the world is at stake

On the other hand, in ancient times, traffic was blocked and population flow was small.Even if an epidemic occurs in a certain place, the speed of transmission cannot be fast.As long as the epidemic area is closed, it is not difficult to control the epidemic.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Lien-teh's measures to deal with the Northeast plague are clear evidence.In the extremely ignorant environment at that time, and there were no medical conditions, simple isolation could cut off the spread of the epidemic. "

During the discussion, a redrawn map of Northeast China in the late Ming Dynasty was projected on a white screen.Academician Li pointed to the two routes on the map with a laser pointer and said:

"If our opponents choose to settle in Nurhachi's lair, then the way they release the plague must be along the line from Shenyang to Shanhaiguan. The Mongolian line is sparsely populated, and the plague is difficult to spread.

But if you only consider the release of the plague, the effect of settling in the Northeast is actually not good.If it were me, I would definitely choose to stay in the imperial capital and directly turn the foot of the emperor into an epidemic area.

By the way, the ancients also vaguely knew that isolation is an effective means of epidemic prevention.Otherwise, based on the ancient sanitary habits and environment, the palace compound is not a safe place.

Therefore, it is not enough to just release the plague in the imperial capital. I will send people to the densely populated areas in the south of the Yangtze River to cause large-scale infection as much as possible.

But the person who released the plague had to be willing to die, because it was easy to infect himself. "

According to Academician Li's summary - if the enemy really releases the plague, the casualties will inevitably be heavy.But don't be afraid, epidemics were very common in ancient times.The higher the intensity of the infectious disease, the faster it will disappear.

On the contrary, the 'Holy Light' team themselves have to be careful. Once crossing, the medical conditions are limited, and it is difficult to get treatment for the recruits.The same is true for enemies.

"Wait..." Zhou Qingfeng raised his hand suddenly, "We actually have a special medicine in terms of medicine."

Academician Li asked in surprise, "What is it?"

"My serum."

Zhou Qingfeng rolled up his sleeves, exposing the blood vessels on his wrist, "Qin Qing once experimented with my serum. It can improve the physiological function of the injected person in a short time, and greatly improve the ability to fight diseases and self-heal.

Qin Qing had an injection before, and his physical strength is good..."

Qin Qing was next to him, his face turned red immediately, he gritted his teeth and shouted in a low voice: "Shut up, don't speak."

The idiot Zhou could only shut up, but Academician Li was very interested, "I have the opportunity to study your serum in depth. Now I can reserve some and give all team members injections in advance."

With the strategies and means to fight the plague, the lives of everyone in the team are also more guaranteed.The next thing to decide is the foothold of entering the late Ming Dynasty.

"According to computer simulation and actual military deduction, if you want to be 100% sure of reversing the battle of Salhu, it is best to wipe out the 'wild boar skin' before the battle."

Zhou Qingfeng grabbed a series of battle plans in his hand, "The simplest one, I will take a dozen elites to go deep into Hetuala to kill the 'wild boar skin'.

For this reason, I tested it in the field. I took about 15 scouts from Fushun, no supplies, no guides, no support all the way, through the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast, and marched [-] kilometers to attack the old nest of 'wild boar skin'.

Tried twice and failed.

First, it is impossible for us not to be discovered by the residents along the way, and we will definitely be attacked; in addition, after entering Hetuala, I have no idea who the "wild boar skin" was 400 years ago, and it is impossible to find an insider in the city. "

Zhou Qingfeng is a 'super soldier', but the Rambo-style scene of one against a hundred in the movie will not appear.It was too risky for him to venture into a barbarian land with a completely different language, customs, and appearance.

This is not the same as running rampant in Taiwan.

The 'Holy Light' team also collectively opposes this kind of personal adventurism - once something goes wrong, the whole team will collapse.

"So we'd better have an army of about 2000 people and about 3000 logistics personnel, even if they are only equipped with cold weapons, and we can attack Hetuala properly."

According to the vision of the professional soldiers in the team, 'Holy Light' should not simply defend, but should take the initiative to attack.

Productivity was low in ancient times, and warfare in the era of cold weapons was completely different from that of hot weapons.The Jianzhou Nuzhen grows strong by fighting to support the war. As long as the war does not plunder enough supplies, it will collapse by itself.

The prestige of 'Boarskin' is based on the fact that he has always won battles.If they are actively attacked and the loss is too great, the barbarian leader will immediately lose control of the situation.

From a historical point of view, Jianzhou Jurchen relied on continuous attacks on Daming and maintained it by looting.Whenever a robbery loses money, it will be seriously injured.

"So our best solution is to use the advantages of productivity to quickly develop a field force to overthrow the Jianzhou Jurchen.

Considering that there are only 99 basic members of our team, the choice of foothold must be cautious.

