After all, when they decided to marry Liu Zheng, they knew that it was impossible for an excellent person like Liu Zheng to fall in love with only one woman, and there would definitely be no fewer warblers and Yanyan by Liu Zheng's side.

They also never thought of the idea of dominating Liu Zheng alone.

Cai Yao and Zhang Duyu had already learned something from Zhang Ning's mouth at this time, about the plague, but they didn't care about the plague, they were mainly concerned about Liu Zheng's safety.

After all, Liu Zheng was also relatively close to these people, and they were worried that Liu Zheng would also be infected with this plague.

However, after Liu Zheng said a lot of bad things, he finally calmed them down.

Liu Zheng returned to the mansion and hugged his son. After calming the emotions of several ladies, the next few days were mainly to listen to the subordinates to report on Zhang Zhongjing's treatment of the plague.

In the face of the plague this time, it was the first time that Liu Zhengjun ushered in such a major disease prevention, and there was naturally little experience in the treatment measures, but fortunately, Zhang Zhongjing had practiced medicine for many years and was familiar with the treatment of this typhoid fever, so it was not a difficult matter.

A few days later, Zhang Zhongjing sent someone to report to Liu Zheng that the pair of drugs he had prepared before had some effect on several patients.

Although it is not entirely certain that these medicines will cure the plague, at least they have some effect and will not cause the sick person to die within a few days.

This result finally reassured Liu Zheng's heart, as long as Zhang Zhongjing was there, then the plague in these places under his command could be greatly alleviated, at least not too many people would be killed or injured.

Because of this plague, the spring ploughing, which had already been delayed, was completely stopped, and many places did not dare to let the people go out to farm, so they had to give up. Especially Qingzhou, Jizhou and other places. Because of the war, they did not cultivate in the first place, although many people went out to cultivate after the truce, but the arrival of this plague caused a large area of fertile land to be wasted.

Although we can still rely on the food of previous years, we have not harvested in winter and autumn. There will be a large number of people who will starve to death, and the world will be in chaos.

Originally, there were such things as famines, floods and other natural disasters every year, and Liu Zheng didn't have to care too much about this kind of thing, he had his own Wenchen to worry about, but since ancient times, the change of dynasty has not been caused by natural disasters to cause a large number of displaced people and people to be displaced, and the people will rebel if they don't have enough to eat.

If you leave it alone and do not do your best to appease the people, it will ultimately affect the rulers themselves.

Now, as the master of one party and coordinating several states and counties, Liu Zheng naturally has to take precautions in the face of this kind of thing, and make some preparations in advance before the famine comes, so as to ensure that when the famine occurs, the territory under his command will not starve to death too many people.

To prevent famine in a few months, it is not just a matter of lip service, but there are still many measures to be taken, first of all, to increase the reclamation of areas where the plague has not yet spread, to ensure that more grain can be planted than in previous years, and secondly, to set up some emergency measures in the places where the plague has spread, such as exempting all taxes and increasing relief food, which will be distributed to the sick families free of charge.

Of course, Liu Zheng also knows that the major families in Xuzhou and Yangzhou still have a lot of grain in their hands, but these families will not take it out easily.

Liu Zheng expected that there would definitely be a famine in a few months, so he spent a huge amount of money in advance to buy enough food from these big families.

Taking advantage of the fact that the famine has not yet arrived, although the price of grain has risen slightly compared with usual, it is not yet an outrageous market, so the grain that Liu Zheng painstakingly collected is also planned in advance for the arrival of the famine half a year later.

Late June.

Zhang Zhongjing's treatment has finally paid off, and several of the plague patients who fell ill at the beginning have been cured without serious problems.

After several rounds of patient testing, these agents have been able to work well. Liu Zheng announced the news to the world.

and immediately asked his military doctors to start grabbing medicine according to the prescription prepared by Zhang Zhongjing, so that his men and horses could act immediately.

Although Zhang Zhongjing concocted a treatment plan for the plague in just one month, it is impossible to truly control the plague without half a year.

First of all, there is not much inventory of these medicinal materials needed for the potion, and Zhang Zhongjing wants to make enough potion, which cannot be achieved in a short period of time. It is necessary to start from the place of origin of the medicinal materials to collect and refine the medicine, and then finally make it into a complete medicine and distribute it, and the whole process takes more than a month to be able to make it in large quantities.

This still requires a large number of people to go up the mountain to collect medicine.

Moreover, we can only be satisfied with the vicinity of Liu Zheng Yangzhou, and the farther away Qingzhou and Xuzhou, the time will be even longer, and the prescriptions and medicinal materials will be transported over completely within at least three or five months.

It is not easy to really defend against the plague.

Of course, Liu Zheng already has methods and measures to prevent and control the plague on his side, but Liu Bei in Yanzhou on the other side does not have such good luck.

Liu Bei did not have a famous doctor, and when he suffered from the spread of the plague, Liu Bei did not know, and when he noticed the terrible infectious disease of the plague, the plague had gradually spread from his soldiers to the entire Yanzhou people.

Liu Bei was still using his own men and horses to occupy the territory that was originally subordinate to Cao Cao, who knew that a plague came down, and immediately infected half of his soldiers with this plague.

It was also Liu Bei who decisively ordered his soldiers to live separately, so that the remaining horses were not all infected by the plague in the first place. However, despite Liu Bei's full efforts to control the plague, the plague still became epidemic in the Yanzhou area, and then gradually spread from Yanzhou to Yuzhou, Jizhou and even the Sili region.

The swept by the plague made the army facing off by Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao in Jizhou immediately have no possibility of fighting, and the two sides rested temporarily. In the face of such natural disasters, manpower seems very small.

Originally, the war swept the entire Han Dynasty, but because of this plague, they each took a truce and began to recuperate.

After the plague spread for two months, not only did many of Liu Bei's soldiers be infected, but this plague caused many people under Lu Zhi's command to be infected by the plague, although the mortality rate of this plague was not high. However, once a soldier falls ill, he loses his combat ability and can only rest in bed.

After a long time, he eventually died, which also caused a headache for several princes near the Central Plains.