East Asia was destined to be plagued by many disasters in the first three years, and the Han Dynasty suffered a great drought and locust plague that had not been encountered for decades, and after the winter, the Xiongnu suffered a white plague that had not been seen for several generations.When the Han Dynasty was hit by a disaster, the government came forward to help the famine, such as setting up a permanent position and exempting the victims from taxes in the disaster area.After all, in his later years, Xiaowu had two million displaced people in Kanto, and the chaos in the world was still fresh in his memory.No matter how corrupt the court is, it has to do things on the surface, this is the effect of the dynasty, and the emphasis is on the difficulty of one county, and the mobilization of grain and straw support from eight counties.But after all, it is a feudal dynasty, and it cannot compare with later generations.Although the concept is good, it always depends on people to implement, the governance of officials in various places is different, and there are even officials in the name of disaster relief to exploit the country's difficult wealth, and I am afraid that there is not much left in the implementation of personal heads, often far water does not quench the thirst of the near, can only be made up for after the fact, if you only count on the court to rescue, the victims may have starved to death.Fortunately, there are also clan forces to maintain local order, and the same surname gathers in various places to live, giving people a sense of belonging.The three elders of Lizheng are also mostly patriarchs, although their relatives are far away and their virtues are different, but when they encounter disasters to benefit the poor and help their relatives and neighbors, it is a moral thing that is praised, and there are more or less some village sages doing it.But there is no such thing as a free lunch, and most of them will swallow up the land of their poor relatives afterwards and turn them into tenant farmers.In 70 BC, the disaster of the Han Dynasty was alleviated, marked by the wedding of the Son of Heaven, and the famine finally ended, but in the Xiongnu, the suffering had just begun."
The weather is so strange that it is beyond the knowledge of the oldest people, the snow has fallen and melted a year ago, and then it has not fallen for months, the rivers are frozen, and the people can still hold on, but the livestock are sick a lot."
When Milanda went to the river, he met a neighbor from the adjacent pasture, who was also digging into the ice at the moment, and often sighed.It is already February, the temperature in Mobei is still more than ten degrees below zero, the lakes and rivers are frozen hard, the grassland that was covered with snow a few months ago is now not white at all, and the grass and trees are frozen to death, leaving only a large area of black soil.The neighbors complained to Milanda that it was a "black plague".When the White Plague came, the wind howled, and the blizzard raged, and Milanda had already seen it.The nature of the Black Plague is the exact opposite, with too little snow.It seems that nothing has happened, but the threat of death is buried in the secret, a group of cattle and sheep who have rushed out of the pen are walking around on the glacier like crazy, licking the ice with their heads down, there is no shortage of tongue frostbite, and even sticking to it can only be cut with a knife, and the neighbor's wife and daughter can only drag the ewe and prevent it from going to the ice.The neighbor looked at this scene and sighed: "If the livestock do not eat snow for twenty days, there will be a shortage of water, and the ewes will not be able to produce milk; If you can't eat snow for forty days, you will lose weight; If there is no snow for more than two months in a row, the livestock will become emaciated and fall down one after another. ”When he was the only adult in the family, his livelihood became even more difficult, and he had to haul the chiseled ice back to the corral, break it little by little, and put it in the trough so that the animals could easily eat it.The vegetation in the wilderness has been scavenged, and there is really no fuel to light a fire, and people can only drink water on this broken ice.Pujie and her brother put crushed ice in their mouths and greedily sucked up the water.But the cattle, sheep and horses drink water several times and ten times that of people, and the livestock in the pen are like the grass and trees that have been in drought for a long time, wilting, and there is no longer the liveliness of the past."
Move, go to the Golden Mountain, there is still snow in the high places."
