Shi Hu is not fighting alone!

I think about it, and I can only write the first sentence of this chapter like this.

As the saying goes: wool comes out of sheep. Shi Hu, who is extremely extravagant and militaristic, will inevitably do everything in his power to oppress the poor masses under his rule. There is no way, the soldiers have to come out of the people, the money has to be taken from the people, and all strategic materials have to be supplied by the people. The policy of resting and supporting the people is not suitable for Shi Hu, who immediately governs the country, and we can no longer know all about many, many tyrannies, and we can only get a glimpse of them through a few examples.

Before giving an example, let's explore a question, what happens if you lose a fight? People with good prospects will get up from the ground, spit and scold twice, look at them with hatred, and then go to buy a book of martial arts cheats, such as "Rulai Divine Palm" and the like, and go home and practice for two days before then playing! Under normal circumstances, the Wang Ba Punch that is swung out at this time will always make some progress! Of course, there are shortcuts to winning, such as taking out the kitchen knife at home. As the saying goes, no matter how high your kung fu is, you are afraid of kitchen knives! As long as you have the courage to cut it down.

Shi Hu just went home to get a kitchen knife! A kitchen knife forged with the best of the people's strength.

In September 340, in order to attack Qianyan, Shi Hu recruited the people of Fa Si, Hebei, Qing, Xu, You, He, and Yong in the ratio of "five dings take three, and four dings take two".

You may not have any feelings about such a concept, so let me tell you that the proportion of conscription has been explained in the ancient Chinese military books, and the soldiers believe that taking one out of five is a poor soldier! Perhaps, we can do an arithmetic problem like this: Suppose that people in Shihu's time could live to be sixty years old, and we divide it into five parts according to their age group, one from 1 to 12 years old, and one from 49 to 60 years old. That's the rest of the three-fifths, isn't it? And then, and then I can say nothing.

Together with the original troops, Shi Hu gathered a full 500,000 army. There were also 10,000 ships, and 11,000,000 grains.

In order to resist Murong Ke's cavalry raid (which had already been defeated twice), Shi Hu collected all the horses in Zhao to expand the cavalry, and obtained a total of more than 40,000 horses. For those who possess horses privately, Shi Hu clearly stipulates that those who do not hand them over will be beheaded. Cut ...... in half It is a rather cruel punishment, and when a person is cut in two pieces from the waist, he does not die immediately. If the execution ground is closer to home, the inmates should be able to persevere until they crawl home!

In 342, the war of Later Zhao was still continuing, and the proportion of Shi Hu's conscription population changed from four to two and five to three. It was also in that year that Shi Hu built two palaces in Luoyang and Chang'an, and more than 400,000 people were conscripted for forced labor just for the construction of the palaces.

This is a job with no pay, and three meals are taken care of by yourself, no rest on weekends, and no holidays on National Day. For those who want to go home to visit their relatives during the Chinese New Year, the only acceptable way is called "soul returning home"! Under the heavy taxes and forced labor, the result is: white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles! …… In fact, I wanted to use the word "the people are boring" to describe it, but I suddenly found that this was actually a praise for the prosperity of Later Zhao, so I abandoned it and quoted Cao Cao's poem to describe it! More pertinent!

In fact, the speed at which people in ancient times reproduced their offspring was quite fast! After all, at that time, when night came, the land of the motherland was pitch black. There are no bars and clubs, even restaurants are closed, and the only thing left to do is to get under the covers and devote ourselves to the great cause of creating humanity. As long as there is a bite of food to eat, the working people are always happy to do it!

A spark can start a prairie fire. In fact, as long as the seeds of hope remain, it will not be long before the industrious and simple Chinese people will make the desolate land full of human vitality through their hard work.

And this can't! So many people killed that they almost extinguished the seed of hope.

It is recorded in the Book of Jin that "Luojing was overturned, and the scholars and women of Zhongzhou avoided the chaos of the left side of the river in the sixteenth and seventeenth." At that time, the total population of the Western Jin Dynasty was about 20 million, and while a large number of people moved south, the people who stayed in the north suffered continuous persecution and massacre. There is no food, no clothing, no sense of security, and no dignity.

The sturdy men will be conscripted by Shi Hu to fight and build houses, and they will never return; Young women will be ...... by Shi Hu and will never return.

Killed and plundered every day, humiliated and despised every day. It corresponds to a poem that says, "If we don't go to war, and the enemy kills us with bayonets, he will point to our bones and say, "Look, this is a slave!" "For the people at that time, I think, that's enough to describe.

