Win the Ding 1617

Chapter 154 Smallpox and the Pox Goddess

"Sir, you've been sleeping in the study for the past few days! Try to keep as few people as possible in the inner house."

Yan Mei'er ordered someone to pass on the word that frying and fried beans were stopped in the mansion for the past few days, and at the same time, she was packing up the accompanying things for Shou Han.

"Sister Shilin gave birth to our eldest brother who has been happy these few days, and sister Li's family is also pregnant, so it's better for the family to take care of each other."

Shi Lin’s son has a fever these days, accompanied by fever, irritability, chills, vomiting, loose stools and other symptoms. His mind is still clear, and he points to his throat with his little finger from time to time, telling his mother that it means the throat pain.

Very typical smallpox symptoms!

Smallpox, a well-known severe acute eruptive infectious disease.In an era without vaccines and vaccinia, patients could only rely on their own resistance and luck to gamble their lives.Among the many smallpox survivors, the most famous is Kangxi Xiaomazi. One of the reasons why he was able to become emperor was that he had already suffered from smallpox.

Let me add something else. One of the functions of the famous summer resort is to communicate with the Mongolian princes outside the customs. Many of these Mongolian princes are so-called "borns" who have never had smallpox. A valuable life was lost in the Central Plains because of smallpox. Therefore, under the premise of maintaining stability, the pockmarked people built the most magnificent buildings like the Summer Resort. The poor Ming Wuzong was scolded for building a leopard house For hundreds of years, it can be seen how important it is to find a suitable name for everything!

(Leadership! The colon laughed!)

Ge Hong described smallpox in his "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescriptions" in this way, "It is cured when you are sick. You still have sores on your head, face and body, and they will circle around you in a short time. They are shaped like fire sores. They all wear white paste. Life", "Many dramatists die".

This smallpox was also due to the influx of a large number of refugees, which made it impossible to carry out effective isolation and medical examinations for the refugees. Some refugees carried smallpox patients and entered the South Central Army area.

Thus, the movement of personnel.Smallpox spread from north to south in the South China Army.Spread rapidly from east to west.A large number of people who have never had smallpox were infected through droplets, contact and other transmission routes of smallpox virus.During the incubation period, people are still carrying out their normal life and work, when the incubation period of about ten days has passed.Fever develops.Headache, backache, chills.It is also easy to be mistaken for diseases such as cold and fever, so more and more people are infected!

With the surge in the number of infected patients.The incense of the Pox God Empress in various towns quickly flourished.

When people face a disease like acne, which has almost no special effective means, in addition to trying their best to cure it, they go to the Empress Temple to pray for the blessing of the Goddess of Acne.

According to the Fengshen list, the Goddess of Pox enshrined in various places is the Jin family, the wife of the Yin Shang general Yu Hualong.It is said that when Taigong Jiang was beheading generals and enshrining the gods, because Yu Hualong and his son were good at using acne, he named Yu Hualong the master of pox Bixia Yuanjun, and at the same time named his wife Jin as Weifang Shengmu Yuanjun, the grandmother of pox god, and named him The five sons Yu Da, Yu Zhao, Yu Guang, Yu Xian, and Yu De are the gods of the east, west, south, north, and middle five directions, and they jointly control the diseases of the world, the correction of life and death, and the principles of yin and yang. Pros and cons, establish the primordial spirit of good fortune.With the spread of smallpox, people all turned their attention to Empress Pox, that is, Jin Shi, the wife of the pox god Yu Hualong, hoping that she would be merciful and bless everyone to escape this catastrophe.

"Mr. Wang, how is the child's condition?"

While ordering someone to offer tea to Wang Tingqi, the director of the health camp, Shou Han asked about his son's condition with great concern.There is no way, ruthlessness is not necessarily a hero, how can Lianzi not be a husband?No matter how strong a hero you are, in front of your children, you are just a father.

Taking off the mask and head scarf, he wiped the sweat from his head with a handkerchief soaked in alcohol. Wang Tingqi thought about it for a while, "Young master's symptoms are not very good. My lord needs to be more prepared."

"According to my experience, acnes are small dark red papules at first, and papules appear after a few hours. After 2 to 3 days of papules, they gradually turn into blisters and become pimples with redness around them. By 5 to 8 Pemphigus is grouted and gradually becomes pustules, which are painful and the surrounding blush deepens. At this time, the temperature rises again, which is called "suppurative fever". After 10 to 14 days, the body temperature gradually drops, and the pus scab gradually dries up, or ruptures and scabs. It will eventually form a scab. After another fifteen days or half a month, the scab will fall off naturally, with an itchy sensation, and leave blister marks, which are called 'pockmarks'. The situation of the young master is in the process of herpes filling. If you can If the acne breaks out and you have a fever, you can be safe, but, from the perspective of the following, this is also the most dangerous stage."

