Wei Yan kept kneeling there, watching Liu Mang's figure gradually go away, and the next place Liu Liu Mang needed to go was Zhao Yun's camp! Zhao Yun, Zhao Zilong! No one would like to miss such a person, who is unparalleled in loyalty, whether in the romance or in the official history, this person is a glorious image. .
Changbanpo entered seven times and exited seven times, and rescued the young master twice. He is the general Baijia standing behind Liu Bei! When he was in Youzhou, Gongsun Zan’s Baima Congyi was the commander of Baima Congyi. Baima Congyi, like Bingzhou Wolf Riders, was a nightmare for those foreigners. The contribution to the frontier people is great! It was Gongsun Zan who made those foreigners suffer so much that they didn't dare to buckle up! Originally, he and Liu Yu were both Huairou and tough, but Gongsun Zan was lost in his mind by power!
And Zhao Zilong in Changshan is the commander of this white horse from righteousness, just like Zhang Liao, the commander of Bingzhou Wolf Rider now, and Zhao Yun's martial arts are far superior to Zhang Liao's. They have fought against each other before, and Zhao Yun even challenged Cao Jun's general Fifty, Zhang Liao stopped his horse when he saw Zhao Yun!
Zhao Yun is not only highly rated in the eyes of the ancients, but also a typical representative for modern people. He is tall, mighty, handsome, capable, loyal and unparalleled. He is completely a typical representative of tall, rich and handsome. characters!
Liu Mang walked into Zhao Yun's tent, Zhao Yun was much better than Wei Yan, and was also beaten forty big boards, but Zhao Yun was lenient by those urban management soldiers. Not at all, unlike Wei Yan, who was hit 60 times with 40 boards! So when he entered Zhao Yun's camp, Zhao Yun was wiping his point steel gun carefully over and over again.
"Zilong is so excited!" Liu Mang walked in and greeted Zhao Yun with a smile
"His Royal Highness the King of Shu!" Zhao Yun saw the person half-bowed, and hurriedly stood up, still very respectful to Zhao Yun of the Han Dynasty.
"Don't call me His Royal Highness the King of Shu, just call me Han Yang like them!" Liu Mang said casually, His Royal Highness the King of Shu is too natural, Liu Mang wants to win Zhao Zilong's heart and his man! If so, how can we connect with the relationship
"Ah, how is this possible!" Zhao Yun shook his head unwillingly. He is just a grassroots man, but Liu Mang has a prince. This is the world of big men.
"Why not!" Liu Mang didn't care. "My friends call me that!" Liu Mang was talking nonsense with his eyes open! Besides Boss Lu, the ones who can be called Liu Mang Hanyang are Old Man Chen and the original Miss Lu! Now that Miss Lu is married to Liu Mang, she also changed her name to her husband, so if she is called Liu Mang, she is either an elder or an elder! How dare other people call Liu Mang Hanyang so presumptuously!
Huang Zhong, Xu Sheng, and the others all called the young master, and Xu Shu called the master! Yang Hong called the owner of the house! It can be said that Liu Mang really communicated with Zhao Yun on a higher level.
"Friend? This is absolutely impossible!" Zhao Yun shook his head violently. A friend of the prince is also a prince, not a grassroots like him. Zhao Yun's treatment is too high! A friend of one of the princes, although this prince is only a small prince, after Lu Bu's death, everything belongs to Liu Mang! And you have to know that Liu Mang still has a prince of the king of Shu on him! This is a very high salary.
Even if ordinary people become vassals, they treat their former friends differently! Because their status is completely different, Lao Cao's old friend Xu You just didn't see this, he was still old-fashioned, thinking that Lao Cao would treat him like he used to treat his friends, but he forgot that Lao Cao has already It's not the libertine in the past, and it's not the black-faced Cao who peeked at other people's baths, but a prince of the house, a person who ranks among the three princes!
He also forgot that there were only two of them left in the trio before, and Yuan Shao had already died in the hands of his friend Cao Cao. What would be the final outcome of Xu You who had forgotten all this! I was hated by Lao Cao and solved it with a single knife.
