"Foot-and-mouth disease, this thing is only effective against animals with two hooves, and has no use at all against animals with one hoof like war horses.
Besides, once an epidemic breaks out, it does not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. Once the epidemic spreads to the Song Dynasty, the losses will probably be huge."
After learning this secret from Su Xun, Yun Zheng was not very interested. This thing hurts cattle, sheep, and pigs. If calculated in terms of quantity alone, after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the Song Dynasty's losses would definitely be greater than those of the Liao Kingdom.
Much bigger.
The Song Dynasty is the country with the most pigs and cattle in the world. The most troublesome thing is that people in the Song Dynasty like to live together, which will cause the plague to spread at an extremely fast speed. Burning camps caused by the plague are everywhere in the Song Dynasty.
yes.
The Liao and Xixia people were very vigilant about the occurrence of foot-and-mouth disease. As soon as they found any symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease, they would immediately get rid of the sick cows and sheep without the need for official orders. This was a big problem for them.
It is a kind of consciousness of survival.
In the Song Dynasty, this kind of thing did not happen at all. The people would immediately sell the pigs and sheep that died of illness to make up for the family's losses. As for the consequences, they generally didn't care, even if there were repeated orders from the government.
There is nothing to stop them from doing this.
"Mr. Su, you can't come up with this idea. If outsiders find out, the good reputation you have worked hard for many years will be destroyed. At that time, under the guidance of thousands of people, you may have the only way out to go fishing with me on the sea.
"
Su Xun sneered a few times and said: "With this idea of killing a thousand swords, do you think I will still be alive? It doesn't matter whether others know or not, at least I know it myself. At that time, I thought that as long as the effect of this plan was achieved,
I can just go into the mountains with my hair loose!"
Yun Zheng glanced at Su Xun and said with a smile: "What's most annoying is that you act like dead pigs who are not afraid of being scalded by boiling water. You did bad things yourself, and then shouted to the world that I am responsible for everything I do, and I will take it with my life."
That’s right! It’s as if your lives are valuable.
It takes a year or even longer for ordinary people to raise a fat pig. The peasant woman has to worry a lot about raising the pig well. Sometimes she worries more than raising her own baby. She looks forward to killing it during the New Year and replacing it for the family.
Get some money back, get some sewage and minced meat to eat.
If it is ruined by the foot-and-mouth disease you caused, it's no big deal if you go into the mountains with your hair. You can't use your own head to tell the truth.
But who will repay the peasant woman for more than a year of hard work? The child at home is drooling and looking forward to killing pigs to eat meat during the New Year, but you ruined it. Who will repay it?
At that time, your head may not be as valuable as a pig's head in the eyes of a peasant woman, so you'd better put this idea aside. If I could bring about the plague, I would have done it long ago. The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun must be struck with one knife and one shot.
Only in this way can we have a deterrent effect. Tricks can sometimes work, but they do not apply to Yanyun!"
Su Xun frowned and said: "When you attacked Nong Zhigao, didn't you make use of the plague? I never heard that the people of the Song Dynasty said anything wrong about you."
Yun Zheng frowned and said: "The plague in Wuchao City was caused by too many corpses, the infestation of mosquitoes and flies, and the special climate of Wuchao City.
You were in Wuchao City at that time, so you don't know how the plague happened, right? Yun didn't deliberately cause the plague, and he was still actively fighting it afterward. You should have seen how much effort we put in.
In my eyes.
Under such circumstances, who can blame me?"
"I remember you once said that war is a place without humanity, and the way to win is to do whatever it takes to win.
When you were killing Xiao Dahu's infantry, I didn't see any kindness at all!"
Yun Zheng shook his head, dragged Su Xun to the largest sand table, pointed at the territories of the Song Dynasty, Xi Xia, and Liao Kingdoms, and said: "Sir, take a look at the sand table here first, and then tell me what you found.
What!"
Su Xun took one look and sighed: "The reason why you don't agree with me using this method is because you are afraid that others will use this method against Da Song?"
Yun Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "Looking at the map, you should find that the territory of the Song Dynasty is densely packed with fortified cities, while the Liao Kingdom and Xixia are mostly empty spaces.
Once the plague comes, our damage will be ten times and a hundred times that of the Liao people or the Xixia people. No one is a fool. We can use the plague as a weapon, and so can others. By then everyone will use this thing, how many people will there be in this world?
Living person?
Unless we can develop a drug that can protect against various plagues, you should never even think about using plague as a weapon."
Su Xun sighed and covered the sand table with linen cloth. At the same time, he also covered up the darkest part of his heart.
