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Chapter 635

At the time of You, the sun sets in the west, the sky turns dark, and the evening wind is cool.

Chen Jiugao was afraid that it would be difficult to enter the city after the city gate was closed, and he had to prepare for the camp tomorrow, so he offered to leave and go back to the camp. Don't dare to disobey.

Outside the gate, Zhang Cheng watched them drift away under the escort of the guards and slowly disappear into the dusk.

He turned his head and asked, "Have Niu Sheng and Liu Jinhai arrived?"

Zhang Chengfang replied: "Going back to Commander-in-Chief, he has already arrived in the camp. Since Commander-in-Chief has been drinking with Chen Zongbing all the time, he never disturbed him."

Zhang Cheng didn't ride a horse. He walked towards the camp of the Chinese army on foot, and said as he walked, "Let them come over. Call Shen Shichun and Shi Jianneng. Oh, by the way, call Zhang Guangda and Lin Fangping over too. "

"Here!"

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In the Chinese military tent, Zhang Cheng had already drank a large bowl of hangover soup, but he still felt his head was heavy and a little swollen, but fortunately, his dizziness eased a little.

He first listened to Niu Sheng's stockpiling of grain and grass near Gyeonggi, and then Liu Jinhai's report on the cultivation and training of several villages. He is quite satisfied with these, and it seems that all parties are developing step by step.

I just don’t know what the result of this battle in Liaodong will be, and will it affect the situation when the Tartars invaded again in the 15th year of Chongzhen, but they are always prepared. .

Zhang Cheng looked at the medical officer Shen Shichun and said to him: "Medical officer Shen, it is extremely dangerous to go to Jinan to investigate the details of the plague.

But if the situation of the plague in southern Jinan can be alleviated, it will be a blessing to save the people and the common people. The ten of you and your party only need to be responsible for dealing with the plague. You must pay attention to your own protection. According to what I said, everyone should wear protection Cloth coverings for the mouth and nose should be burned and buried in time for those who died of the plague. "

Without waiting for Shen Shichun to speak, he turned his head to look at Liu Jinhai, and said, "Liu Jinhai, you will send two teams of fine cavalry as guards to ensure the safety of Medical Officer Shen and his party. ask."

"Here!"

Liu Jinhai stood up and cupped his fists to receive the order: "Commander, please don't worry, I will personally accompany Medical Officer Shen, but there is a slight problem, I, Liu Jinhai, will come to see the commander."

Zhang Guangda said with a smile: "This errand is not good, the commander wants to hit you on the board, not your head. The 'six and a half catties' on your head, our commander is not rare!"

"Hahaha……"

There was laughter in the big tent, Liu Jinhai raised his hand in embarrassment to scratch his hair, and smiled embarrassedly.

The legend about "six catties and a half" is that around the Southern Song Dynasty, Cao Bin from Rui'an was an official in the court. At that time, a treacherous minister bewitched the emperor by saying that Cao Bin was disloyal to the emperor.

So, the emperor ordered Cao Bin's head to be beheaded, but when Cao Bin's head was chopped off and thrown into the river, there was a sudden thunder, and the downpour continued.

Therefore, some people said that Cao Bin was wronged. Now that the heaven was going to punish him, the emperor also felt afraid, so he sent court officials to investigate carefully, and finally found that Cao Bin was indeed wronged.

In order to make up for his credulous belief in slander, the emperor ordered Cao Bin to have a golden human head weighing six catties and four weights. Half".

Zhang Cheng looked at Liu Jinhai and said with solemn eyes: "Although this plague started in the territory of Daming Mansion in southern Jinan, it has now spread to Guangping and Shunde. , Henan and Shandong provinces.

Although there are local officials in charge, they are afraid that they will not be able to save the people. Liu Jinhai, in addition to protecting the medical officer Shen and others, you must do your best to help the refugees in the provinces in southern Ji.

The commander-in-chief allows you to use the food stored in various places in the south of Jinan for emergencies. If necessary, you can go to Kaifeng Mansion to find Chen Zongbing for help.

