I want to be emperor

In June of the 32nd year of Chengshun, this season was extremely hot in the mainland of the Great Chu Empire.

But in the southeastern part of Africa in the southern hemisphere, this time is actually winter, the coldest season of the year.

Meng Xiu led nearly a hundred people, driving several two-wheeled carriages, and everyone was walking in the wilderness of southern Africa with a 21-year-style flash cap on their backs.

After leaving the vicinity of Maputo, they entered a wilderness. The traffic conditions in these places were very bad, and there were only some small dirt roads that came and went from some indigenous people and caravans.

The bumpy dirt roads made it extremely difficult for the carriages to walk, but even so, Meng Xiu and the others did not abandon the carriages.

Because these carriages are loaded with a lot of food, as well as tents for overnight stay in the field, some basic field tools and other field survival materials.

The supplies on these carriages ensure their survival in the African wasteland, and they cannot be thrown away easily.

Otherwise, there is no way for them to survive for too long in the African wasteland only by relying on the rations and supplies carried by manpower.

The African wilderness these days is actually very unfriendly to humans, especially humans in the civilized world.

All kinds of large animals can be seen everywhere, such as tigers, lions, cheetahs, etc., as well as various poisonous snakes and mosquitoes that are hard to guard against.

If ordinary people don't have rich experience in wild survival, and don't have enough protective equipment and supplies, they won't be able to live long in this African wasteland.

Not to mention anything else, just drinking water is not so easy to solve.

The wild water in these places can't be said to be sweet... All kinds of parasites, microbes and other gravel can kill people.

Although the drinking water for Meng Xiu and the others is wild water, it is all hot water that has been boiled. They don't have the guts to drink unboiled water in such a wild place, or they don't know how they died.

Thanks to the medical and health promotion in China in recent years, the Ministry of Health has been promoting the importance of drinking hot water together with the Ministry of Ethics and Education for decades, so that people should not drink unboiled water.

In the early years, no one cared, but after years of publicity, people finally realized the necessity of drinking hot water.

Only in this way can the people develop the habit of drinking hot boiled water.

The cultivation of this habit is also a major achievement of the Ministry of Health.

Don't look at it as a trivial thing to drink hot water, but if it is really done well, it can increase the average life expectancy of the people by many years...

Not to mention other things, the diseases related to parasites alone have dropped significantly.

Coupled with extensive publicity, guide the public to wash their hands before meals and after going to the toilet, pay attention to environmental hygiene, and so on.

The development of these good hygiene habits actually has an impact on the health of the people of the Great Chu Empire, and its effect is far greater than the so-called orthodox medical research and promotion!
Therefore, in the past 30 years of the Great Chu Empire, its average life expectancy has increased from about 30 years to the current 45 years old (1900, Japan 44, European average 46, and the United States 48).

What plays the most important role is not the improvement of medical technology, but the cultivation of good hygiene habits, coupled with the more important improvement of the per capita food level.

If you eat more, eat well and have good hygiene habits, you will naturally get less sick, and the average life expectancy will naturally increase if there are fewer people who don't get sick.

The effects brought about by the advancement of medical technology are naturally there, but they are not as big as imagined...

Although Meng Xiu and the others have been hanging out overseas for a long time, they are also Chu people. Naturally, they have widely accepted a series of official guidance and propaganda from the empire. They didn't care at first, but after seeing other people adopting some new hygiene habits one after another, they were very natural. will follow up.

People always have a herd mentality, seeing what other people do and say, and then they will be slowly influenced, and then become one of them.

Therefore, scientists in later generations said that when a person is alone, he will have his own individual characteristics, have his own understanding of things, and maintain a basic level of IQ.

But when he integrates into the group, he will be quickly influenced by the people around him, lose his individual characteristics, and his personal thoughts will be replaced by collective thoughts. The overall performance is easy to be emotional, low IQ, no objection, etc., and then becomes a common Said the rabble.

Well, the word mob, in this case, is not really meant to demean a certain group of people, but because it is true of all human beings.

After all, people are collective creatures...As long as you are in society, it is impossible not to be influenced by the people around you...Since you are affected, it also meets the criteria of mob in social psychology.

However, people always like to think that a certain group of people is a mob, and that they are individuals who stand apart from the world... In fact, the reason why you have this kind of thinking is also influenced by others!
This is the so-called group effect in social psychology, and it is also the principle of brainwashing propaganda based on the use of Germany during World War II.

