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The Fu Clan Family Tree* from Golden Stage by Cang Wu Bin Bai (苍梧宾白)

(*as of Chapter 12, may need to be edited later)

Red = marriage/romantic involvement, blue = parent-child relationship

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Meng Qin Bio

孟欽，洛陽人也。有左慈、劉根之術，百姓惑而赴之。苻堅召詣長安，惡其惑眾，命苻融誅之。俄而欽至，融留之，遂大宴郡僚，酒酣，目左右收欽。欽化為旋風，飛出第外。頃之，有告在城東者，融遣騎追之，垂及，忽然已遠，或有兵眾距戰，或前有溪澗，騎不得過，遂不知所在。堅未，復見於青州。苻朗尋之，入於海島。

Meng Qin was a native of Luoyang. He possessed the same mystic arts as Zuo Ci and Liu Gen, and many people were entranced and followed him.

Fu Jian summoned him to Chang'an. Because he hated Meng Qin for bewitching so many followers, he gave his brother Fu Rong orders to execute Meng Qin. When Meng Qin arrived, Fu Rong had him remain as his guest. During that time, a great feast was being held for all the commandary officials, so Meng Qin also attended. When the drinking was at its height, Fu Rong gave a look to the guards as a signal to arrest Meng Qin. Meng Qin suddenly changed into a whirlwind and flew away from the residence. Shortly afterwards, people said that he was east of the city, so Fu Rong sent riders to pursue him. Whenever they were just about to catch him, he would suddenly be even further away. Sometimes, a host of soldiers would appear to defend him. Other times, rivers would spring up in front of him. The riders could not pass through these barriers, and so they lost track of him.

After Fu Jian's death, Meng Qin was spotted again in Qingzhou. Fu Lang searched for him, going among the coastal islands.

Liu Gen was a mystic active during the era of Emperor Cheng of Former Han. Information about him can be found in the Book of Latter Han.

Fu Jian was the ruler of Former Qin (351-394) of the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

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萇如長安，至於新支堡，疾篤，輿疾而進。夢苻堅將天官使者、鬼兵數百突入營中，萇懼，走入宮，宮人迎萇刺鬼，誤中萇陰，鬼相謂曰：「正中死處。」拔矛，出血石餘。寤而驚悸，遂患陰腫，醫刺之，出血如夢。萇遂狂言，或稱「臣萇，殺陛下者兄襄，非臣之罪，願不枉臣。」... 乙太元十八年死，時年六十四，在位八年。

"Yao Chang went to Chang'an, and when he reached Xinzhi Fort, he developed a critical illness, and advanced while ill. He had a dream where Fu Jian sent heavenly envoys and a ghost army of several hundred to enter the camp. Yao Chang was afraid and fled to the palace, where a palace guard received him to stab the ghost, but mistakenly stabbed him in the private area. The ghosts called to each other and said:

"Exactly the spot you will die."

After pulling out the spear, he bled more than one dan. When he woke up he was shaking with fear, and there was thus swelling in his private area. His doctor pricked him, and he bled just like in the dream. Yao Chang thus had delirious utterances, and would say:

"(Your subject/Chang), it was my brother Xiang who killed Your Majesty [1], it is not my crime [2], I hope you will not mistreat me."

... in the eighteenth year of Taiyuan he died, at the age of sixty-four (in East Asian age reckoning), having reigned for eight years."

1 Yao Xiang died in 357, so it is impossible for him to have killed Fu Jian in 385. Yao Chang was making stuff up in delirium.

2. It was his crime, he very clearly killed Fu Jian in the records.

I have to say, "stabbed in the crotch by a ghost in a dream" has to be one of the most ridiculous ways someone has died in records. Even if this is probably embellished. And this isn't even the most unhinged part of the whole Yao Chang & Fu Jian relationship...

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my tears ricochet is violently fu jian & yao chang coded

We gather here, we line up, weepin' in a sunlit room And if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes, too

↪ the overarching theme that even though yao chang was the one who killed fu jian, it destroyed him too

Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe All the hell you gave me?

