The Tyrant's Cannon Fodder Queen[Transmigration Book]

The number of ordinary people kneeling at the gate of the yamen is increasing day by day.

In order to prevent patients in the incubation period of the plague from being mixed in, Xue Yao asked the yamen guards to disperse the common people.

But most of these ordinary people are sick at home, or have relatives who have died.

They were panicked, and the living god "Daoist Xue" became their only hope.

Therefore, even if they were not allowed to kneel at the gate of the yamen, they would kneel outside Xue Yao's residence and seek the protection of living gods.

The common people knew that Xue Yao and the imperial physician lived here, not because they were well-informed, but because the Beijing officials came to the local area for inspection, and there were only a few permanent residences for the government to entertain.

Generally, high officials of the governor's level will live in Xue Yao's residence, which is easy to find.

Xue Yao felt that the hidden danger of exposing the residence was great. The ancient people had much less theoretical common sense than the modern people, and it was difficult to communicate and reason. However, there are countless "medical trouble" incidents in modern times, and it is even more difficult to reason in ancient times.

Xue Yao's current duty is to treat the common people, similar to other imperial physicians, it is easy to cause troubles from unreasonable family members of patients.

The plague was originally a plague that meant death. There were not enough medical personnel to observe and diagnose the stage of the patient. Maybe the patient would take it and sit on a chair, and suddenly died of the disease, followed by the doctor. noisy.

The top priority at the moment is to prevent the spread of the plague. It is necessary to ensure that the isolation measures are perfect before intensive treatment.

Therefore, the first time Xue Yao came forward, he first said to the common people kneeling outside: "If you have a sick person at home, you can queue up to receive the holy stone, and if your relatives have passed away due to illness, you can queue up to receive the holy water.

Clothes, quilts, including bowls, chopsticks, and teacups touched by the deceased relatives must be buried together as funeral objects. The floors and beds in the home are washed with holy water, and the doors and windows are opened to ventilate and bask in the sun, so that the plague ghosts have nowhere to hide.

People who have been in contact with sick people need to wash their bodies with holy stones in time, and then cover their faces with Gejin scarves washed with holy water, and then take care of the sick people, and make sure to wash their hands with holy stones in time after daily contact with sick people, so as to prevent the upper body of plague ghosts. . "

Holy stone and holy water are of course soap and disinfectant water. In order to ensure that these two things attract the attention of the public, Xue Yao specially used the strategy of hunger marketing——

"The number of holy stones and divine water is limited, and the poor will not take any money. All of them will be distributed to those who are entangled by the plague ghost. The villagers are requested to line up to receive them. If there is no patient in the family, they cannot claim it."

The common people exclaimed.

Some of the onlookers suspected that this "Taoist priest" was a liar from the capital, but their doubts disappeared at this moment.

It is impossible for scammers to give away "sacred objects" for free.

The imperial physicians in the yard all copied their hands, watching the common people express their gratitude to Xue Yao, a fake Taoist priest with no medical qualifications.

An imperial physician muttered coldly: "Using his stones and holy water can cure diseases and avoid disasters. Why do you need us medical practitioners?"

Another doctor said disdainfully: "Let him continue to fiddle around. If the disease is not cured by then, the common people will naturally know whether to listen to the doctor's advice or to trust the alchemist."

The leading old doctor took a deep breath and sighed: "I really hope that these strange things he did can curb the epidemic. You see, two of the five colleagues who were sent to Pingrong County at first were infected with the plague. One passed away in this compound, and the other wanted to go back to his hometown, but he didn't make it out of Pingrong. And our group is safe so far, perhaps because the holy stone that this young master Xue distributed to us at the beginning made us we……"

"Master Xu!" A doctor interrupted him and said angrily, "Don't you believe in alchemists' words!"

Most of the doctors in the Tai Hospital hated the fake Taoist priests who gave the royal alchemy.

The emperors of all dynasties, including the current emperor, wanted to live forever when they reached the age, and insisted on eating the "elixir" with excessive lead and mercury refined by fake Taoists.

If something goes wrong, let the Tai Hospital find a way. The Tai Hospital has worked hard to detoxify and treat it, but the Taishang Emperor still desperately eats the "elixir".

The fake Taoist priests and the Tai Hospital shirked their responsibilities, which gradually led to the incompatibility between the doctors of the Tai Hospital and the Taoist priests.

