The digital camera is an absolute product of old time and space, and if it weren't for the need to understand the disaster situation on the Central Plains and the scientific research work of the Beijing explosion, the Senate would never have allowed such an anti-heaven artifact to appear in the interior of the Wu Dynasty. However, due to the heavy casualties of the northbound detachment after the previous attack, it had to temporarily cancel the scheduled itinerary of the northbound detachment and wait for reinforcements.

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However, considering that the northbound detachment has reached the border of Hubei and is about to enter Henan, the campsite is really close to Henan, so Liu Yeqiang and Yang Muqin solicited the opinion of Lancao after discussion, and asked Lancao to carry a digital camera to the interior of Henan to reconnoitre, but because the northbound detachment is now preparing to retreat, it is not possible to let Lancao go too deep into Henan, just take a look at a few nearby states and counties, and take pictures everywhere you go, especially for the situation in towns and villages.

Blue grass faithfully carried out this order, he arrived first in Xinye County, surprisingly the situation in Xinye County did not look too bad, although the fields have been harvested at the moment, and it is quite cold, but most of the grass huts in the slums outside the city are still inhabited, and many grass huts still have smoke from the fire for heating, which shows that there is no disaster near Xinye County.

Lan Cao said and flipped through a few photos, "This is a photo I took in Yikura, Shinno Prefecture." Liu Yeqiang pushed his glasses and looked over, the photo was a courtyard, there were many thatched sheds in the yard, and there were a lot of sacks in the shed. Liu Yeqiang looked at it and said, "Have you gone to investigate to confirm whether it is really grain inside?" ”

"After confirming it, I sneaked into the granary that night, and selected a few sacks from it at random and poked them and checked them, and they were indeed grain," said Blue Grass, pointing to the area in the photo, "This area is full of corn, here is all brown rice, and the rest of this area is wheat grains." However, there is also a lot of sand and gravel mixed in it, and some of the sacks at the bottom will even have nearly half of the sand and gravel in it. ”

"Well," Liu Yeqiang nodded, "It should be that the person in charge of the warehouse stole it and stole some grain with sand and gravel to sell for money." ”

"This kind of person really exists in any era!" Yang Muqin said a little indignantly, "You really should be shot!" ”

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"That's still good." Lu Qi said a little nonchalantly, "This is Yicang, in principle, it is not under the jurisdiction of the government, and it is mainly prepared to deal with the sudden famine, and now I am a little surprised that there is so much food in Xinye's Yicang." ”

"So now that there is still so much grain in Yicang, won't Henan not suffer at all?" Yang Muqin looked at Liu Yeqiang as he spoke, and the latter shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's hard to say, maybe the road was closed in front and the victims were not allowed to flee south, right?" ”

"That's right, that's the problem," Bluegrass nodded, and continued, "I also think it's strange to see so much grain in Shinno, and I've heard rumors in the past few years that there has been a famine in the north for several years, and it doesn't make sense to have so much food now, so I'm going to keep heading north." ”

"Wait, you can show me the photos of the Shinno City Wall before!" Liu Yeqiang suddenly stopped Lan Cao, who was about to switch photos, and Lan Cao hurriedly switched back to the previous photo of the city wall, "It looks the same as I thought, you look here." ”

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Saying that, Liu Yeqiang clicked on the photo on the LCD screen, "There is a river under the city wall, is the water flow in the river a little less?" ”

"Won't it?" Yang Muqin was stunned for a moment, leaned over and took a closer look, "Isn't there a lot of water in here?" Luffy also looked closely, "I don't see it either, why do you think there should be a higher water level?" ”

"The erosion of the river on the bank is obvious, it will bring sediment and wash away the plants on the riverside, and the long-term and stable river water level is often next to the steep bank," Liu Yeqiang said, pointing to the riverside in the photo and continued, "But you look here, there is a gentle slope next to the water surface, which extends forward to here," Liu Yeqiang used the Xiang Yong on the city wall to make a reference estimate, "I estimate that the distance from this gentle slope to the river is sixteen or seventeen meters, which means that the flow of the river must have decreased a lot. It should be more than half. ”

"What does this mean?" Yang Muqin completely felt like a cow listening to the piano, "Can you explain it in a language I can understand?" ”

