In fact, compared with the magnificence and brutality of the first two turbulent periods, as the final stage of 300 years of turbulent times, the third turbulent period actually seems a bit boring, and the reason is that the long-term war will make people's consciousness extremely numb! However, when it comes to a deeper level, such as humanities, history, changes in people's concepts, etc., the various transformations of Chinese civilization in the long river of time, as the final end of the troubled times, the third stage will undoubtedly gain more, otherwise, the end of the troubled times will not be able to open a magnificent chapter of prosperity in the future!

And now that the troubled times have come to an end, there is no doubt that the southern land that was deliberately ignored before cannot be ignored anymore, so the question is, in the 300 years of troubled times, what kind of situation is the south of the Yangtze River in! So, let's go back in time again, back to that initial starting point, the period of the great chaos in the late Han Dynasty, to see the changes that took place in the various regimes in the south over time.

Therefore, when the war broke out, the backbone of the ruling class, led by the Shi clan, and many people who depended on the Shi clan chose to cross to the south to avoid the chaotic situation in the north of the endless war, known as the southern crossing in history, but although the south was sparsely populated at that time, there was no threat of war, and a terrible threat no less than war came quietly, and in the following decades, it caused a decrease in the population of no less than the war and killing in the north - that is the plague!

According to reliable historical records, the number of people who traveled to the south at that time reached about 3 million, which was about half of the population remaining in the north at that time, but in the primitive environment of the south, many people died due to epidemics, and the population in the north was lost due to repeated wars. In the south, the number of people who die of the plague is definitely not lower than this percentage.

A generation of divine doctor Zhang Zhongjing, in that era of war, was recognized as a peerless divine doctor with Hua Tuo's name, but the reason why Zhang Zhongjing became a generation of famous doctors was because his family was after Nandu. Almost dying because of the epidemic, such a terrible plague, with Zhang Zhongjing's divine doctor's ability, he can't protect his family, let alone ordinary people who are not as good as Zhang Zhongjing's family.

As a result of the rampant plague, the people who moved south died on a large scale, and at the worst time, there were even many tragic scenes of the death of the entire family that was originally prominent in the north. Those who died were often pressed one by one, because no one dared to collect the bodies of the dead, but to let them slowly rot in the deserted manor!

This plague-ravaged situation. It was not until the divine doctor Zhang Zhongjing finally developed a method to control the large-scale plague that it was finally contained, but this huge plague has caused irreparable losses to the scholars who migrated south and the inheritance of the entire Chinese culture and civilization! Countless precious cultural inheritances have been cut off because of the ravages of this plague, and the loss of population is certainly extremely serious in comparison, but compared with the precious inheritance of Chinese civilization. Of course, it can only be in second place!

After the plague. The survivors of Nandu were finally able to settle down in this strange land, which was originally full of miasma, and began their journey of building a new home, but because of the huge impact of the previous plague, as well as the turbulent turmoil and wars that would break out in the future, they were in this land. Although the people who moved south wanted to build it without losing to their previous hometown in the Central Plains, if they wanted to achieve this goal, it would really take a long time to achieve it!

At that time, of course, the north had long been dilapidated, although the three kingdoms had not yet risen side by side at that time, however. Just the hatred-driven Taiping Dao Yellow Turban Army and the noble class of the scholar clan fought without scruples, which was enough to make the entire northern land full of wolf smoke and holes, coupled with the major incident of the northwest warlord Dong Zhuo who took advantage of the situation and occupied the center of the empire to subvert the authority of the empire, which provoked the large-scale all-out war between the Kwantung group and Dong Zhuo later, and directly led to the pattern of the later all-out warlord division and melee!

Here, I still want to talk about Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, this strong-willed hero in the troubled times finally defeated Yuan Shao, a strong enemy in the north, after years of bloody fighting, thus unifying the northern land of the world, and at that time, the destruction of the northern land has reached a shocking point.

How many people were there in the northern land at that time? You know, when Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and got Jizhou, when he knew that Jizhou had a population of 300,000, he couldn't sleep happily, but he knew the lack of population in the north at that time, but before the war, the total population of Jizhou was more than ten times that of this number, and because of the previous rule of Yuan Shao, it has always been far away from war - even Jizhou, which is sparsely warned, has no one in ten populations, let alone in the hinterland of the Chinese nation where Cao Cao and Lu Bu and other heroes in troubled times repeatedly fought fiercely!

50 years later, the Jin Dynasty, which briefly ended the war in the world, counted the population of the whole country, and the total number was less than 8 million! However, you must know that this number was obtained 50 years after the defeat of Cao Cao Chibi and the formation of the Three Kingdoms, and during this period, although the three kingdoms still attacked and killed each other, there is no doubt that the intensity of the war between them has been greatly reduced, so that the social order has been restored to a certain extent, and the social trauma can be gradually restored, the population and production can be restored again, and the vitality of the Chinese civilization that has been seriously damaged in the war has gradually recovered!

