Du Sanlang was lucky to spend the first two days, from the third day, his body temperature began to drop, and his spirit gradually improved, and at this time, Sun Simiao, who had been vaccinated with cowpox, was also beginning to recover.

"Daochang Li, we have proven that cowpox has a defensive effect on smallpox, and now we should pass on this news to Your Majesty, so that more cattle can be infected with smallpox, so that they can be vaccinated with pox." After Sun Xiangfu finished the organization of the people in the disaster area, he discussed with Li Chunfeng.

"Well, in this case, Poor Dao will stay behind to take care of this matter, you should go and report to Your Majesty quickly!"

The two assigned the task, Sun Xiangfu didn't say much, immediately set off, and when he arrived at the sentry set up by Dugumou, he took off his clothes and burned them, and entered the bath barrel prepared by Dugumou to bathe.

"General Dugu, after those sergeants recover, they can enter the hard-hit area to eliminate the source of the disease according to the method I explained before."

Three or four days have passed, Dugumou has returned to normal, and as Sun Xiangfu came out of the disaster area safely, he has also confirmed that cowpox can fight smallpox.

"In this way, I also bother you to collect enough cowpox as soon as possible, so that a certain subordinate sergeant can sweep this plague area as soon as possible."

After changing his clothes, Sun Xiangfu repeatedly told Dugu Mou about how to eliminate the source of the disease, but he didn't stay long, so he and the guards who sent him here beat horses and headed towards Xingfu Village.

Along the way, Sun Xiangfu thought a lot, and the tragic appearance of the disaster area always kept appearing in his mind, however, if he killed the demons as Sun Simiao said, he couldn't do it with his current ability, but if he didn't do something, he felt that it was too cheap for those crazy guys, so an idea was born in Sun Xiangfu's mind.

Xingfu Village is now a big cattle farm, anyway, there is no rain in the sky, and no crops can be planted in the field, and the cattle that were gathered by Li Shimin are all tied to the fields of Xingfu Village.

"I can't imagine that the reproduction of our people in the Tang Dynasty will ultimately rely on these cattle, and I will add the crime of killing cattle to another level, what do you think?"

Killing cattle is a crime in Datang, but the punishment is not serious, there are a lot of edge balls to play, after Sun Xiangfu brought back the news that smallpox can be controlled, the entire court breathed a sigh of relief, he entered the busy pox removal work, Li Shimin finally had the heart to sanction the lawless, revise the law.

At this juncture, no one objected to this law to protect the savior, so soon, a new law was formulated for the killing of cattle, although it did not rise to the height of the death penalty, but the imprisonment of 3,000 miles in this period was already considered a heavy sentence.

Taking advantage of this harmonious atmosphere, Li Shimin announced a series of official appointments and dismissals, first of all, the middle and low-level officials of the Caoyun Department, almost all of whom were dismissed, and then a few families who were caught by Li Xiaochang who were not clear about the horse's feet, and they were also forcefully liquidated.

Of course, this degree, Li Shimin has a very good grasp, after all, the drought and locust plague in Guanzhong have not passed, the border of the Tang Dynasty, and the two ambitious guys Jieli and Tuli, Li Shimin is not good at making any big moves at this time, so that the internal instability is unstable, so he saved face for several top families, but he didn't know that someone had already acted privately in order to teach those families a lesson.

At night, Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng were brightly lit in the cabin where they studied cowpox, Sun Xiangfu was actually very tired after finishing a day's work on acne, but he still had to work overtime, a quill pen was caught in his hand and wrote quickly, the large paper on the table was densely packed with words, and around the table, seven or eight craftsmen carving clay prints were waiting for him to finish the draft.

That's right, Sun Xiangfu thought of a way to use public opinion to hit the family's reputation, and when it comes to public opinion, before the Internet era came, the first thing to recommend was the newspaper.

Today, Sun Xiangfu's article is written very implicitly, and the headline is "Who is the hoarder?" ”

He had to first point the spearhead at the low-status merchants, so that the newspaper that suddenly came out could open up the situation, you know, most of the scholars who read and wrote during this period came from the family valves, and if they were fired at as soon as they came up, it was estimated that the newspaper would not be able to be promoted.

The content of the whole article is not complicated, but it is just for people to analyze the disadvantages of hoarding Juqi to the people, at the moment, when the Guanzhong disaster endangers the people, some of the impact on the whole country, the words are very straightforward, as long as the people who read the newspaper read according to the original text, the people who have not read the book can also understand, and it is precisely because of the straightforwardness that the craftsmen and farmers in the happy village who have only learned the basic literacy can read and understand, so that night, the printing workshop began to be busy.

The newspaper doesn't need to be exquisite, as long as the content comes out, the next day, Sun Xiangfu still looked busy and took people to get cowpox, and thousands of printed newspapers were organized by the guard Zhang Ke The people of Happy Village began to spread to the surrounding counties, of course, the main place of dissemination was Chang'an.

Of course, it is not that Li Shimin does not know about Sun Xiangfu's behavior, but he does not know what kind of consequences Sun Xiangfu will cause.

Just this afternoon, Chang'an, the main trading market of the million-dollar metropolis, went on strike, which is greater than the impact of the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets not opening in the future, after all, now is the time for the Hu merchants in the Western Regions to come to Chang'an to hold a trade fair, and it is a big day for businessmen across the country to concentrate on trading and exchanging goods, and the reason for the strike is precisely because of Sun Xiangfu's article criticizing businessmen.

Thousands of newspapers, hundreds of newspaper readers, one morning, so that the people's cognition has reached a unity, businessmen hoarding, is harmful to the common people, especially in the Guanzhong drought, when the people have no food, those businessmen who hoard food, should be killed.

