Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Just like Xiao Zirong's "prophecy", the incubation period of this plague is about ten days.

At this time, ten days had passed since the first person in the prison camp fell ill. Ten days later, almost everyone in that small town started to have a fever—this was the information sent back by the spies sent by the Privy Council.

The information he sent back was read in isolation.

Even though Xiao Xuexing was already mentally prepared, he couldn't help but feel a sinking heart, and immediately led people away.

Even if he is already close to Xianyang, he must give up this attack.

However, the barracks of the Qi army seemed to have been blessed by gods, and they were not infected.

When Xiao Xuexing retreated, he didn't take the prisoner camp with him, and the prisoner camp at this time was actually not much better than that small town.

The only thing that was better was because Xiao Xuexing wanted to know whether the disinfectant was effective and whether the prescription was effective, so he suppressed it a bit.

At present, it seems that the disinfectant can indeed prevent the spread of the disease, but the effect of those prescriptions does not seem to be very obvious. Some people can be cured, but some people can't get over it.

It is impossible for Xiao Xuexing to take the risk of taking the prisoner camp away, otherwise the good luck of the Qi army camp may be broken.

At the same time, Xiao Xuexing also started to send people to hunt and kill rats. After all, his younger brother said that it was called plague, which could be spread by rats. To be honest, the danger of human transmission was not as high as that of rats.

It's just that humans don't seem to be very efficient at killing mice, so Ling Fu came up with a trick - he found a bunch of cats.

After a few days of isolation for the cats, and after confirming that there was no problem, he put the cats in the resident.

So one night, Xiao Xuexing was abruptly woken up by these cats.

Xiao Xuexing sat up covering his forehead, listening to the cats outside meowing louder and louder, he was very puzzled, in this winter, what kind of affection do these cats have?

The attendants outside heard his movement and got up and asked, "General?"

Hearing the meowing of cats outside, Xiao Xuexing suddenly asked, "How many days have we been evacuated here?"

The attendant immediately replied: "It has been eight days."

Xiao Xuexing did some calculations, and it has been almost a month since he knew about the existence of the disease. He has no problems, so far he has not been infected.

He missed Xiao Zirong a little bit, the current situation in the Northern Wei Dynasty is not suitable for continuing to fight with them, otherwise it would be interesting to be infected with the epidemic.

Xiao Xuexing decided to return to the court as a teacher, and being able to occupy Luoyang has achieved his goal. It is indeed a pity that Yuan Ke was not caught this time, but it doesn't matter, both he and Xiao Zirong still have enough time to wait.

Xiao Zirong has already begun to let people step up the research and development of the medicine to treat the plague. At that time, they can go north again to get a thorough understanding of Yuan Ke.

Of course, it is also possible that Yuan Ke was killed by his angry courtiers before they developed the medicine.

After Xiao Xuexing confirmed that the Qi army was really not infected, he planned to return to the court directly.

Yuan Ke, however, seemed to have guessed that he would leave, and sent someone directly to see him.

It was impossible for the envoy to see Xiao Xuexing, and he was not even allowed in the barracks, and was thrown directly at the isolation point next to the prisoner camp, and then asked about Yuan Ke's purpose.

In the past, the envoy would definitely express dissatisfaction with this. However, when the envoy arrived at the Qi army camp, he was already in a bad state. He looked like more ghosts than humans, and he didn't even have the energy to express his dissatisfaction. He died the next day.

Ling Fu said angrily: "Yuan Ke must have done it on purpose!"

However, even if he was angry, he didn't impulsively say that he would go to Yuan Ke to settle the score, because he might accidentally put himself in it.

Xiao Xuexing said: "I'm surprised if he doesn't do this, let people step up the patrol, Yuan Ke won't let us go too easily."

If the other party does not hesitate to use this method of hurting the enemy eight hundred and self-defeating one thousand, it proves that Yuan Ke doesn't care about anything anymore, and he just wants to die with Qi Guo.

Even if Xiao Xuexing and the others leave, it is impossible to withdraw all the soldiers, at least they must leave some people to prevent Yuan Ke from poisoning.

What I am most afraid of now is that Yuan Ke's madness will really throw people infected with the epidemic directly into the Yangtze River or the Yellow River.

These two waters provide drinking irrigation for countless people. If the disease spreads through the waters, it will be devastating.

Jing Shi at the side hesitated for a moment and said, "The envoy of the Northern Wei Dynasty said a word before he died."

Xiao Xuexing turned to look at him, and Jing Shicai said: "He said Yuan Ke has an antidote in his hand."

Xiao Xuexing's hand that was about to write the evacuation order stopped, even if he couldn't help hesitating at this moment.

It's just that Yuan Ke didn't seem to want to give him time to hesitate. The envoy died here in the Qi army. Although everyone knew what happened, it didn't prevent Yuan Ke from sending troops for an excuse.

Lu Rui, who had already lost several laps, couldn't help standing up and saying, "Your Majesty, there are so many infected people in the army, I'm afraid they may not be able to form an effective attack on the Qi army."

