King: Start with tauren plowing

Chapter 148 The Plague
Valley Fortress.

Charles was reading old Mark's letter.

In the letter, Old Mark described in detail the development status of Winter Fortress.

There are now 27 thousand-person villages in Winter Fortress, which are distributed in the Knockin River Basin.cold
The population of Winter Fortress has increased to [-], and the original fortress has become narrow. Old Mark proposed whether to expand the city.

In addition, the letter recorded in detail the grain stock of Noxus. There were thousands of carts plundered from Silver Fox before, and thousands of carts bought and sold by small businessmen from all over the country. There were more than 8000 carts of grain in total. , more than 800 million catties of grain, which is enough to feed 3 people for half a year.

When the nebula wheat in the cultivation area of ​​the Noken River matures, Noxus no longer needs to worry about food issues.

At that point, the problem turns.

How to build enough warehouses to store food?How to find the right buyer to buy?
After talking about these serious matters, the old Mark finally showed his feet and began to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the ten candidate personal maids.

During the old Mark's words, Charles felt that he highly admired a maid named Ina, praised her for her scholarly temperament and the elegance of a noble lady, and praised her as if she was better than the princess of the Sicinoa Kingdom.

Xia Ri couldn't believe that a maid could be so good, probably because Old Mark wanted to arouse his curiosity.

In the reply letter, Charles expressed his sympathy.Then I clicked on the importance of food development.

After perfunctory old Mark, Charles turned his attention back to the current situation of the valley fortress.

During this period of time, after their blanket search, the number of villages and populations in the valley and plains have all been found out.

There are a total of 110 three villages with a population of nearly [-].

But now, the population of the village is less than [-].

The good news is that with the help of the serfs in the valley plain, Charles has searched the entire valley plain in a carpet style.

But the bad news is that there is no news about Elena, the eldest daughter of Earl Tulip.

Of course, this is not entirely bad news.The territory of the Silver Fox Territory consists of the Alps, the Silver Fox Castle, the Silver Fox Town, and the valley plain.

The Centaur Flying Claw Tribe is in the Alps. There is no news at all. It is estimated that there is a high probability that it is not there.

Since the Silver Fox family was not found, there should be no news about the surrounding areas of Silver Fox Castle and Silver Fox Town.

Now there is no news from the river valley plain, which means that Yi Lianna has not escaped to the silver fox collar.

It is impossible for Baron Silver Fox to find Irina, which is a good thing for Noxus.

After all, although everyone didn't find it, Noxus has already taken all the benefits that should be taken.

At this time, the tauren Henry and Abdekad came in to report: "My lord (Master Priest), Bruno led the Noxus convoy to arrive."

There are 1000 Noxus convoys, and they went to the Blackstone Mountains area in the west of Winter Fortress.

Later, they turned back to Cold Winter Fortress, transported food, drove cattle and sheep, and arrived at River Valley Fortress.

The food finally arrived. Although Shire can also plunder the civilians in the valley and plains to obtain military food, this is too little, and it is undoubtedly drinking poison to quench thirst.

Charles ordered: "Three thousand civilians will be incorporated into the Noxus baggage train."

"Now that the food has arrived, the reserve soldiers of Noxus have stepped up their training."

Abudkad and the tauren Henry nodded in response.

Seeing that the two of them hadn't left, Charles asked, "Why, what happened?"

Abudkad replied: "My lord, plague and food shortage broke out suddenly in the river valley plain. Now a black bread stick in the bakery costs ten copper nairs, which is almost ten times as much as before, and people have starved to death. .”

"But it's not more serious. What's more serious is the plague. I don't know if there is a problem with the water source or something else. Now the plague has appeared in many serf villages. According to rough statistics, hundreds of serfs have died. .”

"Is there something wrong with the Noxian army?"

"not yet."

Charles sighed, fortunately, the army has not had any problems.However, the situation of the plague is still not optimistic.

Hundreds of serfs!

It's only been a few days!
The spread of the plague is exponential. If it circulates naturally, it will only take a few days for hundreds of serfs to infect tens of thousands of serfs.

Charles felt a little strange. The plague was not pleasant at the beginning, and the serfs in the valley and plains rarely traveled far, and most of them stayed in the village.How could many villages erupt at the same time?

