Hangzhou, Gujing Village.

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Su Shi and Tang Shenwei inspected the village, and they were led by Su Shi's friend Pang An, a famous doctor in Huangzhou.

Zhejiang has had an extremely bad year this year. First there were floods, then drought, then wind, and then plague.

These four consecutive disasters in real history caused Hangzhou to lose a population of 700,000.

Fortunately, today's Liangzhe Road is the Liangzhe Road that has been renovated by Su You. The core of the Liangzhe Road - the Taihu Basin, today's Dugong and water conservancy projects have long been completed.

Many mountain streams and lakes in the upper reaches of Taihu Lake have been transformed into reservoirs. With convenient and fast telegraph communication, the reservoirs can be notified in advance and release water to increase their capacity. When the peak of the flood arrives, they can play their role in storing water.

The most feared thing about floods is the flood peak. The process of human beings fighting against natural disasters is a process of reducing peaks and eliminating valleys.

The use of reservoirs to resist the short-term crisis of flood peaks plays a vital role in eliminating floods.

Next comes the drought.

Today, we have rich experience in dealing with drought, especially on Liangzhe Road.

First of all, it is the reservoir, which ensures the basic layout of the two Zhejiang roads around the Taihu and Dugang paddy fields.

Yang Hui, the former magistrate of Hangzhou, received eccentric support from Su You. In addition to wells everywhere, there were also a large number of drought-resistant crops.

Su You ordered Yang Hui to promote sweet potatoes and corn in large quantities, convert paddy fields into dry fields, and at the same time promote cassava and cold potatoes on the edges of the fields.

Although grain cannot be used as tax revenue for the imperial court, and it is unavoidable that the official warehouse revenue will decrease, the private grain reserves have been greatly enriched, even exceeding those in ordinary years.

The main reason is that cassava and sweet potato are very high-yielding. One acre can yield thousands of kilograms, and after drying, the yield is higher than that of rice.

Although these things are not in line with the current eating habits of Song people, such as sweet potatoes, eating too much will cause heartburn, but the key now is to survive.

When Su Shi rushed to Hangzhou, he couldn't help but feel grateful for Su You's foresight.

When times were better a few years ago, Jiangsu Province firmly and vigorously promoted the grain reserve policy. Although it has not yet reached the level of opening up a national commercial grain depot, at least it serves as a large national grain base and a large transit base for South China Sea grain.

After closing the warehouse, Guanghui warehouse had stored grain for many years, which lasted for five years.

There is also the private sector. After the country implemented a tax system based on acres of land, the private sector began to vigorously improve their living conditions. Especially in land of plenty such as Liangzhe Road, every household has stored a lot of surplus grain.

The Great Song Dynasty has been turned upside down in the past 30 years since Xiao Yaoshu came from heaven. Otherwise, if there were floods and droughts, the family and the country would have no savings, the prosperous Liangzhe Road would immediately turn into a hell on earth.

Another key point is the well-developed transportation on Liangzhe Road.

The imperial court's aid could be sent to Chuzhou by rail in one day, and then went south to Hangzhou by steam canal boats and sea ships.

The most critical of these are medicines.

There were also telegrams that allowed local governments to request instructions and get replies in a timely manner. In view of the severe typhoon this year, Su Shi reported to the imperial court requesting that the two Zhejiang roads be delayed this year, and received a reply from the imperial court within two hours.

Su Shi ordered people to copy the telegram and post it outside the government office, and the price of grain in Hangzhou dropped accordingly.

But that doesn’t mean that all the problems have been solved. The foundation of the two Zhejiang roads is already good, and it is the second area to develop in the Song Dynasty in the past thirty years. The population has reached 30 million. In addition to the plains, there are also mountainous areas where the court’s capabilities are still high.

Inaccessible places.

Therefore, refugees appeared in cities and towns all over the country.

Nowadays, food and accommodation are not a big problem, but a large number of refugees live outside cities and towns, causing serious health problems.

The plague followed.

Fortunately, the medical conditions in the Song Dynasty were not the same as they were a few decades ago. Zhao Kai spent more than ten years producing more than 800 volumes of "Medical Classics", which is no joke.

The cause of the disease was quickly discovered, which was dysentery, which made Su Shi breathe a sigh of relief.

Because Su You told him that Hangzhou is a maritime trade center. If the plague in Hangzhou spreads to New Songzhou and Dongshengzhou via sea ships, those Tibetan people and three generations of survivors who have been isolated from the world for a long time may even be in danger of being wiped out by the plague.

