Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[In ancient times, epidemics were a warning from God and needed to be treated with caution.

Although Cao Cao took Sun Quan's surrender at Ruxukou and retreated honorably, the raging epidemic in Yecheng also exhausted the Han and Wei kings mentally and physically.

After the decision to establish an heir was made, the winners and losers of the battle for the throne also emerged.

For the Sima family in Hanoi, it is sad that their eldest son Sima Lang died of an epidemic.

But the second son Sima Yi's bet on Cao Pi, the middle-ranking general with five senses, was a great success, which also made the Sima family very happy.

In the 22nd year of Jian'an, Emperor Wu of Wei, who was over sixty years old, was getting old and no longer ambitious.

The thirty-eight-year-old King Sima Xuan ambitiously embarked on the stage of fighting for power.

For historical development, epidemics and time have always been the best accelerators. Starting from the 22nd year of Jian'an:

Xia Houyuan of Dingjun Mountain was beheaded before the battle, and Yunchang of Maicheng Pass was defeated and captured.

Zhang Fei in Langzhong was killed violently and mercilessly, and Ma Chao in Shu vomited blood and died of depression.

Lü Meng in Jingzhou stopped after his success, and Zhang Liao in Jiangdu fell ill and died on the expedition.

In Luoyang City, Cao Cao sold incense and sold his shoes and died of illness.

Liu Bei's blood feud in Baidicheng was not avenged by Tuogu.

These stars that adorned the Three Kingdoms fell one after another, and in the end, only the long elegy floated in the autumn wind of Wuzhangyuan.

The overall situation of the Three Kingdoms has been determined to be difficult to change, and King Sima Xuan took the stage to roll call.

After Cao Pi was established as the prince, Sima Yi, whose brother died of an epidemic, gradually rose to prominence.

Not only was he quickly promoted to the bastard among the crown princes, but he was also known as Cao Pi's "four friends" along with Chen Qun, Wu Zhi, and Zhu Le, showing that he was a close minister of the crown prince of Wei.

We all know what happened later. Sima Yi followed Cao's old deeds and did even better.

Emperor Jinming, the great-great-grandson, sighed sadly after hearing about his ancestor's writings:

"If it's like Gong Yan, how long will Zuo'an last?"

One year before the 22nd year of Jian'an, Shanyu Huchuquan of the Southern Huns came to see him because of Boss Cao's reputation, and was eventually forced to stay in Yecheng.

On the one hand, Cao Cao treated this southern Xiongnu chanyu with extremely high courtesy.

On the one hand, they neatly divided the southern Xiongnu into five parts and moved inward, both to enrich the population and to Chineseize them.

In one of them, King Zuo Xian thought it was good to be a Han Chinese, so he changed his surname to Liu and named him Liu Bao.

Liu Bao later had a son, Liu Yuan, who was the founding emperor of Han and Zhao who completely kicked off the Sixteen Kingdoms.

The posthumous Emperor Guangwen, with the temple name Gaozu, honored Liu Chan as Emperor Xiaohuai when he was in power, and built Liu Bang's shrine for worship in accordance with the standards of the three ancestors and five sects. This is probably considered orthodox in a certain sense.

The Central Plains was shaken, the five barbarians trampled on their clothes with their iron hooves, and defeated the famous men with their swords. They used the Central Plains as a horse racecourse to decisively defeat the nine states, and finally divided up the last bit of the legacy of the two Jin Dynasties in the late Han Dynasty.

Three hundred years of war have continued, and blood and fire have flowed across the land of China. The cycle of natural disasters, wars, famines, and epidemics has continued, ravaging all living beings into dust.

Cai Wenji composed the song and said:

The heaven is unkind and brings chaos and separation, the earth is unkind and brings me to this moment.

It is really suitable as the most realistic footnote of this era.

And peeling away the fog of the Three Hundred Years' War, the source of everything can be traced back to the great epidemic in the 22nd year of Jian'an.

These diseases, which are always present with human beings, have intervened in human history with the most barbaric attitude.

