huge disaster: more than 7,000 men in the city had been killed in the fifteenth year of the city, thinking that it was Jingguan. Gongsun Yuan's officials were killed by more than two thousand people. People in the Central Plains who want to return to their hometowns can listen to their freedom. The Once-famous Gongsun Clan liaodong has now become a ghost domain. This also made the future Cao Wei Western Jin regime in Liaodong Lelang Xuanju led the four counties of Fang unstable, so that the Western Liao's Murong clan and Goguryeo could rise.
Epilogue: The fate of the characters
1. Gongsun side
In the Gongsun clan, after Sima Yi ordered the slaughter of the city, only two people with names and surnames still existed, one of which was Gongsun Gong, the uncle of Gongsun Yuan, who became an eunuch, and after the destruction of Xiangping City, he was ordered to be released by Sima Yi, but I think his old man looked at the corpses slaughtered by the Wei army, and I was afraid that he would be mentally disturbed and difficult to feel at ease. The history books do not record when Gongsun Gong died, but I think he probably didn't live long. The second was That Gongsun Yuan's brother Gongsun Huang, who was a hostage in Luoyang, as a family member of the rebel thief, ordered him to be beheaded according to the law, but Emperor Ming could not bear it and wanted to put Gongsun Huang in prison and punish him, and Gao Rou, the court lieutenant, was even more benevolent and righteous, and wrote a proposal that Gongsun Huang should be allowed to live. In the end, after Gongsun Huang saw that Gongsun Yuan's head was in Luoyang, he had to cry with his son, and finally, the family received the golden wine given by the emperor and rushed to Huangquan.
In addition, there is a cultural relic about the descendants of the Gongsun clan of Liaodong, namely the "Epitaph of Princess Gongsun of Weihuashan", which is the epitaph of a princess of the eastern Wei dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and this princess's surname is Gongsun Shi Zi Sheng, Liaodong Xiangping Ren clan (this is the ancestral residence, because Liaodong County has entered Goguryeo during the Southern and Northern Dynasties). However, I guess this is probably a climbing or other side branch of the Gongsun clan in Liaodong Province, after all, the Gongsun clan was a big surname in the Bohai Rim region at that time, and the Gongsun Du clan actually came from a humble family. As for the whereabouts of the other descendants of the Gongsun clan, I can only guess whether they went to Goguryeo or crossed the sea to defect to Queen Beimihu.
2. Cao Wei
After Sima Yi returned to the dynasty, he did not return to the fiefdom of Wuyang or his hometown of Wen County to retire, but was promoted to Taifu. His own prestige and merits also became a powerful factor in wooing The Elders of Cao Wei, such as Jiang Ji.
At the same time, after Sima Yi painfully laid down the butcher's knife, the Cao Wei court was still committed to relocating the population of Liaodong, so that the population of the five counties of Liaodong during the Western Jin Dynasty decreased significantly compared with that of the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to the "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi, Qi Wang Fangji", (Jing Chu 3rd year, 239) to liaodong Dongpu County officials crossed the sea to live in qi county boundary, with the old zhongcheng as Xinpu County to migrate the people... (In the first year of the first year, 240), the people of Liaodong Wen and Beifeng Counties migrated to cross the sea, and the boundaries of Xi'an, Linling and Changguo Counties in Qiqi County were Xinwen and Nanfeng Counties, with displaced people. It can be seen that the Cao Wei court is still not convinced of this former rebellious land far away from the Central Plains.
In addition, the Cao Wei regime divided the five counties of Liaodong, Changli (heyuan Liaodong and the newly established counties east of Lulongsai in Liaoxi County, Zhichangli County (present-day Yi County, Liaoning)), Xuanju, Daifang, and Lelang as Pingzhou, and Xiangping. Soon it was still abandoned in Youzhou. Later, after the Yongjia Rebellion, in order to win over the Murong clan of Liaoxi, who was loyal to the Jin Dynasty, Pingzhou was restored.
3. Shu Han and Wu Guo
Although the Shu Han side had nothing to do with the Gongsun regime, after hearing that Gongsun Yuan had established himself as the Queen of Yan, Liu Chan still issued an edict to Jiang Huan, saying that Cao Ruixing was fighting in Liaodong and ordering him to "command the armies, and take advantage of wu's moves, and take advantage of his provocation." "But Shu Han didn't get any benefits.
