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Chapter 301 Generals stand up to mend the cracks in the sky

Zhao Xing never imagined that the plague would no longer harm the world because of his time travel. So when he received emergency information from the Shadow Team members about the discovery of the plague outbreak on the morning of July 19, he did not feel much panic in his heart.

At this time, everyone can panic, but Zhao Xing can't and cannot panic. Fortunately, Zhao Xing belongs to the former, which is entirely due to the national action to prevent and control the epidemic that he had personally experienced in his previous life. He also clearly remembers what responses the government should introduce when everyone is in danger and fear of contagion. Any attempt to cover up the truth and deceive the people is tantamount to wrapping up fire in paper; and mobilizing the whole people to prevent and control is the only magic weapon to ultimately win.

Preventing and controlling large-scale plagues is no less than a national war in the 21st century, let alone in ancient times with low medical standards? Therefore, the General's Mansion adjusted its strategy immediately and issued orders to the outside world that were incredible and proved very effective afterwards.

The first order: Establish a joint command center for epidemic prevention, with the commander-in-chief being Zhao Xing. The command center members include: Zhenbei Army, Xiongwu Army, and all military generals above the Dingyuan Army (including the leader of the ** regiment); officials above the prefectures in various counties in Bingzhou; all the generals in Zhenbei Palace are engaged in; four sacrificial wine in Taihang Academy.

The second order: All military, political and civil activities will be suspended and will be coordinated by the Joint Epidemic Prevention Command in the future and will not act without authorization. The first large-scale celebration will be cancelled, which is the marriage of the general who was originally scheduled to be on the eighth day of the eighth month.

The third order: block all passes, ferries, and roads entering Bingzhou. It is strictly forbidden for any foreign population to enter the Bingzhou boundary without quarantine. Once discovered, they will be expelled at the least, and they will be killed on the spot and burned to bury.

The fourth order: From the moment of receiving the order from the General's Office, all counties and local garrisons will launch the highest-level epidemic prevention emergency plan, strictly control the flow of people, prohibit any mass gatherings, strengthen epidemic detection, and implement the "zero report on the epidemic" system.

The fifth order: Before the epidemic alarm is lifted, Bingzhou will enter a military state, and all material reserves will be allocated by the General Office. Foreign political and economic exchanges will be coordinated by the General Office to severely crack down on and investigate and punish the acts of price gouging and hoarding.

The sixth order: to the military and civilians who have made great contributions to the prevention and control of the epidemic and have selflessly contributed to the prevention and control of the epidemic, the highest national treatment will be given, and the first-class merit will be awarded. The body will be buried in Taihang Zhonglie Park, and the family will enjoy the Bingzhou pension.

The General's Office, which later generations called the "Six bans on epidemic prevention", was quickly passed to all counties and local garrisons in Bingzhou in the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. The local generals and local officials who received the orders resolutely implemented the orders of General Zhenbei without any objection, including the provincial governor's office. Zhao Xing's appeal and influence in Bingzhou can be seen from this.

Outside Woye City, it has been seven days since the Xianbei people dug a hole and buried it by themselves. Within these seven days, some tribe members have developed symptoms such as fever and coma, but it has been greatly reduced from before, less than 10%. Moreover, some strong young tribe members, after taking the herbs sent by the Han people on the city, miraculously did not devour their lives by the devil, which made the originally discouraged new tribe leader Tu Xi see hope.

According to the instructions of the Han people, Tu Xi divided the remaining 2,000 tribes into ten groups, each group was camped one mile away, and a quarantine belt was dug out in the middle, prohibiting people from moving left and right. Because the weather was warm at this time, it was not difficult for people to survive in the wild. The tribesmen just took herbs on time and ate and sleep on time every day. Once they found that someone was abnormal, they were immediately sent to the isolation camp far away from the tribe, where there was fresh water, food and some medicinal materials. Whether they could survive depends on the favor of Changshengtian.

