On April 1, Renyin, the distant Chang'an was still a slight tremor. People either stopped and looked at each other without any notice. Then they hurriedly merged into the busy traffic, running for their respective livelihood responsibilities, as if nothing had happened. Watermark advertising test  Watermark advertising test

But in the Xi'an Hou Kingdom, Linzi County, which is closer to the epicenter, it is another scene.

The State of Xi'an Marquis has been established for several years. As Ren Hong's contributions grew, he defeated the Shanyu last year due to the Beiting battle, adding 1,000 households. Now there are 7,000 households. Most of the counties have become the fief of the Marquis of Xi'an. Although the Ren family cannot rule directly, the taxes of the seven thousand families were lost to the Marquis' Mansion, and the granary was piled up.

The mansion and manor of the Hou family in Xi'an are located outside the county town. The Han system is in the Han Dynasty. Liehouke has 100 hectares of real estate in the Hou Kingdom. The fertile fields are surrounded by the manor. Many of them are planted with new crops from the Western Regions: peas, broad beans, cotton, celery, garlic, onions, carrots, cucumbers, and a vineyard named "White Crow" by the Hou of Xi'an, and grape shelf.

Although the grapes are small and sour, they are incomparable to those of the Cheshi, and the An Pomegranate and Walnut trees have not yet grown and become a fruitful, they still attract wealthy people from nearby Linzi to watch and buy these exotic fruits and vegetables, which has become a new trend in the city of Zhuangyue in Linzi.

But the most important area of ​​Xi'an Hou Manor is the thousands of acres of experimental fields. The black-faced farmer Zheng Shengzhi from Jiyin County has already achieved great results in this area according to the agreement with Xi'an Hou.

In the first year, the experimental field that spent manpower to achieve the ultimate cultivation has reached the "Ten Stones" agreed with Ren Hong.

The next year, the eleven stones were scattered, and this year the green seedlings have grown, and the hope of victory can continue to break the record.

"I have already boasted to the Xi'an Hou in the letter that I will obtain a high yield of twelve stones per mu!"

However, he forgot the "a hundred stones per mu" he shouted three years ago.

Qu Tianfa's reputation spread like wildfire in Qi. The people of Xi'an Marquis State heard that the agricultural officials of Xi'an Marquis State were powerful people.

Xi'an County has many people and narrow land, and the land cannot support more and more people. The poor have no place to stand, and the rich - such as the Marquis of Xi'an, and the fields are connected to the fields.

People's baby drowning happens from time to time, and people who cannot survive flock to the big city of Linzi. In Qi, business will not be despised, but will be serious. Some people even set their sights on Liaodong opposite the sea, the four counties and imperial envoys are exploring overseas.

But the distant water cannot quench the near thirst, and this is exactly where the District Field Method can show its skills.

The monk did not hide his own personal gains. According to Ren Hong's instructions, he promoted this method and the countryside to the rural areas. Many people have learned it and tried the planting. Although they are a little tired and use a large amount of manure, the yield per mu can indeed double, and the yield of three or four stones has become the norm.

In addition to the field method, Zhe Shengzhi also used the convenience of the Marquis' agricultural officials to summarize the method of planting gourds, selecting ears, planting melons, adjusting rice field water temperature, retaining soil moisture, and cutting mulberry seedlings, etc., which are all farming experiences that can benefit the people. He also pondered the crops introduced by Xi'an Hou from the Western Regions, slowly summarized the habits of these plants, and recorded them in the brief book.

Seeing that the Xi'an Hou Kingdom was thriving, the days agreed with the Xi'an Hou were gradually increasing. The capital of Shengsheng could not wait for the harvest this year to report the merits to the Xi'an Hou. I hope he could keep his promise and promote these technologies to the entire Guandong.

But what happened in Renyin in April almost destroyed the achievements of Xi'an Hou Kingdom for several years!

Although it was already summer, the weather was a bit outrageously hot. It was like a pot roasted for a day. It was turned upside down on the ground, without a crack, and even if the slightest wind came, the farmers working in the ground were almost dyshot and the crops were wilted. Fan Shengzhi patrolled the fields with a straw hat, but heard a crazy barking of dogs!

