The plague should not have broken out in Tongzhou, which was the last stop at the northern end of the Grand Canal and the south to the north, and the plague came from the north.

According to the incubation time, it should have broken out on the way to Miyun or even outside the Guan, so the harm would be much smaller, and the Zhejiang army that followed Qi Jiguang's northern expedition had very few wounded soldiers, and there were corresponding precautions for emergencies, if it broke out outside the Guan, the epidemic might not even be transmitted to the Guannei and would be gone.

But Emperor Wanli's favorite favorite, the Qinglong Army, helped the plague complete the journey from Wulianghai to Tongzhou.

The name of the Blue Dragon Column sounds cool, but it's not really that for the soldiers who have sat on it, and no one wants to sit a second time unless they have to—but it can't be helped, their generals think, and think they do.

Come on.

What can make a fully formed guerrilla general headquarters carry baggage, chariots, and artillery out for forty miles in an hour?

No, there is no such thing in this world.

It is not difficult for a soldier to walk twenty miles on foot, and the veterans with hard training can even eat and rest twice on the road, and it is okay for the recruits to grit their teeth, but the chariots and baggage are too demanding on the road conditions, especially the artillery, which cannot go fast on the flat road.

However, as long as the troops were pulled to the station and boarded the Qinglong, the military train could send men, horses, carts, artillery, and food to a distance of 300 miles within 12 hours.

It is not difficult to have forty miles in one hour, but it is difficult to move forward at the same speed at the same speed, people need to rest, horses need to rest, but Qinglong does not need it.

It can continue to drive at this speed after a day or two as long as the track is not finished.

Under the temptation of such speed, the generals did not care at all about the windy, cold, shaking and turning their brains upside down.

In fact, then again, it is uncomfortable to march in the Qinglong Army Column, but it is uncomfortable to march thousands of miles, and he would rather be uncomfortable in the military column for three days if he asks anyone, rather than walk on his legs for half a month or even a month.

Times are changing, and even Qi Jiguang didn't expect that Wulianghai would really stabilize in his hands...... The fact is too paradoxical, after the completion of the wood-iron composite track, the Beizhili thousands of miles away transferred troops to the Wuliang Ha Sanwei faster than the Mongol tribes who had crossed the two mountains to graze and sneak over.

The bad effect of this change is that everything is converging towards the center, which is Tongzhou, which extends in all directions.

It is not only the last stop of Cao Yun, but also the starting point of railway transportation outside the mouth, and can also go directly to Beiyang shipping, the army is in Tongzhou, the wounded soldiers are in Tongzhou, the coachman is in Tongzhou, the coal merchant is in Tongzhou, and the grain merchant is naturally also in Tongzhou, and everything is gathered in Tongzhou - the plague is also coming.

Chen Shigong's preparations were quite simple, but fortunately, not long after the year, there were still many firecrackers in Jingshi and, which were requisitioned by the chief medical officer with the emperor's inner treasury silver, and the pancreas, medical clothes, sulfur powder, turbans, masks and other items in the Beiyang Industrial Zone were all ordered to be made, and the price should be given by the imperial court, so that the Wanli Emperor had a good reputation.

Wanli was indeed very concerned about the plague, not only issued an edict to take Taicang silver, and sent the eunuchs of Dongchang to Tongzhou, not only did the people get rid of the diagnosis of the disease, but also gave each patient six cents of silver and two hundred dollars to fund daily use; In addition, on the one hand, he used part of the reduction and exemption of the honeycomb coal tax in exchange for the charcoal fire support of the large coal merchants in Tongzhou, and on the other hand, the eunuchs went to various places with the inner treasury silver to purchase materials.

More critical food, but whenever there is a catastrophe, food will always be a big problem.

Dignitaries and nobles have good sanitary conditions, regardless of the hair care and skin care for brushing their teeth and washing their faces, or bathing beans and pancreas for bathing, they have enough financial resources to use as much as they want; However, ordinary people are different, their limited financial resources have to satisfy their appetite and take care of the cold and warmth, and their health is generally slightly worse than that of the nobles.

It is precisely the producers of food and basic goods who are most vulnerable to infection.

After Wanli discovered this trend, he immediately made a decision - this year, the 4.6 million stone rice grain shipped by the Nanyang Military Government to Beiyang will not enter the Beijing Division, but will be transferred to Caoyun Yamen, and will be pressed in Tongzhou for relief in the famine year like a needle in the sea.

The floating hearts of the people were stabilized almost instantly.

There is almost no precedent for such a decision, not that the previous people did not want to, but they really did not have this ability, 4.6 million stone rice is close to 20% of the empire's annual tax revenue, and can support 60% of the soldiers on the nine sides, making this determination is not easy for the emperor of the empire, not to mention that the previous emperor did not have this income, so where did he make a decision?

Only Wanli, the empire in his time not only had this continuous additional income, but also the reduction of rice brought about by the transfer of feudal domains, and the money and grain were really an elite army that could be used for attack in his time, rather than a local army that could only be garrisoned.

In other words, Long Qingye just doesn't eat anything all day long, the Ming Empire in the Longqing era is still in deficit every year, even if Wanli eats Haisai every day and spends two million taels a year, no matter what he does with this money, even if he takes a lot of silver in the Forbidden City to play with him, he is still Mingjun, because his expenses will not overstretch the empire's expenditure, let alone affect the normal operation of the empire.

And the personal feeling of Chen Shigong, the chief medical officer who received this abundant financial support, was naturally invincible.

Under the conditions of an excellent macro environment, even if the individual's ability is not so prominent, as long as it is not to the extent of being very lagging behind, he can often do things well.

The reverse is the same, when the Ming Dynasty collapsed, no matter how many loyal ministers and good generals struggled to support, the chief military officer Hou Shilu is an example, he took 5,000 soldiers and horses from Xuanfu to defend Beijing, at the end of the year in November paid the first month of the first month of the military salary, led the troops to Jizhou, along the way the two counties did not care, the main general Yuan Chonghuan thought that his soldiers were old and weak and tired, Jizhou City was not allowed to enter, let alone overnight, and they had to take care of their meals the next day after the night, so they deducted the artillery and artillery and sent him to other places; Hou Shilu, who lost his heavy firepower, went to Tongzhou City, but Tongzhou did not let him enter the city, leaving 2,000 people to guard Tongzhou, because his soldiers were hungry, and they had been hungry on the road for three days. On the way from Tongzhou to Shunyi, General Hou was caught up by the Houjin army wearing Liao armor and being full of wine and food...... The heavenly soldiers and generals will also be finished.

Finally led the remnants of the army into the city of Beijing, and defeated the battle, the brain was knocked with a stick, fled back to Shanxi to recuperate, and was impeached when he went back and said that he had robbed 13,700 taels of silver cars, and was dismissed from death because of the enthusiasm of King Qin.

The most embarrassing thing is that the 13,000 taels of silver belonged to the Jurchen general Haning Azai.

The whole campaign had little to do with whether he was mediocre or not, and the general environment was that the army was in arrears for one year, the commander-in-chief had no command, the logistics supply was unfavorable, and the local officials discriminated against, and it was a nightmare to lose the effective cooperation with the multi-line army to fight together.