Chapter 177: The Curse of the Far East (Part II)

Following the outbreak or sporadic occurrence of plague in the three eastern provinces, the south, and Korea, plague has been found in Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Laos, and the United States.

According to the news obtained from Gui Shun's house in the embassy area, there may also be plague in Africa and West Asia, but it still needs a certain amount of time to confirm, calculate the time, Cao Baofu's way should have reached Europe, and it is only a matter of time before the plague breaks out in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other countries.

During the period when the peace talks ended, there seemed to be a dirty dispute between the devils of the oceans, and there was only one country that was targeted, that is, Lao Maozi of Tsarist Russia, and the outbreak of plague in the three eastern provinces was a little strange, and it was difficult for Lao Maozi to get rid of his own involvement.

When the plague broke out in the Jingu area, their warships went back and forth in the Bohai Bay dozens of times, and they transferred troops from the three eastern provinces to Jingu, and also transferred troops from Jingu to the three eastern provinces.

If you maliciously guess, it is likely that the plague has already broken out in the three eastern provinces, and the Tsarist side has concealed it; If it is more malicious, that is, after the outbreak of the plague in the Tsarist army, Lao Maozi deliberately spread the plague to Yingkou and Luda, and then the plague outbreak of the Tsarist Russian army in the three eastern provinces was just a pretext.

Of course, the spread of the plague in all directions does not rule out the involvement of the Qing Dynasty, perhaps it was the refugees from Beijing who spread the plague to the three eastern provinces, but, no matter how it is calculated, Lao Maozi's side is guilty in the eyes of the foreign devils, in the eyes of other foreign devils, the first time the plague broke out in the three eastern provinces, Tsarist Russia should note the envoys of various countries, fulfill the responsibility of informing, Tsarist Russia's concealment and failure to report, resulting in the spread of plague around the world. This responsibility cannot be shirked by the old man of Tsarist Russia.

The devils of the seas moved so late for a month, and this month was enough for two hundred old people to arrive at the main ports of the continents of Europe, Asia, the United States and Africa with the plague. What does the plague bring?

It would bring great panic, and when the people of the major ports fled inland, the plague would also spread with them, and the occasional plague after the war was used, and the lethality was so great.

After the pace of peace talks and secret agreements stopped, Li Dacheng also became idle. In addition to the daily basic training, most of the time he stayed in the theater of Baylor Mansion.

If he doesn't sort out the relationship with the devils of all the oceans, he can't leave Beijing lightly, whether it is in Shandong or Manmeng, and now he wants to develop. It is inseparable from the support of foreign devils, whether it is the purchase of machinery or the purchase of technology, once the foreign devils obstruct it, many things cannot be done.

Self-reliance can only be thought of, the industrial base of European and American countries cannot be built by their own exploration, mining, smelting, and industrial manufacturing. In these aspects, the whole Qing Dynasty needs to learn from others.

Staying in the theater, Li Dacheng is not a simple pastime, he is directing people to rehearse. In addition to Peking Opera, storytelling, allegro, cross talk and other repertoire are all within his field of vision. On the recommendation of opera, Kunqu opera, Henan opera, Lu opera, more than a dozen kinds of plays in one script. After having a play, it will be changed to a joke, and this project is also a big project that is quite vast.

Repertoire arranged by Lee Dae-sung. It is only based on the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Sui and Tang Romances, but the scope of the target is a little smaller, and it is not difficult for the literati in the capital to arrange blood and strategy into the repertoire.

Now this environment is also conducive to repertoire like this, in addition to enthusiasm and strategy, you can also add some loyal repertoire, different from the old repertoire, Li Dacheng's new repertoire is somewhat similar to the model play, in addition to being catchy, it is extremely educational.

The devils of all seas looked around in panic under the shadow of the plague, but the people of Beijing were enjoying Li Dacheng's newly arranged repertoire, after these repertoire was performed, the results achieved were good, but unfortunately, there were no famous artists involved, and now these famous artists are also somewhat shelf, thinking that these things arranged by Li Dacheng are too superficial and cheap!

In this regard, Li Dacheng is also helpless, since the fight against King Qing's father and son, the people of Baylor Mansion have been very restrained, too presumptuous, easy to attract a group of attackers, Gui Shun now needs Zang Feng, and when he leaves the Beijing Division, Li Dacheng will find an opportunity to theorize with these famous masters.

The impact of the plague, it takes time to increase the heat, and more than ten days have passed, and there is more and more news from the south, whether it is the three eastern provinces or the south, the plague has not spread, which can be regarded as the benefit of the Qing rule, right? When a government decree went down, the major commercial ports closed one after another, thousands of people were busy fighting the plague, a few cauldrons were set up in the places where people gathered, a few pots of herbs were boiled, and people who came and went covered their mouths and noses with old clothes, and the plague was contained.

But Lao Maozi in the three eastern provinces was not so lucky, and the Tsarist Russian army that entered the Kou on the fifth route had begun to retreat on a large scale, leaving tens of thousands of corpses along the way, because of these corpses, the people of the three eastern provinces also paid a considerable price.

The reasons are somewhat ridiculous, and some are sad, picking up foreign fish! The Russian army, which was defeated by the plague, left too many things behind, and the supplies and the like were better, but picking up the clothes of the dead and picking up the rifles left by the dead caused a small-scale plague in the three eastern provinces.

Fortunately, Li Hongzhang had already issued a decree, and with the means of epidemic prevention, the casualties over there were not very large, and the sporadic outbreaks of plague were mostly suppressed.

