golden scales

Zhu Cihong returned to the foreign residence, distributed the desserts to everyone, turned away from the left and right, and wrote the diary of that day.In the next few days, the prince seemed to be alright, and even for such a big event as the whole capital's house numbers had been customized, he only responded with a "know" lightly.

The season is quickly entering July.

In July, there is fire and the big sparks fall to the west, which is a sign of cooler weather.July here is July in the weekly calendar, and August in the summer calendar.But at this time, because of the Little Ice Age, it even fits with the proverbs of the Zhou Dynasty again.

"Your Highness, according to the budget, if there is no income of 2 taels of silver this month, there will be a shortfall next month." Yao Tao carefully sent the report of the second department to Zhu Cihong's desk, and reminded aloud.

I need to buy winter clothes next month.A whole set of winter clothes costs one tael of silver, and the prince will buy two sets for each soldier, which alone is 1 taels.The internal funds will be allocated to the prince 5000 taels in early August, which is regarded as the cost of maintaining the guard.But Zhu Cihong's food expenses for the guards were far higher than the inner palace imagined, so the money was exhausted just for eating.

There is also firewood money after the weather turns cold.

The martial arts left guards still need to pay for their support.

Just thinking about it, Yao Tao feels like a mountain is overwhelming.

However, the prince took his leisure time and didn't care at all.

"Understood." The crown prince stamped the audited report and handed it back to Yao Tao: "Take it for archiving."

"Your Highness... this money..."

"Someone will send it in a few days." The prince said.

Since the crown prince said so, Yao Tao couldn't say anything.These days, she has been holding meetings with foreign officials and middle officials. Although she never said a word, she never left a word.She is well aware that the development of the epidemic is directly related to the positive donations from wealthy and wealthy businessmen, and although the prince issued an early warning notice that the epidemic will recur in July, the reality is that fewer and fewer people die every day .

Anyone who wants to, can draw this conclusion from the Huarenchang.

And this is the merit of the prince.He sent people to distribute lime from door to door, donated masks and gloves according to the population, repeatedly emphasized the importance of hygiene and cleaning, banned the killing of cats and dogs, and encouraged rodent eradication.Anyone who suffered from the plague would be immediately quarantined by the neighbors, and the guards of the Eastern Palace in tight clothes would go in and spray lime and spirits, and burn everything that could be burned.

Under such a series of measures, even the refugees on the road were sent to the quarantine area outside the city. It seemed that this menacing epidemic was about to be extinguished in a blink of an eye.

However, just entering July, the epidemic broke out again like the prince's warning.

Overnight, more than a dozen households developed symptoms of the plague, and the fire shop Lijia immediately sounded the alarm.People who heard the bell closed their doors one after another, steamed and washed their clothes and bedding, and washed their hands with garlic juice.

The guards of the Eastern Palace came out after hearing the police. They were covered from head to toe in leather clothes, with gauze covers on their heads and masks inside, so they were fully prepared.They wore four-foot-long knives at their waists, and held extended spears measuring one foot by four feet. They surrounded the houses where the plague broke out, and shouted loudly: "No entry or exit is strictly allowed! Surround yourself and kill them!"

"Sir! I'm fine! I really don't have the plague!" Someone in the room ran out crying.

"Everyone who is not infected with the epidemic should squat at the door! No one is allowed to touch anyone!" Xiao Tugeng roared loudly.He was originally in good health, and these days he ate well and slept well, and he was more comfortable than before when he went down the well. His muscles were gradually bulging, and at first glance he still made people think he was a big general.

Relying on his physical advantages and aggressive spirit, Xiao Tugeng has become the chief executive of the Second Bureau of the First Division of the Central Military Department, with more than 100 people under his command and two personal guards.In the Ming Dynasty's military system, this is a small official of the eighth rank, but for a poor child from mining, it is already a drastic change.

Under such encouragement, Xiao Tugeng became more serious in his work, to the point of being a bit strict, strictly following the "Code of Law" and "Regulations", and did not give any excuses to the military judges who accompanied him.

Military judges get their credit by finding faults.

"Sir! I'm really fine, I have money! Let me out!" Someone wailed.

The nearby Chief Jia took a look from a distance, and said to Xiao Tugeng, "This is the head of the Chen family, and his son is the governor of the General Administration."

Xiao Tugeng didn't even lift his eyelids, and shouted loudly: "Whoever dares to go out will be killed! Stay where you are! Don't touch!"

