"Break Six Han Balin?"
Li Yan furrowed his brows. "Who is he?"
The name sounded strange, not like a native of the Central Plains.
He turned to Zhang Xiaoshan, but the old man simply shook his head. "Why are you looking at me? I don't know him either."
The monk from the Law Enforcement Hall brought his palms together and explained, "That man was the leader of the rebels in the Six Fortresses during the time of Tuoba Beiwei."
At this, Li Yan suddenly understood.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei moved the capital to Luoyang and changed his surname to "Yuan," fully implementing Sinicization.
As a result, the political and economic status of the military and civilians in the Six Fortresses area sharply declined, coupled with the later corruption of the court of Northern Wei, leading to large-scale rebellions.
