Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

After the Qi army camp began to enter a state of emergency, news began to spread from the prisoner camp-some people did die of sudden illness recently.

The number of these people is actually quite a lot, basically around three hundred.

In fact, the people below did not conceal the news, and Xiao Xuexing deliberately let it go by ignoring it.

He asked Wei Jun who had defected to take care of the prisoner camp in order to let these people deal with the wounded soldiers in the prisoner camp.

These soldiers are already incapable of fighting, and they may even be incurable, but he can't kill them directly, otherwise they will easily lose popular support, but keeping them is useless except wasting food.

Even in today's Qi State, military rations are very precious, not to mention transporting them from thousands of miles away.

In order to ensure the Qi army's food supply and their nutritional balance, Xiao Zirong was actually under huge financial pressure.

If he hadn't made money well in the early years, and now he is using his own money to subsidize it, the treasury would definitely not be able to support the current military rations.

Among other things, Xiao Xuexing has always liked to share joys and sorrows with the soldiers when he went to war, and the food he ate was at most slightly better than the soldiers.

After all, where the status is, eating the same food as everyone else will make everyone panic and worried, for fear that the emperor will be angry after returning.

Now everyone can see that the emperor is not afraid of the regent at all, but relies heavily on the regent.

But now, Xiao Xuexing's meals almost follow the recipes arranged by Xiao Zirong. There are almost all meat, vegetables and eggs, and the taste is not bad.

It's winter in the Northland. It's okay to talk about meat and eggs, but the transportation and preservation of vegetables will take a lot of manpower and material resources, but even so, Xiao Zirong still resisted the voice of opposition from the court, so that the soldiers could more or less Eat vegetables.

Therefore, every ration of the Qi army is very precious, and 100 more people will increase financial pressure.

He didn't want to see Xiao Zirong thinking hard about how to make money. His Majesty shouldn't waste his energy on this.

Simply let Wei Jun be the villain, kill the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the rest are young and strong. Even if they can't be sent to the battlefield, they can be allowed to do chores.

In the end, I didn't expect that there was almost a mistake. If one person had an emergency, then it was just a suspicion. If many people had an emergency, then it was probably an epidemic.

This time there was no need to restrict the entry and exit of the prisoner camp, Xiao Xuexing simply sealed off the entire prisoner camp.

He is now extremely grateful that he had set up a separate camp for them because he disliked the Wei army, otherwise, at this moment, the Qi army might have been completely wiped out.

Xiao Xuexing urgently summoned the generals for a meeting. When Ling Fu and others heard this, they were stunned: "This...these soldiers were all captured or defected before, and it has been more than half a month now. This...how could..."

Yes, Wei Jun seemed to be crazy in the past half a month. He was not afraid of death. After a battle, either Wei Jun died or the living retreated. Anyway, they were not given a chance to continue to capture.

If there are newly captured soldiers or those who have taken refuge here, then there is also a source of the epidemic, but... half a month... Could it be that the Wei army has already started to deploy?

Xiao Xuexing was still very calm: "The Wei army is now planning to break the boat and attack the city with all its strength from today on."

He didn't know if there were any people infected with the disease in the military camp. Apart from trying to find a way to investigate first, he had to speed up the pace of attack. Even if someone was infected, he had to take Xianyang down before he got sick.

Xiao Xuexing turned around and wrote a letter to Xiao Zirong, telling him all about his guesses and the situation in the prisoner camp, and at the end of the letter he was told in very stern terms not to come.

Now Xiao Zirong is not only responsible for his own life, but also for the whole country of Qi.

If something happened to him, and something happened to Xiao Zirong again, what would happen to the old, weak, sick and disabled in the palace?

Huan'er hasn't grown up yet, if something happens to Xiao Zirong, Huan'er will be nothing more than a puppet even if he can rise to the top, and he will even be kicked out soon.

After Xiao Xuexing finished writing the letter, he hesitated for a while before taking off a piece of his jade pendant and letting them send it together.

That jade pendant can dispatch all the soldiers and horses of Xueziying and dispose of all the properties under his name.

When Xiao Zirong received this letter and saw the jade pendant, he almost fainted without seeing the blackness in front of his eyes. He closed his eyes and waited for a while before saying: "Zhao Zhaixi."

Now Zhai Xi is still working in the Ministry of Industry, but her situation is very special, she can't be the minister of the Ministry of Industry, even if she is capable, she can't do it if she has recruited many Mohists.

And after finding out that Zhai Xi was unable to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, those Mohist men under her who had no idea what to do jumped up and down to replace him.

Xiao Zirong didn't care about it at the time, and let Zhai Xi deal with it, and then Zhai Xi expelled those Mohist children. As for the Ministry of Industry, Xiao Zirong could only come.

Xiao Zirong thought for a while and directly chose an old man who was about to beg for bones to be the minister of the Ministry of Industry. This person can be regarded as a mediocre talent in the court, even if he doesn't have any special skills, but he can do the things entrusted to him good.

Otherwise, according to the situation that Nan Qi changed three emperors in a short period of time, it is impossible for this person to stay in the court for such a long time.

In addition to moderation, the biggest characteristic of this person is knowing the current affairs.

