Chapter 471: The Flu of the Century (Part II)

Fang Xiaoyu said loudly: "Why can't you come, since my warriors can come here, I can also come." I fight the disease with you, and we are always together. ”

Fang Xiaoyu's loud answer made the nearby officers and soldiers hear it clearly, and later this passage was also sent to China by telegram and published in the newspaper. Fang Xiaoyu's actions greatly boosted the morale of the army, and the people in the country became more united.

Facts have proved that Fang Xiaoyu's visit to Madagascar Island was not for a show; he ignored the obstruction of many officers, went directly to the hospital, visited the infected officers and soldiers one by one, shook hands with them cordially, and encouraged them to fight against the disease and strive to get better as soon as possible.

Fang Xiaoyu's actions frightened Xiao Cheng, if Fang Xiaoyu really contracted the flu here, he was afraid that he would only be shot, but Fang Xiaoyu was very stubborn this time, and he didn't listen to anyone's dissuasion at all, and he also ordered the air force to airdrop a large amount of nutrients to Madagascar Island to enhance the physical fitness of the officers and soldiers.

Fang Xiaoyu's visit to the wounded and sick lasted for a whole month, and only then did he send condolences to the more than 30,000 officers and soldiers who were sick in bed one by one, tired Fang Xiaoyu had a sore back, but it was all worth it, the originally low morale of the expeditionary force quickly regained confidence, and a large number of soldiers who had been disheartened and were lying on the bed waiting for death began to actively cooperate with the treatment work of the medical staff, making the work of the medical staff a lot easier.

Fang Xiaoyu learned that nearly 70,000 officers and soldiers in the north of the island of Madagascar had been in quarantine there for nearly half a year, so Fang Xiaoyu immediately made a decision to let the two large hospital ships that came with the fleet dock in the north, and the 70,000 officers and soldiers who were quarantined were disinfected on board and transferred to the transport ship for isolation. Since they didn't get sick within half a year, there was not much danger, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to let them go back to China.

After receiving Fang Xiaoyu's order, the accompanying hospital ship and transport ship, under the protection of the fleet, soon came to the northern part of Madagascar Island and began to let the quarantined officers and soldiers board one after another. After visiting the infected officers and soldiers on the island of Madagascar, Fang Xiaoyu was also poisoned on the hospital ship and returned to the warship, and after ten days of quarantine, he returned to Port Arthur with the returning army.

Fang Xiaoyu's behavior of visiting sick officers and soldiers regardless of his own danger this time greatly increased Fang Xiaoyu's support rate in the country again, and even many areas that had just been included in the Chinese Empire were full of confidence in Fang Xiaoyu, and the problem of social stability was quickly improved. Thanks to the efforts of governments around the world, the flu virus has finally calmed down after 10 months of rage.

Even though there was no specific drug, with the help of antibiotics produced in the Chinese Empire, it was still effective against the invasion of the virus. Even so, this strange flu virus has caused nearly 20 million deaths worldwide, especially in Russia, which has suffered from civil war and foreign armed intervention.

When the virus began to rage, the Russian government claimed that utopian ideas could ward off all demons, and firmly refused to buy medicines from the warring Chinese Empire, resulting in a widespread spread of the virus in the country and a large number of civilian deaths.

Many civilians began to flee to neighboring countries, especially the Cossack Empire, and there were only four countries bordering Russia, except for the Cossack Empire, among which the Yaman Empire, the Habvsburg Kingdom and the Istanbul Empire directly closed the borders and sent heavy troops to strictly guard the borders, and stowaways could shoot directly.

Fang Xiaoyu will not do this, although this is the most effective way to prevent the spread of the virus, it will greatly damage the international image of his country, and it will also make the hearts of those refugees who are still interested in the Cossack Empire, which is very unfavorable for the Cossack Empire to fight against the Russian rebels in the future. Therefore, Fang Xiaoyu announced that a number of refugee camps would be set up on the border between the Cossack Empire and the Chinese Empire. But access to the camp was conditional, and only those who were willing to return to life in the Cossack Empire were allowed to enter.

The newly established Soviet regime had not yet had time to completely brainwash the civilians, and the civilians did not have such a high sense of identification with them, and the government's inaction in the midst of the pandemic caused a crisis of confidence in the new government, so a large number of civilians began to flee to the refugee camps.

Faced with this situation, Ulyanov did not dare to stop it directly by force, and if he ordered to stop it, then I am afraid that without foreign enemies, their government would be destroyed by the angry people of his own country. At this time, the Russian government could only buy medicines from the Chinese Empire in a low voice, except for the propaganda that hoped that the people would stay at home as much as possible and tide over the difficulties with the government.

