Chapter 811 A masterpiece
The first month of the seventh year of the Turtle (323) was the peak of the epidemic.
In the newly built Pure Land Temple in the east of Pingyang City, Fotucheng is presiding over the ceremony.
Wen Qiao sighed and sat aside, feeling depressed.
Having followed Liu Kun in Jinyang for many years, he was used to seeing life and death, but being taken away by the disease still made him feel heavy.
The one lying in the coffin closest to him was Wang Pei.
Zuo Cheng, the censor of the former Liang Kingdom, retired from office a year ago due to old age and stayed in Pingyang to open a school to recruit disciples and educate Hu and Han disciples. I suddenly contracted an epidemic two years ago. Before my death, please leave my coffin in the underground palace of Jingtu Temple. I will be buried in Qingzhou after the epidemic subsides next year.
The King of Liang agreed to his request and gave him some artifacts and fees, and the officials along the way would provide convenience when he was buried.
Sikong Liu Han was also on the side.
He and Wang Pei had not known each other for a long time, but they had similar interests and formed a deep friendship in just a few years, so he came to see his old friend off for the last time.
"Liu Gong, Your Majesty said that there are many types of plague, and there is not just one disease. What is the cause of this epidemic?" Wen Qiao felt anxious while listening to the chanting of the masters, so he asked.
"Everyone was talking about the epidemic at that time, but I really didn't know what the disease was, and I didn't know either." Liu Han shook his head and said: "In the first year of Xianning (275), there was a great epidemic in the winter month. One hundred thousand people died in Luoyang. It was so tragic. So. "It's so cool, I'm afraid it's not a disease."
Wen Qiao was stunned.
"Epidemic means labor, and there are ghosts doing labor. People - they are all detained by ghosts to serve as slaves. This is one thing." Liu Han said the horrifying things in a calm tone: " Therefore, when the epidemic breaks out, witches are more expensive. Now in Pingyang City, the talismans of 'Zi Zhu' and 'Ghost Zhu' are worth a thousand gold."
Wen Qiao couldn't help frowning and said: "There are many witches who deceive the world and steal their reputation. . Some people abandon medicine and devote themselves to studying the past, but they still die. However, when they are about to die, they don’t hate to abandon medicine, but they hate to be late. "
Liu Han sighed, Say no more.
When he was young, like Wen Qiao, he was familiar with medical books such as "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", but after experiencing several serious diseases, he was at a loss.
In the first year of Xianning, the imperial court also summoned doctors to discuss countermeasures, and then dispatched officials to inspect the epidemic, distribute medicine, and bury the dead. However, one hundred thousand people died in Luoyang alone...
< br>The medicines distributed are useless. Some people who survived the epidemic were not so much cured by medicine as they were strong and able to endure it.
Further forward, several campaigns during the Three Kingdoms period ended without illness due to widespread epidemics in the army.
Do you really think everyone is a fool? Don’t know how to treat illnesses? In fact, various methods have been tried.
The prescriptions recorded in medical books were the first to be used. When the epidemic was still uncontrollable and people died in large numbers, people became desperate and began to seek help from witchcraft and astrology.
In addition, the monarch began to accept advice and make sacrifices to the gods. Regardless of whether it was useful or not, he always had to do it.
The most effective way is actually isolation.
A few years ago, King Liang issued an order: "If there is an epidemic in an official's home, and three or more people infected with the epidemic are not allowed to go to the government office; if one or more people are infected with the epidemic, they are not allowed to enter the palace; and if there is an epidemic in the common people's homes, don't send them away. Apply pesticides to the area, and family members are not allowed to visit."
He also ordered: "Clean the bedding, wash frequently, sweep the courtyard, and kill rats, ticks and fleas as soon as possible."
Liu Han naturally knew these orders, he just mechanically asked his family to follow them, but he was really not sure whether they were of any use.
The older he gets and the more he sees, the more he believes in metaphysics.
People are really too fragile. A person who was alive before can become ill and unable to survive in the blink of an eye.
As a devout believer in Confucianism, he used to not look down on the dissolute scholars, but now he understands a little: the world is like this, it is better to enjoy it in time.
"Yu Yuangui once mentioned to me the great epidemic in Xianning." Wen Qiao suddenly said: "Yu's family was infected with the epidemic, and both of Yu Gun's two brothers died. People took care of him, saying that "his nature was not afraid of disease", so he supported him personally, staying up day and night, holding the coffin and crying bitterly, and kept vigil for the other two brothers who died of the epidemic. After the epidemic stopped, the family returned and the second brother recovered from the illness. , Gun is also fine. So, maybe as long as he is filial and righteous, he will not get sick? "
Liu Han was at a loss when he heard this.
Is filial piety really useful in the face of epidemics?
Medicine and stone are useless, filial piety is probably useless, nothing is useful, maybe only praying to God and worshiping Buddha will be useful - praying to God and worshiping Buddha was the most despised thing by Liu Han when he was young, but after you have experienced countless despair, Will be shaken, will doubt everything.
"When..." A bell rang outside the underground palace.
Wen Qiao and Liu Han suddenly woke up.
Unknowingly, the ritual ceremony was over and Master Fotucheng, the great virtue of Yecheng, had left.
In the dim underground palace, only coffins were left.
There are officials, military generals, and local wealthy people who donated money to build this temple, and they all stop here.
The huge underground palace is full, what will be different outside?
This is a disaster, no matter how high or low it is.
Literary talents are like the Seven Sons of Jian'an. In the 22nd year of Jian'an (217), five people were "annihilated" and distributed in various places.
