Qiao Yi

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With an order, the city gate came down with a bang, and the soldiers standing at the gate blocked those who wanted to leave the city. "We're going out."

"Let us out."

"Why don't you let us out of town?"

The people blocking the gate of the city were calling Xuan, wanting the guards to open the gate and let them out.

The leader of the team had someone post a notice at the gate of the city, and shouted loudly: "The gate of the city will be closed from now on, and no one will be allowed to leave the city until a new order from the Holy Majesty is issued. Anyone who violates the order will be shot to death!"

Even so, after seeing the plague rampant in the city and the death of so many people, many people wanted to leave the city.

In just a few days, so many people died in the capital, and more and more people developed the same symptoms, high fever and vomiting. The most frightening thing is that this disease is contagious, and often one person gets sick. The whole family is sick, and a large number of people are sick.Many people died within a few days, so the people realized that something was wrong, and it was certain that this was a plague.

When the word "plague" is mentioned, no one is not afraid. There have been several plagues found here in the capital, and many people died each time.A plague occurred in some villages outside the capital, and often a single plague would wipe out the entire village, leaving no one alive.

Nowadays, many medical clinics in the city have closed their doors one after another, and there are still a few medical clinics that are still open. The medical clinics are full of people every day. I don’t know where these sick people are sent to. They say they are sent to other places. Healing, who knows if it is true or not, and whether there will be a life to come back alive.

As a result, some people were infected with the disease one after another, and they dared not go to the hospital to see a doctor, for fear that they would be sent away and locked up, so they could only hide in their houses, even though what awaited them in the houses was still death.

On the bustling street in the past, there are obviously fewer pedestrians, cars and horses. The shops on the street are seldom open, and the peddlers who set up stalls on the road are afraid to come out.

The merchants in the grain store took the opportunity to raise the price of grain. In just a few days, the price of grain in the city rose again and again until the common people couldn't afford to eat it. If this continues, the people in the city may not die of illness. , I starved to death because I didn’t eat.

At this time, not only the price of food and cloth is rising, but also the price of medicine is soaring, making it even more difficult for ordinary people to see a doctor and buy medicine.

"The price of food in the city must be controlled, and those merchants cannot let the price of food increase wildly, otherwise, how many people in the city will starve to death." Qiao Yi guessed the price of food as early as when he discovered the epidemic in the city. Prices are bound to go up.

Merchants seek profit, whether it is now or in future generations, there is no lack of such businessmen who take advantage of natural disasters and man-made disasters to make money. If the government does not intervene and allows these businessmen to behave mischievously, more people will die here in the capital.

"Well, I know that the imperial court has ordered that merchants be prohibited from raising food prices maliciously." Xie Yin looked at the young man who had lost weight in just a few days, and felt a sense of strangeness in his heart. I feel sorry for the boy.

Since the boy entered the small courtyard, they have rarely seen each other, and they mostly communicated through letters.During this time, both of them were very busy, so busy that it was difficult to even meet each other.

The reason why Xie Yin came here today was also because of the plague in the city, and he wanted to ask the boy face to face.

Qiao Yi nodded, and said: "The situation in the capital is still the same. There must be many places outside where the epidemic has also occurred. The situation will not be much better than in the capital. You must find out the situation in other places as soon as possible. Let the epidemic continue to expand and spread elsewhere, otherwise it will not be as simple as just killing a few people."

If it weren't for the imperial court's procrastination on this matter, they could respond and respond quickly when they first discovered the epidemic, and the current situation would not have occurred.If a few more people don't die, these people will not believe the severity of the epidemic, and he has already scolded the emperor so much that he doesn't want to scold him.

Maybe this is Dayan's catastrophe, and Dayan has to go through this.Now that everything has happened, they can only find a way to control the epidemic within a certain range and reduce the number of deaths.

Regardless of whether they have taken precautions in advance, this plague is still bound to happen, and people will still die.

"Don't worry, I have sent people to thoroughly investigate the situation outside the capital and in various places." Xie Yin briefly mentioned some things outside to the young man. He knew that the young man was here every day and didn't know the outside situation.

