The weather in Hebei is not very good either. I don't know if it is snow or ice, but the wind is "crackling" on the car. This ghost thing is still ice when it is in the air, and turns into ice when it falls on the ground.

Got water.

The road was extremely muddy, even worse than when Li Xiao came here. There were some big pits that could sink a horse's entire leg. The entire two battalions marched in such muddy ponds, and they couldn't cover twenty miles in a day. If this road

With everything like this, Li Xiao felt that he wouldn't even be able to go to the capital during the Qingming Festival.

There is another village ahead, and the village is lifeless under the gray sky. There is no smoke from the chimney of any house, and there is no human voice from any house. You can see dogs that have been chained and starved to death, and you can also see

Rats, which are not afraid of humans, run rampant in broad daylight.

Chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs were running rampant on the street. The cows who didn't know how to untie the reins wandered aimlessly. When they saw the stacks of grain, they would use their horns to open them and eat the grain that the mice had not eaten.

Li Xiao sighed helplessly and could only order the soldiers to set fire to it.

This is a relic left by the plague. Li Xiao has only one way to deal with this relic, and that is to burn it.

The plague has been contained in the capital, but that does not mean that it has been contained in Hebei. This village is a microcosm. The people who died at the beginning were not so much unfortunate as they were lucky. At least they had someone to collect the corpses!

In the end, there was no one to collect the bodies of the sick people. The only ones who collected their bodies were rats, crows, or other things. This was the fate of the skeleton at the entrance of the yard.

He couldn't imagine how the plague would spread in the capital if he was not in the capital! When hundreds of thousands of people were imprisoned in the capital and raised like animals, Li Xiao still felt it was inhumane. Looking at it now, staying alive is the greatest thing.

humane.

"Li Shuai, why is there no one in the village?" Ten-year-old Zhu Yihai walked out of Yanzhou for the first time, and everything he saw along the way was new. Speaking of which, the children of the princes of the Zhu family are indeed pitiful, they are prisoners of wealth. No matter they

No matter how hard they work and how outstanding they are, they are not allowed to step out of the fiefdom in their lifetime. If they step out of the fiefdom casually without the emperor's order, it will be a big event. Local officials will report it directly to the court!

Since Zhu Laosi and Zhu Di succeeded in their rebellion, the emperor has been wary of his own relatives, which is not much more than a guard against thieves.

"They are all dead...!" Li Xiao reluctantly lowered the car curtain and let the wind and snow hit the car glass with a "pop" and "pop" sound.

"Dead? How did they die? Did they encounter thieves?" Zhu Yihai's eyes widened and he looked at Li Xiao in confusion. In his impression, only the thieves from Liangshan could bring disaster to a village.

so.

"It's more terrifying than thieves. It's something called a plague. Once this disease occurs, one person will infect a whole village. Then it will spread outward and many people will die, many, many people. These people died because of the plague.

This is the biggest disaster in the world."

"My mother is dead too!" Upon hearing the death, Zhu Yihai immediately thought of my mother.

"Uh...!" Li Xiao was speechless. He really couldn't tell Zhu Yihai that your mother will give birth to a child for me in a few months. You can be considered a half-brother! You can't say this.

, I can’t even say that even if I’m beaten to death.

"Do you want to be the emperor when you go to Beijing?" The child's mind was racing, and Zhu Yihai's attention quickly jumped to becoming the emperor. His cousin Zhang Huangyan said that he wanted to be the emperor when he came to Beijing this time. He was ten years old.

Zhu Yihai still didn't know what the emperor meant. He only knew that he was the most powerful person in the Ming Empire. In a sense, this understanding was correct.

"That's right. This time you enter Beijing and you will become the new emperor." Li Xiao nodded.

"Then if I become the emperor, can I make my mother the queen mother? My uncle said that the emperor is the son of heaven, and everyone in the world must obey the emperor."

"Uh...!" Li Xiao continued to endure. He just didn't want to tell you that your mother was giving birth to your little brother.

The carriage sank into the mud pit again, and the sound of soldiers shouting slogans and lifting the wheels was heard all around again. Thinking of the ghost traffic in these years, Li Xiao missed the future generations who would sit on the train and sing songs for an hour.

The era of three hundred kilometers.

It seems that Mr. Yu is really old. Should he be given a helper? Steam engines can be used as power in Jinan, but until now, trains have not been developed.

I really want to see the scene of the train running across China. At that time, supplies from Liaodong will continue to enter Hebei, helping Hebei, which was hit hard by the plague, to recover!

In fact, most of Hebei under Li Xiao's rule, as well as Liaodong and Shandong, are the places where the plague has the least harm!

The pile of corpses that remained unburned outside the capital for a long time ensured that the plague did not spread in the capital. Strict inspections and isolation of all connections with Henan and Shanxi preserved parts of Shandong and Hebei.

Among the remaining places, the most severely affected areas are Guanzhong and Henan. Thanks to the two brothers Huang Taiji and Zhang Xianzhong, these two places have basically returned to the prehistoric state of being uninhabited for hundreds of miles and without roosters crowing for thousands of miles.

After exhausting the efforts of nine cattle and two tigers, the carriage was once again lifted out of the mud pit. It took a full thirteen days for Zhu Yihai to arrive in the capital under the escort of Li Xiao.

After tidying up his appearance, Zhu Yihai was led by Li Xiao to Daming Gate, and then went to Fengxian Hall to pay homage to the ancestors of the Zhu family. This was all arranged by Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan. In the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, there was not a single powerful official.

Dare to hold the emperor's hand and do such a thing.

Since the plague was subdued, there has been no mention of martial law in the capital. Countless people witnessed Li Xiao holding the hand of the future emperor and completing an unprecedented feat.

The common people didn't know anything about royal etiquette. They only knew that Li Xiao looked very handsome when he held the emperor's hand. At the same time, there were more than one or two nymphomaniac girls in the capital. They dreamed at night that they could marry Li Xiao and Marshal Li.

Just because the common people don't know it doesn't mean that the Taoist scholars don't understand it. As well-educated people, they certainly know that Li Xiao is disobedient by doing this. Even if they know, they don't seem to have any desire to popularize science among the people.

After experiencing the brutal martial law imposed by Zheng Sen and Wu Ciyou, the people in the capital became very well-behaved. In the past, the guys who always wanted to argue with the guards were gone, and the people who always made irresponsible remarks about the government were also gone.

No one cares if you scold the emperor after dinner, but if someone dares to scold Li Xiao, then this person will die uglier than a pig.
Chapter completed!