Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 782
In fact, to be honest, Taiwan Island at this time is of little significance even to Gao Yushi. It is largely because of his territorial concept that he insists on sending people to Taiwan.

Not only is it sending people to go around, but also thinking about how to develop Taiwan and immigrate to Taiwan.

After all, "Taiwan has been an inseparable part of China since ancient times." It's fine if I didn't come, and it's fine if I don't have the strength, but since I'm here and have the strength, then I have to make this matter real!
Moreover, it is not that Taiwan cannot develop. The main reason why this place has not developed until now is that there are not enough Han Chinese.

As for why there are few Han Chinese, there are two main reasons.One is that the mainland imperial courts of all dynasties did not pay much attention to this barren land—Hainan Island is so close, and it has not been developed much, let alone Taiwan Island, which is farther away?
The second is the environment in Taiwan, which is still very difficult during this period.First of all, it is hot. At this time, Taiwan Island is extremely hot and humid. It is hotter than Guangdong and Guangxi at about the same latitude, and even surpasses Annan. Otherwise, who would come here.

Followed by serious tropical diseases.At this time, Taiwan has not undergone any development, the trees are tall and the grass is dense, the mosquitoes are raging, and the plague is several times worse than that of Guangdong and Guangxi. After all, both Guangdong and Guangxi have been developed for 2000 years, and Taiwan is still in its original state.As for malaria, needless to say, this kind of mosquito is about the size of a child's palm, and malaria is a common occurrence.

Malaria, even in the 21st century, is a serious disease ravaging Africa. Kang Mazi, a captive chieftain of the Qing Dynasty, contracted malaria during a war against Galdan. Given his status, he almost died. What can I ask for?

Occupying Taiwan is easy, but it is difficult to defeat malaria, because Gao Wushi does not have cinchona cream on hand, let alone artemisinin. What age did you have that technology?
Although the mortality rate of malaria is not particularly high in the eyes of later generations-300 million people are infected with malaria every year in the world, and about [-] million die.But you must know that there will be Cinney Cream in future generations, and malaria is not incurable.

But Cinchona is said to have been discovered by the Spaniards in South America through the local Indians in the 1820th century, and it was not introduced to China until at least the end of the [-]th century. At that time, it was basically treated with the bark of Cinchona Malaria, it was not until [-] that a Swedish scientist extracted the active ingredients and made them into finished products.

In other words, the Spaniards who have already occupied more than half of the Americas may not have gotten Kinney, so where can he find it?What's more, even if he was asked to look for it in South America, he couldn't find it, because he didn't know what a cinchona tree looked like.

Oh, it's over, it's over.

It's true that when the book is used, I hate it less. No matter how good my brain is, it can't compare to a system that people carry around.

Why don't we just look far away and think about artemisinin?

It is not expected to be refined, can we directly use Artemisia annua—that is, Artemisia annua—?

When Ms. Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize, it was reported nationwide, and she made a big start on artemisinin. Although Gao Yushi did not know much about medicine, he vaguely remembered that artemisinin was the most The source of inspiration at the beginning was a record in a medical book in ancient China, but unfortunately he couldn't remember the title of the book.

But since it is recorded in ancient Chinese books, now he has a big advantage to take advantage of - Li Shizhen was wined over by him to teach students in the capital!Such an awesome character, a master who can write "Compendium of Materia Medica", should have heard or read that ancient book no matter what.

Since that ancient book has been passed down from generation to generation, it must at least not be Bian Que's Canon of Internal Medicine and Foreign Canon, nor Hua Tuo's "Qing Nang Shu". .

So Gao Wushi specifically told Gao Qi not to be too ambitious, and to investigate as far as possible in the coastal "land with sparse forests and few mosquitoes".

Gao Qi is his family member, and now he is the confidant of "Wang Pang Shanming". He must not refuse to listen to his confession that he is not allowed to go deep into the inland, and now he is waiting for Li Shizhen's reply.

However, Gao Wushi did not wait for Li Shizhen's reply in Guangxi, because an accident happened.

Uh, it wasn't that Li Shizhen had an accident, it was Gao Yushi who had an accident—the emperor decreed that Gao Yushi resigned early, and returned to Beijing to accompany the emperor to sacrifice to the Taimiao with the merit of "re-establishing Annan"!
Sacrifice to the Taimiao?

Offering sacrifices to the Taimiao is nothing new, and it is not uncommon. For example, Li Chengliang beheaded hundreds of Mongols in Liaodong, and the capital also wanted to pay homage to the Taimiao.

However, there are grades for offering sacrifices to Taimiao. Generally speaking, there are three grades: big sacrifice, middle sacrifice and group sacrifice.Li Chengliang's kind belongs to group sacrifices, that is, officials do the work on their behalf. They go to the Taimiao to make sacrifices, and show that their descendants are doing well. Look at them, old man, and killed so many Mongols. Do you think these heads are cute?
That's probably what it means.

As for the middle priests, some of them were the emperor's personal sacrifices, but the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were relatively airy, and in fact most of them still assigned officials to sacrifice.

But if it is a great sacrificial ceremony, the emperor has to do it himself, and the courtiers are not qualified to do it for them.

For example, the sacrificial sacrifices are performed every year in the four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, on the first day of the lunar calendar in each season. The tablets from various places in the Taimiao must be held in the Xiangdian, and the emperor will come here to worship the ancestors in person.It is called "Simeng Shixiang", or Xiangji for short, offering sacrifices to ancestors of seasonal vegetables and fruits at that time.There is no way to do this for you. As long as the emperor can still move, he has to come in person.

The sacrificial sacrifice must be held only when there are important events in the country. For example, the simplest example, when the emperor ascends the throne or the emperor's big wedding, and when the queen is appointed, all must go to the Taimiao's sleeping hall to perform sacrifices. This is called Sacrifice.

But this time, the high-practical "re-establishing Annan" seems to be not particularly important for Ming Dynasty. How much do you think highly of the Annan people, why is it their turn to sacrifice?

Gao Wushi was a little confused, but Zhang Ren reminded him, Zhang Ren said: "There is no need to worry too much about seeking the truth. I think the court's move is very fair. 'Zai Ding An Nan' was originally to avenge the emperor's ninth generation. He was extremely excited at the time of the news, it can be seen that the emperor really thought that this matter was a great achievement, and he was worthy of offering sacrifices to the Taimiao himself.

Secondly, it is the matter of the Guangxi chieftain moving the town. Think about it, before they moved the town, the imperial court was in a dilemma about how to deal with a mere Eight Villages, but once they moved the town to Annan, the Eight Villages would be easy Song changed to station Liuguan, and even Liu Zhijun in Zhaoqing did not object any more, which shows the importance of this matter.So... Congratulations to Qiuzhen, the Sacred Heart is unique! "
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