Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 162 The War Is Always Started by the Old Man

In April of 1682, there were dense fields near the coast of Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Like a green scene, sweet potatoes have come to harvest season.

In December last year, due to the drought, the people of Qiongzhou Island planted a large number of sweet potatoes and potatoes under the guidance of the Ming Zheng Household Department.

Both crops are relatively drought tolerant.

Among the field ridges, there are people sitting on the ground everywhere.

With happy smiles rippling all over their faces, they were still chatting about something with each other.

"Those officials said that after digging out the sweet potatoes in the field, boil them and eat them in your mouth! They are sweeter than honey!"

"I heard that it is already ripe, and after a while, you can go to the field and harvest!"

"So good!"

Not far away, the village head rode over slowly on the only donkey in the village.

Under the expectant eyes of many villagers, he blurted out: "Excavation! Hey hey! Slow down, sweet potatoes are not precious, but they are also food!"

The harvest season has arrived, and the people can't wait to see their own harvest, Dongning Daily.

Shovel down the shovel in your hand, and you will be able to harvest piles of sweet potatoes in a short while, put these sweet potatoes in uniform yards on the field, and take them back at night.

"When the sweet potatoes in this field are all harvested, we must send some to Dongning Mansion, so that King Yanping can also taste the sweet potatoes produced in our Qiongzhou!"

"Yes! King Yanping really loves our people!"

"This year's sweet potato harvest came too timely. This is really a good thing. I heard that as long as we work fast enough and gather the land together, we can plant again at the end of the month! We can harvest some before winter!"

For the people who have experienced drought and have not harvested for several months, there is nothing more precious than food now.

At the beginning of the year, if King Yanping hadn't rescued them in time and allocated food from Yizhou and Luzon, how many people would have died of starvation when they arrived in Qiongzhou at the beginning of the year.

All the people on Qiongzhou Island, big and small, don't think of King Yanping.

After all, nothing counts in the face of hunger.

The feeling of gradually losing strength and hovering on the death line is something that almost every commoner in Qiongzhou Prefecture has experienced.

Many people secretly set up longevity tablets for Zheng Kezang at home, and some villages even set up a shrine for Zheng Kezang in public areas, and spontaneously burned incense for Zheng Kezang.

The harvest scene is not limited to Qiongzhou Island, Zheng Kezang's territory is full of joyful harvests.

However, Zheng Kezang did not pay attention to the grain harvest, because he had more important things to do, which was to promote medicine and medical skills.

After experiencing several wars, he realized the importance of medicine. Even if he could make alcohol and allicin, it was not enough.

Every time Zheng Kezang passed by the wounded barracks and heard the wailing of the soldiers of the Guards, he would always feel unbearable.

But for his own ambition and revival of Daming, he couldn't stop his footsteps.

Whenever this happens, he will think of the famous saying of later generations: wars are always started by old men, but it is young people who disappear.

Every guard soldier is Ming Zheng's precious wealth, and it is by no means a consumable. We must provide them with a better medical environment.

Moreover, think about yourself, there is a luxurious imperial hospital, and the best doctor in the entire Mingzheng is here, so what about the people and the army?

Thinking of this, Zheng Kezang silently invoked the system.

He browsed the system mall for a while, and finally locked on a book.

[Get the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook"]

【Deduct 80 points】

This "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook" is a good thing, but many articles related to medicine still need to be deleted. Zheng Kezang looked at it carefully, and the more he read it, the more frightened he became.

This book can be said to be a collection of common diseases that often appear among many ordinary people.

Although the development of medicine is not something that can be accomplished in a day or two.

What Zheng Kezang understands better is that a lot of state means will be used in this process, and now Mingzheng's doctor resources are actually scarce
This kind of shortage is mainly manifested in more prosperous counties, such as Dongning Prefecture, where there are often a few doctors who open medical clinics.

And in those remote villages, there is no such thing as a doctor.

To put it bluntly, if you don't give you a little bit of superstition, the dancing gods are already a bit of a skill, let alone some charlatans who roam around the villages and commit crimes in various places, and cheat under the guise of hanging pots to help the world. There are also many.

So Zheng Kezang wants to use the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook" to start medical promotion, establish a Dongning Medical College, and train more doctors to serve the army and the people.

The "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook" can not only provide more doctors to relieve the pain of a large number of people, but more importantly, popularize reproductive medicine, so that Ming Zheng's babies and mothers have a higher chance of survival.

You must know that in ancient times, the mortality rate of pregnant women during childbirth was as high as 40%, and giving birth to a child can be described as a hell.

With the popularity of "The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook", it will be much easier for Ming Zheng to have children in the future.

For this reason, Zheng Kezang summoned a large number of imperial physicians from imperial hospitals.

Supplementary revisions are made to the abridged parts of The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook.

Among the many medical books, there is also a reason for choosing "The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook", the divine book of time travel.

The main reason for this is that Zheng Kezang has many considerations, the most important being that "The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook" is rich in a large number of illustrations of Chinese herbal medicines.

It can be perfectly connected with the current Ming Zheng's traditional Chinese medicine system.

After all, transitioning from Chinese medicine to Western medicine is not a simple matter.

Secondly, this book is all-encompassing, ranging from solving sleep and snoring to helping pregnant women give birth, from acupuncture techniques of traditional Chinese medicine to surgical procedures of western medicine, from the collection of folk herbal medicines to the steps of synthesizing western medicines. high.

With the efforts of Zheng Kezang and the imperial physicians of Imperial Hospital, a new "Dongning Doctor's Handbook" was born!
The Dongning Medical College project was also proposed by Zheng Kezang in the court meeting, and all civil and military officials supported it!
"The king's move is undoubtedly a great charity that benefits the people!" The household official Yang Ying was the first to stand up and support him. His eldest son died when he first arrived in Yizhou Island when he couldn't adapt to the weather. endlessly.

"Then it's decided. Every year, a batch of money will be specially allocated to the medical school to train doctors, and then the matter will be reported to the Dongning Daily to let the common people know!"

Zheng Kezang has plenty of silver now, but a while ago, the Tatars just gave away a wave of silver, and he was worried that there would be no place to use it.

The medical school needs to be built slowly, and it will not be effective so quickly, but the Dongning Manufacturing Bureau not far away has sent Zheng Kezang a shocking news!


(End of this chapter)