The back door of my house can last until the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 245 Casualties Begin
The incubation period of plague is very short, usually between one and six days, usually two to three days, and the longest is no more than ten days.

It is precisely because of the rapid onset that once the patient starts to die, it will be in pieces.

Now that sanitation conditions are extremely lacking, once the plague rises, it is not so easy to solve.

However, due to the low circulation in this era, the spread rate of the plague will be greatly reduced.

If the epidemic area can be completely sealed off, and then the patients can be treated intensively, it may be a solution.

As time passed day by day, a truck stopped outside Beiping Prefecture.

The city gate of Beipingfu City was firmly closed, and there were soldiers wearing masks constantly patrolling the city. They looked at the trucks outside the city, and their anxious and panicked faces finally showed relief.

From the beginning of the epidemic to the present, these soldiers have all lived on the city wall and never went down.

Three days ago, sick people in the city began to die.

When these people died, they couldn't stop them at all. They died one by one, as if the god of death waved a sickle, and couldn't stop them at all.

Except for those who transported corpses outside for incineration and those who transported supplies every day, the gates of the city were basically closed for the rest of the time.

The soldiers on the city wall quickly reported the news back.

Soon, the city gate slowly opened, and the prefect of Beiping Prefecture led some officials of Beiping Prefecture out of the city gate.

They didn't rush to meet them, but killed them on the spot first.

A few soldiers with manual sprayers on their backs evenly sprayed the disinfectant on them.

"Daqin University School of Medicine, by order of His Majesty, come to Beiping Mansion!"

A gray-haired old man led a group of people and walked forward in a neat and strict manner.

The prefect of Beiping Prefecture, and the disinfectants who followed him also began to disinfect these people in the medical school.

In this cold weather, the disinfectant sprayed on people's faces, and the coldness caused people to tremble uncontrollably.

After the necessary disinfection, accompanied by the prefect of Beiping Prefecture, these people walked into the city gate.

First of all, we must understand what the current situation in Beiping Mansion is.

Today's Beiping Mansion is the former capital.

Although it has lost its status as the capital, it has become a metropolis very quickly due to its size and Sun Jie's previous economic recovery.

The streets are basically all hardened with cement, and those damaged places have also been partially repaired.

It no longer has the royal aura, just like a giant northern city.

But today's Beiping Mansion has changed, and there are almost no people on the streets.

Except for the soldiers walking by with "loaded guns and live ammunition", almost no other people can be seen.

"This time the epidemic came very quickly. So far in Fucheng, more than [-] people have been infected, and more than [-] of them have died.

Those states and counties under the jurisdiction of Beiping Prefecture also reported cases of disease and death accordingly.

Adding up, there are probably more than [-] people who became ill and nearly [-] people died!
The military camps in various places are fine, so far there is no news of patients, but I don’t know how long it will last! "

The magistrate of Beiping prefecture looked worried, and his eyes were full of panic.

So many people died all of a sudden, and it was still in a peaceful age, no matter who it was on.

I am most afraid of not having a clear enemy. This kind of illusory, inability to dominate one's own life is often frightening.

The old Chinese doctor listened very seriously, and felt that this matter was more and more difficult.

He kept saying comforting words, and then, with the medical students behind him, he headed towards the place where the patients were concentrated.

Concentrating patients is an exact requirement that Sun Jie put forward a long time ago.

It is very helpful for isolating the source of infection.

Not long after, a group of people came to the barracks outside the former palace.

The place here is big enough, and there are enough rooms. With a little repair, it can accommodate enough patients.

Outside are soldiers with "armed guns and live ammunition", very intensive inspections, and no one is allowed to enter or leave at will.

These soldiers are all regular troops in the hands of Sister Sun, and only these people can have such courage.

After the disinfecting was carried out, the old Chinese doctor walked into the gate of the barracks with the medical students behind him.

There was a strong smell of disinfectant in the air, like the smell of death.

Under the shroud of death, the imperial palace not far away also lost its former stalwart.

From time to time, soldiers carrying dead bodies can still be seen.

The old Chinese doctor stopped one and lifted the white cloth covering the corpse.

The skin was black and blue, and the lymph nodes on the surface of the corpse were swollen and even festered, with pus flowing out.

A young medical student who was following behind the old Chinese doctor was startled when he saw this scene, lost his courage in an instant, and ran outside yelling.

This kind of terrifying scene, if you don't have a strong psychological quality, it is difficult to adapt to it.

Everyone is afraid when facing death.

The medical student who escaped was only in his early 20s and had never experienced such a thing.

Although he had made all kinds of psychological preparations when he came here, he was still scared when he saw the hideous corpse.

"Stop him and take him out!"

The old Chinese doctor hurriedly looked at the accompanying soldiers beside him and shouted.

This is a move to disturb the morale of the army. If it is placed on the battlefield, it is not an exaggeration to kill it on the spot.

The old Chinese doctor will not kill this young man, but his future has come to an end.

