In the early morning, on the banks of the Lishui River, early-gatherers were fetching water by the river. They each carried two wooden barrels on their shoulder poles and walked along the pier to the river surface, drove the cold river water up, and then carried it back to the military camp.

The official army camp is located outside Shaoling City, stretching for more than ten miles, and it is distributed in Lishui, the two sides of the Ru River, and the intersection of Lishui and Ru River is called Lekou. The east-west Lishui and the north-south Ru River are like a crossroad at Lekou, and the official army camp covers all the intersections.

More than 100,000 troops were stationed in Shaoling area and needed a lot of drinking water every day. Some people were led by the horses and went to the river to drink horses from time to time, but people could not all go to the river to drink water. Therefore, the chef was responsible for the heavy responsibility of fetching water and had to travel back and forth between the rivers and camps every day.

The plan for the year is spring, and the plan for the day is morning. The chefs boil water and prepare for food. Only after the soldiers have the energy to do things. When fighting, preparing food for so many people, the chefs naturally have to get up early in the morning to get water.

Since ancient times, most people have eaten two meals a day (main meal), one for morning meals and the other for feeding. If the time for future generations is defined, it is about nine in the morning and about four in the afternoon.

Generally speaking, you have to make fresh food. After you have finished it, you don’t eat it. The leftover food will be heated and then feeding. This will save firewood. Therefore, every morning, the chefs are busy sweating profusely to prepare for food, and fetching water is just one of the heavy labours.

At this moment, there are many teams of kids queuing to fetch water by the river. Because each unit is camping and has its own kids responsible for fetching water and cooking, every morning, thousands of people will line up to fetch water on dozens of trest bridges along the river.

Not only that, several water trucks were also set up by the river. The water trucks kept pushing the river water up day and night, and flowed into the reservoir in the military camp along the sink to reduce the burden on the chefs.

However, building a water truck requires a lot of wood. Although it saves manpower, the chefs do nothing but boil water and cook rice. Therefore, there are only a few water trucks, and the main force in the water harvesting is still the chefs.

A chef who fetched water, used his hands as a scoop, scooped some water into the bucket, leaned over and smelled it, frowned and said, "This water seems to be a little smelly, you smell it."

Several other chefs scooped water with their hands and smelled it. Some people couldn't smell anything, while others smelled a slight odor of the river. This odor was different from the earthy smell of the river, but if you were not careful, you couldn't smell it.

"How is it, it really smells bad?"

"So what? There are tents over ten miles along the river. Can't you be sure who secretly poops and pees while washing clothes by the river?"

"It's great, I'll take it back after getting the water. If you miss the time, everyone will be in trouble!"

The chefs didn't care about the fact that the river water seemed to smell slightly. Recently, some chefs who fetched water have discovered this situation one after another, but the smell was stinking and not many people cared about it.

After all, more than 100,000 people are stationed by the river. It is normal for some people to urinate in the river and cause the river to smell bad. However, the patrol generals will generally stop such behavior, so there is relatively little feces and urine flowing into the river, so there is nothing to worry about.

The chefs carried water back to the camp, and their companions were busy cooking around big pots. Many firewood was thrown into the stove. These were firewood that soldiers took turns to get out of the camp, and the daily consumption was very large.

Therefore, in order to save money, firewood is mainly used to cook rice. As for boiling water (boiling water), it is not necessary.

For most people, they do not have the habit of drinking cooked water, because this will increase the cost of living. Especially for people living in the city, they have to go out of the city to chop firewood and carry it back, which is very troublesome, so firewood is usually only used to cook rice and vegetables, and it is too wasteful to use it to cook water.

People have water tanks and other water storage vessels at home. They come back from time to time to fill the water tank. When they are thirsty, they use a scoop of water to drink directly. When the water is too cold in winter, they will cause diarrhea and then everyone will boil water.

But in order to save firewood, I just boil the water until it is warm and drink it, and rarely bring it to a boil.

This is how ancestors have been through this for generations, not only the people, but also the soldiers. Such living habits are very common in the military camps. Only those generals who talk about pomp and have a dedicated person to boil water.

At this moment, early soldiers sent people to the kitchen to fetch water, carrying clay pots and picking back the unboiled warm water with their companions to drink it to warm their stomachs.

The soldiers waiting to fetch water lined up and chatted. They had to deal with the chefs every day, so they were very familiar with them. They were not afraid of various topics. They were carrying clay pots and were about to fetch water. The chef next to them twitched his nose and smiled, "Oh, Lao Li, have you used your hands again? Wash it clean?"

"Wash it, just smell it." The soldier laughed and reached out, and the chef laughed and scolded: "There is still shit, are you going to add ingredients to the meal later? Hahaha!"

"Gagaga, I'll add you now!"

