Chapter 558

Hanyang Commandery, Jixian.

With the first snowfall of winter.

The entire Hanyang Commandery was covered in snow, and the earth was pale with silver.

In the study of the Governor's Mansion, two more charcoal basins were added, but it was still difficult to completely resist the severe cold outside.

Later generations knew that the Ming Dynasty perished during the Little Ice Age.

But very few people knew that the Eastern Han Dynasty was also in the cracks of a Little Ice Age with chaotic solar terms.

Winters were getting colder, and sometimes it even snowed in June.

Before coming to Liangzhou, Duan Yu didn't have this feeling.

But since coming to Liangzhou, this feeling had become more and more obvious.

Climate is one of the important factors in the rise and fall of a dynasty.

A dynasty with suitable temperatures throughout the four seasons and no huge natural disasters often decays more slowly.

But a dynasty with chaotic temperatures that has to face natural disasters will accelerate its decline and collapse.

The most intuitive impact of natural disasters is famine and disease.

And coincidentally, the Eastern Han Dynasty was in such an environment.

And this period also had a collective name.

Chaotic Era!

During this period, because there was nothing else to do, Duan Yu began to supplement the history of the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty and before in the Governor's Mansion.

According to some historical materials Duan Yu found.

The temperature and weather fluctuations of the Eastern Han Dynasty began during the Xin Mang Dynasty.

Before the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in the first year of Tian Feng of Wang Mang, the weather began to gradually become bad.

It is recorded in the "Book of Han: Biography of Wang Mang" that in the fourth month, frost fell and killed grass and trees.

That is to say, in the fourth month, the weather suddenly frosted, killing the newly grown grass and tree buds in spring.

This kind of weather was completely abnormal.

And just one year later, in the second month of the third year of Tian Feng.

In the season when spring should be warm and flowers blooming, all things recovering, the Guandong region encountered strong earthquakes and frost and snow.

It is recorded in the "Book of Han: Biography of Wang Mang" that there were earthquakes and heavy rain and snow, especially in Guanzhong, with the deepest reaching one zhang, and bamboo and cypress trees sometimes withered.

In the second month when spring was warm and flowers blooming, the Guanzhong region encountered strong earthquakes and heavy rain and snow, and in the deepest places, the snow accumulation reached one zhang.

Just one day later, in the fourth year of Tian Feng, it is recorded that in the eighth month, the cold weather could even freeze people to death.

When Duan Yu saw these records, he was also surprised.

When the Qiang people started to migrate to Guandong from Jiuquan and Zhangye, it was the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

And the only reason for the Qiang people's migration at that time was because they were forced by their living environment.

From the establishment of the Xin Mang Dynasty to the rise of the Red Eyebrow Army, almost every year they suffered from strong natural disasters.

And in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, it just continued the bad weather of the Xin Mang Dynasty for a period of time, and in the following decades, the temperature began to gradually improve.

This time period was also the most stable period of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But this weather did not completely fade away, it just decreased.

When Yuan An, the ancestor of the Runan Yuan clan, arrived in Luoyang, he encountered a heavy snowstorm.

After the snowstorm, the people in Luoyang city came out one after another to clean the snow in front of their doors.

And Yuan An had never seen such a situation, so he didn't go out to sweep the snow.

The inspection soldiers passing by Yuan An's door thought that Yuan An had frozen to death at home.

Accompanied by the bad climate, land and grain production decreased, the seeds and seedlings just sown would be frozen to death, and the people also became infected with diseases due to the drastic fluctuations in temperature.

Typhoid fever.

Why could Zhang Jiao's talisman water spread widely?

It was not because Zhang Jiao's talisman water was so good and useful.

But because there were too many people in the thirteen commanderies of the Great Han suffering from disease and typhoid fever.

Duan Yu remembered that the "Treatise on Cold Damage" was written by the Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It can be seen how many people in the world today were suffering from disease and famine.

Duan Yu had also read "Records of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" before.

But those only contained descriptions of heroes and beauties, groups of heroes fighting for hegemony, grabbing territory, and killing and scheming.

But there were very few descriptions of the people's livelihood and the society of the world.

But when Duan Yu was truly in this environment.

He could understand why the people wanted to rebel.

Why the people of the world said they couldn't live anymore.

In this environment, noble clans and powerful families were still annexing land.

The seemingly prosperous world with noble clans everywhere, the seemingly vast landscape with heroes and beauties appearing frequently, in fact, more of it was hunger and cold.

The beautiful jade and gold and silver decorating the noble clans, the fine clothes and food in the homes of the powerful families, were nothing more than steamed buns dipped in the blood of the people, and what they sucked were the bones and blood of the people.

Zhang Jiao could respond to a hundred calls, and the world responded, not because his talisman water was so magical.

Duan Yu had heard a sentence before transmigrating.

That sentence was said like this.

"You know that Zhang Jiao's talisman water is fake, why do you still follow him to rebel?"

The answer was: "I certainly know whether Zhang Jiao's talisman water is fake or not, but he can at least give me a mouthful of food!"

Regardless of whether this sentence is true or false.

But at least, what Duan Yu saw now was exactly this.

People's livelihood was withered, the people were hungry and cold, and the powerful families were eating people.

And the world had already become like this, but those Confucian noble clans who kept singing about "governing by ritual," "governing by virtue," and "governing by people" only knew how to fight for power and profit.

Why could Liu Bei, from a straw sandal seller, eventually divide the world into three?

It was not because Liu Bei was a member of the Han royal family.

The four words "Han royal family" were not a synonym for nobility at the moment.

In the four hundred years of the two Hans, there were many so-called Han royal family members.

In fact, in the village where Liu Bei lived, there was no one who was not a member of the Han royal family.

Why could Liu Bei achieve great things?

Because Liu Bei had a set of his own methods for governing the people.

That is, loving the people with benevolence.

Regardless of whether Liu Bei was a true benevolent gentleman, from beginning to end, after Liu Bei entered Sichuan, he had always done so.

Perhaps it was because he saw Zhang Jiao's response among the people during the Yellow Turban Rebellion that Liu Bei had this concept and idea. ===== CHAPTER 560 =====