System, help me become the empress

Chapter 161 Preparing Supplies
Ruan Yuzuo had only seen Vibrio cholerae in books before, so he never expected to encounter a real case in reality so soon.

"Since cholera is a bacterium, antibiotic treatment is theoretically effective."

Xu Youxi replied: "Indeed. But in addition to antibiotic treatment, cholera is most likely to cause severe vomiting and diarrhea in the infected person, and the final cause of death is mostly dehydration."

"Then injecting some salt water into the infected person through the blood, will it improve the dehydration condition?"

Xu Youxi and Ruan Yuzuo asked and answered tacitly, but Bao Changnian and Meng Zhiqian, who were watching, were completely speechless.

"The most important thing at this time is absolutely not to allow cholera to continue to spread. Is there anything else we can use for disinfection besides alcohol?" Xu Youxi continued to ask.

"There are also some chlorine-containing disinfectants, including bleaching powder and disinfectant water. But the book says that Vibrio cholerae seems not to be sensitive to alcohol. If you want to thoroughly disinfect water sources and the environment, you still have to choose chlorine-containing disinfectants."

After Xu Youxi quickly sorted out the thoughts in his mind, he began to assign tasks to several people in turn.

"How about this, Ruan Yuzuo. You will form a team and transfer half of the students from the New Medical Pavilion to the Beiyuan City overnight to investigate whether there is Vibrio cholerae in the local environment. At the same time, the Tai Hospital will send out people with experience in plague prevention and control. The imperial physician will accompany you."

"After arriving in Beiyuan City, all suspected infected patients should be admitted and treated first. The family members of these patients must also be separated from normal people. All doctors who come into contact with patients should wear gloves and wash their hands frequently."

"Meng Shangshu, you also urgently mobilized a group of soldiers to blockade several cities near Beiyuan City. If someone really needs to go out of the city due to special circumstances, he must be accompanied by a doctor during the whole process. At other times, follow Ruan Yuzuo's deployment."

"The minister obeys the order."

Meng Zhiqian firmly remembered the task.

"The people left behind in the new medical pavilion, except for those who have urgent tasks, all of them are engaged in the production of chlorine-containing disinfectants. When the disinfectants are manufactured here, Shangjing will arrange for someone to send them to you."

Ruan Yuzuo hurriedly said: "Yes, Your Majesty, if these patients need infusions, there are only dozens of infusion sets made in advance by the Xinyi Pavilion, and we will have to ask the Shengong Bureau for help later."

"Okay, Meng Shangshu, you are responsible for conveying this matter to Wen Deyi."

"Yes."

"Lord Bao, you are in charge of the officials in other regions. Once you find a patient with such symptoms in the local area, you should immediately report it to the attention, have a separate room, and arrange for a doctor to treat it. Also, you must find it as soon as possible. Leave from Beiyuan City within a month. For the common people, the local government is required to provide these people with separate isolated accommodation, to provide meals and clean water normally, and to observe for at least seven days to see if they show symptoms of exhaustion.”

"The minister obeys the order."

For a long time, Bao couldn't care about his son anymore, and his mind was completely occupied by cholera.

"Beiyuan City is not far from Shangjing. Ordinary people can walk in four or five days. Riding a horse will be faster. But cholera is very contagious, and I have never had experience in treating this disease. If unfortunately infected, It must be close to death. The task of rushing into the battle is left to the new medical pavilion, but it is up to the two adults to pay more attention to guarding the house."

"The minister obeys the order."

"The minister obeys the order."

"From tomorrow onwards, the morning court will be suspended until the cholera is completely under control. Mr. Bao, arrange the court officials and manage the various areas well. Once Ruan Wuzuo and they express that they need any supplies, you must prepare them as soon as possible with the court officials. "

Just after Xu Youxi finished speaking and suspended the morning court, the others were all hesitant to speak.

"I will not go to Beiyuan City for the time being. If the situation is still out of control after a month, I will go there again."

"..."

Ruan Yuzuo suddenly felt a heavy burden on himself. If he couldn't resist this, His Majesty would be in danger again?
"Your Majesty, no matter whether the cholera is under control or not, you can't put yourself in danger." Meng Zhiqian said without hesitation, "If something happens to you, you will definitely mess up!"

"Okay, then I will choose an heir before I go."

Although there is no specific medicine for cholera in the system, there are many ways to extend life. Even if Xu Youxi is really infected and cannot be cured, relying on these special skills, it is not a big problem to live for one or twenty years.

"?"

Meng Zhiqian's expression became more and more ugly.

Who will inherit?

