Fenghou

Chapter 1496 Emergency

That night, the Internal Affairs Hall issued thirteen urgent orders. The first was to mobilize 100 million masks from the warehouse. The masks were made after the outbreak of the epidemic in Caizhou and Chenzhou five years ago. After sewing, there are ropes on both sides to hang on the ears. All the millions of masks in the warehouse were sent to Yanshan Road, and then transported from Juma River to Liaodong.

The second is the transportation of a large amount of medicinal materials, tents and other materials. The tents and other materials are mainly used to deal with immigrants from Liaodong.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Qingshan rushed to Yanshan Road with hundreds of officials, and he was fully in charge of resettlement.

At the same time, the Internal Affairs Hall also passed the concubine's emergency plan. The concubine mobilized [-] soldiers and dispatched [-] [-]-stone carts to transport masks and Radix Radix and other medicinal herbs to Liaodong. Each cart was equipped with [-] soldiers and divided into three shifts. Day and night non-stop pedal boat sailing.

Xinzhou is located in the north of Hanzhou, and its territory is not large. It is only equivalent to a county in the Central Plains. The population here is relatively sparse. On the one hand, the population of Jin State is unevenly distributed. It is near Shangjing in the north, and other areas are sparsely populated, and the land has not been developed much, maintaining its original state.

In fact, the Jurchen population has been reduced to less than a million, and the other Khitan and Xi people have even smaller populations. They were massacred by the Jin people and forced to recruit strong men by the Jin soldiers. The Khitan and Xi people are almost only left with old, weak, women and children.

This is also because since the rise of Chen Qing and the Yong Kingdom, a large number of Jurchen young and strong men have died in battle. In addition, the life span of the Jurchens is generally low. In the past ten years, the population of the Jurchens has continued to decrease sharply. In other places, there are almost only old and weak women and children left, and there are even fewer pregnant women.

This morning, a Western Army scout team consisting of 30 people appeared in the southern part of Xinzhou. The leader of this Western Army scout team was a deputy commander named Xu Changzhou, from Luoyang.

This scout team is actually composed of thirty soldiers, a military doctor, and a guide.

Chen Qing responded urgently. The army blocked all official roads, and built isolation camps, observation camps, and transfer camps in Shenzhou. It was necessary to ensure that all people did not get sick for half a month before being transferred to Yanshan Road.

Of course, the migration was not smooth, and it was not smooth. Three large-scale Jurchen riots broke out successively. Chen Qing was hard-hearted and tough. All men who participated in the riots, regardless of age, were killed. More than [-] people were killed in the three riots. Only then did they forcibly drive the women and children out of their hometowns and transport them to Yanshan Road by boat.

"Is there a village near us?" the leader Xu Changzhou asked.

"No matter, burn them!"

One of his subordinates pointed to a remnant wall, "General, it's in there!"

Xu Changzhou thought for a while and said, "Doctor Yang, we don't need to go all in!"

A group of cavalry rode their horses northward along the creek.

Chen Qing sent more than a dozen scout teams to various places in the north to check the epidemic situation and military situation. Xu Changzhou's team was responsible for investigating Xinzhou. Several of their teams came from Hanzhou, and the other three teams were already in Shenzhou, Xianping Prefecture, and Hanzhou. The epidemic was discovered, and there were concentrated deaths in several villages.

But Xu Changzhou and the others haven't encountered the epidemic yet, mainly because they went north from Liaoyang Mansion and took the West Official Road, and none of the dozen or so villages they encountered along the way had any epidemics.

It is also easy to identify people who are sick. Almost all the people who are sick can't walk. They either lie on a cart or walk on their backs. They go to the isolation camp. The whole family goes together. The isolation camp is not far from Wangping County,
The city of Shenzhou is already empty, all of which have been sterilized with quicklime, and the whole city is filled with the choking smell of quicklime.

At this time, the military doctor Yang Rong had something to say, and the leader Xu Changzhou hurriedly called everyone together.

At this time, the emergency defense medicines and masks from Jingzhao were also sent to Liaodong. Chen Qing immediately distributed the masks and medicines to the soldiers, and boiled medicines for the soldiers to prevent the epidemic.

After walking for a few miles, a village appeared in front of it, with the appearance of more than [-] families. The villages in the Kingdom of Jin are almost not big, and there is a faint white flag inserted at the entrance of the village, which is a sign of someone's death.

At this time, the scout teams sent to the north also returned one after another. They brought shocking news. Plague broke out in all parts of the northern part of Jin Kingdom, causing heavy deaths and a large number of people could not escape. However, the situation in Shangjing is unknown.

Because of the discovery of the epidemic in Shenzhou, the people of Shenzhou first observed for a few days, and those who did not have the disease were sent to the Liaoxi Corridor for another ten days of isolation to ensure that there was no disease before going to Yanshan Road, and the people who became ill were isolated for treatment.

