It is said that through Guo Youzhi's description, Liu Hou learned that Xu Jing had done a good job in Rinan County without news for a long time, and he actually helped solve a large part of the huge burden of military rations on the Hong army.

Liu Hou didn't expect that he was not only a rotten Confucian who could only talk about it, but also a cadre, and he could do such a practical and good thing when he arrived in the place. However, the good times did not last long, as Liu Hou had predicted before, Xu Jing arrived in Rinan County, contracted the plague for more than a year, and soon died.

In response to that sentence, good people don't live long, and disasters stay for thousands of years, Xu Jing made such a big mistake before, did so many things that brought disaster to the country and the people, and his body has never had anything, and now he has done something good, and he will go to see King Yama immediately.

When Liu Hou heard Guo Youzhi mention that Xu Jing had the plague, he became anxious, because he had long known that there were many plagues in those southern barbarian lands, and what he was most worried about was the outbreak of the plague, which would lead to a large number of non-combat attrition among the military and civilians.

This is also the reason why he has been implementing various health measures in the army to strengthen epidemic prevention, but there are thousands of preventions, and the epidemic is the most difficult to prevent, but I didn't expect him to go to great lengths to prevent the epidemic, and the plague still broke out.

Why did he conclude that the plague had broken out when he heard that Xu Jing had the plague? Because Xu Jing is an official, if even the official is infected, let alone other ordinary people with worse health conditions, so he became nervous when he heard that Xu Jing was sick, and hurriedly asked Guo Youzhi what kind of disease Xu Jing had and how many people were infected with the epidemic.

According to Guo Youzhi, Xu Jing's illness is called "three three diseases" in the local area, because this disease will have "three reds" and "three pains". The "three reds" refer to flushed face, eyes, and chest, while the "three pains" refer to headaches, orbital pain, and muscle and joint pain.

When Liu Hou heard this, he chuckled in his heart, and said in his heart: It's bad, I'm really afraid of something. As soon as he heard it, he knew it was dengue fever. In his previous life, infectious diseases were no longer the main disease, but in the year before he crossed over, dengue fever broke out in the southern city where he lived.

More than 30,000 cases of dengue fever were reported in the province that year, and the city where he lived accounted for more than 20,000 cases, and I don't know how many were not reported. That year, the entire city was mobilized to take part in mosquito control. Under the powerful propaganda offensive of the neighborhood committee and the Patriotic Health Association, Liu Hou, an otaku, also has a certain understanding of dengue fever.

He is well aware of the horror of this disease, especially in this era of backward science and technology. Even in the later generations of scientific prosperity, tens of thousands of people in those countries in Southeast Asia are infected with dengue fever every year, not to mention now, Liu Hou can't help but feel deeply worried about those soldiers of the Southern Expedition, and hurriedly asked Guo Youzhi about the specific process of Xu Jing's illness and the situation of the Southern Expedition troops.

Guo Youzhi obviously did his homework, and only listened to his narration, and told the story of what happened thousands of miles away clearly: It turned out that the climate in Rinan County was hot, and there was a lot of rain, which was the easiest to breed mosquitoes and poisonous insects, not to mention that there were many places where miasma was rampant. There were often plague epidemics in such places, which is what we now call infectious diseases.

The official master could have been pampered by hiding in the official office, so that he would not be infested by miasma, and the probability of being injured by mosquitoes and poisonous insects would be reduced. What is good is that after Xu Jing was taught a lesson by Liu Hou, he suddenly woke up, learned from the pain, and was determined to be a capable minister and make more contributions to the country for the rest of his life.

So he gave up his privileged life and resolutely went down to the grassroots level to supervise production activities. In the official language, it was called "persuading farmers and mulberries", and the production activities at that time were basically agricultural activities, not to mention that he was running a plantation, so he often went to the reclamation site of the plantation to "persuade farmers and mulberries".

There is not much in Ninan-gun, but there are the most primeval forests, and there are much more primeval forests than cultivated land. Xu Jing wants to set up a plantation, what if there is no arable land? It's easy to do, and he thought of a good idea, which is to reach out to the primeval forest.

He sent people to cut down some marginal areas of primeval forests, and then set them on fire, and he could get a large ~ large ~ piece of fertile arable land. These primeval forests have accumulated over countless years, and a thick layer of dead leaves has accumulated on the ground, and these dead branches and leaves have decayed to form humus.

This humus is the best natural fertilizer, so these newly cultivated fields do not need to be fertilized at all, and they are already fertile fields.

Xu Jing's organization of slaves to reclaim farmland is indeed a good deed for the benefit of the country and the people, but of course, from the perspective of environmental protection, it is necessary to say something else. However, at that time, the forest coverage rate was very high, and there was no contradiction between man and the environment, and naturally no one considered the issue of environmental protection.

In jargon, it was a problem of the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction, and the main contradiction at that time was that there was too little arable land and too little food to meet the growing needs of the people for food.

Therefore, the government should do everything possible to increase arable land and increase food production, which has been one of the biggest headaches for the Chinese government for thousands of years. In order to implement this good governance, Xu Jing can be said to have done his best, and he often went to the front-line site of reclamation to supervise and investigate.

His efforts were not in vain, and in the plantations under his rule, the production of grain increased steadily, providing a large amount of military rations for the Hong army's conquest. However, he also took his life because of this.

You know, the site of reclamation is the edge of the primeval forest, what is the primeval forest? In addition to the many trees, there are also many snakes, insects, rats, ants, and mosquitoes. Because he is a local parent official, but he is still protected to a certain extent, snakes, insects, rats and ants generally can't hurt him, but mosquitoes can't prevent it.

You must know that mosquitoes are pervasive, he is often bitten by mosquitoes like a pig's head, and people at that time felt that mosquitoes were not particularly harmful except for annoying them and biting people.

However, later generations know that mosquitoes are almost the most harmful insects to humans. There are many kinds of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, including dengue fever, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, and so on, in addition to malaria contracted by the previous Southern Expeditionary Force.

And these diseases are very serious, and the mortality rate is very high. Although Liu Hou is a traverser, he is not a doctor, even if he is a doctor, in this era of lack of Western medicine, not all diseases can be cured.

Before he guided the doctors to get artemisinin, and the surrender of malaria was still thanks to the Nobel Prize-winning grandmother Tu, but he couldn't help other mosquito-borne infectious diseases, such as filariasis is to be killed with chemical drugs, even if he was born in Western medicine, he is not a chemist, and he does not know how to synthesize these drugs.

Not to mention dengue fever and Japanese encephalitis, which are viral diseases that have no specific cure even in later generations. There is only one word for treatment, that is, "carry", if you can carry it, you will survive, and if you can't carry it, you will die.

Xu Jing is not young, and he is a scholar who lacks physical exercise, of course, his physical fitness is not much better, and he naturally can't bear it when he encounters such a serious infectious disease.

After he became ill, he had a high fever for several days, and his whole body was full of rashes. When he died, he was bleeding from seven holes, and his death was terrible, and everyone who saw him said that he had done something against the way of heaven, so he was punished by heaven, and he died a tragic death.

Liu Hou naturally didn't believe this superstitious statement, when he heard Xu Jing's death, he knew that he was because of thrombocytopenia and had a tendency to ~ blood, which was a symptom of dengue ~ blood fever.