Chapter 20: The Flea

"I thought you sat up and touched the fleas!" Zhang Zhaohua never admitted that it was his prank, but leaned on him: "The designation is that you didn't wash it at night, and you still had fleas, insects and mosquitoes in the corners, and woke you up in the middle of the night!"

Gao Chi was originally very angry, but as if she had told the truth, he also began to get worried, holding his stomach with one hand and scratching his back with the other: "There are a few midges that have poured in today, but I took a shower and washed it clean!

"Pour it in," Zhang Zhaohua sat up and asked, "Where did you pour it in, in the sleeve or at the neckline?"

"Neckline," Gao Chi said, "either crushed to death, or shaken off by me." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" He pointed to his back for Zhang Zhaohua to see, Zhang Zhaohua couldn't see clearly in the dark, and he didn't find anything after touching a few handfuls according to the direction of Gao Chi's fingers, which is also to blame for the meat on Gao Chi's shoulder and back is too thick, and it is porcelain meat, and the touch feels the same as the ivory version.

Zhang Zhaohua stretched out his hand to reach the candlestick next to the bed, Gao Chi stopped her, and asked her what she was making a fuss about, Zhang Zhaohua said: "Don't you know, the place where the midge bites will have pimples, this thing is still just born out of the snow-melted mud, how many pickles are brought, and if you bite someone else, you will bite you, do you know who lives on the side of Qihuamen and Chongrenmen in the east, the sanitary conditions are so poor, there are infectious diseases everywhere, what should I do if you are infected!"

"How can it be as serious as you say," Gao Chi shook his head and said: "The epidemic prevention in Beiping City is the best. ”

However, it turned out that because the two markets of Chongrenmen and Qihuamen were mostly engaged in the occupations of cart fishing, printing and dyeing jade, shoulder-shouldering and load-bearing, and sinking wells and cars, there were many people and chaos, and the infection was very fast when there was any disease, so this place was the hardest hit area of the disease. In the period from the former Yuan Dynasty to the Zheng Dynasty, there was an outbreak in these two markets, but at that time, there was a shortage of soldiers, who could take care of whom, but the authorities sent troops to drive them away, and they were not allowed to come to the inner city, only opened the outer door, and let these patients scatter to other places, and the small counties of Wanping and Daxing suffered.

In the third year of Hongwu, King Yan began to pass through Beiping, and also noticed the problems of these two markets. The opinion of the political envoy of Beiping is to dig ditches and build brick walls in those two square cities, and if there is an outbreak of disease, send troops to block and control traffic; but Yan Wang means that it is better to block than to sparse, and it is necessary to prevent and control it from the root, he summoned the doctors of the medical hall in Beiping City and the doctors of the palace to carry out epidemic prevention measures in this place, and distribute lime and alum in winter and spring every year, and it is necessary to watch every household sprinkle the inside and outside of the wall, several smelters and printing and dyeing factories are separated by fire walls, especially the smelter, the heat is steaming in summer, and many nearby residents are suffering from heat stroke, which is much more terrible than general heat stroke, it is possible to faint and then not wake up, and the mortality rate is very high。

In addition to these, the royal doctor will also be at a fixed time, The fixed place is to boil the decoction, a pot is the decoction of wormwood honeysuckle, used to wash hands and wash the body, a pot is used to drink the soup of tonifying the qi and benefiting the qi, every year in May and June 6 to supervise the exposure of clothes, so down, it is really very effective, Beiping from the seventh year of Hongwu, there is no large-scale infectious disease, Gao Chi these days to the eastern suburbs to supervise the distribution of wheat seeds, back and forth through Qihuamen, where is also carrying out scabies, the palace doctor is Liu Guan to the cauldron to mix medicinal materials, see their brothers come in from the door, are caught, told them to wash their hands and face before leaving.

"Doctor Liu is asking me to take a medicinal bath at night, I am very tired, and I came out after a lap in the water," Gao Chi scratched his head and said, "It's too late today, let's ask for water to wash it again tomorrow morning." ”

The two of them lay down again, but the sleepiness was gone, and there was no one to talk to.

