"There are 65 diseases that humans and dogs share; There are 50 species shared with cattle; There are 46 species shared with sheep and goats; There are 42 species shared with pigs; There are 35 species shared with horses; The 26 kinds of ...... shared with poultry "stood on a drying field in front of the township government in Shenwu Township (near the small village of Mentel in Mariana, Brazil), wearing a thick mask and a second-generation sergeant of the gendarmerie, Guo Puxia, looked at the corpses of several Guarani lying in front of him, waved his hand with a little disgust, and motioned for his subordinates to pull them out and bury them deeply.

His mind echoed the words of his father, who worked in the medical department, and although he couldn't figure out what diseases people and animals had in common, it didn't prevent him from knowing many things, such as the scene in front of him.

In fact, the Guaraní people in the prime of life in front of them did not die from the hunt of the East Coasters, they died from unknown diseases. These Guaraní were originally members of the Guarani guerrillas who were active in the vicinity, mainly attacking the pioneers of the East Bank, and had always been the target of the gendarmerie and the East Bank Army.

But now that the end of the day, they did not die from the swords and guns of the East Coast, but they fell inexplicably on the disease, which made people cry and laugh. The culprit who killed them - or "heroes" - was none other than the humble manure of a nearby field.

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As we all know, human and animal manure has always been a valuable resource in rural East Coast. Farmers collected it and piled it up in the fields to maintain the fertility of the soil, but this excrement, which contained a lot of germs and parasites, was perhaps not a threat to people from the Old World. But for Guarani people who have never been exposed to such germs, which often means a lack of adequate immunity. It's deadly enough. One or more diseases that were extremely foreign to them took their lives.

In the face of this ridiculous result given by the doctor, Guo Puxia, who was in charge of the security of the nearby area, was also a little helpless and a little puzzled. It stands to reason that these Guarani people must have been in contact with the Spaniards, and the Franciscan missionaries were very keen to naturalize the Indians in the wilderness, so the Indians were often able to get livestock from the Spaniards, and they also came into contact with the Spaniards - which meant that they had a certain tolerance for the diseases of the Old World - but why did the peasants on the east coast fall so "weakly" after they arrived here?

Guo Puxia thought for a long time, but he couldn't understand it, and he could only simply understand that these Guarani people had relatively little contact with the outside world. Resistance to viruses in the Old World was still very weak, and the body did not acquire enough immunity to help them escape the disaster. Of course, there is a new explanation, which Dr. Shao Yuanyi Shao of Mucaoling Township, Xihu County, pointed out at a medical conference, arguing that although these Guarani people may have been in contact with the Spaniards and some pathogenic germs, they had never had the opportunity to come into contact with the Ming people from the Far East, so the large number of germs carried by the Ming people was a new threat to them.

Shao Yuanyi's argument is now gaining more and more support, because it is often found in daily life that female slaves from Europe sometimes contracted uncommon diseases that had rarely been seen in Europe before. Most of them occur only in the Far East; Similarly, Ming immigrants occasionally contracted some diseases from Europe. Because they are rarely exposed to these diseases, and their immunity is limited, they have caused a certain amount of death - it is also thanks to the fact that the people of the East Coast attach great importance to the prevention and control of infectious diseases, and once discovered, they are immediately isolated and never soft (even the houses that have been sick will be burned down), so many diseases have only been epidemic in a small area, and the number of sick people is often no more than 1,000, and the number of dead people is only hundreds, and it has not caused a major outbreak of diseases at the regional or even national level, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

Guo Puxia himself will be skeptical of Shao Yuanyi's claim, but it is undeniable that the incidence of various diseases is high in the East Coast immigrant country, and it also causes a large number of deaths, especially infants and young children. The people of Gain's age were not in a highly mobile society like later generations, and their bodies were exposed to a variety of diseases from an early age (meaning that the overall immunity was higher), and they often lived in one place all their lives, and their bodies may have reached a very high level of immunity to local diseases, but they were often very vulnerable to foreign diseases, as can be seen from the frequent plagues in various places in ancient times - the source of many plagues was actually diseases from other places brought by foreigners.

Diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus, lymph node plague, syphilis and other diseases brought by Europeans, falciparum malaria, filariasis, hookworm, yaws, tropical skin diseases brought by Africans, and smallpox, tuberculosis, chickenpox, leprosy, and other diseases common to all parties have been weeded all over the East Coast people.

