Fortunately, the Chaisang place is close to the river, so men, women and children can brave the cold wind and catch as many fish and shrimps as possible to make ends meet. However, because many boats have been mobilized, many people have to go into the water to fish, and no longer have to go fishing.

In such weather, even young and strong men can hardly resist the biting river water, let alone the elderly and children.

If the old people can't survive it, they will die in this winter. Some old people will even get up quietly in the middle of the night and throw themselves naked into the river in order to leave the last bit of their clothes to their children.

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The Chaisang area is like this, and the more remote Jiangdong area is even more painful.

In the Han Dynasty, the level of development in the Jiangdong area was far inferior to that of later generations, even in the Jin Dynasty. At least when Sima of the Jin Dynasty went south, he brought a lot of craftsmen and technology, so the productivity and material output in the Jiangdong area were not high.

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Sun Quan launched the Battle of Jingzhou, and then fought again in Changsha and other places, which consumed a large amount of materials that Jiangdong had not saved in the first place. Then these consumptions were transferred to ordinary people, making this winter in the fourth year of Taixing

, the people in Jiangdong lived in extreme pain.

Then add the plague brought by Sun Quan when he returned from Jingzhou...

Although the temperature has dropped, the infectivity and incidence of plague have continued to decline. After all, the plague virus in the Han Dynasty has not been cultured and screened by later generations of antibiotics, and both its infection and destructive capabilities are insufficient. But similarly, Jiangdong

The resistance of these people in the Han Dynasty was also very poor. Once they were infected with the plague, all the people in one village often died...

Soldiers in the army who are infected by epidemics are often isolated and wait to die in epidemic camps. Even if some individuals can have some self-healing ability, if they are infected by each other, as long as they enter the isolated epidemic camp, they will almost never die.

They just died early and died late. And these soldiers who could not receive treatment also seriously dragged down the morale of Jiangdong soldiers.

These infected Jiangdong soldiers were mainly concentrated in two areas, Jiangxia and Chaisang.

After entering winter, the plague temporarily stopped spreading, but the dropped morale and empty warehouses were not easy to recover. Resources have been exhausted, and cannibalism has gradually appeared outside. No one can afford more.

Mouth and hunger are the most primitive and cruel tortures of human beings. When food and clothing are not satisfied, people show more of their bestiality.

Even though Zhou Yu was full of wisdom, he was powerless in the face of such a difficult situation.

In other words, powerless to a certain extent.

"Captain..."

Lu Su's voice came from outside the hospital, "Are you feeling better today?"

Zhou Yu chuckled, but it caused him to cough, "Ahem... Zijing says this every day... every day, can you change it?"

Lu Su walked in and thought for a while, "Commander, have you recovered today?"

"..." Zhou Yu motioned to the servants on the side to show Lu Su his seat, "That's all...how is it in the city? I heard that yesterday I Jing organized a manpower to go to the mountains to collect firewood, and how much was harvested?"

Zhou Yu was ill and naturally could not have enough energy to deal with Chaisang's political affairs, so Lu Su naturally stayed on as Zhou Yu's deputy, temporarily handling these complicated government affairs on Zhou Yu's behalf.

Lu Su was silent for a moment, and then sighed, "It's freezing cold, and there's very little to be gained in the mountains. It's better than nothing..."

Zhou Yu also nodded silently.

For example, Lu Su made some actions at the moment, not for the sake of how much he could gain, but to tell ordinary people through such actions that the government was still doing things and was still considering the people's livelihood, so that ordinary people

The people can still be immersed in their own comfort and paralysis, and will not feel that they have lost their livelihood and are desperate to take risks.

The power of the government comes from rules and order. Zhou Yu knows this, and Lu Su also knows it. Therefore, both of them try their best to maintain the only rules and order that Chai Sang has at the moment.

But there are still some people who don't like this...

Such as big households.

They kept drinking, singing and dancing without even bothering to pretend.

"Is there any new news from Wu County?" Lu Su asked Zhou Yu. After all, Zhou Yu had his own news system.

Zhou Yu didn't want to hide anything about Lu Su, so he said: "In the Shuimen Captain's home, gold and silver with the Zhu family and Zhang family crests were seized..."

"What?" Lu Su was stunned for a moment, and then said, "If Zhu Zhang really did this secret matter, how could there be such a flaw?"

Zhou Yu nodded and said, "That's exactly it."

It’s not like gold and silver cannot be melted or filed. What’s more, isn’t it obvious that it is placed at home like this for others to know? Although it is not ruled out that it is a momentary negligence, but this

This possibility is extremely small.

Killing an ordinary citizen may not require much effort and can be done by a temporary worker, but someone like Sun Fu will definitely cause an uproar. How can it be arranged haphazardly and full of flaws?

Lu Su looked at Zhou Yu and said, "Captain, this matter..."

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Lu Su's eyebrows moved slightly when he saw that Zhou Yu was so sure.

After the two were silent for a moment, Lu Su changed the topic and talked about what he wanted to do in the next stage, what arrangements he had for Chaisang and other matters. Zhou Yu also expressed his thoughts on Lu Su's arrangements.

After making some comments, Lu Su stood up and left...

Zhou Yu watched Lu Su's back go away. He knew that Lu Su had also guessed something, but guessing was just guessing, and some things were not suitable to be put on the surface unless the final conclusion had been reached.

If something seems confusing on the surface, you might as well use the simplest model to judge it. Although the result may be somewhat biased, it may also be close to the essence of the fact, which is "interest".

We are all adults, and of course we cannot do things just for fun, but just to have fun, and there must be some purpose. So what is the purpose of killing Sun Fu? What do you want to gain from this matter?

Who is the biggest beneficiary of Sun Fu's death?

"Huh..." Zhou Yu looked up at the sky, "Ahem, brother Bofu... Jiangdong... is getting more and more chaotic..."

A snowflake falls.

Zhou Yu subconsciously stretched out his palm and caught the snowflake.
Chapter completed!