Chapter 42                                                             �

Zhou Mengchen did not think about correcting these things. But after thinking about it, Zhou Mengchen did not say much in the end. There are two reasons. The current experimental tools cannot prove these theories. Even if Zhou Mengchen said it, he would speak vernacularly. The credibility is insufficient and it will even be supported and refuted by many inherent traditional Chinese medicine theories. One of them is

In fact, Zhou Mengchen is the most at ease among all disciplines. Zhou Mengchen reads "The Great Doctors' Sincerity" every issue. He clearly feels that medicine has a self-renewal ability, and traditional Chinese medicine is an empirical science. The most important thing is to practice. Therefore, Zhou Mengchen feels that he doesn't have to worry about it. With the blessing of various instruments and the progress of anatomy, countless doctors will update their cognition.

Since that's the case, why did Zhou Mengchen rashly enter the field he was unfamiliar with?

However, Zhou Mengchen felt extremely worried after hearing Li Shizhen's words.

Because he can do nothing.

Indeed, he was the imperial envoy and the governor of the three provinces. But he was still powerless to do many things. Because Zhou Mengchen knew very well that the Ming court seemed to rule everything, but in fact, outside the Ming court, there were a lot of things that the court could not control.

Zhou Mengchen's official title is only useful to officials, and he cannot control many things outside of this. Not to mention, even the officials in the following three provinces may not be all in public office and obediently listen to the orders of superiors. Even if they listen to the orders of superiors, their execution ability is still very problematic.

So we cannot prevent it before it happens.

Zhou Mengchen said: "How big is the plague that broke out in spring?"

Li Shizhen said: "You think you are a god? How can I say this kind of thing accurately? There may be a plague, but it may also disappear invisibly, and no one can explain it clearly. But I think that in places where there are many deaths in the earthquake, there are high possibility of plague outbreaks, and in places where there are few deaths, there are small possibility of plague outbreaks."

Zhou Mengchen knew what Li Shizhen said. However, Zhou Mengchen also understood that plagues are often difficult to explain clearly. Even if medicine is so developed in later generations, he cannot fully understand how plagues broke out and disappeared, let alone this era.

Zhou Mengchen said: "How many people have you brought?"

Li Shizhen said: "Three imperial doctors, dozens of doctors, and more than 200 apprentices, many of them are students of your Datong. It can be said that Huimin Hospital is usually here."

Zhou Mengchen heard a lot of them.

After all, Huimin Hospital is not very large now, and it is impossible to cultivate doctors quickly. The medical education promoted by Zhou Mengchen, that is, graduates of Datong Medical College, came out, which is what Li Shizhen called apprentices, and could only take action and wait until they can truly stand on their own, which is the so-called doctors.

Doctors are actually divided into three levels by the Imperial Hospital. To determine the treatment, you should know that the Imperial Hospital is still a national doctor management structure, and also allocate positions for doctors in various places. However, there are generally few doctors in various places, or they are not the few doctors in the official area, but in terms of population proportion, the population of doctors is too low.

The number of official doctors is in the total proportion, and the number is not large.

It’s like Huimin Hospital, which has something to do with the official position. Many people from the Imperial Hospital are here to treat the hospital, but there is nothing to do with the Imperial Hospital. After all, the backend of Huimin Hospital is Jiajing.

Li Shizhen only used the Imperial Hospital level as the doctor level of Huimin Hospital.

In Li Shizhen's opinion, if the theory is proficient and the foundation is shallow, then it is the apprentice. Most medical students only have this standard and cannot even meet it. Follow a doctor and master the content of the first subject of medicine.

It is not that modern medicine has different disciplines, but ancient medicine also has them. It is just that the thirteen departments of medicine are combined with the two departments of Golden Abs and Acupuncture into surgery, and the Prescription and Pulse Department, that is, internal medicine, became the two most important departments of the Ming Dynasty medicine.

