Du He set off overnight and came to Wujiang County.

This journey was extremely restless, not only Li Yifeng, but also Cao Yi, Han Fenghan, and Zhou Lingling woke up one after another, and their symptoms were the same as Li Yifeng's.

If you don't wake up, you are like a sleeping person, but when you wake up, you feel that your body is itchy and unbearable, and you can't wait to grab the flesh off your body.

This strange disease is not to mention others, even the well-informed Duhe has never encountered it.

Du He's method of wiping his body with tea water comes from his experience when he was a child, when he was in a closed school and junior high school, the school conditions were not very good, and the two of them were in one shop. Duhe was unfortunate enough to meet a person who was not hygienic and contracted a skin disease. It's itchy to death, the taste is really unpleasant, and the skin is scratched. Later, it was washed with tea water, and the tea brewing results were cured.

Seeing that Li Yi's rheumatism was unbearable, he thought of this method, and it worked wonders. It's just that this strange plague is not a common skin disease after all, and this can only temporarily alleviate the symptoms, and it will not have the effect of treatment. After a few hours, it will still recur.

In response to this, Duhe could not do anything. After all, he is not a real doctor, and everything depends on Sun Simiao's ability.

Wujiang County is only a dozen miles away from Suzhou, but Du He has the heart to hurry, and he does not plan to enter the city, he just wants to bypass Suzhou along the official road, and pass Wuxi to meet Sun Simiao in the south as soon as possible.

Walking on the official road, Du He felt a little strange in his heart, looking forward and backward, there was no figure, and he couldn't help but say: "It's strange, what is it, why is there no anger on this official road." "It's afternoon, the weather is sunny and the sun is not scorching, so it's the best time for pedestrians to hurry. Although Jiangnan is remote, it is not enough, there is no one on the official road!

Su Dingfang also felt strange, but he was not familiar with Jiangnan, and he was not good at commenting, so he just said: "Maybe it's a coincidence!" ”

Du He didn't think much about it, just continued on his way.

They had not advanced more than a mile, but they saw dust looming in front of them, and the sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground sounded, and a young man dressed as a family man, riding a tall horse, was galloping towards them at a gallop, followed by two good horses!

Du He couldn't help but look at it twice, the rotation of three horses, what a luxury it is in this young horse land in the south of the Yangtze River. Not to mention that the three horses are all excellent horses, and the rider is still a family member.

For a while, Duhe had the idea of seeing him as a horse thief.

When the young man dressed as a family member saw their group, he suddenly stopped his horse and said in a loud voice: "In front is General Duhedu, the Jiangnan patrol envoy?" ”

Du He was putting his mind on him, and when he saw that he was coming to find him, he was even more curious, and said with a smile: "I am Du He!" ”

The young man hurriedly rolled off his horse, took a few steps forward and knelt on the ground and shouted: "Inspector, something is not good, overnight in Suzhou, 150,000 people were infected with a strange plague, and now they are unconscious, like dead people. I am the family of the new Suzhou Assassin King, and I am ordered by the Assassin to make a clear decision. ”

Du He was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse, and hurriedly stabilized his body and said, "You say it again!" ”

He heard it very clearly, but he couldn't believe it, overnight, 150,000 people, what is this concept?

Gather these people together and make sandbags, and the Yangtze River can block it.

The young man said with a pale face: "The plague broke out in Suzhou, and overnight, about 150,000 people fell unconscious for unknown reasons. They all had the same symptoms, they were all red spots, and they were itchy all over their bodies before they passed out. It is the same as the situation that Liu Tingshi asked them to pay attention to not long ago, there is no difference. ”

"Let's go! General Su, pass the order, let's rush to Suzhou! Du He immediately made a decision, and then said: "Dispatch all parts of the Jiangnan Prefecture to rush to Suzhou to discuss important matters within six days, delay for a while, degrade the people, and be banned from hiring for life." ”

Li Shimin's official title to Du He was the Jiangnan Inspector, and in the Tang Dynasty, he was a local official, and when a disaster occurred, he was responsible for inspecting the officials and providing relief to the victims. In this Jiangnan, he is the largest, and he can mobilize any official in Jiangnan, and of course he has the power to degrade officials.

At this time, he used the power in his hand for the first time, and his body exuded an inviolable majesty.

Su Dingfang's eyes were stunned for a while, as if he saw the illusion that he didn't dare to look up when Li Jing ordered to attack the hinterland of the Western Turks with two thousand elites, shook his head, and immediately ordered.

Du He thought of Li Yifeng's symptoms, and ordered people to go south to Hangzhou to let Wu Meiniang prepare tea for later use, and at the same time sent people north to urge Sun Simiao to come as soon as possible.

This time it is no longer a matter of four lives, but 150,000 lives, which is the biggest disaster since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

Du He hurried to Suzhou, and asked the family for details on the way.

Jiading didn't know very well, but he told them what he knew, and the last three days were the big gatherings held in Jiangnan every three months.

