"General! As God's shepherd, I strongly oppose you doing this! ”

Outside Shouhan's chamber, Li Huamei heard Father Alfonso's hoarse roar from a long distance.

"What's wrong with this priest?"

"Sister!" Skipping Li Huamei's half-brother Hua Bao on the side, the little guy was tiger-headed, blinking a pair of big eyes and wiping the sweat on his forehead with a hand towel.

"Went to practice with the master?" Hua Mei took the towel in his hand and wiped the sweat from his face for him.

"Dao Chief's eccentric eyes!"

Hua Bao pouted and complained to his sister very unhappily.

As Hua Mei's master, Daoist Liu Guidan also took and taught the young masters and ladies in the mansion some kung fu, mainly to keep them healthy. "With your identity, there will be no such thing as going into battle to fight, I will teach you those killing tricks, it will not do you any good at all, it will hurt Yin Luan in vain, it is better to teach you some ways to strengthen your muscles and bones."

"But I want to learn the spear technique of the Taoist chief, but she just won't teach it!"

"She won't teach you, so you just hide and watch her steal the teacher while she teaches others! Since ancient times, those who steal teachers can achieve great things! ”

"Hmmm! Good! Sister, inside Father Ah is quarreling with Daddy and Mr. Wang! ”

"Why?"

"Mr. Wang said that if you want to control the spread of smallpox, the current popular water seedling method of planting pox is afraid that it will not work, and you should change the method."

Wang Tingqi, who was in charge of the medical and health affairs of the Southern Central Army, led a group of disciples to visit all over the world, intending to find a better and faster way to plant pox than the water seedling method.

But. Whether it is the pox slurry method of using cotton ferment to stuff the pox slurry into the nostrils of the inoculated children, or the dry seedling method of grinding the pox scab finely and blowing it into the nose of the inoculated children with a silver tube; Or take off the underwear of a child with pox and apply it to a healthy child to infect him, which is basically a method of preventing smallpox by using various contact methods to make normal people produce antibodies, and they have almost tried it once, but these methods do not seem to be as effective as the water seedling method.

So Shouhan told him that he might as well go to the mountain pasture to relax, maybe there will be a harvest.

More than a month ago. At Phu Lang Mountain Ranch. But it is unintentionally planted in the willows and willows.

A few women who were serving cows, with a few small pustules on their hands, knew at a glance that they were pox in the eyes of Wang Tingqi, who had been dealing with smallpox and other diseases for many years! Immediately, he and his disciples were like great enemies. But. But he laughed at the people of the ranch.

"Mr. Wang. That's how strange you are! These women who work with cattle will have these things on their hands. But it's also a blessing in disguise, growing this thing. After a few days, the scab falls off and smallpox does not infect you in the future. ”

This made Wang Tingqi, who was looking for a special effect method for treating smallpox, very excited and novel. Unable to take a break, he led a group of disciples and doctors to patrol the ranch and visit everyone at the same time, trying to find regularity in words. At the same time, he ordered the women with acne on their hands and faces to gather together for observation.

Three days passed, and the women had nothing to do, and they were still alive and well. I don't know when the pus spores on my face and hands have disappeared.

Wang Tingqi was very excited about this result.

Wang Tingqi personally used a knife to lightly cut a small mark on the left arm of the volunteer who stepped forward, and then took out a little yellowish pus from the scab on the hands of the women who were serving the cows, and inoculated it into the place where the volunteer had cut the skin, and then used gauze to tie the wound.

Then the crowd began a long, anxious wait.

Two days later, the volunteer felt a little unwell, but soon recovered, three days later, this brave man is still a good man, Wang Tingqi deliberately let him do all kinds of life and labor, no hindrance. Just in case, on the way back, Wang Tingqi deliberately concealed the facts, arranged for the volunteer to have close contact with smallpox patients, and the result was very surprising to Wang Tingqi, thousands of miles back to Hue from Phu Lang Mountain, and he came into contact with no less than 20 smallpox patients, and the person had no signs at all!

Upon his return to Hue, Wang Tingqi immediately launched a larger-scale experiment.