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Fortunately, it was just dysentery. Dongshengzhou itself is a place rich in cinchona cream, which is very effective in treating dysentery.

Su Shi's method of treating the plague came from Su You and Shi Wei. When he came out, the imperial court specially added him as a bachelor of Longtuge. Su You originally disagreed, but Gao Taotao directly ordered Huangmen to go to the province and forcibly approved it.

Su Shi was so kind to the emperor that he immediately took the train and arrived in Xuzhou in half a day. Then he boarded a steamship. In just five days, Su Shi arrived outside Hangzhou.

When the common people inside and outside Hangzhou heard that Master Su was coming to Hangzhou again, they rushed to and fro, as if natural disasters would be avoided as soon as the bachelor arrived.

Su Shi was deeply moved and immediately started disaster relief operations. Then he discovered that although the disaster was serious, the situation was much better than Uncle Yao expected. After sending a few telegrams, he plunged into plague control.

The streets and alleys of Hangzhou are now crowded with poor people seeking medical advice. Some unscrupulous drug dealers have begun to hoard drugs, taking the opportunity to raise the price of drugs and make a fortune.

Dasu circulated the post, and friends from the religious community immediately mobilized. The monks and nuns took turns going to the drugstore to beg for medicinal materials.

Many temples donated silk treasures, and many Taoists and monks were famous doctors themselves and joined the medical team one after another.

Then Su Shi wrote two articles and published them in Chao Bao and Business Daily, announcing that he would allocate two thousand taels of official silver. He also set an example by donating fifty taels of gold that he had saved for many years to build a hospital.

The benefits of being a traffic star are now revealed, and friends and fans support him one after another.

The first big sum of money in Hangzhou came from Huihui Street. Pu Shan and other rich people directly collected 500 taels of gold, and then told Da Su that we have a lot of spices for dispelling plagues. How much does this thing cost? The prefect just said a word

, we have enough for you!

We don’t have any other requests. We have lived in Hangzhou for decades, and our children are the fourth generation. We don’t ask for anything else. We just want to give our children a Song Dynasty household registration. Is that okay?

This request was quite strange, and Su Shi had no choice but to report it to the court.

Su You was happy. This matter is not a big deal. Now the Qingtang, Ningxia, Jinghu, and Song Dynasties have absorbed too many foreign and barbarian households. Hangzhou is just a drizzle.

But let’s break it down first and then stop chaos. To become a registered household in the Song Dynasty, you must make contributions to the Song Dynasty, and you can’t just enjoy benefits.

The Hangzhou Huihui absorbed a lot of navigation technology from the Song Dynasty, which turned them into Song people, which was good for technological monopoly.

When the news came back, the Huihui immediately sang and danced, and donated another three hundred taels of gold.

With money, medicinal materials, and manpower, Dasu immediately ordered people to set up large pots at street corners and city gates to brew decoctions and give them to the poor people for free.

At the same time, he wrote to Tianshi Dao, Yuju Temple, and Daxiangguo Temple, asking for the support of doctors.

He once again wrote to the court that dysentery was prevalent in Hangzhou, and asked the Municipal Shipping Department to keep the cinchona cream supplied to the court this year for use by the people in Hangzhou who were seriously ill.

The imperial court soon issued an order and agreed.

At the same time, he conveyed the guidance of the Medical College of the Capital University. To deal with the infection of dysentery, the first step is to control water sources and food. The imperial court has ordered Cai Jing, the transshipment envoy of the Huaihe River, to transport coal, and asked Su Shi to strictly implement the epidemic prevention regulations. Residents are not allowed to drink raw water, and are not allowed to drink raw water.

For open defecation, water sources must be disinfected, food must be cooked, and bowls and chopsticks must be scalded.

Then we need to organize manpower to clear city sewer blockages caused by floods and typhoons, dredge the West Lake to replace it with running water, and distribute soap to improve residents' hygiene.

Pang An took Su Shi and Tang Shenwei around the village: "According to the wishes of the imperial court and Zizhan, each village in Hangzhou has sent a doctor, who is mainly responsible for health promotion, epidemic prevention and treatment, not only treating dysentery, but also treating other cases.

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"The imperial court responded very quickly this time. Not a single person died in my village, hahaha..." After finishing speaking, he stroked his beard and said, "Compared to the time when we rescued the epidemic in Xuzhou, it is very different."

Several children ran past the village road holding a windmill. When they saw Pang An, they called the imperial doctor "Grandpa".

Su Shi grabbed a child to check his hands and found that the nails were clean, so he let him go and said to Pang An: "The miracle doctor is interested."
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