The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Lao Tzu said: After the army is over, there will be a year of disaster.

why?

One, fighting will destroy farmland, and two, fighting will kill people.

If the farmland is destroyed, there will be a shortage of food, and when there are many dead people, diseases will be spread.

Now, as Lao Tzu said, food shortages and epidemics have come one after another.

Diseases are more terrifying than food shortages.

"Hunger" is not a disease, and it is not contagious. When there is a shortage of food, there are people who die of starvation, but as long as the official temple provides relief in time, just like Zhao County, although the porridge is thin and small, it will take two or three days. A genius put porridge once, but with this one bite, at least most of the people can hang their lives, so as not to be ruined on the side of the road, but diseases such as typhoid fever are diseases, and they are extremely contagious.

According to the experience of past epidemics, as long as this typhoid fever catches, the poor and displaced persons will basically die.

The poor and displaced people usually have insufficient food and clothing, their resistance to disease is extremely low, their immunity is very poor, and they have no money to seek medical treatment. Even if it is assigned to them, it is only a pitiful point. It may be available today and will be gone tomorrow.

This is true for the poor and refugees, and for the dignitaries, nobles, nobles, and diseases such as typhoid fever.

Even typhoid fever and other epidemics caused more fear to the dignitaries and nobles than to the refugees and the poor.

The dignitaries, nobles and nobles have food. When the poor and refugees are short of food and food, they have no worries about food and clothing. At most, the kind-hearted people can provide some food, set up a porridge shed, and do some good deeds. That’s all, they don’t have to worry about being hungry. Death or freezing to death, but when the epidemic comes, it doesn't matter whether you are "respected" or "inferior", it will treat you equally, as long as you are infected, there is a danger of death.

It is true that dignitaries, nobles and nobles are rich, and they can ask for a doctor to prolong the treatment, but it is also a matter of five or five whether they can be cured according to the current medical conditions.

The poor and the homeless are cold and hungry every day, and the little soup and water that the official temple provides once every two or three days, after eating it, it disappears in a blink of an eye, and they don’t even have the strength to walk two steps. Fire, tortured by the cold outside, saying that life is better than death, Xun Zhen has been to the shantytown where the refugees gather, and the eyes are unkempt, and everywhere is filthy, it is a **** on earth. People will also become numb, and they may also be pessimistic about life and death.

The dignitaries, the gentry and the tyrannical are not. They live a good life. Those with bad conscience can take advantage of the famine, take the opportunity to buy slaves and land at low prices, and make a fortune, but suddenly typhoid fever comes, and their panic can be imagined. And know.

The last major epidemic in the world was in the second year of Xiping, and it was only eleven or twelve years ago. In other words, most of the people in Zhao County were those who experienced the epidemic in the second year of Xiping. The tragic situation at that time. Every one of them has seen that there are people who died of illness in almost every village and family, and there are not a few people who died of illness, and even some members and some families died.

"Twelve years ago, the epidemic took away the lives of Xiaomin's eldest son and youngest son. Last year, the thieves took away the lives of Xiaomin's second son and eldest grandson. At the end of the year, the famine took away the lives of Xiaomin's youngest grandson. Xiaomin's only remaining second-grandson has contracted an epidemic again! God, God! What did Xiaomin do, and you want to punish Xiaomin like this?"

After coming out of the prime minister's residence, Xun Zhen drove to the barracks outside the county. On the way, he saw a white-haired old man kneeling at the door, his head raised and his arms outstretched, crying out to the sky.

Xi Zhicai also saw it, frowned, knocked on the carriage, motioned the driver to slow down, beckoned a government official who was guarding outside the car, and said, "What is the old man talking nonsense? 'What did Xiaomin do', what is 'punishing Xiaomin'? Nonsense! Go, take him to Handan County Temple, hand him over to Handan Zuowei Zhou Cang, and ask Zhou Cang to discipline him well."

The day-to-day official documents of the lieutenant's mansion are all handled by Xi Zhicai. Today, he is not well-known in Zhao County, but he is very prestigious in the lieutenant's mansion. He is second only to Xun Zhen. Xun Zhen stopped him and said, "Tell Zhou Zuowei, just say I said it, and ask him to immediately organize officials and soldiers to patrol the county and outside the county, and the people are not allowed to go to prostitution. People are not allowed to gather in private, and more than three people are not allowed to gather and drink without any reason.”

The white-haired old man had five descendants who died in the war, famine, and the epidemic more than ten years ago, and the only remaining grandson contracted typhoid fever. His grief was unbearable, and he knelt at the door and asked the sky. To say it, this is just an old man's grief words. It seems that there is no need to make great achievements. Xi Zhicai and Xun Zhen are not harsh officials, but they ordered one after another, one ordered the old man to be sent to the county temple, and the other ordered Zhou Cang wanted to strictly supervise and rule the people, not for any other reason, but because the old man shouted "Heaven" twice, which touched their sensitive nerves and reminded them of the Yellow Turban Road.

