Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 513 What is poisonous miasma
In the meeting hall on the top floor of the dreadnought, a group of infantry naval officers and officials from the Ministry of Industry sat opposite each other.

Taichang personally presided over the preparations before the excavation of the Tonghai Grand Canal.

The site selection for the canal has been completed, and there are drawings carefully drawn by the Ministry of Industry on the table.

Taichang raised his hand to signal, and Peng Bin, a doctor in the Ministry of Industry, immediately introduced solemnly: "The total length of this Grand Canal to the Sea is about 180 miles, the width of the canal is about [-] feet, and the depth is about [-] feet.

Among them, the terrain of more than a hundred miles to the west is relatively flat, and there are few forests and trees, so excavation is relatively easy.

Nearly [-] li to the east has to pass through deep mountains and dense forests, and the terrain is quite undulating, making excavation difficult.

In addition, large ports and cities facing the sea need to be built on both sides.

In order to facilitate the transportation of materials and the repair of soldiers, the ports and cities in the west need to be built in advance.

Your Majesty, I will stop here first, everyone can ask any questions, what do you think? "

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, if you think there are any problems, please talk about it."

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng immediately cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, it's really too hot here, especially around noon, it's unbelievably hot. If the soldiers keep working under the sun, I'm afraid they won't be able to bear it."

It's really hot here, it's hot in winter, and it's better in the morning and evening. At noon, when the sun shines, the temperature may not exceed [-] degrees.

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, we really need to pay attention to this problem. It will be troublesome if the soldiers are exhausted and have a lot of heat stroke. How about this, install more fans in the camp, let the soldiers blow the cool breeze after lunch, and have a good rest For two hours, we will work again in the morning and evening when the weather is cool, so that it will not delay anything."

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but nodded and said: "The emperor is wise."

Ma Xianglin then clasped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I will see that the humidity here is very heavy, especially in the deep mountains and dense forests in the east. It is extremely hot and humid. I will think that we need to prevent poisonous miasma."

Uh, poisonous miasma?

This seems pretty scary.

Taichang quickly asked: "What is poisonous miasma?"

Ma Xianglin thought for a while, and then explained in detail: "Poisonous miasma is actually a kind of heat poison. In the sweltering deep mountains and dense forests, if you are bitten by a poisonous insect or smell the poisonous gas of the poisonous insect's rotting corpse, the heat poison will enter your body. This kind of heat poison can cause vomiting and diarrhea in mild cases, and cause death due to poisoning in severe cases, and the general will feel that it should be guarded against."

so scary!
Taichang couldn't help saying: "How to prevent this poisonous miasma?"

Ma Xianglin looked at the map, then pointed to the mountain forest to the east and said: "The general thought that all the trees in the eighty miles of forest should be cut down, at least to cut down a mile-wide passage. After the tree is cut down, The trunk can be used as wood, and the branches are left directly, and after drying, they are burned in a big fire, and the area within this mile is relatively safe."

This must be cut!

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Well, then cut down the tree first and then dig."

But Peng Bin immediately reminded: "Will the soldiers who cut down the trees not be poisoned?"

That's right, before the forest was cut down and burned, it was still full of poisonous insects. It must be unsafe for soldiers to cut down trees!
Taichang couldn't help looking at Ma Xianglin.

Hearing this, Ma Xianglin was stunned for a moment, and then slowly said: "We can order the soldiers to cut down trees in the morning when it is the shadiest, and stop cutting until the weather turns hot in the morning. Cut down several miles a day. It will be cut in dozens of days, so the possibility of poisoning miasma should not be very great."

This poisonous miasma is not a joke, and there may be large-scale attrition.

Historically, the French and Americans just didn't know that hundreds of thousands of people died every time a canal was dug!
This kind of thing really has to be guarded against.

Taichang asked again: "What if the soldiers are unfortunately poisoned by poisonous miasma?"

Ma Xianglin said without hesitation: "If you just suffer from vomiting and diarrhea after being poisoned by poisonous miasma, you can use honey, licorice, gardenia, etc. to make herbal tea with honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, dandelion, mulberry leaves, etc. It’s all right. If the poisoning is deep, then Guiling Jelly can save your life.”

