Chapter 311 – Shocking the Four

Chen Li did not dare to be slow, panicked and led Chen Daowen hoofed it to the outside of the noon gate, intending to wait for Zhang Anshi here.

But asked the guards at the gate, only to realize that Zhang Anshi had already left the palace before, but for some reason, he was suddenly and urgently called back.

At this moment, Chen Li, however, was a bit anxious.

He looked to Chen Daowen and said, “There can be no delay, this is too big, we have to have the eunuchs pass on a message.”

But although this is said, Chen Li is the Commander of the Commander of the Jinyiwei Commanders Commander, but to the palace, is a short head.

He thought about it, but had a way with it, and began to make a beeline for Chen Dao Wen’s body.

Chen Daowen said uncertainly, “Uncle, what are you doing?”

Sure enough, a gold dollar and seven or eight silver dollars were quickly searched out, and Chen Li laughed, “I knew you boys went out and must have brought a lot of money with you.”

So this money will be clutched in the hand, eyeing a eunuch not far from that forbidden guard, greeted toward that eunuch, smiled and said, “Eunuch, we need to pass some messages into the palace, but also ask the eunuch …… to run a trip.”

As he spoke, he stuffed all these gold and silver into the eunuch’s hands.

The eunuch received the money, hidden in the sleeve, all the line of flow, but still still end up with the appearance of the frame: “What message? We can say, the palace rules are strict, not any news can be transmitted.”

Chen Li said, “I am the Commander of the Commander of the Jinyiwei Commanders Commander, there is a major event to report to the Duke of Wei, and here …….”

He took the book and handed it to this eunuch, then said, “I heard that the Duke of Wei is in the palace, so please bring this to the Duke of Wei, and the Duke of Wei will understand when he reads it.”

As soon as he heard the words Duke of Wei, the eunuch’s face changed slightly.

This was a bit awkward, the eunuch revealed a reluctant look, and did a little bit of thinking, but sucked in his breath and obediently pulled the gold and silver out of his sleeve again.

Plugged back to Chen Li, on the efforts to pile up smiles: “So it is the Duke of Wei things, said earlier, this is a hand up, how to ask for gold and silver it? The Grand Duke said, the Palace and the Brocade Guard is a family, you wait, we will go.”

When he said that, he took the book and ran away in a huff.

Chen Li could not help but sigh, pawed the gold and silver, very smoothly stuffed back into his own arms to go, mouth lamented: “or Gong Gong face is big, there is no place to eat not rotten.”

Chen Dao Wen looked straight at Chen Li, “Uncle, my silver.”

Chen Li suddenly face taut, glaring at him, “your mother always complained that you spend money on weekdays, not a peaceful life, this silver uncle for you to receive, in the future your son to marry a daughter-in-law when used. Hey, your father died early ah, uncle has to take care of you more ah!”

Dawn Chen: “……”

…………

Zhu Di was like an ant on a hot pan at this point.

The situation in the Eastern Palace made him realize the seriousness of the problem.

Although there are arrangements, but the plague is terrible, is that even if the crown prince, the crown princess and Zhu Zhanji even into the large inner, but who can ensure that the three of them have been infected?

The terrible thing about the bubonic plague is that it is extremely lethal, and almost everywhere you look at the reports, it is the death of entire villages.

Wait until the ministers have gone and returned.

In fact, someone has already been informed of the situation beforehand.

Yang Rong was a native of Fujian, and he had been concerned about such things happening in Fujian for a long time.

Just this kind of plague, not to mention that he is the Wen Yuan Pavilion University Professor, even if he is the God of Heaven, there is no way to solve, can only dry look.

Every time the Fujian Provincial Minister’s Office reported the deaths of the population, he was so anxious that he could not bear to read the report.

Now the East Palace even appeared the plague, more let his heart like pressure a big stone.

“Your Majesty.”

