Everything was bright for the people of the Mauryan Empire, and the cavalry of Great Qin and the Xiongnu were like their saviors, and they were about to take them to another level.

But with this war and the inevitable displacement and death of people in the war, there is more than just bright things, when a ship from the distant Great Qin docks on the coastline of the Mauryan Empire, some trouble has quietly struck, but this trouble cannot be seen and judged with the naked eye until it erupts.

It has been more than three months since Yinggao began to send officials to the Mauryan Dynasty, and in these few months, Lu Jia has arrived in Hua's City, and Meng Tian, Peng Yue, Sima Xin and others have been sitting on the territories that Great Qin has shared.

And after Xiang Yu left Xianyang City, he also directly took most of his elite men and horses to the territory of the Peacock Dynasty, and Long Yu also joined forces with Xiang Yu from Hua's City after Xiang Yu arrived, and arrived at the territory they were assigned to.

In this case, the Great Qin cavalry at the junction with the Seleuc also withdrew and was replaced by the cavalry of the Huns, of course, this is basically no different for the Seleuc Dynasty, according to their ideas, as long as these people don't attack their territory, whatever!

Under the coordination of Lu Jia, many matters of the Peacock Dynasty were carried out very steadily, and according to the order from near to far from Hua City, the officials of Great Qin were stationed in the city of the Peacock Dynasty one by one.

Due to the good propaganda work before, and the fact that Lu Jia was forcibly paired with a scholar who knew some of the language of the Mauryan Dynasty after each city, the people of the Peacock Dynasty were still very welcome to the arrival of the Great Qin people.

After the governance of the officials who brought it along, many of the high-ranking castes in the Peacock Dynasty who were overbearing because no one cared about them were killed by the Great Qin people.

It didn't take long for these people who originally enjoyed almost the best things in the territory of the Mauryan Empire to be sent to prison by the administrators from Great Qin, or they honestly became the most ordinary people under the management of Great Qin, just like the people who were far inferior to their caste before, and there was no third choice left for them.

According to the topography of the Peacock Dynasty, Lu Jia naturally advanced little by little from the seaside from the northeast to the south, and in less than two months, he firmly controlled half of the territory of Great Qin in his own hands.

According to Lu Jia's original prediction, although the process would be greatly slowed down as the journey became farther and farther away and the previous Great Qin soldiers did not have any knowledge of the places near the sea, it was not a fool's dream to control these territories of the Mauryan Dynasty within half a year.

But a big trouble, after being hidden for months without being discovered, is rolling towards more parts of the Mauryan Empire.

On this day, Lu Jia was planning the city of the Mauryan Empire, when suddenly an official he had sent to the southernmost city that they could control almost now sent him an urgent letter.

According to the official's letter, there were a large number of refugees from the south, who were pouring into his city, and at first he thought that these people had come to join because they had heard that Daqin had come to manage their city, but when he asked his subordinates to inquire carefully, they found that this was really not the case.

These people ran to the city where they were, it turned out that it was because of fear, and this fear was not because of anything else, but from the seaside of the Mauryan Dynasty, I don't know why a strange disease broke out, people with this disease at first just vomited and diarrhea, and ordinary people ate bad stomachs are not much different, but the horror is that at most three days, these people all died.

At first, the people of the Peacock Dynasty were not too worried, and it was not that such epidemics had not spread in this land before, but after more than ten days, the lives of some people with poor resistance were almost harvested.

But this time it was different, it had been more than a month, and not only did it show no signs of weakening, but it caused seven or eight out of ten people in some Mauryan villages to die, which is really not an ordinary disease.

And this time the disease did not just spread in a single city, but over time began to spread from several places near the sea to the interior of the land.

With this spread, the people of the Mauryan Dynasty panicked, and the monarchs of their dynasty had already been killed or arrested by others, and they naturally couldn't wait for death in their own realm.

At this time, many people of the Peacock Dynasty already knew that in the city close to Hua's City, Daqin, who occupied the Mauryan Dynasty, had begun to send officials to the city to manage them, so many people were afraid that their expectations were pinned on the officials of Daqin, and they felt that since Daqin was so powerful, then he must also have a very reliable healer, so in the city under the management of Daqin, they had hope.

The unknown officials put these people into the city, but when he inquired about what was going on, his head suddenly became bigger, because after these people entered the city, two people had already begun to vomit and diarrhea.

The officials of Great Qin had read a lot of books, and of course they knew that this was very likely to be a large-scale infectious disease, but these people had already poured into the city, and driving them out would not have any effect except to bring greater chaos.

Fortunately, when Great Qin sent officials to the Peacock Empire, Yinggao took into account the completely different climates of the Peacock Dynasty and Great Qin, as well as the very harsh conditions of the Western Regions on the way, so they were equipped with dozens of doctors in Great Qin Xianyang City, which can be said to be proficient within the scope of Great Qin.

And after arriving in Hua's City, Lu Jia left a dozen or so of the most skilled medical people in Hua's City and Meng Tian's army, and basically distributed all the other healers to various relatively large cities, and there happened to be such a person in this city that poured into a large number of people of the Peacock Dynasty.

But after the healer eagerly looked at the sick people of the Peacock Dynasty, there was no good way, and asked him to order these people to be isolated as soon as possible.

