Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

About half a month later, Mo Xinrong came to send his sister to Huangzhuang, saying that it was his father's instruction.

Mo Chenxi knew that this was arranged by the Queen Mother. After going to the imperial farm, he indeed met Doctor An.

Mo Yuanji didn't know why his daughter was asked to come over, and he couldn't participate because there were only a few people left in the manor and all the others had been transferred away.

After the Mo family father and son left, Doctor An said, "I recently visited many households that raise cattle. Some people have indeed survived the cowpox infection caused by contact with cattle, while others, who are weak, have died. But whether smallpox can be prevented is unknown, as there has been no smallpox outbreak in the past few decades."

Mo Chenxi said, "I don't understand this. I've never raised cattle or had any contact with them. This is what Empress Pox told me."

"A cow with cowpox will come into the farm tomorrow. Are you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid. Since Empress Pox has told me, she will save my life. But I'm embarrassed to let Doctor An get involved in this. I don't know much about medicine. If I knew, I would do it myself first."

Doctor An said, "Madam Xiaojie, there's no need to say that. If cowpox could prevent smallpox, I would die without regrets even if I were infected."

Mo Chenxi was moved. She stood up and bowed to Doctor An without saying a word, expressing her respect with her actions.

The next day, several more imperial doctors came, all of them with serious expressions, looking at Madam Xiaojie with awe.

Without asking, they already knew why they came.

So the work began. The imperial doctors extracted pus and scabs from cows infected with cowpox, removed the scabs and ground them into powder.

Mo Chenxi cooked for them, changing the recipe every day and asking them to eat more. These people would all be experimenters.

Doctor An said that Queen Mother Wang had arranged for people to conduct experiments on death row prisoners, not only those in the capital, but also those in the surrounding government offices, because they wanted to calculate the survival rate.

These death row prisoners were secretly sent to the imperial farm. In order to prevent them from escaping, dozens of guards were arranged to live in the farm.

Except for Mo Chenxi, everyone worked in two shifts to keep an eye on the people who had been vaccinated against cowpox. Mo Chenxi not only had to cook, but alcohol came in handy this time. She used a wooden watering can for watering flowers and asked the few servants to spray the living room every day.

She would also read the records of the imperial physician. She was truly worthy of being an imperial physician. She recorded the age and physical condition of each person clearly. Seven days before vaccination, every pulse was recorded. After vaccination, every day's reactions were recorded in great detail. Even the number of times the patient drank water and the number of times he or she urinated and defecated were all recorded.

There were twenty people in a batch, all of whom were strong and healthy death row prisoners. Vaccination with cowpox is not like contracting smallpox, so all twenty death row prisoners survived.

Then twenty people with slightly weaker health were replaced, and all of them survived. Finally, twenty weak people were replaced, and three of them died. Only one of them died from an adverse reaction after the vaccination, one of them died of fright, and the other died from other diseases caused by the vaccination.

This kind of data is useless. It only shows that the survival rate of people vaccinated with cowpox is relatively high. No one knows whether people who have been vaccinated with cowpox will be infected with smallpox. It is impossible to create a smallpox epidemic on the spot.

After these three rounds of experiments were completed, it was the beginning of spring and the New Year. Mo Chenxi felt that she had gained a lot of weight in the past six months, so she asked Doctor An to vaccinate her with cowpox.

Seeing that she had taken the initiative to offer the cowpox vaccination, the other doctors all requested to be vaccinated as well. They couldn't all be vaccinated at once, so they were divided into two groups, with half of them left to observe and care for the patients.

When Mo Chenxi came, she specially picked two strong young maids to take care of her closely this time. The second batch of two maids also planted, but these two people didn't know the specific reason. Since the lady could plant by herself, they just followed the lady's arrangements obediently.

Getting the cowpox vaccination was like getting the flu. It was uncomfortable for a while. Mo Chenxi lost five or six kilograms, and it was very obvious from her height. She then asked everyone in the family to eat and gain weight first, and then get the vaccination.

I just can’t tell you the reason, lest I end up like that death row inmate who died of fright.

As for the children, it would be best to plant beans when they are five or six years old. If they can't survive, how will she explain to her daughter-in-law?

This matter was handed over to the court and she no longer cared about it. As for how the court would popularize it among the people, it had its own methods.

However, it is difficult to popularize it. Saying that it can prevent smallpox would be even more frightening and cause people to panic, thinking that smallpox is coming.

Mo Chenxi's idea was simple, but it was difficult to implement in practice. The court had not made it public, and she could not tell her family that this was to prevent smallpox, for fear that too many people would spread rumors and someone would tell others about it.

What's the reason?

It’s too hot to plant beans in the summer, too cold in the winter, and autumn is just right.

In July, Mo Chenxi went to the palace to meet the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother smiled at her worried look. "Those imperial physicians, including Imperial Physician An, are also planning to vaccinate their families. They claim the secret formula they finally found can help them fight the winter cold."

In fact, Mo Chenxi had also thought of this reason, but she just came to report to the Queen Mother. She looked at the Queen Mother, wondering if she had been vaccinated, and the Emperor.

To be on the safe side, Queen Mother Wang had Doctor An and several other doctors travel around the surrounding provinces and cities over the past six months to vaccinate all the death row prisoners, resulting in a very low mortality rate.

She had been vaccinated herself, and the palace was occupied by only her and her attendants. It wasn't that she was selfish, the emperor was supreme, and if something happened, it would be chaos.

As for the other concubines, she couldn't use any reason, as others would think she wanted to kill them. The same reason applied to Prince Duan and the princesses. She didn't want to cause trouble for herself at the moment.

However, to be honest, her cousin's family was also planning to get the whole family vaccinated after August 15th.

My cousin has returned from Yunnan and Guizhou and handed over ten boxes of books to the court.

The emperor was overjoyed when he saw it and immediately ordered the Ministry of Works to start production. The part about alchemy and explosives was handed directly to Taoist Feng and his apprentice who lived in the Taoist temple. This was the Queen Mother's instruction and the emperor did not object.

Although the Queen Mother did not let go, she gradually handed some matters over to the Emperor. Fortunately, the Emperor did not act arbitrarily and would discuss major issues with his mother.

The Queen Mother never takes things lightly. There are no fathers and sons on the battlefield, and no mothers and sons in the government, unless the mother is strong and the son is weak, and the son is willing to take a step back.

And her son is neither weak nor willing.

She paid close attention to the emperor and his tutors to see how he treated Ji Lifu. Just like he treated other tutors, he would reward them from time to time. It was the same for every tutor, nothing special.

Madam Xiaojie's son took good care of Ji Lifu. Whenever it was convenient, they would go together and Ji Lifu would never go alone.

The Queen Mother even suspected what Madam Xiaojie had told her son. Could it be that Madam Xiaojie knew the Emperor's hobbies?

She decided to test it out sideways.

Mo Chenxi was summoned into the palace, thinking it was about vaccination. It just so happened that she also wanted to tell the Queen Mother that she wanted the Cao and Zhao families to be vaccinated, which was also an excuse to prevent winter cold waves.