History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

There was a small house next to the gate. After Zheng Jun passed by, he told the person he was looking for. Not long after, Widow Li came to the small house.

"Mother." Zheng Jun went up and called out.

Widow Li took his hand and said, "Why are you here?"

Zheng Jun pulled her to sit down, and then glanced at the woman guarding the door, who left wisely.

He lowered his head and whispered, "Mom, do you know anyone who was infected with cowpox by a cow?"

Widow Li wondered, "Why are you asking this?"

Zheng Jun whispered: "Mother, don't worry about it, if you know it, tell me, I'm sure it will be useful."

Widow Li thought for a while, "Why don't you go to the nearest county town? The cattle officials in those markets often accompany cattle, so they should have been infected."

Zheng Jun used to only read the books of sages and sages, but he really didn't think about it. After getting the news, he left in a hurry.

The letter only asked him to look for a person who was infected with cowpox by a cow. Zheng Jun came to the gate of the city and asked a few people who looked like they were from the countryside. After asking where the nearest market was, he hurried rushed over.

About ten days later, a big news broke out in the capital. Some people claimed to be able to resist the smallpox virus.

Smallpox, just hearing the name can make Daqing change color, because there are rumors that the first emperor died of smallpox.

As soon as this news came out, the entire capital was shocked. It turned out that this family's concubine stole people, and that family's feuding marriages were all suppressed.

The entire capital was discussing this fool who claimed to be able to resist the smallpox virus. The court responded quickly and immediately found out the cause of the matter.

It turned out that this was a cowherd who kept company with the cow all day long. The cow was infected with cowpox before, and he caught up with it by accident. He only developed a little fever and a few rashes, and he was all right.

He didn't take this matter to heart at first, but recently someone in the village was infected with smallpox, and he and that person were good friends before, and they often got together.His friend had smallpox, and he thought he must have been infected too.

Unexpectedly, a few days passed and nothing happened. Later, he took the courage to take care of his friend, but he did not expect that nothing happened.

Later, he thought that the symptoms of smallpox were similar to those of cowpox, except that smallpox was much more violent than cowpox, and it was difficult for people who were not strong to resist the disease.

He also asked people who had been infected with cowpox, and learned that even if someone in those people's family had smallpox, no one who had had smallpox was infected with smallpox.

Fang Cowherd boldly guessed that smallpox can be prevented as long as he has been vaccinated, which is a safer method than human pox.

As soon as this incident was found out, it caused an uproar in the court, and the court checked a large number of people who had been infected with cowpox, and none of them had been infected with smallpox.

This matter was rushed to the emperor. He had suffered from smallpox when he was a child, and now the emperor, who still had light acne marks on his face, suddenly lost his composure and ordered to return to Beijing immediately.

And the lucky guy who was lucky enough to discover this phenomenon sat in the government office, thinking about the money hidden at home, he felt calm again, even if he fought his life, the money would be enough for the family for a lifetime.What's more, now it seems that these elders don't seem to want to torture him, and they are also polite to him, and this ignorant cowherd immediately calms down.

He only knows one thing, he must not betray his benefactor!

At this time, Zheng Jun had already taken Charlie and returned to Guangzhou by boat from Tianjin, just missing the emperor's return to Beijing.

He already knew what his superiors asked him to do, but he didn't expect it to be related to the horrific smallpox.

It's just that he didn't understand, the people above already knew, why didn't this matter be reported directly to the emperor, but such a turn was made.

Zheng Jun, who had already left, was puzzled, and the emperor, who had also returned to the capital, was also full of doubts.

"That is to say, someone mentioned this cowherd behind his back?"

The hidden guard who belonged to the emperor replied: "Reporting to Lord Long Live, according to the investigation of my subordinates, someone saw that the cowherd had met with people more than ten days ago. Not long after that, the villagers found that the cowherd was often killed in that house. Wandering around the door of someone with smallpox."

As for the friend who has smallpox, it's just the words of the Cowherd's family.

