A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 280 Since ancient times, true love cannot be retained, only tricks can win people's hearts.

Yizhou, Yishui County, south of the city.

A simple camp stands in the wilderness, surrounded by simply built wooden fences or earth and stone barriers. It is not to prevent wild beasts from invading, but to carve out a space isolated from the outside world during special periods to prevent people from wandering around. , to ensure that the plague will not spread further.

In front of the camp gate, a row of guards wearing simple masks guarded the camp gate, strictly controlling the entry and exit of people and materials.

Li Gui applied some of the experience of later generations. Despite Li Gui's repeated orders, the material delivery personnel, medical staff, priests of the Zhenjun Sect, and others who came in and out of here did a good job in epidemic prevention, and all entered and exited in accordance with the regulations. Meticulous disinfection and protection.

Inside the camp, tents were lined up closely, like isolated fortresses, sheltering those who were terrified of being infected by the plague.

What is particularly eye-catching is that near the gate of the camp, there are more than a dozen large pots lined up in a row. They are filled with boiling water and the steam is steaming, specifically to disinfect the clothes of those infected with the plague.

Specialized personnel throw the clothes into a large pot and boil them for a while, then pick them out on bamboo poles and hang them to dry.

Those transporting supplies and other personnel who left the camp gate would also leave their coats to be boiled and put on prepared clean clothes before leaving.

Li Gui stood near the camp gate and carefully looked at the operations in the camp. He saw that the place was in order and the patients' emotions were relatively stable.

The sick men and women lined up and walked into the tent respectively, put on clean clothes, and then lined up to get free medicine from the doctor. After that, they entered the big tent at the back and listened to the priests of the Zhenjun Sect preaching to everyone.

"family!"

"We are all the subjects of the True King, and the True King will never abandon us!"

"Everyone, look at the daily food, clothing, and medicines. The Zhenjun Sect pays for them all, and they don't ask for a penny from you."

"We must believe in the True King devoutly, and the True King will naturally give us strength."

"The plague is terrible, but in front of the true king, a mere plague is not worth mentioning."

"Those who are devout in faith can naturally defeat the disease and regain their health."

"Even if you are unfortunately killed, as long as you are a believer of the True Lord Sect, you can naturally escape reincarnation and directly enter the True Lord's Kingdom of God."

The priest used his lifelong deception skills and kept preaching, and successfully gave hope to all the patients infected with the plague. Their eyes regained their light and their desire to survive greatly increased.

At the end, the priest raised his arms and shouted loudly.

"Praise the True Exorcist!"

Everyone in the tent raised their arms and shouted together, the sound was loud.

"Praise the True Exorcist!"

Originally, here in Yizhou, the belief in the True Lord to Exorcise Demons was far greater than others. Now, at the critical moment of life and death, everyone's faith is even more pious than before. In the True Lord Temple not far away, the incense is growing at an even faster rate. Straight up.

Li Gui took a brief look outside the tent and felt relieved.

As long as these people are pacified and no trouble occurs, the plague will not spread and will not affect the normal social order of the outside world.

To put it bluntly, if these people cannot be treated well, as long as they can wait here to die, they will have contributed to the imperial court.

What they fear most is running around and spreading the plague everywhere.

However, Li Gui came here this time to conduct experiments on these people, which was related to whether the plague issue in Mizhou could be solved.

If the experiment fails, then Michigan will have to give up completely, seal the border to prevent people inside from escaping, and then immigrate there in a few years to reclaim the land.

He left the preaching tent and went to the very back of the camp.

This is the most heavily defended place, with high fences and many soldiers, but the fewest people come in and out.

This is an area where serious illness cases are concentrated.

Most of the people here are extremely ill, coughing up blood, having high fever, and falling into coma...

With current medical technology, these people can basically give up.

Li Gui entered the tent and looked at the desperate people who were waiting for death. He stretched out his hand and pulled out the Tiancong Yun Sword from behind, and started to move it towards these people.

To his surprise, this thing is really easy to use!

