Although the group was delayed in Ningzhou for two days, it was a big deal to plot with the Liu family in Jiangnan.

I set off early that morning.

Ye Xingcan sat in the carriage, only feeling that the more he moved forward, the stranger the aura around him became, and the yin qi was getting used to it, and the more he walked, the colder it became. When the curtain of the car was opened, he saw that the sun was shining, and he saw that there were more and more people in ragged clothes on the road, and there seemed to be more and more people fleeing from the famine, and there were teams of officers and soldiers, so it was strange, and Huo Yue was sent to take a look.

Without waiting for Huo Yue to return, a team of officers and soldiers rushed into the palace convoy, and Duanxue Iron Cavalry fell far behind more than ten miles, but Wang Shaoyuan's royal forest guard was in front, and they turned back as soon as possible and surrounded this team of officers and soldiers.

Along the way, although there were more and more refugees, everyone could see that this group of people was prominent, and they were all hiding. Ye Xingcan suddenly heard the noise in front of him and the crying of children, so he put on his hat and took the spiritual incense and got up and got out of the carriage.

I saw that the outermost circle was the golden Imperial Forest Guard, and in the middle was a team of officers and soldiers, with a flying eagle on the uniform, which was the Iron Eagle Army of the Jiangnan Defenders. The officers and soldiers pointed at an old man and two children, all of whom were dirty and ragged, the old man seemed to be sick and coughed, and the two children, the older one was a little girl, who should be twelve or thirteen years old, and the younger one should be less than five years old.

Wang Shaoyuan saw that the princess was coming, so he hurriedly stopped the people in the outer circle and called the consul in the team to come out and speak.

It turns out that the front is Wancheng, although the city is not big, only the county is set up, but it is called the thoroughfare of eight states, and it is only more than 200 miles away from the imperial capital Yongning.

Wancheng follows the Cangjiang waterway, can go south to the five counties in the south of the Yangtze River, connects the Chenghe River to the west and can pass the seven counties in the northwest, traces the Han River to the north and reaches Henan and Qin, reaches Xianggui in the east through Lanyang Lake, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, eight state capitals were built, so Wancheng has the name of "the thoroughfare of eight states". The water and land transportation is convenient, and it has always had the role of connecting the east and the west, connecting the north and the south, and maintaining the Quartet.

A month ago, a plague suddenly broke out in Wancheng, the epidemic spread extremely fast, the number of people who were seriously affected in the county was 12 out of 10, and there were more than 1,000 people who died in the future and cured, and more than 100 people who were burned without treatment.

Wancheng County Cheng immediately closed the water and land routes, led people to the imperial capital, and reported to Huizong, but the reported tenth-twelfth was only the number when leaving the city, and after leaving the city, he hurried to the imperial capital for two days, in order to prevent a group of people from contracting the epidemic, and waited for ten days in the Imperial Medical Department...... Until now, the epidemic in Wancheng has not dared to think deeply.

After listening to the epidemic in Wancheng, Huizong pondered for a long time, but looked at the ministers under the hall.

However, it is the side of the prince, and the newly sealed Zhao King Ye Qin first spoke, "The saint is sympathetic to the heart of Wancheng, heaven and earth can be learned, but the medical treatment cannot have the effect of curing the root cause." The danger of Wancheng is not the plague, but Yongning. ”

Wang Shaoyuan's father, Wang Zaicheng took over what King Zhao said, "Since ancient times, there have been major disasters when there is a big epidemic. There are a lot of Chinese medicine halls in the city, but no one knows the epidemic species, and so far they can't find the source, so they are helpless. ”

Wang Zaicheng turned his words and went straight to the people in the upper hall, "Wancheng is more than 200 miles away from Yongning, once the epidemic enters Yongning...... Saint, the imperial capital is in danger, and it is necessary to guard against it! Don't be careful! ”

Huizong sighed and looked at King Zhao again.

How could King Zhao not know what Huizong was thinking, and he was stunned and nonsense, "There are less than 10,000 people in Wancheng, and since the county has been sealed before leaving the city, the minister asks the saint to send the Iron Eagle Army to set up a barricade every two miles from ten miles outside Wancheng, and set up three roads, and then order the army to search for people who have left the city outside the city, regardless of whether there are symptoms or not, they will all be sent to the town of Sui Ping Hou Cha, a town on the outskirts of Wancheng, and no one will be allowed to enter the city, nor can one person be let out of the city!" ”

There were less than 10,000 people, but none of the ministers stood up and told the truth about Wancheng: in the first year of Yuankang, when Huizong succeeded to the throne, there should be 13,371 households and 58,052 people. And this is a number reported layer by layer, with a delay, the actual number of households should increase.

There are more than 50,000 mouths to say less, and there are less than 10,000 people in this room.

Wang Zaicheng nodded, and also continued, "According to the county Cheng, the epidemic is menacing, young and middle-aged people can't resist for three days, and the old people and children can't stand that night, and I don't know where the epidemic started, what the reason is, whether the people who have gotten along with the epidemic will also be infected. ”

Da Yonggang has experienced a change of throne, wars have broken out, the national strength has been greatly damaged, Huizong has not long succeeded to the throne, everything is in ruins, how can there be spare strength to deal with the epidemic, thinking of giving up a city in Wancheng and sealing the city once and for all, but I am afraid of carrying this infamy through the ages.

Hearing what King Zhao and Wang Zaicheng said, he ordered the Iron Eagle Army, the defender of Jiangnan, to open and seal Wancheng. Worried about being criticized by the people, he still ordered the Imperial Doctor Department to send a few people into Wancheng to have a look.

None of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty sought a way out for the 50,000 people in Wancheng.