50 years is enough time to reproduce four generations, and in peacetime, the population is enough to increase tenfold, so in the most dangerous time, the survivors of the Chinese nation are likely to be only half or even one-third of the number of 8 million, and this number, plus the millions of people who migrated to the south to escape the war but encountered the plague! It can be seen that the population of the north was scarce and tired at that time!

At this time, in fact, it was the weakest time for the civilization of the Chinese nation, if the ruling class at that time was really wise and far-sighted, then the first thing they had to do was to try their best to alleviate the class contradictions, and the people to recuperate, so that after three generations of cultivation, the short Jin Dynasty may not be able to regain the imperial glory of the Han Dynasty in the past! However. The short-sighted and extremely greedy rulers of luxury and pleasure would not have made such a choice, and Sima Yan, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, was known as a wise and martial artist, but after unifying the country, he indulged in pleasures, and the number of concubines in the palace reached more than 40,000, almost equal to the number of concubines in the palace of the later tyrant Shi Hu, and there is no doubt about it. Such a wanton search for beauties will inevitably lead to a lack of people's power under the rule of the dynasty, making the recovery of social production and population particularly slow!

However, the lack of population and economic fatigue will inevitably fail to satisfy the luxurious and hedonistic life of the ruling class, so these moths who have become short-sighted in pleasure actually use their brains to reach the primitive tribesmen on the border who were driven out of the rich land of China by the Han people in the past, through all kinds of rhetoric and deception and temptation. The inhabitants of these tribes were introduced to the hinterland of China, and then they were ordered to be captured as slaves to serve themselves and continue to enjoy a life of luxury and pleasure!

This is undoubtedly a very stupid idea! You must know that today's land of China was snatched out by the ancestors of the Chinese nation in countless battles with the surrounding ethnic groups, one knife and one gun, and one foot by inch, and the frontier ethnic minorities were strong in the pre-Qin period. It is also far beyond later generations, and the Xia Dynasty was once defeated by the Youhu clan. The bloody and powerful Shang Empire fought fiercely with the powerful nomadic empires in the north for many years, the Dog Rong and the Ghost Fang; King Youyou of the Western Zhou Dynasty was killed by the dog Rong, and the various Chinese vassal states in the early Spring and Autumn Period were also once seriously threatened by the Rong Di and barbarians from the south and the north! Later, Qin Shi Huang would build the Great Wall, which was also to resist the invasion of the Turkic Empire, the most powerful nomadic people in the frontier at that time!

However, because of their greed for pleasure, these moths of the Jin Dynasty dared to ignore the bloody historical warnings of the Chinese martyrs, and wantonly opened the border to let these tribal residents enter the hinterland of China, so that later. Finally, a catastrophe has been achieved.

Before Ran Min killed Hu Ling, the Han population in the north had been decreasing, and Liu Yuan, Liu Cong and other short-lived Xiongnu heroes in the troubled times needless to say, although the Later Zhao Emperor Shi Le was a promising Ming monarch, however. As a Qian, Shi Le gave super national treatment to his own nation, so that in fact a class antagonism was formed in which the Han nation was oppressed, not to mention the later tyrant Shi Hu, who not only arbitrarily drove and killed the Han people under his rule, but also deliberately provoked other ethnic groups to fight against the Han people, so as to suppress any possible resistance of the Han people.

More importantly, the successive downfall and death of Shi Le, Shi Hu and Ran Min undoubtedly shows that the road of instigating ******** and suppressing the Han nation is not working, so that at that time, the outstanding leaders from other ethnic groups finally had to admit that the advanced and superior nature of Chinese civilization far surpassed any culture brought by any other ethnic group, and even, Even Shi Hu's Tianzhu Shamenhu Sect, which wanted to use this to eliminate the Chinese civilization, was far from being defeated, and the Shamenhu Sect itself even underwent a great transformation because of the great influence of the Chinese civilization - and the Shamen after that was the predecessor of Buddhism that we are familiar with later.

In this way, a great crisis that once almost wiped out the inheritance of Chinese civilization finally came to an end, and since the death of Ran Min, the subsequent northern nomadic regimes, whether it is the former Qin established by the Di people, or a series of Yan states established by the Xianbei Murong clan, or the Xianbei Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty who finally unified the north, have done their best to maintain the harmony between the various ethnic groups in the north, because they have deeply realized that in this land, If the Chinese civilization and population always occupy an absolute advantage, if we want to continue to survive in this land, we must live in harmony with the Chinese nation and accept the culture and civilization ********of the other side.

