Chapter 2107

After waiting for three days, there was no pox on No. 2 or no. 3. The three doctors breathed a sigh of relief, packed the pox scabs collected from them in bottles, and then wrote labels and sealed them.

The two still stayed in the house to rest, while man Bao and his family went to the palace to see the emperor after they changed their clothes.

They took the notes they had taken these days.

The Emperor didn't know much about medicine, so he specially recruited several ministers to listen with him, especially Lord Tang. He was born in a criminal case and knew more about medicine.

Xiao Yuan, as a representative, explained the test data during this period in detail.

The emperor turned over the pulse table on the table and handed it to Gu Zhong to show it to the adults below.

Wei Zhi first looked at the start time and asked, "that is to say, it's only 15 days since vaccination."

"Yes," Xiao Yuan said, "but in fact, their pox time is only five to nine days, which is also within the onset time of smallpox patients, but on average, the pox time is slightly lower than the overall pox time."

Man Bao added: "the number of people we tested is too small, so this data may not be very correct."

The emperor and several ministers heard what she meant. They wanted more people to experiment.

The emperor knocked on the table, "that is to say, vaccination is really useful. People who have been infected with smallpox will not be infected with smallpox."

Wei Zhi thought about the risk and poured a bucket of ice water on him. "Your Majesty, one of the three died. This proportion is still too large. It's not necessarily that so many people will die in war. This pox method needs to be considered again."

Man Bao immediately said, "yes, human pox is not safe enough, so I want to go to the western regions to find the method of cowpox. I heard that cowpox is much safer than human pox. Please help your majesty."

Man Bao bowed deeply.

The emperor waved his hand and said, "it's not urgent to discuss this matter again. It's the end of February. By the way, this number three seems much safer. Try again with his acne? "

Man Bao and Xiao Yuan looked at each other and said, "yes, Chen and others think so. By comparing with No. 2, we can know whether the toxicity of acne scab is smaller and safer. We also know how to select the appropriate acne slurry to plant in the future."

Xiao Yuan was answering: "only there are no prisoners sentenced to execution in the prison of the Ministry of punishment, and there are few sentenced to hanging, so..."

The emperor looked at the old Tang adult and the Minister of punishment and said, "it's better to ask other serious criminals. If anyone dares to answer the order, reduce their punishment."

Old Tang frowned and disagreed with such reward rules. He said, "Your Majesty, the criminals who will be convicted of serious crimes are not vicious people. If they are released, it will be a great harm to the people and unfair to the victims."

Therefore, he has always opposed the proposal that the emperor should grant amnesty to the world if he does good deeds.

Wei Zhi also thinks so and opposes it.

The emperor said, "if you want someone else's life to do the experiment, you can't give no benefit. Who will do that?"

"We can't let them go because of this. If they go out and harm their neighbors, who will those suffering reason with? The law is the law and cannot be changed too much. "

The emperor was a little angry. "If the vaccination method can be tested, it will be a matter of eternal success. Will you give up this method?"

Seeing that they were going to quarrel, man Bao hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, there must be brave men under heavy profits, but heavy gifts don't necessarily have to let them go. You can give them other benefits."

She said, "I think the food in the prison is terrible. I can tell them that if they apply for recruitment, the prisoners will cover their three meals for ten or twenty years, with fish, meat and eggs for each meal; If you are in exile, transfer from two thousand miles to one thousand miles and give some money; By the way, why don't you give money before, so whether they want to pay for atonement or eat and drink is up to them. "

The emperor immediately said, "yes, this method is good."

Old Tang and Wei Zhi stopped talking and looked at the Minister of punishment together. The Minister of punishment touched his chin and said, "it's not impossible, but how much money is appropriate?"

As he spoke, he took his eyes to glance at Liu Shangshu and said, "the budget of our Ministry of punishment this year is already small. If we make it with heavy profits, we have to allocate funds from the Ministry of household."

Liu Shangshu of the Ministry of household didn't expect that the fire would burn to him. Didn't he come to watch?

Hearing what the Minister of justice of the Ministry of punishment said, he couldn't help saying: "the Treasury can't lay golden eggs by itself. It was difficult last year. All departments want money this year, and the holes owed last year have to be blocked. Where else is there excess silver?"

The Minister of punishment said, "if you can't even take out the money from the household department, then our department of punishment can't take it out."

Lord Tang helped the Minister of justice, "always take out some, or you'll really let people go? When they commit crimes again, the Ministry of punishment will catch people again, and they will spend a lot of money. "

Officials of the Ministry of punishment also have money to take on business trips, which is also included in their salaries. They also need to be paid by the Ministry of accounts.

Liu Shangshu glanced at the three people in the Tai hospital and groaned, "at most one hundred and twenty, not many."

How stingy!

But man Bao three still calculated in their hearts how many prisoners this one hundred Liang is enough to invite. A person is not sick. If they want to eat and drink well in a month, they will have to pay about 500 Wen if they don't say there is meat every other day. That year is about five Liang. Even if they only eat together for ten years, they will have to go to fifty Liang. Can't they invite two prisoners?

No, no, it's definitely not enough.

She and Dr. Lu Taiyi of Xiaoyuan calculated privately that the next second test would require at least 12 patients, three age groups and four people in each age group. A kind of acne scab should be planted on two people of the same age group at the same time, so as to compare the test data.

In fact, there are still too few. If there are enough people, it should be expanded ten times.

However, they feel that even in the prison of the Ministry of punishment, I'm afraid they can't find so many serious criminals willing to do this experiment.

But it seems that it is not easy for the household to pay 600 Liang, so man Bao said, "one hundred Liang is too little, at least one thousand Liang."

Liu Shangshu choked when he saw that she had turned over ten times. Although everyone always asked for money on the spot, he would not shout more than ten times as soon as he came up.

Man Bao calculated an account for him. He had to let the prisoners willingly do experiments for them. At least he had to pack each other's food for ten years?

So they talked about the current prices.

The emperor and his ministers watched the two people come and go. They already said that today's vegetables are six Wen a kilo. The shortcut: "that's because it's spring and there are few vegetables. You see, in summer and autumn, a kilo of vegetables can be two Wen at most."