There is a very interesting topic in the history of the former and later Zhao dynasties, that is, if Liu Cong could have lived for a longer period of time, would northern China have been able to move towards reunification at that time?Before answering this question, there is another crucial question, that is, whether Shile will establish the Later Zhao regimePersonally, I feel that there is a slight connection between Shi Le Jianguo and Liu Cong's early death, but it is not necessarily related. As the third emperor of the Han and Zhao regimes, Liu Cong was more controlling than Liu Cang and Liu Yao, and Shi Le respected this person who had been his commander, but even this did not necessarily make Shi Le abandon his plans. After Shi Le exterminated Wang Jun and annexed Liu Kun's forces, it had become a powerful force in the north at that time. The territory that Scheller controlled could fully support his ideas.
After stabilizing his own Xiangguo, Shile began to adopt some policies for self-development. At this time, Liu Cong's ministers said to Liu Cong: "This Shi Le's ambition is not small, he is afraid that he wants to divide the land of Wei and Zhao." ”
Not only that, because of Liu Cong's mediocrity at the moment, there were many homeless people in Pingyang, the capital of Han and Zhao, and Shi Le sent Shi Yue to recruit more than 200,000 homeless people from Pingyang in Bingzhou. This time Liu Cong is not satisfied, aren't you doing it against me. So Liu Cong sent an edict to Shi Le, reprimanding Shi Le, but Shi Le did not accept this. Shi Le's attitude may be a resistance to Liu Cong's mediocrity, or it may be an attitude of going it alone. However, judging from the fact that Shi Le still led the army to quell the rebellion after the "Pingyang Coup", Shi Le at this time at least superficially obeyed Liu's Han and Zhao regimes.
Regarding Shi Le's reaction, Liu Cong did not continue to investigate, not that he didn't want to investigate, but that Liu Cong couldn't pursue it, and he died. He was succeeded by Liu Cang, and then the "Pingyang Coup" broke out. After the coup d'état, Shi Le, who was the nominal two major military groups of the Han and Zhao regimes, also led his army to quell the rebellion. Shile's army once reached Xiangling, just a step away from Binh Duong. In this process, many Han and Zhao armies came to seek refuge in Shile. At this time, Han Zhao's future was controlled by Shi Le and Liu Yao. Later, we learned that Liu Yao inherited the Han and Zhao regimes of the Liu family and became the emperor, and Shi Le was also crowned an official. Because Jin Ming, the family of the coup d'état, Jin Ming of the Jin family, chose to surrender to Liu Yao, and gave Liu Yao the jade seal of the heirloom country, which caused a conflict between Shi Le and Liu Yao. Shi Le, who did not get the jade seal of the country, attacked Pingyang City, the capital of the former Zhao, burned down the palace there, moved the armillary sphere, musical instruments and other things in the city to Xiangguo, and returned to Xiangguo after leaving troops to defend Pingyang.
Although the Pingyang coup d'état allowed the jade seal of the country to remain in the hands of the Han Zhao Liu family, the Han Zhao was already greatly injured at this time. Moreover, it also made the Han and Zhao regimes, which were originally very likely to unify the north, go to ** again, and from this time on, northern China had no chance to be unified for more than 100 years, and it also ushered in a completely chaotic era in northern China.
Will Shile, who already has his own base area, continue to follow the banner of Han Zhao, or will he establish his own regime?Please continue to watch the next episode of the series "Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms"!