241. Walk down to the side of Yuguan

As the seat of the Riverside Hall, a young town, the scene in Fujiadian surprised everyone, and it was even more backward than any town everyone had ever seen. No pop-up window to update quickly //i.

The houses around are very low, but they dig three feet into the ground to form a semi-crypt dwelling. The walls are haphazardly made of rough adobe, and the roof is reed and thatched without any trimming. It seems that it is only for the sake of being able to live in people, and does not pay attention to any beauty.

The cramped and narrow street is a large garbage dump, and all kinds of rotten vegetable leaves, pot water, and human and animal feces are dumped by residents on both sides of the road. Luckily, it's winter and all the garbage is frozen. In the summer, there will be a lot of sewage, mosquitoes and flies, and a foul smell.

Even so, everyone carefully searched the various newly thrown garbage rooms, looking for a place to stay. Wu Liande accidentally stepped on a mass of human yellow, almost fell on his horse, and couldn't help but say with hatred: "This is completely an out-and-out slum. ”

Zhao Jinghui endured his nausea and asked: "Sir, you said that we have been in Jingshizhen for ten years, and Fujiadian has also been ten years, how can the environment be so different?" ”

Cheng Ziyin pouted: "How can this be compared with our Jingshi Town?" The garbage dumps in Jingshi Town are 10,000 times cleaner than here! ”

Sun Yuanqi casually explained while looking at the road: "The reason why there is such a huge disparity is because there is no gentry class in Fujiadian. ”

"Why do you say that?" Wu Liande was a little puzzled.

"Fujiadian was originally a barren grassland by the river, but because of the construction of railways and easy fishing, it became the current town. Most of the inhabitants are laborers and fishermen, who have not yet decided whether to settle here permanently or temporarily, and due to their own economic and cultural conditions, they can only build simple houses to live in. Sun Yuanqi said, "The emergence of the gentry class indicates that everyone has lived here for a long time, and there are rich and educated middle-class figures in society." In the face of such a harsh environment, as local elites, they have two choices: first, move out of this place and live in a place suitable for their identity; 2. Stick to this place and preside over the transformation of the surrounding environment. The former promotes the formation and prosperity of cities, while the latter promotes the balanced development of urban and rural areas.

"The concept of Chinese has always been 'relocated to the land', 'the homeland is difficult to leave', and 'the leaves return to the roots', so the majority are still left. After Fujiadian has developed for more than ten or twenty years, the gentry will appear, and they will use their influence to further change the behavior of other residents while building their own houses."

Cheng Ziyin was a little unconvinced of Sun Yuanqi's crooked reasoning: "My lord, we didn't have gentry in Jingshi Town first, and then the environment got better!" ”

Sun Yuanqi laughed: "We have a town after the existing school, and the teachers in the school are not gentry?" Sir, I'm just a gentleman who is not too big or small, hahaha. Besides, Jingshi Town was originally such a rough thatched house, have you forgotten? I don't believe you ask Zhao Jinghui. We are just taking the road that others would have walked for 30 years and completing it in 10 years, which is called 'rapid urbanization'. ”

As they spoke, everyone turned the main road in the city, which was obviously more open, with drainage ditches dug on both sides, and the houses in the middle of the road were more neat. What surprised Sun Yuanqi was that the epidemic had reached the outbreak stage, and the streets were still full of people.

When the pedestrians saw a team of people in white clothes, white hats and white masks suddenly appear, they hurriedly made way and stood on both sides and whispered. As the procession was advancing, a melon seed vendor on the side of the road suddenly fell to the ground, blood gushing from his mouth and nose, and his hands and feet twitched a few times, and he seemed to be dead. The half basket of melon seeds in his hand was scattered on the ground. When the people around saw it, they hurriedly took a few steps back to show that they had nothing to do with themselves; Immediately seeing the melon seeds on the ground, the horse took a few steps forward and began to snatch the melon seeds that had fallen on the ground, crowding into a mess.

Sun Yuanqi was no longer angry, but felt a kind of sadness. said to Cheng Ziyin beside him: "Shoot to disperse the onlookers." ”

Cheng Ziyin ordered: "The third and fourth squads, disperse the onlookers!" With that, he took out a bullet and pressed it into the chamber of the gun, and fired a shot into the air.

