Four people suddenly died suddenly in Ping'an County, causing huge panic.
Who dares to trust doctors anymore if they can kill someone by taking medicine?
Two doctors from Rendetang and doctors from three other medical clinics gathered in the inner hall to study the prescription together.
This is a fever-reducing prescription that has been passed down from generation to generation. They can write out the formula and dosage without thinking. But now, so many patients are taking this medicine at the same time, and not even one person has recovered. The one who got sick first It has been four days. Logically speaking, if you take the medicine for four days, even if you are not cured, you will be mostly better. Why is it so serious?
The old doctor touched his beard: "I'm afraid this illness is not an ordinary fever. The cause needs to be found."
"Patients with sudden high fever can have a few reasons, such as wind-cold and cold, or evil heat spreading out. For those with wind-cold, use ephedra, cinnamon twigs, and Qianghuo; for those with wind-heat, use bupleurum, cohosh, and mint... I think the prescription is no problem……"
"If there is no problem, why do the people in the city not recover for a long time, and some even die suddenly?"
"This is a plague...there is no cure!"
"All sick people must be buried alive, otherwise the entire Ping An County will die!"
"..."
A room full of doctors looked horrified.
Plague is not an unfamiliar word. Just over ten years ago, during the border war, there were too many dead people and there was no time to deal with the corpses in the summer, so the plague broke out.
The plague spreads, killing each village one after another. The plague will not be considered over until all the infected people are dead...
"Everyone, please stop talking nonsense!" Shen Zheng came in from the door and threw the prescription on the desk, "From now on, make the medicine according to this recipe. The six of you will be responsible for all the people in the city. The two of you will follow me. Let’s go outside the city together!”
The old doctor picked up the prescription: "This, this is an antidote. It is a prescription for treating diseases of animals. How can it..."
Medicines are divided into three parts: poisons, and excision medicines are those medicines that go straight to the curative effect. No matter where the disease comes from, or the tolerance of the internal organs, as long as it is useful, if there are side effects, just prescribe medicine to treat the side effects... Traditional Chinese medicine does not advocate this shortcut treatment method.
How could Shen Zheng know this? All he knew was to support Aunt Zhao unconditionally.
He snorted coldly and said: "If you treat people like you do, I don't know how many people will die. If you treat people like animals, you can save one by one! Also, this prescription was written and submitted by a miracle doctor. That miracle doctor travels all over the world and has a wide range of knowledge. Naturally, your shallow knowledge cannot understand the magic of this prescription. Don't sit in a daze, go and make the medicine!"
He is the only son of the county magistrate, so naturally no one will resist his orders.
Although many of them do not agree with using this recipe, if this recipe is not used, is there any other better recipe?
You can only treat a dead horse as a live doctor.
Shen Zheng took four government officials and two doctors to the outside of the city.
It was afternoon, and before it was time to cook porridge, the big pot happened to be empty.
Shen Zheng asked someone to light a fire and immediately began to boil the medicine. As soon as the fire started, many refugees began to gather around, thinking they were making porridge.
"It's not porridge, what are you cooking?"
"Could it be that they boiled the bark of wild vegetables and gave it to us to eat?"
"It's good to be able to drink hot bark porridge. It's better than drinking the northwest wind."
The refugees gathered around and talked quietly.
Shen Zheng stood on the chair and said loudly: "This is boiled medicine. It is specially used to treat diseases. Drinking it can save lives. Come and get the medicine in half an hour. People who are not sick should not come here."
The refugees couldn't help but be in an uproar.
"The magistrate of Ping'an County is so kind. Even if he has two porridges a day, he still has medicine."
"I heard a long time ago that Ping'an County had a great harvest. The county government here must be very rich, otherwise there would be no money to buy medicinal materials for us refugees."
"The refugees who came from Huzhou yesterday said that Huzhou only provides one meal of porridge a day, which is water porridge. After drinking it, your stomach will be full of water. The prefect of Huzhou is too poor, and Ping'an County is the richest. We are in the right place."
"I also heard that what is the name of the richest village in Ping'an County? There is a man there who was given a title by the Holy God and was rewarded with countless gold and silver treasures."
