Outside Bajiao City.
One mile outside the west gate, Batur Huntai Gil's horse was circling, watching Liu Chengzong lead more than ten guards, fearlessly walking into the Bajiao City, with a shocked look as if he had seen a god.
The leader of Junggar put down his arrogance and could hardly feel the desire to worship. He said to Dai Daozi: "Anda, I know why you said that the generalissimo is a very special person. He is really not afraid of death!"
Bajiao City has become an epidemic area.
Inside the dilapidated sheep and horse wall on the bank of the moat, corpses covered with tents and animal skins were neatly displayed, one next to the other from the left and right of the city gate to the end of the field of vision, clinging to the base of the city wall. The stench was almost visible to the naked eye. sky.
There was smallpox in the city.
It is smallpox that the father avoids his sick son, the elder brother avoids the sick younger brother, the wife avoids the sick husband, the leader avoids the sick tribesmen, and the doctors and monks are unable to cure it!
But Huitai Ji saw that Liu Chengzong showed no fear at all, just covered his face with a scarf, and walked into the city with his head held high.
Unexpectedly, Dai Daozi sneered, raised his finger and pointed at the city gate and said, "Look at Chahar's Zhutu Taiji, he seems to be fine. Why don't you know?"
"That's his brother, Dahan. He dares to go in and serve him. I admire him." Batur Hutaiji said matter-of-factly: "The generalissimo and Hu Duntu are not related to each other. How can we take such a big risk?" He is in danger, what will he do if he is about to die?"
"It's not because Hu Duntu is his brother. When you entered Qinghai, I followed the handsome man to fight in Hehuang. He was the envoy sent by Chahar to the Marshal's Mansion. The handsome man gave him smallpox."
In Batur Hutaiji's expression as if he had been struck by lightning, Dai Daozi said lightly: "We all have smallpox."
"No, no, it's not right."
Batur Hutaiji had a don't lie to me expression on his face: "I have seen people with smallpox whose faces were pockmarked, but none of you have."
Dai Daozi pointed to the right side of his face: "Look at this hole, it's smallpox."
Batur Huntaiji couldn't see anything. After carefully searching Dai Daozi's face for a long time, he finally saw a small pit that was almost invisible under the cheekbone on his right cheek. He curled his lips in disgust. He said firmly: "This is not smallpox. I always had pimples when I was fifteen or sixteen. It's not the same thing."
Dai Daozi opened his mouth, but was choked to the point of being unable to speak.
How should he prove that he had smallpox?
He shook his head and said, "Believe it or not, the Marshal's Mansion has defeated smallpox, including Zitu. Everyone they enter the city will not get smallpox. We can vaccinate them."
"vaccination?"
Huitaiji looked suspicious. Due to the language, the words sounded to his ears like planting disease in the ground. He asked, "What kind of witchcraft is that?"
"It's not witchcraft, it's people accepting the cultivation of minor diseases with weakened toxicity. People will only get smallpox once, and if they get a small one, they won't get a big one."
Huitaiji probably understood, and asked, "How was that done?"
Dai Daozi knew the principle of smallpox vaccine.
Smallpox scabs that are less diseased are manually selected and stored to further weaken their toxicity.
After that, Yang Yaoyi, the pox general, gave random vaccinations to monkeys, rabbits, Tutu Taiji, and cows. Finally, he came up with a universal vaccine that was less toxic and safer. The vaccination effect was very good in Hehuang. .
But knowing this does not mean that he will tell Batur Hutaiji.
He just shook his head and said: "I don't know, I'm not doing this. The handsome man has a professional acne doctor. When the handsome man is finished with Chahar's affairs..."
Dai Daozi sighed as he spoke and looked at Bajiao City worriedly: "Before you swear an oath, you can ask the commander-in-chief. Maybe Junggar will not be afraid of smallpox."
He estimated that the matter this time would be very difficult, not only for Chahar, but also for the seven or eight newly formed battalions. The more than 20,000 Ming troops surrendered by the commander-in-chief were still not immune to smallpox.
