Codex of the Old Gods: I Have a World

Zhao Zhongyi's wife complained: "I don't know what Chuanxin was thinking. They asked our factory to process this kind of stuff. We have been processing it for more than half a year, and it has piled up like a mountain in the warehouse."

As she spoke, she picked up a piece of cloth with two sewn straps on both sides.

Zhao Zhongyi took it and looked at it, frowning in thought.

He couldn't figure out what it was, but it felt like there was a layer in the middle and the straps on both sides were elastic.

"Let's make it. How many feet of cloth can this little thing use?" Zhao Zhongyi said, "The firewood carrier sometimes likes to play tricks. Anyway, it won't cost much silver."

Even if Zhao Chuanxin was a little extravagant and wasteful, it could not equal the contributions he made to Lugang Town, Lubin Prefecture and this country.

This is what Zhao Zhongyi thought.

Liu Baogui's wife pursed her lips and said, "Although this thing is small, it is not cheap. Brigade Commander Zhao, take a closer look. This cloth is not woven."

Zhao Zhongyi didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when he looked closely, he found that there was no pattern on the front and back of the cloth, and it looked a bit like paper.

His wife said, "Students from Hankou Technical College said that Chuanxin spent one million dollars to build a laboratory for a female student in the United States last year. Later, they cooperated with a Dutch company to create a kind of artificial silk. You see, the cloth belt on this little thing is made of artificial silk, so it is elastic. The cloth is called non-woven fabric, both inside and outside, and the middle one is more expensive. There is also a piece of iron wire here... It cost a lot of money."

Zhao Zhongyi's expression gradually became solemn.

A million dollars?

Equivalent to 1.5 million dollars.

Thinking of this, the calculating Zhao Zhongyi lost his temper: "This is really... nonsense."

"Who says it's not?"

Zhao Zhongyi's wife said: "Fortunately, I only built one-third of what he asked for, otherwise I would have wasted a lot of money."

……

The plague was transmitted from Tsarist Russia to Lubin Prefecture through the Chinese Eastern Railway, and then spread to Harbin at an extremely fast speed.

When Zhang Shouzeng discovered this, the plague had already been spreading quietly among the people for some time. It was not until it was discovered by Western medicine doctors sent by the Qing court that it was announced to the world.

Yao Jia was a little panicked: "What should I do?"

He had no experience with this.

Zhang Shouzeng was at a loss: "Seek a doctor?"

"Mongolian doctor?" Yao Jia couldn't help laughing: "He cured nine and killed ten."

Zhang Shouzeng stamped his feet and said, "Let's go find the prefect. He always has a solution."

Zhao Chuanxin is currently playing with his son in Lugang Town.

"Son, why don't you say anything? What does it mean that you don't say anything? Are you a little introverted? Introversion has to be cured in our Zhao family."

Miao Cuihua was helpless: "He's only a few months old, what do you want him to say?"

Zhao Chuanxin took Zhao Zhengze out of the stroller and said, "If he didn't look so much like me, I would have doubted whether he was my biological son."

The gap between him and Zhao Lingjun is too big.

But you can't say this in front of Miao Cuihua.

Zhao Chuanxin didn't even know whether Miao Cuihua, Rebecca Levy and Gulizar knew about Wilhelmina's affairs.

After all, news is not going well at this time.

Some people cursed Zhao Chuanxin on the public screen of the Internet, but Zhao Chuanxin didn't care and just cursed casually.

But he blocked keywords related to his personal feelings and they were not allowed to appear in any Internet lobby.

"Ah, ah..."

Zhao Zhengze would bite his hands and say "ah".

"Tell Dad, you don't speak, is there something you can't say? If you are threatened, just blink."

"what……"

"Axi!"

Zhao Zhengze opened his mouth and said, "Ah Xi..."

Zhao Chuanxin was very pleased: "There is progress."

Miao Cuihua quickly took the child over and said, "Don't teach me nonsense."

At this time, the nanny who was looking after the child smiled and praised: "The young master has been handsome since he was young, he should not attract many bees and butterflies when he grows up."

Zhao Chuanxin stroked his hair and said, "What's the use of being so handsome like me? At least I could speak at eight months old, read at one year old, and ride a pig at one and a half years old..."