Look, it's a slave!

We can imagine the population of Hou Zhao, and we can even imagine the comprehensive national strength of Hou Zhao. However, the war continues, and the order of the stone tigers to plunder will not stop because the people's livelihood is withering.

Local officials in Qingzhou reported that a stone-carved tiger in Pingling City, Jinan, had moved from the north to the southeast of the city overnight. Along the way, I also found a path trodden by the paws of more than a thousand (I don't know how to count) foxes and wolves.

If this thing appeared in "Liao Zhai", I would probably be ecstatic to watch it, because it is very creative. If this happened to the recital between the monarch and the minister, I would probably be surprised, pull! Who would believe such nonsense?

Shi Huxin, no matter whether this thing is true or not, Shi Hu will take the opportunity to package it and dress it up as real, and it must be vivid! Because he wants to go south, he needs such a story to fool all those who support and oppose him, "The so-called Shihu is me." Migrating from the northwest to the southeast, it shows that Providence wants to let me calm the south of the Yangtze River. Now it is decreed that all the armies of the states will be assembled next year, and I will personally command the six divisions to follow the mandate of heaven. ”

The ministers are happy, and when Your Majesty is happy, everyone is happy. Who will break the truth and tell Shi Hu that the Qingzhou officials actually moved it themselves? Only Hai Jui! It's just that he doesn't exist among the courtiers who are trying to survive in troubled times, and there is really no need to be loyal and wise to such a king. The ministers wrote an article "Ode to the Emperor's Virtue" in addition to congratulations, the content of which is no longer known, but I suspect that this kind of article is generally no different from sycophants, and must be comparing Shi Hu with Yao Shunyu soup, and then come to the conclusion that Shi Hu is better than them, nothing more. It must be mentioned that at the end of the article, there are one hundred and seven ministers who signed it.

A group of harmony, a group of peace!

Shi Hu decided to march south.

Then, the bitter life of the common people began again. In every war, they are the ones who contribute money and efforts, they are the ones who die on the battlefield, and they are the ones who endure all the trauma after the war, and this time is of course no exception. Shi Hu clearly ordered: all the recruited soldiers should go out of the car for every five people, two oxen, fifteen hundreds, and ten silk horses, and those who were unprepared should be beheaded.

Even in today's materialistic society, for an ordinary rural family, what Shi Hu wants is by no means a small amount. I can't live anymore, in fact, I can't live for a long time, when Shi Hu first plundered the people's fat and people's ointment! And this time, I don't remember how many times it was, the people of Hou Zhao sold their sons and daughters, and they had to sell themselves when they were finished, which was not enough to supply military supplies!

Some of them are thrown into the river, and the river is cut off for it; There are those who hang, and those who hang themselves look at each other from afar! Can you imagine that kind of tragic scene? The end of the world is coming!

How could it be that no one resisted! When the property was plundered by Shi Hu, when the wife and daughter were wantonly played with by Shi Hu, when all the hope of living was deprived by Shi Hu. Then, the only thing that can be done and should be done is to resist!

Countless people chose to resist, and countless people were killed because they resisted. There is never a saying that "only the chief sin is threatened", and Shi Hu, who is fierce by nature, responds to the people's struggle to survive with a butcher's knife.

From Chang'an to Luoyang to Yecheng, the envoy of Cheng Han who sent to Later Zhao recorded the hellish scene of Later Zhao with his observations: the trees along the way were full of people who hanged themselves; The walls were covered with Han Chinese heads; The piles of bones were artistically made into a "corpse view"; The corpses of tens of thousands of rebels were abandoned in the wilderness to feed the wild beasts. The once rich capital city is in ruins, and the bustling street market has become a cemetery. The birthplace of the well-dressed Chinese has become a hunting ground for stone tigers to keep wild beasts in captivity.

Heavy forced labor, bloody massacres and brutal national oppression led to a sharp decline in the Han people in the north. The Han family was slaughtered almost completely, and the north of Jianghuai was "full of Huyi". At that time, it was difficult to see the color of the Han family in that place.

Note: The corpse view, also known as the Jingguan, began in the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Han Dynasty, when the government piled up the corpses of the suppressed Yellow Turban soldiers into a tower to show military might and deter lawlessness, so that the people did not dare to raise troops to resist. We often say that "piles of corpses are like mountains", that is, Jingguan.