With the rise of the Fu clan and the Song clan, Fu Quan was naturally happy, but the subsequent news of what happened in the court made him depressed.

Situ Xu Xu was deposed, Dahonglu Yuan Kui succeeded him as Situ, and the Yuan family had another third duke, and he took a step closer to the top gate valve family, but I don't know if the Yuan family will converge after Liu Kui's case, and if it is implicated with Yuan Yu again, can he resist?

As for Xu Xu, if he doesn't mention it, Fu Quan has no intention of him.

When I heard Han Jing's words, I thought that this person was just afraid of Yuan, but after staying for a long time, I also knew a lot about him, and he was able to ascend to the position of Situ, and he also had the merit of a eunuch.

However, now with the death of Wang Fu and Cao Jie, Yuan Yu is low-key, and the first person the emperor doesn't like is Xu Xu.

A year has passed quietly, and it is the beginning of another year.

Zhengdan is also called New Year's Day, that is, the first day of the first month, so Fuquan is one year older, and he is thirteen years old.

In fact, before the Han Dynasty, the calendars of various dynasties were different, and the first month of the third dynasty of the Xia and Shang dynasties was not January. Later Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, with October as the first month, and the early Han Dynasty also followed the Qin calendar.

In the sixth year of Yuan Feng, at the suggestion of Sima Qian and others, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the calendar to be revised. Astronomers Luo Xiahong and Deng Ping formulated the "Taichu Calendar", which changed the original October as the first year to the first month of Meng Chun, and later generations gradually improved it into the lunar calendar, that is, the summer calendar, later known as the lunar calendar.

Zhengdan was not an auspicious day in the Han Dynasty, and the world believed that the first day of the first month, the second day of the second month of February, and the third day of the third month of March...... Until the ninth day of the ninth month of September, it is the day of the sun in the yang, and there are many disasters and disasters on this day, and there are too many evil plagues, so few people go out. From the powerful to the common people, they will choose this day to firecrackers and burn grass, implying the expulsion of plague gods and evil things.

The courtyard of the Hou Mansion began to sprout, the scenery was slightly monotonous, Fu Quan was burning bamboo with Fu Wan and his wife, and the sound of "crackling horn" was everywhere, so startled that the maidservants and other maids hurriedly covered their ears, and their scared appearance made the other people in the house suddenly feel interesting and happy.

After the firecrackers sounded, Fuquan went to burn the grass, and in a short time, his hands were stained with black ashes. Turning his head and seeing that Xiao'er breathed a sigh of emptiness, he knew that he was still frightened by the loud noise just now, and he laughed secretly in his heart, sure enough, most of the girls from ancient times to the present are timid. Seeing Xiao'er's appearance at this time, he suddenly had a plan, and said with a smile: "Sister Xiao'er, come and help me burn the grass?" ”

"No." Xiao'er answered, and hurriedly ran, before she felt abnormal, she felt Fuquan run in front of her, stretched out her hand and quickly touched her white face, and then ran away with a snicker, leaving Xiao'er with a puzzled face and didn't know what happened.

When a familiar maid took a bronze mirror and looked at it, she saw that her face was white and there was a black handprint, which must have been stained by the burning of Fuquan.

Only then did Xiao'er say angrily: "Young master." It's just that after she said these two words, she didn't know what to continue to say, after all, Fuquan was the head of the family in Fuzheng's lineage, and she was just a maidservant.

The joy of the first month has not yet dissipated from Luoyang City, a sudden great plague swept from the Central Plains to the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and even one of the three princes, Sikong Zongju, was infected with the plague and died, and Luoyang suddenly returned to the situation a few months ago.

Liu Hong once again ordered the blockade of Luoyang, Xu was not allowed to enter, and the city gate was not allowed to be opened for non-urgent matters.

This is the case in Luoyang, and the same is true in other places, fortunately, with the actual combat experience of the plague in Luoyang, Guangluxun Yang Ci wrote the "Treatise on Plague Prevention and Control" according to this, and played the emperor, Liu Hong read it, and ordered Shangshutai to announce it to the world, so that all localities should prevent the spread of the epidemic according to the text.

Some people with good deeds inquired about "Treatise on Plague Prevention and Control", and when they learned that it was what a boy who was thirteen years old thought, they all sighed that it was really a hero from ancient times.

Later, it was learned that it came from Langya Fushi, for the descendants of the Western Han Dynasty, in addition to Guanglu Xun Yang Ci and Langzhong Cai Yong both praised it as a good child, after the poem was excellent, for a time, the deeds of Fuquan Fuliuchuan became a lot of people who stayed at home, could not go out at will before and after dinner, it can be said that from this moment, the name of "Cure Plague Lang" spread all over the world.

Although it is a good thing to be famous, compared to the growing plague, your own name is not as good as not wanting it.

Zhang Zhongjing was once again recruited into Luoyang, it was obvious that Liu Hong was afraid of death, and he was going to invite the doctor to prepare for the accident as soon as possible, but the divine doctor Hua Tuo, when the angel went to recruit him, he was no longer at home, and his family said that "Hua Tuo has led his disciples out for treatment, and I don't know when I can return."

When Fuquan heard about this, he secretly said that Hua Tuo had already guessed that the imperial court would definitely recruit him into Luoyang, and took his disciples out to treat the plague-infected people in advance, as for Luoyang, Zhang Zhongjing would definitely accept the call, does Hua Tuo, who knows his medical skills, need to come again?

In February, at noon, Liu Hong issued an amnesty to the world, intending to be able to win the love of heaven and alleviate or even eliminate the plague, and at the same time issued an order to Yang Ci to be the Sikong, and the Yang family also began the road of their top gate valve family.

However, superstitious behavior can only be self-deception, the plague still has no signs of control, although the "Treatise on Plague Prevention and Control" has effectively slowed down the spread of the plague, but it still cannot be completely controlled, and there are still many people who die every day, but compared with the previous large-scale plagues, the number of people who die is a lot less.

In this era of poor medical facilities, there are too many sources of plague infection, and even worse, the source of this plague may not be produced by the Han people, but most likely brought by Europeans.

Why?

During the pre-Qin, Qin and Western Han dynasties, large-scale epidemics rarely occurred in China, and even in the early and middle Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no outbreak of nationwide plagues.

As for why the Romans brought the plague, the reason is that before Rome established diplomatic relations with the Eastern Han Dynasty, it invaded Persia, and then the great plague suddenly broke out in West Asia, and at the same time, after the Eastern Han Dynasty established diplomatic relations with it, it also began one large-scale plague after another.

As for what happened, Fu Quan didn't think much about it, his strength was small after all, and he could only secretly pray that the plague would end quickly, and there would no longer be the tragedy of "the pain of a corpse in every family, the mourning of crying in the room, or the death of the door closed, or the loss of the family".

Of course, there is also good news, the rebellion in Jiangdong has achieved initial results, the Han army has been defeated in several battles, but because of the plague, the Han army did not dare to make many moves, in accordance with the law of prevention and control, camped on the spot, maybe the day the plague ended, it was the time for the Han army to attack again.

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In the ninth year of Yanxi, Dandun, the king of Great Qin, sent an envoy from the south of Japan to offer ivory, rhino horn, and tortoiseshell. (Excerpt from "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Legend of the Western Regions")