There were a total of twenty patients transferred from the plague patients, and their symptoms were relatively mild.
After bloodletting treatment and the use of improved anti-epidemic decoctions, within four or five days, the symptoms of eight or nine of them showed signs of improvement. The remaining eleven or twelve people had not yet improved, but their condition had not deteriorated either.
"But the time is still short, and we need to wait a little longer to see the effect." Yin Ciguang said, "The judge is preparing to select a group of patients with more serious symptoms from the leprosy center to use bloodletting for treatment. If there is still a 40% to 50% chance of recovery, we can recruit doctors and teach them this bloodletting method. After a long time, this leprosy plague will no longer be a big problem."
The horror of pimple plague lies in, firstly, its rapid transmission speed, and secondly, its incurability. Once infected, one can only wait for death.
The reason why the plague spread so widely before was because the people did not know the source of the plague. Fortunately, during his trip to Shanxi, Xue Shu accidentally discovered that rats carry pestilence, and that contact with them for a long time would cause people to be infected with the plague. This is how the source was found. Afterwards, Yin Chengyu ordered local officials to kill rats, clean up the streets, and keep the city clean. Cut off the possibility of rats transmitting pestilence to people from the source, and the rest only needs to prevent the spread between people.
With the previous experience in Shanxi as a lesson, after the outbreak of the plague in Zhili and other places, Yin Chengyu ignored the opposition and dispatched troops to directly block the town where the epidemic broke out. At the same time, he screened the local people again and again and concentrated all the infected patients in the plague hospital.
Looking back now, his approach was very effective. At least the number of people reported infected in various places has been decreasing. Although the eczema epidemic has not been eliminated, it has been temporarily controlled and has not spread further.
Now that we have found a way to cure pimple plague, all we need to solve the problem is time and money.
"You have all worked hard these days." Yin Chengyu looked at his slightly pale face and said, "I will ask people to recruit doctors from the public. When more people help, you will have an easier time."
Yin Ciguang thanked him on behalf of the imperial doctors.
"Eldest sister, take care of yourself. If you live well, someone will protect Rongpin." Yin Chengyu thought of the ending of Yin Ciguang's early death in the previous life, and his tone became more sincere: "The doctors from the south will almost arrive in Beijing at the end of the month. Although the doctors from the folks may not be as skilled as the imperial doctors, they have seen many diseases in the country. Eldest sister's illness has not been cured for a long time, you can go see those doctors. If you need any medicinal herbs, just go find Zheng Duobao and withdraw them from my private storehouse."
At first, Yin Chengyu was willing to protect him, but it was only out of pity as they had a similar situation in their previous life.
He just didn't expect that Yin Ciguang would return the favor and do so many things for him, which moved Yin Chengyu to some extent.
Apart from Yin Chengyue, who was born not long ago, Emperor Longfeng had four sons and one daughter. The second and third sons coveted the throne and were at war with him; the fourth son was too young, eight years younger than him. When he was born, Yin Chengyue had already started to deal with government affairs, and they had hardly seen each other.
It can be said that he had no brothers to support him along the way.
Even though they were born of the same mother, Yin Chengyue was too young, so when Yin Chengyu looked at him, he looked more like a child who needed protection than a brother who could be trusted.
There were many conflicts in the royal family, but Yin Chengyu was not willing to take the initiative to provoke the conflict.
If Yin Ci Guang could remain consistent, he wouldn't mind having another brother.
Yin Ciguang was always a perceptive person. He looked up at Yin Chengyu again, but this time he did not bow again. Instead, he thanked him softly, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your generosity. I can save myself from that."
Seeing that he agreed, Yin Chengyu didn't say anything more and left with his people as he had done before.
Yin Ci Guang stood there and watched.
He was seen walking towards the gate, surrounded by palace servants and guards, his long robe with wide sleeves fluttering in the wind like a rolling cloud.
The ancients praised Xie Gong and Xia Gong: "Standing like a delicate orchid, smiling like the bright moon in one's arms, and sailing through thousands of sails without falling into the blue sky."
But he felt that the prince was even worse.
At the end of July, the medicinal materials sent back by Wei Xihe and the stolen silver seized by the salt patrol arrived in Beijing one after another.
With money and medicinal materials, as well as a group of southern doctors with experience in treating epidemics, the prevention and control of the lumps and plague was greatly enhanced.
At that time, the blood-letting method tried by the Imperial Hospital was quite effective and had been promoted to several plague hospitals in Wangjing.
Doctor Wu, whom Wei Xihe specifically mentioned in the letter, was very curious when he learned that the Imperial Hospital had already implemented the bloodletting method. After the two met, they demonstrated each other's acupuncture techniques, combined the two, learned from each other's strengths and made improvements to the original bloodletting method, making it even more effective than before.
