Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1661, Schistosomiasis

In Suzhou, Liu Yuan and Zhu Houzhao are making a private visit in micro-clothes, planning to see how the floods in the south of the Yangtze River are being treated.

This year, there are floods in the south of the Yangtze River, severe droughts in the north, floods in the south and droughts in the north, and both droughts and floods are of the kind that occur once in decades.

A large number of rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River were submerged, which directly led to a substantial reduction in production. As for the north, it was even worse. The long-term severe drought caused almost no harvest in the northern provinces. Most of the most severe areas in Henan even had no harvest. .

If we put it in the past, in such a situation, even if the emperor and the ministers were able to provide relief, I am afraid that something big will happen. Not to mention the flames of war, starvation and starvation must be indispensable.

But it’s different now. There are many places where the imperial court produces food, and trains are connected, and the food is pulled there one by one.

"It seems that the flood was indeed very severe at that time."

"Look, the waterline has reached the height of the house."

Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao came to a village. Liu Jin took a closer look at the houses in the village, and soon found that there were obvious traces of being soaked by the flood on the houses. Looking at the height, it was also You can roughly know the situation of the flood at that time.

"It does appear to be very serious."

Zhu Houzhao looked at it and nodded.

Looking around, although the flood has receded for several months, you can see the traces of the flood everywhere, the big trees in the village, the mud, garbage and all kinds of things washed away by the flood. some type of.

It can also be seen that many villagers are cleaning up the silt in the fields, preparing for next year's farming, and life will continue.

"I don't know what's going on. Every household in this family has people who get sick, and the son of the old Zhang family in the village died of illness."

"Isn't it? This year is really unfavorable. There is a flood. After the flood, there will be diseases again. How will we ordinary people live?"

"Didn't Lao Zhang's son be sent to the city for treatment?"

"Hey, you don't know. The medical clinics in the city are full. I don't know how many people in the towns and villages are infected. The doctors in the medical clinics are too busy, and many people died."

"real or fake?"

"Is this still fake?"

"Take a look at our Shuitou village. There are ten households out of these ten households. Every household has people who are sick. This must be a major epidemic after the catastrophe. This time, I don't know how many people will die."

At this time, several villagers walked outside with hoes on their shoulders, and they also said at the same time, which happened to be heard by Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao. When they heard this, their expressions changed drastically.

"Several fellow villagers!"

Liu Jin hurriedly stopped several villagers and saluted them politely.

"What orders do you two young masters have?"

Several villagers looked at Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao, and then looked at the many guards dressed as servants behind them, knowing that they had met a nobleman, they hurriedly replied politely.

"You just said that every household is sick now?"

"And the medical clinics in the city are also overcrowded?"

Liu Jin looked at several people and asked.

"Returning to your son, it is true that every household has people who are sick, and the medical clinics in the city are indeed overcrowded, and many people died."

Uncle Li nodded solemnly.

"What kind of disease do you have?"

"Is it the plague or something else?"

Liu Jin's face changed slightly, and the most worrying thing still appeared.

Generally, epidemics will occur after severe droughts and floods, and some particularly severe ones often sweep a large area, resulting in the death of a large number of people.

This is also the reason why in later generations, quicklime should be continuously sprinkled for disinfection after the flood, the purpose is to prevent the epidemic.

Compared with flood disasters, the epidemic is more terrible. Countless people are infected with the disease invisibly, and it is not known how many people will die. Especially in ancient times, when the treatment and prevention conditions were limited, once the epidemic occurred, it was very easy to appear. A large area of ​​no man's land, the entire range of people were wiped out.

In history, the Black Death pandemic in Europe directly took away one-third of the population of Europe at that time, and more than 2500 million people died under the plague. Every city became a dead city, which can be described as extremely terrifying.

"The doctor in the city said it wasn't the plague."

"I still don't know what it is. The situation of people in the village is different. Some of them have red and swollen skin, congestion, edema, and a large number of red papules."

"Others have coughing, fever, hives, burning lungs, pain."

"What's even more frightening is that a large sarcoid appeared on his body. It was small at first, but it quickly grew to the size of a fist. It was extremely terrifying."

Uncle Li shook his head, and immediately described to Liu Jin the symptoms of the villagers in the village.

"What about the patients in the hospital in the city?"

Liu Jin frowned as he listened. It sounded like he had no clue, and seemed to be a different disease, but logically speaking, if it was an epidemic, it must be an epidemic.

"It's almost the same, and some people have severe diarrhea, and some even have blood coming out, and some are even mentally disturbed, always saying that their head hurts, and there is something in their head."

