"Move away, move all away!" The huge Nangong Mansion is as noisy and lively as a market at the moment, outside the gate of the mansion, a long series of carriages are pulling countless sorted out large boxes, like a long dragon rushing to the Xicheng Lake Shore Wharf.

Rooted in Yangzhou for more than 300 years, the Nangong family, one of the four major families of the empire, moved away from Yangzhou City, a thousand-year-old city, and the whole family in Yangzhou Center, which is not just a move.

The empty living room entertained many heads of families who followed in the footsteps of the Nangong family, and they needed an explanation from the Nangong family.

Nangong Lie sighed and said, "Don't persuade you again, leaving Yangzhou City is a unanimous decision made by my Nangong family, and it is impossible to change it, and I don't hide it from you, I don't see the prospects of Yangzhou City at all!"

"In Chuzhou, in the south of Qingzhou, and even in Songjiang next to us, Suzhou has regarded the plague as a great enemy, and has done its best to maintain the place with soldiers and horses, so to speak, in order to prevent the plague, do everything!"

"But looking at Yangzhou City, Yancheng at the mouth of Taihu Lake Lake found signs of the plague a month ago, and Yancheng didn't even have martial law, and these days, Lotus Town, not far from Yangzhou City, has also appeared in the plague, but in the end, it was only hastily treated and burned, and some people, for some small profits, began to hoard medicinal materials and raise prices!"

"And so far up and down Yangzhou City, there is still no way to deal with it, my Nangong family is now in Yangzhou City, and several times proposed measures for plague prevention and control, but none of them have been implemented, if this continues, Yangzhou City will be spread by the plague sooner or later!"

"You are all good friends with my Nangong family, I won't say much, if you still trust my Nangong family, trust me Nangong Lie, go back and pack up, and leave Yangzhou City quickly, even if you don't go to the Great Chu Kingdom, it's okay to flee north, that's all, Nangong Lie still has to support family affairs, everyone go back!"

"Your Highness, this Nangong family is really suspicious, but His Highness still makes excuses, and even spreads rumors about the plague, which is really hateful!"

Situ Xue frowned slightly, turned her head, looked at Nalan Kui, and said, "Kui, the matter that this palace asked you to check has eyebrows!"

"Well, the source of this plague broke out from Zhongzhou, at present, the plague has broken out in the north of Chuzhou and the west of Qingzhou, but the details are not clear, because these two places have implemented local military management, except for the army, all travel has been prohibited, and all birds flying over the head have been shot, we have people in the two places, and there is no news at all!"

"I just want to know if there will be a large-scale plague here in Yangzhou?" asked Situ Xue.

"At present, only a dozen people infected with the plague have been found, they have been cremated, and their families and neighbors have also been secretly imprisoned, so it should not continue to spread!"

"Can you guarantee that you won't be caught?" Although Situ Xue has not experienced the plague, she is definitely no stranger to the plague, and the most terrible thing about the plague is infection, so from the beginning, Situ Xue has never ignored the threat of the plague, but she can't do it like Leng Zhuo, block the place, carry out the city ban, she doesn't have that kind of control, everything she needs in Yangzhou needs to rely on the family in those places to act.

"It's hard to guarantee, our strength is limited, although we can mobilize the local guard to work for us, but that is also within a limited range!"

Situ Xue leaned back on the chair, closed her eyes, and said after a while: "Help me contact the Tang family!"

In February of the second year of Dachu Jianye, the Nangong family, based in Yangzhou and rooted in Yangzhou City for more than 300 years, moved away from Yangzhou City, the largest family in Yangzhou in the past, and left Yangzhou in this way.

As the boats carrying all the belongings of the Nangong family went down the river and slowly left Yangzhou City, the pattern in Yangzhou City changed rapidly.

Only a few people followed the Nangong family and left Yangzhou, and more families chose to stay, because their roots are in Yangzhou, and moving is equivalent to breaking their muscles and bones, and starting all over again, it is likely that the family will collapse.

Yangzhou City is still noisy and lively, and the mansion where Her Royal Highness the Holy Princess lives is even more lively, without the Nangong family, the power of Yangzhou City is almost one-sided to the imperial side, and Situ Xue's plan to control Yangzhou seems to have succeeded for most of it.

The whole month of February, just in such a lively past, the spring of March quietly arrived.

In this winter, Li Tang stopped the offensive against Xiliang and Yongxi, and turned to defense on the spot, in fact, to this point, most of the land in the two states has been included in Li Tang's arms, and the only remnants are still shrunk in the corners of the two places, still resisting stubbornly.

