Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

With Zhou Wuwei in the capital, the people in the city can get medicine to treat the epidemic at least two days in advance.

But the common people in some slightly remote cities are not so lucky.

When people first went to Bencaotang to get medicine, the owner of Bencaotang wanted to give everyone this kind of medicine for treating epidemics, but because it cost five cents, which was much more expensive than those that cost two cents, many people refused to take it.

They all felt that Bencaotang was deliberately selling expensive medicine to them.

The owner of Bencaotang tried to persuade people in every possible way, but no one listened. He had no choice but to watch those who had a high fever continue to have a fever.

After two days, some elderly people could not bear it anymore and exhausted themselves to death.

One, two, more and more people died, and everyone realized the seriousness of the matter, but it was too late.

For those elderly people who have had a fever for four or five days, even if they are given medicine to treat the epidemic, it will be of little use and they will eventually die.

It took only a few days for a cold to spread across the land of Tianqin, infecting countless people.

People in the capital were in a panic, and even many people in the palace were sick with the disease.

Emperor Jing sat listlessly on the dragon throne in the imperial study. He had been indulging in beauty for the past year, which almost drained his body completely.

Recently, if I want my concubines to sleep with me, I need to use medicine.

He had been ignoring state affairs for some time. If it weren't for the severe epidemic in the capital today, he would probably still be lying in the gentle fragrance, living a life of drunkenness and dreams.

"My Imperial Concubine, do you have a good idea to suppress this epidemic as soon as possible? If it continues like this, the capital will be in chaos."

"I have asked the imperial physician in the palace to quickly prepare a prescription to treat the epidemic, but the epidemic came too quickly and the imperial physician has not been able to come up with a useful prescription yet."

"I heard that the King of Qin's Herbal Hall has a ready-made prescription, why don't you use it?"

"The Emperor's recipe from Bencaotang requires several uncommon herbs. I'm afraid they won't be delivered in a short period of time."

When talking about this matter, Imperial Noble Consort Dehui was also extremely upset.

Originally, if Bencaotang had put in enough packages of medicinal materials, the epidemic in the capital could have been suppressed quickly.

It happened that Bencao Tang had only 2000 packages of medicinal materials for treating epidemics. At the beginning, some of them were sold to ordinary people. Later, when the epidemic broke out, some aristocratic families in the capital city fell ill and could only rely on the previous prescriptions for treating colds to stay alive.

But the previous prescriptions only treated the symptoms and not the root cause, and could not reduce the fever. If a person was a good person, he would not live long if he had a high fever for a long time.

At present, the price of a package of medicinal materials for treating epidemics at Bencaotang in the capital has been raised to 500 taels, and even then it is still in short supply.

As for ordinary people, many of them cannot afford medicine, and now they can only go to the door of Bencaotang to get free medicine.

Although free medicine cannot make patients get better immediately, at least it will not take their lives immediately. Poor people can only live one day at a time.

This may be fine for a day or two, but as time goes on, the court is slow to come up with a solution and the people can't help but feel dissatisfied with the court.

There were also some dignitaries who had contracted the epidemic. Their illnesses had been delayed and could not be cured. Some of them went directly to Emperor Jing and asked him to find a way to resolve the matter quickly.

Emperor Jing may not care about the lives of ordinary people in the capital, but he cannot ignore the people of the aristocratic families and the royal family.

"You have so many people under your command, why don't you send some of them to other cities to buy medicinal materials? Do you still need me to teach you such a small matter?"

Emperor Jing's expression was obviously not very good.

It was not just one or two people who came to the palace to look for him. One of them was an old prince. His old princess was suffering from an epidemic and was now hanging on for life. He ran to the palace and scolded Emperor Jing, threatening that if the old princess was gone, no one would have a good life.

Thinking of these bad things, Emperor Jing felt overwhelmed.

"Your Majesty, the missing herbs in the prescription are extremely difficult to find. I have already sent people out to look for them, but to no avail."

Imperial Noble Consort Dehui had no words to grievance. She really wanted to ask Ye Jintang where he got the prescription and why it was so strange.

"I don't care whether you can find the herbs or not. You must come up with a plan for me within two days. You can't just watch the epidemic rage in the capital."

Emperor Jing said this with a dark face, turned around and left. The eunuch Zheng Hai hurried forward to help him.

"Congratulations to the emperor."

Noble Consort Dehui bowed towards Emperor Jing's back, her eyes full of hatred. If Emperor Jing had not been useful, she would have wanted to poison him to death long ago.

After coming out of the imperial study, Emperor Jing frowned and was silent for a while before saying, "Zheng Hai, do you think I made the wrong choice? If I had let Xiao Mo stay in the capital and let him continue to be the crown prince, would there be no epidemic?"

"How could the emperor think so? The emperor's decision is always the most correct."

"You old fellow, stop flattering me. I know very well that Xiao Yi is soft-hearted and not suitable to be the emperor. The most suitable person to be the emperor is Xiao Mo. He inherited his ruthless methods from me. If he is allowed to be the emperor, no one who was related to the Jiang family in the past will have a good ending."

"He may not kill people when he first ascends the throne, but once he has control over the entire court, I'm afraid he will massacre the capital."

"Xiao Mo doesn't just hold grudges."

Emperor Jing sighed, and couldn't help but think of Xiao Mo in his mind.

"Why does the emperor say so?"

"My secret guards are not vegetarians. The herbs used to treat the epidemic in other cities are sufficient. Why is there not enough in the capital?"

"Xiao Mo has a problem with me and is doing this on purpose."

Emperor Jing walked forward slowly, holding his Zhenghai, who was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.

It turns out that Emperor Jing knew everything.

"Your Majesty, shall we return to the palace?"

"I went to Concubine Song's palace. The snacks she made were very much to my liking."

"Your Majesty, please take care of yourself."

Zheng Hai couldn't help but persuade Emperor Jing.

"It doesn't matter. Do you think Concubine Song's eyes are exactly the same as those of the late queen?"

“There are some similarities.”

"It's a pity that her voice is far worse than that of the late queen. When the late queen was her age, her voice was as clear as spring water."

Emperor Jing seemed to be lost in his memories, his eyes looked a little empty.

Zheng Hai looked at Emperor Jing like this and thought to himself that he was finally old. Every hidden disease he had contracted from leading troops in battles when he was young was now destroying his health.

How could he not know that indulging in women is bad for his health? Of course he knew.

He knew it but didn't take care of his body. It was obvious that he didn't want to live immersed in memories every day.

Zheng Hai was extremely surprised when he thought of this. Emperor Jing should be regretting poisoning the late queen now. He was living so miserably that he was willing to give up everything and go find the late queen?

Thinking of this, Zhenghai felt a strange feeling in his heart.

If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place.