Among these thirteen subjects, the one who is in the first subject is a third-class medical student, the one who is in the second-class medical student, and the one who is in the third-class medical student, and then there are doctors. The doctor does not require several subjects, but must pass both internal and external subjects.

From this perspective, Li Shizhen has also moved all the lowered.

However, in Zhou Mengchen's opinion, it is not enough, and it is far from enough. The number of people suffering from disaster in Guanzhong alone is above 2 million. As for the number of people suffering from disasters in other provinces, it is estimated that there are tens of millions.

What can these few hundred people do?

Zhou Mengchen said: "Second brother, how to prevent the epidemic?"

Li Shizhen said: "The word "epidemic prevention" is well said. Indeed, plague can only be prevented but not cured. Now it seems that it cannot be prevented. I have prepared more than a dozen prescriptions to deal with various plagues. Here is a list of medicinal materials. You can purchase them in large quantities or issue patterns to let the people collect herbs."

"Once there is a plague, I can do it so that I can update the prescription in time, so that the people below can boil medicine on the main traffic roads and pedestrians must drink a bowl. If the situation worsens, I will decide to seal one place or two places and just feed the medicine from door to door."

"In fact, it's just doing your best and leaving your destiny. As for epidemic prevention, you know it, but you don't know if it can be done."

Although Zhou Mengchen is not very proficient in medical skills, he understands how to prevent the epidemic very well. It is nothing more than eliminating the source of infection and breaking the chain of infection. All actions revolve around these two points.

It's just easier said than done, and it's harder to do. What is isolation and blockade are not something he can do now.

Even if many countries cannot achieve isolation and zero in later generations, how can we expect the Ming Dynasty to do it? If the Ming Dynasty could do it, it would be impossible to destroy the country.

What Zhou Mengchen can do now is to try to bury and clean up human and animal corpses as much as possible before the weather gets warmer. However, this matter, as Li Shizhen said before, in the Ming Dynasty, where imperial power did not go to the countryside, Zhou Mengchen's order as the governor could only be abide by it. As for the county, it would be a different situation.

Although, because of the special environment in the countryside, generally speaking, corpses in the wild may not cause plague, after all, the natural environment in the wild will degrade the corpses. But you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of if you want.

Zhou Mengchen's heart moved and said to himself: "It seems that something can help me."

Zhou Mengchen remembered the village agreement that Han Bangqi valued again. Only then did he realize that the person with vision in history was never the only one. The political institutions in the Ming Dynasty did not go to the countryside and lost control of rural affairs. Many people with kindness and ambition were also trying to make up for this. They directly sent officials to rule everyone, which was without bureaucratic ideas, but every bureaucrat knew that this was unrealistic.

Because the cost is too high. There is really an extra official in a village. The added redundant officials in the Ming Dynasty are enough to break the Ming Dynasty's finances several times. So, how to manage these people?

Cooperating with gentry is a way.

However, although the scholars and officials are local landlords and have power in the countryside, they must never forget the dual attributes of the scholars and officials. Many scholars and officials adhere to the spirit of governing the country and pacifying the world. They are in line with the court and propose village agreements again and again.

Although there are problems with the countryside, it is better than landlords and bullies occupying the countryside. A simple democratic solution.

During the Ming Dynasty, village agreements were developing. However, as soon as the Qing Dynasty arrived, village agreements were interrupted. No, village agreements had great power. In many remote places and county towns were far apart, the power of village agreements was almost equivalent to that of government. If we compare the Ming map with the Qing court map, we will find that the number of county towns in the Qing Dynasty increased a lot.

It may not be just the reason for the increase in the population in the Qing Dynasty, but the existence of village contracts was not allowed in the Qing Dynasty. In order to prevent the people from resisting, village contracts were included in the management of the government, and the village contracts organized by literati and officials no longer exist. Power abhors the vacuum, and the government's rule over the village was always difficult to penetrate, so the power of the gentry and wealthy families was further announced and they became local sages.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know how the village date will develop in the future. However, he had to admit that this village date could solve many problems for him and he had to support him.
Chapter completed!