After the establishment of the Wei Dynasty, the northern gentry who had originally colluded with the Sima clan's children and had not migrated were invited to Chang'an, the capital of the Wei Dynasty.
Tuoba Chunyu organized a Hongmen Banquet to entertain these noble families who originally belonged to the Jin Dynasty but later helped the kings rebel.
He only asked them one question.
Should he surrender to him, help govern the Wei Dynasty, and expand the territory together, or choose to continue to be loyal to the Jin Dynasty.
If he chooses the former, Tuoba Chunyu will appoint officials and nobility on a large scale and select some capable Han people to entrust them with important tasks;
If you choose the latter, then I'm sorry. Tuoba Chun is not an indecisive person, he will directly kill all these noble families.
These noble families are all afraid of death.
The choice Tuoba Chunyu gave them, there was no doubt that they could only choose the former.
Not to mention that they can survive, they can even make meritorious deeds - whether they are helping the Hu people to make meritorious deeds, or helping the Sima clan descendants of the Jin Dynasty to make meritorious deeds, aren't these all meritorious deeds?
It's just that the people they are loyal to are different.
Even if the courtiers of the Jin Dynasty went to the Northern Expedition in the future and regained the territory, they could be said to have been forced.
Not only would he not have to die, he could even continue to be loyal to the Jin Dynasty.
Best of both worlds.
Those people comforted themselves in this way, and then they all chose to join Wei Dynasty with a flattering smile.
Tuoba Chunyu also fulfilled his promise.
He selected several well-known aristocratic families, selected the talents among them, and promoted them to officials and nobles.
In addition, he also asked the remaining Xianbei people to migrate to the north and ordered them to use Han surnames.
In order to achieve cultural integration, Tuoba Chunyu also ordered that the characters in the Wei Dynasty should be unified into Chinese characters, and the language should be based on the official dialect of the Jin Dynasty.
However, due to the large number of Xianbei people who migrated over, there was not enough land to divide, so Tuoba Chunyu demoted the Han refugees who did not have the status of common people as slaves - in this way, the land was much more abundant.
However, there were so many refugees in the north that for a time, there were no more slaves to hold them.
The Xianbei people were unwilling to spend more rations to feed their slaves, so they made a move that will go down in history.
Killing slaves for fun.
Some Xianbei nobles regarded slaves as two-legged sheep. Once they ran out of food during a march or war, they would use these people to satisfy their hunger.
Some Xianbei nobles began to have fun after they no longer had to worry about war. They treated slaves as prey, put them on the hunting ground and shot them randomly, competing to see who could kill more.
There are many more such bad behaviors.
For a time, the northern Han people lived under the shadow of Xianbei rule.
Because of their behavior, the Xianbei nobles became addicted to it. It was not enough to kill the slaves, and it was not enough to eat the slaves. The taste of the Han people was too delicious, not much better than the Hu slaves.
then what should we do.
They went out of their way to capture the common people, to capture the children of poor families without status, treat them as slaves to continue having fun, and treat them as two-legged sheep to continue to enjoy.
Because they learned the cooking skills of the Han people, the Xianbei people used these two-legged sheep to prepare rich feasts to entertain guests from all over the world.
In their brutal actions, the northern Han people were quickly killed to the last tenth.
Shi Ji saw all this, but he did not dare to take any action.
When he chose to defect to Murong Yan, there was no way back for him.
The young man who once dared not even pick a single herb turned around and picked up the butcher knife, becoming a bloodthirsty Asura in the eyes of the Han people.
With the tacit approval of Murong Yan and Tuoba Chunyu, his hands were stained with the blood of countless compatriots.
After shooting the slaves on the field again, and listening to the laughter of the nobles next to him, the last trace of pity and intolerance in the young man's eyes was completely replaced by numbness. This chapter has been completed!