"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this measure of yours won't work."

Baron Kevin suddenly interjected: "Duke Lyman has sealed off the slums before, but the people inside tried their best to escape, and it didn't play its due role at all."

"snort."

Hearing this, Owen couldn't help but snorted and pointed out the reason pointedly.

"The reason why Duke Lyman failed is because he sealed it and was done with it, without providing any guarantees and not caring about the lives of the residents inside."

He later said that grid management is not a simple blockade. Managers must understand the situation of residents in the areas they are responsible for and meet their basic living needs, such as distributing food, delivering water, etc.

"this……"

After hearing this, Baron Kevin felt that the new king's request was a bit unrealistic.

"Is the task too heavy? We have to do as you say. We are seriously short of manpower."

Taking care of the food, drink, and urination of the residents in the area you are responsible for. Just think about it and you will know that this task is extremely tiring.

"It is very arduous." Owen did not deny it, "but if we want to quickly control the plague, we must do this."

Then, he added: "As for the problem of insufficient manpower, a group of people's troops will arrive in Fengsuicheng in the future. If it is still not enough, they will pay to recruit civilians to join the epidemic prevention team."

"His Majesty."

Viscount Jarvis, who had been silent just now, asked in a deep voice: "You ask residents to stay at home as much as possible, but what should we do with the homeless people?"

"I have already considered this."

Owen pointed to an area on the map and said: "Design this place as a temporary resettlement area, build simple wooden sheds, move homeless people here, and provide basic living security."

Homeless people, to put it bluntly, are vagrants and beggars on the streets. They move around the city looking for food or begging from others.

If anyone among them is infected with the plague, it is simply a super spreader and must be centralized and managed.

"There is another question, how will this food be distributed? And how much will it be distributed?" Baron Kevin asked again.

"Does this need to be said?"

Irving answered without hesitation: "Open the warehouse directly to release grain. Depending on the number of family members, we will go door-to-door and distribute enough rations for them for a week for free. After that, we will distribute it once a week until the blockade is lifted."

During the blockade, residents have no income from work, and most people have little money left. Free distribution can stabilize people's hearts and encourage them to cooperate with epidemic prevention measures.

Moreover, this can also crack down on unscrupulous black marketeers.

Prevent food with questionable quality from being served to the table, which may cause other problems.

"Your Majesty, this...is not good."

Baron Kevin frowned slightly and said with some worry: "Distributing grain in such a large amount will accelerate the consumption of Fengsuicheng's grain storage. If the blockade continues, I am afraid that this year's autumn harvest will not be able to survive. Moreover, there is a large part of the grain storage in the granary.

They are used to support the Red Sand Fortress. Without them, the Red Sand Fortress army can only starve in the winter to fight against the undead monsters."

"Don't worry, just open the warehouse to stock up on food. If there is any shortage, I will bring food from other places to make up for it."

Last year's great harvest in Auroville was Owen's biggest source of confidence. In order to control the plague, he must not skimp on the price he should pay.

"That's it, I understand."

Baron Kevin has fully understood the new king's determination to defeat the plague.

Compared with those selfish nobles who only care about their own escape, this new king always cares about the people, and he is a qualified ruler.

Fengsuicheng is really lucky to have his help.

Next, Irving continued to explain other precautions for epidemic prevention measures.

For example, the patient's excrement cannot be discharged casually, and must be centralized and sent out to deal with it; the remains of the deceased must also be properly disposed of and cannot be touched at will by family members, etc.

Before ordering new epidemic prevention measures, Irving put forward new requirements——

When performing tasks, managers must explain clearly to the public the reasons for doing so, and cannot just wave weapons and forcefully drive people away.

For example, patients and their families must be separated.

You cannot just pull them away without saying anything. You must explain to them that if you continue to stay together, you may contract the plague, and reassure the family members that the caregivers at the medical point will take good care of the patients.

After everything that needed to be explained, Irving finally said: "Okay, you two hurry up and direct everyone to implement this more stringent set of epidemic prevention measures. The sooner effective protection is established, the sooner the plague can be defeated."

"Yes!" The two of them took the order and retreated.

Leaving the Lord's Castle, Baron Kevin summoned the city hall staff and guards and assigned them tasks.

Viscount Jarvis sent someone to notify the People's Army stationed at the dock and asked them to enter the city immediately.

The People's Army only left basic defensive forces on the battleship King, and most of the soldiers lined up neatly and entered Fengsui City through the east city gate.

The two sides will cooperate with each other and jointly implement the new epidemic prevention measures established by Owen himself.

Of course, it won't go so smoothly at the beginning, and people don't understand why such strict epidemic prevention measures are needed.

You are only allowed to stay at home and are strictly prohibited from going out. Do you want to starve people to death?

After many explanations from managers, we gained the "trust" of most people.

To be honest, many people actually choose to actively cooperate with this epidemic prevention measure in order to get free food.

No matter what their original purpose is, as long as they ensure that epidemic prevention measures can be implemented in place, this is enough.

As for the very few people who were unwilling to obey, they were directly arrested for violating epidemic prevention measures and locked up in dungeons.

Wait until the plague has passed before releasing them. You can't let those people run around and destroy the current epidemic prevention situation.

In addition, the three treatment prescriptions were copied into multiple copies and distributed to the doctors, who began to boil these potions for patients to drink according to Owen's requirements.

On the afternoon of the next day, the cement steamship behind finally arrived at Fengsuicheng pier, and the People's Army quickly unloaded the materials on the ship and transported them into the city.

Then, they accepted the tasks assigned by Viscount Jarvis and dispersed to various areas to provide services to the residents here.

With the addition of this group of soldiers, the current manpower shortage situation has been greatly alleviated.

However, Owen still ordered the recruitment of a group of civilians to join the epidemic prevention team, mainly selecting people who were willing to work from the homeless population.

Epidemic prevention in the city must be in place, and the villages outside the city must not be ignored. There may be infected people who have escaped from the city.

After the manpower was slightly sufficient, Owen issued a new order and sent a group of People's Army soldiers who could ride horses out of the city to inspect once a day.
Chapter completed!