Water Margin people

Chapter 1742 Epidemic
Wu Yong hurried to the Youguqi Restaurant and took a boat to the Liangshan Palace to meet the emperor.

"Your Majesty, those traitors are planning to rebel on the day of the Heroes Conference. Your Majesty must not let the Heroes Conference distract you."

Wu Yong looked at Sun Lei and said.

"Rebellion that day?"

Sun Lei stroked his chin and thought.

Wu Yong quickly told everything he had seen and his guesses.

"Is that so? They probably want to lure the guards out of the city. After all, the Heroes' Conference is held at Nanyang Lake, which is a hundred miles away from Liangshan Lake."

"But those people are stupid. How can they go to Liangshan just because they want to? They are a bunch of idiots who really have wild ideas."

Sun Lei smiled and said, everything becomes clear now, but those people are too simple-minded. Liangshan seems to be very close and has not been defended, so they really think they can go up easily.

"Your Majesty, now that the situation is clear, should we send someone to arrest him immediately?"

Wu Yong looked at Sun Lei and said.

"Don't be in a hurry. If we act now, some fish will slip through the net. As the saying goes, we must root out all the evil. If we miss even one, it will be a sin."

Sun Lei shook his head and said, this one will become a hundred or a thousand in a few years, which will be another disaster.

"Your Majesty, do you want to capture them all that night?"

Wu Yong looked at Sun Lei and asked.

"That's right, lure the snake out of its hole and then catch it all in one fell swoop!"

Sun Lei nodded. The Heroes Conference was just a cover from beginning to end. Those who attended the Heroes Conference that day knew nothing. And those people in secret would concentrate all their strength to attack Liangshan.

"Your Majesty, isn't this a bit risky? Liangshan is where the imperial palace is after all. If there is any problem, it may damage the national prestige!"

Wu Yong said that those people were just clowns and not worth mentioning, but the dignity of Qi State must not be damaged, and those people must not touch even a brick or a tile on Liangshan.

"Xiao Qi, it's up to you now. Have you forgotten your fishing skills?"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Don't worry, brother. This is a great skill. How could I forget it? I will definitely catch a big fish and satisfy you."

Ruan Xiaoqi leaned over and walked out and said.

"Brother Xiaoqi?"

Wu Yong looked at Ruan Xiaoqi in surprise. He didn't expect that Ruan Xiaoqi had come back.

"Wu Xuejiu, I haven't seen you for a long time. You look so nostalgic!"

Ruan Xiaoqi smiled as he looked at Wu Yong's outfit, and it seemed as if he had returned to the time many years ago when he was fishing in Shijie Village.

"Brother Xiaoqi, how are you?"

Wu Yong smiled and clasped his fists.

"Mr. Wu is pretty good too. I've heard about your achievements in the war, including the destruction of Japan. I envy your contribution!"

Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile.

"Thank you! Thank you! With Brother Xiaoqi here, those people are just fish in the net."

Wu Yong said with a smile.

"That guy Yue Fei didn't come back!"

Sun Lei said helplessly.

"Your Majesty, the black slave army of the Fatimid Kingdom is really troublesome. Before I came back, Yue Fei had already led his men to fight several battles. Although they won all of them, they were only able to repel the enemy. Those people relied on their endurance advantage and were very difficult to deal with!"

Ruan Xiaoqi said that he had already explained the details in the telegram, but he still had to explain it for Yue Fei. "Okay, stop making excuses for him. I know what he is thinking best. When he gets angry, he won't behave himself unless he gets serious."

Sun Lei said helplessly that he really couldn't bear to get twelve gold medals.

"Xiao Qi, go and make the arrangements. Get rid of all the trash!"

Sun Lei looked at Ruan Xiaoqi and said.

"Wu Yong, you don't have to pretend anymore. Restore your identity and bring your people to the Heroes Conference!"

"It's your Majesty!"

Ruan Xiaoqi and Yue Fei both took the order and retreated.

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"Your Majesty, there's a telegram! It's from the Red Sea front!"

Xiao Jiasui and Wen Huanzhang walked in and handed over a telegram.

Sun Lei took it and took a look. It was Yue Fei's latest battle report. He had repelled the invading army of black slaves. There was also a letter from Baldwin IV sent by a Venetian merchant.

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"This guy is really something. He sends a telegram every day. He knows he's scared but he doesn't come back quickly!"

Sun Lei was speechless. Yue Fei sent a telegram every day to express his loyalty, but he just didn't come back.

"The Leper King? The Roman Congregation?"

Sun Lei looked at the so-called letter from Baldwin IV. It was just a simple greeting letter saying that Christianity had received the golden plates of the Ten Commandments and a large mass would be held in Rome.

"You are so heartless! You don't even know you are about to die!"

Sun Lei put down the telegram and laughed.

"Your Majesty, what's going on over there?"

Xiao Jiasui asked doubtfully. They had no intention of sending troops at the moment, and the canal would not be completed in four or five years. This meant that Qi would not be able to invade Rome within four or five years.

"Take a look at this. This is the detailed information sent by those merchants."

Sun Lei pushed a stack of information in front of Xiao Jiasui and Wen Huanzhang.

"Disease? Plague? It looks like the West is the same, with these natural disasters as well!"

Wen Huanzhang looked at the intelligence and said, it was clearly written on it that plagues often broke out throughout the West.

"The West has been doing pretty well over the past one or two hundred years. They have a good climate and fertile land, and their population has grown rapidly over the years. That's why there were the Crusades. With a larger population, there are more conflicts, whether they are between individuals, kingdoms, or religions. They need war to divert conflicts."

"They did this correctly, but they ignored the biggest problem. The population grew, but the town environment couldn't keep up. You can see that those people have no morals at all. The streets are full of sewage and feces, and mosquitoes and flies are flying everywhere. It's so smelly. And those kings and lords only care about enjoying themselves and don't bother to care about these things at all."

"These are all deadly things. Once the plague breaks out, hiding in the castle will be useless. And I can feel it at a glance. A terrible plague is brewing!"

Sun Lei said.

"A terrible plague? Smallpox?"

Xiao Jiasui and Wen Huanzhang were also thinking about it, but they couldn't imagine how terrible it would be.

"Smallpox is no match for him. You should know about the Jian'an epidemic. It may be more terrible than that plague!"

Sun Lei opened his mouth and said, the Black Death was Europe's nightmare, a terrible plague that almost wiped out Europe. It was about the same time, and he seemed to have accelerated the process. Judging from the reports, the plague in Europe had already shown signs of an outbreak. This time the high mass gathered so many people, and the already dirty and messy Rome would become a hotbed of disease.

"Jian'an has a major epidemic!"

Xiao Jiasui and Wen Huanzhang's faces changed drastically. According to the "Shihuo Zhi", in the second year of Emperor Heng's Yongshou reign, the number of households in the country was more than 1607 million, and the population was more than 5006 million. By the end of the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Shu, and Wu had only more than 149 million households and a population of more than 560 million and 200 million people.

The population did not decrease entirely due to wars. After all, no matter how chaotic the Three Kingdoms were, how could they be compared to the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms? The population did not decrease so drastically during these two periods.

The biggest root of the disaster was the Jian'an epidemic, which lasted for eight years. It is rumored that even the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing died because of the plague.