Chapter 104: Hell on Earth with the Pandemic

The next day, thunder roared in the Qin Palace, and the news of making delicious popcorn spread into the palace.

Concubine Li Xian heard that Empress Song and Princess Yongqing in Yayan Pavilion had eaten it. She

ordered with dissatisfaction, "Wanrou, send someone to send a message to Concubine Qin. I also want to taste the delicacies she made."

Wanrou hesitated, "Your Majesty, your body is the most important. You should be more cautious about the food you eat."

Concubine Li Xian thought about it and gave up the idea of ​​letting the silly princess send food into the palace.

Wanrou was right. How could she, Concubine Xian, indulge in her appetite? This precious life is ten thousand times more important than the appetite.

...

Qin Wang Zhao Defang got up early in the morning, took Ghost Hand Master and Siyu, and went straight to the Yanzhou epidemic area under the protection of Yun Yi, sixteen shadow guards, and six hundred Moyun cavalry elite soldiers.

More than a dozen imperial doctors and medical officers who were selected to fight the epidemic in the Yanzhou epidemic area looked sad and terrified. But they dared not disobey the emperor's order!

After crying with their families and preparing for the separation of life and death, they sat in the carriage one by one and followed His Royal Highness Qin Wang's team out of the city.

Fighting the epidemic is like putting out a fire. After leaving the city, Qin Wang Zhao Defang ordered to speed up the emergency march.

Ghost Hand Poison Doctor and Siyu sat in the carriage, holding the anti-epidemic method given by their master and studying and discussing it all the way.

At noon on the second day, Qin Wang led his team to the city of Yanzhou.

As one of the nine states, Yanzhou has tall walls and wide gates, which give it a majestic and majestic aura.

But the gates of Yanzhou were closed, and the soldiers were standing guard every three steps and every five steps on the wall. Looking at this formation, not to mention people, even a flying bird can't get out of the city.

The King of Qin ordered the team to stop outside the city and wait, and the gate guard hurriedly ordered someone to report to the officials of the prefecture.

When the prefect Cai Kun heard that His Royal Highness the King of Qin personally led a team to fight the epidemic and disaster relief, he immediately burst into tears!

: "Your Highness the Prince of Qin actually disregarded his own safety and came to the epidemic area of ​​Yanzhou to fight the epidemic and provide disaster relief. The 200,000 people in Yanzhou are saved!"

Cai Kun urgently summoned the Yanzhou officials to go out of the city to welcome His Highness the Prince of Qin.

Soon, the gates of Yanzhou opened wide, and a group of officials in black and green official robes lined up and walked out of the city gate.

Led by the prefect Cai Kun, the Yanzhou officials came to the carriage of His Highness the Prince of Qin.

: "Yanzhou Prefect Cai Kun, led the officials of Yanzhou Prefecture to meet His Highness the Prince of Qin!"

In front of the carriage of Qin Wang Zhao Defang, a group of officials knelt down.

Qin Wang lifted the curtain and got up and got off the carriage.

After scanning the officials kneeling on the ground, he said in a gentle and soft voice, "No need to bow! Are you Mr. Cai Kun, the governor of Yanzhou?"

"Yes, I am your humble servant. I didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin would come to the disaster area regardless of his own safety. I would like to thank His Royal Highness on behalf of the people of Yanzhou!" Cai Kun was still a little excited. The Prince

of Qin Zhao Defang's expression became serious!

"I was ordered to come to Yanzhou to fight the epidemic, and I have the right to dispatch Yanzhou officials and materials. If any of you disobey the orders, do things perfunctorily or act recklessly, don't blame me for being merciless!"

Cai Kun and more than 30 Yanzhou officials hurriedly expressed their opinions, "If the prince has an order, we dare not disobey it!"

The Prince of Qin got off the car and established his authority. Seeing that all the Yanzhou officials expressed their obedience, he smiled faintly.

"Then we have to rely on the cooperation of all the adults.

