Of course Su Ze would not go to Jiangbei alone.
Now the Anti-Japanese and Anti-Smuggling Corps has expanded to 300 people, and these are all soldiers who are being recruited. The rural warrior regiments along the river are trained by each village. These troops are not counted in Su Ze's number of soldiers.
From Tongzhou to Taizhou, almost every village in the north and south of the Yangtze River was hammered in by Su Ze.
Nowadays, in times of chaos, beacon towers can be used to resist Japanese pirates and thieves. After the Japanese pirates leave, they can be used to suppress smuggling in the Yangtze River. When rebellions occur in the future, they can be used as the seeds of uprisings.
Su Ze selected a hundred people from the Anti-Japanese and Anti-Smuggling Corps to accompany him. Now that bandits are rampant and diseases are rampant in Jiangbei, bringing more people can act as guards and help collect medicinal materials.
Xu Shixing, Xu Guo, and Wang Xijue also expressed their willingness to go together. Li Zhi himself had some medical skills and was willing to follow Su Ze to Jiangbei.
Fang Wanghai transferred 30 medical practitioners from Huimin Pharmacy in various places in southern Zhili and followed Su Ze to Jiangbei. However, now all the skilled doctors stay in Jiangnan to make money, and these medical practitioners are all young people.
Su Ze was not picky. Anyway, he did not expect these medical disciples to be able to treat patients independently. On the contrary, if they were obedient and willing to learn, Su Ze was also willing to teach them.
A large group of people, holding documents from the Nanjing Ministry of Finance, Su Ze and his party first went to Zhenjiang and saw the burned Beigu Pavilion in Jingkou. This is the place where Xin Qiji pays homage to the ancients and once left a famous poem "" Yongyule·Nostalgia for the past in Beiguting, Jingkou".
Now Beigu Pavilion has been burned down, and the entire Jingkou Ferry is in a bleak state, even worse than the "Yuanjia grass" scene back then.
Everyone was silent and not in the mood to write poetry. They found a boat at Jingkou and headed north, arriving at Yangzhou on the other side of the Yangtze River.
Looking at the river with ships coming and going, I can see that the Jingkou Ferry has long been in use in later generations, and the Runyang Bridge was built across the north and south. I don’t know when the world will be able to build such a major national project.
The journey to Yangzhou was also desolate, but Yangzhou was still a big city and a water transportation hub, so the government still had some ability to provide disaster relief.
There are porridge shops outside the city of Yangzhou. Although there are only a few grains of rice in a bowl of porridge, you can still eat.
Seeing such a scene, Xu Shixing was silent for a long time and said: "A few years ago, I passed by Yangzhou when my father took office in Suzhou. At that time, the upper reaches of Slender West Lake were crowded with people, but I didn't expect that the covered bridges of Slender West Lake are now crowded with refugees."
Everyone was speechless. Xu Guo and Wang Xijue said young and vigorously: "The officers and soldiers are still incompetent, and they have been driven in by Japanese pirates several times!"
Su Ze sneered in his heart, the officers and soldiers can't even maintain normal military pay, who will fight for you.
In addition to the destruction by Japanese pirates, the rebellion of officers and soldiers who did not receive the promised reward was also the main reason for such a miserable scene in Yangzhou.
"Rulin, I heard that the government troops raided all the shops in the city before they left. I'm afraid there may be no medicinal materials left in the city."
Xu Shixing really did everything right. He kept collecting information along the way and had a thorough understanding of the situation before arriving in Yangzhou.
Su Ze had already expected this result. He said to Xu Shixing:
"It's not busy. Let's start diagnosing and treating patients first."
No one went into the city, so Su Ze chose a ventilated place and started to set up camp.
Su Ze mobilized his guards to search for medicinal herbs, then raised the flag of the medicinal house and began to treat patients.
Hearing that there were people here who were treating illnesses and giving medicines for free, more people began to gather at Su Ze's medicine house. At this time, Xu Shixing showed his excellent organizational skills again. He placed the people waiting for medical treatment near the medicine house, which was more serious. patients are given priority for medical treatment.
Xu Guo and Wang Xijue also organized the families of the patients who came to see the doctor to search for herbs and pick edible food nearby, so that they could temporarily settle down near the medicine house.
Li Zhi was sent by Su Ze to contact nearby governments to ask for some support in the name of Nanjing's Ministry of Household Disaster Relief.
In the medicine house, Su Ze pointed to a patient and said to the medical disciples around him:
"Dysentery, this is the 'lower benefit' mentioned in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", and is called 'big diarrhea' in the Difficult Classic. It is pointed out that 'people with large diarrhea have tenesmus and then become more severe, and they can't defecate until they reach the end of the body.' This is proved by The symptom of the disease is diarrhea, and it often occurs in one family, and it occurs in every household in the surrounding area."
