Liu Jun immediately guessed Wu Yan’s intention.￥f.￥f

Of course, he hoped that Liu Zongzhou Dingyou would be resigned. In this way, he and Wu Qi were the only ministers in the court. Then from the decision-making group of three people to the decision-making of two people, it would naturally be beneficial to him. However, on the surface, it could not be expressed too clearly.

"I support the chief minister. At this time, the court cannot do without the chief minister. I will follow the chief minister to meet His Majesty and ask His Majesty to issue an order to seize the love."

Although Liu Jun hoped that Liu Zongzhou would be fine, he did not show it on his face, but instead took the initiative to ask the emperor for an order. He did this because of his understanding of Liu Zongzhou. Liu Zongzhou, a great Confucian scholar, was a great master in Confucianism. It can be said that he was one of the few masters in the Ming Dynasty after Wang Mingyang.

But for this reason, Liu Zongzhou is a Confucian person who is more important than an official. When he is an official, he emphasizes too much about the moral character of officials rather than the ability of officials to do things. Such people who are officials have a rigid personality, do not know how to adapt, and have a slight lack of ability to do things, but they are very upholding moral integrity.

Ding You is observing the system, and this is a matter of moral integrity. For a Confucian master, he will never accept the robbery of love. What they value most is morality, and even put this first.

Liu Jun followed Wu Yan into the palace to meet the saint, reported the matter to the emperor, and asked the emperor to issue an order to seize the relationship and retain Liu Zongzhou. Zhu Cilang followed the advice and immediately issued a Taoist order.

Liu Jun and Wu Yan went to Liu's mansion again, but after Liu Zongzhou heard the order, he refused to accept it without Liu Jun's expectations.

"Second assistant!" Wu Qi was angry and lit his chest. When was it time? He still held these things and refused to let go. "The situation is difficult now. When you are needed, how can you just leave like this? Are you the right way to entrust the emperor?"

But Liu Zongzhou refused to change his mind if Wu Yan persuaded him.

"The matters in the court will be handed over to the prince and Yuanfu. I have packed up and will leave Beijing today."

Liu Jun also spoke a few words, but the result was still.

On that day, Liu Zongzhou left Beijing.

Liu Zongzhou left Monday, and the court ordered only two ministers to be ordered by the three ministers. The position of chief minister in the cabinet was also vacant, and Zhu Cixuan didn't care much about this matter, in his heart. Liu Zongzhou was an extremely strict old man. When he saw him, he was often not like this and not that way, and he was extremely old-fashioned.

Now that the old man has left, he still feels much more relaxed.

"Emperor Brother. Since Mr. Liu is unwilling to take over the mercy and insists on returning to his hometown to control Dingyou, I can only follow him. However, the position of second-super in the cabinet cannot be short of a long time, so the emperor will take over the position of second-super."

No one refuted the emperor's proposal. In fact, many people wanted to refute it in their hearts, but they couldn't find a good reason.

Liu Jun was originally ranked third in the cabinet. Liu Zongzhou left Monday, and it was reasonable for him to take the opportunity to go further. Moreover, Liu Jun was also a minister of life. If he didn't take over the role of the assistant this time, who would take over?

In fact, Liu Jun didn't care much about whether to take over as the second assistant. He was a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet or a Minister of Responsibility. What's the matter with whether he was a Minister of Responsibility? What's important is that the former Minister of Responsibility and Responsibility and Responsibility and Responsibility and Responsibility Liu Zongzhou left the court.

Even if he doesn't take this secondary support, the others will have little impact on him. After all, even if the other party becomes the secondary support, he is not a minister of life.

But after being a secondary assistant, there are still many benefits. Now, he is the legitimate second-in-commander of the Ming Dynasty.

After taking over as the position of the second auxiliary, Liu Jun still used the original duty room in the cabinet, but the sign of the second auxiliary was replaced on the door, and Liu Jun also became the Grand Secretary of the Wenhua Palace.

With a note, Liu Jun went straight to the pay-off room next to Wu Yan.

"Yuanfu."

Wu Yan looked up at Liu Jun and continued to look down at the official document. Liu Zongzhou's departure was believed to be Liu Jun's refusal to keep him, and Liu Jun intended to let Liu Zongzhou leave. He was very dissatisfied with this.

"Yuanfu, the epidemic situation in various places is getting worse and worse. I think the court cannot continue to conceal it. I have to make it clear that the provinces and counties will be instructed to tell everyone that the epidemic is coming and that all localities are ready. Be careful and quarantine patients, do more publicity, and impose prevention and treatment."

"Shijiao, if this is the case, I am afraid that people will be panic everywhere, which will only cause panic. If the military and civilians are uneasy, wouldn't the morale of the army be in chaos? How can we fight in the Central Plains suppressing bandits and pursuing rebellion at the border?"

"The epidemic this time is very severe and cannot be stopped. Now it has been transmitted to Zhending Mansion, and it will be transmitted to Baoding soon and into the Shuntian Capital. The epidemic is no longer as strong as before, and it is coming in a fierce manner. What we are considering now is not panic, but real contagion. Once the millions of people in the capital are infected into Beijing, it will be fatal. If it is transmitted to the border again, how can we fight against the enemy?" Liu Jun retorted.

"I think Wu Ni's threat is second only to the plague."

"I'm afraid the Sooker is just an alarmist statement. This epidemic is so serious?"

Liu Jun handed a document to Wu Yan, "Please read Yuan Fu, this is the epidemic investigation report of the Jinyiwei. This plague first started in Shanxi. It turned out that it was not very powerful, but by this year, it spread very quickly and very fiercely. Several counties and towns were dead due to poor prevention and control."

