Chapter 206: Leading the Horse and Falling Kicks
The small wooden house under the dam affects the heart of Happy Village, and even the entire Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin lived in Happy Village for four days, and the sight of the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty looked at this small wooden house for four days, and in the early morning, there was finally movement here after four days of silence.
The first to come out was Li Chunfeng, he untied the ropes of several buffaloes tied to the courtyard of the wooden house, and walked in the direction of the village with the ropes, behind him, Sun Xiangfu followed out quickly with a big box, inside the box, many glass bottles and cans ping-pong with the rhythm of his footsteps.
"Express to Your Majesty, the village chief, they have come out, and they are in good health."
After Zhang Ke, who was on duty, shouted, he walked quickly in the direction where the two of them came.
"Village chief, have you found a way to defend against smallpox?"
"Well, there are still some things taken out of the cowpox in the house, and you can secretly take them out and plant them for our people to plant first······"
Just a short way, Sun Xiangfu has already told Zhang Ke about the pox, Zhang Ke also told Sun Xiangfu about the current situation in the village, and when they came to the cement road around the village from the small road, Li Shimin had already rushed here with the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces.
The two of them were not allowed to visit the shrine, so they were greeted and asked, "Can the plague be solved?" ”
"Your Majesty, I have planted cowpox on my body, but I recovered after a few days of low-grade fever and weakness, if I have been in contact with smallpox patients and are unharmed, it proves that after people are vaccinated with cowpox, they can fight smallpox, so ······"
Well, if it is said that getting cowpox into one's body is a lifeless move, then intimate contact with smallpox patients is an even more lifeless move.
"Your Majesty, since planting cowpox does not harm people's lives, then this method is likely to be effective, we are willing to go to Weinan immediately to try, before that, I hope that Your Majesty will concentrate on cultivating cattle, once it is determined that this pox method is effective, it is necessary to need a large number of smallpox-infected cattle to provide cowpox ······"
At this time, Li Chunfeng had already handed over a few buffaloes infected with smallpox to the villagers of Xingfu Village, and if he wanted to take risks, he was really risking his life, if he hadn't found these buffaloes infected with smallpox in the disaster area, all experiments would not have been possible.
When Li Shimin heard this, he nodded heavily, preventing smallpox is too important for Datang, even if it is possible to sacrifice Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng, he has to harden his heart.
"I will not forget everything you have done for the Tang Dynasty, come here, bring my two war horses, today, I will lead the horses for you to see them off." For the matter of solving smallpox, Li Shimin didn't want to wait any longer, as the emperor's honor, he actually bowed down to the two of them and saluted.
"Your Majesty, this is unacceptable."
Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng saw Li Shimin's posture, and they all showed horror, the emperor wants to put on a show, this is a political need, if you dare to accept it as a courtier, maybe there will be small shoes for you to wear afterwards, of course, Li Shimin is not such a narrow-minded person, but, as two courtiers, the posture must be made, this scene at least made the eyes of some people who are not so bent in their heads moist, and they can't wait to be so courteous to the emperor It is themselves, and in a moment, they gave birth to the idea of selling their lives to the emperor.
The matter of leading the horse to fall and kicking, even if Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng postpone it, Li Shimin still has to do it, a political show! If you don't show it, how can you fool the world.
Therefore, half an hour later, Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng appeared on the official road from Xingfu Village to Weinan County, in fact, according to Sun Xiangfu's plan, the two of them wanted to take a bath and have breakfast before setting off, but unfortunately they were put on the stage by Li Shimin and couldn't get off.
Li Shimin sent a team of internal guards to escort the two, and the bottles and cans that Sun Xiangfu brought out of the cabin were collected in the cloth bag on his horseback.
Surrounded by the emperor's guards, Sun Xiangfu didn't even dare to speak, he was very worried about the country and the people, and he traveled all the way, and after half a day, he finally arrived in Weinan County.
It was Dugumou who carried out the blockade order in Weinan County, and outside the defense line he set up, the Ouchi guards showed the token, and Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng were put inside, but they were not in a hurry to go inside, and first arrived in the barracks that Dugumou used to escape the summer.
