Chapter 1308 Do you know how many children will die in Daming year?
Faced with Liu Jin's stern and angry questions.
Fu Han's white beard trembled with anger, but he could not answer Liu Jin's words directly. He could only say weakly: "Since ancient times, there have been several cases of women dying in childbirth. As for the death of children, then
There are even more, so what’s so strange about it?”
"How many cases are there always difficult to deal with and die?"
"Master Fu, don't you keep saying that you want to uphold justice for the women of the Ming Dynasty? You don't even know how many women died of childbirth in the Ming Dynasty every year. What are you talking about upholding justice?"
Liu Jin immediately sarcastically said.
"You, you~"
"I, the Minister of Rites, set an example for the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty. How could I continue to practice such filthy things in the name of healing people like you? I am only concerned with national affairs, so how could I pay attention to such a trivial matter?"
Fu Han was also angry. This Liu Jin was an old man in his seventies after all, but he didn't give him any face.
"Little things?"
"Women in the Ming Dynasty have a 30% mortality rate during childbirth. The population of the Ming Dynasty is 150 million. Hundreds of thousands of women die every year in the entire Ming Dynasty giving birth to children."
"A matter of life and death for hundreds of thousands of people turns out to be a trivial matter in Master Fu's words. Master Fu, who lives in a temple, is so indifferent. Is the life of hundreds of thousands of people not life?"
Liu Jin said with a sneer.
"Impossible~"
"Hundreds of thousands of women will die giving birth to children every year next year?"
"How can this be?"
"What nonsense!"
"It's not impossible. We have a vast territory and a large population. There may be only a few around us, but if we scale it up to the entire Ming Dynasty, there may be hundreds of thousands of people a year."
"That's true. Every year, we hear about someone's daughter-in-law dying after giving birth."
"I just didn't expect that so many people would die giving birth to children next year."
When the ministers heard this, some found it unbelievable, while others thought about it carefully, but everyone was surprised by this huge number.
In this era where early marriage and early childbearing are advocated, the risk of childbirth is too great, and the mortality rate is too high. However, no one has paid attention to this matter. Therefore, everyone originally thought it was indifferent, but now Liu Jin has spoken out,
Only then did everyone realize the seriousness of this problem.
"How can this be!"
Fu Han was speechless by Liu Jin and could only retort.
"How can it be?"
"Master Fu is aloof, doesn't care about the world, and cares about the country's affairs. Of course he won't care about such trivial matters."
"Just ask a few stable women at random. They should know these things best, and then make a rough estimate. Can't it be calculated easily?"
Liu Jin said with a sneer, which was like a slap in the face to Fu Han.
"No matter how many people die because of giving birth to children, there is nothing we can do about it. As the saying goes, starving to death is a small matter, but lack of integrity is a big deal. Women should pay attention to their chastity. How can they lose their virginity because of giving birth to children?
"
Fu Han was speechless and had no choice but to bring up Zheng Jie again.
“Did Ming Medical College train obstetricians and gynecologists to make women lose their virginity?”
"Research on good methods and methods to reduce the risk of childbirth is also for my Ming Dynasty. If these hundreds of thousands of women can be saved from dying in a year, millions of women will die in ten years. Plus those who can still have children, my Ming Dynasty can save more
How many people are born, how many families can be benefited."
"What's more, do you know how those stable women deliver babies nowadays?"
“When they couldn’t give birth to a child, they beat the mother with whips, pricked her with needles, fed her hair, etc. Many women didn’t know anything at all, and they didn’t know hygiene when delivering babies, so that the mother contracted diseases and died.
At the same time, many newborns do not survive for a few days because they do not receive timely treatment and medical treatment."
"Take what was reported yesterday as an example. If Daming Medical College had not developed a method of caesarean section, the pregnant woman would have died giving birth to the baby. At the same time, the baby would not have been saved, because it took three days and three nights for the baby to be removed.
When I came out, I was no longer breathing."
"If it was Wen Po, they definitely didn't have any methods or measures, but at Daming Medical College, they knew how to use artificial respiration and through hard work, they saved the baby."
"What was originally a tragedy ended up perfectly, and the mother and son were safe. Isn't this enough to explain?"
Liu Jin was disgusted when he looked at Fu Han.
These superior people do not care about the life and death of ordinary people at all, and they cannot see the suffering of the people. In their eyes, these things are not as important as the so-called ethical order.
Standing in the temple one after another, they keep saying that they should govern the country and care for the people, and that they should be loyal to the emperor and serve the country. In fact, they are just some rice worms. They can just eat a meal in their corpses. The key is that there are still some officials who really want to do practical things and do good things and cannot do anything.
