Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 383 The tragic situation in Guangxi

There is a saying, even if you have heard Hou Dagou say that a plague broke out in Guangxi, you have already taken psychological precautions in advance.

But the extent of the plague in Guangxi is still beyond imagination.

Ever since we crossed the Lianshan Mountains, entered the territory of Guangxi, and walked towards Pingle Mansion, not only were corpses strewn everywhere, it was also a human tragedy.

Many villages have even been wiped out. An entire village has been completely wiped out, and even an entire county has been left empty.

This is the disaster level of ancient plagues. Once a plague occurs, it will at least threaten the extinction of a place.

Because the virus that causes the plague itself is contagious, coupled with secondary or even multiple cross-infections, it is no longer known what kind of virus will evolve, and the transmission methods will be diverse, including but not limited to airborne transmission, Waterborne transmission, body fluid transmission, etc.

Body fluid transmission can also be transmitted through mosquito bites, and it does not necessarily require person-to-person contact. This should be noted.

In ancient times, only wealthy families could afford to use mosquito nets, but ordinary people could not afford them.

Therefore, the ancients talked about the plague with disdain.

Secondly, there are ethnic minorities such as the Miao and Dong people who occupy the last few percent.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were several major ethnic groups in Guangxi. The first was the Han people. Starting from the Song Dynasty, a large number of people from the Central Plains migrated to the Lingnan area. After hundreds of years of development, the Han people have accounted for more than 100% of the population in Guangxi. Fifty percent.

Zhu Chu nodded, not complacent, but said: "I am Zhu Chu, the king of Yunnan. I came out of the capital as an imperial envoy this time. I didn't know that there was a plague in the local area until I got here. I am here to solve it. This matter. Without further ado, let me ask you, did your father die of the plague? If so, take him and burn him. The dead cannot be resurrected, but the living must continue to live. At the same time, tell the whole city People, I am preparing to distribute medicine in the city, so that those who are sick can go get the medicine tomorrow."

Hou Dagou introduced him and said: "Clan Chief Huang, please don't be rude. This is His Royal Highness the King of Dian. Why don't you show me your courtesy quickly?"

However, Zhu Zhen was not afraid of them making trouble. Instead, he sneered and said, "Look at those people and see if they look familiar to them."

Many people will not take this kind of physical alarm seriously at first, but now that the plague is raging, they must not be careless.

There was even a group of people heading towards the city, carrying a coffin and heading out of the city.

Even he himself, didn't he spare no effort to fight for the throne because he knew that Zhu Yunwen's ascension to the throne would weaken the vassal?

People with a little money can also pay attention to the burial and buy a coffin for burial.

Then Zhu Xun continued to lead his troops deeper.

It's right next to Guangxi, but it's not the same thing.

But from now on, in order to prevent the troops from being infected, Zhu Ming must educate people about health issues.

As soon as I entered the county town, I felt a sense of death. I saw white flags and white lanterns everywhere on the streets, and even white paper money blowing in the wind on the streets.

If anyone encountered such a situation, and if the Ming Dynasty officials did not act, they would have to find their own way out.

In addition, Zhu Ming did not hesitate to let people pass it on one by one. Once someone felt hot or cold, he had to report it as soon as possible, and he even had to check it himself.

"Isn't it because you are afraid that we will report to the court that there is a plague in the area and affect your career, so you don't dare to let us go out to ask for help? Now you don't even allow my father to be buried in peace? It's really deceiving. Not to mention my old father. He died of old age, not illness. If you insist on being aggressive, we Zhuang people will also fight with you. Like Hou Dagou of the Yao people, our Zhuang people will also rebel." The filial son shouted, and there was a response from the surroundings.

Along the way, Zhu Chu burned several villages with his own hands, and countless unknown corpses were burned to ashes.

Then the second largest ethnic group is the Zhuang, accounting for a full 30%.

The Yao people only accounted for 10%, so they could raise 100,000 troops to fight all the way from Guangxi to the Guangzhou Prefecture in the hinterland of Guangdong.

Driving corpses, poisoning people, and the girl from the Luohua Cave are the three major witchcraft legends in western Hunan.

However, Xiangxi is not Guangxi. Guangxi and Guangdong belong to Lingnan. The Xiangxi region is a special cultural circle centered on Hunan and other regions. For example, it is currently considered to be an area dominated by Zhangjiajie City, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, and Huaihua City. circle.

