Section 1327 Horse plague infesting horses

Alatan is indeed a Mongol, but he is not from the Chahar tribe and is an impostor.

He was the son of a small chieftain, but when he was a teenager, his tribe was attacked by rival tribes, and Alatan's tribe was defeated, and his chieftain's father was killed in battle, and most of the people were included in the rival tribes, and he, as the son of the chief, belonged to the object that had to be eliminated, and had to flee everywhere, and from then on he lived a life of worry-free food and clothing.

Such things are commonplace on the grassland, and it is a catastrophe to fall on the head of Alatan, and on the way to escape, it is extremely miserable, and the young young patriarch lives a life of starvation and being chased by evil wolves, and silently vows to take revenge.

Then, he was rescued, and a Han Chinese merchant on the steppe rescued him and took him back to Guannai.

Five years later, a young man of the Chahar tribe named Alatan was born and ran around the desert in the south and north of the desert, he showed the care of a child of a golden family and his great indignation against the Southern Dynasty, calling on all tribes to unite against the Southern Dynasty and vow revenge!

He wants to make the north of the Yellow River a pasture for the Mongols and restore the glory of the Great Khan!

People secretly laughed at him for not being able to do anything, but they were also moved by his spirit, and even more moved by his gifts, as if he had a steady stream of wealth to support his great cause against the Southern Dynasty.

The huge wealth from the Southern Dynasty supported Alatan's anti-Southern Dynasty actions.

Alatan is just a pseudonym, the real name is unknown, the Ming brocade clothes are hundreds of households (six products), and he is given to wear bullfighting clothes.

Bullfighting uniform, a kind of official uniform in the Ming Dynasty, the official uniform given to the three-grade officials, embroidered on the bullfighting of the beast, hence the name, the low-level officials were given to wear the nine uniforms, which is a great honor.

Alatan is an agent sent by the Jinyi Guard, who is used to spy on the military intelligence of the Northern Captives and report on sabotage, and right now, he is tasked with spreading horse plague!

Yan Changwu, the king of the southeast, came to power in the Ming Dynasty, and he knew very well who the enemy of the Ming Dynasty was, only the northern captives.

The biggest reliance of the Northern Captives is cavalry, how to deal with cavalry?

Yan Changwu didn't give an answer first, and handed it over to the cabinet, the Ministry of War, the General Staff Department, the Dongchang, and the Jinyi Wei officials to think about it, and come up with a good way, and the king will be rewarded!

The answers are varied, some people say that they want to use the cavalry to deal with the cavalry, some people say that they want to carry forward the combination of our Ming Dynasty's firearms troops and infantry (Yan Changwu Xing firearms, officials are very good at watching the limelight and fire), and some people say that they want to strengthen and raise the city and turn the north into an impregnable defense line of the Great Wall, and some say that they want to blockade the economy......

Then Dongchang and Jinyiwei's answer is interesting, plan one, exterminate horses, is to spread horse plague; The second plan, to engage people, is to spread the plague!

Isn't the northern captives Ma Duoduo, using the horse plague to make the horse plague, the horse is dead, when there is a horse, the northern captives fight three Southern Dynasty people, and when there is no horse, a southern Korean soldier can win a northern captive.

Horse plague is a horse disease that is prevalent in horses, the source is complex, the transmissibility is strong, and the danger is high, for example, in order to fight against the northern captives, the Tang Dynasty vigorously raised horses in the country, the Tang Dynasty was strong, and had a good horse farm, and there were no less than one million horses raised during the Gaozong period, so that the Tang army had enough foot strength to go deep into the grassland to go to the liver and feet.

With so many horses, if the Tang people forcibly occupied Mobei, there would be no future affairs of Da Liao, Da Jin, Da Yuan and Lao Wild Boar Skin.

Maybe God doesn't want the Chinese nation to be so smooth, after all, the Chinese nation has obtained the best land in East Asia, if they get the north and there is no containment, will the Chinese nation continue to expand to the outside world? There was a Yonglong horse plague, which broke out in the Yonglong period of the Tang Dynasty (680-681) and caused more than half of the horses of the Tang Dynasty to die, until the early reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (712 AD), there were less than 250,000 horses in the country, and three-quarters of them died.

After the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty lost its horse farm and was in a serious disadvantageous position in the war against the Northern Captives, so it suffered a lot!

As for the spread of plague, it is even more vicious, horses have horse plague, and people have plague, such as smallpox!

In the strong Central Plains Dynasty, the human plague will not rise, there is a perfect system in the country, and the control of the government is also strong, if it really can't be done, the state and county will be blocked and some inhumane policies will be carried out, and the disease will not be spread.

But it is difficult to say about the northern captives, they have no hygienic habits at all, the family is crammed into a tent, the population is dense, there are no toilets, people and animals are mixed, it is a good place for the spread of the plague, as long as it spreads, the population will die.

Dongchang and Jinyiwei came up with two answers, which are worthy of the spies who have invested in the dark side, but fortunately, their commanders have a clear mind and take plan one instead of plan two, and those spy leaders are quite regretful.

Yan Changwu set the tone: "We can't do things that people and gods are angry about, even if they are Beiyu!" ”

The spy leaders nodded together, but they didn't think the boss was pedantic, after all, the boss was a believer in Mazu Niangniang, and if he really wanted to cause human plague, it would be contrary to Niangniang's lenient teachings, so Yan Changwu would break his oath, which was inappropriate.

But there is no scruple about dealing with horses, after all, horses are not people, and dealing with horses in the north is to keep the people of the Southern Dynasty alive, so it is okay to spread horse plague.

Jin Yiwei set up a special agency to study how to spread horse plague among the northern captives.

It's hard to say anything, it's easy to talk about it if you have money, and the key is that their boss knows what "biological warfare" and "bacteriological warfare" are, so he leads the correct research direction and does not go astray.

Researchers went deep into the pastoral area to find the source of the disease, and brought it back to the secret place, after years of research, Jinyiwei developed a variety of horse plague sources.

Alatan is one of them, this horse plague has an incubation period after the horse is infected, generally two weeks, during which it is constantly transmitted through contact, the handkerchief used by Alatan is the source of the disease, the horse is the most susceptible to infection, mules, donkeys are lowered in turn, harmless to people.

Horses that do not die after infection will have a certain immunity, and the three good horses brought by Alatan are horses with immunity, so it is difficult for others to suspect him!

Without a microscope, how can you find out what's in your handkerchief!

At that time, the Beiyu would not know what immunity was, in fact, Jinyiwei made horses with immunity, and it was precisely under the guidance of the king of the southeast, who told them to use the source of disease with reduced activity to make the horses immortal after infection, and then they had immunity.

Reduced activity? The researchers at Jinyiwei used a stupid method, they boiled the source of the disease...... Miraculously it did!

A large number of horses from Mobei were gathered at the "Naadam" conference, and Alatan was busy spreading horse plague, and when the "Naadam" conference ended, the horses infected with horse plague would be scattered back to all parts of Mobei.

Not only Alatan was acting, he also saw several suspicious people, some were horse herds, some were horse doctors, all of them were Mongolians, and they were also spreading horse plague, Alatan was a one-line contact, and he did not intersect with those people, but Alatan understood that he was never alone, and there were many people in the same way!

A week or two later, the dead horses on the Mobei grassland were in disarray, and the horse plague broke out like an explosion!