The Chinese drama/costume film "Daming Robbery", released in 2013 and directed by Wang Jing and written by Xie Xiaodong and Zhou Rongyang, tells the story of 1642, when Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant rebel army, besieged kaifeng city, and there were no generals available in the dynasty at this time, and the suspicious Chongzhen Emperor had to release Rao Yongshan's unruly ming general Sun Chuanting from prison. Sun Chuanting, who had been wrongfully imprisoned for three years after being framed by villains, was completely unaware of the outside world, and boasted to Chongzhen that he only needed five thousand elite soldiers to destroy Li Zicheng, and chongzhen, who was overjoyed, ordered him to immediately rush to Tongguan to unblock the siege, and at the same time secretly ordered Sun Chuanting to kill He Renlong, the chief soldier of Shaanxi who supported the army and respected himself.
Since Chongzhen ascended the throne, the continuous drought in the north and the flood in the south have caused a nationwide famine, plague epidemics, and countless people who have died of starvation and disease have died in the wilderness on the roadside, and the population of Suzhou alone has dropped from 230,000 households to 50,000 households. Suzhou Wujiang County Chinese medicine Wu You can find that traditional Chinese medicine theory is helpless for the plague in the process of actually treating patients, determined to find the cause of the plague and the treatment method, so the displaced people move in the opposite direction, with the intention of finding the origin of the disease. In 1642, Wu Ke came to Tongguan again.
After designing and killing He Renlong, Sun Chuanting, who was full of ambition, found himself facing a situation of lack of soldiers and guns and cannons. The Ming Dynasty's military system was a hereditary tun military system, and for more than 200 years of peace, a large number of tun tian were appropriated by local tycoons and evil gentry, and the officers' long-term empty salaries made the actual soldiers less than one-third of the registered number, and what was even more frightening was that the plague caused a significant reduction in the number of existing soldiers. Faced with Li Zi's million-strong army, Sun Chuanting knew that he had no chance of victory, and Shangquan Chongzhen requested additional reinforcements. Chongzhen, who was suspicious by nature, suspected that Sun Chuanting was delaying for some reason, and lianfa ordered him to quickly go out of Tongguan to suppress Li Zicheng in order to unseal the seal. According to the official system, Sun Chuanting has no right to forcefully recover from them the taxes they have stolen in the past to pay the military, and how can the army be recruited to make weapons without military pay? Sun Chuanting was in a desperate situation...
Almost at the same time, the terrible plague began to spread in the military camp, and Wu Ke, who was searching for the source of the disease, came to the army. He explained to Sun Chuanting and his teacher Zhao Chuan that this was a formless, colorless, odorless furuncle, a warm disease transmitted through the mouth and nose, and was by no means the traditional belief that ordinary cold fever could not be treated according to the prescription. Sun Chuanting and Zhao Chuan did not listen to Wu Youke's kind words and advice and regarded them as liars, and in the face of the soldiers who fell ill, they still treated them according to Zhang Zhongjing's classic work "On Typhoid Fever", the result was that the light ones were aggravated, the heavy ones were killed, the epidemic situation was completely out of control, and the report on the number of soldiers who died every day made Sun Chuanting's nerves almost collapse, and as a last resort, Sun Chuanting ordered someone to invite Back Wu Youke... Chongzhen lost his last patience and gave Sun Chuanting an ultimatum. In desperation, Sun Chuanting led a team out of Tongguan to pursue Li Zicheng, and in order to ensure victory, Sun Chuanting invited Wu you to go out with him, in case Wu could be captured by Li Zicheng to treat the rebel army, but seeing that Wu could go and decide, Sun Chuanting secretly asked him to be beheaded.
Wu Youke had already expected that his life would not be guaranteed, and fled overnight... Sun Chuanting was killed in battle, and at the end of 1642, Wu Ke wrote the heirloom "The Plague Theory", which died in the Ming Dynasty in 1644. "Plague Theory" laid the theoretical foundation of Traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment and control of infectious diseases, it as a supplement to the "Typhoid Fever Theory", has played an extremely important and irreplaceable role so far, in 2003, a doctor in Singapore sent a fax to the Chinese Ministry of Health, informing one of the "Plague Theory" of a jingfang "Dayuan drink" treatment of SARS has a miraculous effect.