Chapter 005: Heavy Rain
Heavy rains are indestructible
Looking at so many soldiers who are thinking of returning, it is better to become their wish, so as not to mutiny, but the strength of national defense will be greatly weakened when they all go back. After thinking about it again and again, Emperor Ming ordered: If the father and son are in the barracks, the father will return, if the brothers are in the barracks, the eldest brother will return, and only the orphans in the family can return.
As a result, about one-fifth of the Bingzhou soldiers, one after another, 100,000 Bingzhou soldiers returned to their hometowns. This is more than a month since the meteorite fell.
Under Jiachen's leadership, the deceased were cremated and burned, and the traditional burial was not used, which was troublesome and required coffins and tombs to waste manpower;
Regarding the fire that shocked the six countries, Jiachen only reported that it was a mountain fire. Jiachen was loyal outside, and Emperor Ming did not dare to be suspicious, although the fire caused a big disaster, and the border defense did not suffer much loss, so he endured it and did not have a seizure. When Guishan heard what happened in the imperial capital and the eastern defense line, he was afraid in his heart and broke out in a cold sweat. When I heard Jiachen report like this, I felt a sense of rebirth in my heart, and I was grateful to Jiachen and was willing to serve him. Who can't see that?
Hearing about the great victory in the frontier and the return of the soldiers of Bingzhou, Jiachen Meng Feilong was particularly happy, because now is the time when Bingzhou is in ruins, and now the four fields in the city are all rubble that has not been cleaned up, and 130,000 refugees, plus 80,000 injured people, are still living here. Autumn is almost a month away, and if you don't want to rebuild your home, other things you have to do in the future will be even more difficult.
The sand and dust floating in the city had fallen a lot, and it was still foggy, but it was already possible to distinguish day and night in it. It's just that when I eat, I still drink muddy porridge, and sand and dust fall on the white porridge.
After cleaning up the corpses, Jiachen summoned officials from all walks of life in the disaster area and the commanders elected from the refugees to discuss the post-disaster reconstruction work in the temporary office compound, re-count the information of the Bingzhou household department, and on the basis of the original city, the surviving refugees returned to their original addresses, confiscated the unclaimed land, and redistributed the land and farmland. Ordered the officers to go down and start rebuilding the city of Bingzhou tomorrow.
The next day, many refugees with shovels and pickaxes, and the refugees who were empty-handed were also gearing up. Return to your homestead and pick up working beams, bricks, and furniture from the mess. In fact, before the military order, some refugees spontaneously returned to their homes and began to create their own homes, creating a new future in this painful place. Of course, there are also some petty thieves who fall into the well and take advantage of the dust and fog to steal things in the ruins. Although there are officers and soldiers patrolling day and night, who cares about the sound of sparse noises in the dense fog.
Soon, the returning Bingzhou soldiers returned, hometown. But when I saw the devastated town, smelling the scorching smell of the corpses of my relatives, the bloodied, iron-beaten man, cried.
In this way, a total of 240,000 soldiers and civilians participated in this reconstruction mission. The lack of timber and stone was cut and mined from the mountains outside the city.
Thus began the mighty reconstruction project.
But God didn't want to. Bingzhou, which had not rained for more than a month, suddenly began to rain with a muffled thunder. When people hide in the east of the city, they are secretly happy in their hearts. Because the heavy rain will take away the heat of the sun, the steaming heat, and the dirt that floats in the air and don't know whether it is dust or ashes, and knock it down.
But the current imperial doctor Bai Shell is worried. When you enter the city and see the corpses, your worries are about to explode. When the corpses were burned at the beginning, they were burned one by one, one by one, in small piles, and the corpses could be burned through, but later there were more corpses, and they were piled up with horse-drawn flat carts and carts of corpses. Then it was burned so that the corpses outside had been burned to slag, and the bones could not be picked up, but the corpses inside were hastily buried on the mound outside the city before they were burned through.
After two months of heavy rain, the rain that fell from the sky was as muddy as mud. There is also dirty water flowing on the ground, which will undoubtedly bring the poison of those corroded corpses to the underground water source.
Heavy rains for two days and one night caused some of the newly built houses to collapse, and to make matters worse, the waist-high refugee camp in the low-lying part of the city was flooded. They had to rush to the high part of the city overnight, or to the temple of the witch god in the east of the city, but fortunately there was a lot of labor at that time.
When the sky was clear, the people in the city saw the blue sky, the thin clouds, and the dazzling sun, and some people were ecstatic. But to talk about it is just as uncomfortable as when they first arrived. Accustomed to the dusty sky, I suddenly give you a blue sky and white clouds, but I feel that the sun hurts. However, I think the witch temple against the blue sky is even more magnificent.
"Medical officer, immediately store the medicine that has not been used in the medicine storehouse, decoction it over high heat, and everyone must drink it, once in the morning and once in the evening. "Usually, Mr. Hao's imperial doctor Bai Shell, now it seems to be very principled. The others laughed and said, "Isn't it just a heavy rain, at most a fever and diarrhea or something, and as for such a serious book, how did they know that the medicine was a god of distemper -- a special treatment for the prevention of plagues?" Bai Ke told Jiachen about this matter, and Jiachen conveyed the words of the white imperial doctor again. But three days later, there were still people who hated cold and heat, but immediately the heat was not cold, headache and body ache, and the moss was as white as powder. There is no doubt that the plague has been diagnosed. The person was immediately isolated, but there were still people who were infected with the plague one after another. Ten days later, there were thousands of them. The refugee camp vacated south of the city was occupied by plague patients.
The disease was not incurable at that time, but the effect was slow, and it would take more than half a year to heal at the earliest, but who could afford the pain of daily headache and body pain, which was only the mildest early symptom, and the severe ones after the complication, headache such as splitting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and confusion. This is the real can't survive, can't die. Some people can't stand the pain and end their lives early.
The screams of pain from the south of the city can be heard every night, and during the day, but they are muffled by the noise of buildings. At night, the sound is particularly far-reaching. Everyone who hears this voice, Zeng Jing's wound will ache faintly, and the repentance and wrong things that you have done in your memory will be churning in your mind again, making you cry again and again.
Except for the military doctors, no one is willing to go to the south of the city to help, only some relatives are there and need to be taken care of. The plague was dealt with in a timely manner, but why were so many patients still affected? Until one day.
Until one day, two medical officers pulled a flat cart to the grave outside the city and burned the corpses of those who had died of the plague. While the bodies were in the open space of the mound, the two lit the fire, and they couldn't stand the smell of smoky barbecue, even though they were both wearing thick masks.
Suddenly, they heard a loud, shrill, shrill cry from the corpse, as if they were burned by the burning flames. They were watching as the corpse seemed to be moving slightly, struggling to crawl out of the fire. The two of them were shocked in their hearts, whether the person was not dead yet, and both of them rubbed their eyes to make sure that the person was indeed moving. Two busy, with the surrounding dirt, the fire on the corpse was extinguished. Although I know that it is too late, it is better than a condemnation of conscience. After the fire was extinguished, the corpse was still moving, his stomach was moving, then his chest, and then his mouth. Suddenly... Suddenly...
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