Give you a spring

Yu'an and Yuzhou are more than 200 miles apart, and it takes half a day's drive to get there.As Haishi approached, everyone arrived at the entrance of Yuzhou.

The guards there are heavily guarded, and there are officers and soldiers stationed every two feet.Qi Zheng got out of the car with the official document, and grabbed a soldier nearby. After the two of them talked a few words, the soldier walked to a tent stationed here not far away, and a person came out of it. Hearing what the soldier said, his face changed slightly. , and then walked towards Qi Zheng.

"Lord Qi," the man saluted him.

"You are?"

"Your official, Lu Yi, is the magistrate of Yuzhou," the man said respectfully, "I have received news that His Highness the Fifth Highness will come, and I have already made arrangements for you, please go this way."

Qi Zheng nodded, seeing the soldiers on both sides step aside, their carriages slowly entered, and asked thoughtfully, "Are your people staying here all night?"

"Yes, we change shifts every two hours, and the soldiers stand guard all night to prevent anyone from going out from Yuzhou."

"Do you know there is a soldier named Chun Shiqi?"

"What?" Lu Yi was stunned for a moment, looking into Shang Qizheng's probing eyes, seeing that the other party's face was a bit cold, he said softly, "This lower official has to go back and check."

"We found someone who escaped from Yuzhou in Yu'an," Qi Zheng said word by word, paying attention to Lu Yi's expression in front of him, "After interrogation, he confessed that there was a soldier named Chun Shiqi in Yuzhou who was him. With the cooperation of the two of them, more than 60 people from Yuzhou escaped," he said slowly, "Master Lu, it seems that you are not doing a good job as a guard?"

Lu Yi was startled when he heard that, and hurriedly said, "...the next official will go and investigate now."

Qi Zheng continued, "Chun Shiqi must be more than one officer and soldier involved if he could escape from you."

"Your official understands," Lu Yi quickened his pace.

Ping Wei looked at the two of them in the carriage, He Zhou sat beside him, and casually glanced outside, "What did Qi Zheng say to him, this man is so flustered."

"Maybe it's about Chunshiqi?" Pingwei put down the curtain, leaned against him and closed his eyes to rest.An officer and soldier in front came over and told him that he would be responsible for taking them to the inn to unload their luggage, and then take the medical officers to the Epidemic People's Square.

Ping Wei said "hmm", very satisfied with this arrangement.

A quarter of an hour later, they arrived outside the inn. After putting away their luggage, Qing Shu and his students went to the epidemic area. Ping Wei and He Zhou were waiting in the inn for Qi Zheng to come back.

Qi Zheng appeared with Lu Yi about half an hour later, "Your Highness, this is Mr. Lu, the magistrate of Yuzhou. He and I have already captured Chun Shiqiu and put him in the prison. Other officers and soldiers are already interrogating him." .”

"Okay." Ping Wei responded, and turned to look at Lu Yi, "Master Lu, when did the epidemic in Yuzhou appear?"

"The sixteenth day of the first lunar month," Lu Yi's face was more than half a month away.

"How many people are infected with the plague?"

Lu Yi paused for a moment, then said softly, "There are five thousand..."

"So many?!" Ping Wei blurted out, no wonder those people from Yuzhou tried their best to escape, and asked anxiously, "Didn't you take any measures?"

"The lower officials asked people to gather all the infected people together, and specially separated a street to prevent the spread of the plague, but it still didn't help..."

"Wait, how did this disease come from in the first place, did it get it from someone, or did it come from a sick mouse?" Ping Wei interrupted him and asked.

This seemed to be the right point. Lu Yi lowered his eyes and said, "In the beginning, it was spread from a village. That day, a dead body suddenly appeared in a well in the village. No one in the village knew it, so they found it at random. A piece of land buried him, but from that day on, some villagers began to get sick for no reason, first they had headaches and nausea, their throats were swollen, then they had abnormal stomach pains, and finally they vomited blood and died.”

"The village head has no education. He thought it was the dead body that was buried. He didn't report it to the government. He just found someone to come back and do something to appease the soul of the corpse. Unexpectedly, the person who did it died a few days later. Only then did he realize the seriousness of the problem and reported it to the officials. However, due to the long time lapse, the villagers often went out for activities, and then spread to various places.”