"Hey, I found something today, it's very small, but I just don't understand," Zhang Zhaohua suddenly had something in her heart, she turned sideways, put the quilt under her armpits, and said to Gao Chi: "Listen to it." ”

Gao Chi squinted his eyes and answered lazily.

"The dowry of the two county lords," Zhang Zhaohua said: "It is divided into internal and external offices, and this external office is handed over to the long history of the palace, and it is up to him to attract investment and procurement, right?"

"When I counted the dowry," Zhang Zhaohua said, "I saw that the roster was written that the fabrics woven in the southern places such as Hangzhou silk, Suzhou silk and Songjiang cloth were handed over to a businessman named Sun Bin to procure, and he took over this job in August last year and went to the palace in November." But after Ge Changshi saw it, he said that it was unqualified, shoddy or something, in short, it didn't work, but he personally went to Suzhou. You should know about this, right?"

Gao Chi said: "Remember, when we were in the Zhuwang Pavilion, didn't Ge Changshi come to visit, saying that everything had been procured and that he had to go back first." ”

"That's right," Zhang Zhaohua said: "The fabrics that Ge Changshi personally bought from Suzhou and Hangzhou, I have taken a closer look at them today, and I think they are not as good as those purchased by Sun Bin." ”

This businessman named Sun Bin is a southerner, took over the work of the palace to purchase the dowry, and went to Suzhou and Hangzhou to contact the weaving workshop, at this time there is no weaving bureau like the factory, the largest weaving workshop in Suzhou and Hangzhou is just a two-room house covering an area of dozens of square meters, and there are twelve or thirteen weavers busy in it. The palace asked for more than 300 horses of material in one go, not only for Yongan Yongping. Such a large batch of cloth cannot be made by a weaving workshop, for example, Sun Bin contacted seventeen weaving workshops of all sizes and rushed to work overnight to produce all of them.

The thing was sent to the palace, but it was deducted by Ge Changshi on the grounds that the weaver was rough and unqualified, and also deducted the silver taels that should have been paid - this time Sun Bin was naturally not convinced, and Ge Changshi made trouble, but before he came to the door for the third time, something happened in his hometown, and it is said that his father and uncle were tied up by the villagers and sent to the government, the specific reason is very vague, but it must be a very serious matter.

Because at this time, the emperor used the old man to govern the countryside, and ordinary civil affairs such as neighborhood disputes did not go to the government, but let the grain chief and Li Zheng adjudicate, and only then went to the government to complain if something happened very big. The Sun family didn't know what was going on, but it was a little scary to be able to sue the government, and his family was still the big landlord in that place.

Sun Bin didn't have time to break up the matter at hand, so he hurriedly left Beiping and went south, these materials were put in the palace, Ge Changshi said that the materials were not good, he wanted to go to Jiangnan in person, King Yan and the princess didn't want him to go, why bother to go in person. But Ge Changshi himself pleaded guilty and said that he was the wrong person, and the errand was not done, so he was ashamed to handle it himself, and the princess had to let him go.

"This batch of materials is in the warehouse," Zhang Zhaohua said: "The key is in Ge Changshi's hand, Ge Changshi went to the barracks with his father, and when I went to see it, it happened that Mrs. Changshi was in the treasure house, and a button on the front of her dress fell off, and only the craftsmen of the treasure house would pick it up." I asked her to ask for the key to the warehouse, she didn't seem to know, but she replied to the long history of the division after a while to find the key to bring me the key, I opened the warehouse to see, the materials are all good materials, there is no fault at all, Seiko, I also compared the materials purchased at the back, I think it is still this businessman surnamed Sun bought this batch of quality is a little better. ”

"You say," Zhang Zhaohua whispered to Gao Chi: "Is there something wrong with Ge Changshi and this Sun Bin, otherwise how can such a good material be of unqualified quality, and there is no need to go to Jiangnan to buy it again." ”

Gao Chi said in a daze: "Where will Ge Cheng have any holiday with Sun Bin, maybe there is something else wrong with this batch of materials, haven't you taken a closer look?"