The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 117 The Plague Subsides
With Xi Jian managing the entry and exit of materials and property, to be honest, Liu Tai felt a lot more relaxed and even started to feel a little leisurely.

Originally, Liu Tai was more or less responsible for material dispatch, but as Xi Jian became more and more skilled at this job, Liu Tai was happy to leave these tasks to Xi Jian.

After all, in this era when there are no specific medicines, ensuring the food and hygiene of patients and doctors and increasing their resistance is one of the most effective ways to treat diseases in this era.

Of course, it's not just the patients, the doctors who work hard to take care of the patients, the martyrs who are responsible for transporting supplies, and the soldiers sent by Liu Tai to forcefully isolate the villages and not allow people to come and go at will, all play their due role.

As for Liu Tai, apart from reminding Meng Dong and Wang Rujing of some modern simple hygiene knowledge at the beginning, Liu Tai did not do anything extra.

Because Liu Tai knew very well that he should not underestimate the medical skills and doctors of this era.

Needless to say, as the COVID-[-] pandemic was so severe in the first three years, Chinese medicine was used to stabilize the disease in emergencies.

Although traditional Chinese medicine is not as effective as vaccines, in terms of cost performance, traditional Chinese medicine is more suitable for treating plague.

The same is true now. I can't help these doctors in treating diseases. The only thing I can do is to take good care of their logistics and provide enough manpower, especially coal and boiled water. I must have sufficient guarantees.

When Liu Tai arrived in the Qingzhou area, he established the General Division, with Jie Fei in charge, and allocated coal as an energy source to the General Division, allowing Jie Fei to focus on the production of coal and steel.

Jie Fei's craftsmen were even sent to study how to increase coal production and how to forge steel.

Compared with people of this era, Liu Tai understands very well that if you want to improve productivity in this era, you must either improve production technology or improve basic materials.

And these two things continue to evolve, one needs to burn at a higher temperature, and the other needs to make more suitable steel.

As for other things that are more at the application level, I have time to guide and experiment.

But forging more suitable steel materials, or calcining to a higher controllable temperature, these need to be accumulated bit by bit, and there is no chance of detours. It is purely a project that started in ten years and is already in the ground.

The only thing that makes Liu Tai happy is that because of his emphasis on coal, he has nationalized all the large and small coal mines in Qingzhou. Now this is in use.

Even so, this kind of work from coal mining to briquette making, from large-scale transportation to the front line, is still a small number.

The real big deal is to cut down the trees around the county and chop them into firewood to burn.

This is also the reason why Liu Tai needs to recruit so many volunteers, because it is quite laborious to get a cup of boiled water in this era.

For most people in this era, the value of a cup of boiled water may already exceed their day's hard work.

The only thing Liu Tai can do now is to stabilize people's hearts here and do his best to ensure the stability of material supply.

In fact, only two weeks had passed before Meng Dong and Wang Rujing brought a doctor to see Liu Tai.

"I've met Liu Qingzhou!" Several people greeted Liu Tai, and then said to Liu Tai:

"Doctor Xu has tested a prescription to treat this plague. The most important medicinal ingredient is kudzu root, which we do not have in stock.

Dr. Xu has drawn pictures and found medicinal materials.

Please also ask Liu Qingzhou to collect this main medicine as much as possible. I believe that this plague will be suppressed soon! ! "

"Okay, okay!" Liu Tai nodded and saluted Dr. Xu in front of him, "Doctor Xu, on behalf of the people of Qingzhou, thank you!"

Xu Xi quickly returned the gift and then said:

"Liu Qingzhou, don't do this. Could it be that you organize people to save the people? Even if I want to treat the patients, I am unable to do so. It should be the people in these plague areas who thank you.

If there were more officials like you, maybe the world wouldn't be so chaotic! "

As he spoke, Xu Xi placed a sample of kudzu root, as well as the kudzu root and annotations he drew in front of Liu Tai, and said, "I will ask Liu Qingzhou to find this kudzu root."

Liu Tai nodded when he heard this, but suddenly reacted, raised his head and asked, "Kudzu root...is this named after Ge Hong?"

