After Liu Cong, there was a situation in the north in which the two Zhao dynasties stood side by side. Later, Later Zhao's Shi Le destroyed Former Zhao, unified the northern region, and probably controlled the area ruled by Cao Wei at that time.
Shi Le can be called the previous generation of male lords, Wenzhi martial arts are more outstanding, he pacified the northern separatist forces, destroyed the Xiongnu regime. After that, it stabilized the society, attached importance to education and founded Taixue, organized displaced people, resumed production, and restored society.
And judging from the will he made when his life was about to end, it was also very far-sighted. His will is mainly two points.
First, officials and civilians can wear civilian clothes, civil marriages are not affected, officials from other places do not need to go to Beijing to worship, and the whole country does not need to observe filial piety, so as to minimize the impact of funerals on officials and the people.
Second, because his son was still young at this time and could not take charge of the government, he told Shi Hu and the chancellor that they should emulate Huo Guang, the Duke of Zhou, and concentrate on assisting the young lord. Otherwise, Hou Zhao would repeat the same mistakes as the Western Jin Dynasty.
At this time, if the development was arranged according to Shi Hu and the situation of confrontation between the north and the south was formed with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it might appear more than a hundred years in advance. But history often has accidents at critical times. And this accident happened to Shi Hu, who Shi Le was worried about.
Shi Hu was Shi Le's adopted son, and after Shi Le's death, Shi Hu killed all of Shi Le's descendants and made himself emperor. Shi Hu is a cruel man by nature, who is also superior in military and strategic strategy. Shi Le advised Shi Hu before he was born not to kill people indiscriminately, so Shi Hu still had restraints on himself, and after Shi Hu controlled his cruel side a little, his good side was revealed, plus he was still a relatively capable person.
So he also has a lot of advocates. By the late period of Shi Le, Shi Hu's power had grown, and the elderly Shi Le could only appease Shi Hu. Shi Hu has been in power for more than ten years, and although he is relatively brutal, the country is still relatively stable.
After Shi Hu, Hou Zhao perished, and after the demise, Zhao was none other than Shi Hu's adopted grandson Ran Min, who repeated what Shi Hu had done that year. Ran Min killed Shi Le and Shi Hu's descendants again, became emperor himself, and established the Ran Wei regime.
Ran Min is a Han, after he came to power, he reused the Han people and encouraged the killing of the Hu people, which is the famous "Killing Hu Order" in history, and the Han people also responded one after another, killing more than 200,000 Hu people just near Yecheng. Among them, there are no few wrongful killings, as long as they look like Hu people, they will also be killed. Ran Min also wanted to unite with the Eastern Jin Dynasty to kill the Hu people, but the Eastern Jin government did not unite with Ran Min because he claimed the title of emperor.
This was the biggest blow suffered by the Hu people since the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the killing of Hu Ling was a major rebellion of the Han people against the oppression of the Hu people during the Time of the Wuhu Chaohua. This also makes Ran Min stand out in Chinese history, and there are still many people who give him such an evaluation as an emperor for thousands of years and saving the Han nation. We will not comment much on this practice of killing people regardless of good and evil, in short, Ran Min has a high reputation in history because of killing Hu people.
But Ran Wei did not exist for a long time, and two years later Ran Min died in battle, and his Great Wei perished. The Central Plains fell into anarchy again, and at this time many ethnic minorities rose up. Northern China has once again reshuffled. The Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms are the stage on which you sing and I appear, and when a regime falls, a new regime will soon be established. Beneath a superficially powerful regime is also nurturing the birth of the next regime. Among the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, Former Zhao, Later Zhao, and Ran Wei, we have finished talking, and in the next issue we will talk about the rise of the next regime.
Let's talk about the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, many ethnic minority leaders, they often have a characteristic, that is, when they did not become emperors at the beginning, they were more wise and brave in battle. However, after becoming kings and emperors, most of them began to covet pleasure and indulge in wine. So, many countries die in one or two generations, and it's because of them that the regime doesn't exist for long.
We talk about this in this episode, and in the next episode we will continue the development of Chinese history. Like friends, help to like, add a concern, thank you.