Chapter 382: Many Things Happened During the Epidemic

In fact, Kong Ming's question to Zhang Zhongjing can be regarded as a kind of ridicule.

Now the fate of Dr. Zhang is completely different from what this younger generation said.

No need to live in Lingnan, Liu Bei has become the best shelter for this miraculous doctor to write books.

That is why Kong Ming also read the "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" and, with the consent of Zhang Zhongjing, selected some prescriptions with simple ingredients and obvious efficacy to promote them.

For example, this time when entering Guanzhong from Yongliang, in addition to Guizhi Decoction, the army also prepared Mahuang Decoction for treating cold without sweating, Chaihu Decoction for treating cold with wind and fever, Baihu Decoction for treating high fever, red face, sweating and heat, and Qinglong Decoction for relieving cold and heat with creek poison.

That is why, when the army regained the Three Qins, the number of people who died of illness in the army was only a few palms, which also made the morale stronger.

With medicine powder in arms, decoction in the army, and miraculous doctors in the rear, how lucky they are!

However, even with Kong Ming's joke, the others still looked at Zhang Zhongjing with an undisguised shock:

The saint is actually next to me?

The jumpy Ma Chao was silent for a while. He understood the value of doctors better than ordinary people when he was on the march and fighting, but he didn't expect that there would be such a god under Xuande!

And before Xuande came, this hero also lamented the name of Hua Tuo with Zhang Fei when he was drinking with him.

A generation of genius doctors was killed like this, how short-sighted is Cao? Really not as good as Xuande!

However, Zhang Fei next to him always looks at the problem from a unique perspective. After seeing the words "In 273, Jianye had a great epidemic, and 100,000 people died", he immediately lamented:

"Brother 100,000 died of the epidemic?"

The emotion was sincere and the voice was sad.

However, just one look at the winking expression on Zhang Fei's face, you know that he is making fun of his brother-in-law again.

Liu Bei rebuked helplessly, Ma Chao asked curiously, Jian Yong said without fear of trouble that it was still justified to attack Jiangdong like this?

The 100,000 rescue plan was a yes.

The clamor also made Zhang Zhongjing feel relieved. He didn't like others looking at him with eyes looking up at the tablets in the ancestral hall.

He was still alive.

The praise and affirmation of later generations was a great comfort to Zhang Zhongjing.

In comparison, Zhang Zhongjing was more worried about later generations more than a thousand years later:

"Seventy-five million people died of plague?"

This is a frightening number.

What was the maximum number of households in the Han Dynasty? Kong Ming had roughly calculated it when chatting with everyone.

In the third year of Yongshou during the reign of Emperor Xiaohuan, there were more than 10 million households and 56 million people in the country.

But at that time, there were countless people who depended on the powerful in the countryside, and there were many hidden households. If these followers, clansmen, guests, troops, slaves, etc. were counted, the total number should be more than 60 million people.

This is already a remarkable number, but the Black Death can kill the population of an empire, or even more?

Thinking about this number in their hearts, everyone gradually understood why Dr. Zhang was called a saint.

And Zhang Zhongjing's expression became unprecedentedly serious. He thought that he had paid enough attention to the epidemic with all his strength, but he didn't expect that the power of the epidemic was so terrible.

It lasted for 150 years, and nearly 10 million people died, and the survivors were so miserable.

So Zhang Zhongjing also wrote down a few words on the paper in front of him, and also wrote down the four words "transmission route".

The younger generation only wrote a few words, but for Zhang Zhongjing, who had been chasing epidemics for more than 20 years, it was no less than pointing out a direction for exploration.

This direction may still not allow him to completely defeat the epidemic, but at least it will be much better than the history of later generations.

A few less words in the history books means hundreds of thousands of people who survived.

For Zhang Zhongjing, he enjoyed it.

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In Ganlu Hall, Sun Simiao looked at the evaluation of Zhang Zhongjing on the light curtain and was amazed.

Then he turned around and saw the expectant eyes of His Majesty.

Now Sun Simiao knew the emperor's mind very well. To put it bluntly, it was just envy.

After all, the other side presented Guizhi Decoction to Li Shimin last time, and now he knows the great reputation in the future.

As a result, it is expected that the emperor's unwillingness to admit defeat came up again.

But Sun Simiao was not afraid of these, and simply left the emperor with a back head.

Taking out his own little notebook, Sun Simiao also wrote down the new words he saw and planned to go back and think about it carefully.

In comparison, he is not good at treating epidemics, but if the Tang Dynasty wants to conduct maritime politics, it will inevitably deal with barbarians. At that time, there may be foreign epidemics introduced into the Central Plains. If it is not prevented, it may be like the Black Death.

After all, their attitude of lying down and letting the disease die was really too scary.

Li Shimin felt a little sorry that he could not see the response from the King of Medicine, but he would not care about it. Instead, he paid attention to the results of the Black Death.

"It has shaken the rule of the Catholic Church..."

Thinking about the Arabs again, Li Shimin became curious about the system of distant countries from the bottom of his heart.

