As soon as Kou Zhun's uncle said this, Kou Zhun hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the old man three times and said, "Uncle advises, nephew benefits a lot; When my mother died, my monarch's life was in my body, loyalty and filial piety could not be both, and it was a lifelong regret for my nephew, but my mother's bitter nephew did not dare to forget; The nephew is now the minister of the state, and he swears to report to the king of Song to Fu Li Min......"

After Kou Zhun finished the above words, he and Song E hurriedly persuaded his uncle to eat; Zhao Wu looked at the delicacies of the mountains and seas at the banquet and refused to enter the banquet, but pointed to the banquet and said, "This table of food is enough for our hometown family to spend a few months!" You eat so well in the capital, you can know that our Huazhou and Tongzhou have not harvested the grains in this year's drought; A bucket of rice rose to a thousand dollars. It is not yet the New Year, and there is a famine; I don't know how many people will starve to death by next spring! Thinking of this, how can I eat such a good meal?"

Kou Zhun heard that there was a drought in his hometown, but he could not see the severity of the disaster from the magistrate's recital; Uncle Zhao Wu said this, only then did he feel that he was derelict in his duty and ashamed of the villagers.

Kou Zhun reviewed his mistakes with his uncle and arranged for him to stay, and hurriedly returned to the hall and ordered the banquet to be withdrawn; And take this as a precept to never feast at night.

The next morning, Kou Zhun truthfully played the drought in his hometown to Song Taizong; He also asked to return to Shaanxi to supervise relief and inquire about the people's situation.

Although Song Taizong was scheming and brutalized his brother and brother in order to seize power, he was still commendable in caring for the people and maintaining the long-term peace and stability of the country; Immediately ordered Kou Zhun to rush to Shaanxi as a special envoy for disaster relief in Guanzhong to help the victims.

After Kou Zhun returned to Shaanxi, he investigated the disaster in detail and reported it to Emperor Taizong; Exempted from taxes for three years in Guanzhong, which was passed down as a good story by later generations.

Li Fang, Zhang Qixian, Lu Mengzheng, and Lu Duan did not know whether the cynicism of Kou Zhun was praise or depreciation; But Zhi Yuzhong learned from it that Kou Zhun was a man who could take it and let it go, and admired him very much.

said that Kou Zhun was extravagant, but he was so poor that he had nothing to say; With so much high salary a year, I can't afford to buy a house in the capital, so I have been renting a house; Even his mansion is leased, which is really a bit strange.

So the question is, what did Kou Zhun do with so much of his income? Listened to the song? Drunk? Got the Takueda Dance?

Kou Zhun sometimes became interested, and he had to put on a battle to "jump" for a while.

The Tuoba Dance is the Biansai Dance in Xinjiang in later generations, with dancers wearing bells on their feet and hands, and the bells jingle three times in one dance; What kind of atmosphere can you imagine.

Kou Zhun was informal, but later generations called him Kou Tianguan; It seems to be his loyalty and indomitable heroism against his enemies.

didn't mention Kou Zhun's negative afterlife at all, and storytellers like Liu Lanfang didn't mention Kou Zhun's extravagance; only talks about his strong bearing in the face of traitors and enemies.

Li Fang and a few people talked about Kou Zhun, but Kou Zhun laughed very reservedly and said, "Are you done?" You are here to pickle Kou Laoxi, or are you here to discuss things with General Zhe! ”

Li Fangmao said with a smile: "Kou Laoxi really reminded us when he said this, everyone was beating the side drum; It's time to smash the drum heart! ”

After a pause, he swallowed his throat and said, "Young General Zhe, we just made a big joke for a while, and now it's time to talk about business!" ”

Zhi Yuzhong bowed and said: "If the prime minister has any orders, the young general will obey!" ”

Zhang Qixian smiled wryly, looked at Zhe Yuzhong and said, "Don't obey what Young General Zhe says, we came to your mansion to disturb us; The main task is to find the eldest prince Zhao Yuanzuo, the young general, how do you say we should act after dawn; And, of course, General Yang! Zhang Qixian swept his gaze to Yang Yiyi and said.

Kou Zhun disagreed, and said: "Let's first analyze and judge the position of the Tianxiang army led by Lu Yuma, and then decide the direction of movement!" ”

Kou Zhun said and said after a moment of silence: "Xiaguan has worked in the Yongxing Army, and he is still familiar with several roads leading from Guanzhong to the Northland; According to the following officials, if Lu Juma kills the Tartar soldiers in the Xianghe River, he may go straight to Xiazhou by the road of Chenzhou; Isn't Lu Luma's target Li Jiqian's thief? ”

Zhi Yuzhong picked up Kou Zhun's words: "Lord Kou is not wrong, Li Jiqian is now in Xiazhou, because of the plague in Yanzhou and Hongzhou for more than half a year, many people have died; Xiazhou is in the north of Yanzhou and Hongzhou, and the Tianxiang army of the master of the horse may be stranded in the area of the Dingbian Army and the Security Army, so we might as well go to the Dingbian Army or the Security Army to see! ”

Zhi Yuzhong's words were the conclusions made during the conversation with Yang Heyi just now, and as soon as he said it, Li Fang, Lu Mengzheng, Zhang Qixian, Lu Duan, and Kou Zhun were all dumbfounded.

