The plague prevention and control regulations were soon posted in a conspicuous position on the main arterial roads in the Tianjin Acropolis, and some people thought that the new prefect and the new official had taken office three times, and there was something new, but as soon as they read a few words, their faces changed greatly!

Plague! This devil who has nowhere to escape has appeared, a plague that is a hundred times more terrible than Jiannu! Almost everyone who saw the notice panicked immediately, and then stammered and continued to read the notice this time at the request of the others.

The first article of the proclamation is very strict, directly announcing that from now until the end of the epidemic, Tianjin will implement militarized management. It is required that all civilians and officers and soldiers in the city must wear masks when they go out after three days, and the masks will be collected from each lifang to the prefect's yamen, and will be temporarily distributed according to two per person. The prefect's yamen will set up a special picket team to check the wearing of masks, and the picket team is subordinate to the general military government and has the authority to arrest the yamen. Anyone who goes out without a mask has the right to fine him from 100 to 200 yuan if he is found for the first time, and those who are found for the second time will be fined from 500 yuan to one tael of silver, and those who refuse to cooperate will be sent directly to the barracks prison.

Many people have no concept of masks and pickets, but if you don't wear a mask, you will be fined or even jailed, which makes the people feel more serious.

The second rule is even more severe, the prefect yamen requires all people in the city to report immediately if they are infected with the plague* or even have a high fever that does not go away, and the sick person must be isolated separately, and relatives and friends who are in close contact with him are not allowed to walk around the streets. Those who refuse to carry out the quarantine will be subject to compulsory quarantine and will be held accountable after the epidemic is over, fined 10 to 20 taels of silver or even thrown into the barracks, and those who cause others to be infected will be directly convicted according to the circumstances. Depending on the severity of the crime, from exile to beheading!

When this article was read out, almost all of them gasped, which means that this young chief soldier is not joking, and the people have also heard about some of Yang Hongzhang's deeds, and he has three thousand sergeants in hand, so he can definitely do it.

The third is more mild, that is, in recent days, the prefect yamen will organize forces to set off firecrackers and disinfect the whole city, and in the future, it will regularly disinfect the public places in the city according to the situation. Many people fully support this, after all, the plague is a change of smell, firecrackers are an attempt to scare away rats, and disinfection is a kind of comfort.

The fourth article is a bit impersonal, the prefect yamen requires the people to carefully prepare grain and vegetables, from tomorrow the city gate will be closed, except for the sale of grain and vegetables, outsiders are strictly forbidden to enter the city, anyone entering the city must be subject to temperature checks and whether they are infected with the plague, people in the city need to be checked for body temperature when leaving the city, and those with fever symptoms will not be allowed to go out of the city and walk around the city.

The most unkind is Article 8, from today until the epidemic is completely over, if someone in the family dies, no funeral is allowed, and his body must be handed over to the picket team for cremation! Those who bury without permission will be exhumed and their families will be punished, and those who hide in their homes and do not report will be punished as collaborators.

Yang Hongzhang couldn't think of any good way to prevent and control the plague according to the scientific power of this era, so it was safest for those who died, whether they were infected with the plague or not, to be cremated directly. However, he also knows that this article is the most difficult to implement, in addition to emotional factors, it also involves ethics and morality, maybe Yang Sichang and others will know about it and will mobilize those imperial historians of the Inspectorate to impeach themselves. But for the sake of the living, there is only so much, and it should not be difficult to carry out with a large number of his soldiers and horses in the Tianjin Acropolis, and the most rare thing is the counties and scattered villages and towns under the jurisdiction below.

In fact, when all the magistrates received the prevention and control regulations issued by Yang Hongzhang, they read it with a serious face, and then shook their heads, but most of the magistrates read Yang Hongzhang's handwritten letter, saying that each county specially dispatched an inspection team of 200 people, who did not implement it, or if the implementation was not in place, they would directly take people to Tianjin, Yang Hongzhang did not have the sword of the Son of Heaven nor Qincha, it stands to reason that he has no right to move these magistrates, but he is a general soldier and a soldier, Yang Hongzhang said very clearly, fighting the epidemic is war, And it is a more difficult war than fighting against Jiannu, so the implementation of militarized management before the end of the epidemic, if not implemented, it is disobeying military orders, disobeying military orders, and beheading!

It is very difficult to publicize and implement the epidemic prevention regulations, and the real difficulty is to implement them. The people in the Tianjin Acropolis have just experienced the plundering of the Qing army can be described as poor, almost all protective measures need to rely on the prefect's yamen, Yang Hongzhang is also really willing, including printing and distributing leaflets, buying firecrackers, lime for disinfection and purchasing masks, etc., spending money like running water, but Yang Hongzhang is not distressed, he is distressed by the ignorance of science and the resistance to epidemic prevention regulations in this era.

Even Xia Dongwei and Zhang Hu, who were closest to them, were suspicious of this strict epidemic prevention regulation, and in the end, Yang Hongzhang insisted again and again, so they began to recruit pickets in the Tianjin Acropolis. Due to the good treatment and the right to arrest the door, a picket of nearly 1,000 people was quickly recruited, plus the sergeants who stayed in the Tianjin Acropolis, it was enough to deal with the people of Pu Outing who were less than 10,000 people.

Yang Hongzhang also set up a temporary command center, and asked the three guards of each Lifang and the former Tianjin Wei to send people to live in the leading group for thousands of households to facilitate contact.

