At first light the next day, Han Qian got up, lit a lamp, and sat in front of the window to read. Not long after, Zhao Ting'er brought in a copper basin filled with hot water for Han Qian to wash up.
Zhao Ting'er might have just entered Han Mansion and had not slept well. When she saw the light here, she wanted to show off her new arrival, so she had to get up reluctantly to replace Qingyun and rush over to serve her. She put the copper basin on the wooden shelf,
I couldn't help but yawn.
Seeing Han Qian looking over, Zhao Ting'er turned red, her pretty face seemed to have been stained by the morning glow.
Han Qian was startled for a moment, and then he noticed that Zhao Ting'er had changed into a round-necked coat and a red and yellow floral blouse and skirt. The rustic atmosphere was gone, and she truly had an outstanding elegance and beauty.
Han Qian put down the book in his hand and walked to the washstand to wash up. He turned around and saw Zhao Ting'er standing on tiptoe to peek at the book he had spread out on the long desk, and asked: "Can you read?"
"Young Master Wuji is literate, and Ting'er learned a little from Wuji." Zhao Ting'er stuck out her tongue and said.
"How well do you understand this book?" Han Qian asked.
"I can recognize most of the words, but I don't quite understand what they mean when put together," Zhao Ting'er said.
"oh!"
Han Qian looked at Zhao Ting'er in surprise. He had officially taught Zhao Wuji how to read for just over twenty days. After that, he left Zhao Wuji with a few basic literacy books and returned to the city.
If Zhao Ting'er had only used it for three months and could roughly recognize most of the complicated handwriting in the two pages of the book, then his qualifications would be really good.
"Young Master, don't you believe it?" Zhao Ting'er stared at Han Qian with bright eyes and asked boldly.
Although Qingyun is similar in age to Zhao Ting'er, perhaps Qingyun has been restrained too much in Hanzhai for so long that she has become conscious of being a slave and always acts cautiously. Unlike Zhao Ting'er who still maintains the bold and curious nature of a mountain girl.
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"What's the pronunciation of this word?" Han Qian put the sweat towel on the shelf and came over with interest, pointing to a word and asking Zhao Ting'er.
"Yi, "Yi" written in "Shuowen" means flying..." Zhao Ting'er said.
Han Qian pointed out a few words in succession, and Zhao Ting'er could generally recognize everything recorded in "Shuowen" and other Mongolian books he left to Zhao Wuji. It was really not easy.
Han Qian took a piece of paper, wrote down some book titles, handed it to Zhao Ting'er and said: "When you meet Han Laoshan, give him this paper and tell him that these are the books I want to read and ask him to buy them back.
.From now on, when you are in my room, you should first study from these books. If you don’t understand anything, wait until I come back at night to talk about it."
"With the young master by your side, Ting'er can really read and write?" Zhao Ting'er asked happily.
"Why not?" Han Qian smiled, thinking that even if he could distract his father's attention, there were still too few people around him that could really be used. He didn't want Zhao Kuo, who couldn't see through the details, to look like him all the time.
A ghost follows him around.
After a while, Zhao Kuo brought Mr. Zhao and Zhao Wuji over to say hello - Mr. Zhao had to rush back to the villa.
Han Qian asked Han Laoshan to bring a piece of cloth and two thousand dollars from the warehouse and asked Old Man Zhao to take it back. He also asked Fan Dahei to go to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion to see if the Linjiang Marquis had returned from the palace.
Although last night at Wanhonglou, I heard Changhou Li Pu say that the third prince Yang Yuanpu would stay in the palace for three days before returning home, but Han Qian could not show that he knew about this, so he had to ask Fan Dahei to wait for the formal announcement at Linjiang Houfu.
He could only stay lazy in the house for three days if he knew the news.
After practicing Shi Gong Quan, Fan Dahei rushed back from the Linjiang Marquis Mansion and was informed that the third prince, Yang Yuanpu, would have to stay in the palace for three days before returning to the Marquis Mansion.
Han Qian asked Han Laoshan, Zhao Kuo, and Fan Xicheng to gather together and talked about selecting innocent widows from outside the city, especially those with many children, to be betrothed to the widowed soldiers in the house as wives.
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Fan Xicheng and Zhao Kuo were both caught off guard. They stood there and looked at each other, either agreeing or not.
