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Chapter 888: Qingyi Drinking, the Fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the Migration of the Gentleme

The ancients also continued to watch the sky.

In the late Han Dynasty.

When Liu Bei saw the Rebellion of the Eight Kings on the screen, he couldn't help but sigh.

"According to the spoilers from the Sky Curtain, after the fall of the Han Dynasty, the people of the world had already experienced a long period of division and war."

"For so many years, the people have been living in poverty."

"Then the Jin Dynasty of later generations seemed to unify the world and bring peace to the world."

"But the country lacked the willpower to fight, and from the very beginning it fell into a huge hidden danger."

"Now, during the reign of the second emperor, we have experienced the tragic Rebellion of the Eight Princes."

"Alas! I can only sigh how hard it is for the people of the world!"

"The key point is that after the Eight Princes' Rebellion, it looks like the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China?"

"This is a huge crisis that has never been seen in history, and the Jin Dynasty has just experienced the tragic internal strife of the Eight Princes Rebellion."

"Can it really be stopped?"

Liu Bei fell into deep worry, as if he had seen the tragedy of the people of the Jin Dynasty in later generations, which was even more sad and sigh-worthy than what Liu Bei saw in Xuzhou that year.

And the sky screen continued to play.

【The collapse of the Western Jin Dynasty is like an irreversible tragedy. 】

【Step by step, heading towards the abyss of no return. 】

[While the royal family of the Western Jin Dynasty was still fighting each other for power, Li Xiong of the Di people and Liu Yuan of the Xiongnu people had already established their own regimes.]

【At this time, Luoyang City had experienced many years of war and natural disasters, lacked soldiers and food, and became shaky. 】

[Beside Emperor Huai of Jin, only Sima Yue, the Prince of Donghai, was left to accompany him. ]

[The entire court was filled with desolation.]

[Emperor Huai of Jin urgently ordered troops from all over the country to come to Luoyang for support, hoping to strengthen their forces and defend the capital.]

[But the reality is extremely cruel, no army responded to his call. ]

[Not long after, Sima Yue, the King of Donghai, also led his troops to Xuchang to station there.]

[Now Luoyang has completely become an empty city, completely defenseless. ]

[At the same time, the Han Zhao regime established by the Xiongnu was also reintegrating power.]

【After Liu Yuan died, his son Liu He succeeded him. 】

[But he was suspicious by nature, and he started killing his brothers as soon as he came to power.]

[As a result, King Liu Cong of Chu launched a coup, killed Liu He, and ascended the throne himself.]

[In March 311 AD, Sima Yue, King of Donghai, died in Yuzhou, and his generals prepared to escort his coffin back to Xuzhou.]

[When Emperor Liu Cong of Han Zhao heard the news, he immediately sent Jie general Shi Le to lead his army in pursuit.]

[In April, the 4 imperial guards of the Western Jin Dynasty, along with the coffin they were escorting, were surrounded by Shi Le's army in Ningping City, Ku County.]

[In the Battle of Ningping, the Western Jin army was eventually annihilated. ]

[After this battle, the Western Jin Dynasty no longer had a large-scale military force and completely lost the ability to resist. ]

[In this battle, Shi Le captured a number of high-ranking officials including Wang Yan, the Grand Commandant of the Western Jin Dynasty. ]

[Shi Le asked Wang Yan, why did the Western Jin Dynasty fall to such a state? ]

【Wang Yan has been shirking responsibility.】

[One moment he said that the decision was not made by him, the next moment he said that he did not understand politics when he was young.]

[Shi Le refuted bluntly:]

[“Your fame is known all over the world. You entered the imperial court at a young age and have lived until you are old. How can you say that you did not take precautions? It is your fault that you have destroyed the world.”]

[Wang Yan was captured along with Yu Hua and Guo Xiang, two famous metaphysical scholars of the time.]

[They usually talk about metaphysics but do not deal with practical matters.]

[Shi Le felt that these people were useless, but he didn't want to kill them directly with a knife. ]

[So they had the earth wall pushed down at night and crushed them to death.]

