The cheapest modern ordinary flour has an average wholesale price of two or three thousand yuan per ton including freight. www.biquge.info Of course, pure wheat flour is naturally not so cheap, and the price of more expensive high-gluten wheat flour is even more than 30 yuan a kilogram.

However, where is there pure now?

Flour blends with plenty of corn, potatoes and sweet potato starch and only about 10% wheat flour are ubiquitous in the modern 21st century.

Luncheon meat, instant soup, candy snacks, and the rest of the vegetables and fruits are actually not very much.

Of course, this doesn't cost much, and it naturally refers to Zhu Zilong, who is now wealthy.

Anyone in the Ming Dynasty, including the emperor, would feel difficult to support!

Because of this, Hong Chengchou and the others looked at Zhu Zilong's eyes, only jealous and admired, but also full of entanglement.

With En, Zhu Zilong is their benefactor. With the country, Zhu Zilong is such a meritorious master, in the hearts of the literati and cultural officials of all dynasties, this is not a blessing for the country.

People like Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms, in later generations, let modern people be happy.

But in the feudal dynasty, people like Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms are a great rebellion. Even, even Yue Fei's subordinates who are loyal to the country, civil officials and emperors can be forced to death, you can imagine how bad this generation gap is!

It is said that for a long time.

Successive dynasties still believe that although Yue Fei has meritorious service to the country, he is still a traitor. Yes, hundreds of years before the founding of New China, successive generations of Chinese and rulers all believed that Yue Fei was a traitor.

That is to say, the modern people of New China think that Yue Fei is a national hero.

Why did the ancients think so, from top to bottom, slowly, at first they all thought that Yue Fei had merit, but it was too much meritorious, and he was a traitor. It was not until modern times that he was rehabilitated?

That is, because of the way of thinking of the ancients, especially the thinking of scholars, that is, the emperor and they are orthodox.

In their hearts, Yue Fei is afraid of becoming the second Zhao Kuangyin if he does not die. So, he deserves to die!

This is also the reason why Hong Chengchou and them are now entangled in their hearts while feeling that Zhu Zilong is kind to them.

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Just when Zhu Zilong's side was orderly and making various arrangements.

On the territory of Li Zicheng in the capital, all kinds of calamitous hell scenes on earth are being staged rapidly!

Pandora's box was knocked over over there.

That night, Zhu Zilong, who learned about the situation in the capital of Daming. The green tendons on his forehead were beating wildly, and in his heart, it was as if there were tens of thousands of alpacas (grass and mud beasts) galloping majestically......

The menacing plague has officially broken out on a large scale!

In the past month, Li Zicheng has been stationed in the major military camps of the Beijing Division. It became a hospital and a crematorium, where hundreds of corpses were carried away and burned every day.

The rapid spread of the disease made Li Zicheng and his henchmen at a loss for a while.

For the ancients, who lacked curative medicine, plagues were natural disasters that were a hundred times more terrible than drought!

In particular, the time from onset to death of a Black Death patient is usually only five or six days, or ten days.

In the quarantine area of the barracks, some people who are not dead yet. I lived in a tent and listened to the rain and cold wind dripping on the linoleum while battling the disease.

Some people try to hold back their coughing, but the coughing sound that is half-muffled in their throat sounds even more uncomfortable.

Most of them lie in bed with a terrible fever, and they have reached the point of talking nonsense and dreaming.

Looking at the long line of empty bunks in the barracks beside him, he saw that many familiar faces had disappeared forever. Even if it was a thief army, some soldiers and officers of the Great Shun Kingdom had gloomy expressions on their faces.

Sometimes, they are more worried about when they will get sick.

This sudden and violent plague was really an unprecedented catastrophe for Li Zicheng.

More than 70% of his million-strong army are cannon fodder, but in the face of illness, it doesn't matter whether the people or the old camp. Those who deserve to be sick are just as sick, from the beginning to the present, his two or three hundred thousand elite men and horses have only died by more than a third now!

In some unlucky barracks, and even in the whole battalion, only a few people died. The establishment is going to be canceled!

In ancient times, medicine was underdeveloped.

From the officials to the people, there is not much difference. After the onset of the disease, you can only rely on your personal physique and luck to resist!

If someone is lucky, has a good physique, and survives, then they can still live. If you are unlucky, have poor physique, and don't get through, then there is basically only a dead end.

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Well, why did ancient doctors have a hard time treating these fierce plagues?

The overall level of medicine is underdeveloped for one reason, but the attribute of death of the ancients is also one of the huge reasons, as well as environmental reasons and so on.

Cholera, for example, is usually caused by unhygienic eating, eating unclean things or drinking unclean water.

In this era, the ancients did not have the habit of drinking boiled water. Fruits and others, eat them directly without washing them before meals, that is even more commonplace!

Then there's the smallpox virus, which is even more terrifying and can be transmitted through droplets and talk, making it difficult for many people to prevent it.

What is a mask? The ancients who didn't know, as well as the poor in the war years, didn't even have a few clothes, and there was no cloth to make masks.

And so on and so forth......

In ancient times, when medicine was backward, almost every virulent infectious disease. It can bring to the ancients, similar, the kind of despair and fear that is no less than AIDS to modern people!

As long as you are hit, the mortality rate is 99. 9999999%

Contemporaneously, in the 14th century, when the Black Death broke out in Europe. It was really overnight, and the whole city was full of corpses. It is not a dream for a county town and a large city to die 95% of its population in a month.

Many famous cities have since become ghost towns.

At this moment, if Li Zicheng's barracks are still miserable, it is still miserable. Then the entire capital and nearby counties outside the barracks are already there, which can be described as corpses all over the field.

Even in the villages of the capital hundreds of miles away, there are many rotting corpses lying in many thatched huts. Without exception, they all emitted a strong stench of dead corpses.

There were large pools of vomit and mosquitoes and flies buzzing around him, but no one went to bury and burn them.

Because the people in the same village either died or ran away!

The miserable scene is simply sad for the hearer, tears for the listener, shocking the world, crying ghosts and gods!

On a small road, the special forces were killed, modern medicines, and marched to a county town closest to the front line, ready to rescue the remaining Ming people.

Here, however, they were greeted not by crying and asking for help, but by a quiet silence!

The picture of the entire county is really like hell on earth!

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