Xiong Kaiyuan didn't know much about the details of this plague prevention and control regulations, and he was confused after studying it with Zhou Jin, but since it was a matter in Yang and Weidu, it could also be successful in Datong Fucheng.

So, Xiong Kaiyuan formed an epidemic prevention picket team of 800 guards he brought from the capital, imitating Yang and Wei, and prepared to search in the city.

As soon as the order was given, the guards began to prepare for action, but Zhou Jin quickly stopped Xiong Kaiyuan and pointed to one of the regulations.

"All specific personnel, especially those who come into contact with the sick and the corpses, must do the aforementioned epidemic prevention requirements......" he said, moving his finger upwards and dotting in several places. Protective clothing sewn from oilcloth, gloves, masks sewn from veils ......"

Zhou Jin read a long line of things, these things are marked with a red pen in the regulations, Xiong Kaiyuan is not unnoticed, but to make these things, one will be delayed for several days, and the other will cost a lot of money. He had just returned from the treasury, and in the great treasury there were rotten wooden shelves, dust all over the floor, and the smell of mildew that had not seen the sun all day.

"However, the treasury is empty, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice."

Zhou Jin lowered his head and pondered for a while before raising his head.

"There is a way for the lower officials, but I don't know if it is feasible or not......"

"Oh? Say it! ”

"The prefect will borrow money in advance from the merchants in the city in the name of the prefect's yamen and yourself, and will repay the money when the plague subsides and the court's disaster relief money comes down."

actually asked him to borrow money, Xiong Kaiyuan hesitated, this kind of thing that pressed on his net worth would either become famous, or he would be ruined and would have to bear a lot of debt for his children and grandchildren.

"Is it okay to only use it in the name of the prefect's yamen?"

Zhou Jin shook his head, if it was only in the name of the prefect's yamen, most of the merchants would not believe it, and this kind of incumbent official dragging the deficit to the next official is not uncommon.

Therefore, he added a premise of borrowing money in his own name, although the rule of officials had been corrupted to the extreme, but these officials, especially civil officials, still cherished their own reputation and feathers. As long as there is a private guarantee, there will still be people willing to borrow it.

Xiong Kaiyuan gritted his teeth again and said: "Okay, borrow it, borrow it, what do you need to pay for it?" ”

"The exact number needs to be carefully calculated, and it will never be a small number."

"The little thief surnamed Li is also strange, how did he come up with these strange ideas, and what kind of clothes made of oilcloth and what veil mask can prevent the plague?" Xiong Kaiyuan didn't understand the principle of bacteriology, but the people of the time also had a clear understanding of the plague, that is, this kind of thing could be contagious.

"Although the plague is only spread by rats, and now it is winter, and rats are almost extinct, but it is also necessary to take precautions, and the pickets are the only force that restores order in the city of Datong, and adults must not be careless!"

Zhou Jin's words are all pertinent, and Xiong Kaiyuan also thinks so. After the two of them discussed, Zhou Jin went to the merchants in the city to make peace and borrow money and fabrics. The prefect's personal name really still has a bit of weight, and it is not enough to leave five families, and the stewards of three families will respond to this matter.

Even so, Xiong Kaiyuan still didn't let the pickets that his guards were reorganized into idle, starting from the north of the city, searching for the sick and the homes of the sick and dead from door to door.

Much of the resentment stems from the pickets, and the officials in charge are all outsiders, and almost none of them are locals. The outsiders tossed the natives, and after the deliberate instigation of some people who were unwilling to hand over the remains of their families, the discontent in the city soon swelled.

The pickets soon encountered the first hard nail in the law enforcement in the city, and the object was an official left behind in Datong by the Yamen of the Xingdu Division in Shanxi. This was originally done secretly, but after the situation was learned by people with ulterior motives, they secretly told the pickets, so the pickets rushed up to the Yamen Suoren.

Unexpectedly, the other party was not a vegetarian, and dozens of soldiers confronted him with red eyes. In the end, the two sides did not agree with each other, so they started to move, and the Xingdu Division Yamen relied on the large number of people and their own territory, and beat the poorly prepared pickets to the ground.

In the end, even the experience of the Yamen Experience Division of the Xingdu Division came in person to support his family, and the pickets had to flee in despair.

Xiong Kaiyuan was furious when he learned of this, and immediately took someone to the door to arrest the experience of the department and bring the law to the spot.

Zhou Jin stopped him again.

"The prefect is slow, this experience is the surname of Zeng Mingdare, and he is also a person with a great background."

