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Chapter 242 Two Thirty-Seven, Thousand Villages Xili People¡¯s Remains

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    "Blessings come in pairs, and misfortunes never come alone."  Just as the financial crisis in the South intensified, another invisible war quietly began in the North.

    It was the morning of late October 1910. In the backyard of the wooden shop named Zhang on Erdao Street in Manzhouli, a small town on the Sino-Russian border, a woman's shrill scream suddenly rang out, instantly breaking the silence before breakfast.

    Zhang Zhang quickly ran over from the front and shouted: "What's wrong in the house? What happened?"

    I saw his wife fell at the door of the room, her face was pale, her whole body was shaking like chaff, her upper and lower teeth were chattering, but no words came out of her mouth.  Clearly something terrible had happened to her.

    Zhang Zhang¡¯s heart thumped: Did a customer die in the store?

    Before the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, transportation was backward and sanitary conditions were poor. Traveling long distances was always a dangerous activity.  At that time, people's physical fitness was not very good to begin with. Coupled with the bumpy and tiring journey, poor and unclean food, the impact of climate change, poor accommodation conditions, and low medical standards it was very common to fall ill and die during the journey. Almost every  Everyone who runs an inn will encounter it.

    Every time the innkeeper encounters this kind of thing, he secretly screams "bad luck".  An inn where someone has died will naturally have no customers in the short term, and the person who died in the inn still needs the innkeeper to take care of the funeral arrangements, such as asking the Baojia Yamen to come over for an autopsy, buying a thin-skinned coffin for burial, or sending the coffin to a temple for storage.  These all cost money!  Shopkeeper Zhang was unhappy precisely for this reason.

    The first people in the store who got up early to wash up also heard the screams of the shopkeeper's wife, and they all gathered around.

    Shopkeeper Zhang took courage and stepped forward to open the ajar door, letting the morning sunlight slant into the room.  Even though he was as bold as a fist, he couldn't help but take a step back when he saw the scene in the room:

    I saw that the walls, the kang, and the floor were all covered in blood. As soon as the door was opened, the smell of blood hit my face.  The two middle-aged men lay motionless on the cold ground. They must have been dead for a long time.  They were covered in purple, but not even a hair. They must have struggled painfully during their lifetimes.  There were two people on the kang, their clothes had been torn off, they were panting hard, spitting out a large mouthful of blood from time to time, the blood meandered along the gaps of the earthen kang, and accumulated into small purple spots on the uneven ground.  Puddles.

    The onlookers couldn¡¯t help but exclaimed when they saw it.

    Shopkeeper Zhang calmed down, clasped his fists at everyone and said, "Something big has happened in the store. If I'm rude later, I'll thank Haihan." After that, he picked up the trembling woman on the ground and cursed: "Why are you still standing there?  Hurry and ask for the chief security officer and the doctor!"

    The mother-in-law finally came to her senses and tremblingly went to invite someone.

    After the doctor invited him, he was helpless to deal with the two people struggling on the bed, and soon they both passed away.  Nonetheless, the truth became clear:

    The two people who died previously were lumberjacks who originally worked in the Great Urals, Russia.  Half a month ago, seven Chinese lumberjacks suddenly died suddenly in the work shed.  The Russians were so frightened that they not only burned the work sheds and their clothes and luggage, but also drove the remaining workers back to China.  Six days ago, they came to Manzhouli and stayed in a wooden shop named Zhang.

    As for the two people who died later, they were the tenants who slept with them in Datongbu, and they suffered the disaster inexplicably.

    Since he died of illness, the shopkeeper and Bao Jia were relieved.  Where can people not die these days?  If you get sick and die, who can you blame?  Of course, the death of a few people in a small border town would not attract more attention from the central government to the provincial government.  After some inspection, the body was hastily collected.  But people never expected that a great plague that lasted for more than six months, swept through half of China and swallowed more than 60,000 lives, would reveal its ferocious face!

    This day is September 23, the second year of Xuantong, October 25, 1910 in the Gregorian calendar.

    In fact, as early as the turn of the spring and summer of 1910, an epidemic had already occurred in Siberia, Russia.  However, Siberia is sparsely populated and residents are scattered, coupled with Russia's strict control, the epidemic has not expanded.  Who knew that the virus would eventually spread to Chinese workers.  For Chinese workers suspected of being infected, Lao Maozi would not say anything gentle, courteous and thrifty, and would directly expel them back to the country.  The workers had no choice but to carry the virus with them and head south along the railway.

    The plague, also known as the Black Death, had two worldwide pandemics in history: the first occurred in the 6th century AD, killing a quarter of the population of the Roman Empire and directly leading to the decline of the Roman Empire; the second  The first disaster occurred in Europe in the Middle Ages, killing 25 million people and reducing Europe's population by nearly one-third.  If Qing officials knew about the epidemic currently spreading in the Northeast, it would be a "black disease" that would make Europeans talk about it.??, during and after the event, carefully consider the key points and what conditions need to be put forward to the court.

    When his thoughts were mature, Sun Yuanqi called his staff and verbalized the general idea, asking them to see if there were any obstacles: "Since we are involved in this kind of thing, we must be fully prepared and not fight an uncertain battle.  The main measures are still in accordance with the previous letter, and the key part still requires the court to come forward. The first is policy support. For example, all possible infected people, regardless of gender, age, rich or poor, must be isolated and quarantined; for those who have died, they must be quarantined.  Use deep burial or incineration. In view of the current cold weather in Northeast China and the difficulty of digging pits, it is recommended to mainly incinerate; if possible, we also hope that the court will allow scientific researchers to dissect several corpses so that anti-disease drugs can be developed as soon as possible."

    As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Shipei interjected: "It is reasonable and reasonable to isolate the possible infected people, and there should be no problem; but the imperial court will not agree to burning and dissecting the remains. Our country has always emphasized that the deceased should be buried in peace, so the destruction of the body in this way is not acceptable.  Not only is it difficult for the deceased¡¯s family to accept the use of human remains, it is also strictly prohibited by the Qing Code.

    "The law clearly stipulates that even if the family members follow the elders' last words and burn the body, they will be punished with a hundred rods; if others mutilate the body that has not yet been buried, they will be punished with a hundred rods and be exiled for three thousand miles; if the family members have hastily buried the body,  If you dig it out and burn it, you will be hanged and imprisoned at the very least!"

    Before the founding of New China, people¡¯s awareness of protecting the remains of their ancestors was deeply rooted in their bones.  Digging up people's ancestral graves is definitely a hatred deeper than killing one's father or seizing one's wife.  This is also one of the fundamental reasons why Jingshi University did not establish a Department of Western Medicine.

    Sun Yuanqi had nothing to do about this: "If the body is not buried deeply or burned, it itself is a huge source of virus infection. If we don't deal with it, no matter how well other work is done, it will be in vain. If the body is not dissected, how can we study it as soon as possible?"  What about medicines to cure diseases?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember this site  Website: www.hlnovel.com
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