Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

Chapter 129

In the morning light, the huge Hulaoguan city gate was closed like a dormant giant beast.

On the city tower, countless defenders stood here. Because it was too early, the Hulao was closed in an incomparable silence, and the sound of the horseshoes of more than a thousand knights became very clear.

Suddenly seeing such a cavalry team of thousands of people going through the tiger prison, a group of door officials cheered up and were about to send someone to inquire.

But I saw... Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, a huge black military flag with the word "Han" came into view, and the Han Ting Northern Army with thousands of people, led by Huang Fusong, appeared under Hulao Pass.

The howling wind roared and slapped the flag frantically, making a crackling sound. For a while, this sound was heard for several miles around.

"Quickly open the city gate, it's 'Yulin Liulang'!"

"He is the new Nanyang prefect appointed by His Majesty, and this time the Han Ting Northern Army escorted him to the south to fight against the plague!"

"Quickly open the city gate and ring the gong to signal!"

The defenders of the Hulao Gate had already heard the news, and they admired this "Yulin Liulang" for his righteous move to Nanyang.

"Woooooo!"

"Woooooo!"

For a while, the horn sounded.

Accompanied by the sound of the horn, the Hulao defenders shouted in unison on the tower.

"Yulin Liulang will win!"

"Yulin Liulang will win!"

The sound waves here are getting louder and louder, and the sound is louder and louder, shaking the heavens and the earth!

But the Hanting Northern Army did not stop at all.

They just raised the flag to indicate that the Northern Army of the Han Court was acting, and then crossed the Songshan Mountains all the way.

The leading general, Huang Fusong, saw the scene at the Hulao Pass...

He couldn't help turning his head, looking at the carriage in the middle of the horse team... that was the carriage where Liu Yu was.

Huangfu Song murmured. "It's not easy to have such popularity at such an age, but to be famous as a 'Xia'!"

Involuntarily, Huangfusong looked at Liu Yu even more.

"Da da da…"

The sound of horseshoes moving!
"Get it..."

The neighing of war horses was heard again occasionally,

The team of thousands of people traveled all the way south, carrying the hopes and expectations of countless people and continued to march south.

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The sun had already risen, and in the courtyard of Yulin Guanzhong, the little girl Diao Xiuer's giggling laughter came out again, and Ren Man began to lead the Taoist priests to do a day's work.

Numerous refugees will also participate...

It is said that they are refugees, but in fact...they already have a house here, have a stable meal, and have new clothes.

They have regarded Yulin Temple as their home.

Even more and more strong men have paid homage to Lao Tzu, joined the Tao of Heavenly Masters, and become the lowest-level "ghost soldiers" to perform various tasks.

Not just refugees...

Because of Yulin Temple's act of going to Nanyang righteously, more and more people have joined Yulin Temple.

Some of them came to burn incense and pray for the master of Yulin Temple, and a small part... came from hundreds of miles or thousands of miles, just to worship the heavenly master and become a glorious member of Yulin Temple.

This actually made Ren Man, the "Kun Dao" in Yulin Temple, busy all of a sudden.

Not only has to be responsible for the things in the church, but also manages to recruit the disciples, it is extremely busy.

Well…

Exhale softly.

In one side room, Guan Yu opened his eyes, and saw that it was past dawn outside the window, and he felt something was wrong... hurriedly asked: "What day is it?"

"It's already time." Xu Huang, who was taking care of him, replied quickly.

Yesterday, Guan Yu "can be forgiven for death, but cannot escape for life", and the fifty army sticks came down...

Even if it was Luoyang Ling and Sili Xiaowei Sima Fang who specifically asked the yamen servants to be merciful, but after all, they are military sticks, so they must take a good rest.

Therefore…

After taking the medicine and falling asleep last night, Xu Huang deliberately didn't call Guan Yu to let him rest more.

"Chen Shi? Then Guanzhu Liu has already left?"

You know, in addition to the punishment of fifty army sticks, he was also sent to Nanyang... to fight the plague!
What if Guanzhu Liu left first?Then he...

Guan Yu sat up all of a sudden,

It seems... yesterday's baton, just after one night, the heart-piercing pain disappeared completely.

"Guanzhu Liu is gone..." Xu Huang said truthfully: "Guanzhu Liu said that Changsheng, you have just been executed with fifty military sticks, and you cannot make long-distance raids, so let me guard you here and let you cultivate for ten days. Half a month later, it will not be considered a disobedience to the imperial decree, and there are a thousand Han Tingbei troops sent by His Majesty by his side, so it is expected that nothing will happen."

