After successfully fooling all the patients in Qingning County, the subordinates did the same, and concentrated patients from several other counties to Qingping County.
The epidemic situation in Qingping County is extremely serious. Originally, the symptoms of the disease were obvious on the second day, and the mortality rate was 100%. It should not have spread so quickly. The bad is bad. Before the arrival of the imperial court, the people of Qingping County did a stupid thing.
… They gathered together and held a sacrificial ceremony of "sending off the god of plague".
In an era when the whole world feared ghosts and gods, the local people in the backward mountains were particularly superstitious and believed that the plague was brought by the plague god. As long as the god of plague is sent away, the disaster will naturally leave. As a result, the people of the county gathered together with patients from every household, knelt three times and nine times before the altar where the offerings were placed, chanted words and prayed.
When Wei Lian heard this, his temples jumped fiercely.
... In his eyes, this is simply the scene of large-scale droplet transmission, the scene of large-scale cluster epidemic accidents, and the scene of large-scale mortals dying.
It is conceivable that the God of Plague could not be sent away, and more than half of the entire Qingping County was recruited, except for some able-bodied young people, almost the entire army was wiped out.
By the time the disaster relief team of the imperial court arrived, there were already corpses everywhere, and souls filled the sky.
After Wei Lian took over Qingping County, he quickly took isolation measures to separate the sick from the healthy. All the sick people are concentrated in the south, and the healthy people are temporarily in the north, and the two do not touch each other. The patient is taken care of by the medical officer, and the entire body must be protected when the medical officer takes care of it. The imperial physician is responsible for judging the severity of each patient's symptoms to determine the dosage of medication.
Some family members were unwilling to be separated from the patient at first, and some patients were also unwilling to cooperate obediently, as if they felt that being quarantined meant their own death. Others felt that what the medical officer gave them was poison, and they were going to poison them to death.
The doctors were all heartbroken. To know that there are so many patients, the medicinal materials are already in short supply, and some people have to be so wasted, and their hearts are so painful that they bleed.
It is not easy to boil so many medicines. There are not enough medicine boys. These old doctors are guarding the stove in person. After a few days of continuous rotation, many of them fainted from exhaustion. The painstaking efforts have been so let down, and you will die of anger if you don't feel bad.
After Zhou Yushan heard about it, he took the initiative to propose a solution.
On that day, Zhou Yushan pushed Zhou Xiaoshan in a wheelchair and appeared in front of the people in Qingping County, proving to everyone that the court really had a way to save them.
"Fathers and villagers, I can testify! You know, my mother died of this disease, and Xiaoshan also got sick at the beginning. I have been running around in Jiangzhou City for the past few days to discuss with the dog officer, that dog officer is now They are different from the dog officials who persecuted us in the past!" Zhou Yushan said loudly, "Xiaoshan is my younger sister, she also got this disease, her right arm was rotten a while ago, but now! Look! Xiaoshan, show them." Zhou Yushan said this in a soft voice.
Zhou Xiaoshan has stayed at home since he was a child. It was the first time he was a little nervous when facing so many eyes, but he still obediently rolled up his sleeves and showed his arms.
It takes a lot of courage for a girl to bare her arms in front of outsiders, but in order to save so many lives in Qingping County, she volunteered.
The arms of the girl who grew up in the commoner are not as fair and delicate as the daughter of the daughter who is pampered by the boudoir, but the upper part is intact and there is no trace of decay.
The originally excited people were quiet for a moment, which made Zhou Yushan's voice clearer: "Have you seen it! She is well! After drinking the medicine prescribed by the son, she was no longer serious that day, and the next day was much weaker. On the third day, she was completely healed! You watched Xiaoshan and I grow up, and we will not lie to you!"
The people were sluggish for a moment, and then a fierce looting broke out. Originally, the medicine was too much to avoid, but now they all swarmed up: "Give me a bowl!"
"I want medicine!"
"This medicine can really guarantee that we will get rid of the disease?!"
"Never mind, give me a bowl too!"
"I also want!"
…
Zhou Yushan stepped back, and Wei Lian glanced at him: "Well done."
