Whenever a couple lives together, there must be one who is strong and the other who is weak.
Both of them are strong, and this life will definitely be noisy all day long! If both of them are weak, then even the family will be in trouble, and they will be bullied to death...
This simple principle is actually very useful when it comes to being an official!
There must be two chief officials in a place. These two chief officials must be interdependent, cooperate with each other, and restrict each other. This is just like a couple living together.
Yuan Dake, the governor of Hanzhong, had a strong temper, but he also used methods! And the city guard, Zhang Bao, is smooth but also has a bit of tenacity! The two of them are strong and soft together, it's a match made in heaven!
On the way to the west of the city, Zhang Bao coaxed and deceived and tried his best to find out Xiao Han's details! This information reached Yuan Dake in the blink of an eye. By the time the group arrived in the west of the city, Yuan Dake was already more and more respectful to Xiao Han!
A capable person will only respect a capable person!
Originally, Yuan Dake thought that Xiao Han was so young, and his position as a marquis depended on his family's blessings. Now that he knew that Xiao Han had achieved all this by himself, this fundamental change made him more and more curious about Xiao Han.
To the west of the city, a large courtyard is hidden behind a patch of green trees! Green bricks and red tiles, full of ancient charm! If Yuan Dake hadn't pointed it out, Xiao Han would never have thought that this was a place to house patients!
"Prince Yuan, does this need heavy guarding? Aren't you afraid that the people inside will run out and cause a greater disaster?" Xiao Han, who was standing under a big willow tree, looked at the courtyard in front of him, frowning and asked Yuan beside him. Could have.
Yuan Dake cupped his hands and said with a wry smile: "Master Hou, everyone here is already sick! Run out? Where to run? There are doctors guarding you inside. When you go out, there is nothing. ! And these people are all from this city, and they have other relatives at home. Even for them, these people will work hard to survive there! "
"I see." Xiao Han nodded after hearing Yuan Dake's explanation. I think this should also be related to the fact that this epidemic is not vicious. If the people here know that they are bound to die, it is hard to say how rational they can be.
Just as I was thinking about it, suddenly a group of people came from the other side of the street. They were in groups of two, and they seemed to be carrying something in the middle. When he came to the courtyard door, he didn't stop, but he pushed the door straight and walked in.
"What do these people do?!" Xiao Han watched helplessly as these people entered, and couldn't help but feel shocked. He quickly took a few steps and came closer. Looking in from the opened courtyard door, I saw that it was dinner time, and these people were carrying the food into the courtyard!
Patients are also human beings, and they naturally need to eat. It’s just that the person delivering the food has no protection or avoidance, and just carries the food directly to the courtyard. Isn’t he afraid of contracting the plague?
Yuan Dake seemed to have noticed Xiao Han's doubts, and pointed at the door and said, "Don't be surprised, Marquis Xiao. After these few days of exploration, the doctors also found that the epidemic is not too severe? They spend time with the patients day and night. , but he did not contract the disease. On the contrary, people would get sick from time to time in other parts of the city. The Taoist priest of Qingxinguan said that there was a god of plague wandering around, and the terrified people did not dare to go out."
"The theories about ghosts and gods are absurd and bizarre, how can you believe them casually!" Xiao Han actually said this with a guilty conscience. A good young man who was born in the new society and grew up under the red flag really shouldn't believe in ghosts and gods. But since he came to Datang inexplicably, Xiao Han's atheism has become somewhat looser. Science doesn’t seem to be able to explain everything!
Yuan Dake handed over his hand to accept the teaching, and then led Xiao Han and his party into the courtyard gate. After crossing the high threshold, Xiao Han first smelled the strong smell of Chinese medicine filling the yard! Looking along the familiar scent of medicine, there is a row of soup stoves in the corridor not far away, and several people are busy adding firewood to decoct medicine.
The courtyard in front of him was very quiet. Even if the city's governor came here, it didn't cause any disturbance. The haggard patient just raised his head to look at Yuan Dake, and then they went to get food. He's just the governor. He's been seen every day for the past two days, so it's no longer unusual.
Not in a hurry to go down, Xiao Han stood on the high steps first, looking down at the people in the courtyard, but he neither asked questions nor checked their pulse, just watched quietly.
"What are Xiao Hou doing? Don't you say he's a miracle doctor? You're already here, why don't you go down and take a closer look?" Zhang Bao and Yuan Dake looked at each other, with the same question rising in their minds. It's just that due to identity, I can't say it clearly.
"Prince Yuan? Have you noticed that most of the sick people are from poor families?" Just when some people were about to lose their patience with Xiao Han, Xiao Han suddenly spoke.
"This..." Yuan Dake was stunned and subconsciously looked at the patients in the yard. After being reminded by Xiao Han, he suddenly discovered that the sick people were really poor people in the city! As for the rich and powerful, there are none!
"Hey, it's true! Is this epidemic still picking on people?!" Zhang Bao shouted in surprise.
Xiao Han shook his head, looked around, and then went straight to the place where the medicine was cooked. He picked up a handful of medicinal materials and looked at them, and then said: "Diseases have no consciousness, so they naturally won't pick on people! But different people's behavior habits will affect the occurrence of diseases! According to me, the epidemic in the city this time Look, it’s probably malaria! I don’t know if the medicine here is right or not.”
"Habit? Malaria?!"
When Yuan Dake and the people around him heard this name, they all looked confused, as if they had never heard of this disease. Of course, Xiao Han was not surprised by this. Malaria was just a name for later generations. He knew what weird names this thing would be called in ancient times.
Dropping the medicinal materials in his hand and sighing, Xiao Han was about to explain something to a few people when he suddenly heard someone beside him say suspiciously: "Malaria? But is it cold malaria or warm malaria in "Huangdi Neijing, Su Wen"?"
"Who is talking?!" Xiao Han was surprised that someone here knew about malaria. I followed the voice and looked over, only to find that the person making the voice was a middle-aged man making medicine!
"Are you the doctor here? What's your name?" Xiao Han walked over and asked in surprise.
The middle-aged man who just spoke looked a little downcast, with disheveled hair and unkempt beard. Seeing Xiao Han asking himself something, he stood up unsteadily, cupped his hands casually and said, "Young man Ye Lu is just a village doctor."
"Wild donkey? Do you know malaria?!" Xiao Han doesn't care what kind of wild donkey or deer he is now! As long as he knows about malaria and how to treat it, that's enough! After all, Xiao Han himself only knew that Cinchona cream was a miracle drug for treating malaria. When Emperor Kangxi got malaria, he relied on the missionaries’ Cinchona cream to cure him! But in this era, where can Xiao Han go to find the Cinchona Frost Tree?
