Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 500 Loss of humanity

After Sun Simiao returned to the capital, he began to work hard to prevent the spread of smallpox. At the same time, he also selected several smallpox patients from Dead Man's Alley as his research and cure subjects.

To put it bluntly, those people are Sun Simiao's experimental guinea pigs, which sounds a bit cruel, but in the face of diseases that make human beings helpless, they have no other better way than this.

However, the power of smallpox was completely beyond Sun Simiao's expectations. Even though he had taken all possible preventive measures, many people were infected with smallpox one after another inside and outside the capital every day and became smallpox patients.

Gradually, many people began to lose patience with Sun Simiao.

In Chang'an City, the common people began to become panicky, even irritable.

And at this time, a rumor suddenly spread in Chang'an City.

"Smallpox is a disease that cannot be cured at all, and it cannot be prevented. The only way to eliminate smallpox is to burn all the people who have smallpox and the things they used, so that smallpox can be completely eradicated. "

"Yes, I heard that smallpox appeared in China more than 100 years ago. Tens of thousands of people died at that time. In the end, all smallpox patients were burnt to death, and the spread of smallpox was finally curbed. "

"So, now we can only use this method to solve smallpox, otherwise we don't know when these smallpox will infect us."

"........."

After the speech dispersed in the capital, these people began to gather together again, and after they gathered together, they came to the gate of the palace again.

"Burn the smallpox patient, burn the smallpox patient..."

The terrified people have lost their reason, and even the fear made them slowly discard their original conscience. The originally kind people have become crazy, cruel and ruthless at this time.

In order to keep themselves alive, they would now rather burn all the patients who had smallpox to death.

Crazy people shouted loudly outside the palace, and a young eunuch hurried into the imperial study.

"My lord, it's not good, it's not good, those people are making trouble again."

Li Shimin looked a little haggard. Originally, he pinned his hopes on Sun Simiao, but now Sun Simiao has been back for a few days, but there is not much progress.

Smallpox was still raging, and because of this, Li Shimin hadn't closed his eyes for several nights.

At this time, when he heard the common people rioting again, Li Shimin stood up immediately: "What's going on?"

"The people now demand that those smallpox patients be burned to death to curb the spread of smallpox. Now they are making a lot of noise in front of the palace."

As the little eunuch said, Li Shimin's face turned livid, and the eldest grandson Wuji next to him, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and said: "My lord, smallpox cannot continue to spread like this. In order to prevent more people from being infected by smallpox, the best medicine now The only way is to burn those people to death, although it is cruel, it is effective."

"Your Majesty, please make a decisive decision to reduce the casualties of more people."

Except for Changsun Wuji, several other courtiers also agreed to carry out a cruel massacre of the people who had smallpox patients.

Li Shimin's eyes were a bit sad, he glanced at the crowd, and asked: "Could it be... Is it true that we can only kill people by hand?"

Li Shimin is not a kind person, and his hands are also covered with blood, but he can't bear to do something to those people, or in other words, it makes him unable to make this decision. After all, killing those people, he His reputation is gone.

But he himself knew very well that if this delay continued, more people would be infected with smallpox, and Chang'an City at that time would really be out of control.

The imperial study room was very quiet, with the wind blowing outside, Li Shimin's expression looked a little serious, but also painful.

The other courtiers all looked at Li Shimin, with a little hope in everyone's eyes.

After a long time, Li Shimin finally said, "Wait for another three days. If after three days, Miracle Doctor Sun still hasn't thought of a cure for smallpox, he will gather all the people who have smallpox together, kill and burn them."

It was a cruel sentence, but Li Shimin had to say it. As the emperor, he had to stabilize the entire Tang Dynasty as soon as possible.

If smallpox continues to wreak havoc, it is not a good thing.

Changsun Wuji suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Li Shimin moved his heart, it would be fine.

Time passed very slowly, and the entire Chang'an was devastated, and anxiety was spreading, making everyone's heart beat faster.

After learning of Li Shimin's decision, the people in front of the palace temporarily gave up making trouble, but at this time, they began to frantically look for those who had smallpox but hid.

A few days later, people who contract smallpox will be burned to death, but everyone has the desire to survive, even those who have smallpox want to live.

Therefore, when some people learned that they had smallpox, they began to hide their tracks. Even if they died of illness, they were unwilling to be killed and burned to death.

However, after such a wave of searching for smallpox patients has been set off in the whole Chang'an city, how many smallpox patients can really hide?
Moreover, smallpox patients also need to eat, but they can't let their family members deliver it, so as not to infect their family members, so it is easier to expose themselves.

People who had smallpox were found out one after another. After people like them were found out, it would be fine if they went directly to the Alley of the Dead. If they didn't go, they would be beaten to death.

The family members of smallpox patients are crying, begging for mercy, and kneeling in the cold wind, but the crazy people who have almost lost their humanity, who cares about it?

When smallpox patients hide themselves, they are spreading smallpox and harming them, and they will not forgive those who harm them.

Chang'an was originally prosperous, but it could not withstand a change in human nature.

At this time, no one felt that they were cruel. Instead, they felt that those smallpox patients were the culprits. They burned those people to kill the evil.

In this world, there is no right or wrong. The so-called right or wrong is just that more people think he is right, so even if you know he is wrong, it is still right.

Right or wrong has always been in the hands of the majority.

People who have not had smallpox think their behavior is right, so they are right. There are only a few hundred smallpox patients, and they are a vulnerable group.

Chang'an is no longer the old Chang'an. Li Shimin is heartbroken by the news that comes to the palace every day, but in the face of such a disaster, people are very powerless, and so is Li Shimin.

(End of this chapter)