super god warlord

At the beginning of the 1909th century, people invented a process, as long as the fur of the marmot is properly processed, its color is comparable to that of mink.For a while, marmot skin became the new favorite in the world leather market, and its price has been rising year after year.These otherwise useless animals multiplied in value and became symbols of wealth.But for marmots, it is estimated that they would rather be unknown, because by 1907, the price of each marmot skin had soared more than six times that of [-].

The huge profits attracted many Houjin and Luocha merchants, who recruited Chinese workers to hunt and kill marmots. In 1909, the number of marmot skins exported from Jinzhouli alone increased from 1907 in 70 to more than 200 million.Marmot fur has become a hot commodity since the fashion trend in the Westland pointed to furry leather shawls.

Marmot fur is also good or bad. Because animals have the habit of shedding hair, they shed their fluff in spring, and a layer of coarse hair grows on the surface of the body for ventilation and heat dissipation.In autumn, they shed their rough hair and replace it with fluff to keep warm and keep out the cold. Therefore, if you want to get high-quality marmot fur, you must start hunting in autumn to obtain fur with fluff.

Since [-], this kind of hunting activity began to rise in Northern Lia, and in the autumn of [-], this kind of hunting activity intensified. Chinese hunters went to Northern Leah to hunt to increase their harvest.The wages for hunting marmots are higher, so the hunters in the post-Jin country are also willing to take on this job, but they don't know how much danger it will bring them.

The area to the south of the Northern Lia region, close to the Xiongnu grassland, is one of the world's three plague source areas. Regarding this incurable disease that is almost unresolved at this time, the expressions of various countries have changed.The Black Death that swept across the Western Continent was actually the plague, which wiped out almost one-third of the population of the Western Continent. However, hundreds of years later, the plague is still incurable.

Marmots are also rodents, and they are also carriers of plague.If you are an experienced Northern Lia hunter, you will not touch those sick marmots, but the hunters in the post-Jin country don't know it.What's more, many of the hired otter hunters are poor people who have entered the Guandong, and they don't even know the various taboos of ordinary Houjin hunters.Seeing those marmots that could not walk, the hunters of the Jin Kingdom thought they had found a treasure, and they directly peeled them without identifying whether they were plague patients. As for the marmot meat, most of them supplemented the grain bags.

The returning hunters returned to their hometowns after a short stay in Harbin, but some of these people had already carried the plague bacteria.The tragedy started in Hongshilatun, Qianhongshilatun, Daling Village, Daling District, Yushu County, North Ji Province. When the Spring Festival was approaching, Guo Laoshi, who was doing business in the city, returned to his long-lost home.

A strange thing happened very quickly. A few days after Guo Laoshi came home, he suddenly felt hot on his forehead and sore all over his body.He thought he was suffering from a cold, and Guo Laoshi, who had a 'bad cold', planned to lie at home for a few days until he got better.This is also the case in poor rural areas. If you are sick, you can't afford to hire a doctor. You can only lie on the bed and stiffen. However, this time, stiffening cannot be solved.

After lying down for two days, Guo Laoshi's condition did not improve at all. Instead, he coughed and vomited blood.On New Year's Eve, the frail Guo Laoshi finally died of illness in his own bed. After his death, his eyes were wide open and his skin was purple.

The Hualan people in the Mingbei area have a tradition of burying corpses for sacrifices, so Guo Laoshi's family buried his corpse and stayed at home for five days.Upon receiving the news of his death, relatives and neighbors nearby went to offer their condolences.The accident happened quickly. Within a few days, 53 members of Guo Laoshi's family of 32 got the same disease as Guo Laoshi, and soon died of coughing up blood like the former.

The curse didn't stop, and in the following half a month, nearly a hundred people died in the village.It wasn't until the [-]th of the first lunar month that the strange disease finally stopped, but there were very few survivors in the entire village.