You can also adjust the soldiers and horses of Sha Shiguang Department of Huya Village to assist you to stabilize the situation in southern Jinan. The epidemic must be isolated separately, and it must not be allowed to live in the villages and towns again, and then spread the epidemic, so that the efforts of prevention and control will be wasted. "

"Here!"

Liu Jinhai responded loudly.

However, Shen Shichun, a medical officer in Chicheng, said: "Commander, this trip to Jinan to investigate the source of the plague is really a personal matter, but Marshal is worried about it, and even mobilized officers and soldiers to guard Shichun and his party..."

When he said this, he got up and came to the middle, knelt down and kowtowed: "Shen Shichun thanked the commander-in-chief on behalf of the people in Jinan. Please rest assured, the commander-in-chief, if the plague cannot be prevented from spreading this time, Shichun will never stop."

Zhang Cheng looked at Shen Shichun on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "It is my wish to save the people from suffering. Now the plague is rampant in Jinan, which has never been seen in a hundred years. It is also a year of famine. If you are not careful, you will be killed." How can we sit back and watch the disaster that shakes the foundation of the country.

However, the source of this plague has been searched for by doctors throughout the ages, but they have not succeeded. It can be seen that it is difficult, but not easy.

Shen Shichun, you should also do what you can, don't be too persistent, always keep in mind that you should keep a useful body and seek strategies to save and revitalize the people, then you will be the best! "

He paused for a while, and then said again: "Remember what I told you, you must take good care of your own protection. After entering the epidemic area, try to observe from the upper air outlet, and don't take off the mask and leather jacket. It is even more necessary to use more wormwood and spirits to eliminate the poisonous gas.

The clothes of the plague patients should not be kept, and even the loss of body must be burned, exposed to the sun, and buried deeply. It is necessary to establish a line of defense first to stop the spread of the plague, so as to gradually subdue it.

do you know? "

Shen Shichun kowtowed again and said: "Everyone knows that the commander-in-chief cares about the country and loves the people. Shen Shichun also admires him very much. He must follow the instructions of the commander-in-chief and stay here to serve the commander-in-chief."

"Get up!"

Shen Shichun got up according to his words, returned to his seat and sat down.

It turned out that Shen Shichun had always harbored an ideal in his heart, that is to conquer the plague that the predecessors could not defeat, so as to leave his name in history and become a generation of famous doctors admired by later generations.

In the Red Castle, he heard the generals who were suppressing bandits in Henan talk about the plague in Jinan, so he took the initiative to visit Zhang Cheng, and asked to leave the North Road and go to Jinan to investigate the source of the plague in order to find a way to rescue it.

Zhang Cheng has long wanted to try to control the plague in Jinan. According to his memory, this plague is actually bubonic plague. If it is controlled properly, it is not impossible to stop its spread.

In fact, even in the turbulent era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the spread of bubonic plague could be effectively controlled, but people were hungry and exhausted at the time, and they didn't realize the danger of bubonic plague. By the time they reacted, it was too late.

In real history, the plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty spread far and wide. It first occurred in various parts of Shaanxi, and it was repeatedly repeated in the following ten years. It was not until the plague in Daming Mansion in the 14th year of Chongzhen that it was out of control.

In the end, even the capital, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, and even Jiangnan were affected.

After Zhang Cheng had a deep talk with Shen Shichun, he found that he had done a lot of research on the plague, so he decided to strongly support him in going to Jinan to investigate the source of the plague. He not only provided money, food, and personnel, but also instructed him in personal protection and disinfection. , isolation, etc.

In fact, that's all Zhang Cheng knows. As for how to treat patients with mild symptoms, he doesn't understand medical theory, so he can only rely on contemporary medical officials like Shen Shichun to figure it out.

For critically ill patients, Zhang Cheng's opinion is to give up treatment.

In fact, there is no way to do this. With the medical skills of this era, there is no way to treat patients with severe bubonic plague. It is better to adopt isolation measures earlier to prevent it from spreading to others.

(End of this chapter)