After Li Chenggong finished speaking, Yang Ganming asked in a solemn tone: "Dean Li, can you be sure that this is smallpox?" Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Judging by the onset characteristics of the deceased, it is indeed smallpox." , Li Chenggong replied in a deep voice. Although I don't want to admit it, I have to face it. And he also deliberately reminded: "Mayor Yang, please immediately investigate the origin of the deceased and the cause of the disease." and implement quarantine measures as soon as possible. ”。

After all, smallpox is very contagious, and if one is not good, it is easy to cause a catastrophe.

Yang Ganming knew that it was powerful, and went back to the delivery room to settle his wife and children, so he hurried to the city government. Today is Sunday, and most of the office staff are on rotation.

He called the secretary who stayed behind and asked him to find the sheriff of Kupang City as soon as possible.

A few days later, the provincial government conference room.

The mayors of various prefecture-level cities, as well as relevant administrative leaders, quietly listened to the report of Yang Ganming, the mayor of Kubang City.

"The deceased was an indigenous Guinean who immigrated to Kupang at the beginning of the year and was a dock worker. According to the police's investigation, he had been on an Irish migrant ship before the onset of the disease.

On board at that time, sailors were already suffering from smallpox. ”。

At this point, everyone has guessed the reason.

Smallpox has been raging in Europe for centuries and has produced antibodies in Europeans. Papua, on the other hand, has little communication with the outside world. Daming did not vaccinate them with cowpox, so they had no resistance to smallpox, a sudden infectious disease.

This contact is a trick.

The governor of Timor province is Zhao Huguang. When Timor Island was included in the Ming Dynasty, there was no need for the Ming Hall to exist.

At present, there is a shortage of people everywhere in Daming, and there is no time to train political workers like this. He asked Zhao Huguang to return to the cadre training class in Daming to make up for his knowledge of practice and politics.

Because he is familiar with this place, it is also easy to manage.

I have to say that his government affairs ability is still good. Under his planning and development, the province of Timor is thriving and prosperous. Like Dili City, which was burned down before, it is now half rebuilt. This speed is almost catching up with the Ming Dynasty.

After listening to Yang Ganming's explanation, he frowned and said in a deep voice: "Is the immigrant merchant ship still in Kubang?" Have you found all the potential susceptibles and dyes? ”。

"The migrant ship has departed for Daming, and those who are potentially infected or infected have also been forcibly quarantined. I just don't know, but there are still people who haven't missed it. Yang Ganming replied with a serious expression.

And he also asked Zhao Huguang to allow him to issue a mayoral decree and impose martial law on the whole city. All outdoor activities are suspended and people are prohibited from going out. Minimize the spread of epidemics and epidemics.

For this reasonable request, Zhao Huguang agreed without thinking. And immediately arrange the next work.

First of all, Timor Island, do a good job of epidemic prevention. Factories, schools, parks, shopping malls and other crowded places have carried out large-scale cleaning and disinfection.

In addition to the city of Kupang, Dili, Tutuara and other areas of the island are strictly monitored for outsiders, especially immigrants from Europe and Papuan citizens of Kupang. They are potential infections and must be strictly screened and forcibly quarantined.

And immediately notify the medical and epidemic prevention department of Daming to report the smallpox epidemic here.

Second, to calm people's hearts while the smallpox epidemic has not yet spread and most people do not know the truth. It is necessary to properly control the radio stations and various newspaper offices to prevent the spread of public opinion and cause instability in the people's minds.

Third, the provincial, municipal and county hospitals in Timor Province should be immediately asked to strictly screen local patients. Count the number of infected people as soon as possible and track the latest progress of the epidemic.

This is all the knowledge that the trainees teach them during the refresher course for cadres. Among them, we will take measures in the event of a major pandemic.

Now, just in time, it comes in handy.

It's just that such a big movement will definitely arouse the suspicion of the people.

Therefore, early the next morning, the relevant newspapers of Timor Province, such as "Daming Daily", "Timor Daily", "Kupang Morning Post", devoted large pages to reporting on a particularly serious smuggling case.

It's about a Dutch merchant ship, disguised as an Irish emigrant ship, smuggling the new muskets of the Ming Dynasty in Kupang. After the matter was revealed, he fled overnight. At present, in the province of Timor, the whole province is wanted. And this matter has been notified to Daming, and I believe that soon, there will be news that the whole country is wanted.

Although the Netherlands and the Ming were still at war, smuggling muskets was indeed a thief. But Da Ming's reaction was too big. In Timor province in particular, not only Kupang city has imposed martial law, but other places have also searched for suspicious persons.

Many people's normal lives have been disrupted.

If that's all there is to it, forget it.

After seven or eight days of quiet in Kupang City, infected people with suspected symptoms of smallpox appeared one after another. Most of them are dock workers.

And it didn't take long for their family members to develop illnesses as well.

Since before martial law, their families were working and going to school normally, and they came into contact with many people. So the epidemic began to spread, and it was no longer limited to dock workers. People from all walks of life, such as students, textile workers, vegetable market aunts, and shop owners, are affected and infected to varying degrees.

The hospital is also the hardest hit area. Many patients were the first to be sent here, so that ordinary people who were just ordinary diseases were also infected.

Some gossip is also rife in the streets of Kupang. Many people say that it was a deliberately transmitted disease brought by the Dutch. The purpose is to avenge and restore the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, many ordinary Dutch immigrants are hostile. In the dead of night, in remote places, Dutch immigrants were deliberately beaten and beaten.

Although Yang Ganming also needs an excuse to divert people's attention, it is not enough to scapegoat ordinary Dutch immigrants. So he immediately came forward to appeal for the citizens of Kupang to stay sober and reasonable. You can't casually attack or discriminate against legal Dutch immigrants, and once caught by the police, you will be severely punished.

Such a chaotic situation made Governor Zhao Huguang have to rush to Kupang City in person to sit in battle. On the one hand, vigorous arrangements were made for police forces to maintain law and order. On the other hand, medical staff from the province were dispatched to Kupang to control the epidemic.

As a result, the city of Kupang was completely blocked. No one is allowed to enter, except for those who have been authorized by the government.

Nanfeng, who was handling official business in Batavia, also quickly got the news of the epidemic in Kupang. However, he was the governor of Nanyang, and his jurisdiction only included the military districts of Java and Sumatra. Administrative provinces such as Timor are not under his jurisdiction.

And Timor province and East Java are not far apart, so it is difficult to say that the epidemic will not spread. In addition, he is busy with affairs, and he is beyond the reach of the epidemic in Kubang.

And the Ming Dynasty, Mingjing City.

President Yang Chong, who was finally idle, had to devote himself to intense epidemic prevention work after receiving the news of the smallpox epidemic in Kupang.