In Chang'an City, the people who couldn't afford to buy food spontaneously gathered at the door of the grain merchant's shop to block it, not only did they not buy food, but they also did not allow others to buy food, after the government intervened, a large number of people debated with the government about the truth in the newspaper, you know, these people who participated in the siege are tens of thousands of people, and the city bureaus of the east and west cities do not dare to make decisions to arrest people without authorization, even if they are arrested, Chang'an does not have such a big cell, so the news was quickly reported to Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it's okay to make a fuss, Chang'an's millet and wheat have been sold for more than three times and one stone, and the people have all switched to eating tofu to satisfy their hunger, and the pressure on the Food Supervision Department is too great."

Before the drought broke out, the Food Supervision Department sold tofu to the entire Guan, and only sold about 3,000 stones a day, and now, in Chang'an alone, the tofu sold out every day reached more than 20,000 stones, which is two or three million catties, that is to say, the people of Chang'an have to eat more than two catties of tofu every day, plus the sales of other places in Guanzhong, the soybeans consumed by the Food Supervision Division every day are more than 20,000 stones, so if it goes on, it is six or seven hundred thousand stones a month, even if the consumption after that is no longer significantly increased, By the time of next year's autumn harvest, the Food Supervision Department will have to consume almost 10 million stone soybeans.

And without increasing, is this possible? In the middle of winter, in order to fight the cold, everyone's food will increase, and at that time, the people's food reserves will be all eaten, and the doubling of the increase is inevitable.

Huainan, which can be rich in soybeans, last year's reserves of soybeans were bought by Sun Xiangfu to make salted fish and bean paste, and this year's soybean harvest is not to mention providing 10 million stone soybeans to Chang'an, it is difficult to provide 5 million stones, after all, as salted fish and soybean paste began to sell well in the country, this year's soybean paste workshop in Yangzhou is also to buy some.

The reason why those grain merchants dare to raise prices so much is naturally because they see that the supply of soybeans in the Food Supervision Department will be insufficient, and sooner or later they will not be able to hold back, and who are the people behind these grain merchants? Saga gate valves also.

Xiao Yu's suggestion directly became Li Shimin's attitude towards this matter, but he did not allow the eastern and western cities to continue to close, at dusk, he drove back to the palace, if there is no accident, tomorrow there will be a large number of soldiers from the left and right guards to the two cities to maintain order, after all, to ensure the transaction of Hu merchants in the Western Regions in Datang is a major matter related to the country's annual tax revenue.

However, when the morning sun rose the next day, the second newspaper written anonymously by Sun Xiangfu was distributed everywhere in the streets and alleys, and the number of printed sheets was directly several times that of yesterday.

The headline in the newspaper was 'Is Datang short of food?' ’

The content of the newspaper is more simple and clear, putting out the facts, taking the data, how many acres of Datang is there? How many people are there? What is the minimum output in the field? How much can people eat and use? There is detailed data on all of these questions.

Finally, a conclusion is drawn.

Datang not only should not lack food, there should be more than 10 million stone of surplus grain, because more than 2 million households in Datang planted hundreds of millions of acres of land last year, and the output of these fields should be enough for such a small population of Datang to eat for more than three years, just like Yangzhou's soybeans, a state can be rich in millions of stone soybeans, this is the real data, and where did the surplus grain go?

The second half of the newspaper has an explanation, which analyzes who owns the fields of the Tang Dynasty, and most of the harvests planted by the people are in their hands, and they are the bosses behind the shops that sell grain.

This newspaper is like a bomb, scorching the entire court and the people, especially the few companies named in the newspaper, the Taiyuan Wang family, which has hundreds of thousands of fields and produces grain? Qinghe Cui's family, Boling Cui's family, Fanyang Lu's family, Yingyang Zheng's family's fields, are not much less than the fields of Taiyuan Wang's, what is the output?

In the end, the family officials led by Wang Gui, Cui Shixun and others were forced to accuse Li Shimin, saying that they would immediately go to the Xin clan and let them transfer grain to Guanzhong to donate to the imperial court for disaster relief, of course, they did not say how much they would transport, how much they would donate, thinking about it, it was estimated that it was tens of thousands of stones.

If they thought that this matter was over, it would be a big mistake, on the third day, the damn newspaper was published on the market again, and the number was even larger, reaching more than 100,000 copies, and it was almost to pave the ground in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, this time, it was not so mildly accusing the family of hoarding food, regardless of the life and death of the people.

The headline of the newspaper directly read, "Why is the family in turmoil? Profit is also a matter of interest! ”

The whole article also tells the story of the national chaos in a straightforward way, and the families such as Cui Wang Zhenglu will benefit from it, precisely because they want to gain benefits, and take the initiative to provoke the national chaos. There are some things about the former Sui that Sun Xiangfu took out of Tang Fengyi's mouth, as well as some things after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Lingnan incident that only happened in the last year or two, the starting cause of the outbreak of the plague in Guanzhong, and so on. Everything has a name, a surname and a history, and the story is three-dimensional to the extent that everyone knows that it can't be fake as soon as they hear it.

Seeing this, if you don't know that Sun Xiangfu is doing things behind your back, it will be in vain, in fact, they started to investigate yesterday, but they don't think that anyone can play with themselves, it's a big deal to give up some money and avoid this public opinion storm.

But the content that was published today really made a few of them stink, of course, there was no need for them to launch a counterattack, Li Shimin had already pretended to order a ban, this thing was not good, it can be seen that it was the result of completely tearing the face with the family, and Datang can't afford this result now.