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

Chapter 1122 Nationwide Rat Extermination [3]

Master Lu sighed, then loudly promised, "Fellow villagers, rest assured, Magistrate Kang and Young Master Kang Lang will come out to see you together. If you have any questions, just ask, and the magistrate will answer them!"

"Hey, hey, hey, thank you Master Lu, thank you Magistrate, thank you young master of the Magistrate's family, you are all good people."

The villagers didn't make any excessive demands; they were just afraid and wanted officials to accompany them.

As long as the officials and their families were still alive, the villagers felt that the imperial court would not abandon them.

They are commoners, whose lives have always been cheap, but officials have lives that are precious, so Magistrate Kang cannot run away.

"Quiet, quiet and wait. No one is allowed to cause any more trouble, or we'll gang up on him!" After the villagers gave their warnings, Anjing stood quietly outside the county government gate, craning his neck to wait for Magistrate Kang.

A quarter of an hour later, the Kang County Magistrate and his son, the Zhong County Lieutenant, along with Elder Qiong, Grandpa Qin, and Madam Guan, all came out together... They had just woken up and were brought here to make an appearance, in order to reassure the people.

Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
"Magistrate Kang, with his son, Lieutenant Zhong, the renowned scholar Qiong, and Commander Qin have arrived!" Master Lu shouted.

"Hey, here it comes."

"Waaaaah, my lord, my lord, you've finally come out! We thought you'd abandoned us and run away for your lives!"

At that moment, the people of the county town looked at Magistrate Kang, their official, with the same affection they would show their own mother.

To be honest, Magistrate Kang was a decent official. Although he was blind and incompetent and couldn't see that Assistant Magistrate Feng was deliberately condoning the village chiefs' misdeeds, at this moment, he didn't run away. He was willing to stay and die with everyone, and the people of the county forgave him.

"Silence! Silence!" Head constable Zhou shouted, leading the constables.

After the people in the county town quieted down, Magistrate Kang said, "Fellow villagers, I know you are afraid of the rat plague, but you don't need to be nervous. There are no patients yet. It's just that the spies from the Eastern Desert have been raising rats in the mountains, and they've raised too many. That's why the Wei army suspects that the spies from the Eastern Desert are using rats to raise the plague..."

"Rats, fleas, and lice can carry the disease of rat plague, which is why the government issued an order for the entire population to exterminate rats, fleas, and lice, and for every household to boil their clothes and bedding!"

"Without rats, this rat plague will naturally not occur!"

Kang Lang also stepped forward and said, "Fellow villagers, my family won't be leaving, nor will Mr. Qiong, Lord Qin, or Madam Guan. They will stay and keep you company. Don't panic. Just do as the government says, and we might be able to stop the spread of the rat plague!"

"Really?!" asked the people in the county town.

“Really!” Magistrate Kang, County Commandant Zhong, Elder Qiong, and others responded.

Upon hearing this, the people of the county town felt half-asleep, their fear and anxiety subsided.

The government also sent men to infiltrate the crowd and lead the way in shouting: "Neighbors, even Magistrate Kang and Elder Qiong are not leaving, which shows that this rat plague is not so scary. Let's stay here with peace of mind and do as the government says. We will definitely be able to thwart the spies' evil scheme in the Eastern Desert!"

"Hmph, they want to wipe us out with the plague? We'll kill all the rats and see how their rat plague can harm us then!"

Once the leader spoke, the winds shifted, and the townspeople chimed in: "Yes, yes, yes, exterminate the rats, exterminate the rats! Kill all the rats, and the rat plague won't be able to harm people!"

"But we're not very literate, and we don't quite understand the notice about rat extermination and plague prevention..."

Zhou, the head constable, immediately shouted: "Someone will teach us! Starting tomorrow, rows of tables will be set up at the yamen gate, with doctors in charge, to teach everyone how to exterminate rats and prevent plague!"

"That's good, that's good." The people of the county town were relieved. Some who were worried about not being able to get in line tomorrow decided not to leave and instead slept on the ground in front of the government office.

The government officials didn't drive them away; instead, they lit a fire for them to keep warm.

