0275 Plague and History (1st Update)
Xie Shang is dead?
Wen Yi looked at Xie Daoyun worriedly, for fear that she wouldn't be able to stand the stimulation.
Xie Daoyun was stunned for a moment, his face became very heavy, and he shook his head at him to signal that he was fine.
Then he sniffed and asked, "Is there any specific situation?" β
Zhao Zhengzhi raised the secret letter with both hands and said: "Yes, there was a plague in Yuzhou last year, and General Xie unfortunately contracted the disease, and he has not been cured until this year. β
"The Jin court wanted to summon him to leave Yuzhou and return to Jiankang for treatment, but he was seriously ill and died when passing through Liyang."
Wen Yi said: "I already know about this matter, tell Lin Hongduo to pay attention to the news over there." β
Zhao Zhengzhi hesitated: "There is another news, about the mother's father. β
Xie Daoyun could no longer maintain his composure, and asked eagerly, "What's wrong with my father?" β
Zhao Zhengzhi said: "It seems that the imperial court intends to let him take over the position of Yuzhou Assassin. β
Xie Daoyun breathed a sigh of relief, this is a good thing.
But Zhao Zhengzhi's next sentence made her feel like falling into an ice cave: "It's just that the plague in Yuzhou doesn't seem to have completely passed." β
Xie Daoyun only felt that the world was spinning, and if Wen Yi hadn't hugged her, she would have fallen to the ground.
Seeing her like this, Wen Yi was distressed and angry, and scolded: "Bastard, what can't be said in one breath, it's funny, right?" β
Zhao Zhengzhi hurriedly admitted his mistake and said: "Yes, yes, yes, it's all the minister's fault, please punish the king." β
"If there is any information, I will finish it in one breath."
"It's gone."
"That's not going to get out yet."
"Yes, the minister retired."
"Come back, let Lin Hong go to find out the specific situation in Yuzhou, and always pay attention to General Xie's movements."
"Yes."
ββ¦β¦ Don't roll yet, what are you doing here. β
"Yes, yes, yes." Zhao Zhengzhi ran out with a roll.
When he arrived at the door, he stopped to catch his breath, but gently slapped himself: "You don't look at the occasion and deserve it." β
On the other side, Wen Yi helped Xie Daoyun to sit on the chair and comforted: "Don't worry, isn't the matter undecided, besides, my father-in-law can also refuse." β
Xie Daoyun's eyes were red, and he shook his head and said: "No, Yuzhou is the foundation for the Xie family to maintain its status, and if his uncle is gone, his father is the head of the Xie family, even if it is a sea of swords, mountains and fires, he will go." β
Wen Yi also knew this, so he had to say: "With General Xie's experience, my father-in-law will be careful." Besides, the plague there has come to an end, so be careful that nothing will happen. β
Xie Daoyun said sadly: "But it's a plague, how can it be so easy to prevent." β
Wen Yi hugged her and said, "Don't worry, Jiren has his own natural appearance, and my father-in-law will be fine." β
Is it really going to be okay?
Wen Yi finally recalled the records he had read in his previous life, Xie Shang died of illness, and Xie Yi died of illness less than a year after going to Yuzhou.
But the plague was finally over, and the two brothers Xie An and Xie Wan entered Yuzhou together, and only then did they resume governance, and did not let the Xie family lose their last family foundation.
This period of history is not well known, and the reason why Wen Yi knows it is because he glanced at Xie An and Xie Xuan's biographies.
But it was forgotten after too long, and this time Xie Shang died and remembered it again.
Everyone knows that the plague is dangerous, but I am afraid that many people do not have a specific concept of how dangerous it is.
Before Wenyi's crossing, it happened to be the outbreak of the global new crown epidemic, and the US imperialists killed more than 600,000 people, and everyone felt terrible.
But what if I told you that this plague was common in ancient times? Sometimes a plague can last decades or even hundreds of years before it ends.
There are three great plague periods recorded in Chinese history, namely the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Don't think that there are only these three periods, there is a plague almost every few years in history, the difference is the severity.
