Chapter 4: Ten Thousand Sons and Ten Thousand Grandchildren
Put your hands down, can any of you tell me what happened in Shaanxi? Sun Yi said. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The five captives put down their hands holding their heads, you look at me, I look at you, and finally the big padded jacket opened his mouth:
"Alas......", the big padded jacket sighed,
"This place in Shaanxi is pitiful. There was a great drought in the first year of Chongzhen, and the harvest was not enough to pay taxes in the autumn. ”
"As soon as Yan'an Mansion arrived in August and September, the people ran out of food and began to eat the grass in the mountains. By October, the grass was gone, so we had to eat the bark. When the bark of the Layue tree was eaten up, the people were hungry and had no choice but to eat Guanyin soil. Father and mother can't afford to raise a baby, so they can only give up the baby. As soon as you are alone, as soon as you leave the city gate, you will be gone. Later, I learned that people outside the city burned human bones and cooked human flesh. ”
"The hungry people who are not willing to starve to death rise up to grab food. The governors of the three sides wanted to send troops to suppress them, but they couldn't support the troops at all, because the border troops also cut off their salaries, saying that the food and salaries were all transferred to Liaodong to fight Houjin. At the end of the year, the border army also reversed. In the turn of the year, the three sides of Shaanxi were completely chaotic, there were chaotic soldiers and people everywhere, and the governors of the three sides simply committed suicide. ”
"The court sent a new governor to quell the rebellion. But this god doesn't open his eyes, and the second year of Chongzhen is another big drought! Those who have been cared for still can't pay their taxes in the fall! No way, it's the opposite! ”
"In the third year of Chongzhen, the Jin soldiers fought to Beijing City, and the soldiers and horses of the five towns of Shaanxi entered the King of Weiqin. There was no food or pay, and as a result, there was a mutiny on the way. The imperial court added fuel to the fire, and in order to save money, the post station was abolished at this time. The soldiers and post guards of King Qin have become chaotic people. In the autumn of the third year, there was another great drought, and there were no less than a few hundred families who rebelled. ”
"To the east of the Yellow River, Wang Jiayin was called the king, and there were two prime ministers of Bai Yuzhu and Zijin Liang, more than 100 generals, and 30,000 or 40,000 horses."
"On the west side of the Yellow River, there are eight kings, eight kings, four heavenly kings, nine dragons, big red wolves, little red wolves, mixed monkeys, heavenly monkeys, girls, and red ...... in the mountains."
"Shen Yiyuan of Yansui Town, Shen Yikui brothers took the border army to occupy the security, besiege Qingyang, trap Heshui, and go to Ningxia, with sixty or seventy thousand horses."
"In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the imperial court promoted Hong Chengchou to be the governor of the three sides, and transferred Cao Wenzhao's iron cavalry from Liaodong, these two people were ruthless, and they killed the people and soldiers without asking about it, and the people fled one after another, and seven of the ten households could run."
"In the spring of the fifth year of Chongzhen, that is, this year, Hong Chengchou withheld 200,000 military salaries and summoned the general soldiers of the five towns of Shaanxi to train new soldiers to suppress chaos. That's when we got here. ”
Sun Yi wondered how this big padded jacket knew so clearly, "What do you do?" ”
The big cotton jacket replied: "Don't dare to hide it, I was originally a hundred households in Yulinbao, Yansui Town, Chongzhen three years of wax month, Hong Chengchou sent me a month's salary, asking me to take the brothers to suppress the people, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" They are all villagers, and I can't do it. I received the only monthly salary from the first year of Chongzhen to the third year, and ran away with the brothers out of the camp. Two years after the incident, it can be regarded as a name, called the falling sun. ”
"The sun is falling", it seems that the big cotton jacket hates this world.
Looking at the sloppy big cotton jacket on the "sunset", Sun Yi felt that it should actually be the "cotton armor" equipped by the border army of the Ming Dynasty, no wonder he had to cover it in the summer.
Sun Yi thought in his heart, if his mission was to prevent the Year of the Monkey and the Moon Manchu Qing from entering Beijing twelve years later, the border army in front of him would be a force that could be relied upon.
"How many men do you have? Are these all your men? ”
The sun fell, and he replied: "This spring, I led my brothers all the way to escape, and everyone died and scattered, and now there are more than 40 soldiers left, and 200 old and weak women and children. These are the heroes I've met since I got here. Let me introduce you. ”
The sun fell first to introduce the man in the short coat who attacked Sun Yi with a hoe: "His name is Stuffy, and he is a cropper who farms outside the plug in spring and autumn." When he was in his hometown, his mother was unable to escape the military disaster and was killed by the Liaodong Iron Cavalry. is a little reckless, the person is a real person, and I hope the master will not blame. ”
Sun nodded slightly, said hello, and promised: "Don't blame." ", thinking in my heart, I ran here thousands of miles to farm, which shows how far the famine in Shaanxi has reached.
The sun is falling, and I will introduce two bare-chested people, "These two are rafters on the Yellow River, and they are also from Shaanxi." ”
The two bare-chested men glanced at each other and gave Sun Yi an arch of his hand one after another.
Sun Yi read the mutual wariness in their gaze.
The sun finally introduced the robe that knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and his tone was full of disdain, "This is a Taoist priest!" ”
Sun Yi looked at this guy's dirty robe, which really looked like a Taoist robe.