On the battlefield of Youzhou, in the face of the empire's crazy offensive, Youzhou has almost fallen into the hands of the empire, but several fortresses in the north are still in the hands of the Tang army and the Beihu army, and after Li Tang occupied Dongliang, in fact, the role of Youzhou has declined a lot, and because of the looting of the Beihu cavalry, as well as more than a year of scuffle, most of the towns were burned, and the fields were barren and innumerable.

Even if it is to give up Youzhou, it will take two or three years for the empire to restore Youzhou, and this time is enough for Li Tang to digest the territory he has gained, but the outbreak of the plague in the southeast of Zhongzhou has become the source of Li Tang's biggest trouble.

Especially with the advent of March, the ice and snow in Zhongzhou began to melt, with the warming of the north, birds began to migrate again, and in winter, the frozen corpses also began to decompose on a large scale, and these carrion corpses are undoubtedly the source of life.

When halfway through March, the plague finally ushered in a major outbreak, and this time the scope was no longer limited to the southeast of Zhongzhou, the north of Chu, the southwest of Qingzhou, and the northwest corner of Yangzhou.

As the middle state of the imperial Kyushu plate, the geographical location is in the middle, it can be said that this is the place where birds must migrate, and the plague that was originally limited to this area has spread rapidly, and the plague has appeared in the eastern part of Zhongzhou, most of Qingzhou, and even the two states of Youyun.

In the three places of Chubei, Qingxinan, and Yangxi, which are facing the source of the plague, the dead-air plague is ushering in a wave of outbreaks.

However, in the three prefectures of northern Chu, all towns and villages are under military control, except for the army's transport convoys, the common people, business travelers are all prohibited from traveling, and even on the streets are prohibited, and such control has finally taken effect.

The dead qi spreads, relying on the contact, and the dead qi is very weak at the beginning, as long as it is dealt with properly, it is difficult for the dead qi to breed more and stronger dead qi, which is equivalent to being strangled in the early stage.

Moreover, the vitality pills refined by Leng Zhuo also began to be distributed, although a county may only be allocated a few bottles, but the appearance of these vitality pills is equivalent to an insurance for this plague, and at the same time, the appearance of this pill has also played a role in stabilizing the place, and even Leng Zhuo's prestige in Chuzhou has increased unprecedentedly again.

And the indirect benefit of this plague is that countless people chose to submit to the Great Chu Kingdom and became the subjects of the Great Chu Kingdom, although most of the places in Chu Prefecture belong to the empire, but most of the people in these places belong to the Great Chu Kingdom, in fact, Chu Prefecture has become the territory of the Great Chu Kingdom in disguise.

And Qingzhou, Bai Qi's iron fist is also playing a role, and Leng Zhuo's support for it is even more than Chuzhou, and the seventy percent of the pills he refined were sent to Qingzhou, which was used to let Bai Qi win over the hearts of the people and those families who were willing to surrender, I believe that after this plague, the southern part of Qingzhou will be like a bucket, difficult to invade.

But Yangzhou is not so lucky, although most of Yangzhou is controlled by Situ Xue, but in fact, Situ Xue's control of the place is not strong, she relies on the other party's forces, so Situ Xue has to compromise on many things, although Situ Xue uses her identity and status to make a lot of preparations, but compared to the determination of other places, the preparedness for the plague in these places is obviously insufficient.

In April, there were hundreds of plague incidents in Yangzhou County, although the local government dealt with it in time, but this plague outbreak was brewing for a period of time, and the outbreak was cremated corpses.

Detention of some people can solve the problem.

On April 3, the first plague carrier was found in Yangzhou City, which was obviously not the first, and in the following two days, the number of people suffering from the dead plague in Yangzhou City rose to 100.

Yangzhou City had to be under martial law, but this martial law obviously could not last long, the population of Yangzhou City was even twice as large as that of Vermilion Bird City in the most prosperous period, and there were more powerful families, martial law could ban ordinary people, but not these people.

For the ordinary people, Yangzhou City has no countermeasures at all, and the people of Yangzhou have no long-term food storage at home, so it seems that the city ban has been implemented, but it is perfunctory, and the dead gas plague has begun to flow and spread.

The government imprisons most of the people who have been hit by the plague, leaving them to fend for themselves and let them go freely, and these people who have been infected with the plague of death gather together, and there is no treatment at all, and soon people begin to die, and death undoubtedly enhances the intensity of death, and the plague patients who are imprisoned together begin to die one after another.

Gradually, the dead qi has gathered a considerable number, and the ubiquitous rats devoured these dead human beings**, and soon became the new plague spreaders, these rats spread along the underground waterways of Yangzhou City to reach all parts of Yangzhou.

And some families began to be unconsciously contaminated with death, and within a few days, various symptoms began to appear, and more and more people were imprisoned, and this became a vicious circle.

Within ten days, Yangzhou City broke out with a plague of unprecedented scale.

(To be continued.)