Chapter 101: Plague

Where are these people here for disaster relief, they are obviously here to rob and take a vacation.

Su Wanyan found out clearly, she wanted to take action to cure them, but the way back was difficult, and she had to hurry up during the day, otherwise it would be dark and it would be over in this unfamiliar place.

Duanmu Rui told Qin Qingfeng the truth about the queen's family's management of the flood, and Qin Qingfeng knew that he couldn't startle the snake, so he sent his son Qin Shaojun to help Su Wanyan.

He found Su Wanyan in the township, Su Wanyan finally saw an acquaintance from the capital, she was very moved, although she had explored everything clearly, and even after the field trip, she had figured out how to deal with the flood, but it was difficult for her to implement it alone.

Now that Qin Shaojun is here, the problem can be solved, but governance requires manpower, and at the moment it can only use the local villagers, but mobilizing them needs people who convince them to take the lead.

After the two discussed, they said that Qin Shaojun was a good man in the green forest in the nearby prefectures and counties, and his ancestors also lived in this area, and later moved away.

Su Wanyan told the villagers that Qin Shaojun was the distant relative she was looking for, but she didn't expect the two to meet in a foreign land. When she came from the capital, she brought a silver ticket of several thousand taels of silver, went to the city and exchanged a few hundred taels for copper coins and broken silver, and took it back and distributed it to the villagers first, saying that it was Qin Shaojunsan's money.

After that, when it came to the matter of controlling the floods, they first invited the local Li Yin and the village sages to discuss this matter with them, they were afraid of the uncle and the county officials, and they had no money, and they were in a hurry that no one would take the lead in doing this, Su Wanyan and Qin Shaojun said that they were very grateful, and they agreed to organize the villagers.

After communicating with the locals, Su Wanyan decided on a treatment method, first excavating and cleaning up the existing flood-bearing ponds and pools, excavating and widening all rivers and streams, and finally channeling them downstream into the Yan River.

Su Wanyan was afraid that there would be not enough manpower to bring the team of people and horses to join in, and divided the area, sent a special person to lead and supervise, and all the villagers, as long as they can work in the field, regardless of men, women and children must participate, in order to save time, arrange special people to cook and deliver meals every day, and set the time of early departure and late return, so urgent work, more than ten days to the river and stream Chengtang dredging out, the gathered flood quickly receded, and then it rained twice and there was rarely siltation.

Then he sent some people out to build houses for the villagers who had no shelter, and the rest continued to strengthen the river bank and widen and strengthen the stream to prevent floods in the following years.

After the problem of flooding was dealt with, she heard that a large number of people died of diarrhea in the nearby county town, Su Wanyan knew that it should be an epidemic, she knew that it was easy to cause plague after the flood disaster, so in this place where she and Qin Shaojun lived, she paid special attention to sanitation and disinfection, so that all the villagers were exposed to quilts and clothes at home, and the well water in the low places was not drinkable, and many herbs were collected to prevent mosquito bites, and the carcasses of dead people and animals were cleaned up and burned together.

There was no epidemic in this part of them, but it appeared elsewhere, and they hurried over, and the uncle and the county magistrate also knew that it was an epidemic, so they planned to isolate all the infected people and kill them.

Su Wanyan knew that this should be the most common practice in ancient times, and she could only do it when the medical conditions were not good, but this was all human life, how could she be so hasty, not to mention that she was a person with modern thoughts, even Qin Shaojun felt that this method was too cruel.

Su Wanyan said to him: "There are so many people, they are already infected, if they die and do not dispose of the corpses well, the germs will only spread more violently and rapidly, so that more people will die, and a greater plague will break out under the vicious circle." So the best thing to do now is to cure them, not kill them. ”

Ancient people judged the cause of the epidemic through experience, and only knew that it was contagious, which was caused by evil in the mouth and nose, but did not know that it was a germ at work, Qin Shaojun followed Dong Xian to study medicine, and he knew the knowledge of the epidemic, Su Wanyan told him the concept of germs, although it was difficult to understand, but Qin Shaojun was a super academic tyrant in modern times, and he quickly accepted it.

He also recognized the methods of preventing and controlling the epidemic that Su Wanyan had implemented in the area where they lived, and the actual situation also confirmed that Su Wanyan was right, so Qin Shaojun unreservedly supported her approach.

After the two disguised, Uncle Guo did not recognize them, and perhaps did not know them at all, and they negotiated with Uncle Guo, saying that they knew medical skills and could help cure diseases.

Uncle Guo is a fat man with an obscene appearance, and he also speaks with a male duck voice, which gathers the characteristics of all villains and cannon fodder characters.

It is said that he is not the queen's own brother, is the cousin of the next room, in the capital is not a green onion at all, the queen's brother is not an official in the court, or is in charge of the family business, do not want to come to this poor country, when they came, the old lady just sent his own powerful subordinates in the house to follow, in order to supervise and assist, but the subordinates have been corrupted, and follow the uncle of the country to be embarrassed.

"Can you two heal so many people? It's the plague, understand? Just kidding, while you're not sick yet, stay where you're cool. ”

When Uncle Guo said this, his followers bombarded Su Wanyan and Qin Shaojun and told them to get out of here.

