Chapter 2096 Transaction 2 (Reward for the book friend "Xiao Qing Xiao Qing")
Manbao finally had an armful of memorials, so she decided not to leave. She asked the servants to make a table for her and sat down next to them to read.
Not only would the doctors' room be empty when she returned, she would also have to light the braziers again. She was too embarrassed to use so many braziers by herself.
Charcoal in Xiazhou is also very expensive now, okay?
So let’s just live in one house to save money.
It took Manbao two days to make a table of these data. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, he went to the city gate to see Zhou Silang and others off, and only started writing the memorial after he came back.
You feel refreshed in the morning, which is suitable for doing mental work.
Actually, the memorials proposing vaccinations were not difficult to write; the most difficult one was the one to Imperial Physician Lu. If that memorial was well written, her own memorial would be much more effective when submitted simultaneously.
So Manbao took this very seriously. She slowly ground the ink while pondering over it.
Finally, he spread out a large piece of white paper and thought for a long time before he started writing.
Manbao wrote for a long time, and Bai Shan called her several times before waking her up to have dinner together.
The Imperial Academy students were also eating. They said, "We've finished dealing with all the documents we needed to process, and it's time to prepare to return to the capital. Bai Shan, will you come back with us?"
Bai Shan said, "I'll wait for Zhou Man."
Man Bao said, "There are three patients in the other courtyard. Once they are all well, we will go to the capital with Lord Yang."
The other students looked at each other and said, "Alright, let's go first."
If we go back now, even if we walk slowly, we can still catch the Lantern Festival. Then this year won’t be wasted, right?
Two days later, Feng Zongping and other students said goodbye, and leaving with them were the doctors who came to Xiazhou for support. They came together and now they are leaving together again.
Most of the imperial guards who had escorted them here went back with them. Yang Heshu also sent a few officials on behalf of Xiazhou City to follow them, gave them some local specialties, and saw them off as they left the city.
In the past two days, the city has finally regained some of its popularity and has become a little festive. I don't know who spread the news that these people were leaving, and many people in the city came to see them off.
The doctors in the folk pulled their beards with a look of relief on their faces, not to mention Feng Zongping and other students who had not yet entered officialdom. Seeing so many people seeing them off along the way, and many students having a lot of eggs forced into their hands, they were very excited for a moment.
One student sighed, "Husbands should be proud of today."
"If we can earn this kind of love from the people when we govern a region in the future, we will have no regrets in our lives."
Some people were also sharp-eyed, "Look at Brother Yang."
Everyone turned to look at Yang Heshu. He was watching the scene calmly, but with tears in his eyes.
Someone sighed and said, "This time, Brother Yang deserves the credit, right?"
"That's not necessarily true. These people are grateful to us, but not all of them are necessarily grateful to Brother Yang."
"What does this mean?"
"When I went out to collect household registration and calculate the death toll, I heard many people complaining that if Brother Yang hadn't closed the city gates, not so many people would have died in Xiazhou City."
Everyone was as if they had been poured with a bucket of ice water, and their emotion instantly faded. "What are you talking about? If we don't close the city gates, are we going to let the smallpox spread south? The capital has a population of one million."
"We're outsiders, so this isn't hard for us to accept. But the people in Xiazhou would think that it was because Lord Yang locked up all the smallpox patients in the city that more people contracted the disease. Plus, there wasn't enough medicine before the Imperial Hospital arrived. I heard that in order to get doctors, many people waited outside the pharmacy all night, and in the end, people didn't die of smallpox, but of freezing to death."
He said, "In this world, there are few people who understand reason, and even fewer who know how to sacrifice for others and think about others. Think about how Madam Yang contracted smallpox. Isn't it true that some people think that if anyone in Brother Yang's family also contracts smallpox, they will be sent out of the city to seek medical treatment..."
Some students were furious. "That's too much! They don't want to hate the person who brought in smallpox, but instead they want to hate Brother Yang. It's totally unreasonable. By the way, who brought in smallpox?"
"You forgot, it was the youngest son of Governor Niu. He abducted a Hu concubine. This Hu concubine had probably never been to the Central Plains before, and she couldn't adapt to the climate there, so she contracted smallpox..."
This is the public's guess.
"I heard that Governor Niu will also go to the capital later to accuse Brother Yang of insubordination and place his superiors under house arrest."
"That's why we say that Senior Yang is in danger. Let alone being the first to achieve this, it's lucky for him to avoid being held accountable. Rebellion is a serious taboo."
"But that was a necessary expedient. If Governor Niu had been reasonable and willing to control the epidemic, why would Brother Yang do such a thing? Humph, I will definitely publicize this matter when I return to the capital. It may be a mistake, but it is also a great achievement."
"Indeed, think about the patients we saw when we arrived. We've made so many preparations, yet some people still contracted the disease. It's only because we in the Six Arts never slack off and are young and strong that we haven't contracted the disease. If we allow smallpox to spread out of the city, wouldn't the area south of Xiazhou become a purgatory?"
"That's right. I'm going to tell my father after we return to Beijing. I can't let Brother Yang suffer in vain."
"Exactly. I'll tell my brother about this too."
"Then I'll talk to my grandfather."
Feng Zongping quietly slipped back to Bai Shan and stretched out his hand, saying, "How's it going? Did I do it?"
Bai Shan placed a bag of dried meat in his hand and praised: "You are the most suitable person to do this kind of thing."
Feng Zongping stuffed the dried meat into his bag and hid it. He said bluntly, "Don't scold me in a roundabout way. In fact, if you weren't so close to Brother Yang, you could definitely do it yourself."
Bai Shan smiled slightly and said, "I hope you can help spread the word when we get back to the capital. You don't have to spread it to the court, just talk among the students."
"Why, wouldn't it be better to strike while the iron is hot?"
Bai Shan shook his head. "Going too far would seem like using public opinion to pressure His Majesty. I actually just wanted to explain to the adults that Brother Yang's decision to place Governor Niu under house arrest was a last resort."
He emphasized, "We had no other choice. It wasn't just a matter of losing our position. It was a matter of millions of lives on the line. So, at that time, all laws and rules were out of the question."
Feng Zongping seemed to be thinking about something. "I understand. You want the adults to agree with Brother Yang's choice. Even if he is punished in the end, no one will interpret it as something else."
For example, some people attacked him, saying, "Today he dared to put his superior under house arrest. Who knows if he won't do so again someday due to political differences, or even offend the emperor?"
Publicizing Yang Heshu's predicament among students will not put pressure on His Majesty, but will also allow officials to consider Yang Heshu's position and prevent them from making malicious speculations.
As long as he could win a little, Yang Heshu would not be afraid.
Feng Zongping said, "That's not the amount for a bag of dried meat."
"I'll send you ten bags when I get back."
"No," Feng Zongping said, "The dried meat is valuable now, but it will be worthless when we return to the capital."
Now he wants dried meat because there is little meat in Xiazhou City, and his mouth is tasteless. When he returns to the capital, will he still lack meat after being named Young Master?
Hahahaha, I wanted to leave one chapter until tomorrow, but I decided not to.
Good night now. See you in the next one.
(End of this chapter)
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