In this age of natural and man-made disasters, no matter how many plans Emperor Xingwu made for Luo Wei, he could only put those plans aside and deal with the disaster in front of him first.
In the blink of an eye, another half a year passed, the flood water in the south receded, and the epidemic that Emperor Xingwu was most worried about broke out immediately. In the report submitted by the local officials to Emperor Xingwu, it was written about the tragic situation in the south. The villages that used to be densely packed are now mostly empty, the people are displaced, many corpses are not buried, and the corpses are exposed in the wilderness. To die on the street is to sell wives and exchange sons for food. There are refugees everywhere. The southern land that used to be a misty and rainy place has now become a hell of Avici.
Emperor Xingwu used the silver taels in the palace's inventory, just to survive this disaster in the south. There was a severe drought in the northwest, and the farmland was not harvested, and even the farmland in the south was not saved. Seeing the rush to ask for grain from various places, Emperor Xingwu had to send his ministers to other countries to buy grain at a high price.
Long Xuan, following the will of Emperor Xingwu, went to Yunzhou to inspect the local epidemic that has not subsided. Yunzhou is close to Yunguan, which is the only way for Yunguan to go to Beijing. Emperor Xingwu was only afraid that the epidemic in Yunzhou would spread to Yunguan again. The gateway to the north of Dazhou relied on the Yunguan iron cavalry stationed in Yunguan. This army Don't miss out again.
When Long Xuan was halfway through, he heard bad news again. He Xinzhi, the general Shangwuwei, who was ordered to go to the southeast to pacify the rebellion of the Yi people, was defeated. He was still in the midst of the chaos. In the mountains of the southeast. Long Xuan was also in a hurry, but he had the emperor's life, so he could only continue to rush to Yunzhou. Seeing that Yunzhou was just around the corner, Long Xuan got two more news, General Du Wei, and Hou Luo of Dingwu was quickly dispatched to the southeast by Emperor Xingwu to replace He Xinzhi, who died in battle, and lead the southeast to suppress the rebellion. thing. Another piece of news is the riots of refugees in the south. Long Xuan couldn't sleep all night, and suddenly there was no place for peace in this big week. How could Long Xuan still be able to sleep
After Long Xuan brought several imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital into the territory of Yunzhou, the air he breathed was filled with the smell of burning wormwood.
"Xiaguan and the others have nothing to do with this disease now," the Yunzhou official who came to welcome Longxuan said to Longxuan, "I heard that this wormwood can sterilize the air, so Xiaguan and the others can only try to burn it."
"Is it useful?" Long Xuan asked.
The local official said: "It's not yet effective, but the people believe in any method that can cure diseases."
Long Xuan said to the imperial physicians sitting down, "Go to the medical center here to see what kind of disease this is and whether it can be cured."
Physicians take orders.
The local officials led the imperial physicians to the hospital to see the sick person. Before leaving, they kindly reminded Long Xuan that it is best not to go out.
"I see, you all go to work," Long Xuan said to the official: "Don't worry about me."
"His Royal Highness," Fu Yun said to Long Xuan after seeing the imperial doctor and the local officials, "When the servant just came in, he saw a few people lying outside the fence, motionless, I don't know if they were dead or alive. ."
"Let's go out and see," Long Xuan said.
"His Royal Highness wants to go out?" Fu Yun was busy and stopped Long Xuan: "There are patients outside, so please don't go out, Your Highness."
"If you are afraid, don't go out." Long Xuan knew what Fu Yun was afraid of, so he didn't say more, got up and walked out, and said to Fu Yun, "Just stay in the room."
Where does Fu Yun dare not to follow Long Xuan, and catch up with Long Xuan: "The servant follows His Highness, and dares to go anywhere."
"Don't force it," Long Xuan walked out of the house and glanced at the guards standing outside.
"Don't force it," Fu Yun said, "This is the duty of a slave."
The guards also followed behind Long Xuan. None of them wanted to go to the street, but when the master was going, they had to bite the bullet and follow.
Yunzhou is the commercial and trade distribution center in the north of Dazhou, and the merchants from south to north are never uninterrupted, so this Yunzhou is also the richest place in the northern part of Dazhou. Long Xuan was walking on the streets of Yunzhou today, but what he saw was depression. Few shops are open, the doors and windows of houses are closed, and there are still pedestrians on the street, but they are all in a hurry.
"His Royal Highness," Fu Yun pointed to a house with the word "No" written on the gate along the street, and let Long Xuan see it.
Long Xuan didn't understand what this meant when he saw it, he stopped a pedestrian passing by them and said, "This big brother, why is there the word 'No' written on this door?"
The group of people quickly told Long Xuandao, "This family is dead. They all died of illness."
Long Xuan wanted to ask again, but the pedestrian had already walked several steps away quickly.
"Your Highness," the guard called Long Xuan from behind.
Long Xuan turned his head and followed the guard's finger. Long Xuan saw the word "None" written on the gates of one-third of the houses on this street.
"Oh my God," Fuyun said in shock, "Is this all dead?"
"Let's go," Long Xuan's face was gloomy, this was a natural disaster, and he was not a genius doctor, so there was nothing he could do about it.
Fu Yun and the others followed Long Xuan all the way, and the more they walked, the more frightened they became.
Long Xuan didn't fully believe what the local officials in Yunzhou said. He wanted to find the local people to ask about the situation, but he walked all the way down, except for the pedestrian who was stopped by him and asked a question, he never found another person. Someone who would stop and talk to him. After walking three streets, from the east of the city to the west of the city, Long Xuan finally saw a restaurant that was open for business. He didn't look much, and went in.
The guy in the restaurant saw that there were guests coming, but he didn't seem to be very attentive. He walked up slowly and said to Long Xuan and others, "Guest officer, we don't have any food here now, only pasta."
"Your Highness," Fu Yun asked Long Xuan in a low voice, "Do you want to eat noodles here?"
Long Xuan looked around the store, and in the store with more than twenty square tables, there were only two tables of customers.
"Guest officer," the man said when Long Xuan didn't answer, "If you are afraid that our place is not clean, you can buy raw food and cook it yourself."
"No need," Long Xuan said to the guy, "We'll leave right away. Fortune, give him a reward." After giving the order to Fortune, Long Xuan walked to one of the guests.
The guy got the reward, so he didn't care what Long Xuan was doing in the store, he walked back to the counter and leaned on the counter.
There were four guests sitting at that table, and when Long Xuan came over, they all got up and wanted to leave.
"Wait a minute," Long Xuan put his hand on the shoulder of one of the medium-sized men, and said, "I think we have something to talk about."
The other three men wanted to do it.
The guards behind Long Xuan saw that the situation was not right, and they also came up to do something.
"Don't panic," Long Xuan said to everyone.
Long Xuan's guards took a few steps back under Long Xuan's attention.
"This is Da Zhou," Long Xuan said to the four men, "Are you sure you want to use force here? Can you get out of Yunzhou City?"
"Sit down," the man who was held by Long Xuan's shoulder said to his companion.
"Let's go over there and talk," Long Xuan said, pointing to an empty table far away from here, and removed the hand that was on the man's shoulder.
The man did not struggle, and followed Long Xuan to this vacant seat.
"I saw you by Sima Qingsha's side," Long Xuan said to the man in a low voice after sitting next to him, "What is the general's name?"
"Sun Li," the man replied Long Xuandao.