They took out the leather bags of kerosene, sprayed five bags of kerosene, and found a pile of wheat straw not far away, one bundle after another. They picked dozens of bundles with spears and covered them all, and then threw a pile of wheat straw. A torch passed by, "Boom!" It ignited, and the wheat straw and kerosene burned.

Everyone took out their masks and put them on. Yang Rong said again: "From what we know so far, this kind of plague can be transmitted through talking at close range, and it can also be transmitted through food and feces. So I ask everyone to remember three points. First, not only water and food in this village should not be touched, but anything else; second, you should not tell the people in the village at close range, keep around ten feet, but you must wear a mask; third, do not send out Kindhearted, thinking of saving people, once infected, they will surely die, we can only tell those who are not infected to stay away from the village as much as possible.”

"no!"

Xu Changzhou and others immediately set fire to all the houses with torches. The houses had thatched roofs and were easy to ignite. Soon, the entire village was engulfed in flames.

After walking around, no resident was found. Military doctor Yang Rong said to Xu Changzhou, "It is very likely that they were forced to go to Beijing before and never came back!"

At this time, the guide Zhang Dai shouted: "General Xu, Doctor Yang!"

It should have been discovered, Xu Changzhou and Yang Rong hurriedly galloped over,

Xu Changzhou nodded, "Go! Take a look."

By mid-March, there were almost no civilians in the entire land of Liaodong and the Liaodong Peninsula, except for the [-] troops and Korean prisoners of war who were mining limestone.

Yang Rong shook his head, "It can't be such a coincidence. We came here after we finished moving the corpses. We should have left a few days ago."

The crowd continued to head north.
It has been nearly half a month since the large-scale migration of people, and almost all the people in the south of Shenzhou have been emptied, whether they are Jurchens, Khitans, Bohai people or Han people, they have all moved away.

Yang Rong nodded, "Just go to a few people. The others are waiting here. Try not to use the water in the river to feed the horses. If you want to feed them, you must boil the water before feeding the horses. You have to leave the official road."

"It should be. Walk along the river. Villages are usually built along the river."

Walking to the entrance of the village, Xu Changzhou took a closer look at the white flag. The white flag was not newly planted. It must have been a while. The five people entered the village directly. No one was there.

Yang Rong said solemnly: "Everyone put on the mask first, and I will reiterate a few words for everyone!"

A leader took everyone away. The leader Xu Changzhou, the military doctor Yang Rong, the guide Zhang Dai and two soldiers, a total of five people rode to the village on horseback. Each of them held a spear and a shield. To the Jurchen sentries, on the other hand, the spears could also push people away and keep people away from them.

Xu Changzhou shook his head, "All the daily necessities are here, and I also saw a few bags of food. They must have returned from Shangjing!"

The guide is called Zhang Dai, a Han Chinese from Liaoyang Prefecture, a local, and a subordinate of the intelligence chief Pang Guangji. He is very familiar with the Liaodong area.

Zhang Dai pointed to a large mountain in the distance and said, "That's Mao'er Mountain, the Jueyuan Temple where the plague first broke out, but there is no one in the temple, no one dares to go."

Xu Changzhou urged the horse to go forward, his eyes narrowed immediately, the inside was full of corpses wrapped in mats, there were dozens of them, they were not buried, they were randomly piled inside, probably the living people brought the corpses here to burn them, But why didn't it burn?Could it be that they saw themselves and their men and hid?

Groups of people from the Kingdom of Jin, supporting the old and the young, came from the north in carts and were led by soldiers of the Western Army to Shenzhou City. Shenzhou City is the observation camp. Everyone was issued a mask, which must be worn to prevent the spread of saliva. , but also with quicklime for disinfection.

Each family lives in a small courtyard, and they are not allowed to go out, visit, or gather to chat. There are cavalry patrolling the city, and each family is given food, stoves, and honeycomb cakes, and requires water to be boiled before drinking. The whole family was sent to Wangping County.

In just five days, more than 20 people fled from the north, Shenzhou couldn't live there, and Chen Qing had to use the empty Liaoyang City as a second observation camp.

At the same time, Chen Qing accepted the suggestion of chief military doctor Zhou Mian to shorten the [-]-day observation period to ten days. As long as the whole family has no symptoms within ten days, they will be transferred by boat to the Liaoxi Corridor, where the transfer camp is located, and then according to the official regulations They will be distributed and sent to various counties on Shandong Road by large ship for resettlement.

Compared with the resistance of the Jurchens in the south of the Jin Kingdom, the Jurchen people from the north of the Jin Kingdom were more likely to accept the migration. They had really seen the cruelty of the plague and were terrified.

(End of this chapter)