Song Yi

Chapter 123
Of course Du Wenhao understands this, but now that the arrow is on the line, he has no choice but to smile wryly.

Assistant Professor Tang said again: "Dr. Du, let's tell the truth. I don't know when the disaster relief fund will be allocated by the Yamen, and it's even more uncertain how much money will be allocated. Don't put in [-], and the disaster relief fund allocated to you will be in your hand." There is only one thousand, and the county magistrate has no money to compensate you, so where are you going to cry then?"

"In your opinion, what should it be?"

"You can't post money like this anymore!" Assistant Professor Tang waved his hand lightly, and said in a low voice, "I heard passers-by on the way back from Fucheng that other pharmacies in the county stopped providing free medicines, and only your Wuweitang is still there. You provided medicinal materials for free to treat the plague, and many people were cured. Everyone praised you as a Buddha of ten thousand families.

To be honest, this time your Five Flavors Hall is very famous, even women and children in the nearby states and counties are well-known.However, this fame was earned with money, so it can't continue to be spent like this, it's better to accept it as soon as it's good. "

Du Wenhao was silent.

Assistant Professor Tang said: "I can see that you have a very good heart. However, a pharmacy is a pharmacy after all, not a charity porridge shop. After all, a pharmacy is to make money. You have two shopkeepers in Wuweitang. Would you like to buy it?" Lose money and make money, but don't drag people into the water and lose everything.

To be honest, from the beginning to the present, your Wuweitang’s contribution to epidemic prevention and treatment is obvious to all, and you have exhausted your benevolence. I feel distressed when you see that you have poured so much money into it. This is your own hard-earned money!Epidemic prevention and disaster relief is the business of the imperial court. You can't finish all the affairs of the imperial court, can you?In the end, the imperial court will set up a memorial archway for you at most, so what can you do? "

"Then what do you say it should be?"

"In a word! Collect money!—You can have a free consultation for free consultation, but you have to get back the money for the medicinal materials. It is only right and proper to talk about it! I know that you gave free medical treatment and medicine on the one hand. It is the duty of a benevolent doctor to have a good heart and not to suffer others.

On the other hand, it is also a name. Who is not like this in the drugstores all over the city?Otherwise, why would everyone donate medicinal materials for free and send doctors to treat diseases?However, everyone accepts it as soon as they see it, and you are the last one, no matter what, it makes sense.

Besides, this time your isolation suits and gas masks from Wuweitang have brought you a reputation that is unmatched by other pharmacies. How many lives have been saved by this equipment, and how many people have been prevented from being infected with plague.

With this item alone, you Wuweitang will not have to worry about losing your reputation!There is no need to gain fame with free medical treatment and medicine. "

Du Wenhao and Lin Qingdai have discussed this point before, but they still don't know how much the government's epidemic prevention and disaster relief funds can get, so they don't know the base amount of money that can be lent to the Yamen. Now Assistant Professor Tang kindly reminds you, you can ask him again Making a decision, Du Wenhao cupped his hands and said:

"Assistant Tang, thank you for your heartfelt words. You have participated in many times of epidemic prevention and relief, and you know the inside story, can you give me a bottom line--this epidemic prevention, the disaster relief and epidemic prevention funds allocated by the imperial court to our county, how much money can the maximum be? ?”

Assistant Professor Tang looked around and stretched out five fingers.

"5 million taels?"

"What are you thinking? 5000 taels!" Assistant Professor Tang sneered bitterly, "The imperial court has set aside layers of deductions, and in our hands, 5000 taels are already burning incense!

And to tell you the truth, if the 5000 taels are actually paid, it is impossible to return all of them to Wuweitang according to the usual practice. The various epidemic prevention expenses behind the yamen must be deducted first, right?Does disaster relief cost money?

All miscellaneous money that needs to be spent later must be deducted first, and the rest will be returned to you.These expenses are indispensable!At least two to three thousand taels!In your hands, it would be nice to get half of it! "

"Half? Two thousand, five hundred taels?" Du Wenhao smiled wryly, "Our Wuweitang has lent 500 taels to the yamen successively, and almost all the money we earned from selling isolation suits and gas masks has been lent to the yamen!"

"Then why don't you stop? Do you want to lose everything? Dr. Du, you have done your best to make it this far!"

Du Wenhao nodded: "It makes sense. Anyway, the tents purchased outside the city are enough for two or three thousand patients to live in. For this medicinal material, it's okay to charge a little cost, and you can't kill the chicken to get the eggs."

Assistant Professor Tang smiled and said, "That's right!"

Du Wenhao said: "But now the medicinal materials are only enough for half a month. After half a month, even if the patient is willing to pay for the medicine, there will be no medicine to treat it?!"

"Fucheng has no choice but to traffic them in other places. I have an idea. I heard that Dr. Du saved the life of Jingci, the head of the White Clothes Society. Why not ask her for help. Their White Clothes Society has believers all over the place. There are ways to buy affordable medicinal materials.”

"Okay, I'll go to Mrs. Jingci to discuss."

Du Wenhao went back to Wuweitang, found the host Jingci, and said his intentions, and the host Jingci immediately called all the remaining leaders together to discuss.

