In a flash, Shen Tang had made his decision.
Her first reaction was to turn around and instruct Xu Jie.
"Wenzhu will stay in Fugu for a few more days."
Xu Jie stood up and was about to get up, and said angrily: "What do you mean, Mr. Shen? Let's not talk about whether this is an epidemic or not. Even if it is, does Mr. Shen think that the epidemic was brought by us from Shangnan?"
He even wanted to detain him.
Shen Tang asked back: "If it is really an epidemic, is Wen Zhu going to run around with the disease and poison everyone?"
The young man, who already looked somewhat like an adult, had a firm gaze and a tone that was unquestionable and refutable.
"Xu Wenzhu! If it is really an epidemic, even if we die, you and I will die in Fugu City!" After the words fell, without waiting for Xu Jie's mood and reaction, Shen Tang comforted Lin Feng in a gentle voice, "Lingde, don't panic! First transfer those people to the vacant room in the administrative center."
She also summoned several bluebirds with shiny feathers.
They flapped their wings nimbly and flew towards the sky.
"Pass my order, seal off the city!"
Shen Tang wasn't sure if it was the epidemic that was raging in Shangnan Village, but she could find an excuse - such as catching the escaped villain - to seal off the city for a while. If it turned out that she was making a fuss, she could quickly cover it up.
Common people may not even notice such a detail.
While Chu Yao and the others received the message from Blue Bird and were on their way, Shen Tang was waiting for news outside the small courtyard where they were settled.
Soon, two doctors, one old and one young, came out.
Shen Tang stepped forward and asked, "Doctor Dong, what's the situation?"
Yu Zi and the others vomited blood and fell to the ground, so Lin Feng asked someone to invite them over. Both of them were doctors practicing medicine outside. They were not only master and apprentice, but also grandfather and grandson. They made a living by treating headaches and fevers for the common people.
Especially the old one among them, who served as an apprentice to a retired imperial physician from the Medical Bureau when he was young. He served the old imperial physician respectfully for several years regardless of the season, and finally impressed the old imperial physician. He learned the true skills from the physician, and then traveled around the country, practicing medicine for many years and acquired good skills.
However, he was born in a poor family, without any distinguished status or family background, and the common people who came to see him were poor and often could not afford even a few cents for consultation. The old man took pity on the common people and often waived their consultation fees, and occasionally even paid for a few prescriptions.
Life was miserable.
During the transition from winter to spring, many people fell ill. Shen Tang then discovered that there was not a single decent clinic in such a large city as Fugu. Common people either endured their illnesses or used folk remedies to treat them.
She slapped her head and decided that it wasn't a good option, so she asked someone to look for one.
When some doctors of good reputation heard that it was the poor place of Heyin Fugu, they refused to move here to open a clinic, even if Shen Tang promised to build the clinic for free and give them a yard. Just when they were worrying about the doctors in the clinic, Gu Chi brought back these two grandfathers and grandsons on a business trip, saying that they found them while drinking tea on the roadside. At that time, the old man was diagnosing an old beggar woman.
Gu Chi fell in love with him at first sight.
I sent him an offer from Fugu City on the spot.
Doctor Dong did not refuse outright like other doctors. He dealt with the poorest people the most, and in recent months he often heard from them how the governor of Heyin County, Shen Jun, loved the people like his own children. Since Shen Jun came, Heyin has been completely transformed.
Only then did he understand why he had been able to receive consultation fees for his recent visits, and even paid less for medicine…
It turns out that this is all thanks to Mr. Shen.
Upon hearing that Gu Chi was Shen Tang's official in the county government, Doctor Dong agreed without much hesitation. The next day, he was respectfully taken to Fu Gu in a horse-drawn carriage. The old beggar woman was also brought back and found a cleaning job in the clinic.
County Magistrate Shen Jun met him in person.
When had Doctor Dong ever seen such a scene
He was not the chief physician of the Medical Department, so this scene really made him feel helpless and flattered.
But Shen Tang did this for a purpose.
Doctor Dong and his grandson opened a clinic in Fugu City, and their main task was to treat the common people who came to see them.
If you see a commoner, you will receive a subsidy from the government office. If you make a home visit, you can get an additional "travel allowance", which is equivalent to the government office paying the commoner's consultation fee and home visit fee.
The common people still have to pay for the medicine themselves.
Shen Tang also brought a group of children to Doctor Dong.
These are apprentices.
Chu Yao and several others opposed this action.
They knew that Shen Tang felt that there were too few doctors in Fugu City, and he couldn't find two no matter how hard he tried, so he was annoyed and decided to train doctors himself. Not to mention how much time and energy it takes to train doctors, Dr. Dong alone was a big problem.
Doctor Dong was an apprentice when he was young, and he served the old imperial physician respectfully as if he were his own father. He worked diligently for many years before the old imperial physician gave in, and bit by bit he learned the real skills of the old doctor, and he wanted to pass these skills on to his grandson.
To put it bluntly, this has become a family tradition.
Who would be willing to teach others without blood ties or even blood ties? Who would be willing to teach a bunch of strangers for nothing? The master would always keep some skills in reserve when teaching his apprentices.
Doctor Dong was reluctant at first.
Shen Tang went to the house at night to persuade him without saying a word.
At that time, Doctor Dong, in the dim and smelly light of the oil lamp, saw the pair of eyes that were brighter than the oil lamp and was moved by the boy's sincerity. He sympathized with the suffering of the common people, and what Mr. Shen did was to benefit more common people.
A small love, a big love.