"In order to ensure that the young master is safe, please ask the servants in the mansion to open more windows in the young master's living room to keep the indoor air fresh. Do not light too much fire to prevent it from being too dry and high temperature. Let the young master turn over and change positions frequently, so as to keep the air fresh." Prevent bed sores. Drink more water, preferably more soy milk. Order the child to pay attention to wipe off all kinds of body fluids in the mouth and surrounding areas of the child, and keep the area around the mouth clean and clean. Prevent scratches and avoid Secondary infection."

"Apart from these, is there any other way?" Shi Lin's eyes were red and swollen like rotten peaches. This child is Shou Han's first son and also her hope, but now he is between life and death because of a smallpox. Wandering, being a mother, there is nothing I can do, I can only watch the child moaning in pain.

"Third wife, there are some things that are really beyond the reach of medicine."

"Mr. Wang, please read that the lord is nearly [-] years old, and you only have this one son, you must find a way to save my son!"

As the owner of the inner house, Yan Meier and Wang Tingqi are also acquaintances, so they begged immediately, but some things are independent of people's will.

"Ma'am, you also know a lot about medical medicine stones. In some cases, doctors can only do their best to know their destiny!"

"My son!" Hearing what the doctor said, Shi Lin's body couldn't help falling backwards. Fortunately, the watchman helped her up, "Master, let me go. I'm going to the Buddhist hall, to the Niangniang temple. My son burns incense and asks Bodhisattva to bless my son so that he can get out of trouble."

When Ye Qi and Zhang Xiaohu's fleet docked at the pier.When the two excitedly rode their horses and rode to the General's Mansion to report their victory, they were surprised to find that there were several white flowers tied with white silk hanging on the lintel of the General's Mansion.

"The young master died because the pox didn't come out."

Hearing such news, the two of them planned to brag about their military exploits in front of Shou Han, and suddenly they disappeared like hot coals meeting cold water.

"How is the situation in the mansion?" Zhang Xiaohu hurriedly asked the soldiers.

"The third wife has shed tears every day these days, and the lord has to go to comfort her. Two days ago, the young master was buried. All the used clothes and toys were burned. It is said that when it was burned," the deacon of the military division said. Looking around, "The third wife, the fourth wife, and the fifth wife, that woman from the Li family had a big fight. They almost started fighting. If the lord is not present, it's really hard to deal with."

"This woman from the Li family. She is really disgusting when she speaks rudely when other people's children are buried because she is pregnant!"

Zhang Xiaohu couldn't help cursing after hearing this, but Ye Qi was more reserved.He just handed over the diary in the battle to the military commander for archiving, got up to say goodbye, and came to see Shou Han.

"A smallpox killed thousands of people everywhere, alas!"

Shou Han listened to Ye Zhang and Ye Zhang's report on the situation of the Battle of Manjijia, and then listened to the two men's words of comfort. His face was full of bitterness, and there seemed to be a tear in the corner of his eye.

"My lord, it is true that smallpox cannot be cured right now. It can only be done by physical strength and luck. However, when I was in my hometown, I had the experience of vaccination. This disease cannot be cured, but it can be prevented!"

Ye Qi spoke from her own experience.

"Shao Ning, let's put aside the smallpox matter for a moment, how do you feel about being overwhelmed this time?"

"My lord, Commander Zhang and I have had a great time cooperating. We have occupied more than a dozen islands, large and small, at both ends of the strait. We have selected places to build ports, wharves, and storage warehouses. The fort is also ready to start construction. At the same time, we have wiped out these islands. More than [-] bands of pirates, large and small, have seized more than four million taels of gold and silver, and there should be similar amounts of other goods.”

Shou Han nodded in satisfaction. For such benefits, he felt that it was more in line with his understanding of the waterway of Manaja. If Westerners do not take this waterway, they will have to make a big detour. Not to mention the long time and increased operating costs, the risk has also increased several times.

"How do you think we should govern this area?"

