Dressed as the Queen Mother to grasp the script of a strong country

Chapter 14 Escape
九幽
The old man ran away in panic.

"Old man, why are you in such a panic?" Others asked when they saw the old man running out in a panic.

Everyone's loud inquiries made the old man calm down: "If I just say that Yuan Gao has smallpox, everyone will know that I have been in contact with Yuan Gao, and I will be quarantined together. No, I can't tell it, I can't tell it. .”

"Oh, I'm not in a hurry to go to the toilet." The old man smiled sheepishly.

"Yuan Gao, don't blame me. You have smallpox and you will die..." The old man thought in his heart. At this moment, the old man's desire to live once again made him give up friends, freedom, dignity, justice and other such things.

The crowd burst into laughter.

"It's so itchy, it's so itchy, my body is so itchy." Yuan Gao shouted unconsciously.

"Old man, old man..."

At this time, Yuan Gao was alone, and the old man had already disappeared.

Yuan Gao kept scratching the itch on his body, even when his body was covered in blood.

"What's going on? Why do I have a fever?" said one of the hard workers.

"I have a fever too," said another peon.

……

When the officers and soldiers discovered that there was a shortage of hard laborers, they came to Yuan Gao's residence and came to whip him: "These people have to get up and work even if they are sick and injured."

"Get up, get up, work." The officers and soldiers walked into this dirty and smelly thatched house. When they saw Yuan Gao lying dirty on the straw, they walked in slowly, poked Yuan Gao with their whips, and then said .

"It's so itchy, help me, help me." Yuan Gao said weakly.

"Oh my god, this is, this is, smallpox." When the officers and soldiers saw the acne marks and blood marks on Yuan Gao's face and body, the officers and soldiers immediately recalled the appearance of smallpox they had seen when he was a child.

The officers and soldiers immediately turned around and ran out of the thatched hut quickly to report to their superiors. They ran as fast as if there were devils threatening their lives behind them.

"Sir, sir, it's not good, it's not good."

"Go away, I'm fine, why am I not fine? Why am I not fine?" the officer said when he saw the officers and soldiers running in in a hurry.

"Sir, please forgive me. I am not saying that you are bad, but that you are a hard worker..." The officer and soldier saluted quickly when they heard the officer scolding him.

"The peon ran away again, these bastards, look at me if I don't teach them a lesson," the officer said.

"No, sir, no, it's the hard worker who was sent back to his residence, he, he..."

"Tell him what's wrong, Momojiji." The officer looked impatient.

"He had smallpox."

"What, smallpox." The officer was frightened by the words of the officers and soldiers, and said, "Go and have a look, you bastard. It's a dying thing. It's hard for me to find it before you die." Then he walked towards the thatched house.

"You have a fever, go over there." The soldier, who was not wearing any protective measures, pointed at the hard worker and said.

"Sir, I don't have a fever, I don't want it, I don't want to go there." The hard worker knelt down, kowtowed, and begged.He knew he would die once he got there.

"You bastard, if you don't go over, I will kill you now." He kicked the hard worker.

When the old man saw this scene, he was so scared that he was thankful that he was not infected.

"Sir, why don't you kill them all at once?" the officer and soldier asked.

"Go ahead and kill them. Their blood is splattered on your body. What if you get infected?" the officer said.

"Sir, what should we do if they riot?" the officer and soldier asked.

"They are a bunch of bastards. They are very brave. They don't dare to riot as long as they are alive." The officer said.

"What should we do with their dead bodies?" the officer asked again.

"Stupid, why wait until they are dead? When they are half dead, just find two peons to give them good meals and let them transport them to the mass graves and burn them," the officer said.

The weather was gloomy, and two hard workers were walking on the mountain road pushing a cart full of corpses.

"How come we are so unlucky? Why do we have to do the job of burning the corpses?" said one of the peons.

"This is our fate. Stop complaining. Finish cooking quickly and we will have good meals." Another hard worker said.

