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In the scene depicted on the sky.

A clip from the documentary was provided.

Although it's a relatively harmonious scene that can be broadcast on television.

But one can still see that it was an extremely chaotic era.

How cruel it is.

Amidst the cries of countless people and the sounds of battle, the clash of swords and the clash of spears occurred.

The video continued playing on the screen:

It was in this darkest hour, when corpses piled high and civilization was nearly extinguished, that Ran Min was born into a humble Han Chinese family.

Ran Min, whose original surname was Ran, courtesy name Yongzeng, and childhood name Jinu.

His fate was reversed by Shi Le, the founder of the Later Zhao dynasty.

His father, Ran Zhan, was merely an ordinary Han Chinese general under Shi Le.

After his death in battle, the young Ran Min was adopted by Shi Le and given the name Shi Min, thus entering the core power circle of the Jie Zhao state.

Growing up alongside the tyrant Shi Hu, Shi Min was exposed to the most extreme forms of power struggles and bloodshed.

He witnessed how Shi Hu tortured his subjects with cruel methods.

How suspicion can lead to the slaughter of one's own child.

The distorted court environment was both a melting pot and a prison.

[Shi Min had to conceal his Han Chinese heritage and inner turmoil, relying on his extraordinary courage and resourcefulness to survive the bloody infighting among Shi Hu's sons.]

He was a skilled military commander.

At the age of eighteen, he led his troops in a northern expedition against the Murong Xianbei.

[After the Later Zhao army's northern expedition against the Murong Xianbei was defeated.]

All friendly forces collapsed, but Shi Min's troops remained orderly.

In later campaigns in the south and north, Shi Min fought with extraordinary bravery, charging into battle and achieving resounding victories, thus making outstanding contributions to the Later Zhao dynasty.

They gradually gained control of the crucial military.

[Rising to the rank of Grand General and Prince of Wude.]

Shi Hu once lamented, "My twenty sons are all inferior to Ji Nu's one son!"

Behind this praise lies the living space that Shi Min earned through countless bloody battles, and it is also proof of his inner repression and accumulated strength.

At this time, Shi Min appeared to be a loyal and valiant general of the Zhao state.

With Shi Hu's sudden death, the Later Zhao dynasty, a machine driven by violence and fear, instantly descended into a frenzied self-destructive mode.

[The sons of Shi Hu, in their struggle for the throne, completely abandoned all pretense of civility and engaged in a brutal battle both inside and outside the capital city of Ye.]

Crown Prince Shi Shi was assassinated by his elder brother, Prince Pengcheng Shi Zun, after only 33 days on the throne.

[Shi Zun reigned for 183 days before being assassinated by his brother, Prince Yiyang Shi Jian, in alliance with Ran Min, Li Nong, and others.]

After ascending the throne, Shi Jian repeatedly attempted to murder Ran Min and Li Nong, who posed the greatest threats to him.

[In just a few months, emperors changed hands like a revolving lantern, each succession accompanied by bloodshed in the palace and fierce battles in the streets of Ye City.]

Historical records state that "great chaos erupted in Ye, officials fled, and the dead lay in disarray."

In the center of this power vacuum and the vortex of widespread fear, Ran Min became a crucial force that all sides both needed to win over and deeply feared.

He commanded a large army and enjoyed the loyalty of some Han Chinese generals and soldiers.

However, his Han Chinese identity remained a source of original sin in the eyes of the Jie nobles.

[The new emperor Shi Jian outwardly relied heavily on Ran Min, appointing him as Grand General and concurrently in charge of the Imperial Secretariat, giving him overall control over both internal and external military power.]

[Secretly, he repeatedly ordered Hu generals to launch surprise attacks, intending to kill Ran Min.]

The repeated betrayals and assassinations pushed Ran Min to the brink of disaster.

This also completely shattered Ran Min's illusions.

Ran Min realized that in this country ruled by barbarians, no matter how illustrious his military achievements or how high his position, he was ultimately powerless.

He was always "not of our kind."

