Fenghou

"Sister, what happened?"

Zhao Qiaoyun and Zhao Yingluo walked into the hall, and Lu Xiu handed them the urgent memorial, "The internal government hall just sent it, and a plague broke out in Liaodong. The prince asked the court to act urgently to support Liaodong supplies. Apart from the ministers' plan, do you think there is any other plan?" What to add?"

Zhao Qiaoyun looked at the memorial and said: "The plan is very comprehensive, but I found that there is an emergency plan missing, that is, it will take a month or two to transport the medicines and masks to Liaodong by water. The best way is to send a batch of medicinal materials and masks to Yanshan Road."

Zhao Yingluo also said: "The officials once said that the letter can be sent to Yanshan Road in seven days if it is delivered urgently in gold letters. Then we can also use the relay method, can it be delivered by horse relay?"

Lu Xiu shook her head, "The carrying capacity of the war horses is not enough, we still need to use boats, vehicles and boats. The speed of vehicles and boats is fast, and they sail around the clock. I estimate that it can be transported to Yanshan Road in about ten days."

Zhao Qiaoyun nodded, "Sister, this is a good idea. Using vehicles and boats is a good way. The three groups of soldiers will step on it in turn, day and night. It will indeed be very fast to go from the Yellow River to the Yongji Canal."

Lu Xiu immediately approved the defense memorial of the Internal Affairs Hall, and at the same time added her own emergency transportation plan, suggesting the fastest transportation by vehicle and boat, and requiring transportation to Yanshan Road within ten days.

The first thousand and 490 chapter four urgent

That night, the Internal Affairs Hall issued thirteen urgent orders. The first was to mobilize 100 million masks from the warehouse. The masks were made after the outbreak of the epidemic in Caizhou and Chenzhou five years ago. After sewing, there are ropes on both sides to hang on the ears. All the millions of masks in the warehouse were sent to Yanshan Road, and then transported from Juma River to Liaodong.

The second is the transportation of a large amount of medicinal materials, tents and other materials. The tents and other materials are mainly used to deal with immigrants from Liaodong.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Qingshan rushed to Yanshan Road with hundreds of officials, and he was fully in charge of resettlement.

At the same time, the Internal Affairs Hall also passed the concubine's emergency plan. The concubine mobilized [-] soldiers and dispatched [-] [-]-stone carts to transport masks and Radix Radix and other medicinal herbs to Liaodong. Each cart was equipped with [-] soldiers and divided into three shifts. Day and night non-stop pedal boat sailing.

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Xinzhou is located in the north of Hanzhou, and its territory is not large. It is only equivalent to a county in the Central Plains. The population here is relatively sparse. On the one hand, the population of Jin State is unevenly distributed. It is near Shangjing in the north, and other areas are sparsely populated, and the land has not been developed much, maintaining its original state.

In fact, the Jurchen population has been reduced to less than a million, and the other Khitan and Xi people have even smaller populations. They were massacred by the Jin people and forced to recruit strong men by the Jin soldiers. The Khitan and Xi people are almost only left with old, weak, women and children.

This is also because since the rise of Chen Qing and the Yong Kingdom, a large number of Jurchen young and strong men have died in battle. In addition, the life span of the Jurchens is generally low. In the past ten years, the population of the Jurchens has continued to decrease sharply. In other places, there are almost only old and weak women and children left, and there are even fewer pregnant women.

This morning, a Western Army scout team consisting of 30 people appeared in the southern part of Xinzhou. The leader of this Western Army scout team was a deputy commander named Xu Changzhou, from Luoyang.

This scout team is actually composed of thirty soldiers, a military doctor, and a guide.

The guide is called Zhang Dai, a Han Chinese from Liaoyang Prefecture, a local, and a subordinate of the intelligence chief Pang Guangji. He is very familiar with the Liaodong area.