The reason why these three stages are listed separately is because the plague lasted for too long in these three periods, the shortest was more than ten years, and the longest lasted for more than a hundred years.
The plague, which has not ended for more than a hundred years, knows how terrible it is when you think about it.
As for the short-lived plagues, they are even more numerous.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, from Emperor Huan to the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, a major plague broke out in an average of three or four years.
Remember, it was a great plague, and the duration of each time was two or three years, to say the least. It can be said that one plague has not ended, and another one has come.
When everyone watches the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, they are all excited by the heroic stories in it, and they can't wait to travel through the past.
However, the stories behind these heroic stories will definitely make you reacquaint yourself with history.
For example, in the battle between Cao Cao and Lu Bu, it was Cao Cao who won in the end, and many people scolded Lu Bu for being brave and unstrategic, and Chen Gong would not use it, is this actually the case?
Yanzhou was Cao Cao's territory, but this man was fierce and cruel, and the local people didn't like him, so he took the initiative to surrender to LΓΌ Bu, so LΓΌ Bu replaced him as the lord of Yanzhou.
Cao Cao was not convinced and led his troops to fight, but was defeated.
But not long after the plague occurred in Yanzhou, Cao Cao was ruthless, killed all the rich households in his territory, robbed all the grain as military rations, and arrested the people to build military camps.
What about Lu Bu? He was invited by the people of Yanzhou, and the people here were kind to him, and he couldn't pull his face down to rob the rich.
What? The third surnamed family slave Lu Bu can't pull this face? But that's just the way it is.
In the end, it was the more ferocious Cao Cao who took the lead in recovering and defeating LΓΌ Bu, who was plagued by the plague.
There is also Liu Biao, who rode into Jingzhou alone when he was young, subdued the warrior clan, eradicated the bandits and became the lord of Jingzhou, and defeated and killed Sun Jian, and Sun Ce couldn't get out of Jiangdong.
But in middle age, it was like being taken away, Sun Ce fought Jiangxia, and Liu Biao was unwilling to send troops to rescue and sit back and watch Huang Zu be killed.
Everyone said that he was jealous of his ability, and later his brother-in-law Cai Mao gave Jingzhou to Cao Cao, how incompetent and stupid.
However, neither the Romance of the Three Kingdoms nor the Romance of the Three Kingdoms tell us that there was a plague in Jingzhou at that time, and there were ten rooms and nine emptiness, and two-thirds of Liu Biao's army were infected with the plague, and he didn't want to save it but couldn't save it.
And this plague also made Liu Biao completely lose the ability to dominate the world.
Why did Cai Mao surrender to Cao Cao? Since there is no way to dominate the world, the best way is to surrender to the person who is most likely to unify the world, and he can also be a founding general.
Cao Cao also thought that he could dominate the world, and prepared to fight Jiangdong with hundreds of thousands of people.
However, he forgot one thing, and that was that the plague in Jingzhou had not passed.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms only tell us that Cao Cao's soldiers were all northerners, and many people fell ill when they arrived at the Yangtze River.
But he didn't tell us that from the day Cao Cao accepted the Jingzhou soldiers, the plague had found a new host and began to wreak havoc.
It didn't take long for most of the Wei army to be infected with the plague, and it was too late for Cao Cao to find out.
There is still a lot of controversy about the Battle of Red Cliffs.
After the war, Cao Cao wrote a letter to Sun Quan, and at that time, the plague in our army was severe, and I set fire to the ship in order to prevent the plague, which resulted in Zhou Yu's reputation.
Of course, it is also possible that Cao Cao said this on purpose, so he said that the Battle of Chibi was controversial.
But one thing is for sure, Cao Jun was indeed infected with the plague, which was very serious.
Many famous battles in history are not as magical as we imagined, and it is likely that natural and man-made disasters are at play.
A lot of seemingly stupid behaviors may have factors behind us that we don't know.
History will only record the bright side of the victor and the stupid side of the loser, but will not really record the helplessness of the loser.
Just like Lu Bu, just like Liu Biao.