stubborn thief

Chapter 398 Concurrency
Outside Bajiao City.

One mile outside the west gate, Batuer Huntaijile turned around on his horse and watched Liu Chengzong lead more than ten guards into Bajiao City fearlessly, with a shocked expression as if he saw a god.

The leader of the Junggar put down his arrogance and almost couldn't want to pay homage. He said to Dai Daozi: "Anda, I know why you say the generalissimo is a very special person. He is really not afraid of death!"

Bajiao City has become an epidemic area.

Inside the broken wall of sheep and horses on the bank of the moat, the corpses covered with tents and animal skins were neatly displayed, one after the other at the left and right of the city gate until the end of the field of vision. sky.

There was smallpox in that city.

It is the father avoiding the sick son, the elder brother avoiding the sick brother, the wife avoiding the sick husband, the leader avoiding the sick followers, the smallpox that doctors and monks are helpless!

However, Hui Taiji saw that Liu Chengzong had no fear, just covered his face with a veil, and walked into the city with his head held high.

Unexpectedly, Dai Daozi sneered, raised his finger and pointed at the city gate and said, "Look at that Chahar's Jitutaiji, he is also like a normal person, do you know why?"

"That's his brother, he's still sweaty, I admire him for daring to go in and serve him." Batur Huntaiji said with a look of reason: "The generalissimo and Huduntu are neither related nor related, so it's so big to take such a risk. What are you going to do with a dying man?"

"It's not because Huduntu is his brother. When you entered Qinghai, I fought with the handsome man in Hehuang. He was Chahar's envoy to the marshal's mansion. The handsome man gave him smallpox."

In Batur Huntaiji's expression as if struck by lightning, Dai Daozi said lightly: "We all got smallpox."

"No, no, it's not right."

Batur Huntaiji had an expression of don't lie to me: "I've seen people who have smallpox, and their faces are full of pockmarks, but you don't have any."

Dai Daozi pointed to his right cheek: "Look at this hole, it's smallpox."

Batur Huntaiji couldn't see anything, so he searched Dai Daozi's face carefully for a long time, and finally saw a small crater that was almost invisible under the cheekbone on his right cheek, curled his lips in disgust, Confidently said: "You are not smallpox, I always had pimples when I was fifteen or sixteen, it's not the same thing."

Dai Daozi opened his mouth, but was so choked that he couldn't speak.

How could he prove that he had smallpox?

He shook his head and said: "Believe it or not, the Marshal's Mansion has already defeated smallpox, including Pitu, and everyone they enter the city will not get smallpox. We can vaccinate."

"vaccination?"

Hun Taiji was full of doubts. Due to language reasons, these words sounded like planting disease in his ears. He asked, "What kind of witchcraft is that?"

"It's not witchcraft. It's people accepting the cultivation of minor diseases that are less toxic. People only get smallpox once, and if they get small, they won't get big."

Hui Taiji probably understood, and asked, "How did you do that?"

Dai Daozi knew the principle of the smallpox vaccine.

Smallpox scabs with a weak disease degree are manually selected and stored to further reduce their toxicity.

After Yang Yao, the pox general, gave random breeding to monkeys, rabbits, tutaiji, and cattle, and finally came up with a general-purpose vaccine with less toxicity and higher safety, and the vaccination effect in Hehuang was very good. .

But knowing this doesn't mean he will tell Batur Hun Taiji.

He just shook his head and said, "I don't know, I'm not doing this. There is a professional pox doctor in the commander's house, and when the commander is done with Chahar's work..."

Dai Daozi sighed as he spoke, and looked at Bajiao City worriedly: "Before you make an oath, go ask the commander-in-chief, maybe Junggar won't be afraid of smallpox."

He reckoned that this time the matter was very difficult, not only Chahar, but also seven or eight new battalions, the commander's mansion had more than [-] troops from the Ming army, and none of them were immune to smallpox.

Some people are busy in the back.

Batur Huntaiji turned his head and exchanged glances with the nobles in his tribe. People were skeptical about this miraculous skill, but they were also eager for it.

Who wouldn't wish they were immune to a disease that is terribly frightening to others?
Revisiting the old place, Liu Chengzong frowned very tightly.

The situation inside the city was no better than outside the city. It was time for dinner, and looking around, among the neatly stacked military tents, almost every bonfire sat sickly Chahar veterans with pox.

Of course, it wasn't just Chahar. Several of the [-] Han army gunners under Mo Yujing's command were also infected, but the infection of these old Ming army gunners was not caused by the Chahar people.

The defense zones of the Bajiao City garrison are divided into different areas, and the gunners of Mo and Jing are protected by the Mongolian soldiers under Ahai Daiqing's command. The real infection is the soldiers of the Khalkha Battalion under A Haidaiqing's command.

