Chapter 1149, Talk about the former dynasty and the former dynasty (3)
First of all, Li Zongze was the emperor who was justly inherited from his ancestors. Although their rebel armies each divided the territory and moved around, in the end they were unjust and unjust rebellions, risking the world. It's so great.
Afraid of criticism from the world's scholars, fear of dissatisfaction among the common people, and a host of reasons related to propriety, justice, integrity, etc., they have never dared to directly proclaim themselves emperors, but instead only dared to proclaim themselves kings at a lower level.
In other words, if they each want to be the supreme emperor above the billions of people, Li Zongze, the legitimate emperor, must die, and include his children who can also legitimately inherit his throne.
Secondly, everyone already knows that Li Zongze took away countless gold and silver treasures when he escaped. Now they are all impoverished by war, but they are all staring at him like a black-eyed chicken.
Therefore, in the barren land to the east that no one cares about, there is a new place called Fengcheng, which has caught the attention of all the kings during the only chaotic period in the Central Plains.
The soldiers and ministers who fled with him when trouble came and fled with him when trouble happened. How useful could such a court be when it was surrounded by several armies?
There were screams, corpses littered the fields, and flames shot into the sky.
For four days, Fengcheng turned into a hell on earth.
When the son-in-law of General Yue Lao, who was guarding Dongguan, arrived with his troops, there was no one alive in Fengcheng, and the ground was bright red.
Fengcheng was also called the Grave City from then on.
After more than four hundred years of the previous dynasty, when Emperor Qiming founded the country, Fengcheng was still an uninhabited and abandoned city that had been burned to the point where no complete building could be seen.
In the thirty-sixth year of Emperor Qiming's reign, that is, in the spring of the thirty-sixth year of the Qilin calendar, a great plague occurred in the Qilin Kingdom that nearly spread throughout the south. The imperial court at that time was influenced by the previous dynasty and had no control over medical treatment. If we don't pay attention to it, the status of doctors is not as good as that of a subordinate. Therefore, there are very few people practicing medicine and they are not skilled. They are completely helpless against the plague.
In the end, the court had no choice but to activate the city closure law, which meant that once someone in the city was found to be infected with the epidemic, the city would be immediately closed and no one could enter or leave. Either the lucky people in the city would be cured without any medicine, or the entire city would be cured. After all the people are dead, burn them all with fire.
But who in this world really doesn’t want to live?
As a result, many people fled across mountains and rivers, and some people fled to the east and settled in the abandoned city of Fengcheng that no one noticed.
No one knows why so many people fled to Fengcheng. It was not until the 173rd year of the Qilin calendar that a lost businessman passed by this place accidentally and found out that this place had been rebuilt. A new city that is not too small. Although it is simple and has little planning, it can indeed be called a city.
After the imperial court learned of this, it sent someone to take over, and since then Fengcheng has been re-incorporated into the territory of the Central Plains in the name of the city.
In other words, during the period when Xicheng was under Liang Minzhong and Hu Han, Fengcheng was still an abandoned city where nearly 200,000 people had died tragically.
People in the Central Plains believe in ghosts and gods, and after Fengcheng was massacred, there were many supernatural rumors. Why did someone go in and never come out? What if someone walked by in the middle of the night and there were cries and screams, etc. In short, it is an unlucky place, a place that people in the mortal world cannot go.
Originally, Fengcheng was the only way to go from Xicheng to Licheng. After Fengcheng became a cemetery, everyone took a big detour and preferred to take a detour of nearly three days to avoid Fengcheng. This is also
This is one of the reasons why Fengcheng was later re-established as a new city, but it never alerted the surrounding area.
Therefore, if the people of Xicheng wanted to escape Xicheng, they would have to walk to Licheng from six to seven days to at least ten days.
When they reach the point of escaping, it means that life has reached the point where they can no longer survive. Lack of food and clothing is basically inevitable, so for them who are often hungry, the possibility of making it alive during this ten-day journey is very small.
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This is one of them.
The second is that the magistrate of Licheng had already been bribed by Hu Han. Someone once fled to Licheng, but in the end they were carried back in a horrifying state of death.
It is difficult to make it alive, and if you make it there, life may not be better than it is now, and then there is this living shock in front of you...
The people in the old city were afraid.
Another point is that it is also related to the particularity of Xicheng;
According to the original situation, Xicheng was not actually a city for the common people to live in. You said that if the common people were to live in it, it would not be a flat land so close to the border. Although it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the mountains are short and there are
No, there is not much difference in terms of offense and defense.
Xicheng was first built as a camp for the army stationed at Dongguan. In other words, it was originally the first military camp.
But it was too far away from those peaks, and it was inconvenient to pay attention to the movements on the peaks, so the garrison built other camps near the peaks, and then gradually the camps there grew stronger, and the garrison also
They all moved to the camp over there.
However, the former city did not remain vacant. Many military dependents were left in the former city where life was relatively comfortable. Later, camps were set up, and later it became a place of exile for those who committed crimes.
After thousands of years, Xicheng has grown from a small military camp to a large city. Many of the people in it are descendants of former criminals. Some are military relatives who cannot tell which dynasty they belong to, and some are villagers without freedom.
Some of them are new criminals.
In other words, except for those military relatives who still have family members in the army today, the other residents of the former city are people with relatively low status or even no status.
Therefore, they were more afraid of the imperial court and more able to withstand Hu Han's oppression.
Originally, they were living like "dead people walking around" before Liangzhifu came, but they just wanted to continue living like "dead people walking around".
For the same reason, the eastern border was too safe and had never received the attention of the imperial court, including all the imperial courts above the Qilin Kingdom.
During Li Zongze's time, although Nilguan was guarded by the son-in-law of General Yue, there were only less than 5,000 soldiers. If you think about it from another perspective, the implication of General Yue putting his daughter and son-in-law in Nilguan at that time was
it goes without saying.
In the early days of the previous dynasty, a large canyon appeared in Nilguan due to a major earthquake. However, because the canyon was dangerous and difficult to navigate, it was not taken seriously by the court. No one thought that the people of Nilguan on the other side of the mountain would escape from such a difficult and dangerous place.
Come through the canyon road.
Therefore, although the number of soldiers guarding Nilguan at that time increased slightly compared with the previous dynasty, they were only ten thousand.
And no one knew that a nationwide catastrophe - a plague - had occurred in the country of Neil. There was no medical profession in the country of Neil at that time. They only believed in their gods. If they got sick, uh, Nepal would...
The people of our country did not have the term "disease" at that time. If a person felt uncomfortable, he was cursed by evil spirits, and he had to ask a divine messenger to exorcise the evil spirits.
Those who survive are those who have successfully exorcised the evil spirits; those who do not survive are those who were taken away by evil spirits.
Therefore, when the country of Neil encountered the plague, it was completely unable to resist it. In less than three years, it became a national disaster.
