In the General Military Administration of Datong Prefecture, Wang Zezhi continued to issue various orders.

He first ordered all the soldiers and horses in the camp to wash their hands frequently, sweep up the garbage, kill the rats, and spread lime.

Then all the soldiers who had typhoid fever were found and dragged to the camp of Datong Mansion for treatment.

I didn't know about this, and I was shocked that the number of sergeants who contracted typhoid fever in the camp reached more than 8,000.

Wang Zezhi thought that the plague had spread among his ranks, and he was a little worried that the battle plan for this thousand-mile attack was about to come to naught.

Subsequently, during Wu Youke's diagnosis and treatment, he learned that these sergeants were secretly catching rats and beating their teeth, so they contracted the plague.

Wu Youke told Wang Zezhi with some concern that as the number of infected people increases, rats may become the source of infection that spreads the disease.

He found that when the furous gas invaded the membranous miptogen, it underwent a change that manifested itself as an unimaginably high fever.

Under this high heat, the internal organs of the rat will turn into pus and blood.

If the pus and blood are contaminated with another mouse, the other mouse will have the same symptoms.

If a person eats this rat, he will also be infected with this disease, which is a more terrible plague than the current typhoid plague.

After Wang Zezhi found out, he immediately informed the whole government that killing a mouse would reward five cents, and killing twenty rats would get one or two pieces of silver.

Since it was enough to confirm how many rats the people had killed, it was all about identifying the corpses of the rats, and all of a sudden, the people in the entire Datong Mansion were active, and there were people hunting and killing rats everywhere.

You must know that if you kill or catch or find, you can get a tael of silver as long as there are twenty mouse carcasses, which is almost like picking up silver.

In the next few days, various states and counties, health stations, forts, and fire road piers continued to send dead rats up, and then gathered them in one place for cremation.

In just ten days, Wang Zezhi needed to pay a terrible 50,000 taels of silver, which means that in these ten days, the people of Datong Mansion killed a million rats.

And that's not the scariest thing, the scariest thing is that the number continues to rise, and there is a growing trend.

One of the sources of the plague has been temporarily contained, but he can't guarantee that the infection between people will be resolved, and he can't kill everyone who has the plague.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, when the plague was discovered, it was basically a major outbreak.

Why is this so?

This is because during the Ming Dynasty, transportation was inconvenient, and in order to better manage the people, the rulers preferred that the people would stay on a piece of land for the rest of their lives.

As a result, at the beginning of the plague, there were few people who got sick, and the villages that got sick were relatively closed from village to village, so they could not be detected in time.

Due to technology, no one has been able to identify the disease, let alone realize the severity of the condition.

In addition, in the late Ming Dynasty, various factors such as natural and man-made disasters also caused the rapid spread of pathogens among the population.

Because the Ming Dynasty had not been exposed to this new pathogen, the physiological lack of immunity to the disease, the lack of technical awareness of the disease, and the lack of effective control means for the time being, led to a large-scale outbreak of the disease, to the extent that it was difficult to control in a short period of time.

This is also the reason why the plague will break out as soon as it appears in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

However, now it is different, when the plague first appeared, Wang Zezhi paid attention to it.

In addition, by chance, Wu Youke, who is good at healing the plague, came to him, and there was no reason to let this disease break out again.

In the second year of Chongzhen, on August 22, a good news arrived.

"My lord, Mr. Wu has prepared Dayuan Drink, this medicine can make the evil qi collapse from the membrane as soon as possible and cure the people."

The heralds stationed at the medical post came with prescriptions to report the medicine.

"Good, good, good, good, very good, hahaha... God help me.

Yu Youyu quickly went to buy the medicinal materials in this prescription in large quantities. ”

Wang Zezhi was very happy, he knew that Wu Youke would prepare this prescription sooner or later, it was just a matter of time.

Originally, he thought that it would take a year and a half to dispense this medicine, but he didn't expect that Wu Youke had been studying these diseases for a long time, and he had already had his own method, but he just lacked the opportunity to implement it.

Now that Wang Zezhi has given him a chance, he has begun to let it go.

"My lord, recently, the whole territory of Shanxi, including the pharmacists in Datong Prefecture, have begun to raise prices, and if they buy medicinal materials in large quantities, I am afraid it will cost a lot of money." Yu You reminded.

"Is the same for the pharmacists in the Datong Chamber of Commerce?"

"There's... Half of the pharmacists do this, and the other half keep to themselves. ”

"Well, I don't care about the pharmacists in other places.

I remember that there is a clause in the "Regulations of the Chamber of Commerce" that they must not make a fortune in the country, and they must not hoard and raise prices, because since they have betrayed the Chamber of Commerce, they must bear the price of betrayal.

You give me the list of pharmacists who are driving up prices. Wang Zezhi said to Yu You.

"It's ready." When Yu You heard this, his eyes lit up, and he presented the list with both hands, Wang Zezhi took the list, and was very satisfied with Yu You, it turned out that this guy had long wanted to deal with these profiteers.

"The pharmacists in Datong Mansion ignore the safety of the people in our court, raise prices, and hoard, and their crimes can be punished.

Come, hurry up and ride 3,000 light horses, and follow me to kill the national thieves. ”

The current Wang Zezhi is the overlord of Datong Mansion, and if he wants to buckle a hat for others, others will definitely not be able to take it off.

On the same day, Wang Zezhi took 3,000 light horsemen, first raided the pharmacists who were raising prices in Datong Mansion, and then went to the periphery.

The pharmacists in Datong Mansion received the news from the carrier pigeons, and they threw down their property in fright and ran away.

Some people who were reluctant to have family property immediately lowered the price of medicine, and the original price was reduced by 20%.

Wang Zezhi ran around, and when he met a medicine merchant who ran away, he confiscated all the property in his name without saying a word.

As for those who lowered the price, he let it go.

Wang Zezhi just wants to let these profiteers know that as long as they dare to mess around, Wang Zezhi will not be polite to them.

If they are interested, the king will let them go.

Now, of course, he is sparing these businessmen who have lowered their prices.

After this incident, the businessmen who bid up prices will be blacklisted, and many profitable businesses will stay away from them because they no longer enjoy this qualification.

It will be difficult to make a fortune in the country, and it will become a stain on their lives.

That night, after Wang Zezhi confiscated the property of a pharmaceutical merchant who ran away in Huairen, no one in the whole territory of Datong Mansion dared to raise prices.

Wang Zezhi received the secret report and went home.

He went back with him, and there were carts full of horse-drawn carriages and carts of medicinal herbs.

Cool, really cool, and saved a lot of money.

According to Yu You, the silver in Wang Zezhi's treasury was only more than 6 million taels, and the rest of the silver either went to buy grain or paid for various business projects.

On the way back to Datong Mansion, Wang Zezhi looked at the endless grain convoy, and he felt that the silver was worth it.

You must know that the current grain price has risen to 3 taels and 8 yuan and 1 stone, which means that 3.8 million taels can buy back 1 million stone of rice grain.

Now there are more than 600,000 households in his hands, and the food consumed by these people in a month is more than 200,000 stones.

This year, he did not let the people grow food, and he will hold on until next year's five or six portions.

The food that the people ate alone had to consume almost three million stones, and if it wasn't for the sufficient food reserves before, he wouldn't have been able to survive next year.

"The flying eagle sent a message and ordered the king to flash back."