Zhang Xiaohu looked at Ye Qi, the scar on his face couldn't help but twitch, he had already learned that his elder brother Zhang Xiaoqi had been sent to the customs office in Malawi as the tax department.After staying in Manlajia and Lijiapo for the past few months, he already knows the richness of this waterway, and he still knows the character of his precious brother. He is going to send someone to Zhang Xiaoqi immediately after meeting Shou Han. Send the letter over and ask him to be more cautious, don't get killed if you have money!

"My lord, we only need to collect taxes! Governance, is there a local sultan?"

"Little six! Confused! What I want is not a tax customs, I want this area!"

Zhang Xiaohu was used to being scolded, he grabbed the sea of ​​tea on the coffee table, drank a few mouthfuls, and wiped the water from the corner of his mouth, "My lord, you are a little too strong, if you ask How to fight naval battles, how to attack land from the sea, I naturally understand these things. If you want to talk about how to win people's hearts and govern the country, you are a bit like asking the blind for the road. Shaoning, how do you say that phrase? ?”

"Ask Yu Blind."

"Right! Ask Yu Blind!"

"If you want to ask about this, you should ask people like Li Peilin and Shaoning, don't ask me!"

Zhang Xiaohu's words made Shou Han feel a little better in the past few days.I also saw some smiles on my face, "Shaoning has more important errands, wait for him to handle them."

After sending Zhang Xiaohu away, the guard took out a key from his waist, opened the huge sturdy cabinet in the corner, searched carefully on the partition of the cabinet, and took down an exquisite small box.

Ye Qi took the box, a little hesitant, Shou Han motioned him to use the key attached to open the wooden box.

Inside is a thin booklet.

"The matter of Manlajia is over, and I plan to let you go back to Jiangnan. In recent years, not only our Nanzhong has suffered frequent disasters, but also the interior has suffered from floods, droughts and famines. The more it is at this time, the more capable people I will send Go there. You are in the hinterland of Daming, and the situation in all aspects is extremely complicated. It is inevitable that someone will pay attention to you, and someone will even spy on you secretly. Just in case, this is a booklet of cryptic words compiled by me. What happens in the future? After you write it yourself, compile it according to this booklet, put it in this box, and order someone to deliver it to me, and only you and I will know what you have to say."

Ye Qi understands that this is the group of people that Shou Han regards himself as the most confidant and the core.In the South China Army.There should be no more than twenty people who own such a secret box.Come to think of it, Chu Tianlei and Lin Dinghou who are in Manlajia may have important positions, and the rest of them are working outside.It is estimated that few people have such qualifications.

"After the subordinates go back, they will look for people who are good at vaccination on the ground in Nanzhili. No matter how embarrassing it is, no matter whether it is sweet words and rich money, or kidnapping is a deception. The subordinates will find dozens of people to come for our South Central Army No one is ruined anymore because of it.”

Ye Qi is right. Since the Longqing period, people in Taiping County, Ningguo Prefecture, Nanzhili Province, have started to vaccinate the pox. It is impossible to save [-] to [-] ears" such a cure rate.This is because the seventeenth century is already a very superb technology.

The main methods used are pox paste, dry vaccine, pox clothing and other vaccination methods.Mostly, use cotton to get the acne slurry and stuff it into the nostrils of the vaccinated children, or grind the acne scab finely, and blow it into the child's nose with a silver tube; Infect.

"Shaoning, going to Jiangnan, there is a long way to go. The future is also extremely dangerous. You must pay attention to safety at all times. However, you can rest assured, Jiangnan, you are not alone!"

He held Ye Qi's hand and waited on the pier to bid farewell to Hanru.

Not long after Ye Qi returned to the south of the Yangtze River, he sent people to escort (escort?) more than [-] vaccination experts who had been searching for in Nanzhili to the south in a fast boat.

From then on, the South Central Army began to enforce the system that everyone must be vaccinated.

In addition to the above three methods, there is a new method for vaccination.

"This is our latest medical achievement, the water seedling method."

Alfonso, the chaplain of the Portuguese Rehabilitation Army, returned from the front line in Goa, bringing not only the latest medical technology of Suimiaofa.

The water seedling method is to use bean scab as the pox vaccine. Generally, 20 to 30 pox scabs need to be taken at a time and ground into a fine powder.The doctor mixes the powder with 3-5 drops of clean water or human milk and prepares it evenly. This is the vaccinia used for "vaccination".The doctor wrapped the prepared pox vaccine in a new cotton cloth sheet, pinched it into the shape of a date stone, and tied it with a thin thread.During the treatment, put a cotton cloth bag into the nostril of the subject and take it out after six hours. If the subject has fever and acne after 7 days, it means that the vaccination is successful.

