The prince... The epidemic in Xijin is like a fire. If the eldest son goes, it will be dangerous." Zhao Wenting said carefully.

At this time, the cabinet officials were in an extremely embarrassing situation. If they agreed to this suggestion, they would show that they would ignore the life and death of the royal family and disagreed with the responsibility to make King Yu feel embarrassed. The officials looked at the emperor's expression and wanted to see what the emperor meant, but Li Junhua had no expression on his face. In desperation, Zhao Wenting could only choose to say this.

"The Supreme Emperor resisted the Qing Dynasty and expelled the Western barbarians for more than 20 years. It is not dangerous. The emperor's rebellious rebellion in the northern expedition of Manchuria, chasing for three thousand miles. Is it dangerous? I am expeditioning west to the Black Sea and governing America. Is it dangerous? It is related to the life and death of the people of the empire. If the royal family members do not rush forward, then who dares to stand up?" Li Junwei said firmly.

The cabinet members shut their mouths and hesitated that King Cheng Lin Junhong was on an envoy to India at this time. Pei Yuanqi visited Beijing in northern China. There were few people in Beijing who could make peace between noble families and officials. King Yu had always been very strong.

Deputy Prime Minister Zhao Mingde asked: "Emperor, Prince, the epidemic is now under control in Xijin, and both shipping and land trade routes have been cut off. Learning from past experience, it should not be spread to Shen Jing. There should be no reason for the eldest son to fight on the front line and the court to do nothing.

I dare to ask, how should the cabinet cooperate?"

The emperor said lightly: "Cooperate with killing, arresting, and governing people."

These words were full of murderous intent, which shocked everyone. The emperor explained: "It is not difficult to control the epidemic, but it is not easy to control people's hearts. The epidemic is like fire, but there are many rumors in the local area, taking the opportunity to make trouble. I heard that some rumors have occurred that the outbreak of the epidemic is because I do not cultivate virtue, the court does not respect Buddhism, and less education is needed to transform people's hearts.

Some people also say that they criticized the empire's external strategy, believing that if they did not open to Europe, there would be no epidemic. These people are rude to politics and make mistakes, and their intentions can be punished, and their crimes will be punished.

Especially those who do not understand the court's epidemic control policy often take the opportunity to cause trouble. They should arrest what should be caught and kill what should be killed. Everyone, if the epidemic is the first priority to be obedient and control the people and achieve results, but thunder means are inevitable."

"Yes, yes, yes..." Several officials nodded, not daring to say another word.

The imperial meeting held for the fight against the plague was finally granted full authority to Li Zhaoyu in the form of an imperial edict. When the three armies were stationed in Xijin, the remote Xinjiang region and Xijin region, they were all handed over to Li Zhaoyu for command.

Li Zhaoyu received an order from Shen Jing on the Qingluan and immediately began to prepare to go to Xijin.

The Suez Canal has been controlled. Shaojie, who is responsible for local military, politics and diplomacy, personally led the cavalry to arrange tugs to protect the Qingluan through the Suez Canal.

Shaojie arranged the passage time very cleverly. When passing through the city and Said Port, he passed by night and asked the Qingluan and the two coal-carrying ships to guard against the Qingluan with guns. The cavalry also covered the shore to prevent the people in these two out-of-control cities from striking the Qingluan.

It’s not that they are afraid that the people will take any dangerous measures, but that they are worried that once someone boards the Qingluan through swimming or stops the Qingluan, the Qingluan will be regarded as an epidemic area. Then Li Zhaoyu, who went to Xijin to take charge of local epidemic prevention affairs, will be forced to stay on the anchored Qingluan in quarantine.

The Qingluan successfully passed the Suez Canal, but a coal transport ship accompanied him was in trouble. When passing through Said Port, local people who were already extremely short of supplies stopped the ship, snatched the supplies from the ship, and caused more than 40 casualties on the ship.

Fortunately, another coal transport ship, Black Star, was not trapped, otherwise Li Zhaoyu would lose a general.

When he quickly passed through the Turkish Strait and entered the Black Sea, the Black Star provided the last round of coal replenishment for the Qingluan. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Zhaoyu met with the most important assistant in the epidemic prevention and control work - Wu Xinglian.

The epidemic in Suez Port broke out twice, and was controlled both times. The biggest contributor was Wu Xinglian, who was also sent by Shaojie to Li Zhaoyu to assist.

