In recent years, some historical articles have praised Ran Min very much, boasting that this "Heavenly King of Martial Mourning" of the Ran Wei regime was "the first hero of history", what "saved a nation", what "avoided the fall of China", and so on. In particular, Ran Min's so-called "order to kill Hu" has become the object of some people's praise, and the aura of countless "national righteousness" has been buckled on this person's head.
However, there is only one historical fact! The real Ran Min doesn't care about what "killing Hu" is. Moreover, the Hu people affected by the so-called "Hu Killing Order" were more than 100,000 Xiongnu and Xiongnu. And the Han people who died under this "Hu Killing Order" were ten times or even a hundred times that of the real Hu people!
First of all, are there millions of Hu people in Ran Min's territory?
The "order to kill Hu" boasted in these historical articles declared that Ran Min had "slaughtered all the Hu in the world, slaughtered all the people in the world, restored the land of the Han people, and the revenge of Xuewu Huaxia", and wiped out millions of Hu people in Northern China. They claimed that in northern China during the Ran Min era, only four or five million Han Chinese remained, and the population of the Hu people was also several million, which almost changed the proportion of the population in China.
These articles claim that Ran Min "annihilated more than 300,000 Hu soldiers of the Xiongnu and Xiongnu" in the battle, and "slaughtered more than 200,000 Xiongnu" in Yecheng, thus boasting that Ran Min "rebuilt the Chinese nation with kindness."
However, history's eyes cannot tolerate sand and fabrication. These numbers can be said not to believe a word.
In fact, during the time of Liu Cong, Shi Le, and Ran Min, the most important Hu people in North China were first of all Xiongnu and Xiongnu. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, the Xiongnu tribes had a total of only 30,000 or 40,000 households, with a population of only a few hundred thousand people. As vassals of the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu had a smaller population. In the early days of Liu Yuan's army, the Xiongnu army often could not even defeat the Western Jin Dynasty, and the power was trapped in a corner of Hezhou for a long time. It can be seen from this that the Xiongnu population is weak, and Ran Min is only 40 years away from Liu Yuan, and the population of the Xiongnu will only decrease significantly in successive conquests, not increase significantly.
After that, Liu Yuan, Liu Cong, Shi Le, and others were later able to overthrow the Western Jin Dynasty, which was entirely a self-inflicted death within the Western Jin Dynasty. The Rebellion of the Eight Kings and the struggle of warlords everywhere, a series of melee battles consumed the main force of the Western Jin army. On the other hand, the main forces of Liu Yuan, Liu Cong, and Shi Le were mostly also Han displaced people in the north, and the so-called Hu people were actually not dominant.
Therefore, to say that Ran Min drove out millions of Xiongnu, Qiang, Xianbei, Xianbei, And so on, is simply a mouthful. The agricultural areas of the Central Plains were so fertile and rich, the north during the Western Jin Dynasty was only a few million people, and the bitter cold land of the grassland Gobi could feed millions of Hu people? Isn't this punching the han, wei, and Jin dynasties in the face?
In fact, the so-called "Wuhu Chaohua", the ethnic groups that really come from the grasslands are at most a few hundred thousand people. Among them, the largest number is the Xianbei clan, and during the Ran Min period, they belonged to the Duan clan Xianbei, Murong Xianbei, Yuwen Xianbei, Tuoba Xianbei, Tuguhun and so on, and their power was very dispersed. The most crucial thing is that the Xianbei tribe with the largest population, "Great Wei Heavenly King" Ran Min, can't manage whether it is good or not! Ran Min, who was only occupying the yellow river, how could Youde run to the Area of Youzhou to expel Murong Shi? Or did he run to the Hetao area to expel the Tuoba clan?
At that time, the Hu people that Ran Min directly faced were mainly Xiongnu, Xiongnu and Ding Zero, and each ethnic group was at most tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people. And the most crucial thing is that Ran Min's so-called "killing Hu Order" is only a short-term act, and a large number of Hu people are not only safe and sound, but also continue to work under Ran Min!
In 349, after the internal turmoil of Later Zhao, Ran Min, as a great general, began the so-called "Killing Hu Order" in order to seize power, massacring Hu people in Yicheng and other places, and the dead claimed to be 200,000, which was the main reason why he was touted as "rebuilding China". However, the following year, after Ran Min usurped power and became emperor, he appointed his son Ran Yin as "Dadan Yu" as the leader of the Hu people. Moreover, Ran Min also assigned a thousand surrendered Hu people to Ran Yin's command. What kind of "killing order" is this? It can be seen that Ran Min's mass slaughter of hu people in Yecheng is completely necessary for seizing power, and as long as the interests require it, he will also do the opposite thing.
In addition, some people often repeatedly talk about what "millions of Hu people were driven out of the Central Plains by Ran Min, and only 20% or 30% returned to their hometowns on the way, and only 20 or 30% returned to their hometowns", and they also organized their hometowns into northern grasslands and even european plains. This is simply a distortion of the history books.
The Book of Jin clearly states: "The Qing, Yong, You, Jingzhou migrant households and the millions of People of Zhuyi, Qiang, Hu, and Barbarians, each returning to their own land, the roads are staggered, killing and plundering each other, and hunger and death, and there are two or three of them who can reach it." The summers are chaotic, and there are no farmers. ”
See clearly, here is talking about the millions of people in Qing, Yong, You, and Jing prefectures who were driven back to their hometowns, the vast majority of whom were Han Chinese! Moreover, some of the Hu and Qiang ethnic groups contained in it, and their hometown is also in the Central Plains, and they are not foreigners at all! And what percentage of Hu people can be in it?
The death of these millions of Han Chinese is the biggest victim of the "Killing Hu Ling"! You know, the population of the Western Jin Dynasty is only 16 million, of which there are about 10 million people in the northern region. However, during the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the population of the northern region fell to four or five million people. One of the biggest losses was the massive killing and famine caused by Ran Min's expulsion of the people, resulting in the death of millions of Han Chinese.
It can be said that the huge losses caused by Ran Min to the Han population far exceeded those of the Former Zhao of the Xiongnu and the Later Zhao of the Xiongnu! In fact, Ran Min was the sinner who caused the greatest loss to the Chinese nation in the Era of The Five Hu Chaohua. (Author: Tao Mujian)