Could it be that someone sent people infected with the plague to spread it from village to village.

It's not realistic. The Noxus army has helped every village in the valley and plain. Now the Noxus soldiers are not infected with the plague, which is unreasonable.

Then there are only two other possibilities. First, the plague spreads through the air, which is very fast in itself.

Second, the plague spread through water sources. There was a Yinhu River running through the east and west in the valley plain, and the serfs had the habit of drinking raw water.If there is a virus in the water, it must be sure to drink one.The Noxian army has been drinking broth or hot soup recently, and has the habit of drinking hot water.

Charles felt that the second possibility was too high. He took Charles, the priest of light, to the Silver Fox River Basin to check the water body.

Charles took out a glass, scooped a glass of water from the river, and swung his head back.

smack smack ~

Afterwards, Charles replied: "Master Baron, this water is indeed poisonous, a poison called ginseng. This poison is very poisonous, even if it is dispersed in the water, it is still very poisonous."

Charles is a little speechless, why can you be so clear after drinking a glass of water.

Moreover, the river has such a large amount of water, how much poison must be injected to have an effect.

Is this science?

Charles seemed to see Charles' doubts, and then explained, "This poison is a supernatural poison, precious and rare. Almost only the Church of Illuminati has it. Oh, no, it may be in the hands of magicians. After all, no one can have it. Don't know what the hell they're working on."

Poison from the Church of Illuminati?
Charles felt that there was a huge secret hidden in it. Could it be that the Church of Light is going to take action?
Charles asked the question he was most concerned about, "Can this poison be cured? Is there any good way."

Charles made a secret first, "If ordinary barons encounter this incident, I would suggest that they isolate the patients infected with the plague as soon as possible. Then go to the priest of light, so as to minimize the damage of the plague."

"But if it's you, it's not a problem at all."

Charles was a little puzzled, waiting for further explanation from Charles.

Charles replied: "The virus that came out of the Church of Light, the first thing to solve is how to save yourself easily after being infected by Pastor Guangming. After this poison has been continuously cultivated, the best antidote to save the virus is the belief in the God of Light."

"Huh? Faith?"

"That's right, you are the favored of the God of Light, and the pale gold belief value in your holy staff is the best antidote."

"So, I don't need to purify the water source, I don't need to isolate the patients, I only need to consume the light golden faith value, and I can save the plague patients."

"Yes."

But the fact that the detoxification can be detoxified by faith alone still feels a bit beyond cognition for Charles.

So he ordered a plague patient to be brought in.

The staff in his hand waved, emitting a pale golden light.Then, pale golden holy light surrounded the patient.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, the patient's energy and spirit gradually recovered.

Although still skinny, the patient did indeed recover.

The effect was so immediate.

Charles estimated that saving the patient consumed about 0.5 gallons of faith.

His current belief value is about 300 gallons, which can save about a thousand patients.

Seems to be able to cover all serfs infected with the plague.

But if the plague spreads further, the faith value will be insufficient.

If Charles was allowed to understand Shire's thoughts, he would definitely complain.As long as you can guarantee the safety of your relatives, subordinates, and soldiers, you really want to save all the serfs.

But Charles suddenly realized that this might be an opportunity.

An opportunity to gain faith.

Serfs could only get sick and wait to die.If the ancient Fushui had a 50% success rate, it would quickly pull out a group of fanatics with pure beliefs, and then set off a large-scale rebellion movement.

But now charr can 100% heal serfs infected with plague.

What is this concept.

For the serfs, he was the god who controlled their life and death.

Soon, Shire began to tour the treatment.

He came to a village outside the River Valley Fortress, a village with a population of 800 that became 300 after Noxus aid.

When he stepped into the village again, the village head greeted him with a bitter face, "Master, there are no suitable mature men in our village anymore."

Several black lines appeared on Ciel's forehead.

What words?What is this nonsense?

Did he, Shire, come here just to conscript young men?

He, Shire, came here this time to treat illnesses and save lives.

He asked the village chief to find the serfs in the village infected with the plague.

The village chief was a little reluctant. He estimated that the nobleman would kill the serfs infected with the plague.

