The plague finally came, and Yang Xianmao's heart tightened. He immediately wrote a set of prescriptions and told the medicine boy to boil the medicine immediately and give it to everyone. He also told everyone to wash their hands and warned everyone not to come into contact with sick people in principle, especially those with high fever.

Then Yang Xianmao came to the inner house, and immediately asked Liu Dongyan to help the old lady to the boat, closed the door of the house, and no one was allowed to enter, and brought the maids and servants of the inner house, including the cook, to the big boat, and no one was allowed to leave, and they lived on the boat.

Yang Xianmao must ensure the safety of the old lady, on the one hand, he has already worshiped others as godmothers, of course, to protect his mother's safety, on the other hand, the Tang family is his golden rice bowl, if the old lady has three long and two short, his huge wealth will be in vain.

At the same time, Yang Xianmao told the shopkeeper in the front yard to strictly close the door leading to the back door, and no one was allowed to enter the inner house compound without strict disinfection. And all diets must be strictly checked, and the food must be cooked.

After arranging the defensive measures, Yang Xianmao touched his chin and muttered, why did he take disinfection measures but there was still a plague in the city? Could it be because of a problem with his prescription? Probably not.

He was so sure of this prescription that it had been selected from the many plagues recorded in ancient books. It should have worked, but in fact there was still a plague.

And this is just the beginning, who knows if the dead and wounded will increase exponentially later. Because the plague spreads very quickly, Yang Xianmao must figure out what went wrong.

Yang Xianmao's gaze inadvertently fell on the bucket in the corner of the ward, and there was still half a bucket of potion in it, which was left by the person who came to spray the medicine before after spraying. And explain that you can continue to spray for these two days, especially dirty places.

He walked over and crouched down to examine the potion, which he hadn't noticed before, but now that he looked closely, he realized that something was wrong. Because this potion is relatively light, the medicinal taste is not enough. Yang Xianmao immediately asked the guy to pick up a pair of medicines according to the recipe of his disinfectant potion, boiled them out, and then compared the colors of the two, and the results were obviously different.

Yang Xianmao had a terrible speculation in his heart, and he had to find out. Yang Xianmao immediately ordered the carriage to be prepared and went straight to the north gate of the city wall.

Cai Jing is the commander of the flood control and drainage rescue, and his office is on the north gate tower, which is facing the greatest threat of flooding. Most of the gatehouse had been demolished to keep the flood water at bay, and it was later rebuilt. But Cai Jing rarely spends time inside, and he is usually on the construction site, checking the flood control and drainage conditions everywhere.

So he wasn't there when Yang Xianmao came to the city gate, but the guards immediately recognized Yang Xianmao. Because Yang Xianmao had come to Cai Qin to talk about the matter last time, he immediately received him very respectfully, Yang Xianmao asked the guards to go and find Cai Jing back immediately, and he had urgent matters to discuss with him.

The guard didn't dare to delay, and immediately called in people to look for Cai Jing separately. Cai Jing was soon found, and Cai Jing was deploying the dredging bags to be sent to the city wall, preparing to repair the collapsed city wall.

Hearing that Yang Xianmao was coming, he hurried back. Seeing Yang Xianmao's gloomy face at a glance, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, and hurriedly invited Yang Xianmao into the living room of the city gate tower to sit down.

Yang Xianmao waited for the attendants to take the fragrant tea and withdrew, and after closing the door, he asked, "I asked you, the prescription I gave you to prevent the plague, did you really disinfect it according to the prescription?"

Cai Jing was stunned for a moment and said: "It's according to the prescription, don't say it, your medicine really works, after spraying, there has been no plague until now." ”

"To tell you the truth, I've checked the medicine you dispensed, and it's completely different from the color of the medicine I dispensed according to the prescription, including the smell. Say, what the hell is going on?"

Cai Jing smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "This, it is true that I have done a little trick, I think this potion needs to be equipped with too many medicines." Anyway, if you sprinkle the potion on the ground, no one knows what the effect will be, and no one will come to check it. So I picked out some of the medicines, deducted the expensive ones, and used only two flavors. In this way, you can make a lot of money, otherwise the profit would not be so high. Yang Gongzi is doing business to make money. This kind of thing ......"

Yang Xianmao raised his hand and slapped Cai Jing from the chair. He covered his left cheek, which was suddenly swollen, and looked at Yang Xianmao in horror.

Yang Xianmao pointed his finger at him and rebuked angrily: "You bastard, do you know how many people you will kill like this? Let me tell you, there is a plague in the capital! Not only my medical centers, but many medical centers have patients who have died of the plague. If you strictly follow my prescription for dispensing and sterilizing, although you dare not say that there will be no plague, it will definitely not happen on a large scale. There won't be many people infected with the plague, and even if they did, they wouldn't be so sick. I never understood what was going on, but now I understand that it was the result of your cutting corners. Damn it!"

