The camera slowly rises up again, circling all the way from Chang'an City, like a mourning bird that has been lingering for a long time, crying and expressing its sorrow.
A white-haired old man staggered past Chang'an City, stroking the palace wall inch by inch with his fingers, tears streaming down his face and soaking his clothes.
"Chang'an City...why is it like this now?"
There seemed to be frames unfolding behind him.
The emperor's colorful flags and ceremonial guard came out of the palace in a mighty manner, and the maidservants following behind were all beautiful and beautiful, looking forward to the brilliance, not to mention the beautiful palace concubines who were smiling and leaning on the emperor's side, carrying the world. Great color.
As soon as the scene changed, the colorful scene gradually disappeared, leaving only the dilapidated and desolate Chang'an City Wall, with weeds everywhere and no one had cleaned it up.
The old man walked forward step by step, and in his back that contained endless desolation, a poem slowly appeared on the sky.
【The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city has deep vegetation in spring. The flowers shed tears when I feel grateful, and the birds are frightened by the hatred. The war rages on for three months, and a letter from home is worth ten thousand gold. The white-headed scratches are shorter, and the hairpin is full of lust. 】
When poets are lucky, poets are unlucky. In troubled times, no one can say how sad they are.
In front of the canopy.
Zhenguan Jun and his ministers felt their heads buzzing, and looked at the sky stupidly, unable to say a word in their throats.
"The country is broken..."
How can it be? ! ! How is this possible? ! !
Such a magnificent Chang'an City, such a vast towering Tang Dynasty! ! How could the country be destroyed overnight? ! !
If the national power declines and the empire is on the verge of collapse, there will be nothing they can do, but they have just seen such a magnificent and prosperous Tang Dynasty! !
Li Shimin pressed his head with one hand and supported the table with the other. He took a few deep breaths and almost squeezed out the words through his back molars.
"The beacon fire lasted for three months... was it chaotic for a full three months? Come to think of it, even Chang'an fell. What even Mingbao Zong Zhu Qizhen couldn't do actually happened in our Tang Dynasty. Wow, it’s really good!! It’s so good...”
…
Above the sky.
The camera continued to descend, deep into the land of the Tang Dynasty, retelling all the chaos like a cold bystander.
The prosperity of Gongqiang Tile City is still there, but the spiritual outlook of the people living there is completely different.
Countless refugees were so hungry that their faces were yellow and skinny. Some even picked up the soil on the ground and swallowed it to barely quench their hunger. Not to mention grass roots and bark, which became the meat and potatoes that countless people fought for.
When the camera walked inside the city, the huge market was no longer bustling. After walking for countless miles, there was no one around, and it was almost empty.
Those who could escape fled, and those who couldn't escaped were left hungry and haggard. All the economic systems of the entire city collapsed.
It is hard to imagine that this was a majestic Chang'an that was prosperous not long ago, and the people were so rich that they could eat meat! ! !
The Zhenguan monarchs and ministers in front of the sky looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar city of Chang'an, and tears fell down involuntarily.
"How could this happen?! What on earth happened?!"
The scene in the camera panned.
Two women with extremely pale and withered faces hid in the corner, holding a swaddling baby in their trembling arms. After a trembling exchange, they hurriedly separated with the older child beside them.
After lighting a fire and adding some dirty water, the swaddling clothes were opened and the contents were put in for cooking. Only then did everyone in front of the canopy see clearly what they were.
A newborn baby that has stopped breathing! !
Then everyone understood that the two women had exchanged their babies! !
The people were actually forced to exchange their children for food! !
In front of the canopy.
Changsun Wuji jumped up as if his buttocks were burned, the blood on his face faded inch by inch, and he screamed miserably.
"You can't eat it!! You can't eat it!!!"
"With this precedent set, it's completely chaotic... it's chaotic!!!"
People started to eat people. In the beginning, they were just eating babies, but what will happen to them later?
Everyone could not help but feel terrified and trembled all over.
The veins on Li Shimin's arm that was pressing the desk were bulging out, and the ferocity in his eyes was so horrifying that it almost made the court tremble! ! !
"Li Longji!!!"
While countless ministers knelt down in fear, they finally remembered in a daze that the emperor in front of them, who seemed to be approachable and had no airs at all, and who would cry when scolded by his ministers, was also an evil god who stepped on countless corpses and came out of the battlefield to fight. ! ! !
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Che frowned tightly.
"Eating by exchanging children... I have heard about the tragic situation of the people during countless famine years, but everything is still not as shocking as seeing it with my own eyes."
Wei Qing also sighed.
"With such a tragic situation, how can people believe that this is the enviable Tang Dynasty just now? I really don't know what happened to this country."
Western Jin Dynasty.
Emperor Hui of Jin, Sima Zhong, frowned in confusion.
"The people are hungry, why don't they eat pork or venison? How could they be so cruel as to eat human flesh? Is human flesh actually more delicious than pork and venison?!"
…
Above the sky.
The picture gradually dissipated, and a line of large ink characters appeared on the screen, filled with endless and ominous blood-red color.
【Anshi Rebellion】
A basin of blood covered it like splashing ink, and the camera suddenly turned around and split in the middle, dividing it into two completely different scenes.
On the left is a joyous ceremony with singing and dancing, while on the right is a human tragedy with corpses strewn everywhere.
[Before this tragic catastrophe, the Tang Dynasty had a registered population of about 50 million people. The actual population was recorded to have reached 80 million people. At that time, the total population of the world was only 200 million people. It is conceivable that We know what a huge empire the Tang Dynasty was at that time. 】
[From the mere 16 million people when Li Shimin took over in the early Tang Dynasty, generations of people have gone through many hardships to make the dynasty prosperous to this point! ! 】
During the Zhenguan period.
The monarch and his ministers all gasped, extremely shocked.
Li Shimin murmured.
"Eighty million people, eighty million people..."
Oh my God, what a concept is that! ! A total of 80 million people! ! !
If Li Yuan could leave him such a large population back then, he could take off directly with the Tang Spiral! !
Not only the Zhenguan Dynasty, but also countless dynasties in history were almost jealous and envious of separation! !
There are so many fucking people! What can't you do? ! !
When the population increases, productivity will increase. When productivity increases, the country will not be short of food to eat. The country will not be short of food to eat. The war horses will be well fed. The soldiers and horses will be strong, and the natural combat effectiveness will also increase! ! !
The sky slowly turned, and the tone of the picture dimmed. The picture of corpses scattered on the right gradually expanded, occupying the entire screen.
[And this catastrophe, known in history as the Anshi Rebellion, directly caused the population of the Tang Dynasty to drop by as much as 30 million! ! Thirty million people died in this chaotic world! ! ! 】
You know, the Black Death, a devastating plague in Europe in the Middle Ages, only killed one-third of the population of Europe - 25 million! !
What is the concept of 30 million? It is almost double the total population in the early years of Zhenguan, and nearly half of the population in the prosperous Kaiyuan era! !
To put it more intuitively, almost one out of every two people will lose their life due to troubled times.
This is a catastrophe more terrifying than the plague.
