Chapter 387
An organization called the Patriotic Health Committee has emerged in the capital. No one knows why it was named this. No one knows why patriotism and health are related to each other. There are many hutongs in the capital where the characters are illiterate, and even
I don’t even know what hygiene means. Anyway, this organization is called the Patriotic Health Committee!
The president is a young man named Zheng Sen, and the one who helps him is a young man named Wu Ciyou. Although he is young, he has a lot of power. These two boys lead a group of servants and search house to house. As long as they find something
The guys who were coughing and suffering from high fever were all arrested, and their whereabouts were unknown. There was no formal procedure for arresting people, let alone going through the Yamen.
The people in the capital were angry but dared not speak out. On the day they followed Long San to cause trouble, they saw it with their own eyes. These Liao soldiers killed people when they said they would kill, and they were absolutely unambiguous. Several guys who contradicted the Liao soldiers and refused to have their families taken away were kidnapped.
I was whipped on a tree. This was good. One of Long San's younger brothers wanted to avenge Long San. He was caught just after he wounded a Liao soldier and hung on a tree all night. The next day, people followed
There is no difference between the frozen meat and the stick hitting it makes a "dang" and "dang" sound, and the lingering sound surrounds it!
If it’s enough to just arrest people, these people still have to take care of everything. They have to take care of heaven and earth. What the hell is it? The Patriotic Health Committee (referred to as the Love Committee) will take care of it! Every street must
Build a public toilet, and the toilet should be filled with lime. It is winter, and every day farmers from the suburbs push carts into the city to pick up manure.
Things that ordinary people avoid are the treasures of villagers. In these days, pigs are raised for retting dung, and only a few acres of land can be irrigated. With hundreds of thousands of people in the capital working together, this amount of dung is really enough.
People who defecate anywhere will be punished by cleaning up the latrine until another person is caught!
No one in Forty-Nine City has ever done this kind of work, but there is nothing you can do as long as the hut is allocated to you. Someone will come to check every day, and if it is not cleaned up, the whip will be lashed down, absolutely unambiguous. If you talk back
, you will also get slapped in the mouth. If you dare to fight back... you will probably be hung on a tree and frozen as popsicles.
Popsicle! The punishment of hanging from a tree and being frozen to death is called frozen popsicle by people in Sijiu City. It is very freehand and expressive!
Not only do they manage toilets, but they also manage rats. According to regulations, every household must turn in dead rats. If you can't pay the dead rats, you'll be fined. If you can't pay the fine, you'll be slapped with a stick. Anyway, there are no rats running around in the alleys now.
The streets are full of people running around trying to catch mice.
The rats in the capital were unlucky, and the people of the capital who were squeezed by the Love Committee were miserable. Even the palace maids and eunuchs who had not escaped had to pay the death penalty. Under the threat of hungry rice and boards, the delicate palace maids
People picked up brooms one after another and joined the army of rodent exterminators.
Every day, small mountains of rat carcasses were dumped into deep pits, poured with kerosene, burned and then buried.
Some poor families received a new job, sweeping the roads! They used to wash their clothes and throw them on the street. Now if you dare to do this, someone from the Love Committee will come to your door right away. In addition to paying the fine,
In addition, the frozen water must be shoveled away.
Anyway, regardless of the streets or alleys, drainage ditches had to be dug. The original dirty and smelly drainage ditches were dug deep, and the entire capital was like a large construction site where various drainage projects were being built.
Some unknown medicinal materials were thrown into the well, and the well-respected people in the alley were organized by the Love Committee. A sweet sugar pill was distributed to the children, which was very popular among the children. Some greedy adults were fine.
I was also thinking about getting a piece or two to try.
Someone sprinkled lime water on the ground, and soon the lime water froze into ice. The ground in the alley was completely white, but it was not slippery when you stepped on it. It is very cold in winter and I have not heard of any old man or old lady slipping and falling. I just hope.
The children who were slipping around were disappointed because they lost a place to have fun.
Anyway, people in Forty-nine Cities felt that this love committee was just a place for trouble. It was purely the nonsense of two young people, and it was taken due to the lustful power of the Liao Army. The people in the capital dared to be angry but dare not speak out.
Li Xiao looked at the changes in the capital with surprise. The number of rats that could often be seen at night was significantly reduced. The streets were completely clean. The children with runny noses had sugar pills in their mouths and would show their little holes when they smiled at you.
Teeth.
Young people are creative. Although the method is still inseparable from the strength of the whip and stick. But I have to admit that this is the most effective method. When the stick falls on a person, the pain will turn into the most surging motivation.