Zhang Dai pointed to a large mountain in the distance and said, "That's Mao'er Mountain, the Jueyuan Temple where the plague first broke out, but there is no one in the temple, no one dares to go."

"Is there a village near us?" the leader Xu Changzhou asked.

"It should be. Walk along the river. Villages are usually built along the river."

Xu Changzhou nodded, "Go! Take a look."

A group of cavalry rode their horses northward along the creek.

Chen Qing sent more than a dozen scout teams to various places in the north to check the epidemic situation and military situation. Xu Changzhou's team was responsible for investigating Xinzhou. Several of their teams came from Hanzhou, and the other three teams were already in Shenzhou, Xianping Prefecture, and Hanzhou. The epidemic was discovered, and there were concentrated deaths in several villages.

But Xu Changzhou and the others haven't encountered the epidemic yet, mainly because they went north from Liaoyang Mansion and took the West Official Road, and none of the dozen or so villages they encountered along the way had any epidemics.

After walking for a few miles, a village appeared in front of it, with the appearance of more than [-] families. The villages in the Kingdom of Jin are almost not big, and there is a faint white flag inserted at the entrance of the village, which is a sign of someone's death.

At this time, the military doctor Yang Rong had something to say, and the leader Xu Changzhou hurriedly called everyone together.

Yang Rong said solemnly: "Everyone put on the mask first, and I will reiterate a few words for everyone!"

Everyone took out their masks and put them on. Yang Rong said again: "From what we know so far, this kind of plague can be transmitted through talking at close range, and it can also be transmitted through food and feces. So I ask everyone to remember three points. First, not only water and food in this village should not be touched, but anything else; second, you should not tell the people in the village at close range, keep around ten feet, but you must wear a mask; third, do not send out Kindhearted, thinking of saving people, once infected, they will surely die, we can only tell those who are not infected to stay away from the village as much as possible.”

Xu Changzhou thought for a while and said, "Doctor Yang, we don't need to go all in!"

Yang Rong nodded, "Just go to a few people. The others are waiting here. Try not to use the water in the river to feed the horses. If you want to feed them, you must boil the water before feeding the horses. You have to leave the official road."

A leader took everyone away. The leader Xu Changzhou, the military doctor Yang Rong, the guide Zhang Dai and two soldiers, a total of five people rode to the village on horseback. Each of them held a spear and a shield. To the Jurchen sentries, on the other hand, the spears could also push people away and keep people away from them.

Walking to the entrance of the village, Xu Changzhou took a closer look at the white flag. The white flag was not newly planted. It must have been a while. The five people entered the village directly. No one was there.

After walking around, no resident was found. Military doctor Yang Rong said to Xu Changzhou, "It is very likely that they were forced to go to Beijing before and never came back!"

"no!"

Xu Changzhou shook his head, "All the daily necessities are here, and I also saw a few bags of food. They must have returned from Shangjing!"

At this time, the guide Zhang Dai shouted: "General Xu, Doctor Yang!"

It must have been discovered, Xu Changzhou and Yang Rong hurriedly galloped over.

One of his subordinates pointed to a remnant wall, "General, it's in there!"

Xu Changzhou urged the horse to go forward, his eyes narrowed immediately, the inside was full of corpses wrapped in mats, there were dozens of them, they were not buried, they were randomly piled inside, probably the living people brought the corpses here to burn them, But why didn't it burn?Could it be that they saw themselves and their men and hid?

Yang Rong shook his head, "It can't be such a coincidence. We came here after we finished moving the corpses. We should have left a few days ago."

"No matter, burn them!"

They took out the leather bags of kerosene, sprayed five bags of kerosene, and found a pile of wheat straw not far away, one bundle after another. They picked dozens of bundles with spears and covered them all, and then threw a pile of wheat straw. A torch passed by, "Boom!" It ignited, and the wheat straw and kerosene burned.

Xu Changzhou and others immediately set fire to all the houses with torches. The houses had thatched roofs and were easy to ignite. Soon, the entire village was engulfed in flames.

