The prevention and control of the plague in the Tianjin Acropolis was carried out smoothly under Yang Hongzhang's high pressure, but the news of the passage back from Cangzhou made Yang Hongzhang angry, and it turned out that Yang Hongzhang brought out 3,000 people from the capital, and each county and prefecture assigned 200 people as the supervision team for the prevention and control of the plague, and asked all states and counties to immediately organize pickets to carry out propaganda and implementation in the region. After receiving the letter from the prefect, the other prefectures were not very active, but they still carried out their work. However, Zhang Shiwen, the governor of Cangzhou, disagreed, and even threw the prevention and control regulations into the furnace and burned them on the spot, and threatened Yang Hongzhang to write a chapter for impeachment.

The 200 people who were sent to Cangzhou had no way to take Zhang Shiwen, and without the personnel and financial support of the local government, the two of them also did something, so they had to report what happened to Yang Hongzhang. Just when Yang Hongzhang was trying to find a way to deal with Cangzhou Zhizhou, the news from Cangzhou came again, confirming that Cangzhou had found that as many as five people had died due to plague infection that day! Now is the time to visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of people in close contact! Such a news made Yang Hongzhang, who had always been calm, finally unable to hold his breath, so he hurriedly called Zhang Hu: "You take another hundred people to Cangzhou, equipped with 50 flintlock pistols, and 30,000 taels of silver, and the entire prevention and control procedure is carried out according to the model of the Tianjin Acropolis." First control Zhang Shiwen for me, and then you take over Cangzhou and do everything you can to control the spread of the epidemic! Out of the big basket, I want your head. Zhang Shiwen and his subordinates have any moths, you can correct the law on the spot, and I will take care of anything that the court will investigate! ”

"Dashuai, Zhang Shiwen is an official of the imperial court, I ......" Zhang Hu was startled when he heard this.

"Have you forgotten what happened outside Hejian City, remember a sentence, as long as it is beneficial to protect the common people and allow more people to live, do it. Whoever stands in your way, you'll kill them! There is a saying among scholars: The life and death of the country is already profitable, and it is not because of blessings and misfortunes to avoid it! This sentence is also sent to you, you will remember one sentence, strictly implement the prevention and control regulations, strictly prevent and defend, and control the spread of the epidemic is to benefit the people, and it is the best explanation to the imperial court! If you don't have the guts to go, I'll change people. ”

"Go, go, go, I'll go! Don't worry, the Wang family's affairs will never happen again, then Zhang Shiwen will cooperate, if he doesn't cooperate, I will directly click him off, and it's a big deal to go back to Bazhou Mountain to be a horse thief! ”

"Bastard, do you think you are still a horse thief, if you really want to be killed by you like that, the handsome and our three thousand brothers will be killed by you, learn from the Luo Kedi, you reckless man." Xia Dongwei scolded angrily on the side.

Yang Hongzhang waved his hand and motioned for Zhang Hu to go immediately to execute. Zhang Hu didn't say much more, and hurriedly went down to prepare to select people and set off overnight.

Cangzhou Yamen, Zhang Shiwen sat in the hall and disagreed, today is the fourth day that Yang Hongzhang sent people to Cangzhou to deliver the message, the two hundred Qiu Ba kept persuading him has made him very impatient, and the situation of infection with the plague has made him even more irritable. And just after lunch this afternoon, I felt that something was wrong with Qing, because after yesterday's report that five people in the city had died of plague* infection, there were eight more people this morning! In Zhang Shiwen's understanding, in the face of the plague, Yang Hongzhang's prevention and control regulations are purely superfluous, and life and death are the mainstream attitudes of people in this era in the face of the plague.

But if the number of deaths is too large, and he treats the pickets sent by Yang Hongzhang like this, it is inevitable that Yang Hongzhang will make a fuss about this matter.

Before Zhang Shiwen could think of a way to deal with Yang Hongzhang's aftermath of the autumn, Zhang Hu arrived, and rushed into Cangzhou City with a hundred murderous men, all of whom were on horseback, so the momentum was still quite scary, and the uninformed people thought that the Qing army was coming again.

After Zhang Hu came to the state office, he immediately gathered the 200 people who had arrived in advance, and then made an astonishing move, directly detaining Zhang Shiwen of the prefecture, taking out the official documents of the prefect and starting to post notices in the city, recruit pickets, set off firecrackers, and disinfect public areas.

Zhang Shiwen, who was detained, was furious, he didn't expect that an ordinary Qiu Ba would directly detain him. While scolding loudly in his study, he worked hard to write a chapter to impeach Yang Hongzhang.

But what awaited him was an even more cruel reality, because on the second day after Zhang Hu came to Cangzhou, he actually received that at least 15 people had died of plague infection the day before, and the people who were in close contact with them did not take any protective measures, and the number was as high as more than 100. Zhang Hu was also ruthless, and after ordering the pickets to completely block the house of a businessman who came back from other places, he actually sent Zhang Shiwen in!

Hearing that someone in this family has died for three days in a row, and so far at least six people have died of plague, and now there are at least seven or eight people who are bedridden, Zhang Shiwen's face turned pale, and he finally realized the importance of keeping a distance from infected patients. But Zhang Hu didn't give him a chance.

The overwhelming propaganda and the pickets patrolling the streets at any time have made the people of Cangzhou gradually accept the new ideas of grid control, family-based isolation and control measures, control of transmission sources, and cutting off transmission routes.