The emperor murmured, "Could it be that someone with great medical skills discovered that cowpox can resist smallpox, but he didn't want to reveal it to the world, so he found a cowherd to release the news?"

The secret guard replied cautiously: "At present, it seems that there is such a possibility. Do you need to continue to investigate and find out the identity of that person?"

The emperor waved his hand, "Forget it, it's always a good thing. Since people don't want to show up, they don't want to show up." Smallpox can be solved in his lifetime, which is definitely a great merit. Thinking of this, the emperor He was very excited, and ordered: "First order the Imperial Hospital to inoculate some condemned prisoners with vaccinia, and then share a room with the smallpox patients. If the news is confirmed to be correct, first inoculate the princes and grandchildren, and then promote it to the people."

Liang Jiugong on the side took the order.

Smallpox is expected to be cracked, which has become the most concerned matter of the entire capital. This matter has gradually spread to other places after time has fermented.

The imperial court promptly announced to the people that in view of the danger of smallpox, the imperial physician needed to verify it. If the news was true, local officials would guide the people to vaccinate.

The emperor may not have found out who reported the news of the cowpox, but Fourth Master had a rough guess in his heart.

Before Minning's letter reached Zheng Jun's hands, someone checked it out, and the people placed by the fourth master naturally knew that An Gege had sent Zheng Jun to find someone with cowpox.

In addition, Zheng Jun had been out of the city before, and he was going in the direction of Fang Niulang's house. The two matched each other, so there was nothing fourth master could not guess.

After returning to the mansion, the fourth master learned that Li Gege was suspected of being plotted against before giving birth, so he handed over the matter to Fujin.

Si Ye was very happy to have an extra son, but An Gege had no news from his stomach, and Si Ye had a headache.

I have spoiled her for so long before, but there is no news yet, so fourth master really doesn't know what to do for a while?

He wondered if Angege had also been tricked!

"Come on, invite Tong Nanny here."

Nanny Tong is the most trusted person around Empress Xiao Yiren. After Empress Xiao Yiren passed away, Nanny Tong came to Si Ye's side. Walk.

Later, the fourth master considered that Nanny Tong was getting older, so he ordered her to go home to enjoy the family happiness, and after opening the mansion, he would bring people over to talk from time to time.

Fourth Master didn't understand the privacy of the backyard very well, so he could only find someone who understood.

Grandma Tong's family is in the capital, a house specially rewarded by Fourth Master. She is different from Grandma Wu. Grandma Wu has no children, so she naturally relies on Fourth Master to take care of her.

But Nanny Tong was released from the palace to marry someone for her kindness in the early years. Later, Empress Xiao Yiren passed away. She was worried about the little master and asked her to enter the palace to take care of her for a few years.

If we really want to talk about the intimacy, it is natural that Madam Wu is better.

It's just that Nanny Wu is better at cooking, and she doesn't know so much about secrets, so Nanny Tong is needed.

Nanny Tong's family lives in the outer city, so it will take a while to invite her, and her son will come with her.

"I've met Lord Baylor." Nanny Tong and her son saluted fourth master together.

The fourth master helped Nanny Tong up with his own hands, "This time I'm going to trouble Mommy to come here."

Tong Nanny said with a smile, "I didn't expect that this old man would still be able to work for Lord Baylor."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, fourth master explained the reason for inviting her here.

"An Gege in the backyard has been in the house for several years and has not been pregnant. I suspect that there are other reasons, so I asked Nanny Tong to come over and clean up her yard, cleaning out some things that shouldn't be there."

It was only now that Nanny Tong knew that her little master had invited her here for the privacy of the backyard. Seeing that Fourth Master specially invited her here, she should value An Gege very much.

Nanny Tong raised the importance of An Gege a lot in an instant.

"This matter is on the old body, and Angege's backyard will definitely be cleaned up."

Minning was frowning as she read the report given to her in the study, which said that the ingredients contained in the typeface had been researched, and people were currently being sent to search for such mines.

