Chapter 248: Natural Disasters and Pestilences
Liu Xin said to Su Jia seriously: "Su Jia, what you said is very right, we must find a way to teach this group of people a lesson, and we must also find a way to let those betrayers know the fate of betraying us!" ”
Su Jia nodded, and said seriously: "I understand, master, I will take Wang Shuang tomorrow, find an opportunity to catch a few "rats" who are following us, and then hand them over to Cao Cao to deal with, so that they can come to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, let them understand our attitude, and let them think about the consequences before doing things." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"But for those betrayers, I think we should not act rashly, after all, they have a lot of people, and we are very prone to all kinds of problems if we rashly attack them, so I think we must be fully prepared to deal with these betrayers."
Liu Xin nodded, Su Jia was right, although these betrayers have limited abilities, but their number is far greater than their own, so they really forced this group of betrayers to be anxious, they will inevitably not jump over the wall in a hurry, and the development of the situation will only get worse and worse at that time.
However, Liu Xin suddenly thought of a problem, that is, although his group and the betrayer's residence were separated, there was nothing in the middle to stop the betrayer's footsteps.
Liu Xin told Su Jia about his doubts.
Su Jia thought for a while and found that this was indeed a problem, "Master, you are right, now we have no way to properly deal with this problem, even if we open the gate, we can't stop these people from breaking into our residence, but we can stay one or two people every day to guard our residence, and those goods brought from Yizhou can all be stored in the wooden cow and horse, and I can lock the wooden cow and horse to prevent these betrayers from stealing our things." ”
Liu Xin nodded, and now he can only choose the method provided by Su Jia.
Liu Xin sighed and continued: "Okay, let's change the topic, I met the Heavenly Dao today. ”
Su Jia frowned, looked at Liu Xin with some doubts, and couldn't help asking, "Master, did you drink too much today?" ”
Liu Xin shook his head, told Su Jia the ins and outs of his encounter with Tiandao, and took out his mobile phone to Su Jia by the way.
Su Jia's eyes lit up, and she said with a smile: "It seems that this Heavenly Dao also intends to help the master unify the world, and he actually provided such a great help to the master." ”
The corners of Liu Xin's mouth twitched, he didn't expect Su Jia to think that Tiandao was helping him, anyway, Liu Xin thought that Tiandao was a pit for himself, and he advanced the Yellow Turban Uprising by four years.
Four years, what kind of concept is this, it is enough for Liu Xin's son to go out to make soy sauce alone!
To a certain extent, this is enough to cut off half of Liu Xin's development time, and according to the cumulative efficiency of capital (to put it bluntly, it is a snowball, the longer Liu Xin's development time, the more profits he will get every year), Liu Xin feels that he has been pitted by heaven about 80% of his interests.
What is this, Liu Xin could have relied on these eight years of development to pull out a powerful army that swept the world, but now he can only train an elite army.
In other words, Liu Xin originally chose the easy difficulty, but as soon as the Heavenly Dao was done, the difficulty was directly adjusted to the difficulty.
Su Jia noticed that Liu Xin seemed to be a little unhappy with Tiandao's approach, so he said: "Master, you may have a little misunderstanding of Tiandao, the 50,000 crop seeds that Tiandao provided us are much more useful than those four years of development!" ”
Liu Xin raised his eyebrows, expressing doubts about Su Jia's statement, and because of these crop seeds, he had a few more inexplicable tasks.
However, Su Jia opened her mouth to explain: "Master, don't forget the grand wish you once made. ”
Liu Xin nodded, it is impossible for Liu Xin to forget this matter, after all, the stakes are very high.
However, Liu Xin also knew what Su Jia wanted to say, as long as these food crops were promoted, the probability of those people dying of famine in the war could be greatly reduced, which reduced the number of deaths in disguise.
But Liu Xin didn't think it was good, after all, he was collaborating with the enemy in disguise...
However, Su Jia said a piece of news that shocked Liu Xin, "Master, you may have forgotten an important thing, the reason why so many people died during the Three Kingdoms period, although war is a very important factor, but the cause of natural disasters cannot be ignored." ”
Liu Xin's face changed, and Liu Xin naturally knew the horror of natural disasters, especially the various "sequelae" that occurred after natural disasters - famine, chaos, and plague.
Needless to say, the destructive power of natural disasters is incomparably great, and the reduction of grain production is an inevitable result, and in the event of floods and droughts, it is normal for a grain to be harvested.
And after the natural disaster, the grain production is greatly reduced, there will inevitably be chaos due to food shortage, at this time there will be a lot of peasant rebels, and many imperial dynasties are destroyed after the natural disaster, so in ancient times, natural disasters have also become a sign of the destruction of the empire.
