The palace of the king of Shu, the office of the prince, the refreshing and quiet atmosphere fills the palace.

Knowing of Zhu Pingjin's misfortune, Luo Yuhong immediately ran to play the role of confidante. She knew that most of the strength and bravery shown by men on the outside were fake, but in fact they were very fragile on the inside. A good wife should be there for her husband when he is at his most vulnerable and soothe his wounded heart.

"Do you really think it's the plague?" The wife didn't even care about the hairstyle she had always cared about, and arched her head into Zhu Pingjin's arms, hoping to awaken his inner self-confidence.

"I didn't see patients. I do not know. Zhu Pingjin drooped on all fours, and replied weakly, as if he was falling apart.

"Did the report come up below?"

"I don't know. I'll be here as soon as I get back. ”

"Hey! Ay! What's the matter with you? Luo Yuhong finally became angry, and her hand snapped twice on the table, "A plague, what's so bad about scaring you like this?!" We closed the four gates of the palace, stockpiled enough food, and waited for the epidemic to pass before we went out! ”

The wife's lack of common sense is so lazy that she doesn't bother to refute: Does the mouse have to go through the door of the duanli when he enters the palace?

"I've never heard of anyone being able to shut a mouse out of the door." Zhu Pingjian's eyelids didn't open.

"Then we'll sprinkle lime everywhere. As soon as the rats crawl, they stick to their bodies and burn them! Luo Yuhong thought about it and came up with a reliable idea.

Zhu Pingjin's eyes opened immediately, but soon closed them again: "The rice we ate was gnawed by rats, and the water we drank was also drunk by rats." ”

"It's cooked!" The wife shouted, "High temperature disinfection! What you eat, wear, and use can be sterilized at high temperature! ”

"What about the patient?"

"Isolation! Mandatory quarantine! Learn SARS! But we have no cure, so we have to leave it to its own devices! ”

"Count you ruthless!" Zhu Pingjin gritted his teeth. There was no specific drug, no antibiotic, no vaccine, so it had to be.

"Quarantine where?"

"Anywhere outside the city, of course, it's better to find a house with a roof."

"The dead man dragged out and burned?"

"Renshou is okay, but not here." Luo Yuhong said: "If the person is dead and there is no whole body, the family will find you desperately." Sprinkle lime on the corpse to disinfect! ”

"And what about your dad? You don't see your father's expression, he sees the patient...... It's like a hungry dog seeing bones! ”

"How do you speak?" My wife is going to turn her face.

"Good!" Zhu Pingjin slapped his wife's mouth: "I'm also good for your father, but he doesn't listen at all!" No matter how good he was, he was also a seventeenth-century doctor, and medicine was not available on the street. ”

"My dad is a medical idiot who always wants to cure all the patients, but this is not realistic!" Probably the wife also felt that her father was a little troublesome, and her hand flicked two handfuls in the air irritably. However, she knew that the main responsibility for dealing with her father must be borne by her, and it could not be pushed to Zhu Pingjin. The chickens are beating around, and the pheasants are flying all over the mountain. Between father and daughter, even if they fall out, reconciliation is just a meal. Zhu Pingjin, the prospective son-in-law, is different, and Weng's son-in-law may turn his face for a lifetime.

"I'll take care of my father!" Luo Yuhong has a big package.

"Then let's get it!" Zhu straightened up, stretched out his arms, and grabbed the bell on the desk.

"What are you doing? Death! Luo Yuhong hurriedly jumped down from Zhu Pingjian's legs, quickly smoothed his clothes, and combed his hair.

"It's time to start, we're going to race against death!" Zhu Pingjin rang the brass bell: "Our plans have all been disrupted!" This is an unexpected battle, and since it has been encountered, there is no way to dodge! It's an invisible front, and we're going to fight enemies scurrying around! This is not only a medical war, but also a general mobilization politically, economically and militarily! ”

Soft footsteps sounded outside the gate. Eunuchs have practiced walking. There is no big movement, and there is no wind.

"Hey! Remember: Mr. Tian and those little boys are still locked up in Zunyi Gate waiting for you to meet them! Luo Yuhong reminded her husband while escaping into Zhu Pingjin's bedroom. She could slip through the small door there and slip silently back to her office through the hallway behind the screen in the main hall.

"Alright, you arrange them first. Urgent before important, I don't have time to see them now! Zhu Pingjin shouted at his wife's rushing back.

The folk gossip always spreads faster than the official one. This was the case before, it is still the case, and it may still be the case in the future.

Panic ran ahead of the plague.

Before any official information was released, panicked crowds of refugees had begun to appear at the four gates of Chengdu Prefecture. In the afternoon, there was only one topic of conversation in the streets and alleys of the provincial capital - the plague. The teahouses that dotted around became the epicenter of the outbreak, and people inquired in horror about the symptoms of the plague while carefully watching the crowd around them for symptoms in order to keep a safe distance. Many businesses immediately closed and closed because the cost of closing is far less than losing a life. Even some doctors, Lang Zhong, out of helplessness against the plague, quietly took off the guise and slipped away.