But casting characters has become a problem. Unlike foreign languages, which only have a few letters, you can cast more and combine them at will. There are too many Chinese characters, and it is time-consuming and laborious to carve them by hand.

Later, someone came up with the idea of ​​molds for casting coins. They made fonts first, and after the ore was mined, they directly fired the solution and poured it into the fonts.

It is easy to make thousands of commonly used fonts in advance.

However, Minning's requirement is to have fonts of different sizes, so a large number of skilled craftsmen are needed to complete it.

Some fine and small characters require outstanding craftsmanship to complete.

Fortunately, these fonts are all concave, which is easier to make than convex ones. A skilled craftsman can carve three in a day, and one hundred people can carve three hundred.

What's more, there are many workshops in the capital. Minning directly outsourced the work, but collected a complete set of fonts in ten days, and the rest of the fonts, large or small, took their time and recovered a lot one after another.

The problem that gave her a headache now was how to make the newspaper since everything was ready.

There is a mansion newspaper in this era, but it is only circulated in the government office. To make such a newspaper among the people, you have to take a lot of risks.

After thinking about it, Minning felt that he had to tell the fourth master about this in advance, so as to get a thorough understanding from the emperor, so as not to be used as a tool to slander him when he got it.

It's best to pull the court to do it together.

It just so happened that the cowpox test at the hospital was almost done, so I asked Si Ye if this matter could pass through the newspapers, and reported it first, so that the newspapers would be a hit.

But at the very least, we need to prepare a newspaper office and recruit some reporters and editors.

Well, there seem to be many down-and-out students in the capital, why don't you ask them if they are willing to earn this money?

It is necessary to invite some people who can simply draw pictures. The newspapers cannot only have words, but must be accompanied by pictures to attract people.

By the way, I almost forgot the advertising space, first ask Minxing if he wants to pay a sum of money to advertise the soap at home.

As for other advertising spaces, isn't Xibianmen's workshop recruiting people?This has to be remembered, and there are a lot of broken toys recently, so I recruited some people to teach them how to repair toys for free. Before recruiting a few people, they were too busy.

The music box has also been made. Do you want to advertise it? The Qibao House in Liulichang has become a dream place for children in the capital. Do you want to open another branch?

It seems that there are counterfeit bicycles, should we make a tricycle that can pull people and goods?

In this way, the content of the newspaper is quite rich.

"Master, Lord Belle sent someone to invite you over." Mo Yu came over and interrupted Minning's thoughts.

"Call me?" Minning looked puzzled, why are you looking for her at this time?

Followed the little eunuch to the outer courtyard, saw the fourth master Minning greeted him, "Master is auspicious."

Fourth master pointed to the nanny next to him and said, "This is Nanny Tong. I will stay with you for two days. Be good in these two days and listen to Nanny Tong."

Minning was dizzy and dizzy when she brought Nanny Tong back. She really didn't understand why he suddenly sent someone to her side.

Nanny Tong carefully observed An Gege, who was said to be very favored in the Baylor Mansion, and found that he was not very scheming. Later, she changed her mind, she was just doing the little master a favor, and she didn't really want to get involved in the backyard. In the middle, what do you do with so much?

Snapped!

Fujin accidentally hit the tea bowl on the ground, and she didn't even notice that the tea splashed on her feet.

"Master, send someone to invite Nanny Tong and send them to An Gege?"

Fang Fei glanced at the broken tea bowl distressedly. This is the master's favorite famille rose tea bowl on weekdays. If a broken tea bowl is broken, it will not be a complete set.If the master came back to his senses, he wouldn't be so heartbroken to death.

However, Fujin couldn't control the teacup or not. Whenever she thought of Tong Nanny, she felt chills in her heart.

When she first got married to Grandpa, she was still at an age where she didn't understand anything. At that time, she had seen Nanny Tong's tricks, and the other nanny next to Grandpa couldn't tell if she was suffering, so she invited her out of the palace.

