Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 397 Good times are yet to come

The news about the Yellow River also made everyone in Han Chang'an become serious.

After all, if we seriously sum up the achievements of the Han Dynasty, it is definitely one of them to work together to control the Yellow River disaster.

Fazheng, who was born in the Three Qin Dynasty, is quite familiar with this:

"In the third year of Yuanguang Dynasty, the river broke through the Huzi Embankment in Puyang, and the floods rushed into Juyezhe, Goulian Huaisi, and flooded sixteen counties. The emperor ordered Ji An and Zheng Dang to lead 100,000 people to block the dam but failed."

Kong Ming also thought about it at this time, and his tone was full of emotion when he recalled it:

"One year before the collapse of Huzidi, the Mayi plot was defeated. The Xiongnu invaded the north frequently. Emperor Xiaowu refused the marriage proposal. The champion of Changping, Hou De, favored by the emperor, frequently left the fortress and entered Mobei to defeat the Xiongnu. Without a royal court, the north will be safe."

This is a period of history that all Han people will recall today. Emperor Xiaowu faced the same situation that could be described as internal and external troubles. In the end, he resolutely refused to marry in order to achieve a century-old achievement.

In the context of starting the Han-Hungarian War, Ji An, Zheng Dang and others led one hundred thousand to block the mouth, which was all the power the court could spare at that time.

At that time, the Han Dynasty faced the Xiongnu and took advantage of the power of Changping Hou and Champion Hou to drive away from Mobei and seal Langjuxu.

But facing the flooding of the Yellow River internally, it was a complete failure.

The next decisive battle between the Han court and the Yellow River will have to wait until twenty-three years later, and Liu Bei is very clear about this:

"In the second year of Yuanfeng, Emperor Xiaowu sent tens of thousands of people to repair the Huzi Embankment, and ordered all officials from the general to the officials to participate in blocking the embankment and come to the Huzi Embankment in person."

"After he succeeded, he wrote "The Song of the Gourd" and built the Xuanfang Palace to mourn him."

All civil and military officials participated in the blockade, and the Yulin Army, the emperor's personal army, also participated in the blockade. Hundreds of civil and military officials were killed.

This is a period of time that Han'er today all remembers, and Liu Bei does not deny that the Jing'an Temple built after consultation with Kong Ming also referred to this ancestor's practices.

And what happened next... Three years later, Marquis Changping passed away, and Li Ling and Li Guangli surrendered to the Huns. After the setback in the war, the exhausted people could no longer support themselves. There were two million refugees in Guanzhong. The world was wasted, and people began to eat each other. Ten years later, Xiao Xiao Emperor Wu issued an edict to punish himself...

"Emperor Xiaowu's success began with the breach of the Huzi Dike and ended with the closure of the Huzi Dike."

Liu Bei sighed long and hard, and his complicated feelings towards the Yellow River at this time were simply beyond words.

Because in addition to Emperor Xiaowu, this dynasty has also fought against the Yellow River.

During Wang Mang's rebellion, the Yellow River burst in Yuancheng, Wei County, and several counties east of Heqing County were affected by the disaster. Wang Mang ignored them and caused the floods to continue for more than sixty years.

It was not until the time of Emperor Xiaoming that Wang Jing, the imperial censor, succeeded in controlling the water flow, and the Yellow River became stable to this day. The Han Dynasty has now been immune to the disaster of the Yellow River breach for nearly two hundred years.

In the end, Pang Tong tried to summarize:

"The Yellow River is smooth and the world is peaceful?"

Kong Ming did not comment on this, but just stared at the map thoughtfully.

Later generations praised the Tang Dynasty for inheriting the blessings of climate and abundant environment. Therefore, they did not know the importance of vegetation and cultivated excessively.

These problems also exist among the big men, and because the population is now small and the climate is relatively cold, they are not obvious at all.

The word "coal cake" was written on the notebook. It seems that this thing is more important than imagined.

At the same time, Kong Ming also wrote the words "Yellow River Model": I wonder if the disaster of the Yellow River after soil erosion can be simulated with a model?

