Chapter 43: The Frog Plague

As the old saying goes, time is like an arrow, time flies like an arrow, and it has been more than a year since Qin Huaidao came to Chang'an in the blink of an eye, and it has been more than half a year since Li Jing set out on the expedition. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Sometimes Qin Huaidao thought that after he came to this world, not only changed a person's life, including the time when the horseshoe appeared now, but also the advance of the Tang Dynasty's war against the Turks, all of which were changes because of his own appearance, and he couldn't help but pout in his heart, but when he thought of the mission on his body, he calmed down, and didn't his own return change history? Therefore, Qin Huaidao gradually let go of his mind about the current changes, but he didn't know that because some changes would have a butterfly effect.

In the first month of the third year of Zhenguan, Li Jing led 3,000 horsemen from Mayi to the north at night and occupied an important stronghold in the south of Dingxiang City-Evil Yang Ridge. This move was unexpected by Jieli, who thought that the Tang Army had arrived: "If the soldiers do not come to the country, Jing dares to mention that the lone army is here?" Li Jing took advantage of the panic of the Turks and sent spies to Dingxiang City to lobby and persuade Kang Sumi, the general who defended the city of Dingxiang at that time, to return to the Tang Dynasty. The two sides should cooperate with each other, Li Jing took advantage of the night to suddenly attack, Kang Sumi responded in the city, I thought that someone was answering inside, and I thought that Jieli was already a turtle in the urn. When he conquered Dingxiang, he personally went to capture Jieli, but who knew that Jieli had already fled and led the army to retreat north.

In February of the third year of Zhenguan, Li Jing successfully robbed Jieli in Baidao, defeated Jieli, Jieli's original 200,000 soldiers and horses, only tens of thousands of people remained, and fled in a hurry, of course, although this is not the first time Jieli escaped, but every time, he will say to himself in his heart, "I will definitely come back!" "It's a pity, then, and, egg, after the setback of Baidao this time, Jieli sent a book, like Tang Qiuhe repaired, and wanted to marry the Tang princess. Li Shimin also sent Tang Jian, An Xiushen and others as envoys to the Turks to pacify.

However, all this has nothing to do with Qin Huaidao, it is still the same as before, but now Qin Huaidao doesn't write much poetry, and the literary name that he hit some time ago is enough for him to squander for a long time, so now Qin Huaidao generally has two things, practicing martial arts, and learning internal strength, which is commonly known as practicing martial arts. Why are there two martial arts exercises at this time, the first one is to practice martial arts, and the second is to practice internal strength, because he found that his father really knows how to do light exercises, of course, it is not as exaggerated as it is on TV, but there is no problem to jump on the roof, after Qin Huaidao's martial arts competition that day, Qin Qiong was interested in what Qin Huaidao said about Tai Chi, and as a father, Qin Qiong did not care whether Qin Huaidao was interested or not, but directly ordered Qin Huaidao to learn his own exercises with a tough attitude, Therefore, Qin Huaidao's main purpose now is to learn martial arts.

Of course, everything that happened in the outside world cannot be completely said to have nothing to do with Qin Huaidao, the good news from the front line made everyone sing Qin Huaidao's poems and songs, and at the same time praised Li Jing as the reincarnation of Li Guang, specializing in restraining the Turks, Li Jing's victory, not only created his own prestige, but also made Qin Huaidao's literary name more and more unshakable during this period of time, with the reputation of a poet, when Qin Huaidao himself was called a poet by others, Qin Huaidao kept saying sorry to Li Bai in his heart, I didn't expect to rob you of your nickname.

There is also entertainment is indispensable, Cheng Huaimo and they will also call Qin Huaidao to drink together, and the eldest grandson will occasionally rush to them, but Qin Huaidao found out after slow contact that it turns out that these sons are originally a group of very smart people, even Fang Yiai is not a fool, and the relationship between them is not as tense as what he saw before, once when everyone was together, after Qin Huaidao understood these relationships, he also personally apologized for the incident of smashing people with a chair in the welcome building, and everyone also said that it didn't matterIf it weren't for that, I'm afraid there wouldn't be such a good relationship now. The man who was smashed even said that his father said to himself that whose youth was not impulsive? Since then, the relationship between us has become closer and closer.

It's just destined to be the protagonist, Qin Huaidao can't be surprised, ordinary life is not worthy of others to write books and biography, no, something big happened.

In April of the third year of Zhenguan, a major disaster occurred in Jingyang, how close is Jingyang to Chang'an? Forty miles away, such a suburb of Beijing, there would be such a serious disaster, and the hair of Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji and others turned a little white in a few nights. That's because this disaster is so unusual.

Frog plague. The overwhelming frogs were piled up in Jingyang, and the frogs that had just begun to land had been smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, and on top of this layer of frog corpses, countless frogs were slowly piled up, layer by layer, layer after layer, layer after layer, which had overflowed people's knees.

No one has ever experienced this kind of battle, including Qin Huaidao, who has heard of droughts, snow disasters, earthquakes and floods, mudslides, including caterpillar rain in later generations, Qin Huaidao has known that when there are many frogs, they are just everywhere, kick a few, and there is still a place to stay, but now there are many frogs, which have overflowed people's knees, of course, this is not the most terrifying, everyone also knows that frogs, they are okay in the water, and they are okay to live, but they have been away from the water for a long time, or they are dead, Especially the way to die in which the intestines in the stomach were thrown out was the most disgusting, and the air emitted a foul smell, so that people did not even dare to open the doors and windows, and finally mustered up the courage to clean it up, and soon everyone found another tragedy.

The crops in the field are gone, yes, think about it, what falls from the sky, according to the current principles of physics, what volume multiplied by weight and multiplied by inertia equals force or something, can it stand it when it hits an unfruitful crop? Soon it will be the harvest season, after the harvest, you have to pay taxes, and your family has to rely on these crops to feed, although Guanzhong in recent years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the harvest has been relatively good, but now、、、、、、 many old farmers who are quite fragile in their hearts have knelt on the ground, crying about the hard days ahead.

After the people in Chang'an heard the news, they were also shocked, but after all, it was at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and the rumors did not spread, but such a rare, even unheard-of disaster, happened in front of their eyes, or inevitably caused panic, fortunately, the national policy of the Tang Dynasty is still good, coupled with the smooth holding of the imperial examination last year, many children of the poor family saw the hope of promotion, and they also restored several trusts in the imperial court, so when the imperial court has not clearly said it, many scholars have begun to spread in the streets, said that this is a good omen for the advent of prosperity, and quoted the phrase that the heavens will descend to the people, and also pointed out that the frog is a beneficial insect, which is used to confirm his statement, and it has also restored some confidence of the people. The imperial court also praised this, and at the same time, after being shocked, it immediately made disaster relief measures.

I don't know how outsiders are afraid of Qin Huaidao, but when the news reached Qin Huaidao's ears, it really frightened Qin Huaidao, Qin Huaidao checked it from the emperor's scriptures, and there was no such disaster in the Tang Dynasty, after carefully reading the introduction of the frog plague, it was found that in ancient Greek mythology, the gods were used to punish the pharaoh for not keeping his word and disregarding human life. Therefore, all this recorded in the Huangji Sutra was so frightened that Qin Huaidao thought that it was an invasion of the outer gods. It's just that when he took a closer look, he found that it was just a false alarm, because what the Emperor Ji Jing Shilu finally showed was: According to scientific investigation, the frog disaster is a natural phenomenon, mainly due to excessive wind, which blows the water and frogs in a certain area of water into the air together, and when the wind is exhausted, the frogs in the air will fall.