Chapter 489 Pooling Wisdom and Effort
Regardless of the effect of Li San Niang's words on the people present, they did offer her quite a few suggestions that morning.
"Your suggestion to let the royal family and the army go first is not wrong."
Your report doesn't explain whether you have enough smallpox vaccines, enough doctors to help with vaccinations, the success rate of vaccination, or the survival rate after vaccination.
If we don't explain these things, how can we offer you solutions?
Ding Mingxuan pointed directly at the bullseye, and Li Sanniang, who was being stared at by Ding Mingxuan, was not intimidated at all.
After taking a leisurely sip of tea, whetting everyone's appetite, Li San Niang finally said, "The first batch of samples has a 100% survival rate, but the number of vaccines you mentioned is indeed insufficient."
But I never expected that the smallpox vaccination would be completed in such a short time.
Let's set a small goal first: it would be quite good if we could complete the vaccination of the royal family, the suburban camps, and some voluntary individuals within Chang'an City within a year.
As for places outside of Chang'an, and even the entire Tang Dynasty, it would probably take three, five, or even longer to accomplish this.
As soon as Li San Niang spoke, everyone understood that it was a planned, phased implementation.
"As for the various practice reports you mentioned regarding smallpox vaccination?"
Ding Mingxuan, this thing does exist, but you yourself said that I and the people behind me can show it to you?
I showed it to you, would you believe it?
Aren't you afraid I'll get you a fake one?
Ding Mingxuan never expected that Li Sanniang, who had always been a background figure and rarely spoke, would say such things to his face, which made him quite embarrassed.
But can someone who is determined to rebel be someone without any ambition?
So Ding Mingxuan smiled, and his smile was genuine.
"Haha, Dr. Li, you're right."
"No problem, no problem. We're a community with a shared destiny, all descended from the same ancestors. Of course, we must overcome this difficult time together with a highly fatal infectious disease."
Li San Niang rolled her eyes inwardly, "He really said all the good and bad things by himself."
Among them, Xing Yu and Chang Siyuan offered a lot of constructive suggestions.
"If the royal family and the army take the lead, then it should not be difficult to implement this policy."
I suggest charging a little money. That's human nature; people only think something is good if it costs money, isn't free, and is something they fight over.
There also needs to be a fixed location. If we really want everyone to be successfully vaccinated, then it's not something that can be done in three or five years. It could take more than ten years.
Therefore, this is unnecessary.
It's fine as long as it's in an area with a large population flow, or you could say that merchants and officials are the main groups.
For these two groups, we can offer slightly better service and charge a little more money, so we can at least break even.
Only in this way can this work be done sustainably.
Xing Yu truly embodies the mindset of a businessman; he spoke of things that Li San Niang, as a doctor, had never considered.
Li San Niang picked up the charcoal pencil and slowly wrote down her thoughts on the paper, feeling that Xing Yu's words made a lot of sense.
Seeing Li San Niang taking notes with a charcoal pencil, Jiang Yijun said, "Hey, you've even invented paper and printing technology, but haven't you thought about improving the writing pen?"
"At least improve this charcoal pencil! Even wrapping it in cloth doesn't make your hands dirty, and it's not very durable."
Chang Siyuan replied, "I'll take a look later and make some improvements."
That morning, Ding Mingxuan offered a new perspective: "Most infectious diseases are imported from abroad."
Besides vaccination, the most important thing is to ensure that foreigners are tested and found to be healthy before allowing them into the Tang Dynasty.
Li Mingfang, you are a doctor, you should know that some diseases have an incubation period, which can be four or five days, seven or eight days, or even more than ten days. Since you were able to take the lead in this smallpox vaccination, you must have some connection with the Imperial Medical Academy, right?
"Then you should come up with a set of rules, join forces with the Court of State Ceremonial, and ensure that sick foreigners can't get in. That's the real business."
Li San Niang nodded, taking notes with a charcoal pencil as she replied, "You're right, that's exactly it."
However, the Court of State Ceremonial actually had regulations at that time, but what you said makes sense. I will try to work with the higher-ups to coordinate this.
During lunch, everyone ate at one table. Instead of discussing serious matters, they talked about some interesting things.
If someone who didn't know the situation saw this, they would definitely think it was a scene of great joy and happiness.
It was Xing Niangzi who was eating at the same table with them. If Xing Yu hadn't told her behind her back that they and Ding Mingxuan's group didn't get along, Xing Niangzi probably would have thought that Xing Yu and Ding Mingxuan were very close.
After the meal, each person had a cup of tea. Seeing this, Xing Yu got up and gave each person a very thin copper plate, about the size of a modern ID card.
"Come on, everyone, there's a share for everyone."
This is our Mankouxiang Private Kitchen's premium VIP card. You get a 10% discount on any purchase of 100 taels or more.
Old Xing, haven't I been a good friend to you?
"Come on over if you're hungry! There's a private room on the second floor, just for us. Let us know in advance if you want to come, and we'll definitely reserve it!"
No one knows where Xing Yu found the craftsman. Li San Niang looked at the copper sheet, which was extremely thin and had engraved patterns (recessed textures) on it. Li San Niang's piece had the character "Li" on it and was numbered 003.
Li San Niang thought that 001 was probably Xing Yu himself, and 002 should be Chang Siyuan.
Seeing that Li Sanniang was curious about his, Chang Siyuan handed it over. Li Sanniang looked at it and, sure enough, the number on Chang Siyuan's note was 002.
"Fine, they're trying to take this business from us."
"Well, it's been a while since I've had anything truly delicious. I'm really satisfied today. I'll definitely be a patron of your business from now on, Lao Xing."
After exchanging a few jokes, Xing Yu and his wife helped everyone onto the carriage.
That night, Emperor Wu saw the simplified version of the smallpox vaccination report that Li Sanniang had shown to her fellow time travelers that day.
After reading it once, Emperor Wu said to his men, "This Li San Niang is quite sensible. She must have already spoken with Bai Zhi (Mr. Ke Bu)."
Let's leave it at that for now.
Once things are settled in the Western Regions, I will arrange for someone to discuss the smallpox vaccination issue in court.
However, the methods they proposed in your report are quite targeted and effective.
About half a month later, Du Qinghui in Jiangnan East Road received a secret letter from Ding Mingxuan about Li San Niang's smallpox vaccination.
Du Qinghui took the secret letter handed to him by his confidant Lü Yunting, read it, and then returned it to Lü Yunting.
"Yun Ting, what do you think?"
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