Despite such draconian laws in place, there are people who are desperate to escape for their lives. Most of these people have no food or water at home, and they cannot stay at home to continue their lives. The only way to escape and find a way to survive, or to go to relatives, or to escape from the tower and jump into the flood to leave this terrible city.

But the streets and alleys were full of patrolling soldiers, who failed to achieve their goal, and all died at the hands of the soldiers.

The soldiers on patrol were not spared, and the plague was spreading rapidly among the soldiers. It is not uncommon to see patrolling soldiers suddenly falling behind and falling on the side of the street, spitting blood and dying quickly.

At first, the soldiers on patrol were terrified and frightened. But in the back, they were also numb. No one even stepped forward to pay attention to the fallen companions, for each of them feared that they would be infected with the plague.

In the square of the official yamen, the smoke of burning corpses has hardly stopped, and it has been burning day and night. Because corpses were constantly being sent, the wood used to burn the corpses was originally made of wood accumulated in the kitchen of the yamen. But the timber soon ran out, so some of the old houses in the yamen were demolished and burned.

At the back, there was no house left in the yamen that could be demolished. At this time, there were already some families in the capital who were dead, and they were poor families, and their families had no money, so they also demolished these houses and burned their bodies.

The Yamen compound of Kaifeng Mansion where the body was burned is still a little far away from the imperial palace, but standing on top of the imperial city, you can still see the billowing smoke rising from the compound of Kaifeng Mansion. It was known that it was burning the corpses of the plague patients, and the smoke remained in the air for a long time.

Song Shenzong looked at the sky from afar in his palace, and he could also see the black smoke drifting in the air. Of course, he knew what was going on, and his heart was extremely heavy. The smoke has not been interrupted day and night, indicating that the number of people dying from the plague has not stopped, and there are more and more people. Because the black smoke in the sky became thicker and thicker, and later, almost half of the sky was obscured.

Song Shenzong had already issued several holy decrees in succession, ordering the Tai Hospital to develop an effective prescription for the treatment of this terrible plague as soon as possible. But it is easy to make a decree, but it is very difficult to find such a prescription.

The judgment of the royal hospital was already as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and the emperor forced him every day, and even found him to reprimand him from time to time. Every day he had to spend his days in tension and panic, so he turned around and put pressure on the imperial doctor below. These doctors were sad one by one, squatting day and night in the library of the Tai Hospital, consulting classic and ancient books, looking for effective treatment options. The hospital is a testing ground for them to test their prescriptions, and officials and their families who are sick will be sent here for treatment, rather than being shot or cremated like ordinary people.

On the one hand, this reflects the special care of officials, and at the same time, it also gives the doctors of the Tai Hospital a chance to test prescriptions. It's a pity that these imperial doctors found hundreds of prescriptions and quoted scriptures, but none of them had any effect.

At this moment, Sima Guang made a twist and recommended Yang Xianmao as the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital.

Song Shenzong had also heard of Yang Xianmao's name and knew that Yang Xianmao was the son-in-law of King Wu, which was politically infallible. In terms of medical skills, he heard that Yang Xianmao's success rate in treating the plague in the previous stage was quite high, far higher than that of Langzhong in other medical centers. Although he didn't come up with a good plan for the new plague that followed, if he was recruited into the Tai Hospital to discuss with other Tai doctors, and at the same time used the Tai Hospital's rich royal collection, with his ingenuity, he might finally be able to find a cure for this terrible plague.

It stands to reason that if you want to become a Tai Doctor, you can't master one or two home remedies to become one. Only those who have rich and erudite medical talents and are widely recognized in the apricot forest world can enter the Tai Hospital.

Now that Yang Xianmao is too young, under normal circumstances, even with Sima Guang's sponsorship, Song Shenzong may also weigh it and let him go to the local area to be a medical officer for a few years to see his achievements and performance. If you can, recruit him to the Tai Hospital, or let him participate in the consultation when there are incurable diseases in the Tai Hospital, so as to test his talents.

But now Song Shenzong has no choice, because the plague has killed a large number of people in the capital, even including the officials and families of the imperial court. Although the Imperial City has adopted strict control measures and has not yet seen a plague, it does not mean that it will never. Once the plague spread in the imperial city, Song Shenzong did not dare to imagine what the consequences would be.

So he was so worried that he couldn't sleep and eat, like a dying man who fell into a flood, but whenever he caught something, even if it was a straw, it would be used as a life-saving support, not to mention the sponsorship of Sima Guang, a loyal minister he admired the most. He believed in Sima Guang's vision, so he made an order almost without hesitation, recruited Yang Xianmao into the Tai Hospital as a physician, and participated in the development of a prescription for the treatment of the plague.

When this holy decree was sent to the Yang Xianmao Medical Center, Yang Xianmao was discussing with his wife, the county lord Bai Zhi, how to continue to contact the county lord of Yaoxiang in this case, so as to continue the plan of cooking raw rice and mature rice.

