In chinese history,
There is such a character with a very polarized reputation,
Those who hate him call him a butcher, a slave with three surnames,
It is a disgrace to China's five-thousand-year history of civilization.
But those who loved him called him the god of war,
He is a national hero who saved the Han people from water and fire.
His whole life was a struggle between the contradictions between the two major races of Han and Hu,
He once killed the Han people,
But later in order to overthrow Hou Zhao,
A paper to kill Hu Ling,
Let hundreds of thousands of Hu people die in Huangquan,
Giving the Endangered Han people a chance to breathe,
And directly or indirectly killed more than 3 million Hu people in the years that followed,
He is Shi Min, known as the "Heavenly King of Wu Mourning".
Why did Shi Min, as the Prince of Later Zhao, wantonly slaughter the Hu people?
Is it a way to kill Hu Ling or to save Han?
Today we talk about Ran Min's legendary life.
It's ironic to say,
Ran Min, who is the "savior of the Han people",
In fact, in the early years, I always thought that I was a Hu person,
Moreover, he was also the adopted grandson of Shi Hu, the Emperor of Later Zhao.
At that time, his name was even Shi Min instead of Ran Min.
According to the Northern Wei historian Cui Hong's "Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms",
"Min is young and sharp, and the tiger is like a grandson",
Who is Shi Hu?
He was the third emperor of Later Zhao,
A murderous tyrant,
He did the most ridiculous thing in his life,
It was after the invasion of the Central Plains,
Arrested 200,000 Han chinese women at one time,
Order all the soldiers to commit violence on the spot until after night,
Slaughter these women as "two-legged sheep",
and serve as military food,
If you have more, kill and throw it into the Easy Water River.
According to the Book of Jin, the remaining corpses blocked the Yishui River,
The river is red and red,
It's such a murderous maniac,
But he loved Shi Min, who was a Han Chinese, as if he were a grandson,
It's a bit unimaginable.
But in fact, this is inseparable from Shi Min's talent.
Unlike his own kind of reckless son,
Shi Min has been intelligent since childhood, and is good at observing words and colors,
And wen and wu are both complete and one-handed sword kung fu,
Far more than the children of the same period.
When Shi Min became an adult,
Became an eight-foot-long, scheming, and courageous general,
And in the early years of Shi Min never lost,
Shi Hu made him a jianjie general,
Enough to prove the love for it.
In the Battle of Changli, Shi Hu was defeated,
Later, all the armies of Zhao threw away their armor and fled in a hurry,
Only the guerrilla army led by Shi Min was not only 300 people but all sound.
And at one point he beat the enemy to the point of panic,
So far, Shi Min became famous in the First World War,
Promoted by Shi Hu to the rank of General of The Northern Zhonglang,
and was responsible for guarding the northern border of Hou Zhao,
In the years that followed, Shi Min made many achievements on the border.
Often with more than a dozen casualties, thousands of enemy encroachments were blocked.
In 347 A.D.,
Later Zhao Yuan Gaoli oversaw Liang Calf's rebellion at Yongcheng,
At first his army marched all the way,
Kill out of Tongguan and directly attack the capital Luochuan,
Slaughtered all the many armies sent by Shi Hu,
Shi Hu was forced to the end of the road,
He had to appoint his son Shi Bin as the governor of Dadu,
Put him in charge of counterinsurgency,
At that time, Shi Min was under the order of Shi Bin,
Served as a general of the Conscripts.
Shi Bin's little abacus played very well,
He thought about letting Shi Min fight the rebellion.
If you win, you will grab people's heads at the last moment,
Take all the credit to yourself,
Losing just took the opportunity to get rid of Shi Min.
It's just a pity that his wishful thinking,
It was funny in front of Shi Min.
In 349 A.D.,
Shi Min attacked head-on and killed Liang Calf in one fell swoop,
And in the area east of Xingyang, he surrounded and killed all of Liang's rebels,
Shi Bin didn't even have the chance to grab people's heads.
