Qitai stood on the steps and looked at the bunch of cabbage seedlings he had planted. There was nothing left. He was stunned. He squatted on the ground and carefully touched the little residue close to the ground. Wa'er

He was at a loss. He sat down on the ground and looked up at the sky. He didn't understand the so-called providence!

My father is not a foolish king, and my mother is not a demon queen. My brother, the prince, is almost exhausted from his work. Even my sister-in-law, who is the crown prince, has had to subsidize her uncle for all her delicious meals since she was married. He and the imperial sister may not be able to

They have a better life than children from rich families, but that’s the case, why does God punish me!

If there really is a heaven, wouldn't God be crazy?

Qi'an emerged from behind and looked at the peach trees planted in pots. The flowers bloomed this spring, and the stamens were lit with brushes to pollinate the flowers. When he saw the flowers falling, the fluffy little peaches were all stunned.

It had grown out, and it was very gratifying. This was the birthday gift she was planning to give to her elders, but now it was bare and had nothing left! She burst into tears, feeling so wronged that her tears fell down. She looked back.

He shouted: "Mother, the insects have eaten my peach!"

Lin Yutong pulled her in front of him and hugged her, rubbing her again and again.

The princesses in the palace are still crying helplessly. Go out and listen, there should be crying everywhere.

The locusts entered Zhili from Shandong and were quickly swept through Henan, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, and Huguang.

From south to north, there are almost no exceptions.

The price of rice, let alone in the north, is in the country of origin. One stone is four taels, which is four hundred yuan per bucket.

It is said that locusts can be hunted and eaten by people! But the speed at which people can catch them cannot keep up with the speed at which they reproduce. It is said that chickens and ducks can restrain locusts. But where can we get so many chickens and ducks in large quantities?

Just like what the brochure handed down below says: Catch them and you will be prosperous!

People are already weak because they cannot eat. Coupled with the severe drought, the water is not so clean, and the food is not so particular. The plague really begins to spread. Even if the imperial court has stored enough medicine, it will be

The distribution continues and is distributed free of charge. However, the stronger a person is, the stronger his or her ability to resist this disease will be. If a person is weak, his resistance is really not that strong.

Younger children were accepted by the imperial relief department, where they were fed and housed, with court doctors watching and administering medicine. But what about the older people?

The average number of deaths is increasing every day, and the court requires everyone who dies to be registered, along with their circumstances, and the court will inquire about it later.

Lin Yutong read the excerpt and completed the form, then passed it to the Fourth Master, "The number of people who died is not small, they are all over sixty years old."

The Fourth Master took it in his hand and sighed before saying to Tongtong, "You have done a great job, you have done everything you can! This is really beyond human power."

He didn't even dare to ask Tongtong to read the booklet in his hand. It said: two old people died from the epidemic, three middle-aged people died from hunger, and four young people died from thieves.

Among the elderly, two out of ten who are too weak to withstand the disease will die from the epidemic. The older they are, the higher the mortality rate.

Middle-aged people starve to death not because of insufficient provision from the court, but because when people reach middle age, their children are already young adults. Most people in their early thirties already have grandchildren! So, let me ask, do people care about what they eat?

? Or should I save a mouthful and give it to the child? Therefore, starving to death should not have occurred, but starving to death still occurred.

The younger ones, no longer care about what is right or wrong, just rely on their physical strength to rob them.

After all, there was some chaos in the order.

The two of them had not yet recovered from the death toll, but bad news followed one after another.

First, Chen Ju was in the imperial mausoleum. The people below came to report that they heard that the emperor and the empress drank porridge all day long. Chen Ju did not dare to violate the rules and drank the same porridge. As the weather got hot, the old man

My appetite became even worse. The imperial doctor prescribed medicine and took it to endure the pain. Who would have thought that when I woke up this morning, he was gone.

Lin Yutong knew that Chen Ju was simply older.

Fourth Master and Tongtong went there in person, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to help organize the funeral. They buried him next to Emperor Wanli, gave him first-class clothes, and buried him as a pavilion elder.

There is no burial here yet, and some mourners said that Ye Xianggao was gone.

Lin Yutong looked at the sky, "The weather is abnormal, the elderly cannot hold on! No one can save this!" As she said this, she even called Lin Baowen into the palace, "You must take good care of the old man and the old lady!

"

In the capital city, if you look around, you will see white couplets and white lanterns posted on the doorsteps of almost every other house. This is because there are old people in the family, and the old people cannot carry it through!

Lin Baowen agreed without any unnecessary words. He just twisted his face and called out: "Sanniang——" before leaving.

Um?

Lin Baowen patted his daughter on the shoulder, "...You did a good job! The ancestors of the Lin family really should have smoked. Don't think too hard! Some things are not achieved by your hard work. People have to learn to follow their elders.

God bows his head!"

Bow your head to God? This is not a matter of bowing your head or not bowing your head!

But what happened immediately afterwards made Lin Yutong really doubtful whether he really had to bow his head to God. In one summer, Sun Chengzong, Liu Wei, Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Keli, and Qi Jin passed away one after another! Although this was the earliest time in history.

The people who have disappeared have been left until now, but losing so many people so suddenly, how can it not be painful?

Although not everyone among them can agree with Fourth Master and Lin Yutong, but as the saying goes, having an elder in a family is like having a treasure, and the same is true for the imperial court.

The words "old ministers seek for the country" can actually be applied to any of them. These years they have been in the military academy and have stayed here. The ability of Xinming to produce waves of generals is closely related to these people.

The main generals in the army are all their students.

