Xi Jinwen took a few steps back and sat directly on the ground. The soldiers and soldiers of the soldiers and horses who followed and the chief armor of the patrol police shop fled one after another, and they ran out of half the street with their faces on their faces, and then they came back one after another under Xi Jinwen's angry gaze.

On the contrary, it was the old man Cai who was not surprised, looked at Zhao Yingxian, and waited for the sheriff to speak. Zhao Yingxian's face was fearless, he had done things to hack people to death on the battlefield in Eastern Europe, how could he be afraid of the dead?

Zhao Ying pushed open the door first and was about to walk over, shouting, "Is there someone in the door?" The police from the police station came to check the household registration and asked the head of the family to come forward! ”

He shouted three times in a row, but there was no sound at all.

Old man Cai stepped up and said, "I'm afraid it's really dead." And, if you live, it's even more uncomfortable. ”

Not only are the patients uncomfortable, but they are also even more uncomfortable for the government officials. Those relatives who are cleaning up the aftermath are even more headaches.

Zhao Ying was silent for a while, and then he was about to approach but was followed by Xi Jinwen later. He didn't know when he pulled out two towels, poured water from the kettle to get wet, then tied them to his mouth, nose and mouth, and motioned to Zhao Ying with his elbow: "Director Zhao." The medical officer who came to train before leaving said that the deceased had the poison of the plague on his body, and the poisonous gas was even more permeated after the death of the art of war, so he must not get too close. I think it's better to wait for the medical worker mentioned above to do this thing......"

The deceased was swollen and could explode at the slightest poke. In recent years, the people did not realize that corpses were also a huge source of the virus, so Zhu Cihong had to repeatedly emphasize that the army hospital should train all police stations and never approach the corpses, and the reason was also close to the ground: poisonous gas.

"Thank you." Zhao Ying took the wet towel first, put it on, and checked the corpse closely, and found that it was indeed a plague disease. All the way into the courtyard, I found several corpses on the bed.

The crowd sighed and continued to walk deeper into the alley.

"This family is from Fangshan, and they bought a house in Beijing, and no one is close to them, and it seems that even the slaves have escaped. It's no wonder that the whole family died in the house, and no one knows. However, the onset of the disease is also rapid, which makes people ...... Alas, when the families saw the official errand, I am afraid that they were a little afraid of people, so they did not respond. The little old man led the way and knocked on the door first. Old man Cai saw Zhao Yingxian's actions, and his words were a little more positive, knocking all the way to the door and taking the initiative to greet him.

With the response of local acquaintances, the originally silent portals finally responded. It's not that the people are deliberately hiding, it's true that many people are sick at home, either taking care of the sick, or they have become sick themselves, not to mention going out to chat, or cleaning up the house and doing something to make some noise.

Of course, with Cai Pai Jia's response, the doors of some families where no one is sick are gradually opening.

Seeing that it was an official errand, even some big families with a solid background also responded politely. This time, most of the people who spoke were Xi Jinwen. He is a showman, with a decent identity, and he speaks gently, and the people and big families have some intimacy with him, and a lot of things are naturally recorded between small talks. Zhao Yingxian didn't care, he took the initiative to become silent. When no one was paying attention, Zhao Ying first began to look at the scene carefully, and found that many people had relatives who came from outside the city.

"Jingshi, this is better, outside the city...... Chichito Chirito ...... Alas...... I don't know how miserable it is! Many people sighed.

Walking all the way through the streets and alleys, inquiring about registration, Xi Jinwen had a book full of books, and the group was tired and hungry until the sun rose and they were busy for two hours.

Zhao Yingxian is a generous person, he was given a lot of silver when he retired from the army, and the police station gave a lot of silver. So, Zhao Ying first found a nearby restaurant and asked for a private room to entertain his subordinates.

After a while, the wine and food were complete, Zhao Yingxian was born in the army, and the amount of wine was good, and the wine was over three rounds and stepped on the five flavors, and the old man Cai on the banquet, the two stuffy gourd-like fire armor and the three soldiers of the Terracotta Division were all enthusiastic with Zhao Yingxian.

