Song Gexing

Chapter 122 Blockbuster
Facing the sober Zhao Fang, the ministers were very satisfied, and Pang Ji who asked him was even more satisfied. This guy was originally a die-hard princeling, but he was even more impressive this time.

Looking at Emperor Zhao Zhen, he said proudly: "What do the officials think? Although it is a temporary joining, I think that since it was recommended by the prince, I should agree to it, right?"

Zhao Zhen was not annoyed and said with a smile: "You are the privy envoy. You can decide on military matters. As long as the deputy envoys do not object, I will not object."

This was giving him the power. When Pang Ji heard this, he looked at everyone in the political hall. Fu Bi smiled and said, "Prime Minister Pang, you don't have to look at me. The officials have agreed. I am also reassured by the prince. Let's look at them."

This was a signal for him to ask Ding Du and Liang Shi. They didn't want to be bad guys. This was not a national matter, and as political advisors, they didn't want to get involved in the Privy Council.

Prime Minister Yan Shu smiled and said: "The separation of Chun is hypocritical. The political hall will not be involved in this matter. You should discuss it with the Privy Council."

Pang Ji then thanked him with a smile, looked at his deputies, and quickly made up his mind.

Yao Lin was granted the official position of Thousand Households, and the specific duties were left to Di Qing to arrange. The matter was now complete.

After Zhao Fang took Yao Lin to thank everyone, he thought about it and decided to release several other prescriptions for treating the plague. These were the prescriptions of Wu Youxing, a great medical expert in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

The plague was rampant in the late Ming Dynasty, causing millions of deaths. Wu Youxing was a native of Suzhou in the late Ming Dynasty. He witnessed with his own eyes countless tragedies that devastated families.

As a doctor, he vowed to develop a good medicine to treat the plague, so he devoted himself to medical practice in areas with high incidence of infectious diseases, and finally completed "On Plague" in the 15th year of Chongzhen.

This is the first theory in the world to put forward airborne infection, and the two prescriptions he created, "Da Yuan Yin" and "Sanxiao Yin", have become treasures of traditional Chinese medicine in treating plague.

Later generations used his prescription to add or subtract medicinal materials for SARS. As a doctor, he could not save the Ming Dynasty, but he left endless wealth for future generations.

Zhao Fang took out these two prescriptions, and after instructing the imperial doctor to experiment carefully, he looked at Zhao Zhen and said: "My son, please ask my father to assign two medical officers to me and build a large hospital in a sparsely populated area outside the city. I want to do something big."

"What important matter is going outside the city?"

Zhao Zhen asked curiously, and several ministers also stared at him curiously.

Unexpectedly, a shocking statement came: "I am sure that I have experimentally developed a smallpox vaccine. As long as you get vaccinated with this vaccine, you will basically not get the disease."

"What did you say!"

Zhao Zhen stood up suddenly and rushed over in a few steps. The ministers also exclaimed and surrounded him.

Yan Shu asked eagerly: "What is a vaccine? What is vaccination? Your Highness, please explain in detail. This matter is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. It is a huge matter!"

The ancients did not have the concept of vaccines, but they had the actual operation of vaccines very early.

They know that people who have had the disease will not be infected again in the future, but they can't think of how to weaken the virus, and they don't dare to imagine it.

Smallpox virus has actually been used for vaccination by the ancients for a long time, but they did not know that cowpox could replace the smallpox virus.

Ancient people used it to immunize smallpox patients by grinding the scabs on their bodies into powder and inhaling it.

However, the human body's smallpox virus is too potent, and whether one can survive it depends entirely on one's physical strength, so not many people dare to use it.

Especially children cannot use it at all. Only strong young people who are not afraid of death dare to use it.

After Zhao Fang introduced the virus vaccine in detail, everyone was shocked. No one believed it intellectually, but emotionally he was inclined to have such a thing, so that many fewer people would die every year.

"Your Highness, are you really sure?" Yan Shu asked with a serious look on his face, staring at him for a moment, as if he was afraid that he would deny it or that this matter was unreliable.

Zhao Fang raised his chest seriously and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Yan, the vaccine is actually not difficult to make. The difficulty lies in how to preserve it. I'm afraid that once it is made, it will be scrapped if it is not used for at most three days."

Zhao Fang actually had reservations about what he said. He was not a doctor, and he knew little about vaccines. Apart from knowing that there are two major types of vaccines, live viruses and inactivated viruses, he knew nothing about the rest.

The earliest cowpox vaccine was probably a live vaccine, which was collected directly from cowpox, diluted and injected into the human body.

At that time, there was no condition to produce an inactivated vaccine, and it was not known that the virus could retain its immune function after being inactivated. It took time to accumulate technology.

Of course, inactivated vaccines are less dangerous, but they are not as effective as live vaccines. However, live vaccines have a high risk factor, which is also a shortcoming. In short, there is no such thing as having the best of both worlds.

"Your Majesty, I ask your Majesty to fully support His Highness the Crown Prince. This matter is a great merit for countless living people. If it succeeds, my emperor will be famous forever."

Zhao Zhen sat down excitedly, waved his hand vigorously and said: "I'm sure about this! I won't leave my name in history, just for the sake of countless living people, this is what should be done, no matter how much food is spent."

"My emperor is benevolent! Long live! Long live! Long live!"

There were three shouts of long live in the Chongzheng Hall, and the people outside looked at each other in shock. What's wrong with these ministers, they would flatter them, it's unscientific.

Of course they didn't know the excitement of these prime ministers. If this thing succeeded, not only would the emperor and the prince be famous throughout the ages, but they would also be famous in history, and they would have a good reputation.

The three immortals pursued by Confucian disciples are extremely difficult to establish virtue, establish reputation, and perform meritorious service. Any one of them requires a lifetime of energy, and there is no guarantee that it can be achieved.

Today, an opportunity to make meritorious deeds is presented to me, and I don’t know who will catch it but a fool.

Meritorious service in Confucianism is not about politics or on the battlefield. It is about meritorious deeds. Only major deeds that are beneficial to the common people and future generations are called meritorious deeds.

Those like Yuan Longping are meritorious deeds that benefit people all over the world and can be passed on to the future.

Zhao Fang was busy next. Even when Yao Lin went on an expedition, he just took a look and hurried back to deal with things.

Cowpox is simple to say, but it still takes a lot of effort to do. First of all, the experimental site must be kept away from outsiders, so as not to spread it to people, which may lead to disaster if not careful.

Because in order to conduct experiments, it is necessary to have real smallpox virus in order to know whether people after vaccination can really resist smallpox.

He knows this but it doesn't mean that others can recognize it. He must conduct real experiments before he can convince others and promote it.

Also, since we have studied viruses, we can simply do it in one step and make a microscope so that we can observe the existence of microorganisms.

Of course, current technology does not provide high-resolution microscopes, but microscopes that can observe cells can still be produced.

What Zhao Fang is doing is a compound microscope, which was made by Galileo in 1609. It is not complicated and mainly lies in the grinding of concave and convex lenses.

Myopia glasses already existed in the Song Dynasty, but they were expensive and made of transparent crystal. Ordinary people could not afford them.

The early microscope was actually a synthesis of myopia glasses, or rather a telescope. Two sets of concave and convex lenses were installed in the eyepiece and objective lens. It could also be viewed with both eyes and a set of eyepieces were added. He knew all these principles, but he only needed experiments before they could be finalized. .

(End of this chapter)