In Luyi County, upstream of the whirlpool, more than a dozen soldiers who covered their faces with cotton cloth and only leaked a pair of eyes shuttled on the river with small boats, salvaging the floating corpses floating down from the upstream and dragging them to the shore.

These corpses have long been decomposed, the stench is stinking, and they are floating down from the upstream one after another, which is the main source of the plague, and the second brother Gao ordered people to intercept them upstream, so as not to let the corpses flow down the water into Luyi County.

At this time, the second brother Gao also covered his face with cotton cloth, and stood in a distance with a few people, watching the soldiers drag the salvaged corpses directly to the shore and burn them, destroying the source of these epidemics.

This plague swept Henan, and the culprit was Li Zicheng who flooded Bianliang, killing nearly a million living beings, and the dead bodies rotted in the water, and no one cleaned up the aftermath, causing a large-scale plague.

It has been more than a month since the Yellow River burst, and there are still corpses floating down from time to time upstream. The corpses had long since decomposed, soaked white and swollen, crawling with maggots and buzzing flies.

These things were soaked in the river water, and the whole river was polluted, Gao Yihuan looked at it recently, his stomach churned, and he almost vomited out of his bile.

Now he stood in the distance and watched the soldiers burn the corpses, then turned his head to a middle-aged man in a Taoist uniform next to him and said, "Mr. Wu has contributed a lot to the control of the epidemic in Luyi this time!" ”

This Mr. Wu is a talent discovered by Gao Yihuan among the victims, named Wu Youxing, the word is Ke, is a You Fang Langzhong, he wrote the book "Treatise on the Epidemic of Warmth", boldly put forward the theory of "furious gas" to cause disease, in the history of the world's medical infectious diseases is also a great innovation, so it has won the wide respect of future generations.

Wu Youxing Taoist priest was dressed as a very thin person, he stroked his beard and sighed, "Since the first year of Chongzhen, there have been epidemics almost every year, and the old gentlemen have used the method of treating typhoid fever to treat the epidemic, but it has no effect. I advocate a new rule against the epidemic, but no one trusts me. The general can use me today and give me a chance to try my thoughts and make a little effort. This is the general's courage to employ people, and I dare not take any credit. ”

This time the plague was menacing, Gao Yihuan appointed Wu Youxing to treat the epidemic, isolated the infected people in different places depending on the severity, and ordered people to dig wells everywhere, not to drink the water of the vortex river, and purchased a large number of medicinal materials from the south, which finally made the epidemic in Luyi under control without causing much harm.

Wu Youxing said, and hugged his fist to Gao Yihuan, "Moreover, the general's views on the epidemic are very admirable, and many suggestions and methods are put forward by the general, I just help the general to implement them, and I can't be regarded as a great achievement." ”

Wu Youxing praised the second brother for being able to use people, the second brother blushed when he heard the words, he opened his eyes to the sky, knowing that there was such a person as Wu Youxing, he dared to use it, if the old brother changed his name, whether the second brother dared to use it, it was really hard to say.

The second brother smiled and said, "This epidemic, Taikang, Fugou and other places have ten rooms and nine emptiness, and there are not a few dead people in the whole village, but my Luyi can survive alone in the epidemic, no matter what, Mr. Wu's credit can't be escaped." I am ready to spend some money to set up a medical center for Mr. Wu in Luyi, and ask Mr. Wu to sit in the hall and treat the people of Luyi. ”

Wu Youxing is a wandering Lang Lang who walks the streets and alleys, and he is used to idle clouds and wild cranes, and suddenly he wants to go to the hall and settle down in Luyi, but he is not used to it.

"This~" He listened to the second brother's words, his brows furrowed slightly, and he hesitated.

Traditional Chinese medicine is an empirical discipline, and it takes many years to train a person to become a Langzhong, and even if he becomes a Langzhong, he may not have much ability. This kind of empirical discipline has high requirements for Lang Zhong himself, and ordinary people may not be able to achieve it, Gao Yihuan finally caught a person with some ability, so naturally he will not let it go.

"The scholars rule the country and level the world, the warriors and horses are shrouded, guarding the peace of the party, the doctors are benevolent, the great merit is not profitable, and the pot is hanging to help the world." Gao Yihuan looked at Wu Youxing and said in a deep voice: "If the chaos has started today, I think that everyone who can should take a responsibility." If you walk the streets and alleys, you can't save one or two people a day, so it's better to stay in Luyi, set up a medical center, and talk about medicine like a Confucian, so that more people can learn medical skills. The sage said, learning without using it is waste, if Mr. is a skill, if it can't be used, it can't be passed on, what a pity. ”