After this battle, Shi Min Weisheng Mi Zhen Hu Xia Su will not be afraid,
No one in the various regimes dared to make enemies of Hou Zhao, who had Shi Min in his seat.
But the accident happened very quickly.
In April of the same year, Shi Hu died of illness,
Ended his life full of blood and killing.
And Shi Shi, the youngest son closest to Shi Hu, took the opportunity to succeed to the throne.
Shi Shi's behavior angered his brother Shi Zun,
He decided to seize the throne by force,
The reason why Shi Zun dared to do this,
Mainly because he has a trump card in his hand.
That was Shi Min under his command.
In order to ensure Shi Min's loyalty,
In front of the surprise attack on the capital, Shi Zun secretly met Shi Min,
Tell him that as long as he helps him succeed in seizing power,
He promised to make Shi Min crown prince.
May 15 Shi Min appointed as a pioneer,
Easily killed into the city of Ye,
And helpEd Shi Zun successfully establish himself as emperor,
And after being proclaimed emperor, Shi Min was enfeoffed,
Auxiliary General Lu Shang Shu Shi Du Governor and other important positions.
Although he was powerful, he did not become a prince,
Apparently, Shi Zun reneged on his word,
Shi Min did not appear to have a seizure,
Secretly began to reward the army frequently,
And make a wish for his own henchmen.
This incident aroused the jealousy of Shi Zun and his cronies,
They began to do everything they could to restrain Shi Min,
There were even reckless ministers who sent people to assassinate Shi Min,
This made the contradiction between the two sides quickly enter a white-hot,
Shi Zun, who is jealous of Shi Min's talents,
Decided to simply add a false accusation to Shi Min.
Just do it off,
And this matter was detected by Shi Hu's third son, Shi Jian,
He informed Shi Min of this news in advance,
After Shi Min learned of this,
A rapid rebellion,
Led tens of thousands of troops into the palace,
Stabbed Shi Zunchao to death in the palace,
And embraced Li Shijian as emperor.
At this time, Shi Min,
In fact, there is no longer the desire to compete for the emperor,
Even if he is enfeoffed as king of Wude, his power is monstrous,
But he did not make a wish to his subordinates as before.
Instead, I enjoy the blessings of the people in my own home every day,
But even so,
The newly appointed Shi Jian was still very jealous of this brother.
Especially when Shi Jian learned,
Shi Min is not a complete Hu person,
But after the situation of the Han people,
His suspicions of Shi Min are even more serious,
Even dispatched for this within a day,
36 killers carried out 17 assassinations,
Unfortunately, not once did it.
In order not to repeat the mistakes of Shi Zun,
Shi Jian, who failed to assassinate, directly ordered,
Kill all the cronies who were involved in plotting this incident,
Here comes a dead untested.
When Shi Min carried the body of one of the killers,
When shi jian was found to confront,
Shi Jian said with two hands and one stall,
I don't know, how could someone assassinate you? I don't know
Even with an extremely innocent tone and a dazed look,
Defend yourself,
But Shi Min is not stupid,
He had seen that it was the person in front of him,
Send someone to try to assassinate himself.
It's just that he doesn't want to have a seizure right now.
He wanted to take this opportunity to prove his loyalty.
Yet this behavior of his,
In Shi Jian's eyes, it became stupid,
Several subsequent devaluations and a new round of assassinations,
Completely buried Shi Min's trust in the Shi family,
After learning of his Han identity,
The loss of trust in the Shi family evolved,
Disgust and hatred for the Hu people,
And this hatred broke out completely soon after.
In November 349,
The Dragon General Sun Fu gathered 3,000 dead soldiers of the Qi clan,
Trying to lure Shi Min out of the barracks to intercept and kill,
As a result, Sun Fudu never expected to send,
This Shi Min, he doesn't talk about martial arts,
Shi Min, who had already seen through Sun Fudu's tricks,
Directly led the entire military camp to rebel again.
