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"smallpox?"

On the hot air balloon, the team standing in the middle frowned. read

He has the highest position and knows some words.

"Maybe it's just a coincidence," a soldier said.

He didn't believe that these slaves could read and deliberately form two words.

"Whether it's a coincidence or not, this news must be reported." The soldier on the right stared at the camp and noticed a Beidi archer bending his bow and nocking an arrow. He pointed at it.

Upon seeing this, the team leader immediately ordered them to sprinkle carbon powder on the brazier.

The flames suddenly rose and the hot air balloon continued to rise. They stared at the flags at different heights and directions.

When the tail of the flag points east, maintain altitude.

After a while, they saw the warship anchored at sea.

The battleship of the Black Shark pirates is more than fifty meters long and about eighteen meters wide.

There is a very spacious place on the front deck, enough for them to ascend from the battleship.

It's just that it's easy to go up, but not easy to come down.

But in order to spread the leaflets this time, King Yan made up his mind.

Even if the hot air balloon is damaged, it doesn't matter. After all, it doesn't cost much money to make a hot air balloon.

Along the way, eight hot air balloons were launched, but three fell into the sea.

However, there were no casualties among the soldiers on the hot air balloon.

The soldiers on the battleship rescued them in time.

"Lower the altitude and prepare to drop the rope." The battleship was getting closer and closer, and the altitude was getting lower and lower, the captain shouted.

The two soldiers immediately cheered up and stared at the battleship.

Just as the hot air balloon flew over the battleship, the soldier threw the long rope down.

There were soldiers waiting on the deck.

Throwing themselves at the rope, they pulled hard to stop the balloon from continuing its flight.

Seeing that the rope was pulled, the soldiers on the hot air balloon breathed a sigh of relief.

They extinguished the flames in the brazier and slowly landed under the pull of the soldiers.

In this matter, on the opposite side of the battleship, the Beidi soldiers chasing the hot air balloon could only look at the sea unwillingly, helpless.

When the hot air balloon fell, the battleship's sails were raised, and the battleship slowly headed south.

Three days later.

The news of the hot air balloon soldier's detection was sent to the palace.

"Smallpox?" When Tsui Hark told Zhao Xu about the discovery of the hot air balloon soldiers.

Zhao Xu suddenly frowned.

"Your Highness, could this be a coincidence?" Tsui Hark felt that this matter was a bit absurd.

In his opinion, smallpox was extremely terrifying.

Often if one person in a village gets it, everyone in the village will basically die.

Therefore, if the news conveyed by the slaves in the Beidi camp is true.

Then there were smallpox patients in Temutala's carriage.

But in this case, Beidi is not afraid of playing with fire and burning himself, and smallpox will spread among the Beidi army?

"I would rather believe that it exists than believe that it doesn't exist." Zhao Xu said in a deep voice.

This is not something that has never happened in contemporary history.

During the Han Dynasty, this very cruel method was adopted in the war between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.

At that time, the Huns threw diseased livestock into water sources along the Han army's march, which caused a large number of Han soldiers to fall ill and die.

What's more, there is currently a missionary from the Rus' country in the Beidi Army.

In the Age of Discovery, what Westerners were best at was genocide.

In order to eliminate the indigenous people, they adopted all available methods.

Including giving clothes and beddings of smallpox patients to the indigenous people.

This led to the death of the entire indigenous tribe and the entire tribe.

After all, Beidi, like Dasong, didn't know anything about smallpox.

Therefore, he did not believe that Beidi would take this approach rashly.

Unless someone guides them and shows them a safe path.

"Your Highness, if this is really the case, we will be in trouble." Seeing King Yan's solemn expression, he suddenly became nervous.

If Beidi really spreads smallpox to Yanzhou, there will be big problems next.

Even the entire Dasong will suffer.

Because as long as the goal cannot be achieved, Beidi will continue to throw in poisonous sources.

Even if they isolate infected soldiers, more soldiers will continue to be infected.

Thinking of this, he felt a complete chill for the first time in his life, "Beidi, this is really a tribute to my death."

Zhao Xu's attitude has not changed from beginning to end.

It wasn't that he was indifferent, but that he was extremely angry.

In his eyes, the Beidi people were no longer human beings, but despicable and shameless beasts.

Like other Western countries in the Age of Discovery, they engaged in dehumanizing activities for their own selfish purposes, which was to exterminate a race.

Of course, Zhao Xu never had hope for Beidi and the Western countries of this era.

The jungles of the world are so cruel.

Either you die or I die.

Looking up at Xu Hark who was dripping with cold sweat, he said: "You don't have to be so nervous. I have a way to solve Beidi's method."

Beidi has done a lot of calculations, but he has missed one point.

He is Zhao Xu, not only the Ninth Prince of Song, but also a contemporary soul.

If they had implemented this plan elsewhere, it might have been successful.

But they chose Yanzhou.

"Your Highness, is there anything you can do?"

Tsui Hark couldn't help being surprised, and his eyes when he looked at Zhao Xu were filled with reverence.

Even the imperial doctors were helpless against smallpox.

Unexpectedly, their King Yan also knew medical skills in addition to various skills.

"Don't be too happy yet. Although there is a way, it depends on the cooperation of the government office and the royal army. Otherwise, Yan Pass will be in danger." Zhao Xu said seriously.

Smallpox has had a terrible reputation since ancient times. It is known as the first plague and there is no way to cure it.

Even contemporary medicine can only reduce mortality.

The most fundamental way to resist it is vaccines.

In modern times, smallpox was not officially eradicated until basically the entire world was vaccinated against cowpox.

Therefore, once Beidi really spread smallpox to Yanguan.

With the current medical conditions, there is no way to treat him.

Now, the only way he can break Beidi's vicious plan is to inoculate the royal family's troops with cowpox.

Otherwise, once the soldiers at Yanguan are infected, he can only seal the pass ruthlessly, isolate the infected soldiers, and watch his soldiers slowly die.

And this is something he definitely doesn't want to see.

"Go, call Liu Fu, and then have Chang Wei come back." Zhao Xu said.

During this period, Chang Wei had been patrolling between the fortress and Yanguan to prepare for Beidi's attack.

He would not have thought that the war that might be brewing in Beidi was something he had never seen before and was unable to deal with.

In response, Tsui Hark ran out as fast as he could.

After getting on his horse, he went straight to the government office.

After Tsui Hark left, he began to think about the next action to take.

The first thing to do is to find a cow suffering from cowpox.

In my memory, modern humans’ efforts to control smallpox began with a milkmaid.

Because milkers at that time had to milk cows by hand, they would be infected with cowpox when they came into contact with cows infected with cowpox.

At this time, a doctor discovered that milkmaids who had been infected with cowpox were also immune to smallpox.

So the doctor conducted an experiment, in which he infected a young boy with cowpox and then exposed him to smallpox. As expected, the young boy became immune to smallpox.

Since infection with cowpox causes only a mild reaction in humans, the ancient vaccine was born.