Chapter 139 Fighting Acne
Changsheng County is almost renamed Tianhua County.
Throughout August, Changsheng suffered two rains. Except for the Beiyang Army stationed in the county, all production stagnated. Military hospitals made every effort to adopt the seedlings of acne seedlings, most of which were used directly, and a small part were retained to make them into mature seedlings.
The county governs the people, leaders from all walks of life, and two large tribes outside the county, the indigenous people who need to vaccinate acne were divided into pieces in batches. The first one had not yet recovered, and the latter one had already had acne. A new batch of vaccination began again, causing the entire area to be submerged in the rampant smallpox.
For a month, only 800 Beiyang infantry served as guards. The Dongyang Military Office concentrated all its forces to treat acne for the people. Military doctors collected seedlings and treated patients. The military soldiers opened up the warning and investigated the people's evasion of vaccination, which was even more tense than during the war.
This matter was not over, and Chen Mu's heart was hanging until the third day of September.
Zou Yuanbiao led military doctor Chen Shigong and county officials to report: "The people in Changsheng County were 14,322, the leaders of each tribe and accompanying him 10,73, the cattle department in the south of the county, and the white horse department in the north of the county, and the merchants from the white horse department were escorted to 3,455 slaves, all of whom had already grown acne."
Zou Yuanbiao held the official document and raised his face to recite loudly. The pride on his face made Chen Mu very familiar with him. He was sure that at a critical juncture in his life, he had a look when he killed a pirate in the surging waves.
Although he felt that he was much more handsome than Zou Yuanbiao at that time, his emotions should be similar.
In fact, they both looked in a very embarrassed appearance at different times and in different scenes.
Zou Yuanbiao's face in the past looks very rich. Now it's only one month now, he has lost at least fifteen kilograms. He has pulled out his horse's face from his fat face plate. He looks much handsome and more capable.
Chen Mu was busy compiling the local terrain and news reported by hundreds of villages with Yang Tingxiang. Looking at Zou Yuanbiao's expression, the corners of his mouth slowly curled up, and then he calmed down again. He just held his pen and asked, "How many people died?"
Zou Yuanbiao's pride was like a group of fire. He was so swept away by this sentence that he didn't even have Mars left. He put down the official document and lowered his hands and said, "At present, more than 200 people have died of smallpox... More people will die, the general."
More than 200 people.
The three indoors all know what smallpox is and know more about what smallpox is. In fact, they have planned in their minds about the number of people who died of smallpox after failure to vaccinate. This expected number is very terrifying.
But the expectation of the number is different from the feeling that the death that really happened in front of people. Especially for doctors, Changsheng County Military Hospital originally had more than 100 military doctors, but this time, 200 military doctors were selected from the second phase of Beiyang to supplement their acne.
Everyone knows the number of 3500 of these more than 300 people, which is enough to shake any firm heart.
What makes them firm is another possibility, that is, there is no vaccination. With the scale of Changsheng County, at least 20,000 people will die in this plague.
Even so, Zou Yuanbiao was still at a loss about it.
The day before the traces of smallpox were heard, he was still drinking wedding banquets. The groom wore an official robe and black veil, and was full of spirit; the bride was in a red phoenix crown and red robe, and everyone was happy.
During the meal, the young groom's younger brother pretended to be brave enough to toast him. He remembered that the child was dark-skinned and worked in a sawing farm. He saved nearly two months of wages to change into a Jinghai suit at the tailor shop. He didn't take it out until his brother got married. He spoke to him nervously and awe-inspiringly, and his complexion turned purple.
At that time, the magistrate smiled and said that it was purple when it was dark.
The child said that he would borrow an official robe from the government when he got married. Zou Yuanbiao responded with a smile.
But after only half a month, the young man failed to get acne and had not healed after contracting smallpox. The last period of time was extremely painful.
He could no longer borrow an official robe from himself.
Zou Yuanbiao has been thinking these days why the groom came to tell him the news, leaving only the words "Brother is not lucky, don't blame the government for leaving."
But Zou Yuanbiao knew that he killed the child. If they were just isolating the person who brought smallpox from the north, the child would not die at all.
Chen Mu put down the pen he was holding, slowly leaning towards the back of the chair, and his calm eyes passed by Zhang Zhang's mouth but said nothing Zou Yuanbiao turned to Chen Shigong and asked softly: "Will a thousand people die?"
This is the smallest casualty they estimate, the best case scenario.
"It's unknown at this time."
Chen Shigong was much calmer than the magistrate. He had experienced many things that were more terrifying than death. He said in a calm tone: "Most of the people vaccinated in early August have recovered, and more than 800 people have not recovered; more than 3,000 people have not recovered in the middle of the year; and acne is being developed in the late month, but in terms of the current scale, I think 800 is better than 1,000."
"By the way." Chen Shigong reported: "The Grand Marshal asked the military hospital to focus on recording the characteristics and complications of smallpox. It has been recorded and recorded more than 40,000 words in detail. In addition, there are six quarantine books. Why is the Grand Marshal going to do these? Next, the military medical camp will be assigned to various places to continue to grow acne for the people?"
Chen Mu raised his eyebrows, nodded slowly, and pushed the book on the table in front of him and said, "I guess you can see it too. In the end, we should hurry up and make cooked seedlings during this period. With enough cooked seedlings and a large amount of dilution experiments, we can reduce the mortality rate in the future."
"Immigrants have built nearly a thousand villages in a radius of 500 miles. In August, they received more than 400 returns. There are traces of native people in many places, and they will also be vaccinated in the future."
"This is a war. Don't be sad about spring and autumn, and don't be compassionate. Apart from winning the war, you will have no real compassion. Make the paccinia seedlings perfect and save the people on this land from the rampant smallpox."
Chen Mu raised his hand and raised his head at Chen Shigong and said, "Then return to China with the best and most mature means to let the smallpox disappear!"
"We should be glad that this is smallpox. We are not afraid of it, but what if it is another plague? Dr. Chen, think about these things. You are a doctor and have the hands of living people. Think about these things. What if a catastrophic plague occurs in the future of the Ming Dynasty?"
He knew there would be a plague, but he didn't know when it would come. In the past, he could see the problems of the huge empire but had no channels to solve them. Now he tried to patch them economically and militarily, but this time the smallpox that happened in Changsheng County reminded him of it.
Not only the New World needs to face plague, but also the Ming Dynasty has to face plague.
And it is a plague that is more terrible than smallpox. At least smallpox can be vaccinated, so people who have been vaccinated will not be afraid, but what about the plague?
Changsheng County perfectly demonstrated the towns and suburbs under the epidemic. Production was completely stagnant, currency was stopped, the economy was close to collapse, and public security was extremely chaotic. It was maintained by tens of thousands of vaccinated King Kong Indestructible.
If there were no Beiyang Army, Changsheng would have collapsed long ago.
No matter how strong the military power, how great the system, or how prosperous the economy, the occurrence of a plague that swept the whole country will be in vain.
"There will be plagues in the Ming Dynasty, and yes, the Ming Dynasty will also be plagues."
Chen Shigong still looked as usual, but while he nodded, Chen Mu saw extra firmness in the doctor's eyes.
Chapter completed!