5. The period when the Chinese people were on the verge of survival
The Western Jin Dynasty collapsed in the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and the nomads outside the Saiwai took the opportunity to establish power in the north and confront the southern regime.
These five Hu tribes include the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qian, Qiang, and Di, but in reality, there are far more foreign tribes involved in the chaos.
After a hundred years of turmoil, the land of China went through a hundred years of turmoil, from the establishment of the Cheng Han and Han Zhao in 304 AD to the unification of the north by the Northern Wei Dynasty in 439 AD, which lasted 135 years, accounting for one-third of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
As early as the Han Dynasty, frequent wars have laid the root of the Wuhu chaos, in order to restore productivity, the Hu people in the frontier were relocated, to the Western Jin Dynasty, the number of Hu people in the interior increased dramatically, and even some have become the first of the imperial court.
However, the essential difference between nomadic culture and agrarian culture has made the contradiction between the Han and Hu increasingly acute. Although the Han regime was able to suppress the Hu people during a period of strength, when it declined, the resentment that had accumulated in the Hu people's hearts for a hundred years would explode, triggering large-scale unrest.
During the period of Wuhu Chaohua, the Han people in the north experienced endless wars and displacements, and their lives were as fragile as mustard. It is recorded in the history books that the large-scale ** Han people of the Hu army abound, they burned, killed and looted, and were extremely brutal, so that there was not one in ten of the Central Plains scholars.
Among them, the fragment of "Jin Yang Autumn" records,"Emperor Hu"Shile has hundreds of thousands of people at a time, which makes people shudder. In addition, there are many records about ** in the history of the Jin Dynasty, and what the Qian people did was even more outrageous, they regarded Han women as "two-legged sheep", and took turns to commit adultery day and night, and even slaughtered and cooked it as military food, their behavior was simply cannibal demons.
The history of this period is full of darkness and cruelty, which is heartbreaking.
In the more than 100 years since the Wuhu Rebellion, the number of Han people in the north has dropped sharply from 24 million to 4 million due to frequent wars and killings, and the originally fertile farmland in the Central Plains has also been occupied by the Hu people, and the living space of the Han people has been continuously squeezed.
If the Hu people continue to rule the Central Plains for a hundred years, it will be difficult for the Han people in the Central Plains to escape the doom of caste extinction.
In the darkest hour, Ran Min, the savior of the Han people, came to the fore. He was the adopted grandson of Emperor Shi Hu of Later Zhao, and his original name was Shi Min. In the Later Zhao period, he participated in countless battles and made many achievements.
After Shi Hu's death, Ran Min supported Shi Zun as the emperor, and then killed Shi Zun and changed Shi Jian to the emperor. In 350 AD, Ran Min killed Shi Jian, ascended the throne as emperor, and established the Ran Wei regime.
The reason why Ran Min is remembered by the Han people is that he issued an edict to save the Han people from extinction - the Tuhu Order. The original text is as follows: Zhuhu has been in turmoil in the Central Plains for decades, and now I ask for it, if there is a common discussion, I can send troops to come.
Tyrannical Hu has bullied the Han family for decades, killed my people, and seized my ancestral temple. Now we hereby crusade, whoever offends my great man will die; Whoever kills my great people will die; I will kill all the Hu in the world and restore the foundation of my Han family.
The Han people in the world have the obligation to slaughter Hu Gou. I, Ran Min, am ordered by the way of heaven to inform the world with this omen.
The implementation of the "Tuhu Order" led to the beheading of hundreds of thousands of Hu people, and almost all the Qi people were wiped out. Although the Hu people later united to defeat Ran Min, from then on, the Hu people were impressed with the Han people and no longer oppressed the Han people with violence.
Since then, there has been no record of the large-scale Han people of the Hu people, which was the only ray of light during that dark period.