Soon after the Western Jin Dynasty unified the Three Kingdoms, the whole country underwent the jiahou rebellion, and the great changes in the rebellion of the eight kings shook the foundation of the country. In order to realize their respective ambitions, the powerful feudal kings of the Jin Dynasty wantonly recruited mercenaries of foreign races to serve them, so the Wuhu (Xiongnu, Qiang, Qiang, Xianbei) really stepped onto the stage of history. Wuhu made his fortune by the army and had strong combat effectiveness, even though he was still in a relatively primitive tribal period and his cultural production level was extremely backward, but in the face of the more corrupt Jin Dynasty, as long as he had the force, he could carry out burning, looting and barbaric conquest. Although the fresh blood of Wuhu was injected into Huaxia, in a sense, it did create a strong and open Tang Dynasty, but for the people of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty at that time, the barbarism and cruelty of Wuhu did make them fall into hell.
From the Han established by the Xiongnu, to the Later Zhao of the Xiongnu, to the Qiang and Xianbei Tongtong to stir up the situation, it can be said that there is no worst but worse, and the Han people in the north live in deep water. In the end, the north was temporarily and truly unified by the Former Qin of the Hu people, but it was a Han Chinese who led The Former Qin to prosperity, a real person who was not born, Jie Wang Meng.
Wang Meng was born in the cold door, and in the era when the right to speak was controlled by the family door valve and the tribal warlord, Wang Meng, who was born in the cold door, was so out of place. Of course, Wang Meng could not be an ordinary person, probably belonging to the category of declining scholars, and no matter how poor and decayed his family was, he could always support Wang Meng to study in the sea of bamboo books filled with sweat and cattle. He was born in Beihai County, Qingzhou, which was already the territory of the Qi people, and Wang Meng lived in a difficult world of foreign tyranny and chaos from an early age.
After the tempering of knowledge, Wang Meng's genius began to distinguish him from ordinary people, he was solemn and solemn, deep and resolute, ambitious, and extraordinary. He once traveled to the capital of the Later Zhao state of Yicheng, but the neurotic emperor of Later Zhao and the warlords and the warlords looked down on him, except for Xu Tong, who was known as "the lesson of knowing people", who "saw and was surprised". In the face of Xu Tong's solicitation, Wang Meng should not have, with Wang Meng's genius insight to see the ugly face of Hou Zhao Junchen, he could have foreseen the defeat of Hou Zhao long ago.
At the age of twenty-nine, the opportunity came. The Eastern Jin dynasty general Huan Wen took advantage of the fall of Later Zhao, and the opportunity of the northern strife was rapidly northern, all the way to the high and fierce advance, directly into the Guanzhong Plain, Chang'an City is within easy reach. When Wang Meng heard the news, he hurried to see Huan Wen. Huan Wen had also heard of Wang Meng's name, so he asked Wang Meng to talk about his views on the current situation in the military tent. Wang Meng then went in the middle of the public, while picking the lice in his clothes, while talking about the world's major events, talking endlessly, if there was no one around. Huan Wen was very praised, and asked him again: "On the order of the Son of Heaven, I led 100,000 elite soldiers to fight against the rebels and eliminate the harm to the people, but Guanzhong Haojie did not come to me to comfort me. Wang Meng replied bluntly: "You are not far away and thousands of miles deep into the north, Chang'an City is close at hand, but you do not cross the bashui to take it down, people can't understand your thoughts, so they refuse to come." ”
It turned out that Huan Wen held military and political power in Jingzhou, and he thought that he had real talent and practical learning, and he had long been unaccustomed to the family door valves in Yangzhou controlling the imperial court. If Chang'an is taken and Guanzhong is recovered, Huan Wen can only get a false name, and the territory will fall to the imperial court; Instead of depleting their own Jingzhou strength and losing the advantage of competing with the imperial court, it is better to leave the enemy to respect themselves and prepare more chips for their future ascension to the throne. Wang Meng's words with a secret mechanism touched Huan Wen's heart. Huan Wen was silent for a long time before he raised his head and said slowly, "No one in Jiangdong can match your talent!" ”
In this interview, Wang Meng is not only looking for a job, but also choosing his boss. He could see that neither the Eastern Jin Dynasty nor the dissident Huan Wen in front of him was a good boss. Even if he served in the Jin Dynasty, which was regarded as Zhengshuo by the Confucian scholars, as Wang Menghanmen, he only gave shoes to the stupid pig-like family masters; On the other hand, Huan Wen was in a position of great power, and sooner or later he would have to betray the Jin Dynasty and go to this muddy water by himself, which was obviously not worth it, but instead fell into a reputation of aiding and abetting abuse. Wang Meng felt that his talents would be thrown away in vain and would not be wasted like this.
