How unrealistic was Murong Fu's dream of restoring the country? Look at the history of the Great Yan Kingdom and you will know
Murong Fu is a well-known villain xian in Jin Yong's novel "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", born in a martial arts family, always obsessed with restoring Great Yan, and finally not only failed to restore the country, but also fell into disgrace, Murong Fu never forgot what kind of country is Dayan?
According to the description of the novel, Murong Fu was a Xianbei person, and the state name he established was Dayan, which is real in history, during the Wuhu Chaohua period, the Xianbei Murong clan established a total of three states with the name of Yan, namely Former Yan (337-370), Later Yan (386-407), and Northern Yan (407-436), less than a hundred years before and after.
However, the rise of the Murong family can be traced back to 207 AD. A lot of things happened in China during this year: Cao Cao began a northern expedition, defeated Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi, killed the Wuhuan chieftain Jiandun, and basically pacified western Liaoning. Soon after, the fleeing Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi were also beheaded by Gongsun Kang, the Taishou of Liaodong, and gave the first rank to Cao Cao. The north was basically unified; Sun Quan began his western expedition; Liu Bei occupied Xinye, began to plot for the world, and went to Nanyang for the first time to ask Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountains, which was the beginning of the Three Gu Maolu.
And in the gap between these three powers gradually forming a strong momentum, the Murong family is also fighting for its own power. The Murong family was a descendant of the Donghu clan, which had been active in northeastern China and later divided into two tribes, the Wuhuan and the Xianbei. The Xianbei clan also had three major clans: Murong, Yuwen, and Duan. In 207, Cao Cao killed the Wuhuan chieftain, and the Murong family chieftain Mo Hubao took the opportunity to enter western Liaoning, marking the beginning of the rise of the Murong family.
In 337, Murong Hao established the state as king, the state name was Yan, and Former Yan was born. Murong Hao himself was a very intelligent military leader. After he became king, he pacified the Duan and Yuwen tribes in a very short time. By murong Hao's generation, Former Yan dominated northern China, with territories including Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Liaoning, along with the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Former Qin.
Unfortunately, this glory lasted only thirty years. In 370, Former Yan was destroyed by a large army led by Former Qin Jianjian and declared its demise. In 383, After the defeat of Zhijian at the Battle of Shuishui, the Murong family took the opportunity to turn around and revolt, and after three years of hard work established Later Yan. However, the general trend of the Yan state has gone, and no matter how forcibly established the country, it will only survive. In 407 AD, Later Yan perished and Northern Yan was established.
Northern Yan once had more than 20 years of returning to the light, once singing and dancing, the country was rich and the people were strong, and the decadent regime was full of vitality. However, the Internal Strife of the Northern Yan regime, and the fact that there were even courtiers who fell to the Northern Wei Dynasty, were all fatal blows to the faltering Northern Yan Dynasty.
In 436, Northern Wei attacked Northern Yan, and Northern Yan's heavy subjects opened the city gates to welcome the Northern Wei army. The Northern Yan collapsed, and the Yan state completely withdrew from the historical stage. After the fall of Northern Yan, the people of the Yan state were forced to migrate and disperse to Hebei, Shanxi and other places. In order to save their lives, those remaining Murong nobles could only change their names and surnames and flee to distant places. The once-mighty Murong Xianbei regime disappeared.
In murong fu's period, probably in 1093 AD, the emperor of the Liao state was worried that Song Zhezong would attack the Liao state after his pro-government, so he ordered Qiao Feng to attack the Northern Song Dynasty first, according to which it was inferred that the Murong family never forgot to restore the country, and actually remembered for more than 600 years. For hundreds of years, who would recognize the legitimacy of Former Yan, so Murong Fu's restoration was more like a fool's dream.