[There is a saying in modern times that the history of human civilization is also a history of fighting against epidemics.

But Cao Cao, who stood on the bow of the ship and looked at Ruxukou in the 22nd year of Jian'an, certainly could not realize this.

The gradual rise of the epidemic in the army had made Cao Cao want to retreat. Fortunately, Sun Quan sent a surrender letter, which made this battle a meritorious one, and he would not return without success like Sun Quan's attack on Hefei.

On the way back in a hurry, the epidemic finally began to show its fangs, with the successive deaths of Sima Lang and Wang Can.

In ancient times, epidemics were also interpreted as signs of heaven. Such a series of disasters also made Cao Cao, who was 62 years old, start to seriously consider his posthumous affairs.

The undecided succession was finally taken seriously by Cao Cao.

This year, Cao Pi still followed Jia Xu's advice, "working hard day and night, not violating the way of a son", and pretending to be sentimental.

This year, Cao Zhi was still as crazy as before. He drove drunk and opened the Sima Gate without authorization, breaking the law on the forbidden road.

Needless to say, the final result was that Cao Pi won and was made the crown prince.

Cao Zhi drove drunk and broke into the palace because he relied on his meritorious service. The public car order in charge of the palace gate was executed by Cao Cao. The dispute over the succession was eliminated and his political dream was shattered.

The year before the great epidemic, Cao Zhi's father-in-law Cui Yan was killed by Cao Cao.

In the year of the great epidemic, Cao Zhi's wife Cui was sentenced to death by Cao Cao because of her luxurious clothes.

Cao Zhi's two beloved daughters also died young. In grief, he wrote "Golden Gourd Lament" and "Traveling Girl Lament" to mourn his daughters.

Since this year, Cao Zhi, who "established eternal undertakings and made achievements worth gold and stone", disappeared.

Although his poems and essays were still gorgeous, they were not inspiring and were mostly frustrated and sad.

The victor Cao Pi attended the funerals of five literary friends in succession this year, witnessed the demise of the Seven Sages of Jian'an, and saw with his own eyes the tragic situation of the great plague raging in Yecheng.

Just like the young people who fled to the countryside to indulge in pleasure when the Black Death was raging in Europe, Cao Pi had the same change of mentality.

After ascending the throne, Cao Pi was proficient in games, pleasure, appetite, and banquets.

After ascending the throne, Cao Pi's words were also frivolous and lacked solemnity.

For example, when his subjects asked for a mausoleum to be built for him, Cao Pi, who was already the emperor, persuaded his subjects instead:

"From ancient times to the present, there has never been a country that has not perished, and there has never been a tomb that has not been dug up."

At the coronation ceremony, which was called abdication but was actually a usurpation of the throne, Cao Pi's words after he took the throne also frightened the subjects:

"I know about the affairs of Shun and Yu."

Thinking about the actions of the Sima family later, Sima Yi at that time should have remembered Cao Pi's words in his heart.

Cao Pi, who was not interested in being an emperor, also found a way to realize the meaning of his life in this precarious and chaotic world:

"Literature is a great cause for governing the country, and an immortal event"

With "Classics", Cao Pi, the emperor, realized his value as a writer.

After ascending the throne, he took advantage of his position as emperor to organize the compilation of "Huanglan", creating a precedent for the royal family to compile large-scale encyclopedias.

This book is the ancestor of ancient Chinese encyclopedias, much earlier than the Yongle Encyclopedia of the Ming Dynasty and the Sikuquanshu of the Qing Dynasty.

The hypocritical Cao Pi brought about the extravagant and hedonistic style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the aristocratic families were in a trend of competing with each other, enjoying themselves to the fullest, and finally came up with the Wei and Jin metaphysics, which was a thing of sitting and talking about nothing.

But on the other hand, the worry of not being able to stay alive every day also made Cao Pi shine in literature as an emperor, and thus left a strong and colorful mark in history, pushing literature to take two more steps in history.

The historical acceleration key pressed by the epidemic in the 22nd year of Jian'an eventually ended in a comedy. 】

"Not being able to stay alive every day, so you can only enjoy yourself to the fullest."

Du Ruhui sighed softly, feeling that he actually understood Emperor Wen of Wei a little.

After all, the later generations could only get a glimpse of the extravagance of the Wei and Jin Dynasties from the history books.

But for those who have experienced the Sui and Tang dynasties, the extravagant and empty talk of the Wei and Jin dynasties was something they had heard since childhood.

Now, following what the younger generation said, almost half of Cao Pi's brothers died young, and then he suffered a great epidemic, and almost none of his relatives and friends survived. It was natural that his temperament changed drastically.

However, Du Ruhui saw Li Shimin's bright eyes when he turned around.

Almost subconsciously, Du Ruhui said without thinking:

"It's feasible!"

Li Shimin's face was a little embarrassed:

"I haven't said anything yet."

Fang Xuanling interrupted directly, smiling:

"What else do you want?"

"It's just to imitate the predecessors and compile similar books to praise the Tang Dynasty."

"At the same time, it can also leave the style of our Tang Dynasty for future generations, of course it's feasible."