Fall In Love with the Technology Tree

    In the first month of the fourth year of Yanxi, the eastern suburb of Luoyang.

    A ragged woman stumbled down the road of the market, her body exuded an unpleasant smell, even in the harsh winter His face was a morbid red, as if all the blood was clotted under the skin.

    "The disease, the disease!"

    There was no one left on the desolate streets, and even the merchants hurriedly closed their doors, lest the disease come in.

    The woman looked in a trance, her steps were unsteady, and she knelt to the ground with a plop, revealing the swaddling clothes in her arms. The same dirty toddler was awakened and let out a weak cry.

    "Whoa, whoa."

    As faint as the slenderest bird, and as heavy as the echo of a copper hawk.

    The voice stirred sympathy. The merchants shouted while peeking out from the crack of the door, "Are you looking for an orphan? Thirty feet further ahead is the Ding's Women's Medical Hall."

    The woman gritted her teeth, struggled to stand up, and continued to run forward. Her so-called running is not as fast as an ordinary person's walking. And a mere 100 meters distance seems like the end of the world to a seriously ill patient. Finally, a white cloth banner with the character "D" written on it was close at hand, she seemed to let out her last breath, and fell to her knees for the last time.

    "Boy...my...child..."

    In the season when the epidemic is gradually taking shape, the Women's Medical Hall is still open. A pungent smell mixed with wine, vinegar, and herbs emanated from the hall. The door is covered with limestone. The servant woman doctor, wearing a white coat, masks, hats and gloves, swept back and forth. In the backyard, the cauldrons that boil water have never stopped working. Speaking of which, it has always been a tradition for Ding's women's medical hall to wear linen and not dye it. The earliest name was to wear mourning for Ding's family. However, the three-year mourning period has expired, and the women's medical hall has not been removed. The custom of wearing white has been retained. When it came down, everyone was surprised.

    Even, seeing two women wearing white masks and white aprons approaching, the seriously ill woman had a look of hope on her face. She struggled to lift the swaddling clothes, and she didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the child was picked up. Fortunately, the Women's Medical Hall did not reject the child because of her disease.

    The woman's consciousness has been blurred: "Wang...Wang Rui...Hongnong..."

    She fell to the ground, silent. One of the gynecologists crouched down to try her aorta, then shook her head. The disease took another life.

    Since December last year, similar patients have appeared in the Yellow River Basin one after another. The patient's high fever persisted, and the upper body was congested due to the rupture of a large number of capillaries. According to the internal records from Qiao County, this disease is called "epidemic hemorrhagic fever", which is a kind of severe infectious disease. It mostly occurs in young and middle-aged people. The children and the elderly who can't take care of themselves will be cool with them.

    Therefore, many children in Luoyang area either came to the Women's Medical Hall by themselves, or were orphaned by seriously ill elders. All in all, the number of recent adoptions has shown a steady upward trend, and according to the estimated curve sent by Qiao County, the large-scale outbreak of the disease has just begun.

     Epidemic hemorrhagic fever is a viral disease, even Ah Sheng is helpless, although there is still penicillin in the space. When it comes to preventing her, there are many ways: isolation, sterilization, rodent control, and vaccines. But once infected, in addition to relying on the patient to survive, it is comprehensive care such as physical cooling, blood transfusion, and dialysis.

    Vaccines, blood transfusions, dialysis, the conditions are not mature. Sterilization and physical cooling have been done very hard in the Women's Medical Hall. They were originally designed to protect people and deliver babies, but now they have to give lectures on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, and teach people to boil water before drinking.

    In the isolation room set up in the middle of the field, patients are sent in every day, and corpses are sent out. But anyway, the survival rate here can reach 30%, and even less than 10% elsewhere.

    Accordingly, the Eastern Han government should send the imperial doctor to start the first-level alert for epidemic prevention at this time, and then officially send medical support and relief. However, the emperor did not care about this. Because it was also in the first month, the Nangong Jiade Hall caught fire.

    The Hall of Guardians is a hall for formulating etiquette! The fire in the Jiade Hall was a proper omen, and God thought that the emperor would only send such a bad omen when he was not virtuous. The big figures in the inner city are busy praying to the heavens for their sins and throwing blame on each other. Who has the time to care about the epidemic among the common people? Wasn't the epidemic common to the Eastern Han Dynasty?

    In this regard, Ah Sheng has only four words to say: hemp! mentally retarded!

    Infuriated, she issued an order to set up temporary branches of women's medical halls in Yanzhou and Qingzhou. People who had recovered from hemorrhagic fever were dispatched from Luoyang and Qiaoxian to go to the epidemic area. Their main mission is to spread the correct methods of prevention and treatment, to incinerate and bury the dead as much as possible, and then to adopt orphans whose parents died of the disease.

    In the face of the pandemic, the strength of the Cao family is not enough, but Ah Sheng still wants to do his best.

    In early February, a team of women's doctors, orphans, and nursing homes set off from Luoyang Women's Hospital. They will first go to Qiao County, where they will put the orphans down. After the final training and assessment, the women's doctor and the guards will continue their journey eastward to the epidemic area with their colleagues in Qiao County.