Last year, when the Yellow Turbans rose, the eight states were in turmoil, and millions of Yellow Turbans swept the world, attacking and fighting. Their slogan even a three-year-old boy knew: "The sky is dead, and the sky is up." What is "Heaven is dead"? Don't you just hate the injustice of the "Changtian" of the Han family, so you want to change the day, set up another Huangtian, and kill the sky? Xun Zhen and Xi Zhicai were worried that under the double blows of famine and epidemic, there would be people gathering and chaos, but this old man shouted on the roadside at this juncture, asking why "Changtian" punished him, it was the fire. add petrol.

"Now that there are tens of thousands of refugees outside the county and typhoid fever together, it will be difficult to control it. Lieutenant, the most important thing right now is to ensure that typhoid fever cannot be introduced into the barracks."

This old man on the side of the road is just a trivial matter. How to deal with the possible consequences of the epidemic from a military perspective is the top priority. As Xi Zhicai said, there are too many refugees outside the county. As long as typhoid fever occurs, it will be difficult to control the epidemic. The situation that a "big epidemic" will appear is basically certain. The main thing is to keep the barracks healthy.

"Before going to the Prime Minister's Mansion, I have ordered Gongda, Gongzai, and Xuande to organize doctors to go to the camp for inspection. If there are symptoms of typhoid fever, they will be transferred immediately and treated in one place. I think they should have arrived at the camp at this moment and have already started. Checked."

"I'm afraid this one is not enough."

"That's right, I'll give an order to the camp later. From today onwards, the gate of the camp will be closed, and no one will be allowed in or out without my order."

"It should be forbidden to enter or leave without order, but Lieutenant, what about those refugees outside the county?"

"What do you mean, sir?"

"Delaying doctors to deliver medicines, putting porridge and clothes for relief is a matter of the prime minister's office. We don't need to worry about it, but if there are yellow turbans among the first-class citizens, or there are some unscrupulous people?"

Speaking of the Yellow Turban Remaining Party, Xun Zhen thought of the white-haired old man who shouted "Heaven" again. He lifted the curtain of the car, looked back with his head and saw that the old man had been taken away by the government official who received the order. He retracted his head, pressed one hand on the car window lattice, and stroked his mustache with the other, and said in a deep voice, "I'm in a dilemma about this. If it expands, the people sent out are likely to catch typhoid fever, one person can infect ten people, and ten people can infect a hundred people!"

Xun Zhen's former members of the righteous army were veterans who had followed him for a long time. If they were sent to take care of the refugees, they would suffer great losses if they contracted typhoid fever. But if you don't send them, send new pawns? Those new soldiers had only been trained for more than a month, and Xun Zhen was worried.

"With honesty and ignorance, contracting typhoid fever is a small matter, but it is a big mess for the people's livelihood."

This is clear to bystanders.

Those righteous followers were the foundation of Xun Zhen's life, and he was his lifeblood. If he died, he would feel like he would gouge out a piece of his flesh. In such a situation of "concern and chaos", he was inevitably hesitant. .

Hearing Xi Zhicai's words at this time, Xun Zhen closed her eyes, clenched her hands into fists, and knocked heavily on the window lattice several times before making a decision. She opened her eyes and said, "Qing Yan is very true!"

Seeing his pained expression like cutting flesh, even though he was in a heavy heart, Xi Zhicai couldn't help but smile and said with a smile, "The lieutenant cares less about money than people, this is the style of King Wei of Qi."

During the Warring States Period, King Wei Hui boasted that he had an inch-diameter orb and asked King Wei of Qi if he had such a treasure. King Wei of Qi said, "The reason why the widow is a treasure is different from that of Wang~www.wuxiaspot.com~ said that he does not play with treasures with treasures. For the treasure, and the talent is the treasure.

Xun Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "The Yellow Turbans have been in chaos for more than half a year, and the country is broken. You and I have never seen the situation in other prefectures. You and I have seen and heard the situation in Jizhou and Zhao County in the past six months. After the epidemic, thieves were already swarming, and now it's getting more and more critical.... Zhicai, it's just you and me in the car, there are no outsiders, let me tell you honestly, I think so far, the world has not really been in chaos. , the chaos is still to come! Treasures and treasures cannot be eaten or worn, so they pile up like mountains. What is the use in a chaotic world? You and I have to be people in the future! It has to be the thousands of people in the barracks. Soldiers!"

Xun Zhen has the knowledge of later generations, so he knows that the world has not really been in chaos, and Xi Zhicai has no knowledge of later generations, but he has foresight, but like Yan Zhong who persuaded Huangfu Song to rebel, he also felt the Han family. The foundation is already unstable.

He was silent for a moment, sighed deeply, and said, "First, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it took less than half a year to subdue, at the end of last year there was chaos in Liangzhou, and there was famine in the states, and this year, Zhao County was plagued with disease in the spring, ..., but I still don't know whether this epidemic is just a disease. It appeared in Zhao County, Jizhou, and other states and counties, and natural disasters, man-made disasters, and military chaos continued one after another.

This kind of topic is to talk to close people in private, not to talk nonsense everywhere, Xun Zhen looked out of the car, turned the topic away, and said, "It's almost the county gate, ..., today you and I are going out from here. The lieutenant's mansion, to the prime minister's mansion, and then to the county, almost walked through the county, there are only a handful of pedestrians on the road, the county has been panicked, and the refugees outside the county do not know what to do?"

(To be continued)