At 10 a.m. on December 20, Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu hurried to Zhongjiang City with a group of senior cadres, and the specifications of the Rat Prevention Command Center were upgraded again.

Deputy Premier Zhang Huaiyu personally served as the commander of the command center, Lieutenant General Li Hao, commander of the Southwest Military Region, Zhang Wenbin, deputy minister of the Ministry of Health, and Liao Xu, deputy minister of the Ministry of Police, served as the deputy commander.

Members of the command center include: Yizhou Governor Qin Haichuan, Zhongjiang City Acting Mayor Li Yuanfang, Provincial Police Department Director Xie Guoqiang, Provincial Health Department Director Zhang Yuesheng, Capital Medical Expert Group Leader Professor Zhong Nan, Consultant Professor Lin Yusen, and the spokesperson is an official named Ye Guangxing.

First-level officials in Zhongjiang City, including police chief Gao Fei, health director Han Qiang, and Major General Bao Shandong, commander of the 45th Division, did not work part-time in the command center.

Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu also announced that the Zhongjiang City Rat Prevention Command Center is only a front-line command center, and a higher-level command center has been established in the capital. The Prime Minister personally serves as the head of the Supreme Command Center. The command center includes the Minister of Health, the Minister of Police, the Minister of National Defense and other senior officials. This Supreme Command Center is directly responsible to the President of the State. The Supreme Command Center organizes a monthly meeting to discuss major decisions on the series of issues of rat prevention. The decision will be carried out by the Front-line Command Center in Zhongjiang City. In addition to major affairs, daily affairs will be handled by the Front-line Command Center.

It can be said that the rat-damage problem has attracted the high attention of the country's top leaders, and even the specifications of the front-line command center are unprecedented.

In order to prepare to fight against the rat group, the armed forces possessed by the front-line command center were also greatly strengthened.

The Southwest Military Region has transferred all the entire 13th Army. In addition to the 45th Mechanized Division of the Army that has entered Zhongjiang City, the 27th Division and the 12th Division will also rush to Zhongjiang City one after another. The 45th Division is stationed in Ganshui County, and the 27th Division and the 12th Division respectively build bases in Biyun and Cangnan County. In this way, the front-line troops reach an unprecedented scale of about 35,000 people from three divisions.

In order to strengthen the combat capabilities of front-line troops and rat groups, considering the characteristics of rat groups, the Ministry of National Defense has also drawn a large number of technical equipment from other major military regions to strengthen front-line troops. The equipment currently owned by front-line combat troops includes:

There are 550 armored vehicles and 800 ordinary military trucks.

1500 flamethrowers

400 shotguns

There are 4 rocket launchers, about 150 gates.

There are 80 helicopters, including 60 large s-70 helicopters and 20 small z-11 helicopters.

In addition, the Ministry of National Defense has also drawn 30 latest bombers from the elite Air Division to be stationed at Qingtian Military Airport in the Southwest Military Region. These supersonic bombers will perform the mission of quickly rushing to designated locations to bomb rat groups in a concentrated manner.

The paratroopers have also increased to 1,500 soldiers. They are currently temporarily stationed in Zhongjiang City.

What is interesting is that the Southwest Military Region also dispatched the 17th Division, and the 37th Division had two divisions of troops set up defense lines on the eastern border of Zhongjiang City, Ziyang City. The name is that this line of defense is a reserve defense line to prevent rats from breaking through Zhongjiang City and attacking the hinterland of Yizhou Province. However, most of the main technical equipment of these two divisions were transferred to the front-line troops. How can there be no necessary technical equipment to resist the attack of rats? Therefore, anyone with discerning eyes is very clear that this line of defense is just a military means to prepare for the rapid blockade of Zhongjiang City once a large-scale outbreak of pneumoplague in Zhongjiang City.

At 11 a.m. on December 20, the front-line command center held its first meeting. At the meeting, Mayor Li first reported on the losses caused by the mass attack on the village on a large scale yesterday. Although he was somewhat mentally prepared, the head of the front-line command center headed by Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu was still shocked by the shocking casualties.

