Chapter 461 Infamy
"it's me."
Li Ang had an ominous premonition in his heart, Chen Danqiu's voice was noisy, obviously he was discussing something with the emperor and the prime minister.
Chen Danqiu asked: "How is the situation in Shuozhou?"
“Not good, nearly two hundred deaths every day.”
Li Ang told the truth about the situation in Shuozhou, "We have tried our best to separate and isolate all patients, suspected patients, and close contacts, and at the same time concentrate 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 has a rat problem. It takes time to clean up. "
Chen Danqiu asked: "How long will it take?"
"The shortest is one month, and the longest is three months. Only then will the rat plague in Shuozhou be eliminated, and the chain of human-to-human disease transmission 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 original Suzhou water poisoning. He felt physically and mentally exhausted.
The voice from the worm was silent for a long time, and finally, Chen Danqiu said: "We need you to go to Taiyuan Prefecture. The plague broke out at the station there."
".What?!"
Li Ang froze in place for an instant, his ears 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.
"Li Ang? 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 in operation??"
Li Ang said angrily and stunned: "I wrote to the imperial court half a month ago, requesting the complete shutdown 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? !
In Taiyuan Prefecture with a population of millions, how many sources of infection are still active? ! "
Li Ang's angry voice echoed in the underground laboratory,
It is really hard for him to imagine that he wrote 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 the East Road.
Chen Danqiu took a deep breath, "Risheng, calm down first."
"How do I calm down?"
Li Ang covered his forehead and said hoarsely: "That is Taiyuan Prefecture with a population of millions.
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 to the people in Shuozhou, many of them are farmers, and their families also have grain stockpiles, which can support them for the time being.
But what about Taiyuan Prefecture? Seventy percent or eighty percent of urban residents who do not farm land? !
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 place cannot be done with a single sentence."
Pei Jing's father, Zuo Pushe, Shangshu of the State of Yu, Pei Su said in a deep voice: "The scope of the involvement is too wide, and too many aspects are involved.
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 those 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, businessmen are at the bottom.
There is a saying in the Yu Law 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. "
The enlightenment book "Taigong Family Education" that everyone in a literate family has also said that a merchant's family should not be married;
Scholars regard business as a cheap industry,
But actually?
Yu Guo can be the top big business, which one does not have the support of powerful people behind it? 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 has happened, there is no point in accusing."
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 Department who should have studied at the Imperial Medical Department 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 against the epidemic requires sacrifices, 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 poor people, I will bear the blame'? "
There was no sound during the close-by-the-hand worm. 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 outbreak of the first plague, the situation facing Yu State has only been bad or worse.
There is no possibility of avoiding losses, let alone a surefire solution. "
(end of this chapter)