Wu Xinglian boarded the coal ship Black Star in Suez Port, sailing all the way, which was equivalent to quarantine for ten days without any illness, and was able to board the Qingluan and meet Li Zhaoyu.

Li Zhaoyu met this infectious disease expert in his restaurant. He had an ordinary figure, a pair of glasses, meticulously tidy hair, and a white coat. Most of his face was covered by masks. However, the exposed forehead had this faint red scar. Obviously, not long ago, his head had an intimate contact with something hard.

This was the first time Li Zhaoyu met Wu Xinglian and the first time he knew this person. However, after Shaojie introduced it in the telegram, Li Zhaoyu already knew that this person was quite famous in the medical field, especially in infectious diseases, but unfortunately, he was not a Chinese.

In other words, Wu Xinglian just does not have imperial nationality.

Wu Xinglian's ancestral home is Xinning, Guangdong. When King Rong Li Dingguo competed with the Qing Dynasty for Guangdong, the war broke out. His great-grandfather fled to Penang with his family and settled down there. However, the great-grandfather and grandfather had no achievements in Penang for two generations, and by his father's generation, he fell into poverty again.

Until the opening of the Suez Canal, Wu Xinglian's father arrived at Suez Port as a canal worker. At that time, Wu Xinglian was already born and moved to Suez Port with his father. After experiencing the opening of the Suez Canal, Wu Xinglian was able to enter the school to study because of the Canal Company's policies.

Wu Xinglian's father made a fortune because of the canal. He first worked as a canal worker, and then had many business deals in Suez Port and Midway City. In order to gain a foothold in the local area and entered the parliament, his father joined Ottoman nationality, which in fact left the imperial nationality.

Wu Xinglian is no exception. As the second son of his family, he did not inherit his father's business talent. Instead, he saw workers from various countries digging canals in his youth torture by various infectious diseases. He devoted himself to medical research and studied in Penang and Shenjing, and quickly became the authority in infectious diseases.

People like this who are of imperial ethnicity but lose their imperial nationality are very common in the Suez region. During his study in the Empire, Wu Xinglian did not even affect his studies. As long as Wu Xinglian did not engage in politics, everything would not be a problem. But now, he has become Li Zhaoyu's consultant, so he needs to pay attention.

"Doctor, is this mask your invention?" Li Zhaoyu took the mask and put it on himself. Because there were no cheap elastic straps, the mask needed to be tied, so it was more troublesome to wear it.

Wu Xinglian shook his head slightly: "No, my eldest son, as far as I know, masks were inventions by His Majesty the Supreme Emperor of the Empire. As early as the pre-Imperial era, the navy had masks when he fought against the Spaniards in the Nanyang region. His Majesty the Supreme Emperor asked to disinfect the gauze with boiled water and distilled alcohol. These methods saved many lives.

And I just turned an ordinary mask into two layers, and then put a layer of cotton in the middle. This type of mask can be easily made with gauze. It is barely considered an improvement, not an invention."

"You haven't seem to taste the tea handed to you by the servant." Li Zhaoyu suddenly said.

"Oh, sorry, I'm rude." Wu Xinglian said, but accidentally inserted his finger into the teacup, which made him so hot that he screamed.

The reason is nothing. This is the Black Sea in early spring. It is early morning again. The weather is cold. Wu Xinglian's warm breath came out from the gap between the mask and the bridge of his nose, covering his glasses with a layer of mist. Wu Xinglian was relatively cramped and dared not take it off and wipe it, so he actually couldn't see clearly around him.

In front of Li Zhaoyu, his hands were burned by tea, and when he was on board the Qingluan, his head touched a pillar of the bridge.

Li Zhaoyu looked at his embarrassed look and handed him a napkin, saying, "Doctor, this mask can be improved for people like you who wear glasses. Nowadays, masks will produce fog on the glasses in colder weather.

In Suez, there is no problem, it is always hot, but in Xijin Province, it is still early spring and the weather is relatively cold. In the far-reaching Krai region, the northern Krai region will still freeze at night."

"Yes, the eldest son has thought it through very carefully. Maybe I need to study it carefully." Wu Xinglian said.

Li Zhaoyu shook his head: "No, I have a ready-made solution here."

