In spring, there are few vegetables and a lot of meat, but the price of meat has risen a bit recently.
As soon as the meat was brought home, Xiaoqian asked the Zhou Dalang brothers to chop up the meat, and then distributed some to the Bai family, and steamed or marinated the rest.
She also cut a few pieces of good pork and hung them in the kitchen to smoke. Everyone in the family likes to eat bacon, and it is easy to take it with you when you go out. It is no problem to store it in a cage for half a year.
Man Bao and Bai Shan Bai Erlang ate to their hearts' content, even Bai Dalang couldn't resist bringing his wife and son back home, and after eating for two days, they moved back to Changqing Lane.
After Man Bao finished eating, she brought two pots into the palace and distributed them directly to colleagues in the Imperial Hospital. Then she put some in a bowl and sent them to Xiao Yuanzheng, and asked him with a smile, "Xiao Yuanzheng, what about the vaccination?" Have you spoken to His Majesty?"
Xiao Yuan was reaching out to take the bowl, put it in front of him, opened his food box to eat lunch, and said: "Said, His Majesty has approved it, we are lucky, there are three prisoners who have been approved to be beheaded by the Ministry of Punishment, and it can be avoided if you say it." They agreed to change the beheading to hang."
He said: "However, it has not been decided where to put the person for trial. It is impossible to be in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, or even in the capital."
Man Bao pondered: "It's better to be an independent small village, empty the people inside, except us, everyone is only outside, and their lives are controlled by themselves."
She said: "They have healthy limbs. If they are only infected with smallpox, they should be able to take care of each other when we stagger the time."
Xiao Yuanzheng nodded, "It would be best if we can find people who have had acne and take care of them."
He paused and said: "The capital city has made statistics before, and the county government still has records, but it's not certain whether they are willing or not."
At that time, the situation in Beijing was special. Many people were recruited by force, and then they received money and sent them home. This time, it was an experiment in the Tai Hospital.
After thinking for a while, Man Bao said, "I'll ask County Magistrate Tang."
When Man Bao went to the Imperial Medical Office for class the next day, he wrote a letter to Tang County Magistrate, and asked the officers of the Imperial Medical Office to send it to the Chang'an County Government.
In fact, she thought that County Magistrate Tang would reply her with a letter, but who knew that County Magistrate Tang personally found the Imperial Medical Office at noon.
"You're going to experiment with vaccination?"
Man Bao nodded, "Try human pox first. If it is as effective as the rumors say, then we will look for a safer method of vaccinia."
County magistrate Tang lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then said, "Alright, I'll help you find someone."
People who had acne before, and people who were cured of smallpox this time were recorded by the county government, and no one could find them more easily than him.
Magistrate Tang asked, "How much is the salary?"
This full treasure really doesn't know.
She paused and said: "This is a dangerous thing. Even if they have acne, they will not be able to go out to meet relatives and friends for a long time, but the psychological pressure is also great. I will tell Xiao Yuanzheng to give as much as possible." Some, how much is the general salary now?"
County Magistrate Tang said: "The folks in the city are between 600 and 800 Wen."
Man Bao pondered, "How about giving them a salary of 900 Wen a month, or 1,000 Wen?"
"Yes," County Magistrate Tang got up and said, "You and Xiaoyuan are talking, try to improve it a little bit, you also said that they are definitely not willing to take care of smallpox patients, especially death row prisoners, I would like a higher price Find someone for you."
Man Bao hurriedly warned: "It is best to be an adult man, honest and obedient, or a strong old woman."
Magistrate Tang said it was all right, he took two steps outside before remembering, and turned to look at her, "Man Bao, so is there really a way to vaccinate pox in this world?"
Man Bao said: "Am I the kind of person who talks nonsense? Of course there are."
Magistrate Tang couldn't help sighing about her good luck, "It seems that God really loves you. You want to go to the Western Regions for a study tour, but the vaccination method happened to be spread over there."
Man Bao just smiled.
Magistrate Tang went back to find someone, while Man Bao went back to Xiao Yuan to ask for money.
On this point, Xiao Yuanzheng is quite generous, he said: "I will ask the Ministry of Households for money later, and since the Ministry of Punishment has agreed, then this matter will be done. I thought about it all night last night, and finally found out Three places. One is the job field in Chang'an County or Wannian County, and a few houses are built on the side to guard people; the other is the mountain temple of the Ministry of Criminal Justice outside the city. People will be temporarily suppressed in the mountain temple, and it is spring now, and many prisoners will not be escorted to Beijing until the spring and autumn, so now the mountain temple is empty, and the gate control inside is still strict, I think it can be used."
"The other one is to ask for a few rooms in Huangzhuang with His Majesty," he said, "The first one will cost money, and Chang'an County and Wannian County may not agree, but they are small officials, so they must be from the Ministry of Punishment. Bullying them with His Majesty; the second is the easiest and most convenient to hold now, but it is more difficult to clean up afterwards. You also know that smallpox survives for a long time, so I am afraid that they will miss it when they live in it. Prisoners will take the smallpox out, and in the other two places, the house will be demolished after use, and everything will be burned down.”
"The third thing is that it's convenient, saves money, and can be cleaned up afterwards. As I said, it's not difficult to burn it, but it's not difficult to seal it up if you don't burn it."
Anyway, Huangzhuang is so big, as long as there is smallpox in it, even if he has ten guts, he will not dare to go in.
Man Bao rubbed his chin to think, and felt that what she lacked most at the moment was time, and she had to finalize the matter of going to the Western Regions before Anxi's letter came back, so he said: "Let's choose Mountain Temple or Huangzhuang, You discuss it with the Ministry of Punishment first, if not, I will go to His Majesty."
Xiao Yuanzheng raised his eyebrows, and responded with a smile after a while. When she left, he looked at her back and shook his head and laughed, "You're still young after all, and you're too energetic. How can you be anxious about such a thing? Naturally, it's done steadily."
Having said that, Xiao Yuanzheng still went to communicate with the Ministry of Punishment.
Of course, the Ministry of Criminal Justice disagreed, just as Xiao Yuan was thinking, now it’s a good time to borrow it out, what if the Ministry of Criminal Justice uses it to really catch smallpox later
Not to mention the patients, the servants of the Ministry of Punishment also cherish their lives, okay
So they flatly refused, no matter what Xiao Yuanzheng said, they would not agree.
So Man Bao went to ask for the emperor's Ping'an pulse the next day, and after asking the emperor for Ping An's pulse, she also took advantage of the opportunity to ask the queen for a pulse, and finally went back to the Imperial Hospital happily, and said to Xiao Yuanzheng, "It's still the queen's mother." Reasonable."
Xiao Yuanzheng knew that this matter was almost inseparable.
The emperor had dinner with the queen in the evening, and when he heard the queen's words, he blew his nose and said, "I didn't say no, but seeing that she was so anxious to suppress her, so as not to make mistakes, why did she find you here?" ?”