Two peons lifted the body off the cart and threw it onto a burning platform filled with straw.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die, Gao'er, I don't want to die." Yuan Gao realized desperately that he was about to be burned to death.

Yuan Gao lay on the burning platform filled with straw.

"Quickly, light the fire. Finish your work and go back early." One of the hard workers urged.

"Why don't I light the fire?" said another peon.

After saying this, he threw the lighted fire on the straw, and the straw was immediately ignited, and the people burned by the fire let out heart-piercing wails.

"Get out of this place quickly, they are calling you weird people." The peon said.

"What should I do if the burning is not finished?" asked the hard worker.

"No one will come to a place like this to check. Whatever, let's go." Ku Gong said.

The two peons pushed the cart and hurried away from this place, as if they could cleanse themselves of their sins by quickly escaping from this murderous place.

Lying on the burning platform, Yuan Gao heard the painful wails around him and smelled the aroma of the fire burning human flesh. Fear spread throughout Yuan Gao's body.

"I don't want to, I can't, just die like this. I promised my aunt that I would live well, but I can't die."

Yuan Gao, who was lying on the burning platform, relied on his own will to stand up. He looked at the fire on the burning platform, his body was exposed to the high temperature and he was wailing.

He kept looking around to judge whether he could get past the blazing fire.

Yuan Gao desperately realized that he could not cross the sea of ​​​​fire, and he wailed in pain: "Ah..."

Just when Yuan Gao realized that he was going to die here today, the gloomy weather began to drizzle.

The drizzle fell on Yuan Gao's face: "It's rain, it's rain." Hot tears remained, but it was hard to tell whether they were tears or rain in the drizzle.

Yuan Gao took advantage of the fire to reduce and left the high platform.

"I survived, I survived." Yuan Gao felt the preciousness of life for the first time and realized how afraid of death he was. "I must live well." Finally, Yuan Gao dragged his wet The body left this place that gave him a nightmare.

In the main hall of the Sunset Dynasty
"There is a plague in many places in Sunset. Why do I not know about it until now?" Emperor Sunset was furious.

All the ministers knelt down in the hall. "I'm telling you, Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers and others deliberately concealed it. It's true, it's true. Our Sunset Dynasty has been depleted of its treasury for several wars in recent years. Now our Sunset Army needs money for military expenses and food. There really is no money to come. Relieve the people suffering from the plague, Your Majesty." Zhu Chong said.

The emperor's face was ashen. If it weren't for you, Zhu Chong, and other officials who were lining their own pockets and becoming corrupt, how could I, Sunset, not even be able to spend money for disaster relief?

"I know that there is no money in the national treasury, but the people who are suffering from the plague are my people. I can't just watch them suffer the disaster and ignore it."

If I don't care about these plague-ridden people, they will migrate to the capital. They will have no food to eat on the way. Once they come to the capital, they will rob other people's food, and riots will occur.

If they are not allowed to enter the capital, they will become bandits in order to survive. What are bandits?Then there is an armed force. If there are too many bandits, they will dare to rebel and overthrow me.

Thinking of this, the emperor said: "I can't see that the people are suffering from the plague, but I don't know that the royal family and the people are one. The people are suffering, and I feel uncomfortable. I will leave this matter to the Prime Minister. I hope that the Prime Minister will handle it." Share my worries."

"O minister, I will obey the holy order." Zhu Chong said contemptuously in his heart. When he encounters difficult things, he will blame me on Zhu Chong. He really despises the emperor.

In the Dajin Military Camp
Ever since Prince Yong died in battle, Prince Su has become even more gloomy and cold.

Liang Meng sat at the table with Prince Li, Prince Su, and Prince Jing, and saw that the seat where Prince Yong should be sitting was empty.

Liang Meng felt extremely deserted.

In an atmosphere of silence, Prince Li said: "Plague has appeared in many places in the Sunset Dynasty."

