As soon as Xu Hao returned to Beijing, he heard that there was a large-scale cholera outbreak in Annan last year, killing no less than 100,000 people.

He also has a son who is the lord of Annam, fortunately, he did not receive bad news, and the mother and son should be safe, as for how many people of Annam died, what is the matter?

As early as the beginning of the illness, the Muwangfu in Yunnan had ordered the border to be blocked, and some officials stationed in Nan'an also hurriedly returned.

Yamen, the admiral of the Guangdong Navy in Fujian, also issued a warning that merchants were not allowed to go deep into the territory of Annam, and that anyone who returned from fighting Annam must stay on the border between Hainan and Yunnan for a year to prevent the plague from spreading inland.

In ancient times, the plague was extremely important, and there were quite perfect laws, so there was no need for Xu Hao to worry about it.

Zhu Gaochi also attached great importance to this, and Liu Chun, a famous doctor with a very good reputation, tried to find a way to find a cure for treatment, and the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital proposed to get a few cholera patients from Annan, but Liu Chun was worried about the cholera outbreak in Jinling, so he asked the imperial doctors to make a cholera model.

Xu Hao didn't expect that there would be such an advanced scientific research method, but unfortunately cholera is a virulent infectious disease that cannot be eradicated, and humans are the only susceptible to cholera bacteria.

At Tai Hospital, Xu Hao said: "The way to prevent cholera is very simple, but it is not simple, that is, pay attention to hygiene, which is divided into personal hygiene and public health, and I don't need to say more about this." In particular, attention should be paid to clean water, which is the largest route for cholera outbreaks. As the saying goes, diseases come from the mouth, raw seafood and unwashed vegetables can also be infected, do not drink cold water directly, so this involves public health, and it is necessary to cooperate with the local government at all levels, both inside and outside the government. ”

The imperial doctors nodded frequently, thinking that the facts had already proved that even if Xu Sanye released a fart, he would be able to pass through the past and the present!

In any case, Xu Hao has put forward the concept of public health, and then it is up to officials to gradually improve it.

But it was said that Jinda went to Sichuan with the prefect. Unexpectedly, in Shanxi, he caught up with the villager Liu Zijin to gather a crowd to rise up, occupied the post station, defeated the Datong defenders, and the group disappeared.

Two months later, Liu Zijin and other 135 people were escorted to the capital, Zhu Gaochi ordered the leader to be beheaded for public display, and the rest were sent to Han Wangzhou to fill the army.

For a time lost the news of Jinda. And Wan Ying is still practicing medicine in the hospital, most of the people who seek medical advice only hear his name, but don't know who he is, and the people who come are all Mr. Jin, Jin Xianggong shouted.

People who originally knew Jinda saw that Wanying's medicine was similar to the original, and since they could cure the disease, they also regarded Wanying as Jinda.

After all, a few neighbors knew that Jinda was gone, but they were warned by Wu San, and later Wan Ying simply moved to the area of Xiaodongmen Water Dragon Palace.

However, some officials who knew about it were very suspicious. Standing at the door and discussing: "Didn't Mr. Jin go to Sichuan with the former prefect?" Why is it still in Zhenjiang? ”

Someone heard it and went into the house to ask Wan Ying, who was worried about showing his feet and said, "That's right." Originally, the adults had to let me go with me, and I didn't want to go to Sichuan, so I recommended a friend surnamed Wan and went with him. So everyone misreported that I was gone. ”

Since there is no stake, naturally no one will be idle and have nothing to do, and soon everyone will believe it.

Wan Ying quickly made some money. Unfortunately, he contracted cholera, and it turned out that he was treating a merchant who had returned from fighting Annan, and the other party invited him to dinner, although he was quarantined for a year, the seafood that entertained him carried germs.

As the so-called Doctor Lu does not treat himself, although Wan Ying prescribed himself a lot of medicine, but in ancient times when the mortality rate was as high as more than 40 percent, his own physique was weak, and he did not dare to drink water, and he died in less than a day due to prostration, dehydration and high fever.

After he died, the Tai Hospital, through Xu Hao's prompts and help, introduced a method for treating cholera in the world. It probably means drinking more water with added sucrose lemons, etc., and replenishing water and salt at any time, although there is no later science, such as electrolyte supplementation, but the mortality rate can be controlled to less than 10%.

Of course, that means that if conditions permit, most of the people who have had cholera will develop immunity, re-infected people are rare, if the public health is good, there are enough medical personnel to rescue, can eliminate the contaminated water source in time, pay attention to not let the patient's feces pollute the water, cholera is completely controllable, and the mortality rate will be greatly reduced, which is already less than one percent in later generations.

After Wan Ying died, unfortunately Wu San also ran away overnight because of the fight and injured people, and several hired subordinates were not related to him, so they divided the money and property and handed a report to Zhenjiang County.

No one knows where Wan Ying is from, and when he came, Jinda didn't want to reveal his family background, and the two had an agreement not to say where he was from.

Zhixian sighed, said that good people don't live long, bought him a coffin, and buried him somewhere outside the city with good feng shui, with a line of words engraved on the tombstone: "The tomb of the famous doctor Mr. Jin", which was kept for his relatives to recognize.

Jinda's old servant followed Xu Hao back to Beijing to report the news, Jinda wanted to surprise his wives and concubines, so the old servant didn't know that he went to Sichuan, returned to Zhenjiang, and learned that the young master was dead.