"Let me say my opinion directly," Liu Yeqiang shook his head and said, "In my estimation, the water flow of the river outside Xinye City has been reduced by half, which means that the rainfall in some areas upstream has decreased quite significantly, but there is still a certain amount of rainfall, or there is a lake with a relatively large water storage." The lake ensures irrigation in Xinye and nearby counties, so that there is enough food to prevent people from starving to death. Bluegrass, go on. ”

"Yes, after I came out of Xinye, I continued to go north, until I reached Nanyang County, you look at the photos," said Lancao, flipped through a few photos, "The situation in Nanyang City is much worse than Xinye, the victims outside the city have begun to gather, the tents they set up outside the city are three or four miles long, I estimate that there should be 6,000 to 10,000 victims." As he spoke, he opened a photo and said, "This was taken in the disaster area outside Nanyang City, you see." ”

In the photo, there are endless thatched tents, many people are gathered in these tents that do not block the wind at all, staring at the camera with dull eyes, and some people stretching out their hands and mouths slightly in the direction of the blue grass, as if begging for a little food. There are also people who lie directly on the ground covered with dry grass, and do not sit up, but just look at the camera with their eyes, as if they are dead.

"How are they going to get food?" Liu Yeqiang hurriedly asked, Lan Cao hummed, and flipped through two more photos, "Look, here, this is the soup kitchen in Nanyang County, where the local wealthy businessmen and officials will give soup once a day at noon and evening to provide certain food for these victims." ”

"How's the quality of the food?" Liu Yeqiang asked, and Lan Cao recalled, "At noon, it was a coarse grain steamed bun for each person, and at night, it was a bowl of porridge, but the amount was very small, and it was definitely not enough." ”

"Is there enough food in the Yicang in Nanyang County?" Lucci asked, "What about the official warehouse?" ”

"There is not much food in Yicang anymore, and unlike Xinye County, there are special villagers standing guard at the gate of Yicang in Nanyang, as well as patrolling, and it is much more difficult to get in than Xinye." Lan Cao said and flipped to another photo, "You see, there are all people here, there are people at the gate of Yicang, and there are several secret sentinels in Yicang, and there are people on duty at all times." ”

"How did you get in on so many people?" Yang Muqin couldn't help but be a little stunned, "This photo of yours is not from the same place as the previous photo, right?" ”

Lan Cao nodded, "Of course not, this one is from the official warehouse, behind the yamen, and the Yicang is on the edge of the city wall, and now the city wall is full of village warriors, looking like a great enemy." ”

"It's not hard for Bluegrass to get in," said Rudge a little nonchalantly, "he can listen to people's hearts, and he's so light that he doesn't have to walk at all." ”

After the branch of the local investigation of Moyang Sun's war situation

After the branch of the local Houcha Moyang Sun war situation "plague? Yang Muqin couldn't help but gasp, and Liu Yeqiang next to him nodded, "It's normal to have a plague, so many people die every day, the burial is not complete, and the clothes are mixed, but now the weather is relatively cold, the plague should not spread so quickly." ”

Lan Cao nodded a little proudly, "Because of these skills, I went to the county government compound by the way and eavesdropped on the conversation between the county master and the master......"

Then Blue Grass began to talk a little bit about the news he heard that night: it turned out that the drought had actually affected Nanyang, but because there was a large lake in the north of Nanyang, although this lake had also reduced its water storage greatly during the drought, it could still provide water for Nanyang and Xinye to irrigate. At the moment, Nanyang and Xinye still have grain harvests, which can maintain the food supply of these cities to a certain extent. But further north, it is not possible, from the county order of the conversation to learn that along the post road to the north, Bowang, Yuzhou, Yexian, Xiangcheng and other places have been completely dried up, no grain harvest, there is no water in the river. Due to the arrival of winter, there was no food and no seeds, and there was a lack of warm clothing, so a large number of victims fled south along the post road. According to the reports of the people at the post stations along the way, more than 20,000 people are still pouring south, and there are starving or freezing victims everywhere along the way, and the turf on both sides of the road has been eaten up, and the bark of the trees has been stripped of all the way, and almost everything that can be eaten has been eaten all the way.

