Chapter 3 The Great Plague Was Followed by the Great Plague

Plague is a nightmare that haunts every age, some natural disasters and some man-made disasters.

The plague can be used as a weapon, Huo Qubing pursued the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu threw the dead cattle and sheep corpses at the water source, and the Xiongnu were defeated, but Huo Qubing also died young.

The devastation of the plague was terrible, and the Black Death in the Middle Ages left Europe empty. By the time of World War I, where European civilization had developed rapidly, a Spanish flu had claimed 20 million to 50 million lives, more than the death toll in four years of World War, and the average life expectancy in the United States was even reduced by 12 years.

In Chinese history, plagues have almost been accompanied by wars and disasters. Natural disasters do far less harm than the plagues that accompany them.

The outbreak of a plague in this town is almost inevitable, and any plague not only brings harm, but also tests human nature and human hearts.

When the eldest grandson was looking for Li Zheng, Li Zheng was doing this, digging a pit and burying all the corpses, whether human or animal. Li was on crutches, directing the young man to keep rummaging through the ruins and ruins to find the corpses.

It seems that in ancient times, there was still a basic concept of epidemic prevention, and I was worried about it in vain. Come to think of it, the frequent plagues in ancient China, coupled with the low resistance caused by the dense population and long-term vegetarian diet, caused far less harm than in the West.

The eldest grandson was relieved, and walked back slowly, and a person on the side of the road unbuttoned his pants in the direction of everyone, and a line of "streams" watered the roots of the fallen small trees.

The eldest grandson was anxious, this kind of sanitation made the harm of the outbreak of the plague deeper, so how will the future generations be disinfected? The classic image of wearing a white coat and carrying a sprayer immediately appeared in Changsun Tang's mind, but where to find disinfectant?

How exactly does this disinfection work?

The eldest grandson forced himself to calm down. By the way, the way the plague spreads, water, these intermittent clues make the eldest grandson suddenly enlightened.

Halfway through, turn back and find Lizheng.

"Dare to ask Li Zhenggui's surname?"

"Don't dare, don't be surnamed Luo." Li Zheng was a little annoyed, and when he was busy, he came to such a person who couldn't figure out the details to inquire blindly, but looking at his demeanor and bearing, Li Zheng was not too embarrassed.

"I wonder if there have been similar floods before, and what will be the result?" The eldest grandson Tang didn't care about Li Zheng's opinion.

"Sixteen years ago, when I was not Lizheng, the water at that time was about the same as now, but I remember very clearly, Lizheng died of the plague at that time, and I ended up with the booklet in his hand, more than 400 people in the town, and more than 100 people died." Li Zheng didn't talk too much nonsense under the gaze of Changsun Yu.

"Do what I say, I can get these hundreds of people through this uneventful." The eldest grandson was ruthless.

"Really? This is no child's play. The old man was a little excited, he had experienced a plague himself, and he could better understand the devastation of the plague on people's hearts.

"Seriously." A little hesitant, the courage that the eldest grandson had just mustered up flinched a little, what's wrong with me, the gentleman doesn't stand under the dangerous wall, why do I have to rush to take this matter, but what I just said is not easy to take back.

"Then tell me how to do it!" Li Zheng knew the severity, and he didn't joke with the lives of these hundreds of people, he decided to listen to what the scholar had to say first.

"First, collect all the firewood you can collect." The eldest grandson paused, organized his words, and continued: "Bring all these corpses to the downwind and burn them. ”

"Second, it stipulates that everyone must drink boiled water." This is to cut off the source of infection.

"Third, give me a dozen people, I need lime, and at the same time, let people dig a few big pits in the town, don't care about the purpose for now, and then talk about digging it."

The eldest grandson took a dozen young men out of the town, found a small hillside, dug a kiln on the slope, and ordered everyone to chop firewood, this firewood is not lacking, the riverside was stopped more firewood, some wet is not tight, in the sun is almost the same.

The day passed like this, and everything that should be prepared was almost done.

The next day, Changsun Tang mobilized a group of people to search for white stones, that is, limestone.

The limestone is put into the kiln and burned with firewood to get the lime.

Although some of the lime in the first kiln was not burned through, it was not a big deal.

By the fourth day, the town was covered with white lime, especially in some of the dead corners. It can be said that where there are flies and mosquitoes, lime will be sprinkled.

Several large pits dug were also useful - public toilets, which were built with several wooden planks to leave a few wide gaps, and surrounded by bamboo mats, and the toilets were set up, but they were also sprinkled with thick lime before use.

In this way, under these strict measures, there are still people who fall ill, there are three children, and four elderly people have fever symptoms of varying degrees.

Fortunately, as a witness, he knew that if there was no large-scale infection at this time, it would mean that the plague had basically been eradicated.

"Eldest grandson, thanks to you this time, if it weren't for you, I don't know how many people would die in the town this time." Li Zheng found the eldest grandson who was napping in a corner of the courtyard, but at this time the eldest grandson was unshaven, his hair was messy, and the skin on his lips did not know that several layers had fallen off, Li Zheng didn't want to disturb the eldest grandson, but these few infected with the plague would be very troublesome if they were not handled well.

"Liu Lizheng, now is not the time to say this, is there something wrong again?" When the eldest grandson looked like he was about to speak and stopped, he knew that something must have happened again.

"I shouldn't have bothered Childe now, but since last night, a total of seven people have had a fever, and we have already moved them out of town according to Childe's instructions, I don't know what to do next?"

"Is there lime sprinkled all around?"

"It's gone!" Li Zheng is in his fifties, and he can almost be regarded as a man of his own kind in this town, although the eldest grandson seems very impolite at this time, but the performance of the eldest grandson in the past few days has convinced him. If we want others to trust us, we must first do something that will convince them.

"Let's go see first." The eldest grandson got up, Li Zheng was on the side to guide the way, Wang Tiedan's impression of the eldest grandson has changed a lot in the past few days, a son of a high family, although he is not a descendant, it may be very difficult to do this step, it is not easy to run errands back and forth these days, and there are relatives in his family who died due to the plague, this kind of thing can basically be regarded as a Buddha of ten thousand families.