Ping Wei pondered for a moment and asked, "Has the whole village been infected?"

"Yes...no one survived," Lu Yi thought of the tragedy he saw at the entrance of the village that day. He could smell the stench from tens of meters away, and there were even a few messy corpses on the street. Let people burn this village down.

"When did the whole village become infected?"

"The nineteenth day of the first lunar month."

"It's only been three days..." Ping Wei whispered, even though the plague can be transmitted from person to person, can a village be wiped out in such a short time?He pondered for a while, then asked Lu Yi, "Did you find out anything? How did the dead body get to the village? Did you draw any conclusions?"

"No..." Lu Yi said with some shame, "We didn't dare to approach that village, and we didn't find anything after checking the records of entering the city."

Pingwei looked at the lord Zhizhou speechlessly, and He Zhou said next to him, "The dead body was found in the well. Is it possible that the village's water source was polluted, but the people in the village didn't care, or they Even if the well is closed, the water flow is connected, and the villagers drank the polluted water, which led to the infection of the plague?"

"It's possible," Ping Wei asked Lu Yi, "Where will the well in the village go?"

"Your Highness, there is no need to worry. We have already sealed off all the wells in the village."

"Well, is there enough food?"

"not enough...."

Lu Yi paused for a long time before slowly saying, "I have been dispatched to other places urgently, but I am still on the way...Because the plague also appeared in Yu'an, many places dare not send people here."

Fortunately, the court let the fifth prince come here. Lu Yi once thought that Yuzhou would be abandoned because of the severe epidemic.

"How much food is left? How long can it last?" Ping Wei asked.

"Up to seven days."

"Shounan, Guangquan, Jianwen, and Langqiao aren't willing to help?"

"Yes, yes, but they are afraid that the epidemic will spread, and they also want to stock up on some food, so they don't want to transfer too much."

Ping Wei was silent for a while, "Now let's control the plague first, and I will urge the food. Are there enough medicinal materials?"

"It's not enough," Lu Yi said honestly, "But didn't you bring a lot, Your Highness?"

"There are so many people in Yuzhou who are sick, maybe they won't be able to last long. We will wait for Mr. Qing and the others to come back later, and we can only make a judgment after listening to their opinions." Ping Wei looked at Lu Yi with a serious look in his eyes, "Master Lu must treat Yu The state is sealed off, don't let a single person go out. If it can't be done, I will send a letter to Guangquan to borrow some soldiers from them."

The threat in the words clearly reached Lu Yi's ears. Guangquan has the most elite Beiting army in Daqi, which is not at the same level as Yuzhou's. If you want to be surrounded by those people, the whole Yuzhou should be inseparable It's drafty.

Lu Yi responded tremblingly, as if he wanted to say something, but stopped for a while, Jian Pingwei glanced at him indifferently, and said, "Your Highness, will our Yuzhou...will be abandoned?"

"If there is still no change within a month, and the number of people is still rising, this may be the only way to go," Ping Wei raised his eyes and looked into Zhizhou's eyes.

"But if Yuzhou is abandoned, what should we do if the enemy and the Hungarians take advantage of the chaos and attack?"

"I will communicate with the generals in Guangquan," Ping Wei raised his hand and patted Lu Yi's shoulder, "I said it so bluntly, because I hope Master Zhizhou can prepare for the worst, but I will definitely try my best to help Yu Zhou, try not to get to the point of being abandoned, please cooperate with me, Mr. Lu."

"Okay," Lu Yi didn't mean to hope that Yuzhou would get better, his eyes were moist.

"Did Master Lu send someone to clean the sewage channels in each street?"

"No."

"Starting from tonight, we will clean the streets every day, strictly supervise the shops that sell water, and drain the sewage in time every night, and dredge the ditches. Do you understand?"

"clear."

"Places like brothels and workshops must be closed, and no activities will be held in the city in the near future. People can come out, and gatherings are not allowed in private except for work. Once found, they will be punished immediately. How much money is there in Yuzhou Mansion?"

"There are tens of thousands of taels."

"Let's distribute ten taels of silver to each household, just to appease their fears during this period." Ping Wei looked at Lu Yi, "Is there a problem?"

