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Chapter 51 Dare

Plague has never been an independent occasion, but is limited to human technical level, so it is difficult to know this fact.

The European plague caused the port of Seville in Spain, Plymouth in England, and the Eastern Military Palace implemented military controls on the east coast of Asia to prohibit all ships from entering and leaving. Through Majiagang, the Hei Shui Martre Islands entered Wangxia Prefecture, the easternmost part of the Ming Dynasty. The message transmission speed suddenly became faster due to the existence of telegrams.

On the evening of the second day, the news came directly from the telegraph room of the Forbidden City to Tianting.

"Euroi is also suffering from a major epidemic?"

In the military room of the Ganqing Palace in the Forbidden City, the word "Ye" spoken by Emperor Wanli means that he is the only god in the world.

Because in the whole world, only he can know what is happening in every corner of the world at the same time.

A plague broke out in the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, the plague never stopped attacking the Ming Dynasty.

Due to Chen Mu's letter, the furnishings in the Wanli military room had been reduced, so he moved to the Enchengfang Museum in Chengdong. However, the museum is small at present, and there are not many things inside... The emperor has been picking and choosing for several days, but in the end, no one was willing to put it out. Instead, he asked him to take this opportunity to find Zhang Juzheng, Wang Guoguang and others to ask for a lot of things.

It is worth mentioning that the world's first steam engine, Huode Xingjun, was released and placed in the middle of the lobby of the Enchengfang Museum.

The steam engine of grandfather is still strong. He once sang the golden swords and iron horses in the Ganqing Palace and also watched the twelfth lunar month of the imperial prison. Now it has become the treasure of the National Museum of the Ming Empire and is knowledgeable.

At this moment, Emperor Wanli was piled up on the desktop of Emperor Wanli for many years, and there were as many reports on the epidemic from one foot high books.

Since the first year of Wanli, there has been no peace in the country. In the first year of the Huzhou Prefecture famine, the plague caused by the Zaoyang County of Xiangyang Prefecture, and the epidemic in Zhejiang Province began even more. In the third year of Wanli, the flood in Baoshan caused a flood, flooding the plague of Jiading; in the spring of the fifth year of Wanli, smallpox began in Huangyan and spread to Nan'an, Taihe, and Ganzhou Prefectures and was then curbed; in the sixth year of Wanli, the epidemic in Nanfeng was severely affected; in the seventh year of Wanli, the plague of Xiaoyi, Taigu, Jiading, Wuchuan, and Yongzhou prefectures.

By the eighth year of Wanli, the plague spread along with the canal transport to Taigu, Liaozhou, Taiyuan, Baode, Datong, Dingxiang, Lingqiu, Wenshui, Qingyuan, Yongping, and Qixian.

In the ninth year of Wanli, the plagues in Taigu, Liaozhou, Taiyuan, Baode, Datong, Dingxiang, Lingqiu and Qingyuan were curbed, but they had spread to Yangqu, Jiaocheng, Daizhou, Pingding, and Changzhi.

Although it has been widely affected in the past, people have seen plagues and doctors have also treated them. However, in the tenth year of Wanli, a severe drought occurred and two different diseases came.

First, the big head plague brought back by the wounded soldiers from the frontier. In fact, it was the plague. The inner drought inside the pass was even more severe. It started in Tongzhou and spread to the capital. Then, the flag army that followed Chen Shigong to disembark in Beiyang, Tianjin last year. Some merchants were infected with another plague. People generally believed that this plague was caused by the plague caused by long-term drought. The doctors in the capital judged that this disease first had cold and heat spasms, and then turned into macula and mania, and most of them died of illness.

Chen Shigong identified this disease as brought back by their merchants from South Asia. It was a plague that was high in the indigenous people. It was named Huangrefan by the Eastern Military Palace. It is the highest level of the flag army that is not afraid of smallpox to prevent plague. It has a low mortality rate, but it is highly contagious and extremely affects combat effectiveness.

