Chapter 3100 3102 [Three Disasters]
In August, the siege of Xi'an City was officially resolved.
The siege lasted four months, unlike the eight months in history, so the people did not die so much.
Even so, the loss of Xi'an City is huge. Countless shops, streets, and private houses were destroyed by artillery fire, and the population loss was as many as 10,000.
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 howled 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.
After 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 in such a hurry that they made a special trip to Xi'an.
Fortunately, auspicious people have their own astrology, 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 and starved for more than two months, the two fathers, Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin, were all very uncomfortable.
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The Zhensong army retreated, and after the siege of Xi'an was lifted, Xiang Nan also took Lu San, Zhang Fenglan, Zhang Ziqing, Tian Xiaoe and others back to Bailuyuan.
In the past four months, they lived in the Zhongnanshan Villa.
There is food and drink in the villa, and they are not hungry, but they can only stay in a place the size of a palm for several months, and it is annoying enough to treat them.
It's just that no matter how they go, they still can't get out of the ground the size of a palm, so they can only bear it silently.
Now that they can finally come out, they are naturally very happy.
But when I saw Xiang Nan, I still 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 a hundred 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.
Dead bodies can always be seen in the ditch beside the road, which emits 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 Xiaoe asked in surprise.
Xiang Nan immediately 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 little bored in Zhongnan Mountain, they were not threatened personally, 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.
"Okay, we are all one 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 of them were glad that they had listened to Xiang Nan's words and hid the food in time. They were not found by the crow soldiers, so the whole family didn't go hungry, so they came here to fulfill their wish.
There are still many pilgrims who regret that they didn't listen to Xiang Nan's words, but they 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 in 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 rooms and nine empty houses, mourners everywhere. Leave if you can, store food if you can, don't be lucky."
When everyone heard this, they were all terrified.
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Xiang Nan's prophecy about the future soon spread throughout the land of Sanqin, and people were panicked for a while, worried that disaster would come again.
After all, what Xiang Nan said was too miserable, the scene was much worse than the Zhensong army besieging Xi'an City.
"Hei Wa, is there really a catastrophe in the future?" Seeing that 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. Three Qins had a population of eight million, at least half of them would die."
"Four million?!" Bai Jiaxuan was shocked.
Xiang Nan nodded.
Actually, he said that this is too little. The three-year disaster in the Three Qin Dynasty killed more than five 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, Suiyuan, etc. 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, the greater responsibility lies in man-made disasters.
From 2008 to 1930, 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 the defected general who controlled the 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.
That's why the common people in the Sanqin land are so miserable under the combined effect of natural disasters and man-made disasters.
"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)