Now is the time when various yamen are being reorganized on a large scale and work is being resumed one after another. The emperor has urgently called for it. No one dares to neglect it, for fear of leaving a bad impression on the emperor.
Therefore, all the chief officials of various yamen hurried to Wenhua Hall to discuss matters.
While waiting for the arrival of Emperor Chongzhen, they probably guessed that the emperor had further instructions regarding the resumption of work in various government offices.
For example, I want to know how many officials in each yamen have not returned to the yamen to work, and what is the reason? Is it necessary to replace them? Or how much corruption money has been paid by each yamen?
In short, in the capital, this is the big deal now.
As a result, when Emperor Chongzhen came and spoke, they discovered that they had all thought wrong.
"I have personally shown you that there is no danger in vaccination with cowpox!" Emperor Chongzhen said with a serious expression after all the officials were presented with the gift, "Now all the people in the palace have been vaccinated. But what about outside the palace? And your yamen
, how many people have been vaccinated with cowpox?"
As soon as this question was asked, many civil servants couldn't help but look at each other in confusion. They didn't expect that the emperor would ask this question.
Although everyone in the palace, including the emperor and the empress, had been vaccinated against cowpox, this was a big deal.
However, the turmoil in the officialdom was more unexpected than the previous party struggles, such as the establishment of the West Factory, the cabinet chief minister Zhou Yanru, the Minister of War Chen Xinjia and a series of unexpected arrests, which made
They didn't even think about smallpox.
All they were thinking about were official matters, and they didn't want to get vaccinated against cowpox!
Of the many officials present, only Chief Assistant He Fengsheng and his family were vaccinated.
Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen asked, there was silence, and no one dared to answer that they could not take care of the vaccinia vaccination for the time being.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the expressions of the ministers below. He knew what was going on and said seriously: "The plague of smallpox has been harming the people for a long time. Now there is a fundamental way to prevent and cure it. Why don't you pay attention to it?"
Do you regard the lives of the people as nothing? Or do you think you have put your life and death at risk, not even your own life or the lives of your family members? Or maybe you have all had smallpox?"
When he asked this question, the officials below were speechless.
Normally, I talk about benevolence, justice and morality, but what do I say now?
You can’t say that the most important thing right now is officialdom, right?
This kind of thing is tacitly accepted by everyone, but it must never be said publicly!
After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, Sun Chuanting coughed, stepped out of the queue, and reported to Emperor Chongzhen: "Wei Chen is ashamed. From now on, Wei Chen will take the lead in inoculating cowpox personally, and the officials of the Ministry of War will not be allowed to return to the Yamen unless they are vaccinated with cowpox!"
What Emperor Chongzhen wanted was for all the yamen to do this. When he saw Sun Chuanting standing up first, he nodded and said, "That's good!"
After hearing this, other officials knew immediately that this was what the emperor wanted.
Moreover, the emperor personally did the vaccination in front of them, and everyone in the palace was vaccinated. Regardless of whether it was effective in preventing and treating smallpox, at least it was safe.
Therefore, other officials agreed with Sun Chuanting's statement, and each of them said that they would go back immediately to arrange vaccinations, not only taking the lead in vaccination, but also asking family members to follow suit, etc.
Seeing this situation, Emperor Chongzhen was still satisfied. Because this voluntary approach was better than his next decree. Looking back at the effect, the final decree and enforcement were the last step.
As long as all officials are vaccinated against cowpox, including their family members, then their servants and other people in the capital will all follow suit.
And everyone in the capital is vaccinated against cowpox. With the flow of people, wealthy people in other places will be the first to follow up and be vaccinated against cowpox. The most important thing is that this situation will be spontaneous, the efficiency will be higher, and the court can also
Worry less.
If rich people are vaccinated against cowpox, then everyone else will follow suit. After all, no one wants to die!
Of course, the decree to vaccinate various places with cowpox must also be issued, and local government offices must be required to provide convenience for the people to vaccinate with cowpox.
In this way, the vaccination against cowpox can be regarded as being promoted.
When Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about it, he saw Zuo Maodi coughing and going out to report again: "Your Majesty, I inspected the water transportation and saw that the people were infected with the epidemic, and eighty-nine people died. This epidemic is not caused by smallpox, but by smallpox."
It's a pimple disease. I wonder if this disease can be cured?"
After finishing speaking, he looked at Emperor Chongzhen with a look of expectation.
He would never have said this before. Because these have been terminal diseases since ancient times, how could the emperor cure them?
However, smallpox is also a terminal disease, and now the emperor has a solution!
So, is there a solution for pimple disease?
According to legends, and not just legends, there is a high probability that the emperor has a treasure given by Emperor Taizu, and maybe there is a way to deal with pimple disease?
It may not be possible for others, Emperor Taizu is not an ordinary person!
Hearing Zuo Maodi's words and the words "pimple disease", all the civil servants and eunuchs below him showed fear, and they all followed suit and told Emperor Chongzhen about it one by one.
"Pimple disease" is serious.
Some said that an official was drinking tea with his colleagues one moment and "died" the next moment;
Others said that two people were riding horses one after another and chatting. The person behind had just exchanged a few words to ask the person in front, but found that the person had "died in the saddle and was still raising his whip";
This is especially true in common people's homes. There was a rich family whose entire family died during the plague, so two thieves planned to make a fortune. The two agreed that one would answer the call on the eaves, and the other would go down to the house and hand over the stolen things.
, as a result, the person below suddenly died suddenly while passing the bag, and the person above also contracted the plague and died when he was picking it up. When they died, the two thieves were still holding the stolen baggage in their hands.
In other wedding homes, the newlyweds died together at the wedding. Someone was riding a horse and talking, and the person behind them was already dead.
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In short, the more these people talk about this "pimple disease", the more terrifying they become. Even if they are just talking about it in the Wenhua Hall, their faces are pale.
In fact, this "pimple disease" has a high fatality rate, almost no one is spared after being infected, and it is extremely contagious. Since they cannot understand this disease, they naturally feel more and more frightened.
Similar to the things they said, a Ming Dynasty survivor who went by the pseudonym "Huacun Kanxingshi" wrote a memoir called "Huacun Talks", which recorded these things.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw the people below, he thought he had come just in time!
If they hadn't mentioned this, he would have mentioned it. Now that they have mentioned it, it's just the right thing to talk about.