Everyone continued to go north...

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It has been nearly half a month since the large-scale migration of people, and almost all the people in the south of Shenzhou have been emptied, whether they are Jurchens, Khitans, Bohai people or Han people, they have all moved away.

Because of the discovery of the epidemic in Shenzhou, the people of Shenzhou first observed for a few days, and those who did not have the disease were sent to the Liaoxi Corridor for another ten days of isolation to ensure that there was no disease before going to Yanshan Road, and the people who became ill were isolated for treatment.

Of course, the migration was not smooth, and it was not smooth. Three large-scale Jurchen riots broke out successively. Chen Qing was hard-hearted and tough. All men who participated in the riots, regardless of age, were killed. More than [-] people were killed in the three riots. Only then did they forcibly drive the women and children out of their hometowns and transport them to Yanshan Road by boat.

By mid-March, there were almost no civilians in the entire land of Liaodong and the Liaodong Peninsula, except for the [-] troops and Korean prisoners of war who were mining limestone.

At this time, the emergency defense medicines and masks from Jingzhao were also sent to Liaodong. Chen Qing immediately distributed the masks and medicines to the soldiers, and boiled medicines for the soldiers to prevent the epidemic.

At this time, the scout teams sent to the north also returned one after another. They brought shocking news. Plague broke out in all parts of the northern part of Jin Kingdom, causing heavy deaths and a large number of people could not escape. However, the situation in Shangjing is unknown.

Chen Qing responded urgently. The army blocked all official roads, and built isolation camps, observation camps, and transfer camps in Shenzhou. It was necessary to ensure that all people did not get sick for half a month before being transferred to Yanshan Road.

Groups of people from the Kingdom of Jin, supporting the old and the young, came from the north in carts and were led by soldiers of the Western Army to Shenzhou City. Shenzhou City is the observation camp. Everyone was issued a mask, which must be worn to prevent the spread of saliva. , but also with quicklime for disinfection.

It is also easy to identify people who are sick. Almost all the people who are sick can't walk. They either lie on a cart or walk on their backs. They go to the isolation camp. The whole family goes together. The isolation camp is not far from Wangping County.

The city of Shenzhou is already empty, all of which have been sterilized with quicklime, and the whole city is filled with the choking smell of quicklime.

Each family lives in a small courtyard, and they are not allowed to go out, visit, or gather to chat. There are cavalry patrolling the city, and each family is given food, stoves, and honeycomb cakes, and requires water to be boiled before drinking. The whole family was sent to Wangping County.

In just five days, more than 20 people fled from the north, Shenzhou couldn't live there, and Chen Qing had to use the empty Liaoyang City as a second observation camp.

At the same time, Chen Qing accepted the suggestion of chief military doctor Zhou Mian to shorten the [-]-day observation period to ten days. As long as the whole family has no symptoms within ten days, they will be transferred by boat to the Liaoxi Corridor, where the transfer camp is located, and then according to the official regulations They will be distributed and sent to various counties on Shandong Road by large ship for resettlement.

Compared with the resistance of the Jurchens in the south of the Jin Kingdom, the Jurchen people from the north of the Jin Kingdom were more likely to accept the migration. They had really seen the cruelty of the plague and were terrified.

The first thousand and 490 chapters five Huairou

Standing at the head of Liaoyang City, Chen Qing looked at the quiet streets in the city. There was no one in the streets and alleys. Who would have thought that there were 12 households in this big city, nearly [-] people, and every household stayed at home for isolation.

Fortunately, it has been eleven days, and except for the first day when more than [-] households had patients who were sent away, there was no other household that became ill after that.

There are cavalry patrolling the street in the distance. All the cavalry wear masks and hold refusal spears. The advantage of this kind of spear is that people are not allowed to approach them, so they are called refusal spears.

