Chapter 44: The Black Death

Unbeknownst to the Fukubunes anchored in the port of Lima City, they really could not go to Spain.

Due to Chen Mu's expedition, the time to receive the news was a month later than planned, but long before he received the news, all customs on the east coast had been operating under the auspices of Zhao Shizhen, the Oriental Military Government.

Mexico City's Grand West Port was closed by order of Governor Yang Tingxiang, and all warships sailed between the islands of the Caribbean Sea, pulling a naval blockade.

Muye Customs was closed by the order of Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of the county, and sent the flag troops of Changdaowei and Hulanwei to patrol the coast, vowing not to put the board to moor.

There is also Lu Feng, the commander of the Rio Guard in South Asia and Brazil, but his customs blockade is not the same, and there are no Ming merchants to go, whether it is a Portuguese ship from the west or a ship from nowhere, the original way to deal with it is to drive it out completely.

This action stemmed from a letter from the Spanish Indian Affairs Committee, which had nothing to do with the war, but asked for help from the Oriental military government, hoping to get help from the Ming military doctors.

A Spanish merchant ship that was supposed to be adrift at sea at this time returned to Havana, but when the port inspected its cargo, it was found that it was still loaded with the goods it had sailed from the New World last year, and it was later confirmed that it had not arrived in Seville as it was, the real reason being the Black Death in Seville and the blockade of the city.

As a result, as the crew feared, they were ordered to return to the ship and not to enter or leave the port, and with them all the guards, lifus, and tax collectors who had come into contact with them in the port of Havana.

Even so, the officials of the Indian Affairs Committee could not feel relieved and immediately wrote a letter to warn the Ming army in Daxigang, and at the same time asked the Ming army to send a military doctor to help.

Zhao Shizhen, who handled the daily affairs of Chen Mu through the letter, could feel the panic of the Spaniards...... Black Death, Black Death, what is that?

Nobody knows.

On the contrary, everyone in the Oriental Military Government knows how simple and crude European medical techniques are: if you don't look at the pathology, don't know the internal causes, and don't know the medicine stone, all the patients that can't be solved are nothing more than two ways in the end, either bloodletting or chopping them up.

Therefore, neither Zhao Shizhen nor Yang Tingxiang paid enough attention to this matter.

Until his subordinate Li Yuxi, who sold tobacco in England, met Yang Zhaolong, almost in a casual accident, he mentioned that since the Black Death in England last year, several of his crew members died of this disease and buried in a foreign country, and Yang Zhaolong was familiar with this disease...... In the sixth year of Wanli, although he was not in Banzhou, there were many samurai who had experienced it.

The Black Death and the Plague, two different concepts merged in his mind, and in connection with the request of the Spanish Indian Affairs Committee, which had recently become a joke in the newspapers, he immediately reported it to the military government to block the customs.

This attracted the attention of the Toyo Military Government, and even responded with a reaction that seemed to others to be very excessive.

It is generally believed that the plague has only had one major epidemic in Europe in the past few hundred years, but in fact, the plague has been rampant in the world for hundreds of years, giving birth to countless medical methods, forcing Europeans to carry out health reforms, and making the Central Plains Dynasty's concept of destiny win the hearts of the people in the fight against diseases again and again.

Epidemics, especially the plague, have no reliable solution in the world.

As for the number of dead people and the wide range of the impact, regardless of the advanced or backward medicine of the East and the West, the European way to deal with the plague was macroscopic shock therapy, and the aristocracy and the upper class were able to take their families away from the epidemic area and go to the countryside to pray around the campfire in a place where no one was around, and the "Decameron" was created in this context.

As for the people, there is no saying about the people, the nobles close the castle gates, and each sweeps the snow in front of the door, even if they sit back and relax, and the castles and manors scattered all over the place are natural isolation areas.

Ask for more blessings, if it's a big deal, take a gamble, anyway, this month the plague and the people must die for me!

Due to the civil system and a more perfect grassroots structure in the Central Plains Dynasty, the emperor was the bureaucratic of the Son of Heaven and his herdsmen, and had to intervene in the epidemic.

In the end, people try their best to still try their luck, and the last survivors are often not cured, but physically strong and lucky.

The whole world is helpless about this condition...... Oh, sorry, except for Milan.

The Black Death broke out in the 14th century, and from Fujian to England, no one in Eurasia could avoid it, but Milan was skipped.

Because the Black Death first landed in Europe and began to spread to Milan in the Black Sea, infecting only three households, Milan closed the city gates and nailed the entire house with three families with wooden planks.

This was more effective than any treatment at the time.

Unless the incubation period is long, the contagiousness of the virus with strong lethality is inevitably weak, and the lethality of the virus with strong contagiousness is generally not strong, and the host is dead, how can it be transmitted.

Chen Mu, who was about to enter Peru, received a letter from the military government about the outbreak of the Black Death in Seville, Spain, three days after receiving the news of the outbreak of the Black Death in Seville, Spain, on the way to the march, confirming that the Indian Affairs Committee was a false alarm, that the ship did not enter the port of Seville, and the sailors on board were not infected, but the bad news was that Daming Port seemed to be in the epidemic area, and the ships that went there were probably left behind by Li Dan.

No one knows what the cause of the epidemic was, but it seems that France and England were affected by the epidemic, and the Toyo military government speculated that it was probably related to maritime trade.

This is by no means good news for the Ming army, the regular army of the Oriental Military Government Fu Yuanzheng led the fleet to be stationed in Lisbon, the Han Yang Ce Department stationed troops in the Azores, Li Dan in Seville Daming Port, Chen Jiujing led the army to Tun Baishan City, and Yuan Zizhang led the army to the north to attack.

They are all dangerous.

But Chen Mu also forgot some people, who were sent by him to England's special talent squad.

Li Yuxi borrowed Yang Zhaolong's letter to Chen Mu to briefly describe the scene of Plymouth Harbour, which had been blockaded by Elizabeth, when the last Ming ship left the port.

The aristocratic county officials all fled in fear of the epidemic, only one senior official and three officials stayed in the county office, the city gate was locked, and hundreds of garrisons outside the gates were strictly guarded, and no one was allowed to leave the city.

The city is like the underworld, the plague is raging, there are nine diseases in ten rooms, the infected people are dying one after another, and several families, once infected with this plague, one out of ten or two can not even close the door...... However.

This is very important, because there is a Taoist chief Cao in the city, a robe to cover his body with a scarf to cover his face, and lead the disciples of the door to carry the flag in the market, and the flag is written on the dragon and tiger Xuantan Daojun, and the emperor is hung on the banner Ming Shengshi, and the sick patients often burn ashes with cinnabar painting charms and water teaching patients to take them, and there are many people who can save their lives.

Chen Mu's brows furrowed more deeply when he saw this statement than he had thought of Fu Yuan and the others in the epidemic area before...... Is that okay?