The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 695
Due to the rapid economic development of the "Nanming" system, cheap and high-quality general-purpose soap has become an essential daily necessities at home.

After medical workers widely advertised the benefits of using soap, everyone has become accustomed to using it. Soaps with medicinal effects, such as sulfur soap, have been prescribed by doctors as medicines for the prevention and treatment of mild skin diseases.

Under the leadership of Wu Youxing and others, the medical team of Huang's family can successfully defend against a kind of plague, that is, smallpox. In today's world, there is no specific medicine to deal with this virus. Once people are infected, they can only resign themselves to their fate.

The initial symptoms of smallpox infection include high fever, extreme tiredness, headache, and back pain. After two or three days, there will be a typical smallpox rash that is obviously distributed on the face, arms, and legs, accompanied by a light red blocky area. A rash appeared, which would suppurate within a few days.

In human history, plagues such as smallpox, the Black Death, and cholera have left an astonishing number of deaths. Those who survived smallpox became pockmarked, but they also had lifelong immunity.

Too many doctors have been inspired. Sun Simiao, the "King of Medicine" in Chinese history, once used pus from smallpox aphthous ulcers to apply on the skin to prevent smallpox. In the Ming Dynasty, although the smallpox vaccination method was very risky, it was also accepted. Many people accept.

Huang Sheng had a discussion with medical workers when he was examining recent scientific research results two years ago. The team of Wu Youxing and Fang Yizhi suggested to the head of the family that all children in the Huang family system should be vaccinated against smallpox.

Hu Jianya, Li Chenxu, Li Lanxiang, Li Guixiang and others resolutely opposed it. They believed that the efficiency of disease prevention and control in the Huang family system was very high, and there was no need to take the risk of vaccinating all children, because after all, the risk of infection was too high and the prevention effect was not very good. ideal.

Huang Sheng knew that smallpox had been extinct in the 80s, and only laboratory samples remained of the virus.

However, smallpox is one of the oldest infectious diseases in human history and has the highest mortality rate. It is highly contagious and serious. Anyone who has never suffered from smallpox or has not been vaccinated against smallpox can be infected, and the mortality rate is as high as [-]% or even [-]%.

Huang Sheng had been vaccinated with vaccinia when he was a child, and he knew how to prevent the epidemic. He was secretly impressed when he found out that people in the Ming Dynasty knew how to vaccinate against human pox.

He did not say whether to promote variola vaccination in the system, but suggested that Hu Jianya and Wu Youxing continue to lead the research team and try to vaccinate animals with pox. Why not try vaccinia?

The results are self-evident. Half a year later, the laboratory inoculation with vaccinia achieved a [-]% success rate. With the clinical data and theoretical basis, a year later, the Huang family system was widely vaccinated. Today, almost no Huang family members have this epidemic. .

When Huang Sheng praised the medical workers and decided to give Hu Jianya and Wu Youxing official status, everyone in the venue stood up and applauded, because everyone was a beneficiary and they all saw the contributions of the medical workers.

Huang Shengen bestowed Hu Jianya and Wu Youxing as Doctor Zhongshun, which was already two ranks higher than the highest official position in Daming Tai Hospital, the fifth-rank envoy. The two never imagined that they would become scholar-bureaucrats one day and receive such high-ranking congratulations. Overwhelmed.

This time there are more than [-] other medical workers who have been canonized, ranging from the ninth grade to the sixth grade. Most of the doctors who came to the meeting did not expect this to be the case, and they will be more eager to give back to "Nanming" with practical actions. "Government love.

Huang Sheng is already considering setting up an independent agency outside of the six ministries after the war, the National Health Department, which is equivalent to the Health Bureau and the Food and Drug Administration in later generations.

"Nanming" founded the country, and there were too many civil servants, military generals and craftsmen who were rewarded and promoted, so I won't list them one by one.

When the bureaucrats and master craftsmen at all levels of the "Nanming" who attended the meeting came out, everyone was full of red faces. I don't know if it was too stuffy in the grand theater, or their hearts were full of enthusiasm. Anyway, Huang Mingli, Huang Mingdao, Han Kuan and other big and small earls Overjoyed.

All the civil and military generals understand that "Nanming" still established the country with military force and rejuvenated the country with industry. The biggest civil and military generals are the masters who lead troops to fight or are master craftsmen with practical experience, even if they obviously don't care about the affairs of the six departments, the highest position It is also left to them.

This is a special period. The "Nanming" government is still under military control, and it will be like this for ten years. The rule of law will not be able to gradually change until the real sea is clear and the river is in chaos.

In Ming Dynasty, governing the country with civil servants is actually abolishing martial arts. It is not advisable in the world environment of the Great Discovery Age when Western Yis plundered colonies everywhere.

Huang Sheng always wants to beat each opponent to the ground, so that they can no longer make waves, making the country established by the Han people the only superpower, and only when it is thriving can we consider cultural governance.

The "God of War" went south to expand the land. There is no doubt that Liaodong took a defensive position, but the affiliation of too many "God of War" generals in Liaodong was unclear. Tang Daoheng who came to the meeting was of course a general of the 'Nanming'.

However, He Kegang, the commander-in-chief of the right governor, Jin Guofeng, deputy general Xia Chengde, Lu Pinqi, etc. of the governor Tongzhi, were all relied on by the Ming Dynasty.

Even Qing Getai was conferred Dataiji by the Ming Dynasty. It is natural for these generals to do their duty for the Ming Dynasty, and it is their duty to defend the land in Liaodong.

Tang Daoheng was overjoyed to be awarded the "Nanming" title of third-rank guerrilla general. He was actually a second-rank general of the Ming Dynasty, but this young man knew that there were so many generals in the Ming Dynasty that he was not worth mentioning in front of civil officials who were born as Jinshi.

The 'Southern Ming' is completely different, there are less than 100 military generals above the third rank. When working with civil officials of the third rank, it is the opposite of the Ming Dynasty. The military officer's order is the only standard for execution.

Huang Sheng did not allow Tang Daoheng to stay with the army and go south to expand the soil, ordered him to return to Jinzhou to serve, and sent an air force team led by captain Cheng Shiju to help defend Jinzhou.

Due to the need to move to Southeast Asia in the past two years, and the army is far away from Liaodong, the previous promise that the Liaodong cities will come to rescue as long as they stick to it for a year needs to keep pace with the times.

Huang Sheng asked Tang Daoheng to go back and tell He Kegang to convene a civil and military meeting in Jinzhou and Ningyuan to convey the Nanwang's promise that each city must be kept for three years, which means that it must meet the provisions stored in the city for three years before it can be confirmed that it is safe.

'Huaxia Island', Zhongming Fort, and Yongping Mansion will assist the generals of the Ming army to complete the food storage plan, and of course they will also hoard enough coal. This time Tang Daoheng will bring sixty six-pound field smoothbore guns back to Liaodong.

With these cannons that can flexibly move positions, they will definitely not suffer from firepower when defending the city. With the attacking ability of the Qing Dynasty, it may be wishful thinking to win Jinzhou.

However, the He Kegang Department can only stick to Jinzhou when there is no shortage of food and grass. If you want to go out of the city and fight with the thousands of Manchu cavalry, you can't do it at all.

(End of this chapter)