Because that's what they did before. Serfs who are sick can't work. What use are serfs who can't work to noble lords.

But under the sharp spears of Noxus soldiers, the village chief quickly gave up his so-called persistence.

Soon, the village head brought the patients out, and more than 300 people in this small village of 60 people were infected with the virus.

Charles was startled. Based on this ratio, the number of patients infected with the virus in the river valley and plain is estimated to have exceeded a thousand.

According to the existing faith value, it is definitely not possible to save all of them.

But Charles has figured it out.

Facing dozens of infected patients, he said: "The great God of Light protects everything, as long as you believe in them devoutly, the power of faith will make you heal."

Hearing these words, the serfs were dubious.

They have heard of the various powerful abilities of Pastor Guangming, as well as the powerful kindness of the Church of Guangming.

But it doesn't look like a normal thing to be healed by faith alone.

Facing their doubts, Charles pointed to a sick serf and asked, "Do you believe in the God of Light?"

The serf, who suddenly found himself in the spotlight, had nothing to say, so he could only reply with a scene: "Of course, I am a believer in the God of Light, and I devoutly believe in the God of Light."

Although this person pretends to be mediocre, Shire still intends to set him as a benchmark, and he doesn't want to die before he gets started.

The holy battle radiated a rich golden light, and this warm and soft light shone warmly on the serfs and patients.

Soon, to everyone's amazement, the patient recovered quickly.

Is this the great role of belief in the God of Light?

At this moment, the eyes of almost all the plague patients shone. They stared straight at Shire and shouted: "The great God of Light, we believe in the great God of Light."

But it’s not enough to just give good things.

Charles' face became serious, and he reminded: "At any time, false believers will end up in a tragic end. Only by believing in the great God of Light can you be healed."

After Charles finished speaking, these plague patients were indeed a little more fearful, and they stopped shouting slogans like before.

However, their level of belief has inexplicably increased.

In the holy battle, Charles could see many rays of faith linking to him.Under the circumstances of life and death, these serfs' belief in the God of Light increased sharply.

But the virtual god is too far away, so Shire, who can actually save people, has become the object of everyone's belief.

The degree of this belief gradually increased as Shire rescued several more plague patients.

In the end, Shire spent a total of 20 gallons of faith and rescued more than 50 plague patients. Five plague patients did not believe in the God of Light and were unwilling to provide faith. Shire had no choice but to make them the most tragic comparison. Condition.

In addition to the cured more than 50 plague patients who became followers of Shire, more than 200 people in the village also became believers of Shire.

The last treatment provided him with more than 50 gallons of faith.

The original fear of the village chief gradually disappeared. Under the threat of the plague, they forgot their pain and leaned towards the Noxus family.

Charles was a little excited. Not only did the plague not cause any trouble, but it also helped him gain faith and the hearts of the people.

A village of more than 300 people can earn 70 gallons of faith points for free. If he visits all the villages in the valley and plains, Charles feels that he can earn seven or eight thousand gallons.

Moreover, they can gain a foothold in the valley plain and win the hearts of the local people.

At this time, Silver Fox Castle.

The castle, which had been besieged for a long time, finally had a chance to breathe.

The plague does not appear to be a human-only virus.

Even the more physically fit centaur can't avoid it.

In the Silver Fox Hall.

Larry stroked the badge of the Holy Light in his hand.

At this time, Harvey, the administrative officer, came in, "My lord, the plague in Silver Fox Castle has been successfully controlled in the slums."

The control that Harvey said is very clear, to surround and isolate the slums, to prevent them from spreading outside, and to let them fend for themselves inside.

However, there is no way to do this. The plague spreads too fast. If it is not controlled in this way, it is estimated that within a few days, the entire Silver Fox Castle will be infected by the plague.

In this case, only a part of the poor can be sacrificed to control the plague.

And this plague is not a bad thing.

Because the plague is an indiscriminate virus, it not only attacks the Silver Fox family, but also the Centaur tribe in the north and the Noxus family in the west.

It is said that the centaur tribe has had a large-scale outbreak of the plague, and the Noxus family in the western valley plain has also suffered from the plague.

From this point of view, their Silver Fox family is the best at controlling the virus.

(End of this chapter)