Popular version:
In recent years, the current situation in the north has always been discussed at the banquets of high-ranking families, lamenting the loss of the country.
Especially the hatred towards the barbarians. When talking about them, one would like to say that they are evil spirits in hell.
If you don't respond and curse a word or two, others will look askance at you.
But Huan Wan didn't speak much at this time. When others asked her, they just said they didn't understand.
Others didn't dare to say anything, let alone look sideways.
After all, she was the queen who had been appointed internally, and she would be taken into the palace as soon as the emperor's crown ceremony was completed.
In the current court, the Huan family is the one who calls the shots.
Everyone thinks that just like the previous ruling families, there will be a queen as well.
Of course it was Huan Wan, whom the Queen Mother had praised.
But no one expected that Huan Wan would be married to Duan Hong, a pastor in Liangzhou in a miserable place far in the north.
How remote is Liangzhou? It was so remote that no one even cared when the barbarians occupied the north. By the time they reacted, Liangzhou had already been well prepared and could not be conquered no matter how hard they laid siege.
Coupled with Jiuzhou Mu's loyalty to Nanwu, he maintained his loyalty to Nanwu and did not announce a change of dynasty.
But the old Zhou Mu could not control the fighting between his sons and starved to death in his dormitory. His sons were not the final winners. The final winner was his adopted son, Duan Hong, who was half Hu people.
Duan Hong still declared his loyalty to the Nanwu court.
The aristocratic families were all speculating that Huan Su was crazy in wanting to regain his homeland, and that he would marry his daughter to such a foreigner at such a low price.
The emperor actually agreed and personally issued an edict and canonized Huan Wan.
Now everyone else was full of sympathy and awe for Huan Wan. Most of the northern states had long been under the rule of the Hu people, and the remaining uncontrolled states and counties had long since become independent. Nanwu had no control at all.
Only Liangzhou remained a vassal, and Huan Wan's marriage was comparable to a marriage.
Huan Wan was very open-minded. She had planned to die in this line of work.
Duan Hong: No, you don't want to die.
Higher version:
The collapse of the Nanwu Empire was completed in an instant. Over a long period of time, the empire accumulated too much decay and ills, until the gorgeous robes could no longer cover the stench of the dead body, and Nanwu collapsed.
At this time, everyone in Nanwu howled in sorrow, but the barbarian people outside Nanwu cheered its death. The five princes and kings who were fighting among themselves even warmly invited the barbarians to participate in this civil strife that was burning the life of the empire.
The barbarians, armed with scimitars, struck the final fatal blow at the empire.
Since then, China has been broken up and families have moved south. After many setbacks, the royal Sima family rebuilt the imperial court in the south with the help of major aristocratic families, but the struggle between the imperial power and the clan began. The aristocratic families took turns to dominate the court, and in just forty or fifty years they passed through the three families of Wang, Xie and Yu.
Now it is the turn of the Huan family to govern, and the master of the Huan family, Huan Su, seems to have the opportunity to regain his homeland.
He started the prelude to the Northern Expedition with a marriage, and at the same time rewoven the fate of Huan Wan and Duan Hong.
Purpose: Have the courage to break everything