Chapter 148: No trace of anger can be seen

Chapter 148 There is no trace of life in sight

After Jingzhe, the emperor went to the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and apologized to God with humble words and heartache.

On the Qingming Festival, the emperor went to the southern suburbs and asked the Emperor of Heaven for mercy again. This time, the Emperor knelt on the ground, cried loudly, and begged the Emperor of Heaven to punish him alone and not punish the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone burst into tears when I smelled it.

The emperor did not drink or eat. He knelt and worshiped at the place of worship in the southern suburbs all day and night. He almost fainted. Even so, he still announced his third edict of sin to God and the people of the world.

"The imperial edict said: "... the frequent disasters, wars, disturbances, thoughts of disasters, and lack of peace at night are all caused by my bad character! It's my fault, don't dare to forgive yourself. From now on, I will silently pray to God in the palace, repair and punish crimes, and work to annihilate the bandits to atone for their crimes..."

It is a pity that the emperor's sincerity was not moved. God, it doesn’t even have the function of mitigating the epidemic.

In May, the epidemic was even worse...

Two people were riding on the road, chatting happily, when suddenly they were alone. He stopped talking, and the other person was already dead when he looked back.

Some people were chatting at the door, and one of them started to vomit blood, and then fell down and died.

There was also a squire. His servant was infected with the plague and died, so he sent his maid to the coffin shop to buy a coffin. After waiting for a long time, he didn't come back, so he thought he wouldn't infect me too.

So he sent his maid to the coffin shop to buy a coffin. Went to the coffin shop, but when the squire entered the coffin shop, he found the maid dead beside the coffin.

There were countless such incidents.

Every room was empty. p>

There is a children's song that goes: A rat dies in the east, a rat dies in the west. Pedestrians see them as if they are tigers.

Yun Zhao, in the name of the wild boar spirit, issued a prophecy: The god of plague descends to earth and receives eight hundred lives! Wan, it made the people of Ming Dynasty sit on pins and needles.

Yun Zhao took advantage of everyone's awe and issued the "face-covering order" again.

The so-called 'face-covering order'. That is, everyone must get a piece of clean cotton cloth to cover their mouth and nose tightly and cover their face. They are not allowed to take it off at any time, lest the god of plague sees your face and takes away your life.

With the endorsement of the wild boar spirit, and after Yun Zhao issued death orders to officials everywhere, the frightened people finally found a piece of thick cotton cloth to cover their faces.

Han Lingshan approached Yun Zhao cautiously and said, "Tell me, you can't cover your face in such an unclear way.

Yun Zhao said: "This is Qi plague. When you talk, a lot of saliva will spit out. If I am very close to you and you spit, I will breathe and I will blow you away." The saliva is sucked into the lungs.

If you are sick, I will be sick soon, which is why this epidemic spreads so quickly.

People have started to die in Tongguan. I don’t think Lantian County and Yushan City are safe.

You can never be too careful about this kind of thing. "

Han Lingshan found a place where no one was around and talked non-stop about this piece of white paper for a while. Then he put on his mask, held up the wet white paper and said: " That's true.

Since this is the truth, why can't you say it clearly and insist on talking about the matter with the God of Plague.

It makes us always feel like fools.

Yun Zhao rubbed his swollen temples and said, "You can understand it, even those who came from Yushan Academy can understand it. How do you want the people to understand it?" It would be quicker to talk about the God of Plague. "

Seeing that Han Lingshan was hesitant to speak, he sighed and said: "What the wild boar spirit said is true. It was calculated by a model I made using arithmetic. Look at it. , if this plague kills less than eight million people, you can come and scold me.

Han Lingshan touched his mask and said, "I feel much better when I say this. I should also go to Yushan Academy to tell my classmates and the teachers who are preparing to form a group to scold you." They are.

In addition, Wang Qiaonian was killed by Zhang Bingzhong, and Wuchang was captured by Zhang Bingzhong. "

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "We will not leave the mountain until the plague is over. Your focus now is to get over the epidemic. You are not concerned about the general trend of the world. As long as you ensure that no one comes to bring bad luck to us, it will be harmful to us. It's a big win! ”

Han Lingshan nodded and left in a hurry.

Since the epidemic began to approach Tongguan, government affairs in Lantian County have almost stopped. All officials, all small businesses Officials, all the troops and available manpower are busy preventing the epidemic.

After Lantian County, which has been busy for many years, suddenly closed all roads entering the customs, commercial activities in central and eastern Guanzhong have basically stopped. Stopped.

Especially the caravan heading towards Gyeonggi Province cannot enter or exit the customs.

However, there are not exceptions. Hou Fangyu is in a caravan. He left Tongguan under cover.

He was indeed his father's beloved son. After the 20,000 taels of silver were delivered in full, Hou Fangyu finally no longer had to fiddle around alone.

When the servant saw Hou Fangyu, he could hardly believe his eyes. How could the unkempt and disheveled man in front of him be his pampered and handsome young man?

Knowing that Hou Fangyu called out to the old servant with a trembling voice. After reading his name, he opened his hair and let the old servant see his features clearly. The old servant barely recognized that the slave-like person in front of him was his young master.

Hou Fangyu had no choice but to live.