Cai Jing was so shocked that he knelt on the ground and said, "I didn't know it would be like this, Yang Gongzi, I will immediately send someone to refill the medicine, and I will pay for it myself to atone for my sins." ”

"It's late, it's late! The plague has gained momentum, and this thing has an incubation period. There are already a lot of people who have become ill, that is, many people have contracted the plague. ”

"Make amends, childe, give me a chance to atone for my sins. ”

So far, it can only be like this, Yang Xianmao said angrily: "Okay, you quickly organize the re-dispensing, you must spray all the places with the prepared medicine according to my prescription and requirements, and you can't leave any dead ends, including every household." If you are not allowed to enter, you must take measures. Tell them that this is a necessary action to eradicate the plague, and that no one is allowed to resist it. Coercive measures may be used when necessary. In addition, the whole city was immediately mobilized to bury all those who died of the plague, no matter whose bodies they were. Family members are not allowed to carry them back to the funeral. Special affairs, don't talk about any feelings. Corpses that die from the plague will continue to spread the plague, infecting more people. The body must be cremated or buried deeply. ”

Yang Xianmao said, and Cai Jing nodded. Panicked and uneasy confessions.

Cai Jing didn't have the ability and ability to bring disaster to the country and the people at this time, and he didn't have that kind of thought, Cai Jing just wanted to use his power to repay Yang Xianmao, who had the grace of knowing him, but he didn't expect it to be self-defeating and ruin a big thing. Now that the plague epidemic has killed many people, if Yang Xianmao tells this story, he will die.

So after Yang Xianmao made the arrangement, he was about to brush his sleeves away, Cai Jing immediately knelt down and climbed a few steps in front of Yang Xianmao, and said pitifully: "I should die, I will definitely atone for my sins." Young Master Yang, please don't tell me about this, or I'll be finished. ”

Yang Xianmao said hatefully: "If I want to say it, I won't come to you now, and I won't explain it to you." You still have some ability in this flood fighting, drainage and rescue work, and your organization is well organized, and you have achieved fruitful results in flood fighting and rescue work. Now that the danger has not been eliminated, you still need to continue to exert your ability to lead the flood fighting and rescue efforts. As long as you can handle this matter well, I can not expose this matter, and count you as atonement. To err is human. It's also to blame that I didn't make this matter clear to you before. ”

"No, Young Master Yang, it's my own ghost who is good at making claims. I won't dare to do it again in the future, and I will strictly follow my son's instructions. ”

Yang Xianmao said: "Okay, you hurry up and do what I said before, the sooner the better." - By the way, you also have to send people to the whole city to search for them, and if there is a patient who suddenly has a high fever in a short period of time, immediately send it to the hospital and pharmacy for medical treatment. ”

Cai Jing agreed repeatedly, saying that he must make meritorious service for his crimes.

This Cai Jing is a person who does what he says, and his style of doing things is vigorous and resolute, especially this time he made a big mistake, and he wants to show himself in front of Yang Xianmao, hoping to get Yang Xianmao's forgiveness, so he is even faster.

In the evening, most of the bodies of the sick who had died of the plague were forcibly transported by the yamen to an open space in the city and burned all. The family members were very emotional at first, and they reasoned with the officials and officials of the yamen. However, on the one hand, Cai Jing sent officials to explain that this was to prevent the corpses from spreading the plague to others, and on the other hand, he sent a number of heavily armed soldiers to set up a number of cordons at the site of the cremation.

At the same time, all the soldiers involved in transporting the corpses were involved, and these soldiers did not talk about face. It's good that the other party listens to that, but if he doesn't listen, he will be punched and kicked, and the body will be forcibly taken away and cremated. Yang Xianmao frowned a little after hearing this, but extraordinary means must be used in extraordinary times. Cai Jing is very simple about this.

After nightfall, a large number of people appeared all over the city, spraying the streets and houses and all the dead corners again. And knock on the door from house to door to enter and spray the potion. Some were denied entry by large households, so they reported the news to Cai Jing.

Those who refused to enter the door were forced to break in with their soldiers and pulled their masters aside, while Minzhuang quickly began to spray medicine. After doing this several times, many families didn't want to let Minzhuang enter the house to spray potion, but when they got the news, they didn't dare to refuse.

Yang Xianmao sent his men to all parts of the city to inquire about the situation. All you get is spraying potions, and there's no problem with the potions. It can be seen that Cai Jing has no means to violate the yang and yin this time. He also knew that this was the bottom line of Yang Xianmao's patience. If he doesn't do well this time, he is afraid that he will not have a chance to perform in the future.

Although the remedial measures after the incident were timely, as Yang Xianmao had predicted, the plague in the capital still broke out. Because it had been delayed for seven or eight days, it was not until the incubation period of the sick people had passed that the plague was discovered, and this period of time was enough for quite a few people to be infected with the plague, but fortunately, this plague was not particularly bad. The mortality rate is one or two percent.

Many patients arrive at the clinic and soon fall into a deep coma and die. Yang Xianmao has no choice but to deal with it, and dealing with the plague is not something that can be solved with a scalpel.