↪ fu jian was never perfect, but to him, he is the victim of a shameless betrayal by the man he tried to save

'Cause I loved you, I swear I loved you Till my dying day

↪ he literally saved yao chang's life, he would not have been so angry about yao chang rebelling against him as he was if he didn't have any feelings towards him

I didn't have it in myself to go with grace And you're the hero flying around, saving face And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? Cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet

↪ fu jian in the afterlife watching yao chang found later qin on the ruins of former qin

We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring

↪ their relationship at first being close but then falling apart until they literally kill each other

You know I didn't want to have to haunt you But what a ghostly scene

↪ fu jian's ghost literally haunting yao chang as described by the jinshu and weishu

You wear the same jewels that I gave you As you bury me

↪ yao chang killing fu jian but still making use of his ministers, continuing to call his dynasty qin

I didn't have it in myself to go with grace 'Cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave

↪ yao chang fighting for former qin, and fu jian rewarding him with military honours

And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? Cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet

↪ if fu jian was dead to yao chang, he would never have dug up his corpse, whipped it, ripped off its clothes and then reburied it wrapped in thorns

And I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want, just not home

↪ fu jian being free from yao chang in death but never truly at peace, still haunting yao chang from the grave

And you can aim for my heart, go for blood But you would still miss me in your bones

↪ yao chang must have missed fu jian despite everything because he was so haunted by his ghost and he made an image of fu jian to worship it and ask for forgiveness

And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming at the sky) And when you can't sleep at night (you hear my stolen lullabies)

↪ fu jian haunting yao chang as recorded, dreaming of his soldiers storming his camp, his ghost following him everywhere

I didn't have it in myself to go with grace

↪ fu jian was so angered by yao chang's betrayal that he refused to peacefully hand over the throne to him and got strangled to death instead

And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves

↪ the battleships is the partnership fu jian and yao chang had, where they both fought for former qin, and now that is gone

You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same

↪ yao chang killed fu jian, but that indirectly led to yao chang's own death because of fu jian's haunting, and this is broader from a metaphorical view with yao chang driven insane by his guilt

Cursing my name, wishing I stayed

↪ yao chang driven insane by fu jian's ghost until death, asking for forgiveness for what he did, blaming others

You turned into your worst fears

↪ yao chang betraying the man who saved his life, killing fu jian like how former qin killed his brother

And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain

↪ yao chang avoiding blame for what he did, first honouring fu jian, then when driven insane blaming his long-dead brother

Crossing out the good years

↪ yao chang ignoring all of the time he spent as fu jian's trusted commander, betraying him and killing him

And you're cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet

↪ even though yao chang was the one who killed fu jian, he was still haunted by him and died because of him, fu jian's pain came back to him

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Dinghai Fusheng Records by Fei Tian Ye Xiang. Manhua art by  Qianerbai, published by Bilibili. Official English translation is  available online for free - read it now!

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After Fei, 383b

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Murong Chui escapes capture

(This section is a redo of the final section of the previous post, as I managed to dig up another source)

While Fu Jian had allowed Murong Chui's journey to Ye, Quan Yi secretly dispatched soldiers at night to intercept him before he crossed the bridge across the During the night Murong Chui dreamt he was travelling along a road. The road came to an end, and he looked back to see Master Kong's grave, flanked by eight mounds. When he woke up, Murong Chui summoned someone to interpret the dream. The dream interpreter thought that the road coming to an end meant it could not be travelled. Furthermore, at Master Kong's tomb, the grave-site (丘) is paired with eight (八) mounds.  丘 and  八 combines to form  兵 "troops”, meaning there would be troops hiding in ambush on the road. (TPYL400 quoting the Xu Jinyangqiu)

Murong Chui instead left the road and prepared rafts to cross at a different place. He also sent his Army Director Cheng Tong, dressed in his clothes and riding his horse, with some of the page boys to the bridge. When the ambushers sprung their trap, Cheng Tong galloped away and escaped. (ZZTJ105)

I would guess the dream sequence is an original part of this story, which Sima Guang has excised in his retelling. I am not sure if Sima Guang used the Xu Jinyangqiu as a source, he may have gotten it from the SLGCQ where supernatural stories are very common.

Fu Jian arrives at Chang'an

In the twelfth lunar month, 10 January – 7 February 384, Fu Jian arrived back at his capital Chang'an. Before entering he wept for the loss of his brother Fu Rong. Once inside the city, he announced his defeat to the ancestral temple, proclaimed a great amnesty and increased  the rank of his civil and military officials by one grade. He also announced several fairly generic government reform measures, such as honing the troops and inspecting agriculture, relief for orphans and the elderly, and tax remittance for the families of those lost during the campaign. Fu Rong was given the posthumous rank and titles of Grand Marshal and Duke Ai (“the Lamented”) of Yangping. (JS114)

Lü Guang lays siege to Qiuci

Meanwhile the Qin empire was still expanding in the west. Earlier Fu Jian had appointed his general Lü Guang Envoy Holding the Tally and Commander-in-Chief of All Army Affairs of Western Chastising, and tasked him with conquering the city states of the Western Regions with an army if 70 000 troops and 5 000 heavy cavalry. Lü Guang like Fu Jian was of Di ethnicity. (JS122)

