Zuixianglou is the largest romantic brothel in Xiangyang City, and it is the place where countless dignitaries, literati and poets flock to Xiangyang City and even Jingzhou.

Whenever night falls, Zuixianglou must be full of feasting lights, singing and dancing, very lively.

But tonight's Zuixiang Building was uncharacteristically, it didn't open the door to welcome guests as usual, on the contrary, the gate was closed tightly, and there was a row of burly men standing outside the door, blocking the gate of Zuixiang Building completely, and did not let anyone else know. People approach half a step.

But everyone can see that the Zuixiang Building is brightly lit, and the voices of Yingying and Yanyan can be heard endlessly. It is obvious that guests are being received inside.

Some guests who came here on a whim were unwilling, and just two steps closer, the old bustard, who always greeted people with a smile in the past, coldly warned that if they wanted to hang out in Jingzhou's territory in the future, they should not take another half step forward. Leave angrily.

In the private room on the third floor of Zuixiang Building, Wang Dan, governor of Jingzhou, Li Zhen, prefect of Nanjun, and Qian Ke, magistrate of Xiangyang county, were all warm and fragrant, and they were all in their arms, pushing cups and cups, drinking and drinking, how could they be happy? Looks like he's sick with the wind and cold.

Wang Dan felt even happier when he thought that they were having a good time drinking flower wine in Xiangyang city, while Xiao Jie, who was an imperial envoy, was drinking northwest wind alone at Xiangyang pier.

At this time, a strong man brought Zhao Feng into the private room.

Zhao Feng lowered his head the whole time, not daring to look at the Yingyingyanyans in the room, let alone the dazed officials in the private room. He couldn't afford to offend any official here. How could the county magistrate dare to look around.

Wang Dan recognized that Zhao Feng was the Xiaoxian Cheng who was sent to meet Xiao Jie at the pier, and could not help asking with squinted eyes: "How is it, did King Qi beat you up?"

Before Wang Dan came to Jingzhou to take office, he was an official in the capital. In his impression, Xiao Jie was domineering, defiant, and tyrannical. Now that he has humiliated him so much, he will definitely beat up the little county magistrate who picked him up. , I can also take this opportunity to mobilize the entire Jingzhou officialdom to impeach him.

Zhao Feng shook his head: "Reporting to Wang Shijun, King Qi didn't do anything to us."

Only then did Wang Dan see that Zhao Feng was not injured at all, he couldn't help but frowned, and secretly thought that this Xiao Jie didn't fall for it, could it be that he really had a complete change of character like his uncle said?

"Has he obediently gone to live in a post house?" Wang Dan continued to ask Zhao Feng. In his impression, Xiao Jie was arrogant, extravagant and greedy for enjoyment. No matter what, it was impossible for him to sleep in a simple post house.

Zhao Feng shook his head, a knowing smile appeared on Wang Dan's face, which was in line with Xiao Jie's style.

"King Qi went back to the barracks with his private troops."

Zhao Feng's next sentence, the smile on Wang Dan's face froze instantly.

A few days ago, an army of more than 1000 people did come from outside Xiangyang City. Wang Dan sent someone to check it out. The other party claimed to be a soldier from the Qingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and held the documents of the Ministry of War. At that time, Wang Dan was not easy to ask. Now Only then did he realize that these are Xiao Jie's private parts, and he came to Xiangyang in advance to wait for Xiao Jie.

"Then, did Xiao Jie say how the Jingzhou local government should cooperate with him to kill the locust plague?"

Wang Dan asked a question that the entire Jingzhou officialdom was most concerned about.

Zhao Feng still shook his head and said: "His Royal Highness King Qi wants to tell all the superiors that since everyone is sick, they should have a good rest. He can handle the locust plague himself."

As soon as Zhao Feng said this, all the officials in the private room stopped looking for fun and looked at Zhao Feng in unison.

Being watched by so many pairs of eyes, Zhao Feng felt a little terrified in his heart, but he still nodded and said, "This is the original words of King Qi."

All the officials in the private room looked at each other in disbelief.

What's the meaning?This king of Qi actually planned to eliminate the overwhelming locust plague by himself without the assistance of the local officials in Jingzhou?