Zhu Di was so anxious that his eyes were already red, with a few moments of anxiety, said, “There are eunuchs in the East Palace who have died of illness, and the Crown Prince’s family …… is only afraid of ……”

Zhang Anshi heard, just feel the brain buzzing, the spread of the plague is extremely fast ……

He took a deep breath and stabilized his mind before saying, “Your Majesty, how is the situation now? Brother-in-law …… Crown Prince and Crown Princess, as well as the royal grandson, are all right?”

Zhu Di’s gaze was ghostly, sighing, “Hey …… it seems that this is really a calamity from heaven.”

The reason why there is a market for the whole celestial sensation thing is actually understandable.

For example, Zhu Di, of course, he does not believe in this set, and even for many readers to play this set, very disgusted.

But when things happen around one’s own family, especially to one’s children and grandchildren, it can be a completely different story.

He did not have many heirs and only a few grandchildren, which is totally different from Zhu Yuanzhang who had more than twenty sons and hundreds of grandchildren at every turn.

From Danei to this, this way, Zhu Di sitting in the carriage, the heart of the thought is, could it be that this is really their own Jingdan, caused the resentment of heaven?

Or maybe you did something wrong?

There is a latter-day saying that everything is undecided, quantum mechanics.

And in this day and age, when one is undecided about everything, one is skeptical.

Zhu Di’s face looked extremely ugly as he wearily looked up at the ministers before saying, “Give the decree …… to grant amnesty to the whole world ……”

Upon hearing about the amnesty, I don’t know how the others reacted, but Zhang Anshi was anxious instead.

Zhang Anshi for amnesty is extremely antipathy, although the emperors love amnesty, but after all, it is generous at the expense of others.

How many villains who were caught with great difficulty, a sentence of amnesty, but let the tiger return to the mountain.

And he thinks the whole amnesty thing is just self-defeating.

It was just that Zhang Anshi was revolted, but he didn’t have the heart to count this now.

Zhu Di continued with some choking, “Wan Fang is guilty, the crime is in my own body, this heavenly calamity, why should it be inflicted on my children, grandchildren and subjects.”

He showed reluctance, some resentment.

“Have you …… any of you a good plan, has not one of you a good plan?”

This question is, obviously, superlative.

Everyone was silent.

Even as smart as Yao Guangxiao, his strategy is to swing for the fences.

Today, however, Zhu Di did not blame, he just sat paralyzed in the dragon chair, his eyes dull and seemingly powerless.

This kind of thing for Zhu Di, the blow is the biggest, because he is a life of good and strong people, like him such a strong people, always think that everything in the grasp.

But in the face of this bubonic plague, one realizes that one is powerless to fight back.

Instead, it was Zhang Anshi who spoke up to break the silence, saying, “Your Majesty, the immediate priority is to find a way to clean up the streets and alleys, especially to specialize in food waste …… In addition to that …… ”

Yang Rong, however, interrupted at this point: “Duke Wei, the problem is not here. Everyone knows that the plague is caused by dead rats, if we can exterminate the rats, of course, we can live a lot of people. But the problem is, the plague happened, the world shook, everyone is at risk, at this time not only the ordinary people, even the errand boys and soldiers, also at a loss.”

“None of the things that the Duke of Wei has said require a great deal of manpower and material resources, but at this point in time, it’s too difficult.”

This is in fact the reality of the situation, we are all human beings, encountered this kind of situation, Zhang Anshi said things, in fact, not very useful, because now no one to care about these.

Zhang Anshi at this time is also upset, he misses his brother-in-law’s family, afraid of what really happened, but at the same time, he is also worried about his own family.

Jingyi and the child but I do not know how it is, Xu Jingyi at this time and pregnant, if there is any good or bad, it would be really bad.

Everyone panicked, and Zhang Anshi was only a mortal, so how could he not panic?

Just then, Yiluoha hurriedly came and said, “Your Majesty …… Your Majesty ……”

He had just received a man from the Eastern Palace and had rushed especially to report.

Zhu Di looked at Yilungha, showing some concern and said, “How?”

“The family of the Crown Prince, has been accessed to the Great House. ”

Zhu Di said with a sullen face, “Teach the people to keep an eye on them at all times, and tell them to stay well.”

Also Lostha said, “Yes.”

