Invincible urban management

67. Invisible War

After tortured to find out the cause and effect of the Mayan crime, in order to prevent these Mayan priests from displaying their supernatural powers again and summoning some gods to scare people, they have already trained a hard-hearted Wen Desi in these years of wild life. , Immediately ordered the left and right cronies to behead and execute all the captured Mayan noble priests, and the bodies would be burned to ashes with a big fire.

As for the remaining 500-odd Maya prisoners of war, the men were sent to the quarry to do hard work, digging limestone for burnt limestone and clay for burnt bricks.A few women (mostly the wives and concubines of noble priests) were sent to a newly established "state-run brothel" to use their delicate bodies to provide physical and spiritual comfort to merchants who came from afar to smuggle goods , and also make a little money for the municipality.

This kind of captive policy of "making the best use of everything" is naturally far from humanitarian, and it also made Professor Yang, an old Communist Party member, murmur.However, compared to the bloody tradition of the Aztecs who beheaded and dug out all the prisoners of war and sacrificed to the gods, such a captive policy is already very lenient.

In any case, all kinds of policies cannot go too far beyond the background of the times—a genius who is half a step ahead of the times, and a madman who is one step ahead of the times.

In fact, none of them thought at this moment how much trouble the Mayans in Tepetewank would bring them in the future.

After dealing with the prisoners of war, the next job is imminent.

That is to vaccinate the Indians in Port Hope with smallpox and other vaccines before contact with the Spanish expedition.

Historically, the Spanish conquest of America had two battlefields—the visible battlefield and the invisible battlefield.

The former roared with European guns and artillery, galloping the conqueror's warships and cavalry; while the latter was filled with deadly germs and viruses from the Old World: smallpox, yellow fever, plague, measles, influenza, tuberculosis...

Most of the history books only record the former, that is, the great achievements of the conquerors.But for the Indians, the latter is more terrifying-the visible muskets, cannons and cavalry can still manage to deal with it with courage and wisdom; but the invisible disease is completely irresistible.

The Spaniards have lived with these germs for thousands of years and already have a certain immunity, but the Indians who have just come into contact with them do not have the immune function to resist these diseases in their bodies.

Thus, following the footsteps of the navigators, the terrible plague came to this isolated new world.Thousands of Indians in Central and South America died in the plague, and the survivors also lost the courage to resist the attack of the whites. In the eyes of most superstitious ancients, the plague was the wrath and punishment of the gods.So if someone got the plague, it must have been that person who had done something to offend God.

Historically, the Spaniards with sinister intentions distributed blankets used by smallpox patients throughout the Americas, causing the Indian tribes who took the blankets to die on a large scale during the smallpox epidemic.Afterwards, a small number of Indians who survived started discussions on this matter, and finally came to a god-like conclusion-this is the wrath of God, warning us that we should not go to war with god-like Europeans!Because God is using the plague to help them and punish us.The evidence is that Indians get sick and die by the thousands, while Europeans rarely get sick...Since it is God's will for the Europeans to conquer us, then we can only let them kill, let them plunder, whatever Resistance is blasphemy...

——Not only did people die of illness, but even the will to fight was directly disintegrated by the plague.

As a result, when the century-long war of conquest ended, the Indians retreated steadily in front of the Spaniards, and had lost most of America from Mexico to Argentina.As for the rest of the North American Great Plains, it will eventually be occupied by the British in a few centuries.

Therefore, in order to win this invisible war and prevent Port of Hope from becoming a port of death in the plague, it is imperative to carry out universal vaccination with modern vaccines in the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom.

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In fact, in view of the dangers of various bacterial viruses in the modern world to ancient people, this work should have been carried out a long time ago, and the traversers also realized the importance of this matter from the very beginning.However, due to the limitations of various practical conditions, it has not been possible to implement this matter.

——Most of the antibiotic pills currently on the market in China are also prescription drugs, but due to the huge production volume and high sales volume, the supervision of relevant departments is not very strict. In addition, the traversers have a layer of "zheng fu civil servants" to cover them , so it is relatively easy to obtain.

However, it is not so easy to purchase various vaccines in large quantities, because vaccines are generally not sold directly in pharmacies, and it is difficult to bypass hospitals and epidemic prevention departments and order directly from manufacturers, especially those at least as low as Port of Hope. The scale of tens of thousands of vaccines...

Therefore, although the traversers have long known that the Spaniards will bring smallpox, measles and other severe infectious diseases unique to the Old World to this land, causing the number of Mexican Indians to plummet from 500 million to 300 million, but for a while However, there is not enough vaccine to be raised in time, and there is still nothing to do.

Fortunately, they are not lone rangers who play time-traveling games by themselves, but government staff with a national background.

Professor Yang went to Beijing to report on his work this time, and successfully aroused the support and attention of the superior leaders, and the above problems were finally solved.

Although the relevant leaders of the Supernatural Phenomenon Handling Office of the Harmony Department of the State Council are not in charge of economics, they all know very well that once this unprecedented trade across time and space is launched on a large scale, its significance will definitely be comparable to that of Columbus discovering the New World!

