Since the Qiu family was solved, the number of plague patients in the Yanghe Acropolis has been decreasing for seven consecutive days, and the daily death toll has also begun to decrease after a small increase in the previous three days, until the eighth day has been twelve hours a day, and there has been no new death.

This is exciting news for the whole city, especially the civil and military officials of the epidemic prevention headquarters, who are full of excitement and joy of victory that they have never felt before.

For many years, people have heard of the plague and changed color, and they are helpless in the face of the plague, and can only watch the infected people die of illness, and the healthy people become infected, and so on and on, and so on, and a large number of lives die like ants.

And this devil, who has entangled mankind for thousands of years, was subdued for the first time in this small Yanghe Acropolis.

While Li Xin encouraged the civil and military officials, he did not forget to warn them that they must not take it lightly.

"Although the situation in Yanghe Acropolis has been temporarily controlled, but this time the outbreak of the plague is characterized by many places at the same time, population movement is the main way of transmission between provincial capitals, from today the ban on population movement is implemented throughout Yanghewei and Gaoshanwei, especially in the direction of Datong Mansion and Hunyuan Prefecture, and checkpoints will be set up immediately, and no one will be allowed to enter the country."

"I'm afraid it's not right, right?"

Mao Weizhang put forward his own views without worry.

"Extraordinary times, extraordinary laws! The lives of the people are our first priority! ”

Li Xin's words will soon bring all the civil and military officials present back to reality, indeed, although the plague in Yanghe Acropolis has been controlled, the military guards of other prefectures and counties are still spreading, and there is even an intensifying posture.

"It's better to promote our Yang and Wei model, so that the plague month can be determined!"

Someone just said the mention yì, and was refuted by someone who was not literate. "How could other local officials listen to this method of chasing after the wind and shadows?"

"Besides, forcing the people to cremate their relatives is tantamount to digging up people's ancestral graves, and few people are willing to do this kind of thankless work."

"Except, of course, their chief soldier, Li Xin."

Shi Datuo suddenly pushed open the door of the main hall and walked in, first saluted in front of Li Xin, and then whispered a few words. Everyone watched the movements of the two of them, only to see Li Xin's face change slightly, and asked in a low voice, "How?" But is that true? ”

Stada nodded heavily.

"It's all controlled, and there won't be any fish that slip through the net!"

Others couldn't hear it clearly, but Mao Weizhang next to Li Xin heard it clearly. It turned out that Qiu Liangcun's two younger brothers were also returning to Yanghe Acropolis from Datong Mansion with him, and his second brother was one of the top merchants in Yanghe Wei, and it is said that this person hoarded a large number of mink skins in the winter of last year, ready to sell them to Jiangnan. What is even more suspicious is that the Qiu family and several stewards of the courtyard outside the city have died one after another as of the day before yesterday.

All these images show that the Qiu brothers were the source of the plague outbreak in Yanghe Acropolis.

"How did you deal with it?"

"It's almost clean, so just burn it all! All those who are alive are sent to the isolation hospital for observation! ”

Li Xin praised it, he didn't expect this Shi Datuo to be reborn, although he sometimes acted too recklessly, but he was still quite effective in handling things. Mao Wei on the side had already seen the sweat on his forehead, he knew that the Qiu family's courtyard outside the city usually lived in a hundred and ten people, Shi Datuo said lightly that they were all dead, that is, hundreds of people died of plague, and his heart couldn't help but be afraid for a while, and it was a burst of happiness, if it wasn't for Li Xin's arrival, even if they could escape the slaughter of the Mongols, they couldn't escape the claws of the plague!

After the prevention and control of the plague was on the right track, all the work was carried out in an orderly manner in accordance with the regulations, but Mao Weizhang was idle. But Li Xin could not let him be idle, and on this day he was called to go out of the city with Heisenberg and Albert and go to the northwest official road.

A few people went straight out for dozens of miles under the escort of Lu Jiu, and then stopped to rest. Everyone didn't know much about Li Xin's intentions to go out of the city this time, and Mao Weizhang didn't even think maliciously, is the chief soldier afraid of the plague and is ready to take a few people away? But he immediately rejected this idea, Li Xin did not flee when it was most dangerous, and there is no reason to flee at this moment.

"I'm going to lay a railroad track between the Yanghe Acropolis and the Zhenyu Acropolis, what do you think?"

"Laying rails?"

Heisenberg and Albert were surprised because they had heard him mention it at the haggis stall that day, but they thought it was a joke at the time, and they thought it was kicked out again today. Mao Weizhang is Zhang Erjin is confused.

"Rails? What are railroad tracks? ”

Li Xin explained in detail the basic situation of the railroad track and its role after completion, and Mao Weizhang was soon attracted by Li Xin's idea.

"Horse-drawn railcars? Once this railway track is completed, not to mention the immediate arrival of the army, it will save a lot of money, and even the transfer of goods and goods will be improved several times more efficiently, and the cost and loss will be saved several times......"