The large gathering here is also equivalent to the gathering in later generations, and the local gathering is usually once a month, and the nearby villages gather in the big town to buy and sell.

It's also the busiest time in town.

Jiangnan is different, and today's Jiangnan can be described in four words, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the population is not large.

Suzhou, the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, has a population of less than 100,000. Compared with Chang'an, which has a population of more than one million, it is really one place a day.

Even Suzhou is like this, and other places can be imagined, compared to Suzhou, it is even worse.

Even the rally is not as lively as in other cities.

Therefore, there is a special case, a small assembly every month does not change, but every year on March 15, June 15, September 15, December 15 to hold a three-day large assembly, this meeting place is the largest metropolis in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou.

At that time, ordinary people and businessmen from all over the south of the Yangtze River will gather in Suzhou to participate in this three-day rally.

Yesterday was June 16, the second day of the rally, and it was also the day when the number of people gathered the most, and it is estimated that the flow of people on that day had exceeded 160,000.

Today is the third day of the rally, and according to the convention, the businessmen should cherish this last day more, and they should come early in the morning to set up their stalls.

However, it was empty, the whole street, no, it should be said that the whole of Suzhou was empty, and there was hardly a single person to be seen on the street.

It's all the time, and even the gate of Suzhou City has not been opened.

Wang Guanghong is the champion of Zhenguan for four years, talented, really talented and hard-working, and is a talent with a good heart.

Li Shimin promoted him to be the assassin of Suzhou, which was to know people and make good use of them.

After coming to Suzhou for more than ten days, Wang Guanghong has been busy with the handover of official business, and he has not been free until today. I wanted to take my family to the streets to see the assembly in Suzhou and experience the customs of the city and county under my jurisdiction. But I unexpectedly found that no one in the government office went to work, and none of the officials were there, and the entire Suzhou almost became a ghost domain, and no one could see it.

Wang Guanghong immediately knew that something was wrong, and immediately launched an investigation and discovered something terrible.

Almost all the people in Suzhou, the businessmen who came to Suzhou, were unconscious in their homes or inns, as if they were dead, all the symptoms were like Li Yifeng, the body had red spots, and there were scratches everywhere on the body, and people fell asleep.

Hearing this, Du He was very strange, since this plague was so powerful, it spread to 150,000 people overnight, then why was Wang Guanghong's family fine, until they left the mansion and found out that something was wrong, so they asked: "Who in Suzhou has survived?" ”

Jiading thought for a while and said, "There are some people who are all big local families. Except for the Su family, other people such as the Xu family, the Gu family, the Wang family, and the people in my family's mansion were somehow not affected by the epidemic at all, and everything was as usual. ”

Du He's eyes widened when he heard this, according to common sense, the people are strong and strong because they work every day, and they have a certain immunity to diseases, while the children of the family are idle and have poor physical fitness, so they are more susceptible to the infection of the plague. Why is it that the people who are infected now are the people, and the big families have no problems at all.

"Damn, this epidemic is also bullying the weak and afraid of the hard?" Su Dingfang was inexplicable when she heard it, and scolded with a big grin.

Du He's heart moved, he thought of something, and felt very strange, but he couldn't say it.

Came to Suzhou.

Thousands of people gathered outside the city of Suzhou, all of them were people rushing to the market, but because the farmhouses outside the city were cheap, they chose to rest outside the city and wait for the dawn to come back to set up stalls.

Because of this, they were not affected by the epidemic, but the city gate was not opened, and they all gathered outside the city to wait for the door to open, discussing why the city gate had not been opened until now, and it was not clear what had happened.

Some of them got impatient and shouted at the city wall, scratching their hair.

Seeing Du He leading a large army to come, they all made way of a road and gave them passage.

Looking at the people gathered on both sides of the city gate, Du He knew that such a thing had not been spread, and praised Wang Guanghong for doing a good job.

The harm of the plague is indeed great, but the real harm is the chaos and panic caused by the plague.

"Rumors" cannot be avoided in the scientific era of the 21st century, let alone in ancient times when feudal superstition was extremely heavy?

In one night, a city and 150,000 people were hit by the plague at the same time, and if it were spread, it would cause great panic and terrible consequences.

Ignorant people will think that it is the anger of God, and even blame the emperor for all this, thinking that it is the emperor's lack of virtue, which leads to punishment from heaven, or that it is the devil who is haunted, and the manpower cannot be the enemy, so he fled in a hurry, making the entire Jiangnan turbulent, and even affecting the north of the Yangtze River, causing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes to avoid disasters and cause local chaos. All kinds of things hurt the country, and strictly guarding secrets is the only way to limit rumors.

Therefore, Wang Guanghong restricted the access of survivors in the city and those who did not know about it outside the city, and closed the city gates.

It's just that this kind of thing, can it really be hidden?

Seeing this situation, Du He couldn't help but ask in his heart.

(To be continued)