Su Wanyan had no choice but to say: "We can make a military order, and if we don't find a cure for the epidemic within five days, we will die with the patient." ”

Uncle Guo discussed with the "military advisor" sent by the old lady, "Seriously, I don't want to kill so many people to create evil for myself, I mean it's already like this anyway, it's better to let them try." ”

The "military advisor" didn't have any opinions, "Listen to the young master, make a military order for them, let them sign and draw a charge, arrange for someone to watch them, just run away." ”

After discussing it, Uncle Guo played a little cautious and said to Su Wanyan: "Five days is not good, it is too long, and there will be a lot of patients, three days, give you three days, if you can't find a way, you will die with all the victims." ”

Su Wanyan was shocked, "Three days, three days won't work." ”

Uncle Guo snorted vigorously: "Do you know how many patients will increase in a day?" It's not that you don't want me to kill people, you are killing people by delaying time, do you understand? ”

There was nothing wrong with what he said, but the time was so short, and Su Wanyan didn't have confidence, so she looked at Qin Shaojun, Qin Shaojun whispered to her: "You can give it a try, I brought a medical book for the treatment of the epidemic when I came, find a prescription from it, and adjust it according to the actual symptoms of the patient, there should be no problem." ”

Su Wanyan said to Uncle Guo: "Three days is three days, but you have to listen to our dispatch, if you want to drive out the epidemic, you don't just rely on medicine to get rid of the epidemic, you still need to do a lot of things to save more people." ”

"Tell me what needs to be done."

Uncle Guo also invited doctors, but these doctors couldn't do anything about this epidemic, so Uncle Guo wanted the doctors to listen and see if it was feasible.

Su Wanyan said that attention should be paid to the hygiene of the people's homes and the safety of water and food, and that lime and other materials should be used to achieve disinfection and sterilization, and that the corpses of animals and people should be properly disposed of.

In addition, people who have been in contact with existing patients must also be isolated at home and not allowed to go out, so as not to infect more people.

There are also those doctors who are not messing around, and there are also records in these medical books that Su Wanyan said, so they reacted to Uncle Guo, who agreed to Su Wanyan's request, and asked people to write a military order, and Su Wanyan and Qin Shaojun signed and drew the charge.

Uncle Guo checked it personally, and although he knew those two names, he didn't know Su Wanyan, let alone Qin Shaojun, so he didn't ask anything.

Uncle Guo sent those doctors to take people to do what Su Wanyan said, Su Wanyan and Qin Shaojun went to see the patients after doing simple protection, all the patients were locked up in one place, this is obviously not good, there will definitely be cross-infection, Su Wanyan went to inform Uncle Guo again, and asked him to find a way to isolate people.

Only then do they take the patient's pulse, write down their symptoms, and then return to their makeshift accommodation to look through the medical books and adjust the prescription.

After a few hours of busyness, the prescription was prepared, and the two hurriedly went to grab the decoction and give it to the patient, and urged Uncle Guo to isolate the patient quickly, but Uncle Guo was forced to not do it, so he had to listen to them.

Under Su Wanyan's command, many sheds were temporarily erected, and the middle was simply separated by wooden boards.

After being busy, I went to Qin Shaojun to ask about the effect of the medicine, of course things couldn't go so smoothly, the prescription just now didn't work, so I could only turn over the medical book again, adjust the prescription, back and forth a few times, they didn't close their eyes for two days and two nights, and they were constantly tortured in hope and disappointment, and finally came up with an effective prescription on the third day.

Uncle Guo was naturally happy when he learned about it, so he asked the doctors to cooperate with them to catch the decoction and distribute it to all the patients.

In this way, as the two of them continued to adjust and improve their prescriptions, the people infected with the epidemic gradually improved, and the number of new patients gradually decreased, and the plague was under control.

Although medical care is not developed in this era, fortunately, the population is small and the residence is not so dense, and the speed of infection will not be very fast.

But just after they had worked hard for almost a month, and they didn't have time to take a breath, Uncle Guo had already written a report to ask the court for credit under the reminder of the "military advisor", and took all the credit on himself.

The people Su Wanyan brought from the capital, before leaving the capital, Duanmu Rui asked them to send a letter back to Beijing on the tenth day, so as to understand Su Wanyan's situation in the south.

So the epidemic was under control, Duanmu Rui knew, he also knew what Su Wanyan and Qin Shaojun had done, and he wrote a letter to Su Wanyan after he learned that Uncle Guo had asked for merit from the imperial court, Su Wanyan was furious when she found out, she told Qin Shaojun about it, and Qin Shaojun was also angry.

He said to Su Wanyan: "We don't ask for credit, and we don't need any rewards, but it is not okay for them to take credit." ”

Su Wanyan agreed with him, "You are right, and the power of the queen's family is already very large, and the crown prince and the prime minister also belong to their forces, and if this continues, the court will fall into their hands." ”

"So we've got to stop exposing them." Qin Shaojun said.

The people were already full of resentment against Uncle Guo's party, and the two of them secretly spread the news that Uncle Guo had taken credit for taking credit, and the people were even more angry.

After Su Wanyan learned about it, she knew that the people would definitely be obstructed by the forces of the queen's mother's family, so she took the team of people given to her by Duanmu Rui and escorted the people all the way to Beijing.

encountered many encirclement and assassination on the way, but fortunately, Duanmu Rui sent more people to help after learning of Su Wanyan's actions, and finally escorted the people outside the gate of the capital.

When the officers and soldiers defending the city saw a large number of outsiders coming, they were dressed in tatters and dirty, and they did not dare to let them into the city.

At this time, Su Wanyan didn't dare to come forward again, for fear that the emperor would know that she was going south, and Qin Shaojun had not yet achieved fame and rank, so there was nothing she could do.

Fortunately, Qin Qingfeng was convinced and sent someone to negotiate with the guards, and the guards put the people into the city.