By August, the plague infirmaries were no longer just crowded with patients coming in but not leaving. Some patients with mild symptoms had recovered. In the past, hundreds of bodies had to be taken out of the serious illness wards of several plague infirmaries for cremation every day. After the implementation of the bloodletting method, the number of deaths in several plague infirmaries dropped to around a hundred per day, and there was a trend of gradual decrease.
After reading the report submitted by his subordinates, Yin Chengyu ordered the implementation of bloodletting in Shanxi and Zhili.
Now, the doctors in Wangjing who have mastered the bloodletting method have been sent to the provincial capitals where the plague has occurred to instruct the local doctors on how to treat the plague.
After handing the approved report to Zheng Duobao, Yin Chengyu smiled and said, "Submit it to the inner cabinet for discussion before proceeding."
Once the cabinet has finished discussing and implemented the decree, the danger of the plague will be resolved. According to the development of this world, if nothing unexpected happens, the plague will no longer wreak havoc in Dayan like it did in the previous world.
Zheng Duobao took the report and went to Zhongji Hall after leaving Hongren Hall.
When he was leaving the house, he ran into Zhao Lin, who was exhausted. Zhao Lin had been sent out by the crown prince to do some work and had not been in the East Palace for a long time. When he saw him today, Zheng Duobao wanted to say hello to him, but he saw him hurried into the Hongren Hall.
Zhao Lin has a calm temperament, and Zheng Duobao rarely sees him so emotional.
He was worried for a moment, but then went back to do his job.
When the news came that Zhao Lin wanted to see him, Yin Chengyu was surprised for a moment.
Seeing Zhao Lin covered in dust, he dismissed the palace servants who were waiting on him and asked, "Is there news so soon?"
There was not much information about Xue Hongxuan, and he thought it would take several months to find out.
Who knew that Zhao Lin just shook his head, took out a secret report from his sleeve and presented it to the emperor, saying in a heavy voice: "I am returning here because of the incident in Shandong. There was an uprising of refugees in Shandong. The local guards sent troops to suppress the uprising twice, but both times ended in failure. In just over a month, nearly 10,000 people have joined the uprising army."
The smile on Yin Chengyu's face faded, and he flipped open the memorial and read it quickly: "What exactly happened? Explain it clearly."
Zhao Lin then reported to him in detail what he had seen and heard during this trip to Shandong.
In mid-July, he was ordered to secretly go to Jining, Shandong to investigate Xue Hongxuan's whereabouts. However, after arriving in Shandong, he found that the situation in Shandong was very different from before - large tracts of fields were cracked and abandoned, and homeless refugees could be seen everywhere on the roadside.
As Zhao Lin traveled along the way, he learned that Shandong had suffered a severe drought due to the lack of rain this spring, followed by a rampage of locusts, which left the fields barren and many farmers refugees. This was normal. The situation had been bad in recent years, with Shandong suffering from either drought or floods. The imperial court had been prepared for this, and grain was stored in granaries in various places. When a disaster occurred, the granaries would be opened to release grain to provide relief to the victims, so that the people could at least survive.
But what was unusual was that as Zhao Lin traveled along the way, he found that the prefectures had not opened their warehouses to distribute food. The people affected by the disaster had nothing to eat and could only gnaw on tree bark and grass roots.
Zhao Lin wrote down what he saw along the way in a secret letter, intending to send it back to Wangjing after finding out everything. But he didn't expect that before he finished writing the letter, he heard that someone in Putai had rebelled.
It is said that the Yellow River was blocked by silt, which affected the movement of ships on the canal. Local officials conscripted laborers from various prefectures to clean up the river. However, the people in Shandong had just experienced drought and locust plagues, and were forced to work again. With nowhere else to turn, they simply rebelled.
At first, there were only 2,000 refugees who joined the rebellion in Pu Tai. They broke into government offices and granaries and looted them. When the local guards learned of the rebellion, they sent troops to suppress it, but they were defeated.
The refugees who had won the battle took advantage of the situation and fled towards Qingzhou Yidu. They finally occupied the strategically located Xiashizhai, raised red and white flags, called themselves the "Red Heroes", and raised the banner to "destroy government offices and burn warehouses."
The Shandong patrol was ineffective in suppressing the rebellion, and fearing that the court would blame him, he concealed the news and did not report it. He also ordered the Qingzhou guards to send troops again, ostensibly to recruit the rebellion but in fact to suppress it.
As a result, the refugee leader was cunning and saw through the plot. He used the trick to destroy the 3,000 Qingzhou guards.
Two consecutive victories made the Red Army famous, and more people east of Qingzhou joined the rebel army.
Seeing that Shandong had become a mess and could no longer be suppressed, the Shandong governor sent someone to deliver an urgent report.
When Zhao Lin hurried back to Wangjing, he happened to meet a messenger from Shandong on the official road and arrived in Beijing together with him. After arriving in Beijing, the messenger went to the Tongzhengsi Yamen to deliver the memorial, and he immediately hurried back to the East Palace to report the news.