Hearing the gunshots, the onlookers were stunned, and then saw dozens of people rushing over with bayonets, and immediately panicked, ignoring the things in their hands, scattered and fled, and soon the main road was empty.

At this time, several patrol officers with batons jumped out of the shops on both sides, and while tidying up their clothes, they shouted: "Who shot just now?" Who? When he saw more than 20 people aiming at himself with steel guns, he suddenly looked like a radio that had been cut off, and could no longer make any sound, and those who did not come out shrank into the store at a faster speed, and those who came out fell to the ground very wisely, holding their heads and begging for mercy: "The king spares his life!" The king spares his life! ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "Let them all come over." ”

Cheng Ziyin faked the tiger and kicked open the door of the store: "Lord Qincha has an order, all the patrol officers come out to see, otherwise they will be shot!" ”

Sun Yuanqi had a black line: Who said that he was going to shoot?

However, the threat was indeed very lethal, and several patrolmen in the house obediently walked out, kneeling down with their heads in their hands just like those people just now. Before Sun Yuan could ask questions, an official from the Binjiang Hall had already taken off his mask and scolded: "Why don't you come over to see Lord Qincha!" ”

The patrol officer saw the familiar face, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: It seems that it is really Lord Qincha, not a beard in the mountains, this time he has picked up a life! At that moment, he crawled in front of Sun Yuanqi and shouted unevenly: "The little one is Lord Qincha." ”

Sun Yuanqi asked, "How many people are there in your Binjiang Hall Patrol Police Bureau?" Who is the Director? ”

Before the patrol officer could speak, the official who had just interjected made a thousand: "My lord, Wu Cunde, the lower official, is the director of the Patrol Police Bureau of the Binjiang Hall, and there are 62 people in our overall situation." ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "You go back to Ma to write an announcement, from tomorrow the whole city will be under martial law, all people are not allowed to go out at will, it is strictly forbidden to hold large-scale gatherings such as weddings and funerals, and all fever patients will be sent to the hospital for isolation and examination, and there must be no mistakes!" If anyone disobeys at will, they will be put in jail first. ”

The way, now the Qin difference is the biggest, not to mention writing an announcement, that is, let everyone run around Fujiadian naked three times, and they must not obey their orders?

Wu Cunde was about to retire, but Sun Yuanqi said again: "These patrol officers stay first, I am useful." So they were arrested, some went to look for the families of the melon seed sellers, and some removed the door panels and transported the bodies outside the city to be cremated.

In the meantime, the sky has gradually darkened, and everyone is tired from running all the way, and everyone is tired. Sun Yuanqi said: "Mr. Wu, you work harder, accompany me to the nursing home to have a look." The others are arranged by the Riverside Hall, and they first find a place to rest and wash. How is it? ”

Wu Liande is also anxious: "I have this intention in the next." ”

So surrounded by more than a dozen volunteers and seven or eight local officials of the Binjiang Department, Sun Yuanqi and Wu Liande went to the nursing home. As soon as they arrived at the hospital, everyone was taken aback: there were more than a dozen corpses lying in front of the door, each with blackened bloodstains. What kind of sanatorium is this, it's a hell on earth!

The others were all in their thirties, with more experience, and they had seen a lot of dead people, but there was nothing but fright. But those dozen or so volunteers are all young students, where have you seen these? All of them turned pale with fright, and clenched the steel guns in their hands tightly, almost certain that they would have nightmares when they returned tonight.

The accompanying officer hurriedly shouted, "Doctor Yao, Doctor Sun, are you there?" Lord Chincha came to inspect it. ”

Two doctors in their forties came out of the house when they heard the sound, they were probably patrolling the ward, wearing white coats, and they only took off their faces and wrapped their towels when they went out. Just as he was about to salute, Sun Yuanqi hurriedly stepped forward to support him: "Two, hard work!" ”

The accompanying official said: "Lord Sun ignored the danger of the epidemic and went straight to the Binjiang Hall. As soon as the front foot arrived, the back foot came to the nursing home to inspect, which shows the importance and support for the work of the two people. ”

Suddenly there was a sound of whiskers and horses clapping around.

Sun Yuanqi didn't care about playing haha with them, and introduced: "Doctor Yao, Doctor Sun, the contemptible Sun Yuanqi, the left waiter of the school, was entrusted by the imperial court to preside over this epidemic prevention affairs. This is Mr. Wu Liandewu, Ph.D. from Cambridge University, majoring in infectious diseases, and is currently the deputy medical supervisor of the Beiyang Army Army, and was hired by Sun as the chief medical officer of this epidemic prevention affairs. I hope that the three of them will work together to eradicate the epidemic as soon as possible. ”

"Definitely, definitely!" The three of them replied in unison.