"Linqing, an important canal town, has a population of hundreds of thousands. In just over a month since the epidemic was discovered, more than 10,000 people have died of illness. Many families in the city have lost their families. If it weren't for sending troops to block Linqing and blocking the canal, I'm afraid the epidemic would have spread to the capital."

When Wu Yan heard that tens of thousands of people had died in Linqing, he frowned and took the official document and started reading it.

The report reported the plague situation in various places in detail, and there were detailed deaths on it. The epidemic has spread in Shanxi, Henan, Shandong and Zhili, and the total number of deaths in various places exceeded 100,000.

shocking.

"Why don't I know this?" Wu asked.

"This is also the routine of local officials. They report good news but not bad news. When encountering disasters and epidemics, they always want to hide it. This is the report of the Jinyiwei, without any exaggeration, it is all the truth."

Wu Qi said worriedly, "This epidemic is really so fierce?"

"Yes, after research, this plague is also called plague. There are many ways to spread, mainly four. It is transmitted through fleas in mice, and the bites of rat fleas are the main ways to spread. In addition, it can also be transmitted through respiratory droplets, through breathing, conversation, coughing, etc., through droplets, to form transmission between people."

"The third type is skin infection. Peeling the skin and flesh of rodents such as sick mice, rabbits, etc., or directly contacting the pus, blood, and phlegm of infected people may be transmitted through skin wounds."

"When eating uncooked, infected meat, water may also be contagious."

Wu Yan felt a little numb when he heard this.

"Will you find a cure?"

Liu Jun shook his head, "There is no cure for the time being. This disease is very fast and it occurs very quickly. It often dies within two or three days after the disease is infected."

According to the report of the Jinyiwei, people who are infected usually suffer from fever, and they will experience high fever after a sudden onset of the disease. After a few hours of the onset, they will experience chest pain, cough, phlegm, and even blood phlegm. This situation is the most severely transmitted and the most deaths are the most common.

In the early stages of general infection, it is not so rapid, and it is often manifested as chills, high fever, headache, fatigue, and general soreness, occasionally nausea, vomiting, irritability, skin bruises, and bleeding.

Many people have swollen and painful lymph nodes and develop rapidly.

"Not a cure is found yet, but we can prevent it."

“Can it be prevented?”

"Prevention can effectively reduce the spread of the epidemic. First, for epidemic areas where the epidemic occurs violently, it is necessary to block people from entering and leaving, especially to prevent people from leaving in and out. These people may be infected with the epidemic. If they are allowed to run around, they may bring the epidemic to other areas."

"Secondly, the fleas on rats are the spreaders of the epidemic, and rats like to hide in those dirty and messy places. We need to carry out a major cleaning, clean up and remove the garbage, kill rats, and burn the killed rats. When cleaning up the garbage and remove rats, you must wear masks, gloves, and wear clothes to avoid biting rat fleas. And the killed rats must be burned in time."

"Third, the food you eat includes water. You must boil it before drinking it. You cannot drink raw water or raw meat to avoid infection. Take a bath frequently and keep it clean."

"Fourth, we must reduce the gathering of people and keep the houses ventilated."

"Five, keep patients isolated and establish a camp for isolation. Once a person is found with symptoms such as fever, cough, blood sputum, etc., he should be sent to the camp immediately for inspection and observation. If the infection is confirmed, he should be isolated and treated. It is prohibited to let them contact outsiders again to avoid spreading others."

"The most important thing is that everyone must wear masks."

What Liu Jun said is basically some very simple measures to prevent infectious diseases. But for people in this era, many people do not have this concept of prevention.

They do not know how the plague spreads, nor do they know how to prevent it.

"Early detection, early isolation, early treatment. Try to control the epidemic and avoid infection."

“Is this useful?”

"The most terrible thing about the plague is not its difficulty in curing, but its rapid spread. We cannot find a cure prescription now, so we can only strengthen prevention. We must promote more publicity and keep it clean. We must not allow the epidemic to continue to spread and be curbed."

Liu Jun proposed to establish a health and epidemic prevention department immediately to be responsible for this work.

"The capital has a large population, especially the outer city is dirty and messy. It is a breeding ground for epidemic infection. From now on, the capital will have a major cleaning."

"Just do it like this." Wu Xuan nodded.

After Liu Jun returned to his duty room, he summoned his subordinates to ask them to draft an epidemic prevention announcement. Liu Jun attached great importance to this matter. A big plague can kill millions of people and turn many cities into ghost towns.

This is even more terrible than war. When fighting, Liu Jun is not afraid of anyone. But for this plague, Liu Jun has no right medicine, so he can only strengthen prevention in the people everywhere.

"Since this plague is so powerful, can we get some mice from the epidemic area and send them to Mongolia and Jianlu in the south of the desert and Liaodong outside the pass!"

In the evening, Fu Shan, the chief of staff who was visiting Liu Jun's house, came up with an idea, which shocked Liu Jun for a long time and couldn't speak. Damn, Fu Shan actually wanted to engage in a biochemical war.

But thinking about it, it seems to be operational. There are many precedent records of plagues in ancient times, and even artificially created plagues to fight.

This is a dangerous idea, but if this violent plague is really successfully spread in the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia, it will be comparable to a 100,000-strong army.

However, how to bring the source of infection to the enemy's territory is quite difficult.

"It doesn't matter if it doesn't work, but what if it's done?" Fu Shan said, "If a large-scale plague broke out in Jianlu and the Tartars, it would be an unexpected harvest."

Liu Jun felt that this kind of rat plague was a bit inhumane. Once the plague spread, it would be different from men, women, and young. But after pondering for a moment, Liu Jun shook his head and said, "Forget it."

Although the war is always so cruel, Liu Jun still hopes that there is a little bottom line. (To be continued.)

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