I saw streaks of black mist that were invisible to the naked eye emerging from the patients, then drifting towards the Tian Congyun Sword and submerging into the sword body.

As the "epidemic" was sucked away by the Tiancongyun Sword, the body temperatures of those with high fevers immediately dropped, those who coughed up blood became easier to breathe, and the conditions of those who were unconscious also stabilized.

However, most of these refugees are originally poor, always malnourished, have always been in poor physical condition, and have poor immunity. When encountering this plague, their bodies will basically collapse.

Even if the virus is gone, it may not be possible to bring the animals back.

But this is not what Li Gui needs to consider. His experiments have proved that the Tian Cong Yun Sword can absorb the "plague", which is enough.

He laughed loudly, walked out of the tent directly, asked his men to gather everyone, then stood in front of everyone and started to fool around.

"A certain one is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui!"

"Now, by the order of the True Lord Exorcist Demons, I am here to treat the plague for all believers!"

After everyone in the audience listened, they were immediately ecstatic and started whispering among themselves.

"Isn't King Li the True Exorcist?"

"Why did you change back to the Sky Killer?"

"Maybe everyone made a mistake!"

"You don't care if he is the true king or not, as long as he can save lives!"

"Your faith is not pious, and the true king may not save you!"

"It's a sin, it's a crime, the true king is generous, I want to argue with a villain!"

For a moment, he had everything to say. Seeing that everyone was looking at him expectantly, Li Gui didn't hesitate, and directly pulled out the Tian Congyun Sword, pointed at everyone, and shouted:

"This sword in the hands of a certain family was given by the True Lord Exorcist. It's called... the Plague Sword, which is specially designed to eliminate plague!"

"Please join me in praying."

"Praise the True Exorcist!"

Everyone then shouted, "Praise the True Exorcist!"

Li Gui sensed the skyrocketing power of the incense from the "Exorcist True Lord" in his body, and felt happy. He swung his sword with all his strength and sucked away the "plague" from the bodies of everyone present.

The artifact was very unscientific and had immediate and immediate effects. Everyone immediately felt that the illnesses that were plaguing their health disappeared.

"Ah!"

"The true king has appeared!"

"My throat is not itchy anymore!"

As one person shouted out, others also started making noises.

"My fever is gone!"

"I don't cough anymore!"

“I don’t feel uncomfortable breathing anymore!”

Finally, everyone's voices merged into one——

"Praise the True Exorcist!"

Everyone prostrated themselves on the ground with sincerity, kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times, their faces becoming increasingly pious.

Li Gui laughed loudly, showed his holiness in front of people again, summoned a cloud to fly up to the sky, and shouted loudly in the sky:

"A certain person is under the command of the True King of Exorcists, and he is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui!"

"Praise the True Exorcist!"

After he finished shouting, Li Gui flew away in the clouds, leaving the people in the camp kneeling and worshiping.

After leaving Yishui, Li Gui fell into the clouds again and rode the wind and fire wheel.

After all, driving the clouds requires incense, so the Hot Wheels are usually more practical.

Like a strong wind, Li Gui swept through the official road and soon arrived in Mizhou.

The relief point in Liangshan was located in Ju County, so Li Gui came directly there.

Along the way, I discovered that it was just as Zhu Wu said. There was deathly silence everywhere, and there was no human habitation for ten miles. There were scattered corpses everywhere, but the jackals and vultures were eating them up.

Li Gui couldn't control that much. He could only set a fire to burn a corpse when he saw it, to prevent the breeding of more rotworms and plagues.

For those who haven't seen it, we can only ask Liang Shanjun to go to various counties and villages to clean up as much as they can!

Arriving outside Ju County, Li Gui saw that a temporary camp had been set up here, but this camp was far different from the one in Yishui.

After all, Yishui is Li Gui's hometown. The people are loyal to him, everyone is obedient, and they have a higher degree of trust in Liangshan's army.

But here in Mizhou, the two sides used to fight each other. Although the war has ceased with the destruction of the White Lotus Cult, there is no trust at all.