Zhu Ming pointed his finger at the Yao people in the queue and called out Hou Dagou.

"Hou Dagou? Are you still alive?" The Zhuang clan leader surnamed Huang showed a surprised expression, because Hou Dagou came out of this Ming army. He never imagined how Hou Dagou got together with the Ming army.

And it turns out that these people are not the same group as Hou Dagou. They are the Zhuang ethnic group, the second largest ethnic group in Guangxi after the Han ethnic group.

Because it was already evening when we arrived, it made people shudder.

Finally, they arrived at Pingle County, Pingle Prefecture.

Hou Dagou came to the filial son of the Zhuang clan with a complicated look on his face and said, "Clan Chief Huang, long time no see."

It seems that this place has become a dead city.

If he is like this, let alone others?

The Yao people's rebellion alone has caused a lot of chaos. Once the Zhuang people also rise up, it will be a big mess.

"Burn the entire dead village to prevent the remnants of the virus. Temporarily seal all the wells and prohibit drinking. From now on, all the soldiers in the army will use cotton masks to cover their mouths and noses, and drink water from running water troughs. It must be extracted from streams and rivers and must be boiled. All food must be cooked thoroughly or even rotten. All meat that has been eaten for more than three days must be discarded," Zhu Zhen gave the order to die seriously.

In ancient times, there were no serious health precautions. Most people drank water locally. Only those with a little money would boil some tea and gather friends together to enjoy their leisure time.

Those who have no money can at most wrap up a roll of mat and throw it into the wilderness, leaving the whole place exposed. Along the way, Zhu Ming frequently dealt with these unclaimed remains.

At this time, a filial son carrying a spiritual flag came out. He was a middle-aged man. He glanced at Zhu Zhen and the tens of thousands of troops behind him, and sneered: "A senior official of the Han court? We are in Guangxi, not Xiangxi. , want to scare us with the rumors of exorcism, but we are not afraid."

This Hou Dagou rebelled. Not only did he kill many Yao chieftains who were professed by the imperial court, he even killed many officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. How could he still be alive? I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.

The group of people was forced to stop and looked at each other in confusion.

Zhu Chu's expression was extremely solemn, and even when he looked at Hou Dagou and the Yao militiamen again, his eyes softened a lot.

Now is not the time to show off. Treating patients is like putting out fires. God knows how many more people will die if the delay continues.

"Wait a minute," Zhu Zhen suddenly stopped the group and shouted: "People who died of illness also have viruses hidden in their bodies. If the viruses gradually evolve into more troublesome viruses in the dead bodies, it will be completely hopeless. Don't be afraid of becoming a corpse. ?"

"King of Dian?" Chief Huang's eyes lit up, and he looked at Zhu Zhen in disbelief.

So Zhu Ming did not hesitate or talk nonsense. After entering the territory of Guangxi, he began to quickly dispatch everyone.

Fluctuating cold and hot is a symptom of fever, but it has nothing to do with colds and fevers. In many cases, it is the body's immunity's resistance to invading viruses, which is the so-called inflammation.

Moreover, Guangxi also has as many chieftain officials as there are countless chieftains. Like Yunnan, it is a region with the chieftain system.

Therefore, this head of the Huang clan is the local leader.

The chieftain system implemented in the Zhuang area can be traced back to the dozens of Jizhou counties established during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Their chiefs served as governors and implemented the native official system.

Therefore, Nong Zhenyou was also called the chief of the great chief.

And this filial son named Huang is obviously the patriarch of the local Zhuang tribe.

Moreover, the Huang surname is the largest surname among the Zhuang people. It is said that the Huang surname of the Zhuang people evolved from the Huangdong barbarians in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and some were formed after the fusion and assimilation of the Huang surnames who entered Guangxi during the Song Dynasty and the Zhuang people. , so their family also pays attention to burial.

In fact, it is the etiquette of the Han people in the Central Plains to be buried in peace.

Another point is that as early as the first year of Zhide in the Tang Dynasty, there was Huang Qianyao, the leader of the Zhuang nationality. Because of his dissatisfaction with the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty continued to increase the exploitation of labor and labor in the Lingnan area, and established a system to buy and sell Liao barbarians as slaves to be imported into the Liao city in the Central Plains, causing ethnic conflicts. intensify.