Let the other party act according to your will. If you can let the shadow of death hang in everyone's heart, this kind of deterrence is enough to create a quiet world. Although it is not clean, it is really quiet.
The capital is very quiet, and the gangsters who usually fight and curse in the streets have become very honest. If you get into fights and curse for no reason, it will be a real beating. If you have your pants taken off in public in the middle of winter, such a thick stick will be harsh.
He slapped Bai Huahua hard on the butt. The screams were very shocking. In just over half a month, the security situation in the capital dropped to a dangerous level.
Li Xiao feels that the humanistic quality of the capital has initially achieved the goal of not closing the door at night without picking up leftovers on the road.
Very good, restoring order to a city with a population of hundreds of thousands is a systematic project. It is not easy for Zheng Sen, who is not yet twenty years old, to do this. Of course, Wu Ciyou also played a role in fueling the fire.
This guy is indeed a managerial talent. Most of the health and epidemic prevention ideas come from Zheng Sen. The person who implements them is Wu Ciyou. Moreover, this guy is not afraid of retaliation and has a life-threatening spirit of going shirtless. He once wielded a big stick himself.
, broke the leg of a gangster. It was because the gangster spread rumors that the Liao army threw medicinal materials into the well in order to poison everyone in the capital.
Wu Ciyou once again proved with practical actions that violence cannot solve all problems, but it can solve you.
The plague in the capital was controlled, but the plague began to spread in Henan.
This was all thanks to the fleeing Zhang Xianzhong. This guy knew that with a team of only a few thousand people, he would not have a good life even if he returned to Guanzhong. He simply went south without doing anything.
Li Xiao is in the capital, so he can't stay in Zhili.
Just outside Zhili is Henan, which is a very suitable place for Zhang Xianzhong. Because a flood in Henan last year created countless poor victims. After robbing several small counties, Zhang Xianzhong had a lot of food on hand. These days
, as long as there is food, there will be people. When a notice is posted to take care of food, it is not uncommon for thirty to fifty thousand people to be recruited within a few days.
In this way, Zhang Xianzhong's army grew bigger and bigger. Marching along the frozen Yellow River, they attacked the city all the way and even reached the gates of Kaifeng.
Zhang Xianzhong was good at pulling up troops, but he was really blind when it came to health and epidemic prevention. I guess Mr. Zhang didn't even know what health and epidemic prevention was. Anyway, with the source of infection, an epidemic quickly broke out in Zhang Xianzhong's military camp.
In addition, Zhang Xianzhong implements open management. As long as you are sick and cannot keep up with the team, no one will care if you leave the team.
Thanks to Mr. Zhang's unremitting efforts for more than a month, the epidemic finally spread throughout Henan.
The people in Henan were in terrible misery. They were killed and robbed by the insurgents. They managed to survive on the food they had hidden, but they didn't expect that everyone in their family started to have a fever, and then they coughed. It felt like a burning piece of food was stuffed into their throats.
Charcoal makes my whole chest hurt just by coughing.
Moreover, this thing is highly contagious, and if one person gets sick, the whole family will suffer. In many villages, the whole family will die when they die. Many people open the door to their homes, and they are all filled with corpses, and there is not even a person left to collect the corpses.
The plague is so terrifying that it can affect an eighty-year-old woman or a three-year-old naughty boy. No matter whether you are a high-ranking scholar or an illiterate tenant, you can't escape it.
The fastest response was in Shandong, without government mobilization. Countless people on the border between Shandong and Henan voluntarily blocked the border. No matter whether you were sick or not. It didn’t matter whether you were from Henan or Shandong. You were only allowed to leave but not enter. Even the Henan government offices went to Shandong.
The official messengers who delivered the letters were all beaten to death by the vicious Shandong villagers and thrown back. You can resolve your own affairs in Henan and don't involve us Shandong people.
When Li Xiao knew the news, it was already almost twenty days later. There is no way to criticize the people of this era for not being compassionate. It was really out of fear of the plague. How do you expect the villagers who can't even read?
How high a level of medical knowledge can one have?
There were many armed fights. Considering that under the rule of Li Xiao, Shandong's militia system was extremely developed. Basically, rural people were allowed to own swords, guns and clubs, and the refugees from Henan were no match at all.
Li Xiao heard that the worst armed fight resulted in nearly 10,000 casualties. Just by looking at the numbers, you can imagine how spectacular the scene of the armed fight was.
It was too late to stop him, and the civil war also had a positive effect. That is, Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to come to Shandong!
