At the beginning, Emperor Yang of Sui was kidnapped

Chapter 123 Thermometer and Mask
A contagious disease broke out in the outside world. Relatively speaking, the fully enclosed research institute is currently the safest place.

This place is the top priority of Wanmin City. Xu Mu gave an order, and the protection of the research institute was upgraded again.

After entering the research institute, Xu Mu summoned several craftsmen and explained to them the principle of the thermometer.

They are already very proficient in glass melting and casting, and the next step is to study how to make a smaller and lighter thermometer that can be added with alcohol or mercury.

"Be sure to develop it within ten days!"

At the same time, Xu Mu issued a death order, and these craftsmen began to study day and night.

In the research institute, Xu Mu met Lin Qingcheng again.

With ten times the acceleration, she can already trot on the ground.

Counting the time, she is now more than a year old...

"When she was four or five years old, I started throwing all kinds of textbooks to her and let her learn."

Xu Mu is thinking about his talent training plan. When the time comes, he happens to be reforming New Confucianism, adding knowledge from various subjects, and compiling it into textbooks. Lin Qingcheng will be the first to learn it.

With research, her learning speed will be terrifying.

This is a blank sheet of paper, which is not bound by various thoughts of this era, and has great development potential and plasticity.

……

On the night when Xu Mu returned to Wanmin City.

In Wanmin City, the epidemic was like an appointment, and there was a wave of climax.

The high-level Yang Guang and Lai Nuer were seriously ill, and the lower-level people, according to the statistics of the small officials, added hundreds of fever patients overnight.

The first batch of masks was also manufactured that night, and more than [-] small officials wore them first.

They will take risks and publicize the three decrees of the Lord's Mansion to hundreds of thousands of people.

Almost every moment, there are small officials publicizing such a passage: This is a typhoid epidemic, which is easily contagious. Please do not go out, do not gather, ventilate more, and wait for the treatment of the Lord's Mansion.

As for those infected patients, they were all sent to the medical office transformed from a residential area, waiting for the treatment of the doctors.

At the same time, Xu Mu ordered Chen Xuanjin to take over all the doctors in Wanmin City, counted them, and found... there were only eight of them.

"My lord, we don't have enough manpower..." Chen Xuanjin, who was wearing a mask, said with a mournful face.

After one night, he was already busy like a dog.

Using his family's prescription, he kept boiling medicine to reduce the fever of those patients.

Xu Mu not only frowned.

Professionals like doctors have always been scarce in Wanmin City.

"My lord, why don't we go to Luoyang City and tie up another batch of doctors?" Before Xu Mu could speak, Chen Xuanjin continued to suggest.

Xu Mu nodded slightly.

He also meant it.

Moreover, Chen Xuanzhen's signboard as a medical sage has already been blown... Ahem, it has already been played out. As long as a lecture on medicine is held, it will definitely attract a large number of doctors.

It's just that in this way, the doctors in Luoyang City may be empty!
But for the sake of the [-] people in Wanmin City, Xu Mu can no longer control so many people.

"After I finish handling the matters here, I will go to Luoyang with you." Xu Mu said in a deep voice.

During the epidemic, people's hearts were impetuous. Although he specified strategies such as isolating patients, the people in Wanmin City are extremely pessimistic.

It was even rumored that... the heavens watched them gather a crowd to rebel, and specially sent down plagues to punish them.

Countless people burn incense and worship Buddha every day, praying for the protection of Tianzun, Daozu, Buddha and Bodhisattva.

In response to this phenomenon, Xu Mu summoned Fang Xuanling again.

After a short night, Fang Xuanling was quite haggard, both eyes were full of dark circles.

To be honest, he also suffered from great pressure.

Back home, Mrs. Fang heard the news of the epidemic and murmured in his ear from time to time, whether they were punished by heaven for their rebellion.

"Ma'am, don't worry, my lord said that the change of the sky is not to be feared, and Xunzi also said that manpower can overcome the sky, and a mere epidemic is not to be feared!" Fang Xuanling responded very firmly.

then……

He was kicked out of the bed again, "You are busy outside, be careful to catch the disease, come back and infect our mother and daughter!"

Fang Xuanling only responded with a wry smile, and then chose to self-isolate and lived in a separate room.

Although he said that to his wife, he was still a little apprehensive in the face of such a large-scale epidemic.

Xu Mu looked at Fang Xuanling, who was in his forties, with cloudy and dim eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Old Fang, the research institute will soon develop a thermometer. Next, you need to organize four hundred small officials and give one hundred thousand Surname, measure body temperature one by one, if there is any abnormality, they will be isolated and observed."

Fang Xuanling's eyes finally brightened.

Yesterday, the lord explained to him the principle of the thermometer.

"Great! With this...thermometer, as long as we can identify the sick and isolate them, most of the epidemic can be controlled!" Fang Xuanling clenched his fists tightly, showing a rare expression of excitement.

