Chapter 602 The plague is raging
"Asshole! You can eat people without spitting out their bones. I will make you look good one day!" Gasan cursed in a low voice and walked out of the city lord's mansion. The anger on his face almost set his hair on fire. How could he curse like this?
Of course, the only person left behind is the owner of the City Lord's Mansion, that is, the City Lord of Harrow City.
Gassan is one of the three generals in Harrow City, in charge of one-third of the army in the city. In just a few days, he led the army in the city to invade the Guiwei Island stronghold. Originally Gassan thought that he was
It was a sudden attack, and judging from the opponent's behavior, they retreated in a hurry, so there must be a lot of property in the stronghold that was too late to take away. However, when he entered the stronghold, he found that this stronghold was like hell.
Recalling the situation when he led his team into the stronghold, Gasan couldn't help but shudder. When they entered the outskirts of the stronghold at first, they found that everything was still normal. In some places that were obviously residential areas, they also
It was indeed found that many Han people did not come and took away clothes and food. These things were a good harvest for them, but the property was not very much, which made Gasan a little annoyed.
However, soon after some soldiers came to report, they discovered the grain warehouse in the stronghold, which contained a large amount of grain. This cheered up Gasan. The number of young laborers in East Java also decreased a lot, and a large number of fields were left unavailable.
Farming, so the price of food keeps rising. Now you only need to take out a hundred kilograms of rice to get a beautiful tribal girl. This was something that would have been unimaginable in the past.
Unfortunately, the surprise of food only lasted for a short period of time. Just when Gasan rushed into the inner city of the stronghold with great interest, hoping to find more property and food, what appeared in front of him was another corpse.
Most of these corpses were placed in bright rooms one after another. The windows in the rooms were all inlaid with Han glass, which looked even more luxurious than the City Lord's Mansion in Harrow City.
But in this luxurious room, the corpses were disemboweled, the internal organs were taken out, and placed in glass bottles next to them. They were also stored with precious spirits. There were even some rooms dedicated to storing these internal organs.
Glass bottles and rows of shelves are neatly arranged. Walking in is like visiting hell.
Gasan and his soldiers were all veterans who had experienced the cruelty of the battlefield. But when they saw the hellish situation inside the stronghold, many of the soldiers couldn't help but vomited, especially when they found an underground
There are many huge ice cubes stored in the ice cellar. These ice cubes are very valuable in Java. They can even be equivalent to gold. However, there are also many corpses stored in the gaps between these ice cubes.
In addition to the dead bodies, Gasan and the others also found some living people, but these people were all locked up in a special prison, and every prisoner was dying, with a face that was either sallow or pale, and his whole body was skinny and skinny.
The head looked no better than a dead body, and he also discovered that in addition to the local people, these prisoners also included people from Persia, Tianzhu and other places. He had seen people from these places come to Java to do business before.
Gasan did not get much useful information from these living special prisoners. People from Persia, Tianzhu and other places could not communicate at all. As for the locals, they could not tell what this stronghold was for. He only knew that they
After being caught here, the Han people in white clothes had their bodies tampered with, and then they became seriously ill. Many people died from the pain, so they called the Han people here behind their backs the devils in white clothes.
In fact, Gasan is not interested in what this stronghold is used for. What he values most is what he can get from the stronghold. Unfortunately, their biggest harvest is only food and clothing, and there is very little in terms of property.
, this made him feel a little frustrated, but he still instinctively felt that this stronghold was a little weird, so he ordered the patients in the prison to be detained as they were without releasing them. As for him, he took the food and clothes collected in the stronghold.
Return to Harrow.
When Gasan returned to Haro City, the stupid and fat Lord of Haro City took away 60% of the loot at once, and the remaining 40% was not Gasan's own. He also wanted to divide the loot among
Among the generals under his command, after such a calculation, he himself would benefit from very few. It was precisely for this reason that when Gasan came out of the city lord's mansion, he would curse the city lord in a low voice for being a bastard.
However, no matter how dissatisfied Gasan was, he did not dare to disobey the city lord's order, because the other party was not only the city lord of Haro City, but also the king's cousin. Since he was just a general who counted thousands of people, he was not at all in the eyes of the city lord.
There is no status at all, and as long as the other party opens his mouth, he can be deprived of his military power. Without military power, he is nothing.
It is precisely because of knowing this that Gasan can only hold his nose and admit the exploitation of the city lord every time. At most, he can only curse a few words behind his back, but scolding alone cannot kill the greedy and stupid city lord.
