Chapter 210 The common people are willing to help
Except for Li Si, everyone else was also shocked. The horror of smallpox was simply frightening.
They were all representatives of various families, and they had heard many stories about smallpox destroying a city or causing tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of deaths.
There is no cure for smallpox, so people can only bear it. If they can survive it, they will be fine. If they cannot survive it, they will die.
However, so far, there are only a few people who can resist smallpox, and those people have become street rats that everyone shouts about and beat, and they are even caught and burned to death by the government to avoid infecting others.
Now that they heard that Ying Zheng had a way to cure the smallpox plague, everyone looked at Ying Zheng excitedly.
Ying Zheng smiled, looked at the excited Xia Wuji, and said slowly: "I am not worried about smallpox now, I am only worried about the imperial examination."
Xia Wuji immediately understood what Ying Zheng meant, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the common people will definitely cooperate with the imperial court in organizing this imperial examination, and order the medical people to always support the imperial imperial examination."
He originally planned to agree, which would be a good thing for the growth of the medical family, but he planned to get more benefits from Ying Zheng.
But unexpectedly, Ying Zheng directly offered a fatal temptation, a cure for smallpox.
"Okay." Ying Zheng smiled and said, "I don't have a cure for smallpox."
Xia Wuji was shocked and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, didn't you say there is?"
"What I'm talking about is a preventive method. As long as you take advantage of this, people no longer have to worry about getting smallpox." Ying Zheng explained.
"I don't know how to prevent it."
Ying Zheng smiled and said: "The method of vaccination is to use the pox juice from a cow infected with smallpox to pierce the human body.
If a person gets cowpox and smallpox once, the smallpox will not be fatal. It will only cause a fever for a few days, and people with good health will not even feel anything.
Moreover, people who get cowpox and smallpox will not develop acne all over their body, but only at the wound, which will heal after half a month.
From now on, people who have been vaccinated with cowpox will not get smallpox again. In other words, if the child is vaccinated with pox one month after birth, then smallpox will be a joke to the child. "
Xia Wuji's brows were twisted into the word "Chuan". Ying Zheng's words shocked him. No one had ever thought of this method, and no one had ever dared to think so.
Is it conceivable for ordinary people to let a cow infected with smallpox infect itself?
Seeing that Xia Wuji was silent, Ying Zheng smiled and said, "Do you think my words are not credible?"
"The common people don't dare." Xia Wuji came back to his senses.
Ying Zheng smiled and said: "Actually, this matter is easy to verify. I will order you to be the commander and give you a hundred death row prisoners to serve as your experiments and let them be inoculated with cowpox.
After half a month, wait for them to recover, and then force them to go to the smallpox area to help. If nothing happens, it will prove that the vaccination method is very feasible.
At that time, I will promote this matter to the entire Qin Dynasty, and the Qin Dynasty will no longer have to worry about the smallpox plague. "
"Your Majesty is kind, and the common people are willing to assist Your Majesty in completing the vaccination."
"Very good. Afterwards, I will ask someone to take you to a place to vaccinate a hundred death row prisoners."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
After taking care of Xia Wuqie, Ying Zheng turned to the Mohist giant, Meng Sheng.
"Meng Sheng."
"The grassroots are here."
Ying Zheng said: "Now that the Mohist family has declined, why do I still let the Mohist family participate in the imperial examination?"
Meng Sheng gave a bitter smile and said: "Reporting to your majesty, ordinary people don't know that the Mohist family is now weak and has been divided into two branches. One group inherits the knowledge of the first generation of giants and continues to study the Mohist machine arts and related knowledge.
The other group has become the Great Qin Rangers, fighting injustices for the people of the world.
So the common people really don’t know what His Majesty likes about the Mo family? "
Ying Zheng smiled and said: "Actually, it's not me who has a crush on the Moh family, but Emperor Qin An, who has a crush on the Moh family. He told me that the Moh family's talents have just not been discovered.
Once excavated, what you Mohists create can benefit the country and the people. "
"Your Majesty is serious." Meng Sheng said modestly.
Ying Zheng waved his hand and said: "This statement is not serious at all. Have you ever seen those new farm tools?"
“The grassroots people have seen that there are some ingenious things, and there are also things that are as stupid as stupid, but they are of great benefit to farming, especially the curved shaft plow, shelling machine and threshing machine, which are really ingenious.
These three farm tools allowed the grassroots to see the shadow of the Mohist family, but the Mohist family had never thought about this, which made the grassroots feel very ashamed. "Meng Sheng said.
"That's right." Ying Zheng said, "These new farm tools were invented by the Imperial Master, and he also invented a waterwheel. Now Tiangong Pavilion is already making it, you should know that."
"There are people from the Mo family in Tiangong Pavilion, so the common people know about it." Meng Sheng said without hesitation. Since the First Emperor could tell it, it means that the First Emperor had already done this.
"So what do you think of the waterwheel?"
"Ingenious work, the common people originally planned to worship the imperial master as their master and give up the position of the Mohist giant to the imperial master." Meng Sheng said, "Unfortunately, he has become the imperial master, and the common people have no chance."
"No, you still have a chance." Ying Zheng said, "I plan to take you to see the Imperial Master."
"Thank you, Your Majesty. The common people are willing to help with the imperial examination." Meng Sheng said.
"Okay." Ying Zheng said, then looked at Xu Xing, "Farmer tycoon Xu Xing."
"The grassroots are here." Xu Xing came out.
"Are you satisfied with the new crops?" Ying Zheng asked.
"The common people are very satisfied, thank you Your Majesty." Xu Xing said, "The common people are willing to help the imperial court with the imperial examination."
"Very good, I will also take you to see the emperor. In addition, I also know that there are many seeds of fruits and vegetables in a place that need you to find. In addition, the cultivation of rice also needs to be studied by your farmers.
Daqin's food depends on your farmers, especially rice. I can tell you that if you study carefully, a thousand kilograms of rice per mu will definitely not be a problem, and it is also rice that is harvested three times a year. "Ying Zheng said very confidently.
This confidence comes from Qin An.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. The common people will definitely be able to study rice."
"There's no rush, go see Mr. first. You will know a lot about rice research from Mr."
"promise."
Ying Zheng waved his hand and said, "Go down."
"No." Xu Xing stood back to his original place.
Ying Zheng looked at Wei Liaozi and said: "Wei Liaozi, now that the Qin Dynasty has been unified, it does not mean that the world is peaceful. The court still needs to cultivate many military talents. Are you willing to help the Qin Dynasty?"
Wei Liaozi came out and said, "Wei Chen is willing."
It's not okay if you don't want to, your family is in the hands of Ying Zheng, not to mention that Ying Zheng didn't say it was for Ying Zheng, but for Da Qin.
Ying Zheng nodded with satisfaction and continued: "Li Si, Fu Sheng."
"Wei Chen is here."
"You also need your full help in the matter of the imperial examination."
"promise."
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "From today on, Legalists, Mohists, farmers, doctors and military experts will all settle in the Great Qin Academy."
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