Chapter 63: The Anshi Rebellion, 30 Million People Died Here!
The camera slowly rose again, hovering all the way from Chang'an City, like a long-lasting mourning bird, crying and telling about grief.
A white-haired old man staggered past under Chang'an City, his fingers stroking the palace wall inch by inch, tears streaming down his clothes.
"Chang'an City...... Why is it like this? β
Behind him, it was as if a frame of images was unfolding.
The emperor's colorful flag of honor came out of the palace in a mighty way, and the maidservants who followed behind him were all clear and beautiful, looking forward to the brilliance, not to mention the emperor's side smiling and smiling and leaning on the beautiful palace concubine who sold coquettishly, and the color of the world was scorching.
As soon as the picture turned, the colorful picture gradually dissipated, leaving only the dilapidated and desolate Chang'an city wall, and no one cleaned up the weeds everywhere.
The old man walked forward step by step, and in his endless desolate back, the canopy slowly typed out a poem.
[The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city is deep in spring. When I feel the tears, I hate the birds. The beacon fire lasted for three months, and the family letter was worth 10,000 dollars. The whitehead scratching is shorter, and the hairpin is overwhelming. γ
The poet is fortunate and the poet is unlucky, and the troubled times are sad, and no one can say it.
In front of the canopy.
Zhenguan Junchen only felt that his head was buzzing, and he looked at the sky stupidly, but he couldn't say half a word in his throat.
"The country breaks the ......"
How can it be?!! How is this possible?!!
Such a magnificent Chang'an City, such a vast and majestic Tang Dynasty!! How could it be that the country was broken overnight?!!
If the national strength declines and goes downhill, and the empire is about to crumble, it is helpless, but they have just seen such a magnificent and prosperous Tang Dynasty!!
Li Shimin pressed his head with one hand and propped up the table with the other, took a few deep breaths, and almost gritted his back molars to squeeze out the words.
"Beacon Fire for March...... Has it been a mess for three months? Come to think of it, even the Chang'an Kingdom has fallen, and even what Zhu Qizhen of the Ming Fort Sect didn't do actually happened in my Datang, it's really good!! Very good......"
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Above the canopy.
The camera continued to fall, going deep into the land of the Tang Dynasty, like a cold bystander repeating all the chaos.
The prosperity of the palace wall tile city is still on the side, but the spiritual outlook of the people living in it has been completely different.
Countless homeless people are so hungry that their faces are yellow and thin, and some even pick up the soil on the ground to swallow to barely support their hunger, not to mention the grass roots and tree bark, which have become the fragrant basils that countless people compete for.
When the camera walked into the city, the huge bazaar was no longer prosperous, and there was no one for countless miles in a row, which can be called an empty alley.
Those who could escape fled, those who could not stay were left hungry and withered, and all the economic systems of the whole city collapsed cleanly.
It's hard to imagine that this is a majestic Chang'an that was prosperous not long ago, and the people were so rich that they could eat meat!!
The Zhenguan monarch in front of the canopy looked at such a familiar and unfamiliar Chang'an City, and tears involuntarily slipped down.
"How so!! What the hell is going on?! β
The frame of the camera turns.
Two pale and withered women hid in the corner, trembling in their arms and holding a swaddling baby, shuddering and exchanging, and then hurriedly led the older child next to them and separated.
When they made firewood and added some dirty water, and when the swaddling clothes were opened and the contents were put in to cook, the people in front of the canopy saw clearly what it was.
A newborn baby who has been out of breath!!
So everyone understood, and the two women were actually exchanging their babies!!
The people were forced to the point where they were eaten!!
In front of the canopy.
The eldest grandson Wuji jumped up as if his butt had been burned by fire, the blood on his face faded inch by inch, and he shouted bitterly.
"Can't eat it!! You can't eat it!! β
"It's a precedent, and it's completely messed up...... It's messed up!! β
People began to eat people, at first it was easy to eat babies, and then what would it become?
Everyone couldn't help but feel creepy and tremble.
Li Shimin's arm pressed the table and the green tendons erupted inch by inch, and the anger in his eyes was terrifying, almost making the court tremble!!
"Li Longji !!"
While countless courtiers knelt down in fear, they finally remembered in a trance that the emperor in front of him, who seemed to be approachable and had no frame at all, and would cry when scolded by his courtiers, was also a demon god who stepped on countless corpses and fought on the battlefield!!
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Che frowned tightly.
"Eat with a child...... I have heard of the terrible situation of the people during the famine countless times, but I still have not seen it with my own eyes. β
Wei Qing also sighed.
"Such a tragic situation, how can people believe that this is the enviable Datang of Fangcai, I really don't know what is going on in this country."
Western Jin Dynasty.
Emperor Jin Hui Sima Zhen frowned suspiciously.
"The people are hungry, so why don't they eat pork or venison? How can you be so cruel as to eat human flesh, is human flesh better than pork meat and venison?! β
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Above the canopy.
The picture gradually dissipated, and a line of large ink characters appeared on the screen, which revealed an endless ominous blood red.
γAnshi Rebellionγ
A splash of blood covered it, and the camera suddenly turned, splitting in the middle, splitting into two distinct images.
On the left is a joyful festival of singing and dancing, and on the right is a human tragedy full of corpses.
[Before this terrible catastrophe came, the population of Datang was about 50 million, and the actual population was recorded to have reached as much as 80 million, and the total population of the world at that time was only 200 million people, so you can imagine what a huge empire Datang was at that time. γ
[From the 16 million people when Li Shimin first took over in the early Tang Dynasty, several generations do not know how many hardships have been gone through to make the dynasty prosperous to this point!! γ
Zhenguan years.
Jun Chen Qi gasped, shocked.
Li Shimin muttered.
"80 million, 80 million ......"
Oh my God, what kind of concept is that!! That's 80 million people!!
If Li Yuan could have left him with so many people, he could have taken off directly with the Datang Spiral!!
Not only Zhenguan Dynasty, but countless dynasties in history have almost separated from the qualitative wall of envy and envy!!
That's a fucking crowd! Why can't you do it?!!
When the population increases, the productive forces go up, and when the productive forces go up, the country will not lack food to eat, the country will not lack food to eat, and the war horses will be able to eat to their heart's content, and the soldiers will be strong and strong, and the natural combat effectiveness will also go up!!
As the canopy slowly turned, the tone of the picture dimmed, and the picture of corpses strewn across the field on the right gradually expanded, occupying the full screen.
[And this catastrophe, known as the Anshi Rebellion, directly led to a sharp drop of 30 million in the population of the Tang Dynasty!!] 30 million people lost their lives in this troubled world!! γ
You know, the Black Death, the devastating plague in medieval Europe, killed only one-third of Europe's population β 25 million!!
What is the concept of 30 million, almost double the total population in the early years of Zhenguan, and nearly half of the population in the prosperous era of Kaiyuan!!
To put it more intuitively, almost one out of every two people will lose their life because of troubled times.
This is a catastrophe worse than the plague.