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For a long time, although Bao Hong has some understanding of life in the late Han Dynasty, especially about population decline, he is not very professional, especially the current Yellow Turban Rebellion period belongs to the stage of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and there is no specific description at all.

As far as Bao Hong knows, the first is the Xuzhou Massacre of Boss Cao, which led to the spread of the plague due to corpses all over the field, and the other is the famous joke, Romance Chibi is not very outstanding in the official history, mainly because of the sick relationship under Boss Cao. Then there is the fact that during the entire Three Kingdoms period, the population declined significantly, and finally there was a tragedy of Wuhu Chaohua.

In fact, this thing is really not a rare thing, and it can be said that it has always been feared and troubled by the people.

Long before the Eastern Han Dynasty, plagues occurred in all dynasties. Because China is a monsoon country, located at the junction of the Pacific Ocean and Eurasia, the temperature in winter and summer is uneven, and the climate changes greatly, and this special natural environment is also prone to disease disasters. According to the records left by the ancients over thousands of years, many types of plagues, such as smallpox, plague, diphtheria, scarlet fever, cholera, typhus, typhoid, lung disease, leprosy, malaria, and schistoriasis, have hit the continent. On the other hand, because the ancients had a limited understanding of diseases, they often did not distinguish the specific types of plagues. According to the interpretation of the ancients, the so-called epidemic refers to "all the people are sick", which means that all diseases that can be transmitted are commonly called "epidemics". As for "plague", it refers to a virulent infectious disease, which can infect livestock and humans. Based on this, infectious diseases and epidemics were commonly referred to as "plagues" in ancient China.

According to historical records, from the 7th century B.C. to the 20th century A.D., there were more than 700 large-scale plagues in China. History developed to the Han Dynasty, due to long-term wars and various natural disasters, it finally led to a large-scale epidemic of epidemics. Even in the period of "Wenjing Zhizhi" of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a tragic scene of "the people died in the army, and the coffin was expensive". By the Eastern Han Dynasty in the 1st to 3rd centuries AD, the plague was even more ferocious. Especially at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in the Central Plains, the ruling center of the dynasty, a terrible epidemic swept through every corner at an unprecedented speed, bringing great disasters to people.

At that time, magistrates at all levels of the Eastern Han Dynasty continued to receive a large number of reports of cases, and some villages even almost all died. The magistrate did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly reported these situations to the imperial court. But to their disappointment, the court was in a state of corruption and chaos, and had no time to care about the lives of the common people. As a result, the scope of the plague was further expanded due to the lack of effective control.

The great plague at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was commonly known as "typhoid fever" at that time. According to relevant historical records, the main symptoms of this disease are: it is transmitted by animals (horses, cattle, sheep, etc.) as the host of the virus, which is strongly infectious; The onset is acute and the mortality rate is high; Patients often have high fever and wheezing, and die of exhaustion; Some patients also have blood spots and bruises. In the early days of the plague, faced with the terrible plague, people were almost helpless and could only wait for death in despair.

According to statistics, in the 100 years from 119 to 217 AD, there were dozens of great plagues. In the decades at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Great Plague was even more continuous, and the number of deaths was so large that it was impossible to count. In just 30 years at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were 12 national plagues that were clearly recorded. During the plague epidemic, families were ruined and people died, and the consequences were very tragic.

In the once prosperous Central Plains region, there was such a tragic situation at one time: "There is the pain of a corpse in every family, and there is a cry of mourning in the room, or the door is closed and the family is mourned." Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical scientist at that time, also sadly recalled that his family originally had a large population, reaching more than 200 people, but during the plague epidemic in less than ten years, two-thirds of the population died, and seventy percent of them died of typhoid fever. In the Luoyang area, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the plague claimed more than half of the people's lives. In addition, there were constant wars here at that time, and the Central Plains region fell into an extremely terrifying state.

