The Downfall of a Benevolent King

After the Eight Kings Rebellion, the imperial court no longer had any available soldiers. So much so that the Jin Dynasty abandoned China and traveled south to An'an. However, the Central Plains was abuzz with chaos, the five barbarians were fighting each other, and political regimes emerged one after another but quickly withered away. In the battle of Feishui, the army of the former Qin Dynasty was defeated thousands of miles away. The army of the former Qin Dynasty swallowed up the whole territory of the north and lost its country in the battle. The myth that Beifu soldiers defeated more with fewer troops has been sung for many years, and the defeated army of the former Qin Dynasty was dubbed "the wind and the cranes". The powerful former Qin once unified the north, but at the beginning, the former Qin only occupied the barren Guanzhong. How this powerful empire was born and why it died. This article will unfold from Fu Jian's perspective and narrate the rise and fall of this short-lived empire.