"Food and water, please trouble the general to get us more, today I know it, the emperor will also send hungry soldiers."
When he arrived at Dugumou, Sun Xiangfu relaxed a lot, took out a glass bottle from the horse, and after entering the barracks, he deliberately pushed the guards away.
"Is this a medicine against the plague?" Dugumou is not a fool, he can see from Sun Xiangfu's expression that this thing is extraordinary.
"Well, this is cowpox, I am more than ninety percent sure that this thing can help people resist smallpox, the general can be vaccinated first, in addition, select henchmen to inoculate hundreds of people, a few days later, those who have been vaccinated, I will be of great use."
Due to the limited number of cowpox, even if Sun Xiangfu is very fine, it is enough to vaccinate one or two hundred people from a few cows in the past few days, he left some for his own guards, but more of them are brought here, the prevention and control of smallpox, mainly to eliminate the source of the disease, for all the items that have been touched by smallpox patients in the hard-hit areas, Sun Xiangfu plans to burn, these vaccinated soldiers, is to do these burning corpses, as well as houses, clothes and other work.
"I still believe your words, how to inoculate this cowpox, come on!"
Dugu Mou put on a look of letting the gentleman do something, Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng were naturally not polite, cut his arm, poured out a drop of cowpox juice from the glass bottle, and then bandaged his wound simply.
The reason why Sun Xiangfu was so cautious to test himself and Li Chunfeng first was because he was afraid of harming people in the future. Fortunately, at this point, it is still very reliable, inoculating cowpox is so simple, after the test, he no longer doubts this simple inoculation method, yes, inoculating Dugumou and the soldiers under his command is very familiar.
"You still have some cowpox for Daoist Sun and those imperial doctors inside! They probably haven't gotten smallpox yet. After the vaccination, Dugumou, who felt a little hot in his body, suggested.
Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu left the last few bottles of cowpox, these imperial doctors represent the top medical skills of this era, in fact, they have mastered some ways to prevent smallpox infection, but they can only protect themselves, after chatting with Dugumou for a while, Sun Xiangfu knew that it was these people who separated those who did not suffer from smallpox in Weinan County from those patients, and organized these people who were not infected to boil some food, provide those smallpox patients, and let them eat and drink enough to complete the last journey.
It's a time of drought and locusts, and if it weren't for the work they did, the smallpox patients would have spread out and spread to more people, and even the army wouldn't have been able to stop the spread of the virus.
The specific number of deaths in Weinan County can no longer be counted, when Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng found Sun Simiao, the number of those who were not infected was less than 2,000 people, you know, this Weinan County used to be a county with a population of 8,000 households, that is to say, the number of deaths in this plague reached at least 10,000 or 20,000.
"The boss's ability to fight disasters is still too poor, and we still need to master more comprehensive and advanced knowledge as soon as possible, and popularize it in order to make this nation stronger." Sun Xiangfu sighed with a sad face.
"How difficult it is to open the wisdom of the people, in the eyes of the poor road, it is the top priority to kill those demons who make waves."
After being inoculated with cowpox, Sun Simiao became very weak, which was related to his tiring days, he was one of the first doctors to rush to Weinan County, and he knew best about the causes of smallpox and various plagues in Weinan, which could make a compassionate Taoist priest have murderous intentions, which shows how hateful the initiator of this incident is.
"Dao Chief, please rest assured, this is the case, and I, Sun Zhengming, will definitely seek justice for these dead people."
Heaven is especially forgivable, but it is self-inflicted, and you cannot live.
Since those people dare to do things that anger and resentment of the heavens, they don't blame Sun Xiangfu for using some extraordinary methods to deal with them, as a traverser, when he is angry and doesn't want to live humblely, it is easy to make big things.
Of course, that's a later story, the things in front of him are enough for Sun Xiangfu to be anxious, the number of cowpox is too small, after the vaccination of the imperial doctor, there is not much left, however, in this kind of locust flying in the hot weather, it is difficult to ensure that the smallpox virus will not spread to places outside the hard-hit areas for various reasons, and soon, someone will be recruited.
