As dynasties change in history, there are heroes and there are sinners. They all fight on their own. Heroes and sinners are also relative, but some sinners are real national sinners with countless crimes. There are two major sinners. One almost caused the Han people to become extinct, and the other almost caused China to be carved up.
Our country is a multi-ethnic country. During the ancient feudal period, most state governments were established by the Han people, and then included various ethnic minorities. Under the influence of Han culture, the living habits of those ethnic minorities were constantly being Sinicized.
Historically, for the Han regime, they were national sinners . In addition to the Qin Hui of the anti-Jin hero Yue Fei who died unjustly, there was also a big family, the famous Sima family .
The Sima family usurped power and took over the world and established the Jin Dynasty . Ever since Sima Yi was still working under Cao Cao, they began to look at it with eager eyes. However, the Sima family could remain calm and had been waiting for the right time to take action. . Sima Yi's talents are not inferior to Cao Cao's. After so many years of training with Cao Cao, he is waiting for the era that belongs to the Sima family to come.
Sima Zhao worked for the Cao family with his father, establishing a stable foundation for his son Sima Yan to establish the Western Jin dynasty. In 266 AD, Sima Yan usurped Wei and proclaimed himself emperor, and the Western Jin Dynasty became the unified dynasty after the Three Kingdoms.
The Sima family took three generations. The method of conquering the world by any means is not very upright, but the unification of the world is a good thing, and the change of dynasties is understandable. It was just the systems and measures that the Sima family later adopted to govern the country, which caused great chaos in the world, putting the Han people in dire straits and in danger.
Since his world was snatched from the hands of Cao Wei , Sima Yan analyzed that the reason why Cao Wei's regime failed was because his lacked the support and defense of the clan; and the Cao family also took it from others halfway. Stealing the world has resulted in no family inheritance.
So Sima Yan began to enfeoff the clans of the family. He granted more than 20 princes and kings with the same surname and gave them great power, allowing them to govern their own affairs in the fiefdom.. But Sima Yan ignored greed, which is one of human nature.
As the princes and kings became more and more powerful, who was still satisfied with being a little king? They were all staring at Sima Yan's throne. In 291 AD, some people finally couldn't sit still, and the Eight Kings Rebellion broke out in the Western Jin Dynasty. However, there were more than eight kings involved in this turmoil.
This chaos lasted for sixteen years. The Western Jin Dynasty was overthrown. After nearly three hundred years of turmoil, the barbarian tribes from the north began to invade the Central Plains, resulting in the Five Huan Hua . Various ethnic groups in the north established dozens of small countries in North China, and the longest-standing one is the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms .
This was the darkest period in the history of the Han people. The Hu people mainly represented by the five tribes of the Xiongnu , Xianbei , Jie, Qiang and Di, massacred the Han people in the Central Plains , turning the Han people into slaves and dogs, and called them " "Two-legged sheep" were eaten as livestock. At that time, the number of Han people in the north dropped sharply from 524 million to 53 million , and they almost disappeared.
As for the person who offended a huge country that was almost divided up, it was the actual person in power in the late Qing Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi.
The old queen mother is definitely a good hand in palace fighting, and she is also very ambitious. She wants to imitate the Queen Wu Zetian and become emperor, but she is a bit lacking in skills, and she does not have the right time, place, and people.
After the death of Emperor Xianfeng, as the biological mother of the succeeding emperor, she was still able to hold great power even though there were Empress Dowager Ci'an and eight ministers Gu Ming. She was definitely not an ordinary person. But she has always had little knowledge and is smart, but she has no talent for governing the country.
At that time, there was also a joint invasion by foreign powers. I don’t know if Emperor Kangxi could withstand the resurrection. At that time, the whole country had never seen such an array. Anyway, Cixi was a woman who did not know how to deal with the double erosion of internal and external troubles. .
Cixi was born in 1835 and died in 1908.In 1840, the first Opium War broke out. Cixi's life went through five wars of aggression against China by Western powers from 1840 to 1900. It stands to reason that she has witnessed the cruelty of the great powers since she was a child, so she should be very willing to resist. However, she always sought peace in the face of invasion.
She had no intention of fighting and was content to live in ruins. She only cared about her own life of prosperity and wealth. She could even misappropriate the military expenditures given to the Beiyang Navy to celebrate her birthday. She was bent on seeking peace, but the great powers made her sign various unequal treaties, causing the Qing Dynasty to suffer a beating. She had to take the initiative to pay money and land to beg others not to fight for the death of her compatriots.
Each compensation is worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver. " Xinchou Treaty " agreed to pay 980 million taels of silver in compensation, which is the largest unequal treaty in China's modern history. " Treaty of Shimonoseki " compensated Japan with 200 million taels of silver, ceded land to Japan, and allowed the Japanese to set up factories in Chinese ports. These operations of
and laid the foundation for Japan's subsequent war of aggression against China .