Guo Laoshi was a small businessman before his death, and he opened a hotel called 'Kuishengyuan' on Daling Street.Just before he rushed home for the New Year, the hotel once received two merchants from Harbin.The strange thing is that two people died in the store within two days, and then a clerk of Guo Laoshi also died. At that time, everyone was very superstitious, thinking that there was some kind of monster.In order to clean up the evil spirits, Guo Laoshi just invited a great dancer, and it was fine to make a fuss in the hotel. At that time, no one thought that this would be a terrible infectious disease.

In fact, just three months before Guo Laoshi died of illness, there was an official report on the Jinluo border: "There were Hualan people working at the Dawula station in the Raksha border, and seven people died suddenly in the work shed in early September of the first year of Xuanxing. Two of them came to live in Jinzhouli from Wula Station on September 23, and died one after another on September [-], as did the landlord and guests living in the same courtyard.”

At that time, Hualan's medical and health system was close to zero. It was not until 1905 that the imperial capital began to set up a sanitation office under the Patrol Headquarters to clean up garbage.Even if this is the case in the capital, the situation in Harbin, a newly emerging city on the border, is even worse. There is not even a Western doctor from Hualan here.

Under such circumstances, the speed of the spread of the epidemic can be imagined.Then the strange disease spread like a river bursting its embankment. On November 1909, 11, the plague spread to Harbin, the center of Beijin, and the panicked people began to flee.They also spread the virus outward during their escape, and the epidemic quickly spread to Changchun, Jilin, and then Zhili, Qilu and other places.The terrible Black Death spread from the northern part of the Houjin Kingdom to the southern provinces, and soon spread across Mingbei and North China along the fast-moving railway lines.

Although at the beginning of the epidemic, the government also did some epidemic prevention work.However, backward equipment, lack of scientific knowledge and effective epidemic prevention methods make these efforts a drop in the bucket in the face of the raging epidemic.

At the beginning of December 1909, Shi Zhaoji, You Cheng of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, received a note from the two countries, Raksha and Wa, in the name of the inability of the Jin government to control the epidemic, and asked to independently preside over the Beijin epidemic prevention.

Since the Kingdom of Jin was defeated by the Kingdom of Wa in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, the power of the Kingdom of Wa has poured into Mingbei in large numbers.In order to form an alliance with the Raksha State to suppress the Wa State, Li Hongzhang signed the "Golden Luo Secret Treaty" with the Raksha State, allowing the Raksha State to build and manage the Middle East Railway on the territory of the Later Jin State. Jin Guo "joint defense against Japan".However, the Later Jin government's plan to "rule the barbarians with the barbarians" failed, and soon a situation where Luo and Wo jointly invaded and occupied Mingbei was formed.

Chapter 299 Dr. Wu Liande

Shi Zhaoji, who had studied in the White Eagle Country in his early years, was well versed in international diplomacy. He knew that agreeing to Luo and Wa's request to independently preside over the epidemic prevention in Mingbei would be tantamount to handing over the sovereignty of the three provinces of Mingbei.

The epidemic is unstoppable, and the great powers are ambitious.Under the double pressure of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the already crumbling Houjin Kingdom is like a building that is about to collapse.Only by controlling the epidemic can the mouths of the great powers be blocked, and the person in charge of the epidemic prevention in Mingbei must not be a foreigner.But among the people of the Houjin Kingdom, who has such a great ability?Soon a person who left a strong mark in the history of the post-Jin Kingdom appeared on the stage.

At the beginning of 1910, Harbin was already full of wind and rain, and the spread of the epidemic made people talk about Harbin's discoloration, showing a strange state on the trains still in and out of Harbin.The train leaving Harbin was overcrowded, even with people sitting on the roof, but the train entering was empty.A middle-aged Hualan man with parted hair and a suit, went against the flow of people and entered Harbin in an empty car like this.

Wu Lien Teh is a Malaya Hualan diaspora. He was born in Penang, Malaya in 1979. He began to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Saarguk, at the age of 17. After more than three years, he was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital as an intern.After graduating from university, Wu Lien-teh worked as an intern and worked at the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases in Saarland, the School of Hygiene at Halle University in Teutonic State, and the Pasteur Institute in Gallic State. Then he returned to Malaya.

