The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 245 Forceps and Sweet Potatoes

Li An returned to modern times after the Hundred Wine Banquet. In order to prepare for autumn plowing, Li An first got a set of curved shaft plows. Everyone knows that the curved shaft plow has several major improvements compared with the previous plows. .

The first is to change the straight shaft and long shaft to curved shaft and short shaft, and install a freely rotating plow disc on the shaft head, which not only makes the plow frame smaller and lighter, but also facilitates turning and turning, flexible operation, and saves manpower and labor. Animal power.

However, this curved shaft plow appeared in the Jiangdong area in the late Tang Dynasty. Li An now brought it directly to Guanzhong. You must know that the long and heavy straight shaft plow before the Tang Dynasty was difficult to turn and it was laborious to cultivate the land.

Now that there is a Quyuan plow, you don’t need to guess, it will definitely increase productivity significantly.

The second one is sweet potatoes. Meng Ziqian’s Meng family controls the food routes in the south of the Yangtze River. Then Li An will turn Guanzhong into a self-sufficient place. Sweet potatoes were introduced to our country in the Ming Dynasty. They must be here. Thanks to that old scholar during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, his name was Chen Zhenlong.

Mr. Chen once passed the examination as a scholar when he was young. However, with the rapid increase in population in the late Ming Dynasty and the difficulty of the imperial examination, after failing to pass the imperial examination, Chen Zhenlong followed the strong business culture of the southeastern provinces and went to Nanyang (Southeast Asia) to do business. , “Traveling between Fujian Province and Luzon (Philippines).”

At that time, the Spaniards who conquered the Philippines "often suffered from insufficient food and rice", so they introduced a plant transplanted from South America to the Philippines. , compared to the domestic yield of only two to three hundred kilograms of wheat and rice per mu in the Ming Dynasty, this is undoubtedly a super crop.

Although he was just a scholar who changed his career to doing business, Chen Zhenlong still had strong traditional intellectual feelings in his heart. Thinking of his hometown where the population was increasing and his fellow villagers were still struggling to have enough food and clothing, Chen Zhenlong decided to go through all kinds of hardships. , and also want to bring this super plant back to China.

However, the Spaniards were very smart and "treasured their seeds and did not trade with the Chinese." The potato vines were twisted into the water rope, and after passing the checkpoint, they finally returned to Fuzhou from the Philippines after seven days and nights of bumpy sailing.

Four months after returning to China, the first batch of sweet potatoes introduced by Chen Zhenlong were successfully multiplied. "The small ones are like arms, the big ones are like fists, and the taste is the same as pears and dates." Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian, was excited when he learned about it and immediately reported the visit of Chen and his son. "It was an act of righteousness" and "even though it was a human matter, it was actually a blessing from heaven." Later, the introduction of sweet potatoes began to be promoted throughout Fujian Province.

This time, what Li An wants to do is to behave like Mr. Chen, but he is thousands of years ahead of schedule. Li An hopes that he can take advantage of this thousands of years in advance, so that the people in the future can try not to become starved.

Starving was very painful, and Li An hoped that there would be no more starving deaths. Following Li An, he also got two things, both of which were clipper ships. This ship was for future shipping between Chang'an and Luoyang and then to the south of the Yangtze River.

The last thing is forceps.

In fact, Li An didn't know about the forceps at first, but Li An asked omnipotent netizens for help on the Internet. Li An asked what should ancient women do if they had difficulty giving birth?
Later, a netizen named Daidai answered Ang Lee’s question:

If you want to know what to do if an ancient woman had a difficult childbirth, you must first know that the medical conditions in ancient times were different from those in modern times. There were no hospitals dedicated to giving birth. The process of giving birth in ancient times was very simple.

First of all, men need to keep boiling hot water, because there were no birth-inducing medicines in ancient times, so hot water can only be used to midwife women.

Then the midwife uses hot water to wipe the pregnant woman's body (a woman's body temperature will drop when she gives birth, and hot water can keep the mother warm). This will also help the mother's cervix open and the child can be delivered smoothly.

Then the midwife will remind the pregnant woman to adjust her breathing, tell the pregnant woman not to shout, and ask the pregnant woman to arch her legs and open her legs.

After the fetus is born smoothly, the midwife cuts the umbilical cord with fire-burned tongs.Then wash the baby and pregnant woman with hot water.The process is simple.

But not every child is born so simply. Women, especially in ancient times, gave birth to girls who were underage, and most of them had a birth canal that was too narrow. It was impossible to give birth to a child.In addition, a large amount of physical energy is consumed during childbirth, which can easily cause blood vessels to rupture and cause massive bleeding, leading to organ failure or death from excessive blood loss.

When these situations arise, even if the emperor's concubine gives birth, the imperial doctors cannot save them. In the final analysis, the main reason is that the medical technology is too poor to solve these problems well.

In ancient times, as long as women had dystocia, they basically waited to die.

At this time, I can tell you that there is a thing called forceps. Unfortunately, forceps was first invented by the British gynecologist Chamberlain.

This invention was monopolized by the Chamberlain family at the time. When delivering a baby, the forceps were kept very private and would only be revealed at the moment of delivery.

Therefore, his income is extremely high, which can be said to be as rich as any country, and he is respected and loved by everyone. Every time he comes to deliver a baby, he will be transported by a high-end special carriage.

It was not until the call of the country that forceps were popularized throughout the country, and later spread to the whole world, thus saving more women's lives.

The operation of the forceps is to reach in, clamp the baby's head, and pull it out bit by bit.

Because of such a tool, many women who might have died of dystocia have saved their lives, and the mother and child are safe.

Another situation is that the fetus's head is too big to pass through. At this time, the forceps are used to crush the fetus' head into pieces, and then dig out the body bit by bit to save the adult's life.

After Li An received a satisfactory answer, he immediately went to buy ten sets of forceps. If they were useful, Li An would not mind spreading the forceps in Datang in advance. How many lives could Li An save in this way? human life.

Now the forceps has been sent to Tai Hospital for further testing. If successful, it will be sent to the Ministry of Industry for large-scale imitation, and then delivered to every stable woman for free.

At the same time, Li An stretched his waist and smiled, "Uncle, is Tuyuhun going to war?"

Changsun Wuji looked back at Li An and said with a smile: "You are also concerned about the war. This time Qin Qiong is in command, His Majesty is very relieved. He is bound to bring down Tuyuhun. Does An'er have any gems he wants? Soon, we will There are a lot of them.”

This is the self-confidence of the Tang people. In their hearts, any foreign enemy can be conquered.

Li An nodded and laughed: "That's just right. I also made something this time, which just happens to help the wounded and sick. Uncle, let's take a look. Please help me list it!"

"Oh what is it?" Changsun Wuji became curious.

(End of this chapter)