Wanli 1592

Chapter 1323 The people of Daqin are far from living a good life

After Liu Chuanhai sent the necessary information back to Xiao Ruxun, he started to take full action with Du Kangyong's support.

The content of the action is mainly investigation and statistics. The most important thing to do now is to find out the scale of the big belly disease in the Jiangnan area and the affected population.

No matter what the medical conditions are, there must always be a way to rescue them. You can't just watch a living person die slowly like this. This is also an important labor force for Daqin.

The basic spirit of His Majesty the Emperor is to discover one and cure one, and concentrate the medical strength of the whole Jiangnan to treat the big belly disease.

So Du Kangyong issued a notice within the scope of Southern Zhili, asking local government officials to immediately organize staff to conduct sufficient statistics on the population who suffers from or has suffered from potbellies within their respective jurisdictions. The scope of statistics must be down to every every household in a village, and the numbers must be accurate to single digits.

Another important task has been issued. The three-level state, county, and township system and the peasant association system that have been fully established in the three southeastern provinces are the prerequisites for the completion of this large-scale statistics. Really don't know when it will be done.

As soon as the current task is issued, the local government will immediately mobilize all the forces it can mobilize, and immediately follow the requirements of the above to conduct a simple and thorough statistics of the local people suffering from big belly disease.

Local people in Jiangnan know a lot about this disease, and they were surprised when the emperor decided to treat it.

They felt that the emperor really cared about the common people, even when the common people were sick, they had to order them to take care of them, and then waited for the statistics to be counted slowly. After the specific figures were compiled, many people gradually changed their faces.

The number of people is beyond imagination.

In previous years, the biggest problem was not the existence of this disease, but other problems, such as famine, flood, drought, military disaster, etc., so the harm caused by this disease was covered up, but now, other problems have begun It was solved, so the problem of pot belly disease could not be covered up, and gradually surfaced.

From 1 to 11 at the beginning, to a full count of [-] to [-] after more than ten days, and then to [-] after a month, there are already so many people in the entire Nanzhili area, and this is not The whole of Nanzhili is less than half of Nanzhili.

Fine beads of sweat oozed from Du Kangyong's forehead, he couldn't help wiping it off with his hands, feeling that his throat was extremely dry and he kept swallowing saliva.

When he first became the governor of Nanzhili, he felt that Guangzong Yaozu was full of ambitions, but after a long time, the big stomach disease hit him hard on the head like a blow, making him dizzy and at a loss.

There are so many people who are sick, so many families have lost their labor force, and the land cannot be cultivated. This will greatly affect the grain production in Southern Zhili. The work assigned by the central government cannot be completed, and people are still dead. Much, for Du Kangyong, it is tantamount to the end of his political career.

It never occurred to me that a small belly disease would develop to the present stage when everyone ignores it.

But if you really want to talk about it, it is probably because the former gentlemen never wanted to go to the countryside to see the problems, nor did they want to contact the poor people and plead for their lives. They just blindly ignored, blindly covered up, and blindly whitewashed the peace.

Since the land reform, grain production has been rising steadily, and people have repeatedly applauded it, which has made many officials feel a great sense of satisfaction.

This is undoubtedly a sap hit on the heads of all officials who feel good.

One village, one township, one county is indeed nothing, but the statistics for the whole of Nanzhili are shocking.

Seeing that the number of people is getting more and more day by day, the statisticians who came back from the states, counties and townships below brought the data of a dozen, 20, 30 and 40 people with solemn expressions. Zhili, a traditionally densely populated area, adds up to an astronomical figure.

At the end of August, when Zhejiang, Fujian, and other provinces along the Yangtze River, such as Huguang and Jiangxi, also began to carry out the general survey of belly disease simultaneously, the survey in Nanzhili had already been fully rolled out.

Du Kangyong has a copy of the entire data, and Xiao Ruxun also has a copy, which are updated simultaneously.

According to the data currently available, the number of people who are sick or have been sick but have recovered inexplicably has exceeded 40. In some seriously ill villages, most people are sick, and some families of five are all sick. A big belly, even a child of a few years old is also a big belly.

There are also many families where the main labor force of the family suffers from a big belly and can't do anything while lying in bed. There are only young children and women in the family, and life seems to be difficult.

In some families, both the hostess and hostess have a big belly, only the child is not sick, sitting on the ground crying hoarsely, and the father and mother have no strength to make food for him.

As soon as several households opened the doors, the strong stench of corpses directly suffocated the officials who came to count and almost fainted, screaming one after another.

Before I could harvest more rice and potatoes from the land I had just acquired, I could not get out of bed, my stomach was so high, I couldn't afford to see a doctor, and there was no way to cure my disease.

People who are not sick sit together with frowning faces, and those who are already sick are basically waiting to die.

Although there were complaints in the villages and townships, not many people reported it, and some places even took it for granted that they did not take it seriously, and did not realize the seriousness of the matter until the central government issued a decree.

As soon as the statistics are counted, countless problems are counted. What you can see is astonishing disaster and poverty.

The entire Nanzhili officialdom was shaken.

Yes, they got the land, and the children are about to get an education, and good things that have never happened in thousands of years have happened to them, but, the problem is not over yet.

There will be more and more problems, the land reform has only just begun, and education has only just begun.

After the land reform, the people of Daqin were far from living a good life.

Eating food is only the first step, because there is no money, and those with a little money can't find suitable doctors and medicinal materials. A minor illness can put a family in trouble, and there is a possibility of bankruptcy at any time.

The extremely poor sanitary conditions make many things empty, as long as you get sick, it will be gone.

Most of the time, Xiao Ruxun was incomprehensible. A small cold with a headache could destroy a family. This kind of thing hardly exists in modern times, but it is everywhere in this era.

The production enthusiasm of the people has been greatly improved, but the sickness has never left them. Once the sickness arrives, the labor force will disappear, and poverty will return to their eyes again.

It is not enough to just give the land, and the medical conditions cannot keep up, and the labor force liberated by the land reform cannot be truly implemented.

From this time on, officials throughout the Great Qin Dynasty began to understand the importance of good health to the country.

(End of this chapter)