But now Corporal Liu Mang calls a commoner soldier a friend, what is he trying to do! What kind of character is Zhao Yun? Martial arts are a bit higher. In terms of martial arts, Xu Sheng may not be as good as Zhao Yun, but Huang Zhong is definitely superior. Isn't it because he followed Gongsun Zan and served as the commander of an army of three thousand
Huang Zhong used to be the chief general, and he stayed by Liu Mang's side because he wanted to repay his kindness, but what about Xu Sheng! Now he is commanding an army of 3,000 black chessmen. This is a heavily armored pawn no worse than the white horse Congyi.
Liu Mang didn't treat them like that, but he did this to a Zhao Yun, how could they not be jealous! What Huang Zhong and the others think? Liu Wei doesn't know, but Liu Wei knows that Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong have accepted him. This person is not only strong in martial arts, but most importantly, he is unparalleled in loyalty. Once this person accepts the Lord, he will have no regrets and will fight for the Lord to the end. moment!
The reason why he entered Changbanpo seven times and seven times out was to save Liu Paopao's son. If it wasn't for Lao Cao Ai who wanted to capture Zhao Yun alive and prevent him from letting the arrows go, otherwise Zhao Yun would be hated no matter how strong he was among the arrows .
The most important thing is that Zhao Yun is good at cavalry! This is what Liu Mang needs. Although Lu Bu's army already has a Bingzhou wolf riding Tian Wushuang, it is also in Lujiang. Lu Bu's army is now small and one cavalry is enough. What if the territory grows later! For example, now that Lu Bu asked Liu Mang to come out to open up the territory by himself, it would be very uncomfortable without a highly mobile cavalry. There are many cavalry commanders in Lu Bu's army, such as Zhang Liao, such as Gao Shun. These people are all cavalry commanders, but Don't forget that Zhang Liao already has a Bingzhou Wolf Rider! Gao Shun led the camp, and the other one was Boss Lu Bulu. You can't let Boss Lu come here to command the cavalry!
There are also cavalry commanders in Liu Mang's army, such as Gan Ning, Huang Zhong is also one of them, and Cheng Yu also stayed in Bingzhou wolf cavalry!
But Gan Ning is already going to command the navy, and the navy cannot do without him! Now the main thing occupying Yangzhou is water warfare. If there is no navy commander, what a fart it is!
Huang Zhong wants to stay by Liu Mang's side to protect Liu Mang, and Liu Mang plans to release Huang Zhong as a landlord in the future instead of commanding the cavalry. The man who commands the cavalry must dare to fight and fight, and Huang Zhong Zhong is too mature and prudent!
Cheng Yu now has the city management army in his hands, so he doesn't have the time to manage the cavalry.
Now the former commander-in-chief of Baima Congyi, Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong appeared in front of Liu Mang. If he doesn't go and subdue him, it's really unreasonable!
"Could it be that Zilong looks down on me, Liu Mang!" Liu Mang said to Zhao Yun with a dark face.
"This!" Zhao Yun was really in a dilemma, Liu Mang is a prince, he is just a commoner, how can he be called a brother, but Liu Mang used the words of looking down on Liu Mang to oppress Zhao Yun, so that Zhao Yun didn't know how to answer.
"That's the deal!" Liu Mang made a decision directly, he didn't care whether Zhao Yun was embarrassed or not! He knew that Zhao Yun was good at everything, but he didn't know how to reject people, otherwise he wouldn't be tempted by Liu Paopao and run away!
"Zilong, how old are you this year!" Liu Mang asked while the iron was hot.
"Twenty years old!" Zhao Yun didn't know how to get back to Liu Mang, so he had to answer this question first.
"Twenty?!" Liu Mang was stunned for a moment. Such an achievement can be achieved at the age of twenty. The time when Gongsun Zan Baima Congyi was still there must have been four or five years ago! Zhao Yun was only fifteen or sixteen years old at that time? Such a child is a cavalry commander of 3,000 cavalry? This ancient man is too precocious! So you may not understand! The three thousand cavalry of the ancients is basically equivalent to the size of a cavalry division in modern times, and it is directly under the cavalry division, and Zhao Yun, a child of fifteen or sixteen, is already a division commander!
What was Liu Mang doing when he was fifteen or sixteen years old? In class at school, I was pulling the braids of the female classmates in front of me, passing notes to each other, and thinking about how to play games.
