After Sun Simiao returned to the capital, he began to work to prevent the spread of smallpox, and at the same time, he also selected several smallpox patients from the Dead Man's Alley as the subjects of his research and cure.

To put it bluntly, those people are Sun Simiao's test mice, which sounds a bit cruel, but in the face of a disease that makes humans helpless, they have no other way than this.

It's just that the power of smallpox is completely beyond Sun Simiao's expectations, even if he has done all the precautions he can do, but every day inside and outside the capital, there are still many people infected by smallpox one after another and become smallpox patients.

Gradually, many people began to lose patience with Sun Simiao.

In Chang'an City, the people began to become frightened and even irritable.

And at this time, a remark suddenly spread in Chang'an City.

"Smallpox is a disease that cannot be cured at all, and it cannot be prevented, and the only way to eradicate smallpox is to burn all the people who have smallpox, as well as everything they have used, so that smallpox can be completely eradicated."

"Yes, I heard that more than 100 years ago, there was smallpox in our land of China, and tens of thousands of people died at that time, and in the end, all smallpox patients were burned to death by incineration, and the spread of smallpox was finally curbed."

"Therefore, we can only solve smallpox in this way now, otherwise we don't know when, these smallpox will spread to us."

“…………”

After the speech spread in the capital, these people began to gather together again, and after they gathered together, they came to the palace gate again.

"Burn smallpox patients, burn smallpox patients......"

The frightened people have lost their minds, and even fear makes them slowly abandon their original conscience, and the originally good people have become crazy, cruel and ruthless.

In order to keep themselves alive, they now prefer to burn all the patients who have smallpox.

The crazy people shouted loudly outside the palace, and a little eunuch hurried into the imperial study.

"Holy Lord, it's not good, it's not good, those people are making trouble again."

Li Shimin looked a little haggard, originally he pinned his hopes on Sun Simiao, but now it has been a few days since Sun Simiao came back, but there has not been much progress.

Smallpox was still raging, and for this reason, Li Shimin had not closed his eyes for several nights.

At this time, hearing that the people were making trouble again, Li Shimin suddenly stood up: "What's the matter?" ”

"The people are now demanding that all those smallpox patients be burned to death to curb the spread of smallpox, and now they are in front of the palace, and they are making a lot of trouble."

The little eunuch said, Li Shimin's face turned pale, and the eldest grandson Wuji next to him condensed his eyebrows slightly, and said: "Holy Lord, smallpox can't continue to spread like this, in order to prevent more people from being infected by smallpox, the best way now is to burn those people to death, although it is cruel, but it has an effect." ”

"Holy Lord, please take the opportunity to reduce more casualties among the people."

In addition to the eldest grandson, Wuji, several other courtiers were also in favor of a brutal massacre of the common people who were sick with smallpox.

Li Shimin's eyes were a little sad, he glanced at everyone and asked, "Could it be ...... Is it really only possible to kill with hands? ”

Li Shimin is not a kind person, and his hands are full of blood, but he can't bear to do it to those people, or rather, he can't make this decision, after all, if he kills those people, his reputation will be gone.

But he himself knew very well that if he delayed like this, more people would be infected by smallpox, and Chang'an City at that time would really be uncontrollable.

The imperial study was very quiet, the wind outside was blowing, and Li Shimin's expression looked a little serious, and at the same time painful.

The other courtiers all looked at Li Shimin, and everyone had some expectation in their eyes.

After a long time, Li Shimin finally spoke: "Wait for three more days, if after three days, Doctor Sun still can't think of a cure for smallpox, so he will gather all the people who have smallpox together, kill them and burn them." ”

is a very cruel sentence, but Li Shimin must say this sentence, as the Son of Heaven, he must let the entire Tang Dynasty settle down as soon as possible.

If smallpox continues to rage, it is not a good thing.

The eldest grandson Wuji suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Li Shimin moved this heart, it would be fine.

Time passed very slowly, the entire Chang'an grass and trees were full of soldiers, and the uneasy mood was spreading, making everyone's heart beat faster.

The people in front of the palace gave up making trouble for the time being after learning of Li Shimin's decision, but at this time, they began to frantically search for those who were suffering from smallpox, but they were hiding.

After a few days, people with smallpox will be burned to death, and everyone has the desire to live, even those who have smallpox.

So, when some people learned that they had smallpox, they began to hide their tracks, and he was sick and died, and he did not want to be killed and burned.

It's just that after such a wave of searching for smallpox patients was set off in the entire Chang'an City, how many smallpox patients could really hide?

Moreover, smallpox patients also need to eat, but they can't let their families send them, so as not to infect their own family members, so it is easier to expose themselves.

One after another people with smallpox were found, and after people like them were found, it would be better if they went directly to Dead Man's Alley, but if they didn't go, they would be beaten half to death.

The families of smallpox patients are crying, begging for mercy, kneeling in the cold wind, but the crazy people who have almost lost their humanity, where is the care?

When smallpox patients hide themselves, they are spreading smallpox, they are harming them, and they will not forgive those who harm them.

Chang'an is prosperous, but it can't withstand a change in human nature.

At this time, no one felt that they were cruel, but they felt that those smallpox patients were the culprits, and they were killing those people to eliminate harm.

In this world, there is no right or wrong, the so-called right and wrong is just that more people think he is right, so even if you know that he is wrong, it is also right.

Right and wrong have always been in the hands of the majority.

People who don't have smallpox think that their actions are right, then they are right, and only a few hundred people with smallpox are vulnerable people, and they don't have the slightest power to decide right and wrong, not even speech.

Chang'an is no longer the Chang'an it used to be, and the news that comes into the palace every day makes Li Shimin heartbroken, but in the face of such a disaster, people are very powerless, and he Li Shimin is also powerless.

(End of chapter)