As soon as this statement comes out…

Guan Yu's eyes froze in an instant, he glanced at Xu Huang as if complaining, and sighed "ah".

Immediately go to dress.

Xu Huang didn't know why, so he quickly asked, "Changsheng? You... why are you doing this?"

"Gongming, you...you...you are confused!" Guan Yu said in a cold tone, "Do you know... how many powerful and powerful officials Liu Guanzhu has offended because of saving me? This trip to Nanyang's plague-stricken land is the way of a traitor. Gongming, are you confused? How do you know that there are no minions of those traitors in the Northern Army of the Han Court, and it is already very difficult for Guanzhu Liu to go south to fight the plague, if he is stabbed in the back again, then... what should we do?"

This…

Guan Yu's words made Xu Huang speechless.

Seeing that Guan Yu was still getting dressed, Xu Huang hurriedly said: "Then, I'll catch up with the cavalry, and I'll protect Guanzhu Liu, Changsheng, your injury hasn't healed yet, so let's rest in Yulin Temple for half a month before going."

"Then how can it be done?" Guan Yu flicked his green long sleeves, "When a man stands in the world, righteousness is the first thing to do. Guanzhu Liu saved my life, and Guan will protect him for the rest of his life!"

Speaking of this... Guan Yu has already raised his saber, and he is about to lead the horse to the stable when he opens the door.

Xu Huang quickly caught up.

"Changsheng, but your... your ass? If you want to attack Nanyang, the wound must not be opened?"

"Haha!" Guan Yu's footsteps continued unabated. "The word of righteousness cannot be disobeyed, the kindness of the king dare not be forgotten, the buttocks can be split, but the kindness must be repaid!"

While speaking, Guan Yu had already picked out a horse and got on it.

He didn't look like he couldn't ride a horse due to the severe pain in his buttocks because of the army stick!

Xu Huang had no choice but to pick a horse, and turned over. "Changsheng, I have convinced you..."

"Hahaha…"

Guan Yu laughed out loud, before the laughter fell, the eyes of the two men met, and the two rode away in Juechen!

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—Plague, Nanyang.

At this moment, everyone in Dahan is paying close attention to the plague in Nanyang.

Naturally, a Nanyang person is also included.

To be precise, he is a Nanyang native who was born in Nanyang, but because of a coincidence, he moved to Luoyang.

——He Jin.

At this moment, he was sitting in his mansion on Luoyang North Street, watching Luoshui passing through the city through the window, and let out a long and faint sigh.

Because of the layout of Luoyang that "Zuozu has a community and faces future generations", all the top clans and wealthy families will live in Luoyang's South Street, that is, the south bank of Luoshui that passes through the city.

It can also be seen from this...

The He family, located on the north bank of Luoshui, can only be regarded as a second-tier family at best, and even... a "second-tier" family is not worthy.

"Ugh…"

He Jin sighed faintly, there were rumors about the tragic situation in Nanyang under the plague, which made He Jin couldn't help but think about it, he would think of the scene when he lived in Nanyang when he was a child.

He Jin was born in a family of butchers.

When he was a teenager, his father taught him how to butcher, saying that he could only rely on this for food in his life.

However, He Jin is not reconciled...

Since he was a child, he envied the children of aristocratic families who could study, but his mother told him that they were ordinary people... ordinary people had no chance to study.

He Jin was unconvinced at the time... He said why can the little stool we play with be able to read?

His mother quickly covered his mouth, telling him not to talk nonsense.

What little stool?

…He is the eldest grandson of the Deng family, who are the meritorious ministers of the Zhongxing Han Dynasty, and the first of the nine generals of Nanyang among the 28 generals of Yuntai.

It's all because of them...Nanyang can become the number one county in the world.

What's more, the granddaughter of the Deng family is the queen... You must never say "little stool"!
He Jin was not convinced when he was a child, why...their He family is not the 28 generals of Yuntai?
It seems that the ancestors did not live up to expectations!

It would be great if the He family could also produce a queen. He Jin would be a son of the clan, and he could go to school like Xiao Dengzi, but...is it possible?
Not at all, all He Jin can do is to learn how to butcher day after day, and help his father make ends meet!

A few years later…

He Jin's mother died, and his father found a stepmother for him. He Jin couldn't accept this stepmother at all, and this stepmother also brought a son named Zhu Miao.

