Chapter 110: Fighting the Epidemic
In order to control the spread of the plague, Yang Yun asked the county government to issue a notice in the county seat of Wu County. It is suggested that the people of Wu County should suspend large-scale wedding marriages and birthday banquets, not hold large-scale gatherings, and not go to crowded places, and a series of other measures.
With Yang Yun's series of strategies, the spread of the plague slowly slowed down, and the number of new sick patients slowly decreased.
However, the biggest difficulty in front of Yang Yun now is how to treat these patients who have fallen ill, and Yang Yun carefully prescribes the medicine. After the county government asked the county soldiers to boil traditional Chinese medicine and give it to these sick people, the condition of many people has improved significantly.
There are some people with mild symptoms who have even slowly recovered. However, for some seriously ill patients, the effect of this drug is not obvious enough. In the past few days, many people have come, but none of them can survive, and they have been brought to life by the disease.
Although most of these dead patients were old people with weak resistance, this also gave Yang Yun a great sense of frustration.
In this situation, Yang Yun only stubbornly continued to conduct research. After discussing with some experienced doctors in the county, Yang Yun adjusted some medicinal materials and increased the dosage of medicine, so that the effect was significantly better.
Another group of patients with mild conditions have been cured, and some very serious patients are slowly improving. Seeing this phenomenon, Yang Yun and the doctors who were busy together finally showed a smile.
But new troubles followed, although Wu County is located in the mountains, the reserves of all kinds of medicinal materials are very rich. But in the face of thousands of people infected with the plague, the medicinal materials still began to be tight.
Due to the lack of supply of medicinal materials, the doctors in the clinic had to reduce the dosage of the patient's medication. As a result, the efficacy of the medicine has deteriorated again, and some people whose condition has slowly improved have their symptoms recurring.
Yang Yun found Zhong Wenrui, Liu Yuan, Yao Xia and others, and discussed with them the thorny problem of how to find medicinal materials, and finally everyone brainstormed and had the following ideas:
First, give full play to the enthusiasm of the people of Wu County and let them take out all the herbs they have stored at home.
Second. Encourage able-bodied young people to go to the mountains to collect medicines.
Third, mobilize local businessmen in Wu County, as well as foreign businessmen who travel between Wu County. Let them buy at a high price in several nearby states and counties to treat all kinds of herbs for the plague.
You can treat your relatives and the villagers in the county, and the county government will have to pay silver. The enthusiasm of the common people was quickly mobilized, and those who had medicinal materials at home took him out and sent them to the county government. Some young people who were in good health and in good shape were in good shape for the first time, and when they went to the mountains, they went around collecting the medicinal materials they needed.
All the merchants also took action, this kind of thing that can not only earn silver, but also relieve the pain of their relatives and the people of the county, who is not willing to do such a thing that kills two birds with one stone? Thanks to the efforts of all parties, a large number of herbs were quickly raised, and the thorny problem of lack of herbs was finally temporarily alleviated.
At the same time, because the disease is very contagious. Many people heeded the advice of the county government and stayed at home without going out. But in this way, they have no income.
In the more than two years since Yang Yun arrived in Wu County, the living standards of the people in Wu County have been greatly improved, and they have barely gotten rid of the situation of being hungry. But staying at home as it is now, the family's food stock is quickly exhausted. Staying home may not be contagious. However, after a long time, the disease was not infected, but it was necessary to face the problem of starvation.
Just when the hearts of the common people were very entangled, they heard a good news. More than a dozen cauldrons were set up outside the county office. The yamen boiled a lot of porridge for everyone, and the people who really couldn't hold on could go to the county yamen to get a bowl of porridge to satisfy their hunger.
The people who went to receive the porridge were surprised to find it. In the soup kitchen, every day there is a very beautiful girl, holding a spoon to pour spoonful after spoonful of fragrant porridge into the people's bowls.
Looking at this girl's dress and temperament, it should be a woman from a big family. The people thought of which one it should be, the daughter of a rich man or the relatives of an official, and came to join in the fun on a whim.
But to the surprise of these people, they can meet this girl every day when they go to receive porridge. From morning till night, she stayed there almost all the time, doing the same action every day, and seemed to be tireless all the time, always with a sweet smile on her beautiful face, sending spoonfuls of porridge into the people's bowls.
At the end of the day, this beautiful girl is always sweating and her hair is a little messy because of fatigue. However, in the eyes of the people of Wu County, this angelic kind girl will always be the most beautiful.