The common people are human beings, and the official gentry are also human beings. If it is a human being, it has the seven emotions and six desires of human beings. The common people ran, and the gentry also ran, and they ran faster and farther. When the panic came, many officials and gentry immediately packed up their gold and silver and fled to the remote countryside to avoid the plague. Going to the countryside to sparsely populated places to avoid plague is a traditional method of avoiding plague in ancient China. People know from common sense that escaping the epidemic area as soon as possible is an effective means of survival. Of course, there are pros and cons to everything, and this objectively also accelerates the speed and scope of the spread of the plague.

The officials and gentry all ran away, but most of the common people in the city couldn't run away. Their livelihood is in the city, and there is no place to live outside the city. Many people have no choice but to close their doors and sit at home to their fate. Chengdu is a metropolis in the southwest, and it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to go out of the city together, and where to live and what to eat is a big problem.

According to the code system of the Ming Dynasty, except for special days such as festivals, the vassal king would convene a meeting of the civil and military dynasties of the domain once every half a month to discuss the national economy and people's livelihood of the domain. It's just that after the vassal king was raised as a pig by the imperial court, this so-called regular court meeting was actually terminated.

However, there is always something special about everything.

On the night of the outbreak of the plague, Zhu Pingjin, the prince of the Shu Prince's Mansion, wore a plain wing crown and a linen narrow-sleeved robe - indicating that he was still serving his deceased father Dai Xiao, and on the platform in front of the main hall of the Shu Prince's Mansion, he urgently summoned more than 50 people from the county kings of the Shu Domain, the officials of the five guards of the Shu Prefecture, the Sidao Mansion of the Shu Prefecture, and the relevant officials of Chengdu and Huayang counties, some palaces and local governments, to discuss the control of the plague and the epidemic. Liao Daheng, the governor of Sichuan, Liu Zhibo, the imperial governor of Sichuan who had just arrived, and Chen Shiqi, the deputy envoy of the military garrison who had been recuperating at home for many days, all hurried to the palace. Since the first hundred officials met the king of Shu on the first day of this year, the officials of Shu have not been so neat. The only official on the list who asked for leave was the governor of Chengdu, who was reportedly ill and had been out of the city a few days earlier to recuperate.

Liu Zhibo, the new governor of Sichuan, was a native of Fengxiang Mansion (now Baoji City, Note 1). He is Chongzhen's seven-year jinshi, teaching pedestrians, promoting imperial history, and going out of Sichuan as the right imperial history of the Imperial Palace. He had just arrived in Chengdu the day before yesterday, and as soon as he came, a big news broke out in officialdom: he beat a certain gift-giving official.

Liu Zhibo came and brought a few things. The first is the punishment of the imperial court for the "removal of five beetles" incident against Liao Daheng, the governor of Sichuan, and others. The imperial court believed that Liao Daheng was too anxious to urge the department and provoked the people's uprising, but he responded properly, quickly quelled the civil unrest, and had the great merit of killing Zhang Guangzu, the brother of the thief clan, and others. Chen Shiqi and other officials involved in the impeachment of Liao Daheng were unreasonable, biased, and thought of being loyal to the country and were exempt from the petition. The second is that the appointment documents of Gao Dengtai and He Youyi have finally arrived. The officials believed that although Gao Dengtai had made a name for himself and had the merit of quelling the chaos, he had no experience in the ruling party, so the magistrate elected by the local government was reassigned to the judge of Luzhou, and the grade was also reduced from the seventh grade to the seventh grade; He Youyi was born in prison, and after being loyal and good, he had the merit of quelling the chaos, and was recommended by the provincial and state levels, and was allowed to be the deputy envoy of the inspection from the Jiupin Feixian Pass.

Judging from the will of the imperial court, the battle between Liao Daheng and Chen Shiqi in the previous stage has already been decided. Liao Daheng was ostensibly fined, but the governor's position was retained, which was the biggest victory. Chen Shiqi and others got an evaluation of "unreasonable and biased". Whoever loses and who wins is known at a glance. In the eyes of the emperor and the ministers of the imperial court, Sichuan was able to quell the rebellion of the people in a very short period of time and exterminate the remnants of the thieves in Sichuan in one fell swoop, which was actually a big victory. Now, except for the Baoning Mansion in northern Sichuan, which is also harassed by Shaanxi thieves and local thugs, Sichuan has been a province of feasts. This is really rare among the thirteen provinces in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, especially after the giant Zhang Xianzhong just came to the disaster.

In addition, according to Liao Daheng's eyeliner report in Beijing, the emperor was quite satisfied with Liao Daheng's performance since he took office, but he was a little disappointed with Chen Shiqi's performance. He even said to a certain eunuch that Yang Wen was weak enough to suppress the thieves and attack the officials. Liao Daheng can put national affairs first, abandon the bad habit of party strife, and actively pursue and suppress thieves. Although he failed to make a contribution, he was always able to do something. Chen Shiqi, who was unanimously recommended by the court officials, was in vain, and he only knew how to attack his (JIE) colleagues, and he didn't know how to share his worries for his father!

