Water Margin people

Chapter 1786 There are always unscrupulous people who want to harm me

"Your Majesty, how can we trust Qi if they have miscalculated?"

William quickly said that he still had reservations about Qi State. He could learn from it but could not trust it.

"If they could predict the outbreak of the Black Death, they wouldn't have made a wrong estimate!"

Baldwin IV spoke.

"In fact, the teacher has also felt it, the mortality rate of the Black Death is only half. If it is really certain death, there can't be so many people alive outside the city!"

"So, I'm not surprised that the Emperor of Qi said he could treat me. Just like he said, we just can't afford it."

"We really cannot afford to treat hundreds of millions of patients, and we don't have that many staff. If we don't treat them, everyone will just accept their fate and wait for death. But if we treat them, everyone will come in droves, and the consequences will be more terrible than the treatment itself."

Baldwin IV added that outside the city were the corpses of patients suffering from the Black Death. If it was really an incurable disease that was fatal, there would have been no living people left.

William also knows this truth, and sometimes he can only watch someone die without helping.

The civilians who were able to move outside the city soon followed Baldwin IV and left. They had been waiting outside the city for too long, and the kingdom and the church had ignored them. Now that they had hope, they naturally refused to give up.

"Those people left!"

The defenders on the city wall were surprised to see the refugees following those unidentified people. Because of the presence of those victims, they didn't even dare to go out of the city to clean up. In such a hot day, the corpses rotted quickly, and if they were not dealt with in time, the whole city of Rome would be shrouded in the stench of corpses.

Baldwin IV led the victims northward for several days and arrived at the northern coast. Those who were weaker had already died on the way.

The same missionary process, the victims betrayed their previous beliefs without hesitation and turned to the Imperial Religion. They just wanted to survive.

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Liangshan City.

"Aqiu!"

Sun Lei sneezed so loudly that the children looked at him in disgust.

"saliva!"

“It’s all saliva!”

"Father is so bad!"

The children shouted in disgust.

"Oh, you're disgusted when your old father sneezes. Which two little brats wet the bed last night? That map is so well drawn, it's almost as good as a military map!"

"Also, who peed in their pants last time?"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

When the children heard this, they ran away with red faces. Everyone has wet the bed at some time.

"With your limited skills, you still want to fight with your old father?"

Sun Lei laughed.

"You too, you are just arguing with a few kids! What child doesn't wet the bed?"

Cheng Wan'er said with a smile.

"Who told them to dislike their old father?"

Sun Lei smiled and rocked in the rocking chair.

"You should cover yourself up, or you'll catch a cold."

Hu Sanniang smiled and covered Sun Lei with a thin blanket.

"How can I catch a cold in this hot weather?"

Sun Lei waved his hand.

"That sneeze you just had didn't sound like an itchy nose!"

Hu Sanniang spoke up, having been together for so many years, she knew best what Sun Lei's sneeze looked like, and the sneeze just now was wrong.

"Someone must be plotting against me. I've been feeling a chill on my back lately! Is someone trying to usurp the throne?" Sun Lei said.

"Don't talk nonsense. The world is peaceful. Who would want to usurp the throne?"

Hua Chan said quickly.

"Plotting to usurp the throne? Who is it! Who is it! Last time someone rebelled, you didn't even take me with you! This time I want to go!"

When Li Shishi heard about the plot to usurp the throne, her eyes lit up.

"Don't make trouble. What's the point of plotting to usurp the throne?"

Hua Chan patted Li Shishi and said, "Li Shishi is just like that. She is afraid that the world will not be in chaos, so she likes to join in the fun."

"It's not necessarily a plot to usurp the throne, but there are always villains who want to harm me."

Sun Lei couldn't figure it out. He had already dealt with all the people who needed to be dealt with. Now the country was peaceful. Who would rebel? But his feeling was always accurate. Someone must want to harm him.

"I think you are suspicious! All emperors are like this!"

Li Qingzhao said with her belly bulging, "Emperors have always been the most suspicious."

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"Why don't you believe it?"

Sun Lei was speechless. What he said was the truth, but his wife didn't believe it.

"I believe it! I believe it! You must take me with you!"

Li Shishi said, holding up her fair and tender little hands.

Just then, a maid came over with a telegram.

"Your Majesty, urgent message from the Red Sea!"

The maid handed the telegram to Sun Lei.

"Someone really wants to harm me. What a vicious plot!"

Sun Lei looked at the telegram and spoke.

Hua Chan and others had no interest in national affairs. Only Hu Sanniang and Li Qingzhao came over. One of them was a general and the other was a think tank who had participated in Western military affairs.

"Those people are crazy for spreading the plague!"

Hu Sanniang's face changed drastically. Spreading the plague is the most vicious tactic. Only the Huns and other grassland barbarians would throw dead cattle and sheep into the river to pollute the water source and spread the plague.

"That's crazy. So far, they still have the most territory over there, and the people there haven't completely become citizens of Qi. If they do this, the most casualties will be their people!"

Sun Lei stood up after he finished speaking. He was going to discuss this matter with the Cabinet and the Ministry of War.

"It's not easy for you to take care of this matter. It's too far away, and the money wasted is a bottomless pit!"

Li Qingzhao reminded that Qi’s treasury was still full, but it could not be squandered at will, and certainly not used on foreigners.

"I know this, but I can't just ignore the army of Qi. I have to come up with a foolproof plan!"

Sun Lei nodded and left.

In the imperial study of the palace, Xiao Jiasui, Wen Huanzhang, Xu Guanzhong, Li Zhu, Gongsun Sheng, Zhu Wu, Wu Yong, Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong, Wu Song, Hua Rong and others were already waiting.

"You should know what's going on. The enemy has no moral principles and started spreading the plague when they can't win. Now Han Shizhong is a little overwhelmed. If something goes wrong with Han Shizhong, this kind of war will occur in the Persian Gulf, the Persian Plateau, India and other places!"

Sun Lei said that if the plague was used as a weapon, it would be no problem to defeat Qi's military fortress overseas.

"Your Majesty, you once said: Since ancient times, there are only thieves who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as guarding against thieves for a thousand days! We can't prevent them with such a stubborn defense. Instead of passive defense, why not take the initiative and spread the plague! Anyway, it's their people who die, and we don't care how many die!"

Wu Yong said.

"Your strategy is good, but not perfect. Killing the enemy is good, but how can we guarantee the safety of our troops in this chaos? And how can we guarantee it all the time?"

Sun Lei shook his head. He never liked hurting each other. He only liked hurting others and didn't like being hurt by others.

"Your Majesty, why don't we temporarily stop the construction and defend the fortress? The Black Death is indeed severe, but it comes and goes quickly. Those who get sick will die in ten days or half a month. Then we can continue the construction! It will only take a month!"

Xiao Jiasui said that he knew the emperor did not want to see unnecessary casualties among the soldiers.