The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 48 Dilemma
By the time the sun went down, Cheng Yuanzhi had sorted out the three things that needed to be done next.

The inner courtyard of the prefect's mansion.

"I heard you refused to eat?"

Zhang Xiaoyu lowered his head and didn't speak. He pinched the corner of his clothes uneasily and stood beside the dressing table in an orderly manner.

The whole person was so thin that it seemed that a gust of wind could blow it away.

However, the corners of her slightly raised lips still exposed the little joy in her heart.

Self-abuse to gain attention?Cheng Yuanzhi was a little speechless, and immediately realized that she was only 16 years old, so he said softly:

"Eat more."

"I don't like skinny women."

"When your breasts are so big, I will take you into the room."

Cheng Yuanzhi stretched out his thumb and index finger, and drew a thickness the size of an egg. After thinking about it, he felt that this condition was a bit difficult for Zhang Xiaoyu, so he changed it to the thickness of a poached egg.

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaoyu's eyes instantly brightened, "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" pecked her head.

After stroking her long black hair, Cheng Yuanzhi turned and left in satisfaction.

First things first, get it done.

After making a big circle, Cheng Yuanzhi found Zhang Yang who was busy on the street in the city, and asked him to use all his manpower to collect and cremate all the tens of thousands of corpses that died on the Shili River Beach and nearby that were exposed to the outside world.

In addition, it is stipulated that the people under the rule should not eat raw meat, wash their hands before and after meals, and women must be 16 years old before they can marry.

The biggest drawback of this era is that men and women are matured prematurely.

The law of the Han Dynasty stipulates that a woman can marry at fourteen and must marry at sixteen. If she is not married at eighteen, she will face huge fines and taxes.

It is precisely because of this policy that the population of the Han Dynasty soared to more than 157 million during the period of Emperor Huan (5600), which provided fertile soil for the peasant uprisings and plagues that lasted for more than 20 years, and laid the foundation for the collapse of the Han Empire. Hidden danger.

The population has skyrocketed, but food production has not kept up. As a result, the people are hovering below the hunger line. If there is any natural or man-made disaster, they will not be able to survive.

What if I can't survive?Then they can only kill officials and rebel.

So being an official is an extremely high-risk occupation at this time.

From 161 to 186, in just two decades, there were more than 50 large-scale peasant uprisings and riots recorded-an average of two occurred every year.

The Yellow Turban Uprising was only the most influential one, but not the largest.

For example, the rebellion of the Million Heishan Army, the rebellion of Liangzhou in the Northwest, the rebellion of Zhang Chunzhangju, and the resurgence of the Million Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, in terms of duration and scale, they are even greater than the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Since ancient times, every mass death has been accompanied by plague and disease.

The history of the struggle between humans and plagues began from the moment humans were born. Even in later generations with advanced medical science, large-scale plagues still occur from time to time.

Sweeping a region, country, and even the world, lasting for years or even decades.

After Liu Hong came to power, there have been five major plagues in the past ten years, and they have continued continuously.

These five plagues were in AD 171, 173, 179, 182, and 185, and they were all "big plagues". Sit and die, there is no other way.

And it was by virtue of free medical treatment that Zhang Jiao quickly attracted hundreds of thousands of believers during the five plagues.

Before Cheng Yuanzhi took control of a county, he did not consider issues such as population, productivity, and plague.

Before that, what he thought most was how to survive.

Just like ordinary people don't care about things that have nothing to do with them, they only think about how the crops are harvested, whether their son or daughter should get married, whether the neighbors are stealing his chickens, etc...

So now Cheng Yuanzhi had to think about it.

In fact, the plague is not terrible. At this time, Zhang Zhongjing, a genius doctor, has studied and cured a large number of plagues, and wrote "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases" to benefit later generations.

Even if there is no "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", the three-pronged approach of strengthening personal hygiene, wearing masks, and isolating patients alone can effectively contain the plague.

Seeing Zhang Yang's solemn response, he immediately arranged for the deployment of manpower.So Cheng Yuanzhi thought gratifiedly: The second thing...is being done.

The next step is to unleash the power of the thousand catties of grain seeds...

But things in the world often do not depend on people's will.

Just when Cheng Yuanzhi was planning to promote grain seeds from the Heishan military area, the imperial court sent a small Huangmen to summon him to Beijing to face the Holy Spirit.

Calling him instead of Shangdang prefect Zhang Yang made Cheng Yuanzhi feel a little unusual.

Because he has no official position now, and he is not even filial and honest. He is at best a famous person.

