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Chapter 336 Difficulties
After Meng Heshan stated his attitude, he began to reveal his current difficulties.
"But the problem now is not whether I am willing to trust you and use these prescriptions to make a large number of pills to treat the people's smallpox, but that I have already reported this matter to the court several days ago in an expedited memorial sent eight hundred miles away."
"The court attaches great importance to this matter. Yesterday, I received the court's specific way of dealing with this matter. Now that things have come to this, I will not hide it from you. The court means to use thundering means to stop the spread of the epidemic. In order to ensure that our actions go smoothly, the court has also dispatched a nearby army. The army will arrive in Liuzhou tomorrow. Once the army arrives, we will immediately execute it."
"If I insist on delaying, let alone whether the generals of the army will agree to this, I will definitely be charged with disobeying orders and deceiving my superiors. I will definitely not be able to escape. At the very least, I will be dismissed from office, and at the worst, I may be sentenced to confiscation of property and exile."
"If smallpox cannot be cured, or if a riot breaks out during this period and a few people infected with smallpox escape, more innocent people will be implicated. As the person in charge of this matter, I will be guilty of an even greater crime. Not only will I lose my head, but my family and clansmen will also lose their lives..."
Lin Chuyi had read the Laws of Great Chu and knew that Meng Heshan was not exaggerating or scare-mongering when he said these words; he was telling the truth.
Of course, she also understood the real reason why Meng Heshan complained to them. It was just that he was unable to defeat them head-on, so he adopted a conciliatory policy, intending to use this method to find out their real purpose in doing this.
But in fact, there are only two reasons why they took action. One reason is that they have the ability to help those smallpox patients and cannot bear to see them lose their lives because of such an accident. The other reason is that they want to use this incident as a springboard to give themselves a new vest and create a new way to obtain merit points.
Lin Chuyi told the truth about the first reason, but Meng Heshan, a veteran who had been immersed in the officialdom for many years, did not choose to believe it. The second reason was a secret that could not be told and could not be explained at all.
However, Meng Heshan's reaction was also within Lin Chuyi's expectations. Put yourself in his shoes. If she were Meng Heshan, and two strangers suddenly appeared in front of her in the middle of her work, using some unknown means to prevent her from asking for help, and then told her that there was a way to cure smallpox, asking her to risk her family's destruction to save the lives of smallpox patients, and also allocating funds to make medicine to save lives, her first reaction would definitely be disbelief and unwillingness.
I don't believe that there is really anyone in this world who can prevent and treat smallpox. I don't believe that their purpose in doing this is simply to save lives. I am also unwilling to spend a lot of money to do something that seems to have no chance of success at such a critical moment.
Rather than believing that the recipe was real, he would rather believe that it was a trap carefully set up by his opponent.
In order to verify his conspiracy theory, he tried every possible way to ask questions and try to get more useful information from the other party's answers so that he could make appropriate responses.
The matter of rescuing people was urgent. Now that she knew what Meng Heshan was really thinking, Lin Chuyi didn't want to waste time on testing each other. She raised her hand to interrupt Meng Heshan's subsequent speech.
"Sir Governor, I know that what you just said was sincere, and I understand your thoughts and concerns, but in fact, things are far less complicated than you think. I am just a doctor who knows some martial arts, that's all."
"Since the day I became an apprentice, I have traveled around the country, looking for doctors everywhere. I have cured many patients with difficult and complicated diseases. I think I am quite talented in medicine. For this reason, I was proud and complacent for a while."
"But in my twentieth year of medical practice, I witnessed a village of people falling ill with an epidemic. I treated them myself, but was powerless to save them. I could only watch them fall and die one by one. In the end, in order to prevent the bodies from rotting and the epidemic from spreading, the local county magistrate directly ordered the village to be burned down. No one in the village survived."
"I witnessed the whole process of their death with my own eyes. After that, I devoted myself to studying the treatment of various diseases. After decades, I have gained a lot of experience in treating such diseases. If I have not encountered them, it's fine. But if I have, I will do my best to treat them and strive to prevent the tragedy from happening again."
"However, although I have a good prescription for curing diseases, I do not have enough financial resources to support the production of a large number of pills in a short period of time. I have no choice but to bring my disciples here to bother the governor."
"I understand your difficulty, but please give this medicine a chance. I am willing to guarantee with my life that this medicine is indeed effective against smallpox. The army will arrive in Liuzhou tomorrow, so we still have one day. You can give this medicine to those who have been infected with smallpox. Whether it is a serious or mild case, the effect can be seen within half an hour."
"If there is no effect, you can take my head. But if the patient's condition improves significantly, and you trust me and give it a try, then the army that came to assist you in handling this matter will be left to us, the master and disciple, to handle. We will definitely not make things difficult for you."
When Meng Heshan heard this, his heartbeat accelerated involuntarily. "I wonder what you are going to do, sir?"
Lin Chuyi smiled slightly, "Don't worry, Governor. Doctors only practice medicine to save lives, not to kill people. If the leader is willing to join the smallpox epidemic prevention and control, we will naturally welcome him. If he insists on his own way and only wants to solve this matter by killing people, we can only ask him to sleep for a while. After the people's smallpox is cured, he will have a chance to wake up."
"By then, the governor can send the treatment results of the infected people and the treatment methods of smallpox to the emperor before the man wakes up. After the man wakes up, if he wants to file a complaint with the emperor, it will be too late."
"Even if the other party is not clear-headed, he will still seize this handle to report you, Lord Governor. You have saved tens of thousands of people and saved the people of the world from suffering from smallpox. The current emperor will never hold you accountable for your previous mistakes."
Meng Heshan was silent. He had to admit that what this man said made sense. He was a court official and knew the person sitting on the dragon throne better.
The current emperor is the founding monarch and has always been very caring towards the people. If things really develop as this person said, not only will he not be punished, but he can also use this incident as a springboard to a successful career and rise to the top.