stubborn thief

Chapter 342 The Book of Famine Rescue and Quarantine

smallpox.

In the eyes of Yang Yao, the general of the horse battalion, at least for the most elite horse soldiers in the marshal's mansion under his command, there is no smallpox in this world.

This is not only because all the more than [-] riders under his command have been vaccinated against human pox, but mainly because Yang Yao trusts him.

The pox vaccination in the Marshal’s Mansion was first organized by Liu Chengzu. Liu Chengzu trusted the pox doctor, and one of them vaccinated the Zhenhai battalion. Thirteen of the 120 soldiers died, and they were killed by Liu Chengzu.

Another pox doctor vaccinated the Xining Weiqi army, the failure rate was 20%, and more than [-] people died.

Later it was Juerwan's turn. As the only left-behind general of the three major battalions of Juerwan, Yang Yao was not satisfied with the number and decided to personally supervise the entire vaccination process.

He follows the pox doctor with a knife every day. He squints at the pox doctor when he selects vaccines, puts a little pressure on the pox doctor, and directly reduces the vaccination failure rate of the left-behind soldiers of the three major battalions in Juerwan to two per thousand.

Only nine soldiers were infected with large smallpox, and among these nine men, only one died of smallpox, and the other eight just suffered a lot of pain, leaving their faces with pockmarks that never faded.

The knife is productivity.

Doctors who perform human pox surgery do not need to know medical skills. Pox doctors regard this kind of thaumaturgy as a way of making a living among the people and keep it a secret, but for the army, they can't hide any secrets.

Yang Yao watched it every day, always asked questions, and even asked the pox doctor, but he still dared not say, as time passed, he would be vaccinated against human pox.

Originally the general was still besieging the city, and asked him to lead the army to go east. Yang Yao was a little bit reluctant in his heart, thinking that this was killing chickens with a bull's knife. He did not participate in the Southern Expedition, and stayed in Juerwan for a long time. It's already boring.

Anyway, just two jobs.

On the one hand, the encirclement of Ye Guoqi and others was completed, and they were not allowed to run away; on the other hand, the news of the reinforcements from the east was not allowed to spread westward, and the newly recruited Mongolian Tartars were the most suitable for this task.

It was really because the Generalissimo didn't give him a chance to discuss, the order had already been issued, and Yang Yao could only obey.

Whenever there is an opportunity to discuss matters, Yang Yao will definitely talk to the commander-in-chief about this issue of killing chickens with a sledgehammer.

He was a member of the Guyuan Frontier Army's Hundred Chiefs. After the mutiny, he had been with many fools. Probably not many veterans who mutinied with him could live to this day. The best ones should be him and Wang Wenxiu.

If there is any trick for him to make a living in this chaotic era, it must be to find the leader and offer the absolute loyalty of the war years.

If there is an order, obey it, even if there is a cliff in front of you, you can break through with one heart.

But when he heard that the Gansu reinforcements were coming with smallpox, Yang Yao's heart immediately changed.

On the one hand, vaccination was a useless experience for his subordinates in the past, but now that the enemy has smallpox, and the east will become a smallpox-infested area, the significance of vaccination is different.

On the other hand, Yang Yao can vaccinate, which was a useless skill in the past, but when smallpox is rampant, his skill will come in handy.

Professional counterparts, double the happiness!

Along the way, there was Tang Qi with Dai Daozi leading the way. The Gansu reinforcements were delayed by the smallpox at the mouth of the river and did not dare to continue marching westward. Therefore, Yang Yao led his army to go eastward for fifty miles.

He didn't dare to go to the mouth of the river either. He and Liu Chengzu's army had been vaccinated, but the generalissimo hadn't been vaccinated yet.

Therefore, he surveyed the terrain along the way, and finally chose to camp in the river bend fifty miles west of the river mouth. This river beach is an area that is very easy to block in the valley.

Here, the Huangshui River makes a bend next to the mountain wall, which just circles the river beach for more than ten miles. Anyone who wants to enter the river beach has to cross the bridge, making this land relatively closed.

This place is called Hezui, and it is really a good place. The river valley alone has more than [-] mu of irrigated fields, and there are five large terraces on the northern mountain.

Moreover, the terrain here is much lower than that of Xining, and it actually belongs to Lanzhou.

The local people ran and fled, only a few poor families and tenants were left, helping the fences at the foot of the mountain and the big households at the top of the mountain to look after their homes and courtyards. When Yang Yao’s western army came, the rest also fled into the valley. In the endless fields, there are only a few lonely old people who look like candles in the wind.

Yang Yao asked his subordinates to invite the old man over, and he lamented to his generals Wei Qian'er, Yang Chengzu, and Han Shipan that it was absolutely nothing for ordinary people to leave such land in northern Shaanxi.

A few old people came and kowtowed and begged for mercy. Yang Yao asked and retracted his emotion just now.

