Da Ming, as long as this old man is not a traitor and a criminal, and he has not done anything that people and gods are angry with, so that the people of the entire township and all walks of life are very annoying, even if he has no children and grandchildren, he will not be unable to live.

No county governor will let himself govern the old and have nothing to rely on.

Daming is not without slums, there are many poor people in the cities of Daming, after kerosene lamps, lighters, and Jinghai coal flow into the market, it can be said that those who can't afford these three things can be said to be a poor person, and there are many people like this in Daming.

They live very hard, their small wishes are difficult to be fulfilled, they have no money and no savings, and they are worried about it, and they have no sense of security without possessions.

But this is almost the extreme poverty that the people of the Ming Dynasty can imagine.

"How do I know there will be a plague, you know how poor this is? You go to the thatched hut outside the city wall, where the people's huts don't even have a wall, and you shoot a dollar and a half taels, and say the name of the person, as long as that person is outside the city. ”

Li Dan raised a finger with sarcasm: "In an hour, more than a dozen people will come to you to claim the reward by pulling that person's arms and thighs." ”

"As long as I don't let my feet get off in the city, I can barely see it, and there is garbage and feces everywhere outside the city, and the ditches and wells used as latrines are only eight steps away, so it's not difficult to judge that the plague will break out in the city."

"The city of Seville may no longer be safe, but the port of Daming is safe, you see."

Following the direction of Li Dan's finger, Yang Ce looked down from this Guancheng Pavilion that overlooked the entire Daming Port, and there were one horse-drawn carriage after another gathered on the wide street outside the warehouse in the center of the port, heading for the northern official road, and he asked, "What is on the car?" ”

"Horses, ammunition, and a small amount of barbed wire, the king asked Daming Port to help him build the Fran cannon, so I opened a forging factory in Daming Port, which was supposed to be able to pull barbed wire in large quantities for defense, but last month, the barbed wire in the port was shipped to Lisbon to support General Fu."

"There are only two roads from this to Seville, either by sea to the west into the river, or by the mountain road that leads nearly 20 miles to the outside of the city, and as long as there is a blockade on this road, the port of Daming is a paradise independent of Spain."

Yang Ce still has a huge worry in his heart, benefiting from the military education of the martial arts, he can be proficient in both Spanish and Portuguese, and he also knows the commonly used written Latin, the hurdle of the world's language is almost non-existent for him, and in the long sea drift, the way he passes the time is to read.

Read books and letters looted from looted merchant ships and pirate ships.

People will talk about the plague, especially the Black Death, which has been prevalent for hundreds of years, and the great lethality of Euroi will make him talk about blackness, and the fear of the plague will also take root in his heart through words.

"You also know that there are thousands of poor people outside the city, and Seville will not open the gates for them, what if someone catches the plague and brings it in?" he asked. ”

But he didn't expect Li Dan to purse his lips and smile, propped his arms on the railing of the pavilion without caring about himself, and looked down for a while before saying: "General Yang, you think too much, can't you trust the vertical and horizontal sentry posts of the Beiyang Army?" ”

In fact, Li Dan has a lot more to Seville than Yang Ce imagined this time, he didn't do anything to this Spanish city, but just continued his old business, just like in Haojing.

The difference is only that the wealth, power, and prestige he has now are much stronger than Li Dan when he was in the mirror.

The brightness of a city on the bright side can be reached by his officials, and many people can; But the dark side of a city beneath its glamour is something that few people can touch at the same time, but he is skillful.

There are more orphans and beggars in the city than Hao Jing, and he doesn't even need to do anything to make them his eyes and ears, and anything new can be exchanged for money in several taverns inside and outside the city.

A month earlier, the news of the collective illness of thirteen washerwomen working together outside the city had not attracted Li Dan's attention, but a tailor shop selling fabrics and clothes was then closed by the Inquisition for no reason...... Li Dan was still more concerned about the Inquisition, and summarized the previous information, so that he was convinced that there was a plague in the city before accurate news was disseminated.

Laundry women often get their clothes from tailors, and dressmakers in Seville, especially outside the city, not only sell clothes, but also recycle them.

This leads to a hidden danger, which is also the reason why the thatched huts outside the city do not even have a cloth wall to block the wind...... When the poor people outside the city happened to see two blackened corpses in the house, their first reaction was not to turn around and run.

They are not afraid of death, they are only afraid of poverty, no matter what kind of hardships and dangers lie ahead, they may not die, but after starving for five or six days, they have no money, and they may starve to death this afternoon.

So their reaction must be to go inside the house and check all the places where the belongings might be hidden, even though the chances of finding the belongings are slim, and eventually they will rip off the clothes from the corpses and sell them.

The same is true of Li Dan's speculation about the origin of the plague, one or two people contracted the plague for some unknown reason and died in a dilapidated house without a door, and the first person to find the body not only did not report it to the church, but also took their clothes and personal belongings.

The sick clothes were sold to the tailor's shop, and the merchant gave the clothes to the laundry man who came to pick up the clothes, and after a few days the laundry workers fell ill en masse, and then the people who bought the clothes at the tailor's shop also fell ill.

Seville then closed the gates, but Li Dan believed that there was probably a plague in the city, and the nobles' desire to protect themselves by closing the gates was likely to be frustrated.

There is only one truly safe place, and that is his Daming Port.

The port was cut off from all communication inside and outside the city, and the roads were blocked by a dozen miles in between, and the entire hills and dense forests that could be crossed were set up to guard three lines of defense at the scale of fifty paces and one man, to ensure that no one could pass.

He didn't need news inside and outside the city.

"Counting your three boats, there are six thousand four hundred and seventy-two people in Daming Port, and I have twelve granaries, all of whom only drink wine and make tea, and the grain is enough for nine months, this matter is not only not a disaster for Daming Port, but also a good thing."

Li Dan pouted and smiled, opened the big sleeves of his silk robe and said: "I can't think of any excuse to build the barrier between Daming Port and Saicheng, now I can easily build an earthen wall and wooden barrier, the plague is current, even if the king knows, he has nothing to say." ”

Hearing Li Dan say this, Yang Ce did not question it abnormally, but nodded very seriously: "Daming Port really needs a city wall, I'm afraid you don't know yet, I heard that the Western Army in South Asia and Colombia broke through the official tax card and died. ”

Li Dan raised his head, his outstretched arms fixed in mid-air, and he didn't speak for a long time.