Chapter 2078: Spend More Money (Reward for the book friend "I Can't Extricate Myself from Chasing the Articles")
Yang Heshu watched them leave with a smile, then turned to Manbao and said, "I'll have Wantian contact each family later. The cattle your fourth brother and his companions brought back haven't been enlisted yet, so it's quite easy to kill them. Besides, this is Xiazhou."
It is said that Xiazhou has no shortage of cattle, and that is true.
One third of the Xiazhou territory is nomadic, and there are also horse farms for the imperial court and various families, so the restrictions on oxen for draft are not as strict as those in the interior.
However, at this time, the people in the city could not leave, and the people outside the city were trying hard to avoid the city, so there was no shortage of food.
After all, the autumn harvest had already ended when the incident happened. Not only did each household have stored grain, but the government also had a lot of tax grain. A large part of the reason for the current rise in grain prices is that people are panicking and don't know when the epidemic will end.
But there is a real shortage of vegetables and meat.
So even though Zhou Silang had a lot of cattle, Xiazhou City could still eat them all. Not to mention the ordinary people in the city, even the rich families could take a lot.
He also asked Wantian to give a pricing suggestion, telling him not to kill all of them at once, but to kill one a day, or one every other day, and to set the price as high as possible.
Those who can still afford to eat meat at this time are basically wealthy people who don’t care about the extra few dozen cents.
Haven’t you seen that food prices have increased?
It has only been less than two months since the autumn harvest.
Yang Heshu went in to see Cui and then left. He still had a lot of things to do.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang began to take care of the affairs of the courtyard. Through the management of this courtyard, he knew the current cloth inventory in Xiazhou City and the general situation of each cloth shop.
I know the current grain prices and the approximate grain reserves in Xiazhou City;
We also learned how Yang Heshu fought wits and courage with the wealthy and ordinary people in Xiazhou.
The existence of these three courtyards and the six best doctors in Xiazhou is a regression of Yang Heshu, while the medical shed set up in the city, which accommodates most of the patients, is a regression of the local gentry in Xiazhou.
Bai Shan learned all this through these account books, and then gradually arranged the food, clothing, housing and medical care for the patients and servants in the courtyard.
Bai Erlang had just finished arranging the dishes for the East Courtyard today. When he turned back and saw Bai Shan still flipping through the thick roster, he asked with a headache, "What are you looking at this for?"
"Let's see who from Xiazhou City lives in this courtyard. Let's also see who once lived in this courtyard. Are they dead now, or have they left alive?"
Bai Erlang felt eerie and asked, "Why are you looking at this?"
Bai Shan said, "Didn't you go and see someone break through the barrier in the south of the city yesterday?"
"Yeah, wasn't it suppressed?" Bai Erlang was confused. "Those who broke through the barrier were ordinary people. What does it have to do with the people living in this courtyard?"
Bai Shan shook his head, "I'm a little confused."
"where?"
Bai Shan said, "There's food in Xiazhou City now. Although medicine is scarce, the patients in the infirmary can still be treated. In the city, no matter how poor a person is, if they get smallpox, even a beggar on the street can stay in the infirmary. Why would they rush to the border?"
"You also said that there is not enough medicine..."
"It's not enough, but it's still there, isn't it?" Bai Shan said, "It's not certain after leaving the city. Medicine outside the city has to be bought with money. Do they have enough money? Will the doctors outside the city treat them? Will the city outside Xiazhou let them in?"
"Even if they are ordinary people and not very smart, they are not stupid when it comes to this kind of thing. Besides, people are attached to their hometowns, especially those who don't have the means to leave. They won't leave unless they have no other choice." Bai Shan: "So why are they trying to break through the border?"
"That is..."
"Someone instigated it, but I think it was more like someone assigned it," Bai Shan said. "Leaving the city would mean more harm than good for ordinary people, but for some people, it's not the case. If they leave Xiazhou City, they will have enough money. What kind of medicinal herbs and doctors can't they find?"
Bai Erlang's face darkened and he said angrily, "We've already given them the six best doctors. What else are they dissatisfied with?"
"Because there are too many patients, too many people have died," Bai Shan flipped open the booklet and pointed directly at a name on the page. "The statistics haven't been compiled yet, but I took a quick look. In this courtyard alone, 28 people have died since the city was closed. This is just Courtyard No. 1. When they were sent here, their symptoms were relatively mild. I'm afraid the other two courtyards are much more serious."
Bai Shan sighed and said, "Smallpox is a disease that can wipe out a clan."
So don't blame them for panicking.
But outside the city of Xiazhou are tens of millions of people from the Great Jin Dynasty. Once smallpox moves south into the capital, or even to Jiangnan, Southwest and other places, it will be hell on earth.
That's why they can't let people go out.
Even patients from villages outside the city have to be treated.
Bai Shan exhaled, looked up and said to Bai Erlang, "Now that we have taken over the villa, you should be careful and don't let anyone plot against you."
Bai Erlang was horrified. "Could it be that they want to infect me with smallpox like they did to my sister-in-law?"
Bai Shan threatened him, "It may not be impossible."
Bai Erlang's face turned pale, and he immediately said, "I will definitely not run around, touch things randomly, or eat anything randomly..."
He said with a bitter face: "This trip is too difficult, isn't it?"
Bai Shan said, "We are not the ones facing difficulties. Manbao is the one facing difficulties. There are too few doctors. Xiazhou simply cannot handle them all. Judging from what we saw in the medical tent yesterday, even if Imperial Physician Lu and his assistants came, they would not be enough."
This time on the business trip, Manbao and his colleagues were accompanied by a royal physician and two medical assistants.
Because it was so dangerous, the Imperial Hospital avoided the new medical assistants who had joined this year and specifically selected the more experienced ones. They even specifically selected six who were already married and had children...
Although they are only assistant doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau, their skills are no less than those of ordinary doctors, and they can also stand on their own.
This morning, Medical Assistant Lu was still following the medical advice of Doctor Jin and Doctor Hua. Now he is leading people to prescribe medicine and see patients on his own. Occasionally, Doctor Jin and Doctor Hua will talk to him about some medical conditions.
Bai Shan put down the booklet and calculated in his mind, then said, "We should write back and ask for more doctors, or recruit some from the nearby prefectures and counties, or transfer them from the capital. In short, Xiazhou still needs doctors."
Bai Erlang was quite familiar with the people in the Imperial Hospital. He calculated and said, "There's no one left in the Imperial Hospital, right?"
"What do you think about transferring someone from the Imperial Medical Bureau?"
Bai Erlang was shocked, "This is not good, their medical skills are not up to par yet."
Bai Shan said, "They're not much different from the doctors in the medical shed. Besides, they can also help out, such as giving acupuncture, administering medicine, and treating smallpox..."
Bai Erlang looked at him in surprise and doubt, and asked doubtfully, "Are you Bai Shan?"
Bai Shan glanced at him and said, "Have you been reading too many ghost novels recently? What are you thinking about? If I'm not Bai Shan, who am I?"
"Then why do you bring up such a thing?" Bai Erlang asked, "Smallpox is very dangerous. They are still so young. It can kill people, right?"
He made this suggestion because he knew there was a high probability that no one would die, okay?
Although the medicine in Manbao's hand only has 89% of the prevention effect, it is enough. He believes that as long as he is careful enough, he can make up the remaining 11%, it just costs more money and energy.
Good night
(End of this chapter)
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