[In June of the same year, Han Zhao's generals Hu Yanyan, Liu Yao, Wang Mi and others easily captured the empty Luoyang City.]

【Emperor Huai of Jin was captured.】

[In Luoyang City, from princes and nobles to ordinary people, a total of 30,000 people died in the war. ]

[For a year thereafter, the Western Jin Dynasty did not even have a reigning emperor.]

[The Han Zhao army continued to advance westward and soon captured Chang'an.]

[At that time, in the Guanzhong area, bones were everywhere due to famine, and only one or two out of ten people could survive.]

[Although Jia Pi, the General of Pingxi in the Western Jin Dynasty, briefly recaptured Chang'an. ]

【However, Emperor Liu Cong of Han Zhao abducted more than 80,000 people, causing Chang'an to become even more dilapidated.】

【Jia Pi supported Qin Wang Sima Ye as the crown prince. 】

【The captured Jin Huaidi was named Duke of Kuaiji by Liu Cong. 】

[Once, Liu Cong asked Emperor Huai of Jin:]

[“When you were the Prince of Yuzhang, Wang Wuzi and I went to see you. Do you remember?”]

[Emperor Huai of Jin replied cautiously: "How dare I forget? I only regret that I didn't meet Your Majesty earlier."]

【Liu Cong asked again: "Why do you Sima family members want to kill each other?"】

[In order to save his life, Emperor Huai of Jin could only say: "Maybe it is God's arrangement that we kill each other to remove obstacles for Your Majesty to unify the world."]

[It is really touching that a former king of a country said such words in order to survive. 】

[However, Emperor Huai of Jin's desire to survive did not allow him to escape. ]

[At the banquet, Liu Cong actually asked Emperor Huai of Jin to wear the green clothes of a servant and pour wine for everyone.]

[That is, Qingyi wine drinking. ]

【This was to humiliate him. 】【Yu Min, an old official of the Western Jin Dynasty, could not bear to watch and burst into tears on the spot. 】

【Liu Cong then felt that Emperor Huai of Jin was always a hidden danger, and soon killed him.】

[Sima Ye, who was in Chang'an, learned that Emperor Huai of Jin had been murdered, and ascended the throne, known in history as Emperor Min of Jin.]

[But at this time, after the Han and Zhao armies looted Chang'an, there were less than a hundred households left in the entire city. ]

【There are only 4 public and private vehicles combined. 】

[It is dilapidated to the extreme.]

【Emperor Min of Jin issued an edict, ordering Langya King Sima Rui to lead troops to attack Han Zhao.】

【But Sima Rui declined on the grounds that he did not have enough soldiers. 】

【He only sent Zu Ti to serve as the governor of Yuzhou. 】

[Emperor Min of Jin had no choice but to promote Tuoba Yilu, the leader of the Xianbei tribe who helped to recapture Jinyang, and confer him the title of King of Dai.]

[But the decline of the Western Jin Dynasty could no longer be reversed.]

[In just four years, Liu Yao of Han Zhao attacked Chang'an three times. ]

[Although they were repelled by General Suo Chen the first two times. ]

[But the third time, food was cut off in Chang'an, and the price of a bushel of rice rose to two ounces of gold. There was even cannibalism.]

【Emperor Min of Jin had no choice but to leave the city and surrender.】

[At this point, the Western Jin Dynasty, which had been established for nearly 51 years, was completely destroyed. ]

[After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, Bingzhou Prefecture Clerk Li Hong opened the city and surrendered to Han Zhao. ]

[Governor Liu Kun fled to Youzhou and was eventually killed by Youzhou Governor Duan Pidi.]

【At this time, Sima Rui, the King of Langya in the south, proclaimed himself the King of Jin in Jiankang with the support of the aristocratic Wang Dun.】

[In order to escape the war, the noble families in the north moved south one after another, and Chinese history entered a new turbulent period.]

The content of the video also left netizens speechless.

"During the Eight Kings Rebellion, a player finally appeared and won the game, but he died in the end. "

"Sima Yue was the central leader of the Western Jin Dynasty, and he was the last one to hold the situation in check."