As soon as he was asked to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he knew that he was actually a puppet, and that the little lady could really call the shots.

So this guy simply didn't care about anything, and An An was his own puppet.

The ministers of the DPRK and China knew what was going on in their hearts, and they could only turn a blind eye and close one eye. There was no way, even if they wanted to use men and women to defend themselves against attacks, they couldn't do it. The defense between men and women is not so serious these days. This old minister is already 80 years old. If you want to tarnish his reputation now, he can really fight you desperately.

So Zhai Xi became the actual person in charge of the Ministry of Industry with the title of female official.

She doesn't care either, as long as she can make something useful and make the court unable to do without her and her subordinates, she will be recognized sooner or later.

She is very clear that the little lady wants to occupy a place in the court, and the most important thing to compete for the right to speak is to prove her ability. Of course, she can't be too silent, otherwise those credits will be stolen by some shameless men.

When the news came that she was unable to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Industry before, some men under her tried to put the credit on themselves. It seemed impossible to turn black and white into reality, but it almost came true under the acquiescence of the ministers of the DPRK and China. real.

Fortunately, she also had the support of the emperor, and all those who tried to support the male disciples in the court were sent to poor villages.

A lot of it was up and down, and everyone has died down since then.

But Zhai Xi was still anxious. Most of her achievements were made in Taoyuan City. After she arrived in Jiankang, she had no new inventions. Although everyone can't object to her working in the Ministry of Industry, they can ignore her!

But how could she have the final say on inventing this kind of thing?

No direction means no direction, and those who have direction may not be able to succeed.

Now that the emperor has a summons, Zhai Xi is both anxious and excited. The anxious is worried that the emperor will ask about the situation of the Ministry of Industry, and the excited is because he guesses that the emperor may do something new, otherwise he will not summon her easily.

Zhai Xi quickly entered the palace, and after saluting, Xiao Zirong looked up at her and said, "Get ready, I'm going to make a disinfectant."

Zhai Xi was at a loss: "Disinfection...?"

Her understanding is that this thing is used for detoxification, of course, it is similar in fact.

Xiao Zirong didn't explain too much: "This thing needs to be mass-produced, and I want you to put it into production as soon as you are sure it can be made. It should be able to get a lot of electricity and salt water. Take my warrant and go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to make an adjustment. .”

Electricity, of course, does not need to go to the Ministry of Households. In fact, only the areas of high-ranking officials and rich households in Jiankang are covered by the power grid, and the civilian areas have not yet started renovation.

It's not that Xiao Zirong doesn't want to care about the people, because he has looked at the map for a long time and found that the layout of the civilians and even the poor in Jiankang is very chaotic.

Just like the Hong Kong Island in later generations, in order to have more places to live, basically it is to build houses at every turn. Although they are all one-story private houses, it will not delay the high-altitude wiring, but the problem is how to transmit electricity to the people. The problem is at home, how to route the wiring in such a messy layout?

Unless it is re-planned, demolished and rebuilt, the impact is too great, and the money is secondary. Even if the Ministry of Households does not have so much money, Xiao Zirong may not be unable to spend it.

At his level, he has seen all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas, rare animals, and so on, and money has really become a number to him.

It doesn't matter if it is used to improve the lives of the people in Jiankang, or else the stately capital of the country can't be as good as a city like Jinling, right?

However, the problem is that this is not a problem that can be solved by money. The people living in those places serve high-ranking officials and wealthy households. What they do is the lowest level of dirty work. go?Once these people cannot stay in Jiankang, the lives of many people will be affected.

Even Xiao Zirong didn't dare to do it lightly, unless there was a spare place for these people to live in.

However, Xiao Zirong has already planned to wait until the end of the war.

What he can do now is to urgently dispatch the portable generator, heck, of course this is a nice way of saying it, but it is actually the kind of simple generator he got at the beginning.

Use these generators to make sanitizer.

Disinfectant can be regarded as a livelihood product in later generations, and most families can buy it readily, but it is a relatively expensive product in this era.

This thing is made by electrolyzing sodium hypochlorite produced by saturated salt water. The overall production is not particularly troublesome, but both electricity and salt are expensive.

Wanting to supply a military camp... Among other things, Bai Yan felt pain in her heart when she sent money to Zhai Xi in the past.

You must know that she has seen big winds and waves up to now, and she doesn't pay attention to small money.

Bai Yan asked: "How is it now?"

Five days had passed since Xiao Zirong's order, and Zhai Xi said weakly with two dark circles under his eyes: "I have already sent some of them...you think...is it useful?"

Now that the epidemic has emerged, the disinfectant is at best to prevent further infection, but... what if the infection is premature?

Bai Yan sighed: "Do your best to obey the destiny, Your Majesty will find a way."

However, Xiao Zirong had nothing to do. In the letter Xiao Xuexing wrote to him, he described the symptoms of those sick prisoners in detail. From the discovery of the emergency in the camp to the death of some patients, the total process did not exceed five days.

After Xiao Zirong compared the symptoms of the patients and searched in the library, he came to a conclusion that made his heart sink: the disease that Yuan Ke spread was most likely the plague.