Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1004, Plague Kingdom

The west coast of the Golden Island, Baiyin Port in the west of the Aztec Kingdom, blue sky and white clouds, clean sea water, long and narrow beaches, bald eagles soaring in the sky, and children playing carefree by the sea.

Li Anyuan on the boat looked at everything with gusto, and felt that everything here was as beautiful and peaceful as the Xanadu described by Tao Yuanming.

However, he knew that this peaceful and beautiful land was being ravaged by the plague, and there were so many deaths that it alarmed the emperor of Ming Dynasty, so he sent a team from the Daming Medical College headed by Li Anyuan to the Golden Island. While curbing the spread of the plague, of course the most important thing is absolutely not to let the plague here spread to Daming.

Baiyin Port, built at the mouth of a river, has a good natural harbor, because it is rich in silver, and the silver and gold that the Aztec Kingdom pays to the Ming Empire every year are shipped back to Daming from here.

At the same time, both the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire belonged to the exclusive mining area of ​​the Daming Ocean Trading Company, where the Daming Ocean Trading Company had an extremely large gold and silver mining team.

There are more than a dozen large-scale silver mining areas alone, and tens of millions of taels of silver can be mined every year, and then transported back to Daming continuously from here.

In addition, Baiyin Port is also an important port on the east coast of the Golden Island. From here, you can cross the land and reach Penglai City, the most important port in the East Bay of Golden Island, in the shortest distance. The spacious roads built by Turk Kingdom connect them.

Coupled with the fact that Baiyin Port is located in the middle of the Golden Continent, the fleet going south to the South Golden Continent and the fleet going north to the North Golden Continent will pass through here.

Therefore, the entire Baiyin Port is very prosperous. In just a few years, Baiyin Port has already reached a considerable scale, and the population of permanent residents has exceeded [-]. It is not a small city.

Li Anyuan's boat moored slowly at the pier of Baiyin Port. The entire boat was filled with personnel from Daming Medical College and medical equipment and medicines transported from Daming.

Everyone else set foot on the land of Baiyin Port excitedly, ready to take a good rest and rest. The long sea journey is indeed very tiring.

However, Li Anyuan was not in a hurry to get off the boat, but stood on the deck overlooking the entire Baiyin Harbor.

The port is very busy, and a large number of descendants of wealthy merchants work as porters here, responsible for loading and unloading goods, all of them are tall, strong and hard-working.

Children can be seen everywhere, in groups, playing and playing. These children are all strong and strong, and they look far stronger than the children on Daming's side.

Around these children, there are often some women who are different from Ming women at first glance, and they are obviously descendants of these local wealthy merchants.

"The difference in appearance is not very big, but why are people on the Golden Continent generally stronger than us Daming people?"

"And why are they obviously stronger than us Ming people, but their disease resistance is weaker than ours? In the face of smallpox virus, why is their death rate so high?"

Li Anyuan carefully observed that as the founder and professor of Daming Medical College, he has gradually broken away from the shackles of the original Chinese medicine, and slowly transformed into a research-oriented medical scientist.

Every time I go to a place, I almost habitually study the people in this place and the diseases with the highest frequency in this place, and then study the reasons behind it.

"I don't know how resistant the children born to our Ming people and descendants of Yin and Shang are. This time, it's not just the smallpox virus that's rampant in the Golden Continent, but also flu, measles and other diseases."

Li Anyuan seemed worried, because according to the census data of Daming last year, among the population on the Golden Continent, there were a large number of mixed descendants of Ming people and the descendants of wealthy merchants in the Golden Continent.

The first batch of [-] Ming people who came to Golden Continent were almost all men. After these people arrived in Golden Continent, they basically all married local aboriginal women. Many of them even married many of them. A large number of mixed descendants came down, and the number even exceeded one million.

Coupled with the continuous migration of Daming people from behind, they are also similar, which has created a phenomenon. No matter where you are, you can see a large number of children everywhere, all of whom are mixed descendants of Ming people and local aborigines.

"Mr. Li, you are finally here!"

Wu Lin, the magistrate of Baiyin Port, personally came to the port to welcome Li Anyuan and others. When he saw Li Anyuan, it was as if he had seen a life-saving straw.

"Master Wu, is the situation serious?"

Li Anyuan looked at Wu Lin, and he could see the sadness on his face at a glance.

"It's not only serious, it's almost out of control."

