ruined Wen Tiren's good deeds at the cabinet meeting, so that Qian Qianyi couldn't help but drink a few more drinks when he returned to the mansion in the evening. This made Liu Ru, who was serving him on the side, very curious, and couldn't help but ask a few questions.

Yang Ai, a former Qing man, changed her name in order to hide the past before entering Beijing, and she borrowed Xin Qiji's words: I see how charming Qingshan is, and I expect Qingshan to see me like this. A sentence. Changed his name to Liu Yin, and the words are the same.

Liu Ru's position in Qian Qianyi's mansion is actually extremely embarrassing, although she was ransomed from the brothel by Ruan Dacheng, but when she was sent to Qian Qianyi's mansion, she was only regarded as a plaything used to curry favor with Qian Qianyi.

It's just that Qian Qianyi was just expected to be promoted to the post of first assistant to the cabinet at that time, and he knew that Chongzhen had always disliked officials and fireworks women, and he didn't like the celebration of officials after they were promoted, such as concubine celebrations. But he was reluctant to let Liu Ru go, so he claimed that she was his daughter's music teacher.

As for why her daughter's music teacher did not teach her daughter in Changshu's hometown, but went to Beijing with him, others are also very knowledgeable and will not ask such an inappropriate topic in front of Shoufu.

In the past four years in Qianfu, Liu Ru has always been deeply favored by Qian Qianyi with his intelligence and musical talent. With the death of Qian Qianyi's original wife Chen, Liu Ru's status in the Qian Mansion is getting higher and higher.

From the crisis-ridden homecoming to the peaceful Qian Mansion in the capital, Liu Rushi also calmed down and studied a large number of books, and even relied on Qian Qianyi's favor to disguise himself as a man several times to infiltrate Yenching University to listen to the debates of the courses and students. In some ways, her political acumen is no less than her musical talent.

Therefore, after hearing Qian Qianyi showing off in front of her, he blocked Wen Tiren's deeds at the cabinet meeting today. Liu Ruye's brows suddenly frowned slightly, and he said to Qian Qianyi: "But master, the concubine has listened to a few lectures of this old gentleman Wang, and what he respects is Wang Xue, if this old gentleman Wang goes to preside over the education reform in the south, wouldn't it be to suppress the academies that worship science in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River?"

In the future, those physicists will know that it was the master who recommended Mr. Wang, and I am afraid that their resentment will gather on the master..."

Qian Qianyi, who was slightly drunk, couldn't hear what Liu Ru was saying at the moment, he just felt that under the moonlight tonight, Liu Ruyi, who was eighteen years old, was as moving as a blooming lily.

Drunk, he couldn't help but reach out and grab Liu Ruye's waist, hugged her horizontally on his lap, and said softly in her ear: "Such a beautiful day, why should Mrs. say such disappointing words, let's go back to the room and have fun..."

Qian Qianyi, who was in his early fifties, acted like a hungry boy at the moment, so he hugged Liu Ru in his arms and walked towards the bedroom. Liu Ru is very well-behaved at the moment, cooperating with the other party to bury his head in Qian Qianyi's chest, and be a bird. But in her heart, she sighed, knowing that although Qian Qianyi doted on herself, she loved her body.

In February and March of the tenth year of Chongzhen, good news came from Batavia and the Western Regions. The compromise of the Dutch and the surrender of the Yarkand Khanate caused the Ming to greatly penetrate into the east and west.

Compared with Batavia's compromise, Zhu Youzhen was obviously more interested in hearing the news of the submission of the Yarkand Khanate. This was much less time than he had expected, and the cost of supplies was surprisingly low.

More importantly, compared with Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, the land available for development in the Western Regions is more extensive and the natural conditions are better.

And with the development of the Hetao area by the Ming Dynasty, plague is increasingly becoming a major disease in the northwest reclamation area. The grasslands and deserts of the Loop were originally the territory of small animals such as rats and marmots.

As the Ming Dynasty organized displaced people to reclaim land in these areas, the risk of plague spread increased. Just two years ago, there had been a sharp increase in rats in the villages of Ningxia, which local officials at the time regarded as a bad omen, but when a very ferocious infectious disease began to appear in the villages of these areas last year, Zhu Youzhen immediately reacted to the outbreak of plague.

The bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was a plague even more terrible than smallpox in this era, and once infected, it meant death. Even the most brilliant doctors of this era did not know as much about the occurrence and spread of the plague as Zhu Youzhen.

Thanks to the developed network information in later generations, Zhu Youzhen at least knew that the plague was a bacterial disease, not a plague sent down by some plague god. At the very least, he knew that it was transmitted to humans through rat fleas on animals, and that humans who got sick would soon spread it to others through breathing and physical contact.

It was precisely because of Chongzhen's insistence that the doctors of the Tai Hospital no longer tried to use the typhoid theory to explain the plague that appeared in the northwest. Doctors such as Wu Youxing, who studied medicine with the help of a microscope, agreed with the emperor's proposition, believing that this might be a new bacterial pathogenic principle, which was by no means the same as an injury disease.

