Chapter 1278 Please die to bury the late emperor
It is precisely this brand-new medical system that has been established in the past 20 years since the beginning of Zhenguan. Although epidemics have often occurred in these years, there are very few cases of large-scale spread, and they are generally quickly controlled within the state, or even It is controlled within one county and one township.
This time, the epidemic occurred in 13 states, but not in 13 contiguous states, but in 13 unconnected states. This shows that although the epidemic is spreading rapidly, it has not lost control.
Now as long as the rapid blockade and isolation, and then mobilize medical staff and medicinal materials to rush to the epidemic, it can still be controlled.
However, what Qin Lang was worried about was that at the beginning of the new emperor's accession to the throne, when such a large-scale epidemic broke out at this time, there would often be some unexpected troubles in public opinion.
It is inevitable that someone will take this opportunity to make a fuss about it.
Great epidemics are often connected with major disasters. This year's thirteen prefectures' epidemics are also related to this. Floods have occurred in many epidemic places.
Floods brought steamed bone disease.
Fortunately, since Zhenguan, the imperial court has done a good job of preventing floods, droughts and locust disasters, dredging rivers, and reinforcing dikes, and they have been doing it every year, and they have done a good job.
For example, the Yellow River and Huaihe River, which were often hit by disasters in the past, rarely have such major floods now, and the Jingjiang River (the Hubei section of the Yangtze River), which has been flooded for nine years in the past ten years, has also been dredged again after the court spent ten years. It not only solved the problem of flooding, but also turned the swampy and silted areas on both sides of Jingzhou into ten thousand hectares of fertile land, a land of fish and rice, and turned the Jingjiang area into a big granary.
However, due to time constraints, some places will still inevitably be flooded when encountering some floods that occur once in decades.
There is no way to completely avoid these.
For example, the most important cause of the great epidemic in Qingzhou this time was the floods in Lu, Yue, Xu, Jiao, Yu and other prefectures. Among them, Lu and Yu are both in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, located in the north of Qingzhou, and the distance is not too far .
Qingzhou is located on the edge of an important communication line in central Guizhou opened up by the imperial court. It is in the south of Dongning Governor's Mansion. It belongs to a mountainous area and is mostly populated by barbarians. More remote and backward in development.
Whether it is the county medical college or the county hospital, there are few doctors, few medicinal materials, and even medical skills are relatively backward. When major floods occurred in Lu and Chongqing, the central Guizhou area actually generally experienced heavy rain, mountain torrents, and waterlogging.
It's just that other states took timely measures to prevent and control the disease, but the steamed bone disease broke out in Qingzhou, which was weak, and failed to detect and report it for disposal in the first place, which delayed the best time for epidemic prevention and caused the disease to spread rapidly in the state.
The imperial court's treatment plan for the epidemic is still the sixteen-character policy formulated by Qin Lang when he was in charge of pox prevention, early detection, early reporting, early isolation, and early treatment.
Now that the situation is out of control, report to the court.
Qin Lang could only quickly block and isolate, dispatching medical staff, dispatching medicinal materials, and so on.
Thinking of this, Qin Lang couldn't fall asleep, so he got up again, turned on the oil lamp, and wrote some content with a pen. The main purpose is to order Yousi to strengthen isolation and establish isolation camps. At the same time, for the people who have died of the epidemic, their bodies must be forcibly burned, and then the government will pay for the provision of coffins and other burials as soon as possible.
On the other hand, all the medicines for epidemic prevention are free, and the government pulls out money, and the people are not allowed to pay.
On the other hand, for the affected areas, tax reduction and exemption.
For families who unfortunately encountered the epidemic, some money and food assistance should be given. For those who are lonely, elderly and children who have no one to support them, the government should help first.
Neither the epidemic can be allowed to spread, but more importantly, the people in the affected areas must be resettled, and the society must be stable. The epidemic cannot be prevented, but civil chaos will arise.
Floods occurred in many places in summer, and most of the current epidemics are caused by this, but we must prevent locust plagues in autumn after the floods.
Qin Lang took a pen to record all the questions that came to his mind.
A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. Write it down and bring it to the political affairs hall tomorrow to discuss countermeasures.
After finishing these, Qin Lang lay down to sleep again.
I admire Li Shimin very much in my heart. I have been emperor for more than 20 years, and I guess there is no time when I can really relax.
Regarding the Southwest barbarian rebellion, Qin Lang plans to propose at the political affairs hall tomorrow to suspend the task of logging and building ships in the Southwest, and send people to appease the barbarians.
For the barbarians who are willing to accept appeasement, the court can be magnanimous and let the past go. But if there are those who are ignorant of current affairs, dare to continue to make trouble, and even want to take the opportunity to become bigger, they must spare no effort to attack them.
Li Shimin had just died. At this time, the barbarians in the Southwest were making troubles, maybe they were only using shipbuilding to create troubles, and they might still be secretly opposing the imperial court's reform of the land and returning to the country, just wanting to take the opportunity to make trouble.
The Southwest’s policy of land reform and return to natives cannot be changed, so it must be severely suppressed.
This winter, we have to clean up and repair the rivers in various places as soon as possible. The floods in summer must have damaged many rivers. We must repair them quickly while the winter is dry, otherwise the flood season will come after next spring, and it will be out of control.
Thinking about various things in my mind, I gradually fell asleep.
When I woke up again, it was already daylight.
