General Guo was preparing for the next expedition, when he heard the concierge report to Zhou Man asking to see him, his first instinct was to see him.
But thinking that she just came back from the outside, maybe she really found out the prescription for cowpox. This matter is indeed very important. As Anxi's guardian, he really needs to be informed, so he suppressed his temper and said : "Please come in."
Man Bao only came here with Mr. Zhuang Bai Shan, and the others were not too happy to see General Guo's old face.
General Guo picked up the tea and drank half a cup. Hearing Zhou Man's intention, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Master Zhou found the prescription?"
Man Bao said: "There is no specific recipe. After all, the legendary Far West Country is still far away, and the area around Kucha is uneasy, so it is difficult for us to pass through, but we also know some steps, so we want to Give it a try."
Man Bao said: "We didn't know everything about the human pox method when we tested it in Beijing, didn't we try it out? We are also very confident in the vaccinia method this time."
She had confidence, but General Guo did not.
Now that the battlefield is the worst, how could he let something like smallpox appear in Xizhou
Once it spreads, the consequences will be disastrous.
So General Guo smiled and said: "Since Mr. Zhou is so confident, why don't you go back to the capital and try again? After all, Xizhou is remote and barren, and there are not many medicinal materials. After returning to the capital, there are imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital and Mr. Zhou." negotiate together."
"Although we are confident, we are not absolutely sure," Man Bao said, "So we want to try it out here. If it doesn't work, we can continue to investigate. Otherwise, if we can't try it back in the capital, don't we have to run a thousand miles away again?" Going to the Western Regions?"
General Guo was about to practice Tai Chi with a smile on his face. Mr. Zhuang suddenly said with a smile: "General, there is no need to worry too much. I know from the businessman you sent to the yard last time that the cowpox method exists. Since it exists, we will be able to test it out." .”
General Guo said: "That's just a legend after all."
"So we can't go back with just a legend," Mr. Zhuang said, "We traveled thousands of miles to the Western Regions, and we went through two raids by horse thieves and one by Tubo soldiers. We lost so many guards before we came here. , if you only get a legend and go back to Beijing, even if His Majesty doesn’t ask the crime, we will have no face to go back to Beijing.”
Mr. Zhuang looked at General Guo implicitly, waiting for his decision.
General Guo pursed his lips, Zhuang Xun said so much, they had to get results here before returning to Beijing, what else could he do
The mission has a high degree of autonomy, and His Majesty has already made a decree to come over and ask him to give them the greatest support.
General Guo remained unhappily silent for a long time, and finally had to ask: "What does Master Zhou need?"
Man Baoben was only going to ask him how many people he wanted to do the experiment, but now after seeing the confrontation between Mr. Zhuang and General Guo, she was blessed to know that attitude and softness are not of much use to General Guo, but being tougher is more effective. So he laughed and said, "I want a few cows, and I want an open place to build a house for experiments. Of course, I also need people for vaccination experiments."
Man Bao said: "We also have precedents, just recruit from prisoners."
General Guo snorted and said, "Most of the prisoners in Xizhou have gone to the battlefield. If they are recruited voluntarily, no one will come to respond."
Bai Shan smiled slightly and said: "Although it is possible to die from the pox, it is also possible to go to the battlefield. If they don't want to, then in addition to exempting them from punishment, they can give more money."
To put it simply, why don't they all come out of the Hufu for the silver
General Guo thought of something, and said pointedly: "Master Zhou doesn't know, Anxi is fighting now, and he can't even collect the military expenses. How can there be so much money to recruit prisoners?"
Everyone's eyes fell on the jade cup in his hand. It is said that General Guo, whose military tents are inlaid with gold and jade, would cry poor
But Bai Shan quickly said: "Sir, just help us recruit, we can't do anything about exempting from punishment, but we still have some money."
He said: "We still have some silk cloth that we brought from the capital, and the quality is not bad. If they are willing, I will give them a piece of silk cloth whether they live or die after the matter is completed."
"Birth, things are naturally delivered to them. If they die, whether they want to be buried with them or send them home, we can do it for them." Bai Shan said: "I will definitely prepare thick coffins for them."
General Guo choked. After hearing this, ordinary people might think that Bai Shan was cursing or swearing, but General Guo knew that for these prisoners, this was really an obsession.
Many of the prisoners who were exiled here wanted to die in peace, but who prepared coffins for them
It’s okay to die in prison, at least you can dig a hole and bury it with a grass blanket. If you die on the battlefield, those who have time to collect their bodies will be buried in the big pit with everyone, and those who have no time to collect their bodies will probably be feeding birds and wolf.
General Guo rubbed his forehead, nodded and said: "The three of you should go back first, I'll ask someone to make arrangements, and we'll talk about it after the arrangements are made."
Naturally, General Guo wouldn't do this kind of trivial matter himself, he recruited an official from the Protectorate's Mansion and handed it over to him.
The other party secretly asked if it would be embarrassing to delay
General Guo thought about it, and shook his head after a while, "Forget it, let's do it for them as soon as possible."
He felt that he might not be compatible with them. Since they appeared, he hadn't been in a very comfortable mood. At this time, their food and grass still needed to be provided by the household department, so it was not appropriate to fight that boy Liu Huan again.
Besides, he is an elder after all, and he always cares about a junior. There are already bad reviews outside, and he really doesn't want to always fall into the hands of the grandparents of the Liu family, so forget it, finish the job as soon as possible, and send him away as soon as possible.
At this time, General Guo didn't know that Zhou Man and the others wanted to stay here and wait for General Ashina to return together, otherwise he would definitely take back today's order.
When he knew, they were already on their way to the expedition, and it seemed too troublesome to send someone back to tell the officials of the Protectorate's Mansion, so the matter was let go.
Of course, they don't know about these full treasures.
At this time they had just walked out of the Protectorate's Mansion, after walking a certain distance, Man Bao said: "It turns out that he eats hard but not soft."
Mr. Zhuang felt that she was too naughty, so he patted her on the head and said: "No nonsense, General Guo is an officer, how can you talk like that?"
Man Bao shrank his neck, but he didn't object when they discussed yesterday
Just as he was slandering, two horses came running towards him. The people on the horses were taken aback when they saw them, and then ran over, greeted them with a smile: "Master Zhou and Mr. Bai are back? Is everything going well on the way?"
It was General Guo and General Meng. They had a good impression of Man Bao and Bai Shan, so they greeted them with a smile, "It went well. Where did the two young generals come from?"
General Guo Xiao said with a smile: "We just came back from military training in the barracks."