In order to respond to Gongsun Yuan, the Wu side really sent troops, but when the Wu army drove to Liaodong, it was already a year after the gongsun clan was destroyed, and the navy led by Yang Dao could only grab some property and population on the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula.
4. Goguryeo
Because Goguryeo was repeatedly attacked by the Gongsun clan, it naturally would not oppose the Wei state's attack on Yan, but because of the weakness of the state, it could not help much. But then Goguryeo still did the same, as a big bandit in the Changbai Mountains. In the third year of the first year (242), Xi'anping ( around the town of Changdian in present-day Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County , Liaoning Province ) , the Cao Wei court later sent the veteran general Yuqiu Jian ( 毌丘俭 ) to conquer Goguryeo , and in the fifth year of the first year ( 244 ) , tutu the capital of Marudu , and also conquered many subordinate tribes of Goguryeo , all the way to the coastal areas of present-day Russia , and wrote down the merits in the ancestral land of Marudu. The Wei army also captured thousands of Goguryeo populations and moved them into the interior. This campaign enabled Cao Wei to restore the homeland of emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when he first established the four counties of Han, but unfortunately, Yuqiu Jian only knew how to plunder the population, and did not establish counties on the newly conquered territory. Therefore, after the Yongjia Rebellion, Goguryeo's national strength was restored, and it restored its former territory, and even robbed the Jin Dynasty of Lelang and Daifang Counties. Later, although Murong Hao, the King of Yan, also vigorously attacked Goguryeo and planed the ancestral graves of Goguryeo, he still failed to cut the grass and remove the roots. In the end, after the Later Yan regime was severely attacked by Northern Wei, it returned to its homeland in western Liaoning, and at the same time, Goguryeo also ushered in a generation of British lords who opened up the tuwang Gao Tande, all the way south, and annexed the second county of Xuanyu Liaodong, and goguryeo became the hegemon of one side.
5. Humble aspect
Mo Hubao, the leader of the Xianbei people who followed Sima Yi in his conquest of Liaodong, because he had meritorious service from zheng, he received the title of "King of Zhiyi", and his tribe also turned to a settled life, living in the thorn city of Liaoning (near present-day Beipiao, Liaoning), he also learned the fashion of the Han people in the north and brought up a kind of "bu shaking crown", the Xianbei people saw him dressed like this, they all called him "bu shaking", because the local language "bu shaking" was similar to the pronunciation of "Murong", so it became "Murong" later. Mo Baobao's descendants simply used this as the name of the tribe. However, Murong Shi later concocted a gentle and elegant statement in order to win over the original Han chinese, saying that the original meaning of the surname was: "Mu Liangyi's Jiade, Envy Sanguang's Yi Rong". Here it is necessary to mention mo Baobao's great-grandson Yi Luojue (this Xianbei name or Ruoluojue, Yiluohuan, Han name Murong Xi), who made a great name during the Yongjia Rebellion, because he relied on the geographical dangers of Western Liaoning but still remained loyal to the Jin Dynasty, recruiting a large number of Central Plains displaced people, so that the pingzhou homeland once again prospered. His son Murong Hao was later crowned the King of Yan by the Jin Dynasty after the southern crossing, realizing the dream that Gongsun Yuan had made that year, and some people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty court compared Murong Yuan to the former Gongsun Yuan, and the emissaries sent by Murong Hao defended that in the past, Gongsun Yuan only knew how to protect himself, and now my King of Yan can still take the initiative to attack the state thief Shi Le, how can it be compared with gongsun Yuan in the past? Later, however, Murong Juan's son Murong Juan was able to successfully enter the Central Plains, but he broke away from the Jin Dynasty and established the Former Yan Empire.
("Step Shake Crown")
All in all, Gongsun Yuan's generation really did not know the priorities, if he could continue his father's policy of "pretending to be grandchildren", and at the same time not go to Sun Quan to play a little clever, although Liaodong would inevitably eventually fall victim to the great unified empire, but this process would undoubtedly be much later, if it could be delayed to the era of Sima Zhao, who had mild means, perhaps the Gongsun clan of Liaodong would not have caused the Xiangping massacre, and the descendants of the Gongsun clan could also become the guests of the Jin Dynasty like Liu Chan Sun Hao. In short, self-preservation is OK, but external expansion should be realistic rather than coveting false names.