Therefore, ever since Xue Yao put on this Taoist robe, the imperial physicians in the yard were so angry with hatred that Xue Yao was planning to harm the common people.

Only the old doctor who was the leader didn't take it seriously, and even secretly analyzed the ingredients of the holy stone developed by Xue Yao in private.

He felt that the reason why Xue Yao pretended to be a Taoist priest might just find another way to gain the trust of the common people so that the medicine he developed could be promoted.

In the eyes of the imperial physician, Xue Yao's "drugs" are all external medicines, which is really puzzling.

Two days later, Xue Yao started distributing internal medicine packs to the public according to the formula.

The prescription is a prescription with relatively good effect in the records of plague treatment combined with traditional Chinese medicine.

But it is also the prescription that makes today's imperial physicians turn pale with fright.

"Yin disease is prescribed to cool the blood, this is killing people!" An imperial physician read Xue Yao's prescription, and looked at the old imperial physician angrily, hoping that he would come forward to stop the young man's insane "evil deeds".

The envoy of the old hospital drank tea calmly, and comforted his subordinates unhurriedly: "Everyone, don't get angry. This epidemic is different from the past. We have tried all kinds of prescriptions and prescriptions, but none of them are effective. Patients with symptoms will recover within a few days." Sudden death, even if Xue Yao does not give the folk prescription, people will still die, and fighting poison with poison may save a life. Since we are helpless, we might as well let this young man give it a go."

A group of doctors had nothing to refute after hearing the words, and could only sigh at Xue Yao's formula.

Xue Yao felt that the implementation of the recent plan was unbelievably smooth.

Originally thought that even if he could fool the common people, he would not fool the group of old scholars in the courtyard.

The act of pretending to be a Taoist priest and prescribing medicine indiscriminately will be opposed by the imperial physicians sooner or later.

However, no one cares about him now.

Although the imperial doctors were all angry when they saw him, none of them ever dissuaded him from "messing around".

It wasn't until the evening of the third day when Xue Yao passed the pond in the courtyard that he was stopped by the old doctor by the pond.

The old imperial doctor followed Xue Yao's footsteps with a gentle smile: "Daoist Xue stay a little longer, this old man is puzzled about something, can I ask you a question or two?"

Xue Yao broke out in a cold sweat.

An old doctor who is nearly 17 years old can't afford to ask a [-]-year-old layman for advice.

Turning around, he bowed his head and saluted: "My lord, you are very polite."

The old imperial doctor asked gently: "I would like to ask your Excellency, why can the holy stone and holy water and the cloth mask washed by the holy water drive away the plague ghosts?"

The smile on Xue Yao's face froze, and he looked at the old doctor with some helplessness. After hesitating for a moment, he asked seriously, "My lord, why do you think this plague is spreading?"

The old imperial doctor seriously replied: ""Zhou Li" has a saying: there are four seasons of disease, scabies in spring, itching and scabies in summer, malaria and cold in autumn, and coughing and upper air diseases in winter. This great epidemic has many similarities with the symptoms of malaria that frequently occur in the smoggy areas of Sichuan and Guizhou. The old man speculates that the spread of the disease may be related to the high temperature this autumn and the proliferation of mosquitoes, snakes and rats. When visiting the clinic, ask the patient's family members to pay attention to exterminating insects and rodents, so as to eliminate patients."

Xue Yao was shocked when he heard this!

I always thought that this group of imperial doctors who didn't understand modern science had no insight into infectious diseases, but I didn't expect this old hospital envoy's judgment to be straight to the point, telling the fundamental way of the spread of bubonic plague!

The theory of the spread of insect pathogens was established in 1894 by the Japanese bacteriologist Kitasato Shibasaburo.

This old doctor is in this era, and can guess the transmission mode of bubonic plague through the transmission route of malaria, which is really ahead of the times.

Xue Yao felt that the old doctor was a reasonable person, hesitated for a while, and said to him: "What you said is indeed one of the reasons for the spread of the plague."

The old imperial doctor asked: "But how does this explain that half of the participants in the sacrificial ceremony are infected?"

Xue Yao frowned slightly.

Because the transmission routes of pneumonic plague and bubonic plague are different, pneumonic plague does not need to be bitten by fleas, but can be transmitted directly through droplets, but how to explain this to the old doctor?

