There are more and more cholera infected and suspected infected people in quarantine, and the number is almost exponentially increasing. The demand for drugs is also increasing day by day. The spreading area has also begun to extend to prefectures and counties around the capital, including Daming Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, etc., which have been included in the epidemic control area.

However, Zhu Youxiao was not nervous about it. It is normal for a rapid outbreak in the initial stage of new pathogens. Even in the 21st century, hundreds of years later, when a new outbreak will occur in the initial stage, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, which does not have a complete infectious disease control system.

But this is not to say that Zhu Youxiao's administrative intervention has no effect at all. At least the spread of a large-scale epidemic has not completely affected the lives of most people. Although the capital is martial law, it does not restrict trade exchanges.

The number of infected people divided by the huge base of the total population of the capital and even the capital still accounts for a small proportion, so it has not yet reached the point of panic among the whole people.

And now the only real impact on people's lives is not the epidemic itself, but the rise in prices and various rumors that have led to the surge or fall in the prices of certain medicinal ingredients.

"The East Factory must strictly investigate and deal with it. Whoever is taking advantage of this to spread all kinds of unfavorable remarks or who is hoarding goods will be severely punished and will never be tolerated!"

When Zhu You proofread the orders of Liu Ruoyu, the head of the Sili Supervisor and the admiral of Dongchang, there was news that Cheng Jiming, the Grand Secretary of Dongge, asked for a visit. Zhu Youxiao didn't know why Cheng Jiming suddenly came to ask for a visit at this time, but he still announced Cheng Jiming.

Since Qian Qianyi was sent to the imperial prison and demoted Li Biao to Hami to guard the border, Cheng Jiming became the leader of the conservative school and was also considered a relatively low-key official. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao had high hopes for this and hoped that he could become a roadblock to boycott the excessive exploitation of the working class by emerging bourgeois officials such as the reformists.

"Report to Your Majesty, I used arithmetic method to count the number of people infected with Vibrio cholerae reported by the Ministry of Health today, but found that from the day before yesterday, although a large number of people still had cholera, the increase in the number was significantly greater than the previous increase. Your Majesty, please check it!"

Cheng Jiming said that, and handed over a drawing. When Wang Chengen took the drawing and handed it to Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao was shocked and laughed in silence: "I am willing to do it. Even I didn't expect to make a statistics based on the number of infected people reported every day. Just because I have this awareness, it can be said to check for omissions and fill in the gaps! However, I, the Ming Dynasty, should have an audit department outside the Ministry of Revenue. For example, the data audit of such emergencies requires immediate response statistics to discover the rules in the intervening."

As Zhu Youxiao said that, he looked at the drawing that became the foundation. The so-called drawing is just a sketched statistical chart of the foundation. It uses the daily as the horizontal axis and the daily increase in the number of infections as the vertical axis. It uses the data over the past two months to create a relatively rough statistical effect.

However, in this statistical chart, it is indeed possible to see that there was almost no large-scale infection increase in the first half month, indicating that the pathogen is still in the adaptation period, but after half a month, it showed a sudden and sharp increase, indicating that it had entered the logarithmic period. However, what made Zhu Youxiao frown was that three days ago, the discount slope of the logarithmic period suddenly increased, that is, the increase rate of the number of infections increased significantly.

Cheng Jiming saw that the Emperor Zhu Youxiao had already frowned and his face began to look ugly. He also knew that the Emperor Zhu Youxiao had also seen the clues here:

"Weichen once served as the governor of Nangan. During his tenure, we also had a plague disaster. Although we were helpless, we tried our best to count how many people died of plague every day. Therefore, weichen discovered that when a large number of infected people appear, there will be no larger-scale infected people, and it will only stabilize. However, there are larger-scale infected people now, which makes us quite puzzled, so we will report to Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that Cheng Jiming would have a good habit of doing data statistics, but he had to admit that as Cheng Jiming said, after a large-scale outbreak of the epidemic, it will enter a stable period, also called the platform period. If controlled properly, it will enter the platform period early, so that the number of infected people can enter a dynamic balanced constant value, and lay the foundation for completely eliminating the epidemic.

But now it is possible to enter the second logarithmic period, which only shows one situation, that is, the officials below have not fully implemented the imperial court's epidemic response orders, and are even deliberately indulging and spreading, because even if you don't care or can't control it, it will present a curve of adapting first, then logarithmic then stabilizing or even extinction.

"Bold! How dare you regard the epidemic as a joke and waste your life!"

Zhu Youxiao said that, and immediately shouted: "Wu Jin, the chief of the East Factory, immediately take me to remove the black veil from the head of the Shuntian Prefecture, and escort him into the palace. I will interrogate him in person!"

Then, Zhu Youxiao looked at Cheng Jiming again: "Cheng Aiqing, the epidemic is now uncontrollable, but if it is true, or there is still hope of saving and making up for it, are you willing to temporarily take charge of Shuntian Prefecture and be fully responsible for epidemic prevention in the entire capital?"

"I am willing!"

As soon as Cheng Jiming replied, Zhu Youxiao patted him on the shoulder and ordered Wang Chengen: "I ordered the cabinet to draft an order, and the Grand Secretary of the Dong Pavilion, Cheng Ji, appointed the position of the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the right minister of the Ministry of Health, the prefect of Shuntian, to supervise the military affairs of the Jingji community, and be fully responsible for epidemic prevention in the Jingji community."

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At this time, Wu Youke also came to the Shuntian Prefecture Office and took out another twenty silver dollars before successfully connecting the government office runners, and successfully met the Shuntian Prefecture Officer Qiu Maohua.

Qiu Maohua was a serious Jinshi, and the number one prefect in the world, and was ranked third in the official position. Therefore, he did not look down on Wu Youke, who was not from the imperial examination, but Wu Youke became the second-rank Shangshu because he was appreciated by His Majesty Zhu Youjiao, which made Qiu Maohua even more dissatisfied. Now that he saw Wu Youke wearing the official uniform of the pheasant and plucked son, he was not even willing to stand up and salute.

But Wu Ke bowed to him: "The Supreme Court of the Imperial Pharmacy said that because Shuntian Prefecture was directly responsible for the supply of decoctions for the isolated people, he directly sent a batch of medicinal materials worth 2 million silver dollars stored by the palace to Shuntian Prefecture. When will you take it out for the isolated people to decoct the soup? The epidemic is now expanding, and the batch of medicinal materials stocked by the Imperial Pharmacy has significant efficacy in early prevention of cholera. It must be taken as soon as possible to avoid further expansion of the epidemic!"

Qiu Maohua was very disgusted with Wu Youke talking to him like this, but he was worried that Wu Youke was now a celebrity around His Majesty and had to endure the unhappiness in his heart and said patiently: "Shangshu Wu heard from the father-in-law in the palace that this batch of medicinal materials went directly into my Shuntian Mansion. Xiaguan didn't even receive half a dollar of medicinal materials. If you don't believe it, you can go to the Xiaguan's treasury to check it!"
Chapter completed!