The number of common people kneeling at the entrance of the Yamen is increasing.
In order to prevent the presence of latent plague patients among them, Xue Yao asks the government officials to disperse the people.
However, most of these people were sick or had relatives who had died as a result.
They were in a state of panic, and the living god "Taoist Master Xue" became their only hope.
Therefore, even if they were not allowed to kneel at the entrance of the court, they would still kneel outside Xue Yao's residence, seeking refuge from the Living God.
The people knew that Xue Yao and the Imperial Doctor were staying here, not because they were well-informed, but because there were only a few fixed residences for officials to stay in when they came to review the local government.
Generally, the governor and the governor-general would live in Xue Yao's residence, and it was easy to find.
Xue Yao felt that exposing the residence was a big risk. The ancient people had much less theoretical knowledge than the modern people, so it was not easy for them to communicate and reason with each other, and there were countless incidents of "medical malpractice" in modern times, so it was even more impossible to reason with them in the ancient times.
Xue Yao's duty today is to save the people, much like the other doctors, and it's easy to invite unreasonable patients' families to cause trouble.
Bubonic plague is supposed to be a plague of death, not enough medical personnel to observe and diagnose the patient to which stage, the patient may be brought over to the chair to sit, and suddenly died, followed by the likely to be a medical crisis.
It is imperative to prevent the spread of the plague, and it must be ensured that isolation measures are perfected before treatment can be centralized.
Therefore, when Xue Yao first stepped forward, she first told the people kneeling outside, "Those who are sick at home can line up to receive the holy stones, and those who have loved ones who have passed away due to illness can line up to receive the holy water.
Clothing and bedding touched by deceased relatives, including chopsticks and teacups, must be buried with them, and the floors and beds in the home should be washed with holy water, and doors and windows should be opened for ventilation and exposure to the sun, so that the ghosts of epidemics will have no place to hide.
Those who have come into contact with the sick are required to wash their entire body promptly with the holy stone, and then cover their faces with the kudzu scarf washed with holy water before taking care of the sick, and to ensure that they wash their hands promptly with the holy stone after touching the sick every day, in order to guard against the epidemic ghosts from taking over their bodies."
The holy stones and holy water were of course soap and disinfectant water, and to ensure that these two items attracted the attention of the public, Xue Yao had specially employed the strategy of hunger marketing-
"The number of Holy Stone Divine Water is limited, the poor Taoist will not take a penny, and all of them will be distributed to the homes of those who are pestered by the epidemic ghosts, so please line up to receive them, and you may not claim them without a patient at home."
The common people gasped in horror.
Surrounded by this there are people who suspect that this "Taoist priest" is a capital to the liar, at this moment also suspect that all of a sudden disappeared.
Scammers don't give away "holy relics" for free.
The Imperial Doctors in the courtyard each copied their hands and watched with expressionless faces as the common people thanked Xue Yao, a fake Taoist priest with no qualifications to practice medicine, profusely.
One of the eunuchs muttered coldly, "If we can get rid of illnesses and avoid disasters with his stones and holy water, why do we need to practice medicine?"
Another doctor said disdainfully, "Let him fool around as much as he likes, and when the disease is not cured, the people will naturally know whether to listen to the doctor's advice or believe in the fonzes."
The old eunuch doctor at the head of the group took a deep breath and sighed, ''I do hope that these strange things he's doing can contain the pandemic. You see, of the five colleagues who were initially sent to Ping Rong County, two have already contracted the plague, one passed away right here in this compound, and the other tried to return to his hometown but didn't last long enough to make it out of Ping Rong. And our party is still unharmed, perhaps because of the holy stones that this young gentleman Xue distributed to us at the beginning, allowing us to ......"
"Lord Xu!" A healer interrupted him and said angrily, "Do you also believe in the words of the Founder!"
Most of the doctors at the Imperial Hospital hated the fake Taoist priests who made pills for the royal family.
Successive emperors, including the current emperor, to the age, want to live forever, hard to eat fake Taoist priests refining lead and mercury overdose of "elixir".
Eat out of trouble let the hospital to think of ways, the hospital side of the desperate poison treatment, the emperor side or do not want to eat "elixir".
False Taoist priests and the Imperial Hospital to shirk their responsibilities, gradually led to the Imperial Hospital doctors, and Taoist priests are incompatible.
