In Bengal, the hometown of cholera, Qin Zuoming led the 6,000 troops expeditioning the capital of the Mughal Empire to return to their stronghold, Kolkata Castle. They also brought back gold, silver and jewelry loaded with carts, including the national treasure of the Mughal Empire, the Peacock Throne.

When they returned to Kolkata Castle, they were basically safe and worried about being robbed by some Indian princes on the way.

However, Qin Zuoming thought too much. On the way back to Kolkata from the imperial capital Agra, their expeditionary army passed by the land of Indian princes. It was too late for the Indian princes to hide and did not dare to take the initiative to attack the expeditionary army.

Chen Bangyan led an armed merchant fleet of the East India Company to the west coast of India to occupy the most prosperous port of Surat, which has not returned yet.

Qin Zuoming wanted to transport the gold, silver and treasures worth hundreds of millions of rupees back to the capital to seek credit from the military headquarters. Due to the lack of armed merchant ships, he had to temporarily stockpile the pile of gold, silver and jewelry in a solid castle.

A ship from Malacca brought news of a cholera outbreak in Tianjin Wei.

The Governor of East India, who learned of the Tianjin Wei cholera incident, immediately summoned the main leaders of the East India Company and the East India Expeditionary Force to discuss the orders from the capital with them.

The submarine cables in East Asia have been silently laid from Guangzhou Prefecture to Malacca. The Oriental 10,000-ton cable ship has been operating all the time, but no one pays attention to it.

The capital city advertised Guangzhou Prefecture, and then transferred from Guangzhou Prefecture to Malacca. Malacca immediately sent a ship to inform Kolkata, which had not yet laid undersea cables.

"A plague broke out in Tianjin Wei, and more than 500 people died in the plague. It is found that the sailors who brought the plague to Tianjin Wei left us from Kolkata. The source of the plague is the Ganges region of Bengal. The capital city is suspected to be a local festival event. A large number of people and livestock polluted the river water. Let us Kolkata take protective measures to prevent the plague from spreading to our castle from near the Ganges."

The Governor of East India placed a message from the capital on the wooden table.

After extinguishing the plague in Tianjin Wei, the capital city did not forget to inform the more dangerous Kolkata. The real cholera caused by Vibrio cholera is a local disease raging in Bangladesh. The Kolkata Castle in Bangladesh is in a bad situation. This time it is very likely that it will be a period of a major outbreak of cholera.

Just like many epidemics, cholera will also have a big outbreak in a specific event and will spread widely.

"The telegram describes this plague that causes severe diarrhea, vomiting, and the sick will die soon after symptoms appear. Does our Kolkata have this phenomenon?" asked the Governor of East India.

"It seems that there are several similar cases reported, but the patients are dead and have not caused a major plague. I will investigate it carefully." Qin Zuoming was also afraid of the Beijing mentioned the plague originating from Bangladesh.

This is a plague. As long as you are a person, you will be afraid of infectious diseases with extremely high mortality rates!

"What orders or solutions are there in the capital?"

"Some, Beijing has introduced a new "Sanitation Regulations", requiring big towns to use firewood or coal as much as possible to boil well water or drink water before drinking, and should also eat cooked food as much as possible. If the disease is found, the patient should be isolated immediately. In addition, Beijing will send doctors who can treat the plague to stay here forever."

"Since the capital has made such detailed arrangements, we will do it as we do it, but it is quite expensive for firewood and coal. Fortunately, the company has found a coal mine in Bangladesh and is recruiting workers to mine the coal mine. The price will drop when the coal supply increases."

When a group of senior executives saw that the capital had made detailed arrangements, they no longer feared the situation.

Originally, cholera was a very terrible disease, but under the guidance of modern medical technology, they knew that they could drink clean water and food. Some doctors came here from the capital with drugs to help prevent cholera, so cholera is not so mysterious and terrible.

"When will the armed merchant fleet led by Chen Bangyan return to Kolkata? We have a large number of treasures waiting to be transported back to the capital. In the capital of this disaster, such a treasure should be needed to make up for the national treasury." Qin Zuoming still thought about transporting the gold, silver and treasures robbed in the capital of the Mughal Empire back to the capital as soon as possible.

"After he occupied the Port of Surat, he would build a solid basin. He would lead some armed merchant ships back after the castle was established. The Port of Surat happened to be between the sphere of influence of the eldest prince and the third prince. Without a solid basin, he would not be able to defend the port under the offensive of the Mughal Empire." said the Governor of the East India Company.

"Then I have to wait a little longer... Otherwise, let the Nanyang Fleet send an iron-armored patrol ship to escort the treasure ship back to the local area?" Qin Zuoming said.

"This is OK. If the military leader knew that we had looted the imperial city of the Mughal Empire and seized hundreds of millions of gold, silver and treasures worth hundreds of millions of yuan from the Red Fort, he would definitely reward our group."

Everyone in Kolkata was very excited. Almost every one of them could be regarded as a credit. The treasure worth hundreds of millions of rupees would definitely cause a big sensation.

In view of Qin Zuoming's repeated requests, the Governor of East India requested a armored patrol ship and two sailing warships from the Nanyang Fleet headquarters in Malacca to escort the treasure ship.

Cars of trophy, including gold, silver, gems, Persian carpets, sandalwood and other items, were almost all loaded onto a large sailboat. Unless they encountered a storm or were stranded, several treasure ships could transport the gold, silver and jewelry they had looted from Red Fort to the capital.

A steam armored patrol ship and two sailing twenty-four wooden boats of the Nanyang Fleet broke down in the middle of the Hugley River, waiting for the completion of the loading of the treasure ship.

"You are really capable. You have actually found so many good things from the treasury of the Mughal Empire." The captain of the Nanyang Fleet was ordered to escort the treasures of the Mughal Empire and took a lot of time to see that it took only to load the treasures onto the cargo ship. It was hard to imagine how much wealth they had robbed from the Mughal Empire emperors.

"After all, it is a great empire with a population of over 100 million. Unfortunately, for their own safety, their emperor sometimes even lives in tents outside the city, and must have hid some of the gold, silver and treasures in other places, otherwise we will have more than this treasures." Qin Zuoming said.
Chapter completed!