At the same time, a eunuch arrived at the Mandarin’s House in a hurry.

Knowing that His Majesty was discussing business with the ministers, he probed outside, somewhat hesitant as to whether he should go in and report.

Zhu Di was already furious, and when he saw that a eunuch dared to snoop around here, he immediately raged, “Who is it?”

The eunuch was startled, and even if he wanted to hide, he knew that he couldn’t, but he could only harden his heart and hurriedly walked in.

Probably out of fear, he stammered, “Your Majesty, slave girl …… slave girl ……”

Zhu Di was in a bad mood at this time, and directly pointed at this eunuch, “Drag it out and feed it to the dogs.”

The eunuch’s mind went blank and the man went numb.

No sooner had this head order been given than a forbidden guard immediately and quickly rushed in, rawly pressing this eunuch to the ground.

As soon as this eunuch fell, a book in his sleeve shook out.

Only poor this eunuch scared body like sieve chaff, open mouth to speak, but what words can not speak.

He was about to be dragged out by the forbidden guards.

Zhang Anshi looked down at the book on the ground, narrowed his eyes, and snapped, “Wait.”

The forbidden guards glanced hesitantly at Zhu.

Who expects that at this time, Zhang Anshi has picked up the book and turned it over, and then …… Zhang Anshi showed a surprised face.

He murmured, “Chen Daowen …… Chen Daowen is back …… This dog thing …… is back, why… . why ……”

Zhang Anshi lost his mind.

The eunuch then reacted, like all of a sudden found his voice back, and hastily said, “Your Majesty, slave girl ten thousand deaths ah, slave girl ten thousand deaths, this is the side of the brocade guards, said that there is an urgent message to report to the Duke of Wei, slave girl …… is afraid of delaying things … …”

Zhu Di at this time has not bothered to pay attention to that eunuch, but his eyes looked straight at Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, looked like he was concentrating.

He flipped through each line of the book, word by word.

Yao Guangxiao felt that this guy, in front of the imperial court, was so out of order, thinking of Zhang Anshi’s promise to burn the relics and build a pagoda, he couldn’t help but cough a reminder.

But Zhang Anshi was oblivious to this, as if he had turned a deaf ear to it.

He just continued to look down, like he was obsessed.

Especially the data inside, Zhang Anshi did not dare to miss a single figure.

When the crowd saw him like this, they didn’t know what kind of medicine Zhang Anshi was selling in his gourd, but at this time, they couldn’t help but be silent.

Looked at it for a long time.

Zhang Anshi finally took a deep breath, and then raised his head up, his eyes, suddenly released light.

Zhang Anshi felt like he was drunk at that moment, his feet seemed to be stepping on cotton, and he took a few wobbly steps before moving away from the book and looking at the eunuch, saying, “When was the news sent, and who was the person who came?”

The eunuch obviously gave a fright, but still forced himself hard to answer properly, “This …… is just in the square, came two people, one claimed to be the Commander of the Jinyiwei, and another …… is a youth. ”

Zhang Anshi ignored the other people’s puzzled gazes.

But he continued to press the eunuch, “What else did they say?”

“Said there is a great thing played, oh, in which the young man, dusty look, look very tired ……”

Zhang Anshi took another deep breath, and with what seemed to be certainty in his eyes, he said, “I see, well, don’t take him, let him go down.”

Yao Guangxiao heard this and frowned, thinking that Zhang Anshi, this guy, is really a bit bold, His Majesty said to take it down, and you, Zhang Anshi, dared to change His Majesty’s oracles in front of His Majesty?

Could it be that in the end, it’s the poor monk who burns the relics for him, Zhang Anshi?

Yao Guangxiao coughed again.

Zhang Anshi still remained unconcerned, he was afraid that he had made a mistake, and took the book and looked at it again.

And then the whole thing fell into a state of contemplation.

Zhu Di only gazed at Zhang Anshi without saying a word, judging from Zhang Anshi’s behavior, he felt that the book was extraordinary.