The Khalkha camp was filled with soldiers from Tumet. They had already completed the vaccination and became a wall between Mo and Jing's gunners.

It was only because some vaccines were stored improperly, or the original aim was to attenuate the virus, but the toxicity was reduced in the end, so that a small number of soldiers failed to be vaccinated, and they were in a state where they thought they were immune but were not immune.

Since the number of soldiers in this group was far less than that of the Chahar army who had smallpox, Mo and Jing's gunners were rarely infected.

Moreover, although the Mongolian soldiers under Ahai Daiqing did not know the principle, they all had experience in isolation, vaccination, and avoidance of acne in Hehuang. bad influence.

But in Liu Chengzong's view, the situation of the Chahar soldiers in Bajiao City is not so good.

Although Ji Tutaiji presided over the acne avoidance of Chahar soldiers in Bajiao City, it was not properly controlled... When he found out, the situation was already very bad.

Liu Shizi compiled epidemic books in Hehuang and presided over the large-scale vaccination of the entire army. He knew smallpox very well. Thousands of Han and Mongolian soldiers in Bajiao City were infected with smallpox. This level of infection is by no means smallpox just started. status.

What he saw with his own eyes were the soldiers of Chahar, but what he worried about was his army, the more than [-] troops who had not been vaccinated against smallpox under the direct leadership of the Marshal's Office.

On the way to Chahar Camp, Liu Shizi thought about it and asked Ji Tutaiji, "Is it possible that this has the same source as Hehuang smallpox?"

Ji Tutaiji didn't know, so he looked confused, and said at a loss: "The same source? I... I don't know."

Liu Chengzong stopped, suddenly angry from his heart.

His guess is that as early as when Chahar entered Qinghai, some soldiers in the army had already been infected, but there were no acne, or very few people had acne, and they were not noticed.

Then as the war progressed, smallpox would follow the scattered surrender of Chahar soldiers, and spread among the shepherds of the Heshuot, Junggar, and Durbert tribes. At this time, smallpox had already surrendered with their defeat and spread to In the army of the Marshal's Mansion.

If you are not careful, this is a great epidemic in which tens of thousands of troops will be infected and thousands of soldiers will die!

For such an important matter, Jitu Taiji only gave him such a vague answer, which made him want to draw a knife to kill someone for no reason, but seeing Taiji's red eyes and bewildered face, he took a breath and adjusted. Feeling.

In the end, Liu Chengzong just raised his hands and pressed his shoulders heavily, and patted his face hard, his tone became softer, less angry, and more blaming: "What the hell is going on, Mimi Confused, thousands of people in Chahar are waiting for your help!"

Unexpectedly, following his reprimand, Ji Tutaiji wailed and collapsed.

Ji Tutaiji didn't understand why, a war, a migration, and then a war, and then a migration, Eastern Mongolia, which once dominated the grasslands and was extremely powerful, was scattered and discorded in the middle of the turbulent displacement.

A failure is not the end, but the starting point of another failure, and the proud reloaded troops were lost inadvertently.

As the younger brother of Emperor Chahar, he returned to the Khan court with nothing in a blink of an eye. The only power left in him was the general of the Chahar camp granted to him by the Han Marshal's Mansion.

Seeing that the battle situation finally ushered in hope, smallpox seemed to have eyes, and he only stared at the Chahar people for infection. Even his elder brother was infected with smallpox, and asked him to temporarily lead the Khan Court. The last order was to block Chahar from the outside world. The news of Er Da Khan's illness.

He himself was alone in Bajiao City, and despite what Hehuang had seen and heard about avoiding acne, Xiaopox pressed the gourd and scooped it up in the camp.

Jitu realizes that he is doing nothing wrong.

Liu Chengzong was also bewildered by his sudden collapse, so he had to persuade him in a gentle voice, and took him outside the khan tent where the Jiuzhai Baizhu was enshrined.

Just in time, two Mongolian soldiers with weak legs and feet were carrying out a doctor who looked like a monk. The doctor was covered with scabs, with pustules on his hands, face and chest, and he was breathing rapidly in a coma.

Liu Chengzong made way for them, and then lifted the curtain to take a look. The tent decorated with gold and silver was dark and empty, with Mongolian medical equipment scattered all over the floor. Only Tiger Khan was lying on the couch, seemingly in a coma .

He turned his head and backed out, with a helpless expression on his face.

The most difficult situation of infectious diseases is not whether a doctor can cure it, but a doctor is also a human being and can get sick. If he can't even cure himself, how can he treat others?

He winked at the accompanying doctors, and several doctors and apprentices carrying medicine boxes and toolboxes immediately entered the account for inspection.

