flstandardbreds Chapter 163 Man-made
Chapter 163 Man-made
Even the military doctor didn't dare to give a definite answer to the woman's question, but Ye Ze did. "Don't worry, I promise that if you follow me now, you will all be sent back after you recover. The quarantine is only to reduce the spread of the disease. Only by first determining what kind of plague you have, can the military doctors prescribe the right medicine!"
"really?"
"He is a general, he won't lie to us..."
With Ye Ze's assurance, the people seemed to see hope. They believed in the rebels and could only believe in the rebels. Otherwise, what else could they do? Would they go back and infect their families and let their families die with them?
Soon, the sick patients were taken out of the city for isolation, and temporary tents were set up outside the city for the patients to live in.
The next step was to determine the condition of the patients. After rounds of examinations by military doctors, they found that these isolated patients had symptoms such as fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, chills, etc., and were highly contagious.
Military doctors initially diagnosed it as plague, but then felt it was unlikely. Plague mostly occurs in the spring and summer in the north. It is winter now, so how could plague suddenly appear?
Ye Ze frowned and thought for a while, then asked, "Is there a possibility that it was man-made?"
Doctor Cheng suddenly realized that there must be a spy in the city!
With an idea in mind, the next step became much easier. Ye Ze took out a prescription and asked the military doctors to see if it could be used. There were prescriptions for treating plague in ancient times, but that prescription was only effective for patients with mild symptoms and had certain drawbacks.
After reading the prescription given by Ye Ze, the military doctors were not sure whether it would work. After all, there were too few records about the epidemic. However, they could not come up with a better prescription for comparison. Relying on their trust in Ye Ze, Doctor Cheng decided to try the prescription he gave and observe for a few days.
The quarantine area outside the city is completely isolated from the outside world. People outside cannot find out the situation inside, and no information from inside will be leaked to the outside.
The people who stayed in the city were isolated at home. The rebels sent them food, water, and medicine to prevent the plague every day, and told them some precautions to prevent the plague. If anyone got sick during this period, they would be taken out of the city for isolation immediately.
A layer of quicklime is sprinkled on the streets and alleys in the city. Quicklime has a certain disinfecting and sterilizing effect.
The incubation period of plague is relatively short, with the shortest incubation period being two days and the longest being no more than twelve days. However, there was no effective treatment for plague in this era. When the symptoms were mild, there were drugs to treat them. Once the disease became serious, the only way left was to wait for death.
If there is a wise emperor in power, he will send imperial doctors to treat the people and control the spread of the epidemic. If there is an incompetent emperor in power, the people may not even have the chance to receive treatment, and the city will be directly closed down and left to fend for themselves.
The plague was like a flood, swift and hard to resist. Because of this sudden plague, Yunzhou had to temporarily close the city, no outsiders were allowed to enter, and no one inside was allowed to leave.
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Since he knew that there was a spy in the city, he would definitely try every means to find out the conditions of the patients outside the city and then report to his master. Ye Ze completely isolated the patients outside the city from the outside world in order to find out the spies in the city.
The only people who knew about this matter were Ye Ze and a few military doctors, and the less the others knew, the better.
In addition, Ye Ze also wanted to find out the source of the plague. Some government officials assisted Ye Ze in inspecting the wells in the city.
In order to infect so many people at once, they must have tampered with people's food and water sources. They checked people's homes on their own and found no problems. The only problem left was the water source.
After two days of investigation, the dead rat was found in a well in the north of the city. When it was fished out, the rat's fur had fallen off due to being soaked in water. The soldiers with poor mental health almost vomited when they saw this scene.
There is a slum area in the north of the city. There are three wells. Dead rats were fished out of two of the wells. Ye Ze immediately ordered people to fill up the two wells.
The government soldiers were also sent to guard the other wells in the city in turns to prevent the spies from taking action again.
Then word got out that the patients isolated outside the city were not in good condition, and the prescriptions used by the military doctors could only treat mild cases and had little effect on seriously ill patients.
At the same time, there was a shortage of medicinal materials. Most of the herbs in the military camp were for external injuries and anti-inflammation. Ye Ze could only buy the necessary herbs in the pharmacy in the city, but the number of people suffering from the plague was too large, and the reserve herbs in the pharmacy in the city were far from enough. Now he had sent soldiers to the pharmacy in the border town to buy herbs.
Upon hearing the news, the man could no longer sit still.
Late at night, when the soldiers guarding the city gate were sleepy, a black shadow quietly appeared in an inconspicuous corner of the city wall. Just as he flew over the city wall, clapped his hands and wanted to leave, fire suddenly ignited around him and he was surrounded.
The man in black realized that he had been tricked, but it was too late.
The man in black was captured by Ye Ze's subordinates and locked up in a single cell in Yunzhou Prison.
This cell was specially chosen for him by Ye Ze. Not only was it surrounded by walls on all four sides, but even the door was tightly blocked by wooden boards. The only light came from the meal delivery window left in the middle of the board, which was just big enough for a bowl to pass through. The window was only opened when meals were being delivered. The rest of the time, the room was pitch dark.
The man in black who had just been locked up didn't care about all this. He was thinking that when someone caught him and took him out for questioning, he would find a way to escape. With his lightness skills, it should not be difficult to escape from here.
As a result, he waited for several days without any movement. Apart from one meal delivered on time every day, there was nothing else. This made him nervous every day.
However, Ye Ze had no intention of interrogating him at all. The person behind him could be guessed without asking, so why would Ye Ze bother?
A dark and enclosed environment is often a huge psychological challenge for a normal person. In such a space, loneliness and fear will follow like a shadow, devouring people's reason and courage bit by bit.
Limited vision can make hearing extremely sensitive. Any slight sound may be infinitely amplified, causing inner anxiety and panic, causing hallucinations and illusions, which in turn lead to emotional out-of-control and even mental breakdown.
Even if the other party is a martial arts master, it is difficult for him to remain calm in such an environment, and the fear in his heart will gradually erode his will. By then, even if Ye Ze doesn't want to ask him, he will take the initiative to confess.
Sure enough, within ten days, the man could no longer bear it and confessed everything he knew.
Ye Ze just smiled when he heard this and said, "Don't worry about him. Just give him one meal a day and don't starve to death."
Half a month later, almost all the patients isolated outside the city recovered, and the medicines they took had no side effects on their bodies. After taking their pulses, the military doctors found it incredible and solemnly recorded the prescription given by Ye Ze in the records of this epidemic.
All the people in the quarantine area outside the city returned home in good health, just in time for the Chinese New Year and family reunions.
After this incident, the people were so grateful to the rebels that they praised their good deeds. It can be said that the rebels were their lifesavers! Yunzhou City was filled with peace and joy.
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