open sea

Chapter 1234
The plague is never an independent accident, but limited to the level of human technology, it is difficult to know this fact.

The Europa plague closed the port of Seville, Spain, and Plymouth, England. The news that the Eastern Military Government imposed military control on the east coast of Asia and prohibited all ships from entering and leaving the mainland entered Wangxia Prefecture, the easternmost part of the Ming Dynasty, through Majia Port and Heishui Mohe Islands. The transmission speed suddenly became faster due to the existence of the telegram.

On the evening of the second day alone, the news went directly to Tianting from the telegraph room in the Forbidden City.

"Ouroi, is also affected by the plague?"

In the military room of the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, the word "Ye" uttered by Emperor Wanli means that he is the only god in the world.

Because of the whole world, only he can know what is happening in every corner of the world at the same time.

In Daming, a plague also broke out.

In other words, the plague never stopped attacking Daming.

Due to Chen Mu's letter, some of the furnishings in Wanli's military room have been reduced, and they have been moved to the Enchengfang Museum in the east of the city. He was not willing to let it out, but asked him to take this opportunity to ask Zhang Juzheng, Wang Guoguang and others for a lot of things.

It is worth mentioning that the world's first steam engine, Huode Xingjun, was released and placed in the middle of the lobby of Enchengfang Museum.

The grandfather-level steam engine is always strong and strong. It once sang gold and iron horses in the Qianqing Palace, and also saw the harsh weather of the twelfth lunar month in the imperial prison. Now it has become the treasure of the National Museum of the Ming Dynasty. It is well-informed.

At this moment, Emperor Wanli's desktop was piled up with reports on the plague from various places over the years. There were as many as three pages of reports on the epidemic from a one-foot-high scroll.

From the first year of Wanli, there was no one year of peace in the whole country. In the first year, the famine in Huzhou Prefecture led to a plague, the plague in Zaoyang County in Xiangyang Prefecture, and the outbreak of a plague in Zhejiang Province; in the third year of Wanli, Baoshan flooded and flooded Jiading In the spring of the fifth year of Wanli, smallpox spread from Huangyan to Nan'an, Taihe, and Ganzhou, and then it was contained; in the sixth year of Wanli, there was a major epidemic in Bozhou and Nanfeng; County plague.

In the eighth year of Wanli, the plague spread to Taigu, Liaozhou, Taiyuan, Baode, Datong, Dingxiang, Lingqiu, Wenshui, Qingyuan, Yongping, and Qixian along with water transportation.

In the ninth year of Wanli, the plague in Taigu, Liaozhou, Taiyuan, Baode, Datong, Dingxiang, Lingqiu, and Qingyuan was contained, but it had spread to Yangqu, Jiaocheng, Daizhou, Pingding, and Changzhi.

Although the plague was widespread in the past, people have seen those plagues, and doctors also have treatment methods, but in the tenth year of Wanli, there was a severe drought, and two different diseases came.

The first is the plague brought back by the wounded soldiers outside the Great Wall, which is actually the plague. The severe drought in the customs is even more severe outside the Great Wall. It started from Tongzhou and spread to the capital; then it was the flag army and merchants who disembarked in Beiyang, Tianjin with Chen Shigong last year. Some people in the village were infected with another kind of plague. The people generally believed that this plague was caused by a long drought. The physicians in the capital judged through clinical diagnosis that the disease started with chills, fever, convulsions, secondary macular degeneration, mania, and most of them died.

According to Chen Shigong's identification, this disease was brought back by their businessmen from South Asia. It is a plague that occurs frequently among the aborigines. It was named yellow fever plague by the Eastern Army. , but it is highly contagious and extremely affects combat effectiveness.

Wanli personally summed up these plague reports over the years, feeling the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

Every time a plague takes up a very small proportion of the official documents of the court, it usually only takes up one sentence when reporting to his desk.

Limited by the speed of information transmission in the past, disasters such as floods and droughts accounted for a large proportion of official documents reported to the imperial court by local officials, while wind disasters and plagues were relatively less, because plagues were reported to the imperial court and sent back, basically passed up.

