stubborn thief

Chapter 343 Smallpox
Liu Shizi approved of Yang Yao's plan in Hezui. In terms of success rate of varicella vaccination, the success rate of vaccination by the government is much better than that of private pox doctors.

This is not to say that Yang Yao, a fighter, is better than the folk pox doctors in terms of vaccination skills.

But because folk pox doctors do not have the manpower and material resources for large-scale vaccination, the whole process will inevitably get out of control.

If there are fewer people, the efficiency will be ineffective, and if there are more people, the skills will be uneven. Using Yang Yao's method of monitoring by knife, on the one hand, it will be overkill, and on the other hand, it will also bring too much mental pressure to the acne doctor.

Instead, it is better to directly use the vertically managed army, and use military law to regulate the selection of vaccines and the vaccination process. They have the ability to store thousands of vaccines and vaccinate thousands of people.

While Liu Shizi was intensively preparing to fight against smallpox, Wang Xingshan, deputy general of Gansu Province, was in embarrassment...he was quarantined.

Liu Chengzong judged others by himself, thinking that the Shaanxi government received the news of the raging smallpox earlier than himself, had more experience in epidemic prevention than himself, and could deploy more manpower, so the trouble caused by smallpox should be resolved soon.

But in fact Lanzhou has been messed up.

In Gansu, there is a commander-in-chief with the seal of General Pingqiang, a deputy commander-in-chief who assists Ganzhou, and a deputy commander-in-chief who guards Liangzhou. Wang Xingshan is the deputy commander-in-chief stationed in Jieliangzhou. This official position is also known as Vice General of Gansu.

Wang Xingshan, like Mo Yujing, moved to Shaanxi and returned to the station not long ago, but relatively speaking, his soldiers were not so war-weary.

On the one hand, Gansu, like Hehuang, was minimally affected by the drought. The biggest problem in Gansu is the desertification of land in the Hexi Corridor that has lasted for hundreds of years.

On the other hand, even if Gansu is under the control of Shaanxi, Gansu soldiers are also guest troops. It is normal for guest troops to suppress civil uprisings. Thieves, officers and soldiers kill thieves, it is only right and proper.

It's just that Wang Xingshan's troops were really exhausted. His troops traveled all over Shaanxi, and no one knew where they contracted smallpox.

When he led the army to the mouth of Lanzhou, some soldiers fell off their horses. Not to mention that the officers didn't take it seriously, even the soldiers themselves didn't think about whether they were sick or not, they just thought they were too tired.

No one took it seriously.

It was only when we arrived at the mouth of the river that something was wrong. Hundreds of people developed fevers, chills, weakness in the waist and legs, and even fell into a coma at the same time. The army lay down and could not move.

Generals at all levels reported the situation to Wang Xingshan, and he panicked. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that there was a plague!

While Wang Xingshan asked for medicines from Lanzhou, he investigated the type of plague in the army, set up another battalion for the sick soldiers, and formed a death squad to investigate their illnesses, and finally found that some people had acne.

smallpox.

This kind of major event must be reported to the superior, and he hurriedly reported the news to Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, but Hong Chengchou...Hong Chengchou didn't care about him at all.

It was only at the end of the year that the thieves in Shaanxi were finally cleaned up. Hong Chengchou didn't rest for two days. After the new year, he finally freed up his hands and planned to clean up the Yan'an mansion. up.

Last year, there was a small character who jumped repeatedly between Shaanxi and Shanxi, and then went to Shanxi and Henan to repeatedly jump between Shanxi and Henan, which was very annoying.

The imperial court launched a campaign to encircle and suppress him in Shanxi, closed both sides of the Yellow River, and drove him into the Taihang Mountains.

Just when Wang Xingshan and his gang were causing smallpox, this little character came out from the Taihang Mountains, and his name was Li Zicheng.

However, there was a slight deviation in the direction. Li Zicheng did not come out from the west side of Taihang Mountain. He went out from Jingxing on the east side, swept through Zhending Mansion, and headed straight for Beijing at a speed of four kilometers per hour. He was expected to hit Shunyang Gate in three days.

When Hong Chengchou received the news, he was so frightened that his soul flew away. Who still has the air to control the smallpox at the mouth of Lanzhou? Now he can't wait to push all the troops to Shanxi.

As a result, this man feigned a shot, turned his head back to Taihang Mountain, was blocked by the officers and soldiers in the Qingzhang River in Shexian County, and beat him up in the mountain. Beaten up in the mountains.

Master Hong asked Wang Xingshan to figure it out, so Wang Xingshan just figured it out. He wrote to Gansu Marshal Yang Jiamo to see if he could transfer some more troops, and asked Shaanxi Governor Lian for help in state affairs, but that's all.

On the north bank of the Yellow River, the news that the Gansu frontier army was causing smallpox caused chaos in Lanzhou.

The commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the five towns gathered in Lanzhou, and the generals stationed in Lanzhou were soft-spoken, and no one could control them.

In the end, Su Wang Zhu Shihong stood up and asked the army to block the river bank, and drove the people who had crossed the river from the north to the river mouth one after another, and selected [-] soldiers with pox from the generals of the towns to cross the river, and gave them Look for village placement.