It must have convenient transportation, no strong enemies around, well-developed commerce, convenient logistics, and a large population. The transportation to Liaodong must also be convenient enough. "

Judging from these few requirements, Liaodong had to be ruled out. There was no heating in those years-the winter was too long, the population was small, and the commerce was underdeveloped, which was not suitable for development.

It is impossible for the members of the 'Holy Light' team to farm and mine by themselves, and the three-year period is extremely limited. They must rely on business transactions to make themselves stronger quickly.

"Let's put it in the Jiangsu and Hangzhou areas in the south of the Yangtze River." Among the followers, there are specialized Ming history experts who are responsible for consulting classics and providing references for the team on customs, business geography, and the like.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the industry and commerce in the south of the Yangtze River were developed, and the output of the agricultural and mulberry industry was high, which could provide the 'Shengguang' team with raw materials for further processing.Moreover, Jiangnan also has a good shipbuilding and shipping industry, and such conveniences cannot be used.

Finally, it was selected, and the foothold was placed in Qinglong Town, Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.

This place was once known as "Little Hangzhou". In the Tang Dynasty, a town was set up to control the river and the sea.In the Song Dynasty, there were many ships, foreigners came to the city, and the business was prosperous.But later Shibo moved to Taicang Hangzhou and gradually declined.

Qinglong Town is on the bank of the Yangtze River, close to Suzhou and Hangzhou, and it is relatively depressed. It is suitable for the 'Shengguang' team and a group of foreign groups to settle down, and it will not be too conspicuous.

"Don't forget, we also have a following 'Sacred Light' group. The group has a variety of businesses, involving all kinds of industries, just to maintain the complete production capacity during the time travel.

I reckon that after time travel, no matter how much the 'Holy Light' group shrinks, it will still be a farm anyway. "Zhou Qingfeng was optimistic. He felt that the name of Qinglong Town was also nice, so he chose this place.

Prepare for two weeks and set off for the end of Ming Dynasty.

The 99th member of the 'Holy Light' team brought as many supplies as possible—even a nail could be of great use.

Zhou Qingfeng's serum was extracted and purified in advance, and injected into other people, it did have the ability to temporarily improve physical fitness, and the effect was obvious.

Some members of the military team can carry a load of more than 200 kilograms, and even an elderly person like Academician Li can carry [-] or [-] kilograms.

At this time, if you can carry more, you have to carry as much as possible. Zhou Qingfeng once again showed a super strong physique. He carried nearly [-] kilograms of supplies. The 'pole' used to pick up the goods was a hollow bronze stick.

Among the materials, the role of copper is too great.

This stick weighed tens of kilograms, each group of the team had already calculated exactly how to divide the stick, and Zhou Qingfeng had to take it there.

At the same time, the eleven members of the 'New Federation of China' were fully equipped, put on thick winter clothes and boots, and brought their respective supplies and equipment. They left 2021 in an instant and appeared in the late Ming Dynasty ...

Outside the imperial capital.

On January 1616, 1, it was freezing cold.

Guo Hai and others appeared out of thin air from the warm New York apartment on the post road in the capital city of Ming Dynasty, with white snowflakes in their eyes and dead branches and leaves under their feet.

The north wind blows, and it hurts to cut your face.They looked around, and it was difficult to confirm their sense of direction, and their hearts were at a loss.

"Which direction should we go?" A Chinese man named 'Steve' stood out from the 'Federation' team, walking back and forth in the snow for a few steps, looking east and west, completely confused.

Guo Hai has received field production training, took out a special wooden compass, spread out a map, and said in a low voice: "The current chief assistant is Fang Yizhe, we'd better be able to climb up to these officials, life will be easier."

It was too cold, and these people from the 'Federation' carried heavy burdens, and they were exhausted and panting for a while.They unloaded the equipment and threw it on the ground, and sat on it, completely losing the energy they had at the beginning.

When planning the deduction, everyone in the 'Federation' thought very well.All kinds of poisonous schemes emerged one after another, but when they really thought about how to implement them, many details stumped them.

No.11 person's eating, drinking and lassing must be solved.

Let people who are used to living in villas, eating steaks, and wearing Chinese clothes go to the mountains in the northeast to live a barbarian life of ruthlessness and blood, these people will not do it.

"Manchu Old Documents" contains details about the life of the Jianzhou Jurchen during the Nurhachi period. People from the 'Federation' shook their heads after reading it, expressing that they did not want to go to Hetuala, which was like a large primitive village.

After thinking about it, Guo Hai and the others thought about bringing some gold, silver, jewellery, firearms and muskets, and treated them as foreign traders, so that they could mix with the emperor.

But the harsh environment in front of them gave them a blow - it's hard to survive!