"Set up a dojo like a great Confucian to talk about medicine?" Wu Youxing was slightly stunned, and then shook his head, "General, I'm afraid this can't be done." Even if I want to talk about it, it is estimated that no one will come, and I will be abused, after all, this imperial examination is not examined, and it can only be regarded as a sidewalk~"

Wu Youxing's words hit the nail on the head, but Gao Yihuan said: "It's okay, disciples and students, I'll find it for you." At present, the epidemic is everywhere, I happen to lack Lang Zhong here, I will help Mr. Wu find some disciples, but I hope that Mr. Wu can not hide his personal secrets, and must teach what he has learned all his life, after all, only more people understand Mr. Wu's medical skills can save more people. ”

"This~" Wu Youxing hesitated for a while, he was already a little moved in his heart, walking the streets and alleys is not a long-term solution after all, he also hopes to have his own medical hall and stabilize it, "Then I will obey the general's arrangement~"

"Okay, I'll have someone choose a place in the city and build a medical center for my husband later." Gao Yi heard the words, and his heart was immediately happy, as if he had solved another major matter.

At this time, a person in the distance rode a mule over, he came behind Gao Yihuan, turned over, and approached some loud reports: "Second brother, someone from General Zhao's side came to give an order, Brother Daxian led him to the county office, let me come and call the second brother back to the city."

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly when he heard this, turned around, and saw that it was Zhao Zhuzi, so he asked, "Do you know what is going on?"

"It seems that they are going to transfer us to fight the official army." Zhao Zhuzi touched his head and said.

A few days ago, Gao Yihuan received a message from Gao Yicheng, saying that Li Zicheng was a waste who was beaten by Sun Chuanting in Jiaxian County and lost his armor.

Gao Yihuan frowned and pondered for a while, then waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go back to the city."

At that moment, Gao Yihuan left Wu Youxing and more than a dozen soldiers to continue to clean up the corpses, while he led the others back to Luyi County.

The second brother turned over the yellow-haired war horse he had obtained from Bozhou, and the others rode mules and walked south along the whirlpool.

Along the way, the fields on both sides of the river were cultivated by allotted displaced people, and a large number of people were working in the fields in preparation for sowing winter wheat.

The second brother continued to walk south, and when he was about to approach the county seat, more than a dozen black smoke earthen kilns appeared along the vortex river, firing kiln bricks.

In the open space on both sides of the vortex river, brick embryos appear from time to time, and many young people work in the kiln.

The main reason why this kiln factory was able to open was that Liu Heizi found the coal mine, sent people to mine it, and sent the coal to Luyi.

Originally, the second brother was going to give Liu Heizi a little money and food, and then package the coal ore and mine it himself, but Liu Heizi was very shrewd and didn't agree, so he had to come by himself.

At the beginning, Liu Heizi set the price of charcoal very high, and he had a dispute with his second brother for a while, but the price was never negotiated.

The second brother wants to burn bricks, the picture shows that adobe bricks are cheap and convenient, but if the price of charcoal is too expensive, the second brother naturally cannot use it to burn bricks, which is not very cost-effective.

Seeing that the brick-burning thing was going to be yellow, when the plague came, Liu Heizi suffered heavy losses, but this matter changed. Liu Heizi saw that Luyi had done a good job in curing the epidemic, and the second brother sent two experienced Lang Zhong to help him treat the epidemic, so that the price of charcoal could be brought down.

After having charcoal, plus some firewood and kiln factories began to operate, Gao Erge used wheel kilns to produce red bricks, instead of the blue bricks and green tiles used in China since ancient times, and several kiln bricks have been produced.

The firing process of green bricks is more complicated, living in a green brick house, it has the effect of being warm in winter and cool in summer, and the red bricks are relatively rough and not so particular.

The second brother wants to build Luyi into a fortress, and he is in urgent need of bricks and tiles, so red bricks with high production efficiency are the best choice.

The wheel kiln is different from the brick kiln that fires green bricks, it can operate continuously, and the output is much larger, and one kiln can produce tens of thousands of red bricks, which can supply the construction needs of streets, military camps, and city walls.

In the space of more than a month, houses with red brick buildings have risen in Luyi, and the city walls have begun to prepare for reconstruction.

In order to facilitate transportation, these brick kilns are not far from Luyi City, and the second brother Gao and his party passed through the busy kiln factory and returned to Luyi County in a short time.

In the county, more than 1,000 new soldiers are in hot practice, the shops in the city are numerous, there are caravans coming from the direction of Bozhou every day, bringing a large number of materials, so that many people come here to trade, looking for jobs, the city is bustling, Luyi County is a thriving hot scene.

The epidemic situation in Luyi County is well controlled, and the materials are relatively abundant, and there is a Jianghu warlock Jiang Yiwen who said that Luyi is Lao Tzu's hometown, and he has been blessed by God, which has attracted many people to move to Luyi