After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 1121 Nationwide Rat Extermination [2]

"Please wait a moment, everyone. I'll be right back." After giving these instructions, Magistrate Kang opened the door and went out into the courtyard. Pointing at Kang Lang, he angrily shouted, "Tie him up, gag him, and throw him into the woodshed to reflect on his actions!"

This?
Master Lu immediately ordered the constables from the Kang and Lu families: "Hurry up and get to work!"

He then comforted Kang Lang, saying, "Young Master, please don't blame the Master. The Master has the heart of a loving father."

"Son won't blame Father. Son was indeed wrong. Father is right to punish me however you want. Son only begs Father to fight the enemy and not retreat without doing anything!" Kang Lang shouted this before the yamen runner could gag him.

boom!
Magistrate Kang kicked him and cursed, "You unfilial son! You're still a student! What right do you have to speak on matters of national importance? Get out here and reflect on your mistakes!"

He then yelled at the constables from the Kang and Lu families, "Why aren't you dragging this unfilial son away right now!"

"Yes." The constables from the Kang and Lu families dared not let him off the hook any longer. They immediately gagged Kang Lang with a wad of cloth, tied him up, and carried him away.

Kang Lang stopped struggling. He knew that he was able to rush to the gate of the office compound and shout those words there because his father had tacitly approved it; otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to get close to the gate.

Kang Lang felt reassured, understanding his father's choice... and he would stay and fight the enemy alongside his father.

As long as he and his son survive, regardless of whether they win or lose this battle, firstly, he will have no regrets in this life, and secondly, the merit of their sacrifice will protect his younger siblings for life, the family will be able to rise again, and his younger brother's official position will only be higher than his father's in the future!
If Kang Lang could figure this out, then Magistrate Kang certainly could too.

Magistrate Kang stood outside the courtyard gate for a full quarter of an hour before turning back to his office.

After closing the doors and windows, he bowed to Madam Guan and Elder Qiong and said, "Every man has a responsibility for the rise and fall of the nation, let alone a junior official of the court. Now that I have discovered the danger, I should take the lead in eliminating it."

Madam Guan was delighted: "Very well, on behalf of my husband's ancestors, I thank Lord Kang."

"No, no, you flatter me, sir. This is simply my duty." Magistrate Kang was so frightened he almost knelt down. This old lady's words were truly sharp; she almost killed him!
"Sir, there's no time to lose. Please write the document now and issue a notice to all villages and towns in the county, as well as to the yamen in the nearby counties and the prefectural capital, to prepare for the epidemic prevention and control efforts," County Magistrate Zhong urged.

"Alright, I'll get to work right away!" Once the decision was made, there was no time to hesitate, or he would only lose his courage. Magistrate Kang knew this well, so he stopped dawdling and began to write furiously.

It took him a quarter of an hour to write more than a dozen documents and letters, which were then stamped with the official seal of Baofu County and the seal of County Commandant Zhong.

Once the ink had dried, the letter was immediately sealed and sent to several neighboring counties and the prefectural city by the soldiers of County Commandant Zhong; the documents were also sent to various villages in Baofu County.

That's right, these documents no longer stop at the town level, but go directly to the villages.

If a village is infected with rat plague, the entire county will have to be sealed off. If the plague cannot be controlled, everyone in the county will be burned to death!

Historical records from ancient times to the Great Wei Dynasty always describe the number of people who died during major epidemics.

There are no records of how many patients were cured.
There is no record of how the plague ended.
why?
The country farmers didn't know, but the magistrate of Kang County, a member of a prominent family, knew very well, because there were simply no cases of a cure!
All of these measures involved sealing off cities and massacring people to eliminate the breeding ground for the plague, thus eradicating it.

"Madam Guan, you've worked hard. Please go home and rest. We'll need your help later," said Magistrate Kang.

Madam Guan understood and nodded: "Yes, I'll go home now. If you need anything, please send someone to tell me. I will do my best to handle it."

Then he invited Grandpa Qin and Elder Qiong: "My dear in-laws, Elder Qiong, let's go to the Guan residence for a while. If we stay together, it will be easier for the magistrate to find us, and it will also be easier for us to discuss matters."

Old Qiong: "I'm sorry to bother you."

The group followed Madam Guan, leaving the county government office and returning to the Guan family home.

Upon arriving at the Guan family's house, they each drank a bowl of soup and then went to sleep.

When I woke up, the county town was in an uproar. Many townspeople had gathered at the gate of the county government office, shouting, "Officer, is what the notice says true? Did the spies from the Eastern Desert really spread a rat plague in the mountains? There might really be a plague outbreak here!" "Heavens above, how can you be so cruel? How are we supposed to live? You could at least send down a famine, but a plague! This is going to wipe out our race! Waaah!"

Many people cried.

The people were crying and wailing because the plague was so terrible that there was no chance of survival and it wouldn't even let them escape.

Other cities might accept or help refugees fleeing famine, but no place would accept those fleeing plague. If you ignored the warnings and tried to cross the border, you would be shot to death by arrows and your body burned. They wouldn't even leave you a whole corpse!

"Come out! Let the magistrate come out and explain himself to us! Otherwise, we'll storm the yamen! We'll risk our lives to get to the bottom of this!"

Dozens of people from the county town shouted, and all of them were elderly people over sixty years old.

The constables: "..."

You guys are pretty good at picking people to cause trouble.

But you don't need to do that this time, because this time we really won't hit you.

"Fellow villagers, rest assured, the magistrate said that you are allowed to gather and make a fuss. Once enough people have gathered, the magistrate will come out and explain things to you!"

"But you must not harm others or yourselves. Just gather here and wait. The authorities will give you an explanation!"

"The rat plague is only suspected; there are no patients yet, so there's no need to panic!" the yamen runners shouted to the soldiers and martial arts students.

Tonight, the students of the local martial arts school did a great job. If it weren't for them maintaining order and calming the gathered villagers, the main street of the county government would have been in complete chaos.

"We're all lined up at the street corner, aren't there enough people? Get the magistrate out here right now, or we'll storm the yamen!"

"The magistrate hasn't come out yet; could he have run away with his wife and children?!"

"That's possible. When it comes to matters of life and death, these officials are always the first to run away. They don't care about our lives!"

These were strong words, so Zhou Bantou hurriedly explained, "They didn't run away! The magistrate and young master Kang Lang are both in the county office. Don't worry, folks!"

"Bah! If you don't come out to see us, you've already run away. You yamen runners are just covering for the magistrate. You're no good either. You'll all run away in a few days!"

“The disaster victims who settled here said that during the famine in Zhongyuan Prefecture, their county magistrate took the grain from the county granary and his yamen runners and left the entire county to fend for themselves!”

"Seeing is believing! We want to see the magistrate! We've already met Magistrate Kang, don't try to find a fake to impersonate him and fool us!"

Zhou, the squad leader: "..."

Seriously, do you guys have such wild imaginations?

Even a fake county magistrate has appeared. Have you all read Brother Bai's sketchbook?
Dangdang Dangdang!
"Silence! Magistrate Kang will come out and explain the situation to you all in a quarter of an hour!" Master Lu announced as he led his men out.

"Master Lu, Master Lu is still here! It seems the magistrate hasn't run away!" When the people of the county saw Master Lu and heard his distinctive voice, they finally felt a little more at ease.

"Hey, hey, hey, then we'll wait for Magistrate Kang. Magistrate, you must come out and explain things to us! We're scared!"

The sound was filled with sobs, revealing everyone's fear of the rat plague.