The Supreme Emperor, the Supreme Emperor, or the Empress Dowager?

"Ruan Yuzuo, go back and mobilize the manpower first. You are only responsible for preparing medicines and disinfectants for the new medical pavilion. I will bring you daily necessities, gloves and the like."

"After two and a half hours, let's set off together."

After Xu Youxi finished speaking, she ignored the rest of the people and went to the palace to change into plain clothes on her own.

Zhou Yuxue, who followed closely behind Xu Youxi, did not forget to remind: "Your Majesty, you haven't had dinner yet."

"Don't eat, I'm not hungry."

After Xu Youxi tidied up her clothes, she began to walk outside the palace. Du Zhiyi was basically in charge of the several warehouses where supplies were stored, and he had to be called along.

Xu Youxi first went to the Shengong Bureau to requisition five steam trucks specially used to transport goods.

Because it was already dark, there were basically no pedestrians walking on the road.

"Your Majesty." Du Zhiyi was still wearing casual clothes, and hurriedly called over after hearing the news, and hurriedly asked when he saw Xu Youxi, "What happened?"

"Do you still remember the group of refugees in Beiyuan City? Those people may have some infectious diseases. Many people in Beiyuan City were infected. I arranged for Xinyi Pavilion and Taiyuan Hospital to send people to Beiyuan City overnight to take charge of the control the epidemic."

"Why is it a plague again?"

"This time the epidemic is highly likely to be transmitted through water sources. The symptoms are severe vomiting and diarrhea. It has already caused the death of three people. The Xinyi Pavilion and Tai Hospital will gather and rush to Beiyuan City in two and a half hours. Our task is to prepare as many living supplies as possible for them."

"Master, just stop here for a while." Xu Youxi waited for the steam car to stop, and when he got off, he could see the plaque of Shenji Camp, "Teng Xuesheng, Teng Xuesheng."

Teng Xuesheng was at the training ground. Hearing this familiar shout, he quickly dropped everything he was doing and ran over.

Didn't His Majesty leave in the afternoon?Why did you come back after only a few hours? !

"Your Majesty, here is my minister."

"Choose sixty strong and strong ones, and carry things with me." Xu Youxi strode forward, speaking hurriedly, "Mrs. Give me some of the candies stored in Jiying first."

"Yes."

Xu Youxi said as he walked, "And your temporary camp looks pretty good, prepare twenty for me first."

Du Zhiyi followed Xu Youxi, and kept looking around: "I see that these cloth bags and ropes are pretty good, they can hold a lot of luggage, and there are also those temporary pot stands. If you go to a place where there is no one in the wild, Our people can be used to cook."

"Yes, very good." Xu Youxi nodded immediately, "Teng Xuesheng, prepare some more cloth bags and ropes for me, as well as pot stands and so on, and take them away together."

"Yes Yes Yes."

Teng Xuesheng was confused, Your Majesty, did this come to the Shenji Camp in the middle of the night to rob?

Until Xu Youxi and the two left, Teng Xuesheng looked at the empty shelves and still wondered if he was dreaming.

"Beiyuan City is so close to the capital, so there is no need to prepare so much dry food. I can arrange people to transport food for them at any time later." Xu Youxi watched the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion working hard to carry the supplies to the car, and at the same time Du Zhiyi exchanged words "Besides, we haven't determined the severity of the epidemic yet. Maybe it can be brought under control in about ten days?"

"It's because I didn't think carefully." Du Zhiyi immediately realized, "Your Majesty, where should we go next?"

"The warehouse of the strange goods store."

Xu Youxi thought for a while: "Bring more soap and so on, as well as masks, gloves, and matches."

"You can also bring some rubber raincoats. It's almost summer and it will rain more. It will definitely be inconvenient to open an umbrella." Du Zhizhi nodded, "There is also toilet paper."

"By the way, Your Majesty, there are still a lot of ironware such as shovels in stock in the warehouse that collects the miscellaneous tax over the years. These things must also be brought, but any plague will definitely involve local burial, and it will definitely come in handy!"

"The watering can will also be used to spray the disinfectant at that time. There should be a reserve of watering cans in the warehouse." Xu Youxi followed up and asked.

"some."

The two didn't move too many things in the odd goods store, they just emptied out some basic daily necessities.

Leaving from the strange goods shop, the three large steam cars were almost loaded. After Xu Youxi and Du Zhiyi both got on the car, the master drove to the nearby warehouse where the miscellaneous goods were stored.