At that time, Elder Brother was controlled by Nanny Tong. She was a Fujin who hadn't consummated the house in name, so she naturally didn't have the confidence to ask the housekeeper back. After the wedding was officially consummated, Nanny Tong handed over the housekeeping rights to her, and she went out of the palace to take care of the elderly.

Later, when she checked, she found out that the mothers who were kicked out were the ones who drove Nanny Wu out of the palace, and the fourth master also acquiesced, which made Fujin see how the fourth master trusted Nanny Tong.

This trust is what Fujin cares about.

It's just that what did you invite this old hag back for this time?

For a moment, Fujin looked at Angege's courtyard, and she knew in her heart that the mansion would not be peaceful.

As soon as Nanny Tong and Minning entered the yard, she turned against the guests and stopped the maids in the yard. Bi Ying looked at Minning, and Minning waved her hands, "I'll just listen to Nanny Tong for a few days."

Anyway, I can't stay for a few days, so I let her torment.

In the next few days, Nanny Tong searched everything in her yard, house, and warehouse like a detective.

Biying also realized what she was going to do, with an eager expression on her face, and began to actively cooperate.

Minning is not blind, so she naturally saw what Nanny Tong was doing by jumping up and down. She began to reflect, should this matter of contraception come to an end?

If she doesn't get pregnant again, fourth master should suspect that she can't give birth.

Counting the time, she is seventeen years old, and it should be no problem to conceive a child at this age.

And there are some things she can't do, but it's a different matter if she gives birth to Aixinjueluo's child.

For example, for the newspaper this time, she tried her best to avoid the suspicion of the court, but she was afraid that a literary prison would cover her head.

But if you have children, it will be easy to solve. Are you kidding if you suspect that the royal family will turn against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?

Moreover, her subordinates have already been tempered. Zheng Jun helps her connect overseas, and Lin Yuan helps her manage internal affairs. The general framework of her industry has been constructed, and she only needs to roughly control the direction in the future.

Taking advantage of this free time, you can indeed consider having children.

"An Gege, can you please stand up?"

While thinking about this possibility, Nanny Tong stood in front of Minning. Minning didn't understand why she stood up, and Biying at the side hurriedly helped Minning back away as if she had touched something dirty.

Nanny Tong knocked on the couch, then leaned over to smell it.

She has been using this beauty couch since she moved in. Seeing Nanny Tong like this, Minning wanted to tell her that it was fine.

Tong Nanny straightened up with a serious face, turned around and asked Minning, "Angege, can this couch be split?"

Although Minning was a little bit reluctant, but seeing her serious look, she still nodded.

"As you wish."

As soon as Nanny Tong waved her hand, the little eunuch quickly moved the beauty couch out.

Minning followed to the door, and saw Tong Nanny asked someone to bring an ax to split the wooden couch.She picked up a few broken pieces of wood and put them on her nose to sniff. The fourth master just entered the door over there. Seeing this scene, she asked, "Have you found anything?"

Nanny Tong said with a serious face, "If this servant heard correctly, this wooden couch is inlaid with camphor wood."

Minning knew that the fragrance of camphor wood had the effect of repelling insects, but why did Fourth Master look so ugly?

As if seeing Minning's doubts, Nanny Tong explained to her, "Although camphor wood has the effect of preventing insects and moisture, it is not suitable for young women. It also has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Long-term exposure can prevent early pregnancy, even if you are pregnant. It’s also easier to miscarry.”

Min Ning was taken aback, first startled, then furious, this couch was exquisitely crafted, it was her favorite place to stay on weekdays, the inlaid camphor wood was obviously aimed at her!

It was one thing for her to be willing to use contraception, but she was not happy if a villain used tricks against her in private.

"Master, this matter must be investigated!"

"Investigate, definitely investigate!" Fourth Master was furious. This kind of thing happened in his own backyard, and it was obvious that he was going to cut off his heir. Thinking of this person's sinister heart, Fourth Master wished to catch this person out and shame him Ash!