The two said a few words.

At this time, someone came over and called him, "Doctor Qiao, there is a patient inside that needs you to go and see."

"Okay, I'll come right now." He knew that if the situation was not critical, the people below would not call him at this time.Qiao Yi agreed

With a sound, he said to the man in front of him, "I'm going in and busy inside."

"Okay, you go." Xie Yin nodded, he should go too.

After the two said goodbye, Qiao Yi hurried inside, asking the visitor how the patient was doing as he walked.His Royal Highness King Ming who stood behind watched the young man leaving, until he could not hear the young man's voice, "Let's go." He took his own people and left.

Standing outside, Zhang Jiu took a look inside and followed behind their master.

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Immediately, the entire capital city was enveloped in a wave of panic and death, and crying could be heard from someone's house every day, needless to say, someone in that family died.

The plague was rampant in the capital, and the emperor ordered the gates of the city to be blocked, and ordered Ming Wang to deal with the plague in the city.

The entrances of the major medical centers in the capital have posted how to prevent the infection of the disease, and if someone is infected with the disease, they should go to the major medical centers to report and receive treatment in time.

"bang bang bang-"

On the street, people beat gongs and shouted how to prevent the disease from getting infected. They emphasized again and again that dead bodies are not allowed to be hidden at home, and that all dead bodies must be buried or burned immediately.

It's just that the custom of funerals has been popular in Dayan for a long time. Anyone who has died in the family needs to stay at home for seven days, or seven to forty-nine days before being buried.Therefore, no one will immediately send the body of the dead to be buried. The dead will be buried in the ground, and few people will be willing to burn the body.

Therefore, even if the imperial court ordered these people to hand over the corpses of the dead at home and burn them, these people were unwilling, so they closed the doors of their homes one after another and hid the corpses at home.

It's just that these ignorant people don't know that it is the corpses placed at home that cause their whole family to be infected with the disease. Often there is a sick person in one family, and the whole family is infected. This time the disease spreads so fast, Caught off guard

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Seeing that the situation was not right, many people hid in their homes, closing the doors of the small courtyard and daring not to go out.

After King Ming received the imperial edict, he ordered officers and soldiers to wait for people to go to every house to search.

"Boom bang bang-"

"Is there anyone in there? Open the door, open the door."

"Blam the door open."

A group of officers and soldiers broke into the homes of the people, conducted a search, and found a body that had been dead for many days in the house.The leading officer waved his hand and shouted, "Take it away."

Two officers and soldiers went forward to roll up the straw mat and took the corpse away.

"What are you going to do? Why did you take my father's body away?" A man rushed forward, trying to snatch his father's body back.

The officers and soldiers drew out their broadswords, "There is an order from the Holy Spirit that no one is allowed to leave the dead body at home, and all of them will be taken away and burned. Anyone who dares to disobey the order of the imperial court will be shot to death!"

A woman in the courtyard was holding a child in her arms. The child's face was flushed and he had fallen into a coma.The leading officers and soldiers glanced there and shouted: "There is still that child, take them away together."

The woman rushed up, desperately trying to snatch the child back, "What are you going to do? Don't snatch my child, give it back to me

"Take them together."

The officers and soldiers in the city were searching every household for corpses and patients, and took away everything they found.

A large pit was dug three miles outside the city, and the fire in the pit was burning day and night. All the corpses in the city were transported here, and the corpses were pushed into the pit for burning.The last pit was not enough, so two deep pits were dug one after another. The corpses were being burned day and night in these pits. Thick smoke billowed up, and there was a foul smell all around. No one dared to approach from far away.

"Amitabha."

After knowing about the accident in the capital, even Master Yuan Hui, who seldom goes down the mountain, came down from the mountain.Behind the great monk were two young monks. Seeing the corpses piled up outside the city, the great monk's face sank like water, turning the beads in his hand, and chanting scriptures

As soon as he received the news that Master Yuanhui was going down the mountain, King Ming asked people to wait outside the city.

Seeing a big monk with two young monks outside, the generals waiting outside the city saw the head monk, saluted and asked, "Master, is Master Yuanhui?"

