Wu Jishan (Note 1), the magistrate of Chengdu, came out of the line at the end of the line and ran forward to kneel down in small steps. He, Shen Yunzuo, the magistrate of Huayang, and Li Liangde, the good doctor of the royal palace, were the lowest-ranking officials participating in the meeting. It must have been arranged by Shangguan for him to take the lead in speaking, because the current epidemic area happens to belong to his Chengdu County.

"Wu Jishan, the magistrate of Chengdu, visited the prince Chitose! Chitose Chitose Chitose! Wu Jishan's opening remarks were a bit amazing. According to convention, the emperor can live long live, Zhu Pingjin's father is a thousand years old, and Zhu Pingjin can only be nine hundred and ninety-nine years old at most. Wei Zhongxian proclaimed himself 9,000 years old, only 1,000 years less than the emperor, so he died a miserable death. Zhu Pingjin wanted to lose the year old that Wu Jishan added without authorization, and felt that he couldn't hurt Wu Jishan's face in public, so he joked: "Wu Zhixian is the parent official of this son, and this son can't afford to be a big gift from his parents!" He also asked Wu's parents to get up and speak. ”

Zhu Pingjin made a small joke to Wu Jishan to show the officials present that they had a good and harmonious relationship. Cao Sanbao has always been good friends with Wu Jishan, and they call each other "Old Wu" and "Baogong". The last time Zhu Pingjin accompanied the princess on a trip, this Chengdu county was busy, so he almost sounded the gong in person to open the way. Chengdu County also actively cooperated with the investigation and handling of Wang Sizhong's real estate, so Zhu Pingjin had a very good impression of him.

"Then the subordinate will trespass!" Wu Jishan slid up from the floor tiles. A fat face that was fat enough to fold was full of flattering smiles.

"Xiaguan was personally sent by Lord Liao in the morning, and in addition to sending the plague patients and their families home to detain, they also sealed off several nearby blocks. The lower officials then brought the yamen officials and the famous doctors in the county to visit all over Chengdu County and found out the remaining three plague patients. Two of the three were in the cordoned off zone. They were a newlywed couple, who had just come from Boryeong Province to join their relatives, and they were in the same alley as the family of the big head plague patient, only one family apart. There was also a suspected plague patient, a beggar who haunted the streets. After the lower official learned the news, he immediately reported it to the upper official and sent someone to find it, but it has not been found yet. Perhaps this man was begging and had left the city, but it is not known. The lower official also visited the family of the big head plague patient, and one person had died the day before yesterday, and the deceased was the patient's concubine. Their family thought that the concubine had a bad disease, so they asked someone to carry her out of the city and bury her on the same day. ”

Beggars out of town? How do you get out of town with such a serious illness? Don't you know that the beggars also have a territory division? Wouldn't it be in Huayang County, just across the street from your Chengdu County? Zhu Pingjin didn't expose Wu Jishan's careful thoughts, and couldn't wait to ask: "How is the plague?" ”

"The official ordered the doctor to consult. According to the doctor, the symptoms are mostly chills, fever, headache, fatigue, and swelling of the cheeks and groin; or fever, chest pain, cough, bloody sputum. The buried concubine, before she died, her skin was black and purple, and black blood flowed from the corners of her mouth, and her death was extremely terrifying! ”

The good doctor Zheng Li Liangde lost no time in standing up and speaking: "The symptoms of the plague that the prince said are in line with these people!" In particular, the bleeding symptoms inferred by the prince are no different from the appearance of the deceased! In the eyes of the following officials, these people should be the plague! ”

Li Liangde was originally the imperial doctor of Jingshitai Hospital, and he was the best professional doctor in the Ming Dynasty. Among the doctors of the Ming Dynasty, there are very few who can be officials, and even fewer who can be the eighth grade. The envoys and judgments of Jingshitai Hospital are only the fifth and sixth grades. Li Shizhen, the author of "Compendium of Materia Medica", turned out to be a good doctor in the Chu Palace, and later became the worship of the palace, which was promoted to the eighth grade. Why is it that his rulers are worshipped and not his good doctors? It's because he hasn't been an imperial doctor and doesn't have the qualifications, so he had to be promoted.