I'll be very busy later.
Batur Hutaiji turned around and looked at each other with the nobles in his tribe. People were doubtful about this miraculous skill, but they were also eager for it.
Who wouldn’t wish they were immune to a disease that is so scary to others?
Liu Chengzong frowned deeply when he revisited his old place.
The situation inside the city was no better than outside the city. It was dinner time, and looking around, among the stacks of neat military tents, almost every bonfire was occupied by Chahar veterans suffering from pox.
Of course, it was not just Chahar. Several of the 400 Han army gunners under Mo Yujing were also infected. However, these old Ming army gunners were not infected because of the Chahar people.
The defense zones of the Bajiao City garrison were divided into different areas. Mo Yujing's gunners were protected by the Mongolian soldiers under Ahai Daiqing's command. The real ones who were infected were the soldiers of the Khalkha battalion under Ahai Daiqing's command.
In the Khalkha camp were soldiers from Tumote. They had already completed vaccination and became a wall of separation for the gunners of Mo and Jing's men.
It is only because some vaccines were improperly stored, or the original purpose was to reduce the toxicity, but the toxicity was reduced. As a result, a small number of soldiers failed to be vaccinated and were in a state where they thought they were immune but were actually not immune, so they became infected.
Since this group of soldiers was far less likely to suffer from smallpox than those in Chahar's army, Mo Yujing's gunners were rarely infected.
Moreover, although the Mongolian soldiers under Ahai Daiqing did not know the principle, they all had experience in isolation, vaccination, and avoidance of pox in Hehuang. They knew that people with pox could not come into contact, and the scale of the infection was also controlled, without causing more serious consequences. Bad influence.
But in Liu Chengzong's view, the situation of the Chahar soldiers in Bajiao City was not so good.
Although Qututaiji presided over the evacuation of Chahar soldiers in Bajiao City, it was not properly controlled... When he found out, the situation was already very bad.
Liu Shizi compiled an epidemic book in Hehuang and presided over the previous large-scale vaccination of the entire army. He knew very well about smallpox. There were thousands of Han and Mongolian soldiers in Bajiao City who were infected with smallpox. This level of infection was by no means the beginning of the smallpox epidemic. status.
What he witnessed with his own eyes were the Chahar soldiers, but what worried him was his army, the more than 20,000 troops who were under the direct leadership of the Marshal's Office and had not been vaccinated against smallpox.
On the way to the Chahar camp, Liu Shishi thought about it and asked Qututaiji: "Is it possible that this is the same source as Hehuang smallpox?"
Ruitutaiji didn't know why, and looked confused. He said blankly: "The same source? I... I don't know."
Liu Chengzong stopped and suddenly became angry.
His conjecture is that as early as when Chahar entered Qinghai, soldiers in the army were already infected, but there was no acne, or there were only a few people who had acne, and they were not noticed.
Then as the war progresses, smallpox will follow the scattered surrender of Chahar soldiers and become popular among the herdsmen of the Heshuote, Junggar, and Duerbot tribes. At this time, with their defeat and surrender, smallpox has spread to In the army of the Marshal's Mansion.
If you are not careful, this will be a great epidemic in which tens of thousands of troops will be infected and thousands of soldiers will die!
For such an important matter, Tututaiji only gave him such a vague answer, which made him want to draw a knife to kill for no reason. But when he saw Taiji's eyes were red and his face was blank, he gently breathed out to adjust. Feeling.
In the end, Liu Chengzong just raised his two hands and pressed his shoulders heavily, patted his face hard, and his tone softened, less angry and more blaming: "What the fuck is wrong with you, Mi Mi?" Silly, thousands of people in Chahar are waiting for your help!"
Unexpectedly, following his words of reproach, Tututaiji started to cry out and collapsed.
Ruitutaiji didn't understand why, one war, one migration, then one war, then one migration, Eastern Mongolia, which once dominated the grassland and was extremely powerful, became dispersed and discordant in the middle of the country.