"Plague, the Sunset Dynasty is really running out of life and even God won't let him go." The eldest prince said.

"Indeed, God bless me greatly." Prince Li said.

Prince Su remained silent and watched everyone discuss.

"Plague? This Sunset Dynasty is too miserable. After corrupt officials and successive wars, it encountered a plague again. It was completely consistent with the theory of historical cycles of Liang Meng's era.

Money is equivalent to food.

The law of historical cycles means that the grain produced by the land of a dynasty is a fixed number, and the people fed by a dynasty are a fixed number. This is because the production technology at this time can only produce so much grain.

For example, people used animal bones to make tools, then stone tools, then bronze, and later iron tools. The food they produced was limited.

When the war just ended, the population was so small that there was no food to feed so many people.

In an era without war and without family planning, the population would surge to the upper limit of the population that the production technology of this era can support. This is a process that takes a hundred years.

At this time, if food cannot feed the people and they have no food to eat, the people will rise up and overthrow the dynasty through war. The war will cause the population to plummet, and a new dynasty will be established, and the cycle will continue until science and technology improve the existing technology. , resulting in more food caps.

In modern Liang Meng, the family planning experience was to solve the population problem in the dynastic periodic law, and Grandpa Yuan Longping was to solve the food ceiling problem in the dynastic periodic law.

In this historical cycle, the ability of land to produce food is the lifeblood of this era. Of course, this lifeline must be in the hands of the ruling class. The emperor is the largest landlord, and the officials who control the land are landlords. In history, Long river.

What the Zhou Dynasty did to the land was that the land was owned by royal officials (landlords), and the people were slaves and had to perform labor services. However, this system had a very fatal flaw, which was that the people's enthusiasm was not high, which would lead to a decrease in grain output. It was very low. At this time, war came and the Zhou Dynasty perished. The war consumed food and the labor force was fighting. There was even less food. People had no food and the dynasty perished.

The Qin State appeared during the Warring States Period. They found that only by giving land to the people would they be able to produce more food, so land private ownership was enacted. The abundant food could feed a larger population and feed more Qin soldiers who only fought in wars. Qin then unified the world.

After the Qin Dynasty, private ownership of land has been around for thousands of years. Everyone knows that land is a good thing, and as an official, he understands the benefits of land. Therefore, the land allocated to the people has become the meat that officials covet. When you do not have the strength to protect property At that time, you were just a piece of fat.

In this era, royal officials did not need to pay taxes, and taxes were paid by the common people.In the event of a natural disaster and there is no harvest, you will not be able to pay taxes. If you cannot pay taxes, you may die. At this time, officials (landowners) will ask people to mortgage their land to pay taxes on their behalf until the people hand over their land. land.

This is the official enclosure that has plagued China for 5000 years. This is also an important reason why Liang Meng’s country has public land ownership and families contract land to prevent enclosure.

In the end, the people could only rent land from officials to make a living, and the grain they grew belonged to the officials (landowners). This was a rental fee, but they also had to pay taxes and hand it over to the royal family. Once there was a natural disaster and no grain was produced, the people would have nothing. Food is taxed. In order to avoid death, people will leave their homes and become refugees. In order to survive and obtain food, they will become bandits. The dynasty will be overthrown, and a new dynasty will be established over and over again.

The grain produced is fixed, and the population continues to grow. In addition to giving it to the emperor, the grain grown by the people also has to pay rent to the landlords and officials, leaving only part to satisfy their own food and clothing. If a natural disaster occurs, the people will not be able to eat.

The treasury provides relief to the people, and officials stay out of the matter. However, the food in the treasury is embezzled by officials, or fails to be collected, which will eventually lead to people rioting and overthrowing the dynasty.Therefore, all dynasties have opposed official corruption. Corruption will lead to the enclosure of land, and enclosure of land will lead to the demise of the dynasty.