"This is indeed a medicine discovered by Ge Zhichuan. It once rescued the plague caused by Zhang Chang and Shi Bing during the Yangzhou uprising. That's why I thought of using this medicine!" Xu Xi looked at Liu Tai and said, "You, the governor, also Do you know Ge Zhichuan?"

"We have been friends for a long time!" Liu Tai asked quickly at this moment, "Does the doctor know where the little immortal is now?"

"Little Immortal? Although my friend Ge Zhichuan often wants to escape from the world, I have never heard of him being called this.

The world often calls him a man of Baopu, but he himself jokingly calls himself a man of Baopu. Is he admitting his mistake? "Xu Xi said doubtfully.

"'Baopuzi'?! That must be right!" Liu Tai said thoughtfully, "He is still alive?"

"... The governor, he has not yet reached his thirties this year, and with his habit of cultivating his moral character and his ability to guard his Qi, I think he will at least be able to live to his seventies." Xu Xi said seriously.

"In other words, if I can find Ge Hong now, he can still work for me for 40 years!"

Liu Tai's eyes shone unconsciously when he thought of this. This is the top talent of this era!
If Ge Hong is willing to help him, then he can definitely ask Ge Hong to help him create a medical system that is most suitable for this era.

And besides medical progress, the most important thing is chemistry. If anyone in this era can summarize the alchemy chemistry knowledge of the old era and create a new era of chemical system... this person can only be Ge Hong!
"Then where is this little fairy... Baopuzi now?" Liu Tai couldn't help but asked after hearing Xu Xi's words.

"I don't know. When I parted from him, he was planning to go to Luoyang to study abroad. However, when the kings of Sima were in trouble, he disappeared!" Xu Xi couldn't help but shook his head and said, "The world is too chaotic now. I hope he will now Stay healthy!"

"I know!" Liu Tai took a deep breath and said, "I will ask a painter to draw the appearance of kudzu root, and let the people find the corresponding medicinal materials. Please don't worry, the main medicine will be delivered soon. Come here!”

"I am waiting for the people of Qingzhou, thank you Liu Qingzhou!" Xu Xi thanked Liu Tai after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"Since you call me Liu Qingzhou, doing my best for the people of Qingzhou is what I should do!" Liu Tai waved his hand and said, "The patients still need your care and go back first. By the way, Meng Dong, you stay here." Wait, I have something to ask you!"

The few of them looked at each other and without saying anything else, they said goodbye to Liu Tai and left first.

"Provincial governor? I don't know why you kept me here?" Meng Dong couldn't help but ask after hearing Liu Tai's words.

Liu Tai nodded and said, "I asked you to search for an area suitable for growing herbal medicine in the mountainous forest area of ​​Qingzhou."

Meng Dong said, "Laiwu County in Taishan County and Wei County in Le'an Kingdom have suitable land and water sources. I plan to wait until the plague is suppressed and then cultivate and plant herbs in these two areas to meet the needs of the general!"

"Yeah!" Liu Tai nodded, "I've long had enough of this kind of medical skills but not enough medicinal materials.

Even if some rare herbs are not cultivated, I can grow as many commonly used medicinal materials as I can.

You must seize this matter as soon as possible after you return. If manpower and material resources are needed then, just tell me directly! "

"Yes!" After Meng Dong heard Liu Tai's words, he agreed and even saluted Liu Tai.

Meng Dong could feel Liu Tai's emphasis on cultivating herbal medicines, but the problem was that in this era, only the top nobles could grow herbal medicines, or only the imperial court had dedicated people to grow a certain type of herbal medicines.

For the vast majority of folk healers, the main way to collect herbal medicines is to rely on manual labor to collect them in the wild, rather than planting them.

Liu Tai did not have the corresponding talents at hand. Even if Meng Dong accepted Liu Tai's order, he could only try and cultivate at the same time.

As for the difference between the medicinal properties of cultivated herbs and wild herbs, to be honest, Meng Dong didn't know.

But there is no way. For someone like Liu Tai who values ​​the people and his soldiers even more, Liu Tai's reserve of medicinal materials is almost crazy.

Liu Tai would regularly issue orders according to different seasons and use various materials to let the people collect medicines in different seasons, thus constantly hoarding various herbal medicines.

