The plague was never an isolated incident, but limited to the level of human technology, and it was difficult to know this fact.

The news that the Europa plague closed the port of Seville in Spain and Plymouth in England and banned all ships from entering and leaving the east coast of Asia through Majiagang and Heishui Ya Islands entered Wangxia Prefecture, the easternmost part of the Ming Dynasty, and the speed of news transmission suddenly became faster due to the existence of telegrams.

Only on the evening of the second day, the news went straight from the telegraph room of the Forbidden City to Tianting.

"Euroi, also affected by the pandemic?"

In the military room of the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, the word 'also' uttered by Emperor Wanli means that he is the only god in the world.

Because in the whole world, only he can know what is happening in all corners of the world at the same time.

Da Ming also broke out of the plague.

In other words, the plague never stopped working against the Ming Dynasty.

Due to Chen Mu's letter, some of the furnishings in the Wanli military room have been reduced and moved to the Enchengfang Museum in the east of the city, but at present, the museum is small, and there are few things in it...... The emperor picked and chose for several days, and in the end, he was reluctant to let any of them out, but let him take this opportunity to ask Zhang Juzheng, Wang Guoguang and others for a lot of things.

It is worth mentioning that the world's first steam engine under the edict was released, and it was placed in the middle of the lobby of the Enchengfang Museum.

The grandfather-level steam engine is old and strong, he has sung the Jin Ge Iron Horse in the Qianqing Palace, and has also seen the wind and frost of the Lunar Moon in the Imperial Prison, and now it has become the treasure of the National Museum of the Ming Empire, and he is well-informed.

At this moment, on the table of the Wanli Emperor, there are piles of reports on the plague from various places over the years, and there are as many as three pages of reports on the epidemic from the one-foot-high scroll.

Since the first year of Wanli, there has been no year of peace in the country, the first year of the famine in Huzhou Mansion caused a plague, Zaoyang County in Xiangyang Province had a plague, and Zhejiang Province was the beginning of a major epidemic; In the third year of Wanli, Baoshan was flooded, flooding Jiading and deriving plague; In the spring of the fifth year of Wanli, smallpox began in Huangyan and spread to Nan'an, Taihe, and Ganzhou, and was subsequently contained; Wanli six years of Banzhou, Nanfeng epidemic; In the seventh year of Wanli, Xiaoyi, Taigu, Jiading, Weichuan, and Yongzhou Zhufu County plague.

By the eighth year of Wanli, the plague spread to Taigu, Liaozhou, Taiyuan, Baode, Datong, Dingxiang, Lingqiu, Wenshui, Qingyuan, Yongping, and Qixian with Caoyun.

In the ninth year of Wanli, the plague in Taigu, Liaozhou, Taiyuan, Baode, Datong, Dingxiang, Lingqiu, and Qingyuan was contained, but it had spread to Yangqu, Jiaocheng, Daizhou, Pingding, and Changzhi.

In the past, although the spread was widespread, people had seen those plagues, and doctors also had treatment methods, but Wanli encountered a great drought in the tenth year, and two different diseases came.

First of all, it was the big head plague brought back by the wounded soldiers who were withdrawn from outside the fortress, which was actually the plague, and the big drought in the Guannai was even worse outside the fortress, starting from Tongzhou and spreading to the Beijing division; The common people generally believed that this plague was caused by a plague brought about by a long drought, and the doctors of the Beijing Division judged through clinical diagnosis that this disease had cold and heat cramps, yellow spots, and mania, and many people died of the disease.

According to Chen Shigong's identification, this disease was brought back from South Asia by their merchants, and it was a plague with a high incidence of aborigines, and was named Yellow Fever Plague by the Oriental Military Government.

Wanli personally summarized these plague reports over the years, and felt the weight of responsibility on his shoulders.

Every plague actually accounts for a very small proportion of official documents in the imperial court, and usually only one sentence is taken up when it is reported to his desk.