So Huang Qianyao called himself the King of Zhongyue and gathered people in Huangdong (today's west of Daxin County, Guangxi) to resist the uprising. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Zhuang people have the surname Huang, which is a Han surname.

After listening to Zhu Xi's words, Patriarch Huang began to hesitate.

After all, the person in the coffin is his father, his biological father.

How can you say that it is burned?

Zhu Ming also knew that it was difficult for others to do so, but he had to say: "If you don't set an example, how can others follow suit? The plague is raging now, and if you don't want to save yourself, how can I save you? Do you really want to? Are you forcing everyone to guard the city gate and wait to die?"

Originally, Zhu Zhen didn't know the identity of Chief Huang, but he happened to bump into this team after entering the city, so he planned to act in a high-profile manner.

He was planning to catch a model, not to establish his authority, but to let the people in the city know that he was here, to let people know what he was here for, and to let people understand that viruses can also lurk in dead bodies, and can even cause disaster.

Therefore, the dead body must be burned. Without burning, the virus cannot be completely eliminated.

The most terrifying thing about the plague is that it is difficult to completely purify all viruses. As long as a few hidden dangers are left, it is like the grass roots. Wildfire will not burn them out, and the spring breeze will regenerate them.

It is impossible for Zhu Chu to stay in Guangxi for the rest of his life, not even in his hometown of Yunnan. What if Guangxi relapses?

"Do you know how many people died along the way just from what I saw? How many people died in your city? There are so many living people who can't replace your father's bones? Chief Huang, don't be so shameless ," Seeing that Patriarch Huang was silent, Zhu Zhen finally became impatient and began to exert pressure.

If you refuse to burn your father, then I will burn your whole family as well.

Patriarch Huang gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind: "Since you are the Dian King who is famous all over the world, cares for the people, and loves the people like a son, then I believe in you. Come on, don't go to the cemetery, take it to our ancestral hall. . I will go to the ancestral hall and tell the matter in front of my father's token, and you will set up a fire outside Tang to see the old man off for the last time."

Although the Zhuang people also have belief in gods, they do not blindly worship them, which is the so-called superstition. They mostly worship their ancestors.

Therefore, although the surname Huang belongs to the Zhuang ethnic group, they also imitate the Han people and have ancestral halls and memorial tablets.

Zhu Ming felt strange in his heart. Are you a Zhuang or a Han?

This is because Confucianism attaches great importance to one's family background. For example, the establishment of direct descendants is the requirement for family background. The ancestral hall has even more stringent requirements for family background, including genealogy, which also has extremely harsh conditions. Most people cannot get into the family tree.

Those who can be listed on the family tree must be from the direct lineage, and those born from concubines are not eligible.

Even when we talked about the Jiangnan aristocratic family before, the branch families that were separated were actually the direct descendants, not the descendants of common people, who had no status or qualifications at all.

To put it bluntly, children of common concubines are not qualified to enter the ancestral hall to worship even when they are alive, let alone enter the ancestral hall after death. Unless they are powerful, that is of course unusual.

But no matter what, Zhu Ming was very pleased that Chief Huang could understand the truth.

At that moment, Patriarch Huang turned around and led his people, carrying the coffin to the ancestral hall. On the street outside the ancestral hall, he placed the coffin on firewood and directly cremated his father with a big fire.

The incident immediately spread throughout the city.

The Huang family is a wealthy family in Pinglefu, and is a family of local chieftains. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the local emperors.

Unexpectedly, Patriarch Huang went crazy and made his father angry?

First of all, his own family members stopped working, and even brothers from surrounding counties came to ask for an explanation from the boss.

Clan Chief Huang could not withstand the pressure. The Huang family was quite large, and the other chieftains in several counties around Pingle Mansion were all brothers who had been separated from the family, and now they have established their own small families.

If this happened, it would be enough for him to drink a pot.

So Patriarch Huang quickly took people to find Zhu Zhen.

As a result, we saw that at some point in Pingle County, large pots had been erected, with various herbal medicines boiled in them. After bowls of medicinal soup were brewed, tens of thousands of Yao people and Ming army soldiers More than 10,000 people were sent to each household.

Even Zhu Chu himself, along with his two daughters, Xu Miaojin and Tang Xin, set up a tent and personally received the seriously ill patients one after another.

