Chapter 50 How many people starved to death in the thousand-year-old imperial capital
There were silver-armored cavalry all over the mountains near Hangu Pass, so Lin Yi didn't have any effort at all, and was discovered by the silver-armored cavalry as soon as he came out of the cave, and invited him back to the barracks. Liu Bian Zhijun really deserves his reputation, although he has not seen the commander for more than half a day, he has already become an ant on a hot pot, more anxious than anyone else, but it does not affect the entire military camp is still running in an orderly manner. Xu Chao, Shiyi and other reckless men had to admire him sincerely.
At most, it will take half a year, or at least a month or two, and I am afraid that the news of the failure of the assassination will reach Luoyang Jia's Mansion! If Empress Jia knew that the Dao cultivator had failed to assassinate him, then Lin Yi would have no meaning in guarding the pass, but would cause trouble on the way, so that Lin Yi would have a good opportunity to buy the hearts of the people in the world and make contributions, so Empress Jia would inevitably issue an order to return to Luoyang as soon as possible. Lin Yi naturally understands the truth of this, this time he can only boldly rest assured that he can give him military and political power to go out of the town, mainly to take the opportunity to push Lin Yi out of Luoyang City to facilitate him to send assassins to assassinate, and when they find out that this plan fails, they will inevitably change the original plan, and order Lin Yi to be invited back to Beijing, which will not be shocked by much turmoil under their noses.
Lin Yi's own original plan must now be advanced to deal with the changes, and he must change the political structure of Chang'an City before the Holy Decree orders him to return to Beijing, and firmly control Chang'an City in his own hands, creating an irreversible situation. He originally wanted to make a slight adjustment at Hangu Pass and set off together after the large army in the rear arrived, but now time does not allow, so Lin Yi is even more fast, and he leads the silver armor light cavalry to Chang'an City non-stop, and he arrived in Chang'an City in just over three days.
"Chang'an City" was built in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was called "Feng Ho" in the Western Zhou Dynasty. "Feng Ho" is the joint name of Feng Jing and Hao Jing, which were built by King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou respectively. The area where "Feng Ho" is located is called "Zongzhou". Qin called "internal history", to the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Han Gaozu Liu Bangding capital Guanzhong, Western Han Gaozu 5 years (202 years ago), placed Chang'an County, built a new city in the territory of Chang'an County, named "Chang'an City", which means "long-term peace and stability", changed the area where Chang'an City is located to "Jingzhao", which means "the land of Gyeonggi". At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped the throne, and the world was in turmoil, so far Chang'an City was destroyed in the flames of war.
Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Xiu Xing Han Dynasty, when the Eastern Han Dynasty was established, the country was broken, especially in the Guanzhong where the capital Chang'an was located, a large number of materials needed to be transported from other places, in order to reduce the labor of people's material transportation, so the capital was not built Chang'an, but the capital Luoyang was built, because Luoyang is located in the middle of the world, the geographical location is good, there is Cao Yun, which is more conducive to the transportation of materials, and social production has not been particularly damaged. Therefore, the capital of Luoyang was determined, and Chang'an was called the western capital. However, because of this, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the hundred years of the unification of the Three Kingdoms by Cao Wei of the Jin Dynasty, Chang'an did not suffer many major war and fire disasters, while the capital Luoyang was at the focus of the war. Therefore, after hundreds of years of birth and rest, although Chang'an City has not recovered the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty, the hustle and bustle of Chang'an City today is no less than that of the capital Luoyang, and the width and majesty of the entire city are even above Luoyang City.
It's just that Lin Yi stepped into this Chang'an City, but he was taken aback. Lin Yi had already known from the recitals of the imperial court in the past few years that there had been continuous disasters and people's livelihood in the past few years, but he didn't expect that the situation was far beyond his expectations.
In November of the second year of Yuankang (292), a nationwide infectious disease occurred, and it is said that this disease originated in the Guanzhong region;
In April of the third year of Yuankang (293), in Hongnong County, Guanzhong Region, it was cold in spring, and it snowed heavily, three feet deep;
In the fourth year of Yuankang (294), there was a nationwide famine, and tens of thousands of people begged and displaced in the Guanzhong area.
In the fifth year of Yuankang (295), floods occurred in the Central Plains and Southeast China, while the Guanzhong region was thousands of miles away from the Red Land, and the Wei River bottomed out. The peasants were in arrears, and the famine worsened.
Since the beginning of this year, Jingzhou and Yangzhou have continued to experience heavy floods, and since the New Year in the Guanzhong area, not a drop of water has fallen, and since Lin Yi entered Guanzhong, he has already seen the roadside seedlings drying up, but he is afraid that this year there will be no harvest! Not only has an even more serious famine occurred in the Guanzhong area, but the infectious disease that occurred in the second year of Yuankang has revived.
It's just that after many years of disasters, Chang'an City is still prosperous, with merchants lining up on the streets, and princes and princes are poor and extravagant, spending a lot of money. It's just that the rows of begging queues waiting for alms from good people not far from this bustling street are so discordant.
There were so many of them, but they did not dare to go out into the streets to beg, so they could only live in the alleys, expecting the passing princes and nobles to occasionally show kindness. The hungry howls of children who have not eaten for several days, the dying begging of old people, and the shouting and selling of vendors not far away are mixed together. Lin Yi couldn't tell whether this was illusory or reality for a while, Luoyang City, the largest city in this pass, was so famine, and other cities were even more unimaginable!