Zhou Yushan smiled shyly: "Young Master saved Xiaoshan's life, Caomin just said a few words, it's just a little effort."
Wei Lian looked down at Zhou Xiaoshan's legs, which were covered with blankets, and said, "I can cure her legs."
Zhou Yushan stayed for a while.
"Save people to the end." Wei Lian smiled lightly, "It's just a little effort."
Zhou Yushan's eyes trembled, and he immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "Young master is so kind and virtuous, you must repay the people who are cattle and horses!"
"No need." Wei Lian lowered his eyes.
"As I said, it's a job to do."
Over the next few days, things started to slowly get back on track. Jiangzhou's government affairs were temporarily handed over to Zhou Mingli, while Wei Lian performed acupuncture and moxibustion on Zhou Xiaoshan every day, accompanied by drug conditioning, and slowly recovered her legs. At the rest of the time, she will pay attention to the progress of the epidemic. The imperial physicians and the medical officers and pharmacists were busy seeing patients, decocting medicines, and feeding them. Everyone was very busy.
However, the speed of treatment can not keep up with the speed of death of patients. The medicinal materials are limited, the decoction takes time, and there are not enough people to take care of them, and everything is powerless.
People are dying every day in Qingping County, and the bodies are piled up like mountains. It can only be said that the situation is much better than before the arrival of the imperial court. But in the face of life and death, manpower is still small, and all they can do is try their best to save them.
Those corpses were ordered by Wei Lian to be burned to prevent the corpses from becoming a new source of infection. However, this move was protested by the family of the deceased. They believed that people should be buried in the ground for safety after death. Burning the remains is to turn the bones into ashes, and innocent people should not be treated in this way. Some family members gathered to take the body away for burial.
Some soldiers could not understand this approach, but because of the prestige that Wei Lian had built up in the past few days, they chose to obey the order unconditionally, and planned to speak again with the families of the protesting deceased.
Wei Lian said, "Let them take it away."
The soldiers froze for a moment and moved out of the way.
A few days later, news came that the family members who took the corpse were all infected with the plague, while the family members who chose to leave the corpse behind were all safe and sound.
On the same day, some soldiers were found to be infected. The reason was because he had secretly taken off his hijab to let out the breath.
So far, no one dared to question Wei Lian's order. He said he wanted to burn the body, but no one stopped him.
Everything has proved that the son is correct, and he has become a myth in the hearts of everyone.
Wei Lian sent the sick family members and soldiers to the quarantine area. Now with drug treatment, patients with mild symptoms can recover quickly.
However, the shortage of manpower and medicinal materials has caused many people to go from mild to severe, until they died without waiting for the bowl of life-saving medicine.
Driven by the desire to survive, people will become selfish.
In the isolation area, patients rush for medicine.
Xu Wenqing has become a little silent these days.
He is a doctor, but he has not seen much life and death. He was born in prosperous Yongping, and the biggest disease he has ever seen before is to cure a headache.
But now he faces life and death every day.
Seeing that the husband and wife are separated by yin and yang, the white-haired parents send the black-haired person, and the young child loses both parents, all of which are painful in the world. Anyone who has the ability to empathize will also feel pathetic.
There is a serious shortage of manpower, and Xu Wenqing has been taking care of patients for days. The patient who had spoken to him yesterday may be covered with a white cloth today and carried out to be burned with a handful of ashes. It happened so many times that he didn't even dare to speak to the patient anymore.
Imperial physicians are people who are in close contact with patients. Even if every precaution is taken, there are still many imperial physicians who are recruited and turned from doctors to patients. Those who can have a certain status in the Taiyuan Hospital are all elderly, and their body's ability to resist is not very good. Even though the imperial physician would take medicine as soon as he fell ill, an old physician still left them.
That old doctor was still called Grandpa by Xu Wenqing, and he was considered highly respected in the hospital.
On the day of his death, people in the entire Taiyuan Hospital mourned for him for a moment, then suppressed the sadness and continued to work on saving lives.
Wei Lian came to the scene silently, bowed slightly to the body of the old doctor, and then ordered it to be burned.
In the blaze of fire, Xu Wenqing stood aside for a long time.
This seemed to be the last straw that broke him.