One of the daily tasks of the medical camp is to classify various medicinal materials collected from the people, then process them, preserve the medicinal properties as much as possible, classify and store them, and then use them when needed.

It is mainly stored for the soldiers, and these drugs are also stored as military supplies.

This is also one of the advantages of military status over civilian status, that is, military status and family members can directly go to the military to see doctors, and the payment is not direct currency, but military merit, which is a special currency within the military system.

Merit points are not allowed to be traded, and military history must be present every time they are used to register and deduct them.

But in terms of nationality, although doctors have never been prohibited from treating these people, military drugs will not be used by them.

If people want these herbs, they have to collect them themselves or buy them at a high price from a drug store.

This is also one of the hidden benefits brought by military membership. Liu Tai deliberately raised the status of his military relatives.

To be honest, if Pueraria lobata hadn't been discovered by Ge Hong in recent years, it wouldn't have appeared in medical books at all. Otherwise, Liu Tai would have stocked up in several warehouses.

Even now, when the plague passes, Pueraria lobata will probably be left on Liu Tai's list of medicinal materials. After all, this is one of the medicines that can suppress the plague.

As the treatment method was found and the medicinal materials were dug out from under the soil, kudzu root was quickly sent to the epidemic areas, and the people who contracted the plague in the epidemic areas were quickly treated.

This not only gave the patients hope of life, but also the doctors, martyrs and soldiers under Liu Tai felt a sense of pride that they had conquered the plague. This burst of enthusiasm allowed them to devote themselves to work with greater enthusiasm. .

Liu Tai also immediately approached Xi Jian. Liu Tai became more and more comfortable with Xi Jian these days.

Liu Taize said to Xi Jian, "We have solved this plague.

We prepared a feast under running water to give all the doctors, martyrs and soldiers who participated in the rescue a good meal to celebrate the victory over the plague.

Then you pay Jie Fei a sum of money and ask him to make a batch of medals about the size of your thumb and distribute them to all the surviving martyrs.

Thanks to them for their contribution to Qingzhou this time. This medal is proof of their efforts this time. "

Liu Taize thought that this medal naturally needs to play its due role.

Needless to say, this medal needs to be accompanied by some additional rewards. It does not mean that it is completely equivalent to the treatment of the army, but I can dismantle the treatment of the army.

These martyrs can enjoy one or more awards from the military, especially the more they participate in such activities, the more medals they accumulate.

Then some kind of gold, silver, bronze and iron medal system appeared, allowing them to enjoy the joy of leveling up while doing good deeds.

Of course, Liu Tai just thought about this, and now these are just ordinary iron plaques.

What I can best help them now is to clean up those officials responsible for apportionment.

At the same time, let the military history register the names of these people. If there are vacancies in local official positions in the future, they will be the first choice.

Maybe if a person stays in a position of power for a long time, he will definitely lose his original intention, or he may not be able to resist various temptations.

But no matter what, at least they are all risking death to follow him to suppress the plague, so they should naturally receive corresponding rewards.

And even I need these people to fill the grassroots in Qingzhou and become a second political group besides veterans. The most important thing is that this political group really takes root at the grassroots, which is a rare attribute.

"Besides, I really want to capture the wild beast Ge Hong.

But the problem is that this guy is in Jiangnan. I can't lead the army to directly push Sima Rui and capture him, right?

The only thing I can do is try to increase his favorability and see if he will come over on his own. But how should I spread the news? "

Liu Tai couldn't help but ponder, but couldn't think of a good way. After all, he didn't have a propaganda system outside Qingzhou.

At this moment, the waiter came over and reported: "Tai Yangman wants to see the governor!"

"Please, please quickly!" Liu Tai said decisively when he heard this.

Yangman entered Liu Tai's tent with his head held high, looked at Liu Tai proudly, and quickly saluted Liu Tai:
"Taiyang Man has met Duke Ming, and he recently came to see him planning for this plague. Man finally sees kindness in troubled times."

"Please get up, please get up quickly!" Liu Tai quickly went over to help Yang Man up, thinking in his heart, does this mean that he wants to surrender to him?

　Six hundred monthly passes means twelve more chapters will be added next month. Yeah, yeah, I’ll remember it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)