[In fact, just as the Black Death affected Europe, so did the Great Epidemic at the end of the Han Dynasty.

Heroes have died unexpectedly, ambitions are difficult to pay, grievances and enmities are not over, and in fact they are just the aftermath of the pandemic.

The Holocene Great Heating ended 3,000 years ago, followed by the first cold period in nearly 5,000 years, which was hit head-on by the Western Zhou Dynasty.

This cold period ended in spring and autumn, and then the land of China ushered in a warm period of nearly 400 years.

During this warm period, ancient China completed the unification of the pre-Qin dynasty and the prosperity of the two Han dynasties.

With the end of this warm period, the harsh natural climate directly raised the cost of living, lowered food production, and the cold climate and the people who died due to force majeure became the best breeding ground for epidemics.

Ancient feudal dynasties were limited by productive forces and were particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, and a simple cooling of the climate was enough to bring a dynasty to an end.

It's just that the gradual epidemic did not make the ancients pay attention to medical and health care.

And when the people faced the panic of disease and death, the first to break out of the encirclement was Taiping Dao.

The mighty voice of the great sage and good teacher, "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand" is just the result, and the beginning of all this comes from the "Taiping Sutra".

When we talk about Taoism now, there is a saying that we often say, "Taoism and Taoism are two different things."

So how is Taoism religious? The answer is the Taiping Sutra.

When Emperor Han became emperor, a man named Gan Zhongke shouted that the luck of the Han family was exhausted, and if he wanted to continue the Han Zuo, he should be ordered by heaven again.

In the face of this kind of reckless person, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty did not force him much, and directly sent him to prison, and finally let the person die of illness in prison.

However, Gan Zhongke's "Bao Yuan Taiping Sutra" has been handed down, in which the heavenly court system was constructed for the first time, and the immortals were given functions, and he was the initiator of the model of "immortals descending to the earthly pro-preaching book", and later imitated him by unknown mortals.

This model is not unfamiliar to us modern people, what we play is to speculate on the concept with one hand, and then pull people to buy shares and go public through backdoor listing, but it is more difficult to get through in the feudal era.

However, when the Han Dynasty became emperor, the Western Han Dynasty was already in its last years, and the common people could not be said to be in dire straits, but could only be said to be alive.

The Han court was already too busy to take care of itself, and it couldn't care about managing this faintly rising religious trend among the people.

And when the Eastern Han Dynasty Emperor Shun arrived, the Langya Palace was revered and dedicated to his teacher Yu Ji to obtain the divine book "Taiping Sutra", so far the Taiping Road has completely completed the turnover.

For more than 100 years, the Taiping Sutra has long been very different from the version written by Gan Zhongke, and after being supplemented and improved from generation to generation, for the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Taiping Sutra has been no different from the divine book.

In addition to Gan Zhongke's fictional heavenly court and immortals, later generations have integrated all things with gods, good and evil retribution, and the five elements of heaven and earth into one, and put forward the grand idea of the peaceful world, which also includes longevity, becoming immortals, praying, and many other contents.

This kind of content can be called in line with the times, and soon gained a considerable popular base among the people of the Han Dynasty, and at the end of the Han Dynasty, the best person who studied the Taiping scriptures was called Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao also formally established the Taiping Sect on the basis of his predecessors, and set up Qu Shuai in 36 parties, so that the Taiping believers have officially changed from stragglers to a religious organization that has swept the country.

As the weather became colder at the end of the Han Dynasty, the ruling class further became demons, and the extremely imperfect medical treatment in the feudal era retreated in the face of epidemics.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion failed after nine months, but it also officially kicked off the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It's just that Zhang Jiao would never have imagined that the struggle between religion and epidemic had only just begun with him. 】

In the Hall of Manna Lu, the first thought that popped out of Li Shimin's mind was:

They look at the light curtain of the future generations like this, can they be regarded as immortals?

Raising his head, the first thing Li Shimin saw was the roof of the Ganlu Palace.

But his gaze seemed to pass through the roof and into the sky.

Up to now, in the Tang Dynasty, there are heavenly court immortals and heavenly gods, and there are yin and ghosts, which seems to be a kind of conventional.

But now Li Shimin knows that there is no heavenly court in the sky, there are only endless ruins, inexplicably large stars, and the "heavenly palace" created by the descendants of China in later generations.

Well, and there seem to be enemies among the stars who are watching this side of the world.

It's just that at this time, Li Shimin is still a little puzzled when he looks at the changes in the Taiping Sutra, didn't he investigate the source when the Eastern Han Dynasty received the book?

After all, in the Western Han Dynasty, this Gan Zhong was a person who deceived the public and was executed rationally.

As a result, a hundred years later, the descendants have become royal guests, if this Gan Zhong Kequan knows, I don't know how he will feel.

But it was also because of this that Li Shimin's heart gradually became clear with an idea, but he couldn't say it for a while, but at this time he began to be in a daze, constantly pondering about the cognition of religion in his heart.

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At the end of the Han Dynasty, everyone in Chang'an had mixed feelings in their hearts.

At this moment, they really can't wait to pull the juniors directly through the light curtain to talk face to face.

Today's troubled times are mixed with military disasters, natural disasters, demons and other messy things, especially Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, who are famous for blocking the Yellow Turban Army.

At this time, listening to the future generations clearly understand the past of this Taiping Dao like peeling off the cocoon, and analyze this troubled era from the unique cognitive perspective of later generations, everyone felt more enlightened for a while.

"Zhang Jiao is dead, and neither honor nor sin will be accepted."

Kong Ming said in a low voice, but Xuan said with interest:

"But it is precisely because of this peace that we can know what the people's livelihood is."

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, the so-called remnants of the Yellow Turban have always been the object of strict defense in various places.

In some harsh places, there will even be a method of sitting together to eliminate yellow scarves.

But when Kong Ming and Pang Tong talked about the livelihood of Jingzhou in Yizhou very early, Pang Tong sighed that now under the command of Xuande Gong, the yellow scarf is indispensable.

When Kong Ming heard this, he just sighed lightly:

"Jingyi and the two places, the people have support, the strong have farming, the business has business, and the women have weaving, why ask for ghosts and gods?"

He couldn't say the concise and concise words that had been tempered for thousands of years in later generations, but Kong Ming felt that it was the same as the emotion of listening to the family chapter before.

In the exercise of power, when the state retreats, it advances strongly.

Then the same is true in the local people's livelihood, the yellow scarf will be retreated, and the warehouse will be empty.

After all, for the people of Jingyi and Jingyi today, instead of seeking ghosts and gods, how can they honestly cultivate the land and learn the two crafts, and if they have spare money, they can try to drink tea with the merchants and ask for the way of doing business.

Isn't this much more useful than Taiping Road?

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