"The teachings of the eldest brother, the younger brother has written them down." Wen Ba thought for a moment and said seriously.

"Well, that's not in vain. Let's go south of the city. Wen Chou said with relief. The south of the city is the best place to get to know the real situation of this place. Maybe there can be some surprises, Wen Chou thought.

The place where Wen Chou and the others live is located in the northeast of the county seat, where the big families and wealthy families in the county gather, and if they want to rush to the civilian area, they are going to pass through most of the county and pass through the county and city. You might also want to check out the economic development of the prefecture.

It was in the afternoon, and there were not many pedestrians on the streets of the county, but you could see the ragged poor people everywhere, leaning on the walls and street corners at will, with empty eyes, staring at the passers-by in a godless and miserable manner, looking forward to winning a little gift from a kind person, so that they could survive a few more days.

Most of these are the leaders of the original county, most of them have damaged their relatives and broken their family property, and they have no hope for the government or anything. But that kind of people's innate desire to survive still supports their last bit of cognition. As for the reason why they are like this, in Wen Chou's view, the actions of the county magistrates and county officials have played a great role.

Even so, these hungry poor people did not resist much, and perhaps it was useless to resist, for they were faced with thousands of armed vacancies far superior to them, from the wealthy families in the north and east of the city.

However, this situation may soon change, because many displaced people have poured into this weak county, and the atmosphere of restlessness is breeding and spreading in the city. If the county officials did not take some measures, then riots were inevitable.

Wen Chou traveled all the way, and he was still in a happy mood, but he became more and more depressed, and there was no sentence in the conversation with Wen Ba, and it was obvious that he didn't take it to heart. The hunger of these poor people was not his greatest fear, for he saw other phenomena that reminded him of another terrible thing—the plague.

In this era of medical care, a large-scale plague is wreaking havoc, and the harm to people is far greater than that of war, and if the prevention and control is not good, it is likely to cause a large-scale death of the population.

Not to mention, it was in the year that Wen Chou crossed over, that is, the second year after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there was a large-scale plague on the land of the Central Plains, and Wen Chou's father and mother lost their lives in this plague. They survived the Yellow Turban Thieves' attack, but they fell to the plague.

It is said that Shahe Township is still relatively lucky, only 12 out of 12 dead and wounded, but other townships can not be so lucky, the loss of half of the population, seventy or eighty percent of the villagers have a lot of land, and more townships have a phenomenon of extinction, that is, some Qianshou can survive by luck, and do not dare to stay in their hometowns, so this is the occurrence of the phenomenon of desertion in the townships of Gaoyi and Pingjian counties. After three or four years of recovery, it was only a little more vigorous.

And this is only the most recent pandemic, and in the past ten years or so, there have been three or four major epidemics, which have made people's lives miserable. There were natural disasters and human disasters, which naturally gave birth to the Yellow Turban Uprising. And the starting place of the Yellow Turban Rebellion is Julu County, where Wen Chou is now!

In Wen Chou's impression, there was indeed a large-scale plague during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, and there was more than one time. You must know that the population of the Eastern Han Dynasty was as high as 50 or 60 million in the heyday, and in the Eastern Jin Dynasty a hundred years later, the population of the entire land of Shenzhou was sharply reduced to less than 10 million.

How could there be such a large loss of human life! This is probably the 'credit' of the plague, you don't know that the infamous Black Death in history, in the forties of the fourteenth century, spread from Crimea to Western Europe and North Africa, causing 75 million deaths in the world, of which 25 million to 50 million died in Europe, which is one-third of the population of the whole Europe. - This is the power of the plague!

The more Wen Chou thought about it, the more frightened he became, although he could not determine the specific year of the great plague that occurred at the end of the Han Dynasty, he had to be careful about it. With a gloomy face, Wen Chou walked briskly between the streets of Yang's County, his thoughts were flying, and Wen Ba followed Wen Chou's side in confusion.

The two of them walked all the way, and saw that there were many people lying in the streets and houses due to illness, thinking that it should be because of poverty and hunger, and they were about to breathe more and take in less air. Wen Chou was impatient, although he had the heart to ask about the condition of these people, so as to determine whether it was due to the epidemic, but his own family did not understand medical science, if he contracted any disease again, in this backward era, he called the sky should not be, and the earth was not spiritual! It's all very tangled.

After walking a few more streets, you can see the city wall, Wen Chou sighed in Wen Ba's depressed eyes, and walked towards a house. Outside the house, there was a poor man lying on his back, ragged and unkempt, who was undoubtedly hungry.

"Old man, I don't know what kind of illness you have, lying on your back here?" After Wen Chou approached, he endured a foul smell and asked.