"Wouldn't it be ...... for the victims to march south" Liu Yeqiang said that he didn't dare to say anything here, but Lan Cao shook his head silently and said, "That's right, the target is Nanyang." There are now about 6,000 to 8,000 victims outside Nanyang City. ”

"Didn't you say you estimated it at six thousand to ten thousand?" Lu Qi asked, and Blue Grass nodded, "I estimated, but at that time, according to the number of people counted during the daily soup kitchen, the number of people should be around eight thousand, and because some of the victims would turn back and line up again, some of the data had to be removed." In addition, a large number of victims die of hunger and cold outside Nanyang every day, and during my three days in Nanyang, I saw at least 80 to 100 corpses being carried out from the areas where the victims lived every day, and I also heard that there was also the phenomenon of plague. So now Nanyang has been locked down, and outside victims are not allowed to enter the city. ”

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"The plague?" Yang Muqin couldn't help but gasp, and Liu Yeqiang next to him nodded, "It's normal to have a plague, so many people die every day, the burial is not complete, and the clothes are mixed, but now that the weather is relatively cold, the plague should not spread so quickly." ”

"Is that the Black Death?" Yang Muqin was even more nervous, knowing that the name of the Black Death was "famous", the bubonic plague was brought to the Crimean peninsula by the Mongol army in 1338, and soon spread to the entire European continent along the sea route with fleeing refugees, and in the following decades ravaged the continent, a large number of people died of disease, barren farmland was uncultivated, open cellars were unattended, and ownerless cows roamed the streets, except for the inhabitants. By the end of the Black Death in 1352, it was estimated that at least 25 million people had died in Europe, a third of Europe's population at the time. But the Black Death did not disappear, and over time, it came again in the Ming Dynasty in the middle of the seventeenth century in the Old World. Moreover, this Black Death is no longer the bubonic plague of the raging period in Europe, but a higher level of pneumonic plague. The outbreak of the plague was concentrated in North China, which was the political, military, and cultural center at that time, and a large number of people who did not know what the plague was were dying in large numbers.

The plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty caused the Ming Dynasty to lose millions of people, and at the same time, it also caused a large number of defenders in the north, especially in Beijing, to die of illness, resulting in Li Zicheng's rogue attack without even the ability to defend the city, and it completely fell in just one day, leaving Chongzhen to hang himself in the coal mountain with a crooked neck.

This terrible history makes every known patriarch fearful, at the beginning of the year, a refugee who died of illness outside the Oriental Harbor made the entire Oriental Harbor have to close the whole city, and now the blue grass actually said that he had seen the plague patient at close range, what if he brought back the plague virus? Isn't it now that the people in this wilderness can only be tied up?

"It's not the Black Death," Lan Cao's own face turned pale, he learned about the terrible situation of the Black Death from the minds of Yang Mu Qin, Liu Yeqiang and others, and then he knew how risky it was to go to the disaster settlement, but at the same time, he also determined that those dead bodies did not die from the Black Death, because he had seen those corpses, and there was no swelling in the groin, armpits or legs that Liu Yeqiang had thought, and there was no black pus, so he breathed a long sigh. "Without those symptoms, and according to what you know about the Black Death, there shouldn't be many living people left in the whole of Nanyang, right?"

"That's right," the three elders at the meeting all breathed a sigh of relief, Liu Yeqiang said, "You still have to be more careful in the future, the plague is no trivial matter, you must stay away when you encounter it, and our doctors in Dongfang Port dare not approach it at will." ”

Lan Cao nodded, and continued to talk about his itinerary, after coming out of Nanyang, he continued to walk north for a few days, Yuzhou, Yexian, Xiangcheng and other places have been affected, and there is no harvest for thousands of miles of red land, most of the villages are now all empty, often a village is only one or two households and people, and there are many people who have not fled the famine and are directly starved to death at home. The county town is inaccessible, and the local granary, whether it is an official warehouse or a righteous warehouse, has no grain of rice. Especially in Ye County, when the blue grass arrived, the city had been burned to the ground, and there were corpses everywhere, there should have been a riot of snatching food, and basically only one or two families were still alive in the city, and the rest of the city was like a ghost town.

"Is this a serious situation?" Liu Yeqiang couldn't help but sigh, "It's a pity that we were dragged here and couldn't continue to go north." ”

"Meow a mi, it's all like this, you're still a fart in the north?" Lucci almost cursed, "How much food can we bring with a convoy?" It's just that when you get to Nanyang, you will be robbed by the victims outside the city, and if you don't hear it, even people will be eaten! Fortunately, he was beaten by these eunuchs, otherwise he would have rushed straight to the dining table. ”

As he was talking, he heard the rapid cry of a bird at the door, and Lan Cao stood up excitedly, "Ye Yu found it, and he was sitting there crying by the stream to the south here." ”