Wanli personally summarized these plague reports over the years, and felt the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

Every plague, the proportion of official documents in the court is actually very small, and usually only one sentence is taken when reporting to his desk.

Due to the speed of information transmission in the past, disasters, floods, and droughts are also a large proportion of official documents reported to the court by local officials, while wind and plagues are relatively fewer. Because the plague is reported to the court and sent back, it will basically pass.

In fact, the Central Plains dynasty has been fighting against plagues since ancient times. This is even the main role of the Central Plains dynasty bureaucratic system, and has sufficient precedents and plans to resist plagues.

The emperor issued a self-declaration from Emperor Wen, Emperor Yuan, Emperor Cheng and Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty due to the plague, ordering officials to reduce their food, drink and play, and reduce their horses and mounts to help the victims infected with the plague. In order to deal with smallpox, Emperor Ping of Han issued an edict to "people who are sick and ill, and to place medicine" to treat plague and cut off infection. The "disease migration house" that is also used for isolation also appeared in the Han Dynasty and was called "disease farm" in the Tang Dynasty.

When a plague occurred in the Song Dynasty, the local yamen organized a free medical consultation, and the medical expenses were paid by the yamen. All generals and officials sent to the border must bring their accompanying medical officers to prevent diseases in the military.

Even including the habit of rituals in prosperous times throughout the years, medical books have always been among them.

All technology or science are driven by demand.

It is human nature to see, recognize and solve problems.

Local governments have good solutions to the plague. This is why it accounts for a small proportion of official documents and is not easily valued. Once it is taken seriously, it will be too late.

No one has ever linked so many plagues together. Most people live in the township and need to know about the situation in the neighboring counties half a month later, let alone major events in the surrounding provinces.

Even Emperor Wanli, who had known everything, had the opportunity to connect all of this, was the complete collection of the Dongyang Military Hospitals that Chen Shigong brought him back to Beijing, which made him a little interested in medical skills, and then he paid attention to the plague that had been raging all over the world.

What made him realize that this was a war was Chen Mu's letter from the Eastern Military Office, which asked him to say the question: "Euroi is also suffering from a major epidemic?"

"Doctor Chen, you said that the Black Death in Euroi is the same plague as my big head plague, so they are the same plague." Wanli's eyes seemed to always contain a desire for knowledge, and he said in confusion: "There are also contaminations between humans and animals, and there may be some connection between them."

This has been like this since he was a child. He has seen too many novel things in the world. Water and fire work together to make the green dragon hide from the ground, sail without sails, and fire burns balloons to make the flying fish soar into the sky and burn the camp. There is nothing in this world that he dare not think of.

Chen Shigong sat quietly behind the emperor and said, "I don't know, but Mr. Chen had the same guess as His Majesty. He believed that the closer the world was, the more likely the plague in one place would be to be taken by ships and soldiers to another place."

Wanli put down his pen, turned his head and sat slowly, nodding his head, and then threw the problem behind his head, saying, "I know that you have cured more than a hundred cases of yellow heat plague in Beiyang, and used Penicillium to cure several cases of Shiniku's disease. But where does the bighead plague come from, what kind of origin comes from, who is devoted to, and what medicine can cure it? Do you know?"

Chen Shigong shook his head: "I don't know."

"If you don't know, don't go to Tongzhou. You are the best doctor in the Dongyang Military Hospital. Chen Shuai praised you very much. He said that in time, you can save my people from the suffering of the patients. Tongzhou - don't worry."

Wanli, who was sitting, opened his arms: "I have sent 830 medical households in Shuntian Prefecture to set up a Wujianfang station in Tongzhou to isolate patients, treat patients with Taicang silver. For thousands of years, the ancestors have been devoting all kinds of plagues. Without you, Dr. Chen, they have all been wiped out by the people of our Celestial Empire, and you are not alone."

Chen Shigong did not shake his head this time, he just sighed: "I don't dare."
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