And the human beings who died in natural disasters, the civilians who starved to death in famines, and the people who died in the chaos, their corpses are not properly placed, and eventually they will turn into a plague that will sweep the whole world.
Therefore, every natural disaster occurs on behalf of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people who lose their lives!
Under Su Jia's reminder, Liu Xin remembered that the Han Dynasty (i.e., between 206 BC and 220 AD) was a period of frequent natural disasters in Chinese history, and some scholars called it the "Han Dynasty and Han Dynasty Universe", an important feature of which is the obvious increase in the frequency of earthquakes.
Moreover, in the records of relevant historical materials, in the 440 years of the Han Dynasty, there were as many as 375 recorded natural disasters, including 81 droughts, 76 floods, and 68 earthquakes. These are only recorded natural disasters, and there are many natural disasters that are not recorded or omitted.
Therefore, in the Han and Han dynasties, natural disasters occurred frequently, and at least one natural disaster occurred almost every year, and Taiping Dao can also be said to have relied on natural disasters to develop.
When Liu Xin thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, and secretly sighed how he had forgotten such an important matter.
As Su Jia said, if these crop seeds can be spread to all parts of Dahan as soon as possible, more victims can be saved!
But speaking of which, as a medical student, Liu Xin remembered the plague in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, which was collectively known as "typhoid fever".
According to the relevant historical records, the main symptoms of this disease are: it is transmitted by animals (horses, cattle and sheep, etc.) as the host of the virus, and it 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 Han Dynasty, there was no cure for such typhoid fever, and the sick could only die silently, and then the decomposing corpses continued to spread the plague.
The professor who teaches infectious diseases once said that the fall of the Han Dynasty was because of the spread of this typhoid plague, and even a generation of famous doctors Zhang Zhongjing was helpless about it, and more than half of Zhang Zhongjing's family died because of this plague.
Therefore, Liu Xin will not only have to face all kinds of natural disasters in the future, but also find a way to solve this terrible plague.
Liu Xin told Su Jia everything he thought, and Su Jia also said that he agreed very much, but because there was no more detailed record of this plague in the historical records, and there was no effective prescription, Su Jia planned to collect information to study how to solve the plague during the typhoid plague.
Su Jia opened his mouth and said: "The matter of typhoid fever and plague can be put aside for the time being, but this year, when I was consulting some information today, I suddenly found a very serious problem, and it is very likely that a very serious locust plague will occur this year!" “
Liu Xin frowned, he didn't expect a locust plague to occur this year!
If Liu Xin is asked to choose the natural disaster that he least wants to encounter, then it must be the locust plague.
Because the emergence of the locust plague will inevitably lead to a decrease in grain production, and the famous movement of displaced people in the Eastern Han Dynasty appeared because of the locust plague, which led to the displacement of nearly one million people in Henan.
Among them, what makes Liu Xin feel the most angry and funny is that some people also use this to modify their political achievements.
Because there is such a saying that is widely spread in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "The emperor is greedy and politically violent, and the officials are cruel." Locusts are also caused by greed. ”
The meaning of this sentence translates to mean that the locust plague is a punishment from God because of the chaos of political affairs in the world, so if the local officials can be diligent in government and cultivate virtue and benefit the Yuan Yuan, then the locust plague will not only not occur in the area under the jurisdiction of the official, but even the locust plague in the surrounding counties will avoid the area under the jurisdiction of the official and make a detour.
Because of this sentence, it is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms that when many famous officials served as magistrates, there would be no locust plague in the area under their control, and the locust plague in the adjacent area would also bypass their jurisdiction.
Whenever Liu Xin saw such a record, he couldn't help but secretly scold for being brazen and using the locust plague to whitewash himself.
However, Liu Xin still had some doubts, why was Su Jia so sure that there would be a serious locust plague this year?
You must know that most of the records such as locust plagues do not mention the specific time, or that they are every year, and the specific scale is also unknown.
And in 181 AD, Liu Xin does not remember that there was a record that there would be a serious locust plague.
Liu Xin told Su Jia about his doubts, and Su Jia said: "Because when I was outside today, I heard that there was another serious drought in Jizhou. “
Liu Xin understands that after the drought, there will be locust plagues, because after the drought, due to the drop in water level, the soil will become more solid, the water content will be reduced, the vegetation on the ground will be sparse, and the water surface of rivers and lakes will shrink, and the low-lying land will be exposed, which will also provide more suitable places for locusts to lay eggs, so the number of eggs laid by locusts will increase greatly, and there can be 200,000 to 400,000 eggs per square meter at most times.
On the other hand, the low water content of plants grown in arid environments feeds on locusts and produces faster, which then causes locusts to migrate and form larger swarms of locusts, like a snowball, leading to large locust plagues.
That's why Su Jia is sure that there is a high probability that there will be a serious locust plague this year!
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