Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 480 The Plague ([-])

When the Yan State was in panic about the spread of the plague, the Central Plains was still in war.

Emperor Wei Tuoba Tao personally conquered Feng Yan, and Feng Yan was divided into three factions, the main combat faction, the surrender faction, and the escape faction.

The main combat faction wants to fight to the death with Wei State, the surrender faction wants to surrender to Wei State, and the fleeing faction proposes to seek asylum in Yan State in Liaodong.

The fleeing dignitaries of Feng's Yan Kingdom don't know that the terrible plague is currently breaking out in Yan Kingdom in Liaodong, otherwise they would definitely not have the idea of ​​running away to Yandu to seek asylum.

Among the dignitaries of the capitulation faction, headed by Prince Feng Lang (Father of Empress Dowager Feng) and Duke Feng Miao of Leling, they had long ago led the way for Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao and became the leading party.

In just over a month, Feng's Yan State was destroyed, a large number of nobles surrendered to Wei State, and married their daughters to Wei State nobles as concubines, just to save their lives.

However, the emperor Feng Hong (grandfather of Empress Dowager Feng) of Feng's Yan State ran away to Liaodong Yan State with gold, silver and jewelry, and then unfortunately contracted the plague a month later, his body was covered with black spots, and his seven orifices bled to death.

After the Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao annexed Feng's Yan Kingdom, he didn't want to rest and recuperate, but continued to mobilize troops to prepare for another northern expedition to Rouran.

After defeating Rouran last time, only a few years later, Rouran rebelled again and again, so Wei Guo wanted to attack Rouran again and again.

It has become the daily life of the Wei State to go to the Northern Expedition to Rouran if there is nothing to do.

When the state of Wei was preparing to make another northern expedition to Rouran, Liu Song in the south had largely recovered from the losses of the last northern expedition after several years of recuperation.

However, while restoring people's livelihood, Liu Song Emperor Liu Yilong destroyed the Great Wall by himself, and killed Tan Daoji because he was worried that Tan Daoji would support his troops.

It is no surprise that killing heroes is such a thing. When Emperor Han Jing killed Chao Cuo and Zhou Yafu, didn't he also destroy the Great Wall himself?

But because he didn't make any major mistakes during his reign, and he had a son who expanded the territory, he was praised as a wise king by later generations.

The cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks, the gnawing birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden!
The kings of all dynasties have done this kind of thing, but some people became wise kings after doing it, and everyone selectively ignored the murder of heroes. Take it out and criticize it.

The north is fighting and expanding, and the south is recuperating and waiting for the next Northern Expedition. The country of Yan is in panic. Yan Gonglan has died, and Yan Houzheng is on the throne. The city is the new Yangong, called Yangong Zheng, because he has no heirs Therefore, a well-connected female nobleman "Yan Zhi" was appointed as the heir, and she became the Marquis of Yan in the southern capital, called Yanhou Zhi.

Yandu (Northern Capital)
The government of Yan State issued announcements more than once, claiming that the plague was just a common wind and cold, so that everyone should not panic, and wanted to stabilize people's hearts so as not to cause social unrest.

However, few believed the official announcement.

Ordinary wind chill?

You have black spots all over your body, swollen black blisters on your body, bleeding from all seven orifices, bloody cough, and you actually say it's just an ordinary cold?

Whenever natural disasters and man-made disasters break out, there will be some man-made prophecies among the people.

For example, in the last years of the former Han Dynasty, there were often various prophecies predicting that the great man would perish and the sage would save the world.

It wasn't until the sage Wang Mang made everything worse that such prophecies gradually disappeared.

But at the end of the Later Han Dynasty, due to frequent natural and man-made disasters, all kinds of messy prophecies began to appear again.

Many scholars began to compile prophecies, predicting that the great man would perish.

Not every time a prophecy appears, the country will definitely perish.

At the end of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the period of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, there were also various prophecies that predicted that the great man would perish. It was not until Huo Guang managed the country well and allowed the people to live and work in peace and contentment that such prophecies gradually disappeared.

This is that social existence determines social consciousness. It is not because of the appearance of prophecies that lead to the demise of the country, but because of the signs of the country's demise, the compiled prophecies can be believed and spread by everyone. Someone is talking nonsense.

If the country's situation improves, these various prophecies deliberately compiled by people with good intentions will naturally disappear slowly.

Some prophecies began to appear among the people of Yan State:
"The sun will burn, and the swallow will perish!"

This is to use the latest total solar eclipse to predict that Yan will fall.

"The black spot came to the world, and the Confucian saint reincarnated."

This is a prophecy that a Confucian sage will be reincarnated to save thousands of souls in Yan.

"If morality is not matched, disaster will come from heaven!"

This is because some nobles were jealous that Yan Zheng was just Yan Lan's male favourite, and now he has become Duke Yan, so he deliberately asked his disciples and Confucian scholars to compose such prophecies to satirize.

The male favorite became the ruler, and this kind of thing could only happen in the Yan Kingdom. The original Emperor Ai Liu Xin also wanted to pass the throne to his male favorite Dong Xian, but was blocked by Confucian ministers.

"The Holy Mother of the Swan Goose, the black plague is reborn, save the world and save the people, and all living beings are at peace!"

These are the rebels of Hongyan Dao, who secretly spread prophecies among the people, predicting that the Holy Mother of Hongyan Dao, Feng Jinhuang, will be reborn in this terrible black spot plague, destroy the dignitaries of Yan Kingdom, and lead all living beings to establish a world where everyone is equal. ideal world.

"My Buddha is merciful, saving all living beings, there will be no black plague, and the world of ultimate bliss!"

These are some Buddhists who have just immigrated to Yan, taking the opportunity to spread their religious beliefs.

"If benevolence and righteousness are not applied, disasters will come from heaven, and Yao, Shun and Yu will abdicate and there will be no disasters or disasters!"

This is because some ancient Confucian scholars wanted to take the opportunity to revive ancient Chinese classics, clamoring for Yan Gongzheng to follow the example of Yao, Shun and Yu, and give the throne to nobles who admired ancient Confucianism.

There is not much market for retro-style Confucianism in the country of Yan. Only two or three nobles believe in it. Although they are weak, they have a loud voice, and they always like to jump out at such critical moments as demons.

Yan Gongzheng was the first person to come into contact with the black spot plague. He had already felt the horror of this black spot plague when he was still the Marquis of Yan in Star Fan City.

But he was lucky. Although he came into contact with some patients with black spots very early, he was lucky not to be infected.

However, he had no choice but to close the palace gate and prevent anyone from entering or leaving the terrifying black spot plague.

But this can only guarantee the safety of the palace, but not the entire country.

More and more officials died in this "black epidemic", and the death of some public officials led to vacancies in local jobs, and many thieves took the opportunity to make trouble everywhere.

Without the restraint of the government, there are more and more crimes, and some girls are even raped and murdered by "heroes" on the street.

The nobles of some cities died in the black plague, and some even died of their children. The cities lost their legal heirs, and finally they could only be taken back under the jurisdiction of Lord Yan. Guild autonomy.

In order to make up for the lack of jobs and stop the rising crime rate, the government of Yan State had to hand over some remote cities to local guilds for management. In addition to not being able to recruit troops without authorization, they were allowed to self-govern the cities, as long as they were willing to pay taxes on time.

As a result, the guilds gained greater freedom. The Yan government and nobles suffered heavy losses in this black epidemic, and their control over the people was greatly weakened.

(End of this chapter)