Lu Jia knew that this kind of stability was definitely inseparable from the various measures he had taken in accordance with Yinggao's orders, the incineration of corpses and the isolation of sick people had greatly reduced the infection rate in the city, obviously, after having such an effect, his task here was basically completed, and he could no longer waste time in this city.

Although the epidemic in this city has decreased a lot, but this is just a stop in the process of the spread of the plague this time, the source of the matter, Lu Jia has not been to investigate, even if the problem here is completely solved, the epidemic at the source must be more and more serious, and many cities by the sea are not managed by the officials of Daqin, what kind of chaos will the situation there be, that is not even Lu Jia is sure, so he can only take a look for himself.

After a few more days of observation, Lu Jia was almost sure that the burning of the corpses of those who had died of the plague would indeed greatly reduce the spread of the disease, so he summoned the officials of the city to him, entrusted him with all the affairs of the city, and continued to march to the sea of the Mauryan Empire with a team of guards and a few translators.

When he was in that city, Lu Jia had already inquired about many people of the Peacock Dynasty who had fled into the city because of the epidemic before, and gradually knew where the plague came from this time, but because the distance of transmission was already quite far, it was very difficult for Lu Jia to find the source.

Out of this city, Lu Jia led people all the way to the south, and went non-stop to the place described by the people of the Peacock Dynasty before.

In the middle, they also passed through a lot of cities, but Lu Jia didn't stop all of them, he knew that even if he could solve the problem of one city and one place, it was better to clear it from the place where he started.

Along the way, Lu Jia and the others saw more and more people displaced by the plague, and some corpses abandoned on the side of the road.

The more he walked forward, the more people Lu Jia found that there were fleeing, and the more corpses on the road, his heart had already risen to his throat, if he hadn't come, these people would have been flocking to the direction of Fahrenheit City, if it really got to that point, it could only be said that the consequences would be unimaginable.

Swimming against the current and almost crossing the entire Peacock Dynasty, Lu Jia and his party finally saw the coastline in their eyes, and they heard a very suspicious news in a village near the coastline.

According to Lu Jia's speculation from time, this incident spread from this small village.

According to the descriptions of several old men who were unable to move because of their old age, the first plague here was brought by a few strangers who could not speak well.

Those outsiders walked to their village hungry, although they couldn't understand where they came from, but after all, there were still many foreign dynasties around the Peacock Dynasty, so the people of the Peacock Dynasty didn't take it seriously, they gave the young people some food, and let them rest in the village for a night.

But after this night, one of those people died inexplicably, and the people in these villages did not think about how this person died, but in the next few days, those few aliens died one after another, and after a short time, many people began to vomit and diarrhea in the village, and died within three days, and the death was exactly the same as that of those foreign youths.

At this time, the people in the village finally reacted, and those few foreign youths were the ones who brought the disease in, so they immediately drove the remaining youths out.

But by this time it was too late to drive them out, and although the men were gone, one by one the people in the village fell ill and died, and in less than ten days, hundreds of them died.

At this moment, the people here were completely panicked, and they hurriedly packed their bags and tried to take shelter in other places, but this evasion spread the plague even further.

Hearing the words of the alien, Lu Jia came to his senses at that time, he summoned all his translators, and first told these old men that there was no need to wait for death like this, if they could really be infected, their old bones would have been infected a long time ago.

After saying this, these old men were a little energetic, and when they saw that they had spirit, Lu Jia hurriedly asked a few of his translators to ask what those young people of different races looked like, and whether they were the same as them.

The old men did not have the shadow of death, and their mental state was better, and they looked at Lu Jia and the others carefully, first shook their heads, and then nodded suspiciously, and then said something that made Lu Jia listen anxiously.

"What do they mean?"

"According to them, the appearance of those people is somewhat similar to mine, but the body is thinner, according to my understanding, it seems to be South Vietnamese!"

One of the interpreters pondered for a moment, then replied cautiously.

"South Vietnamese? There were indeed some South Vietnamese in the naval army led by Sima Xin, but after Sima Xin led the army to the Mauryan Empire, there was no war, but all the way to Hua's City, and besides, Sima Xin did not land near here, so it was ......"

When he was searching for all kinds of possibilities in his head, Lu Jia suddenly thought of one thing, and thought of a letter sent to him by Yinggao before, which was about Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng may have taken a boat from the sea of the three counties of Lingnan to the Peacock Dynasty, but Lu Jia didn't take it too seriously at that time, he also sent someone to investigate, but the reward was that he didn't find it.

At that time, Lu Jia ordered to quickly burn all the corpses near this village, and then search around this village to see what can be found.

Although he suspected that those South Vietnamese were related to Hu Hai, Lu Jia's heart was also full of suspicions at this time, he didn't know why only a few South Vietnamese people came to this village, and Hu Hai, Zhao Cheng and others mentioned by Ying Gao in his letter were all gone.

Could it be that they have all died from this epidemic?

After this idea appeared in Lu Jia's head, his heart was even more anxious, once this was really the case, after such a long time, their corpses would definitely be indistinguishable, which would make this matter a cold case, and the unsolved case was undoubtedly the most unpleasant in Yinggao.