Kou Zhun was stunned and said quickly: "There is a plague in Zhouzhou and Hongzhou? Why didn't the court know! ”

Kou Zhun said and looked at Li Fang and said, "Master Li is the right prime minister, do you know the epidemic report reported below!" ”

"Nope!" Li Fang said bluntly: "The situation in Kyushu in the north is relatively special, although it is the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian's thieves and the Khitans of the Liao State invade from time to time; The ownership is also constantly changing, when Li Jiqian invaded Yuzhou and Hongzhou, he killed all the officials of several states sent by the imperial court, and the officials of Yuzhou and Hongzhou may be absent, and the capital naturally does not know the following epidemic situation! ”

Zhang Qixian said solemnly: "In this way, the problem is serious, and we must quickly rush to the state and county where the epidemic broke out to check the situation; Emergency treatment! ”

When Zhang Qixian said this, Li Fang and several people all agreed; They were important ministers of the court, and they were very concerned about the suffering of the people.

Zhi Yuzhong asked: "A few adults, then will we go to Xuanzhou or Hongzhou tomorrow, or will we go to the security army?" ”

"Go to the security army!" Kou Zhun said with a hammer: "If there is an epidemic in Yanzhou and Hongzhou, the people will definitely go south and enter the territory of the security army; We're there to find out! Lu Pony's army may also go there to adjust! ”

The plan was finalized, and the "seven-person inspection group" hit the road early the next morning.

In addition to the 100 forbidden troops led by Yang Linyu, the head of the forbidden army, Zhi Yuzhong organized more than 300 soldiers of the Zhejia army to protect the seven-person regiment.

The reason why Zhi Yuzhong led more than 300 Zhi family troops to protect the seven-member regiment also meant that he wanted to bump into Li Jiqian.

Zhi Yuzhong did not catch up with Li Jiqian in the southwest Songpan area, and he was always very entangled in his heart when he escaped from this guy, and this time he had Lu Chengyu's 800 Tianxiang Army to cooperate; It is not impossible to annihilate Li Jiqian.

Hundreds of people in the seven-member regiment all rode war horses, and although Li Fang, Lu Mengzheng, Zhang Qixian, Lu Duan, and Kou Zhun were all civil servants, riding horses in extraordinary times was also an experience.

When the seven-man regiment marched towards the security army with a team of hundreds of horses; Liu Min and Lu Chengyu's Tianxiang army passed through Chenzhou under the leadership of General Huyan, and after a long journey, they had reached Jiuwu Mountain of the security army.

Jiuwu Mountain is a famous mountain in the territory of the Security Army, with green trees; Cicadas hiss and birds chirp.

The Tianxiang army was about to enter the shade of the mountains and see each other's fast horses; It is said that thousands of ordinary people gathered in the ravines of Jiuwu Mountain.

Liu Min was stunned, and hurriedly said to Lu Chengyu: "Brother Ma, order the whole army to stop advancing immediately and camp on the spot; Little sister has to go up to the front to see! ”

Lu Chengyu replied and gave the order to set up camp, and then looked at Liu Min and said: "Why does the little sister want the army to set up camp here, there is no village in front of the village and no shop here!" ”

Liu Min pondered for a moment and said thoughtfully: "There are thousands of ordinary people gathered in the valley in front of the fast horse report, and they must be villagers who rushed over from the epidemic area; There may be susceptible people in the population, in order to prevent contagion; The army must be encamped here! ”

After Liu Min said these words, he said to the herald: "Do you see the river in the valley?" ”

The herald's name was Zhang Kai, and he bowed and bowed, "Report to the chief, the villain has seen the river; I heard Grandpa Huyan say that it was Luohe! ”

"That's right, that's Luohe!" Liu Min said calmly: "Brother Zhang immediately informed that the army could not drink the water of the Luo River after camping; Wait until it is found to be harmless before drinking and making rice! ”

Zhang Kai promised to go to inform the soldiers, but Zhao Yuanzuo stared at Liu Min unreasonably and said, "Why is Aunt Min chattering, why can't the river water be drinkable?" ”

"Brother Chong has read history books, don't you know about the biochemical war launched by the Huns?" Liu Min said majestically, telling everyone the earliest biochemical war stories of human beings that she read when she was a medical doctor in later generations.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu fought for many years, and the three wars launched by Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty; Expelled the Xiongnu from the northern steppes.

But the Xiongnu did not dare to fail, and they infected people by creating plague through plague horses and animals, killing the soldiers and civilians of the Han Dynasty; At that time, people called this disease "typhoid fever".

