Murong Fu in "Dragon Babu", a legendary figure alongside Xiao Feng, is burdened with a grand and comical mission - to revive the Great Yan Kingdom that has long disappeared in the long river of history. This obsession not only runs through his life, but also penetrates into the bloodline of the Murong family, becoming their common pursuit for generations. The prologue of the story began from this: Murong Fu's father, Murong Bo, in order to stir up disputes between the Liao and Song dynasties, carefully weaved a rumor that Khitan warriors were trying to seize the secret book of the Shaolin Temple. This strategy not only made the Central Plains martial arts heroes angry, but also caused Xiao Yuanshan's family to suffer innocently, and a magnificent dispute in the rivers and lakes began.
Murong Fu's name contains the family's expectation - "Fu", which means not forgetting the will of the ancestors and vowing to revive the majesty of the Yan Kingdom. Growing up under the strict education of his family since he was a child, his every word and deed, every move carries the heavy mission of reviving the Yan Kingdom. However, this goal seems so absurd. In the era in which Murong Fu lived, the Liao Dynasty Emperor Yelu Hongji and the Song Dynasty Emperor Song Zhezong were in their own hands, and the Yan State that he never forgot had already become a dusty history during the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
In the long river of history, the Yan Kingdom established by the Murong clan is like a bright star, dotted in the sky of China, and they are collectively called "Murong Zhuyan". However, when the dust settled in 436 AD, Northern Yan became the last Murong Yan kingdom to disappear into the long river of history, six hundred years after the era in which Murong Fu lived. In these long years, the land of China has experienced the disputes of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the alternation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the short-lived unification of the Sui Dynasty, the glory of the Tang Dynasty, and the division of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
Whenever a dynasty ends, there is always a group of loyal remnants with the dream of restoring the mountains and rivers of their homeland. During the Qing Dynasty, the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty were high, because the Qing Dynasty and the previous dynasty were closely connected in time and blood. However, Murong Fu is like a traveler through time, and his dream is to recover Dayan, who has long disappeared in the long river of history. It's like in modern society, someone who claims to be a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang and wants to restore the glory of the Ming Dynasty always sounds so unrealistic.
Murong Fu went around preaching his dream of recovering the country, but the Song and Liao countries at that time did not react much to this. This is not because Murong Fu's power is strong enough to make the two countries jealous, but because his dream is so unattainable and even absurd in the eyes of most people. Even those around him were puzzled by his actions, feeling that he was like a traveler lost in the vortex of time, clinging to a dream that was long gone.
There was no sign of Murong Fu's rebellion
In the cognition of ordinary people, the matter of raising troops is not child's play. Grain, grass, gold and silver, armor, soldiers and horses are all fundamental and indispensable. Even in today's brainless cool text, the protagonists also know this reason, and only when they have wealth and troops can they fight in all directions. However, Murong Fu's actions are really incomprehensible. He didn't even think about raising such materials, but instead roamed the rivers and lakes with his cousin Wang Yuyan and several unusually domestic servants, in a vain attempt to recruit heroes in the rivers and lakes to help himself. Isn't this move child's play? The martial arts masters in martial arts novels, although their abilities are extraordinary, are difficult to influence the rise and fall of dynasties after all. Guo Jing and Huang Rong, even if the masters around them are like clouds, they can't stop the conquest of the Mongolian iron cavalry.
Murong Fu's fantasy is really fanciful. He wanted to recruit the people of the thirty-six caves and seventy-two islands, and wanted to get the antidote to the life and death talisman from the hands of the Tianshan Tong, so that everyone would be grateful and obey his orders. However, Murong Fu's martial arts are far from those of Tianshan Tong's grandmother, even if they really get the antidote, how can they be sure that these people will really help each other? Even if this is the case, how can they be compared to the Mongolian iron cavalry? What's more, if Xuzhu is still able to dominate the Western Regions, how can Murong Fu claim to be self-assured?
In addition, Murong Fu also fantasized about becoming a Western Xia concubine, or recognizing Duan Yanqing as his father, using the power of Western Xia or Dali to attack the Song Dynasty, in order to revive the Yan Kingdom, and share the Song Dynasty with Western Xia or Dali. Such an idea is even more absurd. Although Dali is not a strong country, it is not a weak brigade. During the two Song dynasties, Dali maintained a respectful attitude in the southwest of the Song Dynasty and had no intention of encroaching on the Song Dynasty. Its strength is only able to suppress the surrounding tribes and resist the Tibetan in the west. If Dali really has the strength to attack the Song Dynasty, why does Murong come back to get a piece of the pie?
In the same way, the same was true of Western Xia. At that time, although the Western Xia was between Song and Liao, its strength could only take advantage of some advantages, and it was difficult to launch a large-scale attack. If Dali and Western Xia really had the strength to attack the Song Dynasty, why did they need Murong Fu, an outsider, to intervene? Murong Fu's fantasy is really ridiculous.
Murong Fu has no capital
Murong Fu seems to be an extraordinary person at first glance, but in fact he is empty. Although the Murong family behind him has a certain amount of wealth and can ensure a prosperous life, when it comes to raising troops and buying horses, it is a fantasy. The Yan Kingdom that Murong Fu had in mind was built by the Xianbei people who went south during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and he himself also flowed with Xianbei blood. However, during the Song Dynasty, this so-called Xianbei descendant identity was particularly comical.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was also a Xianbei people, carried out a vigorous Sinicization reform, and by the Sui and Tang dynasties, the boundary between the Xianbei people and the Han people had been blurred. By the Tang Dynasty, the Xianbei people had been completely integrated into the Central Plains, and this ethnic group quietly disappeared in the long river of history.
epilogue
Murong Fu was pretentious, and regarded himself as a descendant of Xianbei and a descendant of the Great Yan Kingdom, but in the Tang and Song dynasties, who would take him seriously? He had neither wealth, nor soldiers, nor horses, nor armor, so how could he achieve great things with just one mouth? In the eyes of the world, Murong Fu was just a madman suffering from paranoia, and naturally no one was willing to deal with him, let alone the imperial court.