Chapter 52: The Plague
This unprecedented plague has affected the entire Kyushu continent, and almost no one has been spared except for the Akiyama Peninsula. His initial symptoms were just normal nausea and vomiting, weakness, coughing and wheezing, or some red spots on his body. Due to the mild symptoms, it has not been noticed. And the first to discover the virus was a barefoot doctor. When he was treating a patient, he observed an abnormality in the lesion, but out of an abundance of caution, he did not report it to the government department, but shared the news with his family and friends so that they could prevent it in advance. But the news still spread far and wide, and it was spread by many people in multiple versions. This caused him to be ridiculed and attacked even more, and for most people, it is unacceptable for this kind of thing that did not happen to be foreseen in advance by an ordinary person. At the same time, the criminal yamen interviewed him on the grounds of spreading rumors and transmitting terrorist information, and gave him a warning, which made those who originally despised him even more caught, in a sense, this is an authoritative denial, and its credibility is extremely high. However, after more than ten days, as the number of infected people increased, the local government began to become nervous, but in order not to escalate the situation, and at the same time, they thought that the matter was still under control, so they chose to hide it. It wasn't until Chu Yujing saw Li Youlan in Dengyinglou and ordered martial law throughout the country that the local authorities could no longer conceal it and chose to report it, but at this time, it had reached the point where it was uncontrollable.
Almost overnight, this tiny town disappeared from the world forever. Chu Tianyao's army surrounded this place under the cover of night. The order they received was a total blockade and complete annihilation. With Chu Tianyao's order, this army carried out an indiscriminate massacre of the people who were still sleeping in the city. All the living things died tragically under their butcher's knives, and the rivers of blood flowed so hard that it could no longer describe its cruelty. When the first rays of light entered the city, the army withdrew from the city, and another group of troops entered the city, disinfecting the entire city and destroying all the corpses. When all was done, the city was rejuvenated, and in every way it was better than before, except that there was no life. After that, this army disappeared completely.
This incident has not been written into history, and later people can only draw conclusions from some clues, but fragmentary evidence cannot be stitched together into a complete story, and this history has become a missing page, but speculation and controversy have never stopped.
At the same time, Chu Yuxing sent an envoy to contact the Demon God Academy, wanting to get the antidote from them through exchange. And let the hospital set up a special team to step up research on the virus, so as to develop an antidote on its own. More importantly, he issued restraining orders and established a temporary control organization.
The restraining order requires that all people, whether infected or uninfected, be allowed to leave their current place of residence, including long-term and temporary residents. Once they leave, they will be summarily executed for crimes against public safety. Those who have already been infected should be managed and dealt with by the local government in a unified manner. At the local level, except for particularly important matters, the rest do not have to be reported. In other words, the life and death of these people is completely up to the discretion of the locality. This was a wrongful act of decentralization, and it was the one that was later criticized the most. It not only led to corruption, but also caused many people to die in vain.
The Provisional Organization consists of three components: the Statistical Office, the Operations Team and the Logistics Support Unit. The Census and Statistics Department is responsible for the collection and analysis of big data to identify high-risk areas for the occurrence of the virus, and its curve changes, so as to provide a basis for control. The action group is responsible for the transmission of local information, the issuance of orders, and the assistance in control, the mobilization of troops, etc., they can be said to be the busiest, big and small, single-handed. The logistics support department is mainly responsible for the distribution of supplies in various localities to ensure the minimum guarantee of the people during the control period.
After these measures were implemented, Chu Yuxing thought that he could sit back and relax, but he still underestimated the power of the virus. The death forms that were sent to him every day were still increasing with appalling numbers.
"The number of deaths published shall not exceed 1,000"! He said to Chu Lanruo, the person in charge of this incident, extremely serious: "I'm talking about the whole country, not the capital."
"Subordinates understand"!
"In addition, the number of deaths per day should show a decreasing situation, and the increase in cases should not exceed the previous statistics, at most the same."
He paced back and forth, his eyebrows furrowed: "Those medicines should also be distributed to the localities, the sooner the better."
Chu Lanruo's face was embarrassed: "Your Majesty, the quantity developed now cannot meet the needs of most of the capital, and it is really difficult to supply the whole country."
"Then replace it with other medicines"! "This must be done as soon as possible, this is a top priority", he snapped!
Of course, Chu Lanruo understood his intentions, for a ruler, social stability is the most important thing, and deception is only a means to achieve stability.
"In addition, the most effective treatment, the best supplies, must be given to the majority first, - I don't want to worry about other things while I sleep."
When Chu Lanruo exited the south study, she was already sweating profusely. He let out a long exhale, straightened his clothes, raised his head again, and swaggered out the door.
"My lord, how is our discussion?" A yellow-skinned and thin-skinned person who looked like a dried corpse asked Chu Lanruo with a smile on his face.
"It's early, it's early", he was reluctant to deal with this kind of person, but his proposal was extremely tempting: "Besides, I don't wait for the money to be spent, and I am still afraid that the sky will thunder and thunder, - aren't you afraid?"
The face of the dry corpse changed, but then he regained his smile: "My lord said that he laughed, the so-called good and evil are rewarded, it is pure nonsense, are all those who ask for food heinous?" Are the dignitaries and dignitaries the most virtuous and holy? My uncle's intention was to serve the country when it was in danger. If an adult has a difficulty, he will find another way in his later life." As he spoke, he got up and took his leave.
Chu Lanruo didn't like to dry corpses, but his uncle was something he couldn't afford to mess with, and now seeing that he was angry, he had to hold back his anger and conjure up a smiling face: "Why is my brother so impatient? Although this matter is more difficult, it is not impossible, and if we can discuss a perfect solution, I don't think there will be much hindrance."
When the dry corpse heard him say this, he turned his anger into joy and sat down again: "Late reckless, the boss is to blame." I think of small things, and adults can call the shots, but I don't know that there are still obstacles, and if so, I need to think about it in the long run."
It turned out that the name of this dried corpse was Zhang Shanshan, and his uncle was the famous Xinye Hou Chu Tianxun. Relying on the relationship between his uncle, this mountain wanders among the powerful, makes some gentlemen, and is idle all day long. Yuan is also an ordinary person who does not learn and has no skills, but he doesn't want to encounter the opportunity of the virus outbreak, so he wants to take this opportunity to make a big profit. So I saved a few people, got some anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving potions, changed the label, and sold them as new medicines.
The man in danger, when he saw a glimmer of light, thought that the sky was bright, and did not distinguish between truth and falsehood, but regarded him as a savior, and he also gained fame and fortune because of it. However, he was not satisfied, and recently developed a reagent to test whether people in infected areas have been infected. But although the reagent can be used, it must be certified by the state and supported by the government before it can be used, so he begged Chu Tianxun, Chu Tianxun didn't know what to do, and promised him to help from the side, so he moved around under his name, and finally, found Chu Lanruo.
But Chu Lanruo is not stupid, after he saw his reagent in person, he knew what it was, in order not to be implicated in the event of an accident in the future, let Zhang Shanshan encourage Chu Tianxun to use the relationship, and unite Chu Tianyao and some ministers to jointly protect it, so that Zhang Shanshan has absolute rights in the testing and research and development of reagents, and he just said a few words without pain.
In any case, there was no social turmoil in the Kangle Dynasty, and in this respect, their measures were still successful, but the loss of two-thirds of the population still made this superpower decline rapidly, and as Chu Tianyao closed his eyes in painful torment, the party struggle began again. And after Zhang Shanshan's affair was revealed, the royalists completely went to the end of the road.