Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1307, Do you know how many children Ming will die in a year?

Facing Liu Jin's stern angrily questioning.

Fu Han's white beard trembled angrily, but he couldn't answer Liu Jin's words directly, so he could only say weakly: "Since ancient times, there have always been a few cases where women gave birth to children and died of dystocia. There are even more, what's so strange about it?"

"How many cases are there always difficult to deal with and die?"

"Master Fu, didn't you keep saying that you want to uphold justice for Daming women? You don't even know how many women in Daming died in childbirth every year. What kind of justice are you talking about?"

Liu Jin immediately sarcastically said.

"You, you~"

"I am the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and I am a model of etiquette in the Ming Dynasty. How can I continue to practice such filthy things in the name of treating diseases like you? I only care about important national affairs. How can I pay attention to such trivial matters."

Fu Han was also angry, this Liu Jin, he was an old man in his seventies after all, and he didn't give him any face.

"Small thing?"

"Women in my Ming Dynasty give birth, and there is a 30% mortality rate. My Ming Dynasty has a population of [-] million. In the whole of Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of women die every year because of giving birth."

"A matter of hundreds of thousands of lives and deaths, it turns out to be an insignificant matter in Mr. Fu's mouth. Mr. Fu is so indifferent in his high place in the temple. Isn't the life of hundreds of thousands of people not life?"

Liu Jin said with a sneer.

"Impossible~"

"In my Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of women died in childbirth a year?"

"how can that be?"

"What nonsense!"

"It's not impossible. We have a vast territory and a large population. There may be a small number of people around us, but if we zoom in to the entire Ming Dynasty, there may be hundreds of thousands of people in a year."

"That's true. Every year, it is heard that someone's wife died after giving birth to a child."

"It's just that I didn't expect so many people to die in childbirth in my next year."

When the ministers heard it, some felt incredible, and some thought carefully, but everyone was surprised by this huge number.

In this era of advocating early marriage and early childbearing, the risk of childbirth is too great, and the death rate is too high. It’s just that no one has paid attention to this matter, so everyone didn’t care about it at first, but now Liu Jin said it. Only then did everyone realize the seriousness of this problem.

"how can that be!"

Fu Han was left speechless by Liu Jin and could only refute.

"how is this possible?"

"Master Fu is aloof, he doesn't care about the fireworks of the world, and he cares about the country's government affairs. Of course, he won't care about such trivial matters."

"Just ask a few stable women at random. They should know these things the most, and then make a rough estimate. Isn't it easy to calculate?"

Liu Jin said with a sneer, it was a slap in the face of Fu Han.

"Even if so many people die because of childbirth, there is no way to do it. As the saying goes, death from starvation is a minor matter, but injustice is a major issue. Women should pay attention to their own chastity, how can they lose their chastity because of childbirth. "

Fu Han had nothing to say after being told, he could only bring out chastity again.

"Daming Medical College trained obstetricians and gynecologists to make women lose their virginity?"

"Researching good methods and methods to reduce the risk of childbirth is also for my Ming Dynasty. If hundreds of thousands of women can be saved from dying in a year, it will be millions of people in ten years. In addition, if they can still have children, my Ming Dynasty can save more. How many people are donated, and how many families can be benefited."

"What's more, do you know how those stable women deliver babies?"

"When they can't give birth to a child, they beat the parturient with a whip, use needles, feed the parturient to eat their hair, etc. Many Wen women don't understand anything at all, and they don't understand hygiene when delivering babies, so that the parturients contract diseases and die. At the same time, many newborns could not survive for a few days because they did not receive timely treatment and medical treatment."

"Take what was reported yesterday as an example. If it hadn't been for the method of caesarean section developed by Daming Medical College, the pregnant woman would have died in giving birth to the child, and the baby would not be able to keep it because it took three days and three nights to give birth. When I came out, I was not breathing."

"If it's a stable woman, they definitely don't have any methods and measures, but Daming Medical College, they know how to use artificial respiration, and through hard work, they saved the baby back."

"What was originally a tragedy ended in a perfect curtain call, and the mother and child are safe. Isn't that enough to explain?"

Liu Jin hates Fu Han even when he looks at him.

These high-ranking people don't care about the life and death of the common people at all, and they don't see the suffering of the people. In their eyes, these things are not as important as the so-called ethical order.

