Chapter seven hundred and thirty seventh killing rats
"It must be managed properly when it is big." He Jinchao looked at Li Dingguo taking two steps and one step: "Stop he will not jump too much and not knowing that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and he will have to maintain it for two years."
Gao Guiying smiled and said, "The army is proud of killing the number of enemies. It's not that he is your nephew and just accepts him. Just like my brother, didn't he also follow your husband and you shot him?"
"Hmph." He Jinchao glanced at Gao Yigong who was kneeling in front of the tombstone in the distance: "It should be asked to teach him a long lesson."
Gao Guiying also sat aside: "Yes, the general's commander is no longer hundreds of thousands of people seeking life, but he often has hundreds of thousands of people."
In the early Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Province was immigrated several times to all parts of the country, because during the Hongwu period, the Central Plains had piles of bones and few residents.
Although Shanxi has experienced wars and natural disasters again, Mongolia invaded and plundered the population, and the voluntary migration of people to Mongolia to seek survival, the population has decreased significantly.
However, He Jinchao counted the population to everyone, and released a large number of slaves, Jianji and others, and registered them. It was definitely not the number of people on the Yellow List of the Ming Dynasty.
Every household must register, and strive to avoid missing one person. They also took the initiative to accept tens of thousands of refugees, and even the barbarians who became official bandits were booked.
The population growth under He Jinchao's rule has risen sharply.
He Jinchao looked around Gao Guiying: "So many people followed me to rebel. If I took the wrong step, many people would be buried in their opponents. My wife and children were separated and my family was destroyed. It would be very difficult for me to get together again."
"I know your difficulties." Gao Guiying leaned in his arms and looked at the dispersed crowd:
"But husband, don't forget that these people who follow you are your greatest confidence!"
"Well, that's why I can't make them think this is a dream!" He Jinchao looked at the military family who helped the elderly and the young and said, "I have to plan carefully, what should I do next."
Hequ is not far from Jitou Pass.
The next day, He Jinchao rode a fast horse and rushed to the tilt.
The guard general Tian Hu went out of the gate and bowed to him: "Master General."
He Jinchao smiled and helped him up: "Tian Hu, it took a long time to go, and you are getting stronger."
"At the end of the day and night, he will always obey the commander's call."
Tian Hu also wants to make new contributions. How can he get into He Jinchao's eyes by relying on the surprise attack on his old boss?
Moreover, most of the Mongolians on the right wing surrendered to He Jinchao. Even if there were Mongolian tribes farther away who wanted to knock on the border, he would not have to do anything at all. Those border guards and other Mongolian cavalry could destroy the visitors.
There is no need for him, Tian Hu to do it. Seeing that He Jinchao has unified the entire Shanxi Province, if he does not perform, will he still have the opportunity to make achievements in the future?
"Okay." He Jinchao hammered him and said with a smile:
"Don't worry, I will kill the three Jurchen Tatars, Beile Mangurtai. If Huang Taiji does not move his troops this year, he will also move his troops next year. Even if he can't defeat me, he will also attack the Chahar tribe. At that time, you will be afraid that you will not be able to catch the war?"
Hearing this, Tian Hu laughed a few times and hurriedly asked He Jinchao to enter the pass for inspection.
When everyone entered the border gate.
He Jinchao sat in the main seat and asked: "I heard that the plague on the grassland has been prevalent recently and has not been controlled yet?"
Tian Hu nodded repeatedly: "Master General, Staff Yang has ordered the closing of the mutual market site. The wool factory outside my tilt pass will not be closed for the time being. People are prohibited from moving around. Many medical teams have been sent to various places to investigate, and lime is spent a lot."
He Jinchao had no good way to deal with the plague on the grassland. He could only prohibit the movement of people, sprinkle more lime, and send apprentices from field hospitals to treat the Mongolians, asking them to stay in the tent.
Otherwise, once the Mongols approach the Great Wall and infect the mainland, the hammer bandits will suffer greater losses.
"By the way, I'll send an order to kill the rats and burn the corpses with fire." He Jinchao thought for a while and said, "After the rat steals food, it will roam into eucalyptus, but it must not be a plague."
He vaguely remembered that it was said that before Li Zicheng captured Beijing, the capital had a plague for a year, causing at least one-fifth of the population to die in the capital. It can be said that one of four or five people would have to die.
It can be called a super plague. Not only soldiers, hawkers and hired workers died in large numbers, but even beggars in Beijing could not be found.
In short, this disease cannot be controlled by this society today.
Could it be that the plague in the late Ming Dynasty began to spread from Shanxi and gradually went to North China and other places?
I heard that patients do not eat, feel dizzy, sit in heat, and vomit bad meat like watermelon meat.
Before coming to Bietou Pass, he wanted to lead the cavalry to Yansui and see how his old father-in-law fought in the war.
But now he didn't have the idea of running to the grassland, and He Jinchao couldn't sit still for a moment, and his face was full of anxiety.
"Master, I will give orders to kill the rats immediately."
Tian Hu solemnly responded that if it was a plague, no one would be able to escape by then.
It is not that mice would not run into the Great Wall just because you are separated by the Great Wall.
If you get this disease, you won’t even have a person who collects the body, because you will die if you get it.
He Jinchao immediately called Yang Yuxiu to the top and asked him to write a notice immediately and carry out a rat-killing campaign throughout Shanxi. In any case, the plague disease should not be allowed to destroy the good situation where he had just unified Shanxi.
Yang Yuxiu listened to He Jinchao's arrangement and immediately responded. Although the number of food in the people's homes increased, he also encouraged the people to raise dogs and cats to hunt mice.
If the Mongols who were infected outside the Great Wall were all transmitted by mice, then Shanxi's designation would be affected.
After all, my lord is the Mongols' Tian Khan. Those Mongols who are desperate may come to ask for help with their sick body.
He Jinchao sent someone to build independent rooms outside the Great Wall to isolate these apprentices from the field hospitals who came back. In any case, he would be isolated outside the Great Wall for a month.
At the same time, he immediately built ten bathhouses outside the Great Wall, so that the Mongolians would not be fooled by the fact that they did not take a bath for many years and would rather die from the disease than take a bath. There were many people there.
There are still foolish people until now, let alone before.
He Jinchao could only ask his subordinates to wear double-layer masks and ordered in the name of Tian Khan that after the epidemic has not passed, if anyone dares to go near the Great Wall without taking a bath, he will definitely kill him.
As soon as the order was issued, Su De and others immediately took Mongolian cavalry to patrol the defense line of the Shanxi Great Wall, guarding the death to the death, and never let the plague run to Shanxi.
The entire Shanxi has launched a rat-killing operation from county towns to villages. Once a rat is found, it will be slaughtered.
Otherwise, if it was in the previous famine, I would have to dig a rat hole and eat the food it stolen, and even the rat meat would have to be cooked.
The people of Shanxi Province never expected that the first order from Marshal He was not to prepare for a war, but to let all of them kill rats and promote hygiene campaigns.
Chapter completed!