The babysitter was confused: "Riding a pig? Absolutely not!"

Miao Cuihua smiled and said, "Perhaps there are some previous experiences that can serve as a lesson for us."

Zhao Chuanxin immediately changed the subject and touched Miao Cuihua's hair: "Brother, your French bangs are really nice."

She is simply a charming version of Tong Liya with a curvy figure.

"Don't touch me." Miao Cuihua dodged.

Zhao Chuanxin grinned: "You know, touching is also a way to heal the soul."

"Oh." Miao Cuihua stared at Zhao Chuanxin: "Then how often do you heal women?"

Zhao Chuanxin was speechless.

Zhao Zhengze: "Asi, right?"

Then Fan Ziliang came.

Fan Ziliang held the telegram: "Sir, there is plague in Lubin Prefecture."

Zhao Chuanxin took out a cigarette and lit it: "Finally it's here."

Miao Cuihua was shocked when she first heard about the plague, and was surprised after hearing what Zhao Chuanxin said: "Second brother, what does this mean?"

Zhao Chuanxin touched his son's head and kissed Miao Cuihua: "It's nothing, I won't be back for a while, and you guys try not to go out."

Then he went out with Fan Ziliang.

Li Guangzong once saw what Zhao Chuanxin had written about the future.

Li Guangzong believed that Zhao Chuanxin was a person like Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, who was good at predicting and could predict the future five hundred years later.

So, he asked Zhao Chuanxin in detail about everything about the future.

Zhao Chuanxin had forgotten some things, but Li Guangzong had not.

He reminded Zhao Chuanxin early on to prepare for epidemic prevention.

Liu Baogui was as anxious as an ant on fire: "What should I do? What should I do?"

Gao Li was dazzled: "Don't walk back and forth, you'll get confused."

“The pandemic is ruthless.”

Someone pushed the door open, and the two looked in the direction of the voice and saw it was Zhao Chuanxin.

Somehow, even if the sky falls, as long as Zhao Chuanxin shows up, it can stabilize people's hearts.

Zhao Chuanxin threw two booklets to the two men and said, "Take them and print them according to the plate, and distribute them."

The two of them picked up the booklet and looked at it carefully.

"Do medical staff and people carrying corpses wear masks? What are masks?"

Zhao Chuanxin took out a mask from his pocket, hung it on his ears, pinched the wire at the bridge of his nose into the shape of his nose, and said muffledly: "This is a mask."

Then hand one to each of them.

The two of them also followed Zhao Chuanxin's example and put it on, but Liu Baogui put it on the wrong way around, with the wire at his chin, and he couldn't get it into shape no matter how hard he tried to pinch it.

Gao Li pointed at him and said, "It's upside down. There's wire underneath."

Liu Baogui finally understood the principle: "Tsk, can wearing this prevent the plague?"

"It is to prevent the spread of plague." Zhao Chuanxin corrected: "Plague is a type or several types of bacteria. Have you seen the animal encyclopedia I drew? Plague is mainly prevalent among rodents, and can also be transmitted to humans. It is usually spread by fleas or saliva splashed when people talk."

Liu Baogui patted his chest and said, "Fortunately, I don't spit when I speak."

"Everyone sprays, but you can't see it. Why is the air we exhale white mist when we go out in the winter? That's all moisture. As long as you breathe and talk, there will be saliva."

Liu Baogui and Gao Li felt it was impressive.

I looked at the booklet again and found that it indeed contained a detailed description.

Zhao Chuanxin added: "Whether in Hong Kong, Macao, Lubin Prefecture, Hankou or other places, the medical care is not as developed as that in Lugang Town. Therefore, this epidemic prevention work is mainly carried out by the medical staff of Lugang Town Hospital. Now the first task is to print booklets and train doctors and nurses."

"Where are the masks?" Liu Baogui took off his mask and felt a little depressed: "Is it too late to produce them now?"

After all, the technology is not up to standard, the breathability of the inner and outer non-woven fabrics is questionable, and the middle is not meltblown non-woven fabric, but just encrypted fabric.

Although it was not satisfactory, Liu Yuanshan had tried his best.