And kicked over the direction set by the princes, generals and ministers, pushing history onto a fast track that no one knows about.

And we all know that the power of the epidemic does not end there. 】

Listening to the sigh of the young voice in the light screen, the first thing Ma Chao felt was disbelief.

Doesn't Mengqi know how much Xia Houyuan weighs and how much his horse weighs? He died in Dingjun Mountain...can he make it to Hanzhong?

You must know that two months ago, Duke Xuande captured Xiahou Yuan and his nearly 30,000 troops, and only a thousand soldiers were injured.

If Xia Houyuan like this can break into Hanzhong, Ma Chao feels that he should be able to ride into Chang'an without any problem.

Moreover, Guan Yunchang defeated Maicheng?

This general's victory over Jingxiang became famous all over the world. Who can underestimate him? Who can defeat him?

And he didn't even feel sad for Zhang Fei's death for even a second. The next thought that poured into Ma Chao's heart was:

"I... died of depression?"

Liu Bei's eyes were a little dazed when old things were brought up again, and Kong Ming stopped shaking his feather fan and sighed softly.

Only Zhang Fei was the least emotional.

Although I can sympathize with my elder brother's feelings, I admire the military advisor's support of the general.

But as soon as I think about the cause of my death...

Zhang Fei woke up immediately, his mood was as cold as if he were in battle, without any ups and downs.

However, looking at Ma Chao's confused and shocked expression, Zhang Fei rarely felt a little more balanced.

"Does Meng Qi want to know all these things?"

Needless to say, Ma Chao immediately nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Then Zhang Fei's mood really improved, and Ma Chao, who grinned with two rows of big white teeth, was frightened.

And the words that came out of it were like the biting cold wind of the twelfth lunar month of winter:

"Well, how about two thousand horses?"

With a few simple words, Ma Chao's miscellaneous thoughts were completely dismissed, and his most simple feelings for Zhang Fei regained the upper hand, and he said fiercely:

"Two thousand horses? If not, I will vomit blood and die!"

This kind of sigh was very extravagant for Pang Tong. After all, if we judged it according to the annals of later generations, he estimated that the tombs had already fallen into dust at this time.

So I thought about it in my mind and expressed my feelings about the succession of Wei and Jin Dynasties:

"Epidemics are rampant and life and death are unpredictable, nobles and nobles live their lives extravagantly, and powerful ministers secretly have evil intentions, all of which seem to be non-man-made disasters."

The epidemic in the 22nd year of Jian'an seemed to have hit Cao Pi particularly hard, but it happened that he eventually became emperor.

But he still managed to cross the river and tear down his own bridge, saying that he would give in because of his virtue was just a lie, without any concern about how he got to the position.

The powerful ministers under his command felt the same way, and it seemed natural to have some ideas.

Pang Tong still remembered that what later generations jokingly called "Luoshui fart" was also partly affected by the epidemic.

After all, a peaceful life is already a luxury, so no one cares about keeping the so-called oath.

Fa Zheng, whose ancestral home was Guanzhong, knew more about the Xiongnu and Qiang Hu rebellions, and he felt a little relieved at this time:

"The Cao thieves' method of dividing the Xiongnu tribes was understandable, but they did not expect to suffer the disaster of the epidemic and instead benefited the Xiongnu."

Because I also knew that when they suffered the same disaster, the Huns had the habit of raising horses, so they could flee in all directions on horseback.

What about the Han people? After dragging their families away from their hometowns, most of them find it difficult to escape the epidemic.

After dispersing all the fire in Yiling's heart, Liu Bei could not evaluate Liu Yu for a while.

Although his ancestors were Xiongnu, what he did was better than many of the Liu family's descendants.

So Liu Bei could only turn to praise and said:

"I have long heard about the talent of Cai Bojie's daughter, but now I hear the descendants sighing about it, and now I know how talented she is."

Kong Ming and others nodded silently. After all, seriously, in these troubled times, who really wants to live in this time?