How can he be selfish when he is old
Shen Tang was not a stingy boss who loved to take advantage of others. Not only did he use ideological attacks to occupy the moral high ground, he also used the "catering to the other's tastes" offensive, such as giving Dr. Dong several volumes of medical books.
Shen Tang doesn’t have this thing, but others do.
The top literary scholars are like mobile hard drives!
Qishan and Kangshi, both of them read the fragments of Nongsang Jiyao in their spare time. The former could memorize three volumes, and the latter made up another volume. Chu Yao could even memorize five volumes of Qimin Yaoshu, which only has ten volumes and ninety-two chapters!
If these scholars of literary talent were to shake the books, they would always be able to shake out a few medical books that would impress Dr. Dong.
Doctor Dong was in front: "Hello, Mr. Shen."
The grandson and apprentice behind him followed suit and saluted.
Shen Tang said: "No need to be polite."
Doctor Dong asked, "Mr. Shen, can I have a word with you for a moment?"
Shen Tang's heart sank slightly: "Of course you can."
Doctor Dong did not tell her about the condition of Yu Zi and the others, but asked her if she knew about the epidemic that had occurred in He Yin.
"Know."
This incident happened two years before Shen Tang took office. She was deeply impressed by it. When she was dealing with the issue of He Yin Zhang, the younger brother of the Zhang family head sent his servants to deceive the suffering common people, falsely claiming that he had a cure for the disease, but was still missing a medicine. He needed the cooperation of the children and girls of the common people. By using this means, he killed more than 20 innocent children and got away with it, causing public resentment.
“The two epidemics came from the same source?”
The wrinkles on Doctor Dong's face became deeper and deeper.
He said solemnly, "Yes, the symptoms are almost exactly the same."
“Almost identical?”
"So there are still inconsistencies?"
Doctor Dong: "It's more dangerous than before."
Shen Tang: “…”
Simply put, is it a PLUS version of the last epidemic
"How did you cure it last time? Are there any medical records left?"
Doctor Dong shook his head and told a shocking truth: "No one has been cured. No one who got the disease survived. Seven out of ten doctors who came here because of the order from the county government died..."
The two villages where the epidemic broke out were blocked by people sent by the county government, and only those who were in good health could get out alive.
Dr. Dong did not participate in that call-up.
The specific situation was also heard from the surviving doctors.
He was certain that this epidemic was related to the last one. Perhaps the disease had been dormant for two or three years and had returned again, and the disease was more dangerous and rapid. As the county governor, Shen Tang had to make a decision as soon as possible and consider the common people in the city.
Shen Tang took a deep breath.
She said, "I understand."
They had people check the targets that Yu Zi and others had come into contact with, and divided Fugu City into several areas that were not interconnected, and no one was allowed to wander around freely in each area. Soldiers with weapons were guarding the intersections, and those who had fallen ill were placed in the administrative center, those who had come into contact with the virus were placed in another observation area, and the rest continued their lives as usual, preventing them from coming into contact with the new refugees.
Fugu has four city gates.
Close both.
One is used for the common people's daily work in and out, and the other is used to transfer common people who have shown signs of the disease to the epidemic area.
Although medical technology is not very developed at the moment, the diligent and intelligent common people have gradually figured out a set of epidemic prevention experience, such as burning grass to drive away insects and diseases, fumigating with moxa, washing hands, and even knowing to place patients in a centralized location after discovering an epidemic, separating them from healthy people, and deploying personnel in the area where the epidemic occurred to prevent the common people infected with the disease from running around...
The doctor will save the patient if he can.
Can't save—
The only option is to seal off the epidemic area and wait for the disease focus to kill all the hosts.
Doctor Dong had seen patients before, and he knew that as a doctor, he couldn't leave. He was not upset, but when he saw that Shen Tang had no intention of leaving, he was about to step into the house where the patients were housed, and stopped him: "Mr. Shen should not stay here."
Shen Tang was firm: "As the governor of Heyin County, if I don't stay in the government office to take charge of the overall situation, then where should I stay? A scholar of literature and art still has the protection of literature. If the epidemic is so dangerous that it can kill even me, then I can't leave!"
"Can… "
"I'll go in and take a look!"
Before he even stepped into the house, he stopped.
She turned around and told Lin Feng who was following behind her: "Lingde, go to the warehouse and count how much ramie there is, and bring it all out! Then send a message to the department store to find Yang Gong and ask him to bring out the ramie there as well... If it's still not enough, go to the common people's homes to collect it!"
Kudzu and hemp were common fabrics used by common people to make clothes.
If the family is a little wealthier, or if the women in the family have good craftsmanship, they can probably scrape together a few pieces of hemp.
"Why do you need so much hemp?"
Shen Tang: "For making masks."
God knows how this disease spreads.
Put on the mask first.
"Face mask?"
Lin Feng didn't understand what this was.
But based on the literal meaning, it is probably similar to a veil? Only a veil covers the face, but this one is used to cover the mouth
Shen Tang said, "Doesn't the Book of Rites say that we should cover our mouths to prevent our breath from touching others? Masks are used to isolate and filter the air between people. Otherwise, if the foul air exhaled by the sick is inhaled by healthy people, they will also be infected."
Doctor Dong's eyes lit up, and he said in surprise, "I accidentally found a fragment many years ago, and it contains the records of ancient sages - the epidemic is caused by the pestilence of heaven and earth, which varies in amount in the year, in thickness in the corners, and in prosperity and decline in the four seasons! When this air comes, no matter young or old, strong or weak, anyone who touches it will get sick, and the evil enters through the mouth and nose! Mr. Shen wants to use a mask to block the pestilence, it is indeed feasible!"