Lao Maozi is very sad, the foreign devils are not much better, there is no epidemic prevention means in the early stage, resulting in a large-scale outbreak of plague in various countries and colonies, the hastily outbreak of plague is menacing, the excessive mortality rate has brought a higher wave of panic, the people who avoid the plague have also become the people who spread the plague, the fastest 24 hours to die, the slowest time is seven or eight days, the menacing plague has brought great pain to the world, especially in densely populated cities, as well as in tropical and subtropical regions, where mosquitoes and flies, also became an accomplice to the plague.

The source of the plague outbreak is mostly in the harbor city, where people come from all directions, and the direction is also from all directions, when they blockade the harbor like the Qing Dynasty, the pace of the plague. It has long since gone with the scattered flow of people.

European countries have not experienced the Black Death for hundreds of years, and European countries are more densely populated today than they were hundreds of years ago. Although there were measures to prevent the plague, many of them could not be implemented in a hurry.

To contain the plague, the burning of corpses is the key, and most of the countries that have broken out of the plague have been able to do so. Because of the faith, the cremation of the corpse could not be carried out, and the source of the plague would always exist, so it was impossible for the epidemic to be controlled unless the person died.

The shadow of the plague looms over the world. The foreign devils who entered the Qing Dynasty were also severely criticized, and the Eight-Nation Coalition did not effectively block the plague that occurred in the Jingu area of the Qing Dynasty, which is the reason why countries around the world think it is.

The response time of more than half a month also allowed countries around the world to conclude the cause of the outbreak of the plague, and the massacre of the Qing people by the Eight-Nation Coalition in the Jingu area was the cause of the outbreak of the plague, and some countries spread the plague. It's called a curse from the Far East.

European and American countries are not very familiar with the Eastern world, and the emergence of the term Far Eastern curse. It just fits in with the mysterious Eastern world they understand, which also makes the governments of the great powers suffer great pressure from the people.

Retire!

Stop the war!

Such a call also spread to the south of the Qing Dynasty, and the Times, which still had some authority in the Qing Dynasty, also published a lot of news about the curse of the Far East. Looking at the translated version of The Times, Li Dacheng burst out laughing in Baylor House. This result was much, much better than he had expected.

As for the deaths and injuries caused by the plague. He doesn't care! As long as there is no large-scale outbreak of plague in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, other countries have a relationship with him, and they all die!

Most countries should deal with the plague is not good, but there are also countries in the calm response to the plague, that is, small Japan, the details of the epidemic prevention in Jinmen, small Japan is clear, although the plague has also affected many cities in small Japan, but the damage caused is very limited, although there is no sufficient amount of Chinese medicinal materials purchased from the Qing Dynasty, but small Japan itself also has a traditional Chinese medicine heritage, detoxification and blood soup, is not a difficult to configure medicine, as long as the pharmacology is understood, there can be dozens of similar prescriptions, there can be hundreds.

Similarly, North Korea has not been affected much, they pay more attention to traditional Chinese medicine than little Japan, the latitude is about the same, the medicinal materials produced are also about the same, and after stealing from the three eastern provinces and small Japan, North Korea can also stop the raging plague.

Plague and cholera are both poor diseases, without good sanitary conditions, it is most likely to cause these two kinds of deadly infectious diseases, but everything is divided into two sides, even the Qing people who are accustomed to the plague have undoubtedly survived the plague, as for the people of other countries, this depends on fate.

After a cursory understanding of the world situation, Li Dacheng was not in a hurry to throw out the medicinal materials in his hands, and talked to Li Hongzhang about the price of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions last time.

A pair of detoxification and blood decoction requires more than four taels of medicinal materials, according to the current price, a pair of an average of three taels of silver, if the amount of traditional Chinese medicine can be reduced by half, this value will be great.

Boiling medicine, boiling medicine is just a process of extraction, if you take it with the medicine residue, the efficacy must be higher, too clever method, Li Dacheng does not have it, the simplest way to grind the Chinese herbal medicine into powder, after boiling and taking it with the residue, is the method he came up with.

What the hospital needs to verify is only the efficacy, the detoxification and blood decoction belongs to the great bitterness and cold, it is easy to have diarrhea after eating too much, this alone is enough to verify the efficacy, find a group of people with similar physiques, take the decoction and powder powder respectively, and you can find out the appropriate ratio in a short time.

Pills and tablets are also within the scope of Li Dacheng's practice, the pill making process is complicated, and it was eliminated in the first round, and the tablets with talcum powder added have the lowest cost, but the effect still needs to be clinically verified.

Similar to Li Dacheng's speculation, the Tai Hospital has also made some gains in the past few days, the effect of the powder powder is very good, the effect of the medicine powder is about five yuan, the effect is similar to that of a pair of medicines, and this time the doubling of the drug has been reduced by as much as eight times.

The efficacy of crude tablets is also there, slower than the effect of brewed powder, and the efficacy is also a lot worse, the imperial doctors of the hospital speculate that this crude pill also has a certain epidemic prevention effect, but how much effect, ten days of clinical trials is obviously not enough.

This clinical trial is just a small attempt, there will definitely be a difference between boiling Chinese herbal medicine and brewing powder, this difference should be in the toxic side effects, Chinese medicine wants to transform from prescription to medicine, but it is not a month or two months can be done, this road is also very long.

The method is available, the toxic side effects are unknown, compared with the plague, this poisonous side effect is nothing, compared to the huge benefits, this toxic side effect is nothing?

According to the ratio obtained in the hurry of the Tai Hospital, Li Chengyou in the south was instructed to purchase equipment to powder and make tablets of medicinal herbs, and Li Dacheng sat in Baylor Mansion and waited for the fat sheep from various countries to take the initiative to come up and be slaughtered. (To be continued)

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