Maybe it's Lang's mastery of traditional Chinese medicine, or maybe it's the tonic that works, in short, after a night of coma, Huang Gai woke up, and he was conscious, his speech was not messy, and he could still scold Zhou Lang Xiao'er, he must be cut with a thousand knives and so on!

After two days of cultivation, Huang Gai was able to move normally, first went to the grave of his relatives, offered incense and wept bitterly, and then came to the Zhongjun tent, thanked the Prime Minister for his kindness, and ceremoniously buried the Huang family.

The Prime Minister treated him so kindly, and the civil and military officials also had to express it, and they all brought various gifts to visit General Huang Lao to comfort his bereavement.

There are three unfilial pieties, no queen is great, the ancients attached importance to the inheritance of bloodline, even more than the glory and wealth, called 'rather no wealth in the family, not no children under the knees', if the main room can not give birth to a son, there is a concubine, a maid in the house, anyway, do not give birth to a son and do not stop!

If you really can't give birth to a son, then from your own brother or cousin, a son will come over and inherit your own family business, if there is no suitable candidate, you will pick it up from the field, buy it from human traffickers, and you have to get a son out!

Otherwise, it will become a desperate household, no one will kneel into filial piety when you are born, no one will sacrifice blood and food after death, and you will become a lonely wild ghost, that is the most terrible thing!

Huang Gai is over sixty years old, a family of relatives are all extinct, want to marry a wife and concubine and have children, it is estimated that there is also a weak heart, now the best way is to succeed a moth son, for his own pension to send the end, inherit the title!

After the news of this incident came out, it caused a big sensation in Cao Ying, some officials with low official positions and many sons all secretly moved their minds, Huang Gai is the Marquis of Zhaoyang Pavilion, and he first sealed 1,500 households, and added 1,000 households, what a big piece of fat!

In the Han Dynasty, the 'elder inheritance law' was implemented, and from the true dragon to the common people of Limin, they would put all their family property (throne, title, farmland, property, little wife...... As for the other sons, if you are lucky, you will be given a little property, and if you are unlucky, you can go on your own!

But as parents, those who don't love their sons, will always find ways to fight for a little benefit for their second sons and concubines, and succession is one of the ways, relatives, friends, and colleagues...... Whoever has no successor will pass on his son, so he will get a family business!

It's no wonder that people are spineless, for a good family business, let their sons change their names and surnames, because like Xiao Yi, he has the ability to build a huge family business with his bare hands, no matter how many sons he has born, there are too few people who can raise and divide them!

I don't see a person as noble as Cao Cao, and he also passed on his three concubines to Xiahoudun, appeasing his brothers and not severing his inheritance, but also taking a fancy to Xiahoudun's official position, title, and a large private fief!

So, the officials flocked to visit the old general Huang Gai, who had a son in the army, he dressed up and brought it over, and if the sons were not in the army, he came over with his birthday, hoping to hit a big luck!

In other words, Huang Gai used his title and food as bait to catch countless 'silly fish' and came to his camp, sometimes receiving more than a dozen groups of guests a day, and he was hospitable and sent from afar!

A few days later, in the name of returning the gift, Huang Gai took a group of sick and crooked subordinates to visit the officials and generals, regardless of whether they were familiar with it or not, and their attitudes were hot and cold, anyway, they visited one by one!

He also gave the gold, silver and jewelry to the people who were visited, so that Huang Gai's popularity soared all the way, saying that he was modest and polite, spendthrift money like earth, and had the style of ancient celebrities, and was willing to make friends with more, including the Xiahou brothers, Cao Hong, Li Dian, and Le Jin...... These important generals!

However, Huang Gai traveled all over Cao Ying, but there were two places that he couldn't enter: one was Xiao Yi's descendant troops: the Xuanjia Army, the Trap Camp, the Danyang Army, and the Xuezi Army...... They received a military order, the camp is strictly forbidden to enter and exit at will, Huang Gai came to visit several times, but was turned away, and the gifts were not accepted!

The second is the Jingzhou Water Army Camp, which also refused Huang Gai and others to enter in the name of 'practicing tactics', don't look at Cai Mao and Zhang Yun who are greedy for money and lustful, and have poor character, but the two villains also have advantages, that is, they are very good at knowing people!

And in Cao Ying, they recognized Xiao Yi, and all their actions were following suit, if Xiao Yi sneezed, the two of them would catch a cold, and if Xiao Yi fished, the two of them immediately went into the water, without hesitation at all!

Now Xiao Yi doesn't open the camp gate, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun also don't open it, even if it hurts so much that their hearts are bleeding, they won't accept Huang Gai's gifts, because they understand a truth, as long as they follow Da Sima, they will definitely not suffer!

