Three Kingdoms: From Yinlin to Great Wei Xiongzhu

Chapter 173 The Little Ice Age ravaged the big man, I was too hard

Xuzhou, Xiaopei.

As a city and county with an extremely important geographical location, it is connected with the three forces of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu.

Now, the owner here is Lu Bu.

In the severe drought in July, Lu Bu was overjoyed. In his opinion, Cao Cao was short of food and grass, and the soldiers and horses stationed in Pengcheng must have fluctuating morale. The opportunity to counterattack has come.

At the very least, with the secret support of his father-in-law Cao Bao, he, Lu Bu, wants to capture a decent city!

Can be…

Liu Bei's Xiapi City and Guangling City were plagued by locusts, and there was no harvest.

Naturally... the plan to attack Cao Cao was stillborn.

At this time, Lu Bu and Chen Gong were both standing on the tower, looking into the distance...

A hundred miles ahead is Pengcheng, which is the territory of Cao Jun. Cao Cao specially left Cao Ren and [-] troops to garrison.

Cao Ren set up camp outside the city and Pengcheng was at the horns of each other. With Lv Bu's current strength, unless Cao's army changes, it will be difficult to attack.

"Ugh…"

With a long sigh, Lu Bu couldn't help clenching his fists, and slammed into the city wall in front of him. Because of too much force, his fist collided with the city wall and made a crisp sound of "bang".

Lu Bu felt pain in both hands, but...he didn't care at all, because compared to the melancholy in his heart, what is the pain?
"Sir? Do you think... is it evil?"

Lu Bu turned his head to Chen Gong who was at the side. "It's the same bug. The people under Cao Cao's rule will be fine after eating it, but the people under our rule and the people under Liu Bei's rule will be poisoned after eating it. It's so strange!"

"Also... After the severe drought, floods occurred everywhere, and the river dams burst. Thousands of acres of rice fields on Liu Bei's side were destroyed, but the rice fields on Cao Cao's side were safe and sound! I feel more and more that Cao Cao's It's very evil!"

Chen Gong narrowed his eyes...

He quietly listened to Lu Bu's words... His eyes were also looking at the frontier of Pengcheng.

It seemed that he realized what Lu Bu was going to ask.

"Fengxian, I can't figure out many things, not to mention you..."

Chen Gong pressed his hand on the city wall helplessly, obviously, he was not in a good mood either. "In the past two years, Cao Jun's side has been very evil. It seems that they can predict all natural disasters and all man-made disasters in advance. They can even turn disasters into great benefits! It's evil, it's really evil."

Turning disasters into benefits, what Chen Gong thought of was locusts... Other states and counties were at a loss, but you Yanzhou is lucky, you are almost capturing locusts as protected animals.

To be honest, Chen Gong really wanted to slander Cao Cao in his heart, and really wanted to draw another big cake for Lu Bu!
But... in the past two years, every step of Cao Cao has been incomparably exquisite, slander?What to slander!

It seems... After Chen Gong left Cao Cao, Cao Cao became better.

Helpless...Chen Gong was also helpless in his heart, he even complained about the injustice of God, why... let a bad guy continue to grow stronger, why... he who claims to be a good person, is struggling.

Is the so-called "Tao" in his mind really not applicable in troubled times?

call…

Lu Bu let out a long breath. "Mr. Gongtai, I heard that Yuan Shu sent Ji Ling to bring an army of [-] to kill...Although he threatened to conquer Liu Bei, but...you must pass us Xiaopei? How should we deal with it?"

The topic turned to Yuan Shu, but Chen Gong's mood improved a bit.

In the past two years, Cao Cao has been the most evil, and other princes... It's okay, it's okay.

"Fengxian, don't panic, it's Yuan Shu and Liu Bei who should panic now!"

Well…

Lu Bu didn't understand Chen Gong's words?what does it mean?

"Sir... this is?"

"Did Liu Bei send the rations again this morning?" Chen Gong's mouth twitched slightly.

"That little army ration is only enough for daily expenses!" As soon as this matter was mentioned, Lu Bu became angry... He crossed his arms and said, "Liu Bei said it better than he sang, saying that he trusts us, but in fact he is still on guard." we."

