Because the epidemic situation was severe, Yipinzhai and Yipin Medicinal Plant Garden were also closed. The whole family stayed at home and tried not to go out if possible.
We still don't know what caused this plague. We only know that it was probably an animal. The plague is transmitted through physical contact and has a certain incubation period. However, physical contact does not necessarily cause infection as long as the person has strong immunity.
The symptoms of the plague are low fever, cough, and eventually death from coughing up blood. The incubation period is one month, and the time from onset to death is also one month.
Two months is enough to take a life.
Nowadays, anyone with a fever or cough in the entire capital city is taken away, and house-to-house inspections are carried out every five days, in an effort to detect and take away those who are infected as soon as possible.
In addition, the Queen also issued a policy of rewarding those who reported plague patients in order to prevent some people from hiding themselves after contracting the disease.
As soon as the policy was announced, a large number of people infected with the disease were quickly exposed and taken away by officials.
Zhao Chuchu was not too worried about her family. Firstly, their family produced and sold all their own food, especially the vegetables, so they did not need to buy them outside. Secondly, since the spiritual spring water was upgraded, Zhao Chuchu used the spiritual spring water from time to time to help her family recuperate. She guaranteed that the immunity of everyone in her family was definitely the strongest in the whole capital, and they were almost immune to all poisons.
Just hearing about people getting sick and dying every day doesn’t make them feel very good.
Just half a month after the plague broke out, plague also broke out in two cities around the capital, and the situation became even more serious.
The empress kept urging the imperial physicians to develop a solution to the plague and continuously allocated money from the national treasury.
"My dear wife, let's donate some silver as well." Zhang Xiuyuan discussed with Zhao Chuchu while holding the child.
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
Zhao Chuchu is not a saint, but there is a saying: If you are poor, you should take care of yourself; if you are rich, you should help the world. Since she is now able to help others, she will try her best to help them, and it will also be a blessing for their children.
The two discussed it and immediately donated one-third of their wealth.
Don't underestimate this one-third of your wealth, it is twice the amount of money you have invested during this period.
The donation of silver was not concealed but made public.
The whole capital was in an uproar when such a huge sum of money was donated. Everyone couldn't help but sigh that the Zhao family was a golden nest, and the share of Yipinzhai, Yipin Medicinal Plant Garden, and Huixiang Restaurant that others could not see were simply golden chickens that laid golden eggs.
Although they were envious, jealous, and resentful, and although they might be cursing Zhao Chuchu as an idiot in their hearts, and even wishing that the wealth could be theirs, they were just thinking about it. On the surface, they could only smile and say that the Zhao family was really kind and did good deeds.
After all, King Ancheng is Zhao Chuchu's mother, and who is King Ancheng? She is the Queen's biological sister.
If you go against Zhao Chuchu, then what's the difference between that and going against King Ancheng and the Queen? Isn't that just courting death?
For the empress whose treasury was not full, the money given by Zhao Chuchu was undoubtedly an oasis in the desert. It made her see hope of life and she said several good words repeatedly.
Because Zhao Chuchu took the lead, other royal relatives, nobles and wealthy businessmen had no choice but to donate. Of course, how much they donated was up to them.
The Queen directly ordered someone to make a merit tablet. After the plague was over, she would write it herself, writing down the names of all the donors and the specific amount of silver.
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