Thinking of this, Gasan couldn't help but sigh helplessly, then lowered his head and walked towards the camp where his army was stationed. At the same time, he was also thinking about how to distribute the spoils in order to satisfy his subordinates. After all, he wanted to maintain his current situation.
To gain status, you also need to rely on the strength of your subordinates.
Gasan's army was stationed in the south of the city, with a total strength of only 3,000. Of the 5,000 troops that raided Guiwei Island last time, 2,000 were borrowed from another general. As a result, hundreds of people were lost, so this time the loot was
It is also necessary to give a share to the general to compensate for the losses of the opponent's army. Gassan's own army suffered even greater losses. The number of those killed and injured added up to thousands, and the loot this time was not at all
It's not enough to make up for the losses.
Thinking of these troubling things, Gasan couldn't help but sigh and walked quickly towards his military camp. However, as soon as he entered the military camp, something even more troubling was reported to him.
It turned out that on the second day after they returned from the stronghold, some soldiers in the army began to have fever for no reason, and some were accompanied by vomiting symptoms. At first, Gasan didn't pay attention, thinking it was the natural symptoms of the soldiers after taking the boat.
Reaction, before he went to the city lord's palace today, the condition of many soldiers began to worsen, and some soldiers even showed symptoms of shortness of breath and body bleeding. This finally attracted Gasan's attention and invited a wizard to treat the soldiers before he went out.
But when he came back, the wizard did not cure the soldiers' diseases. Instead, several soldiers died of serious illness. Even some originally healthy soldiers began to show the same symptoms. This made Gasan, who had just returned, feel a little confused.
With a bad premonition, and thinking of the dead bodies and patients in that weird Han stronghold, Gasan seemed to understand something.
But no matter what Gassan understood, it is already too late now. The plague that Wu Tiande in the Guiwei Island stronghold is studying is exactly the plague that caused heavy losses to mankind. As one of the ten major plagues in human history, the death caused by the plague
Although the number of people has not been calculated, a plague that occurred in Europe in the sixth century alone killed hundreds of millions of people and lasted for decades, which shows how terrible the plague was.
The Central Plains is also an area with a high incidence of plague. Although with the advancement of medical technology, large-scale spread of plague can be avoided as long as correct prevention and control measures are taken at the beginning of the outbreak, the death of infected people cannot be avoided. Every time the plague occurs,
Outbreaks and the death of tens of thousands of people are inconspicuous at all, and sometimes a single plague can turn several states into ghost towns.
It is precisely because of the huge harm caused by the plague that Wu Tiande and others listed the plague as the first target to conquer. And after several years of research, they did achieve great results. Not only did they find several transmission routes of the plague, but they also
A series of plague treatment and prevention methods have been designed, and some of them have passed verification. If it takes another six months, the treatment and prevention of plague will be compiled into a book and then distributed nationwide.
But it is a pity that this key process was interrupted by Gasan, a native general. Although the research data was taken away, it is estimated that it will take a considerable amount of time to reconstruct the research environment of the Guichou Island stronghold. Wu Tiande was so angry for several days afterwards that
He refused to eat, and even swore that if he knew which native bastard ruined his good deeds in the future, he would take back all the women in his family to be concubines as revenge for this incident.
However, Wu Tiande's petty revenge was obviously impossible to complete, because just three days after the outbreak of the epidemic in Gasan's army, Gasan also showed the same symptoms. What's even worse is that Gasan's soldiers were not isolated.
Yes, they also had frequent contact with their family members outside. As a result, the plague spread exponentially, and more and more people died.
The climate of Java Island is hot, and mice, fleas and other creatures are very prosperous on the island. In addition, the city of Haro communicates with other cities. Therefore, from the beginning, the plague did not just break out in Haro, but also in Haro.
A wave of spread spread outward, and soon spread to the entire island of Java. The lives of millions of natives were all under the threat of plague.
In addition, due to the research needs of the Guiwei Island stronghold, they will be able to find all kinds of plagues concentrated together. This also makes the Java Island have many different plague symptoms when the plague breaks out. This situation will even be placed in later generations.
In the twenty-first century, it is enough to cause headaches to the medical systems of countless countries, not to mention that Java is still in the primitive stage of shaman treatment.
In addition, according to later research, after the common outbreak of multiple Yersinia pestis, the plague on Java Island quickly produced a variety of new variants. Several of the plague variants were highly contagious and had extremely high fatality rates. This was also
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