Some curious people asked the soldiers next to them about the identity of this girl. As a result, they were shocked to get the news, this girl turned out to be the princess of King Wu, the wife of Yang Yun, the god-like leader of the White Lotus Sect in their minds.
After the initial curiosity, the people were relieved. Only this King Wu, who loves the people so much, and only this White Lotus Sect Master, who has boundless magic power and is compassionate to the world, is worthy of having this beautiful and kind fairy-like woman.
Before coming to Wu County, Chi Li was still worried about coming to this remote county town thousands of miles away from her parents and unfamiliar with her life. But since her lover was here, she finally made up her mind to come here.
But in this short period of time, Chi Li quickly fell in love with this place. The beautiful mountains and rivers, flowers and plants, blue sky and white clouds, birds in the sky, birds and animals in the forest are all what she likes.
But what interests her even more is the kind people here in Wu County. Although the people here are poor, the people are very simple, and she comes to the porridge shed every day to deliver porridge to the people, and she can see everyone's grateful eyes and hear their words of gratitude.
At first, she was purely curious, and she also wanted to do something for her husband so that he would be further loved by the people of Wu County. But looking at the grateful eyes of the common people, listening to them, some words from the heart. Chi Li feels that it is very meaningful for him to do so, and he feels the joy of helping others.
Since she was a child, Chi Li has been staying in Xijing City, and she is always accompanied by subordinates in Shangshu Mansion, a feeling she has never experienced.
After feeling this, Chi Li was like a happy bird, and it felt that her labor had meaning. Therefore, she insisted on coming here every day to bring some gruel to the poor people to help them maintain their lives.
For a while, Yang Yun began to worry. So many people need a lot of medicinal materials to get sick, and there are poor people, facing the verge of starvation, the county government has opened a warehouse to put porridge, such a big expense, even if it is the Xijing City Wuyingwei continues to send silver and food, the county government has more taxes this year. However, there are also some people who are struggling to make ends meet.
Chi Li was a smart and clever girl, and when she heard Yang Yun and his men discussing the matter, she gave Yang Yun all the silver taels she had brought from the capital. He also changed some of the jewelry he brought, so that Yang Yun could exchange it for food and medicinal herbs to help the people of Wu County tide over the difficulties.
For Chi Li's kindness, Yang Yun's first thought was refusal. He is busy in the county all day long, and he doesn't have much time to spend with his wife. But this kind girl, not only did not blame herself, but asked him to take out her dowry to help herself. All of this made Yang Yun very unhappy.
But in the end, he still didn't give up, and Chi Li was very resolute, so these silver taels and jewelry were exchanged for a lot of food and medicinal materials. This news soon spread among the people of Wu County, and some wealthy families in the city heard that Princess Wu had sold all their jewelry in exchange for food and medicinal materials to help the people of Wu County.
As a result, many wealthy merchants and female dependents of landlords in Wu County either wanted to help a group of poor people out of pity, or wanted to win the favor of His Royal Highness King Wu, or improved their reputation among the people, and donated materials and food.
Some people also followed Chi Li's example, and went to the porridge shed to personally cook porridge for the people, and help the poor people tide over the difficulties.
All of this made Yang Yun and the palace members of Wu County breathe a sigh of relief. Just when the county government felt that it was overstretched, these things sent by the wealthy families in the county seat, although there were not many of them, could make the county government support them for a long time.
With medicinal herbs and food, it is much easier to do it with one thing. The condition of the sick people was slowly brought under control. More and more patients with mild symptoms have recovered their health, and many more patients with severe symptoms have also been brought under control.
When the county government informed Liang Qing to pick up people near the county office, Liang Qing was still a little unconvinced. I watched my father leave this world because of this disease. When I send my mother to the prefecture designation location and live alone. Liang Qing is mentally prepared, this time it may be a farewell to his mother.
Now that the county government actually came to say that his mother's illness had been cured and he could go home, when Liang Qing saw his mother, a stone hanging in his heart was finally put down.
The mother looked a little weak in her body, but her mental state was generally good, and she could see it. Indeed, he was cured. After returning home, as long as you eat a little better and rest a lot, you will soon recover.
After picking up his mother, for the first time in his youth, he was proud to be from Wu County. For so many years, the government has always exploited the common people, but since the arrival of His Royal Highness King Wu. He really thinks about everyone, in recent years, the people of Wu County have lived a much happier life, and these happiness are brought to them by the master of Wu County, this young man.