Chapter 511: Once It’s Been Done
If there is one regime that at least try to understand and even integrate with these ethic group it would be Shu Han
they have to govern a lot of the ethnic group and managed at least during the time of Zhuge Liang to ease some of the tension.
But after Wei unified China, this short-lived effort was destroyed and then after Wei is usurped by Jin, the exploitation of the minorities become even harsher.
If the one on top would not let them live, then they would rather pick up their weapons and fight for a chance of survival!
When Han people ruled the land of China, minorities always suffers and scapegoated as the ills of the world.
There is cause and effect to everything
Jin fell to Liu Song and historian at that time called it the Sixteen kingdoms of the Five barbarians
The Five Liangs, Four Yans, three Qins, two Zhaos, Cheng-Han and Xia.
There is also many other kingdom that appeared at that time. Ran Wei, Zhai Wei, Chouchi, Duan Qi, Qiao Shu, Huan Chu, Tuyuhun, Western Yan.
The historian Cui Hong that wrote the term Sixteen Kingdoms in the Spring And Autumn Annals of the Sixteen Kingdoms did not include Northern Wei and its predecessor Dai, because the Northern Wei is considered to be the first of the Northern dynasties in the period that followed the Sixteen kingdoms.
History only remember the sixteen kingdoms but who knows and who wrote the stories of the people at that time whether the stories they wrote is true or false.