The crisis of the Han Dynasty is not a food shortage, but a great epidemic

It is impossible for the Yuan family in Runan to allow Taoists to enter the court.

This even relates to a big plan they are implementing.

Speaking of which, since the late Western Han Dynasty, the "Three Unifications" political philosophy theory in which the "Tude" surname group headed by "Chen" and "Yuan" replaced the "Liu" as emperor has been prevalent in the world.

So much so that Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty once changed his surname to "Chen Shengliu" to avoid his sharpness!

Today, the Yuan family has four generations and three princes, with power in both the government and the public, and the hometowns of its disciples are spread all over the world. The operation of several generations has ushered in the best opportunity.

But when Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei were choosing a name for Yuan Shao, they blatantly chose "Benchu", the reign name of "Emperor Han Zhi", as Yuan Shao's name!

The Yuan family is the first person who dares to use the reign name of "Emperor Liu" as a "character". Of course... this is definitely not a coincidence!

The Yuan family in Runan is ambitious.

To realize this ambition, the first step is to unite all "scholars" and "party members".

The Yuan family understands very well that only by taking people with "knowledge" and "wealth" into their hands can they achieve their goal of replacing the "Liu surname" with the earth virtues of the "Yuan family" with the fire virtues.

Coinciding with the two calamities of party imprisonment, the eunuchs carried out rounds of bloodbaths against the party members.

Officials who were truly loyal to the Han Dynasty would either die or be exiled!

On the contrary, most of the disciples of the Yuan family in Runan, with the secret help of Yuan Wei and Yuan Feng, fled Luoyang and were secretly kept in Runan!

Became a member of the "Friends of Running" alliance formed by Yuan Shao.

Looking at Yuan Shao again, he resigned from the official title of Puyang Order, gave up his promising future, and returned to Runan to honor his late mother.

To know…

Observing filial piety is a hard job. The three years are not only long, but also have many rules. Generally speaking, you cannot live at home and can only live in a simple shed in front of your parents' graves.

You can’t run around, you can’t eat meat, and you can’t have any recreational activities!

But Yuan Shao was addicted to keeping his filial piety, and he kept it for three years and three years!

The second reason for three years of mourning was that Yuan Shao took the initiative to request the court to make up for the three years of mourning for his stepfather "Yuan Cheng"!

You must know that when Yuan Cheng died, Yuan Shao was still Yuan Feng's son and had not yet adopted him.

Therefore, there is no need to observe the ritual of filial piety at all. This matter has passed a long time ago, and Yuan Shao does not need to make up for three years of mourning.

But Yuan Shao took the initiative to propose this matter, which was regarded as a greater "filial piety". The court, which advertised running the country with "filial piety", would not only not oppose it, but would also vigorously promote it.

But actually...

Yuan Shao kept his filial piety and stayed lonely!

He is nothing more than using the pretext of "keeping filial piety" to secretly place party members in Runan County and strengthen his alliance of so-called "running friends" in order to support and coordinate his father and uncle politically at any time!

The ambitions of the old Yuan family are deeply hidden!

Of course, Yulin View…

In other words, the rumors about the so-called "Qilin Talent Liu Yu" directly affected the Yuan family's plan.

It even influenced the Yuan family to secretly support Taiping Dao and use Taiping Dao’s help to lift the party’s plan!

That’s why…

At all costs, the Yuan family must prevent the Taoist faction from entering the court!

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When Liu Yu returned to Luoyang City, it was the third day of March.

On this day, refugees from all over Yulin Temple will go to help the Taoist disciples start planting melons.

Because hoarding horses was very profitable, a steady stream of coins poured into Yulin Temple from the Zhen family alone.

The porridge in Yulin Temple is also divided into two. All the refugees who participate in labor can drink porridge without sand and are given clothes. The refugees who do not participate in labor are still the same.

In addition to planting melons, Ren Man and Diao Xiuer will also take the refugees to collect 'mugwort leaves', 'black fern', 'qumai' and 'catkins'.

These four types all belong to the category of herbal medicine, and their main function is to clear away heat and detoxify.

March also has its own festival, which is the Shangsi Festival. In the Han Dynasty... this day was often the first "Si" day in early March.

On the day of Shangsi Festival, people will come to the water to symbolically wash their hands, feet and faces, hoping to pray for blessings and eliminate disasters. Afterwards, various group activities will be carried out by the water.

Note that this is a group activity, not a multi-person sport.

When Liu Yu returned to Yulin Temple, the place was in order, and most of the refugees had begun to work in preparation for the Shangsi Festival!

Under the arrangement of Taoist nuns, some female refugees organized several silkworm rooms and prepared to raise silkworms.

Zhang Yulan looked around the inside and outside of Yulin Temple and said with emotion.

"I can't believe that so many refugees are willing to work for you."

"How is this working for me? It's working for themselves..." Liu Yu nodded slightly. "Actually, the requirements of these refugees are really not high. As long as they have clothes to wear and can fill their stomachs, they will maintain their best

Basic duty!”

Speaking of this, Liu Yu's face turned cold and he sighed: "March is not a comfortable solar term!"

What he thought of was the many riots in history, all of which took place in March.

"Why?" Zhang Yulan asked curiously.

Liu Yu replied softly: "For ordinary families, March is very difficult, because last year's winter food has basically been eaten up, and all the crops have not yet matured. At this time, they can only rely on mutual aid within the clan to survive.

, and if the entire clan’s food reserves are insufficient, then they can only find ways to raise money to buy food! And this road is the most difficult!”

"Spending money to buy food? Isn't this the simplest thing?"

Zhang Yulan asked next, as if this saint didn't know much about farming.

"Actually, this is easy to understand!" Liu Yu explained carefully. "First of all, the money that ordinary people can control in their families is limited. Secondly, and the most critical point is that wealthy clans from all over the world will sell food at this time.

They colluded with each other and sold the products at several times or even dozens of times the market price."

"The common people don't have many choices. They can either use their family savings to be slaughtered by these wealthy clans, or sell themselves as slaves to these wealthy families and farm for them to earn a meager morsel of food. Some will take desperate risks.

To steal, to rob, or even a group of people unite to rebel and rob the government and the rich family’s granary!"

Liu Yu explained in detail.

While explaining, he took off his shoes and prepared to enter the house...

These things he mentioned are actually recorded in the "Four People's Monthly Orders".

Of course, the "Four People's Monthly Order" does not teach others how to rob food, but in response to the spring famine problem, it tells everyone how to prevent theft and robbery!

Hearing this, Zhang Yulan's face didn't look good. She raised her head and looked at the sky.

"I just hope God will give me a drenching rain soon!"

The reason why I sigh like this is because in March, when the almond blossoms are in full bloom, the plowing of the lower fields has been completed.

Only after a drenching rain can we start planting food crops such as japonica rice, oil crops such as roe and flax, and vegetables such as chives and broad beans.

These are all related to the lives of farmers!

However, Liu Yu shook his head. Only he knew that the real crisis in March was not the food shortage at all, but:

——Great epidemic!

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Chapter completed!