Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 57

At the foot of Beishan Mountain, two rows of simple thatched cottages rose from the ground.

Li Yue didn't know how to cure the plague, but he knew how to effectively contain it.

"Every day's clothes must be washed, everyone's veil must not be taken off, and no one speaks positively to the refugees. They live in a house and smoke wormwood every two days..." Li Yue went into every detail.

Decades of chaotic times have made everyone more eager for order.

This is true for men and even more so for women.

The women in the women's battalion were more obedient than soldiers and scouts, strictly implementing Li Yue's various preventive measures.

The refugees are satisfied with a sip of porridge and a shelter from the wind and rain.

Those who could walk to Heiyun Mountain were basically only the young and strong, and the old and weak, women and children had already died on the way.

It wasn't just the plague that hurt them.

Looking at the skinny figures lying powerlessly in the grass hut, their eyes are empty and numb, some people have festering wounds left by swords, and some people have shocking beast bite marks on their hands and feet...

People were dying every day, not from the plague, but from infected wounds.

Yue Ji wanted to bring someone to treat them, but Li Yue stopped her, "No, you must be quarantined for five days!"

When the heart should be hard, it must be hard.

If the plague spreads, it will be a disaster for Heiyun Mountain.

No one dared to disobey Li Yue's order.

This set of isolation methods has long existed. "Zhou Li·Tian Guan" records: All people with diseases, divide and rule.At the end of his life, he will write about his reasons, just like a doctor.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was also a "epidemic center" for receiving patients. Whenever there was a serious epidemic, the imperial court would send imperial doctors to diagnose and treat it.

From the third day onwards, more than a dozen people suffered from vomiting and diarrhea one after another, and their high fever persisted. For two consecutive days, all of them died.

There were six or seven people who had no symptoms, were alive and kicking, and then spurted out a mouthful of black blood, fell down suddenly, and never got up again.

The plague came very violently.

The various treatments that Li Yue envisioned were useless at all.

There are a few prescriptions in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases", but there are too many herbs needed, and Heiyunshan can't make them all.

Li Yue can't control the infected for the time being, he can only control the living.

The body was buried after being burned in the pit.

Those who are asymptomatic will be moved to the second row of huts and continue to be isolated.

Only then did Li Yue allow Yue Ji to bring someone to treat their wounds, but the wounded people were already terminally ill, with only their last breath left.

During this period, Li Yue followed the prescription in "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" and tried to replace it with existing herbal medicines of the same nature. The medicine was boiled out and fed to the patients, but it had no effect.

Floating on the surface and following the scriptures are of course useless.

Li Yue worked hard to study "Huangdi Neijing" and "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", discussing with Yueji everything he didn't understand.

Yue Ji's attainments in medical skills are much higher than her own.

Many specious theories became very clear under her explanation.

Nothing is unachievable.

In addition, Li Yue already had some background, and felt that he was gradually touching the threshold.

Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to prescribing the right medicine, and treats diseases according to the dialectics of yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, and deficiency and excess. The symptoms of the same disease are different in different people.

Li Yue and Yue Ji used the few herbs on the mountain to make a pot of Daqinglong soup.

After feeding it to three patients with no sweat and tight pulse, for three consecutive days, two of them miraculously relieved their symptoms.

This undoubtedly strengthened Li Yue's confidence.

After groping, he made Guizhi Decoction and Mahuang Decoction, and fed them to different patients according to the pulse condition and superficial symptoms.

Although people still die every day, more and more people are being saved.

Every two days, Li Yue boiled a pot of bone soup for them, sprinkled with wild vegetables, to strengthen their physical strength, and forcibly fed those who couldn't drink...

Coupled with the careful care, isolation and other measures of the women's camp, after half a month, 470 people died.

A group of refugees with a size of 3000 people directly reduced their staff by one-seventh. Fortunately, most of them survived.

Li Yue also had some experience in treating the epidemic.

Plagues are divided into epidemics, seasonal diseases, seasonal diseases, miasma, injection, plague, typhoid fever, etc. Malaria is more common in the south, and typhoid fever is more common in the north.

Although the word typhoid is not scary, in fact, the fatality rate is extremely high. Zhang Zhongjing recorded in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases": "Suddenly exposed to the evil wind, the baby was very sick, and the suffering was extremely serious. Fang Zhen trembled and died. Two out of three died, and typhoid fever accounted for seven out of ten.

Xingyang is in the north, so Li Yue naturally treats it according to typhoid fever. As for other strange diseases, Li Yue has nothing to do...

"The parents who gave birth to me, the general who lived me!" The refugees knelt in front of Li Yue, tears streaming down their faces.

These days, as soon as one hears of a plague infection, everyone stays away, leaving the infected to perish on their own.

They all saw Li Yue's efforts, "As long as I, Heiyunshan, have a stutter, I will never let you go hungry!"

"Thank you General!"

The crowd began to cry, their eyes a little more angry.

From the moment they were taken in, they became Li Yue's loyal supporters.

"Nowadays the world is corrupt and the people are struggling. Elder brother is a great hero. He should save more people." Yue Ji looked at Li Yue adoringly.

"You girl, do you know what a hero is?" A sentence suddenly floated in Li Yue's mind. Heroes are those who have great ambitions, have good plans, have the opportunity to hide the universe, and those who have the ambitions of the world...

"He who is like an elder brother is a hero!" Yue Ji said with determination.

"Nonsense." Li Yue waved his hand.

In fact, she didn't say anything, Li Yue planned to do the same.

First, in order to rise, the tens of thousands of people in Heiyun Mountain are definitely not enough, and more people of this ethnic group are needed.

Second, if something hurts its kind, after all, it is one's own clansman, who can contribute as much as he can, and save one more person if he can save one more.

The rise of a power cannot rely solely on political tactics and military strength, but also has some spiritual aspects.

Liu Bei, the lord of Shu, wandered all over his body, and he didn't have his own foothold until he was 50 years old.

When the Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties were changing, the small and weak state of Shu became a ray of light. If Liu Bei was an egoist, would people like Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei follow him so wholeheartedly?
In troubled times, there are not so many hypocrisy.

Li Yue was not too polite, and all the refugees he took in were mobilized to build wooden houses, dig wasteland, harvest thatch, weave straw sandals, straw mats, dig wild vegetables, hunt and fish...

Everyone who wants to survive in this troubled world must do his best.

With a thick skin, Li Yue sent people to Fangtou to ask for medicinal materials and food.

The most worthless thing these days is face.

Bo Wu sent people to Chenliu and Guangzong to ask for anything.

"Report to the general, there are a large number of refugees coming from the northwest." The scout came to report in a panic.

"How much is a large amount? You are a scout, so you must be more detailed." Li Yue has long been mentally prepared.

The scout looked ashamed, "It is estimated that there are more than ten thousand."

If it is a few thousand people, Heiyun Mountain can digest it, but with more than 1 people, I am afraid that Heiyun Mountain cannot eat it.

Grain and herbal medicine are still second, and even salt has bottomed out.

I don't know what happened to Zhou Qian and Cao Kan. After such a long time, there is no news at all...

(End of this chapter)