"My lord, do you believe that the plague is a kind of invisible insect, because it is too small to be seen by human eyes, but it is not a ghost, and because it is too small, it can float in mid-air without landing, and travel around. If it is inhaled into the mouth and nose of a person, it can reproduce in large numbers in the human body, and then through the breath or sputum coughed up by the person, it will wreak havoc outside in a larger amount."

After hearing this, the old doctor was stunned on the spot.

This kind of theory of common sense to mental retardation in the eyes of modern people had no concept at all in that era.

The old doctor couldn't comprehend it for a while, and couldn't even imagine "bugs too small to see", let alone the understanding of bacteria.

But he felt that Xue Yao's theory made sense and could easily solve all the doubts in his mind.

Xue Yao continued: "The holy stone I distributed to everyone can kill these small bugs, and the mask soaked in holy water can reduce the probability of inhaling small bugs to a certain extent."

The old imperial doctor was surprised: "Since the holy stone can kill the plague, why not let the patients directly cook the holy stone and take it to kill the plague?"

"..." Xue Yao patiently explained: "Oral medicines can only pass through the intestines, but this kind of worm can hide in the blood vessels and viscera, and the holy stone holy water can not only kill the plague worm, but also do great harm to the human body, and can cause serious damage to the human body. Not for internal use."

"No wonder." The old doctor suddenly looked at Xue Yao with admiration on his face.

"Your honor is too high." Xue Yao nodded and saluted.

The old doctor asked again: "My son's eyes, can you see this kind of little bug that we can't see, otherwise how would we know its existence?"

Xue Yao thought for a while, and felt that he couldn't use a microscope to confirm his remarks, so he gritted his teeth and nodded: "Yes, I can see it!"

The old doctor was even more amazed: "It really is a talent."

Xue Yao: "..."

Under Xue Yao's prevention and control measures, the spread of the plague was significantly slower than before.

The prince's rescue has not arrived for a long time.

Xue Yao has already prepared for no rescue, and only relies on flickering to guide the people.

Originally already inflated, he thought that he could go around the world with his brilliant tongue and lotus flower, but he didn't expect that five days later, more than a dozen beggars suddenly died on the street, completely shattering Xue Yao's hope.

Rumors that the God of Plague came to claim his life again spread instantly.

Many ordinary people were worried that the plague god would come to their door, so they were so frightened that they found Xue Yao's residence tied up with bedding, and slept on the spot outside the "living god"'s house.

Xue Yao said whatever he wanted, but he couldn't get the people who were afraid of death to go home and stay there.

From the public's point of view, the little plague ghost driven by the plague god should not dare to approach the living god, and the safest place is around the living god.

Xue Yao specially checked the condition of the beggar's corpse before incineration, trying to analyze why they were infected at the same time.

After observing, Xue Yao found that these beggars had one or two relatively new clothing accessories, and suddenly had a terrible guess in his mind.

He immediately went back to the city, went to the houses where the entire family had died due to the plague, and asked the neighbors if they had seen beggars enter these houses to steal money and food.

The neighbor's face changed when he heard the words, and soon he showed a dissatisfied expression, and said straightforwardly: "Master Dao, their whole family is dead, and we helped to bury them. The things in the house are already unused, so what if you take them out?" Can that count as stealing?"

Xue Yao's eyes suddenly went dark, and he stuttered with anger: "You... before you put on their clothes and chopsticks, did you disinfect them with the holy water given by Pindao... No, did you wash them with holy water?"

The neighbor immediately nodded flatteringly: "Follow the instructions of the Taoist priest to drive away evil spirits!"

That's it, the unsterilized belongings of the deceased were used by those beggars, causing the group of beggars to fall ill and die suddenly.

On the way back, Xue Yao looked desperate.

He can tell the people that the deceased's belongings are all attached to the plague ghost, and once they are taken, they will be infected with the plague.

But this threat works for ordinary people from ordinary families, but it can't stop those beggars who have nothing to eat and clothes to wear.

Seeing Xue Yao's ugly face, Zhang Si asked with concern, "What's wrong, my lord?"

Xue Yao murmured: "I need people, I need everyone to cooperate with the isolation measures, I can't wait any longer."

He turned his head to look at Zhang Si: "Old Zhang, can you help me build a reputation?"