Chapter 17 The Demise of the Great Jin Kingdom

At this point, I feel a bit unable to explain to you, because I have written some tragic things. Plagues, droughts, military chaos, almost nothing good, it seems that the name of the story should be called. Li Dongyuan only lived a little chicly in his youth, and then he was almost in a state of homelessness.In fact, it wasn't just him like this, all the common people were like this back then, every day when they opened their eyes, they had to think of how many bad things were waiting for them. I really can't write lies like "everyone will live happily ever after", because I have to respect history, so I want to tell you that something big will happen soon.

Everyone thinks that Bianliang is the capital, and the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin is here, and it should be the safest place, but in fact it is all wrong, and this place is about to suffer an unprecedented catastrophe. In 1232 A.D., the Mongolian army marched southward and took Bianliang directly, and the war to end the fate of the Dajin Kingdom began. The Mongolian iron cavalry first wiped out several Jin Dynasty troops who came to rescue them, and almost the entire Jin army was slaughtered. In this way, Bianliang became an isolated city. After a tragic siege, both sides suffered heavy casualties, so the Mongolian army adopted the method of besieging the city, besieging the people of Bianliang and the hundreds of thousands of Jin troops.

Bianliang City has become a city of hunger, and even wild vegetables have become luxury items. The siege began in March and lasted until the seventh day of April, and a temporary peace was negotiated. Then it was surrounded from July until the first month of the second year. On the first day of the first month, Jin Aizong fled. In the second ten days of the first month, the guard Cui Li abandoned the city and surrendered.In the next year, Jin Aizong committed suicide by siege, and the Jin Dynasty perished. The second siege lasted longer, the food and grass in the city were cut off, and countless people starved to death.

During the middle period between the two sieges, beginning in May, disease began to prevail in the city. Li Dongyuan was besieged in the city. He witnessed the demise of the Dajin Kingdom with his own eyes, and he also witnessed the devastation suffered by the people when the two countries fought. Li Dongyuan recorded that after the siege was relieved: "There is no one who is not sick in the capital." How many people died of illness?At that time, the corpses sent out by each gate of several city gates in Bianliang "every day, the most were two thousand, and the few were no less than one thousand, and it was like this for three months."

Yuan Haowen, who was the governor of Zuo Si at that time, later recorded: "Within fifty or sixty days, there will be millions of people who died from injuries caused by eating and fatigue." With such a scale of death, many people thought about whether it was a plague, so they used the method of treating external diseases during treatment, but not only had no effect, but the patient died faster. why?Could there be other reasons besides the plague? For a long time, Li Dongyuan has been observing the injury of the spleen and stomach caused by hunger and fatigue. Is this disease also related to the injury of the spleen and stomach?

Others are still focusing on the plague, but Li Dongyuan believes that the relationship between the hunger suffered during the siege and the disease is self-evident.