In front of the carrying hall, there is a wide platform. The palace lamps are hung high on the platform, and the guards on and off the stage are dense. A red background and gold border colorful seven-chapter gold weaving Panlong Shu character pennant fluttered in the corner of the platform, reminding every official of the court. Zhu Pingjin sat firmly on the dragon chair, accepting the worship of the ministers, and standing next to Cao Sanbao, who was dusting the dust. The princess was very concerned about the handling of this plague, and specially sent Cao Sanbao tonight. Cao Sanbao is very familiar with the royal ceremony and can also help to call it up.

Of course, Cao Sanbao, who is low-key and duty-oriented, will not let the prince pay special attention. Zhu Pingjin's attention was focused on the dozen or so county kings and officials in the front row, and they all had the right to speak. The county king and officials above the fifth rank were given benches to sit on, and the rest stood according to the rules, densely packed like a high school class. Fortunately, the platform in front of the hall is wide enough, and there is no problem to sit in another grade.

Today, the county kings came neatly.

According to the rules of the ancestors, the county king of the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to the second grade, and there is no official above the second rank among the civil and military officials in Sichuan, so the ranking of the county king is naturally ahead of the officials. The first place in the ranking of the county kings is Zhu Xuankun (LI), the king of Shiquan. He is the eldest son of the "Xuan" generation, the eldest son of Wanli in the twenty-seventh year, is about fifty-six years old, and the five elements of the character belong to the soil, and he is currently the highest among the county kings of the Shu Domain. Xuan, Feng, Zhi, Ping, the "Xuan" generation is Zhu Pingjin's grandfather's generation. In addition to King Shiquan, King Zhu Xuandun of Qingfu is also a generation of "Xuan", but he is thirteen years younger than King Shiquan, and he was named the eldest son in the forty years of Wanli, so he sat behind King Shiquan. The other county kings are also ranked according to their generation and age.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a total of 21 counties in Shu have been sealed, and only 12 have been retained until now. Huayang was ambitious and separatist in history, and after the conspiracy was exposed, it was moved to Lizhou, Hunan (now Lixian) by the imperial court. Therefore, in Shu, there are only eleven county kings of the Shu domain. King Fushun was arrested, King Taiping died, and a total of eight people came tonight, except for Zhu Zhijun, the king of Deyang.

Because of the prostitution in the land of fireworks and willows during the national funeral, Zhu Zhijun, the king of Deyang, was impeached by Zheng Anmin, the chief historian, for the major crime of disloyalty, unfilial piety, and madness, and planned to remove the feudal state according to the law, and is now imprisoned in the mausoleum of the Shu kings in the eastern suburbs of Chengdu, waiting for the final verdict of the imperial court. The case of Zhu Zhijun is a continuation of the case of King Fushun's rebellion. There are also several Shu clans involved in the case. They were impeached by Zheng Anmin together for prostituting with King Deyang, or for listening to music and singing, or for disregarding people's lives and forcing slaves to death.

Zhu Zhijun's case is also a great deterrent to the Shu clan. The Shu clan is used to enjoying happiness at will, and they didn't expect that the prince and the long history division would use this hand to clean them up, and they would be so heavy and ruthless as soon as they made a move! A clan came forward to intercede for King Deyang, but it was useless. The Changshi Division made it clear to the princes of each county that the Shu clan had been arrogant and lascivious for a long time, which led to a major case of killing brothers and plotting rebellion. In addition to the grief and indignation of the son who lost his father and uncle, he wanted to use King Deyang to warn the Shu clan to abide by the law. Although Zheng Changshi has resigned from the imperial court, before the imperial court's holy decree comes down, there is still time to investigate a few more violations and crimes of the clan, and I hope that all the prefectures will do it themselves!

The small sects were uneasy, and the land management of the Shu Wangfu was extremely smooth. All the property of the King of Deyang, including the land and mansion, was confiscated by the decree of the prince, and the rest of the branches agreed to hand over the land, Zhuangzi and grain store to the Shu Wangfu for unified management by agreement. From then on, the princes, generals, lieutenants, and idle clans without lords could only collect a fixed rent of 40% according to the amount of land handed over. As compensation, the Shu Wangfu promised to reissue three to five years of arrears on behalf of the imperial court, and make up for it within ten years. In addition, the money village project personally promoted by the princess has also received active support from the princes of various counties. In the middle of October, they had gathered nearly 500,000 taels of silver, and the average family had about 50,000 taels.

The Taiping King was a victim of the rebellion, Zhu Pingjin thought that the Taiping King had just left, and his family might not be able to take out much, but his family had the most among the county kings. In addition to 30,000 taels of silver, there were 15,000 stone meters, two silk and satin shops, a cloth shop, a dumping shop, an antique shop and all the stocks, with a total market value of more than 100,000 taels.

Note 1: Fengxiang Mansion was called Chencang in ancient times, and changing Fengxiang to Baoji may be the funniest thing in the place name change activity, which fully exposes the cultural level of the changer.