While opening a private clinic in his hometown, Wu Lien-teh has always cared about his motherland.A few years later, he was invited to London, Saarland, to participate in an opium ban conference chaired by Wen Yinglan, a doctor of theology. Later, he was hired by the Houjin government and returned to China to teach at the Army Medical School in Tianfengcheng, where he served as the deputy supervisor.

As the first doctor of medicine from the post-Jin Dynasty who graduated from Cambridge, Wu Lien-teh knew more about the dangers of the plague than Shi Zhaoji.There is no specific medicine for this vicious disease, and the fatality rate is so high that it can be said that if you contract it, you will die.But he also understands that if there is no scientific anti-epidemic measures and the epidemic is allowed to develop, Hualan Kingdom will become the second medieval western continent.What's more, the two countries of Japan and Japan are coveting, and they want to seize the sovereignty of Mingbei in the name of epidemic prevention at any time.Controlling the epidemic is not only related to hundreds of millions of lives, but also related to the danger of the country.Facing Shi Zhaoji's invitation, Wu Lien-teh agreed without hesitation.

There is no way to talk about epidemic prevention with the corpses of the victims of the epidemic lying on the streets, and the residents are all in danger. This is an out-and-out hell on earth.This is the case almost everywhere in Harbin. Without effective epidemic prevention, the spread of the virus is unbelievable.

Worried Wu Liande stepped onto the platform of Harbin Railway Station under such circumstances. The first thing he did when he arrived was to visit Yu Sixing, the highest local official on the Northwest Road Bingbei Road.

"My lord, please forgive me for taking the liberty to visit, Wu Lien-teh is being polite." Wu Lien-teh greeted Yu Sixing who went out the door.

"Mr. Wu's itinerary, Mr. Shi has already informed me in advance, please go in and talk." Yu Sixing already knew Wu Liande's identity, and now he saw that the other party was a Bodhisattva who survived, so he didn't care about etiquette.

The two sat down as guests and hosts, Wu Lien-teh asked: "I'm new here, I don't know the situation here yet, please show me, sir."

Yu Sixing sighed and said: "Now the epidemic in Harbin is mainly concentrated in Fujiadian, the Hualan residential area. Those patients first had a fever, then coughed and vomited blood, and died soon after. According to the news, the first people to get this disease were the immigrants who caught marmots in the territory of Luocha, and those people died suddenly when they were staying in a hotel in Harbin, and soon the innkeepers also died one after another, and the epidemic spread.”

"Oh?" Hearing that the situation was so critical, Wu Lien-teh couldn't help frowning slightly. He knew that the epidemic could not be controlled by himself alone. He asked, "Is there any doctor here besides me?"

Yu Sixing nodded and said, "Yes, there are now two western doctors in Fujiadian, one surnamed Yao and the other surnamed Sun. After the outbreak of the epidemic, Mr. Zhao Erxun, the governor of the three northern provinces, just invited them to preside over the epidemic prevention."

"There is still not enough manpower. I wonder if we can mobilize manpower? It is best to have talents in western medicine." Lien-teh Wu asked.

Yu Sixing shook his head: "There is a shortage of Western medicine in China, and there is also an epidemic in the imperial capital. How can there be so many people?"

"By the way, I heard that the governor sent a letter to his grandnephew. I don't know when he will arrive." Yu Sixing suddenly remembered.

Wu Lien-teh shook his head and said, "For an epidemic like this, it is best to rely on Western medicine. His Chinese doctors are too late." Because Zhao Shouhong has always claimed that his medical team is Chinese doctors, he also gave Wu Lien-teh this illusion.Subconsciously, he thought that all Chinese medicines were slow to take effect, and they were okay for the prevention of this highly contagious disease, but not very effective for treatment.

Just as Wu Lien-teh was speaking, the medical team led by Zhao Shouhong had just set off from Zhongchuan and embarked on the road to the three northern provinces.Originally, with Zhao Shouhong's behavior style, even if Wu Liande was near the imperial capital, he shouldn't be so slow.However, Zhao Shouhong was a local official after all, and he couldn't just walk away like Wu Lien-teh, so his schedule was naturally slower.