The Liangshan Army's convoy coming to provide relief would encounter attacks from rioters from time to time.

For the same people who are about to starve to death, some are willing to be given a bowl of porridge, while others are satisfied with just eating enough to satisfy their hunger.

Some are already ambitious and don't want to wait in the long queue to get porridge, and they don't want to eat just one bowl of porridge at a meal.

Therefore, the camp here in Liangshan is just like the fortifications, prepared for fighting, and the heads stacked on the wall also prove that Liangshan's swords and guns are not just for show, but they really dare to kill people.

In the camp, the air was filled with a mixed smell, including the smell of wet earth and rain, the smoke from campfires, and the unique smell of sweat and feces and urine in densely populated areas.

The refugees were in ragged clothes, sallow and thin, and their eyes revealed confusion and helplessness about the future.

In the simple tent, the whole family huddled together, staring blankly into the distance, becoming insensitive.

After Li Gui stepped into the camp, he was immediately greeted by Zhu Fu.

"Brother, where did you come from?"

Li Gui hugged him and explained:

"Brother Zhu Wu said that the situation here in Mizhou was bad, so he called me back."

"Have you quarantined the plague people here?"

Zhu Fu smiled bitterly and said:

"There's no way to quarantine."

"Now the people here in the camp are basically docile people and they obey our orders."

"But as soon as we said we would isolate those suffering from the plague, the family members suspected that we were going to kill all the infected people. I don't know where the rumors came from." "If we use force, we can indeed rob those seriously ill people. Come here, but I’m afraid that doing so will only reinforce the truth of the rumors.”

"We have no choice but to ask people to come over and collect the medicine every day when we distribute food."

"But some people are very hungry and come to get medicine for meals even though they are not sick."

"It just so happens that we have no way of distinguishing which ones are truly sick and which ones are simply weak due to hunger."

"The food sent from Yizhou is quite sufficient, but the medicines are limited and cannot be used for everyone. They will be used up soon."

“I don’t know what to do then.”

In the past few days, Zhu Fu had seen countless people die from the plague. Every day, several dead bodies were dragged out and burned in the camp.

This kind of death from illness is the most painful way to die, and it is a hundred times more uncomfortable than death in battle.

Seeing that Zhu Fu was exhausted, his face was full of sleepiness, and his eyes were bloodshot, Li Gui patted him on the shoulder and comforted him:

"Don't worry, a certain family has found a solution and will resolve this matter today!"

Li Gui once again summoned the clouds to fly to the sky, held the "Plague Sword" in his hand, pointed it down, and shouted loudly:

"All living beings, listen!"

"Then Buddhism should be destroyed, and the Zhenjun Sect should be promoted!"

"The reason why this plague fell on you is simply because you don't believe in the True Lord Exorcist!"

"The true king is kind and can't bear your suffering, so he sent a certain family to enlighten you!"

“If you don’t convert now, when will you wait?”

"Those who believe in the True King who exorcises demons will not suffer from the plague!"

"Those who want to convert, then join in praising the name of the True King of Exorcists!"

"When you praise it, you feel refreshed!"

"If you give two thumbs up, you can breathe easier!"

"Three cheers, and the plague will disappear!"

"Praise the True Exorcist!"

"Praise the True Exorcist!"

"Praise the True Exorcist!"

What he did was purely a common trick used by charlatans, but when paired with the clouds under his feet, it immediately seemed convincing.

Most of the people in this era are ignorant and believe in ghosts and gods, but they have never seen the true God with their own eyes.

Now when everyone on the ground saw a "god" flying in the sky, they all fell to the ground in stunned silence, kowtowing repeatedly, and believed whatever Li Gui said.

As Li Gui praised loudly, people below started to praise him one after another.

Li Gui had a sharp ear and eyesight. When he heard someone praising him, he pointed his sword in that direction to remove the "plague" from those people's bodies.

The effect was immediate and better than any other medicine. Those people immediately felt the difference in themselves and couldn't help but jump up, raise their arms and shout.

