The nearly month-long investigation in the countryside enabled Guo Bin and his ministers to obtain first-hand information about the cities in Yingchuan County, which not only trained the team, but also made future administrative decisions more targeted. Everyone is a great person, although they are extremely tired, they know in their hearts that this is the premise of being a good official.

Xun Yu once said to Xu Shu in private: "The lord is young and suddenly became a high position, but he can be so down-to-earth and calm in political affairs, and he doesn't see the young man's flying and jumping, which is really commendable." The lord's actions really deserve the four words he often said, seeking truth from facts. ”

Because Guo Bin is full of energy, the civil and military forces under him naturally have no reason to be lazy. Since then, the civil and military have been in their respective positions, and they have worked hard to implement Guo Bin's decisions in Yingchuan County. Under the leadership of Guo Bin's advanced ideas in later generations, the economy of Yingchuan County has developed rapidly under the pull of the leader Yangzhai County.

Suddenly, more than ten days passed, Guo Bin got a report, Wu Di and even the border of Jiaozhou, a major epidemic broke out, and countless people were killed and injured. Guo Bin got the news, but he couldn't help but be secretly vigilant in his heart. In this world, the enemies of human beings are not only species that can be seen with the naked eye, in addition to fierce beasts such as lions, tigers, and grizzly bears, in addition to humans themselves, there are also microorganisms that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

Whether it was the Black Death, which greatly reduced the population of the European continent, or the various viruses and bacteria brought to the Americas by Europeans and exterminated countless Indians, they were all powerful enemies worthy of attention. Humans have shivered in the face of strong carnivorous animals such as lions, tigers, and grizzly bears, but when it rises to the level of species war, they are no match for humans. Just look at the fact that the zoos are now housed in captivity not by humans, but by a variety of endangered "ferocious" behemoths.

However, until Guo Bin crossed over, human beings could not win in this invisible but real war against microorganisms. Often, such as avian flu or a sudden epidemic of SARS, it will lead to a panic in human society.

Epidemic is the most terrifying term in any era. The so-called catastrophe must be followed by a catastrophe, until this moment, Guo Binfang believes that the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated. After the catastrophe, where will anyone collect the dead and dead? And the stinking and decomposing corpses will inevitably cause epidemics. Although the ancients may not have understood the ins and outs, their long-term life experience has enabled them to summarize a little bit of law.

The pillar industry of Yeongcheon County is manufacturing, and the foundation of manufacturing is commerce. Whether it is the transportation of raw materials, or the transportation and sale of finished goods, businessmen need to be involved. And with the merchants circulating the world, in addition to goods and currency, there are bacteria and viruses attached to them.

But after all, Guo Bin was just a small veteran in his previous life, where did he know how to treat people? For this large-scale epidemic, he is even more helpless. However, he knew the important role of brainstorming, and immediately gathered his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.

This matter should not be taken seriously by Guo Bin, Yangzhai County has economic and trade exchanges with Jingyang Prefecture, and because the land in these two places is fertile, it is basically not necessary to plant seeds too much, and in the harvest season, they will get more generous returns than the people of the Central Plains. What's more, because of the Taiping Road Rebellion in the Central Plains, many wealthy families moved south, bringing advanced production technology and production tools, so that the Jiangnan region has been more fully developed.

As a result, the living standards of the local people are higher, and they are much happier than the people of the Central Plains when purchasing industrial and commercial products. If it weren't for the fact that the Jiangnan region has been full of miasma since ancient times, sparsely populated, covered by dense jungles, and covered with dense water networks, it is not suitable for growing corn that the people of the Central Plains are familiar with, and the economic development level of the areas south of the Yangtze River would probably be a big cut away from the Central Plains.

But even so, the Jingyang area is also a dumping ground for the most important products in Yingchuan County, and if you rashly abandon the business here, I am afraid that it will cause a lot of economic losses.

At the meeting, the solution proposed by the people was nothing more than to cut off trade with the south, block the north-south traffic, and strictly control the exchange of people. However, these solutions are clumsy, costly and impractical. In today's social situation, where can officers and soldiers really be able to block north-south communications? If it were not a strategic location, there would basically be no officers and troops stationed, and Guo Bin would not have been able to spend time and effort building a "Berlin Wall" to block the north-south exchanges.

Moreover, if the raw materials produced in Yingchuan County are expensive because of the closed official exchanges, and the goods cannot be sold, resulting in merchants selling at lower prices, I am afraid that countless Jiangnan merchants will break through the "barriers" and come to Yingchuan to "pan for gold". At that time, the government's so-called road blockade has basically become a joke.

Just when everyone was at a loss, detailed news about the epidemic gradually spread.

People who are affected are often weak, pale, clammy, or blue, and may have paroxysmal epigastric pain. In addition, there are often symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, and the stool is like water, and within three or two days, the sick person will quickly collapse and even fall into a coma. The cycle of these diseases often leads to the severity of the disease, and finally death.