After all, you only need to think about the view of the hanging river on the ground. If it really collapses, it will be extremely dangerous.

[Another well-known problem in the early Tang Dynasty was the frequent occurrence of natural disasters. This is quite famous. After all, when talking about Erfeng's anecdotes, the fact that they swallowed locusts alive cannot be avoided.

At that time, Guanzhong was hit by drought first, and then the locust plague was triggered. Erfeng, who was anxious about the drought, was digging canals with the people in the fields to divert water to irrigate the farmland. When he saw the locusts flying in overwhelmingly, his heart probably went cold. It is understandable that he would grab a locust and chew it raw in anger.

After all, it was only the second year of Zhenguan at that time, and the second oldest child in the Li family was really under a lot of pressure.

In addition, there are almost countless natural disasters in our impression in the early Tang Dynasty. Let’s take the Zhenguan Year as an example.

Just after the two-year drought and locust disaster in the second year of Zhenguan, the four-year combination of drought, flood, locust, and frost came again in the third year, and the same four-year drought, flood, locust, and hail disaster occurred in the fourth year.

The fifth and sixth years of Zhenguan were rare periods of peace, and since then they have been putting pressure on Erfeng.

In the past seven years, there were sandstorms in Guanzhong in the summer, floods in Shandong and Henan, and an earthquake in Guanzhong in October.

In the eighth year, there was a landslide in Longyou and a flood in the Yangtze River and Huaihe River in Shandong; in the ninth year, there was another drought; in the tenth year, there was a flood followed by an epidemic; in the eleventh year, there were floods and then earthquakes... This continued until 658, when these twenty-six consecutive years of natural disasters came to a brief end. a paragraph.

But in fact, the number of natural disasters in the middle and late Tang Dynasty was not much better than in the early stage. Here we can directly throw out the conclusion of our modern scholars who specialize in the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties:

"Compared with the previous period, seismic activity was more active in the late Tang Dynasty; floods occurred more than half in the middle and late Tang Dynasty than in the previous period and mostly occurred in summer and autumn; wind disasters occurred more frequently in the later period, with the highest frequency in June."

It can be said that Erfeng may miss the disaster-free years of Zhenguan in 1956 until he died of illness.

But what Erfeng never expected was that Datang's "good days" were yet to come.

Earthquakes can be put aside for now. Floods and wind disasters can be talked about.

The climate in the early Tang Dynasty was characterized by warmth and humidity, which is also based on current research results:

The two hundred years starting from 630 AD were the longest rainy period in China in the past three thousand years.

Abundant rainfall makes it normal for the proportion of floods to increase, but this rise in temperature in the Tang Dynasty had already declined around 700 AD, and had returned to the historical average around the time of the Anshi Rebellion.

Therefore, during the rainy period of these two hundred years, the precipitation in the later period was not as abundant as in the early period, but there were still more floods in the late Tang Dynasty than in the early period. This is unreasonable.

The most reasonable explanation is that the environmental damage caused by the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty made the exposed land surface more serious in the face of abundant rainfall, further deteriorating the environment.

Such an environment is also less resistant to excessive rainfall, ultimately forming an endless cycle that accelerates environmental degradation.

As a result, the rainfall in the middle and late Tang Dynasty was almost over, and the natural environment that emerged from this endless cycle was almost over.

The same is true for wind disasters. Just like Beijing, the capital city after the founding of the People's Republic of China, without forests to lock the soil and resist wind, naturally we can only eat sand due to strong winds every year.

Beijing has had serious records of sandstorms since the Yuan Dynasty, and they were severely affected by them in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we were almost always plagued by sandstorms.

The reason is also that since the Ming Dynasty, China's forest coverage rate has hardly exceeded 15%. When the Qing Dynasty fell, the forest coverage rate was only 8%.

But now, through returning farmland to forests and afforestation, my country's forest coverage rate has reached 23%, which is the best time for China's environment in the past thousand years. 】

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