"I am twenty-three this year!" Liu Mang was twenty-two when he came to this world, and now he is twenty-three after such a long time. "If you don't mind Zilong, just call me brother!"
"Brother?!" Zhao Yun was stunned immediately, Liu Mang's span is too big, the real Zhao Yun and Liu Mang have only met a few times! Except for the one time four days ago, it was today after that, but this relationship has directly changed from strangers to friends and now to brothers!
To be honest, what can Zhao Yun say about Liu Mang's emotions! There is a kind of respect for the princes of the Han family, but there is a kind of disgust for the prince and general Xiangning that Liu Mang said, that's what the rebels would say! Being able to say such a thing shows that His Royal Highness the King of Shu is very ambitious! He is now the king of Shu, and if he wants to go further, he will only have the position of the Han emperor in Xudu, which makes Zhao Yun a little unbearable.
If it weren't for Xu Shu's control, Zhao Yun might have left by now. He came to Hefei just to come and have a look. What's more, he spent Ying and originally wanted to go to Shouchun to Runan, but he left Wrong direction, the only indicator for the direction of the ancients is the sun, and a slight difference is a deviation of hundreds of miles, so I ran to this Hefei, but now His Royal Highness King Shu is too good, so Zhao Yun is too late reaction.
"Why does Zilong despise him!"
"No, no!" Liu Mang is completely bullying a person who doesn't know how to speak, or a pure child
"Then it's settled, Brother Zilong!" Liu Mang no longer cared about the pain in his butt, and went to Zhao Yun's side and patted Zhao Yun's shoulder.
"Eh!" Zhao Yun was stunned, not knowing what happened! The four words "Brother Han Yang!" came out of his mouth involuntarily.
"Hey! Isn't that right!" Liu Mang laughed happily and patted his thigh.
Brother Ziyang! This elder brother is not so easy to shout, once he shouts out, it means acknowledging the brotherhood, if it is Chen Lanleibo's title of brother and virtuous brother, or the title of Lao Cao and Liu Paopao, of course it doesn't matter , after Chen Lanleibo left his old master, he didn't remember to repay his kindness, and instead went to take advantage of the fire to rob. The quality of this kind of person has been low to a certain extent, and his morals have been corrupted. However, Liu Paopao and Lao Cao are both politicians. Calling brothers, they may draw their swords against each other in the next second, so their brotherhood is also fake!
But Zhao Yun is different, as I said earlier, this person is unparalleled in loyalty, and he can be said to be able to disregard his own life and death for the sake of loyalty. Once he agrees to the title of elder brother, then it can be said that most of Zhao Yun has been tied to the Lu Bu army chariot by Liu Wei on.
Afterwards, Liu Mang didn't talk about any solicitation or state affairs for half a day. He just chatted with Zhao Yun, asking how many people in Zhao Yun's family are doing now.
Our aunt Liu talked so much and praised Gongsun Zan very much. This is not fake. Liu Mang really admires Gongsun Zan. Small and medium-sized officials in the county. He was beautiful, with a loud voice, and witty eloquence. Liu Taishou of Zhuojun appreciated it very much and betrothed his daughter to him. Later, he gradually became a general of Zhonglang, and fought against the foreigners in the north with a tough attitude. He fought bravely and shocked the frontier.
Gongsun Zan beat Wuhuan and Xianbei. If Gongsun Zan hadn't died, he wouldn't be in chaos after that, because the Xianbei clan would definitely be beaten by Gongsun Zan until there was no scum left, and Wuhuan would only be humble. Crouching at Gongsun Zan's feet.
But such a white horse general ended up [***] and died. People have to sigh, if he did not kill Liu Yu but joined forces with Liu Yu, the frontier would be absolutely safe, with one person being gentle and the other being tough, just like now Like the United States, a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other hand, slap you and give you a piece of candy. Our ancestors have already figured out this kind of strategy! But power lost General Gongsun Zan's mind! The result of killing Liu Yu was that not only the foreigners were afraid of Gongsun Zan and wanted to unite to get rid of him, but even the Han people who had received Liu Yu's kindness wanted to kill Gongsun Zan, and they were defeated by Yuan Shao in the end!
