Cai Jing and the others couldn't help but be taken aback, took two steps forward, and looked down carefully. Immediately gasped, seeing that Xuanwu Zhenren was no different from a black sculpture, because the corpse had already appeared a mandatory sudden zombie, and then looked at his face, it had turned dark purple. And there were several pimples on the neck.

After a servant boldly stepped forward to inspect it, he said to Cai Jing: "My lord, he seems to have died of the plague. ”

Upon hearing this, Cai Jing and the others all took several steps back. Cai Jing, in particular, immediately covered his mouth and nose with a wide robe and retreated to the high threshold. Only then did he point to the corpse of the Xuanwu Daoist and shouted, "Come on a few people and figure out what's going on!"

Where did these officials dare to step forward to touch it, not to mention that the corpse itself would not tell them the relevant news, so they immediately rushed to the back of the Xuanwu Temple, and finally found a few disciples of the Xuanwu Daoist and arrested them to the Sanqing Hall to kneel. After Cai Jing's inquiry, I figured it out.

It turned out that when there was a stampede outside, these Xuanwu Sect elders and disciples didn't know what to do, and they wanted to let the Xuanwu Dao Master make a decision. But no matter how anxiously they asked, the Xuanwu Daoist always bowed his head and remained silent. In the end, it was the disciples who were bold and stepped forward to shake the Xuanwu Dao Master, only to find that the Xuanwu Dao Master's face was black, his breathing stopped, and he was already dead. And the Xuanwu Dao chief has a pimple on his neck that only appears when suffering from the plague, and it is still dripping yellow water.

It turned out that this Xuanwu Dao Master was somehow infected with a new plague, and he had been forcibly restrained, trying to suppress the plague with all his strength, but he couldn't control it until he sat down and died. He was so skilled that he was able to keep his body stiff after he died, so when he died, he still sat cross-legged on the futon.

For Cai Jing, if this Xuanwuzi is not dead, it will still be troublesome. After all, he had tens of thousands of followers, and these people had scattered because they were afraid of the plague, not of the official army and the imperial court. And now, if these people get the news that Xuanwuzi was captured by the imperial court, they are likely to gather again and demand that the imperial court release them. If you don't get it right, it will lead to civil unrest, and then it will be troublesome.

Now that Xuanwuzi has died of the plague, his disciples and followers have lost their backbones, and there is no reason to gather again. cause

After confirming the news, Cai Jing secretly shouted Heaven help me, and immediately ordered someone to find a good coffin, put Xuanwu Dao into the burial, and put it on the Sanqing Palace. Then he sent a servant to spread the news that the Xuanwu Dao chief had died of the plague immediately, so that the believers in the capital would know about it, and let the disciples of the Xuanwu Dao master hurry up to do things for the master, and overdo it for the master. The purpose of the funeral is to convince these believers that their spiritual leader is really dead.

Cai Jing was in a good mood, and the officials did it beautifully. It's a pity that Cai Jing's good mood didn't last long, and the official in charge of the aftermath of the stampede death in the square came to report, bringing a new piece of news that made his heart tighten again. When they cleaned up the corpses, they found that in addition to the officials of the yamen who were pretending to be plague patients, they also found more than a dozen patients who were really suffering from the plague and had obvious symptoms who had also died in the stampede.

These patients are supposed to have died because they were really sick, their bodies were too thin to escape from the stampede, and they died. What really worries Cai Jing is that if some of the tens of thousands of people in this concentration are really patients with the new plague, it means that these tens of thousands of people are directly exposed to the source of infection of the plague, and it is possible to spread on a large scale. In that case, the previous isolation would be like a sieve, and there would be no point in it.

This discovery made Cai Jing's whole body tremble and he was dumbfounded. But he quickly adjusted his mood and immediately came up with a coping strategy. Although this result is very tricky and terrifying, it has nothing to do with him. At least there is no evidence to prove that he is involved, so there is no need to be held accountable for this. On the contrary, he can also exert his abilities in the face of a greater disaster and make his officialdom go further.

This is the case with the so-called "Showing Skill in Danger". It's a disaster for others, but it's a great opportunity for him. He may be able to rely on this opportunity to quickly ascend to the throne and even enter the core of the power of the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, he quickly formulated corresponding coping strategies and steps in his mind, but on the issue of how to deal with the plague, Cai Jing did not dare to assert himself, he must get authoritative guidance from real experts. So he immediately brought a heavy gift and went to visit Yang Xianmao's pharmacy.

Cai Jing told Yang Xianmao about the tragedy that happened in the square in front of the Xuanwu Temple, and of course he didn't say anything about the ghost he was doing in it. Rather, among the dozens of dead and wounded in this stampede, more than a dozen bodies were found, apparently infected with the most terrible plague of the newly discovered. Therefore, he was worried that the plague would spread rapidly throughout the city, and asked Yang Xianmao what to do.