Tortoise jelly, have you brought this thing?

Taichang couldn't help looking at Lu Xiangsheng, because he was responsible for loading the supplies.

Lu Xiangsheng thought about it carefully, then shook his head solemnly and said, "Your Majesty, we don't seem to have this tortoise jelly, but we have brought a lot of heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine."

No tortoise paste!
Can it be done now?

Taichang asked again: "Xianglin, do you know the formula of tortoise jelly?"

This Ma Xianglin did remember, because these were the things they saved their lives in the deep mountains and old forests!
He still didn't think about it: "Guiling jelly is made by removing the internal organs of the tortoise and washing it, and then adding rehmannia glutinosa, Smilax cocos, Capsicum officinalis, honeysuckle, licorice and hemp seed, boiled over low heat until it becomes a paste."

This kid, I can't tell, he's so powerful.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help admiring: "Xianglin, I didn't expect you to be proficient in medical theory. You know that Guiling paste can detoxify miasma, and you remember the formula so clearly."

Uh, not this one.

Ma Xianglin explained embarrassingly: "Your Majesty, the last general actually knows this, because there are many poisonous miasmas in the deep mountains and dense forests in the southwest, Guiling jelly is what we use to save lives, so we naturally have to remember it clearly.

This tortoise jelly can detoxify miasma is not a latecomer's idea, the miraculous effect of this medicine is well known in Bashu.

It is rumored that when Zhuge Wuhou led his army deep into the mountains of Nanman, he captured Meng Huo seven times and captured Menghuo seven times. He once stationed in Cangwu. At that time, many soldiers were in danger due to poisonous miasma.

Marquis Wu was very anxious and ordered people to look around for the reason. The people of Wuzhou all said that the Bashu soldiers had been poisoned by miasma, and they offered Guiling ointment earth prescriptions.

Marquis Wu tried it, and sure enough, the medicine cured the disease.

Therefore, this tortoise paste can detoxify and miasma has been spread in Bashu since the time of the Three Kingdoms. "

That's what happened.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked Lu Xiangsheng: "Jiandou, the formula Xianglin said may be complete now."

This one.

Lu Xiangsheng was quite puzzled: "There seems to be some medicines in the formula that Xianglin said, and I don't know where there are tortoises in America."

This poisonous miasma has to be guarded against.

Turtles are not necessarily found in the Americas, but there are many in the East.

As for the dispensing of medicines, at the moment the Western firm is also teaching people to plant a lot of medicinal materials over there, and it should be roughly ready.

Taichang thought for a while, then solemnly said: "This poisonous miasma is not a joke, once it hits, a large number of soldiers will probably die because of it.

Therefore, we have to prepare this life-saving tortoise jelly before we can cut down the forest in the east.

Let's do it this way, we'll start digging for more than a hundred miles to the west, and it will take at least more than a month to complete the digging here, which is just enough time to go back and forth to Dongyang.

Yuan Fang, I will send five Aegis ships and sixty Spike warships to Dongyang to dispense medicine later.

They also asked them to bring more heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines. The soldiers had to drink herbal tea every day to prevent them from being accidentally poisoned by mosquito bites. "

Zhang Yuanfang hastily cupped his hands and said, "The general will understand."

Taichang nodded, and asked again: "Is there any other question?"

Peng Bin hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have estimated that the cement and steel we carry are only enough for [-] to [-] percent."

These things have to go back to Daming to get them.

Taichang thought for a while, and then said decisively: "Yuanfang, after all the supplies on the merchant ship are unloaded, you take two hundred merchant ships to the governorate of Peru first, and give the 1000 million taels of goods to others by the way, and then prepare them." Put it on a pure copper belt, and then go to the Governorate of New Spain to take the rubber belt they prepared, and then go back to Arms City, and bring more cement and steel.”

Zhang Yuanfang hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "The final general will obey the order."

(End of this chapter)