"My wife and daughter were just separated during the war, and there may be hope of finding them back. Dahei is quite old, so the young master will be kind enough to help him find a wife," Fan Xicheng said.
He was used to being alone. Even if Fan Wucheng died, he would still have Fan Dahei taking care of him. He really didn't want a man who was almost sixty years old to have another strange woman in the room and a bunch of snotty-nosed brats shouting.
father.
Fan Dahei squatted beside him and smiled.
He was full of energy now. When he walked to the street, he couldn't help but stare at the breasts and buttocks of the older girl and younger wife. At this time, he really didn't mind asking for a wife to have children.
"Fan Dahei is looking for a wife. I will help him choose a wife from a good family. Now my father can't bear to see the hungry people outside the city dying of hunger. He thinks that this move may save dozens of lives. At the same time, he pities you young people.
Don’t think it’s a troublesome thing if you don’t have anyone to take care of you as you grow older.”
Han Qian did not allow Fan Xicheng to shrink his head and said to Fan Dahei,
"You go prepare the carriage and horses. I am going out of the city with my father today for a walk. You should keep your eyes open when you accompany us out, help your father and Zhao Kuo, and pick a house of gentle and virtuous women to come back -"
Having said this, Han Qian stared at Zhao Kuo: "Whatever request you have, let me make it clear now, so as not to find a blind woman to come back to you later."
"..." Zhao Kuo swallowed and finally gave up struggling and said, "If you don't want to be blind, just a rotten leg will do."
After Fan Dahei had prepared his carriage and horses, Han Qian went into the house and invited his father out to go out of the city together.
Han Daoxun reluctantly agreed to the matter, but he was really not interested in making any progress.
However, Han Qian's most fundamental intention was to distract his father's attention with other things. After persuading him for a long time, he dragged his father onto the horse, and with Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo, and Fan
Dahei, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, Han Laoshan and others accompanied him out of the city.
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The war between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River has not subsided, and the local areas are being looted and looted fiercely. Large areas of fields and cities are abandoned. Countless hungry people either flee into the barren mountains and old forests, or flee south to survive.
Jinling City strictly prohibits hungry people from entering the city. Hundreds of thousands of hungry people are stranded outside the four cities all year round, either in the barren rivers without owners or struggling to survive in the wilderness.
Fortunately, the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the fish, crabs, shrimps and snails in the rivers, lakes and swamps, can satisfy the hunger of many people. A large number of hungry people are stranded. The vast majority of people can barely survive from starvation, but they are also sallow and thin, and are dying.
As for the hungry people in the river valleys, many of them were so hungry that they were skin and bones, but they were lying dying in simple shacks or directly in the open air with their bulging bellies.
Han Qian had noticed this situation when he went out of the city several times before. Zhao Kuo and the others said it was a big epidemic. At first, Han Qian was worried about the epidemic, so he stayed away from it every time. Until one day, he suddenly remembered that in the dream world
This is a schistosomiasis infection commonly known as potbelly disease!
Although the person in the dream, Zhai Xinping, had never experienced a large-scale outbreak of schistosomiasis, when he was in elementary school, the school would publicize the matter every spring and organize students to pick up snails in paddy fields or ditches. The memory left behind is very profound -
- Oncomelania are the only intermediate host for the spread of schistosomiasis. Oncomelania are picked up from ditches where they are prone to breed and eliminated intensively to achieve the purpose of blocking the source of infection and controlling the spread of the disease.
Han Qian went out to the city several times to see that the infection rate of schistosomiasis among hungry people was extremely high, almost reaching a terrifying level of 23 out of 10. The most critical reason was that the hungry people could not get relief and had to rely on fish, crabs, shrimps and snails from lakes and rivers.
To make a living, they are constantly in contact with infected water, and most people can only eat crabs and snails raw. How could the infection of schistosomiasis not be severe?
Even simply relocating hungry people from river floodplains where schistosomiasis eggs breed and effectively controlling their contact with infected water can control the spread of the disease.
However, this seems simple, but it requires strong government power to promote it.
Han Qian had never been troubled by things beyond his control before, but today he took his father out of the city on the pretext of selecting civilian women to marry as soldiers, in order to divert his father's attention.