The fortresses in the city were demolished, revealing open spaces, and the city gates were refurbished. Chen Qing took a fancy to the strength of Liaoyang City and planned to use it as their garrison center.

At this time, Zhang Xiao stepped forward to salute, "See Your Highness!"

"Participating in politics has worked hard, how is the situation in Wangping County?"

Wangping County is an isolation camp, and all the patients live there. The only family members who take care of the patients are their own family members. They can only distribute soup and medicine to the family members of the patients.

"The situation is very bad. Seventy percent of them died, and the remaining three percent were also infected. Soup and medicine can only prevent, not cure."

Chen Qing didn't know what kind of disease was breaking out now. Judging from the situation, most of the patients had severe diarrhea and finally died of dehydration. It should be cholera. In fact, breathing is not contagious, but saliva is. Masks, don't touch the patient's items, don't drink unboiled water, basically you won't be infected.

This is also the reason why many people could not escape along the way and were not infected along the way. They all boiled water to drink. It should be taught by the doctors of the Kingdom of Jin. This is a good job.

Chen Qing nodded, "Next, according to Doctor Zhou's method, build a big camp, divide it into two parts, the patient lives on one side, and the patient's family members live on the other side, and the patient's family members take care of the patients, try not to touch them, and use small tents for all. Wangping County, after everything is over, it will be completely burnt down."

"Humble job understands, when will His Highness go back?"

Chen Qing sighed, "In two more days!"

The war won't start for a while. Both sides are fighting against the virus. The Western Army also took this opportunity to relocate the people of the Jin Kingdom. Without the population, the Jin Kingdom will be destroyed.

At this time, some people in the city started to go out, carrying big bags and masks, about hundreds of people, escorted by soldiers, and walked out of the city. This is a family whose ten-day quarantine has expired. They have not fallen sick. They will go to The Liaohe wharf outside the city took a boat and sent them to the transfer camp in the Liaoxi Corridor, and then sent them to the Shandong Peninsula in batches.

Zhang Xiao praised: "It's really well-organized! Board the boat one by one, so that there will be no gatherings and contacts. Your Highness is really considerate."

Chen Qing said lightly: "Although I formulated the plan, the key is to implement it effectively. Thanks to the ability of the officials and soldiers, they are the great contributors."

After the first group of people left, the second group of people went out again, and there were four or five hundred people. They will take the second large ship to the Liaoxi Corridor, which is indeed in order.

At this time, Sima Qian Jun stepped forward to salute, "The remaining more than 1000 households have only been observing for nine days, should we send them away together?"

Nine days is actually enough. According to what they have learned, the disease usually occurs two or three days after infection. If there is no disease in nine days, it is basically certain that they are not infected.

Chen Qing nodded, "Let's send them away together! Then Liaoyang City won't have to bring in new people. After thorough disinfection, let the soldiers live in it after drying for a month."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Sima Qian Jun left in a hurry, Chen Qing looked at his back and nodded, "This Sima Qian is good, very capable, and worthy of reuse!"

According to the division of labor, Zhang Xiao is in charge of Shenzhou City and Wangping City, and Chen Qing is in charge of Liaoyang City, but Chen Qing is the master, and he is in charge of Liaoyang City only in name, while Sima Qian Jun is actually in charge.

Zhang Xiao nodded secretly, Qian Jun seized this opportunity, and it was Qian Jun's luck to be able to show his ability under the eyes of King Yong.

After following for many years, Zhang Xiao knew King Yong very well. He knew that what King Yong valued was ability, not talent.

Just like Pei Wenjin, No. 1 in the imperial examination the year before last, his essays are amazing, but his ability is very average. Last time he made a big mistake when he moved, King Yong finally decided to transfer him to the Ministry of Household Affairs. However, his ability is extremely strong, and won the respect of King Yong, so Zhang Xiao smiled and said: "Your Highness, go back, and Qian Sima will stay as my deputy!"