In front of Wu Xinglian, Li Zhaocheng took out a thin wire, inserted it from the top of the mask, came out from the other end, and fixed it at both ends. Then he walked to Wu Xinglian to take off his old mask, then put on a new one on him. After tied the two straps, he pinched the wire that happened to the bridge of the nose to make the mask and the bridge of the nose more fit, so that the exhaled heat would not make the glasses hazy.

Wu Xinglian put on his glasses and took a heavy breath several times, praising him, "It's great, it's great. A wire from the eldest son played the finishing touch."

Li Zhaoyu said: "This is not my invention. I discovered it by chance during a trip to the mainland of the Empire two years ago. I don't know who invented this small device, but my cousin used it very comfortably."

Li Zhaoyu talked about the last time he returned to Shenjing from Xijin, the Eurasian Continental Bridge route he took. In the inland areas, there was heavy wind and sand. Those caravans would use veils to block the wind and sand. When people wearing glasses used veils, they faced this kind of problem. This is how they solved it.

The veil and mask are similar, so Li Zhaoyu used it.

"You are talking about His Highness Prince Ying." Wu Xinglian's eyes lit up in an instant, and the mask could not suppress his joy and admiration, which was completely different from the coldness when he saw Li Zhaoyu.

This is not a question for Wu Xinglian. King Li Zhaoyan of the British is a special existence among the imperial royal family. As long as the imperial family and royal family are famous, they must be related to politics and military. In fact, the royal family's children do not know this only.

The first person to achieve success in the field outside of politics was Li Mingxun's young daughter Li Yunmei. She is a famous mathematician and physicist, but no one knows that this famous scientist was born in the imperial royal family because she didn't want to be disturbed by false reputation at all. She spent her whole life in numbers and she didn't even get married.

Although Li Zhaoying was also indifferent to fame and fortune, and did not achieve his achievements as a result of his imperial aunt Li Yunmei, he was set as an example for the children of nobles by Emperor Li Junhua. He was an expert in water conservancy engineering.

Although Li Junhua instructed Li Zhaoying to consolidate the image of the imperial royal family in the hearts of the people, there is no doubt that this also enhanced the scientific community's status in the empire.

The establishment of the empire brought some things from one extreme to another. In the pre-empirical era, everything was inferior to those who were studying high. But in the empire era, business people became the best, and business culture once became the mainstream culture of the empire.

Li Zhaoyan's emergence slightly changed all this and gave the gospel to those engaged in scientific and technological research. Although Wu Xinglian's medical major is very distant from Li Zhaoyan's water conservancy engineering major, for Wu Xinglian, the one who admired and felt the most close to Wu Xinglian was His Royal Highness, who was engaged in hydraulic engineering, rather than the more politically promising prince of the Prince Yu's mansion in front of him.

"Yes, he is now in the Hezhong Appeasement Zone. If he can defeat the plague this time, maybe we can all see him."

"really?"

"Of course it is true. The King of England has worked in Xijiang and remote Xinjiang for many years and has given birth to two children. Unfortunately, the elders in the family have never seen me. This time I came to Xijin and was entrusted by the elderly in my family to visit." Li Zhaoyu said with a smile, because he had learned from Shaojie that Wu Xinglian is a man who is indifferent to fame and fortune, and his work in epidemic prevention relies on a strong sense of responsibility and noble spirit of saving lives and helping the wounded.

But Li Zhaoyu lived in the whirlpool of politics since he was a child. People like him would not believe in any moral nobleness. In the eyes of politicians, there are only two types of people, real villains and hypocrites. They do not believe in the existence of gentlemen. If there is a creature like saints, they will definitely not be humans in their values.

Therefore, it requires certain rewards and incentives, and Li Zhaoyu feels that in addition to funding Wu Xinglian for more medical research, only Li Zhaoyan, the king, was interested in him.

It is obvious that Li Zhaoyu found Wu Xinglian's excitement point, and he was very excited about the opportunity to meet King Li Zhaoyan.

"Doctor, the epidemic in Xijin is coming in a raging manner and requires strong control, but relying solely on the pen of an official and the bayonet of a soldier is not enough. I need the support from professionals. Fortunately, Chief Shaojie recommended you to me. And I have also seen the achievements you have made in Suez Port. I hope you and I can work together." Li Zhaoyu extended his hand to Wu Xinglian.

"Of course, my grandson, this is my honor." Wu Xinglian nodded.
Chapter completed!