They are outcasts who can be sacrificed and eliminated at any time.

Despair was growing, anger was burning, and a decision that would change the course of history and was destined to be soaked in blood and tears was taking shape in Ran Min's heart.

He must take the initiative, strike first, and carve a bloody path for himself and for the Han people struggling on the brink of death!

In January of 350 AD, after thwarting yet another assassination plot by Shi Jian, Ran Min completely dropped his pretense.

He no longer trusted any Jie ruler.

He knew all too well that in Ye City, where the influence of the Hu people was deeply entrenched, only the most extreme and ruthless methods could deter the enemy and secure a glimmer of hope.

Therefore, Ran Min made a shocking decision: "Any of the six barbarian tribes, both inside and outside the capital, who dare to wield weapons, shall be executed!"

This order appears to be for maintaining order.

[In effect, this stripped all non-Han peoples of the legitimacy to wage armed resistance.]

The hundreds of thousands of Hu people in Ye City had always been upper-class, but suddenly being stripped of their right to possess weapons left them feeling uncertain.

The Hu people of Ye City fled in panic, those who were intercepted storming the checkpoints with their weapons, plunging the entire city into chaos.

[Then Ran Min issued a second order: Those who are loyal to the court should come to Ye City; those who are not loyal to the court may leave freely.]

The non-Han people fled in droves, while the Han people from the surrounding areas rushed to Ye City.

Outside the sky.

Late Han Dynasty.

When Liu Bei saw the images on the sky, accompanied by background music, he felt so tense that he could hardly breathe.

Liu Bei witnessed the city descending into chaos.

Countless Hu people fled with their families.

Meanwhile, many Han Chinese people, along with their families, rushed to Ye City.

The Han Chinese and the Hu people had already begun attacking each other halfway through the journey.

The already impoverished Later Zhao territory is now a scene of widespread chaos and bloodshed.

Even Liu Bei, who was used to the tragic conditions of chaotic times, couldn't help but feel his heart pound at this scene.

Liu Bei took a deep breath and said with some fear in his voice:
"The world is in chaos! This decree has truly plunged the world into chaos!"

“Karmic killings will occur everywhere, and war will spread in all directions.”

"Is this the period of the Five Barbarian Invasions that followed in later generations?"

"Is this the darkest period in Chinese history?"

"Ran Min, I still can't judge whether your order is right or wrong."

"But I can almost feel the immense crisis you and the Han people of the north faced at that time." "Perhaps amidst that chaos and slaughter."

"Is taking extraordinary measures a last resort?"

The curtain continues to fall:

After issuing the second order, Ran Min was completely certain that the Hu people would not be of one mind with him.

On the contrary, the Han people are the force we can rely on.

[Immediately following this, Ran Min issued the "Order to Kill the Hu" that shook the ages.]

The core message is: "Any civil official who beheads a barbarian and delivers the head to Fengyang Gate will be promoted three ranks, and any military officer will be appointed as a Yamen (a high-ranking military officer)!"

Outside the sky.

Han Dynasty.

When Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, saw the first half of the content displayed on the sky screen, he was already furious.

Although this is not the first time that Tianmu has told the story of the Five Barbarian Invasions, it has previously introduced the beastly emperor Shi Hu.

But it still makes me angry every time I see it.

Now we see Ran Min, who came after us, issuing an order.

Any barbarian tribe, whether internal or external, that dares to wield weapons shall be executed!

They even issued a more direct order to kill the Hu people.

Liu Che found it extremely satisfying.

"Good, it should have been done a long time ago!"

"I really don't know what happened in later generations. It's one thing for some barbarians to cause trouble in the border areas."

"They actually let them take control of the Central Plains?"

"This is utterly contrary to the principles of Heaven and Earth, a disgrace to China!"

"At first glance, Ran Min seemed like a fickle and distorted Han Chinese who had become like the Hu people."

"But in any case, his order to kill the Hu was truly pleasing to me."

This is not a regular military order.

This is an extermination order!

