Knowing the helplessness of the imperial court, Liu Chuanhai did not know what to say.
Du Kangyong sighed and asked, "Then where does Assistant Minister Fang plan to start?"
"This old man has just arrived and does not understand anything, so I will not interfere. What are you all doing? What are you all doing? Bring this old man to have a look and take a walk. This old man needs to understand the specific situation of this disease. I cannot give random instructions. "
Du Kangyong nodded and brought Fang Congzhe to the countryside the next day.
This time, they chose a village in South Zhili where the schistosomiasis disease was more serious. There were thirteen villages in this village, and more than half of the villagers in eight villages were infected. The situation was very tragic.
Fang Congzhe came to one of the villages and saw a large group of schistosomiasis patients with big bellies but thin limbs. There were men and women, old and young. As he walked, Fang Congzhe had a sorrowful expression on his face.
"Old man, how long have you been suffering from this disease?"
Fang Congzhe held the hand of a sick old man.
The sick old man had a bitter expression on his face. "It has been three years, over and over again. It has never gotten better."
The chairman of the village farmers' association said, "Old Wang is lucky to be able to endure it. There are some young men in the village who vomited blood and died within a few months of the disease. Their families cried until their tears ran dry. There is no way, there is no cure, and we cannot afford to call for a doctor."
Fang Congzhe asked again, "Why can't we afford to call for a doctor?"
"We don't have money. Before the Emperor gave us land, we had no money on us. It was already a problem to eat, how could we treat the disease? Now that we finally have a few mouthfuls of rice, it is just enough to eat. The money to call for a doctor and medicine is too expensive. We can't afford it. Only the masters of the rich families can afford it. "
Fang Congzhe's face turned red. He remembered that a few years ago, he was a rich family with tens of thousands of mu of land …
"The people are actually so poor?"
Fang Congzhe looked at Du Kangyong.
Du Kangyong looked at Fang Congzhe with a strange expression.
"It can't be helped. It's always been like this. These poor farmers can only afford to eat for one or two years. It's normal that they don't have money."
Both Du Kangyong and Liu Chuanhai knew about Fang Congzhe's background. They were officials of the land reform era and had climbed to the pinnacle of their lives by stepping on the corpses of these wealthy families. However, the person in front of them was a real master. It was just that he had a keen sense of smell and had long handed over the land to avoid disaster. They could not help but admire his foresight.
Fang Congzhe did not continue asking.
He remembered the tenant farmers in his house. No matter what, they were not starving, and the rent was not high. Usually, if any of the tenant farmers were sick and looked down on them, he would ask his family to send some money to them. Those tenant farmers also remembered his kindness, but why did other places …
Thinking of this, Fang Congzhe understood and stopped thinking about it. If he continued to think about it, he would start to wonder if he had been eating human flesh and drinking human blood in the past.
Fortunately, he had handed over the land early …
Fang Congzhe was glad about this again.
Along the way to the paddy fields in the village, Fang Congzhe saw many people fishing around the water and paddy fields with nets made of long sticks. Then, they caught some snails and put them on the ground to pick and choose. They divided them into two piles, one pile was thrown back, and the other pile was piled up.
Then, he saw people pushing rolling logs made into cylinders, crushing all the snails, sweeping them into the pit and burying them.
"What are they doing?"
"Exterminating the snails."
Liu Chuanhai said, "The imperial court said that the poisonous insects of Big Belly Disease grow in the snails and then infect people. As long as there are no such snails, the poisonous insects naturally can't grow, and they won't infect the patients.
The imperial court has drawn the appearance of the snails that need to be destroyed and distributed it to all parts of Jiangnan, asking local officials to organize people to find the snails in the waterways and paddy fields of the infected areas, and then immediately crush them to death, eliminating a large number of snails, so that the poisonous insects can't grow. "
Du Kangyong continued, "After visiting and inquiring these days, we found that this kind of snails can be found in every place where there are patients, in the waterways and paddy fields, so we are organizing people to kill the snails everywhere. If we find them, we will fish them up and kill them."
"Can we kill all the snails in this way?"
Fang Congzhe was a little confused.
"Whether it can or not, we have to try first. These snails are always a scourge, so we have to kill them when we see them. Moreover, the imperial court also said that the feces of the infected patients can't be used as fertilizer casually. They have to be specially separated. There are insects and insect eggs in their feces."
Liu Chuanhai said so.
"Ouch …"
Fang Congzhe's face was full of sorrow. "What should we do? No matter how I look at it, it's very tricky."
"This is only one aspect. Hundreds of thousands of patients have to be treated. We are gathering famous doctors who can treat the big belly disease to discuss in the imperial court, summarize a reliable prescription, and then treat them one by one. We have to do the treatment. Otherwise, we can't watch the patients die."
Du Kangyong sighed. "No matter how difficult it is, we have to try."
"How long will it take to do it?"
Fang Congzhe looked at the village full of patients. "I'm afraid this village will take a long time, right?"
As soon as he said this, Du Kangyong and Liu Chuanhai's faces were full of helplessness.
It was beyond the reach of human beings, beyond the reach of human beings.
They all understood that, but as far as they could see, there were patients everywhere. Humans were not plants or trees, how could they be heartless?
Seeing so many patients struggling at death's door and dying at any time, and families about to be destroyed, what could they think of the extremely important labor force for the Daqin Kingdom being harmed to this extent by a small insect?
However, no matter how difficult it was, they had to do it. No matter how difficult it was, they had to start from the beginning. They couldn't stop doing things just because it was difficult.
Xiao Ruxun summoned famous doctors from all over the country to the capital and discussed with the imperial doctors of the Imperial Hospital about the construction of the national medical system.
In the face of the emperor's proposal that the imperial court should come forward to build a unified Huimin Pharmacy in all provinces of the country and arrange special personnel to plant medicinal materials in the places suitable for planting medicinal materials, he also proposed to invite famous doctors to take the lead in establishing a school to train doctors, and let them teach and train qualified doctors.
In the face of the emperor's various proposals, even the imperial doctors of the Imperial Hospital were stunned.
A school to train doctors?
Since ancient times, the inheritance of doctors had been inherited by the son after the death of the father or by the master and apprentice. There had never been a school to train doctors like cultivating scholars.
Although the status of doctors was not as low as that of businessmen, in the traditional sense, the status of doctors was not high.
The proposal to establish a school to train doctors made all the doctors at a loss.
"I'm not joking. I'm deeply aware of the shortage of doctors in the Daqin Kingdom and the urgent need to train more doctors to treat the people of the Daqin Kingdom. Therefore, I've decided to invest a sum of money to establish a school to train doctors in Nanjing and Beijing respectively. You can teach students in the school to learn medical skills and train excellent doctors. What do you think?"
Xiao Ruxun looked eagerly at these famous doctors.
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