Now it seems that this plan is very difficult to implement, because King Run's wife and the lord of Yaoxiang are both in the imperial city. And the Imperial City is strictly controlled and does not allow communication with the outside world, which is also the reason why the Imperial City has become an isolated island that has not been infected in this plague.

The result of Yang Xianmao's discussion with the county lord of Bai Zhi was that he was afraid that there was no way to implement this plan now. Even if he wanted to approach her or take her out on the grounds that the lord of Yaoxiang County was seeing a doctor, even King Run would not agree. Because at present, the lord of Yaoxiang County has no signs of relapsing, so he can only delay it for the past two days, and wait until the plague is over.

Just when the two of them couldn't think of a better way, a holy decree came from the palace.

Yang Xianmao put down the incense case and welcomed the eunuch in.

The eunuch of the decree read out the holy decree, appointed Yang Xianmao as the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, and immediately entered the palace with the eunuch of the decree. Yang Xianmao's other relatives could not follow and could only go alone.

Yang Xianmao was really surprised and happy to receive this holy decree, because he was discussing with the two county lords of Bai Zhi how to continue to carry out the plan of cooking raw rice and ripe rice. After all, he has to marry the lord of Yaoxiang to solve his five disadvantages and three shortcomings.

If this goal can be achieved, Yang Xianmao wants to take his wife and godmother and the faithful maid Liu Dongyan to fly back to a hundred years ago to reunite with his wife and children in a big peng bird. He had calculated before, and the huge back of the Dapeng Bird should be able to fit a few of them, but more would not work, so he had to give up.

If the county lord of Bai Zhi is forcibly taken away, I am afraid that if it does not meet the will of God, it will not meet the requirements of solving the five evils and three defects, and in this case, it is likely that the last time he took him and Princess Zhuoma through the time tunnel, the princess was frozen in the time and space tunnel.

And now that the emperor has given him a chance to enter the palace, and the lord of Yaoxiang is in the palace, then he can also meet with the lord of Yaoxiang, so as to continue to implement his plan to cook raw rice and mature rice. Therefore, Yang Xianmao immediately held the holy decree in his hand and said respectfully: "Weichen thank Lord Longen." ”

He is now a Tai Doctor, an official of the Seventh Grade, so he can naturally be qualified to be called a Wei Chen, although this position is not a little worse than his previous life, but he doesn't care about this. All he was thinking about was how to marry the Lord of Yaoxiang County, and then take them away from this terrible plague and return to a hundred years ago, which was his ultimate goal.

Yang Xianmao asked the eunuch to rest for a while, and he told the Tang clan and the county lord Bai Zhi about the holy decree in the house, and the Tang clan and the county lord of Bai Zhi were very happy. I really wanted to sleep, so someone brought me a pillow.

If Yang Xianmao wanted to leave, the family seemed to have lost its backbone, and Yang Xianmao told them that now there were all soldiers outside, and no one was allowed to move around at will, so as long as they stayed in the house, they would be safe. And the house has enough food and clean water for them to eat for a long time, and life is no problem.

And he is now an official, according to the eunuch of the decree, the official is to allow the family to send letters to the imperial city to report the situation at home, so that the people in the palace can do things with peace of mind. At the same time, if the family members of officials fall ill, they can also be sent to the hospital for treatment. As long as it's not the plague, there's no problem. If there is a plague, it is understandable that no matter where he stays, he will die.

After settling down the affairs of the family, Yang Xianmao said goodbye to his family. followed the eunuch into the palace with him.

Yang Xianmao followed the eunuch to the palace, and when there was still a long distance from the palace, the guards at the gate of the palace vigilantly pointed their bows and arrows at them.

The eunuch took out the waist card and threw it hard, the waist card fell to the ground, and the soldiers guarding the door did not come forward to pick it up, but just bent down and stared at it, and then gently picked it with a single knife in his hand, and turned the waist card over to see the words on the back. After reading it, he reversed the handle of the knife and clenched his fist and said, "I'm offended, my father-in-law and Imperial Doctor Yang are invited in." ”

After saying that, he quickly retreated, and the eunuch said to Yang Xianmao: "No way, we must strictly bathe and change clothes after we go in, this is the trick that Imperial Doctor Fei came up with." After a while we went in, we had to take off all our clothes in a room and throw them into a basket, and they were going to take them and burn them. Then we changed into the clothes in the palace and went in, and before that, we had to rinse with potion before we could go in, and this potion was also configured by Doctor Fei. ”

Yang Xianmao nodded and said, "It should be so, if it is not for the strict isolation, I am afraid that this disease will spread to the palace." ”

When he got closer, the eunuch picked up his waist card from the ground. The soldiers defending the city had opened the gates, and the two men entered. At this time, a soldier held a sword in his hand and said, "Please two of you bathe and disinfect and change clothes before you can enter." ”