As for the investigation of the palace ban, it cannot be said to the outside world, so the trial of 100 households given by Liu Shou is considered acceptable! At least with this title, Liu Haojia will be able to enter the middle and high-level ranks of Jinyiwei, and it will be more convenient for him to do things in the future!
More than three months passed quickly. Just when Liu Haojia thought he would need to hibernate for a longer time, a piece of news was suddenly sent to the capital: a smallpox plague broke out in a county in Henan. There are already people in the affected areas. Eleven villages, the situation is critical!
When Liu Haojia received the news, he felt emotional at first. He felt that the health and epidemic prevention work in the Ming Dynasty was really poor! Then he was horrified!
Because only then did I realize that I had not brought a physical body with me when I traveled to the Ming Dynasty. The body I took over was an out-and-out Ming Dynasty person, and this body had not received any vaccination protection! In other words, if he gets the plague now, he will have to risk his life to carry it! If you can bear it, carry it, if you can't bear it, you will die! This made him feel a little frightened!
During the time he came to Ming Dynasty, he had a relatively deep understanding of Ming Dynasty's medical system. Compared with the modern medical system, everything the Ming Dynasty did was scum, but it was much better than those in Europe who only did bloodletting and enemas!
Although the Ming Dynasty's medical system has problems of one kind or another, it is the first system in the world that has inheritance and can carry out medical work systematically! One of the important reasons why Han culture can be passed down is its large population! One of the important reasons for the large population is adequate medical treatment!
Although the level of traditional Chinese medicine at this time was very low, and even involved a lot of witchcraft and divination rituals, there was no epidemic that swept the entire world in the Central Plains. The medical system of traditional Chinese medicine was indispensable! You must know that several large-scale plagues in Europe affected almost the entire Europe!
Liu Haojia immediately started thinking after breaking out in a cold sweat. He felt that the emergence of smallpox was an opportunity for him!
On the one hand, he can make use of this smallpox vaccine to vaccinate himself and his family. Another most critical reason is that if cowpox is really successfully produced and popularized throughout the world, he will really be indispensable! Relying on this merit, let alone promotion, it is possible to be knighted!
Thinking of this, Liu Haojia sketched a plan in his mind and immediately asked to see Emperor Wanli. Emperor Wanli received him as quickly as possible as usual.
In the imperial study, Liu Haojia saluted Emperor Wanli and then stood up. Emperor Wanli asked: "Is there anything important that Liu Qing's family is so anxious to enter the palace this time? Is there any news about those mysterious people?"
Liu Haojia shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, there is no news about these people. I came to the palace because of the smallpox incident! I want to go to Henan to provide disaster relief!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Emperor Wanli said loudly: "No! What's happening in Henan this time is smallpox. If you get infected, you will most likely die! I'm still waiting for my beloved to help me in the future, so I'll ask you for such a dangerous matter. Just don’t do it!”
Liu Haojia bowed and said: "Thank you very much for your love, but I have to go on this trip to Henan!"
Emperor Wanli said with some dissatisfaction: "Is there any reason why the Liu Qing family is so insistent?"
Liu Haojia said: "Long live Lord, you also know that Jinyiwei has raided many people's homes and accumulated a lot of things. There are many books of all kinds in the warehouse. I had nothing to do some time ago, so I was in the warehouse After looking through these old books, I found a method in these ancient books, which is said to be able to prevent smallpox!"
When Emperor Wanli heard this, he stood up and said loudly: "Can it cure smallpox? Is it true or false?"
Liu Haojia said hurriedly: "Long live my lord, I was talking about preventing smallpox, but I didn't say it could cure smallpox!"
Seeing that Emperor Wanli still looked puzzled, Liu Haojia said: "Long live my lord, smallpox is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented but not cured! People who have smallpox can only stay upright. All we can do is provide him with enough to replenish his body." Food and medicinal materials. But according to the prescriptions in the book, maybe we can prevent it and make people free from smallpox!"
Emperor Wanli was now interested. He came out from behind the desk and said, "Then the prescription doesn't say how to do it?"
Liu Haojia said: "There is no specific method. It is just a guess that smallpox itself is too toxic. If the toxicity can be reduced and people are infected with low-toxic smallpox, then people will not die, and people can get smallpox once. I won’t be able to do that anymore. But I still don’t have a clue as to how to be a minister!”
Emperor Wanli turned back to his chair and sat down, and said unhappily: "It's as if you didn't tell me! Everyone knows that smallpox will never come back again after acne breaks out, but who knows how to reduce the toxicity of smallpox! Fortunately, I thought it was a mature prescription, but I didn’t expect it was just an idea!”
Liu Haojia said: "Long live my lord, but I think this idea is very reasonable, so I want to test it, and I already have a preliminary idea!"
Emperor Wanli said: "Then what are you going to do?"
Liu Haojia said: "I thought, since human pox can prevent and cure smallpox, then one from livestock can also be used! And among the livestock, the strongest ones are probably cows! They are strong, maybe they can survive smallpox! After this Once exposed, the toxicity of smallpox will be weakened, and smallpox can be completely prevented without killing anyone!"
In fact, during the Ming Dynasty, with the development of medicine, people had discovered that healthy people could resist smallpox by infecting healthy people with pox from patients! However, this kind of variola is still very toxic, and every time someone is vaccinated, someone will get sick and die! But even so, the variola prevention method was still promoted in the Ming Dynasty. What Liu Haojia wants to do is to transform the variola prevention method into a cowpox prevention method!
Emperor Wanli waved his hands and said impatiently: "This is nonsense, stop talking about it! You should stay in the capital and collect the money properly!"
Liu Haojia was a little helpless after hearing this! He knew it would be difficult to convince Emperor Wanli, but he didn't even think there was a chance to convince him! But then Zhang Jia suddenly interrupted and said: "Long live my lord, I think it's a good thing for Mr. Liu to go out for a walk at this time!"
Emperor Wanli turned his head and said, "Why is this?"
Zhang Jia said: "I have received a lot of news recently. The court officials are very dissatisfied with Lord Liu! Especially the censor is very dissatisfied! They are discussing to find out the fault of Lord Li!"
Recently, Zhang Jia has learned a lot from Liu Haojia. He found that if you want to make the right decision, without appropriate information, you are just messing around! So he tentatively arranged a lot of eunuchs in the duty room. There was no need for them to really inquire about anything, they just had to prick up their ears and pass on the useful information they heard while doing things. Unexpectedly, this made him a lot smarter.