Uncle Li continued.

"It's horrible too."

Zhu Houzhao's face changed when he heard this. Originally, he wanted to come to Jiangnan to see beauties, but now an epidemic area has been set up here. Hearing such things makes one's hair stand on end.

"Go, go back to the city!"

Liu Jin immediately knew that the matter was serious, and hurried back with Zhu Houzhao.

"Your Highness, you need to return to Nanjing immediately, and then return to the capital. This is an epidemic area. For your safety, you can no longer stay here."

On the way, Liu Yuan also suggested to Zhu Houzhao.

The world is big, and no one's life is as important as Zhu Houzhao's. No matter what happens, sending this ancestor back to the capital can save a lot of worry.

"Hmm~"

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly. It seems that there is really a major epidemic, and he knows the severity. Now is not the time to play petty temper.

"Come here, immediately send a power call to Wang Shouren, the chief minister of Nanzhili, and ask him to immediately call doctors from various places to Suzhou, Yangzhou and other places to prepare a large amount of quicklime, gauze, medicinal materials and other materials."

"Immediately send electricity to the capital, report the matter to the emperor and the princes in the court, and request the emperor and the court to immediately dispatch relief materials and personnel to Jiangnan."

"Send electricity to Daming Medical College and Daming Royal Medical College, and immediately send a large number of professors and doctors to Jiangnan."

Immediately, Liu Jin also began to issue orders one by one, and acted quickly.

Then he also separated from Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao returned to Nanjing and took the train back to the capital, while Liu Jin walked to Suzhou City.

In the first time, I came to the major medical clinics in Suzhou for inspection.

As the villagers said, the medical clinics in the entire Suzhou city are now overcrowded, and a large number of patients have even filled the streets outside.

Liu Jin checked their symptoms carefully, and they were indeed different. Many of them were obviously thin, but they had a big belly, which looked extremely deformed.

There are also a large number of people who have symptoms such as coughing, diarrhea, chest pain, and fever, because the number of infected people is so large that these patients can be seen everywhere in Suzhou City.

Obviously, the epidemic has become extremely serious.

"My subordinate Chen De pays his respects to Mr. Liu!"

Chen De, the prefect of Suzhou, learned that Liu Jin had come to Suzhou, and when he was inspecting the city, he hurried to see Liu Jin.

"Master Chen, take a look for yourself."

Liu Jin glanced at Chen De, pointed to the overcrowded patients on the street outside the medical center and said.

Chen De naturally knew that there was an epidemic in Suzhou for a long time, but he never paid much attention to it. After all, it seems that it is not very important now. There have not been a large number of deaths, but the number of patients has increased sharply. That's all.

"Liu Gong, this kind of situation basically happens after every flood. It's not unusual."

After thinking about it, Chen De hurriedly said, "Grand Liu, for your safety, I think we should go somewhere else now."

"Go somewhere else?"

"Where to go?"

"You are a parent officer in Suzhou. There was an epidemic in Suzhou. You didn't report it in time, and you wanted to stay away from here. How did you become a parent officer?"

Liu Jin stared at him intently.

"The imperial court made repeated orders to pay attention to disinfection after the catastrophe, pay attention to epidemic prevention, and pour a large amount of quicklime to prevent the epidemic. Did you, the prefect of Suzhou, follow the imperial court's requirements?"

"The lower officials have followed the imperial court's request. Your Excellency can find someone to ask casually. At that time, a large amount of quicklime was scattered everywhere."

Chen De became anxious immediately. Now that Liu Jin encountered this matter, he really started to pursue it. No matter what he did was qualified or not, he would not want to keep the hat on his head by then.

"Is there any, I will find out later."

"Now hurry up to mobilize quicklime, go to various places to mobilize doctors, prepare medical materials, and fight the epidemic."

Liu Jin glanced at him indifferently, now is not the time to hold him accountable, but he is needed to dispatch the entire Suzhou to fight the epidemic.

"Yes, I will do it immediately!"

Upon hearing this, Chen De quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then hurried to follow Liu Jin's instructions.

"Looking at it this way, this should be the most common schistosomiasis in the Jiangnan area. This kind of disease is usually present, but it will become particularly serious after the flood."

"Fortunately, it's just schistosomiasis. If it's plague, it's really serious."

Liu Jin carefully recalled some related diseases, and quickly concluded that what happened in Suzhou and Yangzhou should be schistosomiasis. This disease is widely distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and several southern provinces. It is extremely harmful and contagious. powerful.

(End of this chapter)