After Emperor Taiqian ascended the throne, he tried to plot this fertile land in the middle of the Jialan River, and he thought that after completely occupying this place, he would be able to radiate all around and control the entire Saibei Wasteland today. He slowly advanced, and spent twenty years occupying the Yajin granary, and then controlling the entire Saibei. Emperor Taiqian knew that the use of force would cause endless troubles, so he used immigrants to assimilate to Sinicize Saibei, but unfortunately this plan caused a civil war because the Tatars were dissatisfied with the division of wealth.

It just gave the Wuhuan people an excuse to invade Saibei, and then occupy Saibei. The Wuhuan people occupied the Crowjin granary, but they did not immigrate here for the time being, but this place became their chicken ribs.

However, the Tatar tower was in a civil war because of the competition for the king of Khan, the Beiyi country changed, and the people of the Tatar were scarce and could not be contested, and the holy Han was in chaos, temporarily letting the Wuhuan people control the crow gold granary - Zhang Xiaowu wanted to send troops to the crow gold granary at this time, but it was easy to fight the country and it was difficult to defend the country, even if he could fight down, but he couldn't hold it, but took a lot of robes and lives.

In the southern part of the Tartar Heath, although there is a lack of water, there is an abundance of coal resources, which are commonly known to herders as smoke stone.

Zhang Xiaowu sent people to survey the coal burning, and found that there was a huge open-pit smoky stone mine on the north side of the wooden city and near the epidemic village, and its length even reached fifty li. If others don't know the importance of coal, how can he not know that with coal, it means that the age of steel is not far off. However, where there are coal mines, there is often a shortage of water, which is also the legendary "water and fire are incompatible", and Mucheng still faces the problem of lack of water sources.

Just as the construction of Mucheng began, the plague finally broke out in the Central Plains in the second year of Dade, and most of the people of the Two Wolf Pass fled to Daizhou, so that Daizhou was the first to break out of the problem. But at the same time as the problem, it was the flood in Daizhou, no one thought that after Emperor Dade succeeded to the throne, there were floods in the north for many years, and the land that had just been sown was soaked in water, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. The plague and flood forced the people of Daizhou to flee in all directions, and the two wolf passes were closed, and a large number of hungry and homeless people in the north fled to the south, bringing the plague with them.

Because the Shenghan did not pay much attention to the plague in Saibei, the people and local officials were not well prepared, so that the plague gradually spread to Hunzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Yongzhou, and then spread to Sizhou, where Longdu is located, and then to Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou in the east.

Perhaps after a year, the plague gradually mutated, it became more ferocious, no longer as short as in Sebei, and the symptoms were not obvious, but became rapid and after the attack people coughed violently and even vomited blood to death. As a result, the people of the Central Plains began to panic, and countless people fled, and millions of people fled to the south.

In Daizhou, by May, 30,000 people had died from the plague.

In Hunzhou, by May, 50,000 people had died from the plague.

Youzhou, by May, the number of deaths due to the plague reached 20,000.

In Yongzhou, by May, 10,000 people had died due to the plague.

By May, 10,000 people had died from the plague.

Sizhou, by May, the number of deaths due to the plague reached 60,000.

Qingzhou, by May, the number of people killed by the plague reached 10,000.

Xuzhou, Yangzhou......

The plague broke out in various places, and local officials asked the imperial court for help, especially in Daizhou and Hunzhou, which were ravaged by floods, and the number of 80,000 people in the two states was only a local record, but in some places even the township and Lizheng died, where did the accurate statistics come from.

Shi Chong's policy of immigrating to the south and rushing to the border had not yet been implemented, and the people spontaneously ran to the south, so that Shi Chong did not need to persuade anyone at all. When the people of the Central Plains encountered foreign invasions, they often fought to the death in order to defend the countryside, but when they encountered the plague, everyone invariably chose to flee, and they did not have the ability and determination to fight against it. However, Shi Chong was even more worried, because the immigrants from the north brought the south not productivity, but the plague, which would set the people of the north and south against each other, and then chaos broke out.

Shi Chong immediately asked Emperor Dade to send troops to maintain the order of the people's transfer to the south, and distributed food to the fleeing people.

Today's Dade Dynasty can be said to have suffered on the basis of Emperor Taiqian's unscrupulous profligacy, Emperor Taiqian contributed to the empire, but overdrew the empire. Even if Emperor Dade wanted to do something, first, he had no money, and second, he had no power, and Shi Chong didn't know how much his immigration to the south, how much he could implement the Lingnan development plan, and how much he could help the empire in the sickbed.

The plague broke out in the north, the plague in the Central Plains gradually rose, the plague in the south began, and Longdu was naturally not spared, and a large-scale plague broke out in May, and the core of the outbreak was the White Tiger Army barracks.

Dushan Bo never dreamed that the disaster would come from the sky, and the White Tiger Army would break out with a plague, so that the entire dragon capital would be shrouded in the shadow of the plague. Among the four major battalions of Longdu City, there are 20,000 soldiers in the Qinglong Army, 80,000 in the White Tiger Army, 10,000 in the Vermilion Bird Army (left-behind troops), 20,000 in the Xuanwu Army, and a total strength of 130,000 in the Forbidden Army. However, after the outbreak of the plague, the densely populated military camp of the White Tiger Army was the hardest hit, but the Vermilion Bird Army was the least affected.

At this time, Helan Sect presented the "Eight Strategies of Mucheng" to Dushan Bojin, and Chen Qing and more than 3,000 Qinglong soldiers testified that the Eight Strategies of Mucheng were very effective in curbing the spread of the plague.

Dushan Bo summoned Helan Sect and asked, "Does that Mucheng strictly implement these eight strategies?" ”

Helan Zong said: "The ghost guard was meticulous and unremitting, and there were some violators at first, but after Zhang Xiaowu ordered him to be buried alive, there were no more people who dared to disobey the order. ”

Du Shanbo took a breath of cold air and said sharply: "Buried alive? ”

Helan Zong said: "Exactly. ”

Chen Qingdao: "In fact, there are only two who were buried alive, and the others were all cut off heads." ”

"How many cuts?"

"About twenty."

"What charges?"

"No face towel, by the way, Zhang Xiaowu named it a mask." Chen Qing said, took out the mask from his arms, handed it over, and said, "Uncle, please look, this is the mask." ”

Du Shanbo looked at it, and didn't think there was anything special, but it was just a square scarf and two straps, and said, "Just because you don't wear this, you will be beheaded?" ”

Chen Qing nodded and said: "Yes, there is no distinction between the beheading objects, the one who was cut is still Du Zuo of the ghost guard, and the other is Zhang Xiaowu's family, saying that someone in the family was sick and forgot to wear it when he went home in a hurry, and he was also cut off." He smiled bitterly and said: "It is true that many people died at the beginning of the implementation of the eight policies of this wooden city, but if they are not strictly enforced, they are afraid of more deaths." There were only about ten people who died due to the plague in the wooden city, and the plague village ......"

"At first, 1,300 people died, but then 7,000 people were taken away by the wolf guards, and 150 people died in the plague village, and the rest all survived." Helan Zong said, "The eight strategies of Mucheng are indeed very effective. ”

Dushan Bo said: "Tomorrow, I will take the two of you to the palace and talk to the hundred officials in detail." ”

"Thank you, uncle."