Zhuang Zhixian said happily: "Everything has to wait for the county to talk about after the thank-you banquet, and I won't talk about business today!" This county has a drink with you! - Someone, set up a banquet! ”

Master Hou also said happily: "Mr. Du, you helped the county magistrate to renew the incense, and the hard work is high, the magistrate has repeatedly said it, thank you for your good life!" Not only money, but also the intention to promote you......"

Du Wenhao interrupted him in a hurry: "I'm sorry, my lord! Listen to me, it's a big ......! ”

Zhuang Zhixian's face bloomed with joy at this moment, and he waved his hand again and again: "Big or small, you don't care, drinking is the most important!" The county is happy today! ”

Master Hou also smiled: "Yes, if you don't talk about it at the wine table, what other big thing can make the sky fall in this small county!" Huh"

"That's right! Big deal! - A black gauze hat that is related to adults! ”

Zhuang Zhixian and Master Hou's smiles immediately froze, and they glanced at each other, Zhuang Zhixian glared at Du Wenhao: "What is so important?" ”

"One of the six or seven emergency patients sent from Liujiawan, thirty miles away, has died, and it is understood that dozens of people have died of this disease in Liujiawan! Moreover, this kind of death case has been found in the villages and towns near Liujiawan a few days ago, and they all died within a day or two after being infected, indicating that it is very contagious! The disease is so severe that it has the potential to spread quickly throughout the county, and if drastic measures are not taken, thousands of people will die day and night! ”

Zhuang Zhixian was stunned for a moment: "What...... What is so bad? ”

"Plague!"

Zhuang Zhixian's legs were weak and he almost collapsed on the ground, Master Hou hurriedly helped him up, turned his head and asked Du Wenhao, "You, you're not mistaken, right?" ”

"Judging from the few cases sent, they are very contagious, and the people who sent them all have similar symptoms, and the symptoms of the patients are all in line with the characteristics of the plague, so it should not be wrong!"

Zhuang Zhixian asked: "Since so many people have died in Liujiawan and nearby villages and towns, why haven't you seen the local government reporting it?" ”

Master Hou coughed lightly and said: "Dong Weng, there is no famous doctor like Dr. Du in the villages and towns below, and they don't know that it is a plague, and you also know that the people in the villages and towns always report good news and not bad news, and they will only report it when things are out of control." Master Hou thought for a while, turned around and asked Du Wenhao: "How did Mr. Du know that the outbreak of the plague in Liujiawan and nearby villages and towns has killed many people?" ”

"I also heard from the escort who came to say it, and it hasn't been proven yet."

Zhuang Zhixian breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it, something that hasn't been proven yet, how can you jump to conclusions?"

Du Wenhao hurriedly said: "The plague is fierce and abnormal, judging from these cases, it is likely to be transmitted through the air, if you wait for the verification and then take measures, I am afraid that the plague has swept the whole county!" How will adults explain that they will be held accountable in the future? Even if it can be explained that he is not responsible, how can an adult, as a county parent official, be worthy of the thousands of people who died? ”

Zhuang Zhixian was stupid and stammered: "It's not ......, it's not so serious, right?" ”

Master Hou frowned, leaned his head over, opened the big folding fan with a bang, habitually covering half of the faces of the two of them, and said in a low voice: "Dong Weng, if it is really a plague, Mr. Du's words are not alarmist, in the eighth year of Qingli, the catastrophe in Hebei, the outbreak of the plague in the following year, in towns and villages, seven or eight out of ten people died!" More than a dozen people who were dismissed from their posts for ineffective epidemic prevention in Fufu County were removed from their posts and investigated! ”

Zhuang Zhixian is a complete nerd, lacking the ability to deal with emergencies, hearing that it may be a plague, he has long panicked, and when he heard that he may be removed from his post if he does not take effective precautions, he couldn't help but shudder: "This ......, what can I do about this?" Why don't you report to Fucheng quickly? ”

"It is not a small sin to fail to report the epidemic without verifying it,—— and lying about the epidemic caused panic and riots."

"What about ......, then?"

"Let's listen to Mr. Du's opinion first."

"Good!" Zhuang Zhixian coughed and asked, "Mr. Du, in that case, what should we do?" ”

"Martial law is immediately placed throughout the city, and everyone is prohibited from moving around in order to minimize contact contagion. Establish an isolation area outside the city, strictly check all people entering and leaving, and find those with symptoms of the plague such as high fever, cough, and chest pain, and immediately isolate and treat them. At the same time, an investigative medical team was dispatched to Liujiawan to verify the situation. ”

Zhuang Zhixian ran out of ideas again and looked at Master Hou.

Master Hou thought for a while and said, "It's okay to strictly investigate the four gates, and it is naturally necessary to send personnel to investigate, but this is martial law in the whole city...... I'm afraid that there will be difficulties, there is no garrison in the city, and the nearest garrison is fifty miles away. The three classes of officials and the people are strong, with a total of no more than 50 people. Unable to bear the heavy responsibility of martial law in the whole city. Besides, the martial law in the whole city will inevitably cause the people to speculate and panic, and once there is a civil uprising, I am afraid that ......"

"However, the preliminary judgment of this plague is droplet infection, and if it is not under martial law, it will quickly spread throughout the city as people move! The panic caused by the death of every household in the city is much worse than the panic caused by speculation, right? ”

Master Hou folded the fan and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Du can be sure that it must be a plague?" ”

Du Wenhao was stunned for a moment, indeed, he only judged based on the six or seven cases of Wuweitang and Jishitang and the situation said by the people who escorted him, but there are two questions that cannot be determined, first, whether it is pneumonic plague is now only speculated based on symptoms, and there is no means of testing and testing, so it is impossible to judge; Second, whether there are many people in Liujiawan who died of illness overnight, there is only one proof of the child's uncle. Therefore, Du Wenhao himself must say with certainty that this disease is a boiled plague, but he does not dare to say so because of insufficient evidence.

