Chapter 56: Food Crisis and Plague

As mentioned last time, the Shu army rescued more than 3,000 rattan armor soldiers and tens of thousands of people, Fei Yi was very worried about the food problem, and Liu Hou is now more worried than Fei Yi, in later generations, after every natural disaster, he can hear a sentence "After the disaster, there will be a great epidemic." This means that after a major natural disaster, it is very easy to have a plague pandemic, that is, a major outbreak of infectious diseases.

This is easy to understand, a catastrophe will inevitably lead to the death of a large number of people and animals, and the carcasses of these people and animals will decompose, breeding a large number of bacteria and viruses, and easily contaminating water sources and food.

In the aftermath of the disaster, the living environment is destroyed, people do not have access to clean drinking water and food, and hungry and thirsty people are likely to eat and drink contaminated food and drinking water on the spot, which can easily cause diseases.

In addition, after the catastrophe, the people who suffered from the disaster were generally mentally and physically exhausted, and their resistance decreased, which is also the reason why they are susceptible to disease.

In order to prevent the epidemic, Liu Hou mobilized all the rescued people and asked them to dig pits everywhere on the slopes of the small hill, praying that a few wells could be dug. Fortunately, the Lingnan area has abundant groundwater, and even on small plateaus, several deep wells were eventually dug.

The water from these wells, together with the springs of some small mountain streams, barely meets the basic drinking needs of so many people in the mountains. As for bathing, washing other things, then there is not so much clean water to waste, either you have to go to the flood and fight those yellow-red floods to wash, or you have to endure it.

On the other hand, Liu Hou mobilized all the accompanying military doctors and asked them to explain and publicize health knowledge to the common people. Liu Hou's troops have no problem in this regard, and their daily training subjects include all kinds of hygiene knowledge. Not drinking raw water, not eating raw food, and rotting and spoiled food are written into the terms of military discipline.

Therefore, Liu Hou is not very worried about his troops, they just need to do it as usual. But this common people can't do it, they have no hygiene knowledge and hygiene habits at all, and these need to be forcibly instilled in them by Liu Hou.

There are many things to be done, including organizing people to build a large number of toilets, uniformly and harmlessly disposing of feces, uniformly disposing of domestic garbage, cleaning and exposing all people's clothes and bedding to the sun, building simple shacks for these people to live temporarily, not allowing too many people to gather together, lest the density of the crowd cause an epidemic of respiratory infectious diseases, organizing people to kill mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches, rats and other "four pests" and so on.

In addition to sending all the doctors out, Liu Hou also sent a sanitation law enforcement team to severely punish those who did not observe hygiene practices such as open defecation, littering, and spitting.

These things are cumbersome and heavy, but fortunately, Fei Yi and his team of clerks can be dispatched.

Liu Hou was not idle, constantly formulating new policies and issuing new orders, and was very busy. No one has done a good job in this regard, and neither can Fei Yi, because he has more than two thousand years of scientific knowledge and knowledge of disease prevention, so many important decisions were made by Liu Hou himself, even if many decisions were incomprehensible to everyone, but they were also forcibly implemented by Liu Hou.

For example, in addition to the "four evils", many people think that it is a move to take off his pants and fart, and it is the nonsense of this prince who is so idle that he is angry.

Only Liu Hou knew that many infectious diseases were spread through the "four pests" of guò, and when he was a child, he often passed by the neighborhood committee and saw the propaganda posters of the patriotic health campaign posted on the propaganda boards there, which had a very detailed introduction to these knowledge.

When Liu Hou was a child, he liked to read words when he saw them, such as signboards, posters, billboards, and even door numbers, and he would recite them silently in his heart after seeing them, which is also a habit that many children who have just learned to read and write. Liu Hou's habit has not been completely abandoned until he is an adult, which has a good effect on his learning to read and write, and at the same time, he can also learn some knowledge from it.

Therefore, Liu Hou issued a strict order to carry out his orders in a down-to-earth manner, and even did not hesitate to send troops to supervise the implementation of these measures. Many people who cheated and cheated in the work of eliminating the "four evils" were punished, and even hung up and whipped to show the public, which made everyone realize that this prince was not idle and gave such an order for fun.

Zhou Xue finally knew that the Yuejiang River had burst the embankment, although no one saw with their own eyes that it was done by Buqi, but all kinds of signs showed that it had nothing to do with him, he did send someone to dig the embankment, as for whether it was successful, no one sued her, and this matter was naturally counted on him.

In fact, it was not Liu Hou who was hiding it from him, so far, even Liu Hou has not figured out the reason for the burst. Liu Hou has been so busy these days that he no longer has the time and energy to find Zhou Xue, but Zhou Xue took the initiative to come to him.

Zhou Xue came to Liu Hou mainly to solve the situation of the embankment and the situation of the victims. Liu Hou didn't completely figure out the reason for the embankment, but it didn't prevent him from splashing dirty water on Bu Qi's head first. As a result, Zhou Xue's impression of Bu Qi gradually changed, her disgust for him increased, and at the same time, she fell into greater ideological confusion.