Many of the medical disciples couldn't help but take a few steps back.
Su Ze said: "When treating this disease, everyone must pay attention to hand disinfection and hygiene. In addition, for patients with dysentery symptoms, their excrement must be concentrated and cannot be discharged into rivers and land."
A disciple of a medical family asked: "Ms. Su, why is this?"
Su Ze said: "Dysentery is a disease that is transmitted through feces on the hands and mouth. After someone gets dysentery, the feces seeps into well water or river water and is transmitted to other people. Therefore, this disease often spreads most widely after floods."
"The prescription for treating this disease is 'Pulsatilla decoction'. There are several herbs that can be replaced by these herbs. I have written them down. If you identify people with this disease based on their symptoms, you will distribute this medicinal decoction. In addition, Families suffering from dysentery lived alone and were disinfected and isolated with quicklime.”
Su Ze ordered, and his passive skill [Barefoot Doctor: Diagnosis and treatment of common diseases, medical skill level +1, can be treated with lower-priced common drugs. 】
There is no bonus in the treatment of difficult and complicated diseases, so when they encounter difficult and complicated diseases that Su Ze cannot treat, Su Ze just asks them to seek medical advice elsewhere.
But when encountering a common disease like dysentery, Su Ze would explain the symptoms, treatment methods and prescription principles of the disease in detail to the medical disciples, and then let them treat the disease.
Because Su Ze soon discovered that the results of medical treatment by the medical disciples he led would also be fed back into his skills and experience.
It turns out that this is the way to improve your medical skills!
Su Ze found a way. He also selected literate people from the victims who sought medical advice, and asked them to follow him to learn to identify herbal medicines, and trained them to treat common diseases.
[You treated a dysentery patient, medical skill +10, Lv7, 44/3000]
[Your subordinate treats a dysentery patient, medical skill +1, Lv7, 45/3000]
Although his subordinates' skills and experience in treating people are not as high as Su Ze's skills and experience in treating people directly, after all, Su Ze's energy is limited by himself, and the increase in skills is considerable when there are more people.
But Su Ze had taught people medical skills before, but those people did not give Su Ze any experience in treating patients.
After thinking about it, I may need to be under Su Ze's personal leadership in order to gain experience.
That is to say, if it is a hospital and Su Ze serves as the director, then the affiliated doctors can gain experience for Su Ze by seeing patients.
But if you were once Su Ze's disciple but now don't work for him, you won't be able to gain experience.
This is reasonable. Then should we open a hospital to improve our medical skills in the future?
Su Ze stayed outside Yangzhou City for less than half a month. When he left, the people followed him for several miles to see him off. It was not until Su Ze came out in person to persuade everyone not to continue sending him off that the people dispersed.
Looking at the people who stopped to see each other off, Xu Shixing and others also looked thoughtful.
Xu Shixing said with emotion: "In the past, when I read the teachings of saints, we were only taught to help the world, but I never thought that helping people would feel like this."
Xu Guo and Wang Xijue also nodded. This feeling of really doing something for the people is really fascinating.
Everyone has moral pursuits. Although Confucianism also has a lot of dregs, it generally encourages and helps people to do good.
Cultivating oneself, managing one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world, especially young scholars like Xu Shixing, also have faith in "the master can also help the world."
Following Su Ze in disaster relief gave the three of them different insights.
Not long after everyone set out, they met Li Zhi who had returned from Taizhou.
Li Zhi hurriedly found Su Ze and told him about the situation in Taizhou.
"What? There's a great plague in Taizhou, and even the local prefect got sick and died?"
After hearing the news about Li Zhi, everyone took a breath.
The prefect of Taizhou performed well in the previous anti-Japanese war. When Taixing County and Jiangdu County next door were both invaded by Japanese pirates, he held on to Taizhou City. After the war, he was cited for meritorious service and was waiting for promotion. Unexpectedly, he survived the Japanese pirates. , but failed to survive the plague.
Li Zhi hurriedly said: "The epidemic in Taizhou this time is said to be the 'evil ghost epidemic'. The belly of the deceased was as big as a pregnant woman, but the body was as thin as firewood, and then died of a sudden fever. The world said that it was the reincarnation of evil ghosts, both men and women. Got this disease.”
Li Zhi said with lingering fear: "And this disease is impossible to prevent. The prefect of Taizhou fell ill and died quickly after returning to the government office after going to the countryside to inspect the stricken paddy fields."
"Prefectures and counties near Taizhou now strictly prohibit refugees from fleeing for fear of bringing the disease into their territory."
"But I heard that the same disease also occurs in the neighboring Huai'an Prefecture. Once someone gets sick, it often affects the whole village. Once the disease occurs, there is no cure, and you can only lie at home and wait to die."
