Chapter 1320 I rely on the imperial examination to get ahead and become a big official in the frontier (27)
Officials, "...??"
It's already miserable enough that the money is gone. Damn it, if Gu Mo does this, almost half of the officials in the entire Yue Dynasty will be implicated. After all, corrupt officials do this kind of thing tacitly, and they become betrayers.
Those who are corrupt officials will definitely be despised and retaliated by those in the corrupt official circle.
What Gu Mo did was like eating people without spitting out their bones.
At this time, Gu Mo had already started writing a letter to the court in front of them.
All the officials were covered in cold sweat. You looked at me, and I looked at you.
"My lord, my lord! Those profiteers must be looking for food. As parents, why should we care about them?"
"Yes, sir, it's just a matter of damaging your reputation. We don't want to care about such a trivial matter, so please let it go."
Gu Mo spoke righteously, "Everyone, this governor is not only doing this to rectify your reputation, but also for the adults in the court who have been implicated, and for the entire Yue Kingdom. How can we let it go?"
The road that Gu Mo now placed in front of these officials was basically a dead end.
First, if you want to take the money back, of course you can. Then the governor will handle it according to the law and check everyone carefully. The annual salary is only a few dozen taels, but the bank deposits millions of taels. Where does this money come from?
According to the laws of the Moon Kingdom, extra income that officials cannot explain will be regarded as corruption and illegal gains. If the amount is huge, it will be punished by death.
So now there are only two ways before you. If you donate it, you will treat it as if you don't have the money. The officials will do as you do, and the court will not hold you accountable.
Second, if you don’t donate, the money will be put into the national treasury, and the crime will be dealt with according to the law. If you should be beheaded, you should be killed.
What else could be done? The officials could only hand over all the money in frustration, and then gave up Gu Mo's idea of writing a discount.
With the money, Gu Mo was satisfied and began to prepare to go to Yuzhou to provide disaster relief.
Why did the plague break out in Yuzhou at this time?
It also has something to do with a specialty animal in Yuzhou—the marmot, also known as the groundhog.
The marmot's meat is edible, its fat is a precious medicinal material, and its fur is comparable to mink fur.
Marmots are rampant in Yuzhou and a complete industrial chain has already been formed.
September is the season when marmot fur grows best, and it is also the season when large numbers of marmots are served on the dining table.
During this season, the local people will go out to catch marmots everywhere.
Wild marmots are very flexible and active, so they are not easy to catch. However, one kind of marmot has milky white cloud-like objects in its eyes. It staggers around and cannot run or bark when it encounters people. It is particularly easy to catch.
Especially this year, there are so many of these marmots, so local people can make a lot of money by catching them.
It wasn't until October that the plague suddenly broke out in a small area.
At first, no one took it seriously, and local officials did not take it seriously. After a few days, the plague became a prairie fire, sweeping across the entire Yuzhou.
Yuzhou is almost filled with mourning, the wind is roaring and the cranes are roaring, and it has become a hell on earth.
Some planes run in parallel, so Gu Mo has seen this disease in other planes.
In that plane, this disease was called the Black Death,
Not to mention close contact, it can be spread directly through the air and droplets.
Symptoms of infected people appear within two or three days at most, with bruises all over the body, difficulty breathing, headaches, coughing and vomiting, until they die in pain.
The fatality rate of infection is extremely high. As long as you are infected, you are almost certain to die, and the time from onset to death is only a few days.
In another parallel dimension, this disease caused the death of nearly 30 million people in six years.
Therefore, this plague is far more serious than the imperial court imagined. Once it is not properly controlled, it will be a disaster for the entire Moon Kingdom.
Fortunately, after the governors of several other neighboring states learned about the situation in Yuzhou, they immediately implemented a blockade, closing the city gates, not allowing outsiders to enter, and not allowing local people to go out, which largely prevented the spread of the plague.
The situation is serious, let alone one more day, one more quarter of an hour, Gu Mo might see a dead city when he arrives in Yuzhou.
Therefore, Gu Mo first went to Yuzhou to take charge of the overall situation, left his cronies to open a factory in the county closest to Yuzhou in Kangzhou, and mobilized a large number of manpower to produce masks and other epidemic prevention necessities. He also purchased medicinal materials from all over the country and stocked them here.
, just waiting to come in handy.
Working hard, Gu Mo arrived in Yuzhou in just one day.
I saw corpses lying everywhere on the once bustling streets. The smoke and fire of the world had long since disappeared, and there was only a dark atmosphere of death.
Gu Mo went to the Universe Governor's Mansion to report that Yuzhou officials were obviously dissatisfied with her as the airborne governor. They just refused to cooperate with Gu Mo's instructions and even tried to jump up and down to delay disaster relief.
Gu Mo even treated the local officials in Kangzhou who regarded him as the local emperor obediently. How could he be afraid of these officials?
She held up the imperial edict at the door of the Governor's Mansion and gave an order, "I have come with the imperial edict to provide disaster relief. Anyone who blocks his way will be killed without mercy, regardless of the reason!"
Gu Mo acted vigorously and resolutely, and did what he said. He chopped off the heads of several officials who were holding back, so that the officials in Yuzhou became frightened and did not dare to make any small moves again.
Gu Mo then formulated a detailed plan based on the situation and began to carry out disaster relief activities.
It should be isolated and disinfected, and everything used by infected people should be burned.
Those who have not yet been infected are all quarantined at home and are not allowed to visit relatives and friends. Anyone who violates the order will be punished with a felony.
The masks were produced, and Gu Mo asked all people in Yuzhou to wear masks.
Death is imminent, and now only the government can save him. The people are quite obedient. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will try their best to survive.
Because people who died from the infection still carried the virus, Gu Mo ordered that the dead be cremated.
Because the local tradition is to bury the dead with all their beards and tails, and it is important to put them in peace.
Gu Mo dragged the people to one place and burned them all. In the eyes of the people, it was against the laws of nature and human ethics.
Therefore, cremation caused a strong backlash from local people.
At this critical moment, Gu Mo had no time to talk to them about the truth, so he still adopted tough measures to control the plague first.
However, the biggest problem in Yuzhou now is actually poor doctors.
Without doctors, it would be impossible to treat so many patients.
Gu Mo was planning to ask several other prefectures and counties for help, but he didn't want someone to suddenly report that a large number of doctors had arrived in Yuzhou and that they had begun to treat patients and were very obedient to the government's arrangements.
Gu Mo went to see it in person, and sure enough he saw many doctors on the street.