The officer who captured people was the commander of the Iron Eagle Army, who was originally ordered to garrison Jiangnan, and came to Wancheng last month, but fortunately he was not assigned to set up a fence to guard the city, but only received the matter of arresting people in the surrounding cities.

On the road, he saw that the old man and the child were acting differently, and guessed that they had escaped from Wancheng, so they forced over, and when they got closer, they found that the old man was coughing, and he was shocked, and he didn't care about the origin of the team on his side, so he rushed up to arrest someone and send him to Suiping Town, which collided with Ye Xingcan and his party.

Ye Xingcan was shocked when he heard about Wancheng, how could there be no cure and directly close the city, what Huizong did was tantamount to sentencing Wancheng to death, and let 50,000 people in Wancheng die, and the epidemic was naturally solved. The city was dead, and the tens of thousands of people in it were alive, so Wang Shaoyuan rescued the old man and the child and sent them to the last carriage.

Although Ye Xingcan's medical skills are not exquisite, he has not read many medical books since he was a child, and he knew that the plague was careless, so he ordered the carriage to go far to the end, and ordered the surrounding soldiers to purchase medicines and make medicine towels to mask their faces.

Knowing that the person who came was the eldest princess and the right commander of the Imperial Forest Guard, the chief who was in charge of arresting people was not good enough to entangle him anymore, and let people be taken away.

At night, the group stayed in Zexin Town, not far from Wancheng, preparing to go around the city and enter Yongning tomorrow.

Zhou Tan settled the rear end of the snow iron horse, and then rushed to the inn, and when he learned what happened during the day, he scolded Wang Shaoyuan, "Your father and your emperor are really a natural pair, they are not things, and tens of thousands of lives have been sentenced to death." There is also that King Zhao, who is the royal family in his life, and the royal blood is afraid that he can't find it, so he even divided it into the palace, which is really embarrassing. ”

Although Wang Shaoyuan was angry, he also felt that the imperial court's approach was too cruel, and his father was not very authentic for the sake of his official position, even if he sent more medical officers and sent more medicinal materials.

It is said that there are only two people from the Imperial Medical Department who went to Wancheng, and they were both from Wancheng, so they are probably preparing to die in their hometown.

Ye Xingcan and Lingxiang were in the room, carefully inquired about the recent situation of the rescued old man, and learned that he did escape from Wancheng along the river, these two children are his grandchildren, the young and middle-aged people in the family were first requisitioned to seal the city before the county Cheng left the city, and then they were all sick, and the old man saw that he would die if he stayed any longer, so he rushed out with his grandchildren before the Iron Eagle Army arrived.

Ye Xingcan's heart was shocked, this person must have been infected with the plague, and while sending Huo Yue to ask for a doctor, he asked the two children to be taken to the next room, and they were strictly forbidden to contact the old man again.

He also ordered the inn to leave the food at the door, and those who did not take protective measures were not allowed to enter the rooms of the old man and the child.

Two children, the eldest is called Juan'er, the younger is a boy, called ingots, the two followed their grandfather for more than ten days, hid in Tibet, and finally had a stable place to live, they were all happy, and thought of saving their group during the day.

The first time I saw such a neat and majestic army, when it appeared in front of me, it was shining with gold and like a god. Thinking of the sister who saved people again, she was really good-looking, she couldn't see clearly with a hat during the day, and just now I saw her take off the hat veil, which is hundreds of times more beautiful than the tofu Shih Tzu next door.

The doctor looked at the old man, only said that he was sick from the bottom of his lungs, and that his days were numbered, and he went to see the two children, saying that they should not be infected, but still told him not to contact outsiders again, and to wait in the room for a few more days.

After everyone left, Ye Xingcan asked the old man how many people like him should escape from Wancheng.

The old man looked at the life-saving benefactor in front of him, and did not hide it, according to the truth, when the county Cheng left the city, the city was sealed, although everyone was strange, but they all knew that they went to the imperial capital to ask for help, and they all obediently stayed at home and waited.

I didn't want to wait for more than ten days and no one came into the city to help, and even the surrounding counties did not send any more medicines, so I panicked and was chaotic, but the defenders were tight, and no one could leave the city.

After another two days, it was rumored that the army was coming, and his own boy was one of the defenders who were recruited, and he was already ill at that time, but the symptoms were not obvious, and he was guarding the river boundary, and he got the news and secretly escorted the old and young out of the city, and now he is estimated to have died.

The old man guessed that there should not be many people who escaped from Wancheng like them, after all, there must be a chance with the help of the defenders, about more than 100 people, and the Iron Eagle Army has been searching for a hundred miles in a radius recently, and most of them should have been captured in Suiping Town.

Those who are out are either dead or uninfected.

Ye Xingcan went back to the room, and after thinking about it, he always felt that something was strange, and he heard that Wang Shaoyuan had something to report, so he invited him in.

Wang Shaoyuan first bowed solemnly, and then spoke, "The last general guessed that the princess must be worried about the epidemic in Wancheng, so he ordered the Iron Eagle Army guards to come. According to him, more than 300 people who fled from Wancheng have been arrested recently, and it is estimated that several hundred people are scattered in the surrounding counties, and all medical centers have been asked to carefully investigate those who have recently sought medical treatment. ”

After a pause, he seemed to be puzzled, "But the strange thing is that the displaced people in Wancheng, except for those who have passed away, the other people arrested are not very serious, and they have been cured a lot, and there has been no more epidemic in the surrounding three counties and seven cities." ”

Ye Xingcan slapped the table, and finally thought about what was wrong, and hurriedly thanked Commander Wang, saying that he was clear.