smallpox.
In the eyes of Yang Yao, the commander of the cavalry camp, at least for the most elite cavalry soldiers in the Marshal's Mansion under his command, there was no smallpox in this world.
This was not only because more than 3,000 of his cavalrymen had been vaccinated against variolation, but mainly because Yang Yao trusted him.
The pox vaccination at the Marshal's Mansion was initially spearheaded by Liu Chengzu. Liu Chengzu trusted the pox doctors, and one of them vaccinated the soldiers of the Zhenhai camp. Thirteen of the 120 soldiers died, and he was killed by Liu Chengzu with no regard for human life.
Another pox doctor inoculated the Xining Banner Guards with a failure rate of 1% and more than 20 people died.
Later, it was Juerwan's turn. As the only remaining general in the three major battalions of Juerwan, Yang Yao was dissatisfied with this number and decided to personally supervise the entire vaccination process.
He followed the doctor behind him every day while pressing the knife. He would look askance at the doctor as he chose vaccines. He put a little pressure on the doctor, which directly reduced the vaccination failure rate of the soldiers left behind in the three major battalions of the Bay to two thousandths.
Only nine soldiers were infected with smallpox, and of these nine, only one died of smallpox, and the other eight only suffered a lot of pain, leaving pockmarks on their faces that will never fade away.
The knife is productivity.
Doctors who perform variolation do not need to know medical skills. Among the people, doctors regard this magic trick as a means of livelihood and as a secret that is not passed down. But for the army, no secret can be hidden.
Yang Yao looked at it every day, asked questions at every turn, and didn't dare not tell the doctor about acne. Over time, he would be vaccinated against variola.
Originally, the commander-in-chief was still besieging the city and asked him to lead the army eastward first. Yang Yao was a little reluctant, thinking that this was killing a chicken with a sledgehammer. He did not participate in the southern expedition and stayed at Juerwan for a long time. It's already very boring.
Anyway, it’s just two jobs.
On the one hand, it is to complete the encirclement of Ye Guoqi and others and prevent them from running away; on the other hand, it is to encircle the valley and prevent the news of reinforcements from the east from spreading to the west. The newly recruited Mongolian Tatars are the most suitable to do this.
It was true that the Generalissimo didn't give him a chance to discuss it. The order had already been issued and Yang Yao could only obey.
Whenever there is an opportunity to discuss matters, Yang Yao will definitely talk to the commander about this overkill issue.
He was a former general of the Guyuan border army, and he followed many fools after the mutiny. Probably not many of the veterans who mutinied with him are still alive today. The best ones are probably him and Wang Wenxiu.
If he has any tips for making a living in this chaotic era, it must be to find the right leader and offer absolute loyalty in the war years.
If you are given an order, obey it. Even if there is a cliff facing you, if you work together, you can break through.
But when he heard that reinforcements from Gansu were coming with smallpox, Yang Yao's feeling immediately changed.
On the one hand, vaccination was a useless experience for his men in the past, but now that the enemy has smallpox, and the east will become a smallpox-infested area, the meaning of vaccination is different.
On the other hand, Yang Yao can vaccinate. This was a useless skill in the past, but when smallpox became widespread, his skill came in handy.
Professional counterpart, double the happiness!
Tangqi led by Dai Daozi along the way, but the Gansu reinforcements were delayed by smallpox at the mouth of the river and did not dare to continue marching westward, so Yang Yao led his army fifty miles east.
He did not dare to go to the mouth of the river. Both his and Liu Chengzu's troops had been vaccinated, but the generalissimo had not yet been vaccinated.
Therefore, he explored the terrain along the way and finally chose to camp in the river bend fifty miles west of the river mouth. This river beach is an area that is very easy to block in the valley.
Huangshui bends here next to the mountain wall, just in time to circle the river beach of more than ten miles. Everything that wants to enter the river beach has to cross a bridge, making this land relatively closed.
This place is called Hezui, and it is a really good place. There are more than 30,000 acres of irrigated fields in the river valley alone, and there are five large terraces on the mountains to the north. Not counting the wider mountains in the north and south valleys, there are more than 40,000 acres of fertile farmland.
Moreover, the terrain here is much lower than that of Xining, and it actually belongs to Lanzhou.
The local people ran and fled, and only a few poor families and tenants were left to help the people living down the mountain and the wealthy families up the mountain to look after the homes and courtyards. As soon as Yang Yao's Western Army came over, the remaining people also fled into the valley. Only a few old men were left in the endless fields, like candles in the wind.
Yang Yao asked his subordinates to invite the old man over, and lamented to his generals Wei Qian'er, Yang Chengzu, and Han Shipan that such a land in northern Shaanxi would have absolutely nothing to do with the common people.
Several elderly people came and kowtowed and begged for mercy. When Yang Yao asked, he took back his emotion.
It's reckless. In Hehuang, there is nothing for ordinary people in a land like this.