The two laughed and scolded, while the others laughed. Nowadays, when they went to the toilet, the powerful people were said to use cloth and were extremely luxurious, while the rich people used toilet chips (specially made thin bamboo pieces, wood pieces, etc.).

Ordinary people use various fine wooden sticks, leaves and weeds they pick up. If they really don’t have one, just use their hands directly.

Of course there are some of them when wiping your butt with your hands, but it’s no big deal to wash it with water afterwards. Many people actually just want to wash their hands, as long as the smell is not obvious.

When you wake up in the morning, many soldiers will go to the toilet to urinate. There is no need to think about high-end products such as toilets. Ordinary soldiers use fine wooden sticks, reed poles, wild grass and other substitutes that are available.

However, the camp with more than 100,000 people consumes a lot of toilet-funding substitutes every day, which is not enough.

Many soldiers had nothing to wipe their butts, so they simply used their hands directly. There were wooden buckets in the toilet. After using the toilet, they could use the water contained in them to wash their hands. However, so many people came down every day to go to the toilet, and the water in the bucket was not replaced frequently. It is unknown how many people had washed their hands in a bucket of water.

But for the soldiers, this is no big deal. Even if life in the military camp is like this, it has become a habit. No wonder, everyone's family is not in a good state, so how can they pay attention to it like a big family?

The team that was warm water kept its length. Some people left after getting the water, and some people came to line up with clay pots. There were coughs in the team from time to time. The chefs couldn't help but care when they saw familiar faces.

An old man in his fifties nagged: "Oh, how many times have you said that spring is covered with autumn freezing, spring is covered with autumn freezing! Although it is spring now, spring is not a joke. You young people, keep more of them and keep warm!"

"Oh, Lao Wang, we have been covering each other. Who knows what's going on? Nowadays, more and more people are coughing. You can't everyone catch a cold!"

As soon as the topic started, everyone was talking about it. The soldiers lined up here all came to fetch water for their own things. After some discussion, everyone realized that many people were coughing.

If you accidentally catch a cold, why are so many people catching a cold?

Someone suddenly changed the subject: "Did you all see it?"

"What did you see?"

"Southern, that avatar is so crawling..."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expression changed and they couldn't help looking south. Now that the sun is rising, people with good eyesight can see a head standing on the horizon. Of course, that's fake.

The enemy is now camping in the south, and there have been strange movements for several days. According to scouts, the other party was building an altar outside the camp and asked Taoist priests to do it, trying to use magic to wipe out all the officers and soldiers.

This kind of thing is simply a joke, no one takes it seriously, because for thousands of years, no one has ever really won a battle with magic?

However, when a huge human avatar appeared outside the enemy camp, the officers and soldiers who saw this scene from afar were a little worried: the eyes of the human avatar seemed to be staring at them, as if they were really cursing something.

Every day, the soldiers in the camp outside Shaoling City felt a little uncomfortable. After all, it would rather be trusted by the saying of ghosts and gods than by none. The enemy commander is said to be the "one-legged bronze man" with great magical powers, so...

"Is it possible that so many people coughed and were cursed by the one-legged bronze man?"

The words that blurted out inadvertently shocked everyone, and then they started whispering. Seeing this, the general of the patrol patrol quickly led the people over: "What are you doing! What are you doing! Don't whisper!"

"Just get water! What are you doing when you whispering to each other!"

It is most taboo in the military camp that soldiers gather together to whisper, which can easily become the source of rumors and the way to spread rumors, which eventually leads to chaos in the morale of the army. Therefore, the patrol patrol generals are very sensitive to the behavior of soldiers gathering together to discuss.

As soon as the general of the supervisor came, the scene of the water fetching became quiet in an instant. A soldier fetched water and was about to leave, but he coughed a few times. When the general of the supervisor asked him if he was sick, he quickly shook his head: "How can I do it? I just drank water so quickly and choked."

"Is that true? If you are sick, you have to report it and let the military doctor come and see the disease."

"Yes, yes, little one knows..."

The soldier's throat was a little itchy, but he held back and didn't cough out. He waited until he walked away and left the general's sight before he coughed violently. He had been coughing for several days, and his throat became more and more uncomfortable.

He must be sick, so he was supposed to ask a military doctor to take a look, but he was not that stupid:

Once they are diagnosed with illness by the military doctor, they may be sent to a separate camp to be isolated, where they are all patients, no one takes care of them, and they are not good at eating them. Herbs and other things are just perfunctory, so they can only wait to die.

If he continued to live with his fellow comrades, at least someone would take care of him, so he would not be able to move on the straw mat, and he would be so thirsty that his lips were cleft. He would have heard of the consequences of the seriously ill patient for so long that he had not seen it with his own eyes.

No one knows when the seriously injured and seriously ill patients who were sent to the isolation camp died, and no one knows where they were buried.