Du Zhiyi was originally in charge here, and he was very familiar with the layout, including the guards who guarded the gate, and he could name them one by one.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion also got out of the car one after another, followed behind Du Zhiyi, and listened to his instructions: "Come and move things, bring more quilts, pillows, and clothes..."

After all the things in the warehouse were moved, the carts loaded with supplies couldn't hold them anymore: "Who is the captain of the Shenji Battalion? Take your people back to the camp on foot. You've worked hard today."

Xu Youxi evacuated the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion on the spot, mainly because these cars couldn't hold more people.

Now food, clothing and housing, these three things must be enough.

Du Zhiyi suddenly remembered something and asked, "Your Majesty, do we still have to stockpile some medicinal materials for them?"

"The medicinal materials are prepared by the imperial physicians of the imperial hospital. The place where we live is a tent, and there must be only a lot of bedding and clothes." Xu Youxi counted carefully, "Are we sure we have a lot of clothes? When we get there, it is best to let them The local people collected all the old clothes to soak and disinfect, and asked them to wear the clean clothes we brought."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, there are absolutely enough clothes." Du Zhiyi assured.

"Well. Food, dry food, candy, and instant noodles... I will store some live poultry at that time, but try not to bring these into the city. Let Meng Zhiqian's army be in charge of cooking, and send them to Beiyuan City after they are cooked. .”

"By the way, there is also salt." Xu Youxi remembered that these patients were all vomiting and diarrhea patients, and the effect of drinking light salt water must be much better than ordinary water. "Where is there salt in Shangjing?"

"I have to find a salt merchant." Du Zhiyi thought about it for a while, "There should be salt reserves in the palace."

Xu Youxi discussed in a tone of voice: "Then let's move some things to the palace?"

"Your Majesty is wise."

"..."

Xu Youxi took Du Zhiyi to sweep around the various places in the capital, until finally the two of them prepared much more supplies than the accompanying army sent by Meng Zhiqian.

"Ruan Yuzuo, there is a list of supplies on this piece of paper. If there is anything missing there, you can tell the person in charge at any time, and Shangjing will prepare it for you." Xu Youxi handed the paper full of writing to Ruan. Wu Zuo, "Look at what is still missing, and I will get it for you."

Ruan Yuzuo didn't expect His Majesty to attach so much importance to it, and there are all the items on the paper: "Thank Your Majesty for your concern, these items are enough."

Xu Youxi took Ruan Yuzuo to the side, and told him alone: ​​"This trip to Beiyuan City, if Vibrio cholerae is not detected and it is just ordinary gastroenteritis, then everyone will be happy. But once you find cholera in the specimens Vibrio, you must inform Shangjing immediately, and I will ask all nearby cities and counties to take the highest level of protection to prevent large-scale infection."

"Yes. Don't worry, Your Majesty, this matter will be done cautiously and cautiously."

……

The moon hung high on the branches, and there were a few gusts of neither cold nor hot wind blowing from time to time.

Xu Youxi sent away two groups of people in one go today, and was indeed exhausted. After returning to the palace to wash, he fell asleep without even eating.

The next morning, the Compassion Palace.

"I heard that You Xi came back late at night last night. Is it so difficult to be the emperor now? When you were the emperor, you never saw such a hard work!"

Xie Xixi said with a worried face.

"..." Emperor Chongjiu was burying his head in eating, "Maybe it will be fine after a while."

"is it?"

Xie Xixi ate absent-mindedly.

Emperor Chongjiu kept picking up the vegetables, but after taking several mouthfuls in succession, he always felt that something was wrong: "Xixi, do you think this dish is very bland, is there no salt added?"

"Really? We're getting older, it's good for our health to eat something light."

Xie Xixi casually agreed, but she lost her appetite completely.

"Oh."

……

lunch.

Emperor Chongjiu didn't have enough for breakfast, so he managed to get through this meal.

"Why is it still so bland? Where's the imperial chef? Did they add salt or not!"

The little eunuch at the door was so frightened that he knelt down: "The emperor calm down, these two meals are indeed less salty."

"What about the salt?!"

"Your Majesty wants to support Beiyuan City. Yesterday, last night, he packed away all the salt in the imperial dining room. Also, there are still a few salt merchants who have run out of stock, and now they can only make do with it. "

Emperor Chongjiu sighed: "How can you eat this dish without salt! It's okay for you to starve me to death. What will I do if I'm so hungry!"

Xie Xixi, who had no appetite, didn't care about these details at all.

"I'm not hungry, just in time to lose weight."

"..."

Emperor Chongjiu wanted to cry, but he gritted his teeth and continued to taste the bland meal.

He swore he would only endure this last meal!
(End of this chapter)