However, after marrying in, she changed her father's surname to He Miao...

Later, the father and stepmother gave birth to two younger sisters, He Lian and He Mei.

He Jin still has some feelings for these two younger sisters, after all, they share the same father, but he can't accept He Miao, his half brother, no matter what.

A few years later... He Jin's father also died, and He Jin inherited his father and became a butcher, supporting a whole family, supporting his stepmother, half-brother, and two half-sisters!

only…

He Jin always feels that they don't regard themselves as relatives. Thinking about it, the younger brother and two younger sisters were born in the womb of the stepmother?How could you have one heart with him?
After that, one day suddenly, officials broke into He's house and forcibly took away the eldest sister, He Lian.

Later, He Jin discovered that his younger sister had become the emperor's woman.

Later, the official messenger appeared again, this time they did not break in, but respectfully invited the He family to live in Luoyang.

He Jin only found out after careful questioning.

It turned out that... the eldest sister became a nobleman, and even... He Jin was also selected as a doctor.

At that time, He Jin was in a daze, as if he was dreaming.

He didn't understand why his sister entered the palace?

I also don't understand why the emperor chose He Jin's... younger sister who didn't know a word as a nobleman instead of choosing so many women from aristocratic families.

Until now... He Jin still didn't understand.

But what he understands is...

His official title of "Lang Zhong" is supposed to serve the emperor as an attendant, but...in fact, he has never met the emperor, his official title is like a false title, he just enjoys a monthly salary, And there is no corresponding right, it seems that it is just for their family to live.

What is all this for?
He Jin doesn't understand...

Looking at the ripples in Luoshui due to the wind blowing.

He Jin once again let out a sigh of "ah".

After all, their family moved to Luoyang, otherwise...now that the plague in Nanyang is raging, they still don't know...what is the status of their He family?
"Boom..."

At this moment, there was a loud knock on the door of the He family.

He Jin put on his clothes and came out of the room, "Don't knock, don't knock, is your grandma's soul-invigorating?"

Without reading the book, He Jin is just talking vulgar words.

He walked over muttering, and just as the door opened, he saw a calm old man and a tall, handsome man.

"Who are the two?"

He Jin didn't know these two people, but judging by their luxurious clothes, in this era...people who can wear silk are not within his reach.

Of course, He Jin's tone was a little timid... After all, he is not a high-ranking official in a place like Luoyang.

"Cough cough..."

The middle-aged man coughed lightly, but his tone was very polite. "This is Yuan Kai from the Yuan family. This is my nephew Yuan Shao, whose name is Benchu."

Uh…

This statement came out.

He Jin's pupils widened suddenly, he couldn't believe what he heard?
The Yuan family, Yuan Kui?
Isn't that... the grand master of the current dynasty, the fourth generation and the third prince... Yuan Kai of the Yuan family in Runan, the most top clan in the world?
As for his nephew Yuan Shao.

Celebrities who commented on it... there are a lot of them.

You know, these comments... It is impossible for He Jin, who was born as a commoner, to get even one of them.

Immediately…

He Jin trembled all over, it was the first time he saw such a big and famous person.

"You...you..."

A word stumbled.

Speaking of which, He Jin is also in his thirties this year. Although he is younger than Yuan Kai, he is still ten years older than Yuan Shao. Being humble, he kept patting his head, making him shy.

"Come to think of it, Your Excellency is He Jin, He Langzhong, right?"

Yuan Kai asked with a smile.

"It's right here." He Jin quickly imitated the appearance of a scholar and cupped his hands.

"Then... what about Mr. He's family?"

Yuan Kui asked again.

"Oh..." He Jin didn't dare to hide it because he was the Imperial Tutor, and immediately said softly, "I live in this house alone. My younger brother and I have separated. The stepmother...of course lives in his house. As for... Two younger sisters, one is a nobleman in the palace, and the other lives in Brother Miao's house."

Hearing this, Yuan Wei nodded as expected.

"Don't Mr. He invite the old man in for a sit down?" Yuan Kai's tone was always polite, without the high airs of being the imperial tutor at all.

"Oh, please, please..." He Jin hurriedly invited Yuan Kai and Yuan Shao into the main hall.

Yuan Shao looked around, the whole house was very clean and simple, even the servant's room in Yuan's mansion couldn't compare, it's hard to imagine... this is the mansion of He Guiren's elder brother.