On the first day, firecrackers were set off throughout the city, and leaflets were distributed at the same time as the firecrackers. Zhang Hu was in charge of the fireworks, and Luo Kedi was in charge of distributing leaflets, which went quite smoothly. However, on the third day, when the pickets began to inspect the streets, they found that most of the people did not wear masks as required, and everyone had no awareness of prevention and control. When Xia Dongwei reported the situation to Yang Hongzhang, Yang Hongzhang was anxious, because the news was transmitted from Julu to Tianjin, which also meant that it was very likely that the virus had also spread at the same time, which could not be delayed.

So Yang Hongzhang held a mobilization meeting again overnight, and all the soldiers and all the picket members who remained in the Tianjin Acropolis were mobilized to participate in the street picketing the next day. Compared with the temporarily recruited pickets, these people are all soldiers, and the commander-in-chief is naturally unwilling to disobey, so the Tianjin Acropolis on the second day can be described as a chicken flying and a dog jumping, full of pickets without masks, and some people also tried to go to the prefect's yamen to ask for explanations, but were beaten out with sticks. The army went to the streets for three days in a row before the situation finally improved, and most of the people who appeared on the streets basically wore masks issued by the prefect's yamen.

Yang Hongzhang, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, received bad news at night, someone in the city died of illness, suspected of being infected with the plague! The deceased was a 56-year-old businessman surnamed Wang, who had been to Hejian some time ago. There were about fifteen or sixteen servants accompanying him, plus his family members and servants, and more than 50 close contacts.

Seal the house! Cremator! Yang Hongzhang did not hesitate at all, immediately issued an order, and asked Zhang Hu to personally lead the team. It was only soon that Zhang Hu sent someone back to report that the Wang family had a strong resistance, resolutely refused to hand over the body of the deceased, and organized the family to confront the pickets, and the scene was very chaotic.

Yang Hongzhang's head grew when he heard it, and Xia Dongwei on the side just wanted to dissuade him, but he heard Luo Kedi say: "Dashuai, let me go, I know a little about this family, Jiannu was the first tyrant of this Tianjin Wei before the future, and he was a little related to the former commander." ”

Yang Hongzhang glanced at Li Luokedi, a man who was less than thirty years old with a serious expression, so he said: "Take two hundred musket teams, salute first and then soldiers, and patiently explain to the Wang family and the surrounding crowd watching the excitement." Of course, Ben Shuai only wants one result in the end, resolutely cut off the source of transmission, and the burning of patients' bodies and the blockade of homes must not be careless. ”

It is said that this time the chief soldier brought a total of 400 flintlock pistols, all of which were the backbone of guarding the prefect's yamen, and let him bring out 200 people at one time, which is clearly as the chief soldier said that this is a war!

Luo Kedi did not live up to Yang Hongzhang's expectations, and about an hour later, Zhang Hu and the previous Li Zhenghu came back to report that Luo Kedi had controlled the situation, but the Wang family had killed two people and injured a lot.

Yang Hongzhang pursed his lips and said: "The deceased was burned together, and the injured were given medical expenses according to the regulations." Post an announcement, and if there is a similar situation of resistance, the law will directly send troops to suppress it, and the property will be confiscated for the fight against the epidemic. Zhang Hu, the general manager of the general military office, did not handle it effectively, and was demoted to the general, and the captain of the Tianjin Acropolis picket team was served by Luo Kedi, Zhang Hu assisted, and then he got out of the army next time. ”

Zhang Hu shrunk his neck, looked at Xia Dongwei next to him, and knew that the chief soldier was really angry, since the last time his younger brother was killed by Jinyi Wei outside Beijing, the general has become very close to him, and even a little bit of Xia Dongwei's taste, today's serious handling results show that the chief soldier attaches great importance to the prevention and control of the epidemic, so he cheered up and assured Yang Hongzhang: "Please rest assured, there will be no next time." Epidemic prevention and control is war, and we must not be merciful! ”

After finishing speaking, he was about to take Li Zheng out, Yang Hongzhang hurriedly said: "This fellow is very good, he has strictly implemented the regulations of the prefect's yamen, and the yamen hereby commends fifty taels of silver, and can recommend the two sons and nephews of the family to directly enter the picket." If you are literate and literate, you can also recommend it to the General Military Office to use it. In the future, we need to do our best to ensure the safety of Lifang Baoxing. ”

There was a stunned moment, and then rejoiced, the attitude of the general soldier was undoubtedly supporting him, with the reward of fifty taels of silver and the quota of two pickets, he would not have to worry about the Wang family's retaliation. You must know that the current treatment of the pickets is even better than that of the yamen. And the opinion that the son and nephew who are literate and literate go to the General Soldier's Mansion shows that the General Soldier treats him as his own.

When everyone went out, Xia Dongwei finally couldn't help but persuade: "Shi Lin, isn't this too much, if someone tells this matter to the capital, I'm afraid it will have an impact on your future." ”

"You must not have this kind of thinking, in the face of the epidemic, mercy to patients and sources of transmission is cruelty to ordinary people. Before life, all etiquette and family interests are a joke, and only strict implementation of prevention and control regulations can we respect life and protect the people to the greatest extent. The emperor asked me to wait to defend the land, if the people are infected with the plague and die, even if it is not a ritual law, what is the use? You have to learn the lesson of Zhang Hu, there is no family affection in the face of the epidemic! The slightest wavering is a disaster! ”

Hearing this, Xia Dongwei's expression was shocked, although he had not fully accepted some of Yang Hongzhang's methods, but there was indeed no better way to face the plague than to prevent and control it. Yang Hongzhang is right, there is no way to treat, only to work prevention and control!

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