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At the beginning, Li Yin had a shortage of manpower, so he moved a group of Hu people from the northern grasslands, and organized the young and strong among them into an army, which became a sharp sword in his hand. Now this army is still active in various places. , the status is only under the Han army, and the status is higher than that of the Sanhan, Japanese, Linyi and other armies.

These Hu people who migrated were only 17 at first, but after nearly ten years of reproduction and reproduction, the total population of grassland people on Ezo Island has reached 35. A large number of children were born, especially after Li Yin promoted Sinicization among the Hu people, which strengthened the medical conditions on the island, which greatly increased the birth rate of the grassland people. Coupled with sufficient food, there was a peak area of ​​population growth.

It's just that the increase in population has also overwhelmed the land of Ezo Island, especially some children have gradually grown up, but there are no more grasslands for them to graze. This situation has attracted Li Yin's attention, and even He considered increasing the number of prairie troops to reduce the population pressure on Ezo Island.

However, when Li Yin arrived in Australia, he found that although Australia's agriculture was developing well, the animal husbandry industry was somewhat backward. It can be said that it can kill two birds with one stone.

After Tang Yizhi and Li Ke heard Li Yin's idea, they also praised Li Min's idea, but they were worried that if too many prairie people migrated, would it cause the prairie people in Australia to become more powerful in the future, which would be detrimental to the Qi Palace? rule.Capital Datang 624

For this, Li Yin thinks it is not a big problem. Now those grassland people have been sinicized, especially those grassland youths who have just grown up in the past ten years.Their loyalty to themselves far exceeds their loyalty to the tribe. As long as these reliable people are moved over during the migration, and then Australia's rule over them is strengthened, there will be no problems.

After careful consideration of this, Tang Yizhi also agreed with Li Min's opinion, so while he was preparing to recruit the local natives, he was also preparing to accept grassland immigrants, and he was very busy at the moment.

As for Li Yin and Li Ke, they left Nan'ao three days later, because the smallpox outbreak among the native tribes had become more and more serious.The death toll has skyrocketed.Nan'ao City also responded immediately to this. Nearly [-] natives in the city were also urgently relocated to an island outside the port, and then after selection.Batch vaccination with vaccinia began.

In addition, through these natives, Tang Yizhi also released information about recruiting the natives, and also announced the two major benefits of the natives' surrender, which made most of the native tribes very excited, especially those who were deeply affected by smallpox. Horde of torment.Regardless of the harm of smallpox, they sent people to contact the Han people one after another, trying to get rid of the pain of the disease as soon as possible.

But not all the natives will be recruited. In fact, Tang Yizhi didn't plan to recruit too many natives. First, he was wary of the local natives, and second, he didn't have the power to control too many natives. Many natives.Therefore, in the first batch, he only recruited some tribes that were usually friendly to the Han people, and the number of them was also large.There are only more than [-] people, which are enough for his needs at this stage.

Nan'ao City was the last stop of Li Yin's trip to Australia. They originally planned to stay in Nan'ao for a while, but because of the sudden smallpox, they had to leave early.But when they passed Rainbow Harbor, Li Yin and the others stayed here for a while.After all, this place is far away from the smallpox-infested area, and Qinghe, Gao Yang and other women also like the lobster and manatee here very much, so they stay here just to eat enough before going back.

However, apart from tasting delicious food, Li Yin also visited Rainbow Harbor all over the place, and went out by boat to visit the nearby Great Barrier Reef, and even found a place with shallow water for a swim. It was extremely pleasant, and they reluctantly left Rainbow Harbor until the end. At the same time, they felt a little regretful, because of time constraints, they could not see the spectacle of the sea water outside Rainbow Harbor turning into colors.

Then Li Yin returned along the original road, and did not stop until Moli City. At this time, it had been nearly two months since they arrived in Moli City for the first time, and the steel factory was also under intense construction, so Li Yin went to the iron and steel factory to check it out, and expressed condolences to the workers who came with him.

However, when Li Yin and the others were about to return, they received a message, and Li Yin, who saw the news, sighed a long time, thinking that the saying that misfortunes never come singly really makes sense.

