City, but You Hongyin's requirement is that no matter how much it costs, it can be done in one go, and there should not be natural disasters such as floods and dams every year.

It should be said that fortunately You Hongyin has cement, a killer weapon. The combination of sand, stone and cement reduces the labor cost a lot and saves a lot of money and grain. The effect is much better than the original soil and gravel to build dams.

In fact, part of the reason why the Yellow River is turbid is that Yongzhou in the upper reaches was occupied by the grassland tribes. These tribes did not like to farm according to local rules. They preferred grazing. A large number of cattle, sheep and horses ate the ground vegetation, and countless forest trees were cut down for burning or as materials for building cities and building city defense equipment, etc., which led to the Yellow River water beginning to have a trend of development towards the future and became a little turbid.

When Chen Fengyi drove the Qiang Yang family back to the grassland and completely expelled the people of Lushui Hu back to Liangzhou, Qinzhou was also taken. One person conquered two states. This credit made Chen Fengyi, the young general, completely famous in the world.

At this time, the rainy season was over, the floods slowly receded, and the crops that were killed by the rain began to be replanted. Everything seemed to be calm.

The government of Zhou State has always been running efficiently, and the demand for talents has suddenly increased. Fortunately, You Hongyin has always been foresighted. At the beginning, he let his most valued disciple be responsible for establishing the academy. Now Qingzhou Academy has been officially renamed the Royal Academy of Dazhou, and branches have been established in each state. However, for commemoration, the headquarters is not in Luoyang, but in Qingzhou.

For so many years, the academy has been continuously supplying a large number of talents to the court. At least there is no shortage of low-level officials who do practical things. Some of them are from poor families, but they have their own opportunities. If they are powerful enough, they will have the opportunity to officially enter the power center of Dazhou in the future.

As expected, most of the outstanding students in the academy are from the gentry. This is the current social situation. Even You Hongyin cannot change it. The only thing to do is to let time slowly sort out the contradictions and achieve a certain balance.

Therefore, You Hongyin did not care about the origins of these people and treated them all fairly.

In fact, there were also people from poor families among the outstanding students, but after observation, You Hongyin felt that these people were not suitable for high positions, which also gave You Hongyin a headache.

Because of this situation, You Hongyin soon put the issue of formulating the code on the agenda. The people of the aristocratic families were dissatisfied with You Hongyin's "only talent is selected", so they attributed "morality" to the law, and after setting a detailed code, they carefully set the political achievements, talents, character and behavior in the assessment as one of the criteria for judging the promotion and demotion of officials.

After this method came out, the people of the aristocratic families had nothing to say. Some people wanted to say that it was too harsh and unfair to officials, but in the end they were defeated by the arguments of You Hongyin and the important officials in the court.

In fact, the code of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not harsh, and the treatment of officials was very generous. Although You Hongyin did not believe in the thing of "high salary to maintain integrity", he understood that if the court was stingy, corruption would be more serious.

It's no wonder that You Hongyin did these things when the Great Zhou was not completely stable. Some things were settled at the beginning and became routine. If you want to do these things after you really pacify the world, or leave them to the next emperor, it will be very tiring. So You Hongyin just did it all at once.

The Great Zhou became more prosperous in the midst of busyness. Even Yongzhou and Qinzhou, which had just taken over, gradually glowed with different vitality. Ordinary people could feel that they didn't understand politics or power struggles, but they understood what days were good and what days were bad.

At the moment when the north was becoming more and more harmonious, the Jin Dynasty, which was supposed to regroup and fight the north after the floods ended, did not take any action.

Finally, it was the wild geese that first brought the information.

The plague appeared.

Chapter 221: The Elegance of Famous Scholars (Forty-eight)

In the late summer of the second year of An Ning.

The whole Great Zhou became nervous.

Epidemics are very scary things. Today's medical skills are not very developed, and even if they are real medical skills, they are only for the service of the nobles. There are not many of them. Knowledge monopoly is prone to this situation. Various skills, various technologies, and various inheritances have been cut off because of their own treasures.

This is also one of the bad habits brought by the aristocratic family.

This time, an epidemic broke out in the south, and it was a large-scale epidemic, so that people in the north could not gloat over the disaster. If the epidemic is not stopped, it will come to the north sooner or later.

You Hongyin immediately launched the first-level emergency start-up plan of the Medical Department.

The Medical Department was established by Ge Hong after he was coaxed and deceived back to Qingzhou. However, Ge Hongzhi was not interested in this, so he hurriedly built a framework and helped him urgently train a group of military doctors with shallow medical skills and mainly good at treating trauma, and basically did not ask much.

Later, the people who accepted the Medical Department were two old doctors in the mountains who You Hongyin found after occupying Yizhou.

These two old doctors were once military households and were indeed military doctors in the Jin Dynasty. They were best at surgical treatment, but later they left the army and began to teach themselves other medical skills. Due to their limited resources, what they learned in their lifetime was not better than Ge Hong's, but they had a strong desire to cure diseases and save lives. Whether it was their sense of responsibility or experience, there were things that others could learn from them, so You Hongyin invited them to serve as officers of the Medical Department to help the Wanshan Medical Department.

The two old doctors knew better than You Hongyin how to find those folk doctors who didn't know they were treating nobles. Gradually, with the help of the two old doctors, the medical department was truly established.

Although Ge Hong was unwilling to completely bind himself to medical skills, it did not mean that he was a person without a medical heart. On the contrary, Ge Hong had a heart to save the world, but he just thought that medicine was a minor path.

But he was very happy to pass on what he had learned.

