Spring and Autumn I Am King

Chapter 439: Magpie (Part 1)

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PS: Chapter 2 is after dinner

After the time entered late December, the epidemic in Qinyi basically disappeared. (Baidu search network updates the fastest and most stable)

Although there were hundreds of unnamed graves in the wilderness, most of them were captured by the Qi people, and the survivors, under Zhao Wuxi's deliberate propaganda, learned that typhoid fever was also raging in the state of Qi, causing thousands of deaths, and they were terrified. I dare not think about going home, so I will spend the winter honestly in Qinyi and Xilu for the time being.

They even began to rejoice that they could be captured by Zhao Bing after their defeat. After all, the highest-ranking person in Qi's prisoners, Qi Gongzi Yangsheng was also forced to come forward and preach Zhao's prisoner policy to them.

"The Zhao family will not wantonly abuse the captives, but the food and medicine you eat these days are not free..."

Qi soldiers less than 5,000 became free laborers, repairing the city defenses, and helping the villages to rebuild the houses that were destroyed when the Qi army went south. After the beginning of spring, some of them will be redeemed, but most of them may have to leave the East Kingdom forever and follow Zhao Yang back to Jinyang, thousands of miles away.

As the patients in the isolation area gradually recovered and left, Bian Que's treatment pressure was relieved a lot, and he had more time to write the booklet on how to prevent and treat typhoid fever. At this moment, he was sitting on his knees behind the table, writing on the smooth mulberry paper with a pen, while a disciple was helping to pass the copy.

Paper is a good thing. Inferior hemp paper can be used to wrap loose medicinal materials, and medium-sized public transport paper can be used to transmit and copy medical books. Whether it is writing or reading, it is more convenient than bulky briefs. But this thing has just appeared, and everyone is not used to it, so they will also engrave a copy on the bamboo slip and hide it in the treasury.

"Winter is severe cold, all kinds of things are hidden deep, and the gentleman is solid and dense, so it will not hurt the cold. Those who touch the fever are called typhoid ears. Those who are sick in the middle are called typhoid fever; those who are not sick, the cold poison is hidden in the skin. It turns into a warm disease in spring, and a summer disease in summer..."

After writing this sentence, Bian Que looked up at Zhao Wuxi on the opposite seat and said, "Is this true, little gentleman? Is the Zhao family really willing to let some sick doctors accompany us to go to Xuju to rescue the epidemic?"

Zhao Wuxi was still wearing warm and thick uniforms today. Sitting across from Bian Que with a smile on his face, he bowed respectfully and said, "Don't look at the Master sitting peacefully these past few days, but the boy knows that Master and all the disciples are very anxious about the epidemic situation. But it's only a few people, and the investment of more than 1,000 patients has become a drop in the bucket, and they can't be busy at all."

"Of course, the little gentleman is thoughtful."

"My father and son are deeply favored by the Master, how can they not do anything? And they are not only the medical doctors, but also the soldiers."

"Soldiers? What are you going to do with the soldiers?" Bian Que's eyes flashed, and he was about to speak, but was stopped by Zhao Wuxi.

"After the catastrophe, the surrounding area of ​​Xuju must be very chaotic, and there are some remnants of Qi State by the causeway. There are robbers from Dayozawa, and there are victims who are hungry and robbed, so soldiers need to protect them along the way. On the other hand, Dr. Xuju, who believes in witchcraft or not, has always paid no attention to the extension of medical treatment, and it is hard to say that he will intervene to stop it, just like he rejected my epidemic prevention advice and detained the messenger. So when the time comes, it is impossible to pay back It is up to Zhao Bing to force him into submission. Once the relief begins, the construction of the porridge shed and the place to dispense medicine will require labor, and then it will be up to Zhao Bing to contribute. The master said, is the soldier necessary?"

You must know that when the Celestial Dynasty encountered a famine in later generations, it was basically the "people's children soldiers" who fought on the front line. Sacrifice is naturally inevitable, but the effect is also great. Therefore, Zhao Wuxi also deliberately followed suit when dealing with the epidemic. Zhao Bing, who was stationed in Qinyi, was relatively strong and had survived the epidemic of typhoid fever.

Although Bian Que is worried that behind the "armed epidemic relief", Zhao's father and son also have different intentions. But what Zhao Wuxi said made sense, and he couldn't deny it. It's just that there is still some reluctance in my heart, reluctance to let the simple epidemic relief actions be used by politicians.

Just like that, when Bian Que's selfless "humanism" met Zhao Wuxi's conspiracy, the scene was silent and deadlocked for a while, and only the sound of copying books and pounding medicines could be heard from the disciples of Bian Que in the house.

After hesitating for a while, Zhao Wuxi spoke again, although he did not know how this idea would affect Bian Que and the times.

"Let's not mention these, the kid still has an idea, I want to say it and discuss it with the master, is it?"

Bian Que was still thinking about whether it would be beneficial or detrimental for the Zhao family to intervene in this epidemic treatment, so he vaguely agreed.

He didn't expect that this was an epoch-making conversation, with far-reaching influence no less than the time when Zhao Wuxi put forward the "detailed gu disease theory" in front of him!

...

The snow has stopped falling. Although the people of Lu are celebrating the Luli New Year, and now it has been the tenth year of the Luhou Song Dynasty, the Zhao soldiers are from the Jin Dynasty, and they are living in the Xia calendar. Although they were in a foreign land, the camp also distributed some food and drinks, which was very lively. The Qi prisoners could only swallow their saliva and continue to do the arranged labor.

Qin Yi was now in a precious period of peace, but it was only a short truce, and even Zhao Wuxi didn't know how the next war would unfold, eventually turning into a war that swept the entire Central Plains.

