After Liu Chuanhai sent the necessary information back to Xiao Ruxun, he began to take action with Du Kangyong's support.
The main content of the action was investigation and statistics. The most important thing to do at the moment was to find out the scale of the big belly disease in the Jiangnan area and the number of people infected.
No matter what the medical conditions were, they had to find a way to save them. They could not just watch a living person slowly die like this. For the Daqin, this was also an important labor force.
The basic spirit of the Emperor was to find one and treat one. He concentrated all the medical resources in Jiangnan to start the treatment of the big belly disease.
Therefore, Du Kangyong issued a notice in South Zhili, asking the local government officials to immediately organize people to fully count the number of people who had or had big belly disease in their respective areas of jurisdiction. The scope of the count should be down to every household in every village, and the number should be accurate to the single digit.
Another important task was issued. The three provinces in the southeast had already established the three-level system of state, county, and township, as well as the farmer's association system, which was the prerequisite for completing this big count. Without such a completed and spread out official system, it was really unknown when such a count could be completed.
Once the task was issued, the local government immediately mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized and immediately carried out a clean and thorough count of the local people who had big belly disease according to the requirements of the higher-ups.
The local people in Jiangnan knew a lot about this disease. When they learned that the Emperor had decided to deal with this disease, they were all very surprised.
They felt that the Emperor really cared about the people. He even personally ordered the people to be taken care of when they were sick. Then, when the specific numbers were gathered, many people's expressions slowly changed.
The number of people was beyond imagination.
In the past, the biggest problem was not the existence of this disease, but some other problems, such as famine, floods, droughts, wars, and so on. Thus, the harm brought about by this disease was covered up. But now, other problems were beginning to be solved, so the problem of big belly disease could not be covered up and gradually came to the surface.
In the beginning, there were ten or twenty thousand people. After ten days, there were fifty or sixty thousand people. After a month, the number of people had reached one hundred and ten thousand. There were already so many people in the whole of South Zhili. And this was not the whole of South Zhili, but less than half of it.
Beads of sweat appeared on Du Kangyong's forehead. He couldn't help but wipe them off with his hands. He felt that his throat was extremely dry, and he kept swallowing his saliva.
When he first became the inspector-general of Southern Zhili, he felt that he had brought honor to his ancestors and was full of complacency. But not long after, the big belly disease hit him hard on the head, making him dizzy and at a loss of what to do.
So many people had fallen ill, so many families had lost their labor force, and the land could not be cultivated. This would greatly affect the food production of South Zhili. The work assigned by the central government could not be completed, and so many people had died. For Du Kangyong, this was tantamount to the end of his political career.
She had never thought that a small stomach disease would develop to this stage under everyone's indifference.
But to be honest, it was probably because the old masters never thought of going to the countryside to see the problems, nor did they think of contacting the poor among the people to ask for their help. They just blindly ignored it, blindly covered it up, blindly whitewashed it.
Since the land reform, the grain output had been rising steadily. People applauded, and many officials were immersed in a great sense of satisfaction.
This was undoubtedly a blow to the heads of all the officials who felt good.
A village, a township, and a county were indeed nothing, but the statistics for the whole South Zhili were shocking.
Seeing that the number of people was increasing day by day, the statisticians who came back from the lower states, counties, and townships brought back the data of ten, twenty, thirty, and forty people with solemn faces. Although it did not seem to be much individually, in a traditionally densely populated area like South Zhili, it was an astronomical figure when added up.
At the end of August, when Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang, and Jiangxi provinces along the Yangtze River also began to carry out a general survey of the big belly disease, the general survey of South Zhili had been fully carried out.
Du Kangyong had a copy of the whole data, and Xiao Ruxun also had a copy, updated at the same time.
Based on the current data, the number of people who were sick or had been sick but had inexplicably recovered had exceeded 400,000. In some seriously sick villages, most of the people were sick. Some families of five all had big bellies, and even children of a few years old had big bellies.
There were also many families where the main labor force of the family had big bellies and could not get up. There were only young children and women at home, and it seemed that their lives could not go on.
In some families, both the master and the mistress had big bellies, and only the child was not sick. He sat on the ground and cried himself hoarse, and the father and mother did not have the strength to make food for him.
When a few families opened their doors, the thick smell of corpses almost made the statisticians who came to do the statistics almost faint, and screams came one after another.
The land that had not been in their hands for a long time, and before they had time to harvest more rice and potatoes, they lay in bed and could not get up. Their bellies were very big, and they could not see a doctor, and there was no way to treat them.
Those who were not sick sat together with sad faces, and those who were sick were basically waiting for death.
Although there were complaints from the villages and townships, there were not many people who did. Some places were even used to it and did not take it seriously. It was not until the central government's decree was issued that they realized the seriousness of the matter.
As soon as the statistics were done, they found many problems, and what they saw was a shocking disaster and poverty.
The entire officialdom of Southern Zhili was shaken.
Yes, they had received land, and their children were about to receive education. Good things that had not been seen in thousands of years had come to them, but, but the problems were not over.
There would be more and more problems. The land reform had just begun, and education had just begun.
After the land reform, the people of Daqin were far from living a good life.
Eating was only the first step, because they did not have much money, and even if they had a little money, they could not find suitable doctors and medicine. A small illness could put a family in trouble, and there was the possibility of it being destroyed at any time.
The extremely poor sanitary conditions made many things go to waste. As long as one was sick, it was all gone.
Many times, Xiao Ruxun found it difficult to understand. A small headache and fever could destroy a family. This kind of thing almost did not exist in modern times, but it was everywhere in this era.
The people's enthusiasm for production had greatly increased, but the illness was never far away from them. Once the illness arrived, the labor force disappeared, and poverty would return to them.
It was not enough to just give them land. Medical conditions could not keep up, and the labor force liberated by the land reform could not be put into practice.
From this time on, all the officials of the Daqin began to understand the importance of health to the country.
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