He asked the General Inspection Bureau for 20 criminals in an official document, made a small cut on their left arm in the same way, implanted the pale yellow pus that had been transported all the way into their bodies, and then detained the 20 criminals for observation with delicious food and drink.

After three days, the results were still the same.

A week later, Mr. Wang made an even more surprising decision.

"Send to the smallpox patient concentration area! Take care of the smallpox patients! Tell them that if they are all right, my old man will give up this old face and go and plead with the lord to spare them the death penalty! ”

As a result, ten days have passed, and these 20 people are like immortal kings in the smallpox patient concentration area, and several of them have become the technical backbone of nursing care for these smallpox patients. Although the dead were carried out of quarantine every day, none of these 20 people had happened!

Therefore, the old man Wang rushed to Shouhan to report the harvest of this experiment, and prepared to propose a large-scale planting of cowpox in the southern and central regions to prevent the spread of smallpox and prevent a large number of population losses.

I didn't want to be here in Shouhan, but I met Father Alfonso, who was trying to get more help for the Portuguese Restoration Army.

"Smallpox is God's grace, and no mortal can act against it."

Once again, Father Alfonso brought out the deity that the guard did not want to hear.

"General, you used strange techniques to treat and prevent smallpox, although it was effective for a while, but what can you do? God has sent down an even greater plague of smallpox, leaving you with no cure and no way to prevent it. So, as your friend, I pray that you will take refuge in God's light and ask for God's blessing and forgiveness. ”

"Father, that's a mistake! There is a folk proverb in Nanzhong, only half of the children are born. Smallpox is complete. According to the statistics made by the old man when he was practicing medicine, because of smallpox, the mortality rate of newborns is about 40%, if it is the grace of your Western God, this God is also an evil god! Demon! Can't take human life as your own incense and blood?! ”

This immediately made Father Alfonso a little annoyed, but for a moment he could not find an argument to fight back, so he had to smack a little scoundrel and sacrifice a big killing weapon.

"After planting the cowpox you mentioned, it will cause horns to grow on people's heads and make a cow bark sound. Become a messenger and believer of the devil! ”

Although this is a bit of a hooligan, it means scoundrels. But it also frightened the two civil and military dignitaries in the council hall who watched with interest the debate on the promotion of cowpox cultivation.

"No need to argue."

The man who was sitting behind the handsome seat opened his mouth to stop Wang Tingqi's words, although he stopped talking, but the old man was still angry with Father Alfonso's rogue and scoundrel style.

"Mr. Wang, you have been in charge of the medical and health business of the South China Army for many years. There are countless living people under his hands. I believed you. Such. Today, I am here to inoculate the cowpox you mentioned for all the children in my family who have never had smallpox and have not been inoculated with smallpox by the water vaccinate method. Let's see if it will turn into a bull demon. ”

Such a level of support. To the great surprise of the old man Wang Tingqi, what he had done before was carried out on the death row prisoner who was brought out in the prison, and he died when he died. This is the lord's family! Able to put the lives of his family in his own hands. How much trust is that?!

"Lord, it's getting late today, as far as my old man can see, it's better to choose a good day and an auspicious day, and issue a notice ordering the people of the whole city to come to the square in front of the house to watch the pox of the lord's family. It's good to put down the rumors in one fell swoop! ”

Wang Tingqi's words resonated with many people.

"The subordinates are willing to follow the lord Jiwei and bring the wives and concubines and children of the family who have never had smallpox to plant pox!"

"My subordinates are also people who have never had smallpox, and they are willing to plant pox together!"

"My subordinates are willing!"

"We also want to taste it, and be a bull demon!"

At that moment, someone took out the yellow calendar and looked at it, "Lord! On the seventh day of June in the tenth year of Chongzhen, it is advisable to sacrifice, ceremonies, and seek medicine, and his subordinates think that this day is the most suitable day to plant cowpox in public, so as to correct the hearing! ”

"It's good! A high platform was built in front of the palace for the soldiers and civilians in the city to watch the process of the general's family planting cowpox. ”

Li Peilin's eyebrows moved upward, Wangfu? Li Shouhan is finally willing to say this word! In his consciousness, his mansion was already a royal mansion!