When Li Zhi said this, everyone became afraid.
These days, as Su Ze dealt with the epidemic, everyone became bolder. This was not blind boldness, but when Su Ze explained clearly the principles of disease transmission, he stripped away the mystery of the disease itself. Since these diseases are all It is preventable and controllable, so what is there to be afraid of?
However, the "evil ghost epidemic" mentioned by Li Zhi can be said to be impossible to prevent. Even the prefect of a prefecture will get sick, and once the disease occurs, there is no cure. If one person becomes sick, the whole village will be infected. This is the most terrifying thing.
After hearing Li Zhi's description, Su Ze already had some guesses about the disease. He said to the people accompanying him:
"This is an epidemic, not the reincarnation of an evil spirit, here's the order!"
Su Ze's long-term accumulated prestige still came into play.
"First, no matter how hot the weather is, you are not allowed to go into the river to enjoy the coolness!"
"Second, the water must be boiled twice before drinking. No one is allowed to drink raw water."
"Third, distribute banners to everyone and learn to wear leggings from the soldiers of the Anti-Smuggling Corps. You must wear leggings when you are on the road every day."
After the three orders were given, everyone was a little strange.
Li Zhi and Xu Shixing approached Su Ze and asked, "Does Rulin already know what kind of disease this is?"
Su Ze nodded and said: "We'll wait until we see the patient. Be prepared and follow my orders first. I will patrol the camp with everyone in the next few days and supervise everyone's execution."
At the same time, in Dongtai County, Huai'an Prefecture, a group of people stopped the middle-aged doctor who was carrying a medicine box.
"Divine Doctor Li, there is an 'Evil Ghost Epidemic' in Dongtai. All seven of my relatives in Dongtai have been infected with the epidemic, and they are all waiting to die at home!"
"Doctor Li, this is not an ordinary disease, you can't go!"
These were all patients or family members of patients who had been treated by Li Shizhen. They all stopped Li Shizhen and refused to let him continue to go south.
Li Shizhen held a bamboo stick in his hand. He sighed and said:
"Li appreciates the kindness of fellow villagers."
"Doctors have a bounden duty to treat illnesses and save people. If there is an epidemic in front of us, how can a doctor avoid it?"
Li Shizhen saw that everyone still refused to leave, so she asked:
"You are all locals. You might as well tell me about this disease. There is always a way, and the cure may be hidden in the subtleties."
After a while, an old man came up and said:
"Miracle Doctor Li, this evil ghost plague happened in the third year of Jiajing and after the Huaihe River flood. At that time, there were eleven people in the little old man's family, and only three of them survived."
Everyone showed fearful expressions, but Li Shizhen frowned and asked: "Flood? Did it also appear after the flood?"
The old man nodded.
Li Shizhen asked again: "What happened next? How did the epidemic disappear?"
The old man nodded and said: "Later, a traveling monk said that the flood opened the gate of hell and released the evil ghosts to seek their lives. Once the evil ghosts have taken enough lives, the disease will naturally disappear."
Everyone was even more frightened, and several young children even cried.
Li Shizhen frowned and said, "This disease has also been seen in ancient books, but it just disappears and reappears. During the Battle of Chibi, there were many soldiers infected with the disease in Cao Cao's army. The records in "Three Kingdoms" are quite similar to this disease."
Li Shizhen had been selected as a scholar, but it was only after he failed in many trials that he gave up writing and became a doctor.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has long been popular. When it comes to Chibi and Cao Cao, everyone nods.
The old man said in surprise: "Could it be that Cao Cao's defeat in Chibi was because of this disease?"
Li Shizhen nodded and said: "Cao's army stationed troops in Chibi, and many of the soldiers were infected with epidemics. There are records of seventeen major epidemics in "Three Kingdoms", and the symptoms are similar to the evil ghost epidemic."
Now the old man hugged Li Shizhen and said: "Miracle Doctor Li, you can't go even more! Cao Cao has Hua Tuo accompanying him, and even Hua Tuo can't cure the disease, so you must not go!"
When the old man said this, everyone started talking about it.
Li Shizhen said with a smile: "Hua Tuo's treatment of Cao Cao's illness is just a romance. Li appreciates the kindness of fellow villagers."
"But on the day he resigned from Tai Hospital, Li decided to travel all over the world, collect various diseases, and interview people from all over the world to determine the errors in the world's pharmacopoeia and write a pharmacopoeia that can cure all diseases."
Li Shizhen put the medicine box on her back and said, "Fellow folks, Li appreciates your kindness."
Li Shizhen, holding a bamboo stick in his hand, walked forward and shouted:
"The great doctors are sincere. Doctors are not afraid of epidemics. If there is a disease, I will go there."
(End of chapter)
