Chapter 160: Sharing Sorrow and Suffering (Part II)
87_87379 refugees began to set off one after another, the army blockading Tianjin Gate was also being pulled, the Tai Hospital also came up with a prescription for epidemic prevention, there are nearly 100 prescriptions, but most of them need to use Coptis chinensis, Forsythia, Sophora Sophora, Rhubarb, Shengdi, Zhimu These Chinese herbal medicines, Li Dacheng asked about the medicinal properties of these medicinal materials, in addition to the great bitterness and great cold in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, Li Dacheng got the result that these Chinese herbal medicines have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, from this point of view, as long as the medicine of these medicinal materials is roughly used, It has a certain role in the prevention and control of plague.
Of course, there are many prescriptions involving other Chinese medicinal materials, and the reason why Li Dacheng asked these medicinal materials is also simple, that is, because these medicinal materials are cheap and large compared to other medicinal materials.
Under the premise of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, Li Dacheng asked slightly, more antibacterial and anti-inflammatory Chinese medicinal materials are available, and the price is cheap and large, so that the hospital will continue to make prescriptions, a full thirty useful medicines for the prevention and treatment of plague, after the discussion of the hospital will be freshly baked, how effective is the effect, after a try in Jinmen, after the best of the best, it is the most suitable epidemic prevention drug.
In the name of epidemic prevention, Zhenwei Army belongs, but in order to test how effective it is to kill fleas, a very large number of fleas have been collected, and these fleas were naturally sent to the front line of Tianjin with Chinese medicinal materials.
These are just a small step, but the real benefits are in Li Chengyou's body, after the Boxer Rebellion and the Jingu War in the Beijing-Tianjin area. Many of the businesses have gone out of business, and with them a large number of unemployed, unearned and knowledgeable accountants, shopkeepers, and proprietors have been created.
The purchase of medicinal materials requires manpower, and the livelihood of these people is also available, based on these people, and then select a group of more clever men. Li Cheng has an acquisition network that can radiate the whole country.
In the name of purchasing medicinal materials for epidemic prevention, tens of thousands of people dragged their families to the south and west, and Li Dacheng also wrote to Li Chengyou to build a business specializing in the purchase of Chinese medicinal materials under the name of Dispelling Plague Hall.
It takes time to prevent the epidemic, it takes time to test the effectiveness of the prescription, and it takes even more time to build a nationwide purchase and sales network. All these are being carried out in an orderly manner under the premise of compromise by all parties.
In addition to opening a plague hall to purchase medicinal materials, Li Chengyou also had a secret mission over there, spending money to buy a way out of the country for Cao Baofu's Lao Cao Yong, which could be regarded as a timely means. The Qing Dynasty was in turmoil, and some rich and powerful old owners wanted to avoid living overseas, and the timing was right, the excuse was right, and the action should be a matter of course.
Tsarist Russia is easy to do, the border line between them and the Qing Dynasty is too long, and the focus of this plan is Tsarist Russia, the people sent out to spread the plague. Most of them had to go to Tsarist Russia, and the border bandits and the Black Death were raging in China, and Li Dacheng wanted to see it. How can Tsarist Russia deal with such a situation, if it can't deal with it, the result will be simpler, and the country will be ruined!
Qi Shiduo led the army to the Jiaoao area of Shandong, this is the British want to contain the Germans, thinking about the distribution of power between Yantai and Jiaoao, Li Dacheng also has a clear plan for the future. Rooted in Jiaoao!
In Yanwei and Weiwei, the power of Britain and the United States is relatively large. After decades of colonization, the British have deep roots and do not shake the British mainland. In the struggle in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, no matter what is gained or lost, the biggest loss is still his own family.
As for the United States, they have no intention of colonizing, and it is difficult to curry favor with them in terms of interests, and it is difficult to win their support; compared with these two countries, the Germans, who are eager to expand and have suffered a blow in Jingu, are better to have dealings with, and as long as they are handled properly, they may not be able to get the support of the Germans.
Independent development, Li Dacheng also wants to! But science and technology can not be explained clearly in a few words, especially the industrial base, scientific and technological things, he may be able to point out some, but the industrial base, not spoken, but real, down-to-earth hard work, at this time, without the support of the powers, it seems difficult to build their own industrial base independently! Hard!
Although there are a lot of things, there are only two or three things that can be done in front of him, one is to relocate refugees, the second is to transfer the forces of the Zhenwei Army, the third is to prevent the epidemic, and the fourth is to let Gui Shun please the old ladies, in addition, Li Dacheng has nothing else to do.
The means of pleasing the old ladies are very simple, Shanxi has no place to stay, relative to the capital, Shanxi is a poor mountain and bad water for the old ladies, Rong Lu went in a hurry the last time, and he didn't bring any useful things, of course, this is useful for the old ladies.
Let Gui Shun dredge up the relationship and get the old ladies out of Shanxi from the Forbidden City, it's also easy now, it's easier to send someone to send it, what is this? This is Gui Shun's filial piety to the old ladies.
The Eight-Nation Alliance is on the side, and the epidemic prevention in Jingu is also in full swing, but Li Dacheng is pampering Guishun to please the old ladies, this is the so-called characteristics of the Qing Dynasty, and the Queen Mother is no trivial matter!
Even if Gui Shun puts down the military affairs of the Beijing Division, he must take care of the Queen Mother first, right? Of course, there are also interests in this, the current Forbidden City, the eunuch is in charge, cleaning up the queen mother's royal belongings, and no one can say anything if they don't?
The queen mother's belongings are neatly organized, and Li Dacheng also has dozens of boxes of good things from the palace, and the benefits promised are pitiful, nothing more than dozens of tickets, and the eunuchs are afraid of death, right?
