Adorable Genius: Miracle Physician Concubine Cai Mi

Chapter 324
Jiangshui City was the first city to discover the epidemic. Because the initial measures were not enough to cut through the mess quickly, many people in the city were infected with the plague. These people have relatives and friends. It is unrealistic to drive people out of the city to fend for themselves.

As a result, as time went on, more people fell ill and died. The family members of the dead were unwilling to let the government officials burn their bodies. The family members were infected, and these family members went out and passed it on to others, and the spread continued, and almost the entire Jiangshui City suffered.

In desperation, the magistrate of Jiangshui City could only order the closure of the city, not only forbidding people in the city to leave, but also forbidding outsiders to come in again, so that more people would be infected.

The doctors in the city are desperately trying to find ways to treat the sick for their own survival, but with little success. Every day, tens of hundreds of people die in Jiangshui City. After a long time, more and more people died, and the people in the whole city fell into despair. The corpses were thrown out of the city without caring about burning them. In less than a month, the corpses were piled up into a hill.

"In addition to the fact that more than half of the people in the city are infected, the situation in several surrounding towns is also quite serious. There are even several villages where the entire village was infected with the disease a few days ago, and everyone died." Xu Wen said with an expression on his face. It is particularly heavy, "Originally, there were more than 15 people in Jiangshui City, but today, there are only less than [-] people left in the city. About [-]% of the rest died of illness, and the remaining [-]% were in the city where the epidemic was first discovered. When he got up, he left the city."

Maybe this part of people went to other places to hide from the disaster safely, or maybe they fell ill and died on the way, or died of other accidents. It is unknown how many people are really alive.

But it is known that at least 2 people have died because of this flood!
It's only been over a month!

Only 2 people died in Jiangshui City, and there are two other cities with severe epidemics. I am afraid that the difference is almost the same. If you count other surrounding villages and towns, the total number of deaths may be nearly 8 people!
The population in ancient times was far less than that in modern times. So many people died all at once, which is simply horrific. Even if the Great Yin is strong and powerful, if such a large population is lost, it may not be able to make up for at least five years, and if it is serious, it will not be made up within ten years.

This is the horror of the ancient plague. Once it spreads, a large number of people will die.

These [-] to [-] are not just a statistic, but a series of fresh human lives, and the number of corpses piled up can be terrifying to death.

The "mountain of corpses" that Ji Wutian and the others saw outside the city gate had only a thousand people in total. It is conceivable how many corpses were burned by the people in the Yamen before, and why they couldn't hold on and just dumped the corpses in the city at will. outside.

Qi Susu specially checked the previous records of Da Yin before.

Generally, there will be at least one flood in the south of the Yangtze River every ten years, and it may be two or three times. Each time the disaster is not too serious, but it will kill tens of thousands of people or more on average, and then it will take a few years to recover. Another disaster, and then slow recovery, and so on.

Generally speaking, the total population of Great Yin will not decrease too much at once and cannot recover.

However, this flood is the worst in the past ten years. If the epidemic is not brought under control as soon as possible, it will continue to be serious.

It is said that war will make the people's lives miserable, but in the face of natural disasters, how cheap is human life?Tens of thousands of lives will be harvested in the blink of an eye, but they can do nothing about it, and the consequences may be more unbearable than fighting a war.

Ji Wutian's expression became more serious, and after a while, he asked again: "What about the military camp stationed in Jiangshui City?"

Xu Wendao: "The garrison army has enough food and grass. After the disaster, the impact was not great. There was a plague in the city. After the magistrate ordered the city to be closed, many people rioted. My lord asked the garrison general Cheng Feicheng for help. General Cheng So he led the garrison to the city to help suppress the rebellious people and maintain order in the city."

"Thanks to the help of the garrison, the city did not cause too much riots, and the sick people ran out to kill more innocent people. It's just... because the garrison has been in contact with the patients for a long time, some of them The soldiers were also infected with the plague, dozens of people who were seriously ill have died, and some may not survive for a few days."

Qi Susu asked: "Where do the sick people in the city live now, doctor, are there enough medicinal materials?"

Xu Wendao: "The sick people all settle in the north of the city. There are 12 doctors who are still alive, but these 12 people have no effective medicine to cure the plague. They can only try to delay the death of the patients." If it can be delayed a little bit, until it becomes impossible to procrastinate, people will still die.

"Some medicinal materials can be transferred from other surrounding cities where the epidemic is not too serious, but more and more people are getting sick, and the medicinal materials are still just a drop in the bucket."