He recovered from the comfortable atmosphere of the truce outside the window, and said to Bian Que: "It is said that when Zong Zhou's ritual and music were particularly good, the gentleman was not seriously injured in battle, and he did not capture Er Mao. The lords and ladies can do this, and the casualties of the war to the people may be reduced a lot.”

Bian Que said with emotion: "It's impossible, the years when the military alliance was still maintained were good, but since the Wu division entered Ying, as the old man saw, the two countries of Wu and Chu were fighting for the attack, the military reform was renewed, and the Huai and Han countries were fighting. There are several massacres in cities and towns. This time Qi attacked Yiyi, and the Zhao clan was defeated in Xilu. The defeated army, the dead will be covered with grass, and the corpses will number in the thousands; Epidemic, thousands of households are wiped out, this is the norm.”

"Why bother."

The concept of unification deep into the bone marrow of later generations and the rich cultural influence made Zhao Wuxi see Wu Yue, who was a barbarian in the eyes of Jin, Qi, Qin, Chu, and even the people of the Central Plains in the Spring and Autumn Period, even though they are enemies and competitors now. , but there are not too many borders and borders, and there will be no cruel idea of ​​destroying their country and their clan.

Because he knew that in a few centuries, when the first empire of Qin and Han was formed, the nations of the above states would truly merge into a glorious China.

The war for hegemony and unification will inevitably result in casualties, but such heavy casualties as Yi Que's beheading of 240,000 and Changping's burial of 400,000 are exaggerated. Even if it has the rationality of its era, in Wu Xian's view, every life that died after the war is extremely regrettable.

What suffering is the kingdom of the crown, the kingdom of the crown?

Anyway, he will never go beyond his bottom line and do "human slaughter".

The previous feeling is not obvious. However, the Battle of the Snowfield was the biggest battle that Zhao Wuxi had ever participated in. Both Qi and Zhao were killed and injured thousands of people on the spot, but more people died after the treatment was ineffective. The howls and screams in the wounded and sick barracks, as well as the smell of death, impressed Zhao Wuxi, who was inspecting them. Uneasy.

Fortunately, there was Bian Que, which reduced Zhao Bing's casualties to a certain extent.

The suffering of this era is more than just a war? The epidemic has swept away, and it is normal for one city to two to three percent of the population to disappear.

Wu Xie said: "Of course, just as the poem says: Min Tian is powerful, Tian Du brings mourning; I starve, and the people go into exile. Originally, these were provided by the emperor of the Zhou family. One of his obligations. But after King Ping moved eastward, ritual and music expeditions came from the feudal lords, and the hegemons were thriving. So they helped the feudal lords. The responsibility of preventing epidemics and famines also fell on the lords. Duke Huan of Qi and Guanzi did an excellent job in those days. ."

"When Jin and Chu were fighting for balance, there was also a covenant in the first Song alliance, saying: "Everyone in Jin and Chu join forces with each other, like and dislike them, share disasters and prepare for disasters. In those few years, all the royal families , When the feudal lords have a famine, the feudal lord of Jin or the ruler will still summon the feudal feudal lords to jointly lose millet and go out to work to rescue.”

These covenants made at the first meeting of the Soldiers will still be valid at the second meeting of the Soldiers. Those forty years were a rare good era in the Central Plains. It is not a coincidence that Shuxiang, Ji Zha, Zichan, and Yan Ying came out in great numbers; Laozi, Confucius, Bian Que, Deng Xi and other pioneers of later generations also grew up in this era.

"But now the feudal lords have also lost their power, and the ritual and music expeditions are carried out by the ministers, which is rude. Among the six ministers of the Jin state, except for me, the Zhao clan, who still care about the state and foreign countries, the rest are willing to fight privately and lack justice. Therefore, there is no one to take care of the disaster and prepare for the rescue. Therefore, as Yan Zi and Uncle Xiang said to the doctor, it is really time for the season. This year, there is a plague, and many people have to work hard and die in a gully. There are countless people in the middle, and those who see it feel pity. Although I am a noble family and a doctor, the same is true.”

Zhao Wuxi said sincerity, and Bian Que also forgot his little unhappiness. He knew that Wuxi had the most novel ideas and ideas, so he asked anxiously: "The little gentleman thinks, what should we do to save this season? Let the people suffer less?"

If his arrival only brought misery to the times, Zhao Wuxi would not feel any difference between himself and those tyrants who had no history. Perhaps, in addition to selfishness, it is time to do something for this era?

In this era when idealists are creating civilizations, he, a man full of reality, has ideals from time to time, which is also an opportunity to change the world.

"The famine, disease and epidemic are suffering. This is the common concern of the ministers, masters, and scholars. Since the emperor, hegemons, and princes cannot take charge of the rescue, it is better... It is better for the scholars themselves to save! Just like the Master is now walking around the world~ www.wuxiahere.com ~ saving lives and wounds!"

Bian Que was a little discouraged, and he sighed: "As the little gentleman said before, I only have a few disciples to follow. Every time I go, I have to diagnose and treat local doctors and nobles first, in order to win their favor, and then do it to the people. Save ten people and hundreds of people, but can't save thousands of people..."

Zhao Wuxi leaned forward and patted the table with both hands.

"But what if the Master is the leader and calls for more like-minded scholars to join the lords? If it is like this time to rescue Qin Yi, and then to rescue Xuju, what about me, Zhao, who is behind it?"

Zhao Wuxi's words opened a new door for Bian Que, the old doctor's eyes began to light up, and he began to get excited!

"What if we could set up a medical organization that crossed the borders of states and countries, not involved in the war, but only to help the wounded and sick after the war, and walk the folks to extend medicine!?" (To be continued.)

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