The lobby of the Chen family was quickly filled with people, and they didn't even dare to breathe.

"Why don't you wear a mask!" Xiao Tugeng came forward with his own soldiers and shouted sharply.

"Sir... there are not enough masks..." the housekeeper of the Chen family cried.

"Nonsense! The crown prince distributes them according to the actual number of population! We all have accounts!" Of course Xiao Tugeng knew that it was impossible for these big households to report the population according to the actual number, but this scene filled him with a sense of gloating happiness.

A mask is not worth much. If a big family really pays attention to immunization, it will be better to make it yourself.The reason why he didn't do it was because he didn't take the prince's warning to heart.On the contrary, those people living at the bottom pay more attention to this point. They have a natural spirit of obedience. Even if someone hides the population, they will make a mask and wear it afterwards.

"Get out of the way, everyone is waiting!" Xiao Tugeng stepped into the gate, and the left and right guards used long spears to push aside the crowd and cleared a path.

Under the leadership of the captain, the archery team followed Xiao Tugeng into the house and established a second cordon. Once the patient wanted to come out, a salvo would be triggered.The shooting skills of these archers did not satisfy Zhu Cihong, but ten bows were enough to kill civilians at a short distance.

Xiao Tugeng's side hadn't opened yet, when suddenly there was a scream outside the door.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Tugeng frowned.

After a while, someone came to report: "Report! Five Banners discovered that someone came out of the dog hole, and the Fa has been executed."

The master of the Chen family was startled, and suddenly shouted: "Jiabao! Bao'er!" Seeing no one answered, he showed a ferocious face: "You killed my son! Do you know that he is an official of the court! You guys have to Damn..."

"Go back!" Xiao Tugeng shouted violently.

The old master of the Chen family staggered, howled and rushed towards Xiao Tugeng.

"Shoot!" Xiao Tugeng took a step back and ordered loudly.

The bowstring rang twice, and two sharp arrows pierced into Master Chen's body. The huge momentum pushed him into the crowd. He opened his eyes unwillingly and fell down slowly.

No one dared to touch his body, and they avoided him one after another.

The prince had long explained the route and medium of plague transmission, but more people were still skeptical about it.Some of them are still more accepting of the saying that "the god of plague descends to earth", but there are more people who would rather believe it than believe it.Washing hands more does not prevent them from worshiping gods and praying to Buddha, so they often use multiple approaches.

"Whoever dares to stand up will be killed!" Xiao Tugeng shouted loudly, looking at the pool of blood gradually accumulating on the ground without any compassion.

Think about how almost everyone turned their heads away when they saw the dead for the first time last month.Now that I’ve seen it a lot, I don’t feel anything, it’s just a lump of rotten meat.

"Here we come, the military doctor is here!" The commander outside shouted loudly when he saw the military doctor covered in blue, as if he had been pardoned.

The uniforms of military doctors are different from the bright red fat coats of Ming soldiers, but blue and blue underwear.They also wrapped their whole bodies tightly, ordered the servants to carry garlic juice solution and lime, rushed into the infected mansion, asked where the patients were, designated the quarantine area on the spot, and asked people to scrub with garlic juice.

In order to allow people who do not get sick to survive as much as possible, Zhu Cihong also set up a wrapping cloth, which allows people to take off their clothes and wrap them in cloth to prevent lice and fleas from remaining.

The military doctors moved swiftly, and quickly completed the preliminary cleaning work.Then only time will tell.Plague is a highly contagious disease, and as long as there are no symptoms within three hours, it can be sent to a quarantine camp outside the city.If there is no outbreak within ten days of isolation, it can be regarded as no infection and let it go free.

However, if one person in each isolation area becomes ill, the others will have to be transferred and the number of isolation days will be recalculated.

In the absence of modern medical equipment, this time-consuming and labor-intensive method can only be used.In any case, this is considered to save the number of survivors to the greatest extent.During the period of the European rat plague, there were no such humane epidemic prevention measures at all, and it was just a matter of killing the contacts as quickly as possible.

When the military doctor began to disinfect the entire mansion, the soldiers of the second bureau also switched from external vigilance to internal vigilance to ensure that people in the mansion would not escape.After the full set of work is completed, people will be taken to the quarantine camp. These East Palace guards will also go to the quarantine camp for disinfection and isolation.