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"it's me."

An ominous premonition faintly rose in Li Ang's heart. Chen Danqiu's voice was noisy, obviously discussing something with the emperor and the prime minister.

Chen Danqiu asked, "How is the situation in Shuozhou?"

"Not good, there are nearly two hundred deaths every day."

Li Ang told the truth about the situation in Shuozhou, "We have separated and isolated all patients, suspected patients, and close contacts as much as possible, and at the same time concentrated our efforts on eradicating the rat infestation.

But there is no way to completely prevent the spread of the disease.

There are so many rats that almost every household is plagued by rats. It takes time to clean up. "

Chen Danqiu asked: "How long will it take?"

"It's as short as one month, and as long as three months. By then, the rat plague in Shuozhou will be eliminated, and the chain of disease transmission between people will probably be cut off."

Li Ang rubbed his sore eyes, his tone was low.

The spread efficiency and degree of harm of the plague are far faster and more serious than the water poisoning in Suzhou. He felt physically and mentally exhausted.

There was a long silence on the side of the worm, and finally, Chen Danqiu said: "We need you to go to Taiyuan Mansion. The plague broke out at the station there."

".What?!"

Li Ang was stunned for a moment, his ears were ringing like thunder.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally came to his senses, the ringing in his ears was replaced by Chen Danqiu's voice again.

"Leon? Are you still there?"

"I am here."

Li Ang took a deep breath, "How is the plague situation? How many people are infected now? When did it happen? Have the confirmed patients and close contacts been quarantined?"

"It happened yesterday. A passenger suddenly fell to the ground and died while walking in the station."

Chen Danqiu said: "After the news of the hospital in Taiyuan Prefecture, the station was immediately blocked, and the 2,000 passengers who were still in the station and on the train were quarantined. The inspection found that there were 60 confirmed patients from different regions. Two hundred suspected patients."

"The station in Taiyuan Prefecture is still running??"

Li Ang said angrily and stunned: "I wrote to the imperial court half a month ago, asking for the complete closure of the entire Hedong Road railway system, why hasn't it been closed yet?!

Taiyuan Mansion is the center of Hedong Road, and also the transportation hub of Guannei Road, Hedong Road and Hebei Road.

Among the thousands of passengers, there are more than 60 confirmed patients and 200 suspected patients.

God knows how many patients traveled to various parts of Yu State by railway before that? !

How many sources of infection are still active in Taiyuan Prefecture with a population of millions? ! "

Li Ang's angry voice echoed in the underground laboratory,

It was hard for him to imagine that he had written so many reports, evaluations, and observation logs to the Chang'an court, and repeatedly stated his interests and disadvantages, explaining the horror of the plague,

But the imperial court failed to do even the most basic blockade of the traffic on Hedong Road.

Chen Danqiu took a deep breath, "Risheng, calm down first."

"How do I stay calm?"

Li Ang covered his forehead and said hoarsely: "That is Taiyuan Mansion with a population of several million.

The scale of the city is expanding, the population is increasing, and the terrain is complex.

The difficulty of controlling the epidemic will increase exponentially!

For Shuozhou, which has a population of more than 100,000, I can still let soldiers deliver food, meat, and vegetables door-to-door.

In addition, many of the people in Shuozhou are farmers, and they also have food at home, so they can support it for the time being.

But what about Taiyuan Prefecture? Seventy percent or eighty percent of urban residents who do not farm land? !

If the city is to be completely closed like Shuozhou, how can the life and even survival of these residents be guaranteed? ! "

Li Ang's voice became more and more angry, and he unconsciously released his thoughts, pushing away all the flasks and beakers on the table in front of him.

"Blocking the traffic in a land is not something that can be done with a single sentence."

Pei Jing's father, Zuo Pushe, Minister of Yu State, Pei Su said in a deep voice: "The scope of the involvement is too wide and involves too many aspects.

So many state capitals, how to fill the material, human and financial gaps? What to fill?

Send tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops to block traffic arteries? Check every carriage, every pedestrian, every package one by one? Can you check it out?

Even if the road is blocked, how can the material transfer be solved?

At that time, due to the rise in food prices and the lack of food to buy, the number of people who starved to death at home will not be less than the number of people who died of the plague! "

"Pei Xiang, isn't the largest grain merchant in the Yu Kingdom the imperial princes?"

Li Ang was not in the mood to argue with Xue Jixu, and sarcastically said: "Scholars, farmers, businessmen, merchants are at the bottom.

There is a saying in the law of Yu that the family of food and salary should not compete with the people of the world for profit; business and miscellaneous types should not be preempted by the official ranks. "

Literate families have a copy of the enlightenment book "Taigong's Family Education", which also says that a merchant's family should not be married;

Scholars regard business as a lowly profession,

But actually?

Which of the big companies that Yu State can be the top of is not backed by dignitaries? Which one is not working for the powerful?

If you really want to prevent food prices from rising, and you are really worried that the people will have nothing to eat and wear, why don't you give up some profits? "

"Okay, what happened, there is no point in accusing."

The Zhongshu ordered Xue Ji to speak, interrupting the dispute between the two, "The most urgent task now is to contain the plague in Taiyuan Mansion first, and prevent the plague from spreading from Taiyuan Mansion to the various parts of Hedong Road, and even spilling over to other roads.

Risheng, you are the most authoritative expert in Yu country and even in the whole world, and only you can solve the crisis in Hedong right now.

No matter what you need in Taiyuan, we will try our best to meet it. "

".I do not accept."

"What?"

"I do not accept."

Li Ang took a deep breath and said slowly: "During this time, we have burned more than 2,000 corpses.

Among them are not only the sick people, but also the doctors and soldiers who were unfortunately infected during the fight against the plague.

More than a dozen folk doctors who heard about the Shuozhou plague and voluntarily rushed to help fight the plague died.

Several students of the Imperial Medical Office who were supposed to study at the Imperial Medical Office and came to Shuozhou with the ideal of curing diseases and saving lives also died.

They believed in me, trusted me, and followed me to Shuozhou. But I failed to bring them back to Chang'an.

I don't even know how to break the news to their parents.

Fighting the epidemic requires sacrifice, I know that.

But I can't accept that the avoidable danger, which has been clearly stated from the beginning, has developed into a disaster because of the bureaucracy and the so-called "big picture" and "interest considerations".

In the end, the front-line personnel are required to continue to sacrifice regardless of previous suspicions.

what is this?

'The people who are suffering, I will bear the blame'? "

There was no sound during the period of the Insects. After a while, Xue Ji's helpless voice came, "Rising Sun, the imperial court also has concerns from the imperial court, and it takes time to weigh it."

"Xue Xiang,"

Li Ang said in a low voice: "Since the first plague outbreak, the situation facing Yu State has only been bad or worse.

There is no possibility of avoiding losses, and there is no surefire solution. "