They also saw Zhao Yingxian's conscientiousness just now, and now they are short-handed, and they are much closer to each other. The scene was not cold, and a young soldier of the Terracotta Division took the initiative to speak: "I thought that the plague spread in the city was so bad that it was just more people dying. But I didn't expect it to be so fierce, and the death of one family after another. ”

Another strong soldier who looked more prestigious shook his head and said, "Zhao Er, at first glance, you are a person who has never seen the market. Death in a street is a catastrophe? You haven't been to the shanties under the city walls, you haven't seen those who sleep on the streets, those homeless people who have fallen ill and can't afford to fall ill, and have long been carried out of the city by the beggars in the city. ”

Xi Jinwen suddenly thought of a piece of information that he was going to ask from his superiors, and said, "This colleague, where did you throw it out of the city?" Could it be that there are also mass graves in the Jingshi City? ”

The best place in the imperial capital of the world, as long as it is in the city, it is not a place that no one cares about, and it is almost impossible to imagine that there is such ownerless land that can be used as a mass grave.

Sure enough, the older tall soldier Ding Lian humbly solved his doubts: "The official Xi is in love, the villain Ding Pan, the family is seven, you can just call Ding Qi if you can afford it." To talk about these corpses, the villain has also heard of it. There is a mass grave near the left side of the Beijing Division, and in ordinary times, relatives have some silver, and the remains are sealed in the coffin and carried to the mass grave to stand up, and then the scenery is buried when there is silver. But right now, there are so many dead people that they can't afford coffin boards. In this world, the living can't control it, so where can they take care of the thoughts of the dead? ”

"A better coffin has now risen to thirteen taels of silver." Old man Cai drank a glass of wine and shook his head: "Old man, I can't afford to bury me when I'm dead." ”

"So...... The relatives searched for the corpses and threw them all to the Yongding River. Ding Qi said, shaking his head: "Even if you die, you can't find a piece of land to bury it." It's so miserable......"

"Wait...... Yongding River? "Zhao Ying was first a soldier of the Royal Guards Regiment and participated in a literacy class in the army. Moreover, Zhao Yingxian is also a person from Beijing, not only can he read coarsely, but he also reads diligently after participating in the literacy class, so he will be taken care of when he is discharged from the army and get the position of director. Although this is only a low-end official, he is not even an official in the Dongcheng Police Station, which has no grade. But everyone knows that this is Zhu Cihong's descendant, and the future is immeasurable. Correspondingly, there are few incompetent people who can enter this system.

Therefore, Zhao Yingxian also understood what this Yongding River meant.

"Is it the Yongding River in Jingshi?" Xi Jinwen is a showman, or a local showman in Beijing, and suddenly understood what it meant: "Is it the Yongding River where we drink water?" ”

After speaking, Xi Jinwen stared at the table full of banquets speechlessly.

Ding Qi was stunned, and he also understood what he had just said.

Zhao Er picked up a glass of water, his movements suddenly froze, and in an instant, everyone thought of the corpses they saw today, and turned around and vomited.

Burst......

Vomit......

Vomit......

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The year 1644 was actually the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the original history. This year is the year of Jiashen. The Jiashen year in the original history had a particularly profound impact on the history of later generations, Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain, the regime established by the Han people was destroyed by foreign races again, and the Manchus ruled the land of China. Although countless people recognize that the ruling art of the Qing Dynasty reached the peak of the feudal period, it is undeniable that from the moment Jiannu entered the customs, the land of China has gradually fallen behind the whole world.

As a result, countless people lamented the death of the Ming Dynasty.

Some people say that the Ming Dynasty died in Chongzhen.

Some people also say that the Ming Dynasty died because the ministers did not fulfill their responsibilities, and they died because the scholars did not fulfill their obligations for tax evasion.

Some people even say that the death of the Ming Dynasty has exhausted the real energy.

This and that kind of truth cannot be said to be wrong, and certainly cannot be said to be comprehensive. After careful observation, later generations found that the giant of the Ming Dynasty collapsed in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1644, he was actually highly poisoned and covered in Shenke.

From the 16th century AD, the earth began to enter the Xiaoice Age. The climate is extremely cold, and even Guangzhou often snows. Corresponding to the history of the Ming Empire, from the beginning of Wanli to the Chongzhen period, it was in the Xiaoice period. Like the new empire accepted by Zhu Cixi, it has not yet persisted until the Xiaoice River comes out.

The cold caused the rainfall to move rapidly southward, with frequent floods in the south and droughts in the north, and locust plagues, ice storms, wind storms, and earthquakes came like a side gift.

The natural disasters that intensified from the twelfth year of Chongzhen became a heavy left hook punch to Da Ming's soft abdomen. Floods have displaced people, droughts have bankrupted agriculture and displaced people. The locust plague has plunged countless people into unprecedented hunger.