For Li Peilin, who is determined to become a minister of the dragon, this is a lot more good news than planting cowpox.

"Mr. Wang, please prepare more pox pulp at that time, the military and civilian officials and people in the city, if there are those who are willing to plant, they can plant on the spot. The government took out some money and food, distributed it to them, and bought some fish and meat to supplement the nutrition of these people! ”

Li Peiting, who was on the side, snorted and saluted Wang Tingqi, "Old man, excuse me, prepare more than twenty people, and plan to plant a few concubines, three sons and two daughters, and a few singers in the house with cowpox." Avoid getting in line at the same time. ”

After saying this, he turned his head and asked Shouhan with a smile, "Lord, where can I get the nutrition allowance?" My family's food money is pointing to these allowances these days? ”

"I'll go to you far away! Not only do you not have a stipend, but you also have to donate some money! Shouhan also joked with Li Peiting.

Over there, Li Peilin also took the lead in setting an example, and registered his four women and four sons and two daughters.

In the blink of an eye, in front of Wang Tingqi, there were hundreds of people who signed up to participate in the pox vaccination on that day, most of whom were family members of officials and generals at all levels of the General's Mansion.

"All the soldiers in our general's palace, the guards battalion, and the Hue garrison will be included, and in the future, soldiers, students, officials at all levels, stewards, workers in various places, officials and slaves, etc., will all be compulsory vaccination personnel."

In the blink of an eye, planting cowpox, an unprecedented activity with great unknown dangers, has become a hidden status symbol under the drive of Shouhan and others! If you can't get cowpox on the first day, or you can't get the first batch of cowpox, or you can't be forced to get cowpox, it can only mean that you are very back! Just a farmer!

Therefore, under the impetus of the deliberate public opinion of Nanzhong Business Daily, all localities are eagerly looking forward to the effect of the pox after the family of the seventh lord of the seventh month of June, and the families of officials and generals at all levels will be fine. In the future, I don't have to worry about that damn smallpox taking the lives of my children in the family.

There is that fine farmer who has begun to calculate, if the sons of the family can reach adulthood, can they divide the family again and open up more land to plant?

To the great excitement of Shouhan and his superiors, another happy event was coming.

The Tokugawa shogunate, who was in charge of trade with the Nanchu Army, Izu Mamoru Matsudaira Nobutsuna, led twenty ships to Hue.

"The foreign minister source courtier Matsudaira Izu keeps his promises, and meets the general of the Celestial Empire! The general is mighty and invincible, and the military power is widely spread! ”

Mamoru Izu has had a lot of fortune in recent years. Among the Japanese of this era, his weight was enough to be a sumo wrestler. But. Who would dare to say such disrespectful words to the big red man in front of the general, Lord Matsudaira, who holds the power of trade with Nanchu in his hands? Do you want to export your country's products? Labor and girls are exported? Wouldn't that make the samurai under him resentful?!

"Mamoru Izu, please!" Shouhan was very kind and accepted his prostration and bowed, and then motioned for him to get up and speak.

"I don't know what Izu-sama is doing here?"

"When General China heard about the epidemic in South China and thanked the two countries for their friendship in trade and trade. He specially ordered the foreign minister to escort ten boats of blue grass to come. for the general to heal the sick. Control the epidemic. ”

It turned out to be a medicine delivery! Ten boats of blue grass, that can process at least three ships of blue root, even if it is a small boat of the Japanese people. It is also enough to control the epidemic in the epidemic area.

In addition to these ten boats of blue grass, Matsudaira Laozhong also brought two ships of gold and silver and eight ships of population, five ships were young men, and three ships were young women. Many of them were also the daughters of samurai under the domain.

"This guy! I must have learned that there was an epidemic here, so I came to take advantage of the fire! But it doesn't matter, when you get to Hue, you will die when you get to the ground, you don't want it, you just pull it back! Li Peiting, who has been in the business world for a long time, has a malicious idea in his heart.

