Farming Beneath the Changbai Mountains

"Madam, the stewards from several of our workshops are here." Chunliu came into the room to report.

"Ask all the stewards to wait outside in the living room. I'll be there right away." Jinghan put down the book in her hand, straightened her clothes, and then came out of the room.

When I came to the living room, I saw about ten people in charge, all sitting in the living room. "Thank you for your hard work. I have called you all here at this time. The matter is really urgent and there is nothing we can do."

"Madam, if you have anything to say, just tell me. It's not hard work." Manager Ding was the first to speak.

The people around him also agreed. Among them, Anfu, Changshun, Changxing, and Changwang were brought over from home by Jinghan. Manager Ding and Manager Sun were sent here by the Yue family, and the rest were some people Jinghan found locally, all of whom were quite capable. Following Jinghan in the past few years, everyone has made a lot of money, so if Jinghan has something to do, of course they are obliged to do it.

"That's right. This year's flood has affected the entire central part of Longzhou Prefecture. Especially Fuyu Prefecture, which is adjacent to the east of our town and is on the lower reaches of the Noni River, has been severely affected. I can't say it now. Ten rooms and nine empty rooms are about the same." Jinghan organized her thoughts little by little, "Now it has been found that the plague has begun to breed in Fuyu Prefecture, and there are also epidemics in several other states and counties."

"We adults have gone to Fucheng to help, and everyone in the Yamen has also been sent to various places to guard several traffic arteries, just to prevent the plague from spreading to our side. However, such strict defense cannot solve the problem. We must start at the source. The solution is to find more doctors and get more medicinal materials. Now that the yamen is short of manpower, I can only ask you to help. Please purchase medicinal materials within our Zhendong area, preferably from Beiyuan also purchased some.”

"In addition, Manager Fang, I'm afraid you could trouble me to go back to my parents' house and invite my third uncle and younger uncle over. They have superb medical skills and are much better than the doctors here. Nowadays, there is a greatest shortage of doctors. Fucheng Although a letter has been sent to the capital, I'm afraid it's a long way and we won't be able to come in time. We're closer to my home. Go quickly and we'll bring you there in four or five days. Please ask Fang to help. Stop working hard and take a walk," Jinghan said to Anfu.

"Madam, Anfu will take care of this matter right away. The epidemic is a big deal. If we don't deal with it, it will spread to us. Without further ado, Anfu will leave immediately." Anfu stood up and walked out.

Jinghan didn't stop him, "Take two more people. It's best to collect more medicinal materials from there. We are too short of medicinal materials now."

Anfu nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Also, there is not enough food in Fucheng. Your Excellency wrote a letter asking us to send the food from the county there first to help tide over the difficulties. For this matter, we can go to Changshun and Changxing, okay?" Of course it's me. My family found it easy to use.

Changshun and Changxing both nodded, "Madam, don't worry, we will definitely deliver the food safely."

Logically speaking, there are several prefectures and counties near Fucheng, and the granaries in each prefecture and county were not damaged. But who knew that Zixuan proposed to open a warehouse for inventory that day, but the magistrate Fang failed in every possible way to obstruct it. Only then did I realize that in four or five granaries, half a grain of grain was gone.

Mingyu was furious at that time and took down Magistrate Fang directly, and then arrested all the people in charge of the several states and counties where the problem had arisen. After careful investigation, it was discovered that these people were all accomplices of Fang Zhifu. They would sell all the grain to Beiyuan Kingdom every year after spring. As a result, there are no grains in the granary. Otherwise, why would the prefect have sent people to collect grain from various places after the flood? Except for Zhendong, the remaining places all took out some food. Only then did someone give porridge to the porridge shed, but there was too little food, so the porridge was naturally very thin.

There were many things going on with Magistrate Fang, and Mingyu was so angry that he put Magistrate Fang in jail. But I didn't expect that in the middle of the night, the prefect committed suicide in prison out of fear of crime. I originally planned to find some clues from him, but now everything was ruined.

Mingyu immediately asked Zixuan to temporarily replace Magistrate Fang and take charge of the overall situation. With Mingyu sitting here, no one is dissatisfied. So Zixuan arranged various matters in the government office.

This time the plague is indeed coming with great force. Because the best prevention and treatment opportunities were missed, many people fell ill. Zixuan had no choice but to ask Qian to lead the doctors in the city to treat all those who had symptoms together. In addition, those who did not show symptoms all ate the porridge with medicine.

However, the scope of the plague was too large and there were not enough doctors, so some people still became sicker and died. Mingyu immediately sent someone back to Beijing to deliver a letter, asking Taiyuan Hospital to send someone over. At the same time, several major epidemic areas were also sealed off, and people were not allowed to enter or exit. Wen Han, Pengcheng and others were all sent to various states and counties to watch and deal with the matter. On the Fucheng side, only Zixuan and Mingyu were left in charge.

