The news that a locust plague in Henan was naturally sent to Jiangling through special channels. However, for Zhou Huaian, who was not yet attainable, this was not a question to give the future son of destiny, a test full of potential tests and challenges; it depends on how he chose.

For example, what decisions can he make or what level he can go to under the premise of corresponding interests and his own limitations? Only then can he decide the corresponding attitude and policy direction for the Taiping Army regime to continue to interact with it in the future. After all, once the Taiping Army resolves the situation in Huainan, it will inevitably reconsider the countermeasures of the Central Plains region north of the Huaihe River.

Of course, even if things reach the worst, at least the Taiping Army temporarily opens Luyang Pass to receive and absorb refugees from Henan, it is no problem. However, this also means that the situation in Henan is completely out of control and falls into a eroding chaos.

In fact, thanks to the benefits brought by time travelers, the Taiping Army has already had sufficient mature experience in dealing with similar disasters and a ready-made operating system. Of course, because it is in the south, the main problems faced are floods in several water systems and irregular coastal wind disasters.

In a sense, as long as there are sufficient material reserves and response plans, coupled with the water conservancy facilities that are constantly maintained and repaired on a daily basis, the reflection efficiency brought by the improvement of transportation and communication conditions is enough to control most disasters within the scope of limited losses.

This is also the basic motivation for the Taiping Army to build corresponding waterway facilities and river dredging and irrigation projects in the Pearl River, Xiangjiang River, Han River and Yangtze River Basins since its rise. It is not that there is too much manpower and material resources, but that this kind of thing needs to form a sufficiently contiguous area and scope before it can produce a scale effect of real linkage.

Just like why Sichuan has been called the Kingdom of Heaven since ancient times. Because the irrigation system built in the Minjiang River Basin on the Chengdu Plain has developed quite maturely; so far, a relatively stable self-circulating climate environment and local fine-tuning system in the basin has formed, as well as the corresponding upper limit of disaster accommodation.

Therefore, according to the sampling survey of the Ministry of Social Research and the regular census of the Civil Investigation Department, it can be seen after cross-data comparison. As long as the Taiping Army is not the first to bear the brunt of the brunt, there will be a strange illusion or confidence; since the ruling order established by the Taiping Army, it has been rare for many years.

But in fact, according to the information reported over the years, various heavy rainstorms, mountain torrents, wind disasters, insect pests, and tidal plagues in various places are almost every year and there are dozens of them. After all, this is an ancient agricultural society where manpower is exhausted and most production activities depend on the weather, but people are constantly dying in the war.

However, in most emergencies, in addition to inevitably facing the basic losses of natural disasters, there is no chance to form a sufficient vicious cycle, and even before it spreads into a social problem, it has been resolved and alleviated by local measures and methods of preparation, which have been relatively effective in resolving and alleviating.

Just like the current epidemics in Huainan territory, Huangzhou (now Huangshi, Hubei), Qizhou (now Qichun, Hubei), Shuzhou (now Qianshan, Hubei), Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui), etc., have been basically controlled by the Taiping Army soldiers who have been doing their best. Naturally, there are many reasons for this.

For example, due to the previous wars and disasters, a large number of people in Huainan died and lost. Most of the remaining people gathered in villages and towns like isolated islands, as the core barriers, and the forts thought they were self-protection. Although there was no resistance in the sudden outbreak of the epidemic, once they made up their minds to block and isolate them with forceful means of force, and control them, it would be much simpler.

On the other hand, the security areas in Jiangnan have sufficient manpower and material protection, ensuring that various epidemic prevention measures and requirements can be implemented in detail and implemented in specific content and details. This is one of the great benefits of a centralized system with strong execution capabilities.

Therefore, under the strict blockade of the army mainly responsible for the establishment of land and land checkpoints and the armed civil and military patrols as the auxiliary, the areas where the epidemic may break out are divided, and then they are divided into epidemic areas of different levels according to the priorities of the discovered proportion.

For example, in the most serious epidemic-stricken areas, not only should we burn and landfill villages without any living people to prevent the second pollution and outbreak of corpses after rotting; we should also hunt wild dogs, jackals and other wild animals that may have been carried by germs because of eating sick people;

Second-class areas should also set up checkpoints and isolation areas, buffer zones, so as to force the storage of potential carriers who escaped from the epidemic area as objects of observation in a short period of time. During this period, if you encounter an existence who is unwilling to cooperate or want to cross or cross the barrier, you will only eliminate these black sheep for the sake of the welfare of more people to survive.

