Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Smallpox is indeed a nasty disease. Before the invention of cowpox, it was a terrible disease that ravaged human beings and killed a lot of lives.

The Indians in North America, that is, the whites deliberately spread the smallpox virus, causing a large number of indigenous people without antibodies to get sick and die.

In China, everyone was shocked by smallpox, but compared to the Han people who had a mature treatment system, the barbarians in the north feared it even more.

At least, the Mongols and Manchus in the Liaodong and Mongolian grasslands have no resistance to the smallpox virus.

These things were not in Zhang Shouren's consideration, what he was concerned about, of course, was the safety of the soldiers and civilians in Jinan City. [

If a smallpox suddenly raged at this time, not to mention how many soldiers and strong men would fall, just because the people in the city were panicked and scared themselves, it is unknown how much trouble it would cause.

If there is chaos in the city and the enemy's army outside the city overwhelms the border, it will be a lot of fun.

"It's really bad luck."

At a time like this, even someone as strong as Zhang Shouren can only feel this way.

He didn't know that in history, the Qing army defeated Jinan on the second day of the lunar new year, and smallpox was prevalent in the city. A few days later, on the ninth day of the new year, the commander of the right-wing army, General Yang Wu, who was the leader of the Red Banner, Belle Yuetuo, died of illness in Jinan City.

Its disease is smallpox.

"Ah Jiu, this time, I'm in serious trouble."

At the corner of the street in front of the Wangfu archway, there was still a carriage that Zhu Enshang had. Zhang Shouren and the others did not deliberately avoid the matter in front of them, so he and his sister saw it clearly.

Although they belonged to the clan, the two brothers and sisters in the car would still be very aware of the danger of an epidemic outbreak in the city.

Ah Jiu's pretty face was pale, and she wrung her fingers with both hands. For a moment, the fearless girl of the Ming clan didn't know what to say.

"I hope this general can lead our Jinan soldiers and civilians through this catastrophe!"

There is no record in history of how many people were killed by the smallpox epidemic in Jinan, because the city residents were killed except for those who were looted.

On the Qing side, there must have been a lot of casualties. The commander-in-chief of the first army died of smallpox, and the people underneath should also suffer considerable injuries.

At this moment, the city is still in the hands of Daming.Therefore, this epidemic is indeed a big test for Zhang Shouren, and it is also a big test for the soldiers and civilians in Jinan City.

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Beijing, Da Nei, Wenhua Palace.

Since the entry of the Qing army, Chongzhen has hardly had a good night's sleep.

Compared with Shundang in the first half of last year, the second half of the year was a nightmare after another. The side wall was broken, the governor and other frontier generals died in battle, and then Changping was destroyed, and Zhending Mansion was destroyed everywhere. What made Chongzhen most nervous was that at the end of the year, the Qing army shot a feint on the front line of Gaoyang. The prefectures and counties in Changfu fell one after another, the people were slaughtered, the prefectures and counties were burned, the canals were cut off, the water transportation stopped, and the entire empire was almost completely shut down under the trampling of these tens of thousands of foreign soldiers. [

If Chongzhen knew that the so-called [-] troops who had repeatedly defeated his Ming kings in field battles and killed several governors, frightened the eunuch Gao and ran for hundreds of miles, were only [-] soldiers and tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers, I really don't know what to think.

In those few days ago, what he was most worried about was the safety of Jinan City.