In order to understand the situation of the victims, she offered to go with Liu Hou to inspect the camp of the victims, and Liu Hou naturally would not refuse this. On this day, Liu Hou took Zhou Xue to inspect the camp camp, and Liu Hou pointed to the camp camp:

"There are 10,000 people here, but there are more than 100,000 people affected, and there is not one one of the people left. How innocent are the people? They are all honest people facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and they have never thought about harming or offending anyone, but they have suffered such a catastrophe, and they are really not as good as pigs and dogs......"

Liu Hou looked compassionate and sighed loudly, which really resonated with Zhou Xue. Liu Hou peeked at her, and when he saw that she didn't say a word, his face became more and more gloomy, and finally tears rolled in his eyes. Obviously, Buqi's image in her mind has dropped another notch, and his score in her mind has improved again.

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Liu Hou accepted it when he saw it, no longer counted the sins of Buqi, and instead guided the topic to the victims:

"Although I am not talented, I can't bear to see so many people suffering, and I must do my best to save them. You see, I'm going to take out* rations for them to eat. ”

Liu Hou pointed to the porridge shed not far away and said, "I am not an ordinary disaster relief porridge shed, what I give them is not gruel, but porridge that does not fall down with chopsticks." ”

As he spoke, Liu Hou took Zhou Xue to the porridge shed, and the people present saw His Royal Highness the prince coming, and they all bowed their hands to greet the prince. Originally, when they saw such a big man as the prince, they wanted to kneel, but this prince was very amiable, and he would come to visit everyone's situation every day, and he specially ordered that everyone was not allowed to kneel and salute.

The people who are used to being oppressed get such a courtesy from the prince, and they all feel that this prince is benevolent in their hearts. What's more, the prince also sent people to rescue himself from the flood and provide them with food, although the prince likes to catch mice and cockroaches, which is a bit unreliable, but the flaws are not hidden, in the hearts of these victims, His Royal Highness the prince has long been their favorite person.

Zhou Xue walked into the porridge shed and saw that the stoneware bowl of the victim really contained something between porridge and rice, and the portion was quite a lot, although he could not eat enough, but at least he could eat half full, so as not to starve to death. At this time, it is not easy to not starve to death.

What's more, the victims who had lined up to receive the porridge moved their bodies to the side, where another cook took a spoon and scooped out a spoonful of wild vegetables mixed with tofu and something that turned into mush from the large wooden basin in front of him, and buckled it into the stoneware bowl of the victim.

Although Zhou Xue was born in the family of the eunuch, she did not grow up in the boudoir, on the contrary, she not only often mixed in the military camp, but also went out to perform tasks, and often mixed in the people, and had a deep understanding of the people's suffering.

Then, Liu Hou took her to visit the newly dug wells, newly built toilets, and the shacks where the victims lived.

When Zhou Xue saw many doctors treating the victims and preaching health knowledge in the disaster camp, he was even more shocked, not only shocked that there were so many doctors in the Shu army, but also shocked that this prince actually took out all the military doctors and medicinal materials to serve the victims. This kind of behavior already has the appearance of a clear king.

But when Zhou Xue saw that many victims were organized to eliminate the "four evils", she felt very curious and puzzled. Liu Hou patiently explained to her the dangers of these four pests, telling her that many plagues were spread by these four pests, and Zhou Xue seemed to understand it, but her eyes became shining.

Fei Yi finally couldn't hold back and came to Liu Hou to tell him about the imminent food crisis. Liu Hou was very annoyed that he disturbed the two-person world between himself and Zhou Xue, but he still had to deal with the business.

Liu Hou asked Fei Yi to arrange for the soldiers of the squad to hold a raft and get out of the flood area as much as possible, find the baggage team responsible for logistics and supply, and let them also transport some grain in small quantities in the form of a raft.

Although this will not do much to alleviate the food crisis, it can reassure the morale of the army and the people. When the soldiers and civilians see that there is grain brought in, they will feel much more at ease, and there will be no chaos.

As for the real food supply, it can only be solved after the water recedes, and it is not urgent to come now.

After receiving the news of the lack of embankments in the Yuejiang River in Panyu City, Bu Qiu shouted three times: "The sky will not die in Dongwu!" He drank a pot of wine again, wrote a recital overnight, and sent someone north to report to Sun Quan that he had dragged the troops of the prince of Shu to Lingnan, and secondly, he also asked for credit for the missing Lu Mao or was convicted of the crime of harming the people. Obviously, he didn't know that the passage to the north had been cut off by the Shu army.

No matter how great a storm is, there will be a time when it will pass, and no matter how great the flood is, there will be a time when it will recede. On the seventh day of the flood, the water finally became smaller and the water level dropped significantly. Liu Hou sent all the active civilians and sergeants out to repair the river embankment.

Now the number of rescued people has reached 30,000, and nearly 4,000 of the vine armor troops who were washed away have been rescued. Those who have not been rescued are estimated to be more than lucky, that is to say, in this flood, Liu Hou lost thousands of vine armor troops, much more than the tens of thousands of enemy troops he lost.

Liu Hou's heart ached for a long time, but at this time, there was no time to give him more heartache, he could only restrain his feelings and continue to arrange disaster relief.

After tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians rushed to repair for three days and three nights day and night, the place where the embankment lacked was finally blocked. The flood has finally come to an end.