Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

More than twenty days passed in a flash.

The capital was very peaceful during this period.

No one expected that a huge conspiracy and crisis was actually brewing in secret.

In the densely populated South City and West City where most of the people live, many people have been infected with cough in recent days.

Initially, no one took it seriously, thinking it was just sore throat caused by the dry climate or seasonal change.

After all, coughs are generally caused by wind-cold. This season is far from the time to catch a cold, and a simple cough does not seem to be caused by wind-cold.

Who would have thought that after only a few days of coughing, he would start to have a high fever and cough up blood.

Even the most ignorant person realizes the seriousness of the matter.

Coughing up blood can be fatal.

Anyone who could spare a few hundred coins at home immediately flocked to the nearby clinic to seek medical advice and get medicine.

When I got there, I found that the clinic was packed with people, almost all of whom were suffering from coughs.

At this point, everyone was a little panicked.

For a time, all the medicines for treating coughing and coughing up blood in Beijing were sold out.

After another two or three days, many doctors and apprentices in the clinic also contracted the cough.

The doctors realized that something was wrong and immediately reported it to Huimin Pharmacy.

When faced with patients coughing up blood, doctors were initially worried that they had tuberculosis and would usually cover their faces with cloth for protection. However, even so, the doctors still got infected.

Suddenly, such a large number of people were infected with the disease, and it was very easy to spread between people. This can only mean one thing:

This is a plague!

If an epidemic breaks out in a megacity like Beijing with a population of two to three million, it will surely be an unprecedented disaster.

By then, I don’t know how many people will lose their heads.

Huimin Pharmacy did not dare to delay and immediately reported the matter to the Ministry of Revenue, which was in charge of the matter.

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Ministry of Revenue

Cui Wenhai, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue in charge of civil affairs, was startled when he saw the word "plague" on the document from Huimin Pharmacy.

No one is not afraid of the plague.

The Huimin Pharmacy in the capital of the Wei Dynasty was directly under the Ministry of Revenue and had the power to supervise and direct all medical clinics and drugstores in the capital.

Similarly, once there is a large-scale outbreak of an epidemic, Huimin Pharmacy also has an unshirkable responsibility.

The doctors at Huimin Pharmacy were fine, after all, when an epidemic broke out people were needed for treatment.

But all the officials above, from the deputy ambassador of Huimin Pharmacy to the vice minister of the Ministry of Revenue who was in charge, could not escape the responsibility.

After reading the document, Cui Wenhai broke out in a cold sweat.

Huimin Pharmacy said that there were so many people suffering from the plague that the clinic was overcrowded, and in just two or three days, the herbs for treating related symptoms were sold out...

When it comes to plague, the more people are infected, the more difficult it is to control.

This is enough to show that the situation has become very serious.

He had no idea why so many people were suddenly infected with the plague.

But there is no time to pursue these.

The most important thing now is to contain the plague immediately and reduce the scope of infection as much as possible before the alarm gets worse.

Fortunately, although he had never dealt with an epidemic before, when he was the prefect of Raozhou, he carefully read the letter from the magistrate of Xingde County and knew the effective way to deal with it.

He was extremely anxious and immediately went to Jingzhao Prefecture to ask the Jingzhao Yin to cooperate in centrally controlling all the infected people.

How could the Jingzhao Yin dare to take charge of such an important matter, so he immediately reported the matter to his higher authorities.

When the cabinet received the urgent memorial, it reported the matter directly to Emperor Yong'an.

No one dares to take a plague lightly.

The same is true for Emperor Yong'an.

Upon receiving the news, Cui Wenhai and a group of important ministers were immediately summoned into the palace to discuss countermeasures.

Several ministers and Cui Wenhai were summoned into the palace almost when it was dark.

Everyone present was a smart person, and no one failed to understand the seriousness of the matter, so no one wanted to take on this hot potato.

"Your Majesty, although Minister Cui was responsible for negligence, he successfully prevented the spread of the Xingde plague in Raozhou. He has extensive experience in curbing plagues. It would be better to hand this matter over to Lord Cui to handle it, so that he can make up for his crime with his merits!"

Emperor Yong'an also remembered Cui Wenhai's contribution, so he said:

"Cui Wenhai, how do you plan to deal with this matter?"

Cui Wenhai was extremely afraid that he failed to conceal the secret from the emperor and was held accountable instead.

However, he did have ideas about how to contain the plague.

He explained in detail to Emperor Yong'an the methods and procedures for dealing with the plague written by the magistrate of Xingde County.

After all, these methods come from the summary of medical families and are very reasonable in themselves.

Also very convincing.

After hearing this, Emperor Yong'an's expression eased a lot.

"In this case, the current plague in the capital will be handled by Minister Cui."

"Whether you want people or medicinal materials, I will have people fully cooperate with you. I will give you half a month to control this plague!"

Cui Wenhai doesn't have any rich experience in curbing the plague.

He merely took the credit for the work done by the God of Du'e and the magistrate of Xingde County.

But even if he was unsure, at this moment, he could only bite the bullet and say:

"I will do my best to stop the plague!"

In order to prevent the rapid spread of the disease, as soon as Cui Wenhai left the palace, he immediately followed the instructions of the Xingde County Magistrate and ordered the Wucheng Bingmasi and Jingzhao Prefecture to work together to arrest all the infected people.

In theory, there is nothing wrong with this process.

However, the situation in the capital and Xingde County is very different.

The reason why Xingde County dared to handle it in this way is because there are few people.

More importantly, the magistrate of Xingde County was deeply loved and trusted by the people in the city.

He said that the sick people should be gathered at the county government office for unified treatment and care, and the people believed it and were willing to cooperate.

Jingzhao Prefecture does not have this kind of moral prestige at all.

As soon as the yamen runners arrested people, the people became extremely panicked and didn't believe that they would get proper treatment.

There are rumors that these powerful officials do not take the lives of ordinary people seriously.

At this time, in order to prevent them from spreading the disease to more people and affecting the dignitaries in the city and the emperor in the palace, they must be burned to death in order to stop the plague.

In order to prevent people from fleeing and bringing the plague to more places, Cui Wenhai, like the original magistrate of Xingde County, closed all the city gates.

A strong sense of panic suddenly spread among the people.

Those who have just been infected dare not reveal that they are sick.

Those whose symptoms are already serious will hide away.

There are also those who are carefree and full of despair, who even deliberately go to crowded places, hoping to drag more people with them before they die.

In just three or five days, not many patients were caught, but instead the sick people all over the city fled.

Even in the east and north of the city, where the nobles originally lived, people infected with the plague gradually appeared.

The powerful people were very dissatisfied with Cui Wenhai's handling of the matter.

Normally, in the event of an epidemic, these people would definitely leave the city to avoid the disaster.

But Cui Wenhai took the chicken feathers as a token of authority and refused to let them leave.

Now, seeing that Cui Wenhai's actions had caused chaos in the city and made the plague spread further, these people suddenly felt that they had caught Cui Wenhai and wrote to the emperor to impeach him.

Cui Wenhai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue who had just arrived in the capital to serve as an official, was suddenly surrounded by enemies.

What's worse is that many of the plague patients at the beginning have died as the disease progressed.

The course and symptoms of the disease are exactly the same as the plague in Xingde.

Anyone who is interested will discover this if they check.

So, now his plan of asking Huimin Pharmacy and imperial doctors to develop the prescription has been completely exposed.

Because according to his previous reports, the prescription that could cure the plague was discovered by him and the doctors, and it should have been used directly now.

But the plague was actually completely cured by the God Du'e. Where could he find an effective prescription?