And the Chinese civilization itself, which had already fallen into deep division and infighting, also produced a series of profound thoughts and changes at this time!

According to the "New Words of the Three Kingdoms", when Cao Cao killed Hua Tuo, the divine doctor who diagnosed his own diseases, Hua Tuo burned the medical books he wrote, on the grounds that everyone was dead, so what was the use of asking for books? In the same way, the nation itself that inherited the Chinese civilization is about to perish, so what is the use of those glorious academic and cultural inheritances of the past even if they can continue to be circulated!

From the end of the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Han Dynasty, from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Liu Song Dynasty, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties stood side by side. Since the rise of the hundred schools of thought of the Warring States Princes, the struggle between the various schools of thought has lasted for nearly a thousand years, and the later it has, the more bloody and fierce it becomes, from the very beginning of the academic struggle to the later sowing discord and denigrating the hostile doctrines to the kings of the Warring States. and then to the Mohists and similar doctrines and factions directly arming themselves to go into battle shirtless, and then to the successive scheming of all parties, using the world as a chess game to carry out ruthless and ruthless games.

The fall of the Qin Empire can be seen as the result of the defeat of the Legalists in a direct battle with the other princes and hundreds of schools, while the deposition of Confucianism by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the victory of Confucianism over the dominant Taoism at that time, and then the end of the Han Dynasty, from the beginning of the remnants of the hundred schools of thought against the original UMNO, which occupied the ruling class, to the later intrigue between each other, to the eventual. A direct confrontation was formed between the strongest Confucianism and the nascent Taiping Dao power! As a result, not only did it subvert the powerful empire in one fell swoop, but even the soil foundation on which the Chinese civilization was born was completely destroyed, and the lives of the people were devastated, which lasted for more than a hundred years.

In fact, the later Three Kingdoms era was also a further extension of this duel......

Cao Cao was born in eunuchs, and in his early years, he tried his best to associate with the children of the scholar clan such as Yuan Shao, so he naturally had the dual identity of "the emperor's side" and "the scholar", which can be said to be this identity. When Cao Cao first started his own business, he achieved a great advantage! However, since Cao Cao slaughtered the Xuzhou Shi clan in order to avenge his father. Cao Cao's identity as a scholar disappeared when Cao Cao did not expect it, because the scholars of the world intermarried with each other, and the Confucian culture naturally classified all the scholars in the world as a whole, so Cao Cao's massacre inadvertently endangered the whole of the scholar class, so that Cao Cao was later betrayed by the Yanzhou scholars from the rear!

At that most critical moment for Cao Cao, the imperial power had declined. And Cao Cao, who had not yet welcomed the end of the empire to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, of course, could not get help from the imperial power! But fortunately, as early as when Cao Cao first entered Yanzhou, he was already familiar with another extremely powerful force in the fierce melee, and they already had a tacit understanding with each other, and at this time of crisis. Cao Cao, of course, made a quick decision and made a comprehensive decision on his own

At that time, it fell to this force in exchange for the full support of this force!

Needless to say, this force is, of course, the remnants of the Taiping Road and the Yellow Turban Army, after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty, with the Confucian forces as the backbone of the Shi clan and the Taiping Road Yellow Turban Army one after another bloody battles, the former glorious empire, countless prosperous and noisy counties, counties and towns have become dead cities! Later, although the power of the scholar class, which was dominated by the Confucian forces, temporarily declared the victory of the war, however, the strength of the Taiping Dao still existed, but due to the death of the leader Zhang Jiao's brothers, the dragons became leaderless and fought separately!

And Cao Cao, it was when he continued to defeat and incorporate the population of the remaining Yellow Turbans of Taiping Dao that he gradually understood the thoughts of Taiping Dao!

As a descendant of eunuchs with strong rebellious thoughts, born in the upper class but generally despised by public opinion, the Taiping Dao, which has the significance of rebellious spiritual thoughts, must be extremely in line with Cao Cao's mind, so in the end, the two sides came together, which was simply a matter of course.

However, at the beginning, Cao Cao had the dual identity of the upper class, so naturally he would not hook up with the sworn enemies of the upper class, and it was the betrayal of Cao Cao by the Yanzhou scholars, and the desperate Cao Cao finally embarked on this step.

So the question is, in the face of Cao Cao's refuge, will the Taiping Daoists accept or even be driven by Cao Cao? The answer is: Yes! Because in the troubled times, people will subconsciously follow the strong, and the leaderless Taiping Dao people are also eagerly looking forward to the arrival of a strong man to lead them and create brilliance!

And Cao Cao, who unified the entire north in the future, is of course a strong man!

Of course, there are some things that can be reversed and restarted, and some things that can never be reversed after they have been done.