Since that day when he parted ways with Mao Bijiang, he had never seen them again.When the strong men who serve him ask questions, they always get a burst of laughter.

So, he firmly believed that the three people in Mao Bijiang were dead.

This is a result he can accept, and it can even be said to be a result he hopes for.

Now, he is the only one left among the four sons of Fushe. When the glory of the four people converges on him, who is the only one left, he can ask for more from the Jiangnan scholars.

Before leaving the jurisdiction of Lantian County, he behaved submissively and did not dare to express his anger. When he left Tongguan, his face was covered with frost. After leaving the Mianchi area, he I stood on a low hillside and cursed in the direction of Tongguan for a full hour.

This time in Lantian County, he suffered the most serious humiliation in his life.

He swore that as long as he was still alive, he would never stop fighting with the evil thief Yun Zhao.

After taking the oath, he did not ride in the carriage, but mounted a fast horse and galloped back to Nanjing day and night under the escort of his servants.

At this time, the life of Mao Bijiang and others living in Haezhi's home was also difficult.

When they saw Lu Xiangsheng, they all thought they were dead.

This should be a soul-to-soul meeting.

When the whip in Lu Xiangsheng's hand hit them, the pain finally made them realize that this was still the earth.

The moment they realized that Lu Xiangsheng was alive, Mao Bijiang and others finally felt that they could survive.

He wanted to hold Lu Xiangsheng’s feet and cry loudly, but Lu Xiangsheng avoided it and asked the servants to take the three of them to wash up and change clothes, and after a good meal, he left them with writings. Paper inkstone.

Ask each of them to truly write down on paper their views on the current situation in Ming Dynasty and how they have dealt with it.

Such a question is not difficult for the three people of Mao Pijiang. They have fantasized countless times about what they would do once they gain power.

At this time, faced with Lu Xiang’s general proposition of getting promoted to teach, the three of them wrote more than ten thousand words eloquently.

After reading the three people’s articles, Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said nothing.

He began to travel around Guanzhong with these three people.

For a whole month, their footsteps never stopped. Lu Xiangsheng even asked a small official from Lantian County to take the three of them to a complete tour of how Lantian County operates.

When Lu Xiangsheng appeared in front of the three of them again, Mao Bijiang and the others became very silent.

"No matter what, Yun Zhao is still a national traitor."

Mao Bijiang did not have any excuse for his words just because he was still in Lantian County at this time.

Lu Xiangsheng stroked his beard and chuckled: "Who do you think this world belongs to?"

Mao Bijiang said loudly: "This world naturally belongs to everyone in the world. ."

Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said: "Okay, since this world belongs to everyone.Naturally, Yun Zhao also had a share. The Zhu family emperor could not govern the world well and give the people a way to survive. Yun Zhao felt that he could do it, so why couldn't he replace him?

You must know that the Zhu Dynasty was also the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Taizu felt that Meng Yuan could not manage this land well, so they launched an army to seek justice for the people of the world.

At that time, Emperor Taizu did the right thing.

Could it be that what Yun Zhao is doing now is wrong?

It is right to serve the country with loyalty. Each of us should serve the country with loyalty. However, you must remember that what we serve is this country, not the emperor! "

Fang Yizhi shook his head and said: "Yun Zhao is not a Confucian. "

Lu Xiangsheng said: "This world itself is only for those who are talented and virtuous. "

Chen Zhenhui frowned and said: "If this continues, the world will never have peace, and everyone will feel that they are a person with both ability and political integrity. "

Lu Xiangsheng looked at these three relatively strong-boned young people, and the smile on his face became stronger.

"These days, you have seen the four men, farmers, industrialists and merchants of Lantian County. Citizens, how do you think Lantian County compares with other places in the world? ”

Riding the border, Fang Yizhi, and Chen Zhenhui had such a strong dislike for Yun Zhao that they wanted to pick out some shortcomings and criticize them, but in the end they were unwilling to say anything against their will.

Qi Qi said: "It can be said that the world is prosperous.

Lu Xiangsheng took out the exam paper written by the three of them in advance from his sleeve, placed it in front of the three of them one by one, and said: "Yun Zhao's ability to govern the world is better than what you wrote in the paper." What are the methods of the world? "

Mao Bijiang crumpled the paper he wrote into a ball in shame and said: "Far from it." "

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Fang Yizhi, who was also ashamed, and Chen Zhenhui said: "What about you? "

The two of them also crumpled their papers into a ball as if they were pretending to be brave.

Lu Xiangsheng laughed loudly and shouted outside the door: "Huang Taichong, Gu Ning Ren, you guys come in too. I've exhausted all my tricks on these three stubborn donkeys. Let's see what you do. ”

Hearing Lu Xiangsheng mention Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu, the three people in Mao Pijiang were shocked, and they all looked towards the door.

As expected, they saw these two people appearing at the door.< /p>

Huang Zongxi frowned and said: "Why are you so stubborn?

Gu Yanwu said: "Jiangnan is too rosy. How can the pursuit of the world's high road be compared with the warm and fragrant soft jade in the arms? In my opinion, Yun Zhao is not cruel enough. They should be punished again." Being bossed around by big animals for a while might be able to wear away their arrogance. ”