Chapter 308: Water Gu

Zhang Han's arrival not only helped Heifu plan and build Nanchang City, but also brought him two shocking news.

"Yan Dai is dead? So fast! โ€

Although he had expected it, Heifu didn't expect that these two small kingdoms that were still alive would be cleaned up so quickly.

Zhang Han said: "The attack on Liaodong is a matter of February, earlier General Wang Ben was stationed in Yuyang, right Beiping, the king ordered him to be the commander, and used General Li Xin, who had pursued the Yan prince Dan to Yanshui, as a general, led the division of 30,000 through Guzhu, crossed the Jieshi, out of Liaoxi. โ€

Li Xin was once the most trusted young general of the King of Qin, but he collapsed because of the failure of the first war against Chu, and was sent by Qin Wangzheng to Shanggu County as the county lieutenant, which is really a big ups and downs, but this time, it is a rare opportunity for Li Xin, he is still his best chariot and cavalry battle, how can he miss it?

Heifu could almost imagine the scene of General Li Xin, who was said to have lost half of his hair after the Battle of Chu, with the determination to be ashamed of the past, and quickly attacked Yan.

"In March, Li Xin entered Liaoshui, and the last tens of thousands of Yan people led by King Yan Xiqin encircled Liaoshui, fortified the walls and high bases, and blocked our army. General Li Xin's plan to attack the east and the west was to first spread a number of banners on the southern front, feint to encircle the moats, attract Yan Wangxi, and crossed the Liaoshui with the main force in concealment, attacked it from behind, fought three battles and won three victories, and then took advantage of the victory to enter the siege of Xiangping (now Liaoyang) ......"

After Wang Ben's army also arrived, there was no suspense in this war, and under the strong attack of the Qin army day and night, the city of Xiangping was broken, and Yan Wangxi was captured.

Eight hundred years of Yan Kingdom, perished.

This war allowed Li Xin to regain a trace of trust from the King of Qin, and he was appointed as the county guard of Yuyang, presiding over the military affairs of the former Yandi counties. Wang Ben, on the other hand, led the Northern Expeditionary Army and began to attack the Daiguo entrenched in Daijun and backed by the Xiongnu......

"This time, it was General Meng Tian as a general who sent troops from Yanmen County to cooperate with General Wang's attack. In April, General Meng laid down the defense line in Shanwu, Pingcheng, and Gaoliubu, and the Xiongnu did not dare to save the generation. After Dai County was broken, Dai Wangjia was also captured, and now, I am afraid that he will be escorted to Guanzhong with Yan Wangxi. โ€

So these two wars have become a battle of whitewashing between Li and Meng, Heifu secretly thought: "In this way, Qin Shi Huang still misses the old love very much, and he didn't completely beat Li Xin and Meng Tian into the cold palace because they failed once." โ€

"Or, is this for the sake of Guangshu meritorious heroes, so as to balance the influence of Wang Jian and his son in the army?"

Now there is a thing that makes people gasp, the destruction of the Five Kingdoms, except for South Korea, is actually the handiwork of Wang's father and son. Dad Wang Jian fought a big battle, and his son Wang Ben was responsible for the final battle. As a result, Wang Jian pacified Huiji Yuejun in March, and after returning to Guanzhong, he was officially worshiped by the King of Qin as the first Marquis of Che in ten years, named "Marquis of Wucheng......

Wang Qian's Chehou used a good name, not the actual name of the city, and it was still a false seal, and he just enjoyed the treatment of ten thousand households.

"But the word 'Wucheng' is amazing."

Zhang Han sighed to Heifu: "This is an article of the "Book of Shang", which records the process of King Wu's expedition, King Wu became a leader, conquered the king of Shang, and then Taigong Wangwang ordered the royal party to come and sue Yu (guรณ) to capture ......."

Heifu understood: "What does the king mean that the exploits of General Wang are comparable to those of the Taigong?" โ€

"Yes, but there's a second meaning."

Zhang Han stretched out a few fingers: "Success, that's it." Breaking Zhao, breaking Yan, and destroying Chu are all big battles, and the king means that General Wang's achievements and martial arts are enough. I think that General Wang will be completely old and will never hold the military power again......"

"In May, the king also announced that the world is drunk, and this means that there will be no more military affairs today."

This is very good, and people everywhere can also take a little breather.

But King Qin is not a patient person, he can only wait until next year at most......

Heifu said: "According to my guess, to deal with the Qi State, the king will still use General Wang Ben." โ€

Now that the Five Kingdoms have been destroyed, Qi Wangjian and Qi Xianghou have won these two people, and now they must be panicking. The King of Qin is a person who does not tolerate sand in his eyes, and the Qi State will never be spared, if this credit is added, Wang Ben may also have to jump from the "Guannei Marquis" after the destruction of the Yan Dynasty to the Marquis of Che!

"One door, two thoroughfares."

Zhang Han shook his head: "If you change any king, such as King Qin Zhao, this will definitely be a disaster." It is only under the rule of the present king that one family and two marquis can become the glory of the Wang family......"

Heifu smiled and said, "What I want to know is that the grandson of General Wang will inherit the title of ancestor and father in the future?" โ€

Zhang Han couldn't help laughing: "You black man, don't you say that I forgot, who said in front of the king what 'so soldiers with aspirations must want to be generals, looking for marquis, not wanting to be marquis, short ambitions', now that the Wang family has to be a marquis, you are not hot?" โ€

Heifu said: "The exploits of the two generals deserve the reward of the marquis, I just conquered a few small border counties, what is it?" โ€

He ended chatting about what was happening in the distance, and looked up at the sketch of Nanchang City drawn by Zhang Han and a few craftsmen on the wooden slip, and was very satisfied.

