Chapter 51 Xiao Yuchi’s vaccination against smallpox

Sun Xin was busy with the cowpox vaccination for more than ten days at a stretch. After planting cowpox on all the people who needed to grow beans in Dengzhou City and Shilipai, Sun Xin came to Dulonggang to Sanzhuang at the request of Taigong Hu.

Those who were willing to be vaccinated were also vaccinated with cowpox, and there was nothing he could do about those who were unwilling to be vaccinated.

After twenty days, all the people who wanted to be vaccinated with cowpox in Dengzhou City and Dulonggang had basically been vaccinated, and there were only three or five people in Shilipai who came to him for vaccination every day.

In the past twenty days, he had been vaccinated with cowpox more than 2,000 times. The dried cowpox powder used during this period was not enough. Sun Xin had to plant the cowpox on the other cows on the farm as a culture medium.

, and then a lot of cowpox strains were obtained to complete these vaccinations.

As for what Sun Xin is most worried about: these completely uninactivated cowpox strains will cause some people to have an overly strong immune response. In the end, after more than 2,000 vaccinations, statistics showed that the most serious vaccine recipients only had fever.

It only took more than five days and then he recovered. Sun Xin was very happy and felt the greatness of Niudou's invention. A vaccine with such a low fatality rate could be obtained from natural organisms, and its anti-epidemic effect was great.

It’s so good, no wonder it was quickly popularized in Europe that year.

This round of smallpox is still spreading slowly in Denglai Erfu and Yishui, but no one has come to vaccinate. Sun Xin knows that people still need to accept the concept of cowpox at this time, and he will not be able to promote it by force.

More people are willing to be vaccinated. He has done his best to deal with this round of smallpox and can only return to Zhuangzi to continue busy with his own affairs.

All the people in Sunjiazhuang have been vaccinated against cowpox, so although smallpox is very common outside, no one in the village is infected, and all production and life are still going on in an orderly manner.

Now is the slack season for farming. The entire Dengzhou is covered by heavy snow, and the wheat has also entered the dormant period. There is not much farm work to do. Sun Xin took the opportunity to organize all the villagers to start repairing the defenses in the entire village, leveling the land, and digging.

Aqueducts. This is also thanks to the policy issued by Dengzhou City that newly developed land does not have to pay taxes within three years. The bankers recruited by Sun Xin did not register their households. In addition, Sun Li helped manage the land in the city.

Therefore, the city did not require these villagers to perform corvee service this year, but next year Sun Xin estimated that his village would not have such a large labor force.

If the government's annual corvee is calculated according to the rules, it is estimated that half of the people in the village will be taken away during the slack time. The only way is to build the village as large as possible. After its own strength expands, it can bully others. The government in the city wants to allocate some of the corvee workers.

Sometimes they don't dare to say anything even if they don't give out enough.

Sun Xin asked Hu Sanniang how the corvees in Hujiazhuang on Dulonggang were served. She learned that although Hujiazhuang had tens of thousands of household registrations, the actual number of people who needed to serve as corvees every year was less than a thousand, accounting for 10% of the entire village's labor force.

Sun Xin was a little surprised when the remaining 90% of the people could continue their various productions and lives during the off-farm time.

This ratio is too low.

Sister Gu couldn't help but said from the side: "You are so comfortable talking about asking someone to kowtow to you, you really picked up a master's music."

Sun Xin smiled and said: "They want to learn skills from me, and they came here sincerely. I will accept them as apprentices and receive a few heads. This is a matter of etiquette and it is not that I take advantage of them. There is nothing to be uncomfortable about."

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This was heard by Sun Xin who walked in the door, "Believe it or not, you will know in a few months when the food is harvested."

"Don't you see, my father has a new regard for Sun Xin."

Hu Sanniang, who was busy in front of the stove, glanced at Sun Xin and asked: "You will accept a disciple in two days. Should we make some preparations in advance?"

"Bragging." Sister Gu said.

"There is nothing to prepare, just kowtow and propose a cup of tea."

If you think about it carefully, the various methods used by local tycoons like Taigong Hu to avoid corvee work actually undermined the foundation of the entire imperial court, because the few corvee workers in Dulonggang did not disappear, but were all assigned to Jeju and Yuncheng counties.

Other small landowners and ordinary farmers will bear the burden. It reduces the burden of the local tyrants but increases the service pressure of these small farmers.

Originally, he only wanted to accept Zou Yuan as an apprentice. Unexpectedly, within a few days of this news being spread, Xie Zhen and He Bao also approached Sun Xin and expressed that they also wanted to become Sun Xin's apprentice.

In the past few days, Taigong Hu did send people to Sunjiazhuang from time to time to keep in touch with each other. Hu Sanniang saw this matter. She knew that although Taigong Hu in her family wanted to win over Sun Xin, it was mainly because he saw Sun Xin.

The potential of people to do things.

Hu Sanniang has become accustomed to chatting with Sister Gu in Sunjiazhuang these days. She thinks this girl is good, she is good at martial arts, and her personality is quite compatible with her, so she suddenly said:

Sister Gu peeled off the corn stick and lowered her head in silence. After a long time, she said, "I don't like any of these men."

Sister Gu, who was helping Hu Sanniang prepare food in the kitchen early in the morning, watched Sun Xin running in and out arranging various tasks, and curiously said to Hu Sanniang: "How is Sun Xin's ability to manage Zhuangzi better than your Hu family in Dulonggang?"

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Hu Sanniang said proudly: "Sun Xin is much better than my brother, but my brother doesn't do things in such a clear manner."

No matter what, Sunjiazhuang, which has been temporarily exempted from corvee, is still in full swing this winter. The villagers in the village ring the bell every day to work, and the women are organized to cook for the villagers who go out to work.

The coming and going will only expand the power of those powerful people. However, although he is fully aware of the harm of this kind of behavior, Sun Xin also knows that this vicious cycle has been formed in this time and space, and he has to join this camp. If he does not

If he becomes a powerful person, then within a few years other powerful people's corvee services will be assigned to his Sun Family Village.

"Why don't you just stay in our village? Look at which villager you like best in our village. It's the head of the village. I'll tell you that it's the same. We live together in Sunjiazhuang. It's not a bad idea.

interesting"

She changed the subject and said: "Is it true that Sun Xindao will be able to earn more than three shi per acre of wheat from the wheat next year? It sounds like bragging to me. Then it's just that no one has grown corn and peanuts with high yields before.

, I have never heard of someone harvesting three stones from one acre of wheat.”

Sun Xin knew that these people were not necessarily following his subordinates specifically to learn some skills, but more importantly because they liked him as a person, and by accepting them as his disciples, he could safely use these people under the current etiquette.

It happened that his subordinates were also in urgent need of help, so Sun Xin simply accepted the three apprentices in one fell swoop.

After a heavy snowfall, New Year's Day has passed in a blink of an eye. There is no new calendar in this era, and New Year's Day is the Spring Festival.

On the first day of the new year, everyone stayed at home. Sun Xin even went to Dengzhou City to buy some firecrackers for the children in the village. After New Year's Day, he went around to give gifts. It was not until the sixth day of the new year that Sun Xin had time to take care of the village.

As a matter of fact, all the bankers were unable to work during the Chinese New Year, so Sun Xin simply decided to recruit apprentices on this day.
Chapter completed!