Lord Cai, is there a cattle farm near Yanzhou City? Is there any quicklime powder in stock? Are there enough medicinal materials and doctors? Are the people in the city still at peace?"

Cai Kun was a little confused! He didn't understand what the cattle farm had to do with the fight against the epidemic?

He replied respectfully, "There is a cattle farm outside the city, with about three or four hundred oxen and forty or fifty dairy cows.

There is a mine of quicklime twenty miles south of the city.

Medicinal materials and doctors are in short supply.

The people in the city are a little unstable, especially in the hard-hit areas in the west of the city. More than a thousand people died today, and everyone is in a panic.

If the city is blocked for a while longer, there might be trouble."

Qin Wang Zhao Defang nodded and ordered, "Requisition the cattle farm!

Quickly send people to the mine in the south of the city to dig lime powder and transport it into the city.

Set up ten large iron pots in the blocked hard-hit areas and boil the medicinal materials I brought with me."

Cai Kun wrote them down one by one.

The King of Qin turned around and ordered, "Yun Yi, get some masks and gloves, and give each of these adults a set."

The officials, who each received a set of masks and gloves for epidemic prevention, fiddled with them like curious babies.

With the help and guidance of His Royal Highness the King of Qin's subordinates, they put on masks and gloves, and looked at each other, and the scene was somewhat inexplicably funny.

Yun Yi insisted on putting on three layers of masks for the prince, and two layers of long gloves.

The princess said that these protective equipment can greatly reduce the probability of infection with the plague.

The tightly wrapped King of Qin Zhao Defang glanced at all the officials.

"My lords, take me to the plague-stricken areas in the city!"

Cai Kun and others were shocked!

"Your Highness, you can't do that! This smallpox plague is highly contagious, and the mortality and disability rates are also extremely high.

Your Highness must not take the risk!

You can just stay in the government office and command the anti-epidemic work."

However, Qin Wang Zhao Defang's face darkened!

"I am the person in charge of commanding the anti-epidemic work. How can I not go to the hardest-hit areas in person to understand the epidemic situation?

Don't worry about my safety, lead the way!"

The officials of Yanzhou secretly complained in their hearts!

Who among the officials doesn't stay away from the places where the epidemic is raging? How can they go to the hardest-hit areas on the front line to experience and understand the epidemic in person?

But for the noble status of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, who takes the lead in taking risks, who dares to hide behind?

The streets of Yanzhou City were empty, with no one to be seen except patrolling soldiers and yamen runners. The desolate and cold silence without even a human voice made one feel like entering a ghost town.

The officials accompanied His Royal Highness the King of Qin to the west of the city where the epidemic was raging.

The houses here were low and compact, and the streets were narrow. It was obvious that this was a place where poor people lived together.

From a distance, teams of fully armed soldiers could be seen blocking the entrances of the streets and alleys blocked by fences.

From the houses behind the fences, miserable wails came one after another.

The soldiers holding knives and guns, some with expressionless faces and some with sad faces, all held their weapons and blocked the intersections without retreating a step.

Cai Kun introduced the situation with a serious expression, "Your Highness! There are more than 60,000 people here, and more than 40,000 people have been infected."

The King of Qin nodded and told the officials of Yanzhou, "Just wait here!"

The officials breathed a sigh of relief. If they went any further, they would enter a dangerous place.

Zhao Defang, the King of Qin, said to the people around him, "Master, Siyu, Yunyi, bring the imperial physician and the medical officer, and follow me in to have a look!"

Cai Kun was terrified! He

hurriedly opened his mouth to stop him, "Your Highness, you can't! You can't!

Let the imperial physician and the medical officer go in to understand the epidemic situation and help diagnose and save people. Your Highness, you are a precious body, you can't go in!"

The eyes of Zhao Defang, the King of Qin, were firm on the mask! "As the commander-in-chief of the fight against the epidemic, how can I not understand the specific situation of the epidemic?"

As he said this, he walked towards the gate.

