The Xiongnu were a tribe of the Xiongnu who established the Later Zhao regime during the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and were the slave army of the nomadic Xiongnu nobles in the north. During the Xiongnu rebellion, the Xiongnu were strong, and for a period of time during the Wuhu Chaohua period, they dominated northern China and became one of the nomadic regimes in the north.
Shi Le, the leader of the Qiang clan, his grandfather and father were all tribal leaders. Like many entrepreneurs who were born humble and wanted to make a decent appearance for their own life history, according to legend, when he was born, the red light filled the house, and the white gas was connected from the sky to the court, and this face felt like the house was lit with wet wood. Anyway, it is the immortal scene where the heavens will descend to great responsibility.
This chosen son of heaven had endured upheaval and displacement in his early years, starved and frozen, and during the Tai'an years of the Western Jin Dynasty, he also asked for food because of famine, and was later captured and sold into a landlord's house as a slave. Because Shi Le always said that he could hear the sound of knives and guns, coupled with his strange appearance and special temperament, everyone thought that he would definitely be different in the future. Probably because Shi Le looked very different from ordinary people, his personality was fierce and aggressive, his physique was strong, and his master gradually did not dare to call him a slave, and even later exempted him from slave status.
In the first year of Yong'an, Shi Le and Ma Qijisang, whom he knew at the landlord's house, defected to gongshi domain and wanted to do a career with the big boss, but soon after the war began, gongshi clan was beheaded by Gou Xi.
Shi Le and Ji Sang fled to the garden, Ji Sang led the shepherds to plunder the prisoners of the county, and Shi Le recruited outlaws hiding on the mountain, and Shi Le led them to respond to Ji Sang. This was Shi Le's first pot of gold, pulling up his first slave team.
Ji Sang claimed to be a great general, and in the name of killing Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, and Ma Teng, the king of Dongyin, on behalf of Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, with Shi Le as the forward, and made many military achievements, Ji Sang marched to attack Yecheng, appointed Shi Le as the forward governor, and defeated Sima Teng's general Feng Song, so he quickly attacked Yecheng, killed Sima Teng, killed more than 10,000 defenders, and plundered women's treasures.
Later, Shi Le led his troops to defect to the Han Dynasty, subdued the volidurous people, gained Liu Yuan's trust, and was entrusted with the heavy responsibility of managing the Kwantung region.
Shi Le adopted the strategy of the strategist Zhang Bin, cultivated his own forces in a down-to-earth manner, and successfully expanded his influence in the Kwantung region based on the Xiangguo region. Then, in 319, when Liu Yao moved the capital to Chang'an in Guanzhong and changed the name of the state "Han" to "Zhao" (Former Zhao), Shi Le immediately established himself and made the twenty-four counties under his control the state of Zhao, that is, the throne of Zhao Wang and Da Danyu, known in history as "Later Zhao". Shi Le then gradually marched westward, destroying Former Zhao in 329 and declaring himself emperor the following year.