Liu Yu softly said "Oh": "So, your grandfather had already moved to Guanzhong in the last years of Shi Zhao, before Ran Min launched an army to kill Hu?"
Wang Zhene said calmly: "To be precise, our Wang family was born in the Ju County area of Qingzhou, and my grandfather was also born here. When he was a boy, there was a great chaos in Yongjia, when Shi Hu usurped the throne and sent troops to conquer all directions.
In the land of Qingzhou, at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, we encountered the Jin general Gou Xi who was known as the Butcher, and when Shi Hu later attacked and destroyed Cao Yi, he slaughtered and plundered everywhere. Our Wang family was an ordinary farmer in the area and could no longer survive.
The family moved to Wei County in the Jizhou area and saved their lives."
"At this time, my grandfather was still young. By chance, he was taught Confucianism and the art of war by a stranger. Because of his extraordinary talent, he soon learned by analogy and had a lot of strategies. It was a blessing in disguise. He was
In the process of studying, I saw that there were many internal contradictions in the Later Zhao Dynasty. Not only were the Han and Hu conflicts sharp and irreconcilable, but also the Shi clan kings were fighting overtly and covertly. Such a regime would not last long, and in the Guandong area, for decades,
The Han people and the Hu people headed by Jiehu have deep hatred. Once the Shizhao regime collapses, they will inevitably attack and kill each other without end, so my grandfather decisively decided to move to Guanzhong and wait and see the changes."
Liu Yu sighed and said: "This is what you just said. My grandfather had to meet strangers to teach him his secret knowledge, and then lived in seclusion in Guanzhong to avoid disaster before the world was in chaos. However, the first person he saw after he came out of the mountain was Huan Wen, and
It's not Fu Jian, which shows that he still cares about the Han people in his heart, and if he has a choice, he still wants to serve the Jin Dynasty under the Han regime first."
Wang Zhene nodded and said: "That's right, because in his opinion, the Hulu regime at that time was all based on Hu Feng's desire to rule the roost with force, and was fierce and easy to kill. This kind of lawless regime without rules cannot last long.
Yes, because they regard the people as cattle and sheep that can be slaughtered and driven at will. In turn, the people have no loyalty to them. They are just succumbing to their power. However, such a regime is cruel to the people. In order to maintain its monopoly, the people are thieves.
Because of their status, they will guard their clan and nobles as much as they guard against thieves. The interior cannot be monolithic, and civil strife will inevitably occur sooner or later. As long as there is civil strife, the military advantage that can suppress the people will no longer exist, and new people will be given to them.
They were replaced by armed groups, such as the Xiongnu, Han and Zhao, and the Shi clan and Zhao clan. In the eyes of my grandfather at that time, the Yao clan and the Qiang clan were the same for the Tuoba clan in the north, including the Fu clan and the Di clan in Guanzhong."
"So when Huan Wen led his army in the Northern Expedition and entered Guanzhong, my grandfather was still very happy. He even burned incense to thank God, thinking that the good days of the Han people in the world were finally coming. After all, for decades, Wang Shi was not allowed to enter Guanzhong and the north again.
, and Huan Wen wiped out a Huru country and became the Han Dynasty, took back Yizhou and returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This time he entered Guanzhong and repeatedly defeated the former Qin army. Everything looks so good. "
Liu Yu sighed: "The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Huan Wen did the Northern Expedition in order to usurp the throne and accumulate fame. He did not really want to regain the lost territory. My grandfather saw this and did not return to Jingzhou with Huan Wen. This is what we have done before
What we discussed was just that my grandfather turned to help Fu Jian to pacify the world and unify the north. Is this change too much? What if he had not left the mountain and allowed the northern barbarians to continue to attack each other and reduce the population of the barbarians?
Isn’t it better to be consumed in the melee, and finally the Han regain the dominance through numbers?”
Wang Zhene shook his head and said: "It sounds like that, but the emergence of regimes such as Shi Zhao and Ran Wei made him give up this idea. Such extremely cruel regimes did not care about the Han people at all, and even
Regardless of whether the barbarians are dead or alive, in just a few years, they can conquer the lands of Hebei and Guandong, which were once thousands of miles of fertile fields, leaving no one to return to farming, and the people will eat each other. This is even more terrifying than the most terrifying years of the Five Husbands' invasion of China.
To make people despair, if there is no regime that can end this troubled times in the north, I am afraid that the north will really be uninhabited, and the bones will be exposed in the wild. The barbarians will have no food or water, and at worst they can withdraw with the tribe.
Outside the Great Wall, we are once again living in pursuit of water and grass, but what about us Han people? Then we really have no choice but to wait for death."
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "Then we can't just like the refugee commanders in the early Eastern Jin Dynasty, who settled down to protect themselves, and moved their villages and countryside south to join the Jin Dynasty? At least there is a way to survive."
Wang Zhen'e said in a deep voice: "It is not that no one has done this kind of thing. When Shi Zhao collapsed, there were more than 200,000 Han people in Hebei, dragging their families and families southward, hoping to cross the Yellow River and join the Great Empire.
Jin, but the Northern Expedition in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was just like Huan Wen's, just a pretense to seek a false name. Either he retreated with little success, or he was defeated by the Hu barbarians due to lack of preparation. That was the Northern Expedition of Chu Pei.
Because they were not familiar with military affairs, the forward infantry was completely unable to fight against Shi Zhao's cavalry. Even though they had fought and split among themselves, they were still no match for his frontline generals and returned in defeat. The Han people who went south, without the support of the Jin army, were unable to fight all the way.
They were attacked by Hu cavalry and bandits, and almost all of them died before crossing the Yellow River. From then on, there was no large-scale movement of Han people southward to surrender to the Jin Dynasty."
Liu Yu slapped the railing in front of him hatefully, and directly cut the top layer of horizontal bars in two, and roared angrily: "These gangs of robbers and beasts, how pitiful are the children of my Han family, they are slaughtering them like this, now
I, Liu Yu, will definitely avenge this hatred in my life!"
Wang Zhene shook his head: "Brother Jinu, I can understand your mood, but I'm afraid this revenge cannot be avenged. Those who attacked these Han people back then included Ran Min, Li Nong's beggar army, and Yao
The Hu tribes such as the Qiang people and the Di people of the Fu family are now mostly dead. Only the Yao Qiang tribe remains, and they established the Later Qin."
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "Ignore the ones that have been destroyed. Those of the Yao family Qiang who are still alive are the only remaining murderers from back then. I will definitely eliminate them too. However, didn't Yao Xiang have the ability back then?"
In the name of benevolence, it doesn’t seem quite like the killing of people you mentioned.”
Wang Zhene said calmly: "At that time, Yao Xiang was not the leader of the Yao tribe. The Yao tribe was headed by Yao Yizhong, an old Qiang who was also the father of Yao Xiang and Yao Chang. He was the general of Shi Zhao.
He led his troops to pursue and intercept the Han people who went south to surrender to the Jin Dynasty, and he also acted on orders. However, Shi Zhao was destroyed by civil strife and the Yao tribe was able to stand on its own. At this time, Yao Xiang inherited his father's position and became the leader of the tribe. In order to stay in the Central Plains, he also began to
Learn benevolence and righteousness, recruit and protect the Han refugees." (End of this chapter)