The phrase "The ancient country heng died with weakness, and the Han died with strength" was often moved over to prove the strength of China's military strength during the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, so since there were a bunch of cattle people in China during the Three Kingdoms period, how did they get to the Western Jin Dynasty and be chased and beaten by the Five Hu Chaohua? The problem arises with the word "strong".
Since the beginning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the foreign policy of the Han Dynasty has begun to become tougher, even in the period of the Han Yuan Emperor, who began to decline, the famous general Chen Tang still shouted out the sentence: "Those who commit crimes against the strong Han will be punished from afar", and the domineering spirit of the Han Dynasty can be seen.
How strong were the military forces of those divided regimes at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty? Cao Wei swept Wu Huan, Sun Wu destroyed Shanyue, Shu Han Pingnanzhong, not to mention that these three kingdoms did not suffer the loss of foreign tribes, Ma Chao of Tianshui, and Shi Xie of Jiaozhou all disciplined the local Hu people obediently, and behind this was the strong military force of the local separatist forces.
While resolutely cracking down on some hostile foreign tribes, the Han Dynasty also allowed a large number of foreign tribes to be annexed, so that the originally scattered small tribes gradually gathered, and these attached foreigners had a humble status, usually oppressed and squeezed, and sent troops to suppress when they encountered resistance, which also directly led to the hatred of foreign tribes for the Central Plains regime.
The original intention of "Han dynasty to die by force" was to criticize the Han Dynasty for its poor military use, and the generals who were good at opening up border challenges and consuming people's strength in order to covet military merits, resulting in the rise of bandits, the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the rise of local warlords, and the achievement of Yuan Cao's grandson Liu.
Although the armed forces in the Central Plains were strong at this time, these attached foreign races could not set off any storms, some of them became mercenaries of local warlords, and some ran to the homes of dignitaries and dignitaries as slaves, but they had formed an undercurrent, waiting for opportunities.
During the Three Kingdoms period, years of conquest, plague rampant, white bones exposed in the wild, thousands of miles without chicken chirping. The population of the Eastern Han Dynasty was about 40 million, and by the time the Western Jin Dynasty unified the country, there were only 16 million left. Although historians still debate the exact population figures of this period due to the different statistical methods and historical materials used, it is certain that the population of the Han Nationality has plummeted.
Population became a scarce resource during that period, and there was no population to talk about taxation and servitude, not only Liu Bei would lead the people to flee, but Cao Cao also did the same, on the eve of the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao "broke the White Horse Siege, migrated his people, and followed the river to the west." ”
But what the ancients couldn't turn around was that they knew that the population was scarce, but they always liked to slaughter the city, and Cao Cao, Sima Yi, and Sun Quan all did it. Plagues, wars, slaughters, famines... Pi Sauce can't help but sigh, everyone can see today, the ancestors are really blessed with great fate!
"The weak are afraid, and the strong are invaded." If you are not of my race, your heart will be different. Waiting gaps to multiply the stool, and the stool is reversed. This inevitable trend also. By the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the hu problem had aroused the vigilance of some officials. But the emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, Pi Sauce can only say that the wisdom and character of the Sima family have been used up on Sima Yi's father and son.
The Western Jin Dynasty not only failed to curb the problem of the Hu people, but instead caused the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and their own families beat into a pot of porridge, which was simply a godsend for Wuhu.
In addition to the internal migration of the Hu people, the sharp decline in population during the Three Kingdoms period, and the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Sima family, there is a more profound reason that the sons of the Shi clan basically monopolized the government's talent election and controlled the government. There is no cold door in the upper grade, no high door in the lower product, and the children from the cold door, no matter how hard they try, will eventually have to be rubbed on the ground by the children of the scholar clan, and there will never be a day to emerge. The normal way to rise was blocked, and these cold disciples were only left to unite with those "five hus" who were usually oppressed to fight a fish dead net.
These reasons added up, no matter how many cattle people there were during the Three Kingdoms period, the Western Jin Dynasty would also be chased and beaten.