It's reckless, in Hehuang, there are no ordinary people in such a land.

The 320 hectares of fields at the mouth of the mountain, 72 road pavements, nine water mills, one boat mill, two coal caves on the mountain, and one glass porcelain kiln all belonged to Su Wangye of Su Fan.

In this area, only 83 hectares of mountain gardens, an oil house, and an oil mill belong to the common people.

Yang Yao entrusted Wei Qian'er with the task of stabilizing the common people, and selected a few villages not far away from Hezui West Bridge, and asked him to pick up all the fleeing people, and inform the people of the victory of the Marshal's Mansion and the appearance of Tianxing in the east. The news about acne makes people not run around.

When smallpox occurs in a place, people get sick, live or die, and those who survive will have antibodies and will not transmit the disease to others.

Because smallpox is not contagious when it is carried, it is only contagious when it becomes ill. Smallpox appears sporadically in one place, and after a period of time, most of the people who survived have antibodies, and smallpox will be temporarily extinct.

A few years later, all newborns have no antibodies, smallpox resurgence, and the whole process is repeated, so smallpox seems to never die.

Because of this, under normal circumstances, vaccinations are only given to children, as if only children can get this disease.

It has never been like the Marshal's Mansion, where all the sergeants are brought here, no matter whether you have been vaccinated or not, or have had smallpox or not, all of them have to come here for a unified vaccination of smallpox.

Because vaccination is a unique technique, in places where the law is not broken and the imperial court rules in peace, the acne doctor will be paid for vaccination; but in places where the law is broken and the rule collapses, no acne doctor is willing to go.

But when Yang Yao knew the operation method of this set of tools, he thought that it could be popularized to everyone, and his soldiers could do it without spending money or medical skills.

He chose this land to camp for the purpose of isolation... The marshal's mansion vaccinated the soldiers on a large scale because Xiao Lazun had implemented the measure of separating yin and yang in Huangnan.

Yang Yao didn't plan to implement such a high-level quarantine. His soldiers had antibodies, so he wasn't afraid of it, as long as the smallpox didn't go west.

So he's going to do a massive experiment here and vaccinate everyone.

The migration of the people to the Hexi village was not smooth. At first, people who hid in the mountains were reluctant to come out when they heard that the Western Army was coming;

But soon the backup troops from the west came over. In fact, when the No. 1 soldiers climbed to the top of the city, it was only a matter of time before the fall of Machang City.

The small-scale encounters and surrenders never stopped, but the defenders of Ye Guoqi still persisted in the government office until the evening, until the heavy artillery outside the city was transferred to the streets, and there was no hope of winning.

Li Tianyu asked Liu Chengzong outside the city to capture the Ye brothers alive, but Liu Chengzong did not agree, but sent a heavy gun team to follow the artillery into the city, and Li Tianyu's last attempt to persuade him to surrender was ineffective.

At dusk, Ye Guoqi and Ye Binggan, wearing armor and holding swords, shouted long live from the official office, rushed to the heavy gun team occupying the street, and announced the complete failure of Hehuang chieftain's battle against the Xi invaders amidst the sound of gun platoons.

It wasn't until the bodies of the two brothers were carried out that Liu Chengzong saw Ye Guoqi for the first time. He didn't say much, but he wrote the epitaph of Lord Ye under the command of General Xuanwei himself, looking for a craftsman to carve the stele, and allowing his descendants to find the land burial.

At the same time, he ordered people to record the meritorious service of his own soldiers, and also personally wrote the inscriptions to find a place for burial, and then continued to send troops to the east.

When Liu Chengzong arrived at Hezui, Yang Yao had already divided the land into five villages. He drew a plan on the paper and said: "Marshal, along the canal from east to west, divide the land into Dongdou, Planting Bean, Waiting Bean, and Treating Pox. There are five pox villages in Bidou and Bidou, and each of them will be guarded by troops digging trenches and building walls, and I can vaccinate the people's soldiers who come from the east."

Liu Chengzong was surprised: "Can you vaccinate people?"

Yang Yao responded with a smile: "Don't worry, Commander, I've watched the pox doctor do these things thousands of times, and it's not difficult at all, and I've mastered all the key points... Don't worry, Commander, the garrison in Hexi is right here. You, the commander and all the troops will also be able to get the vaccine by then."

To be honest, Liu Chengzong doesn’t think it’s very reliable. He understands the principle of vaccinating, but it doesn’t mean he can vaccinate. As if the man was a good farmer.

Why are vaccines called vaccines?Just because the only vaccine in this era is called vaccinia, Yang Yao did not believe it when he made it so simple.

Sensing Liu Chengzong's distrustful expression, Yang Yao hurriedly said: "Commander, this matter is really not difficult, but those acne doctors treat it as a unique skill, which makes it mysterious, in fact, it is the same as farming."

