Save the Bachelor of Heaven

In August, the siege of Xi'an was officially resolved.

The siege lasted four months, unlike the eight months in history, so many people did not die.

Even so, the losses to Xi'an City were huge. Countless shops, streets, and houses were destroyed by artillery fire, and tens of thousands of people were lost.

The surrounding counties were even more miserable after being ravaged by the Song Suppression Army.

Many villages were looted by the Song Suppressing Army. Food, money, livestock, and even women were taken away. Every family wept and mourned.

Fortunately, the Song Zhen army finally withdrew, and the autumn harvest was about to begin, so the people still had a glimmer of hope.

Once the siege of Xi'an was lifted, people who were previously trapped in the city could finally come out.

Many people returned to Bailuyuan immediately, but there was still no trace of Bai Ling and Lu Zhaohai.

Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin were so anxious that they made a special trip to Xi'an for this purpose.

Fortunately, Jiren has his own destiny, and Bai Ling and Lu Zhaohai are fine. The reason why he didn't come back was because he had to help clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses.

Seeing the two fathers, Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin, who had been surrounded for more than four months and hungry for more than two months, with sallow faces, they felt extremely uncomfortable.

…

After the Zhensong Army retreated and the siege of Xi'an was solved, Xiang Nan also took Lu San, Zhang Fenglan, Zhang Ziqing, Tian Xiao'e and others back to Bailuyuan.

For the past four months, they have lived in the Zhongnanshan villa.

There was food and drink in the villa, so they were not hungry. However, they were tired of having to stay in a place as big as a palm for several months.

But no matter how they walked, they still couldn't get out of a palm-sized area, so they could only endure it silently.

Now that they can finally come out, they are naturally very happy.

However, when I saw Xiang Nan, I still couldn't help but complain a little.

"Having us trapped in the mountain for so long is almost suffocating us~" Zhang Ziqing complained.

"Stop complaining. When you come down from the mountain, take a look at what life is like down there. You will know how happy you are on the mountain." Xiang Nan waved his hand.

Sure enough, after walking more than a hundred miles from Zhongnan Mountain back to Bailuyuan, Zhang Ziqing and others became more and more silent as they walked.

Because several villages and towns along the road have left traces of burning and looting. There were many victims walking on the road. Their food had been robbed and their houses burned, so they had no choice but to come out to beg.

Bodies can always be seen in the ditches beside the road. Under the exposure of the sun, they emit a disgusting stench. The bark of most of the locust and poplar trees had been stripped off, leaving the white trunks standing there... As far as the eye could see, there were scenes of death, corruption, sorrow, and pain.

"How could this happen?" Tian Xiao'e asked in surprise.

Xiang Nan immediately told the story of how the Song-Suppressing Army surrounded the city of Xi'an and burned, killed, and looted in the surrounding counties.

After everyone heard this, they all fell silent.

Although they were a little bored in Zhongnan Mountain, there was no personal threat, let alone cold or hunger. Compared to Yamashita, it was like living a fairy life.

And such days were all arranged by Xiang Nan. Otherwise, they would have been like these people, displaced, hungry and cold, and worse off than dead.

"Qianzhi, thank you~" Zhang Ziqing said.

Tian Xiao'e, Liu Chunni, Song Zhaodi, and Miao Yulan also expressed their gratitude.

"Okay, we are all a family, so don't talk about these things." Xiang Nan waved his hand.

…

After taking his family back to Bailuyuan, Xiangnan's Laozu Temple also welcomed many pilgrims.

Some of them were lucky that they listened to Xiang Nan's words and hid the food in time without being searched out by the crow soldiers, so the whole family did not starve, so they came here to fulfill their wishes.

There are also many pilgrims who regret that they did not listen to Xiang Nan's words and were robbed of food, money, and even their wives and daughters by the crow soldiers, so they came here to repent.

Xiang Nan couldn't bear it when he saw that they came to burn incense and even donate food and incense money to him with the money they squeezed out from their teeth.

"Everyone, please take back your money and food." Xiang Nan refused, "Listen to me, although the crow soldiers are gone, bigger disasters are coming. One is drought, one is locust plague, and the other is plague. .

Everyone should leave when they can, and save as much food as they can. The next four years will be the saddest time for the land of Sanqin. Don't take it seriously. "

Hearing what he said, the people who just thought they had escaped were frightened again.

"Little fairy, is it really that miserable?" Everyone asked curiously.

Xiang Nan nodded, "Two years of severe drought, half a year of locust plagues, and half a year of plague. Ten houses are empty, and mourners are everywhere. Leave if you can, and save food if you can. Don't take any chances."

When everyone heard this, they were all frightened.

…

Xiang Nan's prophecy about the future soon spread throughout the land of Sanqin. For a time, people were panicked, worried that disaster would come again.

After all, Xiang Nan said it was too miserable. The scene was much worse than the Zhensong army besieging the city of Xi'an.

"Hei Wa, is there really going to be a disaster in the future?" Bai Jiaxuan saw that the people were unstable and quickly found Xiang Nan and asked.

Xiang Nan nodded, "It's true, Uncle Jiaxuan, from the Wuchen year to the Gengwu year, disasters continued and all life was devastated. At least half of the eight million people in the Three Qin Dynasty would die."

"Four million?!" Bai Jiaxuan was shocked.

Xiang Nan nodded.

In fact, he was underestimating this. In the three years of the Three Qin Dynasty, more than five million people died. Many villages were directly wiped out, and hundreds of people in the village died tragically.

Moreover, it was not just the Sanqin area that was affected by the disaster. Sanjin, Ganzhou, Suiyuan and other provinces were also affected by the disaster, and the situation was equally serious.

In that year, only the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, southern Yunnan and Qilu were not affected by the disaster. It can be said that there is famine everywhere, the people are devastated, nine out of ten houses are empty, and the fields are filled with bones.

The death of so many people is not just a matter of natural disasters, the greater responsibility lies in man-made disasters.

From 2028 to 30, it happened to be the period of the Central Plains War. The National Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army, the Northwest Army, the Gui Army, and the Northeast Army were all killing each other indiscriminately, just to pursue power and expand their territory. No one cared about the lives of the people at all.

The person who controlled Sanqin at that time was the defecting general, who was an enemy of the national army. In this way, although the national army has food and money, it will not help the land of Sanqin.

Although the people of Sanqin suffered disasters, the defecting generals still collected grain and collected taxes as usual in order to fight the war, and did not care about the sufferings of the people at all.

That's why the people of Sanqin were so miserable due to the combined effects of natural and man-made disasters.

"What should we do? Is there any way to resolve it?" Bai Jiaxuan asked.

"Uncle, this is a calamity. Not to mention that I am not an immortal, even if I have become an immortal, I still can't resolve it." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said, "If you want to save the villagers, let everyone grow more food and save more food. , whatever bran, bean cake, oil residue, as long as it is edible, save as much as possible, so as to avoid more deaths and injuries."