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Not long after, Wei Jiansu walked into the imperial study, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, are you worried about your defense?"

Emperor Li Heng nodded, "That's right, I am indeed troubled by this. Does Aiqing have any good suggestions?"

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen received an express letter from King Qi today. He mentioned two plans in the letter. Please take a look at it!"

Li Heng quickly took the letter and looked at it carefully. Sure enough, it was a handwritten letter from Li Ye. After reading the letter, Li Heng's expression was a bit complicated.

Pei Zunqing couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, what did King Qi say?"

Li Heng said slowly: "He said that Tian Chengsi and Li Baochen were getting married. He knew that these two people were going to join forces to capture the four states of Xiangwei. He proposed two solutions. The first was that he was willing to use the name of the imperial army to He sent 80,000 troops to Huaizhou from Pujin Pass, defeated Tian Chengsi and Li Baochen, and restored the imperial court's defense of the four states. In exchange, he wanted to ask me for Donghai County in Haizhou and Jinjiang County in Quanzhou. He wanted Two seaports for overseas trade.”

Everyone was a little stunned after hearing this, and Cui Huan asked again: "What about his other plan?"

"His other plan is to suggest that we make peace with Li Zhengji, withdraw Guo Ziyi's troops and go north to support Xue Song. Li Zhengji will probably also send troops to Dizhou to stab Tian Chengsi in the back, and Tian Chengsi will We will have to withdraw our troops."

Yu Chaoen smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the second plan is good! Dizhou was originally Li Zhengji's sphere of influence, but it was snatched away by Tian Chengsi. How could Li Zhengji give up after suffering such a big loss? Let them Isn’t it good to kill each other?”

Li Heng nodded and asked Pei Zunqing: "What is Xiangguo Pei's opinion?"

Pei Zunqing bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I support the first plan!"

Li Heng was startled, "Why is the second plan not good?"

Pei Zunqing said coldly: "How can the imperial court make peace with the vassal town? Doesn't that mean it is legal to admit that he occupied the four states of Qi, Mi, Lai, and Deng?"

Cui Huan also said: "Wei Chen also supports the first plan. Even if Tian Chengsi spits out the defense of the two states and retreats, what will happen to Mingzhou and Xingzhou? It is better to let the King of Qi send troops. Even if the Hebei feudal town cannot be destroyed, it can still Teach them a lesson for their arrogance."

At this time, Du Hongjian also said: "Your Majesty, the minister also supports Pei Xiangguo's opinion. If the King of Qi can defeat Tian Chengsi and Li Baochen, he can also knock the mountain and shake the tiger, forcing Li Zheng to spit out the four states of Qi and Mi."

Li Heng was a little tempted, and he ordered: "Bring me the map!"

After a while, two eunuchs brought a map of the Tang Dynasty and spread it on the imperial desk. Li Heng looked at Haizhou carefully, and he suddenly discovered that Donghai County was actually an island.

"Donghai County hangs overseas?"

Yuan Zai nodded, "Your Majesty, Weichen went to Donghai County on a study tour when he was young. It is indeed suspended overseas, separated from the land by a very narrow strait, and Qushan County is on the other side."

"How big is Donghai County?" Li Heng asked again.

"It's similar to the area of ​​an ordinary county, including the countryside, and there are mountains in the middle. Only a circle along the coast can be used."

Li Heng looked at Jinjiang County in Quanzhou below. There was indeed a relatively important seaport called Citong Port.

Li Ye wanted these two places for overseas trade. Fortunately, he did not ask for Guangzhou Port, the first port in the Tang Dynasty, nor for Mingzhou Port, a major port in the south of the Yangtze River.

Thinking of this, Li Heng nodded, "Let's adopt plan one and implement it according to the conditions in his letter. My only condition is that they must fight in the name of the imperial army!"

Li Heng immediately issued a decree and ordered 100,000 people to rush to Chang'an.

The imperial court's headquarters for fighting the epidemic was located in Xiangcheng County, Chenzhou. Li Dai led dozens of officials, hundreds of doctors and tens of thousands of troops to carry out epidemic prevention.