The soldiers made way for him, and looking at the upright and fearless back of His Royal Highness

the King of Qin, their eyes were blurred with excited tears! His Royal Highness the King of Qin is indeed the Eighth Sage King who loves his people like his own children! In order to treat tens of thousands of poor people inside, he even ignored his own safety!

Cai Kun gritted his teeth! He followed His Royal Highness the King of Qin into the gate.

Two more officials made up their minds! They followed him in.

The remaining twenty or so Yanzhou officials looked at each other, lowered their heads in shame, and waited silently in place.

Sewage is everywhere in the epidemic area, and the air is filled with the smell of decay and decay, as well as an indescribable stench.

Everywhere you look are miserable faces, with numb or sad eyes.

The groans and painful howls of patients are the main theme here, and dozens of numb-faced doctors are busy with their own work.

The happiest things in the epidemic area are probably the flies and mosquitoes flying around. The dirtier and more smelly the place is, the more joyful it is for them.

This spacious place is a temporary place for treating seriously ill infected people. From time to time, patients who have passed away are carried out and thrown onto a broken cart amid the heartbreaking cries of their families.

What awaits them is a crematorium a thousand steps away! Black smoke wrapped in the stench of burning human flesh filled the sky and drifted in all directions with the wind.

A word flashed through Siyu's mind, "Hell on earth"!

Seeing the situation in the disaster area ravaged by the epidemic for the first time, Siyu was shocked and her heart was as painful as a hammer.

She walked to a little girl who was crying silently, and looked at the woman with a red face and closed eyes lying on the straw mat.

"Is she your mother? How many days has she been ill?"

The little girl raised her tearful eyes and looked at Siyu, "It's my mother. She fell ill yesterday and has a high fever!"

Siyu squatted down and looked at the little girl's tearful eyes and asked, "Is there anyone else in your family?"

The sobbing little girl burst into tears!

: "Grandma and dad both died of illness! Only... mom and I are left."

Siyu's nose was sore. She reached out to hold the crying little girl in her arms and comforted her, "Don't cry! We are here to save your mother and those who are infected with the plague."

Hearing this, the little girl hugged Siyu's neck tightly and cried and begged, "Sister! You must save my mother!... Feng'er only has this one relative!"

Siyu's tears finally couldn't be held back and flowed down, "Okay! Sister will help you save mom. Wait a little while, and your mother will be able to drink the medicine."

The Ghost Hand Poison Doctor also leaned over and carefully checked the patients' conditions amid the painful groans and wails of the patients lying on the straw mats and wooden boards, and the sad sobs of their family members beside them.

Cai Kun, who had never set foot in this epidemic-stricken area, and the two Yanzhou officials who followed in were all shocked and looked sad!

King Qin Zhao Defang looked at Master Ghost Hand who walked around the scene and came back, and asked in a deep voice, "Master, how are the infected patients?"

The Ghost Hand Poison Doctor shook his head, "The situation is very serious. Give them the medicine immediately after it is cooked! Whether these seriously infected people can survive depends on their constitution and luck.

Master also said that our most urgent task is to control the development of the epidemic, so that fewer people in Yanzhou City will be infected, and work hard to save those with mild infections!"

King Qin nodded, "Okay! Follow her plans and methods to do whatever she wants. You and Siyu will be responsible for the specific execution with those medical officers and doctors."

The Ghost Hand Poison Doctor nodded solemnly and agreed.

He then said: "Order the clothes of the dead to be thrown into the cattle farm, and we will go inside to check those who are mildly infected and those who are not yet infected."

After hearing this, the King of Qin turned to Cai Kun and ordered

: "Sir Cai, send people to throw those contaminated clothes into the cattle farm outside the city as soon as possible!

Attention! Throw them on the cows, so that they will be infected with the virus as soon as possible.

Send soldiers to seal off the cattle farm!"

Cai Kun didn't understand why, but he agreed without hesitation and sent people to carry out the order.