One failure is not the end, but just the starting point of another failure. The proud heavy-armed troops were inadvertently lost.
As the younger brother of the Chahar Emperor, he returned to the Khan's court with nothing in an instant. The only power he had left was the title of General of the Chahar Camp awarded to him by the Han Marshal's Office.
Seeing that the war situation finally ushered in hope, the smallpox seemed to have eyes, only watching the Chahar people to infect it. Even his brother was infected with smallpox, and he was asked to temporarily lead the Khan's court. The final order was to blockade Chahar from the outside world. News of Er Khan's illness.
He was alone in Bajiao City. Despite what Hehuang had seen and heard, smallpox was spreading in the camp.
Ruitu found that nothing he did was right.
Liu Chengzong was also at a loss by his sudden collapse, so he had to persuade him with a few words of gentleness and take him outside the sweat tent where Jiu Zhi Bai was enshrined.
Just then, two Mongolian sergeants with weak legs and feet came out carrying a doctor who looked like a monk. The doctor was covered in acne and scabs, with pustules on his hands, face, and chest. He was in a coma, breathing rapidly, and looked like he was about to die.
Liu Chengzong made way for them, then lifted the curtain and took a look. The tent decorated with gold and silver was dark and empty. Mongolian medical equipment was scattered on the floor. Only Hu Han was lying on the couch, looking like he was in a coma. .
He turned around and retreated, with a look of helplessness on his face.
The most difficult thing about infectious diseases is not whether doctors can cure them, but that doctors are human beings and can catch diseases. If they can't even cure themselves, how can they treat others?
He winked at the accompanying doctor, and several doctors and apprentices carrying medicine boxes and tool boxes immediately entered the account for inspection.
Liu Chengzong stood outside the tent, took a few breaths of fresh air, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and then said to Guitu Taiji: "If you contracted smallpox before entering Qinghai, and it has the same source as Hehuang smallpox, then Gansu will It’s dangerous.”
After his judgment, the source of the smallpox was most likely in Gansu. The Chahar army contracted the disease when they banged their heads against the border wall, and were brought to Qinghai from the west; the Gansu border army was dispatched southeast to Hehuang, and then Bring this disease to the frontier troops in the five towns.
As a result, smallpox formed a situation of flanking the Marshal's Mansion.
At this moment, Gotutaiji beside him seemed to have finally come to his senses. He suddenly dwarfed and knelt down beside Liu Chengzong, pleading with his face: "Commander, please save my brother, you will definitely be able to save my brother. Just like saving my life, I’ll give you whatever you want!”
Gututaiji knew that it was Liu Shizi who saved his life.
If he hadn't been vaccinated with the vaccine in Hehuang, he wouldn't have been able to escape the catastrophe that swept through the Chahar tribe in Bajiao City.
Liu Chengzong couldn't agree to this, so he could only drag him up with strength. Who knew that the guy knelt down again just after he was pulled up, so he had to let the two guards drag Zitu and said to him: "You didn't tell me at the beginning that the army was infected." Smallpox, you know, is easy to prevent when you don’t have it.”
"At this point, you asked me to save you. I'm not a god. You asked me to kill people. How could the King of Hell accept me as his opponent? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Ruitu fell silent, his eyes becoming sad.
The order given to him by Hu Duntu was to block the news of the Khan's illness.
The person who was on guard against this order was none other than Liu Chengzong in front of him, fearing that he would take the opportunity to swallow up the Chahar Khan Court.
But now, Qututaiji no longer cares about the Chahar Khan Court. What else does the Khan Court have? Tens of thousands of women and children are in the hands of Liu Chengzong, and if they don't come back, how can thousands of sick soldiers return? It can be called the court of Khan.
If his brother dies, I'm afraid he won't be able to save his family fortune.
Liu Chengzong didn't care what he was thinking. He just turned around and gave orders to the guards. He ordered people to prepare pen and paper and write a letter to his father in Xining Mansion, asking him to send someone to send Hauge back first. He disappeared.
Then prepare vaccines, recruit doctors, purchase medicinal materials, and set up a hospital based on the imperial system.