Through this stall, Li Dacheng and Gu Qixing are also training Gui Shun, this goes to Shanxi, Gu Qixing can't follow, today's Gui Beile is not the poor flag man who was alone in the past, the current Gui Beile represents a major force in the Qing Dynasty, the affairs of the Beijing division need Gu Qixing to stand up, and Gui Shun is the second housekeeper Yang Hongyuan, this person is sleek, the means to please the old ladies, if he can't, he is not qualified to be Gui Shun's second housekeeper.
Sending away Gui Shun, who was shouldering the heavy burden, the news of epidemic prevention came from the Jinmen, the reason why the plague was terrifying was that it was almost 100% mortal, and it was almost impossible to survive after being infected.
The plague that broke out with the tail of the autumn tiger was much more vicious than the autumn tiger, and its fierceness far exceeded Li Dacheng's estimate, and Cao Baofu followed Li Dacheng's request. After recording the general symptoms, under the protection of a large number of anti-epidemic medicines, the number of people who died of the plague in Jinmen was still uncountable.
The fastest speed of lethality was more than ten hours, and it was accompanied by a large amount of coughing up blood. Although most of the corpses cremated in Jinmen were old Cao Yong, and their resistance was a little weaker, the speed of death was too fast.
Li Dacheng didn't have much research on the plague, but he still knew a little about infectious diseases. Severe infectious diseases transmitted through the respiratory tract are the most lethal, and coughing up blood should be regarded as an obvious sign of the disease.
The fatality rate of a virulent infectious disease transmitted by the respiratory tract is nearly 100 percent, and its terrible process can be imagined, Cao Baofu's record of the plague in Jinmen. It started half a month ago, and the record of the first half of the month is considered professional, and the more it is recorded in the later stage, the more sloppy it is, and the reason is simple, Lang Zhong, who made the record before, also got the plague, and it's gone!
Half a month ago, the plague was lethal in about five to seven days. There are sporadic patients in Jinmen City, and with the help of Jinmen Langzhong, people trapped in Jinmen. Certain epidemic prevention measures were also taken, and during that time, the number of people who died of plague in Jinmen was not very large, and dozens of people a day were considered too many.
The loss of control of the epidemic in Tianjin was not caused by Li Dacheng's implementation of the plan to share sorrow and suffering. Rather, it was because of time that the route of transmission of the plague changed. Spread by mosquito flea bites or direct contaminants, escalating to respiratory transmission. There are many causal relationships in this, Li Dacheng knows some, but it is impossible to be specific, after all, he is not a virus expert.
After the medicinal materials and medicines arrived in Jinmen, the epidemic situation there was not effectively controlled, which also exposed a drawback of traditional Chinese medicine, which was good at recuperation and neglected treatment.
As far as the system is concerned, Chinese medicine is undoubtedly the most systematic medical system in the world today, but compared with Western medicine, his shortcomings are also extremely obvious, because of Confucianism, Chinese medicine is much worse than Western medicine in terms of treatment methods, and surgical treatment is even more so.
There are no physical measures for diseases transmitted by the respiratory tract, and it is difficult to effectively control the spread of diseases, physical measures, to put it bluntly, are wearing masks and gloves, and the conditions are limited.
When Li Dacheng proposed this method, the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital didn't care, it was nothing more than a few layers of cotton cloth on their mouths, as long as they did not tamper with the classics and theories of traditional Chinese medicine, masks, spirits, and quicklime Chinese medicine were still acceptable.
Different from the old-fashioned imagination of Li Dacheng, several imperial doctors also proposed the method of boiling cotton cloth in salt water and supplementing it with calcined gypsum after drying.
Many potions were defeated in Jinmen, although they were not completely defeated, but they could only delay the time of death, and the delay in this period was a blessing rather than a curse for the patients, and the plague was delayed for each day of torture.
The cremation team composed of Lao Caoyong and the surviving people of Jinmen has really become a death squad with no return, Lao Caoyong has orders with him, and the people of Jinmen have their families behind them, and the work of burning the corpses is still continuing under the support of these thoughts, but there are very few people who come back.
From Jinmen to Tanggu, a distance of 100 miles, the Zhenwei army dropped nearly 300,000 corpses, and the foreign devils also left 60,000 or 70,000.
In the letters, Cao Baofu did not reveal a trace of despair, but Li Dacheng could feel this despair in the air, which was different from war, under the shadow of the plague, the remnants of the people in the Jingu area, their despair can be imagined.
In the process of cremating the corpse, Cao Baofu has also been carrying out a plan to share sorrow and suffering, dozens of boxes of fleas sent by the Jingshi side, and under the operation of Lao Cao's brave death squad, sucking the blood of the sick and even the dead every day, the rats in the Jinmen realm, Lao Caoyong also caught a lot, and now these things are raised in a remote place outside the city, and the daily casualties paid over there are also very amazing.
These are nothing, the key is Cao Baofu's actions, he asked people to bake fleas, rats and other unsightly things, and tried it with live people, and the baked powder will also make people spread the plague, which is the key, this alone has solved a lot of trouble for Li Dacheng.
With living creatures, running around on their own land, even if the measures are strict, it is inevitable that there will be accidents, and the baked powder is different, these things, as long as they are packed into porcelain bottles and glass bottles, sealed with wax liquid, even if they are safe, at most add some packaging.
Cao Baofu found this way very ingeniously, and informed Cao Baofu to try the method of drying and extracting powder, and at the same time added the use of masks and gloves, Li Dacheng is also waiting for the result, the plague is afraid that it will not be tamed lightly, and many things should be cautious. (To be continued).