That is, the more famous civilians.

And Emperor Liu Hong never summoned a commoner.

After thinking about it, Cheng Yuanzhi still left the matter of seed promotion to Zhang Yang, took Sugai with him, and set foot on the official road to Luoyang.

Is it a blessing or a curse? If it is a disaster, just play it by ear.

Nothing terrible.

When you come to the big man, you will always have regrets if you don't see the biggest boss.

Fortunately, the three things arranged before did not include how to deal with the Wuhuan captives. It wasn't that Cheng Yuanzhi didn't want to deal with them, but that he couldn't make a decision before the court made a statement.

Although the Wuhuan people often plundered places, they were still subjects of the Han Dynasty in name.

Now they are Han people, but they were slaughtered by the big Han Shangdang prefect, and the survivors were still detained.

On this matter, Liu Hong had to make a statement, otherwise it would be hard to appease the four tribes of Huren in Bingzhou, not to mention the other Huren tribes attached to the Han.

In Bingzhou, there were not only Wuhuan Hu people, but also Xianbei, Southern Xiongnu, and Eastern Qiang Hu people.

In their cognition, they are children, and the big man is the role of father and mother. Children can play wild and make trouble with their parents. Parents can educate them and even beat them, but they cannot eliminate them physically.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yuanzhi knew that Liu Hong's summoning must be for this matter.

Liu Hong was under a lot of pressure.

Luoyang Beigong, Liu Hong, who was furious, had already dropped a lot of things.

Isn't he angry with Shangdang prefect Zhang Yang for massacring Wuhuan people, because Zhang Yang didn't do it.

Instead, he was angry and the Hu people from the four tribes of Bingzhou sent envoys successively to ask him why he allowed the Shangdang prefect Zhang Yang to slaughter the Wuhuan people.

If Liu Hong doesn't give a satisfactory answer, the four parts will have to re-examine their relationship with the big man.

Sihu questioned him like this, it was coercion, even more provocation.

How could Liu Hong not be angry!

Since eight years ago (178), three generals were annihilated in a two-thousand-mile pursuit outside the Great Wall, the imperial court has had few successes in foreign wars, and at the same time, internal troubles have continued. In the past few years, its control over the surrounding Hu people has become increasingly weak.

The prestige of the Han Empire also declined.

Liu Hong wanted to make a difference at the beginning, but how can he have any foreign war generals under his command?Although Huangpu Song and his like are famous generals, they can only quell civil unrest, like the Yellow Turban and his like.

Foreign war?That is invincible after repeated battles!
It is no exaggeration to say that he is mediocre!

Others such as Zhang Wen, Dong Zhuo and others are not mentioned.

As for Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the able men of the younger generation, Yuan Shao's magnanimity and reputation are following the path of the three ministers, and what Cao Cao is currently showing has nothing to do with military capabilities.

But at this moment, what the big man urgently needs is a good general to calm the chaos.

As long as the external turmoil subsides quickly, Liu Hong feels that the big man can still stand firm.

It's a pity that Dahan doesn't have such talents.

The internal and external situation is corrupt and intractable.

Liu Hong, who was extremely disappointed, simply no longer dreamed of revitalizing the empire, and quickly degenerated, muddling along.

Suddenly, a man named "Yuan She" was born.

This mere deception cannot be concealed from the imperial court, Liu Hong has even found out the eighteenth generation of Yuan She's ancestors.

Including what he said to the leader of Wuhuan after burning the barbarians, "Have you heard what I, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, said: Wherever the sun and the moon shine, and where the rivers reach, they are all Han soil."

Liu Hong knew everything clearly.

God knows how shocked and excited he was when he heard this sentence!
Yuan She, whose real name is Cheng Yuanzhi, is a native of Changshan County, one of the 36 Qu commanders of the Yellow Turban, a military adviser of the Black Mountain Army, and a good friend of Zhang Yang, the prefect of Shangdang County.

Since he came out of the mountain, he broke through Guangyang, beheaded Guo Xun, killed Liu Wei, ran for three hundred miles to rob grain without injury, attacked Changshan County to rob grain, burned more than ten thousand people in Wuhuan to death, and wiped out Wuhuan with water 5 million people.

In the six battles before and after, there was only one defeat in Daxingshan, and he still won first and then lost, but he was not at the scene of the losing battle—he slipped away early,

Such general talent revived his silent heart.

But now the four barbarians are forcing their way to the door.

Liu Hong was suddenly in a dilemma, as well as up and down.

(End of this chapter)