In fact, the Central Plains Dynasty has been fighting against the plague since ancient times. This is even the main role of the Central Plains Dynasty’s bureaucratic system, and there are enough precedents and plans for resisting the plague.

Emperors from the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen, Emperor Yuan, Emperor Cheng, and Emperor Huan all issued edicts of self-blame for the plague, ordering officials to reduce eating, drinking, and entertainment, and reduce horse mounts to relieve victims of the plague. Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty was the first to issue an edict to deal with smallpox. For those who suffer from the epidemic, Shekong Didi used isolation methods to treat the plague and cut off the infection. The "Sick Qianfang" also used for isolation also appeared in the Han Dynasty, and it was called the "Patient Square" in the Tang Dynasty.

When a plague broke out in the Song Dynasty, the local yamen organized free consultations with doctors, and the consultation fees were paid by the yamen. All the generals sent to the frontier fortresses were required to bring their accompanying medical officers to prevent diseases in the army.

Even including the habit of revising the classics in the flourishing ages of the past dynasties, medical books have always been among them.

All technology and science are driven by demand.

It is human nature to see problems, recognize them, and solve them.

The local government has a good solution to the plague, and because of this, its proportion in the official documents is relatively small, and it is not easy to be valued by people. Once it is paid attention to, it will be too late.

No one has ever linked so many plagues together. Most people live in the countryside, and they only know about the situation in the neighboring counties half a month later, let alone the major events in the surrounding provinces.

Even Emperor Wanli, who knew everything by passing through, connected it all because of the Anatomy Encyclopedias of the Eastern Military Hospital brought to him by Chen Shigong when he returned to Beijing, which made him a little interested in medical skills. Plague in the world.

What made him realize that this was a war was Chen Mu's letter from the Eastern Military Mansion, which made him ask: "Ouloyi is also affected by the epidemic?"

"Doctor Chen, you said that the black death of Ou Luoyi and my big head plague are the same plague, so they are the same plague." Wanli's eyes seemed to always contain curiosity, and he said doubtfully: "And Humans and animals are infecting each other, and there may be a relationship between them."

He has been like this since he was a child. He has seen too many novel things in the world. The combination of water and fire makes the green dragon hide from the ground, sails the boat without sails, and burns the balloon to make the flying fish fly into the air and burn down the company camp. There is nothing in this world that he dare not think about.

Chen Shigong sat quietly behind the emperor, and said: "I don't know, but Chen Shuai and His Majesty had the same guess. He thought that the closer the world is connected, the easier it is for a plague in one place to be carried away by ships and soldiers. a place."

Wanli put down his pen, turned his head to sit and nodded slowly, immediately put this question behind him, and said: "I know that you cured more than a hundred cases of yellow fever in Beiyang, and you also cured several cases of Xilao disease with penicillium. But do you know where it comes from, where it lives, who it is addicted to, and what medicine can cure it?"

Chen Shigong shook his head: "I don't know."

"If you don't know, don't go to Tongzhou. You are the best doctor in the Dongyang Military Hospital. Chen Shuai praised you very much. He said that in time, you can save our people from the suffering of patients. Tongzhou—don't worry. "

Wanli, who was sitting, opened his arms: "I have sent 830 medical households in Shuntianfu to set up five disease workshops in Tongzhou to isolate and treat patients, and give them money in taicang. For thousands of years, the ancestors have inherited virtues, and what kind of plague has never come , without you, Dr. Chen, all of them would have been wiped out one by one by my people in the Celestial Dynasty, not just you."

Chen Shigong didn't shake his head this time, he just sighed: "Chen, don't dare."

"Although I know that I have a heavy responsibility, I dare not not go to Tongzhou. The sages have said that they shrink back. Although there are tens of thousands of people, I will go. If I don't go, I will be ashamed of my heart, the conscience of the world, and even more ashamed of my life. Learning, I hope your Majesty—" Chen Shigong bowed down slowly: "All ministers are willing to go to Tongzhou to overthrow this epidemic."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)