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Chapter 3100 3102 [Three Disasters]

In August, the siege of Xi'an City was officially resolved.

This time the siege lasted for four months, not as long as eight months in history, so the people did not die as many people.

Even so, the loss of Xi'an City was enormous.Countless shops, streets, and private houses were destroyed by artillery fire, and the population loss was as many as [-].

And the surrounding counties were ravaged by the Zhensong army.

Many villages were looted by the Zhensong army. Food, money, livestock, and even women were taken away. Every family cried and mourned together.

Fortunately, the Zhensong army finally withdrew, and the autumn harvest was about to come, the people still had a glimmer of hope.

Once the siege of Xi'an was lifted, those who were trapped in the city before could finally come out.

Many people returned to Bailuyuan immediately, but there was no trace of Bai Ling and Lu Zhaohai.

Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin were so anxious that they made a special trip to Xi'an.

Fortunately, lucky people have their own celestial features, Bai Ling and Lu Zhaohai are fine.The reason why he didn't come back was because he had to help clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses.

Looking at the two men who had been besieged for more than four months, starved for more than two months, and their little faces were pale, Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin, the fathers, were all very uncomfortable.

……

After the Zhensong army retreated and the siege of Xi'an was lifted, Xiang Nan also took Lu San, Zhang Fenglan, Zhang Ziqing, Tian Xiaoe and others back to Bailuyuan.

For the past four months, they lived in the Zhongnanshan Villa.

There was food and drink in the villa, and they were not hungry, but for several months, they could only stay in a place the size of a palm, and it was annoying enough to treat them.

It's just that no matter how they walked, they still couldn't get out of the ground the size of a palm, so they could only bear it silently.

Now that they can finally come out, they are naturally very happy.

But when he saw Xiang Nan, he couldn't help complaining.

"Trapping us on the mountain for so long is almost suffocating us~" Zhang Ziqing complained.

"Stop complaining. After you go down the mountain, see what life is like down the mountain, and you will know how happy you are on the mountain." Xiang Nan waved his hand.

Sure enough, Zhang Ziqing and others became more and more silent as they walked more than 100 miles from Zhongnan Mountain back to Bailuyuan.

Because several villages and towns along the road left traces of burning and looting.There were many victims walking on the road. Their food was robbed and their houses were burned, so they had no choice but to come out to beg.

Corpses can always be seen in the ditch beside the road, emitting a disgusting stench under the sun.The bark of most locust trees and poplar trees has been peeled off, leaving white trunks standing there...Everywhere you look, there are scenes of death, corruption, sorrow, and pain.

"How could this be?" Tian Xiao'e asked in surprise.

Xiang Nan then told the story of the Zhensong army besieging Xi'an City and burning, killing and looting in the surrounding counties.

After everyone listened, they all fell silent.

Although they were a bit bored in Zhongnan Mountain, there was no personal threat, and they would not suffer from cold or hunger.Compared with Yamashita, it's like a fairy's life.

And such a day was arranged by Xiang Nan.Otherwise, they would have been like these common people, displaced, suffering from hunger and cold, life would be worse than death.

"Humble, thank you~" Zhang Ziqing said.

Tian Xiaoe, Liu Chunni, Song Zhaodi, and Miao Yulan also expressed gratitude.

"Okay, we're all family, so don't talk about these things." Xiang Nan waved his hand.

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After taking his family back to Bailuyuan, Xiang Nan's ancestral temple also welcomed many pilgrims.

Some were lucky to have listened to Xiang Nan's words and hid the food in time, and were not found by the crow soldiers, so the whole family did not go hungry, so they came here to fulfill their wish.

There are also many pilgrims who regret that they did not listen to Xiang Nan's words, but were robbed of food, money, and even their wives and daughters by the crow soldiers, so they came here to repent.

Xiang Nan couldn't bear to see them take the money squeezed out of their teeth, burn incense and fulfill their vows, and even donate food and incense money to him.

"Everyone take back the money and food." Xiang Nan refused, "Listen to me, although the crow soldiers are gone, a bigger disaster is coming. One is drought, one is locust plague, and the other is plague .

Everyone can leave as long as they can, and store as much food as they can. The next four years will be the saddest time for the land of Sanqin.Everyone, don't take it seriously. "

Hearing what he said, the people who just thought they had escaped were frightened again.

"Little God, is it really that miserable?" Everyone asked curiously.

Xiang Nan nodded, "Two years of severe drought, half a year of locust plagues, and half a year of plague. Ten houses are empty, and the fields are full of mourners. If you can leave, you can store food if you can. Don't be lucky."

When everyone heard this, they were all terrified.

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And Xiang Nan's prophecy about the future soon spread throughout the land of Sanqin, and people panicked for a while, worrying that the disaster would come again.

After all, what Xiang Nan said was too miserable, the scene was much worse than Zhensong's army besieging Xi'an City.

"Hei Wa, is there really a catastrophe in the future?" Seeing that the people's hearts were not stable, Bai Jiaxuan hurriedly found Xiang Nan and asked.

Xiang Nan nodded, "Really, Uncle Jiaxuan, from the year of Wuchen to the year of Gengwu, disasters and catastrophes continued, and people were devastated. With a population of 800 million in the Three Qin Dynasty, at least half of them will die."

"400 million?!" Bai Jiaxuan was shocked.

Xiang Nan nodded.

In fact, he still said less. The three-year disaster in the Three Qin Dynasty killed more than 500 million people.Many villages were directly destroyed, and hundreds of people in the village died tragically.

Moreover, it wasn't just the land of Sanqin that was affected by the disaster, the provinces of Sanjin, Ganzhou, and Suiyuan were also affected, and the situation was just as serious.

In that year, only three provinces in China, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Southern Yunnan, and Qilu, were not affected by disasters.It can be said that there is famine everywhere, the people are devastated, ten houses are empty, and bones are overflowing.

The death of so many people is not only a matter of natural disasters, but a greater responsibility lies in man-made disasters.

From [-] to [-], it happened to be during the Central Plains War.The National Army, Jinsui Army, Northwest Army, Guangxi Army, and Northeast Army all killed indiscriminately, just to pursue power and expand territory. No one cared about the lives of ordinary people.

At that time, it was General Tiaoge who controlled Sanqin, and he was an enemy of the national army.In this way, although the national army has food and money, it will not help the land of Sanqin.

Although the people of Sanqin suffered disasters, the defecting generals still collected food and taxes as usual in order to fight the war, and they didn't care about the suffering of the people at all.

Therefore, under the combined effect of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people of the Sanqin land are so miserable.

"Then what should we do? Is there any way to resolve it?" Bai Jiaxuan asked.

"Uncle, this is calamity. Don't say I'm not a god, even if I have cultivated into a fairy, I can't solve it." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said, "If you want to save the villagers, let everyone grow more food and store more food. , What bran, bean cake, oil residue, as long as it is edible, save more, so as to avoid more deaths and injuries."

(End of this chapter)