Wu Lin nodded solemnly, and then said: "The place where our Daming people live is better. We followed your requirements in advance, so whenever we found someone with smallpox, we immediately quarantined and disinfected them, so we can Get it under control."

"But the Aztec Kingdom has begun to lose control, the number of deaths is very high, and many towns have become dead areas. Although they have followed my requirements, but I don't know why. It’s just hard to keep control.”

"And sometimes, it has been controlled, but it will suddenly erupt. What's even more frightening is that our Ming people have smallpox, and the mortality rate is not high, but once these Aztecs have smallpox, they will almost die. It makes the control of the Aztec Kingdom more difficult."

"Many Aztecs are trying to come to our Daming city, which also makes our control more difficult."

"Hmm~"

Li Anyuan listened carefully, thought for a while and asked, "Are any children infected with smallpox?"

"Yes, and the situation is quite serious. Compared with our local children in Daming, their resistance seems to be much weaker, and the death rate is extremely high."

Wu Lin said seriously.

"Let's follow the original rules first. Once someone is found to be infected, they should be quarantined immediately and disinfected with lime. In addition, those who have been in contact with the patient must wear masks, and the items should be boiled in boiling water."

"I need to understand the situation here first."

After thinking about it, Li Anyuan also gave orders immediately.

"Good~"

Wu Lin also nodded cheerfully.

Li Anyuan's team was very efficient, and they acted quickly as soon as they arrived at Baiyin Port.

Soyakak City, the city of the Aztec Kingdom, which is only more than a hundred miles away from Baiyin Port, Li Anyuan rode a horse and brought a dozen apprentices here to collect samples.

"Didn't it say that this city has a population of tens of thousands?"

"Why can't I see a single figure?"

Li Anyuan was riding on the horse, looking at the open city gate, he couldn't see a single figure, at the same time, with the wind blowing, he could smell a rancid smell coming from the city.

"Could it be that the city was wiped out by the smallpox virus?"

Someone thought for a while and said in fear.

"Do you still dare to go in?"

Someone backed down in fright.

"What are you afraid of?"

"You are all students of Daming Medical College. As a doctor, you should have the heart to cure diseases and save people, and to help the world. In the face of diseases, if we don't go up, who will go up?"

Li Anyuan's face was serious, and when he heard the words of these students, he couldn't help but angrily scolded.

"Yes, the student knows his mistake!"

When the students under him heard this, they immediately replied in unison.

"Wear a mask, put on gloves, and protect yourself."

"Follow me into town!"

Li Anyuan put on a mask, put on gloves, and took the lead to walk into the city.

The city looks very barren and very messy. You can see discarded things here and there at the gate of the city. At the same time, when you enter the city, the rotten smell is even stronger.

The streets are filled with corpses, tens of thousands of them, some of them have rotted to the point of maggots, exuding an unpleasant stench, some have just been discarded for a long time, and some are not dead yet, full of dissatisfaction Pustules, lying powerlessly on the street waiting to die.

From time to time, some natives can be seen carrying out one after another corpses, discarding them on the street very casually, then carrying the parcels on their backs, and fleeing in a hurry, but Li Anyuan can see at a glance that the other party has smallpox on his face characteristic pustules.

"This!"

Seeing the scene in front of them, everyone was shocked, and then some people couldn't help vomiting. Even though they are medical students, they often dissect the human body, but the scene in front of them, even those who are medical students I couldn't bear it anymore.

There are really too many dead people on this street.

The corpses that can be seen everywhere are completely unmanaged and cleaned up, and they are discarded so casually that many places are even covered by corpses, and there is no place to walk.

"No wonder they can't control it. No one cares about this corpse. They don't even do the simplest burial. It's no wonder they can control smallpox."

Li Anyuan frowned and continued to walk in this small town.

Soon, they came to a pyramid, where a large number of people gathered, and these people gathered together, and sacrificed living people on the pyramid.

Whenever someone is killed and the heart is dug out by the priest to sacrifice to the gods, the crowd below will shout crazily. Injured by the plague.

"Too ignorant and ignorant, the blood contains a large amount of smallpox virus, this is pure courting death!"

Seeing this scene, Li Anyuan's expression changed again.

The use of living sacrifices was only seen in newspapers before, but I did not expect to witness this scene with my own eyes. However, what is even more worrying is that they still gathered together and smeared blood during the smallpox epidemic. It will speed up the spread of smallpox virus.

(End of this chapter)