"Oh no, Du Jia Saburo has smallpox, and all of us are going to die!"
A woman's scream came from the crowd, and suddenly there was a panic in the crowd, and the panic caused them to run around without direction.
"It's not safe here, evacuate!" Sun Simiao sighed helplessly, after the outbreak of the plague, he had already moved several places like this, and every time he moved, he had to leave behind many corpses, and now, the range of activities they could move was getting smaller and smaller.
"This person has just had a symptom, maybe there is still help, Li Daochang, quickly, bring the cowpox."
Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng had been vaccinated with cowpox and were not afraid of being infected, and soon, they saw Du Sanlang looking helplessly at the people who threw him away and ran away.
"I, I'm going to die, you guys leave me alone, let's go! I will not stir around spreading the plague and harming people. ”
The body temperature of a person who commits smallpox for the first time will rise, and his whole body will begin to grow red spots, even a fake doctor like Sun Xiangfu can confirm at a glance that this Du Sanlang is indeed suffering from smallpox, but his words made Sun Xiangfu a little moved.
What a simple Tang people! When facing death, all he thinks of is not harming others, Sun Xiangfu feels that such a person should not die, so he smiled at him and said, "Are you afraid of ugliness?" ”
"Afraid of ugliness?"
"It's just that there are a lot of pockmarks on the face, which is ugly." Sun Xiangfu tried his best to give him a relaxed expression.
"Well, I'm going to die anyway, and I'm afraid of something ugly, but can I ask you something, when I die, you will definitely burn my body, can you bury me with everyone, so that when I get to the underworld, it will be more lively, I like to be lively."
"Hehe, only bad people will go to the underworld after they die, and after good people die, they will go to heaven to be immortals, you like to be lively! After that, you should go to Chang'an City more! It's lively there, by the way, Shanyang City in Shuozhou will also be very lively in the future, you can go over there to have a look, by the way, you just said that you are not afraid of ugliness! Don't blame me in the future. ”
As he spoke, Sun Xiangfu slashed Du Sanlang's arm apart and dropped a drop of juice squeezed out of the cowpox on Du Sanlang's wound.
"I, this, you ······"
"We are saving you, if there is no accident, you will be the first smallpox patient in this world to be saved." Sun Xiangfu smiled and explained to Du Sanlang, who looked confused.
Smallpox is not actually a terminal disease, and the mortality rate is different depending on the virus, but the smallpox virus like Weinan County, the mortality rate of infected people is very high, at least seventy percent or more, and the feeling person usually dies quickly within three to five days, as long as he survives, there is basically no worry about his life.
In later records, at the end of the 15th century, when Europeans set foot on the American continent, there were 20 to 30 million indigenous people, but a hundred years later, the indigenous population was less than 1 million, because European colonists gave smallpox used blankets to the Indians, causing several large-scale smallpox plague outbreaks here, which shows the great harm of this virus.
Historically, Sun Simiao is precisely because of the treatment of smallpox, and shine, he used the method of taking the pus from smallpox aphthous sores and applying it to the skin to prevent smallpox, commonly known as the human pox inoculation method, this method has been used until the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has a certain effect, but the mortality rate is still very high, and it is not as safe as the vaccinia inoculation method.
The emergence of Sun Xiangfu directly helped this era skip the human pox inoculation method and use a safer cowpox inoculation method, and another major feature of the cowpox inoculation method is that there is a great chance of reviving the initial infected people, such as Du Sanlang, who was vaccinated immediately as soon as the disease occurred, and the chance of survival was more than seven or eighty percent.
And the medical skills for treating smallpox, in the eyes of Sun Simiao and Li Chunfeng, are all groundbreaking, so since Sun Xiangfu vaccinated Du Sanlang, they have been observing his symptoms and trying to sum up some experience from it, and it is precisely in this way that Sun Xiangfu can take time to organize and manage those people who fled in all directions.