After Yang Xianmao heard what he said, he didn't think more. Because he had already thought too much about how to defend against the plague, he also thought very clearly, and said at the moment: "These tens of thousands of people come from all over the city, if they are infected with the plague in this gathering, it means that the plague is no longer limited to a certain area, and the whole city may have been planted with the plague fire, so the whole city will be in danger." The only way to do this is to impose a curfew, which means that no one is allowed to leave the house except for the patrolling soldiers, and must stay in their own homes. If there is a sick person in the house, you can only leave the patient at the door and hand it over to the people who patrol the street to send them to the hospital. And the soldiers who are looking for the street must send these patients who are left at the door to the quarantine area for isolation. ”

Yang Xianmao did not say that he was sent to Lang for medical treatment, but isolated, as for what to do after isolation, he didn't say. Even if it doesn't matter, Cai Jing knows that it is to leave them to fend for themselves, because so far there is no effective medicine to treat or control this terrible plague.

Cai Jing asked Yang Xianmao some more details, and Yang Xianmao told the other party after thinking about it. At this time, Cai Jing already had a specific implementation plan in his heart, and he also had a number in his heart.

When Cai Jing got up to say goodbye and was about to leave, Yang Xianmao sent him out. After thinking for a while, he said, "You'd better suggest changing officials, and leave the capital as soon as possible if possible." Because the Imperial City is not a pure land, there is no distinction between high and low in the face of the plague. ”

Cai Jing's heart sank, and he said in a low voice: "Do you think it is possible that the imperial city is also infected by the plague?"

Yang Xianmao's voice was very firm: "It's not possible, it's certain! This time the plague is far more contagious than I imagined." And the disease progressed too fast, and the decoction did not have time to play its role at all. Before coming to the capital, I had experienced two terrible plagues, although they were not quite the same as the plagues in front of me, but the speed and horror of the diseases were the same, and almost no one survived in those two plagues. ”

Cai Jing asked nervously, "Are you talking about the two terrible plagues that happened in the southwest?"

"Exactly!"

Cai Jing also knew about the two plagues, and at that time, in order to control the further spread of the plague, the imperial court adopted strict lockdown measures, and the entire area was only allowed to enter but not leave. Anyone who enters the cordon is shot immediately. It was only by this extreme measure that the two terrible plagues were finally extinguished.

And the method used by Yang Xianmao now is actually the same as the method used to eradicate the plague these two times. It's just that last time the entire epidemic area was locked down, and this time it was locked down from every household, and no one was allowed to go out, so that the possibility of the disease being spread by the sick was blocked.

However, this method is only effective against the plague that is the source of human-to-human transmission, but if it is transmitted by air or other means, such as animals. Then this isolation will not do much, and it is the latter that Yang Xianmao is worried about now. If the transmission route is air or animals, even if you hide in the well-defended imperial city, you will not be able to escape the clutches of the plague.

Yang Xianmao's suggestion was quickly reported to Emperor Song Shenzong through Cai Jing, and it was quickly approved. Because Song Shenzong had already received a lot of urgent compendiums, a terrible plague appeared everywhere in the city. Plague patients can be seen on the streets, and there are not many people who dare to go out on the streets now, and everyone is willing to hide in their homes. Unless there is no food at home, or there is no clean water source, and they are forced to come out to find food.

And now that he can't care about relieving these people, how to stop the spread of the plague is the most desired goal of the emperor, so he immediately ordered the implementation of Yang Xianmao's suggestion, and at the same time, revised the proposal to isolate the patients sent out, and changed it to be directly shot as a violation of the ban, and the body was dragged away for cremation.

The Guards patrolled the streets in full armor and set up sentry posts in front of the pharmacies, shooting and killing anyone who went out or sought medical treatment. And there can be no justification, and no justification is accepted.

There is only one exception, and that is officials. Officials are allowed to go out on the streets after their identity has been verified, but only in person, not by their family members and attendants.

After the news was preached by the officers and soldiers in the streets of the gong, not a single person was seen on the streets for an hour, only the footsteps of the officers and soldiers patrolling.

Since no one can go to the streets, no one comes to see a doctor anymore. Yang Xianmao's medical center, like the others, is closed. This is not a bad thing for Yang Xianmao, he can take a good rest, and at the same time, he can also avoid the spread of the plague to his own family and endanger his relatives.

Yang Xianmao's fears soon became a reality, and patients with the new plague quickly appeared throughout the city. Patrolling soldiers found one plague after another being sent out of the door and lying on the side of the street all over the city. Some are dead, some are still panting, looking pitifully at the officers and soldiers and begging for help.

For dead bodies, the patrolling soldiers will have the corpses dragged directly to the square for cremation. And for those who were still begging, hoping to send them to Lang Zhong for medical treatment, they were immediately shot as a violation of the ban, and then the bodies were dragged away and cremated.