Raising chickens and pigs and digging for wild vegetables, the county magistrate's promotion wa

Chapter 863: Slice the lean meat from the heron's leg, and extract the fat from the mosquito

Perhaps because he was wearing a mask, Zhu Xiaowu's voice sounded a little muffled.

The "Tang Wen" chapter of the Liezi records that Bian Que treated Gong Hu and Qi Ying: He then made them drink poisoned wine, and they were unconscious for three days. He then cut open their chests, took their hearts, and replaced them with the medicine. He then gave them a divine medicine, and they regained their senses.

“I’m thinking that since Bian Que was able to make a poisonous wine that would make people unconscious for three days more than two thousand years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t make one more than two thousand years later.”

As Zhu Xiaowu spoke, he made a cut on the stick's belly with the scalpel.

"Later, I went to the old Taoist priests in the School of Chemical Engineering and we figured out together what was going on with this poisoned wine."

"Later, a Taoist priest remembered that Gu Gangzi said in the Yellow Emperor's Nine Cauldrons Divine Elixir Classic that refining stone gall extracts its essence and adds it to all medicines, making all medicines divine."

"So they mixed the spirits with green vitriol."

"Later, nearly a dozen short men died, and finally they produced the poisoned wine that Bian Que used."

"You don't even need to drink it. Just pour a little on a cloth, cover the patient's mouth and nose, and the patient will fall into a deep coma."

Zhu Xiaowu reached inside the stick and rummaged around for a few moments, picking out the cecum that had begun to rot. He then cut it off and instructed the student next to him, "Sew it back up with catgut."

"However, while poisoned wine is a good thing, the dosage is a big question. If the dosage is too large, it can easily cause a person to go from a state of suspended animation to real death without them realizing it."

Zhu Xiaowu gestured for Yang Shaofeng, Zhu Biao, and the others to follow him away.

After leaving the operating room, Zhu Xiaowu led a group of people to a room next door.

"Don't be fooled by the fact that there's not much in this room. The floor was specially hollowed out and kept warm with ice. It was specifically used to store smallpox vaccines."

Li Shanchang was taken aback and asked, "Smallpox?"

Zhu Xiaowu nodded and replied, "Smallpox."

"A couple of years ago, my brother-in-law and Physician Yang planned to use cowpox to prevent smallpox, but they couldn't find a place where smallpox broke out for a while, so the matter was dropped."

"This room was specifically used to store cowpox vaccines."

"Don't worry, we've already tested it on short people. After being vaccinated with cowpox, they will have a fever and symptoms similar to smallpox, but they won't die, and they won't be left with pockmarks all over their face."

Li Shanchang was completely bewildered.

I was wondering before that since they're researching medicine to treat tuberculosis, maybe their next step will be to treat smallpox.

So, the result was that preparations for preventing smallpox had been made?

"Why not implement it comprehensively..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Li Shanchang shook his head with a smile.

Smallpox is a major and malignant infectious disease.

Everyone is terrified just hearing about it.

However, if people are asked to get vaccinated against smallpox before a real outbreak occurs, they will probably be too scared to do so.

As the saying goes, treat others as you would treat yourself.

If someone came up to me and said that as long as I made a small cut on my arm and got vaccinated with cowpox, I would never get smallpox again, what would I think?

One concern is whether getting vaccinated against smallpox will have any negative effects.

Secondly, there was a concern that the fever and smallpox symptoms might not be controlled, potentially leading to infection instead of vaccination.

The only way to fully implement cowpox vaccination without an outbreak of smallpox is to first raise the vaccination threshold.

Just as Li Shanchang was pondering this, Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Xiaowu and asked, "Are you sure this thing is safe?"

Zhu Xiaowu nodded, and Zhu Biao then directly instructed Zhu Xiaowu: "Get ready, vaccinate me first, then brother-in-law."

"Once our symptoms subside, we'll arrange for the female physician to administer the injections to Sister Jin'er and Sister Yu'er."

"Next are the father and mother."

"Then came the second, third, and fourth sons."

"Next up are Prime Minister Li, Duke of Wei, Duke of E, and others. From Duke to Marquis, and then to the first, second, and third ranks in the court, all the way up to the fifth rank."

Zhu Xiaowu nodded in agreement, and Zhu Biao then turned his gaze to the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites: "Later, the Ministry of Rites should issue an article focusing on how my brother-in-law, Imperial Physician Yang, and Xiaowu managed to get smallpox vaccines. Although they can prevent smallpox, there is a shortage of smallpox vaccines."

"Remember to make it clear in the article that smallpox vaccine is in short supply. The imperial court is making plans to promote its use, but it is still hard to say when all the people will be able to get vaccinated."

"The main idea is that the royal family takes priority, followed by the nobles and officials in the court, then the military, and finally the common people."

The Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites bowed in agreement. Zhu Biao then looked at Zhu Xiaowu again and said, "Xiaowu, I'm entrusting this matter to you. Train more doctors who know about seedlings, and then send them out to plant seedlings for the people."

Ok?

Li Shanchang and Yang Shaofeng both looked at Zhu Biao with blank expressions.

Do you, Black Sesame Dumpling, think you've got everything planned out perfectly?

Yang Shaofeng simply pursed his lips and said, "There's no need to rush the seedling issue."

Li Shanchang stroked his beard and said, "The smallpox vaccine is in short supply, but we can always get three or five doses out."

"It just so happens that our Great Ming has a large population, with neither a shortage of the wealthy nor a shortage of those who are afraid of death."

"In my opinion, it would be better to wait until the article is published, then let some smallpox spores flow out and inoculate those gentry first."

"One dose of smallpox vaccine costs them 100 strings of cash. That's not much, is it?"

"How can we just give up millions of gentry and millions of dollars?"

Yang Shaofeng glanced at Li Shanchang and said sarcastically, "Li Xiang's land and shops are probably all managed by his aunt, right?"

Li Shanchang was slightly taken aback, thinking, "If it's not your aunt taking care of it, do you expect me to take care of it myself?"

Damn it, if this were a few years ago, I might have personally intervened and asked a few questions.

But you, Yang the Madman, don't you think about it? With all those memorials you wrote and all the mess you stirred up, I can't even get a good night's sleep. Where do I have the time to care about the land and the shops?

Li Shanchang's eyes were unfriendly, but Yang Shaofeng seemed oblivious and continued to complain: "I guessed it long ago, because if Prime Minister Li were to personally manage those lands and shops, even the largest Han State government would not be enough for him to squander."

WTF?

Li Shanchang glared at Yang Shaofeng and shouted, "You say I'm a spendthrift?"

Yang Shaofeng raised his voice and retorted, "Isn't that right?"

"Smallpox vaccine, a vaccine that can prevent smallpox, and Prime Minister Li actually sold it for 100 strings of cash per dose?"

"Shouldn't it be sold in batches?"

"At first, a hundred or eighty doses were released, and the price was set at ten thousand strings of cash."

"If another thousand or eight hundred doses are released, they will be priced at a thousand strings of cash."

"Then it's one hundred strings of cash per dose."

"It can even be ten strings of cash per dose."

"When the price reaches ten strings of cash per dose, we will sell another batch to the market at fifty strings of cash per dose."

"Finally, we'll use this money to plant seedlings for the people for free."

"Isn't it much better for the court to gain fame and for the people to benefit than to make millions of dollars in a single transaction?"

As Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, Zhu Biao and Li Shanchang were both stunned.

what is this?

Quails search for peas in their crops, herons pluck lean meat from their legs, and mosquitoes carve out fat from their bellies.