This "typhoid fever" has two symptoms: first, the patient has bruises on the body (hence the name "injury"); One is bitter cold due to high fever (hence the name "cold"), and the mortality rate is very high.

Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, said sadly in the preface to "Treatise on Typhoid Fever": "My family has a large number of more than 200 people, but in less than ten years since the first year of Jian'an, two-thirds of them have died, and seven-tenths of them died of typhoid fever. ”

More than 700 years ago, the Huns already knew that the dead bodies of cattle and horses could spread viruses, which shows that their wisdom is not ordinary.

The plague caused by the Xiongnu's use of dead bodies after the death of cattle and horses caused the population of the Han Dynasty to drop by more than 50 million in just 80 years.

Not only that, but the plague, which lasted for more than 300 years, also caused constant social unrest; It has changed the direction of Chinese history and left a deep imprint on Chinese society and culture.

And when the Huns moved westward to Europe, they also brought lingering memories to Europeans.

The Huns tied their horses to the foot of the Great Wall and said to the Han army: "The Qin people (the Huns call the Han people Qin), don't you want horses?" We sent the war horses. ”

These war horses were actually poisoned by the Huns, and this poison is a unique disease on the grassland.

The Han army "introduced these infected horses into the Guannei and infected people."

The Huns came up with this poisonous plan because it was in the late stage of the Han-Hungarian War; The Han army attacked fiercely, and the Huns were forced to move north.

In order to prevent the Han army from continuing to advance northward, the Xiongnu used virus-infected cattle and sheep carcasses to pollute the upper reaches of the roads and rivers that the Han army had to pass, so that the Han army was infected with epidemics and lost its combat effectiveness.

Immediately afterward, this biological and chemical weapon, which was the first recorded in human history, soon exerted a great power that even the Huns did not expect.

It is conceivable that the Han people, who had no immunity before, faced this plague virus that was extremely contagious and vigorous; It is tantamount to a herd of cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered, which is why this plague has been able to repeatedly ravage in the Central Plains for 300 years.

In the 80 years from the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the reunification of China in the first year of Emperor Taishi of the Jin Dynasty, wars and epidemics led to an astonishing decline in the population.

Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Eastern Han Dynasty counted the population of the whole country as 56.5 million, but by the end of the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Shu and Wu had only 5.6 million left, which is a shocking figure.

So what was the typhoid fever that people were talking about at that time?

One is the "Gu" of the Xiongnu witch doctor, which can contaminate cattle, sheep and horses but does not make them sick; the other is that the disease has basically not crossed the Yangtze River; In addition, from the 1st century to the 4th century AD, the "typhoid fever" plague recurred in the Central Plains.

Based on these facts, it can be inferred that this typhoid fever is what is medically called epidemic hemorrhagic fever; It is an infectious disease caused by viruses transmitted by animals, especially rodents.

Since it is mainly spread by rats, the Yangtze River blocks rats from moving south; Therefore, the disease basically did not cross the Yangtze River.

Because rats are constantly hunted, the virus that continues to be insidious in their bodies causes plagues to occur repeatedly; The "Gu" under the Xiongnu witch doctor is likely to be the feces of rats.

The plague and disease combined with the war and war also created a unique cultural phenomenon of the times; That is the "Wei and Jin Romance".

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, many literati and celebrities wore wide clothes and debauchery in clogs, and they would always think that this was a manifestation of ease and elegance, but they did not know that it was because of taking medicine.

In order to treat and prevent typhoid fever, people often took a decoction called Wushisan.

Wushisan as a medicinal liquor has the effect of sweating, so even in winter; People who take medicine will also have a fever of skin and flesh, not to mention wearing little clothing, and if they wear tight, narrow clothes, they will also scratch their skin, so they must wear loose clothes.

It's the same on the feet, wearing shoes and socks is easy to wear out the skin of the feet; Therefore, it is the best choice to replace shoes with sandals.

In addition, in order to avoid the spread of epidemics, many scholars at that time sought a pure land from the world, so the fashion of finding nature became popular, which led to the rise of landscape poetry and landscape literature.

The Xiongnu were the initiators of the spread of the hemorrhagic plague, but their own people later became serious victims.

In the hundreds of years after the Southern Xiongnu annexed the Han Dynasty, the Northern Xiongnu continued to move westward, and at the same time spread the plague all the way.

In the 2nd century AD, hemorrhagic fever plague broke out in Central and West Asia, and in the 2nd and 3rd centuries it spread to Rome. After that, they recurred, and by the 6th century they had spread almost all of Europe.

In 375 AD, the Huns appeared in the Don steppes, and then swept across the steppes to most of Europe, and these invaders on horseback brought not only war, but also more terrible plagues to Europe.

For more than a century, epidemics shook Europe, and in England, the plague of 444 AD left the Britons without enough healthy people to bury their bodies; Vienna and Rome were struck by similar plagues in 455 and 467 AD, respectively, killing countless people......