At the end of August, it rained a few times, and the heat finally subsided a little.

The noon heat in the mountains and forests is still unbearable, but as long as you stay up for a while, the rest of the time is much better.

However, there are more and more mosquitoes, and as soon as the end of summer and the beginning of autumn approaches, it is the time when mosquitoes are rampant.

Especially in Yunyang Mountain, there are too many places for mosquitoes to hide, and after a few rains, people are simply guilty of entering the mountains.

Wang Hongyu is well aware of the various stages of mosquito growth, and knows that in addition to chemical killing, good puddle management is also the key to mosquito control.

Mosquitoes have been borrowed from the water after a few rains, a large area to breed, at this time out of the early production is still early, and if you don't deal with it quickly, the whole early autumn mountain is not easy to start.

At this time, the construction of the military cantonment should be immediately mobilized, and the small static puddles should be filled up as soon as possible, and the strong financial resources of the Hunhe Army should be used to ensure the normal supply of meat for the people and soldiers of the cantonment, and fill them up as soon as possible. Ponds and lakes protect frogs, toads and young fry.

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Composite means such as fire ropes, incense sachets, wormwood and mosquito nets were used to protect the rest of the people in the construction army. There are no small puddles around the workplace for mosquitoes to breed, and no debris to accumulate for insects to hide.

It may seem like a trivial matter, but to prevent insect bites and even mosquito-borne diseases, it is from these little bits.

Under the active leadership of Wang Hongyu, the four places of Yunxian, Fangxian, Zhushan, and Zhuxi were quickly overcome, and the industrial and mining, bamboo, wood, and planting in the mountains were not greatly affected, and there were no mosquito-borne diseases.

However, it appeared slightly in Shangjin County, which was slightly northwest, and then soon in Yunxi County, which had a larger population.

In less than half a month, hundreds of people were seriously infected with the fever epidemic transmitted by mosquitoes.

The patient was severely shaken, feeling high fever at one time and very cold at the other, and the patient was sweating profusely and weak, and the disease progressed very violently.

The infirm have unconscious, vomiting and shock, and even death.

Moreover, the disease is further spread through mosquitoes, and there is a tendency to spread across more counties and townships.

The people didn't know that it was spread by mosquitoes, but only about the plague.

After Wang Hongyu received the information, he quickly determined that the plague should be malaria.

Malaria is a very rampant disease caused by mosquito bites that transmit the malaria parasite.

In later generations with economic and medical development, malaria still causes a significant number of deaths worldwide every year.

In ancient times, it was even more difficult to deal with terrible diseases.

However, Wang Hongyu really knows how to deal with it.

Prevention and treatment, two-pronged.

The governor yamen invited Langzhong and the prefect Yamen of Huguang Province to mobilize medicinal materials and other materials in the prefecture, and also strictly grasped the emergency treatment of each county.

Yunyang Prefecture sentenced Lei Ming, so he took the officials to Yunxi County to ensure the sufficiency of water, medicinal materials, and food.

Previously, a battalion of the Hunhe Army was stationed in Yunxi, led by Zhao Hannian.

He also has the overall awareness of a general, and under Wang Hongyu's suggestion, he instructed the people to clean up puddles, protect beneficial insects, and kill mosquitoes, so as to minimize the key vector of malaria transmission.

Wang Hongyu sent people to Kaifeng, and while buying a batch of medicines, he also got in touch with the medicinal material channels of Zhou Wangfu.

There is one thing to buy specifically, and that is Artemisia annua, which is also a real Artemisia annua. Artemisia annua itself is Artemisia annua, and in later generations, Artemisia annua was listed as Artemisia annua in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", so it was still called Artemisia annua. That is, Artemisia annua is used as Artemisia annua.

Artemisia annua in the Ming Dynasty was Artemisia annua with antimalarial medicine.

Although there are sometimes two kinds of confusion when pharmacies store drugs at this time, there is no such confusion in Kaifeng Zhou Wangfu.