"These hungry people are very pitiful. I don't know what disease they have contracted. Their bones are as dry as firewood, but their bellies are so bloated!" Han Qian stopped his horse on a river embankment and waved his whip at the sick and hungry people on the river beach.
, said with emotion.
"The water bug epidemic broke out between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, and the consequences were severe. Even the good doctors in the court were helpless. The only expedient was to drive away the sick people and not let them enter the city." Han Daoxun looked at the miserable situation in front of him, his expression became even more miserable, and he sighed.
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Han Daoxun was very knowledgeable and took a rest today. Although he was helpless to deal with the tragic situation of the people in front of him, he was still very patient and told Han Qian what he knew about the water bug epidemic and the research on the water bug epidemic by contemporary doctors.
Han Qian has been reading medical books these days and has already learned that the current understanding of schistosomiasis by doctors is limited to the level of "it occurs near water, and water contains poison". According to the memory of Zhai Xinping, the man in the dream, the only intermediate host
The schistosomiasis eggs that the snails enter into the bodies of humans and animals are only as small as a hair. If current doctors only observe them with the naked eye, it is indeed impossible to observe the existence of "water poison"!
In addition, even after being cured, infected patients were repeatedly exposed to infected water and contracted the disease, which also led to the erroneous belief that there is no cure for water bug epidemics.
"Since poisons are hidden in water, there are rivers, lakes and streams, as well as water for irrigating fields, water in ditches and ponds, and water for digging wells. Whether all water contains poisons or not, there is still a difference."
Han Qian couldn't directly tell what happened in the dream, but he quietly asked some questions to prompt his father Han Daoxun to think in the right direction.
"My child went out of the city today and saw the epidemic outside the city. It felt like a major defense, but the city was relatively peaceful. However, if you think about it carefully, in addition to digging wells for drinking water, the residents in the city also had Shitang River, Qiupu River and other streams, rivers, ponds and gullies.
The water channels in the outer city are connected, and households in the city use river water to wash clothes, wash vegetables, and even to keep cattle and horses. However, there is no epidemic of epidemics. Maybe there is something strange behind this that we have not figured out yet?"
"Young master kept asking questions. Since the master knows so much, it's time to join the Shang Medical Bureau." Han Laoshan, who was waiting next to him, said with a smile.
"..." Han Daoxun did not appear impatient, but frowned deeply. It was obvious that Han Qian's questions really grasped the key points and made him think deeply.
The reason why Han Qian thought that such a provocative questioning could divert his father's attention was mainly because the current medical science was not complex and professional enough. People like his father, Han Daoxun, who were familiar with the meaning of classics and their application in the world, were usually
Confucianism and medicine do not separate families.
In particular, his father has been serving as the Secretary and Young Supervisor in recent years. His main responsibility is to organize documents and revise the remains of the previous dynasty. His research on medicine, pharmacy and even medical politics is by no means inferior to the so-called "good doctors" in the world.
If his father felt pity for the miserable situation of the hungry people and wanted to change it on his own, all he had to do was pry open the window and let in a glimmer of light that could solve the problem, which might divert his father's attention.
"..." After a long time, Han Daoxun sighed and said, "If you think about it carefully, there is indeed a big difference. This poison may be hidden in some aquatic creatures, and these aquatic creatures are in the ditches and ponds outside the city.
They are common, but wells and rivers in the city are rare, which is why there are these differences inside and outside the city - Qian'er can see things from the smallest detail, which shows that you have indeed gained something from recuperating in the past six months. You will continue to work hard in the future.
Then you can become a minister who helps the world!"
Han Qian's changes during this period are obvious to everyone, but Fan Xicheng and Han Laoshan don't understand that the seemingly random questions of the young master Han Qian today made the master of the family have such high expectations for him.
What they didn't know was that Han Qian raised several questions about the water cup epidemic that Han Daoxun and even those who had read all the medical books had not thought about in detail. This would arouse Han Daoxun's deep thinking and possibly change the current world's understanding of the epidemic.
The understanding of the water cup epidemic has taken a big step forward, and this is beyond the level of intelligence and ability that ordinary qualifications can achieve.
When Han Qian saw that his father's thoughts had been drawn into his mind, he was afraid that he would go too far, so he did not continue to ask further questions.