Chapter 242: Absurd
Someone was sent to the city with prescriptions to get medicine, while Zhang Zhongping treated the wounds of the wounded soldiers.
Chongzhen is sick like this and needs someone to take care of him, the Chen family's father and son are rude men, where will they take care of people. Chen Yue thought about it for a while and decided to ask Zhang Xiuer to help and take care of Chongzhen, the girl was careful and gentle. As for Princess Kunxing, forget it, she is a pampered princess, where does she know how to take care of people.
Knowing that his father was sick, Kun Xing cried sadly, and had to personally serve his sick father. Chen Yue had no choice but to let her live in this room with Zhang Xiu'er. As for Chen Jianghe, he moved to other places. At the same time, Chen Yue secretly instructed Chen Yan to send more people to guard the house and not allow anyone to approach.
Through talking with Zhang Zhongping, Chen Yue learned that there was an epidemic in the city, and immediately became nervous, this infectious disease was infected in this era and was almost incurable, and he never allowed the epidemic to be brought to the army.
After experiencing the days of SARS, although Chen Yue did not know how to treat the disease, he knew the prevention of infectious diseases. Therefore, it was ordered that the camp should be strictly cleaned, all soldiers were not allowed to defecate in the open, and the garbage of daily life should be disposed of in a timely manner. Everyone should wash their hands and face frequently, maintain personal hygiene, no one should drink raw water, and the barracks should always open the windows to maintain air circulation. At the same time, a large amount of quicklime was procured and sprinkled throughout the battalion.
Chen Yue used all the methods he knew to prevent infectious diseases, and at the same time sent the army to suppress Shan Minglei to be in charge of this matter.
"My lord, are you making a big fuss?" Shan Minglei asked puzzled, because there has not been a single case of epidemic disease in the camp yet.
As a military magistrate, he is responsible for military discipline rewards and punishments, with the rebellion of the right battalion commander Iron Lion, the commander of the left battalion Yang Zhengping is in Tianjin, and Chen Yan is only the nominal commander of the pro-guard battalion, in fact, he is Chen Yue's pro-soldier leader, so now he is left in the middle and high-level of the army except for Chen Yue.
But Shan Minglei recently discovered that Chen Yue was doing things mysteriously and didn't even discuss anything with him. The surrender of the army was even more decisive by one person, and he and everyone were not consulted at all, which made Shan Minglei feel a little hurt.
"Once the epidemic appears, it will be transmitted immediately, and then it will be too late to prevent it." Chen Yue sighed, "Shan Zhen will take care of you, and it is extremely good to handle this matter." ”
"Yes, Lord Zhongcheng, this is what subordinates should do." Shan Minglei solemnly agreed, glanced at the people around, and said softly to Chen Yue: "My lord, do you really plan to follow the thief?" ”
"What can I do if I don't?" Chen Yue glanced at Shan Minglei in surprise and said softly.
"My lord, you can understand that you surrendered to the thief's subordinates, after all, we were in a desperate situation at that time. But right now, we are stationed outside the city, as long as you are willing, we can take advantage of the night to raise troops and leave Beijing, even if there are hundreds of thousands of thieves inside and outside Beijing, but as long as we want to go, with the marching speed of our Xishan army, they don't want to catch up. ”
"Oh? But even if we escape, what can we do, can't you see that this world is already the world of Dashun? ”
The matter of saving Chongzhen to the south is too secret, and no one else in the entire army knows about it except Wang Yin, including Shan Minglei. Now Chen Yue is eager to hear Shan Minglei's views on the situation, because it means military morale.
"The thief wants to take the world, that's a dream!" Shan Minglei said disdainfully, "Although they seem to be strong, can they beat the Manchurians?" Besides, now the whole north has been destroyed, although they occupy Beijing, and the number has grown to hundreds of thousands. But where did they go to raise food to feed these hundreds of thousands of troops? The Ming court has grain from the south of the Yangtze River to supply Beijing's huge army population, do they have thieves?
As long as you return to the south with your troops and hold the Jianghuai line, you will starve the thieves to death even if you are hungry, not to mention that they will have to directly face the powerful Manchu Tartars outside the pass. At present, the south is still the world of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing fell to the south will definitely set up a new army, with your military prestige, will definitely be entrusted with a heavy task, then we will take the Jianghuai as the foundation, recruit troops and horses to accumulate strength, and wait for the thieves and the Tartars to defeat both the extreme, raise troops to the Northern Expedition, then you are the hero of the Ming Dynasty! ”
The more Shan Minglei spoke, the more excited he became, his eyes flashed brightly, this calculation had been in his heart for a long time, and he finally said it to Chen Yue today. At present, the world is in turmoil, and it is the time for heroes to use force. Chen Yue has force and strategy, and he will definitely be able to make some achievements in this troubled era, that is, even if he dominates the world and takes the Ming Dynasty, he is not impossible, as the first confidant to follow Chen Yue, he will rise in the day and become famous all over the world!
"That's what I intended." Chen Yue said softly, he was very pleased that Shan Minglei could see this, in today's world, almost most people think that Dashun replacing Daming is irreversible, and it is the general trend of the world. There are very few people who can see the crisis of Dashun's own existence. Chen Yue himself is a traverser, not to mention the latter's insights in later generations, and Shan Minglei can think of these according to the supply of grain, which surprised Chen Yue.
It seems that he underestimated Shan Minglei because he only showed off his fame, Chen Yue said secretly in his heart.
"And when are we leaving?" Hearing that Chen Yue also had this plan, Shan Minglei suddenly became excited.
"Don't worry, I've already told Hao Shaoqi, let him speak well in front of Li Zicheng, and appoint me as the envoy of Xuzhou Festival, and when the appointment is made, I can justifiably return to the south with the army, without worrying about the pursuit of the army, it is estimated that Li Zicheng will summon me soon." Chen Yue said softly.
In the next few days, under the careful care of Zhang Xiuer and Kun Xing, after drinking the medicine prescribed by Zhang Zhongping, Chongzhen's condition stabilized, the high fever disappeared, and his consciousness also recovered. After Zhang Zhongping was diagnosed and treated again, he told Chen Yue that as long as he recuperated for a few more days, his illness would be completely cured.
Originally, Chongzhen's body was not sick at all, and this sudden onset was only caused by emaciation, and now with the company of his daughter Kunxing, it is rare that he doesn't have to worry about anything anymore, he has enough rest, and his body is naturally recovering quickly.
Zhang Xiuer also knew Chongzhen's identity, and after being nervous, she took care of it more carefully. Chen Yue sternly warned her not to talk about it to anyone, not even her mother, Aunt Zhang.
Just a few days after the Xishan Army was resting and Chongzhen was recuperating, absurd scenes of absurd plots were being staged in the city of Beijing. Thousands of civil officials ran to the official office of Niu Jinxing, the prime minister of Dashun, one by one, crying and shouting to serve Dashun. At the same time, there are also a small number of loyal people, because the country is ruined, and under the grief, they choose to commit suicide and martyrdom.