Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 300 Pandemic!Plague!
"Ajie. The survival of more than 20 people in Xiangzhou City depends on you!"

Outside Xiangzhou City, an old soldier helped a young soldier onto a horse. This soldier named Ajie was the soldier who delivered the letter from Xiangzhou City to Chang'an. After Ajie nodded, he said that he would definitely When sending the news to Chang'an as quickly as possible.

The doctor at the Governor's Mansion came over just now, and he took out a roll of paper and handed it to Ajie, saying, "Little brother, this is the old man's research on the plague during this period, you must take it to Chang'an safely." , this is the only chance for our Xiangzhou City to survive."

"I see. Please don't worry, I will definitely bring the news to Chang'an." Ajie turned around and clasped his fists, then shouted: "Drive!"

He only heard the strong maroon horse neighing, and then galloped out quickly.

Watching Ajie leave, the doctor silently glanced at Ajie who left and said firmly: "Close the city gate!"

The city gate was slowly closed. Then it was closed heavily. The closing of the city gate disappointed the owner of the carriage who was about to squeeze out. Soon the owner of the carriage stepped out of the carriage and shouted: "I am a member of the Wang family in Taiyuan. Please let me go." I will leave, and I will thank you in the future."

"That's right, I'm from the Zheng family. Let us out. If you don't let us go, it will definitely make you look good."

"What the hell are you trying to do. We're going out of town. We're going out of town.!"

"My father is still waiting for me. My father is a servant. If something happens to me, the governor of Xiangzhou City will also be involved!"

Shouts came one after another, and a group of people shamelessly wanted to rush out of Xiangzhou City, completely disregarding the risk of their own bodies infecting others. The selfishness of human beings was fully reflected at this moment.

However, at this moment, a general came over and shouted: "Everyone is fifty steps away from the city gate, anyone who is fifty steps away from the city gate, the governor has an order, shoot and kill!"

"Clatter!" A group of crossbowmen pulled the crossbows in their hands.

This scene frightened the young masters of the family, but the fear turned into anger.

"Okay. Zhou Chuanxi, you dare to be unreasonable to my Taiyuan Wang family, you wait, you wait for me, as long as I am fine, I will definitely let you go home!"

"Uncle Zhou, my father and you are good friends, do you really have the heart for your nephew to die in your Xiangzhou?"

"Inspector Zhou, our family will stay here, but please let my son out of the city, he is only ten years old, shouldn't he die here?"

With a sound of cursing, praying, and scolding Zhou Chuanxi, the governor of Xiangzhou, he closed his eyes slightly. The so-called "eating the king's salary, worrying about the king's worries, the rat plague must not spread out of Xiangzhou city."

Inherited from the previous system of the Tang Dynasty, "one station is set up every thirty miles", but there are also differences depending on the geographical environment. There is a station about ten to twenty miles away from the capital, and in some remote areas, there is a gap between the stations and the stations. There are those who are hundreds of miles away.

According to the fifth volume of "Tang Liudian", there are 1639 post stations in the world, including 1297 land post stations, 260 water post stations, and the rest are both water and land stations.

Post stations are divided into different levels according to whether they are necessary or not.Luyi is divided into seven classes, with as many as 75 stage horses in the highest class, and 7 horses in the lowest class.The water station is divided into three classes, the highest class has 4 boats, and the lowest class has 2 boats.Most of the water and land post stations are at Guanjin Ferry. In addition to horses, such post stations must also have ships.

"Ah!" Ajie saw an inn ahead.

This inn is very luxurious, because the quality of the inn is an important part of examining the achievements of local officials, so some state and county officials spend a lot of money to decorate the inn beautifully in order to seek the reputation of the government and please the superiors. , for delicacies from mountains and seas.

Ajie fell off the horse, and the postman at the side saw Ajie's whole body in tatters, and thought it was a bumpkin who came from somewhere and was impressed by his post, all of them laughed.

Fortunately, there was a kind-hearted person in the postman, who went out and helped Ajie up and said, "Don't worry, you can rest here, we have food and drink here, enjoy it for a day or two before going on the road .”

However, at this time, Ajie was not overwhelmed by the luxury here, but cried excitedly: "Great epidemic! Great epidemic! Xiangzhou great epidemic! Eight hundred miles to rush to Chang'an to deliver the letter, please Your Majesty!" Rescue, brothers, get ready to go fast, get ready to go fast!"

After Ajie shouted, the postman who was still laughing trembled all over his body. The postman who was helping people just now shouted excitedly: "What are you doing in a daze, prepare the best fast horse Xiangzhou epidemic, eight hundred miles away Hurry up and immediately report to the Ming government to block all roads in the direction of Xiangzhou!"

"drive!"

In less than half a stick of incense, Ajie rode on the fast horse and roared away. At this time, Ajie had already been riding on the horse for a day and a night, and his legs had already been worn to pieces.

It's just that Ajie can't feel anything at this time. At this time, Ajie only knows that he must quickly bring the news of the Xiangzhou epidemic to Chang'an, because at this time his father, his mother, and his teacher , his younger sister. They are all in Xiangzhou. He must be fast, even faster. Only in this way can he give his family a chance to survive.

Xiangzhou City. It was originally a beautiful place, but now, due to the rapid spread of the plague, people have to seal off the houses where the sick people live, and paint the outside of the closed gate. In red letters, the words "no entry" are written on it, and no one is allowed to enter or leave.

Food and water are delivered through the window by a special person only at a limited time every day.

Thousands of patients in Xiangzhou City died miserably under such harsh conditions, and no less than [-] people died within three days at most.In less than a week, the bustling city of Xiangzhou turned into a silent dead city.

All the shops were closed, almost no pedestrians were seen on the street, and the roadside was covered with lush weeds.

The only job in the city that can break the silence from time to time is transporting corpses.

Every night, the sound of the wheels of the corpse truck "Gulong, Gulung!" and the mournful car bell make people feel creepy.

At first, this burial was only carried out late at night, but later the number of dead people was so large that it had to be carried out day and night.

The corpses of the deceased were loaded into corpse trucks in a haphazard manner and transported to various burial pits.

There, the workers in charge of burying the corpses often covered their faces and mouths, rang the bell, and said in their mouths: "Rest in peace!" They hurriedly poured the corpses into the pit, covered them with thin soil, and left in a hurry.

Crying, mourning, fear, and prayers filled the city of Xiangzhou, but this plague did not give these voices any face at all, but silently harvested everyone's lives.

In the face of the plague, all people are finally equal. No matter you are aristocrats, literati, or civilian slaves, as long as you are infected with the plague, the ultimate way for you is death.

There is no other road at all, which should be another kind of deformed fairness.

(End of this chapter)