Nearly 10,000 soldiers went out of the city to kill 3,000 dead soldiers in the fart stream,
At the same time, Ran Min took thousands of soldiers,
Directly demolished the Jin Ming Gate and forced into the palace,
Aggressively killed into the imperial city,
Looking at shi min with angry eyes,
Shi Jian was so frightened that his legs couldn't stand up straight.
Rush selling teammates said:
"Sun Fudu intends to rebel, please ask Ai Qing to quickly crusade against him."
Shi Min was also not polite enough to let people go after sun voodoo,
But then he gave the order in front of the emperor,
"The Six Yi of the Interior and Exterior dare to call the soldiers and warriors behead them"
The implication is that Your Majesty, didn't you say that there are anti-thieves?
Now I'm going to order that except for me,
Anyone who dares to support the army and stand on his own feet will be killed,
Now you don't have to worry about someone "plotting" against you.
After leaving the university, in order to reassure the people,
Shi Min ordered, "From now on, those who are different from those who are with the same heart as the officials will be recognized;
The gates of the city are no longer forbidden. ”
Shi Min's original intention was to give a way to live for those who tried to kill themselves.
Let them get out of the Imperial City, what should they do,
By the way, take those who are loyal to them back into the city,
It's convenient to protect yourself, and you can also protect yourself.
But Shi Min Wanwan did not expect,
After this command is issued,
Thousands of wives in the city fled in large numbers,
On the contrary, it is the Han people who send people under the fence,
Crazy into the city.
Most of them were the slave class of Later Zhao,
Because after Shi Min learned that he was a Han Chinese,
Prohibitions on the killing of Han Chinese have been issued many times
Only then were they able to survive.
Shi Min Wanwan did not expect,
The one who is most loyal to himself,
It turned out to be these slaves that he had despised the most,
This made Shi Min more identified with his Han identity.
At the same time, he also completely lost trust in the Hu people.
Again, some Hu nobleman,
After slaughtering a family of Han Chinese slaves who entered the city,
Shi Min's patience with the Hu people reached its extreme
In a fit of rage, he issued an order,
"Zhao Ren beheaded Hu And sent fengyang gate,
Civilian officials were promoted to the third rank of military attaché. ”
And here is the famous "Killing Hu Order",
According to this command, anyone whoever kills a Hu person,
Bring his head to Fengyang Gate to report,
Then you can be a writer or go to the army as a squad leader.
Hu people can't do anything to their own people in order to become officials.
Therefore, this order was obviously issued to the Han people in the city.
And those Han chinese were almost all slaves.
They have long had enough of the oppression and ravages of the Hu people.
Everyone is full of hatred for the Hu people,
And the release of this command,
For them, it's like putting a stimulant in their head.
Not only can they legitimately kill the Hu people to avenge,
You can also join the army and even be promoted to the rank of knight.
For a time, those Han people who were tortured and humiliated,
They all took up arms and rushed into the home of the Hu people to burn and loot,
Overnight, the Hu people in Ye City, no matter how noble or lowly,
Men, women, young and old were killed.
Some hu-han mixed-race people with high noses and beards were also slaughtered as Hu people.
According to incomplete historical records,
In less than 4 days after the hu killing order was issued,
In total, more than 200,000 Hu people were slaughtered.
Their heads are stuffed with thousands of large frames,
And the corpses were piled up outside the city into a hill,
It became a free self-help for the wild dog Jackal.
Such a large-scale killing, although out of breath,
But it doesn't solve the substantive problem,
And When Shi Jian learned about this,
Begin to pursue a more extreme method of killing Shi Min.
In 350 AD,
When he took advantage of Shi Min's outing to recruit the Hu rebels,
Secretly contacted the armies of various regions,
Trying to trap Shi Min in Yecheng and join forces to encircle and suppress,
No, Shi Min would have already calculated that Shi Jian would make this decision.