    Asheng has prepared a thick plan for these righteous people: they can't build a house, they are suppressed by local tyrants, they can't understand the language, they get lost, they encounter wild animals, and their own people are unfortunately infected. , the people are ignorant and distrustful, the patients and doctors are making trouble, and so on. She even provided the leading gynecologist with more than a dozen self-made dialysis devices made of space materials and amoxicillin that was about to expire. Although amoxicillin cannot cure hemorrhagic fever, it can treat diphtheria in children. Diphtheria is a winter infectious disease like hemorrhagic fever. Scattered cases have been found in Qiao County, and there may also be cases in Qingzhou and Yanzhou.

    What makes me laugh and cry is that many of the plans that Ah Sheng came up with after racking his brains were useless. Once the wealthy found out that their servants were sick, they abandoned them, and the government didn't care much. Quarantine or something, although some of the best filial sons and worthy women cry and refuse to let them go, most of the people are still pragmatic and cherish their lives. As for medical troubles, it was extinct at this time. Originally, Chinese medicine was still in its infancy. In the era of witch dancing or primitive Taoist talisman to see a doctor, ordinary people were used to the low cure rate.

    In the end, Ding's Medical Hall gained a firm foothold in Yanzhou and Qingzhou with its achievements in directly saving hundreds of people and indirectly saving more. In June, the summer heat suppressed the haemorrhagic fever virus. The four women's medical halls in Luoyang, Qiaoxian, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou have also resumed normal operation, focusing on delivering births to the people at the bottom, or adopting orphans to send to the Qiaoxian base camp.

    The only troubling thing is that the number of orphans is significantly higher than the number of orphans after this multi-state pandemic.

    According to the data gathered around, this number has soared from the original one hundred to nearly seven hundred. Ah Sheng had to build a temporary camp outside the grove to accommodate these orphans, big or small. When there are more orphans, food, clothing, training, and education all require more manpower and material resources, just like a chain reaction. If it weren't for the fact that many people who had broken their homes during the plague, or who had been favored by Ding's Medical Hall voluntarily came to Qiao County as slaves, it would have been enough for Ah Sheng to be in a hurry.

    However, the problem is not completely solved here.

    "There are more than 300 adults and more than 600 children. Whose seven-year-old Xiaolang is raising thousands of slaves? You can see for yourself that the expenses of the other courtyard last month were three of the old house's expenses. More times!" Cao Song settled the bills for Ah Sheng while arranging the chips, "Ruyi, it's not that my father is stingy with money, we have few people in official positions today, and we are sitting on the mountain..."

    "Father, it's better to reduce expenditure than to open source. By saving, where can you save your family business?"

    "Uh..." Cao Song's beard was blown up, "Then you are open source!"

    A Sheng happened to have a white porcelain and glass bracelet made by artisan Ai Xuanji in his sleeve, so he took it off and put it on a few cases. "Father, please, can something like this be sold for money?"

     With a "hiss", Cao Song picked up the bracelet and looked at the light.

    The glass is pure without a trace of impurities, like frozen running water; the white porcelain is also smooth and flawless, like solidified cheese. The two blend with each other, like smoke and fog, as long as human beings with basic aesthetics cannot refuse the beauty brought by this purity.

    "It's the first time I've seen such a clear glass." He flipped and tapped carefully, "This white part is not jade, could it be porcelain?"

    "My father has a good eye and is right. If I sell colored glaze and white porcelain, can I support my people?"

    Cao Song stroked his beard and smiled. When he talked about being cautious and making a fortune, he immediately put his IQ on the line: "If you have this kind of appearance, of course you can. Treasures are rare, and every year there are Two or three pieces will be enough for you to spend." Hunger marketing and upper-level circulation can only sell for big prices.

    A Sheng clapped his hands: "I mean the same, secretly. Don't let people know that it was made by my family, it is said to be imported from overseas. I heard that the relatives of the five princes are arrogant and extravagant and have robbed them. It is a precedent for the inheritance of human beings. Since we are filial piety, we should carefully avoid their edge. The common man is innocent, but he is guilty, and I don’t need to say more about my father.”

    Cao Song scolded with a smile: "You are more and more nagging. Lobbying my father is like a doorman. I am not boasting. When it comes to gathering money, I am very safe. There are also seven or eight kinds of properties sold in our family. , where did the fame go? Even your mother didn't know that there was a businessman in the family."

    "That's it. On the tenth, I will give my father the first... uh... treasure of this year. I also ask my father to return the bracelet to me."

    Cao Song reluctantly touched the smooth and cool white porcelain and handed it back to Ah Sheng. It is a pity that such good porcelain can only be regarded as a luxury with no market for decades. He wanted to get a white porcelain utensil or a glass ear clang for the Zhang family, but it was not available right now.

    A Sheng hummed a little tune and ran out. Craftsman Ai must like the low-volume boutique production. Oops, you have to remember to give this great hero a red envelope. She only knows the theory for many problems, and she can realize them one by one, all thanks to the sweat and trial and error of the craftsmen headed by Craftsman Ai. Thinking that there are more than ten craftsmen among the people who came from Yan and Qing, she was so happy that she flew.