Chapter 2306 Expansion
Bai Shan was also shocked and asked, "Do you want to test it with smallpox?"
"certainly!"
After Manbao made sure that everyone's rash had subsided, he went to prepare smallpox scabs and let them try to see if they would get smallpox again.
This is the last step. When Manbao brought the prepared smallpox scabs, the six people were sitting together, looking at the bowl in her hand nervously.
They heard that it was a smallpox scab from a human body. In the past, they would not even touch it. As long as they heard that there was smallpox somewhere, they would want to stay away from it.
But they'd already been exposed to cow pox scabs, and now to human...
Thinking of this, the six people were no longer nervous and lined up together to wait.
Manbao placed the prepared cotton cloth in their noses and said, "Leave it in until night, then remove it after six hours. Generally, we'll know the results in three to five days, but we usually keep the patient for ten days to see how they go. If they haven't contracted smallpox after ten days, it means the vaccination was successful, and you won't get smallpox in the future."
The six people swallowed their saliva after hearing this and asked, "Well, what if the previous cowpox treatment doesn't work?"
Manbao's eyes narrowed as he said, "Then you will get pox again, and this time it will be much more dangerous."
This is equivalent to inoculating smallpox. Manbao has experience, but their physical condition is not as good as those of the previous prisoners.
Thinking of this, Manbao also became a little nervous and said to Bai Shan: "Is it possible that the herbs we prepared are not enough?"
Bai Shan said, "I bought everything you need in Xizhou City."
Manbao sighed, "That's right."
The two of them were anxiously waiting for the result, which made Bai Erlang and the others who came to visit them a little nervous and asked, "How is the person now?"
Manbao said: "It's fine, there's no reaction yet, but it's only the second day, let's wait a few more days and see."
Bai Erlang pondered for a moment and said, "If it works, the subsequent experiments will be faster, right?"
Manbao nodded. "The cowpox scabs are readily available. There's no need to wait again. Once we've confirmed this, we can proceed with the second batch of tests."
And because of the experience from the previous time, the second test will definitely be faster.
Bai Erlang said happily, "Then our speed is definitely faster than the main army. Yesterday, we received a victory report that General Ashina captured three cities in Kucha and is approaching the capital of Kucha."
Manbao asked him, "We are faster than the army. What do you want to do with the rest of the time?"
Bai Erlang chuckled and said, "I heard that when it gets colder, it might snow in the desert. The snow on the sand dunes is especially beautiful."
Bai Shan was cheered up when he heard this. "There's little water in the desert, so it won't snow easily, right?"
Snow is just like rain, and there will be less rain after winter.
"The master said so. He said he observed the celestial phenomena at night and felt that it would rain in the Western Regions this year. As the weather gets colder, won't the rain turn into snow? It will definitely snow."
Bai Shan turned around and said to Man Bao, "Why don't we have them build a yard next to it? It's made of yellow mud anyway, so it's very quick to build. This way, the test will be faster."
Manbao: "Will the people from the Protectorate agree to this?"
She didn't have any objection. At worst, she could just call Bai Erlang and the others to help when she was too busy.
However, we still have to wait until this experiment is over to prove that cowpox is really effective before we can start the next experiment. Otherwise, if it is useless, then...
Manbao shook his head and suppressed the thought for the time being.
Bai Shan pondered and said, "He should agree. I'll take Liu Huan with me to ask him."
He said, "We've been interacting with them more recently. It might be because General Guo gave us some instructions before he left, so they're quite polite to us."
With Liu Huan added, the problem shouldn't be too big. It's just two yards, and it will only take two days of work. The things added to the house are not expensive.
He said, "I heard that General Ashina and the Ministry of Revenue are asking for a second batch of grain and fodder."
So even General Guo would not offend Liu Huan too much at this moment.
Even though they are thousands of miles away from the capital, they cannot complain to Minister Liu at any time, but it is enough to take advantage of the power of the tiger.
As expected, Bai Shan took Liu Huan for a tour of the Protectorate. After the tour, he not only gave them two more courtyards, but also asked them for a lot of rice, flour, vegetables and meat. There were more chickens in the courtyard, and there were even old hens that would place orders.
There are also several more sheep grazing outside the yard.
There was no way. Bai Shan wanted a lot of meat, saying that the soldiers who would be sent later would need to be raised for a period of time. There were six people in one yard, and three yards would mean eighteen people.
Eighteen people had two meals of meat a day, which was a lot. He also had high demands: the meat had to be fresh every day.
The Protectorate was too lazy to send them fresh meat every day. That place had smallpox, how could it be so easy to get in and out?
So I just drove a dozen sheep to them and let them kill them themselves.
Nie, the general who was in charge of guarding the patient, curled his lips when he saw this and said to Bai Shan, "They are just lazy. But it's okay if we kill the sheep ourselves. We can also make soup with the sheep bones, which is even more delicious than mutton."
Bai Shan simply handed the task of slaughtering and herding sheep to General Nie, and he went to the military camp to pick out eighteen people to live in the two newly built courtyards.
Manbao took Zhou Liru to take their pulses and prescribe medicinal food prescriptions for them to start nourishing their bodies.
The eighteen people thought they would be infected with smallpox as soon as they arrived, but they didn't expect that they would have to eat delicious food for a few days first. They ate while waiting anxiously, and stood on tiptoe every day to look at the yard next door.
No one is allowed to enter that yard easily, and people inside are not allowed to come out. I heard that they are vaccinating people there.
The eighteen people swallowed their saliva, and when the soldiers came to deliver food, they couldn't help but ask, "Brother, is the person in the next yard still alive?"
The soldiers guarding them knew they were not prisoners but soldiers like themselves, and that they were now disabled and only wanted to return home. They were sympathetic to their fellow men, so they treated them politely and said, "They are alive and well. If you don't believe me, just stand in the yard and shout at them and you will know."
They are all yellow mud houses with no sound insulation at all. If someone farts in the yard next door, you can hear it here.
It was just that they had just arrived, and they would just lie in bed in a daze after dinner every day, and they didn't even dare to talk too loudly, otherwise the neighbors would have noticed them.
When the eighteen people heard this, they paused and asked, "Can we shout?"
The soldier put down his food and bowls and chopsticks and said, "Call him. Oh, and wash the dishes after dinner. Lord Zhou said that you can go out for a walk if you have nothing to do. You can go anywhere except that yard. We have put the sheep on the hillside. If you have nothing to do, you can help us look after them."
"No, brother, aren't we here to get smallpox? Why are we just eating?"
"What do you mean by smallpox? We're planting smallpox!" the soldier emphasized. "Master Zhou cares about you. You need to get your bodies back in shape before planting. That's the only way to withstand smallpox. Since they haven't borne any fruit yet, you should take care of yourselves first. Once they're well and you're well, it'll be your turn."
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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