Chapter Seventy-Five: The Great Epidemic in Beijing

The spring of the light and the fifth year has finally come.

The people took off their burqas and wore single-layer straight robes to and from the market. The rich and noble families need to buy some new polished rice, while the poor people want to buy some old corn that has been suppressed by merchants for a long time.

It was the lowest level of the granary, and the head of the Qiantou ate the rats.

Ma Yue also rushed back to Liangzhou before the end of this spring, and after sending Pei Ying'er to Wenxi County, Hedong, there were many more checkpoints on the official roads of various counties, and the group hurried back to Longxian County for fear of an accident on the road.

After all, Guan Yu still holds the title of a fugitive wanted criminal in Hedong County.

Liang Hu, the assassin of Liangzhou, reported his work in Luoyang and rushed back to Xiliang non-stop, accompanied by countless court messengers and medical craftsmen.

In February of the fifth year of Guanghe, a large-scale epidemic began to break out near Gyeonggi and quickly spread to the surrounding areas, so the Han Emperor Liu Hong sent additional medical craftsmen to Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Jingzhou, and Yizhou, and issued an edict to exempt Sili from paying taxes in many places.

Liang Hu must return to Liangzhou as quickly as possible to suppress the outbreak of illness. The people of Liangzhou have lived hard enough to be plagued by the plague anymore. He understands better than anyone what the death of former Tai Lieutenant Duan Ying means to the generals of Liangzhou, and it is no exaggeration to say that Liangzhou is from the general to the colonel, down to the soldier. is either a veteran who personally followed Duan Ying to fight in Liangzhou, or a fierce general whose father had pacified Xiqiang with Duan Ying.

The bad thing is that Duan Ying is not only a good general who takes the lead and cares for the soldiers, but also can lead his subordinates to be invincible, and the soldiers love him too much. In today's Liangzhou army, the whole body is covered with the imprint left by Duan Ying. Duan Ying committed suicide in Luoyang Prison, and the news reached Liangzhou, which has caused a great shock among the Liangzhou generals, a group that holds military power.

If at this time, the people of Liangzhou are affected by the epidemic again...... The consequences are unimaginable.

Therefore, when Liang Hu had just arrived at the border of Liangzhou, he sent a light horse to report to Longxian County, spreading the news of the spread of the epidemic to the six counties, and even Wuwei, Jincheng and other places.

"The official road has set up cards, and more supervision is carried out on homeless people, traders, and businesses, and once the epidemic is discovered, it will be reported immediately!"

"Yes!"

The guards were ordered to quickly withdraw from the Assassin's Mansion, Liang Hu frowned on a few cases with both hands, and looked at the officials of Longxian County in the hall, Liang Hu asked, "Do you have a way to suppress the epidemic?" Let's talk about it. ”

Liang Hu is a master calligrapher, but his ability to govern the local area is indeed average. In normal times, most of the supervising places are engaged in those states and do their best to do their best, and he himself mostly writes and practices, and has very little time to deal with government affairs seriously.

Therefore, when political acumen is needed at such a time, it is inevitable to remember that like a grasshopper on a hot pot, he can't think of a practical way.

"Why don't you speak, aren't you usually quite clever? Why did the old man become dumb when it came to employing people, come to the old man, and get all the states back for the old man! The old man wants to ask them about the epidemic prevention method! ”

At this time, the subordinates were all county officials, and they had no experience in governance, and several people who were familiar with the situation in Liangzhou were all sent by Liang Hu to read the edict in the local area.

So Liang Hu couldn't ask about any prevention and control strategies.

To tell the truth, Ma Yue became more and more unhappy with Liang Hu, he felt that he might indeed have made a wrong move by clinging to Liang Hu at that time, so he summoned his staff from Liang Hu to discuss the prevention and control of the epidemic in the mansion but put the medical craftsmen sent by the imperial court outside the mansion was enough to disappoint Ma Yue.

His calligrapher is really kind to him. But he is indeed too far behind in dealing with political affairs, especially for the administrative division of Liangzhou, which has a unique location and complex residents.

Ma Yue sighed, and bowed his hand to Liang Hu in the hall: "Lord Thorn Shi! ”

Liang Hu was anxiously circling around several cases, it was really the cultivation of the literati that made him suppress this sense of powerlessness for the predicament, otherwise he would have scolded the next class of officials. Seeing that his lover had something to say, a hint of joy appeared in Liang Hu's eyes, and he said, "Oh, does Ma Junhou have a way to suppress the disease?" ”

Ma Yue said helplessly: "The student has no way to suppress the disease, but he has a specialization in the art industry, and the student just thinks that since it is a pre-epidemic disease, why doesn't Lord Assassin Shi invite the medical craftsmen sent by the imperial court to the hall and listen to their suggestions?" ”

As soon as Ma Yue said this, there was immediately a commotion in the hall.

"The Assassin's Mansion is a place to discuss politics, how can the military wait teach the common people to enter the palace to discuss matters?"

"Lord Assassin Shi can't do this, it's ridiculous!"

Even Ma Yue didn't expect that he just suggested that professional doctors should discuss the prevention of the spread of the disease, and these officials actually had such a big reaction. It's strange that I'm a martial artist, isn't it also a strange thing to stand in the Assassin's Mansion at this time? Why didn't this class of wine bags and rice bags expel themselves?

At this moment, Liang Hu slapped his palm on several cases, and said angrily: "It's ridiculous to wait, this can't do that, I can't do it, I can't play a role, it's all for the old man!" Come, summon the healer to come and discuss! ”

Liang Hu does not have the ability to assassinate history, but he has the official authority of assassination. His angry reprimand made the group of nonsense wine bags and rice bags below greet each other, and then bowed his head and confessed, and withdrew from the meeting hall of the Thorn Mansion with his tail between his legs.

Liang Hu, who was overly angry, looked much better and no longer impatient, he slowly tidied up his crumpled clothes, and then beckoned to Ma Yue and said, "San Lang, come forward." ”

Ma Yue is still in the digestion of Liang Hu's anger just now, and his resentment towards Liang Hu is also less, Liang Hu just has no talent to govern the place, but it is not a great good thing to be able to listen to other people's advice?

Then, I heard Liang Hu smile and said: "San Lang's sentence just now 'there is a specialization in the art industry' is good, it is true that there is a specialization in the art industry, let those doctors worry about the epidemic prevention matter." Take the Cai Hou paper! As a teacher, I want to write a big eight for you! Ha ha! ”

At this time, in addition to Ma Yue and Liang Hu, there is only one clerk and a few guards in the council hall, and he no longer has to pretend to be a humble appearance, he has been a very close confidant with Liang Hu in the past year, and there is no need to pretend to be a junior officer in the case of only two people.

Ma Yue's palm immediately slapped his forehead, Liang Hu's appearance made Ma Yue sigh, he really has a specialization in art, his own teacher, is really very suitable for being a literati, writing poems and fu, and when Liu Hong repairs the garden in his palace west mansion, it will be good to follow a group of painters and pianoists to coax Liu Hong to play every day, what kind of official should he be.

Since Emperor Huan, there have been countless epidemics in the empire, and every time people can only watch the epidemic take the lives of their loved ones but have no choice.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people were in turmoil, and the population of the empire dropped rapidly from more than 56 million during the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty to 16 million during the period of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty.