Li Ang still didn't have much joy on his face.
He stood up and walked across the courtyard, opened the door, and looked up at the cloudy sky.
Successful,
However, the price is too high.
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Taihu Lake was called Zhenze in ancient times, also known as Lize.
It was early spring, the lake was rippling with blue waves, and the willow trees on the shore were sprouting buds and swaying in the wind.
The spring breeze is warm, the grass is green, and the air is filled with the fragrant scent of vegetation.
"Everyone must wear socks and gloves before entering the water! Did you hear that?"
"Be careful, schistosomiasis is everywhere and can even be found in the dew on grass blades. You can't take off your gloves even if you feel hot!"
"Ditches, every old ditch must be covered, and new ditches must be dug! Don't think that digging other people's ditches has nothing to do with you. After spring plowing begins, the ditch water system will be connected. If the snails in one place are not completely wiped out, a large area of cultivated land around it will be destroyed.
Disaster will happen!"
On the banks of the river, countless people were mobilized, wielding shovels and hoes, and struggling to dig ditches.
If snails and schistosomiasis cannot be killed on a large scale before spring plowing, all states, counties, towns and villages along Taihu Lake will suffer from a new round of water-borne diseases.
Gululu——
A carriage passed by on the road near the lake,
In the carriage, an old man named Situ Zhi looked out the window through the curtains and chuckled.
"Haha. This momentum is really a battle between heaven and earth. Man will definitely win against heaven..."
His eyes swept across the sweaty people on the shore, and a strange smile appeared on his face, "Yushi, do you know why I want to spread the disease in the Yu Kingdom?"
"Huh?"
The white-haired young man sitting across from the carriage thought that this was another test from the teacher. He considered his words and answered slowly: "To defeat the Yu State?"
"No, defeating Yu State is Zhaoming's goal, not ours."
Situ Zhi said: "Think again."
"For..."
The young man named Yushi followed the teacher's gaze and looked out the window at the people of Yu State, and hesitantly replied: "Observe the reaction of people under the epidemic?"
"Very close."
Situ Zhi smiled and said: "We spread the disease not to kill as many people as possible, but to observe the power of people.
You are an abandoned baby of Western origin that I picked up,
In our hometown, the far west, there once was a great empire named Romulus.
The territory and number of people of Romulus were no less than that of the Yu Kingdom. Romulus's scholars, like the Academy, respected the way of reason.
Five hundred years ago, an unprecedented plague broke out in Romulus.
The sick patients suffered from severe diarrhea, vomiting, sore throat, fever, thirst, ulcers on hands and feet, pus on the skin, and rashes on the body peeling off like fish scales.
From the royal family to the slaves and civilians, nearly ten million people died in the plague. The entire empire suffered a huge blow, the order was in shaky state, and the fire of civilization was almost extinguished."
Situ Zhi said leisurely: "However, just when everyone thought that the Romulus Empire would collapse and perish, the disease subsided.
The living people who stand up from the pile of corpses will no longer be infected with the disease, and the population will rebound accordingly.
They cleaned up the corners of the city and built better public buildings. Farming and construction in the empire were more developed than in the past. Roads ran through everywhere, and every city was open to business.
People reclaimed wasteland, built manors, cut down thorny forests, and replaced them with farmland.
The empire's civilization is also more prosperous than in the past.
The death of the slave owner freed a large number of slaves.
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The debts of the past were wiped out, and business developed again and prospered.
The college has lowered the threshold and admitted more students.
The nobles were afraid of the power in the dark and did not dare to act recklessly. The upper class of society was corrupted and the arrogant and licentious atmosphere was suppressed.
Even the seemingly endless war had to be suspended due to lack of manpower.
A horrific plague brought rebirth to the empire."
Situ Zhi sighed: "In the East, everything is the same.
The newly born kingdom was able to re-establish order and quickly gain strong national power because it cleared away the long-standing abuses of the past.
For example, in the Han Empire, it only took a few decades from the time when Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty was besieged by the Xiongnu on Baishan Mountain to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacking the Xiongnu and forcing them to move to Mobei.
After the Western Han Dynasty fell and Emperor Guangwu once again unified the world, the empire's population increased again and its national power recovered rapidly.
Until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the empire was unable to suppress the Yellow Turban Uprising due to decay, so it decided to drink poison to quench its thirst and ordered each county to recruit its own troops, which ultimately led to the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty."
He stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The destruction of a great empire is often not due to the invasion of foreign enemies.
But before that, the empire itself fell into a long-term rigidity.
The nobles blocked the ascending passage, the rich annexed the land wantonly, the rich had endless fields, and the poor had no place to stand.
Scholars who are aspiring to change the status quo are forced to get involved in official circles and lose their motivation to move forward in the intrigues.
The rigid network of interests wraps up every corner of the empire like a spider web. Everyone knows that the status quo is wrong, but no one has the ability to change it.
The only lesson that humans can learn from history is that humans never learn from history.
Unlike some people in Zhaomingli, I don’t hate Yu State.
On the contrary, I have a good impression of this huge empire that is somewhat similar to Romulus. If it were not for my status, I would actually like to go to the academy in person and sit down and talk with the doctors there.
And I didn’t spread this plague to destroy them,
More like...a kind reminder, a wake-up call."
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