As soon as Qin Lang got up, the officials who heard the movement outside rushed in to serve him.
"It's so late, why didn't you wake me up earlier?"
"The Grand Master has worked very hard these past few days, and his subordinates were reluctant to wake him up, so they decided to let the Grand Master sleep for a while."
Qin Lang said politely, "It's a very difficult time, and there's nothing I can do about it."
The official said, "I'm going to get some snacks for the Grand Master. What does the Grand Master want to eat?"
"I'll wash up and go to the cafeteria. You can go to work too. I've worked hard for you these days."
In the small cafeteria of the Zhengshitang, the dining room is not small. Now the Zhengshitang has become a big yamen, a permanent institution, belonging to the highest central yamen in the Tang Dynasty, with five rooms under its jurisdiction, and each room has many officials. The yamen is located in Zhongshu Neiping, so in fact the small canteen is shared by the two yamen.
I ordered a bowl of millet porridge, a plate of cold kelp shreds, and a bowl of mutton soup. This breakfast is quite rich.
When Laiji and Laiheng saw him coming, they also brought their own snacks and sat down together.
Laiji is now a scholar of Hanlin and a scholar of Chongxianguan from Zhongshu Sheren, and is one of the history editors of the National History Museum.
Laiheng is a dignified post-official official and the cardinal of the fifth house.
"Just now the sage sent middle-ranking officials to announce the decree, granting the grand masters, grand tutors, and grand protectors the right to worship without being named, to enter the court without going, to walk on the sword in the palace, and to sit and discuss state affairs."
The brothers congratulate Qin Lang.
But Qin Lang was not very happy.
During the time of Li Shimin, Qin Lang had the privilege of not being famous in praise, and not going to the court. In fact, this is only a kind of honor, not any real power.
The feudal society has developed to the present day, and the king in front of the palace must not carry a sword, wear shoes, or walk slowly.
Qin Lang, Changsun Wuji, and Li Ji were appointed by the imperial edict to assist the ministers of government and life, and they won the positions of the three masters. What they are given now is just to match the three masters.
After all, the three masters and three masters, the teacher of the Son of Heaven, sit and discuss with you. Although this ministry itself does not have any real power, it is, after all, a supreme ministry of the highest rank.
The new king will of course need the full support and assistance of these three Gu Ming ministers.
Chengqian expressed his respect for the elders, which is also what should be done.
"Is everyone's mood stable recently?" Qin Lang asked about other things.
"Everyone is deeply saddened by the sudden death of the late emperor, and they all support the crown prince's succession." Lai Ji said.
Lai Heng said, "Early this morning, five county kings, She'er, Sili, Heli, Simo, and Guozhong, cut their faces with knives and cut off their hair in front of the Luoyang Palace. Die and bury the late emperor!"
"So loyal!"
Qin Lang only raised his eyebrows when he heard this. These five Turkic and Tie Le nobles were originally either secret agents or small khans, and some even served as khans for a short time. But after they belonged to the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin treated them kindly. He bestowed the surname of Li on the Tang Dynasty, conferred the title of prince of the county, conferred the title of general, and married the eldest princess.
Who can meet this kind of treatment?
In Datang, Li Shimin trusted them extremely, and even trusted and reused them more than Da Khan when he was in Turkic.
Although Qin Lang did not rule out that these five people were acting as a show, based on the traditional customs of the Turkic people and Li Shimin's kindness to them, these people have feelings for Li Shimin, and it is very likely that they want to be buried from the bottom of their hearts.
Just like in the Taishan Palace before, many Turkic, Tieler, Dangxiang and other generals of the Hu nationality in the forbidden army cried and howled and even shaved their hair and cut their faces when they heard that the emperor had passed away.
"How about now?"
"Teacher Changsun personally went to the gate of the palace to persuade the five county kings to follow the last emperor's edict to support the new emperor and guard the Tang Dynasty."
After some persuasion by Changsun Wuji, the five prince consorts of the Hu nationality finally agreed to stay in this useful body and continue to shine for the Tang Dynasty.
Later, when the new emperor Chengqian heard about it, he specially sent someone to summon them to the palace to meet and reward them for their loyalty.
Qin Lang has a good relationship with those five county kings, especially Qin Guozhong is Qin Lang's sworn brother, and Sheer is Qin Guozhong's half-brother. Qin Lang is also reluctant to let these few commit suicide and be buried like this.
Although the generals of the Hu tribe were actually subject to some restrictions in the court, but because of their status as generals of the Hu tribe, some places were even more trusted by the royal family.
At this time when the new emperor succeeded to the throne, these county kings of the Hu nationality actually had a good appeasement effect on the Hu people who belonged to the Anwen Kingdom, and even the Jimi Hu tribe in the Western Regions of Mobei. A better link of communication.
Eating the delicious breakfast in the canteen of Zhengshitang, Qin Lang also learned about the emotional dynamics of the middle and low-level officials in various yamen through Laiji brothers.
Basically, I mourn Li Shimin's sudden death, and I have no opinion on the crown prince's succession. I take it for granted, and no one has other ideas.
During the national mourning period, the court in Luoyang was still very stable.
As for the team headed by Qin Lang and Changsun Wuji in the court, the officials are also more supportive, after all, the prestige and achievements of the two are also placed there.
Regarding the future of the new dynasty, there is a mentality in the middle and upper levels of the court that everyone is doing well, and the future can be expected.
(end of this chapter)