Chapter 929 Death
Chu Jingqi has not closed her eyes for four or five days. She is busy controlling the epidemic, busy isolating the people, busy catching robbers, busy...
In short, he was busy all day long, and he wished he could work alone instead of ten people.
When the epidemic first started, he made a prompt decision and used Xia Zihan's anti-epidemic prescription, as well as the medicinal materials that Xia Zihan had delivered in advance, and cooked them in time for the people to eat. The epidemic was under control for a while.
After the people drank a bowl of anti-epidemic decoction, the number of patients infected with the plague became less and less day by day. Seeing that the situation was improving, Chu Jingqi breathed a sigh of relief.
Little did he know that before he could even breathe out, a large number of people in the camp were suddenly infected with the plague.
There were not much medicinal materials left. Xia Zihan purchased 300,000 taels of medicinal materials and stewed the medicinal soup. Only one of the millions of good people drank a bowl, and the rest were patients infected with the plague. After drinking it for five or six days, the medicinal materials were exhausted.
The plague has spread widely, but at this time, the medicinal materials are almost gone, and the people he sent out to purchase the medicinal materials have not returned yet. As for the court, he has already sent a message asking for the medicinal materials.
However, the capital is far away from Jiangnan. Even if the medicinal materials are delivered, it will take two or three months. But once the plague spreads, it will kill millions of people in Jiangnan in less than half a month.
Therefore, after Chu Jingqi saw that a large number of people had fallen, she became very anxious. She quickly sent 30,000 soldiers and horses down, forcibly isolated the patients infected with the plague at a distance, and moved the camps three hundred miles away. Outside the land, people were inspected one by one, and those who showed signs of being infected with the plague were isolated in groups.
After he sent people to investigate the cause of the widespread plague, it turned out that the people themselves hid the plague-infected patients, which triggered the widespread plague.
Many people are ignorant. Their loved ones are obviously infected with the epidemic, but they are reluctant to isolate them, so they secretly conceal the illness and hide the person secretly. They also secretly keep the decoctions sent by officials for the whole family to drink and keep warm for each meal. The patient drinks.
Most of the patients who were hidden were children. Children had low immunity. Even after drinking the anti-epidemic decoction, their condition worsened day by day. Within five days, they died.
The patient died, and the plague spread over a large area. Especially the family members of the plague-infected patients, no one escaped, and they were all infected with the plague.
It was not until they were dying that the people realized their mistake. Unfortunately, it was too late.
The second batch of people infected with the plague became more serious than the first batch, and within a few days, a large number of people died.
The people immediately went into panic. Many people packed up their gifts and wanted to go home, but were stopped by the soldiers in time.
The common people started to make a fuss, and the whole camp was in chaos. Things got out of hand, and the common people and soldiers almost started fighting. Finally, Chu Jingqi arrived in time and killed several people who took the lead in making trouble. She was crazy and excited. The people were frightened and did not dare to cause trouble again.
Chu Jingqi recruited the fox Chu Yuexi to discuss, and finally decided to move a group of people who were not infected with the plague to Phoenix Mountain.
At the foot of Phoenix Mountain, there is a large river extending from the lake in Yunzhou City, which completely separates the people on the mountain from the people outside.
The first batch of people sent to the mountain were the people from Yunzhou City, which was closest to Phoenix Mountain. A total of 200,000 people were sent.
These 200,000 people were all people who had been diagnosed as free from the plague by more than a dozen doctors and imperial physicians. The second batch of people sent were 150,000 people sent from Yi'an City, which was closest to Yunzhou City. Chu Yuexi and a dozen doctors and physicians stayed awake for days and nights. After diagnosing the 150,000 people one by one, they were sent to Phoenix Mountain.
Next, several groups of people were sent from several major cities. After they were diagnosed one by one, all the people who were not infected with the plague were sent to Phoenix Mountain.
In just one month, a total of more than 1.3 million people were sent to Phoenix Mountain. After sending away this group of people, Chu Jingqi felt that the burden on her shoulders had been reduced by three points.
There were more than one million people left in the camp, and there was no room on the mountain. Chu Jingqi sent 50,000 soldiers and horses to station around the camp and trap the one million people in the camp.
More than 30,000 people infected with the plague were imprisoned in the remote town of Xiaowuzhen by 5,000 Chu troops. Due to the lack of medicinal materials, the patients did not receive enough decoctions to treat them. In just one month, 6,7,000 people died.
People die almost every day, hundreds of people die every day. In Xiaowuzhen, death seems to have become a common thing. Every day, Chu Jiajun wears a mask and gloves and goes into the town to search and transport the corpses to the burning ground on the edge of Xiaowuzhen. On the ground, the body was placed on a pile like a pile of firewood, and then a fire was used to burn the body to ashes.
Over time, that area became a crematorium, with one to two hundred corpses burned every day. Sometimes, the corpses from the previous day were not fully burned, and several more layers were piled up the next day. Thick black smoke hovered over the entire Xiaowuzhen, making the entire town immersed in despair and desolation.
The patients can smell the smell of burning skin almost all the time, as well as the black smoke that hangs over the entire town. All of this seems to tell everyone here that the god of death is calling them.
Their faces were all filled with despair and death.
Cries and crazy howls can be heard almost every day, and some people even naively want to escape from Xiaowuzhen, thinking that if they escape, they can survive.
However, the Chu family's army had sentry posts at three steps and groups at nine steps, completely guarding Xiaowuzhen. Not to mention a patient, not even a fly could escape.
A month later, more than 10,000 people died in Xiaowuzhen. However, not only were there no fewer people, but there were thousands more.
Within a month, more than 10,000 people were infected with the plague.
These more than 10,000 people were all living in camps, and among the people on Phoenix Mountain, not a single person infected with the plague had appeared in half a month.
Therefore, Chu Jingqi decided to re-examine the more than one million people in the camp. Those who were not infected with the plague would choose another settlement in Fenghuang Mountain and send them there.
In this month, the number of people dying in Xiaowuzhen in one day has reached 500. Just when everyone thought there was no way out, Rong San finally arrived belatedly with a large amount of medicinal materials and a dozen imperial doctors. Entered Xiaowuzhen.
When the imperial doctors entered Xiaowuzhen, they all turned pale with fright and trembled when they saw the piles of corpses being burned in the fire. If they hadn't still remembered the emperor's will in their minds, they would have been the first to react. Just turn around and run away.
(End of chapter)