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Compared with Old Man Chu's concern for his hometown in the southwest, his second son Chu Changfu obviously cares more about himself.

"Epidemics are said to be spread from person to person." Chu Changfu said worriedly, "Will it spread to the capital?"

Although he has never experienced an epidemic, when he was a child, he heard from many villagers that many people died when an epidemic broke out in the two river basins.

"The imperial court had already noticed the epidemic when it appeared, and now the route from the southwest to the capital has been strictly controlled." Lu Siming said, "So uncle, don't worry, the capital is safe."

In fact, Lu Siming did not say that in the southwest, not only the route to the capital was controlled, but also the routes to other places in the southwest were now controlled, and even most of the roads connecting towns were blocked.

Because the current epidemic only causes people to be infected with wind and cold, and does not kill people once infected.

So even if the road is blocked, many people still don't feel much.

Especially in winter, a lot of food is stored for the winter. Everyone can survive without going out.

Therefore, such a blockade will not cause any problems for the time being.

But if the epidemic is not resolved for a long time, such a blockade will cause problems sooner or later.

Fortunately, the current Emperor Yan is not a foolish emperor, and everyone in the court is not busy with party disputes.

There are still some smart people who are already taking advantage of the war in the southwest to mobilize food from the south of the Yangtze River.

In case the blockade in the southwest causes people to lack food, the imperial court can still provide some support to prevent a civil uprising.

But this kind of "aid" to Southwest China cannot last long.

No matter how rich Jiangnan is and how much food there is, it cannot continue to support so many people in the Southwest without working all their lives.

Not to mention that God is not always kind to me.

If other places suffer from floods or droughts, the imperial court will still need food assistance.

So now Southwest has become a small but serious wound in Dayan.

It doesn't seem serious, and it seems it can be cured, but it consumes Dayan's resources anytime and anywhere.

Ordinary people like Old Chu couldn't see the secrets inside, but Lu Siming knew it.

This move Nan Chu made was really clever.

They did not use "viruses" that could bring more serious consequences, because if people died as soon as they were infected, the imperial court would definitely not keep transferring food from the granaries in the south of the Yangtze River in order to stabilize so many people.

And if everyone dies of the disease, even if the remnants of Southern Chu take back the Southwest, they will only get a dead Southwest.

There is no population and no productivity. It is obvious that the Southern Wu tribe hiding in the deep mountains and old forests cannot fill the entire southwest.

Finally, King Zhennan is now almost certain that he is colluding with people from Nanchu.

Then if an epidemic occurs in the southwest, it will also affect the people of Zhennan King.

In order to let his alliance consume as much of Emperor Yan's energy as possible, Nanchu obviously would not cause any disease with a high fatality rate.

Therefore, Lu Siming has not been worried about how serious the epidemic will be, so that it will spread to the capital and affect him and his family.

But the ability of the remnants of Southern Chu to casually create epidemics still made Lu Siming very wary.

"That's good." Old Man Chu didn't know much about the war, nor the deeper plans of the remnants of Southern Chu.

He just knew that Lu Siming was studying in the best college in the capital, and that many of his classmates had their own backgrounds. The information channels would be more accurate. If the other party said that the problem was not big, it should be minor.