My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1252 Kangxi's Choice

The news in the palace is actually very strange.

Sometimes it doesn't leak at all, and sometimes it falls apart quickly.

On this day, brother Jiu was reprimanded, and then the news of his confession quickly spread.

The doctor under the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to calculate the qualifications of others and his own qualifications when he had nothing to do.

Who doesn't want to be promoted to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
Even if it's for Brother Nine, it's fine!
As long as you go up and do it for a long time, Sun Wuyou and the whole family will be able to follow him; if you don't do it for a long time, if you transfer to the outer dynasty, you can also make up a full servant.

Everyone is very excited, but they can only wait, there is no place to drill camp.

It's up to the emperor to choose, how dare they go to the Qianqing Palace to find a way out?

Because of the gossip outside, everyone hated Dong Dianbang before, and secretly collected information about Zhang Baozhu and Gao Yanzhong to see if there were any braids.

As a result, Dong Dianbang said that Master Jiu said that the emperor would look at the qualifications. The two doctors in this hall are not in the list of candidates, and the same is true for Dong Dianbang, who has been in office for less than half a year.

Everyone thought about it for the same reason, so they turned their attention away from a few people.

On the eighth day of November, Shengjia left the Forbidden City in a mighty way, and went to the Nanyuan paddock. The fourteenth elder brother accompanied me.

Ninth elder brother here, according to the rules, came early, brought the twelfth elder brother and the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send off the holy driver.

When Shengjia's guard of honor was far away, Brother Jiu was a little dazed.

Fusong is in the Nanyuan paddock.

Is Khan Ama really going around, or is he going to see the results of the vaccinia test?

Twelfth elder brother was by the side, watching ninth elder brother calm down, he didn't know how to comfort him.

He still remembered what elder brother Jiu said at noon yesterday, and worried that he would feel uncomfortable.

Ninth elder brother rubbed his chin, then looked back at twelve elder brother.

No matter how you think about it, the emperor's ignorance of Elder Brother Twelve feels strange,
You must know that Elder Brother Twelve had acne back then, and he was so ill that he almost died, which made Khan Ama start asking people to try "human pox".

If you really don't like this son, how could it be so?
But I liked it when I was young, why didn't I pay attention to it when I grew up?
But there is no way to ask.

The twelfth elder brother saw the unpredictable changes on the ninth elder brother's face, and doubts appeared on his face.

Brother Jiu rubbed his eyes, yawned, and said, "I woke up early, I'm really sleepy, go back and catch up on sleep!"

In his duty room, there is an arhat couch, which is prepared for naps in summer.

The ninth elder brother told the twelve elder brothers and went to the room to catch up on sleep.

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On the Royal Road outside Beijing, the team was mighty.

The princes and elder brothers are all dressed in the same dress, all wearing end caps, and riding around to accompany the holy driver.

The elder brother was talking to the fourth elder brother, and he was talking about Shengjia's inspection of the Yongding River a few days later, saying: "The river course has started a lawsuit again, these people are not doing their jobs well, and they just think about forming gangs and attacking each other all day long. If you are bored to death, you should arrange for the Eight Banners to go to work in armor, just like in spring, what a joy, and the river work is progressing quickly!"

The fourth elder brother knows that it is not a long-term solution, and it is fine to withdraw it once in a while, but in the long run, there will be grievances between the eight banners.

Everyone wearing armor is looking for food, and they will look forward to fighting and making meritorious deeds, but few people watch the Yongding River Works all year round.

The third elder brother is staring at the Zaohua horse of the fifth elder brother, and another Tianshan horse. How many Tianshan horses does the fifth elder brother have?

Although he is also riding a Tianshan horse now, but he only has one for transportation, why do you think Lao Wu has changed several horses?

During the summer tour to the north, I brought two horses, one white and one black.

"Fifth brother, is this outside paying tribute to Xinma?" The third elder brother couldn't help asking.

Fifth elder brother touched the horse's neck, nodded with a smile and said, "It was sent by Horqin..."

The two horses in summer were thinner, and they didn't recover in autumn. He changed to two new horses this time when he went out.

The eighth elder brother was by the side, listening to everyone's jokes and not interjecting.

A while ago, the Ministry of Criminal Justice was busy reviewing death row prisoners, and the judges sent to various provinces also came back one after another.

There is no doubt about the fraud in the middle.

The eighth elder brother was excited. Even if he couldn't be directly promoted to Baylor, he could accumulate half of the credit this time.

The more this time, the more careful he has to be.

He glanced at his brothers.

This time he will not be fooled again, nor will he conflict with them.

Always want the Baylor hat to come back, let's talk about others.

No one expects him to be better, they wish they were in a worse situation than them.

The small ones on the other side were much quieter today.

Brother Fourteen glanced at Brother Ten, and then at the brothers on the other side, feeling that he understood Brother Ninth's displeasure.

In fact, Brother Nine is just like himself, full of grievances.

It is said outside that he is "the youngest son of a concubine", but if he is a favorite or not, he has to be compared with whom...