The rat group attacked 15 villages and towns in the western mountainous areas, each of which had varying degrees of casualties, among which the three villages near Fenghuang Mountain suffered the most serious losses.

Loss data as of 9 am on the 20th:

537 villagers died and 216 were injured.

The rescue troops were killed 98 people, 102 injured, and 19 armored vehicles were subverted.

2,134 houses were damaged (mostly wooden houses and earthen houses), and the economic losses were estimated to be more than 300 million yuan.

Mayor Li also pointed out that if Gao Fei had not been urgently implemented, personnel losses would have been even heavier.

The topic of the next meeting was very urgent - when large-scale attacks on villages by rats were inevitable, how to take effective preventive measures to minimize casualties among mountain residents.

Compulsory refuge? Lin Yusen just raised this old topic and was rejected by Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu.

Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu is tall and has a national character with a face that is not angry. At first glance, he is a person with an iron bowl. As a national leader, Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu personally sits in Zhongjiang City to deal with the rat damage problem, he naturally has his own ideas.

Now mandatory refuge is no longer just a financial issue. Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu has considered it more deeply - Zhongjiang City has found more than 20 cases of pneumoplague patients, and it is difficult to protect the residents of mountainous areas without carriers of plague bacteria. Once mandatory refuge, a Zhongjiang City obviously cannot accommodate hundreds of thousands of mountainous areas. If the residents of mountainous areas are placed outside the country, the risk of large-scale spread of plague will be greatly increased. Before coming to Zhongjiang City, the Prime Minister repeatedly emphasized to himself that the plague must be controlled in Zhongjiang City at all costs!

Therefore, after denying the mandatory refuge plan, Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu decisively put forward an alternative: build a "rat-avoiding house" in mountain villages.

Rat House? The participants felt very fresh about this suggestion.

A senior assistant to Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu described the concept of "Rat House" in detail to the participants.

The so-called rat-avoiding house is to quickly build a solid brick and stone house with fast-drying cement, with prefabricated slabs of reinforced concrete on the roof and aluminum alloy windows on the windows. In order to save costs and more importantly, in order to save construction period, this kind of house does not have a foundation. In order to prevent mice from rushing into the indoor floor by drilling holes, a layer of prefabricated slabs of reinforced concrete will be laid on the indoor floor. Such a rat-avoiding house is built with 100 square meters as a construction unit, which can accommodate 12-15 people from 3 families. The construction time is only about 20 days.

The cost of this rat-avoiding house is estimated to be around 300 yuan per square meter. It is expected that the construction of a rat-avoiding house of 2 million square meters in the entire mountainous area is enough to allow most villagers to take shelter (there are some brick and stone buildings built by villagers in the mountainous area). In this way, the entire budget can be controlled within 600 million yuan. Compared with the mandatory shelter plan, it is obviously a more economical plan.

This simple and practical solution immediately won unanimous approval from senior members of the Frontline Command Center, and even Lin Yusen did not express any different opinions.

Immediately afterwards, Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu proposed a grand idea of ​​eliminating rat groups:

Through the rat-avoiding house, we can not only avoid the loss of personnel from the mountain residents, but also make it impossible for rats to obtain enough food when looting the village. On the other hand, the front-line command center mobilized powerful troops to set up a solid defense line on the edge of the mountain area to block the rats from impacting the Yizhou Basin. As long as we persist in this winter, the rats without food will have the end of collapse!

"Okay!" Mayor Li was the first to applaud: "Premier Huaiyu took extraordinary action. As soon as he came here, he could come up with such a bold and highly operational idea. It was so exciting."

"I agree with this idea," Governor Qin also expressed his statement. His words were subtlely different from Mayor Li: "Vice Premier Huaiyu's ideas are very creative. This kind of instrument and vision cannot be compared with a provincial cadre. I am ashamed."

Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Huaiyu smiled tolerantly. Of course, he could hear the sour smell implicit in Governor Qin's words, but he didn't want to worry. He looked around everyone and asked, "Do you have any other opinions?"

