Before the carriage arrived at the county government office, he saw dozens of corpses lying on the street.
No one has restrained these corpses at all. The most important thing is that some corpses already emit a foul smell and are surrounded by countless flies.
It is conceivable that this will further make the epidemic more serious.
When the carriage arrived at the county government office, Fang Xiaoyue got off the carriage and saw that no one was guarding the carriage in front of the county government office.
After the county soldiers entered for a while, a group of people ran out of the county government office.
The leader was wearing an eighth-grade official uniform and saluted Fang Xiaoyue when they met.
"Qian Yushui, the chief secretary of Qiongshui County, paid a visit to Magistrate Fang."
Obviously, the orders from the officials reached Qiongshui County first.
Fang Xiaoyue was a little surprised when she saw that the chief clerk came out to greet her. Where is the current county magistrate?
After everyone entered the county government office and Fang Xiaoyue sat down for a chat, he learned that the situation in Qiongshui County was now more serious than he imagined.
It should be said that Qiongshui County is worthy of being the lower county in the northwest region.
The data is converted to the data of Fang Xiaoyue's original world, that is, the total area exceeds 10,000 square kilometers.
In Fang Xiaoyue's original world, this would be the area of ten counties.
But in such a vast land, there are only more than 9,000 people, of which the county town accounts for as many as 3,000.
This is not surprising, because Qianshui County is really too poor and barren.
Although the entire county covers an area of more than tens of thousands of square kilometers, it only has 18,000 acres of farmland, which is less than one-tenth of the area in Kuangluo County.
You must know that the cultivated land in Kuangluo County is relatively small inland, only more than 200,000 acres, but compared to this Qishui County, the situation is like paradise.
In addition, there is some animal husbandry in Qianshui County, but due to the lack of water in most areas of the county, it is also in decline.
As a result, the poverty in Qiongshui County is beyond the imagination of Cheng Xiaoyue and others.
The people living in the county are considered to be the most affluent group, but according to the bookkeeper, they are all extremely poor. Many residents only have one pair of pants at home, which they wear when they go out. They lie in bed when they have nothing to do, and exercise as little as possible to avoid getting tired.
Hungry.
Even those businessmen who open restaurants and inns in the county are still unsatisfactory.
Anyone with a family fortune of tens of taels can be considered a wealthy class.
Not to mention poverty, the most serious thing in Qiongshui County now is the sudden plague.
According to this master book, just a week ago, the plague suddenly broke out, and this time the plague came violently.
Initially, more than ten people in the county were infected with the epidemic, and their symptoms were almost the same as Fang Jinyue's.
At that time, some doctors diagnosed it as cholera.
In this plane, although the level of civilization is backward, medicine is not too backward.
Infectious diseases such as cholera were summarized by a doctor more than 600 years ago and put forward the theory of "nine plagues".
The so-called nine plagues are nine infectious diseases, which are what ordinary people call plagues.
After a long period of research, many folk doctors have developed various prescriptions for treating the Nine Plagues.
Therefore, in the eyes of many officials in Qiongshui County at that time, cholera was not a terrible disease and they could just prescribe the right medicine.
But the speed and severity of the plague's subsequent development exceeded their imagination.
The first dozen or so patients recovered quickly under the doctor's careful treatment.
But in a blink of an eye, more patients appeared, and this time the medicine prescribed by the doctor had little effect.
Even more than a dozen patients who had recovered before fell ill again, suffering from vomiting and diarrhea, and their faces were extremely pale.
As a result, the plague spread rapidly. In just one week, more than 3,000 people in the city fell ill, and 500 to 600 people died.
What is even more shocking is that even the county government officials and most of the government officials in each house fell ill.
Among them, the county magistrate, county magistrate, inspection department inspector and other officials of Qiongshui County all died of illness.
As a result, the entire county came to a standstill.
If the master bookkeeper hadn't been lucky enough to escape the disaster, Qiongshui County would have completely lost its mastermind now, and there wouldn't even be anyone to collect the corpses.
To be honest, Fang Xiaoyue was shocked by the current situation in Qiongshui County.
Under such circumstances, when the chief clerk saw Fang Xiaoyue arriving, it was as if he had seen a savior.
After all, at the end of the day, the bookkeeper was at the end of his rope.
There is a large army besieging the country outside, the plague is spreading inside, and there are fallen patients everywhere as far as the eye can see. There is no hope at all.
Desperate!
