Villager of Daming

Chapter 704: Bamboo Maggots Trivial Matter to the Dentist

"Okay, from now on, we will use this to fix people's teeth. It's cheap. Then we will use ether and other anesthetics to anesthetize them. We need to plant more crops. We can extract the anesthetic substances from them and use them to treat other diseases."

Zhu Wentian was busy in the village laboratory, making silver amalgam, for dental implants, gold and ceramics, which were not suitable for the common people and might be robbed by others.

Anesthesia is simple, ether and methylphenidate are the best, and other anesthetics are also available in laboratories, but the cost is high and the output is small.

As long as you go through a simple chemical reaction, you can get things out without any problems.

If someone from Xiaqiu Village or the palace uses it for anesthesia, he will come up with something better.

Ordinary people prefer simplicity and practicality. At least there is an anesthetic, which is better than hard extraction of teeth.

The cultivation of opium poppy must be restricted, and the use must also be restricted, otherwise it will be used as a panacea, especially when some people use it blindly, such as the later Emperor Wanli, who regarded it as a refreshing and aphrodisiac.

Zhu Wentian believes that opium poppy treatment cannot form dependence. Unless there is really no hope of survival, then give enough morphine to relieve pain until one day the disease progresses to that point and you die, or you die from too much dosage.

There is no big problem at ordinary times, but it is used when going to the doctor. The most suitable one is anesthesia.

Otherwise, let alone morphine made from poppy, what kind of anesthetic can be used casually?Did you buy ether and try it?
Fortunately, in the early Ming Dynasty, the people didn't know much about poppies. They regarded them as flowers, and there weren't many of them. They couldn't live a good life. How could they still enjoy flowers?

"It's right in Xiaqiu Village. The land over there is good, and the Xuanwu Lake and the flat land here are also planted. Plant it now and cut the pulp next year. The poppy shells can also be used medicinally.

Uh... The Yi people from Shibosi came all the way. The journey was hard, so they probably needed some good food.

Let’s use the poppy shells to cook for them!It needs to be in the soup of the shaved noodles, it needs to be in the donkey meat buns when making donkey meat, and the hot pot base ingredients should be put in when the oil is boiled.

We Da Ming don’t eat that. We have other freshness-enhancing things, which are purely natural, such as sea sausage, MSG and sodium glutamate extracted from kelp.

How about we come up with an acid hydrolysis method, which is temporarily out of reach for ordinary people, but would be good for wealthy families or exports..."

Zhu Wentian muttered, thinking about the export of MSG from the tooth extraction and anesthesia. The acid hydrolysis method was costly, but simpler than the microbial method.

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On October 21st, when officials took a rest, people from the palace came to play, and people from the village took everyone to plant poppies.

There are always seeds, but if you plant too little, if you plant more seeds, if you plant them just right, there will be a beautiful sea of ​​flowers next year.

"This flower is beautiful and it is medicine, we know it!" Zhu Yuanzhang saw others growing poppies and wearing new Ming Dynasty clothes. He didn't work, he was lazy!
"Your Majesty, this thing must be controlled from now on. Individuals are not allowed to grow it. It is poison and must be used by the court. Now let's plant more."

The village chief reminded, otherwise once the people know that this thing is a good medicine, they will use it blindly.

Of course, the people will not be told how to cut and boil the pulp, so the most they can do is boil the poppy shells.

"Can it poison people to death?" Zhu Yuanzhang was a little nervous.

"If you use too much, it will kill you, like arsenic." The chief nodded.

"Is there any medicine that can kill someone just a little bit?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

"Is it colorless and tasteless? This... Your Majesty can have it if he wants it, and he can't have it if he doesn't want it."

I'm sweating inside, yes!What Hanhan did was said that he couldn't be saved even with resuscitation, he didn't have the ability.

The labs in the village produce them to be used in other ways, not to kill people.

"How to use it?" Zhu Yuanzhang was interested.

"Put it in the limelight. It smells a little sweet, but not obvious. By the time you find yourself feeling uncomfortable, it will be too late. You don't need to eat anything to add it. Of course, it can be sprayed on clothes for people to wear. People will die.

Don't worry, Your Majesty, that thing will not be taken out. It is not used for killing people, but for other things.

We only have guns to kill people!There is also something that makes people go crazy after smelling it, but that will get better after a while. "

When the chief saw His Majesty asking, he had no choice but to explain in detail.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "It's good to have it, keep it safe. I heard that maggots are selling well?"

"Everyone likes to eat, and the price is not high. The main reason is that the people are rich now. After His Majesty arrived in Nanjing, he implemented many policies to benefit the people..."

"Don't flatter each other and talk about maggots, bamboo maggots." Zhu Yuanzhang said to skip this paragraph.

"Anyway, the people can afford it, and we have a lot of oil, so the profit is very small. The net profit from one pound of bamboo maggots is only 50.00%.

No matter how much it is, it can be processed and made into bamboo maggot powder, which is as nutritious as eating it in noodles, even for poultry and livestock.

It is estimated that more than three million catties will be harvested by the twelfth lunar month, and the insect pests in the bamboo forest will be reduced next year.

For money, merchants would go further afield to collect, especially the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Guangdong and Guangxi are not good. Without the help of the Yangtze River for transportation, everything will stink when they come back. They have to collect the bamboo maggots and rush back within two days.

In fact, we don’t have much money. One catty is five cents, ten thousand catties is fifty guan, and three million catties is 300 guan. We earn [-] guan.

It's just that the economic benefits cannot be calculated like this. We are deep-fried, and the oil, labor costs, and venue fees must all be included in the calculation.

Transportation fees, as well as people's income, businessmen's profits, and taxes paid, overall, there are at least four economic cross-benefits. "

As long as the money is calculated, it is not much. A watch is ready to defraud a barbarian of a hundred thousand yuan!Whether you want to buy it or not, just for this price, the first piece, go back and give it to the king or something, think about the benefits you will get.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while: "Yi Chang, in fact, it's quite a lot. I think when the country was first founded, it was less than 300 million guan a year. You guys, let's make [-] guan by just picking up maggots. It's just like playing."

"Your Majesty, if we still harvest bamboo maggots next year, it will cost five cents per catty. The ratio of dry to wet is very high, but the businessman is still profitable.

They will go to Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Sichuan, Fujian and other places to collect it, dry it and transport it back.

When harvesting, they even gave a penny per pound for dry goods. People in those places had low incomes and bamboo maggots were easy to obtain.

The people thought it was equivalent to free money, and even scolded the businessmen, just like the businessmen scolding Xiaqiu Village for being stupid.

Dried bamboo maggots were ground into powder for the soldiers to eat, which made them stronger than eating meat. It was also cost-effective to breed and feed livestock and poultry.

But today the common people want to talk about dental implants and tooth extractions. The village has made new dental materials without using gold.

A tooth costs more than ten pennies, and the common people can afford it. If it is not possible, the palace will subsidize it. It depends on whether the tooth should be extracted. If the common people have no money, the tooth extraction will cost less, or even the palace will subsidize it.

People may die during tooth extraction. For example, one person out of 1 may die during tooth extraction. This must be discussed in advance.

But you will never die because of pain. We have good anesthetics, and the average subsidy is one hundred coins per person, and it takes ten thousand coins for one hundred thousand people. "

The village chief finally remembered the business. What was there to say about selling bamboo maggots? The focus was on tooth extraction and dental implants.

(End of this chapter)