"Born at the wrong time!" Liu Wei could only sigh in this way. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, how many heroes were like this! Which of the princes in this world is not a hero! Those who died include Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, and Dong Zhuo!
Of these four, Gongsun Zan defeated Wuhuan and Xianbei in Liaodong and Youzhou, and Dong Zhuo! In Xiliang, it was even a nightmare for the Qiang people. The Xiliang iron cavalry can be said to be the patron saint of the southwest of the Han Dynasty at that time.
Yuan Shu and Tao Qian should not be underestimated. Although Yuan Shu is full of greed, he is also a capable person who once served as Yin of Henan. Henan was once prosperous under his governance!
Tao Qian even turned Xuzhou into a land of abundance and made Xuzhou one of the world's granaries at that time, but this also brought disaster to Tao Qian.
Those who are alive, like Lu Bu, Cao Cao, Liu Paopao, Sun Ce Jingzhou Liu Biao, Yizhou Liu Zhang, Xiliang's Ma Teng and Han Sui, which one is not a character!
Lu Bu is also a nightmare for foreigners. Bingzhou wolves gallop on the grasslands. If Bingzhou wolves stay on the grasslands, most of the nomads on the grasslands will disappear!
Lu Bu, Gongsun Zan, and Dong Zhuo Ma Teng formed the Great Wall of Great Han outside the Great Wall. Without them, other peoples would never want to step into the Central Plains!
As for Cao Cao, although he is an annihilating hero, don't forget the real evaluation, a capable minister who governs the world, and a hero in troubled times! This person was a loyal servant of the big man at the beginning, but he was slowly forced out later! But when Cao Cao was in power, Wei's national power reached its peak. In the end, everyone knew Prime Minister Cao but not Emperor Han.
Lao Cao also launched a war against foreign nations. The Three Expeditions to Wuhuan decided to go on an expedition to Wuhuan in order to completely solve the problem of Wuhuan's intrusion into the fortress. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Wuhuan, the three prefectures of Liaoxi, Liaodong, and Youbeiping, combined into Wuhuan, the leader of which was Tadun of western Liao. The relationship between Wuhuan of the three counties and the Yuan family has always been very good, and they have repeatedly invaded the border and robbed people and property.
And Lao Cao did not hesitate to waste manpower and material resources, and forcibly smashed Wuhuan to pieces!
Although Liu Paopao runs fast and is a rascal, but to be honest, Liu Paopao is really an upright official. When he was an official, he had a clean sleeve, and he treated the people even if he cheated, he was much more benevolent than others. In a peaceful and prosperous age, there must be a party of upright officials!
What about Liu Biao and Liu Zhang! Although he is a conservative dog, he treats his subordinates well! At least in Jingzhou and Yizhou, there has been almost no famine and starvation to death!
But these characters all appeared in an era, and the world began to be in chaos, power, property and beauties all lost their eyes!
This is the beginning of a catastrophe in the Central Plains!
Gongsun Zan was just one of the victims!
"Brother Han Yang, do you really think so!" If Zhao Yun was completely helpless and unwilling to call out his brother to Liu Mang before, then now Liu Mang's brother is really sincere!
"Hehe!" Liu Mang didn't answer directly but shook his head with a smile. Refugees, a lot of broken homes and homeless people!
After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the reason why there are five chaos in China is because, the population of the Central Plains, the great Han people spent too much vitality in the internal struggle, how many people died in the War of the Three Kingdoms? million? Ten million
The Wuhuluanhua almost caused the entire Han Dynasty to perish in history.
"The prosperity of the people is suffering? The death of the people is suffering?!" Everyone in the big tent was chewing on this sentence. None of Huang Zhong, Xu Sheng, Zhao Yun, and Xu Shu were descendants of noble families, so they knew more about the suffering of the people. many.
From the two emperors Huan Ling to the subsequent Yellow Turban Rebellion, Dong Zhuo Rebellion and now, the power in this world is changing, but the real unlucky ones are not those people!
Xu Shu had heard this sentence from somewhere in the Nanyang thatched cottage, but now he was even more shocked when he heard it, and couldn't help sighing in his heart, Kong Ming, Kong Ming is indeed the lord you fancy!
Zhao Yun is from Changshan County. He was elected by everyone because of the war in Changshan County, so he is even more resentful towards the troubled times.