A herdsman passing by with his livestock advised them.But Pujie's family no longer has the capital to migrate, after the white disaster, there are not many livestock left, and now they are dying one after another, and there are fewer and fewer sheep that can produce milk, even if they find snow, there is no grass, and the livestock will not survive.They could only stay where they were, waiting for the snow to fall.As the family's cheese and milk were completely depleted, Milanda almost went on a hunger strike and became thinner and thinner, but she still shook her head at the meat handed over by Pujie after slaughtering the sheep.He cannot break the precepts.The neighbors were no better, with livestock dead and mourning everywhere, and the seemingly powerful Xiongnu were powerless in the face of famine, more vulnerable than the Han Dynasty.For a tribal alliance like the Xiongnu, there was no unified dispatch of disaster relief by the government and no help from clan neighbors.They believe in the law of survival that the weak eat the strong, and the old and weak deserve to die.The disasters are all supported by their own tents, and they can't expect the help of the big single or the right and left kings, and as for the brother tribes, they have long been beggar-thy-neighbors, and it is good not to take advantage of the chaos to loot.In the past, Da Danyu's only strategy to save the famine was to take Ding Zhuang south to loot and find a way to survive, and pass on the pain of the disaster to the Han people.But with the revival of the Han Dynasty, it no longer worked.The White Plague was followed by the Black Plague, and by the end of February, three or four out of ten livestock and one or two of the population had died.If Ren Hong saw this scene, he would probably sigh: "A piece of snow in the times, falling on a single Hun person, is a mountain." ”Most of the dead were old people, who actively or passively sacrificed themselves and became victims of the tribe's abandonment, and Milanda had already witnessed the sacrifice of Grandmother Pujie, and with the snow in March, there were more and more similar things in the tribe.The neighbor's house couldn't hold on, and on this day, when Milantuo took Pujie out to dig ice, he found that the neighbor carried the old mother in the tent to the horse and carried her step by step into the wilderness."
I can't do it anymore."
As they passed, the neighbor smiled wryly.According to the customs of the Xiongnu, if there is a disaster, the man is more than 60 and the woman is more than 50, Ding Zhuang must be carried to the field and let him destroy himself.Or freeze to death in the cold, or be devoured by the wild wolves that wander around the tent with a hungry stomach, and after a few days, there is often only a bloody skeleton left, and if there is a heart, they will pick it up and bury it, and there are also ruthless parents who throw their bodies into the wilderness and still take care of themselves, let alone the dead?
Many men, like Pujie's grandfather, would rather die in battle than die like this.But Hu Wu highly admired this matter, saying that it was just to send the old people to "serve the Qilian God", and if he was willing to give out two sheep, Hu Wu was even willing to deign to come here, hold a ceremony for the old people, and send them to the "feet of the Qilian God".But the neighbor didn't want to pay that big price again, so he came to Milanda: "Aren't you also a witch?"
I've seen you perform a ceremony for Grandma Pujie. ”Miranda was stunned for a moment and explained, "I believe in the Dharma, which is different from your gods."
Isn't God very much?
In addition to the god Qilian, the mountains and rivers have their own gods. ”The neighbors didn't understand and thought that the so-called Buddha was a small mountain god.However, in the view of the Theravada sect of the Snow Mountain Division, the Buddha is not a god, the physical body has a limit, and the life span is boundary, and it is said that the Buddha warned his disciples when he was dying that he should follow the law, not according to people, and that people are born and die, and the Dharma is eternal.It is only the public in the south that is vigorously preaching that the Buddha is an all-powerful god.Heresy, simply heresy!
Even so, the neighbor begged Milanda to help him comfort his mother, because she had heard little Pujie talk about the Buddha and was very interested.The neighbor's mother's name is Ah Lingpo, who is thin and weak, and has completely become a burden to the family, she also knows what awaits her, her body is trembling, her eyes are desperate, and she only said to Milanda: "Pujie tells me, your god can make people live many more times?"
”Unable to explain that the Buddha was not a god, but that he believed in the Dharma itself, he only described the concepts of karma and reincarnation in simple language that the Huns could understand.When I heard that people have an afterlife, if they do good and not do evil in this life, and can be reincarnated into the carefree way of heaven or the humanity of a good family, Ah Lingpo's eyes suddenly became brighter and brighter.The god of the Huns is cruel, to be a slave to the god of Qilian, he is single Yu in life, he is still single in death, he is a slave in life, and he is still a slave after death.The world after death is no different from reality, and that's where the most despair begins.But the reincarnation of karma in the mouth of Milantuo gave the people at the bottom a little hope."
I have done good deeds, when I was a child, I went out hunting with my father, and I secretly let go of an injured fox."
Although the little fox did not come back to repay the favor, Ah Lingpo still remembered it, and she beat her father and brother hard for it.But when Milanda told her about the five precepts of Buddhism, Ah Lingpo was in trouble again."
I've stolen, I've stolen sheep from neighboring pastures."
She looked at her son again: "He is actually born with me and another person." ”"I've said a lot of big things, and I like to drink milk wine."
In this way, she is destined not to be reincarnated?
The old man was disappointed."
But you didn't kill anyone."
Milanta smiled, King Sanssouci and King Milan were once cruel kings who did all kinds of evil, but as long as they woke up and took refuge in the Dharma, they were still great Dharma kings."