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The sun and moon shuttled, time passed, and after seven or eight days in a blink of an eye, there was a little problem in Cao Ying, some soldiers were tired, sleepy, headaches, and vomiting and diarrhea, as if they were suffering from water and soil adaptation!

Cao Ying was not surprised, because since the southern expedition of the army, the soldiers have been unaccustomed to the water and soil, vomiting until their stomachs are empty, diarrhea until their legs are weak, and even vomiting to death, but after taking medicine, most people can slowly adapt to it, even if they don't take medicine, they will get used to vomiting!

Therefore, the Langzhong people of Cao Ying, according to the disease of water and soil, boiled a lot of decoction and gave it to the sick people one by one, thinking that the medicine would be cured in a few days when the disease was eliminated!

After another five or six days, the situation surprised the Langzhong, and the number of sick people increased at once, and in almost every camp, there were people who were sick, one spread ten, and ten spread hundreds...... It's getting worse!

And the first batch of sick people began to flicker cold and heat, back and forth 'swing', and some people slowly suffocated to death, to this point, Lang Zhong finally understood that the soldiers were not unaccustomed to the water and soil, but infected with malaria, a very powerful plague!

The situation was reported to the Chinese army, the civil and military ministers were in a mess, there were those who trembled, there were those who cried, and there were those who wrote suicide notes, Cao Cao was also pale, and he almost fell to the ground, no wonder everyone was so panicked, this is an era of talking about 'plague' color change!

Once the plague breaks out, there will be a few small counties and a large number of states, and people and animals will be sick, and medicine will be difficult to save them...... In the end, most of the people died, the rest were displaced, and the earth was full of white bones, turning into a ghost domain within a radius of thousands of miles!

Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty lived for three years, the population of the country was more than 60 million, and in the first year of Jian'an, there were only 15 million people left in the country, and in just 40 years, the population decreased by three-quarters, and the number is still declining, because of wars, droughts, floods, locusts...... And the biggest 'hero' is the plague!

What's even more terrifying is that the plague not only hurts people's lives, but also shakes the rule of the country, and the Taiping Dao founded by Zhang Jiao, the great sage teacher, took advantage of the plague epidemic to scatter talisman water everywhere, treat people's diseases, recruit millions of believers, and finally broke out in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which shocked the Han Dynasty to pieces!

"Boom! -Boom! -Boom! ”

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Outside the big tent of the Chinese army, 36 sides gathered the drums and beat them violently at the same time, this is the great gathering of Prime Minister Cao Cheng's civil and military forces to discuss the way to deal with the plague, and the strategists, generals, and captains of each battalion ...... or lying on horseback, or being supported by others, staggered to the Chinese military tent!

It turned out that in just a few days, most of the civil and military ministers were also sick, and the proportion was higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and only two-thirds of the people who came to the Chinese military tent were lying in tents--vomiting and diarrhea, unconscious, and unable to discuss at all, including the Xiahou brothers, Li Dian, and Le Jin, these generals!

At the door of the Chinese military tent, there are more than a dozen Langzhong, and there are also a few large iron pots, all the civil and military who come to discuss the matter, one person first drinks two large bowls of soup and medicine, and then sends a white cloth to cover the face, although the prescription is not right, the white cloth can not isolate the epidemic, but there is better than nothing!

"See Prime Minister...... Ahem...... Wanfu Jin'an...... Ahem! ”

"Excuse me...... Ahem...... You may be seated! ”

The ministers reluctantly lined up, just bowed down and saluted, and seven or eight people fell, or had a splitting headache, or cold and hot, and even the tiger-like generals are now mostly sick cats!

Everyone was still frightened to find that Cao Cao's face was pale and trembling, and now in the middle of summer, he was wrapped in a thick fur, it seemed that everyone was equal in the face of the plague, and he was as noble as the prime minister and did not hide from it!

At this time, many people remembered Xiao Yi's words: "Shan Biao is born, there will be a catastrophe, it is better to lead the troops to the north to avoid unknown disasters, and when the time is favorable, and then wave the army to the south, it will be able to level Jiangdong with one drum!" ”

If you listen to Xiao Yi's words and retreat to the north as soon as possible, there will be today's disaster, now the plague is epidemic, the soldiers are sick and innumerable, the combat effectiveness has plummeted, and the Sun and Liu coalition forces are eyeing each other, and if one is not properly handled, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out!

What's even more depressing is that when Xiao Yi proposed to withdraw from the army, most people agreed with it, it was Cao Cao and Pang Tongyi who sang a harmony and forcibly suppressed the discussion of retreating, everyone didn't dare to blame the prime minister, they all turned their hateful eyes on Pang Tong, and some people also frequently touched the hilt of the sword, and their eyes were full of killing intent!

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