"Brother Zilong, do you know?" Liu Mang took out something from his bosom. This is a map of a big man, it is from Liu Mang's books. Although it is not detailed and some places are marked wrongly, but the whole map The size is the same.
"The place we are now is Yangzhou!" Liu Mang pointed to Yangzhou and showed it to Zhao Yun, "Here, here, Yangzhou and Xuzhou used to be the most affluent place in the entire Huainan area. Now! But there is no one out of ten! Hefei, originally a county, should have 8,000 households and a population of tens of thousands, but now! The largest number of households is no more than before, and the population is almost all old, weak, sick and disabled. They are all people who can’t run! What about the others! They either died in battle! Or they left their homes!”
Zhao Yun nodded. When he came to Yangzhou, the scene he saw along the way was indeed like this: "Ten rooms are empty, and there are many corpses on the road! Zhao Yun will naturally get used to it after seeing too much!"
"This is Yangzhou! There used to be a million people in the hinterland of my big man, but now there are 300,000 in total, which is the extreme! Xuzhou is the same! If Yang Xu is like this, let alone the dozens of states of other big men Already!" Liu Mang shook his head with a wry smile, "From Huanling to now, the population of the big man, the people of my big man has shrunk by two-thirds, what kind of data is this, that is, my 60 million people are only There are less than 20 million people left! This is the troubled world! But this troubled world is still going on! I don’t know how many people will be left in this big man after the day of unifying the world! My big man's heart has never stopped! General Gongsun Zan is dead! Wuhuan Xianbei has a chance to breathe! Dong Zhuo is dead! The Qiang people in Xiliang are once again strong and recuperating! And I am in the Central Plains! I am still fighting every year! You are here Look at Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's 400,000 troops gathering in Guandu, Hebei, Jiangdong's Yangtze River valley, Jiangdong's Sun Ce and Jingzhou's Liu Biao, as well as Guanzhong and Xiliang! When we are tired and tired, how many people are left at that time? Well, if the foreign races invade at this time, we still have a second White Horse General, a second White Horse Congyi, Xiliang Cavalry! No! They all disappeared, all died in the civil war!"
"Brother!" No one spoke and became silent. The big man should be the champion Hou Weiqing, seal the wolf and live in Xuxu, open up the territory, this is what the generals and civil servants need to do! And now! No matter which lord he belongs to, no matter which vassal he is fighting is a civil war, killing his own compatriots!
Zhao Yun recalled the time when foreigners invaded Changshan County. At that time, Zhao Yun was only fifteen years old, and he had just returned from school. He saw the appearance of those foreigners knocking on the customs, burning and killing the invaders. If it wasn't for General Gongsun Zan, the whole Youzhou might be destroyed. It's messed up, if what Liu Mang said is true, then will there really be someone to stop those foreigners at that time
No! Because the elite soldiers and the generals who could command the troops all died in the civil war! The rest are old, weak, sick and disabled.
"Brother, what do you want to do!" Zhao Yun didn't know that Liu Wei was slowly leading him into a mood of worrying about the country and the people.
"Squeeze the troubled times as soon as possible, restore the Han dynasty, and return the great Han to the world, let the generals guard the borders, and the civil servants will rule the world!" Liu Wei said very great, but he still shook his head, "But my ability alone is not enough! "
"Huang Zhong, Huang Hansheng, Xu Sheng, Xu Wenxiang, Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi, are willing to dedicate their lives to help my lord calm down the troubled times, help the Han Dynasty, and return my great man to the world!" The three of them suddenly knelt down in front of Liu Mang, with a very serious tone. said firmly.
"Get up, get up!" Liu Wei was about to step forward to help the three people, and suddenly Zhao Yun, who was beside Liu Wei, also fell to his knees.
"Brother, although Yun is a grassroots man with only a little martial arts, he is willing to serve by his side and be a pioneer for him! Brother, no, my lord! Changshan Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong pays homage to the lord." Xu Shu and the others didn't know that Zhao Yun's family was in Changshan County In Youzhou, I naturally know the cruelty of those foreign races. For people outside the Great Wall, those foreign races are the ones who remind them of their lives, and they are the ones who destroy their families! Zhao Yun has already experienced a turmoil! At that time, the big Han had just experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion and hadn't settled down, then Dong Zhuo's Rebellion appeared again, and all the princes from all walks of life raised troops to serve the king. The problem caused by this was that there were very few soldiers guarding the frontier in the border areas!