The old man saw that Wen Chou and the two were dressed up, although they were not silk and satin, brocade and beautiful robes, but they were also clean and tidy, and they were slightly majestic. He looked up and said, "Nobleman, the slut is nothing." "Maybe they regarded Wen Chou and the others as the bullying tyrants in the county.

Wen Scandal said, frowned, and asked patiently: "Old man, I didn't come here to ask for anything, I just wanted to ask about your condition." Then he took three or five hundred dollars and handed them to the old man: "If you can tell the truth, these promises of money will be used to heal your illness and buy food." ”

At this time, the old man understood the intention of Wen Chou and the others, and after knowing that they were not wicked, he suddenly came to a little spirit. Holding the five-baht coin, he said excitedly: "Nobleman, is it really a great nobleman?" As he spoke, he had already struggled to get up and saluted Wen Chou and Wen Ba.

"The old man doesn't have to be like this, quickly tell me how you ended up in such a situation and the cause." After receiving the old man's salute, Wen Chou urged. But the worry in his heart was a little weaker, because he did not feel any symptoms of typhoid fever in the old man, and he was able to get up, which means that most of the reason why he was lying here was because of hunger

Sure enough, after some conversation, Wen Chou basically concluded that this person was not a major epidemic, and of course, there were also reasons why Wen Chou himself did not have a deep understanding of the epidemic, so he misjudged. However, the deeds of the wealthy families in this county who bullied the ordinary Qianshou can be said to be in the middle of Wen Chou's speculation.

Since it was not an epidemic, Wen Chou had no need to stay here, and in the gratitude of the old man, he embarked on the return journey with Wen Ba. Originally, there were still some thoughts about visiting the Qianshou here, because the 'plague' thoughts along the way had already been thrown out of the clouds by Wen Chou.

Although there is no gloom when he came, his complexion is still not very good, not to mention that he is not sure whether there is a big epidemic lurking, that is, he has lived in this county for a long time, and Wen Chou has no sense of security, because this Yang County is basically the county seat of the right surname Yang in this county, and it is 'worthy of the name'.

-- The origin of the county magistrate Yang Thorn is the right surname Yang of this county, and he has hundreds of clansmen and thousands of subordinates. In case they have any ghost thoughts, then Wen Chou, these fifty or sixty people, can be regarded as having to explain here. Of course, this possibility is relatively small, because Wen Chou is also an official of the imperial court no matter how he says it.

"Ziyong, do you doubt that I came in a hurry and left in a hurry?" Wen Chou spoke. It can also be regarded as relieving your mental fatigue. After all, if you think about it for too long, it will become depressing.

"Exactly, didn't the eldest brother say that he wanted to visit the people here to understand the situation here? Why just talk to the old man, and then hurry back! Wen Bazheng was puzzled and depressed, and because of Wen Chou's ugly face, he didn't dare to ask.

"It's nothing, it's just that seeing so many people lying on their backs in this city reminds me of the pandemic a few years ago." Wen Chou said casually.

"The big epidemic, the big brother is talking about!" Wen Ba heard this, paused for a moment, and said in surprise.

"Yes, it was the pandemic that claimed countless lives. But thankfully not. Wen Chou sighed, quite lucky.

"Ah, that's the best! I said, "How did my brother suddenly become so unhappy!" It turned out to be a concern about this. Wenba was relieved

While the two were talking, their steps gradually became brisk, far less dull and depressing than when they came, and time passed quickly. When they came to the temporary residence, the sunset on the horizon just filled half of the sky in the west, which was quite magnificent and spectacular, attracting Wen Chou to look up and look at it for a long time.

In the morning meeting outside the plan, Wen Chou and Wen Ba naturally will not just watch the red glow in the sky, but under the encouragement of Wen Ba, the martial arts competition will start.

Wen Chou casually took the branches scattered on the ground, and with a slight swing, the momentum immediately rose. This made the remaining cavalry excited. Although it is not a real battle, but the competition between masters is a feast for them to appreciate! If you can understand a little bit, you will definitely benefit a lot.

The cheers paused, and the two people on the field also walked around seriously. The accurate letter of this battle is not very intense, and most of them are Wen Chou feeding Wen Ba, so that the onlookers can barely keep up with the rhythm and benefit a lot. But for Wen Chou's own gain, it is pitiful.

This battle couldn't help but win the cheers of the twenty cavalry soldiers who stayed behind, and also made the soldiers who returned one after another fascinated. But that's not the most important thing, these returning horsemen have brought Wen Chou a more important message, a message that can make Wen Chou feel at ease.