Although Meng Xiu and the others are far away from the mainland and stay overseas all year round, they actually deal with the Chu people themselves on a daily basis, and these Chu people are not born overseas, they basically go from China to overseas territories to make a living. of.

These people were first affected in China, and then they have some basic cognitions of the Chu people in China, such as drinking hot water when drinking water, washing hands before meals, etc.

And after these people go overseas, these habits will still be maintained and affect other people.

In the end, even though Meng Xiu and the others went to Africa, even far away from Maputo, where the Chu people gathered, and came to the inland area of ​​Africa, they still maintained many living habits of the Chu people and took it for granted.

Drinking hot water should be the most typical feature.

Relying on dry food along the way, occasionally using guns to hunt and kill some animals for food, and drinking hot water, they crossed the deserted African continent.

However, the conditions were indeed too difficult. Three days after departure, one member of Meng Xiu's team fell down.

I don't know if it was caused by unhygienic diet or other reasons, but this team member immediately started to have a fever.

Fortunately, the team carried enough emergency medicines, including two miracle medicines for overseas immigrants: cinchona tree and willow bark.

Cinchona trees are used to treat malaria, the number one killer of overseas immigrants.

Willow bark, this thing is used to relieve pain and reduce fever. Although willow bark is a plant medicine, its medicinal effect is actually very similar to that of ibuprofen in later generations, but the side effects are more serious.

But sometimes in order to relieve pain and reduce fever, the side effects are not a big deal. When you have a fever, you can control your body temperature so that the high fever will not subside and endanger your life.

This thing, to a certain extent, can be regarded as the version of ibuprofen of the Great Chu Empire... It is used for pain relief and life-saving for high fever.

A member of the team who has some medical experience but definitely does not have a doctor's qualification certificate concluded that this guy did not suffer from malaria, nor did he have a bad stomach. As for why he had a high fever...you ask him, how does he know.

If he knew, he wouldn't have come to the interior of Africa to risk his life with a flash cap!

With this ability, he can get a medical certificate in China and be a decent doctor!

No matter how bad you are, you can still be a black doctor without a certificate in an overseas colony. You can still earn a lot of money and your social status is still high.

In the overseas colonies of the Great Chu Empire, doctors had a high social status. It didn’t matter whether ordinary people or civil servants or generals saw a doctor, even if he was just an unlicensed black man, he would be polite, because in these poor places in overseas territories, The risk of getting sick is extremely high, and you will always ask a doctor when you get sick.

However, the number of doctors in overseas territories is very small. In the entire African governorate, there will never be more than ten legal doctors with certificates!
Basically, they are sent from the mainland to support the construction of the African governor's jurisdiction, and they will leave after a few years, and they will be rotated in batches. This is actually the main source of most legal doctors in overseas territories!

You let them immigrate by themselves... They went to the overseas colonies to seek guilt after their brains were burnt out!

In the Great Chu Empire, the group of doctors, whose social status is quite high, and those ordinary immigrants who went to overseas territories to seek a life, can be said to be two completely different social classes.

People don't need to immigrate to overseas, but they can live a decent life in China.

So overseas territory i, there are not many legal doctors!

Many of them are uncertified black doctors who see a doctor under the name of recuperation and health care. These people often don't write prescriptions for you, because if you don't have a doctor's qualification certificate, once you write a prescription for a patient, it is illegal to practice medicine. fine and jail time...

However, it is not allowed to prescribe the prescription directly, it can be dictated... the patient writes it down by himself, even if he is illiterate, he can ask others to write it down.

Then go to buy medicine by yourself.

At present, there are many traditional medicines in the Great Chu Empire, such as plant medicines or some mineral or animal medicines. Anyway, among the many messy empirical medicines, the current management is not strict, but some highly toxic dangerous goods are banned, with obvious strong side effects Drug.

Generally speaking, as long as there are too weird things, you can basically sell them at will. After all, you can ban many things, but people can dig some botanical medicines in the wild by themselves...

Furthermore, at present, the great Chu Empire’s drug research capabilities are still very limited, and it is difficult to figure out whether some drugs in traditional empirical medicine are effective or not, and what side effects they have...Since they will not understand for a while, the Great Chu Empire simply put the big Part of it is unclear, but the traditional experience medicine that can't kill people is put aside, and it is managed with health care products for the time being.

After all, a lot of herbal medicines are bark of flowers, plants and trees. If people insist on eating the bark of flowers and plants, you have to let people eat it, right...as long as it doesn't kill people, then so be it.

