Chapter 310 Epidemic
The prevention of locust plagues was arranged in an orderly manner.
In addition, Jiang Tangtang plans to go to the experimental field in person in the next few days to select a group of suitable people and send them to Nan'an to plant Shanghai rice on the vast tidal flats in Nan'an.
But at this time, bad news came.
"Madam, a refugee in Cangwu City suddenly vomited and fell unconscious. It's suspected that he has contracted the plague."
Yuan San's face was solemn. "The people who went out to distribute porridge also came back and said that a large number of refugees outside the city had high fever, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms that looked like plague."
Since ancient times, plague has been the disease that people fear the most.
Especially in this era, with backward medical care, it is very likely that one person will get sick, infect the entire village, and eventually cause the entire city to die.
Therefore, when Jiang Tangtang was receiving refugees, he strictly required that refugees entering the city must undergo physical examinations and disinfection, and only after confirming that they were free of diseases could they pass through the checkpoints and enter the city.
She didn't expect that problems would arise after the policy had been implemented for several years.
"Immediately stop allowing refugees into the city, seal off Cangwu, reduce the flow of people from all over, and send doctors to examine refugees who are vomiting. Also, anyone who has come into contact with refugees outside the city must be quarantined for the foreseeable future and their condition monitored."
Jiang Tangtang temporarily put aside the experimental field and issued orders one by one, "Don't leave the net-making work to the refugees outside the city. Find people to make nets inside the city."
"Are there still porridge distribution services for the refugees outside the city?"
Yuan San looked at Jiang Tangtang's headache-inducing face, hesitated for a moment, and advised, "Why don't you just stop distributing porridge? In fact, it wasn't just the Emperor of the Great Zhou who didn't care about the lives of the refugees. Even the Emperor of the Western Rong and Rouran allowed so many refugees to starve to death.
Although most of the refugees gathered outside Cangwu City are from the Great Zhou, some are from countries like the Western Rong and Rouran, who have smuggled themselves across the border and fled thousands of miles to Lingnan.
"You said there are refugees from Xirong and Rouran?" Jiang Tangtang felt that she smelled the scent of conspiracy.
Yuan Sandao said, "Yes, before, most of them were refugees from the Great Zhou. But starting from the first half of the month, refugees from the Western Rong and Rouran have gradually mixed into the Great Zhou team."
"Send someone to investigate immediately to find out where the refugees suffering from the epidemic come from." Jiang Tangtang hoped that she was overthinking it.
If someone can't defeat them and tries to defeat Lingnan with a plague, she will make these people pay the most painful price.
Yuan San didn't think much of it at first, but after seeing Jiang Tangtang's expression, he realized that he had been careless and hurriedly said, "I'll go right away."
Jiang Tangtang nodded, "Continue distributing the porridge, but make it thinner to comfort the refugees first."
She was worried, so she handed him another porcelain bottle of pills and reminded him, "Those of you who are participating in the investigation with you, remember to take your medicine every day. Come to me for more when you're done. Do you remember all the epidemic prevention steps?"
Yuan San took the porcelain bottle, put it away carefully and said, "Remember, try not to have physical contact with the patient. When you come back, you must shower and change clothes. Wash your clothes and dry them in the sun."
This is a very backward means of epidemic prevention, and it was relatively easy to accomplish in the past.
But now it is dry and many people don’t even have drinking water, so bathing has become a luxury.
Jiang Tangtang also understood everyone's difficulties, "If you really lack water, let's use mugwort fumigation!"
Mugwort can kill bacteria, disinfect, and purify the air, and it plays a good role in preventing the spread of diseases.
In the past, when there was no drought, people in the refugee office had the habit of fumigating clothes with mugwort.
However, with the drought, a large area of planted mugwort has died. Now mugwort has become a scarce medicinal resource.
Yuan San's face showed an embarrassment again.
Jiang Tangtang sighed and said, "Don't worry about the mugwort. A few years ago, I stockpiled some mugwort in the warehouse as emergency supplies. I'll take it out and send someone to deliver it later."
In fact, there is no mugwort stored in the warehouse, we just have to hurry back to the space to plant it.
However, it is also convenient to grow mugwort. You don’t even need to plow the land specifically. Just scatter the seeds on the roadside and it will grow wildly like weeds. You can harvest a large amount in just a few days.
Not to mention that a few days ago, after Lu Shiyan ate the nutritious meal prepared by Zhang Ming, he had a lot of energy with nowhere to vent, so he plowed every corner of the space.
Jiang Tangtang found a gap, entered the space, and took out the mugwort seeds from the seed bank.
She filled all the open spaces in the space with seeds.
The seed bank was built up over the past few years by her gradual collection and planting. Initially, she only collected some vegetable seeds to be prepared for emergencies.
Later, when he went to Tianyin Mountain with Lu Shiyan, he saw many plants that were on the verge of extinction in modern times, and he came up with the idea of building a seed bank.
So from then on, she would always keep an extra portion of each seed. It was a good thing she had this habit.
Otherwise, it would take a lot of time just to find mugwort seeds.
Jiang Tangtang only stayed in the space for more than half an hour. After planting the mugwort, she immediately left the space and continued to handle official business.
Since there was no time to go to the experimental field, Jiang Tangtang directly issued an announcement as usual to recruit people to go to Nan'an to grow sea rice.
He said he was growing sea rice, but in fact he was a high-ranking official.
After all, the people of Nan'an have never even heard of sea rice and have no idea how to grow it.
In the past, in addition to technical guidance, they also had supervisory responsibilities.
So, like other positions, applicants will need to take an assessment. However, unlike other assessments, this one mainly involves verbal answers to various farming-related knowledge.
All those who passed the assessment and went to Nan'an to take up posts enjoyed the same three insurances and one fund as the officials in Lingnan.
The three insurances and one fund are based on the concept of the modern five insurances and one fund. The three insurances are pension insurance, medical insurance, and work-related injury insurance, and the one fund is naturally the housing provident fund.
However, unlike modern times, the three insurances and one fund will not be deducted from the officials' salaries, but will be all government subsidies.
Because of the short time, there are no retired officials in Lingnan now, and the retired officials have not received pension insurance, and few people use the housing provident fund.
But many people have truly experienced the benefits of medical insurance and work-related injury insurance.
For example, in the pharmaceutical factory run by Jiang Tangtang, some scarce pills produced will be supplied first to people with medical insurance.
After deducting part of the medical insurance premium, you only need to pay a small amount of money to buy the medicine.
This is the pride of Lingnan officials and the envy of ordinary people.
As soon as this announcement was made, farmers throughout Lingnan were in an uproar.
In the past, they thought that having a stable job was only for scholars, but they never imagined that farmers like them could also have a stable job.
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