Zhen Qian's hiding in Luquan County was neither his own wish nor fate.

Many people in later generations don't know about Luquan County, but when it comes to Jingcheng and Xibaipo, everyone probably knows about it.

Xibaipo: The modern revolutionary base area, the command post of the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin, held the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee and the National Land Conference of great historical significance, liberated the whole of China, so it has the reputation of "New China came from here" and "China's destiny is set in this village".

Xibaipo, formerly known as "Baibu", was built in the Tang Dynasty, and was named after the lush cypress on the slope of the village.

It is located at the intersection of the North China Plain and the Taihang Mountains, in a sunny horseshoe-shaped col, surrounded by mountains on three sides, surrounded by water on one side, the Taihang Mountains in the west, the Jizhong Plain in the east, and only 90 kilometers away from Shijiazhuang, an important town in North China (of course, Shijiazhuang has not appeared in the Tang Dynasty).

From the point of view of economic conditions, the villages in the area of Xibaipo Village are dense, mostly one or two kilometers apart, and they are distributed along the Hutuo River, the land is fertile by the mountains and rivers, the land is wide and the grain is abundant, and the rice and wheat are double-cropped. In the Tang Dynasty, it was not rich, especially in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, when land annexation became more and more serious, and a large number of yeoman farmers lost their land to survive and became tenants of the Gaomen clan.

Jing Cheng: Jing Cheng is known as "the fifth of the eight Taihang Fortresses, the sixth of the nine stops in the world" is the key to the Hebei Thoroughfare, the place where the soldiers of the past dynasties must fight, the material exchange and distribution center of the three provinces of Hebei, Shanxi and Shanxi, the military, economic and cultural important towns in the western part of North China, the well-known Han Xin backwater battle at home and abroad, the famous Hundred Regiment Battle, Jing Cheng are the main battlefield.

The history of Jingcheng is longer, and it can be mentioned to the Paleolithic Age, which is said to be "dangerous in the world", and then said "soldiers must fight".

Xibaipo is located more than 20 miles east of Sendai Village, hidden in a small ravine, Jingcheng is located below Sendai Village, the location is a little farther away, but the straight-line distance on the map is not more than 30 miles, from Sendai Village over a few mountains, you can go straight to the back of Jingcheng.

When he first arrived in the Tang Dynasty, Zhen Qian's first thought was the dream of making a fortune, a fantastic dynasty was displayed in front of him, why did others make a lot of money one by one, but it would not work when he got here.

But what happened next was like a basin of cold water that woke up Zhen Qian, who was dreaming of making a fortune, the middle and late Tang Dynasty was definitely not a period of making a lot of money, there was no life, what was the use of asking for money.

Rather be a peace dog, don't run in troubled times, running immediately became the best choice, the problem is where to run!

The rich land of abundance is definitely a good place, the undeveloped Jiangnan is full of the delicate spirit of a small jasper, overseas is a barren land, you can close the door to be a soil emperor by occupying an island, but your current foundation is too shallow, and the navigation technology has made great progress in the late Tang Dynasty, that is, just think about making a sweet dream!

Zhen Qian, who didn't even have the ability to protect himself, first thought of not making glass to make glass, let alone developing black powder to kill the Quartet, but to come to Luquan County to hide as a shrinking turtle.

Zhen Qian pondered for more than half a month, and a bold and risky plan was formulated, and separating from the Zhen Mansion was the first step.

The Anshi Rebellion is inevitable, he doesn't have the power to play, even if he goes directly to the Heavenly Court, Tang Xuanzong won't know which onion and which garlic Zhen Qian is! Instead, he will bring death to himself.

Zhen Qian hates to do things that he is not sure of, and the only way to do this is to enrich his strength, to respond to all changes without change, and to sit back and wait until the Anshi Rebellion breaks out, he will only die faster.

Later generations said that the population who died in the Anshi Rebellion was as high as six or seven percent, and the "Zizhi Tongjian" recorded: "It is the year, the household plays: more than 2.9 million households, and more than 1,690 million mouths." Many historians believe that the peak number of households during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty was 80.5 million, and most views were around 80 or 90 million, and after the Anshi Rebellion, there were only more than 16 million left. In eight years, the entire Tang Dynasty decreased by more than 50 to 60 million people, and the mortality rate reached 70 or 80!!

What a terrible fact this is!

In fact, if you think about it, it is not surprising that after the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population of the early Tang Dynasty was only more than 3 million.

In the history of China, it is not surprising to understand that a major upheaval caused by a major upheaval caused by three non-existent one, six non-existent one, or even ten non-existent one, which happened once in about two or three hundred years.

There may be exaggerated words by historians, and there are also people who are hidden because of the war, but in addition to the data, there are also a large number of visual descriptions such as "thousands of miles of red land, and the dead look at each other". Cao Cao has a poem: "The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles", it cannot be nonsense. In addition, with the productive forces, transportation capacity, and medical and health conditions in ancient times, even if the common people fled their hometowns, the mortality rate is probably unimaginable for people today.

Not to mention anything else, think about the human flesh mill of Huangchao, the cannibalism of Zhu Wei at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the two-legged sheep of the Wuhu Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Jingguan with a pile of heads, which are not original to later generations, and abound in ancient times, even if it was Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, who was known for his benevolence and righteousness in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many slaughters in the process of unification, and the famous slaughtering demon king Wu Han was his general, and even when he returned to his hometown in Nanyang, Qiu Ba, who killed the red-eyed people, did not let go of the people in the emperor's township and forced his relatives to rebel.

The north was the hardest hit area of the Anshi Rebellion, and after the war, the entire Hebei, Kanto, Henan, Gyeonggi and other places were empty. Population is not only a productive force, but also a manifestation of the national strength of the feudal dynasty, without the population, the dynasty will inevitably slide from prosperity to decline.

Sendai Village is not Zhen Qian's place of refuge, but it is a stepping stone for Zhen Qian's escape, and people's survival instinct is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and there is nothing to be ashamed of.

The other traversers were all in a hurry, but when it was their turn, their lives were in danger, and they were worried all day long.

Fear comes not only from the imminent Anshi Rebellion, but also from the imperial rule without human rights protections.

Breaking the prefect and destroying the county order is definitely not a joke, and it is difficult for future generations to understand.

In ancient times, because local officials had all kinds of powers in civil affairs, taxation, justice, and education, if the parents and officials felt that the people under their rule were not very pleasing to the eye, they could find a reason to make him embarrassed, and even the family was ruined.

There is such a story in "Three Words and Two Beats", saying that a local tyrant Lu Taixue belittled the local magistrate, and as a result, he was killed by the magistrate and almost lost his life. During the reign of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Yang Naiwu, a member of the new imperial examination in Yuhang County, Hangzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang, was also falsely accused of murder because he offended Liu Xitong's father and son in Zhixian County, and was trained into prison and almost killed, which can be seen from this.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the officialdom was engaged in a miasma of smoke and smoke by Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, colluding with each other, deceiving the superiors and concealing the subordinates, tyrannical expropriation, arrogance and lasciviousness, just as the so-called good at the top must be very bad at the bottom, resulting in the strange phenomenon of officialdom reverse elimination, and there was no early Tang Dynasty's hard work and clean politics.