Such an attitude in front of the plague will make it difficult for him to be responsible in the future.

The soldiers beside him quickly controlled the student and took him out. The old doctor's eyes slowly scanned the people behind him, and his voice gradually became colder:

"Being a doctor is not for you to enjoy the glory and wealth, I have told you before you enter the profession.

After the student who ran out just now returns, I will ask His Majesty to expel him and strip his student status. From now on, Daqin University will never hire him! "

This is a very heavy penalty, but it is difficult to deter people if it is not done.

After dealing with this matter, the old Chinese doctor went on.

The deeper you go, the stronger the smell of disinfectant.

If it weren't for the heavy masks, I'm afraid many students would have vomited.

……

The plague in Beiping Mansion spread very fast.

The news spread to the south within a short period of time.

After Sun Jie left Jinling, the conservative forces began to counterattack again.

Today's Suzhou Mansion has also returned to its usual appearance.

Now it is the territory of Zheng Zhilong and Zhou Yanru. It looks like it is full of flowers and prosperous.

In an inn in the city of Suzhou, several fat-headed gentlemen shouted:
"Have you heard? There is a plague in the capital.

Bandit Sun is in a state of desperation right now, I'm afraid he didn't expect this, I think it's best this way.

The more violent the plague, the better, and the more people die, the better. Try to turn the entire capital into a wasteland. Only in this way can you severely hit the arrogance of the grandson thief! "

"That's right, that's how it should be. I think this is retribution, and this guy Sun Bandit is getting retribution now!"

There was a lot of cursing in the inn for a while, and the arguments were basically the same, except for gloating and gloating.

They didn't realize at all that those people who died in Beiping Mansion were just ordinary people.

The plague will not happen to them, so they naturally don't care about it, and even hope that the more violent it is, the better.

A middle-aged man was sitting in the corner of the inn, drinking wine to himself.

Hearing those cynical voices next to his ears, his heart was full of anger.

He drank more and more wine, and his face became more and more red.

After all, he couldn't hold back, he slapped the table and stood up.

"Shut up you people, do you know what you're talking about?

Together with the plague, only ordinary people may die.These people are no different from you and me. You actually take pleasure in natural disasters, it is simply inhumane! "

The eyes of the middle-aged man turned red, and his tone became more and more angry.

"Who am I? It turns out to be Wu Qiongsan. If you don't want to be your doctor and talk nonsense here, aren't you afraid that the government will arrest you and punish you for talking nonsense?"

A fat-headed gentry pointed at the middle-aged man's nose with a sneer on his face.

This middle-aged man is called Wu Youxing, with an alias of Ke, from Wu County, Suzhou.

He is the founder of the "Epidemic Epidemic School" and author of the book "On Epidemic Epidemic".

He was an outstanding doctor in the history of the late Ming Dynasty. He was the founder of infectious diseases in traditional Chinese medicine.

From the last year of Wanli, the Great Ming Plague occurred frequently.

Historical records: "There are more than a hundred houses in one lane, and none of them is exempted, and there are dozens of houses in one house, and none of them survives."

But in the face of this disease, the doctors at that time just regarded it as an ordinary "typhoid fever" for diagnosis and treatment.

Not only does it have no effect, but it also has the opposite effect.

Wu Youxing was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine. His rich clinical experience made him realize that the plague is fundamentally different from other diseases.

In just a few years, he traveled all over the place where the epidemic broke out, fearing life and death, and obtained a large amount of data.

In the end, these contents were summarized into a book called "Plague Theory".

Based on his lifelong experience and experience in treating epidemics, he boldly put forward the theory that "fever qi" causes diseases.

The so-called "fever gas" is pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or bacteria.

His point of view is also a great pioneering work in the history of world infectious disease medicine.

At the same time in the West, those quack doctors are still insisting on bloodletting.

First of all, it clarified the treatment mechanism of "infectious diseases". This discovery alone is enough to be famous through the ages.

But such a powerful character, after Jiannu entered the customs, was unwilling to shave his hair and change clothes, so he was chopped off by Jiannu.

Chinese medicine is actually not bad. The population of this land has been the highest in the world since ancient times, and there is a silent guardian of Chinese medicine behind it.

In the eyes of the gentry, a doctor is really not on the table.

In the eyes of traditional scholars, "witch doctors and hundreds of craftsmen" are all dirty things.

A trace of anger flashed across Wu Youxing's face, and he scolded: "Don't laugh at natural disasters and man-made disasters, you take pleasure in the plague, aren't you afraid that one day, retribution will appear on you?

The north and the south are originally in the same vein, how can they be regarded as enemies because of the Yangtze River?If one day Wang Shi decides the Central Plains in the north, is it necessary to treat the northerners as barbarians? "

Wu Youxingzhai has a kind heart, and the person who can write "On the Plague" is naturally not comparable to ordinary people.

The fat-headed gentry smiled sarcastically, "Hehe, isn't it? Northern land, barbarians!"

(End of this chapter)