There is a cloud in the "Three Character Classic": At the beginning of man, nature is good. Liu Cong liked to eat milk when he was born, not to kill people. When he was young, he was smart and studious, familiar with hundreds of schools of scripture and history, and quite good at writing, learning calligraphy, good at cursive and official calligraphy, and was more familiar with the "Art of War of Sun and Wu", and even the doctors around him were amazed. In addition, Liu Cong is also superb in martial arts, can shoot a 300-pound bow, brave and agile, and is the best for a while. It stands to reason that such a civil and military all-rounder should not have become a tyrant, and the Xiongnu Han State was not entrusted to him in his hands.

His killing personality was cultivated during his many years of military career, leading the army all year round, and from time to time he would go to the battlefield to cut people. In the harsh environment where people are cut if they don't cut people, Liu Cong's habit of killing quickly develops. Later, in Liu Cong's opinion, killing people was no more exciting than killing a sheep.

The improper arrival of the throne made Liu Cong regard killing as a means to deter the world.

In that case, let's kill!

The first to suffer were those Western Jin Dynasty nobles who were caught, which should be regarded as national hatred. It is said that when the Jin Empire was strong, its relationship with ethnic minorities was like that of the United States and Iraq today. Hit wherever you want, hit where you want! It's not a little bullied. The long-term national oppression has caused indelible national hatred, the old emperor Liu Yuan once felt it deeply, and later told his son Liu Cong about the old story of his bullying in Luoyang City, Liu Cong wrote it down, and was ready to tell Liu Cang ...... about it, which will be passed down from generation to generation.

History tells us that such hatred is difficult to dissolve. It never needs to be remembered, but it is never forgotten. Unless, one side completely and completely destroys the other.

When Liu Cong's army captured Luoyang and eliminated the Western Jin Dynasty, the good days of the nobles of the Western Jin Dynasty were over.

If playing with and killing the two emperors of the Western Jin Dynasty can be regarded as a political strategy, then the treatment of the nobles of the Western Jin Dynasty can only be regarded as an infinite catharsis of brutal temperament.

There's nothing to say, it's usually just a matter of killing when you see it, with knives in your hands and heads rolling. Although the Sima clan has many conspiracies, it can be regarded as a world of hard work, but after only three generations, it ushered in a disaster that was almost wiped out. All the captured Western Jin nobles and high-ranking officials were almost killed by Liu Cong.

In fact, there is no need at all, but it will always be a waste of rations to keep it, Liu Cong waved his hand, kill them all, fat land!

didn't kill them all, at least Liu Cong himself thought so. Those Western Jin Dynasty nobles who once brought shame to his father's generation must not have been killed, and there must have been a lot of hiding. Once the butcher knife is raised, it will not be put down so easily, and Liu Cong intends to do this to the end.

In order to achieve this purpose, Liu Cong issued such an order: to sort out all the genealogies of the nobles of the Western Jin Dynasty, up to the period of Han Huan and Emperor Ling, and down to 310. Then check the people according to the genealogy, and if they find that there are still those who have not been killed, they will be immediately arrested and put to death.

This expanded the problem of killing the nobles of the Western Jin Dynasty, in that era, there were no photos, electronic messages and the like, at most it was to write down a name and draw a face. Four like four are not like each other, look for them all over the world!

The key question is: who is it?

This involves the quality of the executive staff, and it is a pity that those who do this kind of errand are all big soldiers, and there is no quality at all. In carrying out this order of the emperor, the principle is basically this: say you are you, say you are not. So, is it or not? Then it depends on the mood of the soldiers with ghost head knives.

What should I do if I kill the wrong person? It doesn't matter, wipe the blood off the knife, pick up the drawing again, and the GIs can continue their official duties.

The whole incident was overflowing, and the simple killing of the Western Jin Dynasty nobles turned into a large-scale purge of Han civilians. However, in order to show his benevolence as an emperor, Liu Cong took special care of those families with fools or disabled people from purge. The words of the Son of Heaven are naturally as heavy as Jiuding. Overnight, the Han people throughout the Xiongnu Han Kingdom were either stupid or disabled (mostly self-harming).

It turns out that the "killing of Hu Ling" was not the first creation, but why do we in later generations only talk about the bloodiness of "killing Hu Ling", but few people condemn Liu Cong's heinous extermination of the Han nation?

After the operation, Liu Cong also went to inspect the implementation of his "great" decree. It is very shocking that after the purge, all the Han male labor force (soldiers, beggars, artists, officials, etc.) in the country is only about 1,000.

One can imagine the consequences of this purge. In fact, it was a genocidal massacre of the Han people in the area occupied by the Xiongnu and Han States. Hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese were killed like cattle, or even worse than livestock.

The country was ruined, the family was ruined, and the iron horses of foreign races were trampled on wantonly, and the suffering that our ancestors had suffered, we cannot imagine.

Liu Cong was not yet a bastard, and the uninhabited scene made him realize the seriousness of the situation. As a result, ethnic minority women were encouraged to intermarry with Han men to reproduce the local Han blood. Killing aside, this is also a positive part of national integration.

