You decide to placate peoples with charity, not edicts.
1162 AD, Summer
6
At this rate of profits coming from fur trade, your Treasurer will need to invest into some shovels and wagons to move the money around!
1162 AD, Autumn
1
Terrible news are coming from the border with Gubta! Apparently, the plague reared its ugly head in there without warning, and your administrators and border guards haven't noticed a thing before cases of illness have begun showing up on your side of the border.
At first, the sick are riddled with fevers and vomiting, then putrid sacks of pus form on their skin. Few that contract the disease survive, and already there is mass panic amongst people of Ceodwell.
During the emergency council, your courtiers urge you to act quickly and decisively! Your statesmen already have extra ideas to combat the plague. But all rests in your hands!
As for the border with Gubta...
A) Send the Army to maintain strict blockade of the border, with use of force.
B) Order the administrators to close the borders and turn away any travelers for the time being.
As for the plague itself...
A) Send for healers and medics from Methiant and abroad to keep the plague in Ceodwell.
B) Buy and stockpile medicine and healers' services for the inevitable times of plague's spread.
As for potential suspending of trade and travel through Methiant...
A) Stop outgoing travels and trading, just to keep others secure.
B) The plague will spread anyways, no point in hurting our economy in the meanwhile.
C) Close the cities, empty the roads! Doom is coming!