stubborn thief

Chapter 403 Medicine
When Liu Chengzong left Hudun Rabbit Khan Tent, Erzhe was taught by Ji Tutaiji, kowtowed respectfully to him, and called Abu.

Depriving E Zhe of the right to inherit the Khan throne, Liu Shizi also felt in his heart that he owed the child a little bit, so he told Lin Danhan that he would raise and train E Zhe just like Emperor Wu of Han did to Jin Ridun.

In any case, this is considered to have obtained the consent of his parents. Liu Chengzong helped E Zhe up and said: "Since your father asked me to adopt you, your surname will be Liu from now on. We get along well. You still have two Brother, foster father will not treat you badly... let's go, go roast the lamb."

Subsequently, Liu Chengzong issued an order to convene all generals in Qinghai for a discussion in the early morning of the next day.

When he returned to the commander's tent, Lin Danhan's eight wives were still there, presenting him with the jade seal of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the nine-fold white banner symbolizing the power of the Khan.

But this jade seal is like a stone to Liu Chengzong.

If the first emperor's jade seal that was smashed by the Queen Mother Wang Shun in the Han Dynasty was still there, it would still be meaningful to Liu Shizi, but it is obviously difficult to escape the previous catastrophe in the millennium wind and rain.

Not to mention being thrown in lakes, wells, and being burned with the emperor, in the Yuan Dynasty alone, Boyan, the prime minister of power, would smooth out the handwriting of the jade seals collected from all over the world, so there is no chance for the jade seals to survive.

This Northern Yuan jade seal is at best the Yuan Dynasty jade seal. It is even possible that during the war in the early Ming Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty jade seals disappeared.

What's the difference between Can Yuan's seal carving of a jade seal and Liu Shizi's own carving of a seal?

The jade seal was sent to the Xining mansion that night, but the nine-shaped white banner was kept by Liu Chengzong, and it was planned to be used as a ritual system at the funeral of the last Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

That night, Liu Chengzong planned for E Zhe the next four years of cultural studies, and made a plan for the entire Qinghai-wide epidemic prevention work.

For Liu Chengzong, the smallpox plague had two sides. On the one hand, they were almost helpless after infection and complications; on the other hand, they were not infected, and it was easy to prevent it.

Therefore, it is not complicated for the army to deal with this matter. It is just a task of counting and deploying troops, planning an isolation area, using the army with antibodies as an isolation zone, dividing the huge army into small teams for management, and inoculating groups of soldiers with smallpox Vaccines do.

It was late at night, and Liu Chengzong put the pen back on Jiashan, and was about to blow out the oil lamp, but he paused, got up, lifted the chair and opened the curtain, sat on the open space in front of the tent, and sighed silently while watching the sky full of stars.

In his budget, the number of Han and Mongolian soldiers without antibodies in the Marshal's Mansion is about [-]. Even after the Qinghai Mongolian army is recruited and surrendered, the maximum number will not exceed [-].

The composition is about [-] old Ming troops, [-] Oirat troops, and [-] Chahar troops.

As for the vaccines stored by the Marshal's Mansion, after Yang Yao's report, Haixi's vaccines should be useless. Hehuangpox Village has [-] vaccines in stock, and half of them should be ready for vaccination.

That is, 150 copies.

Yang Yao gave him a complete report in Hehuang. The smallpox vaccine produced cannot be stored for a long time. Under normal circumstances, the vaccine is wrapped in paper, stored in bamboo tubes, and dried at room temperature in a closed environment.

The storage time after drying is about [-] to [-] days.

This time depends on the outside temperature. If it is summer, it can only be stored for 20 days; and in cold winter, after [-] days of storage, the vaccination success rate is still more than half.

This is the experience of past acne doctors.

At this time, it has been a full month since the last vaccination before the war, and the vaccines in the Marshal's Mansion are on the verge of expiring.

The reason why only [-] copies are kept is because of Xining Prefecture's suggestion that the population of the Hehuang Mountain area cannot be counted over the years, while the population of the Hehuang Valley has fluctuated between [-] and [-] over the years.

If the previous year was peaceful, more people would be born in the next year; if there was turmoil in the previous year, fewer people would be born in the next year.

However, this number is not the population growth of the Marshal's Mansion, because since the Marshal's Mansion took over Hehuang, the number of newborns is very low, and the annual death population is basically fixed at more than [-].

Due to the war and smallpox this year, it is foreseeable that the death toll will exceed [-].

In fact, if the Marshal's Mansion did not have the population increase brought about by the surrender of troops and the annexation of territories, the population would actually experience negative growth every year.

However, in the case of vaccination, the reduction of the population due to the diseases of aging is ignored.

Newborn children are vaccinated between the ages of one and three, and [-] doses of vaccinia can be used for temporary needs. As long as there are children vaccinated, the village can continue to produce vaccinia, forming a healthy development, and supplying the needs of the people.

