Chapter 714 Not in line with the etiquette, but the great benefit of the country!
Many people suffer from this disease in southern China, especially in humid areas. At that time, people had no choice but to sit and wait for death. For example, there were frequent cases of illness in Bashu or Lingnan. Before I traveled through time, there was no special medicine at all. Either they would resist it with their own constitution, or they would lie on the bed waiting for the arrival of the god of death.
It can be said that the mortality rate of this disease is extremely high. In this era without special medicines, it is said that the mortality rate of this disease has reached more than 40%.
A very terrible disease, and the torture caused by illness, are also unbearable, making people equate this disease with plague and miasma. It is definitely a disease that everyone is afraid of.
However, my uncle stood here very healthy and proudly announced to everyone that he had medicine and the disease could be cured.
These civil and military officials had known about this disappearance for a long time. Otherwise, they would have strongly opposed my master's use of military forces in the southern barbarian areas, because the terrible mortality rate brought by this disease is definitely not something that everyone can bear.
Even so, the ministers seemed to be savored. However, the longer they stayed, they were shocked when they heard my uncle telling the story of thousands of craftsmen and tens of thousands of families migrating to Jiaozhi. None of them died of malaria.
As for the special medicine that my uncle mentioned, it is Artemisia annua tablet. The so-called Artemisia annua tablet is made of tablets made by dividing the whole Artemisia annua that is sunburned and dried, and then adding a certain amount of bee secret and flour as a coagulant.
Malaria is rarely effective in the world. In ancient times, there were stories about the Qing Dynasty's Tartar emperors who got malaria and were cured by missionaries with cinchona frost. In history, the cinchona frost saved countless creatures and was praised by doctors. Although the cinchona frost is mainly produced in Indonesia, its hometown is Ecuador, the Americas.
The cinchona cream made of bark powder of the cinchona tree was a very effective special medicine in dealing with malaria in history. However, it is prone to recur after recovery. There are many side effects, mainly tinnitus, heavy listening, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, etc., collectively known as the cinchona reaction.
According to legend, in the Maracatos area of Loja Province, southern Ecuador, an Indian once suffered from malaria and was thirsty all over his body. He climbed to a small pond deep in the dense forest and drank a lot of cold water. He suddenly felt relieved. He found that the water in the pond was bitter. Later, he learned that there were many cinchona trees growing next to the pond, some of which were poured in water. The bitter taste was the leach of the bark. From then on, when local Indians encountered malaria, they would use this bitter bark to treat themselves. Because they were repeatedly tested and tried, they were regarded as magical medicine by local indigenous people and passed down from generation to generation.
After Columbus discovered the New World, Europeans flocked to America. A chief named Bedro Leyva revealed the medicinal value of the cinchona tree to the missionary Juan Lopez out of friendship and gave him a piece of cinchona bark as a souvenir. So the secret finally fell into the hands of the Europeans.
There is a widely circulated story about quinine. In 1638, Jin Qiong, the wife of the Peruvian Governor, was infected with malaria vivax. The Spanish governor who ruled the Andes region brought some powder ground from the bark of the cinchona tree. According to local indigenous people, the bark can reduce fever, but the result is really effective. Later, the Countess brought the medicine back to his hometown of Spain. At that time, malaria was raging in the European continent, and this bark powder became the first time that Europeans could effectively treat malaria.
In 1693, French missionary Hong Ruohan used jinjinafen to cure malaria of Emperor Kangxi of Qing. Later, Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin asked Emperor Kangxi for jinjinafen due to malaria. Li Xu, a Suzhou weaving gang, reported to me: "Yin told me that if the doctor uses medicine, it will not work, and he will definitely get the master's sacred medicine to save me." After Kangxi learned about it, he specially "gived the Yima to rush there at night", and repeatedly told me, "If it wasn't for malaria, this medicine should not be used. We must be given serious advice." Before the medicine arrived, Cao Yin died.
The side effects of cinchona cream are not small, and it is easy to recur, so in later generations, the whole world is looking for good medicines that can cure malaria. Huaxia finally found the best medicine: Artemisia annua.
This thing is the most common artemisiae. In this era, people often use it to smoke mosquitoes in their homes. Before I knew my uncle was going to Jiaozhi, I had already started preparing. And after the medication for malaria patients had been effective, mass production began.
As far as I know, the artemisinin contained in Artemisia annua cannot be heated. At least under current conditions, it is difficult to store it with decoctions. Therefore, Yuqian used Artemisia annua that was sun-dried to make medicine. I don’t think that the effect is significant.
It is precisely for this reason that the people who went to Jiaozhi Land were able to escape from the clutches of such a terrible disease of malaria.
