Half an hour later, the Jiaozhou returned, and the soldiers stepped off the ship, and after the soldier in charge of recording on the ship handed over a form to Zhou Xian, he went on the ship to wait for the test of the second batch of soldiers.

Zhou Xian picked up the paper and looked at it, only to see that it was written that there were 515 people with severe seasickness.

Zhou Xian said to Zhang Guodong and the three next to him: "You see, more than 500 of the 2,000 soldiers have seasickness, so not everyone can be in the navy." ”

"yes, I didn't expect so many people to get seasick." Zhang Guodong said with emotion.

"Let's give it a try, too!" Zhou Xian said with a smile.

Zhang Guodong and the three looked at each other, saluted Zhou Xian, and then walked towards Jiaozhou.

Zhou Xian looked at the backs of the three of them leaving, and wondered who was not seasick.

Another half an hour passed, and the ship returned, and the second group of soldiers disembarked one after another.

Zhang Guodong and the three of them also walked off the Jiaozhou and walked towards Zhou Xian.

I saw Zhang Guodong walking in the middle with a smile on his face, and Ou Jiahua and Wu Haibin next to him showed a look of loss and frustration.

Zhou Xian immediately had an answer in his heart when he saw this scene, it seems that only Zhang Guodong did not get seasick, Ou Jiahua and Wu Haibin should have seasickness.

When the three of them approached, when Zhang Guodong handed the paper to Zhou Xian, he said with a smile: "President, only I did not have seasickness, Ou Jiahua and Wu Haibin, the two division commanders, both experienced seasickness." ”

"Then Zhang Guodong will be the commander of the navy." Zhou Xian directly appointed.

After Zhou Xian finished speaking, he looked at Ou Jiahua and Wu Haibin.

Ou Jiahua and the others saw Zhou Xian looking at them, and hurriedly said: "Okay, the two of us are a little seasick, and we are really not suitable for the navy." ”

"Don't be discouraged, the development of the army will be faster in the future, after all, we mainly have more land wars, and you still have a chance to be a commander or commander in the future." Zhou Xian comforted.

When Ou Jiahua and the others heard Zhou Xian's words, their previous sense of loss was swept away, yes, they can't be the commander of the navy, and they will work hard to be an army commander in the future.

After all the soldiers boarded the ship for testing, Zhou Xian looked at the number of people on the four pieces of paper in his hand.

Of the 8500 soldiers, 2500 suffered from severe seasickness, and only 6000 qualified.

"Only 6,000 soldiers are qualified, Zhang Guodong, you have to continue to recruit 14,000 navy." Zhou Xian handed the statistics sheet to Zhang Guodong and said.

"Yes, President, I'll start recruiting tomorrow." Zhang Guodong said excitedly.

After the things here were done, Zhou Xian handed over the recruitment manual for the navy compiled last night to Zhang Guodong and returned to Xingjing.

As for the methods of recruiting and training the navy, Zhou Xian has also written it in the manual, and the rest will be handed over to Zhang Guodong.

When he arrived in Xingjing, Zhou Xian looked at the wall clock on the bell tower, it was already more than six o'clock in the afternoon, and he wouldn't go to Xingjing University if it was too late today, so he thought that he would go early tomorrow and go to the mansion.

Things in the world often don't develop according to your ideas, and not long after Zhou Xian returned to the mansion, Zhou Fugui hurriedly came to Zhou Xian's mansion.

As soon as he saw Zhou Xian, Zhou Fugui said with a frightened face: "It's not good for the president, we Xingjing discovered smallpox." ”

"Smallpox?"

Zhou Xian was also shocked.

Smallpox, the name sounds nice, but it's actually a terrible contagion.

Onset begins with high fever, headache, vomiting, followed by red pimples all over the body, then into scars, and finally into pus.

After ten days, the pus scar forms a scab, and after it falls off, the patient becomes a pockmark with acne scars on his face, and if he is seriously ill, he will die.

Smallpox was later considered by historians to be "the largest genocide in human history" not by guns, but by smallpox.

At that time, the smallpox virus was raging, causing a large number of deaths, and everyone was in danger, from the ruling class to the common people.

Emperor Shunzhi during the Qing Dynasty is rumored to have contracted smallpox and died.

Unexpectedly, his own Xingjing also encountered the smallpox virus.

"Are you sure it's smallpox? How many people got smallpox? Thinking of this, Zhou Xian asked eagerly.

"It's definitely smallpox, several doctors have seen it, and they have all been diagnosed, this time there are three people who are infected, the three of them are soap sellers, and they have just returned from Jiangnan." Zhou Fugui affirmed.

"Coming back from Jiangnan?"

"Yes, it's their family."

"Let's take a look."

Zhou Xian took Zhou Fugui and walked outside the house.

This time, the smallpox patient lived in a place called the 56th district.

Because there are too many buildings in Xingjing now, Zhou Xian planned these buildings into communities, and every ten buildings are called communities, and the names of the communities are simple and straightforward, and they are arranged in order.

Soon Zhou Xian and Zhou Fugui came to the 56th district, where there were already many people, and in the innermost were the police of the Public Security Bureau, who blocked there to prevent the people from entering.

Zhou Xian came to a policeman and asked, "Is the patient still inside?" ”

The policeman was transferred from the soldiers, so he knew Zhou Xian, and when he heard Zhou Xian's question, he hurriedly said: "Report to the president, the three patients are still inside, and a doctor is treating them." ”

Hearing that the patient was still inside, Zhou Xian breathed a sigh of relief, "You go to your Director Sun, and say that I will ask him to seal all the entrances to Xingjing, and no one is allowed to enter or leave, and then bring someone to come over and seal the fifty-six districts."

The policeman said yes and ran to the sheriff's office.

After the police left, Zhou Xian said to Zhou Fugui: "Uncle Zhou, you go to the textile factory to find Xiaoyu and ask her to bring some of the masks I asked her to make before, and everyone here must wear masks." ”

Zhou Fugui knew that the situation was urgent, so he agreed and walked to the textile factory.

Half an hour later, Sun Wu came over with a team of policemen.

Sun Wu walked up to Zhou Xian and saluted and said, "President, what's the matter, what's so serious, you actually want to block all the entrances and exits of Xingjing." ”

"Smallpox is here, and smallpox can't be contagious." Zhou Xian said with a solemn face.

"What? Smallpox? Sun Wu's face changed greatly when he heard this.

Since Sun Wu's subordinates had not yet told him about the situation here, Sun Wu did not know that smallpox had occurred here.

"That's right, it's smallpox, the most important thing now is to evacuate the crowd, guard this place, and don't allow people to enter or leave."

"Yes, President, I see."

After speaking, Sun Wu asked the police to block all the entrances and exits of the 56th district, and drove all the people who were watching the excitement home.

After another half an hour, Zhou Fugui came over with two people pulling a carriage.