Villager of Daming

Chapter 1247 Social Structure in the System

The meal continued, from the late breakfast to lunch, Gegehaji chatted with Zhu Ying.

She had never seen the village guard, but she had only heard that there was a fool in the village called the village guard. Usually, when there was something happening in the village, a small table would be set up for the village guard to eat.

The village guards grew up eating at many people's homes and lived a lonely life. Many of them only give people the impression of how they looked when they were young. It always seems that there are no memories of the village guards' childhood, nor can they be found when they were old, as if they only lived for that period of time.

In times of war, fools cannot survive. Other people can't even take care of themselves, so how can they take care of fools?

Xiaqiu Village is amazing in this regard. There are no fools in the village, so they went out specifically to find one and bring it back.

The village guard of Xiaqiao Village is in his twenties. He said that he would see if he could find one in the future.

"Taiwan Governor, tomorrow...fish and wheat rice have been delivered from the other side."

It was noon and the messenger came to report that everyone was starving and was waiting for this meal.

"Give it to the hungriest ones first. Remember not to eat too much. Give fish soup to those who are too weak, or they will die from eating too much."

Before Nahachu could say anything, Gegehaji spoke.

It is written in the booklet that if you are hungry for a long time, eating too much will increase the burden on your stomach. Also, if you overeat when you are deficient in potassium, you will die.

Mung bean water is the best thing to supplement potassium. Add a little salt and drink it to keep people alive.

Fish soup contains potassium. Drink the soup first, and then gradually increase the amount of other foods after your body has adapted to it.

"Go!" Nahachu nodded to the messenger. His sister was right. She said those books were divine books.

There are just too few books. Each household should have a set, but the prerequisite is that people must be literate.

The messenger happily went to make arrangements, and soon, cheers were heard.

Hearing the voice, Nahachu and Gegehaji showed helpless looks. The war... could not be fought.

The Ming army can provide food for more than 100,000 people, but their own army is almost starving to death. How can they fight this war?
In other words, the Ming army retreated directly and ran away, and our side just had to wait for the rapid reduction in numbers!

They chased the Ming army, but they were all hungry and weak, unable to catch up. They had to find food on their own, but what else could they eat except wild vegetables? How many wild animals could they catch?

The fish in the river are difficult to catch, so the Ming army would use bombs, which would cause a bunch of fish and shrimp to float up.

"Sister Ying, how much food did our team bring?"

Gegehaji listened to the cheering and wondered why the princes' team could cook meals for so many people. She was curious.

Zhu Ying has become accustomed to the other party calling her Sister Ying, trying to build a relationship and get close to her.

"Sister, are you asking about seasoning? There are truckloads of seasoning for cooking, mainly salt belts. There are grasses on the road that can be used as seasoning. Our people know them.

Including medicines to treat simple symptomatic diseases, which are readily available.

When I came over, the team was already preparing the herbs and boiling them, which took time.

After dinner, the imperial physician and the guards and palace maids who can easily judge the symptoms will come over.

One distributed medicine to everyone, and the other checked the external injuries, cleaning those that needed to be cleaned and suturing those that needed to be sutured.

Since this is a team of princes, the logistical requirements are relatively high..."

Zhu Ying knew that the other party was not concerned about having enough food, so he continued to introduce the situation and talk about the military system.

There have always been military doctors, but they don’t have many skills and they rarely cure any disease.

People with medical skills were scarce, and medicinal materials were even scarcer. The most commonly used items were soldering irons, wood ash, salt, and wine.

The amount of wine was limited, so those who were in the most pain were given wine, and then a branding iron was applied to stop the bleeding. The branding iron can stop bleeding, but it is a burn. Stopping bleeding is life-saving, and after saving lives, the wound can be treated.

Burns are not easy to treat, as they can get infected. Applying salt and wood ash does have some effect, and wound medicine is okay, but it's just too little.

In addition, the hygiene of medical equipment is not good enough. People need to boil hot water to give birth, but on the battlefield, they often just wrap the baby with cloth.

We have only just started to grow cotton in large quantities, and no one knows how to make cotton wool or gauze. The existing silk cannot be used to bandage the soldiers, so we only have ramie cloth.

The princes' team enjoyed the most advanced medical treatments in the world at that time, and the system structure was perfect, except that some contents were not filled in.

Zhu Ying said absorbent cotton, alcohol, sutures, suture needles, supplements, antibiotics...

There are many more normal Chinese medicines. As long as the imperial court orders places with abundant wild Chinese medicinal materials to use the medicinal materials to pay land taxes and labor, the people will be willing to look for and collect them.

As long as the cost of collecting these medicinal materials is lower than the cost of land tax and labor, it is cost-effective for the people.

If there are elderly or young people in the family who are unable to do heavy work.

They can look for medicinal herbs on the roadside or at the foot of the mountain, and then take them home for simple processing.

There is also slack time during farming. After weeding in the fields, there is nothing to do, so it is a good time to make use of it. This is fragmented time. You can use it to do specific things that you cannot do, such as collecting things. It doesn’t matter how much, just look for them when you have time.

Gege Haji was fascinated by what he heard: "The whole country is working on medical treatment! Is there enough food for the court? If the local people don't pay the land tax, how will the local officials get paid?"

Gege Haji admitted that having more medicinal materials was good for the country. It turned out that his own Yuan Dynasty actually had various welfare benefits, but the officials were not good enough and were too greedy.

Officials also received salaries. Some were given in kind, some were given in cash, copper coins, paper money, and silver was also available, but the amount given was less.

Many things are priced simply in silver, and the price is determined by the silver equivalent.

Combined with natural disasters and man-made disasters, we lost our vast territory. The same was true in the Song Dynasty.

“Sister, there is no shortage of food. The imperial court obtains the food it needs from foreign merchants. In addition, the nearby prefectures have produced a lot of food in the past two years, so there is no need to transfer food from other places.

My sister was very good at developing overseas trade at that time, but most of the trade items were luxury goods.

Only luxury goods have high profits. Who would ship a shipload of soil to sell? And who would buy a shipload of soil to ship elsewhere?

In order to reduce the burden on the people and transportation costs, Your Majesty tries to obtain food as close as possible.

However, in some areas where crop rotation and intercropping are possible, transportation can still be completed by water as long as there are main rivers.

As for the salaries of local officials, it depends on how much grain the people grow. If there is too much grain, they will keep enough for their own food, and the rest will be exchanged for other goods.

Department stores provide merchandise that requires money to purchase.

There are two ways to make money: one is to sell physical goods, and the other is to provide services.

Working as a porter at the dock is a service, helping people build houses is a service, and matchmaking as a broker is also a service.

When a person's entire physical strength is used to produce physical goods, the things he can exchange for money are naturally physical goods..."

Zhu Ying said from the perspective of social material reserves that even if the people grew grain and did not pay land taxes, they would still sell the grain for money, and then use the money to buy things.

In this way, as long as money is given to local officials, the officials can buy grain directly. If all they give is grain, the officials will have to sell grain in order to buy other things.

“The key is not how to obtain daily necessities, but the stability of the medium used when exchanging materials, that is, the currency.”

Zhu Ying summed up that currency is the most important thing and it cannot be issued casually.

(End of this chapter)