Therefore, in his opening remarks at the court meeting, Li Liangde clearly announced that the plague was the plague, and everyone did not hesitate to think that this was the authoritative opinion of experts. So everyone listened carefully and prepared to take measures to prevent themselves and their families from being infected as soon as they returned home. As a result, Li Liangde only said something, and everyone understood that the judgment of this plague was not an expert opinion, but the opinion of the prince himself! Could it be that the prince learned about it from his future father-in-law? Everyone didn't know, so they had to look at each other.

fell into passivity at the beginning, Zhu Pingjin secretly scolded your mother, help the leader top the top cylinder, you want to die! When he saw that the people below began to talk to each other, he knew that if he didn't make this matter clear, he would not want to push the following things.

"This plague is called the plague, also known as the Black Death, and the people are commonly known as the big head plague and the rotten head plague! The cause of the disease is a very virulent germ! The germs first grow on the rodents, and then the rodents eat and drink, and the germs are transmitted to the grain and well water, and then to the people. It has also been passed down to people through flea bites on rats. This plague is extremely contagious, and it must be passed down from person to person! The way it is spread is saliva, clothing, cooking utensils, beds, tables, benches! In short, as long as people come into contact with each other, they can be contagious! Even if you don't have contact, if you spray someone with saliva while talking, it can be contagious! If a person is infected with the poison, it may not be immediately ill, and the incubation period of one day to half a month is given. But once the disease occurs, it will die within three or four days! ”

Listening to Shizi talking on it, Liu Zhibo had a strong urge to stand up immediately and ask Shizi, how to prevent this plague and how to cure it? He is a native of Fengxiang Mansion in Shaanxi Province, and has been an official in Beijing since he came out. Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Beizhili are all high-incidence areas of the epidemic. When he left Beijing at the end of March this year, the epidemic in Beijing was very serious. Along the way, Zhending, Baoding two mansions, the whole village on the road is dead, like a ghost city like the scene can be seen everywhere. As an official with a conscience, he has also consulted famous doctors everywhere many times, even the imperial doctor of Tai Hospital, how can he prevent the epidemic and reduce deaths? But the answers of those famous doctors and imperial doctors were as helpless as him, nothing more than these four things: healing, burying the corpse, compassionate to the disaster, and praying to the gods. He asked what kind of disease it was, and what was the prescription? The doctors basically said the following:

Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, said that this is typhoid fever.

Why is what Shizi said completely different from what the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing said? Liu Zhibo felt that this was a major matter related to the country's social affairs, and he must figure it out. The self-admonition of prudence in words and deeds was gradually forgotten by himself.

“…… This extremely virulent germ infects the glands of a person, which is bubonic plague; If it infects a person's lungs, it is pneumonic plague; If it infects a person's blood, it is sepsis. Depending on the place of infection, the symptoms are naturally somewhat different. If the glands are infected, the glands in the gills are swollen, which is the plague of the head; If the lungs are infected, it is cough and bloody sputum; If the blood is infected, it is septic. The blood is black, and the skin color becomes dark and black! ”

Zhu Pingjin continued to popularize his theory of plague to the clans and ministers present, and the meeting on plague control and epidemic prevention became a collective study meeting. Cheng Xiangfeng's quill pen rustled on the paper, and the eyes of the county kings and ministers were wide-eyed, and they didn't want to miss a word.

“…… The cause of the plague and the way of transmission of the plague have been told in this world. I don't know what your lords have to do to let the people of Shu land escape? Zhu Pingjin asked everyone present.

"This official thinks that there are four strategies to control the plague!" A young officer stepped out of the line. Seeing that Zhu Pingjin was stunned, Cao Sanbao hurriedly reminded in a low voice that this was Shen Yunzuo of Jinshi Zhi County, who had not been in office for a long time in Huayang County.

"Lord Shen, speak quickly!" Zhu Pingjin smiled and encouraged.

"Heal the sick, bury the corpse, sympathize with the disaster, pray to the gods!" Lord Shen is righteous and awe-inspiring.

Well! Shizi smiled and nodded, and fully affirmed Shen Yunzuo's four strategies: "I don't know if there are plague patients in Huayang County, which is under the jurisdiction of Lord Shen, can there be plague patients everywhere in the city?" ”

"This, the lower official has not yet been explicitly indicated by the upper official."

"Oh? Does Lord Shen have any other plans? Zhu Pingjin not only seemed very understanding, but also very modest.

"These four strategies are all good strategies for controlling the plague in the past dynasties. Such as the Zhengde period......"

"Do you have any plans?" Zhu Pingjin softly interrupted Shen Yunzuo's performance in the history of plague prevention and control, and he lowered his head to stare at Liao Daheng and Liu Zhibo in the front row of civil officials.