As long as you are willing to take refuge in the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, you can become a Buddha layman.In the next life, you will be saved from falling into the animal path, born in humanity, and reincarnated in a good family. ”Ah Lingpo couldn't help nodding: "I hope that at least the family of the thousand horsemen can eat meat at once, and they are not afraid of white disasters and black disasters." ”Buddha originally did not have idols, under the influence of the Greeks began to make statues, after Milanda came to the grassland, with a big wolf tooth carved a small Buddha statue, at this moment to show a Lingpo, and to her chanted Sanskrit scriptures, although Lingpo did not understand, but the eyes are full of longing for the afterlife.No matter what religion it is, it solves the eternal proposition of "death", and who wants to die and die, or live a hard life as a slave after death?
When the ceremony was completed, Ah Lingpo followed the example of Milanda, folded her hands and bowed to him, and when she raised her head, she was already in tears, but with a smile of relief, and then she was carried by her son in a thin man, and walked towards the wilderness without looking back.Milanda prostrated himself at them, and for some reason, he, who was so thirsty every day, also shed two lines of tears, but they quickly solidified into frost on his face.All living beings are suffering, all living beings are suffering!
When it was almost dark, the neighbor came again, and he was much more relieved, saying that he had found a rock in the distance with no corpses on it, and put his mother on it.Then he obeyed the rule of no turning back and walked away quickly, but there was no crying and wailing of the mother being abandoned, only quiet.This made the neighbor unable to help but look back, and find her mother sitting in place, little by little, as if asleep, and her soul seemed to be relieved after Milanda's words.The neighbors thanked Milanda and gave him some of the only cheese left in the house.After a few days, the news spread in the nearby pasture, and since then, there have been Huns who want to send their parents to death, but they can't afford to invite Hu Wu to come to Milantuo, hoping to make the old people go at least peacefully.Afterwards, the herdsmen would take the initiative to give Milanda some milk and cheese, which would allow Sister Pujie to live, and he would not have to kill and eat meat.Gradually, slaves who were not even as good as livestock began to gather around the world of reincarnation when Milanda sent off the old people on missions, and was full of longing for the world of reincarnation after death.The class solidification of the Xiongnu was far more serious than that of the Han Dynasty, and ordinary people and slaves had no thoughts in this life, only looking forward to the next life.In this time of suffering, in the country of suffering, and when the people at the bottom have nothing to turn to in the face of calamity, religion can comfort them.Milanta saw off the emaciated old people, listened to their stories, felt their despair and pain, which kept him awake at night, often crying late at night, only the small wolf tooth Buddha statue in front of his neck could bring Milantuo comfort, let him strengthen his belief, believe that he came to the Xiongnu, there is cause and effect."
I want the Dharma to take root in the grasslands."
Holding the Buddha statue, he walked out of the house and smiled when he saw the snow falling again in three months."
Universal desire to get rid of all living beings!"
Da Shan Yu and King Youxian didn't know that a new doctrine was slowly spreading at the bottom of the Xiongnu, and they would not care about the life and death of ordinary herdsmen, and they were worried about other things at the moment, the major affairs of the country.In the golden tent next to Gonglu Shui, Shan Yu, who had returned to Shan Yuting, had a gloomy face, listening to the three bad news from the north, east, and west."
Wuhuan unites with Xianbei, attacks my left, and traps the west.""
Ding Ling rebelled, attacked the north of Yuting, and plundered tens of thousands of cattle and sheep."
The natural disaster not only befell the Xiongnu, but also caused the Wuhuan Xianbei and Ding Ling who were also out of the north to suffer, Wuhuan Xianbei was the enemy of the Xiongnu, but Ding Ling, this slave who had surrendered to the Xiongnu since Mao Dunshan Yu, was also forced south by the White Plague, and drove their high chariots to attack the Xiongnu tribes, and began to show his teeth to the master!"
We have to let them know who is the real master of the grassland!"
Hu Yan Shan Yu was furious, but his body was also weakened by the cold during last year's winter march, and his wife, known as "the most beautiful flower on the grassland", came up with the herbs concocted by Hu Wu: "Da Shan Yu, it's time to drink medicine." ”Hu Yanyu Shan Yu listened to the words of the Qu Yan clan very much, frowned and drank the medicinal soup made with milk.Shan Yu asked Xing Weiyang to continue to say that although Ding Ling and Wu Huan were hateful, they could completely repel them by relying on the strength of Shan Yuting and the left side.What worries him the most is that the Han people in the south will take the opportunity to make a move, and if 160,000 people ride into the Xiongnu again, they will not be able to bear it."
The southern Han army didn't move, but the right Xian king in the west sent someone to report that Xing Weiyang was worried: "Ren Hong has sent troops, he is marching to Hujie!"
”PS: Ahem, something was delayed in the morning, and the second chapter was in the evening.