"My illness is cured!"

"The plague is gone from me!"

"The Exorcist Lord has cured me of the plague!"

"The True Lord who saves the suffering and exorcises demons!"

"The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Exorcist True Lord!"

The people here have lived together for many days, and they are all familiar with each other. They know each other's ins and outs. Now that so many people have come forward to speak out, they believe in it even more, and the voices of praise become more sincere and loud.

"The True Lord who saves the suffering and exorcises demons!"

"The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Exorcist True Lord!"

For them, it is just a matter of changing the previous prayer objects such as Guanyin Bodhisattva and Maitreya Buddha. There will be no psychological barriers and they can easily change their beliefs.

Li Gui first treated those who were seriously ill, and then he wasted his time and let them pray for a while before selecting some who looked more pious to treat. The highlight was the one who slowly cut leeks.

Since ancient times, the true feelings have not been retained, and only the routines have won the hearts of the people.

Although these routines are shameless, their effects are outstanding.

After being PUAed by Li Gui, the faith of this group of people has generally improved by one level, and they are much more pious than ordinary believers.

After everyone was treated, Li Gui asked Zhu Fu to organize the group of people to work for relief, and asked them to use their work in exchange for Liangshan coins, and then use Liangshan coins to buy food and other commodities.

Liangshan only provides temporary living places for these people. After they build their houses in the future, they will be sold to them at a low price to allow Liangshan coins to circulate.

On the one hand, it promoted the recovery of the economy, and on the other hand, it promoted the Liangshan coin.

After that, Li Gui asked Zhu Fu to organize people to go to various counties and villages to reclaim the destroyed land, directly fill in the dirty wells, dig new wells, and take away the patients scattered everywhere. Come back for treatment.

After experiencing the White Lotus Rebellion, this Mizhou has been completely in chaos, and no one knows how much of the original land has lost its owner.

But this is better, and it facilitates the division of land in Liangshan.

Under the current situation, Liangshan doesn't care which county or town these refugees are from, so he can just find a place nearby to distribute them.

The land is given to you, but if you don't farm here and run back to your hometown, then the land here will be taken away.

And the land in your hometown has been given to others, and you won't be able to get it back if you go back.

Therefore, if you don’t want to become a refugee again, you have to settle down in the allocated area honestly.

As for how many of them are separated and assigned to different places, Liangshan can't control that many.

We are short of manpower and there is really nothing we can do.

When everything settles down, let them search for relatives in various towns and counties on their own!

Construction has started vigorously here, and it will soon spread throughout the state, causing people who are still alive from all over the state to rush here. Li Gui does not need to run around all over Mizhou, he only needs to sit here, and he can All plague problems solved.

As for those who never come here, most of them are gone and don't need to be ignored.

Everything went smoothly at first, whether it was rescuing people or constructing, everything went as planned.

But as if Liangshan was unlucky, signs of the plague broke out in various states within the territory.

However, Liangshan has extremely strong control over various parts of the country, has convenient communications, and has strong execution capabilities. It has notified various places of the epidemic situation early.

If various places had not immediately forcibly quarantined patients when they discovered the outbreak of the plague, I am afraid that this sudden wave of plague outbreaks would have plunged a state into decay.

Relying on the speed of the Hot Wheels, Li Gui was like a firefighter. In a very short period of time, he visited all states, counties and villages and sucked away all the plagues.

After everything was settled, everyone in Liangshan was very surprised. How could the plague suddenly break out in so many places?

Li Gui had a conspiracy theory and suspected that someone was poisoning deliberately, so he ordered a thorough investigation in various places.

Because those who contracted the disease were all saved by the True Lord of Exorcism, their belief in the True Lord's Sect has reached a peak, and they did not hide anything from the investigators' questions.

After gathering the intelligence from various places, Zhu Wu and others studied it carefully, and finally they could only come to one conclusion, that is - it was a pure accident!

The situation is the same in almost all places, that is, one or several infected refugees from other places wander into the local area, and then quickly spread to the entire township.