The first batch of grain supplies from Chang'an has been delivered to Xiangcheng County. Li Dai, like everyone else, is wearing a mask and deerskin gloves on his hands.

Masks and gloves are the most timely and important epidemic prevention equipment sent from Chang'an. They have won praise from doctors and are so practical.

Li Dai immediately took out thousands of pieces of linen and organized thousands of women to sew masks.

The first was to control the epidemic in the army. Li Dai ordered the establishment of four large camps, a health camp, a buffer camp, an observation camp, and a disease camp.

At present, the number of people infected with the epidemic in the army is about 6,000, and there are about 30,000 soldiers who have been in contact with patients. The rest are healthy soldiers.

Many doctors had participated in the treatment of the Bozhou epidemic in Tianbao's 12th year, and they all had experience. The patients had vomiting and diarrhea, headache and abdominal pain, general fatigue, dry cough, and body fever. The condition was exactly the same, typhoid fever.

The epidemic in Tianbao for 12 years has not been completely eliminated. This time the Huaihe River flooded, the epidemic broke out again.

The medicinal materials were limited, but there was a lot of old ginger. All healthy soldiers drank ginger soup every day, washed their hands with lime water, and drank boiled water.

The most stringent one is the observation camp, where more than 30,000 soldiers each squat in a circle drawn with lime, which is a bit like a prison. Someone comes to deliver food and drinks every day and observe the situation. According to experience, as long as there is no illness within three days, it can be regarded as having no symptoms. Infected, sent to buffer camp.

In the buffer camp, people live in tents, with ten people per tent. If they stay for three more days and are not sick, they can return to the health tent. If someone gets sick, the patient will go to the disease camp, and the others in the same tent will return to the observation camp.

But luckily, no fish has slipped through the net so far.

That afternoon, Li Dai hurriedly arrived at a private camp thirty miles south of Ruyin County in Yingzhou. This was the most severely affected area with more than 200,000 people, including locals from Yingzhou and refugees from Shouzhou on the other side of the Huaihe River. The people who came.

The war was temporarily suspended, and Li Xilie led his army to retreat to Luzhou. The people spontaneously built a pontoon bridge, and countless refugees poured into Yingzhou.

In order to prevent the people of Yingzhou from fleeing north, the imperial court set up more than a dozen camps in Ruyin County for the people to live temporarily and provided porridge every day.

Treatment is also managed in a hierarchical manner like military camps, divided into disease camps, buffer camps and health camps.

Compared with the orderliness of the army, the civilian camps are very chaotic. Many families are unwilling to separate and want to stay with their relatives.

Whole families were constantly infected together and sent back to the epidemic camp.

There were wailings everywhere in the epidemic camp, and carts were constantly pulling the dead people to the incineration area for cremation, and the personal belongings of the deceased were burned together.

Li Tengkong and hundreds of Taoist priests were busy helping the sick people. They used large pots to make medicinal soup, using Bupleurum, ephedra, cinnamon twigs and licorice to make the soup. Many patients' conditions improved. Although they were still weak, they went to bed. The vomiting and diarrhea stopped.

After he got better, he went to live on the other side and started drinking porridge, very thick porridge, to recuperate his body.

At this time, a female apprentice pulled her master Li Tengkong and pointed to the big tent in the distance. Li Tengkong saw someone waving to him in the distance, so he got up and walked over.

Li Tengkong washed his hands at the door of the tent and threw the mask and gloves into the lime water for cleaning and disinfection.

She walked into the big tent and saw her brother Li Dai in the tent.

"Goro, why are you here?"

Li Dai smiled and said, "I heard that eldest sister is doing well here. I'll come over and take a look."

Li Tengkong took a sip of hot tea and asked, "Is the army under control?"

Li Dai nodded, "It's under control. More than 6,400 people have been infected and more than 2,000 have died. Our observation camp is empty. All healthy soldiers have been withdrawn to Wanqiu, and our epidemic prevention has also begun to be transferred to Yingzhou. Over here, I heard that Sister’s medicine is very effective, can you promote the medicine?”