"It's called Dahe Village. There is a peasant woman who was named a Sui Ruren because she discovered regenerated rice."
"I heard that their village has harvested rice twice, so there must be a lot of food..."
A group of refugees here are discussing.
Let the few men gathered together over there hear it. They are also refugees, and they are the leaders among this group of refugees.
The three or four people looked at each other and then laughed at the same time.
They have been together for three or four months, and they already have a tacit understanding with each other. They know what the other person is thinking without communicating.
A large pot of medicine was quickly cooked, but as there were as many as four to five hundred refugees, it would take more than a dozen pots of medicine to be boiled. Drinking a bowl of medicine per person would be reassuring even if the effects were not seen for the time being.
Porridge was served twice a day, and medicine was served three times a day. The large pots set up inside and outside the city never stopped all day long.
Shen Zheng was so busy following everyone that he felt dizzy.
When he was abandoned by his father in Dahe Village and forced to harvest in the autumn, he was not this tired.
But he didn't stop. When he handed bowls of porridge and bowls of medicine to the hands of the refugees, he felt an inexplicable sense of responsibility in his heart.
Scholars must be ambitious and have a long way to go.
Isn’t it important to consider benevolence as one’s own responsibility?
Isn't it just a matter of time before death?
For the first time, he realized what the words in the book meant.
The next morning, good news came from the city. The body temperatures of many patients with high fever gradually dropped. Although they were not cured, at least they gave people hope.
Magistrate Shen still didn't sleep all night. He had a direction for the treatment of the disease, so he could put it aside for the time being.
However, there was not much food left in the granary.
He put down his pen and said slowly: "Master Yuan, take my seal with you and invite all the merchants in Ping'an County. Each merchant must send a representative. Anyone who dares to disobey will be tied up directly. come over."
Master Yuan was surprised and said: "Sir, what do you mean..."
"Ping'an County is in trouble, and these extremely wealthy businessmen should have something to say." Magistrate Shen sighed, "Although doing this will make the merchants jealous, we have to do it... we can't just watch it. Hundreds of victims outside the city starved to death."
Master Yuan understood it as soon as he heard it.
The situation in Huzhou is even more difficult. There is definitely no hope. The only option is to let the merchants bleed and transfer the pressure of food shortage to the merchants.
Although this method is somewhat damaging and is not conducive to the management of merchants in the future, it must be admitted that this is the only effective method at present.
Master Yuan turned around and went to do this.
Nowadays, the city is in turmoil, and the police officers are on patrol at all hours of the day. Everyone is panicked. Even the wealthy merchants are afraid of contracting the plague and dying suddenly. Many merchants want to take their families to other places to avoid, but The city gate was closed and they couldn't get out.
These people also wanted to know what the county magistrate's arrangements were going to be. Therefore, as soon as Master Yuan went to invite people, the merchants came without saying a word.
The lobby of the Yamen was filled with merchants, as many as sixty or seventy people.
The shopkeepers of each shop had their faces covered with a layer of gauze... They didn't know why they had to cover their faces. They saw that the government servants had something covering their faces, so they followed suit.
After everyone arrived, Master Yuan went to the study to invite Magistrate Shen.
As soon as he walked outside, a yamen servant came over in a hurry: "Master, that senior shopkeeper said he would recruit, and he did all the recruitment..."
Master Yuan thought for a while before he remembered who Shopkeeper Gao was.
The shopkeeper who wanted to forcefully buy the Suiren recipe was named Gao. He was a foreigner. He heard the news and came to Ping'an County. Before he started doing business, the boy beside him revealed the purchase of the Soap recipe. Well... His Excellency sent him to investigate, and he found out easily that the first thing that Mr. Gao did when he came to Ping'an County was to seize a widow... So, he immediately arrested Mr. Gao and threw him into prison.
I was busy dealing with the refugees these days, so I forgot about Shopkeeper Gao.
As far as he knew, the shopkeeper Gao was quite rich, so why not give him a huge killing?
Although the method was a bit dirty and despicable, he, Yuan, had a clear conscience when the money was used for the victims!
