"The squirrel wishes you a happy New Year every year, and the yellow mouse wishes you a happy New Year every year! In the Year of the Rat, the Rat wishes you a happy New Year, and it will be lively every year... Lively and lively, it's all good after the excitement, it's all good, it's over!"
In early March, along with the popularity of mouse legends in various places, there was also this nursery rhyme that was like the "good song" written in stone!
I don’t know who sent it, but suddenly, as if in one night, all the children in the disaster-stricken areas of the four northern provinces could sing this song!
There are children in Zhili, Shanxi, northern Henan, northern Shandong... and even in some places outside the customs and outside the mouth singing this song about the mouse!
Society is now in a state of panic. What the feudal dynasty is most afraid of is the theory of prophecy. This nursery rhyme about the destruction of the country is a common occurrence in every dynasty and every generation.
It has already happened that rats pay New Year greetings. There are legends about rat spirits visiting New Year and asking for food in various places.
The Year of the Rat is lively, but you have to listen to this sentence in reverse. What is lively? The chaos of war is also lively! This is not a nice thing to say.
As for the last one, okay, okay, okay means it’s over! Is this a curse to the end of the Qing Dynasty?
The local magistrate hurried down to investigate. You see, he didn't care about disaster relief. He didn't dare to relax in the investigation of this kind of nursery rhymes. Many children who sang the songs were detained together. They even threatened and yelled, but no results were found.
Many children said they were taught by the old man in yellow clothes, and some said they were taught by the old man in gray clothes and learned the nursery rhymes after being given a few pieces of candy!
Some children even vaguely said that they learned it accidentally in their dreams!
What can a group of children who spread their crotch pants remember? They can’t explain it clearly. Even if they tell you the truth, you don’t know which sentence is true!
Now the local officials were scared, because along with the nursery rhyme, there was indeed a large-scale rat plague everywhere!
Ancient people did not have the concept of ecology. Although the Chinese have the concept of the unity of nature and man, this concept is more metaphysical and is all illusory in ideological theory!
There is no such research on how to maintain an ecological balance in the real biosphere!
Most people in the 21st century know that the earth is an ecological circle. Once the balance is broken in one place, then the entire ecological circle will definitely encounter problems in every ring!
When a snowstorm comes, will humans be the only ones starving? No, animals and plants also suffer. When humans are hungry, they have to look to nature for food. Some small forest animals that could survive in the past have now become human food!
Don't even think about cats and dogs. People are starving to death in half a village. Do you think cats and dogs can still survive? Many of them have become food for the victims, and the birds and animals in the mountains and forests have also been over-hunted!
Even if there are survivors, they don't dare to go near the area where humans gather. They all know that humans have gone crazy this year!
Rats need natural enemies to control their numbers. Natural enemies have disappeared in large numbers. Moreover, rats themselves cannot find anything to eat during famine years. They are also hungry!
With no natural predators and hunger, a very serious rat tide appeared. The unscrupulous rats began to roam the market without fear of humans at all, and even worked with humans to snatch the last bit of food!
It is actually not uncommon for a large-scale rat plague to occur after a snowstorm. Once this rat plague occurs, rats will no longer be afraid of humans and will shorten the distance between them!
The victims were already hungry, their bodies were very weak, and their resistance to various bacteria and viruses was very low!
This was bad. Although the plague did not spread, many strange diseases spread, fleas and bed bugs became rampant, and many victims began to have high fevers!
The disaster area will suddenly develop into an epidemic area again!
Ordinary people don't know much about science. When encountering a disaster, they will think about gods and ghosts, so there are more and more bizarre legends.
Panic is spreading violently!
Natural disasters are coming, but what is even more terrifying are man-made disasters. The evil spirits in the darkness are taking advantage of the chaos in the north to start spreading rumors crazily and creating an atmosphere of terror!
The so-called rat singing is just one of Prince Xilingong's vicious tricks. He wants to use the moment when people's hearts are most unstable to release panic!
Ghosts are not scary at all, but people are the scariest thing!
The nursery rhymes became more and more sinister as they spread, and the local officials became more and more panicked. They wanted to report the situation to the court, but they were afraid of taking responsibility. Once the court investigates him, he will not be able to escape the accusation of being unfavorable to his control of the place!
The ostrich mentality was very prevalent in the official circles of the late Qing Dynasty. When something happened, they would first cover it up and then hide it. They stuck their heads in the sand and pretended that they could not see or hear.
What I'm looking forward to in my heart is just to get over the chaos quickly, and then let the court not know that there has been such a chaos. Then won't my official position be saved?
This is the case when encountering snowstorms. Now that there is a rat plague and prophecy nursery rhymes, they still drag them back and hide whenever they can!
The best time to kill rumors has been missed. If there are hundreds and thousands of children singing songs at the beginning, you quickly report it to the court, and the court can order the four provinces to jointly suppress the rumors!
By then panic will not be able to spread at all!
But this local official just covered the cover himself, thinking that he could suppress the rumors. But rumors are spreading in four provinces. Can you and one county suppress them?
If you suppress your own county, how can you control the neighboring county?
The rumor spread more and more widely, and in the end it was not just hundreds and thousands of children who had grown up, but tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who heard this song about the good mouse!
Just when the snowstorm was suppressed a little bit and people's hearts were just stabilized, things turned tragic again!
As soon as human panic arose, first of all, the gentry from all over the country became cautious. They would rather believe what they had than what they had not, and immediately stopped providing relief to the victims.
They also have their own reasons: "Now that the snow has melted, it's March, and the fields are all green, why don't you go find food by yourselves?"
"No matter how big of a landowner we are, we can't bear to receive relief every day! The granary is empty, it's all empty, there is no food..."
Ouch! The local squire suddenly stopped the relief work, which forced the people to rely more on nature for survival. These people became more and more aware of the damage to the ecology!
The rat plague is getting worse and worse, and there is even a spectacle of thousands of rats swaying through the city in broad daylight!
The more rats there are, the more bizarre infectious diseases there are. The hungrier people are, and the body's resistance is getting weaker and weaker. As a result, it becomes a vicious cycle!
The most frightening thing is that the local officials' delay and cover-up caused Emperor Tongzhi to miss the best period for disaster relief!
Tongzhi ZTE encountered the biggest challenge. It escaped the snow disaster but not the second wave of rat plague and plague!
Wuwuwu...wuwu...wuwuwu...
"Long live the Führer... Have a safe journey... Long live the Führer..."
The streets of Naha Port were deserted, and hundreds of thousands of people saw off Xiao Letian for his visit to the Indian Ocean!
The majestic and tall heavy armored cruiser Monsoon, like a mountain of steel, slowly sailed towards the open sea under the guidance of the pilot ship!
The surrounding freighters are pitiful matchboxes compared to this behemoth!
Xiao Letian stood on the bow of the ship, waving his hat to the people on the dock, and the cruiser's whistle sounded melodiously!
"Father of alternating current! Don't let me down. I hope that in this parallel world, you will still be the genius boy passed down from generation to generation!"
