Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 474

More and more cholera-infected and suspected-infected people have been quarantined, and the number has almost shown an exponential increase. The demand for drugs is also increasing day by day, and the spreading area has also begun to extend to the surrounding counties of the capital, including Damingfu, He Jianfu and Zhendingfu have all been included in the epidemic control area.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not feel nervous because of this. In the initial stage of new pathogenic bacteria, it is normal to have a rapid outbreak. Even in the 21st century hundreds of years later, when a new outbreak occurs There was a period of outbreaks, not to mention Daming, which does not yet have a complete infectious disease control system.

But this is not to say that Zhu Youxiao's administrative intervention has no effect at all. At least the spread of the large-scale epidemic has not completely affected the lives of most people. Although the capital is under martial law, it does not restrict trade.

The number of infected people divided by the huge base of the capital and even the total population of Gyeonggi still only accounts for a very small proportion, so it has not yet reached the point of causing panic among the people.

But now the only thing that really affects the lives of the people is not the epidemic itself, but the rising prices and various rumors that have caused the prices of certain types of medicinal materials to skyrocket or plummet.

"East Factory must strictly investigate and deal with whoever is taking advantage of this to spread all kinds of unfavorable remarks, or who is hoarding, they will be severely punished and will not be tolerated!"

When Zhu Youxiao gave orders to Liu Ruoyu, the supervisor of ceremonies and the admiral of the East Factory, there was news outside that Cheng Jiming, a scholar of Dongge University, asked to see him. Zhu Youxiao didn't know why Cheng Jiming suddenly came to ask for an audience at this time. So why, but he still declared Cheng Ji's order.

Ever since Qian Qianyi was imprisoned and Li Biao was demoted to Hami Guards, Cheng Jiming has become a leader of the conservative faction, and he can be regarded as a more ethical and low-key official, so Zhu Youxiao puts his trust in this. He hoped that he would become a stumbling block to resist the excessive exploitation of the working class by reformists and other emerging bourgeois officials.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, according to the number of Vibrio cholerae infections reported by the Ministry of Health today, I used calculation methods to calculate the number, but found that although a large number of people were still infected with cholera since the day before yesterday, the increase was obviously greater than the previous increase. Please check the number of people, Your Majesty!"

As Cheng Jiming said, he handed over a blueprint. When Wang Chengen took the blueprint and handed it to Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help being horrified, and laughed dumbfoundedly: "Aiqing has intentions, even I don't have any intentions." Thinking of making a statistic based on the number of infected people in the daily reports, Aiqing alone has this awareness, which can be called filling in the gaps! However, my Ming should indeed have an independent audit department other than the Ministry of Accounts, for example, for such emergencies. Data audits require immediate contingency statistics to discover patterns.”

Zhu Youxiao took a closer look at Cheng Jiming's drawing as he spoke. The so-called drawing is just a statistical chart sketched by Cheng Jiming. To punctuate the vertical axis, it is necessary to make a rough line statistical effect through the data of the past two months.

And in this statistical chart, it can indeed be seen that in the first half month, there was almost no large-scale increase in the number of infections, indicating that the pathogenic bacteria are still in the adaptation period, but after half a month, they show a trend of sudden and sharp increase , indicating that it has entered the logarithmic phase, but what made Zhu Youxiao frown was that three days ago, the discounted slope of the logarithmic phase suddenly increased, that is to say, the increase rate of the number of infected people was significantly expanded on a large scale.

When Cheng Jiming saw that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao had frowned and his face became ugly, he knew that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao had also seen the clue:
"Weichen once served as the governor of Southern Jiangxi. During his term of office, there was also a plague disaster. Although he was helpless at that time, he tried his best to count how many people died of the plague every day. And because of this, Weichen found that when a large number of infected people appear, there will be no more large-scale infected people, and it will only stabilize, but now there is a larger number of infected people, which makes Weichen quite embarrassed I don’t understand, so I’m here to play His Majesty!”

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that Cheng Jiming would have a good habit of doing statistics, but he also had to admit that, as Cheng Jiming said, after a large-scale outbreak of the epidemic, it will enter a period of stability, also called a plateau period , if properly controlled, it will enter a plateau period in advance, making the number of infected people enter a constant value of dynamic balance, and laying the foundation for the complete elimination of the epidemic.

But now it is possible to enter the second logarithmic period, which can only explain one situation, that is, the officials below did not fully implement the imperial court’s epidemic response order, and even connive and spread it intentionally, because even if you don’t care or control it Live, it will also show a curve that first adapts, then logarithmically, then stabilizes or even disappears.

"Bold! How dare you treat the epidemic as a trifling matter and disregard human lives!"

As soon as Zhu Youxiao said that, he immediately ordered: "Wu Jin, the boss of Dongchang, immediately take me to tell you to remove the black gauze from Shuntianfu Yin's head, escort him into the palace, and I will interrogate him personally!"

Then, Zhu Youxiao looked at Cheng Jiming again: "Cheng Aiqing, the current epidemic situation is very uncontrollable, but if it is really a man-made disaster, or there is hope to save and make up for it, you are willing to temporarily take charge of Shuntian Mansion and take full responsibility for the entire What about Gyeonggi's epidemic prevention?"

"My minister is willing!"

As soon as Cheng Jiming replied, Zhu Youxiao patted him on the shoulder, and told Wang Chengen: "I will order the cabinet to draft an order, and Cheng Ji, a scholar of Kadong Pavilion, will be the left servant of the household department and the right servant of the Ministry of Health, Governor of Shuntian Prefecture, the admiral of Gyeonggi military affairs, is fully responsible for Gyeonggi's epidemic prevention matters."

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At this time, Wu Youke also came to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, and after spending another twenty silver dollars, he managed to get through the yamen servants of the Shuntian Mansion, and successfully met Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion.

Qiu Maohua was born as a serious Jinshi, and he was also the number one magistrate in the world, and he lived in the third rank, so he didn't look down on Wu Youke who was not born in the imperial examination, but this Wu Youke was appreciated by His Majesty Zhu Youxiao. Qiu Maohua was even more dissatisfied with becoming a second-rank official minister. Now that he saw Wu Youke in the official uniform of Golden Pheasant Buzi, he didn't even want to stand up and salute.

On the contrary, Wu Youke bowed to him: "Qiu Fu Yin, the father-in-law of the imperial pharmacy said that because Shuntian Mansion is directly responsible for the supply of decoction and medicine for the quarantined people, he directly sent a batch of medicinal materials worth 200 million silver dollars hoarded by the palace to him. Shuntian Mansion, it doesn't matter when you take it out to make soup for the quarantined people. Now the epidemic situation is expanding, and the batch of medicinal materials hoarded by the Imperial Pharmacy is very effective in preventing cholera in the early stage. It must be taken by the quarantined people as soon as possible to prevent the epidemic from further expanding. !"

Qiu Maohua was very disgusted with Wu Youke talking to him like this, but he was worried that Wu Youke was now a celebrity beside His Majesty, so he could only resist his unhappiness, and said patiently: "Wu Shangshu listened to a father-in-law in the palace. This batch of medicinal materials went directly to my Shuntian Mansion, but the lower official didn't even receive half the price of the medicinal materials, if you don't believe me, you can go to the treasury of the lower official to check!"

　Thank you for the book friend Narcissus Party Baimohu’s reward of 1000 starting coins, and the book friend Feiyu Zhishang’s reward of 1000 starting coins

　　
　
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