Zhao Shouhong originally thought of retreating to advance, and after getting this god-given opportunity, he immediately sent a telegram for the memorial.Expressing that he was willing to share the country's worries, Zidang personally led a medical team to the three provinces of Mingbei for treatment.

For the past few days Zaifeng has been thinking about how to weaken the Zhao family. Now that Yuan Wei has returned to his hometown to recuperate from illness, Zhang Xiaoda has passed away, and only Xu Haichang is left as a constitutional faction in the court.The old man is old and has long been unable to support himself in the court, which greatly reduces the momentum of the constitutionalists.After the court had been stabilized, Zaifeng turned his attention to the place.

Among the most powerful members of the constitutionalist faction, Zhou Xuexi has lost his support of Yuan Kai and has died down.Although Sheng Xingsun has a lot of influence, he has recently been troubled by Xia Yeping's production expansion. In addition to Zhang Xiaoda's death, his momentum has long since declined.Cen Chunxuan is indeed a talent, but it's a pity that he didn't get along with Yuan Wei, and he was suppressed too hard in the previous internal strife, and it was difficult to turn over for a while.

After Zaifeng calculated, Zhao Shouhong was the biggest threat to the imperial power in the local area.The Zhao family has been officials for generations, especially in Zhao Erzhen's generation, where the four brothers all held high positions, and it became a good story for a while.Now although the eldest Zhao Erzhen has retired and the fourth eldest Zhao Ercui has retired, the second eldest Zhao Erxun is the governor of Zhongchuan, and the third eldest Zhao Erfeng is also the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Border Affairs of Sichuan and the Minister of Xijiang Council. Zhao Shouhong, who held the Patrol Station and the Sixth Route Patrol Battalion in his hands, echoed from a distance, and almost controlled the entire Zhongchuan.

Chapter 300 Visiting Huanshang Village

Such a powerful and concentrated family power in one place is the most taboo for Zaifeng.There was no excuse and the court could not directly deal with the Zhao family, so Zaifeng racked his brains to come up with a way to disintegrate.First transfer Zhao Erxun to the sparsely populated three provinces of Mingbei as the governor, and then let Zhao Erfeng act as Zhongchuan.On the surface, it seems that the Zhao family brothers are more powerful, but in fact, the agent is only an agent after all, and he can change his position with a word.When Zhao Erfeng was also transferred away from Zhongchuan, it would be difficult for Zhao Shouhong to accomplish anything.

It has to be said that although those post-gold dignitaries were in a mess in governing the country, they were all good at engaging in political struggles.Just when Zaifeng was going to continue with the next weakening plan, he suddenly received a memorial from Zhao Shouhong.The memorial claimed that the three provinces of Mingbei were plagued by epidemics. If they were not treated early, there would be heavy casualties and even threaten the imperial capital. He expressed his willingness to lead a medical team to the epidemic area to share the country's worries.

After receiving this memorial, Zaifeng didn't wake up for a long time. His first thought was that the other party had seen his plan, but he quickly denied this idea.What I did was very concealed, and until now it was promoted to the Zhao family, so the other party should not be able to see it.

After thinking about it, Zaifeng made his own judgment.He believed that Zhao Shouhong had two purposes for writing this memorial. One was that Zhao Erxun, who had just assumed the post of governor of the three northern provinces, asked him for help, so he had to go.The second is to test whether the court has any intention of harming him.Since Yuan Kui was vacated and returned to his hometown, everyone in the constitutional faction was in danger, and I believe Zhao Shouhong was the same.I am afraid that most of this memorial also has the meaning of pleasing himself, in order to save himself.

Zaifeng was intoxicated with himself. At this moment, he felt that he had taken control of the overall situation and firmly controlled the entire country in his hands.Since Zhao Shouhong gave a reason, Zaifeng was not polite, he directly discussed with Queen Mother Longyu and sent Zhao Shouhong an imperial edict.