Wen Qiao and Liu Han sighed together, leaving the underground palace and returning home. On this occasion, reunite with your family, because maybe one of them will leave at the next moment without any warning.
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In the Baitang Hall, Shao Xun was writing and drawing on a piece of paper.
He has always felt that the term plague is too general. From a medical point of view, epidemics always have specific names, right?
He didn't know much about medicine, so he racked his brains and only wrote down the names of smallpox, cholera, plague, malaria, typhoid, schistosomiasis, tuberculosis and other epidemic diseases on paper - he didn't write down influenza because It’s not clear when this thing appeared, but the pandemic was really late, and World War I was the “highlight period” of the flu.
After writing these diseases, he crossed out smallpox because the symptoms did not match.
Schistosomiasis was crossed out. The region is wrong and the symptoms do not match.
Malaria was crossed out because there was no sign of trouble.
Tuberculosis doesn’t look like it either.
Finally, cholera was crossed out because there was no large-scale diarrhea.
Then only plague and typhoid fever were left. There might have been others, but he really couldn't remember them.
As for typhoid fever, it seems that there are also symptoms of diarrhea. He is not sure, and he asks people to drink as much hot water as possible - this is not easy at this time, because firewood costs money, and boiling water also costs money. It's time-consuming and labor-intensive. It's one thing for you to issue an order, but it's another thing to actually execute it. The time traveler can't do anything about it.
Shao Xun finally circled the plague with a solemn expression.
Fuck him, isn’t this really the case? But he didn't know the specific symptoms of the plague - the disease was very popular in the late Ming Dynasty, and was also called the "plague" at the time. However, with the development of medicine by that time, there had been some progress, and the plague was also subdivided. It is called "pimple plague" because the patient's skin bulges and he "vomits blood and dies".
Shao Xun studied for a long time and had no clue. In the end, he could only grasp the most fundamental thing, the three elements of infectious disease prevention and control: controlling the source of infection, cutting off the transmission route, and protecting susceptible groups.
In fact, he issued a series of orders before, all based on these three elements.
It’s just that I really don’t know what the disease is, so I can only bury the body (cannot be cremated), eliminate rats, ticks, and fleas, etc.
As for isolating those infected and reducing contact, this is all to prevent and control the epidemic.
In addition, the government has also purchased a lot of medicine for distribution. I don’t know if it is of any use. The quantity is also seriously insufficient, because most people are sick and incurable these days, and the "production capacity" of herbal medicine is only enough for the consumption of wealthy people. .
Everything that can be done has been done, and the rest can only be left to fate.
At least, the bureaucratic machine under his rule is still dynamic, and he is confident that fewer people will die than in the original history.
Well, Shao Xun believes that controlling the source of infection, cutting off transmission routes, and protecting susceptible groups are the most important things, but for the vast majority of elites in society at this time, the most important thing is——< br>
"Please Shih Benevolent Government", author Yu Chen, content: "...floods and droughts harm people, diseases come one after another, the enlightenment has not yet reached the living beings, and the sincerity has not spread to the heaven and the earth... When the war is stopped with force, He was free of food and silk..."
Besides Yu Chen, Taibao Pan Tao asked Xu to be unjustly imprisoned.
Wang Yan, Secretary of the Zuo Army, believed that the country's "personnel affairs were inappropriate" and that he should "examine his faults" and "accept remonstrances with an open mind."
Shang Shuling Pei Miao quoted from "Zuo Zhuan" that "the god of mountains and rivers is responsible for floods, droughts and epidemics, so it is Yíng", and believed that "sacrifice to the gods" should be held, and a large-scale ceremony was held. Nuo rituals come to drive away ghosts and evil spirits.
The last one almost made Shao Xun swear, and he rejected it directly.
Then, he suddenly thought, can he refute Pei Miao and everyone in the world?
Why did Pei Miao say that? Because many people in the world think so, and they think it is right.
This is the atmosphere of the times, the social background, and the outlook of all people. Do you want to change these alone?
Manpower is sometimes poor. Maybe we can make some correct decisions within our capabilities, save as many people as possible, and make small changes, which is already good.
"Here comes someone." Shao Xun shouted.
The palace commander Shi Wuli and the servant Yangman walked in from the compartment and saluted: "Your Majesty, please give me your instructions."
"Send an order to the prime minister to send Taichang and Shaofu doctors The official branch was separated and the Imperial Medical Office was established. "Shao Xun said: "The first task of the Imperial Medical Office is to compile the book "Fengtu Disease". "What is "Fengtu Disease"?" Yang Man asked.
"The states in the world are divided into states, and the diseases that occur frequently in each state are called local endemic diseases (endemic epidemics)." Shao Xun said: "After the epidemic subsided, the Imperial Medical Office was ordered to go to various places. During the visit, we recorded in detail the seasons when local diseases are most common, their symptoms, and methods of prevention and treatment. Each disease must be given a name. I don’t want to see vague general terms like “miasma” and “plague.” Please give me the details. One point. If you list more and prove it correctly, I will not hesitate to reward you with gold, silk, and titles."
Yang Man was stunned when he heard this.
This kind of book needs to be compiled with all the strength of the world, and only the king has the ability to promote it.
But once it is compiled, it will be a huge masterpiece and have a profound impact on the world.
After the compilation is completed, one copy will be distributed to each county. From then on, local officials can refer to this book to determine what the epidemic disease is and achieve symptomatic prevention and treatment - even if it cannot be cured, it can be done to a certain extent. Prevention – Don’t mess around like a headless fly.
I don’t know how many lives this move can save.
Yang Man bowed deeply and said: "I obey my order."
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