"Haha..." Chen Gong asked back with a smile: "He did the right thing, you Lu Fengxian is a fierce tiger, if you are full, you will eat him back at Liu Bei! Besides, Xiapicheng, Guangling The county is suffering from drought and flood, and the food reserves are not enough!"

"Sir, can you still laugh?" Lu Bu frowned...

"Hahaha..." Chen Gong was still laughing, as if he had seen through everything. "Fengxian, the so-called extreme will always reverse...Everything will always rebound when it reaches the extreme, such as now...We seem to be adrift and helpless, and we are the weakest, but in fact, we are Xiangwowo!"

"Xiangwowo?"

"That's right!" Chen Gong nodded. "If the predictions are correct, Yuan Shu's emissary...should arrive within a while, right?"

The voice just fell...

"Report..." A soldier passed on, "Five miles east of the city, scouts have spotted Yuan Shujun's envoy... coming to Xiaopei!"

Well…

Startled, Lu Bu thought of what Chen Gong had just said, and quickly asked, "Why did Yuan Shu send a messenger here?"

"Haha..." Chen Gong raised his hand. "Fengxian, let's go... Get ready and meet Yuan Shu's envoy. If nothing else, Yuan Shu is going to give Fengxian a large sum of food and grass, haha, hahahaha!"

Even if Chen Gong arrived early in the morning...

Today's Lu Bu is sandwiched between Liu Bei and Yuan Shu... It seems like a buffer zone, but in fact, Lu Bu's combat power is not weak.

If you help Liu Bei, Yuan Shu will feel uncomfortable. Similarly, if you help Yuan Shu, he will feel uncomfortable if you analyze it in another way.

So, wouldn't Liu Bei and Yuan Shu have to compete for Lu Bu?
This is why Liu Bei still dare not cut off Lu Bu's food even though he is suffering from locust plagues, droughts, and floods!

And Yuan Shu's family has a big business, so they exchanged some food for Lu Bu's support. This kind of method...Yuan Shu can do it.

"Sir...then we should..." Lu Bu asked again while walking.

"Take advantage of both sides, neither side will help!" Chen Gong said with a smile: "Isn't Cao Cao the best at sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, and now... you, Lu Fengxian, are also here to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, hehe, Yuan Shu is not a good guy, Liu Bei... is not a good thing either!"

"We should be ready to go and kill with one blow!"

In a word...Chen Gong's eyes narrowed, and a sharp edge quietly rose in them.

As Lu Yu mentioned, after the drought, locust plague, and waterlogging, the chaos in Xiapi City in the south will completely erupt!

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Chuping four years, the end of the year!
Since counting to nine, the new wind blows and the cold air is oppressive. It is another extremely cold winter.

Speaking of it, it was also strange, the sun was still scorching in summer, the rain hadn't fallen, and the vast land was like a flame, but in winter, it was so cold.

Early in the morning, the wind blows...

This kind of cold is a real cold that penetrates into the flesh and blood.

The howling wind frenziedly rolled in the frost... like a sharp sword, overdrawing the pitifully small amount of warmth, causing the unrestrained cold to spread violently.

Inside the Cai Mansion...it's still warm!

Passed down from the Qin Dynasty, the "Fire Wall", "Fireplace" that can only be found in the Qin Palace, almost completely covered Lu Yu's house...

The so-called fire wall is to use two tiles interlocked to make it similar to a pipe, wrapped in the wall, and communicated with the stove for heating.

As for fireplaces and stoves... almost every house in the entire Cai Mansion has some, and there are more in Lu Yu's house.

Even so, Lu Yu felt the biting cold wind while sitting in the house.

"Be good..." Lu Yu sighed while rubbing his hands. "This damn weather...it's much colder than normal winter."

While feeling emotional, Lu Yu frowned slightly, as if he had thought of something.

"Could it be... because of the Little Ice Age?"

That's right...

There have been four Little Ice Ages in China!

The first time was from the end of the Shang Dynasty to the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty;
The second time is the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty;

The third time is from the end of Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms;
The fourth time was during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty!
Today's horrible weather... It seems that it is the second Little Ice Age in history.

Lu Yu suddenly recalled a lot...

From Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong to Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie, in the past few decades, the weather in the Han Dynasty has been extremely abnormal...

