From the world of martial arts

Chapter 254 Shocking Succession
"Infant survival rate?"

Zhang Zhongjing was completely bewildered, he hadn't thought about this thing at all, and who would have thought about the survival of babies, they don't even care much about the life and death of adults, let alone these things.

"Mr. Zhong Jing, under my rule, there are at least hundreds of thousands of babies born every year, no, millions of babies are born, and this number is still increasing year by year. For 100 million babies, the annual mortality rate reaches 30%. That is [-] babies because All kinds of nascent infants died unexpectedly."

"If Zhong Jinggong can improve their survival rate, how many babies can be saved every year?"

Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. This is a Buddhist saying, but there is a similar saying for doctors.

When Su Fan pointed out this point, Zhang Zhongjing was immediately moved.

However, he quickly reacted and said with some doubts: "If the survival rate has really increased, then you will have a lot of people every year under your rule. Can you support them?"

This is the reason for Zhang Zhongjing's hesitation. It's not that doctors haven't discovered such a problem. Some people even raised it before, but it didn't matter in the end.

Why?

The people at the bottom, they are not wealthy businessmen, the number of people they can afford for a family is limited, one more baby means one more mouth, and the annual grain production is only so much, if there is really an extra mouth, then it may not be enough.

If there is any natural disaster, it is very likely that the whole family will be finished.

The people at the bottom have poor resistance, so it may not be a good thing for them to really improve the survival rate of their babies.

"Haha! If Mr. Zhong Jing is only worried about this, then there is no problem. Under my rule, let alone other things, as long as you have hands and feet, you will never starve to death. You will never starve to death”

Su Fan said calmly.

"Mr. Zhongjing, it seems that I don't believe it."

After hearing Su Fan's words, Zhang Zhongjing's expression remained firm. Obviously, he thought that Su Fan was talking too much, and he didn't starve to death. How could it be possible that even in the prosperous age, there were still civilians who starved to death.

Not to mention the troubled world now.

Su Fan was also aware of the other party's suspicions.

"Master Zhongjing, my lord is not exaggerating. Under my lord's rule, as long as I am not a lazy person, no one will starve to death."

"how is this possible?"

Zhang Zhongjing still couldn't believe Xun You's words, but Xun You's identity made him feel that he would not lie.

Because of this, he was even more surprised.

"Because, my lord has opened up tens of millions of acres of barren land in Donghai County, and with the help of farmers and the Mo family, the yield per mu of the field has been continuously increased. Now the average yield per mu of Donghai Territory under my lord's rule has reached five shi. about"

"The annual grain production in the field reaches hundreds of millions of stones"

"This,,,,"

The grain of hundreds of millions of shi is a huge number, enough to feed tens of millions of people.

This number also made Zhang Zhongjing dazed, this is just a county.

It is even a problem that some states can have hundreds of millions of shi of grain every year, such as Liangzhou and Bingzhou.

This world is indeed very big. It can be said that the land is vast and sparsely populated, but it is precisely because the land is sparsely populated. Except for the city and the surrounding area of ​​a hundred miles, there are still people inhabited, and everything else is wild.

The wilderness is full of various crises.

In this world, most of the fertile land is around the city.

Villages in the countryside are also built around the city, the farther away from the city, the more dangerous it is.

Beasts in the wild, just like Africa in later generations, the wild is dominated by wild beasts. When the East China Sea Territory was first built, the villages were all around the Suvanna military camp.

It was also later that when Su Fan's army was stationed in the army, they kept sweeping wild beasts in the wilderness. All the animals that could be killed were killed and turned into the army's meat, and the rest ran into the mountains, forests and swamps.

Therefore, the construction of the East China Sea Territory cannot be separated from the army.

But in other places, there is no army to help. If you want to open up wasteland, you can only do it by big families, because they can build Ubud in the wild, and they also have private soldiers in their hands, so they can develop good land.

The people at the bottom can't do it at all.

And the gentry would not be able to open up wasteland wirelessly, because there was not enough manpower, and it was not cost-effective if they were too far away from Ubud and the city.

Therefore, there may not be as many fertile fields in places like Liangzhou as Donghai County, and the natural output is also limited.

Donghai Territory has been developed to the limit, but Donghai County is very large. If it continues to develop like Donghai Territory, it is estimated that 5000 million mu of fields can be developed.

After all, the territory of Donghai Territory is only one-tenth of the size of Donghai County.

Of course, it is not so easy to develop 5000 million mu of land. The population is not enough, and even if so many fields are opened up, no one will cultivate them.

This era, after all, is not the age of science and technology of the later generations. Farming is replaced by machines. In this era, manpower is still the main force.

Even if the livestock in the Eastern Sea Territory is developed, the arable land is still manpower, and there are still a few cattle and horses. Fortunately, Su Fan has ordered the Ministry of Industry to continue research to see if a rune-powered machine can be developed.

As for those Mohist disciples, of course cowhide, as long as they mention a few things, they will definitely develop something that is eye-catching.

It's a pity that Su Fan doesn't know much about machines, and he traveled through ancient times in his previous two lives, so he couldn't provide many dead ends.

This is also the reason why the East China Sea Territory machine cannot conduct research quickly.

Therefore, the development of Donghai County is still relatively difficult, not only because of manpower, but also because most of the land in Donghai County has almost fallen into the hands of those gentry.

The remaining wilderness is more difficult to develop. Even if it is developed, the harvest is not very big, and the benefits are not great, which is also the reason why the gentry gave up.

Of course, once the population increases in the future, Su Fan doesn't mind developing it. After all, no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat.

Therefore, he is in urgent need of population now, but it is a pity that Qingzhou Guan Hai can't help it. You must know that Donghai has a population of tens of millions, and Guan Hai will transport more than half of it for him.

Most of the refugees in Qingzhou were taken away by Guan Hai and transported to him.

Next, either transport the population from elsewhere, or grow naturally on your own.

Natural growth, the base of Donghai Territory is not small, plus Donghai County, the number of babies born every year definitely exceeds one million, or even more.

But because of the problem of survival rate, during the growth process, not only in infancy, but also in childhood, there are many accidents, especially illness, which is their biggest threat.

Therefore, Su Fan needs to build a hospital and needs a large number of doctors, but there are not many doctors in the East China Sea. Su Fan said that his medical skills are good, but he can't be a doctor in the hospital himself.

Zhang Zhongjing is the Minister of Health of the East China Sea Territory, and he also serves as the director of the First Hospital.

(End of this chapter)