Two hundred and fifty-eight chapters plague war (4)
Liu Deshan was so frightened that he had never seen a senator so angry before. He knelt down with a bang and trembled: "You damn boy! They are all just trying to get some money."
Lin Motian thought that the plague in Guangzhou might have been brought by the leather goods carried by the businessman in front of him, and he couldn't help but get very angry, "You are stupid! You don't want to regret your death. The people of Guangzhou will be dragged to death by you."
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Liu Deshan's whole body was like chaff. Although he couldn't understand what was going on, it seemed that smuggling fur goods had violated the Senate's taboo.
Lin Motian had no intention of quarreling with him anymore, so he asked a health policeman to interrogate him: to which merchants and individuals the leather goods were sold, and to whom he had been in contact recently.
"You have to ask everything," Lin Motian said fiercely, "If he is dishonest, I'll call in some veterans from the interrogation department and torture him severely! Don't miss a word!"
After saying that, he left Liu Deshan, who was kneeling to beg for mercy, strode out of the interrogation room, and ordered the epidemic prevention brigade to immediately send people to the port to seize the Dongshanju.
"The ship is towed to the quarantine anchorage area of Cheung Chau Island, and the people on board are sent to the isolation camp on the island. Everything on the ship must not be moved."
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"Catch a few rats from the ship, dead or alive. We must do a good job of isolating and disinfecting them!"
Because the people who buy fur goods privately are mainly businessmen from Europe. According to the rules, foreign businessmen cannot go to Guangzhou to conduct trade and can only buy and sell goods in Hong Kong. Therefore, it is impossible for them to buy unquarantine fur goods. The loopholes mainly come from Macau. The Portuguese in Macau
People have long-term and inextricable relationships with businessmen in Guangdong, and they are the most likely to carry private goods.
At Lin Motian's request, Liu Xiang ordered the border gates to be closed to stop trade with the Portuguese. At the same time, he blocked the Pearl River Estuary and strictly prohibited Portuguese ships from entering and leaving Macau.
"From now on, people from both sides are prohibited from traveling between each other, and only Portuguese people are allowed to buy food and daily necessities at the border gate. All ships from Macau are not allowed to leave the port. Newly arrived Portuguese ships will all divert to Hong Kong."
After Liu Xiang signed the order, he sighed: "Now we are famous. In a few months, everyone from Hirado to Batavia will know that there is a plague in Guangzhou, and Skade will have to jump on it."
"At this time, we are still talking about economic problems." Lin Motian said that he was very dissatisfied with Skade. If it weren't for his "Wealth of Nations" tone, he would not have imported fur products from Liaodong. Now he has made money.
Many times, the plague also came.
"That's it." Liu Xiang suddenly had an unpleasant feeling of being replaced. In Guangzhou now, Lin Motian's words seemed to be the most effective. Everything revolved around epidemic prevention, and other things were put aside.
The elders and naturalized cadres who asked for instructions and discussions also went directly to Lin Motian.
Lin Motian didn't have time to understand Mayor Liu's inner feelings. He kept giving orders. Orders and documents continued to flow out from the Municipal Government's Epidemic Prevention Office and were quickly spread throughout the city.
At first, the neighbors thought that the boss of Xingfu and Liu Deshan were involved in some "rebellion" case and were arrested by the Australians. However, then there were people wearing long white clothes who posted seals and sprayed liquids on shops and homes.
Isolation gowns and epidemic prevention personnel wearing thick masks immediately caused people to panic. Then, various regulations and notices were issued one after another, and the news that the epidemic was spreading in Guangzhou suddenly spread throughout the city.
Although there is no martial law on the streets, the nighttime curfew has been restored. The number of police and national troops on duty on the streets has increased significantly, and they all wear thick white gauze masks without exception. The reporting system for diseases and deaths is stipulated. , implemented various cleaning measures more strictly and launched a "rodent eradication campaign", calling on every household to hand in a dead rat every day
As soon as the news of the "epidemic" spread, wealthy families in the city began to move to other homes in the countryside. Lin Motian originally ordered the police to pay strict attention to the changes in the flow of people in and out of the city, and was prepared to initiate martial law immediately if there was a large-scale outflow of people. .However, since there have been no explosive cases of infection or death, there have been no signs of large-scale population exodus for a while. However, every household in the city is already burning vinegar and charcoal, fumigating mugwort, making the whole city of Guangzhou filled with smoke.
Quarantine officer Huo Junming put on red sleeve bands and a large mask, and started today's patrol with Zhao Gui.
He was born into a local military family, and he had a promising future. At the age of seventeen, he filled a vacancy in the army and worked as an errand. After the Australians came, he followed the general to surrender to the Song Dynasty.
After the surrender of the Song Dynasty, they immediately repaid the arrears for many years, which was a lot of money. The brothers in the camp were very happy and said that the Senate was generous. But within a few days of happiness, they issued an order to call everyone They all packed up and boarded the ship, and no one was allowed to go. Several hundred Fubo troops were watching eagerly with bayonet-mounted rifles.
Everyone thought that they were going to be dragged off to fight after being loaded on the ship, and everyone burst into tears. Unexpectedly, not long after setting sail, they docked and disembarked from the ship. The place they arrived seemed to be in the Lingding Ocean. I heard the sailors said that this is "Hongkong".