It turned out that just a few months ago, the smallpox epidemic appeared in the Americas, and it was even more severe than in Australia. The area where smallpox appeared first was the city of Mansa where Lu Wan and the others arrived for the first time. Thousands of people in the city People have the most contact with Han people. God knows which Han people are carrying the smallpox virus, and it suddenly broke out. Although the Han doctors in Luwangang next to them tried their best to treat them, by the time the letter was sent, more than half of the Mayans in Mansa City had died of illness. Read the full text of The Rebirth of the Concubine Allure.

What is even more frightening is that smallpox began to spread to the surrounding area with Mansa City as the center, and the spread was extremely fast. Half a month later, patients with smallpox also appeared in Mayan cities hundreds of miles away from Mansa City.

And the Mayans, like the Australian natives, apparently had no resistance to smallpox.People who just got sick first had a high fever, then had a headache, sore throat, and pain in the limbs, and then began to have symptoms such as shaking, vomiting, and diarrhea. Most people will die from complications, and only a few people who are born with strong resistance are likely to survive, and the symptoms will disappear after more than a month, but even if they are cured, the patient's face will still be large and small. Mazi, a small number of people will go blind because of it, it can be said to be very scary.

The immune system of the Mayans has no memory of the smallpox virus at all, so their bodies are like an undefended delicious meal for smallpox. As long as one person has smallpox symptoms, most of the people around will also be infected. Infection, and the Mayans had no experience with such a large-scale plague, and they did not know how to prevent the spread of smallpox, so this also led to the spread of smallpox throughout Central and South America less than a month after its appearance open.

To make matters worse, the political and economic center of the Mayans, that is, the Yucatan Peninsula, was also captured by the menacing smallpox. In such a relatively densely populated area, the spread of smallpox increased exponentially. Howling under the ravages of the disease, the number of deaths has been uncountable. All the Han Chinese in America only know that the civilization of the Mayans is disappearing rapidly. The land is full of dead bodies of Mayans, and one city after another has become a ghost town without people. .

Although Li Yin, who received the news, did not see the tragedy of America with his own eyes, he could imagine that, just like the smallpox virus brought by the Spaniards in later generations when they invaded the Americas, the relatively weak immune system of the native Americans was basically destroyed. I can't stand this kind of test, and it is reasonable for this situation to happen.

Moreover, Li Yin also knows that this smallpox is just the beginning. Maya, located in Central America, connects the North and South Americas, so the smallpox virus will definitely spread to North and South America at this center, and this situation may last for many years. Native Americans would die as a result, perhaps in the millions, possibly in the tens of millions.Considering the death rate of smallpox as high as one-third, I am afraid that the final death toll will definitely be much more than the plague in Java.

Speaking of which, this year is really strange. First, smallpox broke out in Australia, followed by the Americas. It can be said that this year can be called the "year of smallpox".

Moreover, the smallpox that broke out on these two continents was different from the plague in Java. The plague in Java was confined to a single island. Although the death rate was higher than smallpox, it was not very harmful.And to some extent, the plague was actually man-made.In addition, the riots in Java came first, and if most of the natives could be wiped out by the plague, it would be beneficial and not harmful to Li Yin.

But smallpox in America is completely uncontrollable, it can even be said to be a natural disaster, and the two continents are vast, and the local natives are also a resource that Li Yin can use, especially now that he has the number of Han people in his hands. Under the circumstances of shortage, these natives are even more important. Unfortunately, the successive outbreaks of smallpox in these two places undoubtedly caused a great loss of this resource, and may even slow down the pace of Li Min's overseas development.Capital Datang 624

In addition, the news of the outbreak of smallpox in America also disrupted Li Ke's plan to visit the three places in person. He originally planned to go to America immediately after he had been to Australia.And his trip to Australia was finally interrupted by smallpox, but he barely got to know Australia, but he hadn't left for America, but was interrupted by the outbreak of smallpox.This made Li Ke feel very depressed, and wondered in his heart whether he had committed a conflict with smallpox, otherwise why did he let himself be involved in all these things?

It is precisely because of this that Li Ke had to change his itinerary. After returning to Taiwan from Australia, he went to Ceylon Island by boat instead, and then went to visit his two younger brothers, Li Zhen and Li Yun, before taking the boat Head west to Africa and check out the local conditions.But this time he was the only one going there, and Yang and his children were waiting for him in Taiwan. After all, Africa is not like Australia, and there is still a certain risk to go there.

However, Li Ke did not expect that his trip to Africa could not be carried out according to the original plan at all, but a small accident occurred in the middle, and it was this accident that made Li Ke achieve a period of his own. legend!