Wang Dan sneered secretly in his heart, probably Xiao Jie thought that the court would have issued the seven measures to exterminate locusts so that he could sit back and relax, didn’t he know that everything depends on human effort, as long as he secretly mobilizes the entire Jingzhou officialdom to perfunctory the extermination of locusts, the locust plague It will only intensify.

"Everyone, since the imperial envoy has said that he can deal with the locust plague by himself, why should we worry about it for him? You can eat, drink and play with your own food tonight, everyone. If you don't get drunk, you won't go home, I, Wang Dan, will pay for all the expenses tonight!"

All the officials in the private room burst into cheers instantly, and everyone raised their glasses to Wang Dan one after another, flirting with the beauty in their arms, so happy.

Zhao Feng quietly withdrew from the private room amidst the hustle and bustle, he knew that staying in the private room in his capacity would only spoil the elegance of the superiors.

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"Your Highness, according to your instructions, we have secretly found a few patients suffering from smallpox and locked them together with a dozen cows in the front tent."

Inside the Qingzhou barracks tent, Ye Qiuyao pointed to several lonely tents and said to Xiao Jie.

Xiao Jie nodded, and then asked with concern: "None of our soldiers accidentally contracted smallpox."

Smallpox was completely eradicated in the era Xiao Jie lived in, but for people in this era, smallpox is a very contagious virus with a very high fatality rate. Even if it is cured, it is very likely to die It left a face full of pockmarks, hence the name smallpox.

If it wasn't for dealing with locusts, Xiao Jie would not have hoped that he had managed to recruit the trained baby lump to contact smallpox patients.

Ye Qiu shook his head: "Don't worry, Your Highness, the general will strictly follow your orders. When our soldiers come into contact with these smallpox patients, they cover their mouths, noses, and palms with cloth soaked in spirits, and burn all their clothes with fire afterwards." , so none of our troops contracted smallpox."

Speaking of this matter, Ye Qiu was still a little emotional. He didn't understand why Xiao Jie offered such generous treatment to his trilogy before, until he found out that these soldiers worked extraordinarily hard in training, carried out orders to the letter, and even asked them to They didn't even frown when they came into contact with the terrible smallpox patients, completely disregarding life and death. Only then did Ye Qiu realize that these soldiers had already believed that they had sold their lives to Xiao Jie, and that they only lived for King Qi in this life!

But Ye Qiu really didn't understand, didn't His Royal Highness King Qi come to the south of the Yangtze River to fight off the locust plague, why did he find these terrible smallpox patients by himself, and locked them up with the cattle.

Xiao Jie was relieved to hear that no soldiers were infected with smallpox. After all, smallpox is highly contagious and has a high fatality rate. In this era, there is no effective medicine to treat it. Once a large-scale smallpox plague breaks out, the consequences will be as terrible as locust plagues too much.

The reason why he took such a risk to find smallpox patients was because he knew that the fastest way to eliminate the locust plague was biological weapons.

Some time-travel novels that Xiao Jie read in his previous life would tell readers that they can eat locusts with their mouths to eliminate locust plagues. After all, locusts are high-protein insects that are crunchy when eaten roasted.But in fact, this method is extremely unreliable. First, the reason why locusts flood into disasters is that it is impossible to completely capture locusts artificially. Since they cannot be caught, how can they be eaten up.The second is that the locusts in the locust plague cannot be eaten. When the locusts live in groups, they will secrete cyanide, which will produce hydrocyanic acid after decomposition, which is a highly toxic substance.

Since even the best foodie method used by the Chinese nation to eliminate invasive species does not work, Xiao Jie can only resort to the most dangerous and most effective method of treating locusts with pox poison.

During the Ming Dynasty, there was a method in Hubei to pierce the captured locusts with pox paste, and then release it to infect the locusts, resulting in the death of locusts in batches, and the plague of locusts would be extinguished soon.

But besides confirming that it wasn't acne, Xiao Jie didn't know what kind of pox virus people used at that time. Massive chickenpox spread on a massive scale.

After much deliberation, Xiao Jie finally decided to use vaccinia, because although vaccinia is also highly contagious, if a person is infected with vaccinia virus, he will only experience slight discomfort, and he will recover soon, and he will no longer be infected with vaccinia virus for life. In the process of fighting off the locust plague, some people were infected with cowpox. Xiao Jie believed that they would also thank him.

Because people who have had cowpox will never get smallpox for life!

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