Choosing the Taiping Dao is choosing the enemies of the imperial power and the scholars, so when Cao Cao made his choice, his former friends, the objects of his allegiance, have transformed into his enemies.

However, Cao Cao is undoubtedly contradictory, because his special background and the long-term education he received as a teenager made Cao Cao dare to betray his own warriors despite the brutal killing. To be a traitor who blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but to completely destroy the scholar class, or replace the last emperor, was absolutely impossible for Cao Cao to do. In fact, because Cao Cao was not strong enough, the scholar class and those who firmly supported the emperor would often fan the flames in Cao Cao's rear! After many years, it is unstable. It greatly restricted Cao Cao's process of unifying the world, so that in the end the world could not be unified, but formed a three-legged situation.

The giant wheel of history rolls forward, just as the same Taiping Dao finally chose Cao Cao, the same Confucianism, who was also greatly injured, finally chose Liu Bei, the enemy of Cao Cao's life, as the ideal monarch on his side!

And it is the ambition of Liu Bei, the true gentleman recognized by later generations, that has not been achieved, which also exposes another huge flaw of Confucianism in addition to the high and low eyes, and the distinction between good and bad: a gentleman can deceive him!

A gentleman can deceive him, so Liu Bei, who is based on benevolence and righteousness, no matter how hard he tries. The talent of bravery and wit will never allow him to achieve the same achievements as his ancestor Liu Bang, and whether it is before and after the establishment of the Three Kingdoms or the era of the Three Kingdoms itself, the war has never ended, so that when later generations read that historical material, while admiring the nobility of this idealist, they are not dissatisfied and resentful: if Liu Bei could be more of his ancestor Liu Bang's ploppy and scoundrel, instead of clinging to the so-called benevolence, righteousness and morality, perhaps. He will also be able to achieve the same achievements as his ancestor Liu Bang and rebuild the empire. End the troubled times, instead of dying in the White Emperor City after a fiasco, and the people of the world are still living in the troubled times......

The turbulent times and the difficult situation have prompted people to start thinking again: in troubled times. Is it really right to kill a living being for revenge? From the end of the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, and from the Later Zhao Dynasty to the Former Qin, one regime after another flourished and then collapsed, and under the situation of the world that had long been out of control, the once powerful Chinese nation that no one could match had reached the brink of extinction. Not to mention how many of the primitive tribes of the original frontier that were originally loosely divided into Wuhu have already suffered the disaster of extermination when they are unknown.

Perhaps, relying on its own advanced and superiority, the Chinese civilization will not die, but will the main nation that created it be able to continue forever? If it is said that if the Chinese nation finally perishes in the civil war in the future, then even if the Chinese civilization can continue, the victorious side in the civil war will definitely be the sinner of the Chinese nation through the ages!

The era of troubled times has always been called the best era and the worst era, because only in this era of chaos, the collision of ideas will burst out the essence of wisdom, for example, the last such troubled times of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is to directly open the glorious era of civilization such as the contention of a hundred schools of thought!

Many traditions of Chinese civilization have been lost, but in the same way, there are also many new concepts that have been accepted by society, such as the distinction between Huayi, and the birth of a new humanistic religious belief that is different from the school doctrine of the classical era and the primitive ignorant belief.

Foreign monks, Buddhism was finally localized!

Taoism in Middle-earth, religion became Taoism!

The Juche of Confucianism seems to have changed little, but unlike the previous reverence for the rule of the scriptures, for a long time after that, the martial style of Confucianism was unprecedented, so that even the weakest scholars took pride in carrying swords to fight with others.

The post-generation inheritance of the Mo family, Taiping Dao, after the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty, has fallen into a fragmented situation, although most of them were able to take refuge in Cao Cao, but because Cao Cao himself was extremely unstable, so until the final collapse of the Cao Wei regime, Taiping Dao was no longer unified into a whole, and with the arrival of greater troubled times, the fragmented Taiping Dao forces could only fly separately in the face of great disaster, and each relied on means to find a way to survive in the troubled times! Therefore, when the time came to the eve of the end of the troubled times, when the Northern Qi, the Northern Zhou, the Southern Dynasty Chen, and the Western Liang stood side by side, the self-proclaimed orthodox inheritance of the Mo family, the Taiping Dao, which was once strong, has once again transformed into another look! And, there's a dark and meaningful new name: the Demon Gate!

It is also ironic that in the beginning, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed Confucianism, all the sons and daughters of Confucianism had to go underground and form an alliance against the imperial court in the dark, but when 500 years later, despite the ups and downs in the interim, the survivors still had to unite again to fight against their long-standing and powerful enemy, Confucianism, and the new and terrible enemy: Buddhism. (To be continued.) )

PS: Gong Gai is divided into three countries,

Famous into eight arrays,

The river does not turn,

Hatred swallows Wu.