The moment the order was given, the entire city of Ye erupted in chaos, as if a pot of boiling oil had been thrown into cold water!

[The blood, tears, humiliation, and excruciating pain of decades of suppressed suffering, the loss of family and loved ones—all found an outlet at this moment.]

The Han Chinese within the city, whether soldiers, officials, or ordinary peddlers, laborers, the elderly, women, and children, were like awakened beasts.

They grabbed any weapon they could find—knives, clubs, stones, even teeth—and pounced on the Hu people (mainly Jie people) around them.

Historical records state: "Tens of thousands were beheaded in a single day."

A bloody wave of revenge swept through the city, indiscriminately affecting men, women, and children.

The city gates were tightly shut, and the Hu people fled in terror, but had nowhere to escape.

Inside the palace walls, Ran Min personally led his elite armored soldiers straight towards the imperial residence.

He personally captured the nominal emperor, Shi Jian, and imprisoned him deep within the palace.

[Subsequently, he issued an edict in Shi Jian's name, ordering the troops stationed outside the city to cooperate in "suppressing the Hu people."]

[He also dispatched envoys with imperial credentials to various regions to encourage Han officials and generals in the prefectures and counties to respond.]

A massive ethnic cleansing, centered in Ye City and rapidly spreading throughout the Later Zhao territory, raged like a wildfire.

In Ye City, under the "Order to Kill the Hu," corpses littered the streets and alleys, and blood flowed like rivers.

[A Han Chinese veteran who had fought for the Later Zhao for many years personally beheaded the Jie nobleman who had violated his wife and daughters, howling to the sky as if he had gone mad;]

A group of ragged Han Chinese surrounded a Jie cavalry unit attempting to break out, using their own bodies and rudimentary farming tools to drag and tear them apart...

Within just a few days, the more than 200,000 Jie soldiers and civilians defending Ye City, regardless of their social status, were almost entirely slaughtered.

The air was thick with an overwhelming stench of blood.

Even Ran Min's personal guards, seasoned veterans of countless battles, paled at the sight of this hellish scene.

This horrific and suffocating scene was not the result of Ran Min's efforts alone.

It was the culmination of decades of pent-up ethnic hatred under the tyranny of the nomadic tribes, a frenzied counterattack by the Han people who, in desperation, had lost all hope.

Ran Min became the spark that ignited this powder keg.

Scenes of killing.

Bloody words.

This caused a flurry of comments to fly out.

"pretty!"

The most enjoyable episode.

Bo Min: There seem to be a bit too many Hu people in Ye City.

"Ran Min, the National Hero!"

The descendants of the Chinese nation will never forget the great virtue of the Heavenly King!

What kind of historical ignoramusing is this? He was just a butcher!

What do fickle people brag about?

"Shi Hu treated Ran Min so well, yet Ran Min still betrayed the Shi family!"

"Ran Min initially only wanted to be a powerful minister and then the crown prince, but after the emperor kept assassinating him and Li Nong, he had no choice but to rebel."

"King Ran saved the Han people of the north from suffering, making the various barbarian tribes realize the potential consequences of their barbaric rule, and thus they became much more restrained."

That was a truly insane society; ordinary people suffered terribly.

And the sky continued to tell its story:
Following the "Order to Kill the Hu," the powerful Jie and Zhao nobles in the Ye City area were almost entirely eradicated.

Emperor Shi Jian became his puppet.

However, this brief victory brought no peace.

The news spread like wildfire across the northern lands, igniting not only a fervent response from the Han people but also unprecedented panic and overwhelming hatred among the various nomadic tribes.

The Xianbei Murong clan's iron cavalry is already sharpening its swords in Liaodong.

The Di leader Fu Jian also turned his attention to Guanzhong.

The Qiang people and the remnants of the Xiongnu were all restless and eager to make a move.

[A massive survival war between the Han and non-Han peoples, a hundred times more brutal than the street fighting in Yecheng.]

Like dark clouds blotting out the sky, it pressed heavily upon the Central Plains. (End of Chapter)