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Qifu Guoren was a Xianbei. He served Fu Qin. In the seventh month of the guizwei year, the eighth year of Taiyuan of Emperor Wu of Eastern Jin, Jian, the ruler of Qin, attacked Jin, and appointed Guoren as Front General. It happened that Guoren's uncle Botui rebelled in Longxi, so Jian dispatched Guoren back to punish him. Guoren and Botui together usurped a region, their followers reaching more than one hundred thousand. In the jiashen year, Guoren occupied Jincheng (Lanzhou on the Gongchang circuit in Shaanxi). In the yiyou year, he established the state named Qin (Western Qin), and the reign year was called Jianyi. In the jichou year, King Wuyuan of Western Qin, Qiangui, had the reign year called Taichu. In the jiyou year, the fifth year of Yixi of Emperor An of Jin, the reign year of Western Qin was called Gengshi. In the renzi year, the Western Qin ruler Taizu Chipan had the reign year called Yongkang. In the first year of Yongchu of Gaozu of Song, the Western Qin reign year was called Jianshi. Reaching this fifth year of Yuanjia, Zuan's final year was called Yonghong, and it was destroyed by Helian Xia. The four rulers lasted a total of forty-five years.