Chapter 29 crazy price

In the mid-autumn of 1910, Manzhouli, a small town on the Sino-Russian border, was as quiet and serene as ever at Erdao Street Wooden Shop.The wood shop specializes in timber business and receives timber merchants and loggers traveling between China and Russia. That evening, two travel-worn travelers, ordinary loggers, came to the wood shop. They had just arrived from the Dauria station in Russia, one hundred and thirty miles away. The shop owner is a little strange, it's not yet the Spring Festival travel season, why come back in such a hurry, missing his wife and children? The two workers looked excited, and answered very simply: "They are all pure men, we don't want that. The old Maozi (Russians) are too bad. A few Chinese who were logging in that area fell ill and died. They drove them away with an excuse. After killing us, they burned all the work sheds, clothes, and luggage, saying that they were afraid of infection."

"What disease is so severe?" the shop owner asked curiously. "That is, high fever, cough, and convulsions all over the body." "Oh, it seems to be a complication of multifunctional failure induced by respiratory tract infection." The shop owner is very eager to learn, and from time to time he will come up with a few words of Western medicine. A long list of technical terms shocked the two loggers, but they still had a question: "Then why the whole body twitched?" The store owner blurted out: "It should be a conditioned reflex before the necrosis of nerve endings."

The lumberjack was overwhelmed with admiration, and praised the shop owner as the rebirth of Hua Tuo. The shop owner smiled modestly: "I haven't been a doctor for many years." A sincere compliment is worth thousands of bargains, and the shop owner is very happy; the lumberjack is also very happy, and the rent is completely free. All the tenants gathered around: welcome home, foreigners are not welcome, compatriots welcome you.Everyone left and right: When we are healthy and the country is strong, the old man must cut wood for us and live in our sheds.Of course, at most, let them suffer, the work shed will not be burned, we are a country of etiquette.

Then, everyone shouted dryly, drank, punched, washed up and fell asleep. Everything returned to calm again, one day, two days... On the sixth day, the restlessness ceased. The two loggers suddenly developed a high fever, coughing, and convulsions all over the body. They died soon, and their bodies turned purple. The owner of the pseudo-expert store wondered, is multi-function failure popular these days? The horror is still to come, and the two passengers in the same room also died one after another. The person who died was neither multifunctional failure nor necrosis of nerve endings, but the terrible plague.The disaster started, and the groundhogs started asking for their things.

Groundhogs are the main disseminators and carriers of the source of plague.Groundhogs infected with plague can infect humans, and humans can infect humans, raging everywhere through the air and droplets. The best business in Northeast China is not groundhog skins, but coffin shops.Dozens of deaths were reported every day, with the highest number reaching 183 in one day. The spring of the groundhog has finally arrived, and what awaits the hunters is a winter nightmare. What's more terrible is that the Spring Festival is approaching, and a large number of people who have crossed the Guandong have gone home to celebrate the New Year.Carriers and suspected carriers of the virus spread to Harbin and Changchun through the railway, and spread to the entire Northeast.

Rumors of all kinds of affiliated associations are flying all over the sky: there are disasters in the sky, and catastrophes in the country.Because the three eastern provinces are the birthplace of dragons in the Qing Dynasty and the birthplace of real dragons.Nurhachi and Huang Taiji are buried in this hot land.This even gave people a special hint, so many people died in the auspicious land, could it be that the emperor will be changed again? Although the governor of the three northeastern provinces, Xiliang, held several press conferences, he repeatedly emphasized that the official information released by authoritative departments shall prevail.People should trust the government, live with peace of mind, and don't listen to and spread baseless rumors.But rumors and panic spread like wings.

Where there are disasters, there are rumors, and where there are rumors, there are markets. Every household uses small mahogany bows, tied with five-color threads, and hangs black beans in small bags on the door to avoid evil spirits. Yellow Turban religion appeared in some places. As long as you join the religion, each person will be given a yellow towel wrapped around his head to avoid the plague. "The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand!" Anyone who has read "Three Kingdoms" knows this slogan of the Yellow Turban Church, and now it has come out again, which means that the dynasty will change.

I dare not rebel, but the yellow towels are seriously out of stock.Common people believe this, there is no way. A groundhog disturbed the land of Longxing. The highest instruction came down, and the Regent Zaifeng instructed: "Take strict precautions, use the strength of the whole country to fight a beautiful defensive battle, let the groundhog tremble in the vast ocean of the people. In any case, the epidemic must be blocked outside the Beijing-Tianjin area .” What is this nonsense?Is this like what the leader said?Who are you speaking for?Are people outside the Beijing-Tianjin area not human beings?Can life be wasted casually?How is this leader?

All trains from Northeast to Guan are suspended, and only first-class trains operate.When the car arrived at Shanhaiguan, all the guests had to be quarantined for observation for five days. If any patients or suspected patients were found, they would be immediately sent to the hospital for mandatory quarantine. Those who should be quarantined should be quarantined, those who should be disinfected should be disinfected, and those who should be protected should be protected, but the epidemic is still growing wildly. Where is the problem?After many demonstrations by Chinese and foreign experts, the fault still lies with the dead.What is this argument?Everyone knows that the fault must be with the dead.

The Chinese have always been afraid of the living, not the dead. The "Shengjing Times" reported a story of the dead and the living in the epidemic area: A patient selling melon seeds collapsed on the side of the road while walking, and the onlookers rushed up, not to save people, but to grab melon seeds. As soon as the melon seeds were eaten, people fell down, all infected with the plague. More and more people died, and before they could be buried, they were piled up in the open air.The germs carried by the corpses spread wantonly in the air, which is the most direct cause of the crazy growth of the epidemic.

Then dig deep and bury it, it's a good idea.But you have to think about it. In the Northeast in February, the temperature is tens of degrees below zero, and the ground is as hard as steel. Without large excavators, it is impossible. The best way is to incinerate, a big fire, once and for all. But the common people don't agree, burn people?It's a joke, can I burn it for you?Not even the dead.Letting a little groundhog down would be too useless to die, and now there are no bones left, so it can't be done. Can you explain communication?The more the government explains, the harder it is for the common people. Can I grab it?You know, snatching corpses means burning criminal evidence, and destroying evidence will cause mass incidents. Nothing will work, or money (money) to speak.Cremation within three days, the pension, condolences, and compensation are all in full, and the leader's condolences are also attached; three days later, the three golds are lost, and the leader does not come, so the cremation is still the same. When the family members think about it carefully, everyone is dead, and it is for everyone to fight for face, and it is for themselves to earn money. Of course, everyone is not as good as yourself. Governor Xiliang wiped the sweat from his forehead, hello, hello, hello everyone, is really good. On the first day of the Lunar New Year of the 1911 New Year, thousands of corpses were piled up in the public cemetery in the north of Harbin, covered with kerosene.In an instant, these bodies were wiped out in the fire. Accompanied by the fire, there is the deafening sound of firecrackers, rushing to the bad luck. All the firecracker shop owners sell at the cost price or even lower than the cost price. It is not a big sale with tears, but a big sale with joy.To be in a good mood, what's the point of asking for money when people are gone. All the people met without words and cried a thousand lines, silently muttering in their hearts: Brother, I finally saw a living person.Let's say a word of congratulations together: Congratulations on your life, the mouse goes away. After months of fighting, the rat finally walked away, at the cost of 60,000 fresh lives.