Shopkeeper Fu said: "That's simple. My rice line has its own transportation team. If you want any medicine, you can make a list, Dr. Du, and I'll bring it back to you directly."

In addition to paying the shopkeeper, there are many businessmen in Baiyi Club, some of which are quite large and need to purchase goods from various places frequently, and they all plead their chests to help with this, buy goods at a low price, and pay on delivery.

Du Wenhao was very happy, and wrote a list of medicinal materials involved in the treatment of the plague and gave them to them.Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, the White Clothes Society also helped a lot.

The epidemic situation continued to worsen, a large number of patients continued to pour in from all directions, and critically ill patients in the isolation area continued to die. Every day, hundreds of dead bodies were carried to cremation, and the bonfires for burning the bodies continued day and night.Moans of distress can be heard at all times.

However, this is much stronger than other epidemic areas. The prescriptions formulated by Du Wenhao based on syndrome differentiation in modern Chinese medicine played a key role in guiding clinical diagnosis. According to the treatment of the situation, the treatment effect has been significantly improved, the mortality rate has been greatly reduced, and the cure rate is more than half.

For the most severe plague, pneumonic plague, such a high cure rate is very high in the case of pure Chinese medicine.

Therefore, even though Du Wenhao announced the implementation of free clinics and fair price for medical treatment, people from all over the world still rushed here.Except for a considerable number of people who came to buy Du Wenhao's isolation suits and gas masks, the patients who came here were all begging for help because of the high cure rate here.So, half a month later, the number of patients who were cured and left was not counted, but the number of patients treated in the hospital in the isolation area outside the city had exceeded 5000.

Assistant Professor Tang had run out of the medicines he bought from Fucheng, and presider Jing Ci had fully recovered, and returned to Fucheng with Mrs. Kong Hui, who was awake and recovering, under the protection of shopkeeper Fu and other believers.Dr. Gong Ming stayed to help Du Wenhao prevent and treat the disease.

Back in Fucheng, Jingci presided over and led the White Clothes Society to fully support Du Wenhao's epidemic prevention and treatment work. Through the transportation team of the merchants of the White Clothes Society, medicinal materials purchased from various places at low prices were continuously transported from all over the place, making Du Wenhao's epidemic prevention and treatment The work proceeded smoothly.

Under the call of Jing Ci, the wealthy businessmen and believers of Fucheng White Clothes Club ordered to donate a large amount of tents and quilts to solve the hospitalization problem of new patients.When you climb up the tower, you can see that there are densely packed tents outside the city, one after another, and there are bonfires between the tents to keep warm. The whole scene is spectacular.

Although Du Wenhao reported the epidemic immediately, due to the backwardness of communication and transportation, almost a month has passed since the confirmation of the epidemic until the court got the news and urgently mobilized the army to block the road and isolate the epidemic area.As people in the epidemic area panicked and fled, the epidemic quickly spread and spread to dozens of nearby states and counties. Tens of thousands of people died, and the survivors fled their homes one after another. Except for the rats, it became a deserted empty city.

Among the prefectures and counties in the epidemic area, only Du Wenhao and his Dongda County, due to the timely adoption of martial law measures, greatly reduced the spread of the plague, and the city-wide disinfection and rodent control campaign further eliminated the possibility of the plague spreading.

Most importantly, the isolation suit and medicated gas mask designed by Du Wenhao saved the lives of countless people inside and outside the city.The final result of these epidemic prevention achievements is that the death toll in the county is less than 1000, far lower than other states and counties.

These days, Du Wenhao has been busy with epidemic prevention, but he didn't delay seeing other patients.

Under Du Wenhao's treatment, Pang's mother's sudden blindness has almost recovered her eyesight, and her hearing has recovered. She is so happy that the second grandmother has fully recovered. The family has visited Du Wenhao and Pang Yuqin several times wearing gas masks. Second-rate.The night cry of the child Huzi was also cured by not accepting the money.

The two women with rheumatoid arthritis improved significantly after taking the medicine. Du Wenhao went to follow-up visits twice to adjust the medicine. The swelling has basically subsided and the pain has disappeared. Both of them are very grateful.

The impotence of Zhuangzhi County has been completely cured. Although the epidemic prevention work is very busy, he still finds time to go back to accompany the two concubines at night.

Under the supervision of Zhuangzhi County, coupled with Du Wenhao's effective defense work during this period, the White Clothes Club's application for Du Wenhao's meritorious archway was finally approved.The craftsmen carved day and night, and erected this meritorious archway at the gate of the quarantine area outside the city.

The end of the year is approaching, and the epidemic has finally subsided. The critically ill patients have already died, and the rest have relatively mild symptoms. After treatment, most of the patients have been cured and discharged, and the number of patients in the isolation area is decreasing day by day.

Du Wenhao and his quarantined area had no new patients for seven days.This is due to a series of effective epidemic prevention work such as effective martial law, isolation, burial, rodent extermination and disinfection.

Du Wenhao's effective epidemic prevention work finally attracted the attention of the military.

(End of this chapter)