Chapter 526: First and Last

"Your Highness, Your Highness..."

While Zhao Xu was thinking, Liu Fu, Zhu Tuo and other government officials hurried into the study.

When Xu Ke saw them, he looked as if the sky was about to fall.

When they asked, he told them about the cruel plan that Bei Di might carry out.

The government officials were immediately chilled from head to toe and immediately ran to see King Yan.

"Does Your Highness really have a solution?" Liu Fu looked at Zhao Xu.

It's not that he didn't believe King Yan, but Bei Di's plan was too vicious.

In their opinion, this thing is much more terrible than Bei Di.

If Bei Di spreads plague to Yanzhou all year round, how can they deal with it.

If Yanzhou falls, Qizhou will be next, and then smallpox will spread in Dasong.

He discussed a lot with the government officials along the way, but there was no solution.

Fortunately, Xu Ke said that King Yan had a way.

But he was afraid that King Yan was comforting them.

"There is a way, but we need to find some sick cows." The matter was urgent, so Zhao Xu didn't keep them in suspense.

Then, he explained the cowpox vaccination method and the characteristics of cows with cowpox.

"Cowpox? There is such a magical method to prevent smallpox in the world?" Liu Fu was amazed.

Other officials also praised.

The look they gave Zhao Xu was more and more different from before.

At this moment, they had only one thought in their minds, that the King of Yan was too powerful, he was simply omniscient and omnipotent.

If this cowpox vaccination can really prevent smallpox.

This will not only thwart the conspiracy of Beidi, but also be a blessing for the people of Dasong.

"I will notify all officials in Yanzhou and ask them to go to the countryside and order the officials to check every cow in the official village." Liu Fu responded with a yes and led the officials away quickly.

According to the King of Yan, cowpox is a plague in cattle, which is caused by the smallpox virus of cattle.

Sick cows will have ulcers near the **, like a pus-filled pox, so it is called cowpox.

Since this smallpox is of the same species but less toxic, people who get it will only have a mild reaction.

As he walked, Liu Fu recalled the story told by the King of Yan and could not help but admire his erudition.

Other officials were also shocked. In the future, they would work harder in the government academy to catch up with the King of Yan.

Even if they could learn one tenth of it, they would die without regrets.

Liu Fu and others left.

Zhao Xu walked out of the study and immediately asked Feng'er to summon the medical officers of Yan County.

Although he provided a solution, the specific work had to be done by the medical officers.

At the same time, he was also planning a counterattack against the Northern Di.

Once the rifled guns were fully equipped, he would definitely hit the Northern Di hard and drive them out of Ningjindusi.

So that they could not threaten Yanzhou and stir up trouble at the Yanguan line.

After all, this time it was smallpox, and we didn't know what the Northern Di would do next time.

Therefore, it was very necessary to use Ningjindusi as a buffer zone in the war.

One stick of incense time.

Hu Yan brought 15 apprentices over, and Shi Zhengui also came.

Shi Zhengui was not a medical officer. When he saw Zhao Xu, he explained: "Your Highness summoned the medical officers, it seems that there is an urgent matter. I am a little knowledgeable in medicine and I am willing to serve you."

"I am afraid that Shi Yuyi is not being used for a good job." As soon as Shi Zhengui said this, Hu Yan suddenly looked sarcastic.

After the King of Yan arranged Shi Zhengui to his clinic, Shi Zhengui would watch him treat patients when he had nothing to do.

It would be fine if he treated patients, but he would interrupt from time to time, saying that he was wrong in this and that.

But what he said made sense, so patients came to him for treatment one after another, and he became an assistant, which made him very angry.

If it weren't for the order from the King of Yan, he would have kicked him out of the clinic long ago.

"Human life is at stake, so doctors must be careful and cautious." Shi Zhengui responded tit for tat.

He was sent to Yanzhou because he was not popular in the Imperial Hospital.

He was serious about everything, and he was also an excellent doctor, which made people jealous.

But despite this, he still did not change his style of doing things.

In Hu Yan's eyes, he was a little arrogant.

Zhao Xu looked at the two of them.

People in the same profession are enemies, not to mention that this foreign monk is better at chanting sutras, so it is normal for Hu Yan to be dissatisfied.

But now, he is not in the mood to pay attention to the conflict between the two.

"At present, Yanzhou is facing a huge crisis. This king needs your help. Let's put aside the grudge between the two of you for the time being." Zhao Xu said.

Then, he told the two of them about Beidi's plan to use smallpox to poison.

Hu Yan and Shi Zhengui were both surprised when they heard this.

"I didn't expect Beidi to be so vicious." Shi Zhengui's palms suddenly broke out with a layer of fine sweat.

He said: "Your Highness, if this is the case, you must be ruthless. Once a soldier comes into contact with smallpox, he must be isolated immediately, or even killed directly, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous."

Hu Yan no longer had the mood to fight with Shi Zhengui at this time.

As a medical officer of Yan County, how could he not understand the horror of smallpox.

"Your Highness, Imperial Physician Shi is right. We must be ruthless in dealing with this matter, otherwise Yanzhou will be finished." Hu Yan cupped his hands, with a satisfied and pleading look in his eyes.

Zhao Xu was speechless. Before he finished speaking, the two of them interrupted him.

So he told them about the cowpox.

"There is a solution, but I need you to be responsible for the vaccination." Zhao Xu said lightly, "As for how to vaccinate, I will teach you."

If Liu Fu and his men can successfully find a cow with cowpox, Zhao Xu will try his best to vaccinate the soldiers of the royal palace.

Although the cowpox method is effective, a cruel fact is that the cowpox provided by a sick cow can only vaccinate a limited number of people.

Therefore, he must use precious resources on the tip of the knife.

At present, the soldiers of the royal palace are the line of defense against the Northern Di.

As long as this line of defense is not a problem, Yanzhou will not have any problems.

As for officials and civilians, they can only be ranked behind the royal palace soldiers.

If there is extra cowpox, they can be provided to them.

In modern times, in order to prevent his army from being affected by smallpox and reducing its personnel, Napoleon vaccinated his soldiers with cowpox, and the number of soldiers vaccinated even reached half of the number of soldiers.

He also had this idea.

"Yes... Your Highness..." It took Hu Yan and Shi Zhengui a while to recover from the cowpox method mentioned by the King of Yan.

Compared with Liu Fu, they only admired Zhao Xu's erudition.

Hu Yan and Shi Zhengui looked up to the King of Yan at this moment as if they were looking up to a god.

Especially Hu Yan, the King of Yan created the secret medicine of the royal palace.

Now he has proposed such a shocking medical theory.

He was simply impressed.

Shi Zhengui was shocked and a little bit unconvinced, but he didn't say anything, just wanted to see it for himself.

After explaining the two, Zhao Xu asked them to go back first, and at the same time summoned more doctors and apprentices to participate in this matter.

One day later.

The government sent the first cow with cowpox.

Zhao Xu called Hu Yan and Shi Zhengui over hastily.