"What we have to do now is to build this city and make it a thoroughfare with three rivers and five lakes, and a thoroughfare that controls the barbarian Jing and leads Ouyue!"

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With the bank of the Gan River, the first soil was dug up, the first stone of the foundation was buried, and under the labor of two thousand Qin soldiers and one thousand subordinates, Nanchang City began to be built.

The first thing that Heifu asked people to build in the camp was a public toilet, which he had to personally arrange everywhere he went for more than half a year.

When Zhang Han ridiculed him and said that he used to be a "public toilet captain", and now he has become a "public toilet Sima" and "public toilet county order", Heifu didn't think so, and didn't even scold Ye Teng's old man who gave him a nickname first.

He smiled and said: "Although the name is not good, but this matter is really useful, Shaorong, you came to my barracks, have you ever seen the disease rampant in the garrison after the capture of Jiangdong and Huiji by the second general Wang and Meng?" โ€

Zhang Han was stunned for a moment, after thinking about it carefully, he did not find anyone with abdominal distension and disease, it is said that this strange disease was raging among the Qin army in Jiangdong, especially the people stationed in the area of Zhenze (Taihu Lake), and after half a year, they have died of a lot of illness.

Heve is on the lookout for this mysterious yet terrifying infectious disease: schistosomiasis......

The climate of Yunmengze, Zhenze and Penglize is a natural breeding ground for schistosomiasis, which has been raging until more than 2,000 years later, and is no stranger to southerners.

Fortunately, Nanjun is relatively clean, and the water in Yunmengze is relatively clean, but there are more schistosomiasis diseases in Dongting and Changsha in Jiangnan.

Peng Lize was terrible, as far as Heifu observed, some local Yue people and Chu people already showed signs of infection. Especially since the beginning of summer, he has seen fishermen and farmers working barefoot in the paddy fields, their abdomen is swollen, shaky, often want to drink, and their skin is coarse and black, as if swollen, and they are becoming more and more yellow and thin......

This is the typical symptom of schistosomes, and when Hefu saw this, he immediately designated the waters of the ditch where they were moving off-limit, and his men were not allowed to set foot in it.

The locals also know that this is a disease, but they don't know the cause, they can only call it "Gu", the Gu person, the worm in the abdomen, but he guessed correctly.

This disease is very rare in the north, so the medical officers in the army are not aware of it.

Maybe it's because schistosomes haven't spread widely yet, and they're only concentrated in Poyang, Taihu Lake and other places.

Heifu knows that the vector of transmission is snails, but he has no more manpower to kill snails, and can only start by preventing feces from causing secondary pollution of water sources and breeding larger-scale infections.

Therefore, public toilets were built widely, and it was strictly forbidden for everyone to be convenient anywhere during the construction of the city, and the filth was piled up together for composting.

In addition, the nearby forests were rich in resources, so Heifu organized 500 people to be responsible for cutting firewood, which could not only open up open land for reclamation, but also boil a large amount of boiling water for the soldiers to drink every day.

In this way, the black man and the others survived the summer safely, and among the two thousand soldiers who built the city, only a few dozen had similar symptoms, and they were all properly isolated.

Fortunately, Heifu himself and a group of capable subordinates did not fall ill, but Zhao Tuo's people were mostly sick, but they were all quarantined on Heifu's orders, and Zhao Tuo himself was safe and sound.

Although relying on public toilets and drinking boiled water reduces the chance of contracting the disease, Heifu is also at a loss as to how to cure it. Schistosomiasis is a "chronic disease", but the deaths it causes are also horrific.

This is also the reason why "the south is hot, and the husband dies early", not because of the hot weather, or even because of the so-called "miasma", but because the plague is rampant, which greatly reduces the average life expectancy of southerners.

Now what Heifu can do for the sick soldiers is to do his best and secure his destiny.

"So, how did Zhao Tuo live to more than a hundred in the south?"

Heff felt that this was really an unsolved mystery.

At the same time, he began to consider: "If Qin Shi Huang sends a large army to the south to conquer Baiyue in the future, this disease is a big problem, soldiers plus immigrants, hundreds of thousands of people poured in, it will be difficult to manage it properly like 2,000 people." โ€

Thinking like this, Heifu decided to write down his findings here and submit them to Jiujiang County, Nanjun County, and then to Xianyang, and asked for a medical officer to be sent to study the disease. At the same time, it is recommended that Huiji County follow its own measures to reduce the spread of the disease.

In the document, he inherited the crooked and correct statement of the locals, calling this disease "water Gu", probably because "there are Gu worms in the water, which enter the human body and eat its five internal organs".

It is difficult for Mr. Hefu to explain how he discovered how schistosomiasis spreads, but he only discovered by accident that the disease was less prevalent in places where public toilets were built and boiled water was drunk.

"Although this disease has not dealt a serious blow to Qin Jun, and there is no good treatment, it can be regarded as a rainy day."

After sealing the letter and handing it to Ji Ying, Heifu continued to make up his mind: "I wonder if Qin Shi Huang will wave his hand and issue a great call like *** to 'eliminate schistosomiasis' after realizing the harm of this disease?"