The Gongsun family's separatist rule in Liaodong began with Gongsun Yuan's grandfather, Gongsun Du. Gongsun Du was originally from Xiangping, Liaodong, and later followed his father to Xuantu. He was appreciated by Gongsun Qi, the prefect of Xuantu, and helped him study and marry. In the third year of Jianning,

(A.D. 170) Gongsun Du was promoted to minister, and later served as the governor of Jizhou. He had a prominent position, but was rumored and dismissed. It was not until the sixth year of Zhongping (A.D. 189) that Dong Zhuo came to power, and Gongsun

Xu Rong of Dutong County recommended him as the governor of Liaodong, and he was able to come back. After taking office, Gongsun Du immediately eliminated dissidents in the county and established prestige, and then sent troops to attack Goguryeo. At this time, Goguryeo's new king Bogu was on the throne.

(126 AD to 191 AD), he fought with the Han army many times in the past few decades and attacked the Goguryeo counties on the Han border. At this time, he was conquered and served by Gongsun Du. The new king came to power in the next year

(A.D. 190) He sent Dajia Youju and Zhu Ran to assist Gongsun Du and annihilate the Fushan bandits together. At that time, Gongsun Du's ambitions expanded and he established himself as the Marquis of Liaodong and the Shepherd of Pingzhou. He openly acted independently of the Central Plains. After that,

Gongsun Du sent Liu Yi across the sea to annex the counties of Donglai in Qingzhou, and appointed him as the governor of Yingzhou. He completely controlled the passage of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. Gongsun Du also defeated Wuhuan, the three counties in the west, leveled the eastern and western boundaries of Liao, and merged with Xuantu in the east.

Lelang. In order to contain Goguryeo and other countries, he married his eldest daughter to King Fu Yu, making her loyal to him. Gongsun Du became the overlord of Northeast Asia for a while.

In the ninth year of Jian'an (AD 204), Gongsun Du died of illness, and his son Gongsun Kang ascended the throne. At this time, Cao Cao in the north was mopping up Yuan Shao's disciples, which put great pressure on the Gongsun family. In the tenth year of Jian'an (AD 205), Cao Cao defeated Yuan Tan and

Zhang Liao led his army to defeat Liu Yi, the governor of Yingzhou appointed by Gongsun Du at that time, and captured Gongsun's Donglai. In the twelfth year of Jian'an (207 AD), Cao Cao defeated Wuhuan in three counties and massacred Liucheng. Yuan Shang and others defected to Gongsun Kang and were later captured.

Kang killed and presented it to Cao Cao. Under Cao Cao's strong force, Gongsun Kang could only temporarily surrender, and later accepted the titles of Marquis of Xiangping and General Zuo awarded by Cao Cao. However, when Cao Cao turned his attention to the south, Gongsun Kang became obviously active.

In about 209 AD, Gongsun Kang took advantage of the quarrel between Yiyimo, the king of Goguryeo, and his brother, defeated the Goguryeo army, captured the capital of Goguryeo, and forced Yiyimo to move the capital to Wandu. Later, Gongsunkang was divided into the south of Tunyou County, Lelang County

The wasteland was Daifang County, and Gongsun Mo, Zhang Chang and others were sent to collect the remnants and raise troops to attack Han Hao. From then on, Lelang and Daifang also prospered. While Gongsun Kang used force to subjugate the three Han Dynasties, he also imitated his father's policy of peace and conquest.

, married his eldest daughter to Baekje, the most powerful among the Mahans, and Baekje became a vassal state of the Gongsun family. After the establishment of Daifang County, the influence of the Gongsun family in Northeast Asia reached its limit. Since then, the three Korean countries in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and

The Japanese countries in the northern part of Kyushu today (partly belonging to Queen Yamatai Kingdom) are all affiliated with Daifang County, and all tributes to the Gongsun family are handled by Daifang Prefect. By this time, Haoqian became the land of Hua Nei, and the husband

The rest of the three Han and Japanese countries surrendered, Goguryeo and Wuhuan were all destroyed, and no country in Northeast Asia dared to resist Gongsun's power. Moreover, the Gongsun family had controlled Liaodong for several generations, and the emperor considered it an extinct territory and entrusted overseas affairs.

Therefore, they cut off Dongyi, completely cut off the connections between China and other countries, and asserted themselves in Liaodong. In this way, the Gongsun family once again had various countries as weights, and was not afraid of the threats from the Middle Kingdom dynasty.