However, to Li Peiting's surprise, Matsudaira Laozhong was very distressed and stated something to everyone present.

"When I learned that there was an epidemic in the general's area and that he was in urgent need of this kind of treatment, he ordered his ministers to buy and collect in the small state, but he did not want to hear that there was a person who was not greedy enough, so not only did he refuse to help, but instead took advantage of the time when you were in trouble, he wantonly sat on the ground and raised the price, and made that ill-gotten gain! My Tokugawa general was very dissatisfied with this behavior, and ordered his foreign ministers to quickly escort ten ships of blue grass to the shogun's use, so as to meet the urgency! ”

In a quiet moment, Matsudaira Nobutsuna stomped on the Kyushu feudal domains led by the Shimazu family in front of the high-level leaders of the Nanzhong Army, showing his high profile and friendship with the Nanzhong Army.

"Then, Li would like to thank your lord on behalf of the tens of millions of soldiers and civilians of the Southern Chinese Army."

Following Shouhan's words, Li Peilin stepped forward and bowed deeply to Matsudaira Shintsuna.

"I wonder how Mamoru Izu plans to trade this time? What is the price of this batch of bluegrass? ”

"Nobutsuna heard in my country that some people have frantically raised the price of fresh bluegrass to a set of armor and weapons per load, and my Tokugawa Shogun and foreign ministers are deeply disgusted by such a unconscionable practice. The foreign minister brought these ten boats of blue grass, and the general rewarded him at will, and with the benevolence of the general, he would definitely not make the foreign minister suffer. ”

"This old fox!"

Li Shouhan, Li Peiting, Li Peilin and others cursed in their hearts.

said that it was extremely righteous, but it put Li Shouhan on the stage, and Shouhan was embarrassed to bargain if he wanted to! I have to pinch my nose and tell him good!

"Matsudaira is right! Shogun Tokugawa was so benevolent and righteous, and he helped with righteousness. However, our South Central Army cannot but follow suit. The subordinates checked the price of the blue grass trade with Fuso before, and a load of processed and dried blue grass could be exchanged for a set of armor weapons. However, since the epidemic in our army a few days ago, the consumption of bluegrass has been huge, and the price has skyrocketed. A load of unprocessed blue grass has been asked for a set of armor weapons by the southwestern feudal domains of Fuso. The bluegrass brought by Matsudaira was also unprocessed, but the Tokugawa Shogun's family was no better than the southwestern feudal domains. The subordinates are foolish, and they still calculate according to the previous price, but every five tons can be rewarded with two pairs of armor and weapons, I don't know what the lord thinks? ”

Pei Ting's method properly took care of the face of the Tokugawa family, and under the means of attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son, it also raised the Tokugawa family to the moral high ground, so that Matsudaira Nobutsuna could not say that I came for profit, and those bullshit benevolence and morality are all used paper in the toilet.

And for every five quintals, you can get two more sets of armor weapons, and such a price is also within the bottom line of the Tokugawa family.

And they all rejoiced.

"The foreign minister came this time, in addition to sending ten ships of blue grass, two other ships of gold and silver, and eight ships of people. The meaning of my lord is that I want to discuss with the general of the Celestial Empire, and buy all the swords, guns, gunpowder, iron cannons, and other things from Nanzhong. I hope the beggar general will give it! ”

Shouhan exchanged glances with Li Peilin and the others, and they all understood the meaning of the other party in their eyes, and a new round of arms race between the major power groups in Fusang has begun!

Not long ago, the Shimazu family, the Kayama family, the Nabeshima family, and other southwestern feudal clans came to Nanchu one after another, and after selling blue grass and trading gold, silver, sulfur, and strong women and women, they took the silver dollars they had exchanged for and ordered swords, guns, and armor from Takashi and other places, and swallowed as many iron cannons and gunpowder as they could. It seems that there is no end to the demand for arquebuses made in Nanchu.

It seems that the Tokugawa family ordered the old man Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who was in charge of trade, to personally come to Nanchu this time, and it was definitely not as simple as sending charcoal in the snow and sending medicine to the epidemic area.

Must smell gunpowder! (To be continued......)