"Yide, what the lord is considering is not only to help these people collect their corpses, but also to prevent the plague that may be born because of these corpses.”
Seeing that Zhang Fei was still muttering, Xia Cheng interrupted in a muffled voice.
He had specially wrapped some charcoal particles in cloth, then folded the two corners of the upper end and wrapped it with a layer of silk cloth to make a simple mask to cover his mouth and nose.
Not to mention whether it would work or not, at least he could feel more at ease.
It was still fine to prevent the plague at this time, but if he accidentally contracted it, he would die.
Xia Cheng didn't dare to gamble on this matter.
" Plague?!" Zhang Fei was stunned.
Even someone as thick-skinned as him would have a change of expression when he heard this word.
Anyone who had read Romance of the Three Kingdoms might know many stories related to the Three Kingdoms period of the Later Han Dynasty, but they might not know that in these decades, there had been continuous natural disasters, man-made disasters, wars, and wars.
It was like a running account. The number of deaths caused was simply impossible to calculate.
Especially in the Central Plains, where wars were raging, the epidemic was even more ferocious.
From the first month of the first year of Jianning (Year 168) when the Ling Emperor ascended the throne to the seventh year of Guanghe (Year 184) when the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out.
In these ten years, the natural disasters had never stopped.
As the saying went," After a great calamity, there will be a great plague." After these continuous disasters, there were also countless serious plagues.
" A poor family has the pain of a corpse, and a house has the wheat that cries."
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing had a special record in his "On the Pathological Changes of Febrile Disease":" There were many people in my clan, more than 200. It has been less than 10 years since Jian 'an, but two-thirds of them have died. Seven out of ten are suffering from typhoid fever."
During the reign of Emperor Hanheng, there were more than 60 million people in the country.
By the time the Three Kingdoms were established, there were only 16 million people left, a sharp decrease of three-quarters. All the places were in an environment where there was no fire to feed.
Other than the small number of deaths caused by the war and the disappearance of some people, there were still some people who had died.
Most of them were caused by famine and plague.
The cliff-like decline in population was due to war, famine, and natural disasters, which could not be completely calculated.
However, according to a conservative estimate, the number of people lost due to the natural disasters and plagues had reached at least 20 million.
What an astonishing number.
It was terrifying.
Since Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, natural and man-made disasters, droughts, floods, plagues and riots have been continuous.
Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang, and Zhang Bao took advantage of the epidemic to teach yao arts, set up the Road of Peace, and used talisman water to cure people. The people believed in it.
In just a short ten years, they could gather hundreds of thousands of people.
The phrase," The heavens are dead, the yellow heavens should be established, the year is sixty years old, and the world is in good luck ", thus opened the huge curtain of the Yellow Turban Uprising.
After the Yellow Turban Uprising, the warlords fought for the Central Plains and killed endlessly.
The plague spread, and although many people died, even the bureaucrats with special status could not avoid it.
Before Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, he wrote a letter to Wu Zhi, in which he mentioned," In the past, many relatives and friends were affected by the plague. Xu, Chen, Ying, and Liu all passed away in a moment. It was painful to say.”
Xu, Chen, Ying and Liu were Xu Gan, Chen Lin, Ying and Liu Zhen.
Not only these four people, but even the famous Wang Can and Ruan Yu had died in a plague. It was obvious that it was a great horror that spread throughout the upper and lower classes.
Cao Zhi also wrote in "On Plague Qi":" Every family has the pain of a corpse, every house has the grief of crying, or the door is closed, or the family is destroyed."
The plague at this time was truly terrifying. They had to take it seriously.
At least, Zhang Fei didn't complain at once. He quickly wrapped himself up with a cloth. He was not idle and warm.
Then, he pulled Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Xia Cheng back, not letting them get any closer to the corpses. He also ordered the soldiers to clean them up.
Liu Bei was surprised,"Zi Mou actually knows medicine?"”
"I know a thing or two."
"The so-called plague is actually caused by the plague gas emitted by the dead.”
Xia Cheng racked his brains, trying to think of as many preventive measures as possible. He also tried his best to speak in a way that Liu Bei and the others could understand.
"Therefore, if we only bury their corpses, I'm afraid we won't be able to completely kill the plague.”
"On the contrary, if we just bury it, it might cause damage to the surrounding environment.”
"The best way is to collect the corpses of these people and then burn them with fire.”
" At the same time, when burning corpses, poisonous gas will be produced, so it's best to cover your mouth and nose with a cloth. Try not to breathe in the smell of the dead.”
Even so, Xia Cheng still felt that it was not very safe.
He had the soldiers carrying the corpses cover their faces with cloth and wrap their hands with cloth. They gathered the corpses along the way and burned them together.
Then, he boiled hot water to wash his hands and disinfect them.
Xia Cheng, who was being held back by Zhang Fei, could only watch as the soldiers cleaned up while thinking in his mind.
Speaking of which, if there was a chance, he could look for a famous doctor.
Xia Cheng vaguely remembered that Zhang Zhongjing seemed to have been an official in Jingzhou and Changsha.
Tao Hongjing, a famous doctor of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, once said,"Zhang Zhongjing is the ancestor of all prescriptions.”
The medical skills passed down by Zhang Zhongjing had saved countless lives in ancient times. After the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms, there had never been a plague that killed more than 10 million people in China.
However, Zhang Zhongjing seemed to have spent decades after Jian 'an and extensive collection of medical prescriptions before he wrote the monumental work," On Typhoid and Various Illnesses."
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