Some people may be confused as to how the four counties of Liaodong, Xuantu, Lelang, and Daifang in the barbaric land of Liaodong can become the overlord of Northeast Asia and the suzerain of the three Han, Japanese, and Fuyu countries. In fact, the territory of the Gongsun family

At this time, the foundation has been established. "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" and "Annals of Prefectures and States" record that in the fifth year of Emperor Shun Yonghe's fifth year (140 AD), the number of household registrations in Liaodong, Xuantu, and Lelang (including later Daifang) counties: 64,000 households in Liaodong counties

One thousand, one hundred and fifty-eight, eighty-one thousand, seven hundred and fourteen (W case: the number of mouths is wrong, one household is recorded as five people, which should be about 320,000 people. There are "Book of Jin" and "Xuandi Ji" that say

When Sima Yiping defeated Liaodong, he "collected 40,000 households, with a population of more than 300,000". This number should be removed from the "twenty", which is more than 280,000); the number of households in Xuantu County was 1,594, and the population

Forty-three thousand one hundred and sixty-three (W case: the number of households is wrong, "one thousand" should be "ten thousand"); Lelang County: 61,492 households, 257 people

Thousand and fifty. A total of nearly 600,000 people. Gongsun's household registration must have been more when Xiong Zhang Haidong: On the one hand, there was natural growth. According to the law of thousands of years in ancient China, the annual growth rate was about 0.12%. From the fifth year of Yonghe to Jian'an

In fifteen years, that is, 210 AD, the population can grow by 8.7%, or about 50,000 people. On the one hand, the Central Plains is in chaos, and scholar-bureaucrats and refugees will naturally flow into Liaodong, which is relatively stable in the Central Plains, and tens of thousands of people will increase. On the other hand, the population will increase by tens of thousands.

Gongsun Kang and others attacked the surrounding small countries, forcing the old people to come back and plunder the foreigners as slaves, which also increased the population. For example, "Three Kingdoms", "Wei Zhi" and "Dongyi Biography" record that "Qi Qi became a brother but could not stand, and Juannu added

More than 30,000 people from each general's family were able to survive and live in Boiling Water." Taken together, before the destruction of Xiangping City, the Gongsun family must have had more than 600,000 people, or even 700,000 people. According to the general estimates at that time,

With a military-civilian ratio of one to ten, Gongsun could mobilize an army of 60,000 to 70,000 people.

Looking at the situation of various countries in the same period, when the Shu Han was destroyed by the Wei State, it had only "a population of 940,000 and a population of 102,000 armored soldiers". When the State of Wu was destroyed, it had a "soldiers of 230,000 and a population of 2.3 million men and women."

Compared with Wu and Shu, the Gongsun family's territory is indeed smaller, but it is by no means too weak. It can at least be considered to be of the same magnitude. At that time, Goguryeo only had 30,000 households; Woju had 5,000 households; and Hao had 20,000 households.

"There are more than 50 households in the large country and thousands in the small country, totaling more than 100,000 households"; "Bian, Chen and Han combined the twenty-four countries, the large country has four to five thousand households, and the small country has six to seven hundred households, totaling four

"Fifty thousand households"; the Japanese can range from more than a thousand households to at least 70,000 households in the Yamatai Kingdom. The total is 150,000 households, but the country's structure is loose; there are only 80,000 households left, which is more than other countries. In this kind of Northeast Asia

In a situation full of small countries, it was easy for the Gongsun family to use them to contain each other, thus bringing them all under their control.

In the late Jian'an period, Gongsun Kang died, and his younger brother Gongsun Gong stood up and did nothing. In the second year of Wei Taihe (AD 228), Kang Ziyuan took the throne. At this time, the Murong family of Xianbei moved into western Liaoning, and perhaps there was friction with them, but it was not Gongsun.

Yuan's opponent. In 229 AD, Sun Quan of the Wu State proclaimed himself emperor and formally confronted the Wei State. After that, the Wu State also sought overseas vassal states and territories, and sent fleets to sea many times to search for Yizhou and Danzhou. However, the size of the East China Sea was

All countries were basically vassals of the Gongsun family, and the Wu State had almost no way to intervene, so Sun Quan had no choice but to seek an alliance with Gongsun Yuan. With the support of the Wu State, Gongsun Yuan's ambitions grew more and more, which led to his eventual break with the Wei State.

, proclaimed himself King of Yan in the first year of Jingchu (237 AD). Finally, Emperor Wei Ming made the decision to wipe out the separatist regime that had existed in Liaodong and North Korea for fifty years. Murong Xianbei and the Goguryeo Dongchuan Throne Palace also participated in the campaign.
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