Three hundred and twenty hectares of fields at the mouth of the mountain, seventy-two pavements on the main road in the countryside, nine water mills, one boat mill, two coal holes on the mountain, and a glass porcelain kiln all belong to Prince Su of Su Fan.
In this area, the only things belonging to the common people are eighty-three hectares of mountainous gardens, an oil house, and an oil mill.
Yang Yao handed over the matter of stabilizing the people to Wei Qian'er, and selected several villages not far from each other in the West Bridge of Hezui, and asked him to pick up all the fleeing people and inform the people about the victory of the Marshal's Mansion and the appearance of Tianxing in the east. The news about acne tells people not to run around.
When smallpox appears in a place and people get sick, live or die, those who survive will have antibodies and will not transmit the disease to others.
Because smallpox is not contagious when it is carried, it is contagious only when it occurs. Smallpox appears sporadically in various places. After a period of time, most of the people who survive have antibodies, and smallpox will be temporarily extinct.
A few years later, all newborns would have no antibodies, smallpox would resurgence, and the whole process would repeat itself, so it seemed that smallpox would never go away.
Because of this, usually vaccinations are only given to children, as if only children can get this disease.
It has never been like this in the Marshal's Mansion, where all the sergeants were brought here. Regardless of whether they had been vaccinated against pox or had smallpox, they all had to be vaccinated against variola. .
Because vaccination is a unique technique, in places where the law is not broken and the imperial rule is peaceful, vaccination requires money for the doctor; but in places where the law is broken and the rule is broken, no doctor is willing to go.
But when Yang Yao knew how to operate this thing, he thought it could be applied to everyone. His soldiers could do it without spending money or medical skills.
He chose this land to camp in order to isolate... The Marshal's Mansion inoculated soldiers on a large scale because Xiao Lazun implemented measures to separate yin and yang in Huangnan.
Yang Yao did not plan to implement such a high-level isolation. His soldiers had antibodies and were not afraid of this. He just wanted to ensure that smallpox did not go west.
So he planned to conduct a large-scale experiment here and vaccinate everyone.
The migration of the people to the villages in Hexi was not smooth. When they heard that the Western Army was coming, those who had hid in the mountains were reluctant to come out. Later, when they heard that the officers and soldiers were fighting smallpox, they were even less willing to come out.
But soon the backup troops from the west came over. In fact, when the first soldiers boarded the city, it was only a matter of time before Racecourse City fell.
Small-scale encounters and surrenders continued, but the defenders of Ye Guoqi still held on at the official headquarters until evening, until heavy artillery outside the city was transferred into the streets, and it seemed that there was no longer any hope of victory.
Li Tianyu asked Liu Chengzong outside the city to capture the Ye brothers alive, but Liu Chengzong did not allow it. He only sent a heavy gun team to follow the artillery into the city, and then Li Tianyu's last attempt to persuade him to surrender was ineffective.
In the dusk, Ye Guoqi and Ye Bingqian, wearing armor and holding swords, shouted long live from the official office, rushed towards the heavy gun team occupying the streets, and amidst the sound of gunfire, they announced that the Hehuang chieftain's battle against the Western invaders was completely failed.
It wasn't until the bodies of the two brothers were carried out that Liu Chengzong saw Ye Guoqi for the first time. He didn't say much. He just personally wrote the epitaph of the late General Xuanwei who commanded Ye Gong, and asked a craftsman to engrave the monument so that his descendants could find the place. Buried.
At the same time, he ordered people to record the merits of his own soldiers, and also wrote inscriptions himself to find a place for burial, and then continued to send troops eastward.
By the time Liu Chengzong arrived at the mouth of the river, Yang Yao had already divided the land into five villages. He drew a plan on paper and said: "Commander, from east to west along the canal, it is divided into east beans, planting beans, waiting beans, and treating acne. There are five pox villages in Bidou and Bidou, and troops are stationed to guard them, dig trenches and build walls. I can inoculate the civilian soldiers from the east."
Liu Chengzong was surprised: "Can you vaccinate people with pox?"
Yang Yao responded with a smile: "Don't worry, Commander, I've watched the pox doctor do these things thousands of times. It's not difficult at all, and I have mastered all the key points... Don't worry, Commander, we will be stationed in Hexi. Wait for the best seedlings to be selected." Excellent, the commander-in-chief and all the soldiers can also be vaccinated with the vaccine when the time comes."
To be honest, Liu Chengzong felt that it was unreliable. He understood the principle of vaccinia, but it did not mean that he would vaccinate. Just like a person knows that things can grow by spreading seeds on the ground and watering them, but it does not mean that he will vaccinate. As if this man is a good farmer.
Why are vaccines called vaccines? Just because the only vaccine in this era is called vaccinia, Yang Yao didn't believe it when he made it simple.
Sensing Liu Chengzong's distrustful expression, Yang Yao quickly said: "Commander, this is really not difficult. It's just that those acne doctors treat it as a unique skill, which makes it mysterious. It's actually the same as farming."
