Today I want to tell you why among the nomadic people near the Central Plains Dynasty, the ethnic minorities from the northeast alone are the most powerful, and even conquered the Central Plains. The ancient Central Plains Dynasty always seemed to have been beaten by nearby nomadic tribes, and most of the ethnic minorities were at most robbers and robberies, occupying the entire local area to divide the political power.
And the forces from the northeast often either destroy the Central Plains Dynasty or occupy most of the country, which is actually related to the so-called racial differences, national habits, army weapons and equipment, and the most important thing is the climate of the northeast.
Regarding the question of the beating of the Central Plains Dynasty, many people believe in the nomadic wolf nature that is widely praised in "Wolf Totem", and some netizens feel that the Central Plains Dynasty has always been in the surrounding wolf ethnic groups.
In fact, the book "Wolf Totem" is a novel after all, and it is a bit excessive for everyone to use it as a historical reference book. If the steppe nomads are really a strong people, then why do they stay in the arid and cold places in the north of the desert, instead of coming to the south of the warm and humid Yanshan Mountains, there is no salt in the desert, no cloth and no pot, and then a big cooling can kill a bunch of livestock, their own lives are enough to choke, and they have to rely on robbery to cope with the survival of the tribe.
The northeast and the desert north are very different, the northeast is a humid zone, the climate and temperature are actually not much different from the central plains, there are large rivers such as the Liaohe River and the Songhua River, the water resources are abundant, with the big river will bring the Liaohe Plain, the Agricultural Soil of the Songjiang Plain, which can develop large-scale agriculture, and there are also settled animal husbandry such as herding pigs, and the economic strength is quite strong.
Unlike the peoples on the grasslands who are hungry for many years, the northeast has enough grain production and sufficient food and clothing, and the mountains and forests also provide enough mineral and timber resources, so such a rich place will either not send troops, and once the army is sent, it will not be satisfied by robbing points. Don't rob you of half of the country, the land is thousands of miles, never easy to turn back.
This is like the Hetao Plain in the northwest, which is known as "the Yellow River is harmful, only a set of benefits", and once the peoples of the desert north, such as the Xiongnu and the Western Xia, control here, it is possible to compete with the Central Plains Dynasty and then attack the city, otherwise it will always be able to be a rogue and it is difficult to become a climate. In fact, the Central Plains Dynasty, which has a number of great plains, is the most brutal, and even if the nomads have Hetao or the Northeast, it takes luck to overthrow the Central Plains Dynasty.
Throughout history, the large-scale invasion of ethnic minorities has been successful three times, namely the Five Hu Chaohua, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the Yuan and Qing Dynasties, all three of which were the internal games of the Central Plains Dynasty, and they had no chance to enter the Central Plains. Therefore, the fundamental reason for the successful invasion of ethnic minorities in Chinese history is that the Han civil war has led to their own weakness, not how strong the minority is.
Xihetao and Dongliaodong, the warm climate and fertile soil of these two places are the springboard for the nomadic people to attack the Central Plains, and at least one of these two places must be controlled, and only by controlling them can they have sufficient economic strength, which is why the ethnic minorities in the northeast or the peoples who control the Hetao often have a greater impact on the Central Plains Dynasty.