Become a founding empress in ancient times with the system

Sheng Changan probably knew what she meant and comforted her, "I don't care about that. Here, everyone has to go to school as long as they are old enough. Just carry on as usual."

Not long after the Du couple left, Yu Xiu Ran came over with three other people. All three were about thirty years old, tall, and had calluses on their knuckles, which showed that they were also martial artists.

But in this era, no one would dare to organize so many people to come here without some ability.

However, these people were honest enough to directly tell the truth about Eleven's identity: Ye Xingzhou, the grandson of Master Ye.

After being exiled from the Shen family, he planned to send people out slowly, and he was one of them.

But Zhou Song is a member of the Ye family. Although he had made arrangements, he still couldn't hide it from the eyes of some people. It was because of him that Mrs. Du was robbed and killed.

The Liu family has two sons and one daughter. Their daughter, Liu Ruyan, is now the emperor's favorite concubine. Liu Duan, the prime minister, is second only to the emperor and above everyone else.

Liu Zhou was appointed as the Grand General and stationed in Shanglian. Liu Zhao, Liu Duan's second son, was also his most trusted person. Although he held no official position, he was the one who made most of the decisions regarding court affairs.

Even this time, it was him who tried to wipe out the Ye family.

They are vicious, cruel, and smart. The people all know that the emperor is incompetent, disregards human lives, and murders loyal ministers, but they don't know that all these ideas come from the Liu family.

Now that Master Ye has also been killed, the court is controlled by the Liu family alone, and all it lacks is an official title. Now is a good opportunity.

The last time Zhou Shi and Du Ruyu were kidnapped, it was all intentional by the Liu family, but she happened to get involved.

Zhou Song also deliberately cleaned up the tail she left behind, but they did not mention this matter at all.

It has to be said that Zhou Song was indeed a good official, but unfortunately under this emperor, good officials often did not have a good ending.

As for these people, he sent them all out to do work. The Le siblings had nowhere to go, so they temporarily lived in the government office. Under Zheng Qing's guidance, Le Qingping gradually became familiar with the internal affairs of the government office, while Le Qingliang entered school.

As soon as Xu Qing came back, he was taken away by Du Zhong directly. After all, there were a lot of things to do now.

All the horse-drawn and ox-drawn carts that could be mobilized in the city to transport water were pulled out, and all the water storage spaces in the houses were filled.

The number of soldiers in the city finally reached more than 5,000, and the area near the forest water source became a training point for new recruits. Li Dashan and Shen Huaizhi also led people to explore the caves.

But the terrain inside was complex, with most of the caves within caves, making it very easy to get lost, so the two had to stop temporarily.

The underground water inside seemed to have no end. Even though so much water was transported overnight, the water level did not drop at all, which made everyone feel relieved.

Because of the method taught by Sheng Changan, Shangyu will at least not die of thirst for now, and they are also the first county to close its city gates.

As Sheng Chang'an expected, large-scale uprisings began to occur in various parts of the south, gradually spreading to the north, and the court sent Liuzhou to suppress them.

About half a month passed, the sun was still scorching, and people began to appear outside the city again, but this time, there was something obviously wrong with the people who came.

"It was the Liu family who took action." Sheng Changan also heard what Yu Xiuran said. She had thought before that since she had taken strict precautions, it was impossible for a plague to suddenly break out unless someone deliberately lured people here.

With so many people heading north, nearly 10,000 people arriving in Guangping, it was impossible for the Liu family to conceal this. However, with uprisings breaking out across the country, they had no choice but to tolerate her presence temporarily in order to prevent the Xianbei from invading.

Although he chose not to take action for the time being, he would definitely want to teach him a lesson. Liu Zhao was best at using the people as his chessboard, and this time would be no exception.

There is a well-known rumor now that Guangping County can lift the plague, perhaps because they are afraid that Sheng Chang'an will use some excuse to refuse to take in the inmates, as those who come here have never eaten human flesh.

Even some of them were people from Shanglian. Thanks to the Liu family, the virus spread widely. Except for Shangyu, which closed the city gates early, and Guangping, which was well prepared, symptoms began to appear in other places one after another.

"We can't just ignore it." Yu Xiu Ran frowned. This was simply an open conspiracy and deliberate coercion.

