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Chapter 86 The Inhuman Moment 5
Thirteen large-scale mass genocides
In ancient China, whenever there was a change of dynasty, there would always be a brutal massacre. After a river of blood flowed, a brand new country would be ushered in. Such large-scale massacres were usually caused by wars.The so-called "prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer." This is the truth.

About fourteen times the largest population massacres in Chinese history have been included in the annals of history.

1.Peasant uprising war at the end of Qin Dynasty
The rule of the Qin Dynasty was very strict, and Qin Shihuang himself was very cruel. In the 36th year of Qin Shihuang (211 BC), a meteorite fell, and someone engraved it: "When the first emperor dies, the land will be divided." Six characters, Qin Shihuang Very furious, he ordered the killing of all the residents within a radius of tens of miles near the place where the meteorite fell.

After the death of the first emperor, the second emperor of Qin became even more stupid and immoral, and the peasants could not survive, so they raised the banner of uprising one after another. From 205 BC to 195 BC, at the beginning of the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, about ten years later, the population of the Qin Dynasty decreased. 70%.The population has dropped sharply, especially the male labor force of young and middle-aged men is even less, Sima Qian wrote in "Historical Records?It is recorded in the Book of Ping Zhun: "Since the emperor cannot have a junsi, but the general or the ox cart, the people of Qi have no cover." This large-scale sharp drop in population was caused by the war.

2.Emperor Wu of the Han launched a war against the Huns

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty brought the Han Dynasty to its heyday through Wenzhi and martial arts, but at the same time, he was also very happy. He attacked the Xiongnu several times, which caused waste in the country and a sharp drop in population. More than half of the Han Dynasty population died.

3.Years of Melee in the Last Years of the Western Han Dynasty

Wars continued in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty. By the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population loss was heavy. Before the war, the Western Han Dynasty had about 5959 million people, but by the early Eastern Han Dynasty, the population was only 2100 million people, a loss of about 65%.

4.Three Kingdoms period

At the end of the Han Dynasty, after the Yellow Turban Uprising and the melee of the Three Kingdoms, the population dropped sharply from 5007 million to 140 million. Most of them died in the war, and some died of poverty and hunger. In 208, the population was less than 221. Some poems described the scene at that time: "Bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no chicken crowing for thousands of miles. There are more than one hundred people living, and the thought of it breaks the heart."

The number of people who survived the Three Kingdoms turmoil was less than one percent of the original population. This population massacre was the most tragic. It was not until 265 AD that the population gradually recovered to 767 million.

5.Rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty

After 291 A.D., Wang Liang of Runan, Wang Wei of Chu, Wang Lun of Zhao, King Qi, King Changsha, King Hejian, King Yue of Donghai and Wang Ying of Chengdu fought and killed each other in Luoyang for 16 years. After a long time, the death toll was as high as hundreds of thousands, many towns were destroyed, and plagues and locust plagues were caused, causing "rivers to be flooded with corpses and bones to cover the fields".

6.Melee in the Northern and Southern Dynasties
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, most of the monarchs did not think about government affairs, but only wanted to enjoy themselves, and in order to satisfy their own desires, they increased exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, making the people miserable.Shi Hu, the emperor of Later Zhao, continued to recruit labor for large-scale construction projects, and oppressed the people, so that many people had to hang themselves to escape exorbitant taxes.At present, when Yan entered to besiege Yecheng, tens of thousands of court ladies in Later Zhao either starved to death or were cooked and eaten by soldiers as food.

Years of melee and continuous killings have caused the population to drop sharply. The population of the Guanzhong area is only 1% to 2% of the original population.

7.conscripts during the Sui Dynasty

In order to satisfy his extravagant and voluptuous life, Emperor Sui Yang recruited a large amount of labor to build a palace for him, and also attacked Korea, causing numerous casualties and a population loss rate of 73%.

8.An Shi Rebellion

The coup launched by An Lushan led to the decline of the Tang Dynasty in an instant. The eight-year-long battle for the country and the mountains made the Yellow River Basin completely depopulated, with many bones, and the population changed from 5292 million to 1699 million.

9.Peasant uprising at the end of Tang Dynasty

The Peasant Rebel Army, with the Yellow Turban Army as the main force, went on a killing spree. At that time, there was a saying: "Yellow Chao killed 800 million people—doomed." The constant melee also caused heavy losses to the population of the country.

10.The Battle Between the Song Dynasty and the Jin and Yuan Dynasties

In the wars between the Song Dynasty and the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, the population loss rate was as high as 91%.The massacre of Han civilians by the Mongolian army was recorded in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as a world record.

11.Melee at the end of Ming Dynasty

The end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty were very chaotic times. There were 54 years of domestic melee. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the national population was 1 million. By the time of Emperor Shizu of the Qing Dynasty, there were only 1400 million people left, all of whom died in battles or turmoil.After the Qing army entered the customs, in order to make the Han people surrender, they carried out a cruel policy of massacre.When Huang Taiji broke Jinzhou, he massacred, and there were as many as 13 corpses piled up in the city.

12.White Lotus Rebellion
During the Qianlong period, the white lotus sect uprising among the people fought against the imperial court for nine years.

13.Taiping Rebellion

After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, the rebel army led by Hong Xiuquan confronted Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army, and the population dropped by more than half in a decade. In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, China's population was 4.3 million.After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1863), China's population was reduced to 2.3 million people.

These large-scale population genocides are indelible scars in the course of Chinese history, and the feudal dynasties gradually declined in the sharp population decline.

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