"Amitabha, old Bian is right." Master Yuanhui replied.

"His Royal Highness King Ming asked the officials to wait outside the city, and Master Yuan Hui to come to the palace." The general said respectfully.

Master Yuanhui didn't refuse, and said, "Please benefactor, please lead the way."

"Master, please." The general made a gesture of invitation, and led Master Yuan Hui to the city. Now the city gate is blocked, and only allowed to enter but not to exit.

There are many carriages and horses at the gate of the city every day. Inside the carriages are the women of the official family, followed by the servants and maidservants. They are here every day to make a fuss about going out of the city. The soldiers guarding the city have nothing to do with these people. .There are also some people who want to escape from the city, and they all guard at the gate of the city, no matter how the guards persuade them, these people are unwilling to leave.

Master Yuan Hui, who followed in, saw so many people at the city gate, paused, and looked at those people.The general leading the way explained: "The Holy Spirit has ordered that no one is allowed to leave the city. These are people who want to leave the city... Master, please."

Now that the plague is rampant in the city, the people in the city want to escape outside, and these dignitaries are even more afraid of death.

Master Yuan Hui recited "Amitabha Buddha" and walked away. The two young monks followed behind the big monk.

The bustling and lively streets in the past are now empty. There are no cars and horses on the road, and the road is extremely spacious.Seeing some people wearing strange clothes and covering their faces throwing white ashes on the street, Master Yuan Hui was a little puzzled and asked, "I wonder if these people are here?"

"Oh, this, the prince ordered people to do this, saying that doing so can prevent epidemics." The general didn't understand these things very well, he only listened to what others said, and when the superiors told them to do this, the people below them obeyed. It's just an order.

As for whether it is useful to do so, in fact, they don't know very well.

Master Yuan Hui stood here and took a look before continuing to move forward.

"My lord, Master Yuan Hui is here, and he has already arrived at the residence."

"Oh, then let's go back." Hearing the people below say that Master Yuanhui from Xiangguo Temple is here, and that he really should go to meet that master, Xie Yin got up and walked out.Recently, he rarely went back to the palace, and was outside every day.

The situation in the city was not optimistic. The plague came so quickly that so many people died in less than ten days.

Xiangguo Temple was originally a royal temple, and the first emperor was a believer in Buddhism. Buddhism was once practiced in Dayan.Before Master Xuanming was invited into the palace, Dayan had always been advocating Buddhism, but after Master Xuanming was appointed as the national teacher, he began to believe in and reuse the national teacher today, Taoist temples everywhere, and Taoism became popular again open.

There is a big difference between Buddhism and Taoism. Buddhism believes in "Buddha", while Taoism talks about "Tao".Buddhism talks about "beyond the world", Taoism talks about "being out of the world", Buddhism advocates "no birth", and believes that reality is a sea of ​​suffering for people; while Taoism believes that personal cultivation and even becoming a fairy is based on personal cultivation, and the pursuit of prolonging life Health preservation, physical immortality.

For a long period of time, Taoism and Buddhism had many contradictions due to their different views.But in the eyes of the rulers, whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, they are nothing more than a means they use to consolidate the regime.If you want to say which one is better, Buddhism or Buddhism, each must have its own advantages.

However, there are still a large number of people in the Great Yan Dynasty who believed in Buddhism, which can be seen from the fact that the incense in the Xiangguo Temple was at its peak.

Master Yuanhui of Xiangguo Temple enjoys a high reputation among the people. Master Yuanhui is merciful and saves the world. The common people regard Master Yuanhui of Xiangguo Temple as a god and Buddha, thinking that this master is omnipotent.

"Amitabha, I have met His Royal Highness King Ming." When Master Yuan Hui saw the young man who entered the door, he knew that this was the eldest prince born successively, His Highness King Ming.This son was born with straight eyebrows and firm eyes, and one can tell that this son must be a person with a firm heart.

From the appearance of a person, one can see how the person's heart is.

"Master Yuan Hui, please get up." Xie Yin hurriedly stepped forward to help Master Yuan Hui, he knew that Master Yuan Hui would definitely come.