"Father." The seventeen-year-old boy turned slightly red at his father, "I originally thought that I would be very sad if I stayed in Yongping and couldn't help. But I found out that I was here, but I still couldn't save them. Seeing them die makes it even more sad."
Imperial Physician Xu patted his son's head: "Then choose again, do you still want to come?"
Xu Wenqing nodded: "I want to come."
"Although I can't save so many people... but at least I can save some people."
Imperial Physician Xu said with relief: "Our Xu family has a good offspring."
Two days later, Imperial Physician Xu contracted the plague while caring for patients.
Xu Wenqing took care of him personally.
Imperial Physician Xu has a mild illness, and his body is still strong. He only needs to take a few doses of medicine and he will be fine. However, when Xu Wenqing was about to serve Imperial Physician Xu and take medicine, a middle-aged man with almost half of his body rotting ran over, grabbed the medicine bowl and drank it with his last strength: "Give me the medicine!"
Xu Wenqing was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "What are you doing with the medicine! You are so ill, the dose of this bowl of medicine is useless to you!"
The big man said grimly: "It's better than nothing! Why can you drink the medicine first, I didn't see the medicine until I was about to die!"
Xu Wenqing choked: "There is a shortage of medicinal materials now, it will take time to boil, wait-"
"Wait for Lao Tzu to die!" The big man sneered, "What? Your life is life, but not ours?"
Xu Wenqing blushed with anger: "But my father is sick and still wants to save you! He got sick to save you!"
The big man is quite unreasonable: "Since it is to save us, isn't it right to give me your father's life-saving medicine? This is what he should!"
Xu Wenqing was suddenly speechless.
Seeing the big man walk away, Xu Wenqing shuddered.
This innocent young man began to doubt the meaning of his medical studies.
He found that he had saved lives.
But it can't heal people's hearts.
The big man still didn't survive, and the medicine for mild illness didn't work for him, and he still died.
Xu Wenqing went to boil another bowl of medicine for his father to drink. After Xu Taiyi recovered, he went into the ranks of saving patients non-stop.
Xu Wenqing became more and more silent, mixed with a hint of indifference. He seemed to have a heartbreak.
There was another farce recently. A patient from Qingning County was sent back after being cured, but her son was unwilling to accept the old mother, but instead shouted: "Where's the gold! Who wants this immortal? I want it. Gold!"
"If you don't give me gold, I'm going to make trouble! How can your lackeys of the court be unbelievable!"
Sadly and ridiculously, this happens more than once.
"Sir, a lot of people gathered outside and were making a fuss, saying that they wanted to give them gold, and the commotion was particularly bad..." the guard hesitated, "How about... let's just give it to them?"
After all, the young master has indeed promised so, and they are not short of a few taels of gold...
Xu Wenqing sneered aside. People are insatiable greed, and he has already seen how bad they can be in the past few days.
Wei Lian asked back, "Do you really think it makes sense to save people's lives and give them gold?"
The guard hurriedly said: "Naturally it's totally unreasonable! But so many of them are making trouble..." More things are worse than less things.
"Remember, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense, it's not because there are too many people making trouble without reason, so you should stand on their side." Wei Lian said warmly, "Believe it or not, just follow them today, and everyone will follow suit in the future, all in vain. Dropping the pie and hurting the hearts of those who are truly responsible."
"Although there are many silver taels for disaster relief, it will be used to appease the refugees. Jiangzhou has a lot of business to do now, and there are many places where money is used, but it should never be used here." Wei Lian's tone was calm, "The order goes on, anyone who picks up quarrels and provoks trouble. , imprisoned for seven days. Those who incite people's hearts will be given 30 sticks. Those who do not change after repeated teachings will be killed without mercy."
"Yes!"
Xu Wenqing was startled.
He quietly stared at Wei Lian's delicate eyebrows, and suddenly felt a gentle and powerful aura in this young man who was not much older than him.
Then Wei Lian looked at him sideways and smiled slightly.
"Doctor Xu said, you seem to have something on your mind recently."
Xu Wenqing's expression changed slightly.
I never thought that my thoughts were still seen through by my father...
Wei Lian turned around: "Follow me."