"Get up, we can't stay where we are." Guo Hai looked at the verified map, "There should be an inn near here, let's live in it. If it's dark, it will be more difficult."

During the field survival training, everyone in the 'Federation' had the experience of sleeping in the barren mountains. People on the 11th stayed here for only one night, and they had a lot of troubles. Just setting up camp to fetch water and make a fire exhausted their energy.

Once the physical strength is exhausted, the wilderness means death.

Person No. 11 knew how powerful he was, so he carried his luggage and followed Guo Hai while he was still physically strong.Their burdens are not light, and each of them weighs tens of kilograms.Some people couldn't stand it after walking a hundred meters, and said that they would arrange for someone to explore the road first, or hire someone to help.

Guo Hai himself was tired enough, the key is that the map in his hand came from ancient textual research, but 400 years of changes have turned the textual research into metaphysics—the local chronicles only say how many miles a certain station is in a certain direction in the city.

There is no guide to be found, the exact location only God knows.

The vast white snow brings great obstacles to the wayfinding, and I am afraid that the wayfinding will become lost. Everyone in the 'Federation' deeply regrets at this moment - they should have gone to the south to settle down if they knew this, and it would be easier to come to the imperial capital if they went to Guangzhou.

Guo Hai finally decided to avoid the snow first and wait for the weather to clear up.But as soon as this decision was made, a few soldiers in tattered fat jackets and holding rusty spears came out of the snow.

The leader of the soldiers had buck teeth and crooked mouth, and carried a waist knife.Seeing Guo Hai and his group in the snow, he was startled, pulled out his broken knife, and shouted, "Who is it? The inspection department is passing by, hand over Lu Yin."

Chapter 06 The Bodhisattva Arrives

Ancient Qinglong Town is located in what is now Baihe Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai. Before the Yuan Dynasty, because the Wusong River was open and convenient for commerce, the market was prosperous for hundreds of years.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, the Wusong River channel was silted up, and the channel narrowed rapidly, and it declined during the Jiajing period.But Qinglong Town is still there, it's just a different world.

On January 1, it was snowing heavily in the imperial capital, and the temperature in Qinglong Town, Shanghai County also dropped to around zero degrees.In the cold weather, a small village appeared out of thin air in the fields near the old Wusong River outside the town.

The village is not big, about fifty or sixty acres in area.Seventy or eighty brick and stone buildings are neatly arranged, arranged vertically and horizontally like a chessboard, forming four or five streets.

There are hundreds of acres of land outside the village planted with crops, beans, peppers, rice, and vegetables.Chickens and ducks chasing down on the threshing floor were run wild by a few dogs.The pigsty was humming and screaming, and a boar was lying on the wall of the pen, staring out.

Zhou Qingfeng appeared just outside the village, eye to eye with the boar opposite.Nearly a hundred people behind him burst into an uproar, and many people were very curious even after the second time travel.

In the team, there are Ming history experts who are responsible for dealing with the government and society in the late Ming Dynasty. They ran a few steps to look at the pigsty, and then circled around the field a few times, shouting loudly:

"I arrived at the end of the Ming Dynasty? I came 400 years ago? Who dares to refute when I write the history of the Ming Dynasty? I can get first-hand information!

I'm going to the imperial capital, to see the emperor's old son, to meet the officials and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and to review the Yongle Grand Ceremony.I want to record the beginning of this troubled world. "

After turning around like crazy for a few times, Ming history experts ran to grab Zhou Qingfeng's hand.

"Mr. Zhou, hurry up and take down the imperial capital, turn over the 'wild boar skin', and we will be kings. I'm going to look at the ancient books and materials destroyed in the war in Wenyuan Pavilion, and let them reappear in the world."

"No rush, no rush. There is a plan in the team, and we will take it step by step." Zhou Qingfeng sweated his brow, and slowly put down the nearly [-]-kilogram burden he had carried.

Xiao Jinlang shouted and gave orders to the secretary-general in charge of miscellaneous affairs.The seven members of the military team in the team immediately put down their respective loads and spread out 50 meters around with only their flintlock guns, in a state of alert.

The personnel in the other technical groups had their own tasks, and began to disassemble the equipment they carried with them, and quickly assembled several rickshaws for loading and transportation.

There were 99 people, and each person carried about [-] kilograms of materials and equipment on average, with a total weight of ten tons.Not one gram of these ten tons is wasted, and they are all extremely valuable.

For example, everyone dresses very carefully, using cashmere and down for the inside, and cotton leather for the outside, and it is also specially made to be old so that it will not be an eyesore.

Everyone in the team focused on the speech and social etiquette in the late Ming Dynasty.The style of clothes is based on the gentry merchants and bachelors in the late Ming Dynasty, even wearing wigs, so as not to end up with the title of "short-haired thief".