After chatting for a while, Fang Xiaoyue saw the serious situation in Qiongshui County and had no time to rest. He immediately showed his official identity certificate issued by the Ministry of Personnel and asked the chief clerk to get the bronze seal of the county magistrate, and officially took office as Qiongshui County.
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I have to say that Daze's dragon energy system still has its subtleties.
Just after Fang Xiaoyue took the copper seal of the county magistrate, raised it, and bowed three times in the direction of the capital, he immediately saw the light red aura of the county government rising like a huge wave in his eyes.
In his perception, a vast and majestic aura suddenly appeared in the far distance in the direction of the capital.
Then, a wisp of the county government's aura separated into a light red dragon and sank into his body.
In an instant, he integrated into the dragon energy system, as if he was in charge of the world.
But this is just an illusion of holding the bronze seal of the county magistrate for the first time.
In just a few breaths, this illusion suddenly disappeared.
If it were those ordinary mortal county magistrates, their feelings at this time would be the same. At most, they could only sigh at the magic of dragon energy.
But Fang Xiaoyue is not a mortal. His essence is so high that it is even higher than the dragon energy in this world. Therefore, he has only been exposed to the dragon energy system for a few breaths, and he has obtained a huge amount of information.
The dragon energy system of Daze is actually rooted in the mountains and rivers, and its foundation starts from the dragon veins and water veins in the Feng Shui theory.
The masters of Daze Kingdom used the popularity gathered by the establishment of the dynasty to merge the dragon veins and water veins, and finally turned them into a dragon energy system.
The highest authority of the entire dragon energy system is the emperor. The emperor then divides the dragon energy in the name of the court. Therefore, officials from various places can naturally mobilize a little dragon energy to protect themselves by relying on their official seals.
Of course, there are some big differences in the quality of the dragon energy mobilized by emperors and officials.
But even so, the dragon energy mobilized by the officials is quite powerful.
This is why it was so easy when Cui Changshou led the county soldiers to encircle and suppress the vixens of the Huang family.
If there is no dragon energy to protect them, those county soldiers will not be able to kill the vixens at all. After all, vixens are monsters and are good at confusing humans. The county soldiers are just ordinary humans. Facing such monsters, let alone killing them, one is not careful.
The whole army may be destroyed.
To put it simply, the highest level of dragon energy can only appear near the capital of Daze Kingdom, and its form is a five-clawed golden dragon.
Next are the provincial capitals, which are shaped like yellow dragons with horns and scales.
When it reaches the county level, its form regresses into a hornless and scaled Lilong.
At the county level, they are just hornless and scaleless dragons.
For example, in Qiongshui County where Fang Xiaoyue is located, due to the sparse population and barren environment, the only form that can appear is a light red baby dragon.
Since it has no horns, no phosphorus and no claws, it looks more like a coiled snake.
This is not surprising, Panlong's status among the dragon clan is very low.
The word "pan" means lying on the ground.
In fact, after Fang Xiaoyue showed her official seal and took over the dragon energy system of this water and soil, she immediately noticed some problems.
To put it simply, this cholera plague is not just an ordinary plague.
In his eyes, the dragon energy in Qiongshui County seemed a little dull. A mass of black energy emerged from the belly of the young dragon that represented the dragon energy in Qiongshui County, and it was struggling in agony.
And there was a faint trace of evil spirit in that mass of black energy.
By this time, Fang Xiaoyue had almost understood the root cause of the cholera plague.
It must be related to monsters!
It has to be said that a remote mountainous place like Qiongshui County has very poor ability to withstand disasters.
If there was a plague like this in the hinterland of Daze where monsters were involved, I am afraid that the dragon energy system would have warned of it, and the monsters would probably be killed by Taoist officials stationed in the provincial capitals.
Of course, perhaps the dragon energy had warned the former magistrate of Qiongshui County, but the dragon energy here was so weak that the former magistrate ignored it.
Or maybe the previous county magistrate discovered the problem, but the plague spread too quickly, and the former magistrate died of the disease too quickly and was unable to respond.
As for other officials, whose grades are not high enough, there is no document written by the county magistrate himself.
In short, after knowing some of the problems, Fang Xiaoyue breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, it is not difficult to solve many things. What is difficult is not finding the key to the problem!
Of course, the top priority now is not to solve the monster problem, but to save the people of Qiongshui County first!
You know, Fang Xiaoyue still has three branch tasks to complete.
One of them is the longevity card.
One hundred households are needed to set up longevity tablets for Fang Xiaoyue at home.
In the past, this branch of task would have been quite difficult to complete.