Xiong Kaiyuan raised his eyebrows, obviously disdainful, no matter how big he was, could he be bigger than him, the prefect of Datong who was personally appointed by the emperor? Zhou Jin hurriedly explained: "Zeng Dare's recommender is Yang Sichang, a member of the Cabinet University...... It was with Li Xin who came to take up the post, and it is said that the two had some relationship when they resisted the Tartars entering the army. Now is the time to calm people's hearts, things are getting bigger, and it can't be ......"

Zhou Jin didn't say the second half of his words, but with Xiong Kaiyuan's cleverness, how could he not know the meaning of his words.

"Well, the sins of the living can be incurable, and the dead must be handed over, and neither can the king of heaven!"

With the support of the prefect, the picket team gathered hundreds of people to kill the generals and went back, and the soldiers in the yamen of the Xingdu Division were caught off guard.

The sick and dead officials in the yamen of the Xingdu Division were dragged outside the city and burned, and all the people who were waiting to see the excitement were so frightened that they didn't move, and they no longer dared to shout openly. For a while, the resistance to the clean-up work became smaller, and it was a lot smoother.

However, after less than two days of worry, trouble found Xiong Kaiyuan again, and this time it was the merchants in the city who did not agree to hand over the body.

Xiong Kaiyuan felt very funny when he learned about it, he didn't even give face to the experience of one of the three divisions of the Yamen of the Xingdu Division, and a businessman dared to resist law enforcement, but before he could order compulsory measures, the businessman personally waited for the door to ask for a meeting. He sneered in his heart, this time it was to bribe him with a mountain of gold, and this corpse had to be handed over and burned!

But the merchant entered the house, and after some salutes, he took out neither a gift list nor jewelry, but a famous post.

Xiong Kaiyuan took the name post, looked at it, and suddenly his heart beat wildly. The three words that jumped into his eyes made him feel as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

Zhang Sizhi, the teacher of the current saint, is a scholar of the cabinet, a scholar of the ministry, and according to reliable sources, the emperor intends to appoint him as the first assistant of the cabinet. This Zhang Ge Lao is the emperor's teacher, and he is victorious, and no one in the court will buy his account, and no one dares to offend. What makes Xiong Kaiyuan even more afraid is that this person is still an authentic villain, as the saying goes, it is better to offend a gentleman than a villain, Zhang Sizhi is the latter.

Speaking of this Zhang Sizhi, he has a younger brother who is very famous, that is, Zhang Siwei, who became the first assistant of the cabinet after Zhang Juzheng's death. At that time, the Zhang brothers had an entanglement over the land, and Zhang Sizhi drunk his brother and obtained the deed with his fingerprint, so as to achieve his goal, and finally made the brother lose harmony.

Such a villain who is so complete that even his own brothers dare to calculate, Xiong Kaiyuan is naturally cold when he hears it. The prime minister's name post is not lightly given, and the businessman in front of him has Zhang Sizhi's name post, which means that he has some kind of origin. If you really offend Zhang Sizhi because of this, and let this person wear small shoes, it will be a disaster, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The merchant was stunned when he saw the prefect, and said with a smile: "The villain is just the manager in charge of the Datong industry, and the head of our family is still ...... in the capital."

As for the meaning he wanted to express, Xiong Kaiyuan knew it well, and half of his words were not true, but also expressed the meaning and position clearly, and couldn't help but sneer secretly, but after all, there was still a smile on his face.

"The plague in the city is for the Ming court, for the people of Wanjia, and everything this official does is also a last resort! I hope that your government will understand the righteousness, take into account the overall situation, and cooperate with the prefect's yamen......"

The smile on the face of the merchant steward became stronger, but he still interrupted Xiong Kaiyuan's words.

"The villain is coming back this time, just to ask the adult for a favor, the deceased person is either someone else or the fifth son of the head of the family, the villain is also helpless, if it is changed, the Fan family will naturally support the adult It's too late, let alone one, it's no problem to pull away eight out of ten."

Xiong Kaiyuan only felt a burst of bitterness in his mouth, can he open this opening? Once opened, the previous efforts are tantamount to waste. But if he didn't open it, he looked at the steward with a smiling face at all times, and he had also heard of the Fan family in Shanxi, which was a big businessman in Shanxi......

"This situation is the villain's request for the head of the family, and things will be rewarded in the past, but now it's just a matter of waiting for the adults to settle down!"

Suddenly, Zhou Jin stumbled in from outside, Xiong Kaiyuan frowned, he looked very calm on weekdays, why was he so out of shape today?

"A large number of refugees fleeing the plague have suddenly appeared in the south, and the lower officials have urgently ordered the four gates to be closed, and now please take an idea quickly!"

When Xiong Kaiyuan heard this, his forehead suddenly sweated, it was really a leaky house that happened to rain overnight, and the broken boat encountered a head wind, and almost all the bad things were squeezed together.

Where does he go from here?