Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[In fact, just as the Black Death had an impact on Europe, the great epidemic in the late Han Dynasty also had the same impact.

Heroes died violently, ambitions were unresolved, and grievances were unresolved. In fact, they were all just the aftermath of the pandemic.

The Holocene Great Warmth ended three thousand years ago, and was followed by the first cold period in the past five thousand years, which was hit head-on by the Western Zhou Dynasty.

This cold period ended in the Spring and Autumn Period, and then China ushered in a warm period of nearly four hundred years.

During this warm period, ancient China completed the unification of the Pre-Qin Dynasty and the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

With the end of this warm period, the harsh natural climate directly increased the cost of living and reduced food production. Moreover, the cold climate and the people who died due to force majeure became the best breeding ground for diseases.

The ancient feudal dynasties were limited by their productivity and were particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. Just a simple cooling of the climate was enough to bring a dynasty to its end.

It's just that the rising epidemic did not make the ancients pay attention to medical care.

When the people were faced with the fear of illness and death, Taiping Road was the first to break out of the siege.

The great virtuous master's mighty voice Heaven is dead and yellow heaven must stand is just the result. The beginning of all this comes from the Taiping Jing.

When we talk about Tao now, there is a saying that is often said, Taoism and Taoism are two different things.

So how did Taoism become religious? The answer is the Taiping Jing.

When the Han Dynasty became emperor, a man named Gan Zhongke shouted that the fate of the Han family was exhausted. If he wanted to continue the Han Dynasty, he should receive his destiny from heaven again.

Faced with such a arrogant person, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty did not force him much and directly sent him to prison. In the end, he died of illness in prison.

However, the Bao Yuan Taiping Jing written by Gan Zhongke has been passed down. In the book, the system of heaven was constructed for the first time and the gods were given functions. He was also the originator of the model of immortals descending to earth to personally preach evangelical books. Later, he followed his example. People don’t know how many people there are.

This model is not unfamiliar to us modern people. It is about speculating on concepts first-hand, and then attracting people to invest in shares and go public through backdoor listings. However, it was more difficult to get through in the feudal era.

However, it was already the end of the Western Han Dynasty when the Han Dynasty became emperor, and the people could not be said to be in dire straits.

The Han court was already too busy taking care of itself to care about managing the religious trend that was rising among the people.

It was not until the time of Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han Dynasty that the Langya Palace Chongyi Que presented the sacred book Taiping Jing obtained by his master Yu Ji. Only then did Taiping Dao completely turn around.

For more than a hundred years, the Taiping Jing and the version written by Gan Zhongke have been very different. After generations of supplements and improvements, for the people at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Taiping Jing has become the same as the divine version. Books are no different.

In addition to Gan Zhongke's fictitious heaven and gods, later generations also integrated the ideas of gods, retribution for good and evil, and the order of heaven and earth into one, and proposed the grand idea of ​​a peaceful world. It includes many contents such as longevity, immortality, prayer, water talisman and so on.

This kind of content can be said to be in line with the times, and it soon gained a considerable popular base among the people of the Han Dynasty. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the best person who studied the Taiping Classics was named Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao also formally established the Taiping Sect on the basis of his predecessors, and established Qushuai in thirty-six directions. At this point, the Taiping believers have officially transformed from a straggler to a religious organization sweeping the country.

As the weather turned colder at the end of the Han Dynasty, the ruling class further acted like a monster, and the extremely imperfect medical treatment in the feudal era was losing ground in the face of epidemics. In the end, this best book of classics was directly invited to the Han Dynasty. The banner of death.

The Yellow Turban Uprising lasted nine months and ended in failure, but this uprising also officially kicked off the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But what Zhang Jiao never expected was that the battle between religion and epidemics had only just begun for him. 】

In the Manna Hall, the first thought that popped into Li Shimin's head was:

Do they view the light curtain of future generations like this as being taught by immortals?

Raising his head, the first thing Li Shimin saw was the roof of Ganlu Hall.

But his gaze seemed to reach through the roof and into the sky.

In today's Tang Dynasty, it seems to be a conventional wisdom that there are immortals and gods in the heaven above, and ghosts and ghosts in the underworld below.

But now Li Shimin knows that there is no heaven in the sky, there are only endless ruins, inexplicably large stars, and the heavenly palace created by the descendants of China.

Well, it seems that there are enemies spying on this world among the stars.

But at this time, Li Shimin was still a little confused when he saw the changes in the Taiping Jing. Didn't the Eastern Han Dynasty not investigate the source when receiving the book?

After all, in the Western Han Dynasty, Gan Zhong was a person who deceived the public and was executed rationally.

As a result, a hundred years later, the descendants became guests of the royal family. If Gan Zhongkequan knew about it, I wonder what he would think.

But also from this, an idea gradually became clear in Li Shimin's mind, but he could not express it for a while. Instead, he began to be in a daze, constantly thinking about his knowledge of religion in his heart.

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At the end of the Han Dynasty, people in Chang'an had mixed feelings.

At this moment, they really wanted to pull their juniors over through the light curtain to talk face to face.

Today's troubled times are mixed with military disasters, natural disasters, evil spirits and other chaotic things. Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, in particular, became famous for blocking the Yellow Turban Army.

At this time, everyone felt a sense of enlightenment as they listened to the later generations clearly explaining the past of Taiping Road as if they were peeling off cocoons, and analyzing this troubled world from the unique cognitive perspective of later generations.

Zhang Jiao is dead. He will not receive either praise or guilt.

Kong Ming whispered, but immediately said with great interest:

But it is precisely because of this peaceful way that we can understand what people's livelihood is.

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, the so-called remnants of the Yellow Turbans have always been the object of strict defense by the prefects everywhere.

In some harsh places, there is even a method of sitting together to avoid the Yellow Turban.

But when Kong Ming and Pang Tong chatted about the people's livelihood in Yizhou and Jingzhou very early, Pang Tong lamented that under Xuande Gong's command, the yellow turbans were rare.

Kong Ming just sighed softly when he heard this:

In Jingyi and Jingxi, the people are well fed, the strong are cultivated, the merchants are engaged, and the women are weaving, so why ask for ghosts and gods?

He couldn't say the concise and concise words of later generations that had been tempered for thousands of years, but Kong Ming felt that it was the same as when he heard the story of the Family before.

In the exercise of power, when the country retreats, it becomes powerful and powerful.

The same goes for local people's livelihood. If the warehouse is full, the Yellow Turban will retreat, and if the warehouse is empty, chaos will arise.

After all, for the current people in Jingyi and Jingyi, instead of praying to ghosts and gods, how about plowing the land honestly and learning two skills that are close to their own? If they have spare money, they can try to drink tea with merchants and learn how to do business. .

Isn't this more useful than Taiping Road?