HLnovel Chapter 540: The Consequences of the Hu Rebellion in China
Chapter 540: The Consequences of the Hu Rebellion in China
Chapter 540 The Consequences of the Five Barbarian Invasions
Sima family members: ...
First of all, they're not being magnanimous! They're calling it "friendly brotherly communication."
Secondly, they should take the blame, but doesn't the preceding Cao Wei dynasty bear any responsibility?
Fortunately, Cao Cao was unaware of this, otherwise he would have been shocked by the shamelessness of the Sima family and would have made sure they had no chance to develop in a cowardly manner!
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Qin Dynasty, First Emperor
The First Emperor was shocked, and even slowed down the speed at which he reviewed memorials. He truly couldn't understand why someone so magnanimous wasn't showing kindness and compassion towards the people!
The low population after the war is not normal. If we really want to restore people's livelihood, we can take the route of light taxes and levies. There is plenty of experience from our predecessors. Why relocate so many non-Han people to the interior?
These people, like a snowball rolling downhill, grew bigger and bigger, and erupted in the Western Jin Dynasty. He really wanted to ask those people surnamed Sima: with such a large number of Hu people left in the north of the Central Plains, didn't the Western Jin court have any worries at all?
Indeed, they're all too busy fighting amongst themselves to care about insiders or outsiders. They shout that those who are not of their kind must have different intentions, yet they still managed to take in so many non-Han people.
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Lin Ke continued, "I don't know what the Western Jin Dynasty was thinking, but after the Five Barbarian tribes, represented by the Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, and Qiang, migrated into the Central Plains..."
"In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty alone, the Guanzhong region, which was once a settlement of Han people, was transformed into a collection of northwestern prefectures inhabited by Rong people."
"Afterwards, because the descendants of the Sima family were all eyeing the throne of Emperor Hui of Jin, internal strife broke out, leading to a weakened national strength, a devastated people's livelihood, and a significant reduction in military capabilities. As a result, dozens of regimes established by the Hu people began to rise up and take control!"
"Before this, the Han people were dominant, so the Han were respected and the Hu people were weak. Now, the Hu people follow the Han and the Hu people are weak; even the way they are addressed has changed."
"The Hu people called the Han people slaves, sons, dogs, etc. Although this was supposed to be a process of great ethnic integration, it was no less than hell for the people at that time."
Wan Chao's people: Holy crap... ancestors... >?@...&*>...
"Moreover, even when the Western Jin Dynasty still existed, it benefited from the rule that 'without the aristocratic families, there would be no Western Jin Dynasty.'"
"These people in high positions have never laid down their swords, whether they are dealing with ordinary people or barbarians."
"For example, the Book of Jin records that whether they were high-ranking officials of the Western Jin Dynasty or poor commoners, they were all the same in front of the Hu people, and all of them were dead under their swords."
"But what is even more disheartening is that later generations, when they turn to the Book of Jin, will find that cannibalism was not uncommon. It can be said that since the War of the Eight Princes, the above-mentioned phenomena have never stopped, and this was only the beginning!"
"In particular, at that time, natural disasters and man-made calamities came one after another, such as severe droughts, locust plagues, and epidemics. They came one after another without giving you a chance to catch your breath. According to records, grasslands and cattle and horse hair were all gone."
"Across the entire land, mournful cries echoed incessantly; everywhere was carnage, everywhere was blood and tears—it was an extremely dark era."
"It can be more directly called the era of cannibalism. Literally, it almost led to the demise of the Central Plains civilization. So how can all of this not be attributed to the Sima family?!"
"If they hadn't been selfish and self-serving, failing to govern properly after gaining power—their positions were illegitimate to begin with, and they hadn't created such chaos—how could the Central Plains have fallen to this state!"
"Where can those unarmed civilians go to escape this calamity?"
"Therefore, even though the Eastern Jin Dynasty had other problems, it was Sima Rui who led the gentry and common people to flee south, which allowed the civilization of the Central Plains to continue!"