As a native of Guangzhou, "Hong Kong" has become very popular in recent years. It is said that all kinds of foreign ships from the East and the West go there to trade, and the Australians also built a walled city on it, which is filled with gold and silver.
But this is just saying that, because no one around him has been to Hong Kong. Even though they have lived in Guangzhou for generations, most of them have never even been to Humen.
There is no gold and silver in Hong Kong. In front of the huge Hong Kong Fortress, there are only huge cargo yards and towering cranes that spit out black smoke and white steam. There are so many ships in the harbor that it is the first time for people to see the operation of a modern seaport. The soldiers were eye-opening.
When Huo Junming arrived in Hong Kong, he enjoyed the "purification" treatment as usual, followed by "reorganization training". First, the officers and soldiers were separated: the officers were in one team, the soldiers were in another team, and the servants were in another team. After that, the old and weak were eliminated. , the elderly, sick, and disabled were all put into a separate "accommodation team". Those who were willing to go home to make a living for themselves were given severance pay and returned to Guangzhou on the transportation ships between the province and the port. , those who have nowhere to go are taken in and resettled by the Hong Kong Agricultural Reclamation Team.
After eliminating the old and weak, we entered the "root digging" stage. This was mainly to "liquidate" the "historical issues" of officers and veteran gangsters. Although taking into account the need to recruit surrender and rebels in the future, except for a few heinous extremists among the soldiers In addition to being hanged on the gallows at the strong request of the Communist Party of China, most of them managed to save their lives. However, they were overwhelmed by the violent mass movement and insisted on "disarming and returning to their fields." They were subsequently dispersed to Hainan Island, Taiwan and Jeju Island. went.
As a reward for the Senate's magnanimity and for turning their backs on the dark side, they were allowed to keep their property, and the real estate and shares that could not be taken away were purchased by the Planning Council.
Those middle and lower-level officers and soldiers who have little public dissatisfaction and are willing to continue to serve in the army, and those who are not willing to stay in the Hong Kong training team for further training, will be paid to be dismissed or resettled as immigrants.
Huo Junming originally didn't want to be a soldier anymore. His family was in Guangzhou. He wanted to receive severance pay and go home, but when he thought about going home, there was no way out. He joined the army when he was seventeen years old and served as a top soldier for seven or eight years. What?
No, even if you go home and work as a waiter, no one wants to work as an apprentice in a shop, unless you go to the dock to carry big bags and work as a coolie. It is better to stay here with the Australians. Although the war is dangerous, Australia
People are known to be good at fighting, and maybe they can get a good reputation after a single battle.
Unexpectedly, it was not his turn to fight, so he was put on the ship and returned to Guangzhou. After getting off the ship, he did not go into the city. He first trained in the original guerrilla training camp. Only then did he know what kind of "National Army Epidemic Prevention Brigade" he had joined.
He was originally illiterate, but after a few months of training, he could roughly read newspapers and the like through literacy. He knew the three words National Army. During the training, the instructor said in the class "The Armed Forces of the Senate" that the National Army
It is a kind of force under the command of the Senate, and its functions are similar to those of the "strong squad" in the original yamen. But he has no idea how to interpret the words "epidemic prevention brigade".
Huo Junming didn't know what "epidemic prevention" meant until "Mr. Lin" gave them a lesson. He tossed and turned all night long and couldn't sleep. He thought, didn't beggars do this kind of thing in the past? Why did they suddenly need to do it?
Really? The ready-made Guandi Temple has thousands of flowers that are not used, but these "good family members" are used. These Australians are stupid enough!
Some of those who were being trained together were crying, some were lying on the bed without saying a word and kicking the ceiling, and some were wiping their tears and asking for help from Pao Ze.
Huo Junming stayed up all night and woke up the next day with swollen eyelids. It was said that three of them ran away during the roll call. He was just thinking about whether to run away, but during lunch, these three were caught. They were tied up and thrown away.
In the corner.
This is very serious. Some people escaped during the training, but at that time they were still people waiting to be assigned. If they were captured, they would only be sent to a dark room to eat leftovers and squat for a few days. Now that they are in the epidemic prevention brigade, they are considered to be members of the Song Dynasty.
Once you have military status, you will be considered a "deserter" if you run away.
The three unlucky guys were first dragged to the playground by the "guards" and beaten severely in public, and then they were announced to be "dismissed from the military," "hard labor in the mines for three years," and "forfeited military pay." The last one made all the members' calves tremble: "
The whole family was exiled to the miasmatic land of Taiwan. The soldiers of the epidemic prevention brigade are all from local military households in Guangzhou.
Now Huo Junming no longer dared to think about "escape", so he had no choice but to study with the class. Because it was about their own lives, no one dared to deal with it. Moreover, Australians are known to have "miraculous effects" in their medical skills.
Increases their trust in learning.
Because the training class hosted by Lin Motian lasted only one week, and the educational level of the members of the epidemic prevention brigade was extremely low, the teaching was mainly to popularize the basic identification of plague and other epidemic symptoms, conditions, and corresponding protection and epidemic prevention methods. The purpose