——Modern China in the 21st century has long since ceased to be a closed country that claimed to be "abundant in products and omnipresent, and did not borrow goods from foreign barbarians to obtain what it has", but has evolved into a country. Industrialized monsters that greedily crave all kinds of resources, their desire for wealth and resources is even greater than that of Europeans in the Age of Discovery—whether it is gold, silver, or gems in Central America, It is still a huge amount of cheap and high-quality timber, which is very enviable, not to mention the oil buried in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Time-Space Gate has a lot of restrictions on the transmission personnel, and the time it can be maintained is too short, and there are some things that need to be confirmed with your own eyes, the office director really wants to call the Military Commission to see Could it be possible to mobilize several divisions of the People's Liberation Army to grab the territory - the Western colonists have been playing around the world for hundreds of years, and it's not impossible for us Chinese to follow suit.

Since one's own army can't make it through, in order to ensure the output of resources, the group of indigenous thugs recruited locally has become a treasure. It is necessary to protect their health in order to fight off the Spanish colonists, tame the Aztec Empire, and bring the Chinese America became their own private land.

So, contacted and coordinated by the Supernatural Phenomenon Handling Office of the Harmony Department of the State Council, Professor Yang took a stack of red-headed approval documents, opened a strategic material reserve warehouse in this city, and got 30 smallpox vaccines that were about to expire. There are also anti-tuberculosis BCG vaccines, DPT preparations for infants and young children (to prevent pertussis), as well as rubella vaccines, yellow fever vaccines, and rabies vaccines, etc., which can be described as fruitful harvests.

Of course, although the vaccine is already available, it is necessary for the Native Americans of the Stone Age, who were slash-and-burn, to have the medical knowledge of five centuries later in just a few months, and understand the medical principles and efficacy of this stuff, fellow travelers. I feel like I'm still powerless.

After some discussion, everyone decided that in terms of propaganda to the public, instead of trying to spread a series of microbiological and medical knowledge, it is better to just say that it is the blessing of the "God Man", which can keep them away from various diseases... Anyway Because of the potted machines built during this period and the introduction of agricultural electric tricycles, this country can even produce such a wonderful feudal superstition as the "Mechanic God", which is not bad.

So, not long after, after the operation procedures of the pot camel machine were fiddled with into religious sacrificial ceremonies, a "Handbook of Hygiene and Epidemic Prevention" published in the 60s and used for popular science and literacy in rural areas was published by Wen Desi's wife Maca. Under the help of the princess, it became a "sacred scripture" of a new religion, stipulating that in order to better worship the gods, all the people in the city should take a pious bath at least once a day, and then pray to the gods while taking a bath, and brush their teeth in the morning and evening. Gargle, have a regular diet, do not drink unboiled water, and it is forbidden to defecate on the streets of the city... and the scars left by vaccination on the arms have become the marks given to believers by the "man of God", just like the Jewish people. Circumcision is the same as Christian baptism.

Although this approach may seem a bit unscientific, it is indeed the most effective way to popularize health knowledge to the ancients. This is what the Jews did-to give an example, in the "Exodus" of the "Bible", Moses made Egypt When people get sick, one eldest son dies in each family, but the Jews are safe and sound. The interpretation of the "Bible" and the Egyptians' understanding of this matter are: This is God's favor for the Jews!Mortals cannot be enemies of God's elect!

Therefore, the Egyptians not only wanted to give the Jews freedom and let them return to their hometown, but also allowed them to extort gold, silver, food and animals.

However, these unlucky Egyptians may not have noticed that the Jewish commandment requires them not to eat raw meat, carrion, drink the blood of animals, and during the few days of the plague outbreak, they cannot even eat boiled meat, but to eat meat. Bake it at a higher temperature until it is fully cooked before eating, and you are not allowed to eat fermented bread that has been left for many days, you can only eat dead bread that is not fermented and not easy to deteriorate, and you are not allowed to drink water that is not clean enough, etc... The difference in this series of hygienic habits was invisible to the ancient Egyptians who lacked microbial knowledge. They could only see whether some people believed in God or not, and which god they believed in...

This is the tragedy of underdeveloped medicine!

In fact, Jews, Christians and Muslims, in a sense, are all using religious forms to popularize health knowledge.For example, Muslims don’t eat pork, initially because domestic pigs in the Middle East always eat garbage in cities, and people who eat this kind of pig meat are prone to get sick.The Jews require boys to be circumcised, and they also have considerations to prevent various genital diseases.

Therefore, among the ignorant Indians in Central America, the traversers can naturally imitate cats and tigers and concoct a "Scientology".

Moreover, the promotion of "Scientology" among the Hongxiutizgan people has another wonderful benefit-they have been defeated first in these years, then subjugated the country, and suffered plagues. The population once plummeted to the original 130, Almost all the priests and priests who held the power of belief died out, thus making room for the "Scientology" in thinking, and the only tribal leader who might pose an obstacle is the traverser's own people.

As a result, all kinds of modern hygiene common sense were eventually popularized in the form of religion, and became the living standards of Hongxiutizgan people.