Therefore, the large batch of medicinal materials they brought over this time can be regarded as a timely rain. As long as they survive the most difficult period, the Yu family, the Lan family, and the court will deliver other medicinal materials one after another. They can see the sickness and death, but they have no medicine to save the situation.

After that, Ji Wutian and the two asked a few more questions to get a general understanding of the current situation.

Knowing that the situation was urgent, Ji Wutian didn't talk nonsense with Xu Wen, and asked him to lead the way to the north of the city to check on the spot.

The north of the city is the civilian residential area of ​​Jiangshui City. The houses and buildings are relatively ordinary and a bit messy. In addition, there are many sick residents who were not originally from the north of the city. There were many makeshift tents, and it looked even more chaotic.

When Ji Wutian and the others first entered the city, they felt that the atmosphere in the city was very oppressive. However, only when they actually went to the isolation area in the north of the city and saw with their own eyes the people who were sick and numb, as if they were just waiting to die, could they feel that the atmosphere in the city was very oppressive. Know, what is real despair.

It can be seen that the people in the quarantine area do not think that they have any hope of surviving. Those who are not sick now will get sick sooner or later, and those who have already got sick will die like other people soon and be disposed of. .

Even so, when it was time for the yamen to serve meals, these common people would still scramble over to get their portion of food in the first place.

Knowing that there is no hope, but unwilling to die, contradictory and natural.

Who wants to die if they can live, even if they live an extra day or an hour.

The arrival of Ji Wutian and others attracted the attention of some people, but did not cause much commotion.

In the past, the common people might be curious about their identities, but when their lives are threatened at any time, how many relatives and friends have died, or when they are about to die, who has the time to control a group of strangers? What are you doing.

After the master Xu Wen asked Ji Wutian for instructions, he asked the people from the yamen to call the doctor and other people who were not infected to help take care of the patients to come and unload the dozens of carts of medicinal materials they brought over. With little attention from the common people, some people heard Xu Wen call Ji Wutian "Prince", and accidentally heard that they seemed to have a cure for the plague and a miracle doctor, which awakened many numb common people. Bai, like a whirlwind, swept across the entire isolated area in the north of the city in an extreme time, causing a huge commotion.

Many people heard the news and rushed towards the direction of Ji Wutian and Qi Susu's group. There was disbelief on their faces and a madness that could not be hidden as if they were grasping at the last straw.

Xu Wen was taken aback, and quickly asked people to stop the people so as not to hurt the prince and concubine.

The fifty guards brought by Ji Wutian also immediately stood in front of the two masters.

There was also a group of garrison troops who had been called earlier and quickly stepped forward to intercept the overly agitated civilians, shouting: "Everyone, calm down! Don't crowd! Don't get hurt!"

"Stop! Don't come any closer!"

"The prince and concubine are here to save you. If you hurt them, you will have no chance to get cured!"

Some people stopped under the intimidation of the government, but more people kept pushing forward, shouting: "My lord, help! Help us!"

"I don't want to die, I still have a son, my son can't live without me, prince, princess, please save me!"

"I don't want to die, I haven't lived enough!"

At first, Honglian and Lan Xingchen were so startled by the battle of the common people that they backed back involuntarily, and Ji Wutian immediately protected Qi Susu behind her to ensure that she would not be hurt by anyone.

But hearing the people in front of them yelling hoarsely that they didn't want to die, the expressions of the group were inevitably moved, their tense expressions eased, and their eyes were complicated.

More garrison troops rushed over to maintain order, and even suppressed it with forceful force. The commotion subsided after a while, but the shock and influence brought to them in a short period of time did not dissipate so easily.

After most of the people were ordered to return to their current settlements, Cheng Fei, the general of the garrison, came to Ji Wutian and Qi Susu, and saluted them with a serious face: "Jiangshui City Garrison General Cheng Fei, I have seen the prince and concubine. !"

Ji Wutian waved his hand, "General Cheng, you don't need to be too polite. The current stability of Jiangshui City is thanks to you. When things stabilize, this king will definitely ask the emperor for your credit."

Cheng Fei just shook his head, looked outside at the people who were still peeking at them secretly, and sighed, "The general has nothing else to ask, but I just hope that these people in the north of the city can live as long as possible." Come down, don't kill more people."

Over the past few days, people have been seeing people die every day, many of them are soldiers in the battalion, no matter how strong his heart is, he still feels that he will not be able to hold on.

Ji Wutian looked at Cheng Fei, and said in a firm tone: "This king can't guarantee that all the people who are sick can survive, but since this king and princess are here, they will do their best to let more people be able to survive." Live! And live long and long!"

(End of this chapter)