The old servant came back to his senses and hurriedly asked his neighbor: "My young master and Wan Gongzi are together, the young master is dead, he should rush back to report the news, where is the person now?" ”

The neighbor said: "The surname Wan was recommended by your young master to go to Sichuan with the former prefect, people walked in front, he died behind, thousands of miles apart, where would I know that my friend died of illness?" Not to mention rushing back to report for you. ”

The old servant, who was old and a little confused, immediately believed it, found the tombstone outside the city, and wept bitterly.

Because he was the only one, it was inconvenient to take the coffin out and send it back to Jinling, so he had to hurriedly return to Beijing to report the funeral.

At this moment, the relatives and friends of the Jin family were stunned, they never expected that they had really fulfilled the fortune that Jinda had calculated when he was alive, and he couldn't get over the hurdle of twenty-nine years old, everyone sighed, and Xu Hao, the only one who knew, took the whole family to Beidaihe for summer vacation.

The divination of the Jin family is famous all over the world, and everyone is convinced that Jinda's wife and concubine were heartbroken, and wept bitterly and changed into filial piety clothes to set up a mourning hall, and cried for three days in a row, and the people who came to mourn were all sad when they heard it.

On the fifth day, Luo and Mo were still crying, only the face of Bilian, the maid in the room, still had a sad look, but she stopped crying.

Bi Lian persuaded: "People can't be resurrected after death, crying is useless but hurts the body, the two grandmothers also ask to take care of their bodies, take care of the aftermath for the young master, don't make people cry." ”

Roche said angrily: "You have a way out, naturally you are not sad, but our life has stopped here, if you want to cry, can you bear it?" ”

Mo also said: "I was widowed at a young age, and my family has no savings, what can I do in the future?" ”

Bi Lian said: "There are so many colleagues in our family, just say that the Xu family can't ignore it, grandma don't worry." ”

"You know what." Mo wiped his tears and said: "People go to tea and cool, and besides, our family is a widow, who is embarrassed to help from time to time?" You don't have anything to worry about, you can go if you want, and you don't need to say it's nice. ”

Bilian didn't want to be kind, but she was bored, and she smiled bitterly and didn't dare to speak.

The second daughter cried for a few more days, and she didn't need to be persuaded by anyone, so naturally she didn't cry anymore, but she didn't think about tea and dinner every day, and sighed non-stop.

What Bi Lian said was to ask the two grandmothers to hurry up with their ideas, and the first thing was to quickly send people to Zhenjiang to transport Jinda's coffin back to Jinling or send it to her hometown for burial.

The second is to persuade grandma to think of a livelihood, Jin Zhong is honest, and the family property left behind is really not much, and the existing silver or buy a grange or run a shop or something, so that the water can be good for the Jin family.

But by Luo's sentence "There is a way out", Bilian's mouth was blocked, and it was difficult to speak again in the future.

The family was also puzzled, at first they thought that the two ladies were too sad and had no heart to discuss the future, who would have thought that after another month, they would never mention the word pretending to be mournful!

In the end, Bi Lian couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "The young master's bones are far away in a foreign land, I don't know when grandma will send someone to bring them back?" ”

Roche was not angry; "I won't say this nice thing as a lady, I want you to be the opening of the room? As a husband, he must inform the local government squire with great fanfare, and hire an official ship to transport it, at least a thousand taels of silver, and now that the family has organized two funerals in a row, how can there be any money? According to me, I had to send a few people to sneak over, incinerate them on the spot, take them to my hometown and bury them in the ancestral grave. Alas, why do we have to fight for the family of orphans and widows? Save money and get by. ”

Mo said: "If you want me to say, you don't have to go, my husband has gained a reputation in Zhenjiang, and everyone respects him, so it's better to stay over there and talk about it when the child is older. ”

Bilian was stunned, no matter how poor the Jin family is, it is not short of a few thousand taels of silver, right? Not to mention the gift money received by the husband after his death, when the lord died of illness, the palace could reward a thousand gold, even if it was all tossed, the two of you hid your private money on weekdays, so you can't break the bank?

Bilian is unhappy in her heart, and she has the heart to reproach a few words with righteousness, for fear of angering them, and colluding to drive her out, judging from the selfishness they have exposed so far, she may not have many mistakes in the future, and she is gone, and she is gone, and she is gone, and she has no one to admonish.

She thought about it for a long time at night, and when she arrived at the upper room the next day, Zhengse said: "The slave family discussed with the housekeeper yesterday, and Fu Yu doesn't have to hire an official ship alone, even if the local government is alarmed, there is no need to drink and entertain as a master." Some of the relatives and friends have boats to and fro, and by the way, it only costs a hundred taels of silver in total.

The little sister has almost fifty taels of silver in her hand, I wonder if the two grandmothers can make up that half? In case I can't make it up, I still have a few satin clothes, and I can't wear them for three years after keeping filial piety, so it's better to sell them, and it won't be in vain for the young master to accept me. The slave family does not dare to be self-dictatorated, but it is up to the eldest mother and the second mother to decide. ”

These words made Luo and Mo's faces flushed, and they dared to love that most of the silver was regarded as private silver by them, and they were originally going to hide it by their side so that they could take it to someone else's house to supplement their stephusband. Everyone is ready to leave, who cares about the dignity of the Jin family?

Now that Bi Lian said righteous words, she naturally didn't dare to refuse and say no, and the second daughter said stupidly: "Since you think so thoughtfully, how can you not have one hundred and eighty taels?" You don't have to break the bank, just keep it for yourself. (To be continued......)