However, Wu Youxing also resolutely opposed Chongzhen's measures of only preventing but not curing, and these measures included: through the establishment of the Northwest Epidemic Prevention Department, Ningxia, the Hetao Plain, the Ordos Plateau, Hohhot and other places were strictly sealed, the people in the epidemic areas were prohibited from flowing outward, all the carcasses of people and animals in the area, as well as the fur of rats and marmots, and the people in the area were forbidden to eat rats, marmots and other animals.

Much of these precautionary and quarantine measures were based on London's armed quarantine measures against the Black Death. However, Wu Youxing believes that only prevention without treatment is undoubtedly tantamount to abandoning the people in those epidemic areas.

If such quarantine measures continue, I am afraid that the people will turn their fear of disease into hatred of patients in the future, which is obviously abnormal and contrary to the original intention of these doctors to study medicine. Therefore, he insisted on leading a team to the endemic area to conduct a thorough study of the causes of the plague and how it spread.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wu Youxing in front of him and said seriously: "Although I can't tell you, the way about the spread of the plague comes from that book.

But when you talk to the European missionaries these days, you should also know that the Black Death was actually the bubonic plague, and the way it spread is enough to prove that what I am saying is true.

Europeans have had two pandemics of the Black Death across Europe in their history, but they still haven't been able to figure out the true cause of the Black Death and how it spreads.

In addition, so far, we have not been able to find a single patient who has been successfully treated with medicine. The patients who can survive rely on their own constitution to carry it.

In other words, you may not be able to do anything but watch the sick die, and even you yourself will be in danger. If one of you catches the plague, will you also be an outcast, is it worth it? ”

Wu Youxing raised his head to look at the emperor's gaze, and suddenly smiled and said: "It's the first time for the minister to see Your Majesty so nervous, even in the face of the smallpox patients who appeared in the capital before, Your Majesty is still fearless. ”

Zhu Youzhen replied without thinking: "How is it the same, I know a lot about smallpox, and I also know that vaccinum vaccination can immunize smallpox, but the plague is different, we know almost nothing about it, and we don't know how to treat it. ”

Wu Youxing restrained his smile, nodded at the emperor and said, "Yes, for the disease that you already know, no matter how fierce this disease is, it will not be fearful. But for a disease that you don't understand, even if it is docile, it is terrifying.

But Your Majesty, you never know about the disease and understand this process, and someone always needs to study it. If no one studies it, we will never understand how the disease is formed, and we will not be able to find a cure for the symptoms.

He believes that before vaccinia was found, many doctors risked their lives to explore the causes and treatment of smallpox. The minister thought that in the face of the plague, the first to step forward should be the doctors, not the army, and this is the responsibility that our doctors should bear.

What's more, these patients who are threatened by the plague are also His Majesty's people. Why can Your Majesty forsake it? ”

In the face of Wu Youxing, who repeatedly came to ask him to go to the plague outbreak site in the northwest to study the epidemic, Zhu Youzhen finally felt a little emotional.

In this world, although there are many so-called gentlemen who are sanctimonious, they blindly pursue fame and fortune, no matter what kind of life the people in the world live.

But there are also people like Wu Youxing and Xia Yunyi, who want to do what they can for the people. Perhaps it is because of the existence of these people that he feels that everything he is doing now is meaningful.

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a long time before he said to Wu Youxing: "Let me think about it and give you an answer." ”

When Wu Youxing wanted to say something more, Lu Qi, who was observing the words and expressions on the side, hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Wu Youxing's sleeve and persuaded him to go down.

Early in the morning three days later, Zhu Youzhen rode lightly to the Beijing Medical College, where he gathered all the teachers and students of the medical school and told them about the situation of the plague in many villages in the northwest.

Then he looked at the crowd and said, "... For the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, I can order the soldiers to charge into battle, because I know that victory will eventually belong to the Ming Dynasty.

But in the face of such an enemy of humanity as the plague, I have no certainty of victory. The war between humanity and disease has never been limited by the longevity of dynasties.

If I give you orders in my capacity as Emperor Ming, then this war will end with the end of the dynasty. However, even if the Ming Dynasty is over, will the disease spare human beings? I can't see it.

The battle between humanity and disease begins with the birth of humanity and ends with the demise of humanity. Smallpox, plague, and other diseases are all enemies in a battle that never ends in sight.

This battle requires courage, wisdom, and determination to defend humanity, not the orders of some emperor or general. Therefore, I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I just want to ask you in the medical school a question: What exactly are you studying medicine for?

As for whether or not the Faculty of Medicine will send a medical team to the Northwest to fight the plague, I will delegate this decision to the Faculty of Medicine, and it will be up to you to decide whether or not to join the medical team..."

On the second day after Zhu Youzhen's speech, Wu Youxing sent the emperor a list of 22 medical teams. Clearly, the faculty and students of the medical school ultimately chose to declare war on the plague. Looking at the first line of the list, Wu Youxing's three clear and powerful fonts, Zhu Youzhen pondered for a long time, and finally signed below and approved the list.