Every now and then there is a severe drought, or hail "as big as a chicken", and every winter without exception, it is bitingly cold!

The so-called capriciousness, just list it casually.

In February 171, there was an earthquake, the sea overflowed, and the river water was clear;

In the first month of 173, there was a great epidemic;

In June 175, the land of Sansuke was plagued by locusts;

In the spring of 179, another major epidemic occurred;
In June 181, on a scorching summer day, the "big as a chicken" under the hail!
In 183, there was a severe drought in summer, and in autumn, the Jincheng River overflowed, and the banks of Wuyuan Mountains collapsed; in winter, the ice in Donghai, Penglai, and Langya wells was more than a foot thick!
Drought, flood and ice disasters came together, making the life of the already miserable people in the empire even more difficult.

And these disasters did not diminish until the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the succession of Emperor Shao of the Han Dynasty...even the succession of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty...not only did not diminish, but intensified.

The reason is the capricious weather of the Little Ice Age...

Drought in summer, severe cold in winter!
Many keyboard historians believe that the reason for the demise of the Han Dynasty is actually not related to these emperors.

Under such a "Little Ice Age", with such frequent disasters, the Han Lingdi could only drive a donkey cart, while happily playing with his concubines in the naked tour hall, while shouting "I am too difficult"

...even many keyboard historians think...even if they crossed over to become Emperor Ling of Han, the empire would be ruined!
"not good…"

Suddenly, Lu Yu stood up suddenly. At this moment, what he thought of was a disease that accompanied the winter of the Little Ice Age—typhoid fever!

That's right...it's typhoid fever!

Typhoid fever is a kind of plague. According to historical records, there were three outbreaks of typhoid fever during the reign of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, five outbreaks of typhoid fever during the reign of Emperor Ling, and the prevalence of typhoid fever was even worse during the reign of Emperor Xiandi Jian'an.

Thousands of people were devoured by the disease, resulting in an unprecedented catastrophe!

Don't look at the interpretation of the novel, there are tens of thousands of people killed in a big war, in fact... don't look at the warlords fighting for years, but there are not so many people who died in battle!
The most fundamental reason for the sudden drop in population is the widespread typhoid fever caused by the Little Ice Age.

The people of the Han Dynasty are used to adding a word "jue" in the middle of typhoid fever - typhoid fever terminal disease.

And the reason for adding this word is because once contracted "typhoid fever", it is... almost indistinguishable from death. There is no cure, and no one dares to treat it!
It can be said that in the era of the Three Kingdoms... the "terminal typhoid disease" caused the most deaths!
"Diandutong..." Lu Yu shouted immediately.

Lu Yu's house was divided into two rooms, the inside and the outside. On weekdays, Lu Yu was in the inside, and Dian Wei was guarding the outside...

Hearing Lu Yu's call this time, Dian Wei immediately walked into the room.

"Son, what's the matter?"

"Did any soldiers in the Long Xiao camp suffer from typhoid fever recently?" Lu Yu asked directly...

This…

Dian Wei's face suddenly became serious.

Every year, a large number of soldiers in the barracks suffer from typhoid fever. The ratio is about two out of every ten. Once they suffer from typhoid fever, there is often only one final outcome—death!

This has long been a common occurrence in the military camp. This kind of disease... whoever suffers from it is unlucky.

This year... is no exception...

Seeing that Dian Wei didn't speak, Lu Yu added another sentence. "Dian Dutong, is there any?"

"Yes... yes!" Dian Wei replied. "When General Cao Xiu came yesterday, he specifically talked to me about this matter. This year, the weather is colder, and there are more soldiers who are sick. In the Longxiao camp, more than 100 people have already suffered from this terminal typhoid fever!"

What?
Lu Yu was taken aback, more than 100 people?
You must know... Leaving aside the previous battle damage, now... there are only more than 600 knights in the Longxiao Battalion who can fight.

More than 100 fell down at once, think about it... Lu Yu not only feels distressed, but also his liver hurts!
"Where are they now?" Lu Yu continued to ask.

"In the barracks..."

"Didn't you find a doctor?"