What shocked Tu Xi the most was that he was not the only tribe who enjoyed this kind of "camping outside the city" treatment. Even the residents of Bingzhou who did not return to Woye City in time were all turned away. He once saw Sahutu, the elder of the Huangxuan clan, standing on the top of the city, watching his tribe fall under the shooting of Han army archers on the top of the city, but he did not respond at all.

In order to prevent the epidemic from being brought into the city, the Han people did a great job! In fact, doing so is nothing. There are even more extreme measures that have begun to be implemented by the army within Bingzhou.

As early as the winter of Guanghe (183), Zhao Xing implemented the first "National Health Movement" in Shangdang (see Chapter 99 for details). Since then, regularly cleaning water sources, cleaning sewage ditches, continuously building public toilets, public bathrooms and designated clinics, vigorously promoting "Five-shaped Tai Chi", popularizing sanitation and disease prevention knowledge, and producing activated carbon masks has become the daily work of government officials in various places, and has been going on for four years.

At that time, Zhao Xing arbitrarily issued an order: Once a person in each township and pavilion found that someone was infected with a plague, he would immediately be isolated and observed. For example, if one person was found to have a plague in one family, several nearby families would be isolated and observed at the same time; if a few people were found to have a plague in one village, he would send troops to surround the village and isolate the entire village; if a few villages were found to have a plague in one village, he would cut off all roads from the outside world and wait for Zhao Xing's emergency response.

The most unacceptable thing is that anyone who dies due to plague, regardless of their status, must not be mourned or buried. The personnel of the Epidemic Prevention and Control Department must burn the bodies of the deceased in a specially designated isolation area and buried the ashes deeply. This order is no different from the treatment of the Tuxi tribe!

When the plague was not coming, although some people had questioned the relevant content of burning and burying in the epidemic prevention plan formulated by Zhao Xing himself, it was not up to me. In addition, Zhao Xing's reputation and prestige were growing at that time, and the voices of opposition were smaller. However, after the outbreak of this plague, most of the villages and families who were unfortunately infected were disobedient and rebelled.

In the Han Dynasty, when filial piety was the first priority, the people wanted to be officials and were first filial and honest. This shows how important filial piety is. If the descendants did not bury the land according to etiquette after the death of their family members or elders, it would be a complete disobedience and unfilial piety, so this order aroused great resistance from the people.

However, this time, General Zhenbei, who has always loved the people as much as his son, was in a mess. He did not comply with the people's sentiments and issued a killing order to the troops loyal to him in a very cruel and iron-blooded manner! If any village or family dares to resist the order and resist with weapons, all the rebels will be killed on the spot, burned and buried, and will not be buried! If there are still families and villages who do not listen to the dissuasion, they will expel their entire clan or the entire village from Bingzhou according to the situation!

Those who are far-sighted are always lonely and lonely. At this moment, Zhao Xing is at the forefront of the storm. Most people do not know that there is a kind of organism in this world called "pathogenic bacteria". Only Hua Tuo and his disciples who were helping the world have barely accepted Zhao Xing's theory of microbial pathogenicity.

The easiest way to deal with corpses infected with venereal bacteria, whether humans or animals, is to burn them deep. No matter what others think, in order to make more people live, even if they are behind the eternal infamy that thousands of people are referring to, Zhao Xing stubbornly refused to give in to this point, which also laid the root of chaos for Bingzhou.

Of course, not everyone is opposing Zhao Xing. At least the immigrants rescued by Zhao Xing from the Yellow Turban Army and the old residents of Shangdang were almost blindly following the requirements of General Zhenbei.

The Yellow Turban Army immigrants are all grassroots at the bottom of society. They have long seen enough of the scene of bodies rotting on the side of the road without anyone burying them. The biggest wish is to survive and really don’t care whether they can be buried after death. As long as the general Zhenbei does not take back the land that had been distributed to them, these immigrants will be the most loyal supporters of the General's Mansion.
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