Lu Yi shook his head and agreed to all of them.

"In addition, I will ask the medical officers to write down the measures to prevent the plague. My lord ordered someone to copy it and post it at the intersection of every street so that everyone can know. If you find yourself showing signs of infection, you must let them notify the government. Don't hide it. Are they paying for their own medical treatment now?"

Lu Yi hesitated, nodded, "Need."

Ping Wei pondered for a while, "Change it to free, in case some people insist on keeping it secret in order to save the high cost of medicine."

"But then our burden will become very heavy..."

"It doesn't matter, I will send a letter to His Majesty to ask the imperial court to transfer the silver taels," Ping Wei actually brought a lot of silver with him on this trip, he said softly.

Lu Yi remembered one by one, "Does Your Highness have any orders?"

"Those who died of the plague that day must burn their bodies immediately, and they cannot be kept until the next day. Do you have enough medical officers now?"

"Enough, they have been taking various measures to control the epidemic since the outbreak officially began."

Ping Wei's eyelids twitched, "Didn't you rest in the past half a month?"

"Correct."

"Let some doctors rest first," Ping Wei said softly, fearing that Xu Man's situation would happen again, "Did you gather all the doctors in Yuzhou together?"

"right...."

"Well," Ping Wei responded, "Let some people retreat first."

Tonight, Lu Yi followed Ping Wei's instructions one by one, and rectified the entire Yuzhou.Ping Wei, He Zhou, and Qi Zheng were responsible for finding out what the source of the plague was, and who the nameless corpse who died in the village was. Lu Yi united all Yuzhou officers and soldiers to provide timely relief, Dredge the ditches and appease the victims.

After working hard for half a month, the disaster situation in Yuzhou gradually stabilized, and Pingwei and the others also found out that the dead body was Yanli, who was from Jiexiong, because the village was in the most remote part of Yuzhou, and it was very close to Jiexiong. Recently, it is difficult for people not to suspect that this is premeditated.

So Qi Zheng went to investigate whether there had been any plague outbreaks in Hungary in the past few months, and he really found that there was a plague in one of its counties for a short time.

After hearing the news, Pingwei immediately contacted the generals stationed in Guangquan and asked if they could send troops to Yuzhou. He was worried that Jie Xiong would take advantage of the chaos to attack Yuzhou and cause the city to fall.The commander in charge of guarding Guangquan and commanding the Beiting army, whose surname is Tang, has always been concerned about the plague in Yuzhou. Knowing that this matter might have something to do with Jiexiong, he said that he would send the lieutenant to come over.

Ping Wei readily agrees.

Everything was going in a good direction, but on the first day of March, something happened.

Several medical officers have been diligently taking care of the patients in the epidemic place. However, one critically ill patient couldn't bear the pain. He was locked in the room every day and had a nervous breakdown. He even broke the porcelain bowl containing the medicine. When Mencius Jiu went in to treat him, he cut Zi Jiu's wrist with a fragment.

Qingshu was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately rushed to Zijiao's side.

Qingru was taking care of the temporarily locked-up residents in the isolation center on the other side, and hadn't heard the news for a while.

Zijiao's left wrist was cut. The patient rushed over and wrestled with him. The officers and soldiers guarding outside rushed in after hearing the noise, stopped the out-of-control patient, and sent Zijiao to an empty house.

Qingshu took the medicine box, handed over the patient in his hand to another doctor, and hurried to the house to bandage him.

"How could such a thing happen..." Zijiao is not only Qingshu's beloved disciple, but also his daughter's sweetheart. He has already regarded Qingshu as his own family in his heart. When he got the plague, he panicked for a while, and the hands that bandaged him were shaking.

"Teacher," Zijiao grabbed him, looked into his eyes, and said in a deep voice, "It's all right."

How could it be all right, Qing Shu shouted in his heart, he hurt his wrist!Injured by a patient infected with the plague again, Qing Shu asked with a gloomy face, "Do I need to talk to Ah Ru about this?"

"Let's talk, it won't be long," Zijiao smiled lightly.

"It'll be fine," Qing Shu whispered.

Zijiao didn't reply, he knew very well that if he contracted the plague, he would die in all likelihood.