"Say!"

After handing over the technical post of water seedling vaccination to Wang Tingqi for experimentation, Shou Han fixed his eyes on Alfonso's fat body.

"Not fighting with Colonel Gonzalez on the front line for the restoration of Portugal, comforting those lambs of God, soldiers of the Portuguese Empire, what are you doing back here?"

I don't know why, this young governor, every time he sees him, he doesn't look good. Alfonso sighs in his heart. Is this the injustice of the past life that the Eastern believers say?Why can't this adult give me a good face? !

He hastily took out a thick account book from his pocket, "Mighty and wise as God, although I know that your treasury is no less than that of the Inca emperor, but as your allies, we are willing to offer you a little spoil of war in India, to you Show loyalty and friendship!"

The watchman casually flipped through the ledger presented by Alfonso, which recorded in Latin and noon that since he landed in the Goa area of ​​India and started the Restoration Movement of the Kingdom of Portugal, he had not fought much. The bullying behaviors of the state lords and various forces are constant.For this kind of behavior, the Portuguese rehabilitative government called it actual combat training.

"Ten thousand catties of gold bars. Twenty buckets of precious stones? A hundred horses? You really got rich!"

Shou Han glanced at the first page hastily, and was a little surprised.

It is said that these Portuguese and Spaniards are greedy and good at plundering, but who would have thought that they would plunder such a huge amount of wealth in just a few months?If they can offer one, they will have at least three in their hands!

"Well, when we were attacking the vassals and allies of the Spaniards, we attacked several temples of the locals. There were also palaces of several Indian princes."

now it's right!

Shou Han remembered that he once read a news, saying that in a certain temple in India, a large number of gold, diamonds, etc. were found.The secret rooms of the temple are full of sacks stuffed with diamonds, as well as gold ropes, crowns and other treasures.A 6-meter-long gold necklace weighs tens of kilograms.

Come to think of it, these guys were looted from similar temples!

After a question, Father Alfonso replied in embarrassment. It was when he was going to the Goa area, in order to go ashore to find supplies, Gonzalez ordered his troops to go ashore and plundered wantonly. , which is the Kerala region of India.After that, a lot of loot was recorded in the Goa area.

"Say! Give me such a valuable gift, and what kind of water seedling method, why?"

As a diplomat of the Portuguese Restoration, Father Alfonso's purpose is very simple and simple, that is to come for the artillery.

"Those damned traitors, bearers of the Holy See, they turned Goa into a fortress, and we want to buy some of the artillery that the governor's subordinates used in Managa."

"Want to buy artillery?"

Shou Han was a little embarrassed.

"You don't know, not long ago the governor of Luzon, Don Perez, came and cried and said not to interfere in Spain's internal affairs. I was soft-hearted at the time, and when I saw him crying pitifully, I agreed to him. This matter is not good for you. done."

"I'm going to lie to you!" Despite the religious commandments, Father Alfonso cursed in his heart, "You are the one who encouraged us to go to war against Spain, and you are the one who now says that we cannot interfere in the internal affairs of the Spanish Empire. You still Temporary soft-heartedness? When you slaughtered other people’s villages and wiped out the entire tribe of indigenous people who resisted you, how come you never softened your heart?”

"His Royal Highness, for the freedom and dignity of the Portuguese, please help us a lot."

He was politely sent out of the general's mansion, a gift so rich that even a pious God shepherd like Alfonso felt greedy, and all he got was a sentence from the guard, "This is a big deal." Allow me to think twice."

The street market is still as prosperous as before, and it has not been affected too much by smallpox.However, also because of smallpox, there have been some changes.

"Hurry up!"

A group of inspectors in black clothes and red trousers ran quickly from the priest's side, as if they were about to go into battle and kill the enemy.

"Ah! My lord's son died, and the gods of acne everywhere will be in bad luck!"

The comments of passers-by resonated.

"It deserves it! Who made the Pox God Empress not open her eyes?! The eldest wife, the third wife, and the fourth wife all went to the temple to offer incense, kneel down, and make wishes. This is enough face, but the acne god empress just doesn't give face, what happened? So? One of the lord's only seedlings died, and the statues of the pox god empress were also smashed by patrol inspections."

"That's right! This fairy has to listen to the lord! Otherwise, don't even think about enjoying incense in this Nanzhong!" (To be continued...)

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