Du Wenhao asked: "Why"

Assistant Teacher Tang looked left and right, and his voice was lowered: "I have been a medical officer in various places for more than 30 years, and this is not the first time to participate in epidemic prevention and treatment. No matter how serious the epidemic is, it must be reported to the imperial court at all levels, because Fuzhou and counties do not have this expenditure, and they must be reported to the imperial court to allocate epidemic prevention silver taels separately. From the reporting of the epidemic to the allocation of epidemic prevention silver by the imperial court, it will take more than four months at the earliest! It's not uncommon for it to arrive in half a year! Moreover, these belongings were withheld layer by layer, and finally sent to the epidemic area for epidemic prevention, less than one or two! ”

Du Wenhao was very surprised, although he also understood that there were no modern means of communication in ancient times, and the transportation was not developed, but it took four months to allocate the epidemic prevention silver taels, which was too slow. Moreover, layers of deductions have existed since ancient times, but deducting **10% is too dark.

Du Wenhao hurriedly said: "What can I do then?" You can't cure a disease without medicinal herbs! ”

Assistant Teacher Tang spread his hands: "I can't help it." ”

"You have experience in participating in epidemic prevention and disaster relief in the past, do you calculate, just our county, how much silver will you get for this epidemic prevention and disaster relief?"

Assistant Teacher Tang folded his fingers and tilted his head for a while, and said: "Now all the sick people are concentrated outside the city, and they have to live, eat, cover and add medicinal herbs, and bury the corpses from village to village, etc., to say the least, it will cost 10,000 taels of silver!" ”

"Ten thousand taels?" Du Wenhao was taken aback.

"It's just a minimum. It's just a thousand patients, because we don't know exactly how many patients, and if the number of patients increases, the number will definitely increase accordingly! ”

Du Wenhao nodded, 10,000 taels of silver, that is 10 million yuan. Where can I get such a huge sum of money? You can't rob the rich and help the poor, right? It seems that he can only rely on the imperial court, Du Wenhao gritted his teeth and said, "Go!" Let's go to Zhuang Zhixian to discuss! ”

"What are you discussing?"

"Nonsense, of course where did the money come from! Come on! Time waits for no one! ”

The two of them got on their horses and ran towards the city.

After Lin Qingdai and the others returned to the city after selling their equipment, they saw the followers of the Zhukuai and Baiyi Society, who were in charge of martial law patrols, along the street, and told them that many wealthy businessmen shouted at the people patrolling the street from the windows of their homes to help buy Wuweitang's isolation suits and gas masks, and the prices were higher than those outside.

Lin Qingdai was very curious about how these people knew that Wuweitang had equipment to shoot, and when she inquired, she found out that it was these people who inquired about it after seeing the heads of the trappers and believers who patrolled and transported the sick wearing this strange equipment from their homes. So I asked them to help buy it.

Lin Qingdai and the others returned to Wuweitang and hurried to make equipment, since all the parts were ordered from the whole city, they only needed to prepare potion to soak the filter material, and then assemble it. So the production is fast. After entrusting the patrol to help count the bids of each family, the one with the highest price will get it, and it will be made and sold overnight.

All the patients of Wuweitang were transferred to the outside of the city for unified treatment, and all the more than 20 kinds of medicinal materials needed in the pharmacy were also donated and sent outside the city.

Du Wenhao and Assistant Teacher Tang came to the yamen, the hall was brightly lit, Zhuang Zhixian was wearing an isolation suit and a gas mask, personally handling epidemic prevention affairs in the lobby, seeing Du Wenhao and they came, Zhuang Zhixian hurriedly beckoned him over, and asked first: "Doctor Du, what kind of clothes and gas masks do you say in this county, can you prevent this epidemic?" ”

Du Wenhao nodded: "Although I dare not say that it can be completely prevented, it can greatly reduce the possibility of getting sick." ”

"Oh, that's good," Zhuang Zhixian suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, "Mr. Du, your judgment is very accurate, it is indeed a plague, and this county has sent eight hundred miles to expedite according to the situation you have verified, report the epidemic to Fucheng, and request the allocation of disaster relief materials." ”

"Is the epidemic area blocked?"

"It's not very clear, we don't have the ability anymore, so we can only report to see how the prefect of Fucheng dispatches. You were the first to discover the plague in our county, so you were able to take measures in time, and you have made great contributions, and this county will definitely promote you well in the future! ”

"Thank you, sir! However, now we have encountered a lot of problems in epidemic prevention. ”

"What's the problem? Didn't we all start the epidemic prevention work according to your plan? The county has ordered martial law throughout the city, and let the followers of the Zhukuai, Minzhuang and Baiyi Society form a patrol team to patrol the whole city, not allowing anyone to move around at will, and search for sick people everywhere, and once found, immediately load into closed ox carts and transfer them to quarantine outside the city. Is this all your idea? ”

Du Wenhao thought to himself, this is not my idea later, but maybe this is a good idea, at least to ensure the safety of the people in the city, and it is a last resort. Nodding his head, he said: "These are all right, but my lord, after all the patients in the city were transferred outside the city, there are now nearly 1,000 patients outside the city, plus thousands of people who are not sick, and there are two biggest problems encountered in epidemic prevention: first, cold-proof tents, quilts, food and drinking water; Second, there is a shortage of medicinal materials! ”

Zhuang Zhixian smiled bitterly and glanced at Master Hou next to him.