Under the blow of the plague, ordinary people died in large numbers due to backward conditions. On the other hand, even those who have always been pampered by the upper echelons are not immune to their fate. In this regard, the famous "Seven Sons of Jian'an" is a good example. The so-called "Seven Sons of Jian'an" refers to the seven famous poets in the Jian'an period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in addition to Cao's father and son, they are: Kong Rong, Chen Lin, Wang Cang, Xu Gan, Ruan Yu, Ying Ling, and Liu Zhen. When Cao Pi was not yet emperor, he established deep friendships with several poets in the "Seven Sons of Jian'an". Unfortunately, in the great plague in the Central Plains in the 22nd year of Jian'an, four of the famous "Seven Sons of Jian'an" were infected and died, they were Xu Gan, Chen Lin, Ying Ling, and Liu Zhen. Seeing his friends die one by one, Cao Pi later recalled with deep sorrow: "In the past, the epidemic caused many disasters to my relatives. Xu, Chen, Ying, and Liu all passed away, and the pain was evil...... It is said that a hundred years have been divided, and the long-term total is guaranteed, and between the years, it is scattered and omitted, and it is sad to say." In addition, many famous upper-class people at that time, such as the famous "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", Wang Bi, He Yan and others, basically died young.

Of course, I won't say much about the Jian'an period and even the later period, after all, nothing has happened yet.

However, as far as the continuation of the Eastern Han Dynasty is concerned, the existing plague outbreaks are already numerous, and now the Yellow Turban Uprising in full swing can be said to account for a large factor in the impact of the plague, of course, the other half of the pot has to be borne by the inaction of the imperial court.

Political corruption, frequent wars, and serious land annexation have made it difficult for the people to make a living. Under these circumstances, the exterminating plague undoubtedly added insult to injury, forcing the people to rise up.

Of course, with the outbreak of the uprising, especially the emergence of many figures, they are more concerned about this matter after all, and if they do not take measures to deal with it, how can they win the hearts of the people?

On the other hand, ancient Chinese medicine has a long history, and it was in the process of constantly fighting diseases that it developed. Especially in the Han Dynasty, the records of plague in many classics are very detailed, among which the description of infectious diseases such as smallpox, plague, whooping cough, and measles is the earliest in the world. During the epidemic of the plague, some medical scientists took action and summed up some effective prevention and control methods through continuous exploration, which have become valuable assets in the history of medicine. Among them, the most famous is Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, who wrote the thousand-year-old masterpiece "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" on the basis of summarizing the experience of treating epidemics, which is also a summary of the treatment methods of epidemic plagues in the Han and Han dynasties.

In terms of internal affairs, Bao Hong can't interfere with anything for the time being, and recently, as long as Emperor Ling is not confused, he will take some measures, but he doesn't pay attention to it.

As for the advancement of medical skills, Bao Hong also studied it on the side of the military doctor, but after all, this matter was not achieved overnight, Zhang Zhongjing's combat effectiveness, it took so long to study "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", after all, the memories implanted by Bao Hong's subordinates only correspond to contemporary medical technology, and if they want to quickly advance to a period that can crush the plague, at least to reach the level of Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", it will never be effective quickly.

At present, it can only be said that it is a preliminary prevention and various early stage treatment, and it is not certain whether it is effective or not.

In addition to this, there is actually another crucial thing to consider and deal with, and that is the psychological problem.

The pain is easy to get rid of, but the heart disease is difficult to treat.

The system reminded that during the Jian'an period, there were constant wars and plagues, and in the face of a large number of deaths in the society, people inevitably had a precarious fear. Based on this, in the eyes of later generations, the Jian'an period became a tragic era. Under the influence of this social climate, a new type of cultural tendency was formed. For example, the literati at that time often used the title of "Seven Sorrows" when writing poems, such as Wang Cang, one of the "Seven Sons of Jian'an", who once wrote: "When you go out, you can't see anything, and the white bones cover the plain...... Nandeng Baling Bank, looking at Chang'an with the same head, Wu Bilin Xiaquan, and mourning the heart", the words are full of sadness for death. Under the influence of such cultural tendencies, the topics discussed by the literati quickly shifted from the political ethics of classics in the Han and Han dynasties to the Wei and Jin dynasties, which further led to the rise of Qing Tan and metaphysics. The history of ancient Chinese culture and thought shows that the philosophy of the Wei and Jin dynasties advocated nihilism and liberalization, while the literature was full of the emptiness, desolation, liberation, and emptiness of lamenting the shortness of life and the impermanence of life and death, which constituted the basic characteristics of the mainstream trend of thought at that time. This phenomenon is not only related to the social turmoil of the time, but also related to the sense of human powerlessness and powerlessness in the face of the plague.