Liu Chengzong said in surprise: "You know how to farm?"
This is really heartbreaking. Yang Yaozhen doesn’t know how to farm. He shook his head and defended: "Let me tell the commander this way, to vaccinate is to treat people as the ground, and the poison as seeds, growing and decaying in people."
Liu Chengzong nodded. He understood the truth and said, "Tell me something I don't know."
"The important things in farming are seed selection, seed storage, and land selection, and the same is true for vaccination. The symptoms of smallpox include smooth pox and bad pox; there are two types of pox, one is seed seedlings, and the other is seasonal seedlings... These are both The commander-in-chief needs to know first."
Liu Chengzong also knew about this. There are actually two forms of smallpox, smallpox and smallpox. Smallpox has a low mortality rate, while largepox has a high mortality rate. They are actually mild and severe cases.
Yang Yaodao: "The vaccine is made from the natural acne scab of the human body. This vaccine is highly toxic and the recipient of the vaccine is easily injured."
"The vaccine is to select the acne of the person being vaccinated. It is best to choose those acnes that heal without medicine. Grind it into powder. When using it, pour it into a water bowl, dip cotton in water and put it into your nose."
"For storage, you need to wrap the selected vaccinia in paper and put it in a bamboo tube. Calculate the time. It can be stored for thirty or forty days in winter and ten days in summer. The longer it is stored, the less effective it will be and the harder it will be to get acne. Never use expired vaccines."
"Otherwise, the vaccinated people will think that they have been vaccinated, but in fact they are not sick. When the time comes when the pox spreads, it will cause serious problems."
Yang Yao said with a smile: "As for choosing a site, it's much easier. Look at the appearance and energy of the person being vaccinated. Vaccination is nothing more than using the person's righteousness to fight the evil spirit of pox. Only when a person's righteousness is strong and his strength can drive away the poison can he be vaccinated." The toxicity retreats and dissipates on its own.”
"On the contrary, the toxicity will permeate the whole body and cause serious illness. Therefore, women who are not energetic, in poor health, or menstruating or pregnant cannot be vaccinated. Vaccination will cause diseases."
Yang Yao said this, and finally said to Liu Chengzong: "So the most important thing in this matter is the choice of vaccine. The vaccination itself does not cost anything. I suggest you not to rush at the beginning, choose ten copies of the vaccine, vaccinate ten people, and choose the other." Take the acne scabs from those who are prone to acne, make a vaccine, and inoculate a hundred people; then use the scabs of those who are prone to acne to make a vaccine, and inoculate a thousand people."
"Selecting the best from the best will greatly reduce the toxicity of subsequent vaccines. I asked the acne doctors to do this in the three major camps. No matter how long it takes, you can still survive."
After listening to Yang Yao's explanation, Liu Chengzong fully understood this process. This relatively primitive vaccine has been established in a system. It chooses viruses with milder toxicity to inoculate to protect against viruses with more toxicity.
And the toxicity of the seedlings is reduced through existing artificial means, and the toxicity of the seedlings is weakened by inoculation again and again; and whether the vaccine is suitable for vaccination depends on the immunity of the vaccinator.
After listening to this, Liu Shizi thought this process was quite good. He smiled and said: "It sounds like you really know how to do it. Okay, then I'll do as you say, but... I'll try it on a cow too."
"ox?"
Yang Yao was waiting for praise. He was very happy when he heard that Liu Chengzong agreed to do it according to his method. But when he tried it, he felt that what the commander said was not serious.
How should Liu Chengzong explain to Yang Yao? He did not explain, but said: "There is no harm in giving it a try, to see if the cows will get the disease, and if the disease will be transmitted to humans, and whether the smallpox that humans get from cows will be weaker than the smallpox that comes from humans, General Yang."
Liu Chengzong said seriously: "Every few years, thousands of people die from smallpox. This is a blessing to the world. Every possibility is worth a try. If we can eliminate smallpox, future generations will remember it." Live your name.”
"Except for vaccination, this place you chose is good. We are going to try to isolate the plague here... How wonderful."
Liu Chengzong suddenly sighed with contentment, looked at the fertile fields around him and opened his arms: "This smallpox has come at the right time. In northern Shaanxi we have learned to fight famine, and in Hehuang we will learn to fight plague. Now that there are many plagues in the world, God If we want dead people, let’s live alive and let’s see who can beat him!”
"This is a good time. We should vaccinate the people, isolate and treat the sick, and at the same time take good defense. I believe that the government and army in the east will soon send troops with acne." Liu Chengzong said with a smile: “Beyond that, I’m going to edit a book.”
"What book does the commander want to compile?"
Liu Chengzong showed his white teeth and smiled proudly: "In the future, our students and generals at all levels must learn the book on famine relief and epidemic prevention. If our hometown is destroyed by natural disasters and man-made disasters, we will rebuild it brick by brick." !”