As a family of traditional Chinese medicine with 200 years of accumulation, Zhou Wangfu certainly has hundreds of catties of Artemisia annua in reserve, which can of course be used for emergency relief.

Zhu Gongfang, the prince of the king of Zhou, heard Zhou Yijie, who came all the way to introduce the plague situation, not only transferred all the 100 catties of Artemisia annua in stock, but also invited dozens of excellent doctors from Kaifeng Mansion to go with him.

Even from the palace, a few people were arranged to go with them under pseudonyms, so as to give full play to their abilities in medicine.

Zhu Gongqi also reluctantly remembered one thing: "Half of these Artemisia annua are purchased from Youyang, and I heard that General Wang, Youyang Tusi and others killed the enemy together in the Hunhe River, maybe you can get a lot from Youyang."

Zhou Yijie thanked him again, and immediately returned to Yunyang to say goodbye.

Wang Hongyu heard that Zhou Wangfu had given 100 catties of Artemisia annua, thanked the people again, and immediately sent Qin Minping and Zhou Yijie to Youyang.

Qin Minping was the general of Shizhu, had a good relationship with Youyang, and went there many times, immediately set off to Jiangling, and then took a boat to Youyang.

This trip to Youyang is not to directly bring back how many Artemisia annua will bring, but to achieve economic, military and other aspects of cooperation.

At this time, Youyang has not specially planted Artemisia annua, but there are many wild ones, all of which are collected in the wild in summer, dried and bundled.

As long as the seedlings are not plucked, the grass seeds fall with the wind, and the autumn and winter are covered by the blowing dust, and the next year it can grow in patches.

The growing conditions are simple, and it can grow regardless of the quality of the soil, but the efficacy varies greatly depending on the soil quality. Youyang people only know that the medicine farms in the surrounding provinces come to Youyang to buy, and only those who sell in other places have the possibility of being believed in the authenticity of medicinal materials.

Qin Minping and Zhou Yijie brought people to Youyang to purchase Artemisia annua.

Before coming, Wang Hongyu sent two people who specialized in purchasing herbs to accompany the two, and more than a dozen people came to Youyang by fast boat.

Youyang is located in the southeast of Chongqing, located in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain, is an important gateway out of Sichuan to Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou, known as "the southeast gateway of Sichuan, the throat of Hunan and Guizhou".

Youyang is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, southeast of Chongqing, east of Longshan County, Hunan Province, south of Xiushan County, Songtao County, Guizhou Province, Yinjiang County; It faces Guizhou Yanhe County across the Wujiang River in the west; It is connected to Pengshui County in the northwest and Qianjiang District, Xianfeng County and Laifeng County in Hubei Province in the north.

Youyang is mixed with Tujia and Miao people, with the Tujia people accounting for 70% and the Miao people accounting for 30%, and there are no Han people and other ethnic minorities living in the territory.

The Ran family came to Youyang from the north, the Southern Song Dynasty was the land of the Ran family, the Yuan was the Youyang Prefecture, and then promoted to the Youyang Xuanfu Division, and the Ming Dynasty was the Youyang Xuanfu Division.

At this time, only the Tujia and Miao people lived in Youyang, and no Han people appeared in Youyang, but Youyang did not exclude Han people. Qin Minping has been here many times, and when he meets Tujia or Miao people along the way, he greets them cordially.

When Qin Minping and Zhou Yizhuo appeared in front of Ran Yuelong, the old man with a pale and thin face turned back to the majestic old general.

Youyang Tusi Ran Yuelong, who once fought side by side in the Hunhe River, has returned to Youyang to recuperate from his injuries. Five months have passed, and the pain of the injured son has disappeared from Ran Yuelong's face, and his eldest son Ran Tianyin died on the night of guarding the fortress.

The second son Ran Tianlin is still in Guangning to lead the Youyang Tusi soldiers to exercise, and the third son Ran Tianbiao was sent to the Hunhe Army.