In the Ming Dynasty, as long as this old man was not a criminal offender or had done something that both humans and gods had indignant, it would not make the entire township annoyed people and all classes. Even if he had no descendants and had no childbirth, he would not be unable to survive.

No county magistrate will let himself manage his old age without any support.

The Ming Dynasty was not without slums. There were also many poor people in the cities of the Ming Dynasty. After kerosene lamps, lighters, and Jinghai coal flowed into the market, they still couldn't afford these three things, so it was a poor person. There were many people like this in the Ming Dynasty.

They live very hard, and their small wishes are hard to satisfy. They have no life and no savings. They are worried and have no sense of security without property.

But this is almost as extreme poverty as the people of Daming can imagine.

"How did I know that there would be a plague? Do you know how poor this is? You go to the thatched hut outside the city wall that can't be seen at a glance. There is no wall in the people's hut. You buy one and a half taels of gold and say your personal name, as long as that person is outside the city."

Li Dan raised a finger with sarcasm: "In one hour, more than a dozen people will come to you to get rewards by pulling that person's arms and thighs."

"As long as I don't let my feet be, I can barely see it. There are garbage and feces everywhere outside the city. The ditches and wells used as toilets are only eight steps away. It is not difficult to judge that the city will have plagues."

"Seville City may not be safe anymore, but Daming Port is safe, you see."

Following the direction of Li Dan's finger, Yang Ce looked down from the Guancheng Pavilion, which could overlook the entire Daming Port. On the wide street outside the warehouse in the center of the port, one carriage after another was gathered on the northern official road. He asked, "What is the carriage installed?"

"Resist horses, ammunition, and a small amount of barbed wire. The king asked Daming Port to help him build the Fran machine cannon, so I opened a forging factory in Daming Port. It was supposed to be able to pull the barbed wire in large quantities for defense, but last month the barbed wire at the port was transported to Lisbon to support General Fu."

"There are only two roads to Seville. Either drive westward into the inland river from the sea, or walk a mountain road that is nearly twenty miles long to the outside of the city. As long as you set up a checkpoint on this road, Daming Port is a peach blossom land that is independent of Spain."

Yang Ce still had huge concerns in his heart. He benefited from the military education in the martial arts lecture hall, and could be proficient in whether it was Spanish or Portuguese, and also knew the commonly written Latin language. The world's speech barrier almost did not exist for him. During the long drift on the sea, his way of passing the time was to read.

Read books and letters stolen from pirate ships of looted merchant ships.

People will mention the plague, especially the Black Death that has been popular for hundreds of years. The huge lethality has made Euroi talk about black changes, and his fear of the plague is also rooted in his heart through words.

He asked, "You also know that there are thousands of poor people outside the city. Sevilla will not open the gates for them. What if someone gets infected with the plague, what should I do if I bring it in?"

However, Li Dan smiled with his lips and kept his arms on the railings by the pavilion without any hesitation. He looked down and said, "General Yang, you are thinking too much. Can you not trust the Beiyang Army's Zongheng Post?"

In fact, Li Dan had much more Sevilla this time than Yang Ce had imagined. He did not do anything to this Spanish city, but just continued his old career, just like in Haojing.

The difference is that the wealth, power and reputation he now possesses are much stronger than Li Dan in the time of Haojing.

Many people can touch the bright and beautiful city on the surface of a city by its subordinate officials; but few people can touch the dark side of a city under its bright and beautiful city, but he is very skilled.

There are more orphans and beggars in this city than Haojing. He doesn't even need to do anything to make them his own eyes and ears. Any new things can be exchanged for rewards in several taverns inside and outside the city.

A month ago, the news that thirteen laundry workers working together fell ill together outside the city did not attract Li Dan's attention, but a tailor shop selling fabrics and clothes was seized by the Inquisition for no reason... Li Dan was still more concerned about the Inquisition and summed up previous information so that he had already confirmed that there was a plague in the city before there was no accurate news in the city.

The clothes of female laundry workers often come from tailor shops, Seville's tailor shops, especially those outside the city, which not only sells clothes, but also recycles clothes.

This leads to a hidden danger, which is also the reason why the thatched huts outside the city even have a cloth wall that blocks the wind... When the poor outside the city accidentally saw two black bodies in the house, their first reaction was never to turn around and run away.

They are not afraid of death but are afraid of poverty. No matter what kind of hardships and dangers are waiting in front of them, they may not die, but they have been hungry for five or six days and may have starved to death this afternoon.

So their reaction must be to go into the house to check all places where property may be hidden. Although the possibility of finding property is minimal, they will eventually strip off the clothes on the body and sell it.

The same is true for Li Dan's speculation about the origin of this plague. One or two people were infected with the plague for some reason and died in a broken house without a door. The first person who found the body not only did not report to the church, but also took away their clothes and personal belongings.

The sick clothes were sold to the tailor shop, and the merchant handed the clothes to the laundryman who came to pick them up. After a few days, the laundryman fell ill collectively, and then the person who bought clothes at the tailor shop also fell ill.

Then Sevilla closed the city gate, but Li Dan believed that there was a very likely plague in the city, and the nobles' desire to rely on closing the city gate to protect themselves might be disappointed.

There is only one truly safe place, which is his Daming Port.

All connections between the port and the inside and outside the city were cut off, with more than ten miles between them, and the roads were blocked. All the hills and dense forests that might have been crossed were set up to open three lines of defense at a scale of fifty steps to ensure that no one could come.

He doesn't need news from inside and outside the city.

"Including your three ships, there are 6,472 people in Daming Port. I have twelve granaries. Everyone only drinks wine and cooks tea. The food is enough for nine months. This is not only not a disaster for Daming Port, but also a good thing."

Li Dan curled his lips and smiled, opened his silk robe and said, "I can't think of any excuse to build a barrier between Daming Port and Sai City. Now I can easily build a wooden wall. In the face of the plague, the king has nothing to say even if he knows it."

After hearing Li Dan's words, Yang Ce did not question it abnormally, but nodded seriously and said, "The Ming Port does need a city wall. I'm afraid you don't know yet. I heard that the Western Army in South Asia and Colombia broke through the official military tax card and died. The general was furious and always won. The front-line officials and troops in Mexico City were mobilized together, and it seemed that they had fought again."
Chapter completed!