On this basis, we plan to establish hospitals, medicines, and Huimin pharmacies at all levels in the five towns of Xiafu, County, and Hehuang within two years to manage doctors, treat people, collect medicinal materials, and conduct prescription experiments and assessments. Level, institution that accepts tutoring.
Moreover, Liu Shizi knew that the hospital system of the Ming Dynasty would be penetrated by the plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but to deal with the plague, he could only rely on the doctors of this era to minimize the impact of the plague.
Therefore, an infectious disease prevention bureau must be added, and an infectious disease prevention department must be added in addition to the eleven medical departments.
Fortunately, smallpox is a disease that is easier to deal with than the plague. It allows the Marshal's Office to gain experience in epidemic prevention and isolation before facing the plague, so as to cultivate talents with epidemic prevention knowledge.
It's a pity that these talents need to be found from the military.
Finally, he gave an order to Yang Yao, ordering him to form a 1,000-person army of pox doctors, allocate three teams of 1,000 people to cooperate, divide pox villages in Qinghai Lake, and prepare for the second universal vaccination.
To prevent smallpox from spreading among the surrendered troops.
Just as he finished writing the letter, the doctor in the sweat tent also came out. His face was very ugly, and he asked the apprentice to serve him while spraying soju on his hands. He asked eagerly: "How is Tiger Chief?"
The old doctor wiped his hands and said: "Commander, he has been ill for the past few months, and the acne on his body has formed thick scabs. It will fall off in a few days. Smallpox has passed."
When Liu Chengzong heard this, he felt relieved and asked, "Then why are you crying?"
"The smallpox is gone, but when the poisonous gas enters the body, the wind warms the lungs and heats up, turning the carbuncle into pus; unconsciousness, deep purple complexion, stiff neck, twitching, and opisthotonus, which means you are suffering from plague again; and the carbuncle poison is attached to the bone. , sepsis flowed out, the poisonous gas had reached the head and face, and he was almost blind in both eyes."
The old doctor listed a bunch of symptoms that Liu Chengzong couldn't understand, and finally sighed: "Smallpox is easy to get rid of, various diseases are difficult to cure, the Mongolian sweat... there is not much time left."
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Wind-warmed lung-heat turns carbuncle into pus, which is severe pneumonia; plague is encephalitis; septic influx is septicemia; carbuncle poison attached to the bone is osteomyelitis; there are also blindness, coma, meningitis, bronchitis, otitis media, laryngitis Inflammation is a complication of smallpox and a leading cause of death.
"Brother Shen!"
"Um!"
When Shen Changqing walks on the road, whenever he meets someone he knows, he will say hello or nod to each other.
But no matter who it is.
There was no unnecessary expression on everyone's face, as if they were indifferent to everything.
To this.
Shen Changqing has become accustomed to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, an organization that maintains the stability of the Qin Dynasty. Its main responsibility is to kill monsters and monsters. Of course, there are also some other side jobs.
It can be said.
Everyone in the Demon Suppression Division has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is used to seeing life and death, he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but he got used to it over time.
The Demon-Suppressing Division is huge.
Those who can stay in the Demon Suppressing Division are all powerful masters, or those who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppressor Division is divided into two professions, one is the Guardian Envoy and the other is the Demon Slayer.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Department starts from the lowest level as a demon slayer.
Then he will be promoted step by step, and he is expected to eventually become a guardian envoy.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level among the demon slayers.
Possessing the memory of a previous life.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of a loft.
Unlike other places in the Demon Suppressing Division that were full of chills, the attic here seemed to stand out from the crowd, showing a different kind of tranquility in the bloody Demon Suppressing Division.
At this time, the attic door was open, and occasionally people came in and out.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment before stepping in.
Enter the attic.
The environment changes in vain.
The fragrance of ink mixed with the faint smell of blood hit his face, making him frown instinctively, but then relaxed it quickly.
There is almost no way to cleanse away the smell of blood on everyone in the Demon-Suppressing Division.