Money can be equated with food, which is why every economic crisis will lead to war. An economic crisis means that the price of food such as pork has skyrocketed, but people's wages do not rise and they cannot afford food, and people will riot. Only Only war will reduce the population so that food can feed the population.

World War I, World War II, Japan's war of aggression against China...all were like this.

Liang dreamed about why in his own era, both domestic and foreign countries paid so much attention to the employment rate issue. Are they really just concerned about the people's livelihood?In fact, it’s not just that, the main thing is that if all people have no jobs, food will simply feed these people. If the people without jobs cannot eat, they will riot, which will also lead to the collapse of a dynasty.

As Li Shimin said, water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it.

This is the idea of ​​the unity of man and nature that has been passed down for thousands of years. The emperor is the son of God. Once there is a plague or natural disaster, God feels that the emperor's virtue is lacking, stupid and immoral, and imposes punishment. In fact, it is just a contradiction between man and earth.

Avenue to Jane.

The Sunset Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, and it happened to be at the end of the dynasty cycle. The population was large, the food reached the upper limit, and a plague occurred. The people were unable to grow food (the labor force died, and women, the elderly, and children could not produce much food). In order to avoid communication, The penalty for not paying taxes is leaving your home.

Officials are corrupt and encircling the land, the country cannot collect taxes, the country cannot provide disaster relief, the people have no food to eat, and the population is large. When the upper limit is reached, there is not enough food. Food is also used in wars. Some small amounts of food have to be put out everywhere. If the sunset cannot solve the problem, With this problem, destruction is just around the corner.”

The war tore apart wives and families, and was so cruel that no one wanted the war to end. However, it was only the collapse of one dynasty and the beginning of another, and it did not really solve the problem of the war.

Liang Mengmeng may only truly understand why the war happened, can it be possible to end the war forever.

Why can’t the enclosures of this era be compared to those of foreign farmers?Although farmers can produce food on a large scale and with high efficiency, why not for Sunset in this era?There are many farmers in the sunset, and then there is less land and less arable land per capita. Enclosure will lead to a large number of unemployed people. If there is no industry to absorb a large amount of surplus labor, a large number of unemployed people will appear, which will threaten the rule of the dynasty. Therefore, Liang Meng We must let the blow develop into an industrial society.

Liang Meng thought in his heart.

"But my Daikin is close to Sunset. We must prevent the plague from spreading to our Daijin." Prince Li said.

"Yes, we need to prevent Dajin from being implicated by the plague. Moreover, the place where we are currently stationed is too close to the Sunset Dynasty. We need to prevent our Dajin soldiers from being infected by the plague." Prince Su said.

"Yes, we need to prevent our Dajin soldiers from being infected, but how to protect them? This is a natural disaster, a punishment from God, and cannot be stopped by human power." The eldest prince said.

"Otherwise, destiny is to punish the Sunset Dynasty, not to punish me, Dajin. We can do something to prevent the plague." Liang Meng said.

In this era, people don't know what germs are at all, so they blame God for things they can't explain and can't do anything about. But in fact, Liang Meng recalled the memory of the original owner. In this era, there is no protection against the plague at all.

The water they drink is raw water. Many organisms like to lay eggs in water. Drinking raw water directly will actually drink the eggs and bacteria. Liang dreamed that modern mothers often say that water that has been left overnight cannot be drunk. This is it. reason.

Liang Meng then said: "In my army of Dajin, the soldiers must drink water boiled with fire..."

Thinking of this, Liang Meng really missed her parents. She didn't know how heartbroken they were when they learned the news of his death.

Liang Meng couldn't help showing sadness.

"What's wrong with you, Queen Mother?" The eldest prince asked when he saw that the Queen Mother didn't say any more.

"The Ai family is fine." Liang Meng immediately put away his sadness.

Prince Su, who also experienced the pain of separation, immediately noticed: "This is a kind of sadness of longing, and it is not nothing like the Queen Mother said."

Liang Meng continued to talk about how to prevent the epidemic.

(End of this chapter)