The official who realized that the problem might be very serious didn't say a word, and directly did two things, one was to block the gate of the city, not to enter or leave, and the other was to send one of his cronies to hand over his initialized letter to Lu Jia in Hua's city.

After Lu Jia read this letter, cold sweat broke out almost all at once, he thought of a lot of problems that he might encounter in the Peacock Dynasty, but he didn't think of this problem.

The climate of the Peacock Dynasty was much more humid and hot than that of Great Qin, which made the disease more suitable for rapid spread, and after Lu Jia received this notice, he immediately summoned Meng Tian and Peng Yue, Sima Xin and several major generals sent by Yinggao to his side.

After a brief discussion, Lu Jia ordered the officials of Great Qin to temporarily stop the expansion of the Peacock Empire, especially the several cities relatively close to the sea should all be blocked from the city gates, and they could not go out or enter, even if there were people in the city who were sick, they could not let the people in the city out.

In other words, Lu Jia's decision was to rather die the people of an entire city than prevent them from spreading the disease to other cities in the territory of the Mauryan Empire.

At the same time, Lu Jia wrote a letter and sent someone to send it to Yinggao within half a month. Half a month from Hua's City to Xianyang, this is almost an impossible task, but with Lu Jia's order, the knights of Daqin can really live up to expectations, and after the fastest war horse almost ran to death, the letter was finally delivered to Yinggao in half a month.

At this time, it was the most relaxing few days after Yinggao attacked the Peacock Dynasty, with his occupation of the Peacock Dynasty in full swing, his son was nearly a year old, and the little guy was babbling scholars to talk, and he could also walk staggeringly, which made Yinggao have to sigh at the magic of life.

And when he received this letter, Ying Gao, who was enjoying the reunion time with his son and Feng Qing and Tian Yan, knew that this would definitely not be good news as soon as he heard about the state of the person who sent the letter.

Sure enough, as soon as he opened the letter, Yinggao knew that Lu Jia was in big trouble in the Peacock Dynasty.

Because Lu Jia told Yinggao in detail about the state of the person who was sick this time from illness to death, Yinggao almost thought of the two words he often saw when he studied history in later generations: plague.

And Yinggao is almost certain that this plague must have been brought by him from the Great Qin Army, and the rats of Great Qin arrived on the territory of the Peacock Dynasty through warships or grain and grass baggage, and then spread to the people of the Peacock Dynasty through fleas.

Because this virus did not exist in the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty before, the people of the Mauryan Dynasty did not have antibodies to this virus, and in this case, they naturally had to die if they got sick.

Although I know what's going on, the things that give Yinggao a headache are still to come, because whether it is plague or other plagues, the way of infection is much the same, and there is more than one, flea bites, contact with sick people, or food, are the source of epidemic infection, to put it bluntly, even if you know what's going on, this thing will still make you unguardable.

Although Yinggao did not study world history, he knew that the most terrifying moment in Europe was the Black Death in the 14th century, and the Black Death was another version of the plague.

Although it is still so far away from the Peacock Dynasty, Yinggao's hand has trembled unconsciously, this is a disease that may sweep the entire continental plate once it spreads, once it really spreads, even Great Qin will not be spared.

Yinggao looked at Lu Jia's letter alone, no one noticed that his forehead was instantly wet with sweat, such tension was something Yinggao had never experienced since he arrived here.

It's not because Yinggao is afraid of death, but because this time the plague is very likely to be spread because he launched a war to the Mauryan Dynasty, if it is really like the notorious plague in the previous life, causing the death of millions or even tens of millions, the final sin will fall on himself.

History books don't lie, and Yinggao can almost imagine that the children of later generations will say that they will be a mediocre and brutal monarch who conquered the Mauryan Dynasty for their own selfish interests, and then brought the plague into this realm, causing a catastrophe for others......

Thinking of this, Yinggao secretly warned himself in his heart that he must come up with a way to minimize the loss of the Peacock Dynasty this time, at least the people of the Peacock Dynasty did not know that this strange disease was spread because he sent troops to attack the Peacock Dynasty, and if he could find a way to minimize the loss this time, it would also be a good opportunity for him to establish his authority on the territory of the Peacock Dynasty, of course, the original intention was to die fewer people.

Ying Gao searched very hard in his mind for the records of the plague in the history he had read in his previous life, and gradually, stories or facts appeared in his mind, and he tried his best to search for things that might be useful to him in those fragmented information, and then wrote them down directly, as a reply to Lu Jia.

It was definitely impossible for him to personally go to the territory of the Peacock Dynasty to see what was going on, so this matter could only rely on Lu Jia's on-the-spot command and dispatch ability in the Peacock Dynasty.

Ying Gao didn't tell anyone about this matter, Han Xin, Xiao He, and Meng Yi didn't know about it, and that night, the guards who took Ying Gao's hurried reply letter set off in a hurry, and he wanted to send the letter back to Lu Jia again as quickly as possible.

This time and again, more than a month has passed, and in this month, although the officials of the Peacock Dynasty did not let unknown people enter their city at all according to Lu Jia's previous orders, the disease still spread a little.

More than a thousand people have died in the city where the disease was first discovered, and in addition, two or three cities near the city have also discovered such a situation one after another, although the speed is not very fast, but according to Lu Jia's opinion, if there is no perfect way to restrain this matter, it will be a matter of time before it spreads to Fahrenheit City. And just when he was at a loss, Yinggao's letter arrived.

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