Most of the soldiers were in the same hometown formation. Most of them were fellow villagers or people from the same county. Once someone died, at least someone would cut off a piece of cloth from his hair or clothes and take it back to his hometown to give it to his relatives. If he was thrown into the isolation camp, it would be too miserable.

He felt that he was just catching a cold and coughing a few times. He didn't have to catch a cold in the past, and he didn't have to take medical treatment and medicine. He just simmered it. He was still young and strong. Although he coughed so hard this time, he would definitely be able to get through it in the end.

After walking around the camp for a long time, the soldiers who fetched water finally returned to the camp where Bensh was built. Several comrades poured the warm water from the clay pot into the bowl and drank it. One of them held the warm water and helped a soldier lying on the straw mat and slowly fed it.

The soldier's face turned pale and coughed constantly. He seemed to have contracted a disease. However, his fellow villagers had been hiding his condition and could not bear to let him be taken to the isolation camp to suffer, so he stayed in the camp and everyone took turns to take care of him.

People in the countryside have to take care of each other when they go out, right?

After drinking water, he couldn't help but feel concerned when the soldier who went to fetch water was coughing. He asked if it was important. Seeing the other party waving his hand with a smile, he sighed and sat on the straw mat in a daze.

Concealing the condition but not reporting it is considered a violation of military discipline, but since he was able to hide the condition of Shine, it was not because he had any ability to do so, because many people in the camp were coughing, so the sick soldiers were not paid attention to.

It is spring now, and the so-called spring and autumn freezes, and people will catch a cold if they are not careful. However, so many people in the military camp are coughing, and it doesn’t make sense that they are all because of the cold. Could it be...

Thinking of this, Shi Chang couldn't help but feel heartbroken. He was a veteran among veterans. Although he was promoted because he had not made any military achievements, he had been in the military camp for a long time and had seen all kinds of scenes. Now the situation in the military camp seems to have a large-scale outbreak.

But how is this possible?

The army was stationed in Lishui and Rushui River, and water supply was not a problem. Cavalry were patrolling upstream every day to beware of the water being thrown into danger of people throwing dead poultry and livestock polluting water, so the officers and soldiers had clean and reliable river water to drink.

There were more than 100,000 people in the camp, and the feces excreted every day were concentrated and put into the downstream of the Rushui dam to harm the enemy troops downstream. The camp on our side was very clean and had not been dirty by feces and urine. So how could so many people cough?

Could it be that it was just a cold?

......

"Chrysanthemums are broken, the ground is covered with wounds, your smile has turned yellow..."

Yuwen Wen hummed "Chrysanthemums"... "Chrysanthemum Platform". When he walked out of the toilet, the touch left by the toilet was still lingering. However, he personally confirmed the cleanliness of the toilet and was in a good mood.

In this era, men and women, after going to the toilet, they have to rely on toilet chips or similar items to clean them. Yu Wenwen cannot get used to it, but he can only force it to get used to it, but he always has the urge to sing "The chrysanthemum is gone".

However, since he "invented" toilet paper, the danger of chrysanthemum santhemums becoming farther and farther away from him.

Yuwen Wen believes that toilet paper is an important milestone in the development of human civilization. As the latest product of Huangzhou's papermaking industry, toilet paper, which is classified as a light luxury product category, will surely bring huge profits.

This thing is not affordable for ordinary people and needs to be promoted for a long time, so paper workshops produce toilet paper to make money from rich people.

Toilet paper has begun to be promoted in the Xiyang Palace, but Yuwen Wen cannot do this in the army. Since the soldiers use toilet chips or even small wooden sticks to use toilets, he has to "she" as usual.

But the hygiene of the toilet must be guaranteed. Not only that, drinking water and tableware must also be guaranteed to be hygienic. The "portable hot water boiler" being tried is responsible for boiling water and high-temperature disinfection.

Cooked water (boiled water) shops have appeared in Xiyang City, providing residents with hygienic cooked water at a relatively appropriate price. In the army, Yuwen Wen has been implementing new regulations: do not drink raw water as much as possible, and cooked water should be collected, and tableware should be disinfected in a centralized manner.

This approach is changing the living habits of soldiers. Although it is a bit troublesome, it is of great help to improve the hygiene situation in the military camp.

The population density of the military camp is extremely high. Once an infectious disease breaks out, in this era without antibiotics, it is easy to cause major casualties and even the danger of being wiped out. Yuwen Wen cannot produce antibiotics, so he can only prevent problems before they happen.

"So, you can go with peace of mind..."

Yuwen murmured at the enemy camp several miles away from the north, then turned to the central army tent, ordered the gathering drum to summon the generals to discuss matters.

The sound of drums was thrilling. The generals gathered in the tent. Yuwen Wen asked someone to spread a map on the ground, use a horse whip as a command pole, and began to dispatch troops.
Chapter completed!