Master Hou said: "Doctor Du, these magistrates have already thought of it, and they have already written it in the emergency report to the city, and they can be solved when the disaster relief and epidemic prevention materials are allocated by the imperial court." ”

"How long will it take?"

"This ......, it may take a while."

"So what now? It's snowing so hard outside, it's freezing cold, and it's not a good idea to just burn a bonfire. Moreover, it takes a lot of firewood to burn a bonfire, and the firewood transported can last for two days at most. And the epidemic prevention work may continue for many months. Once there is no shelter and food, especially no medicine, these patients will definitely scatter and flee for their lives, which will spread the epidemic! ”

Master Hou sighed and said in a low voice: "Mr. Du, I won't tell you, we have done some investigation this afternoon, and we learned that the epidemic was discovered in nearby states and counties a few days earlier, but we have not received a notification from above, presumably those states and counties do not know that there is a plague, and this disease is spreading too fast." Judging from the estimation of the onset time, the plague in our county should have spread from other states and counties! Therefore, whether these patients can escape or not, it doesn't matter much. ”

Du Wenhao chuckled in his heart, this was something he didn't expect. Hurriedly said: "Even if you don't worry about them escaping, you can't see death without help!" ”

Master Hou folded the fan and said coldly: "Mr. Du is serious, no one will die without help!" The officials of the yamen from the magistrate to the magistrate and the husband, all tightened their belts, cut down on food and clothing, pooled money and donated money to order tents, and sent them outside the city to keep the patients out of the cold. How can you say that you can't save yourself when you die? ”

Du Wenhao hurriedly bowed deeply: "I'm sorry, my lord, I said it wrong, I didn't mean that, I meant donating funds for disaster relief, it's just a drop in the bucket, and it doesn't play a big role." Assistant Teacher Tang has estimated that this time our county's epidemic prevention and disaster relief will cost at least 10,000 taels of silver. How does this money come out? ”

Zhuang Zhixian spread his hands: "It's good that the yamen can take out a hundred taels now, let alone 10,000 taels, we can only wait for the imperial court to allocate disaster relief funds." Before that, I had to figure it out on my own. ”

Du Wenhao pondered for a moment, thinking of what Lin Qingdai had told him before, that he had earned more than 2,000 taels of silver in the first transaction of selling isolation gowns and gas masks, and he really couldn't do it, so he could only use the money to save the emergency. said: "My lord, this money can be temporarily lent to the county government for epidemic prevention, but we need to go back and discuss it with the two shopkeepers." Moreover, the adults must give me a guarantee that they will be the first to compensate me when the disaster relief funds and materials are allocated. ”

This is great news for Zhuang Zhi County, the epidemic prevention is timely and powerful, and this political achievement in the future can be regarded as a miracle achievement, I can't help but be overjoyed, and I said in a loud voice: "No problem!" That's great! The county will issue you an IOU, which is counted as a yamen loan, and the imperial court epidemic prevention and disaster relief funds will be refunded in full immediately! And you can also calculate interest according to the pawnshop interest! ”

Master Hou was also very happy, and praised Du Wenhao again and again for his righteousness and squandering wealth, which was really timely rain.

The words of Assistant Teacher Tang made Du Wenhao fully understand the darkness of the yamen, this money is life-saving money, and it cannot be misappropriated, so he said: "My lord, I still have one condition, how to spend this money has to be decided by me, of course, the county magistrate can send an accountant to keep accounts, and all the accounts are guaranteed to be clear, and all are used for epidemic prevention." ”

Zhuang Zhixian and Master Hou glanced at each other, Du Wenhao's worries can naturally be understood, for Zhuang Zhixian, as long as the epidemic prevention work is done, there will be fewer deaths in other epidemic areas, and the people will not be chaotic, this is the greatest achievement, maybe it can make a difference by relying on this political achievement. Money is secondary.

So Zhuang Zhixian nodded again and again: "That's no problem, so be it, Lao Qiu, this guy thinks that the Medical Officer Bureau is a Qingshui Yamen, and he has already told the county that he wants to sue the old man to return to his hometown, and this time he is also greedy for life and afraid of death, and he will not come out at home for fear of death, and his doctor of medicine will come to an end, and the county will remove him from the post of doctor of medicine, and appoint Mr. Du as the doctor of the county medical bureau!" ”

As soon as he was promoted to the medical officer in the afternoon, he became the leader of the Medical Officer Bureau in the middle of the night, Du Wenhao thought to himself that his official luck was still good, but unfortunately even if he was the leader of the Medical Officer Bureau, he was still just a sesame officer who had not entered the stream. Hurriedly bowed down and thanked him.

Zhuang Zhixian said: "The Medical Bureau is responsible for epidemic prevention, and in the future, the epidemic prevention of the whole county will be borne by you, and the county now authorizes you to use the funds lent by your hall to the yamen to organize epidemic prevention and treatment!" This bookkeeping, let the Yamen Detention Division be in charge. ”

The priest was a scribe in charge of taxation and litigation in the local government of the Song Dynasty, and was commonly known as the bookkeeper of the county government. is also the official that Song Jiang served in "Water Margin".

After a while, the priest was summoned to the lobby, and he heard that Zhuang Zhixian said that he would assist the new director of the Medical Bureau, Dr. Du Wenhao, in managing the epidemic prevention and disaster relief funds, and hurriedly stepped forward to see it.