As the director of the General Affairs Department under Xu Mu, he has never shown his emotions or anger.

Xu Mu sighed lightly, nodded and said, "This is just the first step. Next, hundreds of small officials have a very heavy workload, and they need to disinfect the city with alcohol..."

Fang Xuanling didn't know, so, "What is disinfection? Is there poison in the city?"

Xu Mu touched his nose, suddenly not knowing how to explain it.

He can't say that this epidemic is caused by a virus, right?

Before Sun Simiao came to Wanmin City, he couldn't explain that kind of microscopic things clearly.

"This poison is not that poison, but the virus of the epidemic. The epidemic is transmitted through breathing, and it may attach to various places in the city. Therefore, every place in the city must be disinfected to prevent indirect infection." Xu Mu paused, then continued. explained.

Fang Xuanling nodded silently. He didn't know much about this kind of epidemic, so he could only follow the steps set by the lord.

"My lord, don't worry, the four hundred officials under the lord's mansion will definitely complete the task!" Fang Xuanling promised in a deep voice.

Afterwards, he personally led and led four hundred officials, and began to walk among the common people. With the cooperation of the soldiers, he established one after another... epidemic detection points.

……

Outside the city, just after the monitoring point was set up, a group of people without masks surrounded them.

Young and old, men and women, everyone had expressions of worry and sadness on their faces.

In their cognition, when encountering an epidemic, there is no other way but to wait for death.

Many people tried to escape from Wanmin City, but the outside of Wanmin City was tightly guarded by black armored soldiers, and those who escaped were arrested.

But the epidemic has been brewing overnight, and hundreds of outbreaks have already occurred among the [-] people.

Everything happens around them.

Panic.

An old man on crutches walked over tremblingly, took Liang Ziqiu's hand, held tightly, and asked in a deep voice: "Liang Ziqiu, tell the old man, has the Lord's Mansion decided to give up on us?" ?”

"Yes, yes, I heard that the lord wants to leave the city and flee to Luoyang!"

"We were forced to go deep into the mountains by you, so we don't want to just wait to die..."

……

These common people talked to each other and surrounded Liang Ziqiu tightly.

Liang Ziqiu smiled wryly, and shouted again and again: "Everyone, please keep a distance and don't gather together. If one of us gets it, wouldn't we all be infected?"

His words immediately dispersed the gathered people.

Many people looked at the people beside each other, full of defense, and consciously opened up a step away.

Only then did Liang Ziqiu slowly take out the thermometer distributed by the lord, and said to the people in harmony: "This is an artifact developed by the lord, do you want to know if you have the disease? Will it infect your family? Just use Once it tests, it can know whether you are infected with the disease!"

As soon as this remark came out, the people surrounding this monitoring point became excited again.

Most of the reasons why people are panicking now are that they don't know whether they have the disease or whether anyone around them has the disease.

If it is possible to detect whether there is a disease, then...they will be much safer.

The biggest reason for people's impetuousness is that everything around them is full of unknowns and uncertainties.

"Everyone line up, please line up consciously, show your ID card, and accept the test with your ID card!" Liang Ziqiu shouted hastily.

To talk to these restless common people, he had to raise his voice.

At this time, the role of the ID card was once again reflected.

It can be very accurately counted who is sick and who is healthy.

Because Liang Ziqiu is very popular among the common people, his monitoring point has the most common people, surrounding more than [-] people at a time.

It took him two days to test all these people.

If you don't test it, you don't know. When it is tested, everyone is shocked.

"Among the 2000 people, 120 nine people have abnormal body temperature!"

Liang Ziqiu quickly reported the news to Fang Xuanling.

And those healthy people are afraid of these 120 nine people like snakes and scorpions.

"Liang Ziqiu, don't approach them, this disease is very evil and will kill people!" Seeing that Liang Ziqiu approached the 120 nine people, many people hurriedly persuaded them.

Liang Ziqiu explained to the people: "I have a mask distributed by my lord. As long as I keep wearing the mask and disinfect it with alcohol, the chance of being infected is not high."

After hearing this, the people became even more excited.

The people of this era do not have the so-called spirit of doubt.

Almost whatever the lord's mansion says, they will believe.

The Lord's Mansion said that the thermometer was useful and could detect the disease, so they believed it.

At this time, they had no choice but to believe in the Lord's Mansion.

"Then where can I buy this mask?" Many people couldn't help but ask.

Liang Ziqiu said with a smile: "You don't need to buy one. Tomorrow, the Lord's Mansion will give each of you one as a gift."

After several days of rushing, the textile workshop has already produced [-] masks overnight and is still in the process of making them.

Although it is not a medical mask, it can more or less prevent the spread of typhoid fever.

After the people were settled down, Liang Ziqiu took 120 nine people into the city.

Each of the 120 nine people looked mournful, pale and full of despair.

They just thought... that they were going to the city to die.

(End of this chapter)