Liao Daheng glanced back at Liu Zhibo, and saw that he pursed his lips, as if he had no intention of speaking, so he slowly stood up and played:

"The prince just talked about the etiological mechanism of this plague, which really made the lower officials and others suddenly open. Xiaguan Jinshi was born, and he once thought that he had learned five cars. Only then did the lower officials know that the learning of the lower officials is like the encounter of a small river in the East China Sea, and they are only ashamed to laugh at the generous home! The lower officials thought that the prince's theory on the plague should be immediately printed and posted throughout the city. No, it should be posted in all counties and districts of Sichuan. So that the people know that this little mouse is the source of disease! It is also necessary to let the people know that they have lived, and they have learned from the kindness of God and the son of the world! ”

Liao Daheng came up and praised Zhu Pingjian, which made Zhu Pingjin a little weak-hearted, and at the same time a little vigilant: This old fox doesn't want to make money from this, right?

"Liao Gong has a reputation! This son is young, how can he understand so much? It's just that the mother concubine happened to find a miracle doctor to be her in-laws! Zhu Pingjin explained helplessly.

Shizi's joke made the ministers of the county king on the bench laugh. Yes, without this old man, how could the prince know about the germs that are so small that they can't be seen?

Liao struggled to squeeze out a smile so as not to appear unsociable:

"The four strategies that Lord Shen just said about curing the sick, burying the corpse, compassionate the disaster, and praying to the gods are indeed feasible. It's just that the lower officials think that this is far from enough! As the capital county of the province, Huayang County has a great responsibility! If there are no plague patients in the county, Huayang County should immediately visit and report it immediately! Saving the sick is like fighting a fire, what else do you need to express at this time? Whether the sick beggar is in Huayang County or not, you must find out! Chengdu County has done a good job this time, but it must not be relaxed, and it must be checked every day and every household! Every evening, before the evening, the results of the inventory must be reported to the governor's yamen! ”

Liao Daheng's tone towards his subordinates was very harsh. Shen Yunzuo is an official of the imperial court in the eyes of Zhu Pingjin, and in the eyes of Liao Daheng, he is just a seven-grade sesame official. Shen Yunzuo's face turned red, and he answered yes with Wu Jishan, and then retreated.

"It is also a feasible strategy for the people to spontaneously go out to the city to avoid the plague. At present, the weather is dry and hot, the city is crowded, and rats are running around, which is an excellent place for rats to pass from person to person and from person to person. The people were able to go out of the city, reducing the population of the city, and also avoiding rats and fleas, which is in line with the method of epidemic prevention mentioned by the prince. It is only after Chengdu County and Huayang County have completed the investigation that they can be released from the city. Otherwise, when the sick go out of the city, do they not bring the plague out of the city? Therefore, the lower officials thought that from now on, the city gate would be closed for three days, and the city could only be opened after the inventory of Chengdu and Huayang counties was completed. Within half a month after the opening of the city, Chengdu Mansion is only allowed to go out, not enter! ”

Liao Daheng finished speaking. Zhu Pingjin deliberately paused for a moment to observe the reaction below. Hearing Liao Daheng say that the city would be closed for three days, several county kings stopped talking, while other officials were silent.

Since no one spoke, Zhu Pingjin immediately clapped the board: "What Liao Gong said is extremely true!" ”

"In addition, Xia Guan has a few big headaches, and I want to ask the prince to show it." Liao Daheng said.

The play meat is coming! Zhu Pingjin bled up and was ready to deal with it seriously. Isn't it just to give some money? In order to save his life, tens of thousands of taels of silver Lao Tzu can still afford it!

Note 1: Regarding Wu Jishan, the county governor of Chengdu, there are diametrically opposite records in the history books. There are historical records that he held a big seal in one hand and a concubine in the other, and surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong; According to historical records, he died generously, and his family of 36 died on the same day. The records of Shen Yunzuo in Huayang Zhixian are generally the same, they are all generous and unyielding to death, and they were shot into hedgehogs.

Wu Jishan, whose name is Zhiyan, is the brother of Wu Weiye (Wu Meicun), a famous literati in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. To clarify two points: Wu Jishan is not Wu Weiye's brother; Wu Jishan did not serve as the prefect of Chengdu in history. Xiangmu guessed that when someone saw the Chengdu Order recorded in the history books, they mistakenly thought that he was the prefect of Chengdu. These people do not know that the urban area of Chengdu Province is divided into two halves, the western half is Chengdu County and the eastern half is Huayang County. The county is the order, and the county is the guard, which is common sense in ancient literature.