From the village to the narrow coastline, they are all the targets of Lu Jia's search, and once they see the corpse nearby, they must be burned as soon as possible to avoid being infected, although in the current situation, the resistance of the Great Qin people to this epidemic is obviously higher than that of the people of the Peacock Dynasty, but everything is not absolute, and Lu Jia also strictly prohibits the people under his command from having any direct contact with these corpses or sick people.

More than ten days passed like this, and Lu Jia and his people basically circled around this section of the coast, and there was no big gain, until one day, a guard suddenly came to Lu Jia's side, claiming that he had made a discovery on the coast.

"What did you find?"

"A ship that seems to have been built by my Great Qin is docked on the shore, and it seems that no one has cleaned it up for some time!"

"Let's go, take me there!"

As soon as Lu Jia heard this, he was invigorated, a ship from Daqin, it seems that it has not moved for a long time, plus the South Vietnamese youths mentioned by the old man in the village before, this is even more solid, this ship is very likely to be the ship that Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng and others are on, and those South Vietnamese youths, according to Lu Jia's guess, are very likely to be the sailors hired by Hu Hai and them, in this way, it is the past that everything can be explained.

It took more than an hour for Lu Jia and the others to arrive near the ship.

Indeed, this ship had been docked here for a long time, and as soon as they got close to this ship, they could smell a fishy smell, which made Lu Jia frown, and then ordered his guards to take a closer look.

Soon, they determined the source of this fishy smell, it was the food left in the inner cabin of the ship, this matter has attracted I don't know how many rats, and all kinds of insects, this ship has simply become their paradise, even if Lu Jia's guards were all on errands in Yinggao's Xianyang Palace before, they can be regarded as well-informed, but they still vomited next to him first, and then forcibly shook their spirits, and then went to Lu Jia's side and reported what he saw to Lu Jia.

"Rats? How is this so similar to what the king mentioned in his letters? Could it be that you have seen this kind of plague before? ”

Lu Jia thought at once, it seemed that Yinggao had deliberately emphasized in his letter to him that the source of the epidemic that suddenly spread in the Peacock Dynasty this time was likely to be mice.

Lu Jia is a very smart person, in this era, he is very likely to associate things that others can't think of.

Could it be that there is something impure about the rats brought by Hu Hai, which caused the people of the Mauryan Empire to suffer disasters?

Although he is not a doctor, and he doesn't know whether these far-fetched words are right or not, Lu Jia decided at that time that this matter must be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, whether the source is here or not, then this must be solved first.

"Quickly make sure if there is anyone in the boat, and if there is anything that can prove the identity of the person on board, if not, quickly set fire to the ship, and burn the ship, and not let go of any of the rats in the boat!"

After receiving Lu Jia's order, after a while, a raging fire broke out on the seashore, because the whole ship was sprinkled with fire-starters, and all the hula was burned at once, and the rat who had always regarded this ship as a paradise was burned to death before he could react at this moment.

Lu Jia watched the fire until the entire ship was almost burned to ashes, and he sent someone to inspect it, and then threw the wreckage into the sea, and then left here.

After disposing of the ship, Lu Jia did not relax, but searched around the area again for several days, disposing of all the corpses found along the way, and then rode away in the direction of Fahrenheit City.

Although I don't know if the ship I found is the source of this epidemic, but according to Yinggao's prompt, Bacheng is yes, and Lu Jia has to report to Yinggao that finding the ship can tell him one thing, that is, Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng must have reached the territory of the Peacock Dynasty, but no eligible corpse was found near the ship, in other words, Hu Hai still has a very high probability that he is still alive.

This matter is a big deal for Great Qin, because Hu Hai's identity is really a bit special, he is the son of the First Emperor, the younger brother of Emperor Yinggao of Great Qin, if he uses his real identity to fool around the territory of the Peacock Dynasty, it will be a very difficult thing to do.

After returning to Hua's City, Lu Jia told Meng Tian everything he had seen and heard, and after discussing with Meng Tian, they decided to send an army of 1,000 people, with the edict of Hua's City, to every city where there might be an epidemic, and incinerate all the corpses that died because of the epidemic, only in this way can the impact of this epidemic be greatly mitigated.

Lu Jia and Meng Tian both knew that even if the ship that Lu Jia found was really the source of this epidemic, because the epidemic had spread, it would not be possible to completely eliminate it in ten days and a half months, and in the process of eliminating the epidemic, it would definitely cause a lot of deaths, and no one could say how long this process would last.

After writing down the situation into a letter and sending it to Xianyang City, Lu Jia and Meng Tian began to count the number of people of the Peacock Dynasty who had died in this epidemic, although many places had not yet entered the jurisdiction of Great Qin, but Lu Jia still had to do this matter, because if he ignored the people of the Peacock Dynasty who died in this matter, he would be considered by these people that it was really time for a disaster, and the officials of Great Qin still didn't care about the people of the Peacock Dynasty.

Although a plague is certainly a disaster, what effect it can make in the end is man-made.