Du Wenhao said: "In this way, please ask the Yamen to transfer the war horse, and I will go to Liujiawan to investigate immediately with the medical officer of the Yamen!" ”

Master Hou said: "Your Excellency is about to tell you about this at the banquet, and your Excellency intends to promote you to the county's medical officer." This is just right. ”

"Huh?" Du Wenhao looked at Zhuang Zhixian with some surprise.

Zhuang Zhixian nodded and said: "Exactly, the county's medical officers should be matched with five people according to the law, and a few days ago, Dr. Wu returned to his hometown, and there was a vacancy." Doctor Du, your medical skills are like a god, and you have cured the yang ...... in this county Well, this little problem, the county is very satisfied, and intends to promote you to fill this vacancy, as the county medical officer, just happened to encounter this matter, you can go to investigate it justifiably, I don't know what you think? ”

Du Wenhao hurriedly bowed down and said, "Thank you for your promotion!" ”

In addition to promulgating medical decrees and printing medical techniques, the emperors of the Song Dynasty also vigorously strengthened the construction of medical institutions, and set up medical administration, medical education institutions and medicinal materials management institutions.

A medical officer is an officer of a medical administration and a medical institution. It is divided into central and local levels. In the imperial court, it was the Hanlin Medical Bureau, which was responsible for providing imperial medicine, diagnosing and treating diseases to the relatives and courtiers of the inner court, and in the event of a large-scale epidemic in the army and the people, it would also send a team of imperial court medical officers to treat it.

The local prefectures and counties also have corresponding medical bureaus, equipped with a quota of medical officers, belonging to the sequence of imperial court officials, eating the imperial court, and the local medical officials have a doctor of medicine and a teaching assistant, as the chief and deputy leaders of the medical bureau, and the rank is not in the stream. Medical officers are generally recruited after a medical examination, but they can also be directly appointed by the local chief executive.

The main function of the local medical bureau is to be responsible for the management of local medical affairs, and at the same time, it also has an important function to monitor the epidemic situation in various places. The medical officer of the medical officer bureau can also serve as a doctor in a pharmacy to diagnose and treat the people.

Master Hou arched his hand and said, "Congratulations to Mr. Du!" Ah no, it should be called Medical Officer Du. He turned to Zhuang Zhixian and said: "My lord, the prevention and control of the epidemic must not be delayed, immediately start arranging, when the herald Pang County Lieutenant, set up additional sentry posts at the four gates, check the travel merchants, and set up an isolation area outside the city, immediately notify Dr. Qiu and Assistant Teacher Tang of the Medical Officer Bureau, and ask them to convene the medical officer and Medical Officer Du to form a team to go to Liujiawan to investigate the epidemic." At the same time, an expedited 800-mile was dispatched to report to Fucheng that there might be a plague in Liujiawan, and medical officers were being sent to verify it. It's a good way to go in this way. ”

Zhuang Zhixian nodded again and again: "Okay!" You do it right away! ”

Du Wenhao admired this master Hou very much for being decisive and old in dealing with officialdom.

Master Hou first took Du Wenhao to the Medical Bureau, and there were only two medical officers napping inside, one was named Hong Guoliang and the other was Wang Xiang. Dr. Qiu, the director of the Medical Bureau, and Assistant Professor Tang, the deputy director, did not have a shadow, and when they asked, they found out that the two old men went to the teahouse to drink tea. After Master Hou made an introduction, he asked Wang Xiang to hurry up and call the two leaders, and then ran to find Captain Pang himself.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Du Wenhao was in a hurry in the medical bureau, and Dr. Qiu and Assistant Teacher Tang came back slowly.

After the medical officer Wang Xiang made an introduction, Du Wenhao hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Du Wenhao has seen the doctor, the assistant teaching assistant, two adults!" ”

Dr. Qiu was fat-headed, big-eared, and very fat, so he walked slowly behind the table, sat down in the Taishi chair, rolled his thick eyelids and looked Du Wenhao up and down: "You are the new medical officer Du Wenhao?" ”

"Exactly."

"Well, I've heard that Xu Sihai once sued you last time he beat the drum and shouted injustice, saying that you were a quack doctor for murder, and I don't know how you got it later, you are not guilty, hehe, it seems that you really have some ability."

Du Wenhao was very unhappy when he heard him, but he didn't have time to say this at this time, so he arched his hand and said: "My lord, the epidemic is urgent, let's leave immediately!" ”

"The pandemic? By the way, just now they came to say that you found a plague in Liujiawan? ”

"Exactly."

Dr. Qiu dragged out his voice, and said in an official tone: "The plague is not said casually, the world has been peaceful all these years, and there has been no major disaster in this county, where did the epidemic come from?" Do you know what a plague is? Hmph, let me tell you, "Su Wen" cloud, the emperor said: Yu Wen Five Plagues, all of them are easy to infect, regardless of size, and the symptoms are similar. Another cloud: The fur is so big, and the people die violently. They all say that the evidence of the plague is also. "The Great Treatise of the Six Yuan Period" said: His illness is warm and cold, and it is salty from far and near. He also said, "His illness is warm." It is said that it is warm, but not cold, and it is also ...... to cover it with warmth."

Du Wenhao finally couldn't bear it anymore and interrupted him: "Needless to say, Du knows all this!" ”