There is another reason for the people of Cangzhou to accept Zhang Hu's barbaric measures, it is said that Yang Dashuai, who is now in Tianjin Wei, is the apprentice of Taishang Laojun, not only brave and good at fighting the Jiannu army and fleeing from the wind, Wen Taowu is not bad, so that those ministers have no way to solve things in the capital as soon as he appears. Now that Yang Dashuai has sent someone to Cangzhou, the people naturally have to follow Dashuai's orders.

There is an even more outrageous statement, saying that Zhang Shiwen of Zhizhou is a spy of Jiannu, who actually sat idly by in the face of the plague, regarded human life as a mustard, refused to carry out Yang Dashuai's military orders, and even accepted bribes and banquets from businessmen. It was only right for the trusted boss to quarantine him in place so that he wouldn't infect others.

Zhang Shiwen naturally had no chance to refute these rumors, because now he was in a panic, and he didn't know how many people in this businessman's family were infected with the plague, and he could hold on for a few days.

In addition to being stimulated by Luo Kedi, Zhang Hu was also angry by Zhang Shiwen's inaction, in his opinion, Yang Hongzhang thought that the effective method must be effective, and it was understandable to retreat in the face of difficulties, but directly burning the epidemic prevention regulations and threatening to deal with Yang Hongzhang was looking for death.

Before leaving, Xia Dongwei specially found him and told him to be careful, Zhang Shiwen is an official of the imperial court, a scholar, a scholar has a bad stomach, Wang Lenian and Yang Sichang They have seen it. Zhang Hu thought that he would definitely not be able to play Zhang Shiwen if he played conspiracy, but the big man spoke and took his head out of the basket, so of course he couldn't let Zhang Shiwen make trouble for himself. And Zhang Shiwen will definitely not be reconciled, there are still so many catchers under him, and the most direct way is to isolate him. Zhang Hu felt that the word handsome isolation was really good.

People infected with the plague* need to be isolated from normal people, and Zhang Shiwen, a despicable scholar, also needs to be isolated from people like him who perform military duties. As the object of isolation, someone needs to supervise, so he didn't bother the two masters, and directly sent Zhang Shiwen to the hard-hit area, isn't he unwilling to implement the prevention and control regulations, and how can he survive in the face of the raging epidemic?

As for the public opinion offensive, Zhang Hu completely learned from Yang Sheng. Ever since he met Yang Sheng, almost everywhere Yang Sheng went, he would talk about Yang Hongzhang's past, what Taishang Laojun's apprentice, and what battles with red-haired devils across thousands of miles. However, Zhang Hu also witnessed a lot of miracles, and when facing the Qing army, Yang Hongzhang did make a lot of tricks to beat the Qing army.

Zhang Hu's actions in Cangzhou were quickly reported back to Tianjin, and Yang Hongzhang was noncommittal, saying that as long as the epidemic could be controlled, no matter how big an official could be clicked. But for those magistrates, it was a cold sweat.

When they heard about the events in the Tianjin Acropolis, they were all waiting and watching, but as a result, Zhang Hu made such a fuss, and they were very polite to the soldiers who were sent over. After all, who knows if there is a second Zhang Hu among these people. The magistrates of Jinghai and Qingxian counties are more straightforward, and all of them have started to act in strict accordance with the epidemic prevention regulations. Nanpizhi County even rushed to Tianjin to ask Yang Hongzhang for advice. The parents in the jurisdiction finally paid attention to it, and Yang Hongzhang breathed a sigh of relief.

After the discovery of people who had died of plague infection in the Tianjin Acropolis, Yang Hongzhang again ordered all prefectures and counties to report daily reports on the number of infections and deaths found. And once again sorted out a large number of isolation measures and suggestions, such as washing hands frequently and ventilating frequently, disinfecting clothes with boiling water, reducing the movement between relatives and friends during the epidemic, and reducing the gathering of people.

Yang Hongzhang has seen the spread and prevention and control of epidemics in the era of harmony, but when it is really his turn, he is still a little weak-hearted, and he is not sure whether his methods will work. Only big data can help him solve this problem, since the plague broke out, the main passages from Tianjin to the capital, Baoding, Jizhen and the river have been blocked. So the news is relatively backward, but the news in the jurisdiction of Tianjin still shocks him.

Since the first death in the Tianjin Acropolis, people have died almost every day in six counties and one state under its jurisdiction due to plague. The numbers are rising! And the rising speed rushed out of Yang Hongzhang's ability to accept. Unlike the deaths on the battlefield, this war without gunpowder was indeed far more difficult than dealing with the Qing cavalry.

Most of the people just hoped that the pickets would work, and the prefect's epidemic prevention regulations would work, hoping that the gods of heaven would open their eyes and see the world. But it seems that none of this is working, the plague is still spreading, and the number of deaths is still increasing. People began to be skeptical about the requirement for cremation of bodies under the anti-epidemic regulations. Some of the scoundrels complained about the Yamen's control measures, because the quarantine measures in the grid of alleys have seriously affected their living space, and of course, there are relatively scattered villages and towns, which cannot fully implement the epidemic prevention regulations due to manpower problems. In addition to the non-cooperation of the people, the biggest problem is the lack of epidemic prevention materials and the shortage of silver in the prefectures and counties of the yamen government.