Limited by the speed of information transmission in the past, disasters such as floods and droughts also accounted for a relatively large proportion of the official documents reported by local officials to the imperial court, while wind disasters and plagues were relatively rare, because the plague was reported to the imperial court and then sent back, and basically passed.

In fact, the Central Plains Dynasty has been fighting against the plague since ancient times, and this is even the main role of the Central Plains Dynasty's bureaucracy, which has enough precedents and plans to resist the plague.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Yuan, Emperor Cheng, Emperor Huan all blamed themselves for the plague under the edict, ordered officials to reduce eating, drinking and playing, cut horses and mounts for relief of the plague victims, Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty to deal with smallpox, was the first to issue an edict 'the people of the epidemic, give up the empty house, for the treatment of medicine' to isolate the plague to cut off the infection, the same for isolation of the 'sick relocation workshop' also appeared in the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty called 'sick square'.

In the event of a plague in the Song Dynasty, the local yamen organized doctors to provide free consultations, and the consultation fees were paid by the yamen, and all the generals sent to the border were required to bring accompanying medical officers to prevent diseases in the army.

Even including the habit of revising the classics in the prosperous times of all dynasties, medical books have always been among them.

Everything in technology, whether it's science or not, is driven by demand.

It is human nature to see, understand, and solve problems.

The local government has a good solution to the plague, and because of this, it accounts for a relatively small proportion of official documents, and it is not easy to be taken seriously, and once it is taken seriously, it is too late.

No one had ever linked so many plagues together, and most of them lived in the villages, and they didn't know about the situation in the neighboring counties until half a month later, let alone the major events in the surrounding provinces.

Even the Wanli Emperor, who knew everything, had the opportunity to connect all this with Chen Shigong's return to Beijing, which made him a little interested in medical skills, and only then did he pay attention to the plague that had been raging all over the world.

What made him realize that this was a war was Chen Mu's letter from the Oriental Military Government, which made him say: "Euroyi, also affected by the epidemic? ".

"Physician Chen, you said that the Black Death of Euro is the same plague as my big head plague, so they are the same plague." Wanli's eyes seemed to always contain a desire for knowledge, and he wondered: "Humans and animals are intertwined, and they may be related to each other." ”

Since he was a child, he has seen too many novel things in the world, the combined force of fire and water makes the green dragon escape to the ground, sailless boats, and the burning of balloons makes flying fish take off and burn the company camp, there is nothing in this world that he dare not think.

Chen Shigong sat quietly behind the emperor's side, and said: "I don't know, but Chen Shuai and His Majesty have the same guess, he thinks that the closer the world is connected, the easier it is for the plague in one place to be taken to another place by ships, soldiers and horses." ”

Wanli put down the pen, turned his head and sat down slowly, and then put this question behind him, and said: "I know that you have cured more than 100 cases of yellow fever plague in Beiyang, and also cured several cases of Western fever disease with Penicillium. But do you know where it comes from, where it is born, who it specializes in, and what medicine can be treated? ”

Chen Shigong shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"If you don't know, don't go to Tongzhou, you are the best doctor in the Dongyang Military Hospital, Chen Shuai praised you, he said that in time you can save the people of my Celestial Empire from the suffering of patients, Tongzhou - don't worry."

Wanli, who was sitting, opened his arms: "I have sent 830 doctors from the Shuntianfu to set up five wards in Tongzhou to isolate and treat patients, and give silver to patients. For thousands of years, the ancestors have left behind their virtues, what kind of plague has not come, without you Doctor Chen, they have all been swept away by the people of my Heavenly Dynasty one by one, and you are not alone. ”

Chen Shigong didn't shake his head this time, he just sighed: "Minister, don't dare." ”

"Although I know that I have a heavy responsibility, I dare not go to Tongzhou, the sages have clouds, and I shrink back, although there are tens of millions of people, I will go. If I don't go, I will be ashamed, ashamed of the conscience of heaven and earth, and even more ashamed of what I have learned in my life, and I hope that Your Majesty-" Chen Shigong bowed slowly: "All the ministers' hearts, they are allowed to go to Tongzhou, and they will be plagued by this plague." ”