Many patients are already terminally ill and can only wait to die at home.

After Zhu Zhen entered the city in the afternoon, he sent an army of nearly 100,000 people to the entire city to inquire about the situation from house to house. Then his guards carried the most seriously ill people over for his personal diagnosis and treatment.

Seeing this scene, Patriarch Huang opened his mouth and finally chose to turn around silently.

"Are these Ming troops?"

Patriarch Huang's brothers couldn't help being speechless and in disbelief when they saw this scene.

"Who is that? Is it the imperial doctor sent by the imperial court?" A person looked at Zhu Xi and asked Patriarch Huang.

Patriarch Huang sighed and said: "That is His Royal Highness the King of Dian. You must not be rude. Don't you want an explanation? Why should I burn our father to ashes? Because Your Highness is here to save us. His Highness wants to help us thoroughly." Get rid of the plague virus. There are viruses in the dead. Therefore, we cannot rest in peace. In that case, the dead will rest in peace, but the living will not. So you all go back, follow His Highness’s will, and bring all those who died of the plague. Go out and burn it, and even dig out what I buried before."

"Whether our Guangxi can survive this disaster depends entirely on Your Highness."

The brothers of the Huang family looked at each other. They originally came to call for punishment, but now they saw that Zhu Zhen had already begun to save the people of Pingle Mansion, and they couldn't complain at all.

So one by one hurried back to their respective territories overnight, and as chieftains, began to burn people.

For a moment, the smell of meat in Pingle Mansion was everywhere, and it felt even more like a sight of purgatory on earth.

But what has to be said is that fire can indeed purify viruses. In addition, Zhu Xi has dealt with malaria before, so he already has experience, including when this unit was in Lianshan, and he also accumulated a lot of experience.

So by the next day, Pingle County had stabilized the plague situation. Within three days, most of the people in Pingle County had recovered to health. Only a few people were seriously ill and needed some time to recover.

Zhu Ming spared no effort. In addition to urgently transferring medicinal materials from the county pharmacy, he also spent a lot of resources to buy things from the system store. In particular, many patients who were already terminally ill relied on the system's cheating ability to escape from death. Grab a life from your hands.

Anyway, Zhu Ming's current resources have exceeded 100 million. As long as they are not wasted for no reason, he thinks it is worth it.

With the plague under control in Pingle County, Zhu Zhen also dispersed his army to carry out comprehensive treatment for the entire Pingle Prefecture.

He also asked people to copy the prescriptions and medicine lists, and asked Patriarch Huang to find people to distribute them to various prefectures and counties in Guangxi, where local medicines would be used to treat illnesses and save lives.

So soon, not only the people of Guangxi knew the name of the Dian King, but also knew that it was the Dian King who came, and they also understood that it was Zhu Chu who was sparing no effort to treat the plague.

This also made Zhu Zhen's reputation begin to rise in Guangxi.

But on this day, Zhu Zhen suddenly got a piece of news.

"Your Highness, Guilin Mansion is surrounded by the Zhuang people," Chief Huang rushed to report the situation to Zhu Zhen.

Zhu Ming was stunned. He had been very busy these days and his brain was a little hard to use. He asked, "What's going on?"

Patriarch Huang quickly explained: "Guilin Mansion was once a vassal territory of King Jingjiang, and it was also the location of Prince Jingjiang's Mansion. Although King Jingjiang passed away the year before last, the court has not named him a king again. But the original officials of Prince Jingjiang's Mansion are still there. And Guilin Mansion has always been under the jurisdiction of the Han officials of the imperial court. When the plague broke out, it was these Han officials who blocked news within the territory for fear of being reprimanded by the imperial court and affecting their official careers, which made it impossible to control the plague after it broke out."

"Furthermore, since the outbreak of the plague, private food prices have increased rapidly. Guilin officials are responsible for collecting taxes and grains from all Guangxi provinces on behalf of the imperial court and storing them in granaries. However, after the outbreak of the plague, they did not care about the life and death of the people and allowed grain merchants to flourish. Disaster fortune.”

"To be honest with you, Your Highness, apart from those who died of illness, most of them were common people who died of starvation."

"Do you know what is said outside? A goose can only be exchanged for three liters of grain, and a bucket of rice can be exchanged for an eight-year-old child."

Zhu Ming was angry: "Let's go, I will bring justice to you."

(End of this chapter)