But there is a loophole in this matter, which was ignored by Xining Prefecture, that is, the west of Xining Prefecture was vaccinated before the war; the east of Xining Prefecture was vaccinated during the Hehuang War.

As a result, there were not as many vaccinations for newborns as the Marshal's House expected.

As a result, the vaccines they stored were almost useless. According to the best possibility, 150 of the remaining vaccines could still be effective; if the storage situation was worse, perhaps only [-] vaccines would be effective.

Liu Chengzong didn't care much about the small number of smallpox vaccines. In the past, Ming Dynasty was the only country in the world that had the ability to prevent smallpox.

But now, the Marshal's Mansion stands on Daming's shoulders and uses the form of government to vaccinate the whole people. They are the people who have the most say on the smallpox vaccine.

Yang Yao has already completed the design and manufacture of safe vaccines in Hehuang Pox Village. Even if only one vaccine is effective, the Marshal's Mansion can continuously produce new safe vaccines.

Although the reserve of vaccinia is not perfect, it is not a big problem, and Liu Chengzong can check for omissions and make up for vacancies.

There is a smallpox vaccine that can work. The cycle for people to be infected with smallpox is one and a half months, and the isolation time for pox infection is half a month. After three generations of attenuating processes of humans, cows, and monkeys, it only takes five months at most to cultivate it. A vaccine that is safer than before.

Even if there is not even a single effective vaccine, within seven months, the Marshal's Mansion can still cultivate the relatively safest vaccine.

Therefore, smallpox is not a life-and-death crisis for the Marshal's Mansion, but a test of food supplies and organizational capabilities.

This crisis brought the greatest pressure to Liu Shizi, and it was still the surrendered army. The [-] Mongolian surrendered troops from Junggar, Heshuote, and Chahar were unable to be disbanded and returned to farming and herding because they were carrying smallpox.

The Marshal's Mansion has to bear their food and grass problems during vaccination, which will bring an additional food and grass consumption of 16 to [-] shi to the Marshal's Mansion.

This almost doubled the consumption of military rations by the Marshal's Mansion.

For Liu Chengzong, apart from food, there is nothing to worry about in this world.

It is the easiest thing to risk your life to kill someone, but on the contrary, it is too difficult to let someone survive.

In order to prepare for the war with Oirat, Xining Mansion has prepared so much food and grass.

Transferring all the troops back to the sea can save a little, but it can't save much. The road consumption of their transportation is not too big.

Fortunately, the situation at the bottom of the Hehuang Valley is not too bad this year. If there is no accident in the harvest of the farms in Wuzhen, the 72 mu of land may be able to harvest and buy 30 shi of raw grain. After processing, about 20 shi of finished grain.

Only one step at a time.

Just as Liu Shizi was about to go back to his tent to sleep, there was the sound of horseshoes outside the camp. Not long after, Tang Qi, who had returned to the camp, brought back the messengers and letters from Xining Mansion.

Two replies from my father Liu Xiangyu arrived.

Liu Xiangyu's influence on this war made Liu Chengzong sitting in front of the table refreshed and surprised him.

In his impression, the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty was indeed surging in the early stage, reaching a gradual climax, but then suddenly stopped and fell into a low ebb.

During this period, almost all the peasant armies were either defeated and killed, or hid in the mountains, or surrendered to ask for peace, and even died down.

In the past, Liu Chengzong never thought about the reason for this situation. He only thought that after several years of chaos, the court gradually adapted to the situation of the rebel army and freed up its hands to suppress it.

Now that his father put forward this point of view, it was very novel to him. The collapse of Eastern Mongolia led to the loss of foreign enemies in three border towns in Shaanxi, which in turn strengthened the imperial court's ability to suppress internally.

Following my father's thinking, mobilizing the Gansu frontier army to enter the Tianshan Mountains has become particularly important.

This news undoubtedly inspired Liu Chengzong. Tianshan, Oirat, Gansu Frontier Army, Caravan, Sanjiehui, Liu Chengzu, and the Western Regions seemed to be linked together by iron rings, and finally pointed to Gansu and Lanzhou.

When the Gansu frontier army was mobilized and Lanzhou's supply was cut off, the empty Gansu officials faced the pressure from the Marshal's Mansion and the threat of food shortages, and they would fight back desperately.

This means that when the plan to enter the Tianshan Mountains becomes a trend, Gansu will be riddled with holes and will be easily breached by the Marshal's Mansion. They will harvest the Liangzhou Guard in Wuwei and the Ganzhou Guard in Zhangye.

These two places are traditional grain-producing areas in Gansu, and they are along the Great Wall.

Chuang Tianshan eased the local population pressure, and there were no decent opponents in the desert outside the side wall, which meant that the Marshal's Mansion could be self-sufficient after collecting Gansu.