Du Zhong was also very troubled. Recently, he read all the books Sheng Changan gave him, and combined with his own experience, he came to the conclusion that the disease could not be cured, but could only be alleviated.

Mild cases may still be treated, but severe cases may be fatal.

"Open the first city gate and do it according to the method we discussed." Sheng Changan knocked on the table. This is a danger but also an opportunity.

The temperature in the north is very low in winter. It is around September now. As long as it is delayed until November, both the virus and bacteria will disappear.

At daybreak, the first city gate slowly opened, and twenty or thirty fully armed men walked out, wearing masks, hats, clothes, and gloves, with only their eyes exposed.

The people outside looked at each other in bewilderment. When they first heard that this place could cure diseases, they were skeptical. Now that so many people had the same symptoms, how could they react?

They came here with only a faint hope, but now they were desperate as they looked at the closed city gates. They could only lie on the ground and wait for death quietly.

Now the city gate suddenly opened. Although these people were dressed strangely, it gave them renewed hope.

"Let's separate now. Those who think their symptoms are mild should stand over here," Xu Qing stepped forward.

"Those with severe symptoms should go this way," Du Zhong called out. He had probably checked everyone on the city wall in the past two days. Most of them were suffering from vomiting and diarrhea, probably because they drank some unclean water.

Perhaps because they had hope, these people gradually became self-aware and dispersed.

There are about a thousand people scattered here, not including those who are still rushing here.

At Sheng Chang'an's request, those who think they have mild symptoms can enter the first city gate after being diagnosed, while seriously ill patients will be treated directly outside. Those who accidentally die of the disease will be cremated directly.

Fortunately, there are plenty of medicinal herbs in the forest. In the past year, Du Zhong, Li Dashan and others often took people there to collect herbs and even explore.

When Lin Chuan and Shen Huai went to Shanglian before, they also bought a lot of things, including medicinal herbs.

Sheng Changan had the traditional penicillin extraction method in her hand and could only try it reluctantly. She had thought about asking them to come before, but she also needed to finish reading the books on the system in a short time in order to deal with the situation later.

Now that Du Zhong and Xu Qing had both been dispatched, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and go it alone, grabbing a few people from the Research and Engineering Department along the way. After all, she had done research before, and even though it was a different discipline, it wasn't impossible for her to try.

The people inside the city left through another gate and brought water from the forest. For those receiving treatment outside, the smell of Chinese medicine never ceased, and neither did the fire.

After forcing them to drink hot water and receive Chinese medicine treatment, many mild cases did recover. However, the seriously ill patients were left to languish one by one.

Although Du Zhong didn't know how low temperature could kill the virus, he would not let these people die. All he could do was delay and study various prescriptions to see if they could be useful.

Sheng Changan also arranged for people to bring the more than 100 jars of stored alcohol here, as well as salt used for cleaning. Salt can kill some bacteria to a certain extent, and it is also very good for washing dishes and doing some other processing.

The weaving factory also rushed to produce masks and clothes overnight. Due to Sheng Changan's strict requirements, the clothes that were taken off were burned, so the consumption was particularly high.

In fact, these clothes can only be burned and cannot be disinfected at high temperatures. In a sense, they will become another source of infection.

The number of people outside was also increasing. I don’t know how the news that Guangping County took in these people spread, but everyone who got the news came here.

A month had passed since Sheng Changan had been using the traditional method to extract penicillin, but there had been no progress. At the end of October, the system reminded her that the first task was over, and she only then remembered that a month had passed.

During this month, most of the patients with severe symptoms, except those with mild symptoms, died, and only a small number of them were still alive. But when someone died, someone else continued to fill his vacancy.

Lin Chuan and others suspected that the Liu family deliberately spread the news that Guangping County was taking in patients, so more and more people came here. Perhaps everyone who lived not far from Guangping County had come here.

Moreover, some of the people who came had questionable character and even caused trouble. In the end, Shen Huaizhi led people to guard outside, and these people finally calmed down.

Hu Yu was among them. When he came here and saw Shen Huai, he was a little bit unbelievable. He had only seen him once when he worked under General Shen.

But I had a deep memory of them, so I recognized them at a glance. I just didn't expect that they were still alive.

As Sheng Changan expected, as December approached, light snow began to fall from the sky, and most of the patients with mild symptoms had basically recovered.