He didn't have a good impression of the Russian government, so he directly refused on the grounds that his production capacity was limited and he couldn't sell it, and he didn't expect the Russian government to shamelessly ask to buy the formula and produce it by himself. Fang Xiaoyu did not say that he would not sell, and directly asked for 2 billion Chinese dollars under the pretext of recovering the cost of research, and did not accept any foreign exchange except Chinese yuan and gold, and the Russian government was directly frightened back.

Of course, Fang Xiaoyu would not do anything wrong, and in the end, after negotiations between the two sides, the Chinese consortium reluctantly agreed to sell the drugs at a high price, which was twenty times higher than the sales to the allies and five times higher than the sales to other countries. Despite its reluctance, the Russian government gritted its teeth and bought some of the medicines.

Even so, because there were so few medicines bought, the Russian government could not give medicine to every sick person, and they could only focus on those who were more important, so more than 20 million people entered the Cossack Empire to escape the disease, which made the population of the Cossack Empire exceed 50 million in one fell swoop. Russia's population fell from 100 million to more than 60 million, of which more than 10 million died of the flu.

The Chinese Empire was the first to start disease prevention, and the methods were the most effective, so that the death toll was less than 3,000, and half of these 3,000 people were caused by infected expeditionary forces. Fang Xiaoyu ordered disease control in advance, so that governments around the world sighed at his foresight, but just after the flu virus passed, Fang Xiaoyu received a warning from Xiaofeng that this disease may reappear in the near future, so Fang Xiaoyu did not relax his vigilance, and he even set up a disease prevention and control center in the Ministry of Health to monitor possible infectious diseases.

As the disease passed, countries began to heal from the twin wounds of war and plague. In this world war, the Nantes Empire and Russia suffered the most, because the main battlefields of the eastern and western fronts were in the territory of these two countries, and their industrial systems were also the most completely destroyed, and the high reparations made them unable to develop their economies at all.

The Saar Empire was not much better, after the allied forces of various countries looted a lot, a large number of factories and equipment were demolished, and even its so-called largest naval fleet in the world was carved up, and the domestic economy was completely destroyed. Unfortunately, it was the hardest hit area by the flu, and the war and disease caused a large number of young and middle-aged deaths, leaving the Saar Empire with a severe shortage of labor, and there was little hope for thirty years to restore the former national strength.

The Allies were no better, and the first countries to participate in the war, such as Yaman, also faced the problem of a large number of young and middle-aged deaths, they already had the problem of too many young men killed and wounded in the war, and even once Wilhelm II wanted to conscript women into the army, and after experiencing the invasion of the flu, the ratio of men and women in the country even reached a dangerous level of 1 to 10.

Although a large amount of machinery and indemnity were obtained from the defeated countries, it was still not enough to make up for the losses of the Yaman Empire in the war, and the country needed to slowly recover, and the population had to grow little by little, so that it could rely on the colonies obtained to restore its national strength.

The Boston Empire was slightly better, and they made a lot of profits from trading in the early days of the Great War. However, the losses caused by the Thor navy's sneak attack in the later stages of the war were not small, especially the large number of coastal industrial areas that needed to be rebuilt, and the loss of Gotham Port was a bit of a pain in the bones of the Boston Empire. In addition, due to the defeat of the Entente, a large number of war bonds were lost, and their losses were not small, not to mention the land and naval battles on the western continent, which also caused their casualties to exceed 500,000, of which the death toll alone was close to 200,000, and less than half of these deaths were caused in the battle of landing in the port of Steddam.

In the war, the Chinese army relied on excellent weapons and only carried out partial mobilization, which caused little damage to the domestic economy, and although the other ASEAN allies had undergone comprehensive mobilization, they received a large amount of financial and material compensation from the Chinese Empire after the war, and had already completely made up for their own losses and surpluses.

Of course, in fact, they all belong to the vassal states of the Chinese Empire, as long as Fang Xiaoyu is willing, it is okay not to give them benefits, but Fang Xiaoyu is not willing to embarrass the governments of these countries too much on the surface, after all, he still needs to rely on these pro-China governments to rule the local people.

In the war, the Chinese Empire fully exerted the advantages of the servant army, most of the time the Chinese Imperial army was hiding behind and covered with firepower, and all the things that were filled with human lives were handed over to the servant army to do, so although the dead soldiers of the ASEAN countries exceeded 1.5 million, the Chinese Empire had less than 300,000 people, and most of these casualties were the losses of the attack on the Cossack Empire in the early stage of the war, which could not but be said to be a war miracle, and the number of Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front every time was as high as 470,000. Almost a third of the total number of people killed in action.

Now that the war is over, all countries have begun to develop their economies and heal the wounds of war in light of their national conditions. The first countries to enter the war began to stimulate their own economies and stimulate domestic demand.