It was Hu Guang who was a bit unable to hold back, “Duke Wei, what happened?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Now there are some things that have not yet been determined, we have to ask for clarification before we can rest assured. But …… from the data recorded in this book ……”

What Zhang Anshi said next shocked all four: “The method of preventing the bubonic plague, it worked.”

Everyone’s eyes went straight at this statement.

“What do you mean?” Zhu Di was anxious, his eyes widened as he looked Zhang Anshi dead in the eye, “Effective? What do you mean by effective?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty, in fact, how to prevent the plague, I am not sure, as Yang Gong said, the general methods of preventing epidemics, in front of the plague, is simply ineffective.”

The so-called general approach is known as maintaining hygiene, good cleaning, eliminating sources of transmission and so on.

But in reality, such things are easier said than done in this day and age.

The local government, will not not know that rats are the source of transmission, but the problem is, once the plague occurs, where do you go to pull manpower to do this?

With people on edge, not to mention, having people exterminate rats and clean up trash.

As a general rule, wherever there is a plague, almost everyone in that place closes their doors and prays that they don’t get infected, and once they do, they have to wait for death.

And in general, it is a family of people infected, outsiders do not dare to approach, and the doctor is even more afraid to come to the door.

At this point in time, even if you don’t die of disease, then basically the family is going to starve to death.

Precisely because of this, so these years in Fujian and Jiangxi Buzhengji plague, often for the plague disaster statistics, not at all per person.

Rather, it is by household, and if one household gets it, the whole family dies, and no one is spared.

Zhang Anshi obviously understands the reality of this era as well, but it’s different now.

Under the consternation of the crowd, the light in Zhang Anshi’s eyes grew brighter and brighter, and he said with certainty, “I have a medicine that can solve the bubonic plague.”

Chu: “……”

Yang Rong said, “Why didn’t you say so earlier?”

He’s from Fujian, and his eyes are now red with anxiety.

If you had told me earlier, why would Fujian be in this situation?

Zhang Anshi said, “It is also only now that a method has been found, even two months ago, even if there was a method, there was nothing that could be done because there was a medicine missing.”

Young Wing: “……”

Hearing this, Yang Rong could not help but say that the time is also lucky.

Zhu Di, on the other hand, said sharply, “Make it clear.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty, the key to the problem of the bubonic plague lies in the prevention and treatment of the disease, which is too contagious, and thus can very easily lead to panic among the people of the world. So the most important thing is to solve the problem of contagion.”

“I have long discovered a medicine, may be able to minimize the number of infected people, only to minimize the number of people, everyone’s heart will be set, even if the occasional infected people, but also can organize manpower to treat and help, so …… the lethality of this bubonic plague, but also can be reduced to a minimum. ”

Zhu Di’s face became more and more agitated, he looked at Zhang Anshi fixedly and said, “Is it really effective?”

Zhang Anshi then said, “I am just worried about the lack of effect, so I specially ordered the Jinyiwei, to go to Fujian Jianning Prefecture to try. Your Majesty, this is the result of the comparison, I divided the Jianning Prefecture city into three areas, and then divided it into A, B, and C workshops.”

“Of these, one thousand three hundred and twenty are in Place A, one thousand one hundred and fifty in Place B, and one thousand four hundred in Place C. These three squares, blocked up by a high wall, have adopted the minister’s medicine for Square A, while Square B and Square C …… have to go along with it.”

The crowd listened intently, lest they miss a word.

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, was ashamed to continue, “It is not that I don’t want to medicate the entire Jianning Prefecture City, it is …… that the medicine that I have now is also limited, and I can only ……” Zhang Anshi sighed. Sometimes, what people do every day is a choice, to some extent, the people of Place A are lucky, but for the people of Place B and Place C, it is injustice.

Zhu didn’t blame him, but said, “How did it turn out?”

Mercy does not govern soldiers, and Zhu Di certainly knows that compared to saving millions of people, Zhang Anshi’s so-called grief is nothing at all.

This is in fact the morality of the ancients and the later generations. In the later generations, the slightest injury is like a pain in the heart, and it seems that the sky is going to fall when lovers break up.

