Palace Concubine Policy: Invincible Queen

Chapter 237: Surviving a Catastrophe (10)
After listening to Dong Xiaowan's words, Liu Butou came back to his senses, and brought Dong Xiaowan and Lianxin into the county seat of Taoyang County.I saw many corpses on both sides of the street here, and some were sickly patients, without shelter. The street was full of stench, and there were groans.Liu Butou told her that some of these corpses were carried out by people in the county, and some were left by dead patients brought in from the villages outside. Some of the patients on both sides of the street were people in the county. Some of them were brought in from the villages outside.

Dong Xiaowan frowned and looked at these patients and corpses.She came to a patient and squatted down to feel the patient's pulse, and then looked at the patient's condition.I saw that almost all of these patients had swollen lymph nodes, and the swollen lymph nodes were ulcerated and pus. Some patients also coughed up sputum, which was bright red and frothy...

Dong Xiaowan stared at these patients with wide eyes, and a terrible term flooded into Dong Xiaowan's mind—plague.She didn't expect it to be the plague.She had never seen the symptoms of the plague, but she knew it was a very serious infectious disease.She had read it in a textbook for self-taught adult medical undergraduates.

There have been several devastating plague pandemics in human history.The first pandemic occurred in the 60th century AD, and the epidemic lasted for [-] to [-] years. At the peak of the epidemic, [-] people died every day, and the total number of deaths was nearly [-] million.

The second pandemic occurred in the 14th century AD and lasted nearly 300 years.The pandemic killed 2500 million people in Europe alone, accounting for a quarter of the European population at the time; Italy and the United Kingdom killed half their populations.According to records, the sidewalks in London were full of rotten and smelly dead cats and dogs at that time, and people beat them to death as the culprit of spreading the plague.However, without cats, rats, the real source of infection of the plague, became more and more rampant.

The third plague pandemic began in 1860 and reached its peak in the 20s, affecting more than 30 countries and killing more than 60 million people.

Moreover, there are records on the Internet that some historians believe that before Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the Beijing soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were suffering from the plague and were seriously injured.As a result, on the Beijing city wall, there was an average of one weak soldier guarding every three crenels, which could not resist the attack of Li Zicheng's elite troops.

These all illustrate the fact that if she doesn't handle it well, it will be a catastrophe!In an instant, all the blood on Dong Xiaowan's face faded.This is not only a disaster for this county, it may also be a disaster for the Great Yan Dynasty.

Chapter 4 Treating the Plague

At this time, a child ran up to Liu Butou and the others and knelt down. The child grabbed Liu Butou's trousers and cried, "Uncle Liu, save my mother! Save my mother!"

"Puppy, don't worry! Uncle Liu has found a doctor to treat people in the county." Catcher Liu bent down and said to the child.

"Doctor! Save my mother! Save my mother!" The child hugged Dong Xiaowan's leg as he spoke.

(End of this chapter)