When Lü Guang arrived at Gaochang he heard that Fu Jian had invaded Jin. He first hesistated, wishing to wait for further orders, but his advisor Du Jin convinced him he should speedily attend to the important task he had been given. So Lü Guang set out across the desert. For a long distance there was no water and his men grew worried. But Lü Guang reminded them how a spring had burst forth to reward the old Han general Li Guang (different character than Lü Guang) for his virtue. Heaven would surely reward them as well. Soon after there was a heavy rainfall. (JS122)

Lü Guang arrived at Yanqi, and the king of Yanqi, Niliu, submitted together with the other neighbouring states. Bochun, the King of Quici, however decided to resist. So Lü Guang marched against Quici, where he arrived in the twelfth month, and laid siege to the city. Lü Guang's army took position south of the city and built fortified encampments every 5 li (about 2 km). They built imitation soldiers dressed in wooden armour, and placed them on the walls of the encampment. Bochun on his side pulled the people living outside the wall, and employed commoners and nobles alike in defence of the city. (JS122)

As the siege dragged on there were several portents pointing to Lü Guang's future greatness. The blood vessels on his left arm rose up to form the characters  巨霸, “Vast Hegemon”. One night a huge black creature appeared, moving with a swaying motion, with horned head and eyes shining like lightning. The creature disappeared in the morning clouds, but left behind a track five li long and thirty paces wide, and the scales now hidden in the earth shone like if they were still there. Lü Guang recognized this as a black dragon. Soon after a rain storm wiped out the dragon's track. Du Jin explained that dragons were portentous creatures of good fortune, and demonstrated Lü Guang's virtue and future greatness. (JS122)

Qifu Guoren gathers forces

The Qifu branch of the Xianbei are said to have originally migrated south from north of the desert and settled in the Longxi. During the early Western Jin, their leader Youlin (or Tuolin) united many of the local Xianbei. A century later, in 371 AD, his descendant Sifan was forced to submit to Qin. Fu Jian appointed him General who Garrisons the West. When Sifan died, his son Guoren inherited his titles. (TPYL127)

In 383 AD, when Fu Jian was planning his Shouchun campaign, he summoned Qifu Guoren to be General of the Van, planning for him to command the vanguard cavalry. Then news arrived that Guoren's uncle Butui had rebelled in Longxi, so Fu Jian instead chose to send Guoren to deal with him. (JS125) Presumably because Butui was not only a rebel against Qin, but also posed a challenge to Guoren's leadership of the Qifu Xianbei.

But Butui welcomed Guoren's return, and pushed him forward to take leadership. Guoren gathered followers for a great feast, and held a speech where he said that the Fu clan had only risen to power due to the chaotic downfall of Zhao. Having acquired a vast territory, they did not allow for peace to show their virtue, but rather engaged in distant schemes, wasting the lands, defying Heaven and angering the people. It was the Way of Heaven that such a thing must be brought down. With his followers' support, Guoren would become the ruler of the region. (JS125)

When news reached Guoren that Fu Jian had been defeated, he summoned and assembled the various local tribes. Those who did not submit willingly, he conquered and annexed. Eventually he had gathered a force numbering a hundred thousand. (JS125) We next hear from Qifu Guoren in 385 AD, so this was not an instantaneous process.

Murong Chui comes to Ye

Murong Chui arrived at Anyang, and sent his Army Advisor Tian Shan with a note to the commander at Ye, Fu Pi, Duke of Changle and Fu Jian's oldest son. Fu Pi worried about Murong Chui's true intentions, but decided to go south and meet with Murong Chui personally. (ZZTJ105)

Fu Pi at first planned to attack Murong Chui, but his Attendant Gentleman Jiang Rang protested that since Murong Chui had so far not openly displayed any rebellious intentions, Fu Pi could not kill him on his own initiative. Instead he should treat Murong Chui with all courtesy but put stern soldiers in charge of guarding him. Then he could inform the court of his feelings, and, after receiving official advise, start plotting against Chui. On the other side Murong Chui was advised by one of his officials, Zhao Qiu, that he ought to seize Fu Pi at meeting, but Murong Chui rejected this plan. (ZZTJ105)

And so, while I guess it was a fairly tense meet-up, no hostile actions were taken by either side. Fu Pi found quarters for Murong Chui to the west of Ye, and Murong Chui explained the circumstances around the defeat south of the Huai. (JS123) One source adds that Murong Chui now began plotting the restoration of Yan with former Yan officials. (ZZTJ105)

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