"Wang Yan, who was guarding Luoyang, fled with the elite central army under the pretext of escorting the coffin. Luoyang basically had no defensive power left."

"Sima Yue is also an expert at internal fighting but a novice at external fighting."

"The 'Wang Yifu' that Xin Qiji often satirized is this Wang Yan."

"The land of China has sunk, and it has been in ruins for a hundred years. Wang Yifu and others have no choice but to take responsibility for it."

In the fifth year of Yongjia, Luoyang fell, Liu Yao invaded Guanzhong in the west, and Nanyang King Sima Mo and the guard general Zhao Ran had a quarrel. Ran led his army to Bashui to surrender to the Han Dynasty. Sima Mo was frightened and surrendered, but was later killed. Chang'an fell, and his son Sima Bao went west to defend Shanggui.

"Alas, if the heroes of the Three Kingdoms were alive today, they would all be pissed to death!"

"Sima Chi is the emperor after all, has he lost all his dignity?"

"Actually, Sima Chi was quite capable. If the country hadn't been ruined when he first took the throne, it wouldn't have come to this."

《Sima Chi: If I had known you were such a person, would I have given you the opportunity to act cool in front of me?》

"The Hu-Han period was very interesting, with many outstanding people, but they were all useless in the later period."

"Why does it take a hundred times of tempering to turn a steel into something soft? It's a pity for Liu Kun. He has been fighting in the rear of Han Zhao for many years and is one of the few who can counterattack during the peak period of Han Zhao. "

"It would be nice if there was a TV series about hearing the cock-crow and getting up to dance."

And outside the sky.

Early Han Dynasty.

Liu Bang stared at the scene of bones filling the field on the sky, and sighed with a mixture of regret:
"If I had known that the feudal system was a trap, I would have chosen to follow the example of our Liu family."

"The Western Jin Dynasty is ultimately incapable of maintaining its empire!"

"A dignified emperor ends up serving wine in green clothes."

"Look at Liu Cong, he made Emperor Huai of Jin wear green clothes to serve wine. This is not just humiliating one person, it is clearly humiliating the entire Chinese world!"

"Descendants of the Huns? That's a good idea."

"The descendants of the Sima family have truly brought disgrace upon the word 'Son of Heaven'."

Liu Bang turned to look at Xiao He, his eyes sharp, "Prime Minister Xiao, how come the Western Jin Dynasty is so rotten to the core?"

Xiao He pondered for a moment, stroked his beard and said:
"Your Majesty, in my opinion, first the ruler was weak and the ministers were strong, and the royal family was in chaos;"

"Then the barbarians will accumulate for a long time and invite wolves into the house."

"The most fatal thing is that the ruler and his ministers lose their moral integrity, and people's hearts are scattered."

"Since Sima Yan founded the country, he indulged himself in pleasure, and his descendants were incapable of governing the country. Isn't it like the monkeys scattering when the tree falls?"

……

But in the late Han Dynasty.

Liu Bei looked at the tragic scene of "people eating each other" when Chang'an City was broken, and his eyes were full of sadness.

Zhuge Liang beside him coughed softly, breaking the silence:
"My lord, do you remember the difficulties in Xuzhou?"

Liu Bei said in a hoarse voice:

It was not just Xuzhou. When we were defeated in Xinye, the people followed us, carrying their old and young, and the scene of starving people everywhere is still unforgettable to me. "

"The royal family of the Western Jin Dynasty has been killing each other for sixteen years. The Hu cavalry took the opportunity to march south. How could the emperor still have the slightest intention of protecting the people?"

"The Western Jin Dynasty fell because it forgot its roots."

"In the past, Emperor Gaozu won the world with benevolence, and Emperor Guangwu won the hearts of the people with righteousness, but the Sima family has been treacherous since the founding of the country."

"How can you make the people obey you if you rely on trickery to control them?"

Liu Bei was sad, but there was also a glimmer of expectation in his heart. He asked himself:
"But heroes emerge in troubled times."

"If a hero raises his arm and calls for help at this time, can he gather the hearts of the people in Kyushu again?"

"In the chaotic world after the Five Barbarians invaded China, where are the heroes?" (End of this chapter)

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