The 'Holy Light' team was ready to fight the world with bare hands, but they confirmed that their equipment was still there, and the village in front of them was transformed by the 'Holy Light' group, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"The Blue Thread of the Road" sounds great, but it is actually extremely difficult. No one really wants to create it with their own hands. It is too tiring, difficult and time-consuming.

There are about 300 villagers in the village, and it is not unusual to see Zhou Qingfeng and others, but they go up to greet 'Yuanwailang', 'Madam', 'Mr.' and so on.

"My huge group with 400 million employees has transformed into only such a village 400 years ago?" Zhou Qingfeng was quite angry.

Xiao Jinlang looked around at the entrance of the village, but nodded in satisfaction.

"Be content, at least there is a village where you can settle down, have hot water and hot food, houses and residences are ready-made, and interpersonal relationships don't just come out of thin air. Ask the people in the village, and you can probably know the surrounding situation."

There are blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors and cobblers in the village, pigs and cattle, land and vegetables, private schools, dyeing workshops, warehouses, carts and horses, taverns, teahouses, pawnshops and money houses.It can be said that although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs.

Several people from the iron and steel smelting team entered the blacksmith shop, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

The blacksmith is a villager with five big and three rough, with two apprentices, and usually makes some farm tools, as well as pots, bowls, knives and shovels - blacksmithing is manual work, which can only be afforded by rich land.

After careful questioning, there are no forests in Songjiang Mansion, and there is no fuel for making iron.The iron materials used in the blacksmith shop came from other places, either Jiangxi and Anhui in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, or ships from Fujian and Guangdong.

This determines that business is very important to the 'Holy Light' team.But right now, the team still has a big advantage.Although this village is small, it is its own territory, and people on the 99th have a place to live when they come in.

Everyone has a single room, and the bed and quilt cover and daily necessities are ready-made.

The team did not take a break when they moved in, and quickly understood the situation.Half of the people stayed behind, and the other half invited villagers as guides, and three or five people went out in teams to explore the surroundings of the village.

Now there are eleven towns and eleven cities in Shanghai County, and 'city' refers to the market.Qinglong Town is one of them.The terrain here is flat, and the sediment belonging to the estuary of the Yangtze River has been deposited for thousands of years, and there are many villages.

Due to walking, the exploration distance is limited to ten kilometers. The main purpose is to find out the specific location of Qinglong Town and the surrounding Panlong Town, Tanghang Town, and Zhaotun Town, as well as the scattered markets and villages.

Roads, population, output, prices, and local administrative agencies, these information cannot be found in later classics, or are not detailed, so you must go and have a look and ask.

The Ming history expert in the team was the happiest. One day of information collection made him tremble with joy, shouting, "One day's harvest is worth ten years of hard work, and the material is enough to write ten big papers."

In the next three to five days, everyone in the team took turns to walk around the nearby villages and towns to understand the local people's conditions.The so-called 'scholars, farmers, businessmen', all kinds of businesses must have first-hand information and practical experience.

The initial grasp of the situation shocked the 'Holy Light' team, and the ancient times were very miserable.

There were more than 260 prefectures in the Ming Dynasty, and the six prefectures of Su, Song, Chang, Jia, Hangzhou, and Hu in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River accounted for nearly a quarter of the tax burden.The Suzhou Fu family accounted for nearly one-tenth of the total.

It is said that Jiangnan is rich and prosperous, but with such a heavy tax burden, the people at the bottom are miserable.Even if they worked hard day and night, farming and planting, planting mulberry and raising silkworms, the bankruptcy of every family was the inevitable result.

Anyone who goes out for a walk, enters the village and the market, and looks at the farmers and women who go out early and return late, feel extremely heavy.

In reality, there are no talented scholars and beautiful women depicted in movies and TV, no glamorous pastoral scenery, but more poor people in rags, and their numbness to the depths of sorrow.

Even the days of the so-called "landlords and gentry" are not much better, and they also have to plan carefully.The only ones who can eat meat and drink in large bowls and live a life of luxury and luxury are only the princes in the prefecture.

"It's not bad." The Ming history expert looked at the current situation, and lost the initial excitement. "The economy collapsed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the operation of the whole society was distorted. There was less output, more internal friction, and it was slowly declining.

This year is 1616. At the beginning of the year, there will be a severe famine in Shandong. There is a saying that "the mother eats the dead son, and the husband cuts the dead wife".

In May, another plague of locusts broke out in Shandong, and hundreds of thousands of hungry people fled everywhere, even triggering riots.It can be said that disasters are happening all the time in the whole country, and relief is needed everywhere. "

Overall, the situation is not optimistic.

On the third day after arriving in Qinglong Town, Xiao Jinlang held a general mobilization meeting in the 'Shengguang Village' to inform all members of the social situation and team development status.