At the meeting, Xi Zhicai said to Guo Bin: "This is the miasma in the south of the Yangtze River, at this time, the miasma is rampant in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is the local natives, and there are many people who die because of the miasma." What's more, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion last year, many wealthy families in the Central Plains have migrated south, and this year's miasma has become more and more prevalent, which is also common. It's just, I just didn't expect so many people to die. ”

Guo Bin listened to Xi Zhicai's analysis and felt anxious. He naturally knew that the essence of the so-called miasma was by no means what the ancients thought. Except for the dense jungle where the branches and leaves that accumulate under the trees ferment to produce biogas, there are only a few places where toxic gases are present.

The ancients probably thought it was a poisonous gas because they saw the fog that filled the mountains after the rain, and many people would get sick and die after passing through it. However, in later generations, with the development of medical science, people's understanding of the so-called "miasma" gradually changed, and this disease caused by the feeling of miasma was later called malaria.

When it comes to malaria, Guo Bin is familiar with it. The disease is spread by mosquito bites, and most people will have chills or fever, but although the onset of this disease varies from person to person, most people will have symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. Malaria can kill people because of the continuous intractable vomiting and diarrhea, which quickly collapses and even coma, and then causes circulatory failure and death.

Although Guo, who is not a scholar and has no skills, cannot explain a large number of truths in this, he still knows a lot of basic information. Because when he was a soldier before he was reborn, he was in the south, and when the old squad leader explained to them the self-defense counterattack that took place in the Jiaozhou territory, he mentioned that whether it was the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War or the People's Liberation Army later, the enemy he faced was not only Vietnamese soldiers armed with Soviet-made AK47s, but the most terrible thing was malaria, an invisible and untouchable enemy.

Because people already knew how malaria was transmitted at that time, PLA soldiers came up with countless ways to prevent mosquito bites. Smoking is naturally the most widely known and not very difficult method to do, but in order to hide your body in the dense rainforest, ignition is always a big no-no. The clever and intelligent PLA soldiers came up with the idea of smearing their bodies with thin mud to prevent mosquito bites to avoid malaria. But at this time, you can't just put mud on everyone's face in order to avoid mosquitoes, right?

Malaria is a disease that mostly occurs in the hot and humid southern region, and its important reason is that mosquitoes have low flight ability and do not spread widely. In addition, because China was an agrarian economy in ancient times, and the government implemented a policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, most of the people were bound to the land, and many people never even left the village in their lifetimes. As a result, the movement of the population is extremely limited, and patients who are carriers of the virus cannot spread the virus to distant places, so the areas where malaria occurred in ancient times were mostly in the south.

However, now the whole Yingchuan County is extremely rich, precisely because of its developed industry and commerce, the development of industry and commerce, where can it be separated from the great flow of people? Not to mention the rich domestic slaves who came from Beijing to buy Yangzhai specialties, as well as the drunkards who came from all over the country to buy the blood of heroes in the drunken immortal building in Yangzhai County, that is, the business travelers from all over the country who transported raw materials and industrial and commercial products were extremely huge and terrifying.

With such a large flow of people, security and management are already extremely headaches, not to mention the prevention and treatment of malaria.

Just when Guo Bin was anxious and worried indoors, Sima Hui said: "Although the miasma is extremely terrible, it has never spread to the north, Qianyang loves the people, Hui knows, but things are complicated in the county, everything has to wait for you to make an idea, Qianyang still don't have to worry about this matter." If there is anything difficult to understand, you may wish to say it, and everyone can also refer to one or two. ”

Sima Hui did not know the transmission route of malaria, so he naturally did not know that business travelers from various places might carry a large number of bacteria and viruses to the north, and although Yingchuan County was in the north, it was also at risk of being harmed by malaria. However, after listening to Sima Hui's words, Guo Bin's eyes lit up, he couldn't think of what to do, but his subordinates were all extremely prestigious figures in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and even the entire Three Kingdoms period! The so-called three stinkers, Zhuge Liang, so many people with outstanding wisdom gathered together, can't even a small mosquito be dealt with?

At that moment, Guo Bin said to Sima Hui: "Don't hide it from Mr. Decao, Guo has also heard that this miasma is not caused by human inhalation of poisonous gas, but its transmission is through the feces of people and livestock, through water sources or mosquito bites. ”

When everyone heard this, they didn't have time to think about who Guo Bin listened to when they heard the news, but they were shocked at the same time. Everyone is a smart person, and you can know the end of these words in your mind, since the manure of people and livestock can spread miasma, how can the bustling Yingchuan County be good with endless business travel?

I only heard Guo Bin continue: "How to eliminate the pollution of water and feces, although Bin has a plan in his heart, but how to prevent mosquitoes in the entire county is really helpless!" Guo Bin's so-called method of eliminating water and fecal pollution is actually nothing surprising, but it is just to imitate the rules of epidemic prevention in later generations, and how the country responds to SARS or avian flu in the face of it, he always does it. However, if he wanted to repel mosquitoes, all he could think of was to light a charcoal fire in the county and use smoke to drive it away.