Yin Chengyu tightly grasped the secret report, his face full of anger: "These are all things that are more likely to cause trouble than to help!"
Just as the threat of the lumps and plague was over, refugees in Shandong Province rose up in rebellion.
One pile after another, there is no peace at all.
Anger aside, the matter still needed to be resolved. Yin Chengyu immediately summoned the ministers of the inner cabinet to the palace for discussion.
At this time, the urgent report from the Shandong patrol had already been sent to the inner cabinet via the Tongzhengsi.
In the Hongren Hall, the inner cabinet scholars gathered together again.
The urgent report from the Shandong inspector was placed on the table, and several great scholars were arguing over it.
The deputy minister Shao Tian said: "The traitors and thieves should be executed and never tolerated!"
"That's easy for you to say. Shanxi and Zhili have just been hit by a major epidemic, and all the money and food have been used for disaster relief. If the court sends troops to suppress it, where will the soldiers get their food and wages? If a war really breaks out, what will happen to the disaster victims in Shandong? The rebels are not strong enough yet, so it's better to recruit them!" Although Yu Huaian is old, he is also the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He is used to quarreling with those debt-collecting officials for money, and he doesn't look old at all: "You can send troops, but don't ask the Ministry of Revenue for money!"
"Didn't a batch of stolen silver enter the national treasury a few days ago?"
Of course Shao Tian refused. He was in charge of the Ministry of War and had to argue with the Ministry of Revenue every year over military pay. The silver that was allocated was related to his pocket. If the Ministry of Revenue did not allocate military pay, wouldn't it mean that the money would be taken from his pocket?
The two, one the chief assistant and the other the deputy assistant, argued fiercely over whether to send troops to suppress the rebellion or to offer amnesty, and neither side gave in.
In addition, three other great academicians also expressed their support for the incident. For a while, the Hongren Hall was even noisier than a vegetable market.
Yin Chengyu listened for a while and said in a deep voice: "Shandong has suffered a series of disasters. If another disaster occurs, the people will have no way to survive. It is better to use courtesy first and then force. If the surrender fails, we can send troops to suppress it."
Both sides have their reasons, and no matter how much we argue, we can't decide who is right.
It's better to take a compromise approach.
However, the choice of person to recruit was a problem.
Just when the court had been arguing about this for several days without a conclusion, the second prince Yin Chengzhang hurried back to Wangjing with the decree of Emperor Longfeng.
Emperor Longfeng had also learned of the unrest in Shandong, and he specially appointed the second prince Yin Chengzhang as the commander-in-chief and Marquis Anyuan Xu Hui as the deputy commander-in-chief, and sent 5,000 imperial troops to Shandong to suppress the rebels.
After Yin Chengzhang read out the imperial edict, he looked at Yin Chengyu with provocation.
Yin Chengyu's face was as gloomy as water, and he returned to Ciqing Palace without saying a word.
Shandong is now in ruins. If war breaks out again, the local people will have no chance to survive. Even those who don't want to rebel will have to do so.
But neither the arbitrary Emperor Longfeng nor the arrogant Yin Chengzhang would listen to him. In their eyes, hundreds of thousands of people were far less important than the power in their hands.
Yin Chengyu's eyes flashed with anger. If he didn't want to be accused of patricide, he really wanted to...
When Xue Shu was led into the study by Zheng Duobao, he saw Yin Chengyu standing by the window with his hands behind his back, his face showing suppressed anger and fatigue.
He already knew that Emperor Longfeng had ordered the Second Prince to go to Shandong to quell the rebellion. Naturally, he knew why Yin Chengyu was angry.
He touched the secret letter in his sleeve, walked behind Yin Chengyu, and whispered, "Master Ziyuan has sent back a message."
"What did you say?" Yin Chengyu listened to him with his ear tilted, and the anger on his face eased a little.
Xue Shu lowered his eyelashes, hiding the anxiety in his eyes: "When I asked people to find out the background of Master Ziyuan earlier, I learned that he could refine a kind of 'Rejuvenation Pill'. It is said that the 'Rejuvenation Pill' can make people return to their youth, but in fact it is similar to Lady Xiao's 'Sugar'. It is even more potent. If you take too much, it is no different from a chronic poison..." At this point, he raised his eyes and looked at Yin Chengyu: "The last time I communicated with Master Ziyuan, I asked him to give it to Your Majesty. Now Your Majesty takes the 'Rejuvenation Pill' during the day and Sugar at night. I heard that he is full of energy and often has sex with several women at night. If this continues, I am afraid he will not live long."
After all, Emperor Longfeng is your highness' biological father, and it was he who made the decision on his own to give Emperor Longfeng the Rejuvenating Pill.
If His Highness is angry, he will accept it.
The author has something to say:
Gou Gou: If I kill the dog, His Majesty the Emperor won’t be angry, right?
Your Highness (relieved): Good dog.