Ezhou City.

This is a high-risk zone.

If you look down from the air, you can see countless Wuchao Lake sailors wearing cowhide armor like ants, scattered throughout Ezhou, Wuchao Lake, and Jiangnan Road, visiting people's health everywhere, and holding newspapers in hand to preach the importance of hygiene.

The cowhide armor invented by Liu Yuyi is not without origin. Liu Shan once followed Liu Yu to the Wuchao Lake Navy Camp. At that time, it was Liu Shan who made the hygiene standards in the camp to prevent insects and mosquitoes.

Cowhide armor is the standard equipment of Lu Zhanlong's navy. As a navy that is still in training and is still proficient in its own ship, the quota of iron armor is not very large. The soldiers are trained with cowhide armor to make up for it.

Liu Shan was also a careful person. Dr. Liu was studying Trichoderma spp. and was working hard on it. Liu Shan's proposal of cowhide armor was approved by Dr. Liu.

Qi Xingyun put the two manuscripts written by Liu Yuyi and Liu Yu together, read them for a long time and said: "In other words, the best way to deal with the Qianzhou plague and Ezhou water plague is to cut off the transmission channels and prevent them from spreading.

Good hygiene?”

Qi Xingyun held the tablet. This is the view of Liu Yuyi as the great doctor of Daqi, to cut off the transmission channels and improve hygiene.

Dr. Liu's approach was to continue to promote the practice of Luo Fengtang's national defense army, which was to eliminate rats. The method used was to catch snakes and release them into the epidemic areas.

Dr. Liu said that snakes are long worms and rats are burrowing worms. The difference stems from the concern of not being infected. He proposed the method of using snakes to eliminate rats, which was well received by all the soldiers.

What Liu Shan did in Ezhou, Lianghu, Liangjiang, Liangzhejiang and other places was to eliminate mosquitoes, distribute paper-wrapped incense from house to house, clean up the silt in the city, and eliminate mosquitoes.

Their common practice, the disinfectant made from plant ash, is also made on site, which is simple, fast and effective.

"Is that the paper-wrapped incense?" Qi Xingyun asked, pointing to the incense lamp in the distance.

Wang Yun nodded, ran over, took off the crown of the crane-shaped incense lamp, took out the paper-wrapped incense inside, placed it in front of the emperor and said: "Mosquito-like smoke, old clouds, smoked with moxa

It will collapse. However, mugwort is not easy to come by, so the custom is to use the bones of eels, eels, turtles, etc. as medicine, add rosin, duckweed, and sulfur, wrap it in paper three or four feet long, and smoke it day and night to repel mosquitoes."

"Mosquitoes in autumn have teeth. One bite can cause a big mess, and they can easily make you sick. So I ordered a few plates of this paper-wrapped incense."

"During the Dragon Boat Festival, collect and store duckweed, dry it in the shade, add realgar, make paper and wrap it around incense, and burn it to get rid of mosquitoes."

"It's just that when the realgar is burned, it doesn't smell very good. The paper incense in front of the emperor does not contain realgar." Wang Yun explained the origin of the paper incense.

"Is Zhang Ge old enough?" Qi Xingyun asked Wang Yun to take away the paper wrapped with incense.

"Say Mr. Ge, Mr. Ge will be here soon." Wang Yun leaned forward and saw Zhang Tingyu's hurried steps from a distance.

After some greetings, Qi Xingyun handed the zhazi in his hand to Zhang Tingyu and said: "Mr. Zhang Ge, Mr. Liu Ge asked Qi Weiming to stay in Ezhou Magistrate. What do you think of this matter?"

Zhang Tingyu had already seen Liu Yu's notes. This note had been copied into several copies when it was in Shangshu Province. The archives and Zuo Cheng and You Cheng asked for a copy. The emperor has the original here.

Zhang Tingyu read the letter again and said: "I agree with Mr. Liu Ge in principle. First of all, the emperor gave Mr. Liu Ge the sacred order to act cheaply. That is the emperor's trust in Mr. Liu Ge. As the saying goes, don't use suspects, use people."

No doubt, this is the truth."

"Secondly, the emperor and his ministers are all in the capital, not in Ezhou. We are only looking at the situation in Ezhou through Zazi. We don't know the details, but it delays the matter. Since the imperial envoy has been dispatched, let the imperial envoy supervise the matter.

that is."

"Then there's the Emperor. Since Qi Weiming is the cause of this mess in Ezhou, he naturally has to handle it himself. Liu Ge will deal with it for him in his seventies, and he himself has to bear the responsibility. It would be cheaper to just leave.

Got him."

Qi Xingyun nodded to agree with Zhang Tingyu's words. Zhang Tingyu's three reasons represented the reasons of officials in Beijing.

The reason Liu Yu gave was very simple. He needed to use the organizational structure of the Ezhou magistrate, yamen and county magistrates to deal with the plague. If he removed Qi Weiming and replaced him immediately, it would be difficult to mobilize all human, material and financial resources to provide relief and relieve the disaster areas.

's people.

Man can conquer nature, so he must rely on the general public to win this battle. Naturally, he must make the best use of everything. This time, the enemy is not the Han people, but the epidemic.

Liu Yu did not propose that Qi Weiming should be punished and make meritorious service, but described the matter as settling accounts after the fall.

"I'm just afraid that after this incident, I'll punish myself with three cups of tea, and I'll be transferred to someone else." Qi Xingyun said with a sigh.

In order to save more people, Qi Xingyun agreed to Qi Weiming stay in Ezhou and play his remaining role.

But he was very worried that because of the bad habit of officials protecting each other, in the end they even saved themselves from exile. If they punished themselves with three cups of flat tea or the officials were reinstated, it would still be the people who would suffer.

Qi Xingyun picked up the red pen on the table and circled Qi Weiming's name. Wang Yun trembled all over and glanced at Zhang Gelao.

This look is very simple, the emperor is going to kill someone.

Zhang Tingyu immediately understood that the emperor picked up the pen used for Zhu Pi's execution, which meant that the emperor had murderous intentions in his heart.

Qi Xingyun took Liu Yu's note and said: "Ezhou is located at the intersection of two rivers and is connected in all directions. This flood epidemic has spread widely, so everyone should take strict precautions."

Zhang Tingyu nodded. Ever since the incident in Ezhou, the state capital, which responded quickly, had already begun to block the refugees as soon as possible.

For example, after the last merchant ship left the dock, the capital city began to block and defend the city with the fastest reaction speed.

Zhang Tingyu said with a smile: "It's late autumn now, and caravans from all over the country have left the capital. As winter approaches, trade has become bleak. It's no big deal if it's closed. The road is still passable, and the transportation of supplies is not hindered. Waiting for the flood epidemic

After that, the people will feel at ease."

He was fortunate that the epidemic broke out after late autumn. If it were during the midsummer, when trade was frequent and there were more patients, the impact on Daqi's commercial activities would be very severe!

As the cabinet minister who presided over the business reform, he would naturally receive a mid-to-low rating in the evaluation. Sitting in the cabinet minister's seat and receiving a middle-to-low rating would probably be the same as taking the blame.

Qi Xingyun looked at Liu Yuzhao and sighed: "In the Ezhou area, there is a widespread shortage of mugwort, artemisia annua, burned plant ash and wood, paper incense, cowhide, eagle-beak masks and the masks I asked the Science and Technology Garden to make.

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“Can the national funds support it?”

The income from the national funds has already gone somewhere before it comes in. Especially when roads are being built everywhere in Daqi, the income is not enough to fill Chidao. Qi Xingyun is a little worried about the national funds.
Chapter completed!