Rebirth in America: Great Slave Owner Chapter 84

"For our victory, this plague may come as divine intervention!"

Seeing this kind of prayer similar to a slogan posted on the wall of the church, Rob, the steward of Downing Manor, could not help shaking his head secretly, although he had been hearing recently that General Mansfield-Lovell was relying on "the disease of an outsider" To retake New Orleans, many locals are also very confident in this, but I really did not expect that even the church would do this kind of thing.

The so-called "foreigner's disease" actually refers to yellow fever, which was first introduced to the Americas from Africa through the slave trade. In the 18th century, yellow fever was endemic in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Norfolk, New Haven, Providence, and Baltimore. In the 19th century, the disease gradually disappeared from the northern states and became more and more prevalent in the south. People in the South gradually discovered that the morbidity and mortality rates of foreigners were much higher than those of natives or long-term settlers after experiencing multiple yellow fever epidemics. The explanation of modern medicine is that people in the south have lived in areas with high incidence of yellow fever for a long time, and many people have been infected with yellow fever and obtained lifelong immunity after recovery. lack of immunity to it.

However, the people of the South did not understand these medical knowledge at that time. They generally believe that this phenomenon can be attributed to the "unacceptable" of outsiders. Specifically, foreigners are not adapted to the local climate, and are naturally unable to resist diseases caused by such climatic conditions, so they call yellow fever "the disease of foreigners". So many people in New Orleans feel that even if these Yankees take New Orleans, they will get sick and die, and there are even two guys who are said to measure the height of the Union soldiers. When asked why, they claimed that it was for making coffins, because once the yellow fever broke out and the number of people died, coffins became indispensable...

When Rob was full of thoughts, he suddenly heard several children passing by singing the ballad of "Yellow Jack will catch them and take them all away!" The "Yellow Jack" here refers to Yellow Fever disease, and "they" are naturally those Yankees.

Even ordinary people like Rob can see the "Yellow Fever Conspiracy", how could Benjamin Butler, the federal general stationed in New Orleans at this time, not know it.

I saw him snorted coldly: "It's a dream to want yellow fever to drive me away!" Then he ordered his subordinates: 1. Set up a quarantine station on the river 70 miles south of New Orleans. Merchant ships must be inspected by health officials. 2. Recruit no less than 2,000 scavengers to clean the streets, squares and urban open spaces; no one may throw garbage into the streets, alleys or open spaces; each household must keep the house clean and tidy. 3. Unblock drainage ditches, sewers and canals, and then use early summer rainwater or urban tap water to carry urban garbage and flow through these channels to lakes, and finally into the bay.

While New Orleans was fighting the plague war, Tangning was meeting an acquaintance he didn't really want to meet, that was Scarlett.

On this day, he just came out of Danina's residence, and when he was reminiscing about Danina's comment that "you are much better than Paul", he was suddenly surprised to see a very familiar standing next to his carriage. figure.

"Tony, why don't you want to see me!" As soon as they met, Scarlet said to Tangning with an incomparable resentment.

In order to avoid misunderstandings by passersby, Tangning invited Scarlett to a nearby cafe and explained, "Miss Howard, it's not that I don't want to see you, it's that I don't think it's necessary anymore, just like I did before. As your sister told you, let the past be in the past!" The starting website ps://m.

As for Scarlett, she didn't seem to hear Tangning's words, and she still asked bitterly, "Tony, you still hate me, right?"

"I really hated you at the time, but I don't feel that way anymore," Tangning replied indifferently.

"I made a mistake at the time. I thought things were too simple. I regret it now. Tony, can you give me another chance?" Scarlett said with tears, and she reached out her hand to go Shake Tangning's hand.

But Tangning ducked for a while, then shook her head and replied, "You must know, I'm married now, and Heidi and I are very happy!"

Unexpectedly, Scarlett sneered: "Happiness? If you are happy, why are you looking for a lover outside?"

"Everyone has their own way of life. Heidi can accept my way of life, so we are very happy together! Since you can't accept it, then we can only be friends!" After speaking, Tangning got up and left. , because he felt that all that was said was enough.

Seeing that Tangning was leaving~www.mtlnovel.com~ Scarlett hurriedly stopped, "Tony, if I said I could accept it now!"

"It's too late!" Tangning replied without looking back.

"What if I said I could accept being your lover like Mrs. Murphy or that Danina just now?" Scarlett said again.

Hearing this sentence, Tangning paused for a while, then asked inexplicably, "Scarlett, why have you changed so much in the past few years?"

Scarlett smiled bitterly and said, "People always have to grow up and change, not to mention that I don't even have a home or money now, and Tony, you are the only one I can find right now. Someone who can help me!"

"No home? Didn't you come to London with your parents and family?" Tangning asked curiously.

"The home I'm talking about is Atlanta, don't you know that Atlanta was burned by that **** Sherman?" Scarlett said bitterly.

Tangning thought, "Of course I know, and I wrote a lot of rumors and smear articles. So he asked, "Aren't your sister and brother-in-law very rich?"

Scarlet snorted coldly: "If my brother-in-law is rich, can he marry a sister he has never met? And this time we came to London in a hurry, and we didn't bring much money, so this brother-in-law doesn't have much money now. Just look down on us!"

Tangning thought to herself, this is quite logical, and then asked, "Then how do you want me to help you?"

"Lend me the money!" Scarlett replied word by word.

"How much do you want to borrow?" Tangning asked.

Scarlett raised a finger and replied, "Lend me a thousand pounds first!"

PS: There is a lot of work today, and the office is always full of people. There is really no time to code, so the update is a bit late, please forgive me. When there is more free time on the weekend, I will try to write as much as possible. .

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