However, Mao Weizhang's feelings soon fell again, "Eighty miles from Yanghe Acropolis to Zhenlu Siege City, how many catties of pig iron are needed for this, and how many people are there?" How much manpower and material resources would be required to build such a track? Although Yang Hewei is not poor, he can't afford it! ”

This question was also what the two red-haired ghosts wanted to ask, but Li Xin smiled mysteriously.

"I'll take care of the money, but the preliminary exploration work will fall on Mao Zhenfu."

Mao Weizhang saw that Li Xin looked like he was in his chest, and he didn't know what he had in mind, but he still raised his worries.

"It's already February, and seeing that spring is coming, whether this plague can be avoided or not, it will be after this spring to see. The lower officials thought that it was best to take a long-term view of this matter. ”

This is not unreasonable, Li Xin is indeed a little in a hurry, but time waits for no one, where can he wait patiently, the current situation really responds to the sentence in his previous life, "If there are conditions, if there are conditions, if there are no conditions, the conditions for creating zào must also be on"

That's how rails are built!

If he wants to firmly control the two places in his own hands, he has to build this test railroad.

"Out of February, the plague should almost be over, and the first priority of Mao Zhenfu at that time is to take people to carefully survey the road from Yang and Wei to Zhenwei."

Li Xin's tone was unquestionable, and Mao Weizhang no longer refutated, nodding in response.

"Lord Shengming, Chief Soldier!"

Recently, Albert's Chinese has improved by leaps and bounds, especially this flattery, and he will say the last sentence at the right time whenever Li Xin decides. Li Xin glanced at this short and fat South German, and wondered in his heart, saying that Germans are rigorous and rigid, and they are more serious and responsible for their work, why does this thing look like an Italian in his impression, stealing and being casual.

Albert hung up on the title of doctor, but he did not play to his specialty. Qiu Gong was seriously injured and he couldn't be saved, the plague broke out, it was supposed to be the time for him to show his strength, and this thing seemed to be fine, and he didn't care. Although Li Xin didn't say anything, the officials in the Yang and Wei system had long looked down on this guy who ate white rice. Heisenberg still led an artillery team, and he practiced all day and night. What about him? is simply an idler raised by the general army, Mao Weizhang looked at him with undisguised disgust.

"Let's go, go back to the city, and we'll be here today!"

……

Datong Mansion City, a hundred miles away from Yanghe Acropolis, a team of people quietly drove into the city from the north gate, and a middle-aged man in a scarlet official uniform immediately looked anxious and nervous, this person was the new Datong prefect Xiong Kaiyuan.

He came with the Holy Decree and the 800 guards personally selected by the emperor from the Beijing camp, and these Qiu Bamen were also the foundation for him to defend himself in Datong Mansion. Originally, Xiong Kaiyuan was full of ambition when he first came out of the capital, but as soon as he came out of Bauhinia Pass, he was shocked to hear that there was a plague outbreak in various places, and he sent someone to inquire about the situation in Datong, and the result was terrifying.

The plague had already broken out in many places in Datong Prefecture, and it had spread to Guangchang, the closest to Bauhinia Pass, so frightened that he hurriedly hid back to Bauhinia Pass to prevaricate. It wasn't until the plague broke out in Yizhou, which was only a few miles away from Bauhinia Pass, that he finally couldn't sit still anymore, and instead of sitting and waiting to die, it was better to die generously.

In this way, Xiong Kaiyuan, who was fierce and fierce, and the wind and water were cold, resolutely stepped into Datong Mansion with his guards, that is, the boundary of Shanxi Xingdusi. Along the way, he didn't dare to enter the city to rest, but he kept hurrying, and finally arrived at Datong Mansion City when he was tired and tired.

Only one green-robed civil official came to greet him, and more than a dozen green-robed officials. Xiong Kaiyuan was quite dissatisfied with such a deserted welcome team, and felt that he had been left out. But when he saw the face of the blue-robed civil official, he found that he knew this person.

What's it called? Xiong Kaiyuan's head was running rapidly, by the way, it's called Zhou Jin! It seems to be Sun Chengzong's person! Speaking of which, the relationship between the two is not too far, and they also defended in Gaoyang City together at the beginning. Without waiting for Zhou Jin to speak, he stepped forward a few steps, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Brother Zhou, don't come unharmed, right?"

Zhou Jin returned the salute and said lightly: "It's good that the prefect is here, we all have the backbone!" ”

Although the sentence is cold and hard, it makes Xiong Kaiyuan feel guilty, and it is also very useful, this is the first time he has served as a local seal official at the prefectural level, and he feels good, but his luck is very bad, and he encountered such unlucky things as the plague as soon as he took office.

"Where is the Chinese martial arts capital of this city?"

Zhou Jin's answer made Xiong Kaiyuan's heart suddenly cold and transparent.

"Since the outbreak of the plague, some have died of illness and some have fled, and these are the only people left in the city!"

"What, what?"

Xiong Kaiyuan was dumbfounded, the officials under him died, and they fled, how could this prefect let him be?