Sun Yuanqi asked, "Doctor Yao, Doctor Sun, please ask for facts, how is the recent epidemic?" I'm so prepared. ”

Wu Liande also said: "Master Sun has studied in the West for many years and has studied medicine, so it doesn't hurt for the two of you to say it directly. ”

At this time, the people who can come to Fujiadian to participate in epidemic prevention are all enthusiastic people, and Dr. Yao does not hide it: "The situation is grim!" The quarantine has not yet been implemented, and more and more people are infected. The dead of the epidemic are scattered on the streets, there is no way to talk about epidemic prevention, and the residents of Fujiadian are now in danger! ”

As they were talking, two young men dressed as men walked in the distance, and they carried a patient who was still moaning and threw him to the door, and then hurried away. Sun Yuanqi said curiously: "What are they?" ”

Doctor Yao sighed: "I heard that this disease is contagious, and the doctors in the city and Lang Zhong are reluctant to go to the clinic, but now we are the only ones in Fujiadian who can be treated, so I will send it here after I get sick." In just a few days, our nursing home was overcrowded. With that, he went into the room and beckoned the nurse to carry the patient inside.

"How do you treat it? How effective is the treatment? Wu Liande asked.

Doctor Sun, who was standing on the side, shook his head: "It's a treatment, but it's actually just to inject some glucose, take some antipyretic and cough tablets, and the rest can only be left to fate and wait for death." ”

Sun Yuanqi asked again: "What suggestions do you have on how to prevent the epidemic?" ”

"After more than 10 days of observation, we found that the disease may be mainly transmitted through droplets, so the most effective way is to isolate the patient, open the windows for ventilation, and disinfect the surroundings. However, after we suggested to the Binjiang Hall and the Northwest Road, there was no follow-up at all. After many people learned about the spread of this disease, in order to avoid investigation by the government, they even abandoned their dead relatives on the streets in the middle of the night. ”

Dr. Yao came out and said indignantly: "Don't talk about throwing dead people, even throwing living people." Yesterday I went out and saw a patient who had not yet breathed was pulled out of the house and thrown on the side of the street. When I asked him why he didn't ask about it, he was ashamed to say, 'I'm just a patrolman, they can throw it away if they want to throw it at their own family, what can I do?' Don't say throw it here, it's just death here, what does it have to do with me? Makes me angry enough. ”

Sun Yuanqi snatched a few from the volunteers' backpacks and handed them to the two doctors, Yao and Sun: "When I came, I heard Lord Yu from the Northwest Road that the two of you found that the epidemic may be transmitted by droplets, which is a major discovery. This is a mask, and although it has no obvious effect on other infections, it has a good protection against diseases that are transmitted by droplets. You wear it, and we'll go in and have a look. ”

Although in the court of the Yuan Dynasty, eunuchs and maids serving the emperor already wore silk cloth on their mouths and noses to prevent contamination of food. But the real popularization of masks, especially medical masks, still appeared in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When the plague broke out in Northeast China, Sun Yuanqi thought of wearing masks among the epidemic prevention measures, but all over the country, there was no one in China who produced masks in textile factories. Sun Yuanqi had no choice but to draw the style and ask the textile factory to process it on his behalf. Fortunately, the style is simple, the process is not complicated, and soon the first batch of samples was sent to Shanhaiguan, and with Sun Yuanqi and others to the north.

The two were greatly moved, hurriedly put on masks, and guided Sun Yuanqi into the hospital.

The so-called nursing home, which was temporarily converted from a public bathhouse, covers an area of only a few tens of square meters, and is filled with all kinds of beds, so many patients that even the floor is covered with bedding. In addition to the two doctors Yao and Sun, there are only 5 nurses in the hospital.

Sun Yuanqi looked at it for a while, withdrew from the courtyard, and said to the officials of the Binjiang Hall in a cold voice: "You go back and tell Liu Jingren now, I will limit him to find a thirty-room courtyard to be used as an infectious disease hospital before noon tomorrow." If he can't find it, he's the same acquaintance of the Riverside Hall, and it's the end of it! ”d