Yuan Ke hugged a scantily clad young man, totally disregarding the fear in the other party's brows, raised the other party's jaw to observe carefully for a long while and frowned: "It's only been half a month, and your mouth doesn't look like his anymore. . " As he spoke, he let go of the boy and stretched out his hand to push him off the throne. He said casually, "Give it to the soldiers."

Xiao Langjun's face turned pale and he trembled all over, but he didn't dare to say a word, and someone beside him could only turn his head away with a look of embarrassment.

After Mr. Xiaolang was dragged down, Yuan Ke said: "It's good to be sick, let those who are sick go. Do you think Xiao Xuexing dares to send people to fight our army?"

Everyone knew his plan as soon as they heard it, and looked at each other for a moment. This is a way, but... what a good way is this?

Lu Rui gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, this move is against the harmony of heaven!"

Yuan Ke leaned over and put one arm on his knee and said, "Tianhe? Wei is about to be defeated, and everyone here will die at that time. What is it compared to this Tianhe?"

Lu Rui looked up at Yuan Ke with deep disappointment in his eyes.

He didn't know how Yuan Ke became what he is now. When he first came to the throne, although he was immature, he had the appearance of a master. How could he become what he is now?

Yuan Ke sat up straight and asked, "What else can Shang Shuling say?"

Lu Rui was silent for a while, then slowly raised his hand, took off the hair crown on his head to reveal his white and black hair, then knelt down and kowtowed while holding the hair crown: "I am old and have low energy, please beg for bones."

Yuan Ke glanced at him indifferently: "Sure, there is a vacancy for Shang Shu Ling, so you can choose someone to come up."

Everyone looked at each other, and some people were eager to try.

Even though the political situation in the Northern Wei Dynasty is now in chaos, the emperor went crazy and lost a lot of land, but seeing the emperor took out the "poison" that even the Qi State could not do anything about, maybe they will regain the lost land at some point.

As for the "poison" that is very harmful, what is it?The emperor has an antidote in his hand. Didn't you see how many infected veterans got better after taking the medicine?

The position of Shang Shuling is the real power among the real powers, and there will always be people who can't resist the temptation.

Yuan Ke looked at the people below who were eager to try, and smiled with satisfaction.

After no one objected, Yuan Ke's plan to send troops was passed.

Faced with such a situation, Xiao Xuexing could not continue to evacuate.

He could retreat, and certainly no one in the court would attack him because of this.

But when he retreated, it was equivalent to the loss of Qi's front line of defense.

Xiao Xuexing sighed, turned around and asked, "Has the kite sent by His Majesty been assembled?"

Ling Fu responded immediately: "The assembly has been completed."

Xiao Xuexing nodded: "Follow the previous method to blow back the Wei army."

Originally, this flying kite was sent by Xiao Zirong to spray disinfectant on the military camp. Manual spraying is always not in place, and spraying in the sky should be much better.

However, it seems that this flying kite can play its greatest role on the battlefield after all.

At the same time, he began to arrange for the firearms battalion to wear gas masks and simple protective clothing to stop the Wei army.

But where is it easy to stop?The artillery fire can indeed kill many sick Wei troops, but the problem is that their artillery fire is not endless.

Yuan Ke also saw this point. Although the Wei army suffered heavy losses, it was actually the Qi army that was retreating steadily.

With a smile on his face, Yuan Ke asked Yuan Jia, the new minister, "Do you think Xiao Xuexing is still complacent?"

Yuan Jia reluctantly twitched the corner of his mouth: "Your Majesty is wise."

Yuan Jia never thought that one day he would be a minister, but the problem is who would want to be a minister in this situation!

He didn't panic even if Wei State lost again and again. After all, his business empire has expanded to the whole country in these years, and he can afford the loss now, not to mention that Qi State is very gentle to the people in the occupied areas. There has never been a phenomenon of burning, killing and looting.

But this time Yuan Ke's sudden attack directly caused a lot of losses to his subordinates, and a lot of corresponding money.

The war is merciless, Yuan Jia didn't think too much about it at first, and planned to lie in the end, anyway, no matter which side wins, he can save his life.

Before Shang Shuling begged for bones, he was not tempted, he just wanted to sit aside and watch a group of people break the dog's head, but he didn't expect that after a group of people fought for a long time, Yuan Ke directly appointed him as Shang Shuling .

Yuan Jia is not stupid, and knows that Yuan Ke is definitely not interested in his ability, the other party just needs an obedient Shang Shuling.

However, he still underestimated Yuan Ke's shamelessness. Yuan Ke chose him as Minister not only because he was obedient, but also because he was rich.

Yuan Ke asked him to "repay" him on the grounds that he valued him and gave him the order of the minister, and directly emptied most of Yuan Jia's net worth.

Under such circumstances, it was strange that Yuan Jia could laugh.

Yuan Ke doesn't care what he thinks. At this point, he doesn't care about anyone's thoughts. Anyway, after he regains the lost territory and even defeats Qi, he will be the leader of the world. At that time, some people will praise him.

Yuan Ke let go of Xiao Langjun in his arms and said: "Send someone to send a letter to Xiao Xuexing, saying that I want to see Emperor Qi. By the way, if he is willing to send Xiao Wen over and retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, I can also follow the Qi State." Negotiate."