On December 26 of the first year of Xiping, Yuyao County, northeast of Shanyin, the county government at this moment, had a sad, desperate and sad atmosphere.

In the hall, on the bed, King Xu Sheng of Yue opened his flattened and dry lips, and a hoarse voice came out of his throat: "Water...... Water...... To the lonely ...... Water. ”

With his head resting on the edge of the collapse, Xu He, who had been waiting for a day and night and fell into a coma, opened his eyes and looked up at the head of the bed as if he had a feeling, and then shouted in surprise: "The king is awake, the king is awake!" ”

Then the general Xu Chang rushed in and asked Xu He: "Prime Minister, has my father woken up?" What did he say? ”

Xu He noticed Xu Sheng's slightly closed lips, hurriedly lowered his body, attached his ears to it, carefully distinguished it for a while, and hurriedly said anxiously: "Water, bring the water quickly!" ”

Xu Chang also shouted outside: "Bring water." ”

After a while, a servant girl walked in tremblingly with a tile bowl full of water, Xu He hurriedly took the tile bowl from his hand, and then came to the couch, and was about to carefully feed the king of Yue, but immediately realized that something was wrong, turned his head and said to the servant girl who was retreating behind Gong: "Come here and help the king up." ”

As soon as she heard this, the maidservant suddenly stiffened, and she wanted to cry without tears in her heart, knowing that her retreat just now should have been faster.

"What are you doing in a daze, the prime minister called you, don't you go quickly." Seeing that the maid did not move for a long time, Xu Chang couldn't help but scold.

"The servant knows." The maid lowered her head and answered, then ran to the couch with fluttering steps, and under Xu He's command, she helped Xu Sheng to sit up, and put a pillow behind him for support.

"Alright, let's go down." Xu He waved his hand impatiently, and then ignored the maidservant, carefully holding the bowl, and gently touching the water to King Yue's lips.

As for the maidservant, she got Xu He's answer, and hurriedly ran out of the hall, came to a bamboo forest in the courtyard, covered her little heart, and bent over to breathe.

"Well, it's a big disaster." After a while, the maid straightened up and muttered to herself, but she frowned her slender and beautiful eyebrows, and said suspiciously: "Strange, these traitors are not as hateful as they are rumored. ”

"No matter, let's find a way to get out of here." After saying this, the maid straightened up, packed up her clothes, and went out as if nothing had happened.

In the hall, Xu Sheng drank a few sips of water under Xu He's service, although his face was still haggard, his spirit seemed to be better, and his voice was much clearer.

"Prime Minister...... Widow ...... How long has been in a coma. ”

"It's been a day and a night, back to the king." Xu He replied with tears in his eyes, and his vocal cords choked.

"Oh, widow...... Slept for so long? Hehe. ”

"King, it's just a little sick, you will definitely get better."

King Yue shook his head with difficulty, then slowly pulled out his right hand from the futon and stroked his abdomen, and then gasped: "Hiss-what a ruthless arrow!" ”

"Prime Minister."

"The minister is here." Xu He hurriedly responded.

"Widows may die soon."

"No, my lord!" Xu He raised his voice, but the shout could not hide the obvious helplessness in his heart, because he knew that what King Yue said was not a lie.

Since that day in Shanyin City, the king of Yue was unfortunately targeted by one of the three tributaries, fell from his horse and fell to the ground, the Yue army lost the only remaining restraint, and there was no power to return to heaven.

Seeing this, Prime Minister Xu He knew that the general trend had gone, so he grabbed the king of Yue on the ground with all the guards, and escaped from Shanyin City with the general Xu Chang and others. On the ensuing journey, Xu and them pulled out the arrows on the body of the king of Yue, and did a simple cleaning and bandaging of the wound, but although the king of Yue woke up, the condition was not optimistic, fever, dizziness, brain fever and other symptoms were complicated, after six days of suffering, just arrived in Yuyao County, he completely fainted in the carriage.

In this era, Xu Sheng's symptomatic performance is almost equivalent to sentencing him to death, and what he committed is still the kind of crime of rebelling against human ethics, plotting to usurp the throne, and even if the Son of Heaven is amnesty, it cannot be avoided.

On the one hand, due to natural disasters, from the fourth year of Emperor Cheng of the Western Han Dynasty (29 BC) to the twentieth year of Emperor Wen of Sui (1000 AD), the entire land of China was shrouded in the power of the Second Xiaoice River period. In the 250 years from the end of the Western Han Dynasty to the 24th year of Emperor Jian'an of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the first major stage of the Second Xiaoice River period, although there are no records of abnormal weather such as winter warmth, no snow, and no ice, there are endless historical records about the severity of the cold and drought.

"Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty built four years: rain and snow in summer and April, and peach and plum fruit in autumn. (The fruiting time of peach and plum in the Central Plains and the Yellow River Basin is generally in May and June of the lunar calendar, which shows that the weather was cold at that time.) ）

Emperor Yang Shuo of the Han Dynasty for four years: it snowed in summer and April, and the chaffinch died.

