I want to be emperor

Chapter 574 The urgent medical reform

In the eighth year of Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire was generally peaceful. Even in summer and autumn, the Great Chu Empire continuously launched large-scale wars in the northeast and Monan Mongolia, but the wars were only limited to the above-mentioned areas.

Even in the Guannei and Hebei regions, apart from the fact that you can often see teams of army transport convoys on the official roads continuing to the northern grasslands or northeast, ordinary people can't feel the atmosphere of war.

War is too far away from ordinary people.

More importantly, the war in the Northeast and Monan areas seemed to be on a large scale, and the Chu army used a lot of troops, but in fact the intensity was not high.

With all the fighting and calculations, the Chu army fought a large-scale battle with tens of thousands of people on the south bank of the Songhua River with the Dongyao people, and the rest were small and medium-scale battles with hundreds or thousands of people.

This seemingly large-scale, but actually low-intensity war, for the Great Chu Empire Army, was just a little bit of exercise, and it was more of a large-scale military exercise on the spot to suppress bandits by the way.

After all, the large-scale battles in the Northeast were actually on the same level as the suppression of bandits.

The Eastern captives, seven years after Chengshun, were no longer a strong enemy of the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, the battle in the summer and autumn of the eighth year of Chengshun, to most people in the Great Chu Empire, was nothing more than a few good news reports in the Great Chu Mansion newspaper, and they did not actually feel the atmosphere of the war.

In all parts of the Great Chu Empire, war is not a daily discussion among people. Some daily things are the focus of their discussions. Even some scholars and gentry discuss state affairs, and they mostly talk about internal policies, such as the relationship with their lives. Agricultural policy and business policy are closely related.

Especially the agricultural policy, the five-year agricultural development plan started by the Great Chu Empire in the fourth year of Chengshun, is now in its fourth year.

In the past four years, the Great Chu Empire has supported agricultural development in many ways. A large number of water conservancy facilities have been built, flood control dams, irrigation canals, and a large number of wells have been built.

At the same time, in order to better support agricultural production, a large number of government-run small and medium-sized machinery factories were built in many prefectures and even some large counties.

These machinery factories using water-powered machinery may seem inconspicuous, but they have brought drastic changes to the Great Chu Empire.

More and better iron tools were produced in large quantities, and then brought to the market at a low price, and then obtained by farmers and many manual craftsmen, which in turn increased their production efficiency.

The term production efficiency may seem a little empty at first glance, but it actually changes people's lives.

When farmers cultivate the land, it is more labor-saving, and they can cultivate more land at the same time, especially in places where the land is sparsely populated and there is still a large amount of arable land that can be developed, and the local farmers are almost all reclaiming wasteland.

Although it is still very hard work, there is more food harvested, and more rations can be left after delivery.

Not to mention, in order to support the development of agriculture, the Great Chu Empire also had preferential measures to reclaim wasteland, such as three-year exemption and two-half reduction of agricultural tax.

These have greatly improved the living conditions of farmers.

One of the things that can best reflect the improvement of people's lives is that the number of private births has increased significantly.

The situation is stable and more food is harvested, which will naturally motivate the people to have more children and feed them.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs has submitted reports many times, saying that in recent years, the number of private births has begun to increase significantly, but the number of doctors in various private medical centers has not affected the increase, and they have been applying for admission. Increased funding for medical and health care, and applied for the establishment of a specialized medical academy to train more doctors.

In this regard, in November of the eighth year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue held a targeted medical and health imperial meeting.

Not only the civil service ministers participated, but also the military ministers participated.

As for a health and medical conference that belongs to internal affairs, why is the military involved... that is because the military has a large number of professional medical personnel, and also has the only medical personnel training institution in the Great Chu Empire, which is the army officer The medical training system in the medical department of the academy and in the various boot camps.

The medical department in the Army Military Academy is to train professional medical talents, and it is rushing to train doctors, focusing on trauma, epidemic prevention, and even mosquito bite prevention.

The medical soldier training system in many recruit training camps is directly recruited from recruits and trained as medical soldiers, mainly used for rescuing the wounded on the battlefield, taking care of the wounded during wars and the like.

And this is also the only large-scale medical talent training system in the Great Chu Empire.

There are no other schools. As for the folks... they are still in the medical center. The doctor-apprentice model is not a big scale.