But dangerous things are not allowed, such as arsenic, opium, etc., these things are directly listed as contraband, and individuals are not allowed to buy and sell them.

On the whole, the current medical treatment of the Great Chu Empire still relies on traditional empirical medicine to a great extent. However, due to limited medical technology, it is difficult to understand the principles of traditional empirical medicine and drug interactions for the time being... do.

So that in the end there was such a nondescript management method, some dangerous goods were included in the contraband for management, and ordinary people couldn’t die from eating them, and I didn’t find any major side effects for the time being, and I didn’t know why this thing was useful. , I don’t even know if there are traditional empirical medicines that are useful, but they are included in the management of health care products.

At the same time, for some drugs with clear effects and side effects, drugs that have undergone clinical trials, such as newly developed chemical agents, and effective costs extracted from traditional medicine, such as salicylic acid, are included in drug management for drugs with clear effects and side effects. And it is widely used in major medical institutions... But there are not many drugs included in the drug management, so that the current drug safety management office is actually under the food safety department.

The plight of drug management also reflects the limited level of modern medical technology in the Great Chu Empire.

At the same time, the cost of doctors' study is too high, so the number is not much
After all, it is not easy to seek medical treatment. You have to go to medical school, not to mention the medical school in the university, but at least you have to go to the medical school of a technical secondary school, otherwise you will not even be eligible to apply for a doctor's certificate.

To study and study, you must at least go to a technical secondary school, which is actually very difficult for the vast majority of immigrants at the bottom of society... If this family can afford their children to go to school, they don't need to go overseas to immigrate ah.

There are not many doctors among immigrants, even black doctors without certificates, which also leads to many people in overseas territories. When they get sick, many people fight on their own. When they have a fever, they drink some willow bark soup , If you have diarrhea, come and have cinchona tree tea!
See a doctor?
Big colonial cities are ok, but some small towns, normal immigrant settlements, a woolly healer...

Maputo can be regarded as a large colonial town. There is not even a legal ruling doctor in the city, and there is also a half-baked black doctor who has no certificate and can only treat some common diseases and trauma, and the fees are not cheap.

In Meng Xiu's team, it is very rare to have a talent with some medical experience.

It was impossible to want more.

Therefore, in the face of Meng Xiu who had a high fever, but couldn't figure out why, they had no choice but to put the team member with a high fever on the carriage, and then boiled willow bark soup for him to reduce the fever.

At the same time, Meng Xiu once again emphasized to the team members that they must maintain good food hygiene.

If you want to go back alive, you must drink hot water that has been boiled for a while, and try to eat the food you bring with you. The meat from hunting must be steamed at high temperature and cooked thoroughly before eating, and you can only eat some common food. Animals, can't eat the meat of messy animals.

At the same time, pay attention to prevent poisonous snakes and mosquitoes. Do not untie your shoes and leggings casually. At the same time, do not take off your jacket easily. Do not untie your gloves to touch some plants or even mud to avoid being bitten by poisonous snakes and mosquitoes.

You must sleep in a tent at night, and the tent must be set up to prevent poisonous snakes and mosquitoes from getting in.

In short, those who don't want to die should honestly follow the strict rules of survival in the wild. Otherwise, if something happens to the wilderness, no one can save them.

After continuing to move forward so cautiously, two more people fell down in the next few days.

One of them was very unlucky. While riding a horse to open the road ahead, he encountered a poisonous snake... Then the horse was frightened by the boa constrictor and ran wildly.

So this unlucky guy was thrown off the horse, his right wrist was directly broken, and his right leg was also sprained... There was no other way but to bear the pain and perform a simple bandage.

Another one was even more unlucky, being stung to death by a wasp!
This man took a tuba directly on the side of the road when he was resting on the spot during the march, but he was careless and didn't observe carefully. He directly installed a tuba under a hornet's nest, and even surprised the hornet's nest above his head...

As a result, those hornet's nests unceremoniously stung him all over his head... Whoops, he just hung up after a few hours!
Within a few days of departure, one died, one got sick and one was injured, and three people were directly reduced in non-combat, which made Meng Xiu very helpless.

But there is no way to do this. Africa is so dangerous these days.

This is why the Great Chu Empire was unwilling to let its regular army go deep into the interior of Africa to fight, but mobilized a large number of Indian legions to serve as the main field combat forces.

This broken place is too dangerous, and non-combat attrition is too ruthless.