Therefore, ever since Xue Yao changed into this Taoist robe, the eunuchs in the courtyard simply hated it and felt that Xue Yao was planning to scourge the common people.
Only the old eunuch at the head of the group was unimpressed, and even privately, he had long been secretly analyzing the composition of the holy stone developed by Xue Yao.
He felt that the reason why Xue Yao pretended to be a Taoist priest might just be another way to gain the trust of the people so that the medicine he developed could be promoted.
Xue Yao's "medicines" were all external medicines in the opinion of the Imperial Doctor, which was really puzzling.
Two days later, Xue Yao followed the recipe again and began distributing internal medicine packs to the people.
The remedies are a combination of the relatively effective remedies documented in Chinese medicine for bubonic plague.
Yet it is the same formula that has the eunuchs of today in a tizzy.
"Using a cold-blooded prescription for a yin condition, this is killing people!" One of the Imperial Physicians looked at Xue Yao's prescription and angrily looked at the old Imperial Physician, hoping that he would intervene to stop that young man's heartless "evil deeds".
The old ambassador calmly sipped his tea and comforted his subordinates, "There's no need to be angry, this pandemic is different from the past, we've used all kinds of prescriptions, but none of them are effective, the patients show symptoms, and they'll die violently in a few days, even if Xue Yao doesn't give us any prescriptions, they'll still die, so using poison to fight poison may save a life. Since we can't do anything about it, why don't we let this young man have a go."
The group of doctors all had no words to refute what they heard, and could only sigh repeatedly at Xue Yao's formula.
Xue Yao felt that the recent implementation of the plan had gone incredibly smoothly.
I originally thought that even if I could fool the common people, I couldn't fool the group of old scholars in the yard.
The act of pretending to be a Taoist priest and prescribing medicine indiscriminately will sooner or later be opposed by the imperial physicians.
Yet no one actually cares about him at the moment.
Although the doctors all grumbled when they saw him, none of them ever discouraged him from "messing around".
It wasn't until the evening of the third day of opening the door to deliver the medicine that Xue Yao was called out by the old eunuch by the pond as he passed by the pond in the courtyard.
The old eunuch smiled gently and followed Xue Yao's footsteps, "Daoist Xue stays behind, there's something I don't understand, can I ask you for advice."
Xue Yao broke out into a cold sweat.
The old eunuch doctor who was nearly seventy years old could not afford to ask him, a seventeen year old layman, for advice.
When he turned back, he nodded and saluted, "Your Honor is more than courteous."
The old eunuch asked gently, "I would like to ask Your Excellency why the holy stone and holy water as well as the fabric masked by the holy water washing are able to drive away the epidemic ghosts?"
The smile on Xue Yao's face froze, and he looked at the old Imperial Doctor with some bemusement, hesitating for a moment before asking a serious rhetorical question, "Your Excellency, why do you think this plague is spreading unchecked?"
The old eunuch seriously replied: "The Rites of the Zhou have the following words: there are plagues at all times of the year, 痟 in spring, 痟 in summer, malaria in fall, and coughing in winter. This pandemic is similar to the malaria that occurs in the miasmatic areas of Sichuan and Guizhou, and I suspect that the spread of the disease may be related to the high temperatures this fall, which have caused mosquitoes, snakes, and rats to breed and bite.
Xue Yao was shocked in his heart at his words!
Always thought that this group of imperial physicians who do not understand modern science, have no insight into infectious diseases, I did not expect that the judgment of this old hospital envoy has cut straight to the heart of the matter, said the fundamental way of transmission of adenomatous plague!
The theory of the spread of insect and rodent pathogens was also established in 1894 by the Japanese bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato.
This old eunuch was really ahead of his time when he was in this era and was able to guess how the adenomatous plague would spread through the transmission of malaria.
Xue Yao felt that this old doctor was a man who could reason, and after a little hesitation, he said to him, "What you said is indeed one of the reasons for the spread of the plague."
The old eunuch pursued, "But how does this explain the fact that half of those who participated in the ritual contracted the disease?"
Xue Yao frowned slightly.
Because pneumonic plague and adenomatous plague have different routes of transmission, pneumonic plague doesn't need to be transmitted through flea bites, it can be transmitted directly through droplets, but how is this going to be explained to the old eunuch?