Chen Qing nodded and said: "Hu Yun is on Yanshan Road, I am more at ease. I have asked Lu Qingshan to change to Shandong Road, and he needs to be in charge there. Already!"

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In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Qing took hundreds of soldiers by boat from Liaohe to Hebei. Hundreds of large ships played a great role here.

Three days later, Chen Qing arrived in Pingzhou. On the seaport of Pingzhou, various materials, medicinal materials and grains were piled up like mountains. This was the arrival of the materials sent by Jingzhao.

From the harbor to the west is an endless wilderness, but at this time the wilderness is full of tents, and this is the real transfer area, where the people of the Kingdom of Jin are transferred to the states and counties.

Hu Yun got the news and rushed to the harbor to meet His Highness King Yong.

"See Your Highness for a humble position!"

"Your Majesty Hu has worked hard!"

Chen Qing stepped down from the boat and said with a smile, "I am relieved to see Hu Yun here!"

Hu Yun has obviously lost a lot of weight, and it can be seen that he has been very tired recently.

Hu Yun smiled wryly, "Although I'm a little tired, I still have a sense of accomplishment!"

Chen Qing went to Daying for inspection in a carriage, and he asked Hu Yun to get in the carriage to report.

Chen Qing took a sip of hot tea and asked, "Where are we now?"

"There are already officials who have gradually understood the people of the Kingdom of Jin to understand their own county. It is not easy to convince them!"

"why?"

Hu Yun smiled wryly, "The officials couldn't understand why the people of the Kingdom of Jin returned fifty acres of official land, and it was hard for them to be persuaded by the humble officials who recruited them."

"How did you convince them?"

"According to His Highness's instructions, tell them that if you enslave the people of the Kingdom of Jin, they will flee back sooner or later. On the contrary, if you have land, you will have care, and if you have a home, most people will not go back again. It's women and children, what are you worried about?"

Chen Qing nodded, "No matter how we deal with any regime, we must use two methods, one is political and the other is military. The military method must be cruel, and the political method must be gentle. Therefore, we use military methods against the nobles and the army of the Kingdom of Jin. means, to the women and children of the Kingdom of Jin, use gentle means, this is called stick plus carrot, this is the long-term solution.”

Hu Yun hesitated for a while and said: "Your Highness, I suggest that the transfer of the [-] acres of land given to them can be restricted, otherwise they will have to pay for the journey home after selling the land."

"It makes sense. It can be treated as Yongye Tian, ​​and it cannot be transferred within three generations."

"That's what it means to be humble, and that's what officials think. It's okay to give them land, but I'm afraid they will sell it."

Chen Qing nodded, "You are the chief officer of Yanshan Road, you can arrange it!"

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The transfer operation in Pingzhou is different from the transfer operation in the West Liaoning Corridor. The large camp in the West Liaoning Corridor is called a rehabilitation camp to the outside world. Only after it is completely confirmed that there is no epidemic can they enter Yanshan Road, and arrange to go to the county in Pingzhou.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Kingdom of Jin were afraid of the plague, so they could only obey King Yong's arrangement, or in other words, let fate arrange it.

There are more than [-] people in the transfer operation in Pingzhou, all of whom are people from the southern part of Jin Kingdom and Daning Prefecture. These people are divided into dozens of small camps. Each small camp is the county they are going to. They are registered, issued ID cards, and given food and household items.

When Chen Qing arrived, he happened to meet people from a county getting on a cart and setting off in a mighty way. There was a flag on the cart with the word "Lu County" written on it. These were the people going to Lu County, Daxing Prefecture. More than 300 households took more than [-] carts and were escorted by [-] cavalry.

These people are basically old and weak women and children. Even if there are men, they are too old. It is not surprising that almost all the young and strong men of the Jin Kingdom were conscripted, and only some younger men were killed by the Western Army because of the riots. The remaining old and weak women and children have no ability to resist at all.