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Chapter 675 Smallpox
What did Magui do for smallpox?
In other words, it should be what Chen Mu did to defeat smallpox.

Smallpox is Chen Mu's name. People in this era generally call this infectious disease pox, and a person will only suffer from smallpox once in a lifetime.

And for these people who were trained on Kuwu Island, the first test they experienced was vaccination, human pox.

Human pox is not vaccinia. It is limited to the level of technology. Even though Kuwu Island gathered good doctors from all over the country at that time, the level of vaccination is still uneven, and the quality of pox powder is also different in each batch. It is already very powerful if eight out of ten people are safe. up.

The rest of the people who failed the vaccination will actually suffer from smallpox due to vaccination. Among these unlucky people, [-]% will die as a result.

Those who survived will also have pockmarked faces due to illness.

Since Ningguo Mansion introduced the method of vaccination, this kind of preventive measures has swept the world in the past few years, but usually people only vaccinate children, and adults do not.

In Ming Dynasty, the threat posed by vaccination was not only the general failure rate of [-]% to [-]% and the fatality rate of [-]% after failure, but also the catastrophe caused by the loss of strong labor force of the family once contracted smallpox.

A family or even a family may be ruined by this.

On Kuwu Island, Chen Mu drew big cakes for them. Their desire for wealth and land made them vaccinate without fear of life and death. The earliest downsizing began at that time.

All those who survived were not afraid of smallpox, not at all.

Not only are they not afraid of smallpox, but they also have sufficient means to prevent and treat smallpox.

When Hu Lan led his Mongolian cavalrymen leisurely back from the south, leading the captives and riding the Andalusian horses as trophies, he saw hundreds of aborigines on the seashore looking at the big ship parked at sea in a state of seeing gods .

Of course, there was still a place that should have been a camp that was burning with raging flames and black smoke rising into the sky.

"It looks like the battle is over."

Hu Lan raised his hand and rubbed the shiny mane of the horse under his seat. He was riding a horse and leading a horse. On the saddles of the two horses hung trophies like damaged cavalry armor and intact weapons. full.

There were not many spoils, and not all the Spanish cavalry had armor, but each of them had horses. Except for one horse, which was shot blind and half useless, the other four horses were still in good condition.

And the price they paid was equally huge. A Mongolian war horse was killed and the rider on the horse was injured when he fell.

Hu Lan, who re-boarded the ship, approached Ma Gui immediately, and asked the general officer, "What happened to the Yanian people below?"

In this era, everyone in the world has a very one-sided understanding of Native Americans. For example, Hulan stubbornly believes that people in Mongolia, Jurchen, North Korea, and Japan have huge and vast lands. All the natives in Liga who came here from Majia Port should be Arianians.

Ma Gui was discussing with Ma Jin about naming this place. He asked his elder brother where Zheng Tu's home in Guanxi, Water Margin Township, was, and he got the answer of "Zhuangyuan Bridge".

It’s like child’s play, the place near San Francisco on the west coast of North America has a Ming Dynasty-style name for the first time on the Ming Dynasty’s nautical charts, called Zhuangyuan Bridge.

And on this sea chart, a large piece of land called Zhuangyuan Bridge is also marked: the local leader, Zheng Tu in the town of Guanxi.

"Come back, are there any casualties in the subordinates?"

Hu Lan nodded and said: "A Xiyi cavalry was captured. One of our horses was killed and the rider was injured. It will take two or three months to raise it. It's not a problem—why is that?"

Hu Lan pointed to the aborigines on the beach who seemed to be seeing them off, some of them were wearing the armor of the Ming army, and some were holding the banner of Ji Yueming, standing out of place among the aborigines wearing feather crowns.

"Someone had smallpox, and was sent by Ma to the cabin of a small boat." Ma Gui said as if talking about something so trivial: "And his child, brought them to the boat together, and waited for him to return to Majiagang. Apply some honey, drink water continuously every day, and boil hemp with honey water, whether it can be saved depends on his good fortune."

Hu Lan blinked and was stunned for a moment before saying: "Then why did you bring it back to Majiagang, so they can't save it?"

"We don't know if we can save them. They have no way to save them. No one would take the risk of smallpox to get close to save someone."

To put it bluntly, it is a question of having and not having.

"People who stay here are not only doomed to death, but they may also infect others. Zheng Tu's tribe now has two extremely small franc machines, a few wooden cannons that can be fired several times, and more than [-] matchlocks have been seized. blunderbuss, Ma left two soldiers behind to teach them how to use the blunderbuss to fire the cannon, and their combat power has improved."

"The people who contracted smallpox stay here and the whole tribe will be gone. Who will block Xiyi for us?"

"Ma Shuai wants them to guard this place, why don't we continue going south, they don't want to go south?"

"It seems that their tribe is only this big, and no matter how far away it is, it belongs to others. They don't care, and they won't go."

Hu Lan got a few good horses, which was happier than giving him gold directly. He rubbed his hands and said, "We don't need them. Forty horses from Liao and Meng, just like their wooden village, one counts as one, and we can fight for it." Let's fight, let's go south!"

Magui shook his head very firmly.

"If you go south, you are not afraid of the enemy on land. Even if you lose the enemy, you can escape, but if you encounter a large Xiyi ship at sea, and my ship has no guns, wouldn't it be a target at sea, and let others hit it?"

"I only have this little army. I don't need to take any risks. Victory or defeat is not a matter of time. Go back to the north first, and go back to Majiagang."

As Ma Gui said, he looked down at the map laid out on the deck under his feet, raised his hand and fixed it in one place, and said, "In this way, along the coast, the only people who are hostile to us are the Yi people."

"If these two natives suffering from smallpox can be cured, the Zheng Tu Department at Zhuangyuan Bridge will respect us very much, and then they can be vaccinated. Our people will teach them the language and understand the land by then. That's more."

"They are a big tribe, they can gather thousands of troops, presumably it is a gathering of multiple tribes, and make friends with them..."

Halfway through Ma Gui's speech, he suddenly felt a huge grievance in his heart.

What has he been through all these years?
Don't say that he is the chief military officer of the imperial court, a first-rank Ronglu doctor, even if he used to be a general under Ma Fang's subordinates.

I don't care what you say, I will take the cavalry all the way to kick your camp, let you know that Uncle Ma is still your Uncle Ma.

When did their brothers consider whom to make friends with and please?

Now these things have been done so smoothly that you don't even blush when you say it.

This cavalry general from the Xuan Mansion shook his head slowly, as if he wanted to get rid of the thoughts in his head. After living in the ice and snow of North America for two years, they were used to disappointment and being forgotten.

"I don't know whether Chen Shuai will come this year, and whether the reinforcements will come. If he comes, the situation we know can guide the imperial army. If he doesn't come, we will go back while the northern seas are not frozen. Water Lake Peak."

"All the cannons of General Zhenshuo in the mountains were pulled out, and all the armor, weapons, and bird guns of the dead and wounded soldiers were also taken back and taken to Majiagang."

(End of this chapter)