The Nanyuan paddock is twenty miles south of Yongding Gate. Today, more than half an hour later, Sheng Jia arrived at the Nanyuan paddock and stayed in the Nanyuan palace.

The paddock is 120 miles around, and it is divided into four circles in total.

Starting tomorrow, there will be several parades.

Today there is no unified arrangement.

After the fifth elder brother settled it simply, he went to find the paddock manager.

There are many deer, roe deer, and roe deer in the paddock here.

The fifth elder brother still remembered the matter of sending a doe to the Ninth Prince's Mansion last year, and wanted to choose a few this time, besides the Ninth Prince's Mansion, he also prepared a few for himself.

As a result, he asked someone to search around, but he couldn't find it.

At this moment, the head of the paddock has led Kangxi out of the palace to a house in the southwest corner of the paddock.

In the yard, there were already people waiting. The young and handsome man in front of him was Fu Song, and the two bearded men beside him were two old imperial doctors who were in charge of pox epidemics in the imperial hospital.

Seeing Kangxi coming, several people greeted him.

Kangxi raised his arms and called out, then strode into the room.

The crowd followed.

Kangxi looked at Fu Song and said, "How many times has it happened? What's the result?"

Holding the brochure in his hand, Fu Song replied: "In the sixth round, there were a total of 180 people, and 12 of them failed the vaccination, but survived the smallpox. According to the imperial physician, even if the vaccination failed, the toxicity of smallpox could be weakened...Three people died. One had a cold, and the other had colic, both after the vaccination was successful, and it had nothing to do with the vaccination..."

Kangxi nodded and signaled Fusong to present the brochure.

The booklet is an inch and a half thick, and the data recorded on it are more detailed.

The time before and after each vaccination, the time of flowering, the time of fever, and the time of fever are all detailed to every moment.

Kangxi looked at the two old doctors.

The faces of the two old doctors also showed determination and joy, and the leader said: "Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the emperor, cowpox is more appropriate than 'ripe seedlings'."

The lethality rate of "human pox" raw vaccine is [-]%, and the fatality rate of mature vaccine is reduced to three to four percent.

Even so, it is also daunting.

One is that it is expensive, and ripe seedlings are not easy to collect or preserve. They must be prepared in advance, and the cheapest ones are more than ten taels of silver.

The second is the mortality rate of three to four percent. People are afraid of death, and no one wants to bet on whether they are the three or four percent.

This is the reason why "Humanpox" has been promoted for many years, and the internal results of the Eight Banners have been good, but the public has not been able to promote it.

Many of the Eight Banners have requirements for selecting guards and filling the vacancies of the flags. If you want to be "familiar", you have to be a flower.

Therefore, "human pox" was easily spread among nobles.

But for the common people, there is no way to force it, it can only be done voluntarily.

"Vaccinia" here, the fatality rate is less than [-]%.

Perhaps this statistic is not rigorous, and further experiments are needed to verify it, but right now it seems to be better than "ripe seedlings", but the cost is the same as "raw seedlings", or even lower than "raw seedlings".

Kangxi did not praise the two imperial physicians, but looked at them and said, "In February next year, I will send Elder Seventeen to vaccinate!"

When the two old doctors heard this, the smiles on their faces froze and their bodies shook.

Kangxi's face turned serious, and he said, "What? Are you fooling me?"

An old doctor hurriedly said: "I don't dare, it's just that the prince's daughter is expensive. Cowpox is now in the first trial, and it has not been popularized yet. It is not as safe as ripe seedlings."

The other imperial doctor was also nervous, and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, the imperial hospital has pre-ordered the 'ripe seedlings' needed by the prince. It has been promoted for more than ten years, and has also improved and improved the vaccination method, which is more secure."

Kangxi was unmoved, looked at the booklet in his hand and said: "If the records on it are true and correct, it is more appropriate for the seventeen elder brother to inoculate cowpox than human pox."

With Fusong watching all the time, and the two eunuchs in front of the imperial court, there is no way to falsify the data.

Even so, the two imperial physicians still couldn't feel at ease.

Although the fatality rate has dropped below one percent, or a few thousandths, or even less than a few ten thousandths, it is not 100% certain.

In case, Brother Seventeen is that one thousandth, or one ten thousandth?

At that time, they will lose their heads, and the family will be dragged down.

The two looked at Fusong.

Fu Song followed the imperial physicians all the way on weekdays, witnessing and recording the data.

Even if he wasn't the one who vaccinated the pox himself, if my elder brother really failed to vaccinate on February [-] next year, then Fusong would have nothing to do with it.

Fu Song was speechless.

For an Ama, is there a choice between a few percent and a few thousandths?

The reason why it was chosen in February of next year instead of waiting another two years is because the seventeenth elder brother is here, and it is the time when children are most likely to be infected with smallpox and die young, so there is no delay.

Since the emperor said it, they listened to it.

Seeing Fu Song's reaction, the two imperial physicians lost their last hope, their bodies collapsed, and they bowed down...

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It's the last half of the day at the end of the month, and I'm begging for a monthly pass.

(End of this chapter)