After decades of multiplication, the Han people in the Central Plains recovered their vitality, and the Han population increased again.

The reason why the Han nation has been able to live endlessly, and the 5,000-year-old civilization has never been broken, is not because of the continuous strength of the force, but because of tolerance, constantly absorbing and integrating the fresh blood of foreign nations, injecting new strength into the weak self, being young again, full of vitality, and then strong. In my opinion, Han in the true sense of the word is a cultural identity, not a simple blood relationship.

The long-term ethnic integration has made each of us more or less of a minority of blood, not pure.

It is extremely ironic that in this "purge" operation, less than 70 Western Jin Dynasty nobles were really purged, less than 500 minor officials of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the rest of the piles of corpses were all civilians.

This was the starting point of the weakening of the Xiongnu Han State, and the large-scale purge had a serious impact on the economy of the Xiongnu Han State, and the national strength was greatly inferior to before.

In that era, in the country established by ethnic minorities, the division of labor between the Han and ethnic minorities was actually very clear, and the Han people were responsible for farming and paying rent and taxes; Ethnic minorities are responsible for fighting wars and grabbing things. It can be regarded as giving full play to their own strengths.

Liu Cong's order is equivalent to killing the taxpayers of his own country.

For a period of time after the Xiongnu Han destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty, its national prestige increased a lot, and it was quite unbeatable. Many of the small tribal states around the Xiongnu Han have offered to form alliances with the Han, and the Xiongnu and Han can call on their armies at any time to let them do things for themselves. But when the national strength of the Xiongnu Han gradually weakened, it was a different story. The degree of their control was directly proportional to the national strength of the Xiongnu and Han states.

How should we evaluate Liu Cong's clean-up operation? No one will feel that their muscles are very eyesore, and they can use a knife to cut a few pieces to lose weight. But that's what Liu Cong did.

Liu Cong killed Liu He, that was his brother, and even more so his monarch, killing the monarch and usurping the throne! Although it was a passive counterattack, who can rule out that he did not covet the throne before he was in military power? If you have been planning for a long time, you will react quickly! Liu Cong also killed the emperor's brother Liu Yi, who originally said that he wanted to pass on the throne to him, which is a great righteousness! But for the sake of his son, for personal gain, Liu Cong killed him. Liu Cong also killed a lot of innocent people, killing hundreds of thousands of people in a single purge. Their souls are enough to make people with a heart of stone fearful.

Liu Cong's heart was full of fear, and what he saw from above was always the low eyebrows and pleasing eyes of the courtiers, unable to distinguish between good and evil (he himself was a wicked person), and unable to distinguish between loyalty and treachery. Confusion leads to suspicion, and suspicion deepens suspicion. Liu Cong fell into a vicious circle, restless and suspicious all day long.

Do you know why Cao Cao had a headache? Suspicious! Emperor Han Xian in his hand was not honest, and many ministers in the court were not convinced, and from time to time they had to scare him with a little trick such as assassination, if he hadn't paid more attention, he would have been killed long ago. Liu Cong also faced such a situation. People who do too much evil do not sleep well at night, and they cannot live in fear. Perhaps, this is the so-called damnation.

The word "heaven's damnation" sometimes does not mean that God can really send a thunder male and lightning mother to the bad guys to make a five-thunder thunder blast and the sky thunder and split. Even if those who are heinous are not bound by benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, the instinct of life will also make them afraid that one day others will inflict the same evil on them, and they will be shocked and panicked in this!

It is said that one day, at noon, a minister dedicated one of his heirloom knives to him in order to curry favor with Liu Cong. The sun was blazing, and the sword glittered in the sun. In fact, the knife was not out of the sheath at that time, but the scabbard was relatively smooth and bright, and the reflection was dazzling, and this frightened Liu Cong, who mistakenly thought it was a blade, stood up and shouted: "Bold traitor, plotting against me, actually wanted to assassinate me in the name of sending a knife, and dragged me out to behead!" And so the minister's head moved.

This is the same as when Cao Cao pretended to kill the waiter who covered him with a quilt. However, Liu Cong did not repent like Cao Cao, and still declared to everyone: I have got rid of a traitor who wants to usurp the throne, and let the world of the Xiongnu and Han Kingdoms have more peace!

So, it's not easy to make a fool of yourself. Seeing those sycophants who nodded in front of the leader, everyone must sweat for him. Maybe one day he accidentally slapped the horse's leg, and the leader was not happy, so he kicked him away with the donkey's hooves.

There are many things that kill ministers indiscriminately in this way, and the final result is to cool the hearts of the ministers and cause the monarchs and ministers to drift away from morality. The emperor was suspicious, for fear that he would be usurped one day, so he did everything possible to guard against the ministers, and if there was a slight discord, he would start a big killing. The ministers were panicked and frightened, and they tried in every possible way to figure out how not to lose their heads.

The wheels of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom went downhill in Liu Cong's cruelty and suspicion.