Now, such veterans and veterans are suddenly lost!

In front of Liu Wei's mourning hall, Lin Yutong and the fourth master burned a stick of incense. As soon as the fourth master raised his head, his body swayed. So many people looked at it and couldn't help shouting.

Lin Yutong supported him, held his hand, and held it tightly.

Gao Yingxiang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, please express my condolences! Take care!"

The Fourth Master turned his face and saw that the hair on Gao Yingxiang's head had turned from gray to white. He thought of Gao Yingxiang who had just been brought back from the northwest by Tongtong, and gently patted Gao Yingxiang's arm, "Thank you for your hard work! You all have worked hard!"

"

It was not only himself and Tongtong who reversed this crisis, but also many people like Gao Yingxiang. They did not dare to serve the imperial court for whatever reason, but they had worked tirelessly and non-stop over the years, and their merits should be remembered.

Everyone could see that the emperor and his empress were really distressed when the country lost its pillars.

Yes! After Fourth Master returned, he asked someone to give Taiwan a decree, "It's time for Wang Cheng to come back."

Every time he asked Wang Cheng to come back, Wang Cheng always said, wait a little longer and guard the emperor for a few more years. With this delay, even Qi Ming got married! It’s time for the battle report from the southeast to come back. Even if they don’t win this time, they still have to guard this place.

Wang Cheng, who had been almost twenty years old, was brought back.

But when Wang Cheng is brought back, who will go to Taiwan?

Fourth Master handed it to Qiming, "Just ask whoever you think is suitable to go."

Qiming arranged for Li Dingguo to go. From then on, Taiwan was like the state capitals. Officials changed every few years, and there was nothing special. The navy trained in the strait to ensure that nothing happened here.

There were only two people left at night, and the waiters in the room were dismissed. The fourth master said, "It's better to go outside the city and have a look..."

Okay! We'll go tomorrow. We won't take anyone with us. Just the two of us, we'll go have a look outside the city.

The land of Gyeonggi Province is pretty good! The two of them walked farther away, one person and one horse. The fields were barren, and autumn grains just appeared. I don’t know what the harvest will be after autumn, but it is full.

The leaves of the corn seedlings on the ground are so curled up. If this continues, the autumn crop will not be guaranteed.

The two of them were free to rein in the horse, and just let the horse lead them forward along the path. Then they looked up again and saw, what was that not far away?

Fourth Master reined in the horse's head, "Temple of Heaven?"

Lin Yutong was also stunned, "It's really the Temple of Heaven."

If you don’t have incense, you don’t need incense. If you don’t bring wine, you don’t need wine. It’s just water in the water bag. Lin Yutong carried it over. A pot of water, the fourth master used it to worship heaven - we respect heaven, but we are not afraid of heaven!

Bow to the sky? Go play!

Tongtong stood behind Fourth Master, turning around and extending his hands in all directions, but his knees never touched the ground.

If the current disaster is really God’s will, then we will bear it!

It was so difficult to deal with such a large area in the Ming Dynasty. You don’t need to ask to know the situation in the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia. But Bahrain did not completely seek help from the Xin Ming Dynasty. He sent people all the way to the west. In the note to the court, he said that he wanted to

After walking through that section of the Silk Road, he wanted to see what places there were when going out from the west. As long as he could exchange for food, he could do business with anyone or any kind of business.

Yes! This disaster was so excruciating! This year’s autumn grain was confiscated, followed by a severe drought in the spring of the next year, followed by plague and a plague of locusts. No one expected the plague to be so widespread, from Mongolia to

From the Qing Dynasty to the Xinming Dynasty, the plague spread. This was not a plague. The plague was difficult because it was more difficult to eliminate than ordinary plagues.

This made matters worse. Who would have known that in June and July, there would be another earthquake in Shanxi. The earthquake was so large that it affected 13 counties in three provinces. This earthquake was not over after it passed. It was delayed for dozens of days, starting in the summer.

In autumn, it slowly stopped.

Finally, the earthquake passed, the severe drought passed, and the autumn rains came again. Then a big man-made disaster was brewing! Someone in Henan rebelled, blew up the river embankment, and flooded Kaifeng!

Wang Jiayin, the most important commander in the Central Plains War Zone, was killed on his way to suppress the rebellion! The person who killed him was one of his own people named Wang Guozhong, the other was his brother-in-law, and the other was named Zhang Liwei!

I don’t know what the reason was. The two of them bought a soothing decoction from Wang Jiayin’s anti-plague medicine one night. One of them strangled Wang Jiayin to death while Wang Jiayin was sleeping!

When the news came back, Lin Yutong covered her chest, and her heart really hurt.

Wang Jiayin was steady and stable, and he had never asked for grace for his family members, or provided accommodation for anyone in his family. This was probably how his dissatisfaction was accumulated! It cost him his life!

It is not difficult to put down the rebellion. What hurts is the people of Kaifeng. What hurts is that a general like Wang Jiayin is gone.

Qitai sat aside, looking at the stove while stirring the medicine in the stove. This medicine was boiled for my mother! Ever since General Wang Jiayin died, my mother has not been well! I have never seen my mother sick.

The second mother is really sick.

Wang Kentang showed it to him and said he had injured his lungs! He was angry, anxious, sad and angry, and it happened in such a hurry. Although it was not serious, he still had to take good care of himself for a few months.

become.

Qitai stirred the medicine, and Qi'an came out carefully, "Mother didn't read, she fell asleep!" She leaned over and smelled the medicine, "Today's medicine is even more bitter... I'll get some of mine."
To be continued...