As a result, the people rose up to find a way out, the soldiers lost their food, the government lost their taxes and silver, the war situation in all directions of the empire took a sharp turn, and the foundations of the empire's edifice were quietly hollowed out.

In the aftermath of the flood and drought locust plague, the frequent outbreaks of the disease were even more brutal, and it was an even heavier right hook.

The great tribulation will be followed by the great plague.

Beginning in the seventh year of Chongzhen, the plague appeared in Xing County, Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi. Within one night, all the family died, and there was no first-class person. The people fled in panic, and the city was empty. Subsequently, the plague quickly spread south to Yangwu County, where ten rooms and nine empty rooms were emptied, and the number of exterminants was innumerable. In March in Xingyang County, there were no people on the road, and the tragic situation was repeated.

Now, when I arrived in Beijing, it is estimated that 200,000 people have died in Beijing due to the plague since the fourteenth year of Chongzhen. Relatives and friends did not dare to ask about the hanging, and the whole family was never buried.

In the original history, in the face of Li Zicheng's siege, one of the important reasons why the Beijing division held out for only one day was the plague.

Now, when Zhu Cihong mastered this empire, he found it in a cursory count. Between the 8th and 16th years of Wanli, seven million people died in the northern part of the empire due to drought, locust plague, and plague. During the Chongzhen period, the population of the Gyeonggi North Zhili area dropped sharply from 10.95 million in the early years to 7.3 million, a total of 3 million less. Shanxi's population has almost doubled from 10.24 million in the three years of Chongzhen's reign to 6.2 million.

Shaanxi and Shandong have millions of deaths.

The entire region of North China died more than 10 million people in the two plagues of Wanli and Chongzhen. Not only in China, but also in the 12 years of Chongzhen's 5th and 17th years, there have been outbreaks of epidemics almost every year. With each outbreak, there is an 80 to 90 percent chance of death in a dog.

Countless words of "eight or nine times out of ten people died", "more than 100 families in one volume, none of them were spared", and "dozens of people in one family, no one survived" fell in front of Zhu Cihong's eyes, as if a meteor sledgehammer was in his forehead, making him almost dizzy, and he only felt heartache.

At present, Zhu Cihong is only 17 years old, and he has enough time to solve the problem of the people and thieves, and solve the problems of the Manchus, Mongolia, and even the frontiers. But Zhu Cihong, who came from later generations, did not regard the population as a burden at all. For the monarch of the Ming Empire, the people are the most precious existence of the empire.

Without them, how can the whole world be conquered?

However, before the road of conquest began, it was discovered that the plague in the empire was like a harvester, harvesting tens of millions of people.

In other words, this is equivalent to one or ten Manchurias, five Mongolians, three Koreans, about two Japan, and most of Europe on the planet.

In the same way, a detailed understanding means that Zhu Cihong's pace of conquering these areas was stumbled by the terrifying plague.

It is difficult for most people to understand that kind of panic from the waste paper heaps of history, but as long as you recall the national panic during the SARS period, you can understand it a little more.

SARS is still in the modern society with the development of science and technology, and medicine has advanced by leaps and bounds.

In ancient times, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the cornerstone of imperial rule had collapsed, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when finances were increasingly depleted and medicine was extremely underdeveloped, the plague that spread to half of the empire and most of northern China was terrifying, just thinking about it makes people shudder.

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The Jade Emperor Temple in the north of Yongding Gate has been replaced by newcomers, and the Taoist priests here have been scared away by the terrible plague.

But here is a new group of people.

They joined in the war against the plague without hesitation.

Most of these people wore white coats, stationed in it, and began their busy work.

They are military doctors from army hospitals.

Dressed in white and with short hair, Kong Luoling also joined in, and she put on a mask made of several layers of silk and put on rough leather gloves to start today's work under Zhu Cihong's superficial prompts.

dissection, as well as observation.

Zhao Er and Ding Qi also covered their heads with coarse cloths, carried a huge template and drove a corpse into the army hospital.

Looking at the medical officers who were coming and going, they almost intuitively felt some relief.

The corpse was handed over to Kong Luoling, and the autopsy was hastily signed, and the autopsy began.

"Plague is a general term, and at the end of the day, it varies. But as long as you know it, understand it, you can overcome it! In Kong Luoling's heart, a voice suddenly echoed with the golden dragon-patterned robe and young and handsome eyes, making her look at the terrifying corpse, exhale softly, and firmly stabbed down. (To be continued.) )