Dugu Lanruo also said: "According to the medical records, three hundred years ago, acne raged for nearly fifty years, and countless deaths occurred in the Central Plains, which was extremely contagious. In many states and counties, nearly 10 percent of the sick people die, and nearly 30 percent of the serious deaths occur. ”

Liu Mu did not know much about smallpox, only that the mortality rate of this disease was terrible.

It seems that hundreds of millions of people have died from smallpox in history, as if the Indians in the Americas had a ninety percent mortality rate.

Li Shimin said to Liu Mu again: "Oscar Buddy came to see Brother Wei, and he told Brother Wei a very terrible thing. ”

"Terrible?"

"Yes."

Li Shimin nodded and said: "A few decades ago, there was an army attacking the Arabs, and the Arabs had not yet established the Salasan Kingdom, and the enemy army was quite numerous, and the entire army had not yet been destroyed under the city. ”

"Because of smallpox."

The name that Yanagi blurted out was smallpox.

Li Shimin knew that Liu Mu subconsciously said the name of smallpox, and what the origin of the name smallpox was, it is estimated that Liu Mu himself did not know, so Li Shimin still helped Liu Mu round the word:

"It's appropriate to call smallpox, it is. According to Oscar Buddy's description, the face of the infected person is full of pits, one after another traces, and it is quite appropriate to use flowers to euphemistically refer to it. ”

Liu Mu patted his head: "If you want to come to the Mediterranean, this problem is more serious than ours." ”

"That's right, it's very serious, many nobles have lost their lives because of this illness, and they survived by luck, if it is a young woman, I'm afraid it will be ...... in this life" Li Shimin didn't describe it anymore, he felt terrible when he thought about it.

The next day, the people sent representatives to meet Liu Mu.

In addition to the people of Chang'an, a large number of Persians and Arabs in Chang'an also came, and none of the Romans had a message, and they had already received a message from the clerical department, and they would talk to them about the pox in the past few days, and the Tang Dynasty and Rome themselves were allies.

Representatives of the people wrote to the willows, then the Persians and Arabs.

The Arabs were defeated, made peace, and the captured Arab merchants were basically acquitted as long as they had not violated the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

The Persians and Arabs came in the hope of obtaining this miracle medicine.

The representatives of the people are not all because of cowpox, but also because of other things.

An old man stepped forward after getting permission: "The Xishi Wood Chamber of Commerce, the Pharmaceutical Chamber of Commerce, and the Small Utensils Chamber of Commerce jointly signed a letter. ”

"Old man, please speak."

"Horses, according to the area divided by the Chang'an Order, Yonghe and Yongping are also among them, but the Chang'an Mansion has refused the qualifications of many residents in the workshop to plant cowpox, according to the announcement of the Chang'an Order, as long as they are voluntary, they can plant cowpox, but our three craftsmen belonging to the Chamber of Commerce have been rejected outside."

Liu Mu didn't understand after hearing this: "You should complain to Chang'an Mansion about this." ”

"Horses, the rejected craftsman identity documents are all issued by the Bo Division, and Chang'an Mansion doesn't care."

When Liu Mu heard this, he understood that the identity documents issued by the Bo Si were the trained Jiao Ren, the Fusang tribe and the Silla tribe who were managed by the Bo Si.

At this time, several more representatives stepped forward.

"We demand equal pay for equal work, otherwise those artisans will slack off or even stop working. Therefore, the benefits that the people of Chang'an have, the craftsmen to whom we belong should also have. ”

It's not about cowpox.

It was these people who found out that Liu Mu had returned, and Liu Mu was the chief envoy, so they organized a group to come over to petition.

As the purpose of each chamber of commerce, it is very simple, they are not for cowpox, but for the stable production environment of their respective chambers of commerce.

Long-term unfair treatment, and the disparity is too large, so that the foreign population with low status has become dissatisfied.

In particular, Chang'an City has a loan to buy a house, medical exemption, free education, basic clothing subsidies, woolen subsidies, winter vegetable subsidies, and so on.

This made the cost of living for foreign craftsmen nearly double that of ordinary Tang craftsmen, so they took advantage of this cowpox benefit not to give them, but put pressure on the workshop owners, who went to the chamber of commerce, and the chamber of commerce held joint meetings with each other.

When Yanagi returned to the city, there were countless petitioners.

Now that there is an opportunity to talk, the Chamber of Commerce will send someone to petition.

"This matter, Chang'an Mansion doesn't care, and the household department doesn't care?"

"If you go back to the horse, we have already handed over the book three times, this matter is not a yamen can be the master, originally planned to follow the law of the Tang Dynasty to Shangshu Province and the cabinet of the half-year people's meeting to deliver the book, but the people's meeting has been piled up, the small people dare not think that our things are big things, and they dare not go to hand over the Taiji Palace people's book."

Yanagi leaned sideways and inquired about the people around him.

The guard beside him said: "If you go back to Langjun, there is a place called the Public Opinion Hall in the cabinet, not only in Chang'an, but also in some letters sent from various states and counties in the world every day, which is indeed piled up. ”

"That's all there is to it?" Yanagi was a little incredulous.

"I don't know about that." The guards had not read the contents of the Public Opinion Hall.

Instead, the elderly representative of the Chamber of Commerce stepped forward and said, "Donkey, the little people know a thing or two. ”

"You say."

"As far as the people know......

The representative of this chamber of commerce said dozens of things in one breath, which is obviously the good deed of the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, who dared to say anything.

To put it mildly, there are scholars who write books, and Maoling is in disrepair......

There was a letter from the postman suggesting that a bridge be added somewhere......

To put it mildly, there are people who go to the book, and so-and-so two villages fight for water, which is not a disobedience to the Tang law, but a hundred years of grievances and so on......

The surrounding areas of Chang'an are directly sent to the Chang'an City Public Opinion Department, and if there are other state capitals, the county will deal with some of them first. Anyone who needs to ask for instructions from the top will be sent to the government every five days, and the unprocessed ones will be sent to the government office, and if the state government can't handle it, it will be sent to the governor's office, and then sent to Chang'an.

After the old man of the Chamber of Commerce finished speaking, Liu Mu probably understood.

No wonder the old man of the Chamber of Commerce did not dare to talk about his own major affairs, because what was sent from all over the country was at least something that the state government could not handle, either involving appropriations, or conflicting with the law but with different feelings, etc.

"I accept this matter, I will personally write to the cabinet, please go back and appease the craftsmen of the workshops, there will be a result."

"Thank you."

The chambers of commerce took the opportunity to put forward a lot of things, some wanted to act as an agent for pox, some complained that the tax of a certain industry was too high, and some of them applied for free cowpox for other parties, etc.

After Liu Mu answered one by one, he summoned the representatives of the Persians and Arabs.

The representatives of these two sides only have one thing, that is, to plant cowpox, and I don't know how many people have died in the land of their two tribes because of smallpox.

"Your Royal Highness, we are here for cowpox......