So he sent someone early to intercept the letter along the way,
And when he learned of this, he hurried back,
This time, Shi Jian did not even have the opportunity to argue and was deposed on the spot.
Soon after, all the relatives of Shi Jian and Shi Hu,
Pulled to the front of the main hall, 200 sergeants stabbed into meat paste with spears,
Those ministers of the DPRK and The Chinese people were all panicked when they saw this scene.
He quickly knelt down and begged for forgiveness and honored Shi Min as emperor.
On this day,
Shi Min finally regained his real surname,
Changed his name to Ran Min and changed the country name to Wei,
At this point, the Ran Wei regime was officially established.
After self-reliance,
Ran Min did not be passive and sluggish,
Instead, it was an active bloody battle with the last royal family of the Shi family, Shi Qi.
In this process,
He wanted to reconcile with the Eastern Jin Dynasty,
And invited the Eastern Jin Dynasty to join the troops.
However, the other party was because of the shadow of Hou Zhao and Shi,
Did not dare to trust Ran Min refused to reconcile with him,
Ask the soldiers to repair the unsuccessful Ran Min,
He had to lead his own troops to fight.
In April, Shi Kun sent Xiangguo Shi Kun to lead an army of 100,000,
Occupy Handan and attack Yecheng,
Ran Min led his troops to defend Handan,
Relying on the advantages of terrain and excellent defensive equipment,
Trapping Shi Kun in front of the city gate,
Tens of thousands of Hu soldiers were killed,
The bodies even fell into an "engineering ladder."
But even so, Shi Kun's army,
Still unable to step into Handan,
And when Shi Kun's morale was low,
Ran Min led a large army of Han Chinese to make a surprise attack,
Beheading Shi Kun under his horse Shi Qi also fled in a hurry,
Eventually assassinated by his subordinate Liu Xian, Zhao was completely destroyed.
After the fall, Zhao did not let Ran Min get even a moment of peace.
Praying mantis cicada catcher yellow finches in the back,
When Ran Min had just slaughtered the remnants of Later Zhao,
Former Yan took the opportunity to invade in a big way,
Ran Min sent ambassadors to the Eastern Jin Dynasty for help 6 times.
However, no response was received.
In April 352 A.D.,
Youzhou Jizhou has been conquered,
Ran Min personally led the resistance troops to defeat and be captured,
In May, he was beheaded by Murong Shi at Mount Shujing,
In August, the Ran Wei regime collapsed.
Looking back at Ran Min and his regime of only 2 years,
Can't help but sigh,
Ran Min and his Ran Wei regime are just a force,
Forces that are struggling between the Han and the Hu,
He was neither recognized by the Han nor accepted by the Hu.
He can only be within his own control,
The creation of authority through violence and massacres,
This kind of slaughter is like when you are in a deep quagmire.
Desperately grasping for that life-saving straw, struggling,
And its end is already predetermined.
Many people say that killing Hu Ling is cruel and unjustified,
it's typical anti-human behavior.
Ran Min is an ancient sinner,
But is this really the case?
We look at the ancients with the eyes of modern people,
Itself is using an irresponsible perspective of God,
Look at the problem,
If you put yourself in the shoes of the thinker,
Although the killing of Hu Ling is cruel and ruthless,
And it did lead to a lot of innocent killings.
But it was that era, that period,
The optimal solution that can be taken out,
It really protected the Han people as a nation.
In the early days of the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty, the number of Han people exceeded 20 million.
But at the time of Ran Min's annihilation of Hu, the whole land of China.
The number of Han Chinese is less than 4 million,
And then Zhao these areas,
Even less than 20,000 people,
If there is no Ran Min, there is no killing of Hu Ling,
What will be the end of the Han Chinese?
We simply can't imagine, we can't imagine, we can't imagine.
Look at Ran Min with the eyes and thoughts of modern people,
He is indeed a man who kills the wordless,
an "ultra-nationalist",
But in his time,
For those Han Chinese who were slaughtered and tortured,
He is a well-deserved great national hero of the world.