Hearing Liu Jin's words, the ministers present could not help but open their mouths.
It has always been difficult for the elders to ask about things like Wen Po's delivery of babies. What's more, these people present are all ministers of the DPRK, so they don't understand these things.
Who knows how violent it is for a Wen woman to deliver a baby, how terrifying it is for a pregnant woman to give birth, and what kind of risks she faces. It is more terrifying than going to the gate of hell.
"This~"
Fu Han had nothing to say and his face turned red from holding back.
"Do you know how high the child mortality rate is in Ming Dynasty?"
"About half of the children born in Ming Dynasty do not live to be more than one year old. Just ask, which household has no children who died in infancy?"
"Do you know how many children died in Ming Dynasty every year? Millions of children died in infancy every year. Is this a trivial matter in Master Fu's eyes?" (In ancient times, the fertility and death rates were very high. There was one in Ming Dynasty.
There are 50 million people. Calculating the death rate and fertility rate, the figure of one million per year should not be an exaggeration.)
Liu Jin didn't mean to stop, and directly said a shocking thing again.
Millions of children died every year in Ming Dynasty!
"Oh my god~"
"This... millions of children die every year?"
"Impossible, how is this possible?"
"This is too scary."
The ministers all exclaimed in surprise. Millions of children died every year. This was an extremely terrible number, and it was also a frightening number.
"Master Liu, how is this possible?"
A minister stood up and said.
"Impossible. Look around you. Children are dying in every household. Many times, after seven or eight children are born, less than half can be raised as adults. Some poor people give birth to more than a dozen children and eventually raise them.
There may only be two or three big ones.”
Liu Jin sighed slightly and replied.
The mortality rate of children in this era is really terrible. Many minor illnesses that may seem trivial to future generations are enough to kill countless children in this era.
Like smallpox, measles, pneumonia, etc., children have weak body resistance and are prone to contracting these diseases. Without good medical technology, it is basically difficult to survive.
Sometimes, even a toothache can kill someone, and children's food is not processed well, drinking water or cold water, etc. Things that may seem trivial in later generations are fatal in this era.
After hearing Liu Jin's words, all the ministers fell silent.
Not to mention ordinary people's families, even among the princes and ministers present, many of their children died in infancy.
Emperor Hongzhi, who was sitting on the dragon throne, gave birth to two sons. The youngest son died in infancy. Liu Jian had three sons. The eldest son and the second son both died early. Only the third son was raised to adulthood. Several of his grandsons died in infancy.
.
Li Dongyang was even worse. He gave birth to several sons. Although one son was raised, his grandson died before he could stay, so he had to adopt a son from his brother.
Like Zhang Mao, he gave birth to several sons who all died young. Fortunately, his son got married early and left him a grandson, Zhang Lun.
It can be said that in this era, the mortality rate of children is really too high, especially for babies born, many of whom do not survive until their first birthday.
The princes and nobles in this temple are like this. They have money to treat their children, and they also have enough financial and material resources to raise them. The premature death rate is so terrifying.
Putting it in the homes of ordinary people, it would probably be even more terrifying. Not only would they have to experience various diseases, but some would also have to endure hunger, malnutrition, etc.
Everyone was silent, thinking about their children who died young, and sadness spread in the Jinluan Palace.
Even Fu Han stopped talking at this moment. He also thought of his child who died young, and his sadness showed.
"The death of babies is often due to incorrect methods adopted by the mother-in-law when giving birth."
"For example, some babies have amniotic fluid in their stomachs. If the amniotic fluid is not discharged, it can easily lead to premature death. The method is very simple. When the baby is born, you only need to hold the baby's feet, lift it upside down a few times, and pat the back.
Just your butt."
"In addition, children who drink cold water can easily catch colds, have diarrhea, develop roundworms, and die prematurely. This problem can be avoided by simply boiling the water and then drinking it cold."
"Mothers often use unclean and unsterilized puerpers to give birth, causing infections. The solution is very simple. You only need to boil water in advance and then dry it in the sun to eliminate most of the germs and reduce the risk of infection.
Risk of infection.”
"What Daming Medical College does is to improve the medical level of our country and save more people. Maybe what they do seems dirty and dirty to you, but they are selfless, so
Everything I do is for the women of Ming Dynasty and for the children of Ming Dynasty."
"The purpose is to reduce the risks and mortality of women during childbirth, to reduce the mortality rate of infants and children, and to make every household in the Ming Dynasty smile when they give birth to children instead of being full of worries.
I hope every child can grow up healthy and healthy!"