Since that day, the counties and villages in the northwest have begun a mighty epidemic prevention work.

Since the top leaders of the military and political circles in the northwest attached great importance to this matter, none of the officials below dared to slack off, and all of them did their best to strictly implement the various provisions of the epidemic prevention measures.

The county government hired many doctors to travel around the county and surrounding villages, explaining to all the common people the benefits of drinking boiled water to prevent diarrhea, and posting bills stating that the government was willing to exchange money for the corpses of the four evils.

The carcass of a large rat or three small mice can be exchanged for a penny, and the carcasses of a hundred flies or bed bugs, or three hundred mosquitoes, can be exchanged for a penny.

The northwest region is much more difficult than the wealthy Jiangnan region, and not many people in the capital or the Jiangnan area may be able to see this money.

But in the northwest, it is different, and there are many ordinary people who covet this money.

The local government also asked the village Li Zheng to receive mosquito medicine, and then Li Zheng distributed it to each household for free, so that they could smoke and kill the mosquitoes at home. In the case of the county seat, it will be issued by the local yamen.

Because of the money they could earn, almost every household began to fight rats, flies, bed bugs, and mosquitoes, and then took them to the government to exchange money.

The government also fulfilled its promise and exchanged the corresponding money for the corpses of the four pests brought by the people.

Seeing that the government was really willing to exchange money for the corpses of the four evils, the people were even more energetic.

For a time, a large-scale nationwide campaign to drink boiled water and eliminate the four evils arose in the entire northwest region.

With regard to the work of burning the bodies of the dead, the county government also invited some monks and monks to teach the people the Dharma in accordance with Chi Fei's method, saying in a unified voice that anyone who died of the plague must be cremated to burn off the plague karma on his body, and then reincarnate as a human being, otherwise he will be reduced to six animals in the next life.

Because it was the words of the famous local monks and priests, many civilians believed it and agreed to the burning of the bodies of their relatives, but asked that the ashes be taken back for burial.

But this is only for healthy people, for the outbreak of the plague, the government does not dare to send people in easily, still adopt the practice of sending troops to block the entire area.

It's not that they won't do it, it's that the people who specialize in doing it haven't arrived yet.

The work of training this part of the people is what Chi Fei is doing.

These people are mainly divided into two parts, one is doctors, and the other is officers and soldiers.

Doctors are responsible for treating the sick, and officers and soldiers are responsible for chores and maintaining order in the epidemic area.

Doctors include military doctors in the army and ordinary civilian doctors.

The military doctor has no choice, the military order is difficult to disobey, and if you don't go, you have to go.

As for the private doctors, it is not much better, they are basically forcibly recruited by the government, and they have to do it if they don't do it.

Chi Fei knows very well that these people who are about to enter the epidemic area must do a good job in their epidemic prevention training, otherwise they will only go to one to infect the other, and there will be no return.

After all, he was not a medical student, and he could not be sure whether the sores were smallpox or not, and he could only do what he could do to prevent smallpox.

Although Chi Fei had never seen smallpox, he probably knew that the smallpox virus was transmitted through droplets.

So he showed all the doctors and officers who were in emergency training how to wear masks to prevent smallpox. And when treating the patient, try to avoid touching the patient's blood and droplets.

Also, any items worn by the sick person, such as clothing, pillows, bed sheets, etc., should not be touched to avoid infection.

As for the excrement of the sick, a deep pit must be dug and buried uniformly, and lime must be sprinkled on it to remove poison.

In the event of a dead person, the body must be burned on the spot and must not be left unattended.

When they come out of the epidemic area at the end of the day, they should immediately take a shower and change into clean clothes.

As for all the clothes that you change, including masks, you must put them in boiling water and boil them before you can wear them again.

Also, even if they do what they are asked to do, they are not allowed to enter the safe zone to live with healthy people.

They need to live alone in barracks outside the affected area so as not to infect people in the safe zone.

Because only they can enter the epidemic area now, Chi Fei also explained to them in as much detail as possible about how to divide the area according to the four areas of A, B, C, and safe zone.

Only those who are truly sure that they are not infected with the plague can enter the safe zone, otherwise they will be divided into different areas according to the severity of the symptoms, and they must not be messed around. The screening work is mainly done by the doctor.

In addition to being responsible for miscellaneous work and maintaining order in the epidemic areas, the officers and men also had to regularly distribute porridge to the residents in the epidemic areas every day.

In addition, the officers and soldiers should also organize the healthy young people in the epidemic area to form an autonomous militia and let them protect and maintain the safe zone themselves, so as to reduce the pressure on the officers and soldiers.

As long as everyone has food to eat, and there are doctors to treat the sick, then the epidemic area can basically maintain stability, otherwise a large-scale civil unrest will break out at any time, which is no joke.

Chi Fei asked the officers and soldiers to supervise each other, and by the way, to supervise whether the doctors did what they did according to the regulations, and if they did not have the lightest, they would be punished with a few lashes.

Now that the situation is urgent, Chi Fei knows that some doctors may rely on the old man and sell the old man and not take his words to heart, or even disobey him behind his back, so he can only take such drastic measures to prevent this situation from happening.

After spending two full days doing emergency training for all the doctors and soldiers who were going to enter the epidemic area, Chi Fei asked them to enter each epidemic area in batches to carry out prevention and control work.

Perhaps because everyone had strictly followed his orders, after a few days, none of them were infected with the plague.

The epidemic area has also begun to improve significantly, at least the order and health situation has improved a lot, and it is no longer the desperate state of leaving it to its own devices.

As for the four areas that are not required by Chi Fei, they are gradually divided, except for the healthy people who can live in the safe zone, and the others live in different areas according to their symptoms.

However, even so, a large number of patients still die every day because they cannot survive.

Smoke from the burning of corpses could be seen everywhere, and it was a terrible sight.

Chi Fei did not plan to enter the epidemic area, because he had more important things to do: he had to find smallpox-infected cattle as soon as possible to study how to inoculate them against cowpox.

For this reason, he specially asked his father-in-law, Ning Zhiyuan, to transfer a team of soldiers to him to do this.

Without saying a word, Ning Zhiyuan transferred a team of five hundred people to him, and it was the second son Ning Yafeng who was responsible for leading the troops, and he would fully assist Chi Fei.

Chi Fei didn't dare to set up the experimental camp on the side of the northwest camp, so as not to accidentally spread the plague to the officers and soldiers in the camp.

He deliberately chose Donglai County, the county seat where the plague had recently erupted, and then set up a barracks in the woods a few miles away from the county seat as an experimental base.

Although the experimental base had been set, since there were no materials to experiment, Chi Fei asked Ning Yafeng's soldiers to divide up and send people to find cattle with symptoms of sores, while he kept an eye on the situation in other epidemic areas in the camp.

Ning Yafeng didn't understand why his brother-in-law did this, but he remembered that his father had said that he would do his best to assist him, so he immediately organized all the soldiers to disperse in groups of five to find the cows with scattered sores.

In this way, the entire northwest began a vigorous national anti-plague action. Baidu's latest chapter of "Online Writers' Ancient Survival Records Jiezhong Literature" is free for the first time.