Bingzhou Dingyuan took away Bingzhou wolf riders and tens of thousands of Bingzhou infantry! The same is true for Youzhou Inspector and others. There are fewer Han troops guarding the frontier. Naturally, those foreigners have ideas. They drove their war horses directly into the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the Han army guarding the border of the Han Dynasty can only defend the city because of the reduction in number. It is impossible to take the initiative to attack. Those Wuhuan Xianbei people directly crossed those border cities and directly invaded the hinterland of the Han Dynasty. Changshan County is such a place that has been invaded.
Every time those foreigners go to a place, it will inevitably cause a bloodbath. Countless big men died under the iron cavalry of the foreigners. The places where the foreign cavalry passed by burned, killed and invaded. As slaves, use those Han women as their reproductive tools, and men as servants! If it wasn't for General Gongsun Zan's timely return to the army, I'm afraid that Youzhou would have really come to an end. Zhao Yun really didn't want to see that hellish scene again, and according to what Liu Mang said, this chaotic world will continue. Those Han troops guarding the frontier died one after another, and those warriors fell into the hands of their own people one by one. On the contrary, because of the civil strife of the big Han, these foreigners had a respite, allowing them to recuperate. This ebbs and flows, ten or twenty years? Thirty years? Forty years! Now fifteen years is a generation! The population of the big Han is shrinking, while the population of foreigners is multiplying, what will be the final outcome! It must be a full-scale invasion by foreigners! By that time, there will still be soldiers guarding the frontier!
there is none left! The generals are all dead! People like Gongsun Zan and Dong Zhuo who frightened foreigners were all killed in battle! The white horse from Yixiliang cavalry also disappeared! The elites are all finished, so what will be used to resist the aliens in the end! Only with flesh and blood! Use the flesh and blood of the people! Zhao Yun didn't want to see this ending, so he strengthened his belief!
It's done! Liu Mang was overjoyed, he finally made it, and he was about to subdue Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong, "Get up, get up, get up! I know, I know, with your help, I, Liu Mang, will be able to calm down the troubled times, help the Han Dynasty, and return me as a man A bright world!" Liu Mang was almost incoherent, he knew that Zhao Yun was abducted by Liu Paopao because Zhao Yun was attracted by Liu Paopao's performance of caring for the people of the world and hoping to save the people of the world from suffering Living! If you really care about the people in the world and can't bear the people falling into war, then you should directly help Lao Cao to destroy Sun Quan, and the world will be calmed down long ago!
And Liu Mang explored it from the perspective of the common people. First, he approached Zhao Yun to lower Zhao Yun's vigilance. That's the way those people talk about family affairs. Otherwise, if a person you don't know suddenly tells you about the world! That person is either crazy or has an attempt!
When Zhao Yun began to relax his vigilance slowly, Liu Mang introduced the people's home country. Liu Paopao just helped the Han family to keep the people in dire straits, but what Liu Mang told Zhao Yun was the invasion of foreigners. Zhao Yun was Chang Shan County people, Changshan County is a border area in Youzhou, and the people who are most likely to resonate are foreigners! Now look at it, it really has a show!
Moreover, what Liu Mang said was not a lie. Indeed, after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, during the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the entire Han nationality fell into war, and those foreigners took the opportunity to break into the Central Plains. It really disappeared, and a large number of heroes emerged. The Central Plains region has fallen to the hands of the barbarians. Under the leadership of Ran Min, the Han people in the Central Plains counterattacked desperately, but failed because they were outnumbered. The patriotic soldiers who moved to the south often took the northern expedition to the Central Plains and the restoration of the lost land as their duty. Therefore, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had the Northern Expedition from beginning to end, and there were many actions by Zu Ti, Yu Liang, Yin Hao, Huan Wen, Liu Yu and others. The war between the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Wuhu, and the fight between the Wuhu and the Sixteen Kingdoms made this period a period of chaos.
It was a catastrophe, a catastrophe in the Central Plains China! (To be continued.)