The dogs raised in the entire manor, whether they are black or white, are constantly shrinking their tails and barking, especially those in the house, who seem to want to break free from the rope and escape far away.

The pheasants in the chicken basin held their wings against the ground, and the donkeys and horses in the stable kept sticking their hooves, and joined the chorus, and everything was unusual.

Before Fan Shengzhi could think about it, he felt that the sound came from the southeast, as intense as thunder. The sound gradually approached, and suddenly a thunder exploded from the ground. Then, he was like hundreds of thousands of troops floating in and began to tremble violently.

"The earth is moving, the earth is moving!"

The farmer in the field was shocked and lay on the ground in a pretentious manner, not daring to move. After the movement passed slightly, Fan Shengzhi looked up and saw a scene that made him heartbroken.

The Xi'an Marquis Mansion was probably well-built, and it was actually swayed. It only had some tiles fell. However, the simple houses nearby were not good. The wood in the whole area was already scarce, and many of the houses were actually wood from the Warring States Period, which had already been decayed. At this moment, it broke down in the shaking of the earth and pressed the people in the house neatly underneath.

The grape shelf that was only erected the previous year could not hold on. One shed after another fell, and the vines that Fan Shengzhi had carefully taken care of fell all over the ground, and the small green grapes were trampled by panicked people.

Fear spread throughout the Xi'an Marquis Kingdom, and everyone was shocked, or kept bowing and trembling. The servants of the Xi'an Marquis who had been following Fan Shengzhi cried, but out of their duty, they subconsciously wanted to lift up the grape racks and chase the fleeing cattle and horses, but were pulled back by Fan Shengzhi.

"Save people first, it's important to save people!"

The black-faced man shouted loudly in the noisy environment after the disaster, gathered the farmers in the fields, and rushed towards the Lilu, who was in full swing in the house:

"Grill is the lifeblood of the people in the world, but as long as people are still alive, they can be planted from the ground, regardless of wheat, rice, millet, or silkworm, silk and hemp!"

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Located in the epicenter of the Longya County capital, Dongwu City (Zhucheng, Shandong), the scene is far more terrifying than that of the Xi'an Houguo and Linzi.

Earlier today, someone found a strong wind on the east side of Langya Sea. The waves were surging, and the waters were lingering, and the foam was rising for no reason, like a boiling soup.

Then the sea water suddenly boiled and surging. In the lush alley in Dongwu City, countless mice emerged from various gaps. At this time, there were no hamsters, toilets and rats, and they all left in a hurry.

After a few moments, a major earthquake occurred. According to later statistics, it would be at least 7 or above!

For a time, the local area was cracked and the city walls collapsed. The markets of high-risk buildings were almost razed to the ground.

Liang Qiuhe is a native of Tobu City. He specialized in the "Yi" study. When he shook off the bricks and dust on his body and stood up from the Qiuxu, he found that everything outside had changed. Almost all the houses were pouring out, rubble was filled with the market, and the dead were pressing under the beams. The bustling market became a slaughterhouse.

People who could still walk stood up one after another, either digging the house with bare hands to find missing relatives, or crying and moaning all over the city in despair.

Fortunately, when the disaster occurred, Liang Qiuhe's wife and children stood in the courtyard, and out of the instinct of being a father and husband, he protected them under his body. The fallen Liangzhu fell beside him and did not directly kill him.

Aftershocks continued, and living people dared not stay in the city for a long time. They began to subconsciously walk outside the city. Liang Qiuhe could not find his crown, nor could he dig out his Jian. He only carried his son on his body, letting his wife hold the corner of his clothes tightly and stumble out.

Along the way, I saw countless dead bodies, mostly killed by heavy objects. When I passed by Guan Temple, I found that it was also wiped out by great force. The officials who were holding the conference were almost wiped out from the prefect of Langya to the county magistrate of Dongwucheng. Although the county magistrate was still alive, he was almost frightened and no one organized disaster relief. The officials who were well-dressed on weekdays were as panicked as the common people, and each was concerned about their lives.

However, the Langya County Magistrate didn't even care about saving his family and rushed out of the city with a group of visitors from other places.

"Bury your head on my back." Liang Qiuhe told his son so that he moved him to his back and walked over the corpses everywhere. Aftershocks were still happening, and they had to leave this city of death.

