After filling their stomachs hastily, the army began to advance toward the mountains along the ancient road.

It is midsummer now, and the Funiu Mountains are lush with green vegetation and full of vitality, and the scenery is extremely beautiful. It is completely different from the scenery when Li Rui went south.

However, there was an air of death that could not be concealed in this vigorous vitality. As the army marched forward, from time to time they could see dead bodies lying on the roadside. Some were curled up into swollen and greenish-white balls. They may have been killed by the heavy rain; some were killed by the heavy rain;

Their faces were blue and black, and there were grass roots between their teeth. They must have been poisoned by eating highly toxic grass roots. Some of them were lying on their backs, and they were so hungry that they could hardly find a trace of flesh on their bodies.

It was like a skeleton with a piece of human skin stuck on the surface. Some big trees were covered with corpses, including men, women, old and young. In desperation, the whole family hanged themselves to seek relief. Sima watched this tragic scene.

Quan's face was pale, his whole body was trembling, his eyes were dull, and he murmured to himself: "How could it be so? How could it be so? More than ten years ago, the Jin Dynasty returned to peace and prosperity, and the sea, rivers and rivers were clear. How could it become so bad in just ten years?

Is this it?”

Li Rui had the same venomous tongue as always: "Then you have to ask your uncles what good things they have done! Your Highness, what you see now is just the tip of the iceberg. Things so tragic, or even more tragic than this, are ahead.

Nowadays, there are many things happening in Northern China. Unless you see it with your own eyes, you will never know how much evil your Sima family has done!"

What he said is absolutely correct. The tragic scenes that happened on the Wanluo Ancient Road are now being staged frequently throughout North China.

As early as this spring, especially after the Battle of Ningping City, the Han people in northern China knew that the Jin Dynasty was completely hopeless. If they continued to stay in the north, they might face catastrophe. Panic and despair spread throughout the north, and everyone

They packed up their things one after another and embarked on a journey of escape, trying to escape to a place not yet controlled by the barbarians and not affected by the war before the disaster struck, in order to save their lives.

This was the beginning of an unprecedented large-scale migration, or the Great Escape. This event is called the "Yongjia South Crossing" in history books.

Don't think that everyone is running south as soon as you hear about Yongjia's southern crossing. In fact, when the eternal night is approaching, the northern Han people fled in several directions based on the principle of being nearest.

The preferred direction of escape for the Han people in Shandong and Henan is naturally to the south. Firstly, the south has not yet been invaded by carotene, and the economic conditions are acceptable. Secondly, with the help of Wang Dun, Wang Dao and others, Sima Rui has established a firm foothold in Jiangdong.

The prototype of a new regime has emerged, and these are like the lights of a lighthouse in the dark, attracting the northern Han people. Thousands of them, on horseback, by car or on foot, are arduously heading south.

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Most of the Han people in Hebei and Shanxi chose to go all the way north, first going to Youzhou Wang Jun and Jinyang Liu Kun. In North China, these two families were the only ones who still recognized the Western Jin Dynasty. For a while, Wang Jun and Liu Kun were pleasantly surprised

I discovered that there were countless people who came to seek refuge, and there was no need to invite them. Just stay at home and a large number of talents would come to visit in an endless stream, and the threshold was stepped into the heart of the earth!

However, they were just passing through the gods of wealth, enjoying themselves in vain. Most of the Han people who arrived in Jinyang and Youzhou would not choose to stay, but would continue to go north. There was no way, Wang Jun and Liu Kun were descendants of aristocratic families.

There are too many bad habits. Despite the great changes in the world, they still can't change their old habits of extravagance and greed for pleasure. Most people can see that they are not the material to regain China and drive out the Hulu.

Not only will there be no benefit, but on the contrary, there may be a disaster. If you don’t escape now, how long will it take?

In the end, Murong Xianbei, who dominated Liaodong, became their ideal target.

Murong Xianbei is a branch of the huge Xianbei ethnic group. They originally made a living in Yunzhong and Jiuyuan, a cold foreign area. During the reign of Emperor Wei Ming, Sima Yi led troops to conquer Liaodong. Murong Xianbei sent troops to help and made military exploits.

Later, the whole family moved to Liaodong and prospered.

After establishing a foothold in Liaodong, Murong Xianbei began to vigorously promote Sinicization. Confucian classics became the favorite books of Murong Xianbei's aristocratic children. They also copied the training model of the children of aristocratic families during the Han Dynasty. After decades of hard work,

Murong Xianbei's degree of sinicization has been quite deep, and he has got rid of his barbarian identity. When the eternal night falls, he becomes a beacon in the eyes of the northern Han people, calling them to escape from their homeland that is about to be occupied by the barbarians and flee to western Liaoning to find a new homeland.

's home.

Murong Xianbei became the biggest beneficiary of this unprecedented wave of immigration. With the accumulation of the past few decades and the continuous flow of people and talents who came to seek refuge, their strength surged and they were about to transform from a cute little harmless to humans and animals.

Become a lion that makes the whole of East Asia jealous.

However, they have to hide their strength and bide their time for thirty or forty years, because their time has not yet come.

In addition to going south and going north, there is another immigration route, which is to go west. Those who choose this route are mainly Han people in Guanzhong.

