The affairs of the Wa Kingdom have come to an end, and it is already the fifth year that Xiao Jiu has come to this world.

From a small mountain bandit on Hare Mountain to the current princes, Xiao Jiu has experienced too much, and his character has become more resolute and stable.

Just as the factories in Yangcheng County were opening one after another, Li Fu and the caravan representatives under his command quietly arrived in Qingzhou.

In the city lord's mansion, Xu Liang, the new governor of Qingzhou, together with a number of officials from the Qingzhou family, met with Li Fu and his party.

"Lord Xu, Xia Guan came to Qingzhou to solve some of the remaining problems between the two sides once and for all on behalf of Yangcheng.".

"For all the rights and wrongs before, they are already old things, rather than gratuitous empty losses, which will only cheapen others, it is better to turn hostilities into jade silk and cooperate with each other."

Seeing Li Fu gushing endlessly, Xu Liang touched the beard on his chin, as if he was really thinking about the gains and losses.

After a long time, Xu Liang smiled slightly and asked, "Mr. Li said that he wanted to cooperate, I don't know what it is?" ”

Immediately, Li Fu replied unhurriedly, "To build a factory, as long as you give us the right to build a factory in Qingzhou, a large part of the trade income will be taxed to the state capital, and in addition, it can also be provided to you with firearms." ”

Xu Liang was still a little hesitant about what he said before, after all, letting the funds of the Lingshui caravan come in to build a factory can get a lot of taxes, but once there are more people working in Qingzhou, it will be difficult to manage.

can hear the second half of Li Fu's words, and the last trace of hesitation in Xu Liang's heart vanished.

Nothing else, the cannon in Xiao Jiu's hand was a recognized battlefield weapon, but the formula of gunpowder was only in Xiao Jiu's hands.

Now that Xiao Jiu is willing to take out some firearms for an exchange of interests, it is difficult not to make Xu Liang moved.

In this way, Li Fu relied on the cannon promised by Xiao Jiu and successfully obtained a pass to build a factory in Qingzhou from Xu Liang.

After the two sides negotiated, Li Fu left with his subordinates who came to visit him and stayed in the largest inn in Qingzhou.

In the next few days, Li Fu brought a large number of gifts to the major families in Qingzhou to pay a visit, and this was also one of the things that Xiao Jiu explained to him.

Now that the situation in the north is quite stable for the time being, Xiao Jiu has also taken advantage of the past few years to desperately provide a good trade environment for the Lingshui Chamber of Commerce.

By now, a huge business empire has been formed with the Chamber of Commerce as the core, and it has also mastered the only maritime trade fleet and routes.

Once the matter of Qingzhou is negotiated, after the subsequent construction of the factory in Qingzhou, it can be directly connected from the northernmost Liaozhou to the entire south.

At present, Qingzhou seems to have lost only a small right to build a factory, but as time goes by, when more and more people need the factories opened by the Chamber of Commerce to eat, will Qingzhou still be Xu Liang and they have the final say?

The answer must be no, so Li Fu has been befriending the Qingzhou family since Xu Liang let go, and even did not hesitate to distribute the shares of the factory to them in order to realize the binding of interests.

When the Qingzhou family no longer supports the current Qingzhou Army and no longer loses the popular base, the peaceful evolution of the economy can be achieved.

For such an economic invasion, there are not many people who can see through the essence with the eyes of the world now, so Xiao Jiu's peaceful evolution policy is going more and more smoothly.

The Wa Kingdom was pacified, Qingzhou was reconciled, and now Yangcheng County has become a force that cannot be ignored in the north.

Except for the fact that the Zhili Forbidden Army is still fighting in Xuzhou on a small scale, it seems that the whole world has become calm.

But on the eve of a storm, it's always exceptionally quiet.

In the spring of the following year, a massive plague quietly swept across the Central Plains.

The plague started in Yuzhou, and at first only one or two refugees died of illness on the way to escape the famine, but this kind of dead people have long been commonplace, and not too many people care.

But with the passage of time, more and more patients began to appear in Yuzhou, and the speed of transmission was extremely fast.

From the beginning of a village, the patient developed large-scale diarrhea and coughing up blood, and from the beginning of the onset of the disease, he was pale and weak.

Moreover, most of the peasants in this era lacked food and clothing, and could not eat anything nutritious at all, so it only took half a month from the onset of illness to death.

After the rebel army in Yuzhou found out, they left and sent troops to start a blockade of the city, prohibiting the people from walking and wandering in Yuzhou.

However, the management scope of the Yuzhou rebel army can only be limited to a few county seats, and the plague has spread inexorably in Yuzhou when it is discovered, and even Gu Chong, the governor of Yuzhou, has also been infected with this plague.

At the same time, in Yangcheng County, Xiao Jiu also received news in advance from an informant planted in Yuzhou, and at this time he was gathering high-level officials in Yangcheng to discuss how to resist this disaster.

"Presumably you all know what I called everyone here today, there is a plague in Yuzhou, and it will sweep through the Central Plains in a few days, do you have any opinions?"

Xiao Jiu's authority in Yangcheng County can be said to be unique, and a deep inquiry is more like a question, which makes the Yangcheng officials a little overwhelmed.