With my uncle's account, these civil and military officials finally understood the difference between the tolerance of northerners and southerners to the environment in the face of environmental differences. Therefore, southerners are most suitable for the migration of land to islands that are very important to the current Chinese Empire.
"But Your Majesty, even if you want to migrate to the southerners, it is not that easy to do." Ma Zhou frowned and raised his own objection. "Just talking about my Chinese people's habit of being unable to leave their hometowns, and if you want to go to Luzon, you must leave your hometown and go overseas. I think it's probably difficult for anyone to go."
"I know this truth, so I summoned my family to discuss. I believe you should know the importance of the southern islands to the empire today. Most of these places are controlled by local local barbarians." I glanced at the civil and military officials and continued in a deep voice. "If I do not send people to them in China, then when the strength of those local barbarians in the future will be strong, it will inevitably affect the empire's control over these places."
For example, the southern border areas. Especially in the Jiaozhi area, in 214 BC, after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he sent a large army to cross Lingnan to occupy the northern part of Vietnam, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian today, and conquered the local Baiyue tribes. The Qin Dynasty immigrated in this area and established three counties, of which northern Vietnam was under the management of Xiangjun.
In 203 BC, Zhao Tuo, the Nanhai Weiwei of the Qin Dynasty, established himself as King Wu of Nanyue (later renamed Emperor Wu of Nanyue), during the chaotic period of the late Qin Dynasty, with the capital in Guangzhou. The northern part of Vietnam became part of the Nanyue Kingdom. By 111 BC, Emperor Wu of Han sent a large army to destroy the Nanyue Kingdom, and established three counties in northern Vietnam, including Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen and Rinan, to implement direct administrative management.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Cham people killed the Xianglin County Magistrate of the Han Dynasty, which was independent from the Eastern Han Dynasty, occupied most of the former Rinan County (central part of Vietnam), using Brahmanism as the state religion, established the Champa Kingdom, and bounded with Hue as the boundary between the Eastern Han Dynasty.
After Emperor Wen of Sui destroyed Chen, the world was peaceful. It happened that Lin Yi did not pay tribute for a long time. The ministers all said that there were many strange treasures there. After hearing this, Emperor Wen felt itchy, so he sent General Liu Fang to the south to fight at the end of Renshou. King Linyi led the giant elephant to fight, but the Sui army could not defeat him. Liu Fang came up with a plan, so he dug many traps on the battlefield, then pretended to retreat, and Linyi soldiers pursued him relentlessly. As a result, all the elephant soldiers were trapped in, and they were in chaos and defeated. Liu Fang fought to the capital, and the spoils were eleven of the Jin gods. In the first year of Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Yang sent troops to fight south to destroy Linyi and divided the land into three counties. The people were dissatisfied and repeatedly resisted, and finally restored the country successfully.
From this we can see that when the local indigenous people account for a large proportion, it is extremely unfavorable for the empire to control these remote areas. More importantly, they only know how to use them to be strict, but not to use them to educate them.
"Educate it? Your Majesty, those barbarians do not know words, do not know etiquette, and are vulgar. If there is any conflict, they will fight each other. Moreover, they are very hated by us Han people. If they want to educate them, they will be harmed..." Yang Gongren frowned and stood up to object.
"Actually, education is not impossible." I smiled and waved my hand, indicating that Yang Gongren should not rush to refute it. Then I put forward my own point of view. If you want to educate the aliens, you must first conquer with force, then destroy the other party's culture and traditions, and then start to educate.
Or to build their future, this move was the most commonly used move by European invaders in the Age of Discovery, holding the Bible in one hand and musket in the other. With these two hands, they conquered one kingdom after another and one vast territory after another.
Mercy and education are impossible to make those turbulent people truly surrender to our China, so war is the premise and the beginning. Only when the Chinese Empire wipes out all the rebels and lets them understand that only by obediently surrendering and honestly following the rules of the Chinese Empire can they survive. Then, in the long run, they will gradually recognize themselves as a member of the Chinese Empire.
Every time the dynasty of China changes, it is a bloody expansion, which has led to the territory of the current Chinese Empire.
I tell the story very gently, even with a little bit of wit, and also with a bit of compassion for the world, trying to downplay the blood and cruelty here.
However, none of the people present were stupid. Apart from Li Xuanba and Luo Shixin, who were planning to fight with others, were considering how to deal with the weird way Kong Yingda told them about their homework, the other people's faces couldn't help but be a little pale.
"Yu Li is not in line." Kong Yingda's voice seemed a little hoarse, like a strange sound rubbing from the dry desert. The great scholar of the country who should have spoken with great righteousness and passionateness was so guilty, as if this Yu Li is not in line with great harmony.
Chapter completed!