Liu Deshan was so frightened that he had never seen a senator so angry. He knelt down and said with a trembling voice: "Damn it! You are 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 will not regret your death. The people of Guangzhou will be dragged to death by you." !”
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 arguing with him anymore, so he asked a health policeman to interrogate him: to which merchants and individuals the leather goods were sold to, and who he had been in contact with recently...
"You have to ask everything," Lin Motian said fiercely, "If he is dishonest, I'll transfer a few 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. Do not move anything on the ship."
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"Catch a few rats from the ship, dead or alive, and do a good job of isolation and disinfection!"
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 leather goods, and the loopholes mainly come from Macau. The Portuguese in Macau have long-standing and inextricable ties with businessmen in Guangdong, and are the most likely to carry private goods with them.
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..."
"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 that we have made a lot of money, the plague has also come.
"That's it." Liu Xiang suddenly felt unhappy that he had been replaced. In Guangzhou City, Lin Motian's words seemed to be the most effective. Everything revolved around epidemic prevention, other matters were put aside, and the elders and naturalized cadres who came for consultation also went directly to Lin Motian.
Lin Motian had no 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.
The neighbors initially thought that the boss of the Xingfu and Liu Deshan were involved in some "rebellion" case and were arrested by the Australians. However, the epidemic prevention personnel wearing long white isolation gowns and thick masks who posted seals and sprayed liquids in shops and homes immediately aroused people's panic. Then, various regulations and announcements 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 reinstated. The number of police and national troops on duty on the streets has increased significantly, and without exception they all wear thick white gauze masks; a reporting system for diseases and deaths has been stipulated, various cleaning measures have been implemented more strictly, and the "rodent eradication campaign" has been launched. Movement", calling on every household to hand over 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 immediately activate martial law if there was a large-scale population exodus. However, since there have been no explosive cases of infection or death, there are no signs of large-scale population exodus for the time being. It’s just that every household in the city is burning vinegar charcoal and smoking 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 had a bright future with a "little flag". At the age of seventeen, he began to fill vacancies in the camp and served as an errand. After the Australians came, he followed the general to "surrender the Song Dynasty" in a daze.
After the surrender of the Song Dynasty, the arrears of wages for many years were immediately repaid, which was a lot of money. The brothers in the camp were all very happy, and they all said that the Senate was generous. But within a few days of being happy, an order was issued, telling everyone to pack up and board the ship, and no one was allowed to leave - hundreds of Fubo soldiers were watching eagerly with rifles with bayonets attached.
Everyone thought that they were going to be dragged off to fight when they were put on the ship, and everyone burst into tears. Unexpectedly, not long after setting sail, we disembarked at the port. The place we arrived seemed to be in the Lingding Ocean. According to the sailors, this was "Hong Kong".
As a native of Guangzhou, "Hong Kong" has been 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, mountains and silver seas...
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. The harbor was full of ships, which was an eye-opener for the soldiers who saw the operation of a modern seaport for the first time.
When Huo Junming arrived in Hong Kong, he enjoyed the "purification" treatment as usual, followed by "rectification training." First, separate the officers and soldiers: the officers are in one team, the soldiers are in another team, and the soldiers and servants are in another team. After that, the old, sick, and disabled were eliminated and put into a separate "reception team." Those who are willing to go home and make a living on their own will be given severance pay and can go back to Guangzhou on the transport ship between the province and Hong Kong. Those who have nowhere to go will be taken in and resettled by the Hong Kong Agricultural Reclamation Unit.
After eliminating the old and weak, we entered the stage of "digging out roots". The main purpose was to "liquidate" the "historical issues" of military officers and veteran ruffians. Although considering the need to recruit surrender and rebels in the future, except for a few heinous extremists who were hanged at the strong request of the soldiers, most people still managed to save their lives, but they were already overwhelmed by the violent mass movement. Demand "disarm and return to the fields". They were later dispersed to Hainan Island, Taiwan and Jeju Island.
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 bought by the Planning Council.
Those mid-level and lower-level officers and soldiers who have little public dissatisfaction and are willing to continue to serve in the army can stay in the Hong Kong training team to continue their training; those who are not willing to do so will either be dismissed with pay or resettled as immigrants.
Huo Junming originally didn't want to be a soldier anymore. His family was in Guangzhou. He wanted to receive his 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, no one wants to go home or work as a waiter - all the shops have to be young apprentices - unless they go to the dock to carry big bags and work as a coolie. It's better to stay here with the Australians. Although fighting is dangerous, the Australians are famous for being good at fighting. Maybe they can gain a fortune in one battle.
Unexpectedly, it was not his turn to fight, so he loaded it on the ship and returned to Guangzhou. After getting off the ship without entering the city, I first trained in the original guerrilla training camp. Only then did I know what kind of "National Army Epidemic Prevention Brigade" I had joined.
He was originally illiterate, but after a few months of training, he was able to read newspapers and so on through literacy. He knew the three words "National Army". During the training, the instructor said in the "Armed Forces of the Senate" class that the National Army was a kind of force under the command of the Senate, and its functions were the same as the "strong squad" in the original Yamen. "almost. And he has no idea what the meaning of the words "epidemic prevention brigade" is.
Huo Junming didn't know what "epidemic prevention" meant until "Mr. Lin" gave them a lesson. He tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep. Thinking about it, wasn’t this kind of thing carried out by beggars in the past? Why are they suddenly asked to do it? The ready-made Guandi Temple has thousands of flowers that are not used, but they use these "good family members". 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 away their tears and asking for help from Pao Ze...
Huo Junming worked hard all night and didn't sleep. When he woke up the next day, his eyeballs were swollen. It was said that three of them ran away during roll call. He was just thinking about running away when the three of them were caught while eating lunch. They were tied up and thrown into the corner.
This was a big deal, there were people who escaped during the training, but at that time they were still people waiting to be assigned, and if they were captured, they would only be sent to a dark room to eat leftovers for a few days. Now that you have reached the epidemic prevention brigade, you have become a member of the Song Dynasty military. If you run away, you will be a "deserter".
The three unlucky guys were first pulled to the playground by the "guards" and beaten severely in public. 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 honestly. Because it is about their own lives, no one dares to be perfunctory - in addition, Australians are known to have "miraculous effects" in their medical skills, which also 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 focused on popularizing basic identification of plague and other epidemic symptoms and conditions, as well as corresponding protection and epidemic prevention methods. The purpose is: simple, easy to remember, and executable.