The once extremely glorious Guanzhong has turned into a hell on earth after experiencing the civil war between the Eight Kings, the invasion of the Hu people and successive years of drought. Seeing that the natural disasters are becoming more and more serious and the power of the Hu people is growing, the Han people in Guanzhong have to leave the place where their ancestors have lived for generations.

home, embarking on a journey of escape. Due to the special geographical location of Guanzhong, they did not have many choices. Going north was the territory of the Huns and Han Kingdom, and going south was the most intense fighting. The situation was not much better than in Guanzhong.

Going to the Central Plains and crossing the Qinling Mountains to Sichuan? Sorry, that place has been occupied by the Di people.

Enemies on all sides, that's probably it.

A small number of stubborn Han Chinese in Guanzhong chose to start from Lantian, pass through Wuguan, cross the Qinling Mountains and the Funiu Mountains, follow the route of the Qin army's invasion of the Central Plains hundreds of years ago, cross the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains and the Funiu Mountains, and enter Nanyang.

Basin. As for what they should do after arriving in Nanyang, they themselves don’t know. They can only take it one step at a time. Most of the less determined people choose to go all the way west, over Longshan and along the Hexi Corridor.

Go to Liangzhou to join the Zhang family.

The scale of this great migration—or the Great Escape—is truly unprecedented. In history, it lasted for two full centuries and profoundly affected the history of China. In the north, this great migration made Murong Xianbei

Their strength soared. They greedily absorbed nutrients from this great migration like a huge, dry sponge. After thirty or forty years of management, they became the strongest in the north. When Shi Le established the Hou Zhao regime

After falling suddenly, hundreds of thousands of Xianbei troops roared southward with the cold current of Siberia, easily occupying the entire North China that was once again plunged into melee, established the Qianyan, and also opened up the two powerful Xianbei and Han nationalities.

The prelude to the nation's two-hundred-year war. In the west, the originally sparsely populated Hexi Corridor ushered in great development due to the influx of millions of refugees. Agriculture, handicrafts, education, religion, etc., gradually prospered. In that dark

The era has become a pearl embedded in the northern sky. Liangzhou, with its relatively small size, has preserved millions of northern Han people, and finally received generous rewards. After several ups and downs, the blood of Liangzhou has been deeply integrated into the

Throughout the north, the most beautiful flowers finally bloomed three centuries later.

in the South……

Those Han men who carried the hatred of their country and family and marched southward on the bones and blood and tears of their relatives held up the sky of southern China. The northerners going south became the key to the rise and fall of the Southern Dynasty. During Zu Ti's Northern Expedition, the soldiers under his command mainly came from those who went south.

Han people; the Battle of Feishui, when Qin's hundreds of thousands of troops were pressing down on the Jianghuai River with the overwhelming force of Mount Tai, and the sky in southern China was about to fall, they formed a neat square formation and waded across the Feishui River to charge towards the Qin army.

The Beifu army came from the Han people who went south; Liu Yu conquered thousands of miles in the south and fought in the north, relying on the Han people who went south; Xiao Qi and Xiao Liang fought against the Northern Wei Dynasty, relying on the Han people who went south; until Hou Jing led the army across the river to directly attack Jian

The problem-solving methods proposed by Kang and Nanliang still rely on veterans who went south twenty years ago, such as Yang Kan.

When the northern Han people stopped going south, the life of the Southern Dynasties basically entered a countdown.

Throughout the two hundred and eighty-year history of the Southern Dynasties, the only one who truly did not rely on the Han people who went south and relied solely on the power of the South to confront the Northern Dynasties was Nan Chen. When Hou Jing was ravaging Jiangdong and turning the South into a hell on earth, it was Chen Ba who took the lead first.

After two hundred years of accumulation in Lingnan, he led an army of 50,000 and carried 500,000 shi of rations across the Yuling Mountains and advanced into the south of the Yangtze River. He acted as a big cow for the Jiangdong generals and wiped out the arrogant Hou Jing in one fell swoop. Finally, he established Nanchen and brought the Southern and Northern Dynasties together.

The story continues. Without his heroic feat of leading tens of thousands of Lingnan children to cross the Yuling Mountains, the Northern and Southern Dynasties would have ended decades earlier.

Without this doomsday escape of unprecedented scale, it is hard to say whether there would have been the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Chinese history.

A doomsday escape is not just an outing. Escape is, to put it bluntly, a race against death. If you win, you will live, if you lose, you will die. In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge was unprepared by the people.

Forcibly driving urban residents to the countryside, just such a move caused tens of thousands of people to die on the road. This shows how terrible disasters such large-scale and long-term migration can cause without adequate preparation. Then

It was still the 20th century when transportation and medicine were very developed, but now in the fourth century AD, transportation and medicine are about the same as in the 20th century, but the number of people fleeing is about the same, or even more!

Therefore, no matter whether you are going north, west or south, the road to escape is full of dead people, some died of exhaustion, some died of illness, and some were killed by bandits. Two or even multiple groups of refugees compete for food and water sources.

It became extremely common to start fierce melees while waiting for resources, or to work together to attack Wubao that refused to provide them with food to survive. Killing and being killed became as common as thirsty for water.

I don’t know that historians are praising this great immigration, claiming that it was this great immigration that spread the technology and population of the north to every corner of China, promoted the great integration of the south and the north, the central and the west, and made the entire

When the country is experiencing rapid development, has anyone counted how many innocent civilians turned into withered bones scattered in the wilderness during this doomsday escape? Has anyone counted the blood and tears they shed?
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