He also sent [-] pox-prone banner troops from Lanzhou Wei to punting at the ferry of the Yellow River to deliver supplies to both sides of the strait.

King Su Zhu Shihong had no other intentions. The [-]-day blockade could not allow smallpox to spread to the south bank of the Yellow River with a population of hundreds of thousands. The people in Lanzhou live too densely. Once smallpox spreads, this important city will be destroyed by itself .

Each feudal clan has its own style of painting. The Qing Fan in Shanxi and the Zhou Fan in Henan are very fertile and full of children and grandchildren; the Han Fan in Pingliang has always liked to do some shit.

Then the characteristic of Lanzhou Sufan is that he cherishes his life and has talent.

They are not as fond of tossing around as other relatives, and the chances of becoming a virtuous king are particularly high, because Sufan can't stand tossing at all, and there are few people.

I don't know what's going on, but this team has been single-handed for three generations from the beginning, and the difficulty of successfully inheriting the feudal kingdom is no less than winning the flat broadcast war.

Heirs will be extinct at every turn, and it is hard to find a county king to be the prince. No one will inherit the county, and there will be fewer and fewer feudal states.

Therefore, Sufan is not as greedy as other clans. There are many people in other clans, and Lumi sets an upper limit, so everyone is poor; Wang Tianhe has no shortage of money for the land he has accumulated over the years.

King Su from generation to generation, the family is well educated and the family style is upright, and there is no one who is particularly a jerk.

Especially King Su of the previous generation, who was a hard-core virtuous king who allowed Emperor Wanli to build a memorial archway for him.

Zhu Shihong's idea is quite good, but Prince Su's palace guards and the Lanzhou Banner Army are very slow in execution, and it is impossible to find everyone and drive them to Hebei.

It's easy to find everyone out, but finding out doesn't mean you can get kicked out.

Those who were rich lords in Hehuang were still big lords who could not be bullied by the Yiwei Banner Army in Lanzhou. King Su could not support the Banner Army everywhere even though he gave orders.

These days, the status of the Banner Army has reached its toes, and it is not even as good as a government servant. Without a strong backing, how could it be possible to handle this matter well.

The elder master who came from Hehuang asked his slaves to beat them away with sticks, and no one dared to say anything; the younger master who came from Hehuang handed them a few taels of silver, and the bannermen left by themselves.

I am happy to collect money, but what should I do if I can’t pay the money?It's easy to handle, anyway, people have to be kicked out, who is not kicked out?

Those who can't afford the money can be sent to the north bank of the Yellow River.

Zhu Shihong never imagined that not only the poor ghosts in Hehuang were driven back with his order, but many poor ghosts in Lanzhou were also driven away.

Most of the people who were driven to the north bank of the Yellow River did not dare to go anywhere. They did not dare to stay at the mouth of the river, nor did they dare to go to Gansu in the north, nor did they dare to go west to enter the battlefield.

All the murderous intentions brought by God are far less terrible than the murderous intentions brought by human beings.

But there is a voice in the crowd that has been guiding people to flee to the west. Those rumors from the Zhenhai camp are so good that people can't believe it.

They said that when they went to the west, Marshal Liu was not afraid of smallpox, and He Huang would give them land to recuperate and live. There would be no more endless apportionments and oppression from the gentlemen, and Marshal Liu would make decisions for them.

People were skeptical, and some poor ghosts who had nothing left went west. More people lived in mixed villages at the mouth of the river, watching the situation.

In Lanzhou, King Su Zhu Shihong wrote to the imperial court, requesting to increase the guards of the vassal mansion and strengthen Lanzhou City.

When Lian Guoshi settled in Lanzhou, he immediately dispatched manpower to strengthen the city defense. The first thing he did was to divide the defense zones for the commanders and deputy commanders of the five towns on both sides of the Yellow River, and at the same time send some soldiers back to their original places.

The more soldiers the better, especially now that there is smallpox blocking the front, the frontier army of the five towns and his standard battalion already have [-] people, plus the guards and battalions of Lanzhou, the army is already enough.

Lanzhou has a lot of food and grass, and we have to take care of the garrison in Gansu. At that time, whether it is mutiny in Lanzhou or Gansu, it will be a big problem.

Secondly, according to the combat habits of Shaanxi thieves who are good at using light and heavy armored cavalry to charge the formation and fire guns and guns together, they arranged barbed caltrops along the Yellow River and dug earth fortresses and Chen cloth guns; Control thousands of enemies, prepare reed firewood and firewood, and prepare to defend the city.

Finally, Wang Xingshan, the deputy general of Gansu who was stationed on the other side of the river, was ordered to select soldiers who had already had pox from the army to form scouts to investigate the enemy's situation westward.

However, this was a failure. Their scouts found out that the enemy army was clearing the wilderness at the mouth of the river, fifty miles west of the river mouth. However, no matter how hard it was to advance due to the obstruction of the river, they only knew that the enemy army was well-defended and had no idea of ​​the enemy's situation.