After all, people's hearts are not made of flesh. When your kindness is not great enough, just say thank you and that's it.
Still want to set up a longevity card for you? Just dream!
Are there no fees for scented candles?
Now, if we can save the people of Qianshui County from the plague, how can we save hundreds of yuan in longevity cards?
Therefore, after Fang Xiaoyue took over as the county magistrate, he immediately asked the chief clerk to take charge of the county government office, and then asked a government servant to take him out of the city.
Although Fang Xiaoyue's order was a bit strange, the chief registrar also had high hopes that the new county magistrate could save the people from the fire and water, so he immediately assigned a government official to lead the way for Fang Xiaoyue.
The yamen servant was frightened when he took Fang Xiaoyue out.
After all, even the head catcher died in this plague, let alone a low-level government servant whose monthly salary was only 700 Wen.
Of course, if the county magistrate had an order, he had to obey it.
As I said before, Qiongshui County is very dilapidated and very small.
Not long after, the two of them came out of the north gate.
Most of the fields in Qiongshui County are located near the county seat. This is because only sweet water wells that are not so bitter can be drilled in the county seat area.
Of course, this is also the reason why the county seat is located here.
After all, in this bitter cold land in the northwest, drinkable water determines whether you can survive.
As for the bitter alkaline water, many places have been broken out, but that is useless. Not only does it not quench people's thirst, but it will endanger their lives.
But even if there is a sweet water well, due to the barrenness of the land, the wheat growing in the fields near the county town looks short and sparse.
Fang Xiaoyue estimated that the yield per mu of the fields here would not exceed one hundred catties.
This is not surprising, the agricultural technology in this world is extremely primitive.
Take Kuangluo County as an example. Although everyone knows that the excrement and urine excreted by livestock are fertilizers, they do not understand the principle of compost fermentation. Therefore, even if the manure is used in agriculture, the wheat output in Kuangluo County will be reduced.
Just around 280 pounds.
This is still good land.
Therefore, the yield per mu of Qiongshui County is 100 kilograms, which is considered to be overestimated by Fang Xiaoyue.
After all, the sunshine hours, land fertility, etc. here are far inferior to those in Kuangluo County.
This shows that the poverty here is not unreasonable.
After removing the seeds, the income per mu of land is only seventy or eighty pounds.
If it weren't for the relatively small amount of farmland here, Qiongshui County would have been inaccessible by now.
"May I have your name?"
Fang Xiaoyue walked towards a field and asked the yamen servant if he had nothing to do.
"Reporting to your lord, the villain's name is Zhang Wangshui."
Facing the county magistrate's inquiry, the yamen officer responded slightly nervously.
Zhang Wangshui?
It seems there is really a lack of water here.
Fang Xiaoyue was already standing in front of the field.
In addition to sparse wheat, there are also some miscellaneous weeds growing in the fields, but the number is not large. After all, there is too little water here. In addition, due to the plague, no one comes to water the fields, and the fields are cracked.
Before leaving the city, he had thought about how to deal with the plague, so after standing still, he stretched out his hand, holding a cinnabar-drawn talisman between his fingers. He flicked his finger, and the talisman immediately burned, and in an instant
It was burned clean.
Then the burning flame of the talisman turned into a stream of green rain and dew, falling sparsely towards the cracked field.
Seeing this scene, the yamen servant Zhang Wangshui couldn't close his mouth.
A low-level government official like him, who has never been out in Qiongshui County all his life, has never seen such a magical scene.
As the green rain and dew fell, the tired wheat in the fields stood upright as if injected with chicken blood, becoming greener and greener.
This talisman was hastily drawn in the county government office.
Its name is the Talisman of Rejuvenation. Although it consumes more spiritual energy to draw, it can expel the plague and heal injuries in a small area.
However, Fang Xiaoyue has also made some improvements to it these days.
Therefore, this improved talisman can be converted into rejuvenating rain and dew, and after being absorbed by the plants, it will be converted into high-quality medicinal materials that can drive away plagues and treat injuries and illnesses.
Of course, it is still difficult to deal with this monster-related plague just by relying on these.
Therefore, when Fang Xiaoyue was drawing the talisman in the county government office, she deliberately used a few drops of her own blood to dissolve the cinnabar.
As mentioned before, Fang Xiaoyue himself is of extremely high status. He is not only a true god who holds many divine responsibilities, but also practices many immortal arts through the Book of Immortal Dao.
In this world, his blood looks ordinary when squeezed out, but in fact it is equivalent to an extremely high-grade spiritual creature.