Zhao Chuanxin also took off his mask and said: "At the beginning of the year, I had already placed an order with my brother's processing factory, which was at least enough for distribution to workers in various places."

"Let's go to Zhongyi's factory."

The three of them went to the garment factory, where Zhao Zhongyi and his wife were, as well as Liu Baogui's wife.

After explaining the purpose of the order, Zhao Zhongyi's wife said, "Chuanxin, I'm not saying anything bad to you, but you don't take money seriously. I've processed one-third of the thing you asked for, and the rest of the money is in the account. Remember to take it with you when you leave."

Liu Baogui's wife added fuel to the fire: "That's right, this thing is too small even as a pair of pants."

Women outside the Great Wall, especially those in Lugang Town, speak and talk without any discrimination between meat and vegetables, and are somewhat fierce, which southerners especially dislike.

This was also the case even after the advocacy of an open culture emerged.

Zhao Chuanxin and the other two were dumbfounded.

"Not all of them?"

"no!"

“Only one third?”

"Yes."

Gao Li was able to keep his composure, but Liu Baogui was furious: "This is used to prevent the epidemic. You are really short-sighted."

He not only cursed his wife, but also indirectly cursed Zhao Zhongyi's wife.

When the two women heard this, their heads were buzzing, but they still insisted: "How can this little thing prevent the epidemic? It's like a child's play!"

Zhao Chuanxin actually wanted to curse as well, but that woman was nominally his sister-in-law, but in reality she was his great-grandmother.

I can't bring myself to curse.

Just as he took out a cigarette and was about to light it, Zhao Zhongyi hurriedly stopped him: "No open flames here, it will explode."

Zhao Chuanxin put away the cigarette in dismay and became confused with anger.

Although Zhao Zhongyi was shocked, he remained calm.

He did not question the effectiveness of masks, nor did he question Zhao Chuanxin.

I originally thought that Zhao Chuanxin was a bit foolish, but now it seems that Chuanxin was preparing for a rainy day and was the most foresighted person.

No wonder people say that Zhao Chuanxin is good at fortune-telling.

Zhao Zhongyi was also convinced.

He said in a deep voice: "Put aside other orders and work overtime to produce masks."

……

Modern medicine in China at that time was still in its infancy.

The first people to discover that the plague was the plague were two Western doctors and five nurses sent by the Qing court from Fengtian.

Among them, the one who made the greatest contribution was Wu Lien-teh, who was later nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Wu Lien-teh secretly dissected the body of a patient who had died of the infection, and using a Baker microscope, he saw oval-shaped bacteria in the blood - Yersinia pestis.

He dissected hundreds of mice, but found no plague bacteria in any of them.

So two things were confirmed: first, the plague came from somewhere else. Second, the plague did not need to be transmitted through rats and other rodents, but through other means.

The news spread to the south through Internet companies, and a war of words between Chinese and Western medicine broke out online.

When Zhao Chuanxin returned to Lubin Prefecture with a batch of masks and held a meeting with officials from the prefecture, Yao Jia asked, "Sir, do you think traditional Chinese medicine is better or Western medicine is better?"

"Our traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of development, so it certainly has its merits." Zhao Chuanxin lit a cigarette and said, "But the problem is that no one has come to improve the system of traditional Chinese medicine, which has led to many fallacies and even incredible prescriptions. Doctors are also considered craftsmen. There are three most criticized points about craftsmen in various fields in China. The first is that they cherish their own things, the second is that they work in isolation, and the third is that they do not speak human language and deliberately create mystery.

There is also a lot of nonsense in Western medicine, such as bloodletting treatment, or cutting off a piece of the brain to cure illness and so on.

But the future will definitely be dominated by Western medicine. Western medical theory is systematic and open, and its diagnostic and treatment methods are similar to criminal law, using increasingly mature methods to diagnose and treat diseases.

Therefore, in this epidemic prevention, we mainly use Western medicine, supplemented by traditional Chinese medicine."

Zhao Chuanxin saw that many people at the scene had disapproving expressions on their faces.

Just like in later generations, whenever there is a dispute between Chinese and Western medicine, people always bring up their ancestors: what our ancestors left behind must be good.

Even if you use your toes to think, you can tell how stupid this sentence is.