This unprecedented scale of the plague cast a shadow on people's psychology, and the social theme of the Han and Han dynasties, which was based on the political ethics of classics, quickly shifted to the Wei and Jin dynasties, which focused on the meaning of existence and the authenticity of life, which further led to the rise of Qing Tan and metaphysics.

What's even more interesting is that at that time, in order to fight the plague, many upper-class people often superstitiously took a medicine called "Wushi San" to be a hundred times more effective. As a result, the daily behavior of these upper-class people also appears to be unique due to the regular use of this toxic drug. As Mr. Lu Xun analyzed: "After eating, you should take off your clothes and pour cold water on your body; eating something cold; Drink mulled wine. In this way, there are many people who eat loose five stones, and there are few people who wear thick clothes, because the skin and flesh are feverish, and they cannot wear narrow clothes. In order to prevent the skin from being scratched by clothes, it is necessary to wear loose clothing." And because of the need to use alcohol as bait when taking medicine, and the power of medicine must be dissipated by the power of alcohol, most of the scholars at that time had a grotesque performance of indulging in alcohol.

Social disasters caused by natural disasters will inevitably bring profound changes to people's beliefs and social psychology. Faced with the helpless situation of a large number of people dying from the plague at that time, people were basically helpless, so they often turned to gods and monsters for help, which led to the extreme popularity of religion. In fact, when Taoism and Buddhism began to become popular in early China, they were both believed as a way of medicine and longevity. Take, for example, Taoism, China's native religion. This folk religion, which originated in the late Warring States period, was originally neglected in the Western Han Dynasty. However, by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the epidemic of "typhoid fever", some monks used the Fushui method to treat people's diseases, so that Taoism quickly spread among the general public. The same is true of Buddhism. As an alien religion, Buddhism initially spread only among individual nobles. However, by the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the aristocracy's belief in Buddhism had become a relatively popular trend.

Bao Hong thought about it, this is also an inevitable thing, you must know that in the Central Plains, where the plague was most violent, by the end of the Three Kingdoms, its population was only one-tenth of that of the Han Dynasty.

What is this concept? Resident Evil hasn't reached this level, has it? It's a situation of apocalyptic crisis. You must know that when the end comes, the outbreak of all kinds of human nature is the biggest crisis, and the speed of internal collapse of human beings is countless times faster than the speed of external destruction.

The sky is not high, but the heart is the highest!

There is a saying that if you don't explode in silence, you perish in silence. What is silence? Isn't a desperate situation a kind of silence?

What can the vast majority of people do when they are completely helpless? What's more, this is not a situation with fixed enemies like Resident Evil, but the plague and disease, except for praying to God and worshiping Buddha, complaining about the heavens and people, even Bao Hong himself can't think of what kind of way to face it.

In this regard, Bao Hong is not uninformed. Not to mention the question of whether human nature is inherently good or inherently evil, after experiencing a crisis of life and death, many things are also lightened, and there is not so much fear of life and death, perhaps what you do will change completely.

However, it has to be said that nine times out of ten this kind of change is vicious, and there are only a few people who can awaken the immeasurable light of their nature, and there are only a few great enlightened people who can really see through all this, and try to save the world from the immeasurable light of Nirvana in the midst of war and other great destruction.

Lear, Confucius, Shakyamuni, etc., are only a few who try to lead the world to a new situation.

Of course, Li Er was born, Sakya was reincarnated, and Kong Qiu was not the type to preach hard work.

The more reliable inspirational class should be regarded as "Tianxingjian gentleman with self-improvement" in "Zhou Yi" and the like.

"Tianxingjian, the gentleman is self-improving", the next sentence is "the terrain is kun, the gentleman is virtuous", the two sentences mean: the movement of heaven (that is, nature) is strong and strong, correspondingly, the gentleman should be like the sky, self-improvement, perseverance, indignation, and never stop; The momentum of the earth is thick and smooth, and a gentleman should thicken virtue and contain all things.

As a spiritual force, self-improvement has infiltrated into the spiritual blood of the Chinese nation and has become an indispensable spiritual factor in Chinese culture. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has had the noble qualities of unremitting self-improvement, unity and tolerance, hardship and hard work, and has not only been able to start a business in its own country, but also to work hard all over the world to create fruitful results.

It can be said that if you think about this problem, Bao Hong's first thought is to use this for propaganda, of course, the modern social trend has not yet reached the level of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and there is no need to toss so much at present. (To be continued.) )