In spring, there are less vegetables and more meat, but the price of meat has gone up a bit recently.
As soon as the meat was brought home, Xiao Qian asked the Zhou Dalang brothers to chop the meat, and then distributed some to the Bai family, and the rest was either steamed or pickled.
She also cut some very good strips of pork and hung them in the kitchen to smoke. Everyone in the family liked to eat bacon, and it was easy to take with them when going out. It could be stored in a cage for half a year without any problem.
Man Bao and Bai Shan and Bai Erlang ate so satisfactorily that even Bai Dalang couldn't help but bring his wife and son back to live there. They ate for two days before moving back to Changqing Lane.
After Manbao finished eating, she brought two pots into the palace and distributed them directly to her colleagues in Taiyuan Hospital. Then she took some in a bowl and sent them to Xiao Yuanzheng, and asked him with a smile, "Xiao Yuanzheng, about the vaccination."
Have you spoken to His Majesty?"
Xiao Yuan was reaching out to take the bowl, put it in front of him, opened his own lunch box, and said: "As I said, His Majesty has already approved it. We are lucky. The Ministry of Punishment has now approved three prisoners to be executed, and they can be exempted from execution."
They all agreed to change the execution to hanging."
He said: "However, we have not yet decided where to put the person for trial. It cannot be in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, or even in the capital."
Man Bao then pondered: "It is best to be an independent small village, empty out the people inside, and except us, everyone is outside, and their lives are controlled by themselves."
She said: "They have sound limbs. If they are just infected with smallpox, they should be able to take care of each other if we stagger the time."
Xiao Yuanzheng nodded, "It would be best if we could find people who have had acne to take care of them."
He paused and then said: "The capital city has done statistics before, and the county government still has records, but it's not certain whether they are willing to do it or not."
The situation in the capital city was special at that time. Many people were forcibly recruited and then released with money and returned home. However, this time it was an experiment at the Taiyuan Hospital, and obviously no more forced recruitment was possible.
Man Bao thought for a while and then said: "I'll ask the Tang County Magistrate."
The next day when Manbao went to class at the Imperial Medical Office, he wrote a letter to Magistrate Tang and asked the officers of the Imperial Medical Office to deliver it to the Chang'an County government office.
In fact, she just thought that Magistrate Tang would reply to her a letter, but who knew that Magistrate Tang personally came to the Imperial Medical Office at noon.
"You want to experiment with vaccination?"
Man Bao nodded, "Let's try variolation first. If it is as effective as the rumors say, then we will look for a safer method of vaccinia."
Magistrate Tang lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "Okay, I'll go find someone for you."
People who had had pox before, as well as those who were infected with smallpox and cured this time, were recorded in the county government. No one could find them more easily than him.
Magistrate Tang asked: "How much is the salary?"
I really don’t know about this Man Bao.
She paused and then said: "This is a dangerous thing. Even if they have had acne, they still have to be unable to go out to meet their relatives and friends for a long time, and the psychological pressure is great. I will tell Xiao Yuanzheng to give as much money as possible."
Some, how much is the typical salary now?"
Magistrate Tang said: "The salary of a man in the city is between 600 and 800 cents."
Manbao began to think deeply, "How about giving them a salary of 900 or 1,000 yuan a month?"
"Okay," County Magistrate Tang stood up and said, "You can talk to Xiao Yuanzheng and try to raise the price as much as possible. You also said that they will definitely not be willing to take care of smallpox patients, especially those on death row. I would like the price to be higher.
Find someone for you."
Man Bao quickly warned: "It is best to be an adult man, honest and obedient, or a strong old woman."
County Magistrate Tang said there was no problem, and he took two steps outside before remembering. He turned around and looked at her, "Man Bao, so is there really a way to vaccinate against acne in this world?"
Man Bao said: "Am I the kind of person who talks nonsense? Of course I do."
Magistrate Tang couldn't help but sigh at her good luck, "It seems that God really loves you. You want to study in the Western Regions, but the vaccination method happened to be spread there."
Man Bao just smiled.
Magistrate Tang went back to look for someone, while Man Bao went back to Xiao Yuan to ask for money.
On this point, Xiao Yuanzheng was quite generous. He said: "I will ask the Ministry of Finance for money later. Since the Ministry of Punishment has agreed, then the matter will be done. I thought about it all night last night and finally found out
Three places. One is the work farm in Chang'an County or Wannian County, with several rooms built on the side to detain people; the other is the mountain temple of the Ministry of Punishment outside the city. Sometimes the prison of the Ministry of Punishment cannot hold so many prisoners, and they
They will temporarily suppress people in the mountain temple. It is spring now, and many prisoners will not be escorted to Beijing until the spring and autumn, so the mountain temple is empty now, and the access control inside is quite strict, so I think it can be used."
"The other thing is to ask for a few rooms in the Imperial Mansion with His Majesty," he said: "The first one requires money, and Chang'an County and Wannian County may not agree, but they are young officials and must be members of the Ministry of Justice.
Bully them with Your Majesty; The second article is the easiest and most convenient to hold now, but it will be more difficult to clean up afterwards. You also know that smallpox survives for a long time, and I am afraid that they may miss something when they live in it. By then, they will live in it in the summer and autumn.
The prisoners would take the smallpox out to the other two places. After they were used up, the house would be demolished and everything would be burned down in a fire."
"The third thing is that it is convenient, saves money, and can be easily cleaned up afterwards. As I said, no matter how difficult it is to burn it, it is not difficult to seal it up without burning it."
Anyway, the Imperial Mansion is so big, as long as he is told that there is smallpox inside, no matter how brave he is, he will not dare to enter.
Man Bao touched her chin and thought. She felt that what she lacked most at the moment was time. She had to finalize her trip to the Western Regions before Anxi's letter came back, so she said: "Let's choose Shanshen Temple or Huangzhuang.
You should discuss it with the Ministry of Punishment first, if it doesn’t work, I’ll go find His Majesty.”
Xiao Yuanzheng raised his eyebrows and agreed with a smile after a while. After she left, he looked at her back and shook his head and laughed, "After all, you are still young and have too much energy. How can you be impatient about this kind of thing? Of course, you can do it steadily.
Come."
Having said that, Xiao Yuanzheng still went to the Ministry of Punishment to communicate.
Of course the Punishment Department disagreed. Just as Xiao Yuan was thinking, it would be cool to lend it out now, but what if they actually get smallpox if the Punishment Department uses it later?
Let’s not talk about the patients, but the officials in the Criminal Department also cherished their lives, okay?
So they refused, no matter what Xiao Yuanzheng said, they refused.
So Man Bao went to ask for Ping'an's pulse on the emperor the next day. After asking for Ping'an's pulse on the emperor, she also went to ask for Ping'an's pulse on the queen. Finally, she happily returned to Taiyuan Hospital and said to Xiao Yuanzheng, "You are still the empress."
Reasonable.”
Xiao Yuanzheng knew that this matter was closely related.
The emperor had dinner with the queen in the evening. When he heard the queen's words, he couldn't help blowing his nose and said: "I didn't say no, but I saw that she was very anxious and wanted to calm her down so as not to make any mistakes. Why did she find you here?"