Chapter 65: Desperate Resistance

The plague broke out in Xicheng, suddenly and quickly, without any time to prepare, Wan Yan Jin didn't care about his own danger and took Zhen Ai and Shuo Feng to rush to Xicheng for a few days, Mu Yun passed the news to Taiwei Zhao Zhongzhong, and there was another storm in the imperial court. Xicheng has been flooded for a long time, and the rice seedlings have been flooded, and some rich merchants in the city have long moved away, and the rest are the poor people who can't get through three meals, and now the plague has swept in, and the only remaining 5,000 people in Xicheng have gone to 3,000 people, and I don't know how many of the remaining 2,000 people can be saved in the end.

There is no on-the-spot investigation, and now no one dares to say whether this is a long-planned conspiracy, and the DPRK and the central government did not send anyone to support when they learned of this, and no one was willing to send them to death, and some even directly said that if Yan Jin went to ensure the safety of the remaining 2,000 people in Xicheng. Without the support of Yan Jin in the court, those people became rampant again, and the volume of their speech also increased a lot, if it weren't for Zhao Zhongzhong's sitting, it was estimated that they would have almost gone to the house to uncover the tiles.

Now there is a trouble, originally sent the prince to Xicheng to treat the flood, but a month of the project, because of the matter of Yun Guifei provoked the emperor's anger, the prince was forced to stay in Xicheng, it has been more than two months, I don't know if the flood has been cured, but the plague broke out first.

Taiwei Zhao Zhongzhong is the elder of the Three Dynasties, Wan Yan Jin is the most important, and he also holds a certain amount of real power in his hands, Wan Yan Jin is not there, he has to support the entire Bianjing, on the one hand, he wants to take charge of the affairs of the court, replace Wan Yan Jin's position, prevent the danger of Yu Taishi, and keep in touch with Wan Yan Jin, and report the disaster in Xicheng at any time. In addition, there is another thing that Wan Yan Jin did not mention, watching the prince's movements.

Whether the crown prince returned to the court caused a debate, but their argument was very much like a superfluous move, because on the day the news of the outbreak of the plague in Xicheng came, Wan Yan Jin went directly to Xicheng, and the prince arrived in Bianjing the next day. Zhao Zhongzhong guarded the city gate, and did not open the door for the prince, after all, the emperor did not pass on the holy decree, but Wan Yan Jin wrote a letter to ask him to open the city gate for the prince, although he didn't know what Wan Yan Jin's intentions were, in the end he still obeyed Wan Yan Jin's arrangement.

Wan Yan Jin hurried to Xicheng at noon the next day, Mo Bing arranged properly, when Wan Yan Jin came, Xicheng's men came to pick up Wan Yan Jin, and reported the situation in Xicheng to Wan Yan Jin. They didn't expect that Yan Jin would come in person, they thought that only Zhen Ai and Shuo Feng would come. Xicheng was originally filled with the prince's people, and they didn't dare to act rashly without an order, so they didn't have many people left in Xicheng, and most of them stayed in Luocheng on the border.

Those infected with the plague in the western city were separated, and there were not many people left who were well. Wan Yan Jin transferred a few Lang Zhong from the underground money bank from Los Angeles to assist Zhen Ai in doing some isolation measures. Wan Yan Jin gave an order, save a few if you can, and none of them dared to be ambiguous.

When Wan Yan Jin and the others first arrived in Xicheng, there was still a riot among the people, and they wanted to rebel against the court with the little strength they had left, beating and scolding the people brought by Wan Yan Jin. Whoever asked the officials not to come to deal with the flood disaster only came to oppress the people, they lived far away in Bianjing, where could they feel the pain of the people in Xicheng. Now they are forced to die, and instead of dying of the plague, it is better to fight to the death and teach those who are officials some lessons.

There are not many powerful people left, but they are definitely above the number of people brought by Wan Yan Jin. Wan Yan Jin didn't allow them to fight back, even if they were beaten, they had to suffer, the refugees had been suppressed for a long time, and it was normal to find someone to be angry, and they really deserved to die if they were officials.

In the afternoon, after a chaotic period, the sick were separated, and the displaced people were settled, and truckloads of food were brought in from Los Angeles to temporarily solve their food and clothing problems.

Zhen Ai was so busy that she was the one who had the most contact with the people, that is, she had to appease those who were sick and prevent them from suddenly attacking, and she had to find out the cause of the disease in order to prescribe the right medicine. At the beginning of their treatment, Zhen Ai was also slapped with a stick, which had been suffering from the pain for a long time, and his forehead was bleeding. Shuo Feng was furious, but the young master's order had been given, and they were not allowed to fight back, so they had to follow Zhen Ai before and after her, guarding against her.

Li Yishen, the city lord of Xicheng, saw that Yan Jin was coming, and Li Yishen, who was far away in Xicheng, thought that he was just a person who came to have fun with the prince, and opened the door of the mansion that had been closed for a long time, and he didn't know where the ingredients came from, and he actually made a big table of big fish and meat, saying that it was to feast Yan Jin and others. After hearing this, Yan Jin sneered, and when death came, he dared to open the door to greet him. It didn't take long for it to be reported that the Xicheng City Lord's family was sealed, and the City Lord was escorted to Bianjing, and more than a hundred stones of grain seized from the City Lord's Mansion were also used by the army to deal with it first, no wonder this Xicheng has fallen into this state, the city lord can still sit still, so much grain storage is enough for him to eat for five years, where do you need to worry about survival.

After discussing the condition with Zhen Ai, Wan Yanjin's face became even more gloomy. This outbreak of the plague was no accident, Zhen Ai found out that this was not a normal plague, but was actually poisoned with infectious poison, because the speed of spread was extremely fast, giving people the illusion that it was a plague. But this poison still needs to be found there, otherwise the root cause of the disease will not improve.

After a period of busy work, calm finally returned when night fell. The people who stood guard took turns to rest for an hour, and the rest of them were almost asleep, and it was only a day before people felt physically and mentally exhausted.

After Yan Jin couldn't sleep, she put on a coat and went out to breathe, but found that the air outside was not as fresh as the camp tent, and there was a smell of depression and defeat, filling people's nasal cavities, and it smelled really bad.

I still remember when I first arrived in Xicheng, the weeds that grew taller than people at the gate of the city were all dead, and when the weeds were removed and the city gate was opened, those refugees rushed over, no one wanted to be trapped in this dead city anymore, watching their relatives gradually die, and no one knew when death would come to them, and that kind of despair was more terrible than the spread of the plague.

If he hadn't been protected by his men, he would probably have been overwhelmed by the crowd. The refugees scolded their group of officials, fearless even if they were held to the throat by a sword, desperately trying to escape from this dead city. But the plague matter was not resolved, and the people of Xicheng naturally could not go out, so as not to infect the people of other cities

He couldn't say what it was like, but even he felt the despair.