If it weren't for the government's quarantine of immigrants in the first place (a measure that would have been ineffective for incubation diseases, but could have prevented diseases with obvious symptoms, such as the East Coast's denial of entry to a New England ship last month because of rumours of a widespread yellow fever epidemic there); If it weren't for the government's mandatory regular bathing, haircuts, and clean clothes from the beginning; If it weren't for the government's great focus on public health from the beginning; If it weren't for the government's extreme emphasis on disease prevention and isolation from the beginning; If it weren't for the government's efforts to organize the people to exterminate rats, insects, and flies from the beginning, the Republic of the East Bank would have experienced several pandemics. These pandemics are undoubtedly terrifying, often killing tens of thousands of people, but the fact that the East Coast now has a few thousand deaths a year at most (or even one or two thousand in rare years), which is a commendable achievement.

Guo Puxia did not know what kind of disease these Indians were dying from, and the doctor in the township with limited skills could not see it. But in order to avoid trouble, Guo Puxia still ordered the militia to dig deep pits and bury the corpses to avoid spreading them to the surrounding Ming immigrants - this is no joke, many settlements have caused a second epidemic of diseases because they did not incinerate or bury the bodies of the sick and dead in time, which is a typical negative teaching material in the Ministry of Health's propaganda in the countryside.

As Guo Puxia's order was issued, under the supervision of two gendarmes, several militiamen wearing masks and white coats reluctantly walked over, and then put the body down on a stretcher and carried it slowly to a distance, ready to dig a pit and bury it deeply, leaving no future trouble.

Looking at the distant backs of the militiamen, many thoughts flashed through Guo Puxia's mind, most of which were "poisonous plans" on how to eliminate the Guarani people. For example, throwing the carcasses of sick people and animals into the vicinity of their settled villages, such as polluting the water sources on which they depend, etc., but considering that these practices are too limitless, and that these Guarani themselves are valuable labor, which is in abundance in the country's infrastructure construction sites, it would be a pity to consume them at random under the attack of disease, so Copsha forced himself to resist this dangerous idea.

However, whether the people on the east coast intended it or not, as the pace of their westward expansion continued to accelerate, the Guaraní people, who had lived in semi-isolation from the rest of the world, would inevitably be hit by the double impact of foreign colonists and the diseases brought by the colonizers, and a sharp decline in population was inevitable. It may not be many years before there are few Charuya left in the savannah on the east coast, and the fate of the Charuya is a true portrayal of their tomorrow. The whites, blacks, and yellows, covered with viruses they had never seen before, snatched their land and homes with swords in one hand and plows in the other, and enslaved their bodies and minds.

Among these demons, the most ferocious, the most cruel, the most "shameless", and the most "unrepairable" are undoubtedly the people of the East Coast, who do not regard the barbarians as human beings at all, wantonly kill, rob and enslave, and then nourish their people with the fruits of oppression and expand the living space of their nation.

According to the statistics of the East Coast Mei Agency, they originally estimated that the number of Guarani people living in the north and south of the Duck Lake area may have been as high as 300,000 20 years ago, but now they think that 500,000 to 100,000 people would be very good, some of them were lost to the activities of the slave capture flag team in São Paulo, Brazil, some were lost to the clean-up operation initiated by the East Coast people, and some died of starvation caused by the war, but the above three causes of death are far from being compared with the last one. It is the invasion of various deadly diseases, which is the main cause of the massive loss of the Guaraní population.

Why did the people on the east bank expand so smoothly along the Yakui River and among the pine forests in the hilly areas west of the lake? Is it because of the bravery of our soldiers on the East Coast that the military department boasted about? There may be a factor in this, but it is definitely not all, or even the main reason, most of the Guarani people should have died silently under the shroud of disease.

"The destroyers of the Indians, haha, the Spanish missionaries have given us this nickname that is really apt." Guo Puxia took off his white gloves, then lit a pipe for himself, took a beautiful puff, looked at the endless cultivated land outside the Shenwu Township Government, and said with a smile: "The Indians died of disease, but we are fine, this is obviously the favor of Tianzun, which means that the destiny of heaven is in me, haha, the barbarians will eventually perish, and this fertile land will eventually belong to my East Coast Republic of China." (To be continued......) R1292