The Taoist priest hugged his lower abdomen with both hands and bowed slightly:
"Immeasurable! Quanzhen taught Chongyang Palace Taoist priest Changchunzi, give a gift to the master! ”
Sun Yi frowned, the Quanzhen Sect was known to everyone in later generations because of Mr. Jin Yong's "Shooting the Condor". The seventh son of Quanzhen is called "Changchunzi", a person from the era of Genghis Khan, and is known as the patriarch of Chongyang Palace. In the five years of Chongzhen, how dare a disciple of the Quanzhen Sect call himself "Changchunzi"?
"Daoist, let me ask you, you answer honestly, is Qiu Chuji your ancestor?"
The Taoist priest suddenly sweated all over his head, and his mouth began to tremble after a few mutters.
Sun Yi understood, this Taoist priest was an impostor!
"It turned out to be a fake Taoist priest......"
As soon as Sun Yi's words came out, the Taoist priest shouted out with the greatest strength:
"The poor layman is indeed surnamed Jia! The master's way is deep, and it is a small self-inflicted humiliation! I am willing to serve the master before and after the saddle, and I hope that the master will open the net and leave a way out! ”
At the end of the shouting, the Taoist priest almost cried.
Sun Yi was stunned, what does this mean? It seems that this Taoist priest is extremely afraid of being exposed to his false identity! And it's a matter of life and death!
Forget it, who doesn't have secrets in this chaotic last days.
Sun Yi changed his words,
"Daoist Jia, don't get excited. I don't need to be served. Your path is too shallow, just don't call it 'Changchunzi' in the future." ”
"Yes!" The Taoist priest glanced at Sun Yi gratefully, "Poor Dao is careful to follow the teachings. ”
If there is anything that Sun Yi's own job and hobby have in common, it is rationality. Programmers demand strict logical thinking, and birdmen demand realistic decisions in the shortest possible time.
Sun Yi had already made an assessment, and in front of him was a group of rabble who looked like gods and couldn't get enough to eat, and they couldn't count on changing history.
At the same time as the introduction of the falling sun, Sun Yi kept checking the database on his mobile phone, on the one hand to understand the background knowledge, and on the other hand, to assess the difficulty of the traverser's "anti-Qing Fuming".
Sun Yi summarized the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty in four ways:
The first is internal and external troubles. There were thieves inside, and there were Manchus outside, and the two families took turns to bleed the Ming Dynasty as if they had discussed, which was a direct factor that led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
This is the advantage of the traverser. The use of knowledge from later generations to develop technology and armaments is the main thread of all time-traveling novels, and the knowledge involved is limited to the scope of secondary school. Sun Yi thinks that his middle school mathematics, physics and chemistry are okay, and if it is feasible to go through the routines described in the novel online, he should be able to give it a try.
The second is the decay of the imperial court, as is the case in the later stages of any dynasty.
To break this one, the traveler is required to have a high degree of political wisdom. Sun Yi thought that he belonged to the category of Tuyang Tucson, and he was more discouraged.
The third reason is that the Ming Dynasty "has run out of gas", and many historians hold this view. They found that the Ming Dynasty had several precious opportunities to turn the tide and save the society from the future, but they were all squandered, so they could only sigh: Providence is so!
Folklore: Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, asked Liu Bowen, a military advisor who knew 500 years before and 500 years later, how many generations could the Ming Dynasty pass on. Liu Bowen replied, "Daming Sheji, passed on to thousands of sons and grandchildren", so Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy. How do you know that Liu Bowen is talking about the descendants of Wanli! The Wanli Emperor was the culmination of the Ming Dynasty, with the famous Three Great Expeditions of Wanli. Wanli died in 1620, the last year of the monkey, when his son was poisoned after only one month as emperor; followed by Wan Li's eldest grandson, Emperor Tianqi, who ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, did carpentry all day long, and drowned; Next is Wan Li's other grandson, Emperor Chongzhen, who also ascended the throne at the age of sixteen and was forced to hang himself in the next Year of the Monkey to end the Ming Dynasty; After the beginning of the Southern Ming Dynasty, there were many short-lived emperors, and the first and last two were still Wanli's grandsons, but they were already Chongzhen's cousins. The grandson at the beginning of the Southern Ming Dynasty was beaten alive by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to Nanjing and strangled to death with a bowstring; At the end, the grandson was chased to Burma, converted to Catholicism, and was also strangled by a bowstring. In short, none of them died well. Wanli himself was dug up in 1958 and cremated by the Red Guards in 1966.
Sun Yi didn't believe in these providence and qi in later life, but he was inexplicably crossed and didn't dare to comment on it.
The fourth is force majeure. Some people on the Internet concluded that the earth was experiencing a Xiaoice period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the climate was abnormal, leading to famine; Some netizens also believe that the overpopulation at the end of the Ming Dynasty exceeded the load of the land, resulting in someone starving to death.
Logically speaking, no matter how good the traverser is, there is no solution in the face of this force majeure, unless he opens a plug-in.
So Sun Yi came to the conclusion that the feasibility of the traversers resisting the Qing Dynasty to save the Ming Dynasty was very low, about equal to zero.
Sun Yi's current situation might as well consider how to return to the afterlife. Although there is little hope, it is a realistic way out after all.
With his mind already decided, Sun Yi looked around at a few people, "I and you are not from the same world at all, you are free." ”
The stuffy man hurriedly asked, "What do you mean to be free?" ”。
"So you can go back."
"Can you take the hungry hoe back?"
"You can take your weapons back."