The city was also full of miserable appearances. Everyone from the city stood in the open space in fear, looking back at their decades of life being ruined. On the edge of Dongwu City, a hill had completely collapsed, and springs kept gushing out of the gap.

The celestial phenomena in the distance were extremely ugly, and the sky was filled with broken clouds, and the sunset was as red as blood.

It really corresponds to what "October" says: Ye Ye is shocked and the lightning is not calm. All rivers are boiling, and the tombs of the mountain collapse. The high shore is a valley, and the deep shore is a tomb!

Liang Qiuhe's son was only seven or eight years old. He was too frightened by this scene and lay on his father's back and cried. His wife was also trembling and figured out what was going on.

"My dear, this is..."

"It's an earthquake, which is the earthquake that the people say."

Liang Qiuhe didn't say much, but in the eyes of the Confucian scholars of Qi, the reason why earthquakes occurred was that the sun could not come out and the yin could not evaporate. The specific reasons for the earth movement were based on their deductions of "The Book of Changes" and "The Spring and Autumn Annals", which could be said to last for a day and night.

The Book of Changes uses sun, moon, stars, water, and earth to compare various groups and things in human society. For example, the earth is used to compare social roles in the yin position, with the upper position as concubines, the middle position as ministers, and the lower position as common people.

The upper earthquake corresponds to the disobedience of the concubines, the middle earthquake corresponds to the ministers' rebellion. If the lower earthquake is, it corresponds to the rebellion of the common people! Examples of these can be found in the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Liang Qiuhe cannot deduce what kind of disaster warning they had in Langya earthquake. Anyway, it must be related to the unethical virtue of the superiors.

"The Spring and Autumn Annals record 242 years of disasters and strangeness, and regards the king of all ages. Since the general opened the Western Regions and used troops to fight against the Huns, the sun and the moon have been blind, the stars have turned against each other, the mountains have collapsed, the spring has fallen, the stones have fallen, the summer has frost, the winter thunder, the spring has withered and the autumn has flourished, and the disasters and strangeness recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals have been prepared!"

His teacher was a Taizhong doctor who was an official in the court, so Liang Qiuhe was very concerned about political affairs.

At this moment, the victims around him exclaimed again and pointed at a place. Liang Qiuhe turned around and looked at them, unable to help but take a breath!

There is a newly built building a year ago: Emperor Xiaowu Temple! Since the Emperor gave Hanwu a title to establish the Shizong Temple, not only did there be a temple in Chang'an, but the forty-nine counties and states that Emperor Wu of Han visited during his lifetime have also been built.

As a holy land on the coast, there is a legend of the fairy island. During the reign of Emperor Qin Shi, Xu Fu traveled eastward but did not return. Emperor Wu of Han, who also liked to seek immortality, naturally came to travel often. He visited Langya three times, worshiped Penglai immortals at the Jiaomen Palace in Langya, and climbed the Langya Terrace to see the sea.

In order to please the new emperor, the prefect of Langya built a large-scale construction and built the Xiaowu Temple high and large, making it the most solid and tallest building in Langya.

Now, with the continuous aftershocks, Xiaowu Temple is also shaking. Even though the Langya County Magistrate went to rescue him personally, he still collapsed after several struggles!

After a gust of dust settled, there was only a piece of ruins left in the field of vision. The temple gates painted red with paint collapsed, the walls of the bedroom collapsed, and the gorgeous glazed tiles shattered the ground. Xiaowu's spiritual position was smashed into pieces by the pillars. Dozens of people forced by the Langya County Magistrate to rescue were also crushed to death.

The Langya County Magistrate was so scared that his face was pale and bowed his head in front of the temple to commit crimes. For him, the destruction of the entire Dongwu City and the death of all people was not as terrible as the consequences of the collapse of the Xiaowu Temple.

Can't even the spirit of Emperor Xiaowu compete with the earthquake? Despair and fear spread among the victims. Liang Qiuhe held his crying wife and children in his arms and murmured:

"A big earthquake is coming above Chang'an court!"

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ps: Push the immortal tale of Jicha "Ask the Red Dust", and I heard that the fairy inside will move by himself.
Chapter completed!