"Where is the plague?" Professor Zhong Nan asked carefully: "Did Vice Premier Huaiyu also consider the issue of controlling the plague?"

Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Huaiyu nodded slightly to Deputy Minister of Health Zhang Wenbin. Deputy Minister Zhang Wenbin coughed lightly and said: "The Supreme Command has reached a conclusion on this issue. Let me announce the instructions given by the Supreme Command below."

"First, announce the epidemic in Zhongjiang City to the outside world as soon as possible. This is under the responsibility of the spokesperson Ye Guang. The contents of the announcement are drafted by the Zhongjiang Municipal Government and released after review by the Frontline Command Center."

"Second, Zhongjiang City immediately implements an emergency plan to prevent major infectious diseases. Including, all schools are suspended, any form of public gatherings are cancelled, and citizens are restricted from going out. Citizens who go out must provide a physical examination report issued by designated hospitals within 24 hours. All patients with fever and cough must go to designated hospitals for examination immediately. The government has the right to take decisive measures to isolate suspected patients and their families..."

Deputy Minister Zhang Wenbin talked endlessly to convey the instructions of the Supreme Command. Obviously, this is a complete plan with clear ideas and decisive measures. Everyone in the congregation was very excited when they heard it, because whether it was Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu's idea of ​​eliminating the rat group or the plan to control the plague, they clearly reflected the determination and will of the country's top leaders to eliminate the rat disease and control the plague, which made everyone who had been worried about dealing with the series of problems of rat damage and plague.

Mayor Li was quickly recording Minister Zhang's instructions on his laptop, and suddenly the vibration of his cell phone came from his pocket. He took out his cell phone and looked at it. It turned out that Gao Fei sent a text message:

"Mayor Li, please come out and report to you if there is an urgent matter."

Mayor Li thought about it, but put down his pen and walked out of the conference room quietly. At the door of the conference room, Gao Fei was waiting there with an anxious face.

"What's the matter?" Mayor Li asked softly.

Gao Fei made a brief report: "Mayor Li, a patient with pneumococcal plague was found at the Municipal Emergency Center last night. After verification of his identity, the patient was a cleaner at Yanghe Kindergarten in the city..."

"What?" Mayor Li's face changed: "The cleaner of Yanghe Kindergarten is a pneumococcal patient?"

"Yes, we have already gone to Yanghe Kindergarten to verify the identity of the patient. The patient's name is Zhang Xiaohua, who went to work in the kindergarten on the morning of the 15th. We suspect that she was infected with pneumococcal plague with Li Xiaochuan. However, this speculation still needs to be verified." Gao Fei looked at Mayor Li's face. Mayor Li's expression seemed a little strange. He didn't think much about it and continued to report:

"According to the regulations, this morning, we dispatched police forces to send all the people in the kindergarten to the isolation area first. Who knew that they were blocked by the parents who were questioned. Although our police have been patiently explaining, the parents are very excited and are determined not to take away the kindergarten children. Now thousands of people have gathered at the scene. Although we urgently mobilized a group of police forces to provide reinforcements, there are more and more parents and relatives gathered in the kindergarten, and the situation is at risk of losing control at any time."

Mayor Li frowned and became tighter. Vice Premier Zhang Huaiyu had just arrived in Zhongjiang City and had such a difficult thing happened. If he didn't deal with it quickly, wouldn't he seem too incompetent? Also, there was a plague patient in Yanghe Kindergarten, and the patient may have been exposed to the cleaning of every child! Hanhan wouldn't... Mayor Li was nervous and asked, "Director Gao, what should we deal with your opinions?"

"I suggest that the real epidemic must be announced to the outside world immediately, otherwise, we cannot give parents a reason to convince them," Gao Fei hesitated for a moment and said: "Now parents have a strong opposition with our police. They don't believe any of our explanations at all. They also proposed to ask the main leaders of the municipal government to talk to them."
Chapter completed!