Fortunately, Wang Meng's talent was not drowned, and Zhuge Liang also needed a Liu Bei to find him. Finally, Huan Wen caocao ended the Northern Expedition and returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the land of Guanzhong once again became a chessboard for foreign races, and the Fu clan of the Qiren stood out and established Former Qin as the lord of Guanzhong.
At that time, Jian Jian, who was the king of the East Sea, wanted to seize power and stand on his own, so he found Wang Meng through the relationship of the chancellor. Although jian was a member of the Yu people, he admired the advanced culture of the Han people from an early age, immersed himself in the study of scriptures and historical classics, and soon became a rare leader among the nobles of the Yu people. When Jian Jian and Wang Meng saw each other, talking about the great events of ancient and modern rise and fall, and speculating in every sentence, Jian Jian felt like Liu Bei was like a fish in the water when he met Zhuge Liang. Therefore, Wang Meng officially went out of the mountain to give advice to Jian Jian. In 357, with the assistance of Wang Meng, Jian Jian successfully usurped the throne, established himself as the Heavenly King of Great Qin, changed his name to Yuan Yongxing, and made Wang Meng a Zhongshu attendant, holding the position of military secret.
Wang Meng first reformed the backward political form of the Yu ethnic group, vigorously promoted Sinicization education and the Hanization administrative system, and led the former Qin dynasty to strengthen the army, which won the firm conviction of The Former Qin. Only when he was thirty-six years old, he had been promoted five levels in a row, and his power was tilted inside and outside. Reform will inevitably move the cake of the emperor's relatives and elders, who all grit their teeth at wang. Fan Shi, who was born as a chief of the Xian clan, jumped out first by relying on the merits of fighting the world, and insulted Wang Meng in public, saying: "We have worked with the former emperor to build a great cause, but we are not allowed to participate in secrets." You have no sweat, why do you take care of big things? Isn't it that we grow crops and you pick up grain for nothing! Wang Meng sneered, "Not only do you plant and harvest me, but you also have to make a good meal for me to eat!" Fan Shi's lungs exploded, and he stomped his feet and roared: "Sooner or later, the surname Wang will make your head hang at the Gate of Chang'an!" When Jian Jian, who was also a member of the Qi, learned of this, he actually said, "You must kill Fan Shi, the old man, and then the group of subjects can be rectified." ”
Jian Jian moved the killing heart, but he still needed a reason. Soon, Jian Jian told Fan Shi that he would let the princess marry Yang Bi, who was already engaged to Fan Shi's daughter, and Fan Shi objected. Wang Meng criticized Fan Shi for openly fighting with Jian Jian for his son-in-law, and fan shi was so angry that he wanted to attack Wang Meng, but he was pulled by his attendants and scolded him with evil words, so Jian Jian ordered Fan Shi to be executed. With the unity of the monarch, Wang Meng was able to smoothly implement his own policies, and the former Qin state greatly increased its strength and began the journey of unifying the world.
Wang Meng first set his sights on the northwest and set the policy of first making things easy and then difficult, and first going west and then east. After leveling the western region and stabilizing the rear, Former Qin and Former Yan fought a major battle over control of the north.