Although Ge Hong was born in a scholar family when he was young, he was very difficult to study because of poverty, but he was still knowledgeable and learned. The books he read were all copied and recited by himself through various methods. The suffering and effort he endured during this period, now it feels hard when he thinks back. Therefore, among his master's disciples, he admired Huo Qingjun the most, just because he read the suffering of the poor and established a library for poor scholars to study.

Therefore, Ge Hong often took time out of his busy schedule to teach the doctors and nurses of the Medical Department. Even though he was later transferred from Qingzhou, he wrote down his medical experience and used it as a teaching material for the Medical Department.

With You Hongyin, who is a hacker, and Hongyan who has been collecting information from all sides for many years, these information include various books, some of which record the experience of doctors in silk and bamboo slips. At the same time, several excellent doctors in the Medical Department have traveled all over the country with Hongyan for several years, recorded the Baicao Collection, drew various herbs, collected prescriptions from all over the country, and practiced and honed their own medical skills. Now the strength of Zhou's Medical Department is no longer the same.

With You Hongyin's order, the Medical Department started to operate quickly.

The first is the restriction of entering and leaving the border.

The commercial circulation of Zhou is very high, so there are countless caravans going back and forth every day, either selling goods from the south to the north, or circulating goods from the north to the south. In order to prevent the spread of epidemics in the south to the north, the first thing is to check the people entering and leaving.

It is not that business travelers are completely prohibited from coming and going, but there needs to be an "observation period". Once it is confirmed that they are not carrying any epidemic diseases, they can enter as usual. Although those business travelers occasionally complained, they were all understanding. If the northern merchants were a little richer, they would not risk going to the south at this moment. Only those merchants who were originally in the south now mostly ran to the north.

Control the flow of population, and then preventive measures are implemented everywhere.

In fact, the Medical Department has been doing this work all the time, but it may be because of the concept problem, it is not taken seriously on weekdays. Now that the epidemic has occurred, it is completely implemented according to the emergency preparation plan.

First, it was publicized that raw water should not be drunk, and then some health knowledge such as absorption after meals was also taught to everyone. At this time, the benefits of Qingzhou's long-term promotion of literacy activities were reflected. Because the people of Qingzhou live a rich life, and most of them can read a little, so-called granaries are full and they know etiquette. They soon regarded these actions as "etiquette" and carried them out. All families who want to have a little face do so.

At this time, people drank raw water mainly because it took firewood to boil water. Firewood in the city was expensive, and many families were reluctant to use it. Firewood in villages and towns was free, but it took a lot of time. If the firewood stored in the house, such as straw and stalks, was burned out, it would take labor to chop firewood. Farmers were busy all year round, so where did they get so much time?

However, this situation has been solved since the advent of honeycomb coal produced in Qingzhou.

This kind of coal is naturally not as good as charcoal, but it is much cheaper than charcoal. Ordinary farmers can afford it. On weekdays, they can boil water with the charcoal left over from cooking. It is not troublesome to boil a pot in summer and leave it cold. In winter, it can be kept warm for a while by the embers. Drinking hot water is not much more comfortable than drinking raw water.

Except for Qingzhou, the work results of the medical departments in other states have shown significant differences. Different difficulties arise with the length of time that Zhou Guo has mastered.

Especially in Qinzhou and Yongzhou, which were just acquired, the people here have not been educated yet. They can be said to have completely followed the customs of the grassland tribes. They don't take a bath all year round, like to grab food with their hands, and don't like to wash their hands before eating. Boil water? Where is the well water to drink!

In fact, this is also related to the local geographical environment where water is scarce. Although it is located on the banks of the Yellow River, there is excessive wind and sand, and fresh water resources are scarce. The most commonly used drinking water for the people here comes from wells.

During the management of the Yellow River this time, You Hongyin intended to build large-scale water conservancy projects in these two states, at least, so that these two states will not lack water for drinking in drought years.

But these things are still just starting, and they are not achieved overnight. This is not building a reservoir in Qingzhou.

However, the Medical Department at least represents the current Zhou official, and the action of promoting the prevention of epidemics in most places in Zhou is still very smooth.

In addition to reminding the people to take precautions on a daily basis, the Medical Department began using quicklime to kill mosquitoes, clean water sources, sweep the streets, deal with battlefield residues, and other tasks. It also encouraged the people to carry out rat extermination in the fields, use insect repellent bags, etc.

The epidemic in the Jin Dynasty continued to expand, and a large part of Hongyan's people had been withdrawn. For You Hongyin, Hongyan's people were not really responsible for intelligence. They were more like customs and appreciation envoys, responsible for various collection work, and supplemented Heming's intelligence work. Therefore, in order to avoid the loss of Heming's personnel, You Hongyin still withdrew most of the personnel. This work is not difficult, because most of these people are wanderers, merchants, etc., who are originally erratic personnel, and have been wandering around. It is also possible to re-arrange them after the epidemic is over.

The withdrawal of Hongyan personnel to Zhou also brought the most real national conditions of the Jin Dynasty, and perhaps they knew it better than those Jin Dynasty officials.

The outbreak of the epidemic was very sudden, and the specific cause could not be investigated. Many officials in Jin State were even infected with the epidemic. Although these nobles had their own doctors, there were not many highly skilled doctors, and most of them were hindered by the royal family and top aristocratic families. On weekdays, people from those aristocratic families always felt that medicine was a lowly profession. When they needed help, they knew what it meant to be hard to find a doctor.

As for ordinary people, apart from listening to the various superstitious activities of some witch doctors, they could only wait to die, or if they were lucky, there would be a doctor with good medical skills in the village, who also had medical ethics and was willing to help the epidemic, which was better. But then, the merchants who took advantage of the fire raised the price of medicinal materials. Even if there were doctors who wanted to save people, they could do nothing when faced with the situation of no medicinal materials.

So,

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