Liu Chengzong was surprised and said, "You know how to farm?"

This is heart-wrenching, Yang Yao really doesn't know how to plant land, he shook his head and argued: "Let me tell the commander-in-chief this way, planting vaccinia means treating people as land, and pox poison as seeds, growing and decaying on people."

Liu Chengzong nodded, he understood the truth, and said, "Tell me something I don't know."

"The most important thing in farming is seed selection, seed storage, and land selection. The same is true for vaccination. The symptoms of smallpox include natural acne and evil acne; there are two types of acne, one is seed vaccines, and the other is seasonal vaccines... These are both The commander-in-chief needs to know first."

Liu Chengzong also knew about this matter. In fact, the two forms of smallpox, smallpox with a low lethality rate and large smallpox with a high lethality rate, are actually mild and severe.

Yang Yaodao: "Shimiao is made from natural scabs from natural acne scabs. This kind of vaccine is highly toxic and the vaccinators are easily injured."

"The seedling is to choose the pox of the person to be vaccinated. It is best to choose the pox that heals without medicine, grind it into powder, pour it into a water bowl when using it, dip cotton in water, and put it in the nose."

"For storage, you need to wrap the selected pox vaccine in paper and put it in a bamboo tube. Calculate the time. It can be stored for [-] to [-] days in winter and more than ten days in summer. Do not use expired vaccines."

"Otherwise, the people who received the vaccine thought they had been vaccinated, but they didn't actually get sick. When the day comes, the pox will spread and it will cause serious problems."

Yang Yao said with a smile: "As for the selection of the site, it is much simpler. It depends on the appearance and energy of the person who is vaccinated. Vaccination is nothing more than a battle between human righteousness and pox poisonous evil. Only when people's righteousness is strong and strong, can they be able to fight off the poison, can they be inoculated." The toxicity recedes and dissipates."

"On the contrary, the toxicity will permeate the whole body, resulting in malignant disease. Therefore, people who are mentally ill, in poor health, or women who are menstruating or pregnant cannot be vaccinated. Too many vaccinations will cause illness."

Yang Yao said so, and finally said to Liu Chengzong: "So the most important thing in this matter is the choice of vaccines. The vaccination itself does not cost much. I suggest that you don't rush at the beginning. Choose ten vaccines, inoculate ten people, and choose the other ones. The acne scabs of those who had the acne were re-made, and then vaccinated to a hundred people; the scabs of the acne-supplers among them were made into vaccinia, and vaccinated to thousands of people."

"Choose the best from the best, and the toxicity of the follow-up vaccine will be greatly reduced. In the three major camps, I let the acne doctors do this. I am not afraid of a long time, and I can survive."

After listening to Yang Yao's explanation, Liu Chengzong fully understood this set of procedures. This relatively primitive vaccine has already formed a system, and the virus with milder toxicity is selected to inoculate to defend against the highly toxic virus.

And reduce the toxicity by existing artificial means, inoculate again and again, make the seedling toxicity weaken; And it depends on the immunity of the vaccinator to decide whether it is suitable for inoculation.

Hearing this, Liu Shizi felt that this process was quite good. He smiled and said, "It sounds like you really know how to do it. Yes, then do as you said, but... give the cow a try."

"Cattle?"

Yang Yao was waiting for the compliment, and he was very happy to hear that Liu Chengzong agreed to follow his method, but when he heard it for Niu to try, he always felt that the commander-in-chief's words were not serious.

How should Liu Chengzong explain to Yang Yao?He didn't explain, just said: "There is no harm in trying. See if the cow will get the disease, and if the disease will spread to humans, and if the smallpox of humans infected with cows will be weaker than the smallpox of humans, General Yang."

Liu Chengzong said seriously: "Every few years, thousands of people die of smallpox. This is a blessing for the benefit of the world. Any possibility is worth a try. If we can eradicate smallpox, future generations will remember Hold your name."

"Except for vaccination, the place you chose is not bad. We are going to try to isolate the plague here... how good it is."

Liu Chengzong suddenly sighed smugly, looked at the surrounding fields and opened his arms: "This smallpox came at the right time. In northern Shaanxi we learned to fight famine, and in Hehuang we will learn to fight plague. Now the world is plagued by plagues, God If we want dead people, we will live, let's see who the hell can beat the other!"

"This is a good time. We vaccinate the common people, isolate and treat the sick, and at the same time do a good job of defense. I believe that the army in the east will soon send troops with pox." Liu Chengzong said with a smile: "Other than that, I'm going to write a book."

"What book does the commander-in-chief want to compile?"

Liu Chengzong showed his white teeth, and smiled proudly: "The book on relief and epidemic prevention will be learned by our students and generals at all levels in the future. If natural disasters and man-made disasters destroy our hometown, we will rebuild it brick by brick. !"

　good afternoon!

　　
　
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