Besides... He Guiren gave birth to the "only" living prince for His Majesty.

"Cough cough..."

At this moment, Yuan Kai spoke. "He Langzhong, it looks like...you don't have a good relationship with your stepmother and your younger brother!"

This…

He Jin didn't speak, but just lowered his head.

Yuan Kui smiled, with a meaningful smile. "Mr. He, you must be wondering why some officials snatched away your sister He Lian back then. You will also be wondering why your majesty chose your sister as the only noble person among so many beauties? Why is your sister the only one who gave birth to your majesty? A prince."

"Ahem..." Yuan Kai coughed again, his eyes narrowed. "If you are interested, I will tell you everything I know today."

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On the official road from Luoyang to Nanyang.

According to the lunar calendar, May has already arrived. In normal May, the weather is often extremely hot, but May under the Little Ice Age is a little different.

For example, in a certain year at the end of the Han Dynasty, there was a hot summer day, and the hail was as big as chicken eggs.

The Little Ice Age... The most intuitive feeling is that there is a huge temperature difference between day and night.

Hot at noon, cold at dusk!
The arrival of May also marks that weeds will skyrocket, and various wild animals will multiply in large numbers, such as snakes, insects, rats, and ants. In the Han Dynasty, these were collectively called worms (li).

In order to avoid these worms, there are often activities of offering sacrifices to the gods in this season, and colorful silk threads are tied on the arms to protect themselves from the harm of these worms.

At this time, you can also use the previously burned plant ash to hide the clothes or fur products in autumn and winter. The plant ash can not only prevent insects, but also prevent moisture.

only…

Liu Yu's horse team did not see the sacrifices of the farmers with colorful silk threads tied to their arms along the way. Instead, many Taoists presided over the common people's talismans to drive away evil spirits, using this method to make them free from all diseases.

These Taoists are not the clothes of the Heavenly Masters, so... most of them are the actions of the Taipingdao.

Take advantage of the plague…

They have recruited many congregants!
Seeing this scene through the car curtain, Liu Yu couldn't help shaking her head.

And the best way to defeat Taipingdao is to defeat the plague in the name of Tianshidao, and let these useless blessings of Taipingdao be aborted.

"Ha ha…"

With a slight smile, Liu Yu said flatly: "Unexpectedly, it will compete with Taiping Dao so soon."

Thinking of this, Liu Yu withdrew his gaze, moved his eyes down...and moved them to a special table in the carriage. He couldn't stay idle along the way. More than ten thousand words.

Just look at the world in front of you, among the web writers... it takes four days to complete the milk candy with more than [-] code words every day.

Not to mention that Liu Yu wrote word by word, this is a big project.

certainly…

Every time Liu Yu finished writing a volume, he sent someone to pass it to Zhang Zhongjing in the carriage behind, where he was studying carefully alone.

——"Dou refers to Gen during the first month of Lichun, and Yin refers to Yin during the rainy first month."

——"Awakening of Insects and February Festival fight nails, and vernal equinox fights fingers in February."

At this time, Zhang Zhongjing was scanning the text on "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" sentence by sentence. This sentence... is the recorded medical theory related to typhoid fever and solar terms.

Zhang Zhongjing is sensitive...

These few words were enough for him to ponder carefully for a long time.

It's just that the following content is more subtle, so he can't help but look at it and think about it.

——The air in spring is mild, the air in summer is hot, the air in autumn is cool, and the air in winter is freezing.

——In winter, it is severe cold, and all kinds of things are hidden deep. If a gentleman is careful, he will not be hurt by the cold.Those who touch the cold are called typhoid ear.

——It hurts the qi of the four seasons, and all of them can be sick.Those who take typhoid fever as their illness have the strongest killing spirit.

Zhang Zhongjing's eyes widened in vain, and his lips were pursed, looking a little hesitant.

"How...you can use the law of the four seasons to cure typhoid fever?"

This was just an idea, but what happened next made him more and more dizzy.

——Anyone who suffers from a cold and passes on the scriptures will suffer from a disease of fever, even if the heat is severe, he will not die.If the two feel cold and get sick, they will die more often.

——If the size is small, Jueyin suffers from the disease, and it will develop within six or seven days.With its pulse following the genital organs and collaterals in the liver, it is full and shrinking.These three meridians are sick, and those who have entered the internal organs can all go down.

——Treat fever passed through in the sun, floating and rapid pulse, fever, no sweat, irritability, appropriate soup.