The regular army has not been dispatched, but the militiamen alone are so capable of fighting. Going to Shandong? Your brain is burned out with a fever!
Kaifeng! The ancient capital of six dynasties!
Kaifeng has been attacked countless times in history, from Wang Jian's son Wang Bi to Jin Wushu and the Mongols. They were all beaten to death under Kaifeng City!
Kaifeng is such a city. It is always attacked, but it always leaves an indelible memory for the invaders. It is the same this time. Kaifeng Commander-in-Chief Liu Chen has 50,000 troops in his hands. He defends Kaifeng City so well.
There was no leakage, no matter Zhang Xianzhong used various methods, and even moved out the gunpowder secretly intercepted by Huang Taiji, he still failed to reach the top of Kaifeng City.
People died one after another, and food was eaten one meal after another.
Zhang Xianzhong felt that maybe one day his body would be abandoned in the wild like those of those under the city, with no one to care about it and no one to question him.
Nothing could be done, so I simply ran away. After attacking for more than half a month, Zhang Xianzhong gave up on Kaifeng. After grabbing a vote in the surrounding Shangqiu, he headed straight for Lianghuai.
After Zhu Youjian fled to Nanjing, there was no movement. It was not that he kept a low profile on purpose. He was really running too fast and he fell ill without paying attention. The emperor was ill and could not take care of things, and Jiangnan was already a Jiangnan chaebol represented by Qian Qianyi.
The affairs of the local government naturally fell on Zhu Youjian's head. Apart from Yang Sichang and a few other hard-core emperors, Zhu Youjian's will was no longer easy to implement.
Qian Qianyi was not anxious at all. Now that the emperor was on his own territory, it was a good time to blackmail the emperor to control the princes. As a scholar, Qian Qianyi also thought about Cao Cao's addiction.
Just two months after settling down, Mr. Zhang Xianzhong fled to Lianghuai with tens of thousands of people who were trapped by him.
What a good opportunity! A good opportunity to formally establish martial arts. Without saying a word, Qian Qianyi ordered the Nanjing Forbidden Army to purchase arms and expand their recruitment through several rounds. At this time, the Nanjing Forbidden Army had already imitated the military system of the Liao Army and trained five soldiers.
divisions, except for two divisions to defend Nanjing, which were actually mainly to maintain force deterrence against the emperor. The remaining three divisions were all brought to the Lianghuai battlefield by Qian Qianyi!
On one side is the Jiangnan Forbidden Army, which has been well-trained and well-trained. On the other side is Zhang Xianzhong, who has brought plague bacteria with him, grabbing them all the way, holding a sword and spear, and eating every meal without finishing.
You can imagine with your buttocks how miserable Zhang Xianzhong and his men would die. The army compiled by Shi Kefa quickly surrounded Zhang Xianzhong. Rows of firecrackers were fired at the dense crowd, and one bullet could even kill two people.
Usually after firing two rounds, those noisy guys would run back. The muskets from behind continued to fire, and countless people were knocked down from behind, struggling and unable to get up again.
Zhang Xianzhong was a little desperate. Now it seemed that a breakout was impossible. Because he had seen the power of cavalry in Liaodong, Shi Kefa spent a lot of money to build a cavalry. A two-legged man could not outrun a four-legged horse anyway.
What's more, these people under my command are a real mob. When a battle is won, everyone rushes in to grab it together. When a battle is lost, everyone runs back in a swarm. No one wants to rush in front and die. The spirit of sacrifice is these four words.
, simply have nothing to do with them.
Every night, there are people running towards the Jiangnan Forbidden Army. As long as they run in front of the Jiangnan Forbidden Army's position, they will kneel on the ground without saying a word, and then they will be tied up and ready to eat, or get a sword with a ghost head.
Zhang Xianzhong is not someone who just sits and waits for death. His many years as a low-level civil servant have made Mr. Zhang very aware of the ways of the world and the various explicit and hidden rules in officialdom.
Seeing the critical moment of imminent defeat, Mr. Zhang decided to resort to a unique trick...giving gifts!
As a team that had conquered Xi'an, Zhang Xianzhong had some good things in his hands. Especially the emerald watermelon, which was a tribute that was to be sent to the capital back then. Now, this thing appeared in front of Qian Qianyi.
"My general often said that if Mr. Qian Ge were here, the Ming Dynasty would be at peace. What else can I say... Mr. Qian Ge is no better than Zhuge... Wu Mu or something like that. He is a stupid person and is not very good at talking. In short, my general respects him.
Mr. Ge is like a parent."
Chapter completed!