A few days later, Shen Nian came back and said that the situation in the south was not good.
It turned out that the letter brought by the express horse on the street that day was a letter sent by the Minister of Revenue and the Minister of Personnel to investigate the plague situation.
"Brother Shen, is there a plague in the south as well?"
If the plague breaks out again in the south, it will be really difficult to control.
Especially now that the weather is getting warmer, the heat comes earlier in the south. If an epidemic occurs, it will spread faster than in winter.
The main reason is that the south is relatively rich, so the population is relatively dense.
If there really is a plague, the speed of its spread will be terrifying.
“It is said that it has already appeared.”
After yesterday's morning court session, the emperor summoned his ministers to come up with a solution.
Unfortunately, after much discussion, no one could come up with a definite solution.
“What are the arrangements for the emperor?” Xia Tian asked again, wondering if Chen Nian would be sent there.
But if the emperor lets Shen Nian go, he will definitely take her with him.
Because the emperor knew that she had medicine that would be very effective in controlling the plague.
"The Emperor has already sent Imperial Physician Xu, Imperial Physician Zhang, and two other Imperial Physicians to the south. They are expected to depart the day after tomorrow."
It seems that the emperor wants the imperial physician to go there and develop a prescription to treat the plague directly on the spot.
If it's just the plague like in Xiawan Village, then Doctor Xu and his team should have no problem treating it according to the prescription.
Even if there are slight changes, I think there will be no problem given the level of the imperial doctors.
"Didn't the emperor ask you to go?" Xia Tian was a little curious. Logically speaking, they had cooperated so well with Doctor Xu and Doctor Zhang during the last incident in Xiawan Village, so they would not break up this team this time.
Shen Nian shook his head, “No.”
Then maybe the emperor has other plans.
Seeing that Xia Tian stopped asking questions, Shen Nian took out a stack of silver bills from his sleeve pocket and handed it to her.
"What?" Xia Tian was confused. They were talking fine, why was he suddenly giving her a stack of banknotes?
"The Emperor asked me to buy a few bottles of your medicine from you."
Xia Tian was stunned, and it took him a while to understand what Shen Nian meant by buying medicine.
"The Emperor bought the medicine so that Doctor Xu and the others could take it away?"
"Yes."
This afternoon, the emperor called him to the imperial study alone just for this matter.
The money used to buy the medicine was taken from the emperor's own private treasury, and no funds were allocated from the national treasury.
Xia Tian pondered for a while, picked up the silver note and counted it. It was fifty thousand taels. The emperor actually gave her fifty thousand taels of silver note.
After counting the silver bills, she took out ten larger porcelain bottles, each containing thirty pills, a total of three hundred pills, and handed them to Shen Nian.
Then he also gave Shen Nian the 50,000 taels of silver notes.
"Brother Shen, please return this banknote to the emperor tomorrow morning!" Now is the time when the court needs money, and she can't ask the emperor to use money to buy her medicine at this time.
Shen Nian took it silently, without saying anything, and just gently snorted on Xia Tian's hair.
The next day, after the morning court session ended, Shen Nian did not rush back and followed the emperor to the imperial study.
He first took out the silver bills and placed them on the table in front of the emperor.
The emperor paused, looking at the silver note that was brought back as it was, thinking that Madam Shen didn't want to sell him the medicine.
I was just about to ask Shen Nian.
Shen Nian took out the porcelain bottles one by one from his sleeve pocket and placed them on the table.
Joy flashed in the emperor's eyes, "Is this the medicine that Madam Shen gave me?"
"Your Majesty, yes."
The emperor took a bottle and poured it out to check. After he finished reading it, the smile on his face became more obvious. He didn't expect that Madam Shen would give him so many pills.
He originally thought that being able to buy two or three bottles would be a great achievement, but he didn't expect Mrs. Shen to directly give him ten bottles.
"Then why were the silver notes taken back?" The emperor asked in confusion, looking at the box containing the silver notes on the table.
"My wife asked me to return the banknotes to the emperor." Shen Nian said calmly.
"Why?" The emperor was puzzled. Could it be that it was too little?
"She said the emperor was trying to save the people. No matter how much she liked money, she couldn't take the people's life-saving money."
This was also the answer Xia Tian gave after he asked her last night.
The emperor was silent for a while, then took back the banknote and said, "Thank Madam Shen for me. I will remember her righteousness for the people."
"Yes, I will definitely deliver the emperor's oral instructions."
In the afternoon, the emperor summoned Imperial Physician Xu and Imperial Physician Zhang to the imperial study.
He asked the two to take the pills given by Xia Tian, and set off directly to the south to treat the plague the next day.
Doctor Xu and Doctor Zhang didn't expect that the emperor would ask Madam Shen for such expensive medicine in advance, and they were grateful.
Although the emperor was not doing this for them, he was still worried that they would not be able to control the plague, so he allowed them to go on the road with an extra layer of protection.
"There are three hundred pills in total. You two must pack them carefully. This is a life-saving medicine." The emperor reminded them worriedly.
"Yes, Your Majesty. I will live up to your trust and do my best!" The two adults agreed in unison.
"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news!"
The next day, Imperial Physician Xu, Imperial Physician Zhang and four others left the capital and headed south under the escort of a general.
As the Spring Examination was approaching and the plague broke out again in the south, the emperor had less and less time to rest.
Eunuch Xu was so worried that he even moved the Empress Dowager out, but the Emperor still couldn't get a good rest.
After Xia Tian knew about it, he silently took out a bottle of medicine and asked Shen Nian to take it to Eunuch Xu. At least this medicine can make people feel refreshed after taking it.
It won’t make you sick!
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