When Yun Zheng saw that Su Xun no longer insisted on using Plague, he would naturally quickly forget about it completely, as if it had never happened. Yun Zheng also gave him a stern warning from Lang Tan, and finally
The matter was completely settled.
The army was marching on the grassland. The front army had already disappeared into the horizon, while the rear army was still emerging from the grassland. The reason why the army was arranged in a long snake formation was because of the poor road conditions on the grassland.
There were originally no roads on the grassland, but after more livestock walked, roads became roads. Such small paths were densely distributed on the grassland, which was very convenient for the herdsmen, but for an army of hundreds of thousands of people, it was very convenient.
It's such a big trouble.
It was impossible to form a square formation and advance all the way. There were too many hills and swamps here, so the long snake formation became the only option.
Scouts on both sides of the military formation kept standing on the hills in the distance and looking around, and the scout horses kept appearing in the green and yellow grass, and the blue sea in the sky never stopped circling.
The almost unchanged environment made almost everyone lose the idea of seeing the scenery, and burying their heads in the road was the only option.
Yunzheng no longer rides a horse, but sits in a cart. Long-distance riding is now a big burden for him.
The carriage bumped, and golden tea rippled out of the tea cup from time to time. Chen Lin habitually wiped the tea tray with a rag. He had done this kind of work for decades and had already developed a conditioned reflex.
"In the sixth year of Yuanshou, General Sima and the champion Hou Huo died of illness at the age of 18." Chen Lin dropped the rag and muttered to herself.
Yun Zheng, who was reading, glanced at Chen Lin and continued reading.
"In the sixth year of Yuanshou, General Sima and the champion Hou Huo died of illness at the age of 18." Chen Lin raised her voice and said again.
Yun Zheng put down the book helplessly, poured a cup of tea for Chen Lin and said lazily: "I don't have to tell you twice, I know this. I am almost thirty years old, and the disaster of the champion will not happen to me.
To be honest, how did you know about the plague?"
"I don't know!" Chen Lin answered very bluntly.
"I don't know why you used that champion who died of the plague to warn me? Come on, tell me, you've been staying in my car all day. If you don't tell me, it won't make sense."
"Su Xun told me his thoughts and told me afterwards..." Chen Lin spread her legs in frustration, looking very rogue.
"Since nothing happened, wouldn't it be over if you just forget about it?"
"I'm scared!"
Yun Zheng laughed dumbly and said: "You, the commander-in-chief of the Secret Service, have such very negative emotions? Could it be that the statement that your Secret Service is a hell on earth is wrong?"
"What I face are all targets for each household, but your target is often a country. The two are not the same."
"There's no difference between killing one person and killing a hundred people, right?"
"Yes, there is a big difference, very big. What I kill and deal with are rebellious officials and traitors. Those people all have their own ways of killing. The person you kill is different just because he is not from the same country as us."
"I remember you were the happiest one when killing Liao people!"
"The plague is different..."
"So I didn't agree!"
"Of course you shouldn't agree! Plague is the most terrifying evil in the world. In the third year of Dao Dao, I watched my parents, brothers and sisters die from the plague one after another. When I was twelve years old, I buried them one by one.
, and then I dug a big hole and lay there waiting to die... But God didn't want me, so I lived in the dead village for a year.
To be honest, it felt good, because no matter who the house was, I could easily go in, I could freely eat the food of any house, and the chickens and ducks of any house belonged to me alone. That is to say, in that year, I didn’t care.
My life is on the line, because I can’t die no matter what..."
"It's just foot-and-mouth disease, not a human plague!"
Before Yun Zheng finished speaking, Chen Lin picked up Yun Zheng and yelled at him: "They are all the same, as long as it is a plague, they are all the same."
When Chen Lin saw Yun Zheng smiling at him, she threw Yun Zheng in the carriage and jumped out. This was quite a skill for an old man!
After Chen Lin left, Yun Zheng felt quite proud. He scratched his scalp and continued to read his book. It was so rare for this old guy to reveal his feelings in front of him. This meant that from this moment on, this guy could be called one of his own.
Not an exaggeration.
People are so strange. When they begin to accept you, etiquette will gradually disappear, and the modifying words in their words will slowly disappear.
Two well-dressed lovers may look like gentlemen and ladies when they first meet. Once they get to know each other to a certain extent, bad habits like farting, teeth grinding, and snoring will appear.
At least, Yun Zheng is enjoying this feeling now. The fact that Chen Lin can help him clean the table shows that the old guy no longer has any pretense in front of him. Maybe he was angry just now because he also discovered this.
"Monkey, give Chen Lin two cans of the cans you brought from home. I heard that guy prefers oranges..." (To be continued)