Liu Chengzong stood outside the tent, took a few breaths of fresh air, closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, and then said to Pitutaiji: "If you contracted smallpox before entering Qinghai, and it has the same source as Hehuang smallpox, then Gansu will be affected by it." It's dangerous."

After his judgment, the source of this smallpox is likely to be in Gansu. The Chahar army was infected when they hit the side wall with their heads, and brought it from the west to Qinghai; the Gansu frontier army was dispatched southeast to Hehuang, and then Bring this disease to the frontier army in Wuzhen.

As a result, smallpox formed a situation of two sides sandwiching the Marshal's Mansion.

At this moment, Ji Tutaiji next to him seemed to have finally regained his senses, and suddenly he fell short and knelt down beside Liu Chengzong, begging all over his face: "Marshal, please save my brother, you will definitely be able to save my brother. Just like saving my life, I will give you whatever you want!"

Ji Tutaiji knew that it was Liu Shizi who saved his life.

If he hadn't been vaccinated in Hehuang, he would not have escaped the catastrophe that swept through the Chahar Department of Bajiao City.

Liu Chengzong couldn't agree to this, so he could only drag him up with his strength, but he didn't know that the guy knelt down again just after he was pulled up, so he had to let two guards drag the map, and said to him: "Don't you tell me at the beginning that the army is dyed?" Smallpox, you know, it's easy to prevent when you don't have it."

"At this time, you ask me to save you. I am not a god. If you ask me to kill people, I am no match for Hades! Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Jitu fell silent, his eyes became sad.

Huduntu's order to him was to block the news of Da Khan's illness.

This order is not for others, but for Liu Chengzong in front of him, for fear that he will take the opportunity to swallow the Chahar Khan Court.

But up to now, Ji Tutaiji doesn't care about the Chahar Khan court anymore. What else is there in this Khan court? Tens of thousands of women and children will not come back in the hands of Liu Chengzong, and thousands of sick soldiers, how can they be returned? It can be called Khan Court.

If his brother dies, I'm afraid this little family property will be lost.

Liu Chengzong didn't care about what he was thinking, so he turned around and gave orders to the guards, ordering people to prepare pens and paper, and to write a letter to his father in Xining Mansion, asking him to send someone to send Hauge back first, but he disappeared.

Then prepare vaccinia, recruit doctors, purchase medicinal materials, and set up Taiyuan Hospital following the imperial system.

And on this basis, it is planned to establish hospitals, medicine, and Huimin pharmacies at all levels in the five towns of Zhixiafu, County, and Hehuang within two years to manage doctors, treat the people, collect medicinal materials, formula experiments, and assess Institutions for grades and supplementary education.

Moreover, Liu Shizi knew that the hospital system in the Ming Dynasty would be broken down by the plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but he could only rely on doctors from this era to minimize the impact of the plague.

Therefore, an infection and epidemic prevention bureau should be added, and an infection and epidemic prevention department should be added in addition to the eleven departments of medicine.

Fortunately, compared with the plague, smallpox is a disease that is easier to deal with. It allows the Marshal's Mansion to gain rehearsal experience in epidemic prevention and isolation before facing the plague, so as to cultivate talents with epidemic prevention knowledge.

It's a pity that these talents need to be found from the army.

In the end, he gave Yang Yao an order to form a marching pox doctor with a size of one thousand people, and to allocate three teams of one thousand people to cooperate, to divide the pox village in Qinghai Lake, and prepare for the second general vaccination.

To prevent smallpox from spreading in the surrendered army.

Just as he finished writing the letter, the doctor in the sweat tent also came out, his face was very ugly, and he asked the apprentice to wait for him to spray some shochu on his hands, and asked eagerly, "How is Tiger Chief?"

Wiping his hands, the old doctor said, "Marshal, he has been sick for nearly a month, and the acne on his body has formed thick scabs, which will fall off in a few days. The smallpox has passed."

When Liu Chengzong heard that this was a good thing, he felt a little relieved, and asked, "Then why are you so sad?"

"Smallpox is fine, but when the poisonous gas enters the body, there is wind and heat in the lungs, and carbuncles turn into pus; unconsciousness, deep purple complexion, neck stiffness and convulsions, opisthotonos, and plague; and the carbuncle poisons the bones. , the sepsis flowed out, the poisonous gas had reached the head and face, and he was almost blind in both eyes."

The old doctor listed a bunch of symptoms that Liu Chengzong couldn't understand, and finally sighed softly: "This is smallpox that is easy to go, and all diseases are difficult to cure. The Mongolian sweat...the time is numbered."

　good afternoon!

　　Wind-warm lung-heat, turning carbuncle into pus, is severe pneumonia; distemper is encephalitis; Inflammation is a complication of smallpox and a leading cause of death.

　　
　
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