Standing on the temples one by one, they keep talking about governing the country and worrying about the people, and saying that they are loyal to the emperor and serve the country. In fact, they are just rice bugs.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, the ministers present couldn't help opening their mouths.

It has always been difficult for the elders to ask about things like the stable woman delivering the baby, not to mention that these people present are all ministers of the court and China, so they will not understand these things.

Who knows how violent it is to be delivered by a woman, how terrible it is for a pregnant woman to give birth, and what kind of risks she faces, which is more terrifying than going to the gate of hell.

"This~"

Fu Han had nothing to say, his face turned red.

"Do you know how high the child mortality rate is in my Daming?"

"About half of the newborn children in my Ming Dynasty don't live to be a year old. Just ask, which family has no child who died young?"

"Do you know how many children died in one year in my Ming Dynasty? Millions of children die every year. Is this a trivial matter in the eyes of Mr. Fu?" (In ancient times, the birth rate and death rate were very high. One hundred and fifty million people, calculating the death rate and birth rate, the figure of one million per year should not be an exaggeration.)
Liu Jin did not intend 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."

"It's horrible too."

All the ministers exclaimed in amazement. Millions of children die a year. This is an extremely terrifying number, and it is also a frightening number.

"Master Liu, how is this possible?"

A minister stood up and said.

"Impossible, everyone, look around to see if there are children who die young in every household. In many cases, seven or eight children are born, and less than half of them can raise adults. Some poor people have more than a dozen children, and finally raise them There may only be two or three big ones."

Liu Jin replied with a slight sigh.

The mortality rate of children in this era is really terrible. Many ailments that are considered insignificant in the eyes of later generations are enough to kill countless children in this era.

Smallpox, measles, pneumonia, etc., children's body resistance is weak, and it is easy to suffer from these. Without good medical technology, it is basically difficult to survive.

Sometimes, even a toothache can kill a person, and children's food, poorly processed, drinking cold water, etc., things that are considered insignificant in later generations are fatal in this era.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, all the ministers fell silent.

Not to mention ordinary families, even the princes and ministers present, many of their children died in their families.

Emperor Hongzhi, sitting on the dragon chair, gave birth to two sons, the youngest son died. Liu Jian had three sons, the eldest son and the second son died early, only the third son raised them up, and there were several grandsons who died young .

Li Dongyang was even worse. He gave birth to several sons. Although one son was brought up, the grandson died before he could stay, so he had to adopt a son from his brother.

Like Zhang Mao, who gave birth to several sons and died young. Fortunately, his son married early and left him a grandson, Zhang Lun.

It can be said that in this era, the mortality rate of children is too high, especially for babies who are born, many of them will not survive their first birthday.

Even if the princes and nobles above this temple are like this, they have money to see a doctor for their children, and they also have enough financial and material resources to raise them, the premature death rate is so terrible.

Putting it in the homes of ordinary people is probably even more terrifying. Not only do they have to experience various diseases, but some also suffer from hunger, malnutrition and so on.

Everyone was silent, thinking about their own child who died young, and sadness spread in the Golden Luan Hall.

Even Fu Han didn't speak at this moment, he also thought of his child who died young, showing sadness.

"The baby's death is often due to the incorrect method used by Wen's wife when giving birth."

"For example, some babies eat amniotic fluid in their stomachs. If the amniotic fluid is not discharged, it will easily lead to premature death. The method is very simple. You only need to hold the baby's feet upside down a few times when you are born, and pat the back. and ass."

"In addition, children who drink cold water are prone to catch a cold, have diarrhea, develop roundworms, and die prematurely, but just boil the water and let it cool to drink to avoid such problems."

"Women who give birth often use unclean and unsterilized puerperium to cause infection. The solution is very simple. You only need to boil water in advance, and then put it in the sun to dry most of the germs. risk of infection."

"What Daming Medical College does is to improve the medical level of my Daming, to save more people. Maybe in your opinion, what they do is dirty and yinhui, but they are selfless, so Everything I do is for the women of Daming, and for the children of Daming."

"The purpose is to reduce the risk and death rate of women when they give birth, to reduce the mortality rate of babies and children, so that every family in my Ming Dynasty can have a smile when they give birth, instead of being full of worries, for the sake of I am sure that every child can grow up healthy and healthy!"

(End of this chapter)