The next morning, branches of Wuze Pharmacy, branches of Changji Pharmacy, folk doctors, and registered county physicians came to the scene as summoned.

First, he went to the county government office to listen to Dr. Lin explain how to prevent rat plague. Then, at 9:00 AM, he went to the main gate of the county government office and began to explain to the people of the county town how to exterminate rats and prevent plague.

I talked until the afternoon without a break, my voice was almost gone. Thankfully…

"Sir, the students have arrived!" Shi Songxin, Si Feng, Si Pei, and other students brought Master Xun from Taifeng Town.

"Yes, hurry up and start writing down all the things the doctors said about rat extermination and plague prevention, and distribute them to the people in the county town... Don't stop writing, the more the better, and the rural households should also have such rat extermination and plague prevention handbooks." With just one sentence from Master Qiong, more than two hundred students had to work like crazy.

Two hundred students were writing furiously, while the remaining dozens were responsible for proofreading. After proofreading, half of the proofreading was distributed to people in the county town, and the other half was packed into boxes and prepared to be sent to various villages in the countryside.

The most striking sentence in the entire rat extermination and plague prevention handbook is: After exterminating rats, burn the rat carcasses. Do not eat them, as they will cause illness. If anyone is found to have eaten them, send them to the front line to fight the enemy!

There are many poor families in the countryside of Dawei, and life is hard. They can't eat meat more than a few times a year. Even rats are meat. After burning them, the aroma of meat fills the air. If I don't write the last sentence, the villagers will have to stay by the fire where the rat carcasses are burned and have an extra meal.

Dangdang Dangdang!
"Your Excellency, a large number of villagers have come to all four city gates, crying uncontrollably, demanding to know about the rat plague!" The soldiers guarding the city gates ran up to report to County Commandant Zhong.

County Commandant Zhong led his soldiers to see County Magistrate Kang.

Magistrate Kang's face darkened upon hearing this, but he quickly added, "I'll take Lang-ge'er with me and go down to the townships, talking to the villagers in each one."

Although the documents sent to each town had already made it very clear, only the county magistrate, or an official of higher rank, could alleviate the villagers' panic.

Bringing Kang Lang along was to tell the villagers that my son was there, that we wouldn't run away, and that they could continue living their lives in peace.

“What you say is very true, sir,” Master Lu agreed.

Since the adults have already written a notice to carry out the nationwide rat extermination and plague prevention campaign, then we must do this work to the best of our ability... Putting aside everything else, the fact that the adults took the young master to the towns and villages to reassure the people is a great achievement and has the potential to be recorded in history.

but……

"We should also bring a few doctors, soldiers, and students to form teams and go to the townships together to reassure the people."

We need more men and men; otherwise, without a strong presence, the villagers won't listen to the government.

"Do it this way, give the order." At Magistrate Kang's command, the county government, County Lieutenant Zhong, Elder Qiong, and even the doctors all sprang into action.

The following day, after the troops were assembled, Magistrate Kang led his team to the townships.

When the villagers heard that the county magistrate was leading a team to the townships, they were overjoyed and rushed from their villages to the town to listen to Magistrate Kang talk about the rat extermination and plague prevention by the notice board at the town entrance.

Magistrate Kang's actions yielded remarkable results. In every town and village throughout the county, every household began exterminating rats, fleas, and lice, and even boiled their bedding and other items.

In places like Taifeng Town, herbal medicine packets are distributed to each household so that villagers can burn them to fumigate their homes and eliminate bacteria.

What are bacteria?

"I don't know, it's something you can't see, they say it's another name for illness qi."

"Why not just call it 'illness qi'? Why change the name? It's not pleasant to hear and hard to remember; it's cumbersome."

The villagers who received the herbal medicine packets to fumigate their houses expressed their incomprehension and complained.

"Never mind that, let's hurry home and fumigate the house. After that, we still have to get to the fields. It's spring planting season, we can't afford to waste time and miss the opportune moment!"

"Yes, yes, let's go, let's hurry home." The villagers rushed home.

Meanwhile, in the town, every household on New Street was also exterminating rats.

Bang bang bang!
A series of heavy thuds could be heard; the rats in the sacks were being smashed to death, piled up, and burned.