During this period, there were several cases of exactly the same symptoms in the city, but they were not serious and were controlled in time, so no major problems occurred.

Not to mention those in the city, even several of the doctors staying outside fell down, but none of them were seriously injured.

As for the severe cases... Du Zhong sighed. He was really powerless. During this period, among the nearly two thousand people with severe symptoms, only dozens survived despite his intervention.

There are still hundreds of people lying here, suffering from vomiting and diarrhea for a long time. Some of them have dry and wrinkled skin without any moisture, sunken cheeks, and are unconscious. They look like they are on the verge of death.

At this time, Sheng Changan finally extracted penicillin, but the problem was that its safety was not controllable, and it was not certain whether it would be effective against the plague.

She could only send it over and let them decide for themselves. During this period, she also had a general understanding of the news about the plague. Four or five thousand people, half of them survived, which was already very unexpected.

The temperature will gradually drop and the plague will gradually disappear, but according to people they sent later, the death toll from this plague in Jingguo was as high as 70,000.

Nearly half of the people who contracted the plague here survived, and this news caused a lot of discussion.

"Sir, why are you here?" Hu Yu was a little surprised. Even though the situation was much more stable now, as far as he knew, it was impossible for someone in a high position to risk his own death by appearing in such a place.

This gentleman always managed to surprise him. This time, the arrangements regarding the plague still had different opinions. He was indeed a little surprised when he found out.

Moreover, the people in the county town can also help him fight together. You know, there is a lot of water available here these days. There was a shortage of water everywhere in the past period of time, and the people in the city transported water from somewhere day and night.

"Something's wrong." She was still worried about penicillin, and she wanted to witness its therapeutic effect with her own eyes.

"Penicillin?" Du Zhong was a little surprised. Xu Qing also came over and asked, "Will this work?"

"I'm not sure. It's more effective for external injuries, but it might be much less effective for plague. And there aren't many of them cultivated. We can only let those with very serious conditions take a gamble first."

"I'll go and ask." Du Zhong quickly made up his mind. Nowadays, if you don't try, you will die, but if you try, you may not die. He believed that most people would be willing to give it a try.

Sure enough, most of them are at the brink of death, and they will naturally not give up if there is a chance to survive.

Even those who couldn't swallow it still forced themselves to swallow it.

The next step was to see the efficacy. Sheng Changan found a place nearby to observe.

There were ten people who took the medicine, and for isolation, they lived separately.

Soon, the first person with symptoms appeared. He had difficulty breathing and visible hives on his body. In less than five minutes, he was gone.

Later, two more cases with identical symptoms appeared one after another. Once they occurred, the longest lasted no more than ten minutes, and all of them died.

There are still seven people alive. Next, it depends on their adaptability and whether penicillin can work.

Over the next few days, some people began to recover one after another, and three more people died in the process.

After observation, the symptoms of the four people who survived were milder than those of the other three. They could not be compared with the real mild patients, but between severe and critical cases, some people's symptoms were slightly better.

This shows that penicillin is effective. Perhaps because people of that era had not used any Western medicine, the four survivors recovered very quickly.

In the end, it was decided to give penicillin to as many of the remaining people as possible. Nearly half of them survived. After fourteen days of isolation, it was confirmed that everyone had no symptoms. Only then was the first city gate slowly opened to these critically ill patients outside.

The population of Guangping County was also close to 20,000, and it was finally decided to send people to take over Lanyang County and rebuild Lanyang County.

Now an uprising army has risen up in the sky. It is said that the leader is named Qiao Song, who is a master of military strategy. Now he is fighting fiercely with the Liu family.

The Liu family cannot reach so far for the time being, and it is time for them to develop. Zhao Lu of Shangyu County officially surrendered, and Sheng Changan sent Yu Xiuran to take over Shangyu County.

As for Zhao Lu, she had sent him to Lanyang. There was nothing she could do about it. For so long, Zhao Lu had only been talking about it, and she couldn't help but be suspicious. But since he had finally joined her, she could overlook his earlier wavering thoughts.

People always want to choose what is good for themselves, and she can understand that. With Zhao Lu's surrender, her task bar was also triggered.

"It has been detected that Shangyu officially belongs to the host. Congratulations to the host for conquering Shangyu. You can receive the reward."

"The mission to rebuild Lanyang County has officially begun..."