This is a medical analysis...

It is supplemented by specific cases.

This kind of book is often the favorite of "doctors", and it is also rarely circulated in the market.

You must know that medicine is broad and profound, and the difficulty is directly proportional to its broadness.

Later generations always say that "persuading people to study medicine will be struck by lightning". This does not mean that studying medicine is not good, but that it is too difficult to study medicine...

If it is just a pure theory, it will be difficult to understand and experience...

But if it is paired with a specific case, then...

Zhang Zhongjing's eyes were shining.

——"Huangling plus Banxia Shengjiang Decoction is the main treatment. If there is vomiting, it is supplemented with Coptis Decoction!"

——"Huangling, ginger, coptis..."

He has already begun to think about some prescriptions, even...combining some of the diseases he has seen in the past with the medical principles in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber".

"The symptoms corresponding to this prescription are very common. If it is effective, it should be able to solve more than [-]% of typhoid patients!" Zhang Zhongjing muttered to himself.

The more he looked down, the more confident he felt.

These two books are like his close friends, every sentence, every word, even every medication...Zhang Zhongjing can see his own diagnosis and treatment habits and medication methods from them.

These two books seem to be tailor-made for him, and his feeling is just four words "handy"...

Many of the medical theories are also mutually supportive with the medical theories of treating typhoid fever that he has explored over the years.

"I see…"

"I see!"

just chanted here...

"Boom!"

Continuous sounds came out, as if the carriages in the horse team were forced to stop.

Immediately afterwards, catharsis came from around.

"Governor, give me something to eat..."

"Officer, please, leave some food behind!"

It turns out...has already entered the boundary of Nanyang.

Countless refugees blocked the way of the horse team. These refugees habitually stretched out their hands to beg from passers-by. This was their only hope of survival.

only…

Many refugees have green faces and black spots on their bodies, as if... they have been infected by the epidemic.

They seemed to be aware of their own situation, and each of them tacitly stayed away from the cavalry, and they didn't know whether they were afraid of the swords in the hands of those knights, or... instinctively humble.

This is the plague...

Often under a major plague, many new problems will appear one after another.

For example, once the labor force in the family contracted the disease, the whole family collapsed in an instant. In order to cure the disease, they had to sell the grain they had saved at home, but the money was not enough to cure the plague.

Even many poor people want to sell their children to free themselves and their children, but it is impossible!

Under the plague, even the slave trading market was very bleak. Firstly, those local wealthy families were afraid of contagion, and secondly, they themselves wanted to reduce unnecessary expenses and save money to help their clan relatives and friends.

How dare you feed more people?
But just entered the Nanyang territory...

Around the official road, there are already crowds of begging people, and behind these crowds, there are more poor people who are dying and leaning against the trees, suffering from hunger and cold, being injured and tortured...the poor people who are about to die of starvation and disease while waiting.

Liu Yu got off the carriage.

What I saw head-on was an old grandma with three thin and inhuman children. On the face of the old grandma who had lost even the pain, the sadness was no longer there, as if she was suffering just for the existence of one breath!
call…

Before coming here, Liu Yu imagined that this place might be miserable.

But in fact, the miserable situation here is five times, ten times worse than he imagined!
Liu Yu looked up at the soldiers in the nearby city and county. They looked at the poor people gathered outside the city like bricks in the city gate.

These poor people are not allowed to enter the city, nominally to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

In fact... it is to not disturb the dignitaries and relatives in the city, and the wealthy clans.

So... these poor people, those who were sick with the disease, were driven out of the city, and left to fend for themselves, no one cares about them!
——The bones of the dead are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles!

This is a sentence in Cao Cao's "Walking in Hao Li". Liu Yu originally thought that... only the massacre of the city would lead to such a tragic situation.

But... In fact, the tragedy under the plague was countless times worse than the massacre of the city!
"Gudong!"

Liu Yu swallowed a mouthful of spit, and he pursed his lips and recited the words of Lao Tzu: "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as straw dogs, saints are not benevolent, and treat the people as straw dogs!"

As if he felt that this sentence was not enough, he recited another sentence from Mencius with a dignified tone.

"The people in the world are the most important, the community is second, and the king is the least!"

only…

It is a pity that the saint is not here, and the truth does not exist.

Who would have thought.

He Liu Yu... has become the only truth and hope in the hearts of these people!

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(End of this chapter)