But in this day and age, death is the norm, even in times of peace and prosperity, people are like grass, and before you can hurt yourself, a greater disaster will befall you.

Zhang Anshi said, “Among them, in the month of January in B Square, three hundred and seventy-two people contracted the disease and one hundred and sixty-five died.”

The crowd had no expression.

Zhang Anshi, however, felt a bit suffocated, but still said, “C Square is a bit better, with two hundred and ten people infected and sixty-five dead.”

Zhu Di said, “How many A-fangs?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Three were infected and one died.”

Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air when these words came out.

Almost everyone, thought they had heard wrong.

Infected trio ……

This ……

Zhang Anshi said: “Of course, this is not a long-term observation, there may be some infected people in the A Square did not notice, but the general judgment, should not be bad, that is …… the situation in the A Square, has been greatly relieved. And because many of the military and civilian people did not contract the disease, all of us for the plague, is no longer afraid, here also recorded, B Square and C Square in the aftermath of this natural disaster, there are bound to be some people, the vast majority of which is the problem of the people closed, and that is, the sick people, no one cared for, there are a lot of people starved to death. The local doctor, but also do not dare to go out to the clinic, and …… there are people after death, the corpse is also difficult to take care of, which instead exacerbated the spread of the plague.”

“But in the A-fang, the situation is the opposite, because there are fewer people infected with the disease, everyone has confidence, the hundred letters of the people resumed production, the people who have been sick, but also received attentive care, although the disease is still terrible, but as long as you can get good treatment and care, the number of people who die, it will be greatly reduced.”

Zhu Di heard here, as if a chest a stuffy, all of a sudden catharsis out, this is anxious red-eyed people, now the eyes are still red, this time the heart but there are infinite feelings.

Importantly, Zhang Anshi’s method of making this observation is very convincing, comparing the drugged area with the un-drugged area and finally drawing conclusions.

“This is a divine medicine.” Zhu Di couldn’t help but say, “Secretary Zhang ……”

Zhang Anshi said awkwardly, “In fact, this is not a miraculous medicine …… instead …… it may be a poison …… As for ministers …… I am still ashamed ……”

Yang Rong and the others, they all perked up.

It was as if all at once, the spirit was restored.

Everyone was giddy.

Yang Rong said, “What kind of medicine is this?”

Zhang Anshi said, but he pulled out a box from his sleeve.

And then from this box, he drew out a rolled cigarette, lit one with a flint in front of everyone, took a drag, and exhaled a puff of smoke out.

Chu: “……”

See, I, Mr. Zhang, am still a bully, having a huazi in front of the emperor, just about to cross my legs again.

Instead of inhaling the smoke into his own throat, Zhang Anshi quickly spat it out.

This stuff is harmful, especially if it’s a cigarette without a filter.

He’s just using it to pretend.

Zhang Anshi dusted off his cigarette ash, then said, “Your Majesty, this is it.”

“This?” Zhu looked at this and curiously said, “What kind of incense is this?”

Zhang Anshi said, “This is not incense, it is smoke.”

Zhu Di is still a bit unbelievable at this time, at this time a step down the hall, around Zhang Anshi, sniffing.

The smell of the smoke was obviously pungent, and he subconsciously furrowed his brow with a look of displeasure.

Zhu said, “What’s the point?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Repel the rats.”

Chu: “……”

Zhang Anshi can not eat the plague prevention and treatment, in fact, this is also the reason, the last life, he roughly remembered that he understood the history of the Black Death, learned that in 1665, the plague epidemic in England, people investigated, accidentally found that the rate of smokers infected with the disease and the death rate is much lower than other people, and so concluded that smoking can prevent the plague. The authorities ordered all schoolchildren to smoke in school, and offenders were penalized.

At this time, Zhang Anshi then said: “This smoke is poisonous, so I let the people in the A Square there, daily burning this smoke, but I can’t imagine, actually really worked wonders.”

Zhu Di was violently furious up, a slap Zhang Anshi’s head, drinking: “You this donkey into the, both poisonous, you still sucked into the mouth, do not learn good things!”