The imperial decree expresses gratitude to Mr. Zhao Shouhong for his loyalty to the country, and specially appointed him as the imperial envoy to manage all epidemic prevention affairs in the three provinces of Mingbei and the epidemic areas.Temporarily remove his various errands in Zhongchuan, and wait until the epidemic is subsided, and then reward him for his merits and deeds and let him enter Beijing as an official.

Looking at this edict, Zhao Shouhong sneered.Zaifeng was really impatient, he pushed himself out to the point where he didn't want a fig leaf.He behaved so much for the country, yet he unabashedly fell into trouble. It seems that many people will be chilled by the court this time.This is just right, the more popular the court is, the faster they will be wiped out.

Zhao Shouhong had already made overall arrangements for Zhong Chuan, even if he left, there would be no danger, not to mention that now with radio contact, he could keep an eye on Zhong Chuan's affairs at any time.Even if you are in the three provinces of Mingbei, you can still conduct remote command to Zhongchuan through the Vanguard Party.

In history, Yuan Kai lived in seclusion in Huanshang Village. Although he won the political initiative, his generals were distracted. In the end, the forces in the northern region split into two major warlord factions, Zhiwan and Anhui, and internal divisions appeared.Zhao Shouhong's current situation has many similarities with Yuan Kai's, but he has the Hualan Vanguard Party in his hands, which has ideal cohesion, and he is not afraid that his power will be in danger of establishing another mountain.Even if he is in the three provinces of Mingbei, the entire Zhongchuan power is still under the control of the party's seven-member group.

Bringing Wang Lingji's guard battalion, a huge medical team of 300 people, and a logistics team in charge of transporting supplies, Zhao Shouhong embarked on the road to the three provinces of Mingbei.This time, Zhao Shouhong did not choose the convenient way to go down the river and then take the train from Jiangxia to the imperial capital. Instead, he went north from Chongshan City and followed the construction site of the Sichuan-Han Railway line under construction.He wants to inspect the progress here, and then board the train from Yichang to Beijing.

Because the team was too large this time, Zhao Shouhong had to charter a train alone to carry the whole team.After entering Central South Province, he did not go directly to the imperial capital, but stopped at a place at the junction of Central South Province and Zhili.

When the train stopped at Anyang Station, Zhao Shouhong led a platoon of guards and a team of supply battalions, and headed for a newly built manor by the Anyang River.

Huanshang Village is called a village, but it is actually the name of the house of Yuan Kui's family. The village is named after the residence, which is a form of Hualan's traditional national culture.Huanshang Village faces south and has a square base, which is said to have an area of ​​15 mu.The mansion is surrounded by brick walls that are thin at the top and thick at the bottom. The wall is about seven meters high and the wall base is nearly [-] meters thick. It is very similar to the city walls of ancient cities, except that there are no battlements.

Two-story watchtowers were built against the walls at the four corners of the wall for defense. An arched gate was opened in the middle of the wall facing south, and three large characters "Huanshang Village" were carved horizontally on the wall above the gate.The wall can be divided into three sections vertically from north to south, with the residential area in the middle, the garden to the east, and the tile-roofed houses where servants live behind the west.

When he came to the gate of Huanshang Village, Zhao Shouhong directly revealed his identity and handed his business card to the gatekeeper.Seeing that it turned out to be a high-ranking official visiting, the servant hurried to the inner house to report.It is said that Zhao Shouhong, whom Yuan Kai attaches great importance to, came to visit in person, and the eldest son Yuan Ke hurried out to meet him in person.

"Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhao came to visit, and I greet you late." Yuan Keding said politely. Now Zhao Shouhong is in a high position, but he is a grassroots person, so naturally he should be careful.

Zhao Shouhong saw the panic-stricken Yuan Ke, but he laughed loudly and said, "Brother Yuan Ke hasn't seen you for a long time, so why are you being polite? You and I were called brothers in the imperial capital, so why should we be like this today? You still call me Shouhong." Well, lest I sound uncomfortable."