Zhao Chuanxin understood why traditional Chinese medicine was declining and Western medicine was rising.

When a doctor uses the five elements to represent internal organs and uses vague terms such as mutual generation and mutual restraint to tell patients what disease they have, most people are confused.

But if you tell patients about high blood pressure, hypoglycemia, diabetes, prostate calcification, food poisoning... they will know what is going on as soon as they hear it.

Zhao Chuanxin believes that, including those who criticize Western medicine, they can confidently name a few Western medical symptoms if asked, but will be at a loss if asked to name some Chinese medicine.

During the TCM diagnosis and treatment process, patients are confused.

During Western medical diagnosis and treatment, patients at least understand what disease they have.

Comparing the two, people can prevent and treat the latter according to Western medical theories, for example, smoking and drinking stimulate blood vessels, staying up late is bad for the heart and can cause inflammation, etc.

The former can only guess, imagining that they have extinguished the fire in a certain organ, covered the water in a certain organ, or harmonized the qi in a certain place...

Therefore, in this world, anything that is eliminated has a necessary reason, not just a conspiracy.

Zhao Chuanxin saw that many people wanted to speak up when he heard that he wanted to use Western medicine as the main method for epidemic prevention. He stretched out his hand and said firmly, "How to diagnose, how to disinfect, bury, search for patients, etc. are already recorded in the booklet. Don't argue with me. Just do it. There is no time for nonsense.

The doctors and nurses sent by Lugang Town are on their way. Before that, the doctors in Lubin Prefecture should also read the epidemic prevention manual carefully. When they arrive, we will directly conduct training.

At the beginning of the year, I had asked my eldest apprentice Benjamin Goldberg to stock up on alcohol, raw sulfur, carbolic acid and other items in his company, which were just enough to stabilize prices and prevent them from rising.

In addition, Benjamin also researched antibiotics, registered patents, and used them to treat critically ill patients.

The masks are produced by the Lugang Town Garment Factory, so medical staff and those who carry and bury bodies need to wear them.

The patients found out must be isolated.”

Tang Qunying asked: "Sir, where are they isolated?"

"Didn't I start building townhouses at each railway station in the spring? We used that for isolation."

The crowd was in an uproar.

True prophecy.

This gave everyone more confidence.

After the meeting, everyone started to get busy.

Zhao Chuanxin asked Tang Qunying: "Why didn't Rebecca come?"

Tang Qunying opened her mouth, seeming to want to say something but stopped herself.

Finally, she gritted her teeth and said, "I won't let her come because of the plague and she's pregnant."

Zhao Chuanxin's eyes widened: "Whose bastard?"

There are many men who, in the ancient times when people ate raw meat and drank blood, still had the possessiveness of females that was even worth risking their lives.

Obviously, Zhao Chuanxin doesn't care about these at all.

It has been proven that in a society where civilization is becoming more widespread and women’s rights are becoming stronger, possessiveness is counterproductive.

The less a man cares, the more devoted a woman will be to him.

Men who are too cautious will be disgusted by women and appear to be narrow-minded and paranoid, which is very sad.

Tang Qunying also widened her eyes: "When you two get crazy, you can lift the roof of the house. How would I know where you got pregnant? I have no way of telling whether it's a domesticated or illegitimate child."

"Chao." Zhao Chuanxin pulled his fingers together, "It's enough for a mahjong table."

Tang Qunying pinched her waist and said, "I won't go back to live there for the time being, and adults shouldn't go back either. Once you get sick, it's no joke."

Any woman who practices balancing skills diligently will not show her pregnancy.

So among all the women of Zhao Chuanxin, only Gulizar had a big bulging belly.

That's why he didn't realize Rebecca Levy was pregnant.

……

People from all over the country were paying attention to the plague outside the Great Wall.

A lot of people have died outside. During the worst period a few years ago, about 200 people died every day.

However, Wu Lien-teh discovered that no one died in Lubin Prefecture and Lugang Town.

Later, the epidemic prevention booklets of Lugang Town and Lubin Prefecture fell into the hands of Wu Lien-teh.

He said to his assistant, Dr. Yao, and the nurse in shock: "Zhao Chuanxin is truly a genius. He even has extremely high attainments in medicine!"