Wang Mang's new dynasty: There was a long drought for many years, and the people were hungry, so they were thieves.

In the early years of Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty: summer cold.

The second year of Emperor Shun Yangxi of the Eastern Han Dynasty: spring cold.

Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty extended his reign for seven years: winter, great cold, killing birds and beasts, and harming fish and turtles.

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In addition, earthquakes, flying locusts, and plagues run throughout, even Zhang Zhongjing, who was born in Wangmen and is known as the medical saint in later generations, did not embark on the road of his ancestors to become a glorious "civil servant" of the Han Empire, but embarked on the road of a doctor, which has a great relationship with the plague and typhoid fever he witnessed when he was young, the people of a city, and more than half of the human tragedies of the dead.

On the other hand, due to man-made disasters, most of the rulers of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty failed to clearly understand the deep and complex contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, due to historical limitations, and therefore failed to take reasonable and efficient measures.

Taking illness as an example, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the twelve Han emperors from Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu to Ling Emperor Liu Hong, except for Liu Zhang, the Han Emperor who was poisoned by his relative Liang Ji, all died of illness.

However, even so, these rulers did not really pay attention to the development of medicine, preferring to trust the godly monks and witch doctors rather than improve the social status of doctors.

In this era when medical practitioners are called "medical workers" and "medical craftsmen", and they are classified as lowly with excellent businessmen and merchants, and the Han law clearly stipulates that "good and cheap are not married", the backwardness of medical technology can be imagined.

"The body of the widow, the widow couldn't be clearer, the prime minister ......"

After saying this, King Yue raised his hand tremblingly, Xu He hurriedly stretched out his hands to hold it, and said with tears: "You say, the king, the minister is here." ”

"After the death of the widow, it was rumored to be the prince of Xuchang."

Hearing this, Xu Chang immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Erchen is here." ”

The king of Yue ignored him, held Xu He's hand, and continued: "This Da Yue, the widow will be entrusted to the prime minister. ”

Xu He nodded again and again, he was so choked up that he couldn't speak.

"Don't, negative, lonely, hope." After saying this sentence word by word in a hoarse voice, King Yue's eyes widened, his head tilted slightly, and he went like this.

Xu He didn't realize it, he was immersed in his own world of Ming Zhu and couldn't extricate himself, but after a while, King Yue never reacted again, he seemed to realize something, stood up, probed King Yue's snort, and then took a few steps back, fell to the ground, and screamed: "The king is dead!" ”

At dawn the next day, the gate of Yuyao City was opened, and the newly promoted Yue King, Xu Chang, and Prime Minister Xu He pulled Xu Sheng's coffin together, and led the remaining 3,000 Yue troops to the southeast of Juzhang County, where Dayue raised troops and their base camp.

A quarter of an hour later, after confirming that the thieves had really left, the people of the city, Li Shu, came out of the houses one by one, sighing with joy and doubt.

"Why did these bandits leave?"

"That's right, this time I even took away the garrison that I left behind last time."

"It must be that the king has arrived."

In a more luxurious mansion in the city, the atmosphere is sad, in the main hall, a middle-aged man wiped his tears with his sleeve, his eyes were desperate, what he was desperate for was not to accumulate wealth for the family robbed by the rebels, but his unmarried daughter who was twenty-eight years old and Yun Ying.

With the departure of the Vietnamese army, an army also came from outside the city of San'in, and its commander was a handsome young man of eighteen or nineteen.

"How?" Sun Jian rode on his horse, looked at the scout who had returned from listening to the news, and asked in a deep voice.

"Back to Sun Sima, the city tower is closed, the city is heavily guarded, and in addition, the soil in the forest clearing in front of you is relaxed, and there seems to be a big pit."

Sun Jian frowned and said, "Where is the vacant land?" Take me to see it. ”

"No." The scout was ordered to stand up, and then led Sun Jian and a few of his guards to the clearing.

When he arrived at the destination, Sun Jian didn't talk nonsense, and said bluntly: "Dig it up for so-and-so." ”

The scout and the guards obeyed the order, and began to dig with the weapons they carried, and after digging for a while, one of the guards suddenly turned his head and shouted to Sun Jian, "Sima, there is something." ”

Sun Jian jumped off the horse, strode to the edge of the pit, and saw the yellow cloth pinched by Fang Cai's shouting guard, his face suddenly became much more ugly, but he still continued to order: "Keep digging." ”

After a while, three corpses were dug out of the pit and placed in the clearing, Sun Jian stood aside and carefully observed, two of them were civilian decorations, and the remaining one was wearing the Han army standard armor, but this armor was in tatters, perhaps this is why the thieves did not take it off the deceased.

Sun Jian took a long breath, bowed to the three corpses, and said to the scouts and guards: "Bury it, the dead are the greatest." ”

After that, Sun Jian turned around and looked in the direction of Shanyin City through the layers of dense forests, and remembered in his heart what Zang Min had instructed him in the county capital of Wu County before parting, and then muttered: "What Zang Gong said is true, this group of thieves is ruthless, and they really can't be underestimated. ”