Zixuan was in Fucheng and had not slept for three days. The prefect did not do anything after the disaster, but now it is even more difficult to do it.

There has been no epidemic in the city yet, but everyone has taken medicine to take precautions.

"Sir, the people in Yushu County gathered to make trouble. It is said that the imperial court trapped them in the city to let them fend for themselves and to let them all die. Now the people making trouble have smashed the county government office." People came in from outside. One person reported back.

Many people in the government office were in cahoots with Magistrate Fang, so nearly half of them were sent to prison this time. Nowadays, there are not enough manpower in the government office. Zixuan had no choice but to transfer people from the Zhendong government office such as Zhao Xian Cheng and Chief Secretary Liu. After all, they are all familiar with each other and can feel more at ease when doing things. With these people, plus the people brought by Mingyu, it is barely enough.

"Send people over and arrest all the people who are leading the trouble. Then make it clear to the people that Yushu County is blocked now only because they are afraid that the plague will spread to other places. As long as these people can take medicine on time, there will be no If there is a problem, we have sent a doctor there. In addition, the imperial doctor from the capital is coming soon. The court will not let them die on their own." Zixuan rubbed his eyebrows and said.

After hearing this, the man immediately took some people away. Two days ago, Zixuan mobilized all the garrison troops from all over Longzhou to help maintain public order and seal off the epidemic areas. With the help of these soldiers, the problem of insufficient manpower can be solved.

"Sir, there are many people outside. They say they are relatives from your hometown and are here to help." Zixuan was just about to stare in confusion when another person came in.

When Zixuan heard this, he stood up immediately and said, "Please come quickly."

Not long after, several people came in from outside. It was Zhiming and Qingnian who came with Wencheng, Wenxuan, Wenxing and others. Wenxing is not good at schoolwork, but he is quite interested in medicine. So Qingnian accepted him as his apprentice, taking him with him and teaching him all the time.

"Third uncle, uncle, brother Wencheng, why are you here?" Zixuan asked in surprise when he saw these people.

"Jinghan sent someone over and asked us to come and help." Zhiming smiled. "We heard about the epidemic here and immediately brought people here. We are the first batch. The third master of the Lu family has already contacted various medical hospitals over there. People will come in a few days. This time we also brought Four carts of medicinal materials have emptied my medicine shop. I'm afraid you may not have enough medicinal materials. In addition, the two Sun brothers and Ye Er have been collecting medicinal materials for a few days. Everyone can follow, you don’t have to worry." Zhiming explained the matter clearly in one breath.

Zixuan's eyes were a little moist, "Thank you, Third Uncle. On behalf of the people here, I would like to thank you all."

"Okay, don't be like this. Let's quickly talk about what's going on now. The epidemic waits for no one, so we will set off immediately. It's important to save people first." Qingnian said next to him.

At this time, Mingyu also received the news and rushed over. Everyone got together and briefly talked about the current situation. Zhiming and Qingnian proposed that they immediately go to the place where the disease was serious and work together to study the prescription.

So everyone set off immediately and rushed to Fuyu Prefecture, where the disease was most severe. Everyone worked hard and arrived at Fuyuzhou at noon the next day. Qian is here, and everyone gathers together to study the condition.

With the participation of Zhiming and Qingnian, a relatively perfect prescription was finally developed three days later. Speaking of which, Qian's medical skills are not bad, otherwise Zhendong's preventive measures would not have been so good a while ago. But as a doctor, no one is omnipotent. There will always be some inertial thinking in it, so there will be some things that cannot be taken into consideration. When Zhiming and Qing came and everyone discussed it together, the situation changed. It is said that the three cobblers are the equal of Zhuge Liang. These people are not cobblers, they are doctors with excellent medical skills, so they are naturally very effective.

So Zhiming, Qingnian, and Wencheng took people to other prefectures and counties respectively. Just follow the formula discussed by everyone, and then add or subtract as appropriate to treat those who are sick.

After several days of treatment, most of the people have improved. At this time, the people's minds were finally stabilized and they cooperated wholeheartedly with the treatment.

The capital sent twenty imperial doctors and a lot of medicinal materials. Lu Shaoqian also mobilized many doctors, and all the medicinal materials purchased by Ye Er and others were sent to Longzhou. Now, the plague in Longzhou is completely under control.

When the good news reached Zixuan, Zixuan breathed a sigh of relief. "It's finally under control. As long as the lives of the people are not in danger, the rest of the things will be easy to deal with. In a few days, when the epidemic subsides, we can help these people rebuild their houses and everything will be fine. The things in the fields Although the crop production has been somewhat reduced, at least there is still some left, so the people will not go hungry. We will slowly figure out how to deal with it in the future."