The plague is a thing that everyone here is familiar with, but now that the news is out, no one has a spectrum in their hearts.

Judging from the news from Yuzhou, the momentum of the plague this time is very strong, and it cannot be prevented by prevention alone.

However, in this day and age, the level of medical care is limited, and if there is no countermeasure, countless people will die from the plague, which will only cause greater panic.

Moreover, Xiao Jiu has the memory of his previous life, knows some basic genetic knowledge, and clearly understands that border prevention alone cannot be stopped.

At present, after the outbreak of the plague in Yuzhou, there are a large number of witchcraft and superstitious activities in the territory, but those things can only calm people's hearts and cannot cure the roots.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Xiao Jiu shook his head helplessly, ordered all doctors in the territory to be recruited, and issued military orders to the cadets who were studying as military doctors.

At present, the plague has not yet spread, and there are no symptoms that can be observed, and Xiao Jiu can't give some reference suggestions, so he can only take one step at a time.

For something like the plague, which cannot be seen or touched, Xiao Jiu is afraid from the bottom of his heart.

With the issuance of the state government's order, the border between Yuzhou and Yangcheng County was arranged to be guarded by serious illnesses to prevent refugees from Yuzhou from going to Yangcheng.

But paper can't contain the fire after all, and with the first case being discovered in Yangcheng County, this terrible plague has begun to spread throughout Yangcheng County.

The temporary medical staff who got the news immediately isolated the patient and recorded the symptoms of his illness one by one.

At the same time, all factories in Yangcheng County were shut down, and some began processing quicklime and distilled liquor in large quantities for disinfection of the plague sites.

In the City Lord's Mansion, Xiao Jiu listened to Li Hao read them out one by one according to the book that recorded the symptoms of the patients, and his brows tightly twisted into a lump.

In these hospitals temporarily established by Xiao Jiu, there are already precedents of death, and if no treatment is found, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Originally, Xiao Jiu also pinned his hopes on the talented people in the people, but now it seems that these barefoot doctors can't come up with an effective solution.

After Li Hao finished reading word by word, Xiao Jiu learned that this plague was different from everything he knew in his previous life.

For example, the symptoms of diarrhea are similar to cholera, but they are accompanied by coughing up blood and the body is greatly overdrawn.

However, these are not the ultimate causes of death, and the few deaths that have occurred have all been caused by wound infections caused by ruptured throat abscesses.

Xiao Jiu didn't have a clue for a while, waved his hand to disperse Li Hao, who had been by his side, and sat alone in his study in a daze.

Time passed minute by minute, Xiao Jiu was in a daze, and it was not until he was hungry that he remembered that he had not eaten lunch yet.

Listening to the sound coming from his stomach, Xiao Jiu grinned bitterly.

The higher you stand, the greater the responsibility, but after all, people still have to live, and if you live, you have to eat.

Then, Xiao Jiu stood up and went to the kitchen in a depressed mood to find something to eat, but as soon as he went out, he saw Li Luoyao and his mother-in-law walking towards the study with a child in their arms.

Li Luoyao was talking to her mother all the way, and when she turned around, she happened to see Xiao Jiu coming from the study, and shouted casually: "Xiao Jiu, I haven't seen you go to the back kitchen all day, I made the lunch prepared by Lao Ding cold." ”

Hearing this, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of Xiao Jiu's mouth, and he nodded lightly and stopped talking.

Seeing this, the mother-in-law who came with Li Luoyao immediately patted her daughter with her hand and said, "How can you talk to your husband, you have to have the duty of a woman." ”

Seeing this, Xiao Jiu hurriedly stepped forward and said that the family was not tight, and the eyes that looked at Li Luoyao were also full of doting.

Seeing this, the mother-in-law didn't say more, but how satisfied she was when she looked at her son-in-law.

After a little greeting, Xiao Jiu took the Xun'er in Li Luoyao's arms, reached out and teased the prince in his mother-in-law's arms, and asked, "Have you all eaten it?" ”

Hearing Xiao Jiu's inquiry, Li Luoyao suddenly turned her head, "You are a busy person, we will starve to death by the time you eat, and you didn't eat the pears I saw for you just now, they were all broken." ”

Regarding his daughter-in-law's complaints, Xiao Jiu just smiled, and never brought the negative emotions at work to his family.

But Li Luoyao has been talking about Xiao Jiu unrelentingly, and she is still distressed about those pears in her heart.

You must know that although Xiao Jiu is now the lord of Yangcheng, he has never been poor and extravagant at home, and he has always been coarse tea and light rice.

Especially the pears that Li Yi had just sent were spoiled before they could be eaten, and Li Luoyao felt that her intentions had been let down.

With his mother-in-law present, Xiao Jiu didn't dare to gag and say some playful love words to Li Luoyao, so he could only listen with a smile on the side.

But when Li Luoyao talked about the spoiled pears, Xiao Jiu suddenly had some thoughts about the plague in his mind.

"Pears, rotten."

Xiao Jiu kept repeating these two words as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, which made Li Luoyao, who had been talking endlessly, a little confused.

What's going on?

Before Li Luoyao stepped forward to ask, Xiao Jiu suddenly came back to his senses and said in surprise, "I have a way, haha." ”