"My lord, do you believe it or not, the plague is an invisible little worm, too small to be seen by the human eye, but not a ghost, and too small to float in mid-air without landing, and wandering about, and being inhaled into the mouth and nose of a man, it can multiply in great numbers within him, and then, through the breath that the man breathes out, or the sputum and foam that he coughs up, it can wreak havoc in even greater numbers outwardly. "
The old eunuch was stunned on the spot after hearing this.
This theory, which seems common sense to the point of retardation to modern people, was a complete non-concept in those days.
The old doctor could not for a moment comprehend or even imagine "bugs too small to be seen," let alone recognize bacteria.
However, he felt that Xue Yao's theory could make sense and could easily solve all the doubts in his mind.
Xue Yao continued, "The holy stones that I distributed to everyone can kill this kind of small bugs, and the masked cloths that have been dipped in holy water can reduce the probability of inhaling small bugs to a certain extent."
The old eunuch was surprised, "Since the holy stone can kill the plague worms, why not let the patient directly cook the holy stone and take it to exterminate the plague?"
"...... "Xue Yao patiently explained, "Oral medicines can only pass through the intestines, but this small worm can hide in the blood vessels and internal organs, and the holy stone holy water not only kills the plague worms, but also does great harm to the human body, and cannot be used for internal use. "
"No wonder." The old eunuch dawned on him and surveyed Xue Yao with admiration, "The younger generation is fearful, live to learn, the old immortal is still far from being able to do so."
"Your Excellency is too kind." Xue Yao nodded and bowed.
The old eunuch asked again, "Is it possible for the eunuch's eyes to see this small insect that none of us can see, or else how would he know of its existence?"
Xue Yao thought about it and felt that he couldn't get a microscope to confirm his remarks, so he could only bite his teeth and nod once, "That's right, I can see!"
The old Imperial Doctor marveled even more, "Truly gifted."
Xue Yao: "......"
Under Xue Yao's control measures, the spread of the plague had obviously slowed down from before.
The Prince's rescue was delayed.
Xue Yao was ready to have no rescue and rely on flimflam alone to guide the people.
Originally, he had already swelled up, thinking that he could walk the world by fooling around with his tongue, but he didn't expect that after five days, suddenly more than ten callers died violently on the streets, completely dashing Xue Yao's hopes.
Rumors that the plague had come back to claim his life spread instantly.
Fearing that the god of pestilence would come to their doorsteps, many common people were so frightened that they bundled up their bedding and found Xue Yao's residence and slept on the spot outside the house of the "living god".
Xue Yao couldn't get the death-fearing populace to go home and stay well.
In the public's opinion, the little epidemic ghosts driven by the Plague God should not dare to approach the Living Immortal, and the safest place to be is around the Living Immortal.
Xue Yao specially checked the condition of the bodies of the callers before incinerating them, trying to analyze why they had contracted the disease at the same time.
After observing, Xue Yao realized that these callers all had one or two relatively new clothing accessories on them, and a frightening conjecture came to his mind.
He immediately returned to the city and went to the homes of several families whose entire families had perished as a result of contracting the plague, and inquired of the surrounding neighbors if they had ever seen callers entering these homes to steal financial clothing and food.
The neighbor's face changed at the words, and soon showed a dissatisfied look again, and justified himself by saying, "Taoist Master, their whole family died out, or we helped to bury them, and the things in the house were not used by anyone, and taking them out, so how can they be considered stolen?"
Xue Yao suddenly had a black eye, so angry that he stammered, "Did you ...... you use the holy water given by the Poor Tao to sterilize the dishes before you wore and used their clothes ...... not, did you clean them with holy water? "
The neighbor immediately nodded curtly, "All have been exorcised according to the Taoist Master's instructions!"
That's it, the unsterilized belongings of the dead were taken and used by the callers, resulting in the group of callers dying a violent death from a collective disease.
On the way back, Xue Yao had a look of despair on his face.
He could tell the people that the possessions of the dead were attached to epidemic spirits, and that if they took them, they would be infected with the plague.
But while the threat worked for the common people of ordinary means, it did nothing to stop the callow people who had nothing to eat or wear.
When Zhang Si saw Xue Yao's ugly face, he asked with concern, "What's wrong with Your Excellency?"
Xue Yao muttered, "I need manpower, I need everyone to cooperate with the quarantine measures, it can't wait any longer."
He turned his head to look at Zhang Si, "Old Zhang, can you help me make a stand?"