The more Liu Chengzong thought about it, the more excited he became. He turned on the oil lamp and drew three points on the white paper. Gansu, Lanzhou, and Xining were connected to form a triangle as the grain-producing area of ​​the Marshal's Mansion. Then their next strategic direction was obvious—— Ningxia.

The north can advance to Ningxia along a side wall; the south can go straight to Lintao, Gongchang, Chen Bing, Fengxiang, and Guyuan.

On the one hand, it can advance to Ordos and interrupt Jin's occupation of the Mongolian grassland; on the other hand, it can threaten Hanzhong and Xi'an.

The most important thing is that once this strategy is completed, there will be a stable northwest behind them, where the troops are heading, the Generalissimo will return to his loyal Yan'an Mansion!
Thinking of this, Liu Chengzong swept away the previous worry caused by the lack of food and grass next year, returned to reality with a full face, and swiped his pen to formulate a vaccine management plan for the Marshal's Mansion Tai Hospital.

The biggest problem with vaccinia right now is that it cannot be stored for a long time. Liu Chengzong can foresee that in the future, no matter whether it is taking Gansu or entering Lanzhou, or even in the process of marching eastward, they will experience more such situations.

If they can produce [-] vaccines at this time, it means that they can save [-] shi in food and grass expenses.

Compared with so much food and grass, what kind of big deal is it to store tens of thousands of small bamboo tubes?
Yang Yao's thinking is restricted by traditional acne doctors. Traditional acne doctors are very powerful, but the Marshal's Mansion almost has a nationwide system, and the energy they can use is by no means comparable to that of ordinary acne doctors.

First of all, he expanded the scale of acne clinics from the two in Haixi and Hehuang to Haixi, Haibei, Xincheng, Xining, Pingrong, Laoya, Jiashun, Binggou, and Dongguan to establish medicine.

Anyway, with the establishment of the Taiyuan Hospital, these places have to establish medicine, so directly include acne clinics in medicine to ensure that every county, city, and town has acne clinics. Anyway, there are also acne clinics in eleven departments of medicine. Co, it's not a waste to do so.

The vaccinia in summer is not resistant to storage, and the vaccinia in winter can be stored for [-] days, so it is obvious that the smallpox virus is not resistant to cold and heat, so the storage place of vaccinia is directly stored in a cold storage.

Therefore, under each medicine, an ice cold storage should be dug. It does not need to occupy a large area, nor does it need too much ice, as long as it can store [-] bamboo tubes of vaccinia.

With this method, Liu Chengzong estimated that the storage time of the vaccine could be increased to forty days or even longer in summer.

The pox doctor replaces the vaccinia every month, and there is no need for too many. If there are newborns who need to be picked up, they will inoculate the newborns and use the scabs to make new vaccinia.

If there are not so many children to vaccinate, find a few cows that have not had pox to vaccinate, use their scabs to make new vaccinia, and weed out the old ones.

Under normal circumstances, each village does not need to keep [-] vaccines, but only [-] vaccines. On the eve of war preparations, large-scale purchases will be made within two months depending on the extent of the war, and the storage will be full. It can ensure that the Marshal's Mansion has more than [-] vaccines available.

Even if there is another big battle, the number of surrendered troops will only be so many. Liu Chengzong has long discovered the paradox of war in this era.

Liu Chengzong has never met an opponent who pays more attention to and is more capable of preparing food and grass for the army than him. Lack of food and grass is almost a common problem of the army in this era.

He thought about it for a while, so far, apart from himself, the enemy with the highest ratio of soldiers to food and grass should be Bai Yingzi.

It was the lame thief leader who was shot to death by Liu Shizi after robbing the fence on the way home from Yuhebao.

Less than 300 thieves and pawns pulled more than [-] stone grains, and each soldier carried an average of [-] catties of grain. Several years passed after that, and Liu Chengzong never saw such a high ratio again.

From his point of view, if he wanted to meet an enemy with more food and grass reserves than Bai Yingzi, he would have to go around the capital to see them.

Because only the central court in this era has the ability to store food and grass for the army for several months.

In addition, even if a general soldier is brought out alone, even if he is capable of commanding an army of 5000, he can only squeeze out rations, and finally go out to fight with enough food and grass to feed [-] people for a month.

And it may not be like this time in future wars, with such bad luck, smallpox and war will come together.

Under normal circumstances, it is only necessary to vaccinate the soldiers and the people on the newly laid land. As long as smallpox does not become popular on a large scale, it does not matter if the time is slowed down to a few months, and there is enough time to purchase the vaccine.

After finishing the preparations for the meeting, Liu Shizi blew out the lamp at ease, and then lay down on the couch, watching the white light from the curtain, and fell into a deep sleep with the idea of ​​returning to Xining to fully establish the Six Departments.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)