Just by looking at their sallow and thin faces, these culprits knew that they were real refugees, not dead soldiers of the Imperial City Division.

And the reason why they got there was purely by accident, no one tempted or forced them to do anything.

Although everyone was puzzled, they could only believe the investigation results. After sighing, they shelved the investigation report.

The plague did not have a too bad impact on Liangshan. Even because Li Gui "showed a miracle" and rescued all the infected people, it greatly gained a wave of faith and made the rule under his rule more powerful. stable.

Miracles should not be left lying around, otherwise they will become cheap. Everyone will get used to the existence of miracles, but no one will care too much.

But miracles cannot be stingy. When believers desperately hope that gods will save them, when a miracle should appear, in the end no miracle appears, which will seriously damage the believers' piety.

If it's OK once or twice, believers may wonder whether their faith is not pious enough.

But if there is always an absence of miracles, then the believers' faith will collapse and they will doubt, does this god really exist?

Especially those who have never seen a miracle but only heard about it from others. Their faith is already weak and easily shaken. If they encounter injustice again, their prayers are ineffective, and the gods refuse to show up to save them, they will naturally lose their faith. Belief.

Generally speaking, the first wave of Luotian Dajiao in Longhu Mountain did not have the desired effect.

Even the inaction of the officials in Laizhou led to terrible consequences.

The plague in Mizhou did not spread in a directional manner, but followed the refugees everywhere, and Laizhou was certainly no exception.

A large number of refugees fled into Laizhou with the plague. Although Zongze was now the head of Laizhou, he had to look at the powerful faces of the local gentry and could not do whatever he wanted.

At the beginning, the powerful people were worried that Liangshan would attack, so they responded to Zongze's requests, whether it was men, gold or silver, whatever he asked for was given.

But the past few years have passed. Liangshan has been integrating its own internal affairs, and has encountered major events such as the Song Jiang conquest and the White Lotus Rebellion. It has never attacked Denglai Prefecture again.

From their perspective, although Song Jiang was defeated in the end, Lin Chong and others were all killed in the battle, and the tens of thousands of troops collapsed. Liangshan must have suffered a lot of losses.

In addition, the White Lotus Sect's rebellion was quite powerful, which must have had a great impact on Liangshan.

Based on the knowledge that this group of gentry learned in the book, the bandits have always been short-sighted. They only know how to loot and cannot last long. It must be that Liangshan is now in chaos and has no ability to attack the two states of Denglai.

As soon as the foreign enemies were gone, the gentry and powerful men returned to their old ways.

They no longer supported Zongze, but instead tried every means to check and balance Zongze's power, and at the same time carried out mergers and acquisitions.

Previously, in order to gain the support of the people who had benefited from Liangshan, Zongze acquiesced that the unowned land that had been distributed belonged to the common people, and only took back the land of the powerful gentry families that had not been killed.

Nowadays, these powerful gentry are being implicated on charges of collaborating with bandits, and they have taken back the fields that were previously divided by Liangshan.

Zongze has been keeping an eye on the situation in Liangshan for these years, and he knows the economy and people's livelihood in Liangshan very well. While lamenting the great talent of Zhu Wu, he also regretted that such talents actually became bandits.

He knew very well in his heart that Liangshan's strength was not only intact, but also getting stronger. Therefore, he was very opposed to the tyrannical behavior of these gentry, but it was of no use. He had no way to deal with these people.

Now that refugees are coming in, although Zongze doesn't know about the plague, of course he wants to provide relief.

But the gold, silver, and grain for this relief had to be provided by the powerful gentry, otherwise the savings of the yamen alone would not be enough.

With no money and no food, even if Zongze is extremely capable, there is nothing he can do.

But good money is hard to give away. On the one hand, these powerful gentry gave away some grain and asked Zongze to give porridge. On the other hand, they hoarded rice and raised the price of rice so high that they squeezed the last copper out of the pockets of the refugees.

The refugees' money was squeezed out, and they had no money to buy medicine and treatment, which further caused the plague to spread.

(End of this chapter)