"It's useless to look for it..." Dian Wei's face was extremely serious, why didn't he want to save these soldiers?Was the martial arts of these soldiers trained by Dian Wei?
"Typhoid fever is an incurable disease..." Dian Wei reminded repeatedly.

call…

Lu Yu let out a long breath.

Isn't typhoid fever an incurable disease in this era?As long as you get it, there is no life left...

However, fortunately... Different from other plagues, typhoid fever is only a cold in the body, and the high fever does not subside and is not contagious, so... there is no need to isolate and burn it directly when it is discovered like the plague!

"Walk…"

Lu Yu directly put on a cloak...

"Where is Master Lu going?"

"Long Xiao Camp!"

"I... I'm going to prepare the carriage!" Dian Wei hurriedly said...

"No need, just go on horseback, so fast!" Lu Yu said as he walked out of the "warm" house...

"Ah Choo..."

The moment the door was opened, in an instant, the chill hit, and Lu Yu sneezed violently.

The weather outside made Lu Yu think of...the land of Yan Kingdom in the extreme north during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

——The wind is rustling, the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he is gone!
Inexplicably, these two sentences came to my mind, so meowingly sad!
"Little Ice Age, your uncle..." I complained in my heart... both because of the biting cold in my body, and because I was worried about the safety of the soldiers in the Longxiao Camp...

"Brother Yu..."

Seemingly noticing that Lu Yu was going out, the door of Cai Zhaoji's house was also pushed open... "Do you have to go out in such a cold day?"

"I have urgent military affairs..." Lu Yu casually found a reason.

Cai Zhaoji quickly ran to Lu Yu's side, and... put a thick leather jacket on him. "Even if you want to go out, you should wear thicker clothes... I heard that tens of thousands of people in Yanzhou have suffered from typhoid fever this year..."

When mentioning typhoid fever, tears flashed in Cai Zhaoji's eyes...

She is kind-hearted...how could she not know that the terminal illness of typhoid fever is almost declaring death, there are tens of thousands of people...

Most importantly, this number is still increasing.

"Sister Zhaoji...I'm fine!" Lu Yu turned around and gave Sister Zhaoji a bright smile. "Maybe...I mean maybe, I can find a way!"

In a word, Lu Yu finally took Sister Zhaoji's delicate hand, and immediately waved, and walked away with Dian Wei!

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Chenliu County is an important place for government offices.

At this moment, Cao Cao was talking with Xun Yu and Xun You.

A few folds of information were sent back, for example——Yuan Shao in the northern border launched a full-scale attack on Gongsun Zan;
Another example—in the southern border, Liu Bei left Zhang Fei to defend the city, and took Guan Yu to confront Yuan Shu's general, Ji Ling. As for Lu Bu...it was an amazing choice not to help each other!

In addition, the emperor Liu Xie set off from Hongnong, and they have already headed for Luoyang, but the speed is very slow, as slow as a snail!

It stands to reason that these pieces of news are extremely beneficial to Cao Cao...

But... the atmosphere in the entire government office was extremely solemn.

As for the reason, in addition to these good news, there is also a piece of bad news that Cao Cao knows, and a piece of bad news that Cao Cao doesn't know...

The bad news I know is that the more than [-] vanguard troops led by Cao Hong were blocked in the process of marching westward to Luoyang. It was not blocked by checkpoints, not by soldiers... but by the weather!

it's too cold…

It was almost icy cold, and in such weather, not to mention marching... even taking a single step was extremely difficult.

Even... a large number of soldiers in Cao Hong's army have already suffered from typhoid fever. If they go deeper into Sili, they may all be tortured to death by the disease before Luoyang arrives!

helpless...

Cao Cao had no choice but to ask Cao Hong to withdraw temporarily, but...now rushing to Luoyang, there is no room for...

"Damn weather!"

Cao Cao slammed his fist heavily on the copybook, and ink was flying all over the desk.

Restricted by the weather, Cao Hong couldn't get close to Luoyang. He, Cao Cao, was not made of steel. Even if he personally led troops, he might not be able to reach Luoyang. flow!

But this time...

Xun Yu spoke, and his opening brought another extremely unfavorable news.

Even, this news made Cao Cao ten thousand times more uncomfortable than Cao Hong's westward advance was blocked!
"Cao Gong..."

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(End of this chapter)