It wasn't until the beginning of March that Wang Xingshan, who was on the other side of the defense zone, sent people to turn around three times before sending a message to Lanzhou, saying that a student who lived in Bapanxia, ​​Hekou, had escaped and brought information from the west, and asked the governor if he wanted to see him. he.

Lian Guo was overjoyed when he heard the news, so he asked the student to be released.

The man's name was Wei Yingshi, who wept bitterly when he saw Lian's state affairs, and stated that his hometown was Shangzhuang in Bapanxia, ​​south of the confluence of Huangshui River and Yellow River.

Before that, suddenly a few riders traveled south from the Huangshui River, settled in Bapanxia, ​​and planted false officials in the village, declaring that the war in the Hehuang Valley had subsided.

Wei Yingshi wanted to kill the thieves, but he was worried that he would bring disaster to the people in the village, so he had to make a false appointment with the fake officials to help him count the people and clear the land on the village.

But seeing the puppet officials completely destroy the land tenants, masters and servants, and take away his family's [-] mu of land, there is no law at all, which makes him angry.

When he heard that the puppet officials were going to drag the people to the mouth of the river, Wei Yingshi fled out thinking that he was recruiting more people.

Lian Guoshi sat in the main hall of Lanzhou General's Office, listened to Wei Yingchao's report, and secretly analyzed Liu Chengzong's situation in his heart.

Although he and Liu Chengzong had never met, Yang He asked Liu Chengzong for his opinion when Liu Chengzong entered Qinghai a few years ago.

At that time, Lian Guoshi wanted to disband all Liu Shizi's troops. At that time, he knew that moving Liu Shizi to Qinghai was just a delay.

The gamble is to put the most ferocious rebel army in northern Shaanxi to recuperate at sea, to see whether he will make complete preparations in the hungry and cold land first, or the drought that swept through Shaanxi will pass first.

In fact, when Lian led the army to move to Lanzhou, the biggest emotion in his heart was anger, because Shaanxi's intelligence on Xining failed very badly, and there was no sign of the Hehuang War.

Not only Liu Chengzu was envoy to Hekou, but the imperial government's Shaanxi Yamen and Lanzhou garrison did not stop infiltrating Xining. Although those famous officials entered Xining like nothing, the Jinyiwei pretending to be ordinary people could not stop them.

But their spies stopped at Xiningwei.

Juerwan did not make any achievements in blocking spies, but the crackdown on smuggling was very strong. People who appeared suddenly would be stopped and caught as smugglers, and they could not enter Juerwan at all.

As for the information in Xiningwei, it was almost Liu Chengzu and the chieftains fighting for power and gain. Before the start of this war, the only sign of war was that chieftain Li Tianyu recruited grain merchants to sell grain.

This was just preparation for war, and Lian Guoshi thought that the battle would not start until at least autumn.

Who knew that Liu Chengzong's pseudo-officials were all set up at the mouth of Lanzhou!

Lian Guozheng analyzed the information brought by Wei Yingshi, a student from Hehuang, and was noncommittal. He waited until he went down, and then recruited He Huchen, Zhang Quanchang, Zhao Dayin and other generals to enter the scene and informed them of all the information.

The generals frowned when they heard that Liu Chengzong distributed flat land to the people in the Hehuang Valley. Jun is like a bastard.

Later, Lian made a decision on state affairs: "Even if smallpox is flooding in the mouth of the river, it is necessary to rush to march and go straight to Hehuang... Liu thief is stationed in the fields, and the Hehuang Valley has a vast area of ​​land. In addition to the mountains, the soldiers will have enough food in the coming year. Lanzhou It's dangerous!"

The expressions of the generals were different. The commander-in-chief He Huchen who came from Ningxia wanted to persuade the generals not to fight Liu Chengzong, but because he was defeated by Liu Shizi head-on and sent away all the elite soldiers, he couldn't say anything.

He Huchen has always been worried about being defeated by Liu Shizi. He thinks that his loss to Liu Chengzong was an accident, and he blames the rain on Huanglong Mountain.

And now there is an accident of smallpox, He Huchen really wants to persuade everyone.

But before he could say it, Wang Chengen, another general who came from Lintao, said, "Yes, go straight to Xining!"

Wang Chengen was the most anxious of the commanders who came to help the five towns, because he was from Xining, and his family was in Wangjiazhuang, forty miles east of Xining City. As soon as Liu Shizi sent troops from Xining, his family fell, and the matter of sending troops was more important than anyone else. All in a hurry.

My old lady is still in Xining, so what kind of smallpox does she care about?

"Temporarily ask Wang Shuai to move his army to the north, sprinkle lime for ten miles, and the army will march westward to suppress it. Even if he is infected with Tianxing pox, he can last for ten days... If he can call in ten days, I will wait for the commander of the five towns, can it be?" Can't you call back on ten days?"

At this moment, an urgent letter was sent, and Yang He, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, was rushing from the Great Wall to Lanzhou. The imperial court sent him to see the situation of Sufan Lanzhou city defense and examine the situation in Qinghai.

Sitting upright, Lian Guoshi frowned and shook his head: This old hapless bastard is here again.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)