Looking at the alleys on the other side of the street, although these people are still unclothed and hungry, everyone regardless of adults and children is carefully dressed up, quietly, and there is a sign hanging in front of them, only the ignorant child occasionally cries twice, but is immediately restrained by his family. From time to time, there are three or three brightly dressed sons and women on the side of the road, picking and choosing, as if they were picking goods. Lin Yi finally understood, this turned out to be selling his son and daughter, selling himself into slavery! Lin Yi couldn't bear to continue looking at the past, and couldn't help but speed up the horse under him. He felt a deep sense of self-reproach that so many of his country, his people, were living in dire straits, and that one day he was going to change that.
When people encounter a famine year, in order to survive, anything can be done. Serious natural disasters are serious but not fatal to the Han people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood, and the wind and rain will be smooth in the coming year, and the common people will be able to live again; while for the Xiongnu, Qiang, and other ethnic minorities living in the interior who are mainly animal husbandry, the severe snowstorm will cause a large number of livestock to die, and this is not something that can be recovered in one or two years. All the way from east to west, although there were many famines on the road, there were not as many displaced people as in Chang'an City. Successive famines made it impossible for the lower classes of herders to survive. It is no wonder that most of the begging people in Chang'an City are miscellaneous beards, especially among those who sell themselves into slavery!
Since ancient times, officials have forced the people to rebel, and the people's demands are actually very low, but they just have something to eat. Except for those ambitious opportunists who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, only those who can no longer bear it and have a deep blood hatred for the government will rise up and rebel. The brothers Hao San and Hao Duyuan are undoubtedly the second type of people, and Qi Wannian is the first type of people.
In September of the first year of Yuankang (291), Sima Khan, the mainstay of the imperial court, the king of Qin, died, so Jia Nanfeng recalled Sima Wei, the king of Liang stationed in Guanzhong, to the central government, and sent Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, who had just been appointed as the general of Zhengdong and the military governor of Xuzhou and Yanzhou, to the Guanzhong region, which was relatively more important, to be the general of the expedition to the west.
Just after Sima Lun arrived in Guanzhong, an infectious disease occurred in Guanzhong, and in addition to natural disasters for many years, he was really hungry. Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, does not learn and has no skills, has no wisdom and mediocrity, worships the minister Sun Xiu, Sun Xiu is cunning and talented, greedy and ignorant, and all those who work together are evildoers, but compete for glory and profit. At the instigation of his confidant Sun Xiu, Sima Lun not only did not provide relief to the victims, but instead intensified his efforts and extorted extortions.
So, in May of the fourth year of Yuankang, Hao San, a member of the Xiongnu tribe, gathered a rebellion, attacked Shangdang County, and beheaded the county head. After conquering Shangdang, Hao San turned his troops westward, crossed the Yellow River, united with the Xiongnu scattered in northern Shaanxi, and occupied the Guanzhong region, where there were many people suffering from famine and famine, and easily recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. After three months of rebellion, the rebellion ended with the surrender of Hao San's troops.
However, the strange thing is that after Hao San's surrender, Feng Yijun killed Hao San. Killing and surrendering has always been despised by people, and only in very special circumstances is it somewhat necessary. After Hao San's surrender, the imperial court had already broken down his people, and he was already alone, and if he was killed, it would have a greater negative effect.
The action of killing Hao San not only did not have a deterrent effect, but made the simple-hearted Hu people mad at the cunning and treacherous approach of the imperial court, coupled with the fact that Guanzhong has been in drought for thousands of miles in the past two years, and the herdsmen could not survive, which led to the subsequent rebellion of Hao San's younger brother Hao Duyuan.
This time, Hao Duyuan's troops were even stronger than Hao San, he contacted Feng Yi County, the Ma Lanqiang tribe of Beidi County, Lu Shuihu and other tribes, and rebelled together, beheaded Zhang Wei, the head of Feng Yi County, and defeated Ouyang Jian, the head of Feng Yi County, and then pressed Chang'an, and the court was greatly inspired.
Yongzhou Assassin History, General Yang Lie dissolved, this person has always been upright and unyielding. When Emperor Wu was in cahoots with Jia Chong, Xun Miao's son said to Xie Xian: "I am friends with you, you have seen my father, you should pay respects." Xun Miao also said: "I have a good relationship with your father." Xie Zhengse replied: "My father didn't say this." If you have a good relationship with my father, I should have received a letter of condolence from you when my father died. Therefore, I dare not accept the statement of being close to my father. It is said that Xun Miao's father and son have no place to be ashamed, and the name of this dissolution is also famous all over the world.
Xie Xiansu was not used to the behavior of Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, and Sun Xiu, and there were also fierce disputes in the military, accusing each other to the central government. The most important thing is that Jia Mi's confidant Ouyang Jian also accused Sima Lun, Sun Xiu and others of various crimes. So the court replaced Sima Lun and sent Sima Wei, the king of Liang who had been stationed in the pass, only King Liang was already over sixty years old and only wanted to retire in the capital. This time, Lin Yi returned to Beijing to replace King Liang in the town of Guanzhong with the respect of the crown prince, so after hearing the news, King Liang was very grateful, and looked forward to Lin Yi's arrival in Chang'an as soon as possible.