In the green zone where the epidemic has not been discovered for the time being and is relatively safe, the third detachment sent by the Taiping Army has also begun to compulsoryly follow some basic hygiene habits in population settlements. For example, do not drink raw water from the wild, but use cooked water from cheap coal from Jiangnan to meet daily life needs; clean up and kill rats and birds in human cities for a fee.

Among them, there are also some people who have been hit by refugees from Shenzhou, Guangzhou, Anzhou and other places where the epidemic broke out in the north. There are even definite reports that these refugees who have brought a large number of epidemic carriers were simply driven over. Of course, this account can only be counted on Liu Hanhong.

However, it is the very epidemic prevention period when autumn and winter begins. Before the Yang Xingmin power in Guangling City is completely solved, the Taiping Army can only continue to recuperate and gather strength while keeping down this account for a certain public opinion preparation for slandering the people and slapping them in the coming year, and then make corresponding plans.

In fact, as long as the first snow falls south of the northern cold wave falls, the natural transmission path of the corresponding epidemic will naturally be cut off. Because, even if there are still scattered sources of the epidemic outside of control, they will either be frozen to death and starve to death or will not survive the disease. Those who survive by chance will naturally have natural immunity.

However, what Zhou Huaian did not expect was that the impact of these outsiders certainly caused many conflicts and even local conflicts, deaths and injuries, and greatly increased the maintenance cost of order in the corresponding epidemic areas. However, it also made it easier for the armed staff led by the "Three Detachments" to carry out the tasks, or in other words, local people tend to quickly move closer to the Taiping Army.

The reason is also very simple. The Taiping Army usually targets and cracks down on those who destroy social order regardless of your relationship between the local people. In the conflicts and conflicts that broke out in Huainan, it is obvious that these outsiders who created chaos were hit and liquidated more. As a result, a sense of superiority and tendency lies in the new contradictions that were intensified by outsiders.

In addition, during the extraordinary period of life and death, most people have the instinct to get together to overcome difficulties and yearn for the instinct of getting closer to power and collective organizations; however, local families with a little condition and prestige were either liquidated by the third detachment before or had fled to the city. The remaining local people who could only wait for death would naturally rely on the idea of ​​survival and seeking protection and be moved to the Taiping Army who was working hard to maintain order.

Then, whether it was the hygienic and epidemic prevention propaganda that was originally quite suspicious, or the various jobs of clearing the fields that were secretly shirked and delayed, the situation suddenly became clear. There were even many poor families who lacked livelihoods, who had to put aside the prejudices and unsustainable habits of the countryside, and under the physical employment of grain and cloth, they also joined the auxiliary labor service of digging canals and building roads.

Of course, headed by Liu Xun, the preparatory ambassador of Eyue Jiangxuan, the Taiping Army established a temporary disposal agency in the local area, is naturally happy to see it; at least according to past experience and lessons, once these people are included in the control of the Taiping Army's unique collective atmosphere, it will be difficult to avoid being affected and influenced. With a little operation and guidance, a group of potential vested interest groups can naturally be cultivated.

In this way, even if the remaining rural upper class can escape the epidemic and return home afterwards, they can only accept a new situation where things change and people have little influence and appeal left. Thinking of this, Zhou Huaian suddenly became a little erect, and said to Qingluo, who was singing the new arrangement of the song "Bamboo Branch Ci" next to him:

"You put your feet on this case, and I'll do the rest myself."

"Langjun..."

The gentle and charming Qingluo couldn't help but give him a beautiful and charming look and said angrily, but she still lifted up the hem of the flower-woven cloud pattern, revealing a calves wrapped in snow-white silk stockings, gently stepping on the edge of the desk filled with documents, forming a perfect bow in front of Zhou Huaian.

In another place in the city, Du Xunhe, a clerk who had just been transferred from the local tour team to report in a restaurant where his old friends of the same age, was temporarily caught in a daze about his own future while drunk. Of course, this was not because he made a mistake in his work, but because he got records such as "firm stance", "decisive behavior", "good at investigation", and "being able to endure hardships" in his daily assessment.
Chapter completed!