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Chapter 1227 The Black Death

The Fuchuan moored at the port of Lima City did not know that they could not go to Spain.

Due to the fact that Chen Mu led the army on an expedition, he received the news a month later than planned, but long before he received the news, all the customs on the east coast had already taken action under the auspices of Zhao Shizhen, the Eastern Military Mansion.

Governor Yang Tingxiang ordered the closure of Mexico City's Daxi Port, and all warships sailed between the Caribbean islands to create a sea blockade.

Makino Customs was closed by Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of the county, and the Changdao Guard, Hulan Guard and other flag troops were sent to patrol the coast, vowing not to release any boards to park.

There is also Lu Feng, the commander of the Rio Guards in South Asia and Brazil, but his customs blockade is the same. If there are no merchants from the Ming Dynasty, no matter whether the Western or Portuguese ships come from nowhere, the original response is to drive them all out.

Such an action originated from a letter from the Spanish Indian Affairs Committee. This letter had nothing to do with war, but a request to the Oriental Army for help, hoping to get help from the military doctors of the Ming Army.

A Spanish merchant ship that should have been drifting at sea at this time returned to Havana. When the port inspected its cargo, it was found that it was still fully loaded with the cargo it had sailed from the New World last year. It was later confirmed that it did not arrive in Seville. , the real reason is the Black Death in Seville, and the city has been blocked.

As a result, just as the crew feared, they were ordered to return to the ship and could not enter or leave the ship, and all the guards, laborers and tax officials who had come into contact with them in the port of Havana returned with them.

Even so, the officials of the Indian Affairs Committee still couldn't feel relaxed, and immediately wrote a letter to warn the Western Army of the Ming Army in Daxigang, and at the same time asked the Ming Army to send a military doctor to help.

Zhao Shizhen, who handles daily affairs on behalf of Chen Mu through the letter, can feel the panic of the Spaniards... the Black Death, what is the Black Death?
no one knows.

On the contrary, everyone in the Eastern Military Government knows how simple and crude European medical skills are: without looking at the pathology, internal causes, and medicine stones, all unresolved patients have only two methods in the end, either bloodletting or chopping up.

Therefore, neither Zhao Shizhen nor Yang Tingxiang paid enough attention to this matter.

Until Li Yuxi, who was selling tobacco in England, met Yang Zhaolong, and almost accidentally mentioned that the Black Death had sprung up in England since last year. Several of his crew members died of this disease and were buried in foreign countries. Familiar... In the sixth year of Wanli's reign, there was a great epidemic in Bozhou. Although he was not in Bozhou, most of the warriors around him had experienced it.

The Black Death and the plague, two different concepts merged into one in his mind, and he contacted the request of the Spanish Indian Affairs Committee, which had recently become a joke in the mansion newspaper, and immediately reported it to the military government to block the customs.

This has attracted the attention of the Eastern Military Government, and even responded with a very excessive reaction in the eyes of others.

It is generally believed that in the past few hundred years, the plague has only had a massive epidemic in Europe. In fact, the plague has been rampant in the world for hundreds of years. It has given birth to countless medical methods and forced Europeans to carry out health reforms. Let the view of destiny of the Central Plains Dynasty win the hearts of the people in the fight against diseases.

In this era, there is no reliable way to deal with epidemic diseases, especially plague.

As for the number of dead people and the extent of the spread, it has nothing to do with the advanced or backward medicine of the East and the West. The European way to deal with the plague is macro-shock therapy. Praying around a bonfire, it is against this background that "Ten Days Talk" was created.

As for the common people, there is no such thing as the people. The nobles closed the gates of the castles and swept the snow in front of the gates, so they could rest easy. Outside the dotted castles and manors, there were all natural isolated areas.

Seek good fortune for yourself, and take a gamble if it's a big deal, anyway, this month's plague and the people must die for me!
Due to the civil service system and a more complete grassroots structure of the Central Plains Dynasty, the emperor had to intervene in the epidemic for the emperor’s bureaucrats on behalf of his herdsmen. Relatively speaking, the city’s checkpoints and roads blocked the spread of the plague. Most of the time it was just famine and turmoil brought about by the plague epidemic.

People try their best and in the end it is still mostly luck. In the end, the survivors are often not cured, but healthy and lucky.

The whole world is helpless against this disease... oh, sorry, except Milan.

The outbreak of the Black Death in the [-]th century, from Fujian to England, no one in Eurasia could escape, except Milan.

Because the Black Death first landed in Europe and began to infect Milan in the Black Sea, it only infected three households, and Milan closed the city gates, and nailed the three households and their houses to death with wooden boards.

This was more effective than any treatment at the time.

Unless the incubation period of a virus with strong lethality is long, the infectivity must be weak, and the lethality of highly infectious viruses is generally not much stronger, and the host is dead and how can it spread.

Chen Mu, who was about to enter Peru, received another letter three days after he received the news from the military about the outbreak of the Black Death in Seville, Spain, confirming that the Indian Affairs Committee was a false alarm and that the ship did not enter the port of Seville. , the sailors on board were not infected, but the bad news is that Daming Port seems to be in the epidemic area, and the ships going there are likely to be left behind by Li Dan.

No one knows what the cause of the disease is, but it seems that both France and England were affected by the disease, and the Japanese military government speculates that it may be related to ocean trade.

This is definitely not good news for the Ming army. Fu Yuanzheng, the regular army of the Eastern Army, is stationed in Lisbon, Yang Ce of the Han Dynasty is stationed in the Azores, Li Dan is in Daming Port, Seville, Chen Jiujing He led the army to station Baishan City, and Yuan Zizhang led the army to attack north.

They are all dangerous.

But Chen Mu also forgot some people, the special talent team he sent to England.

Li Yuxi used the letter written by Yang Zhaolong to Chen Mu to briefly describe the scene when the last open ship left the port of Plymouth, which had been blocked by Elizabeth.

The aristocratic county officials all fled in fear of the epidemic. Only one big official and three yamen servants stayed in the county yamen. The gates of the city were locked tightly.

The city is like hell, the plague is rampant, nine out of ten rooms are sick, and the infected people die one after another. Once a family of several people is infected with the epidemic, one out of ten can't afford to close the door... However.

This is very important, because there is a Daoist Cao in the city, who covers his body with a long robe and a plain scarf, and guides his disciples to walk in the market with banners and banners. Patients who are ill often use cinnabar symbols to burn ashes and water to teach patients to take it, and most of them can save their lives.

Chen Mu frowned deeper when he saw this statement than when he remembered that Fu Yuan and others were still in the epidemic area... Is this okay?

(End of this chapter)