Even if it is a government-run imperial hospital, it is actually similar to the imperial hospital of the traditional feudal dynasty. The source of its doctors is to directly recruit those famous doctors to serve, and these doctors will also bring a few doctors to study. There are quite a lot, but in the final analysis, it is still an apprenticeship model taught by precept and deed.

What the Ministry of Civil Affairs wants to engage in is medical education. It wants to train doctors in batches, and the training cost should not be too high.

In addition, there is a very special point that at present, almost all the available trauma departments in the empire study the human body in a scientific way, and the pathological doctors are all military doctors...

The military doctors in the medical department of the Army Military Academy...Although many of them are descendants of traditional medical families and have been exposed to traditional empirical medicine since childhood, after entering the medical department, what they study is the internal structure of the human body, often dissected, and then use various microscopes Observe various microorganisms and try to figure out what makes people infected and diseased.

They, under the instruction of Luo Zhixue, are studying modern medicine that allows scientific concepts.

Of course, in the actual treatment, traditional empirical medicine will also be combined, and most of the medicines prescribed to patients are actually traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions... After all, some herbal medicine prescriptions have been known to be effective after many experiences, although they don't know yet. Why is it effective, but it can cure diseases anyway.

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

Therefore, although those military doctors are studying new medical theories, they are concentrating on finding all kinds of pathogenic bacteria and killing them... But it does not affect them to continue to use various traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions to treat diseases.

The two do not conflict!

At least, until all kinds of new drugs under the new medical theory are developed, the two cannot conflict!
The Ministry of Civil Affairs does not want to train doctors of traditional empirical medicine, but comprehensive talents who combine new medical theories and traditional empirical medicine applications...

And this is inseparable from the cooperation of the military!
At the imperial meeting, the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs emphasized and complained in various ways, saying that the private medical care is too bad, and countless people die of diseases every day, and a considerable number of them are minors and pregnant women. .

Why is the average life expectancy of the ancient population so low? Although there is malnutrition, people can’t move when they live to be 50 or [-] years old, but the more important thing is that the death of a large number of minors and pregnant women has greatly reduced the average life expectancy.

Needless to say, the dangers of pregnant women, most people know that women in ancient times basically passed through the gate of hell to give birth. Whether they can give birth alive depends on fate.

And this probability is not too high!

As for the high mortality rate of infants, I am afraid that not so many people in later generations will pay attention to and understand it. In fact, it is very difficult for children of ancient people to live to adulthood.

Not to mention ordinary families, even if it is a powerful family, or even a royal family, it is very difficult for a baby to live to adulthood smoothly.

If you look through the history books, you will find that many emperors have given birth to many sons, but not many princes survived to adulthood, so that the bloodlines were cut off, and finally the brothers and nephews inherited the throne.

His elder brother Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty, that is, Zhu Youxiao, Emperor Tianqi, did not have any sons. He gave birth to three sons, but none of them survived...

In the end, after the death of Tianqi, the throne of the Dragon Throne was cheaper for Chongzhen. In the end, Chongzhen used too much force and kicked the dilapidated house of the Ming Dynasty over.

And there are many emperors like Emperor Tianqi who have no sons!
And this is royal!

What the royal family can enjoy is the world's top medical resources, surrounded by various imperial doctors, but even so, the premature death rate of princes and daughters is very high.

It is even more difficult for children from ordinary families to grow up alive.

At first, Luo Zhixue also knew that it was not easy for a child to grow up smoothly, but he didn't take it seriously. However, after seeing the shocking report from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he had to be cautious and held a special meeting The Senate meeting discusses health and medical affairs.

The report submitted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs is not a large-scale statistical report, but a follow-up study by the Medical Department under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which corresponds to a certain town under Tianfu.

The mortality rate of these young babies and pregnant women was far higher than he imagined.

It was hard for him to imagine that the daughters-in-law of the two brothers in the report all died of dystocia. Of the three children of the elder brother's family, one lived for only a few months, the other lived for more than a year, and the third lived for three years. He also died when he was just over one year old... A child of his younger brother's family also died when he was over one year old.

This big family, in the end, there are still only two brothers left...

Although this is an extreme case, Luo Zhixue also knows that the Ministry of Civil Affairs wrote this example just to arouse his shock.

But Luo Zhixue still felt the difficulties of people's livelihood from between the lines!

This also made Luo Zhixue understand that the universal medical reform has reached the point of no delay!

(End of this chapter)